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Forty-six years after a Philadelphia teen's disappearance and slaying, the girl's family accepted her cremated remains Monday and asked for the public's help in finding her killer.
A month after the body was positively identified through DNA testing, the family of Sandra Ann Stiver accepted her remains at a news conference at the Berks County coroner's office near Reading.
"We're sad and we're hurt and we're mad," said Sandy's sister, Hazel DeMoss, of Richfield, Ohio. "We want to know who did it."
Cold Case Closed, 46 Years Later
Sandy Stiver, 14, and her sister-in-law Martha Stiver, 17, disappeared in 1968 after running away from home in Philadelphia. Hazel DeMoss said both teens were "wild," but the family doesn't know what compelled them to flee that summer day.
Sandy's body was found in August 1968, about a week after authorities said she had been shot several times with a .22-caliber weapon. Martha's remains were recovered the following April about five miles away in French Creek State Park in Elverson. Her cause of death could not be determined, but authorities say she was also murdered.
Neither victim could be identified and no connection to the Philadelphia missing-persons case was made. The teens were buried in adjoining, unmarked graves in a potter's field outside Reading, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The family moved to Ohio, but never stopped searching, and wondering.
"You're always looking at somebody on a street corner and thinking it's them," said Tom Stiver, brother of Sandy and husband of Martha.
Decades later, Hazel DeMoss found information about two unidentified murder victims on the website of the Doe Network, a group of amateur sleuths that seeks to attach names to unidentified bodies, and suspected they might belong to her family members.
Authorities used an old cemetery map and ground-penetrating radar to locate the bodies. They were exhumed last fall and sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.
Sandy's elderly mother, Elizabeth Stiver, choked back tears and held a tissue over her mouth as Berks County Coroner Dennis Hess slid a metal box with her daughter's ashes in front of her. The remains of Martha Stiver will be sent to her family separately.
"If there's anyone out there with any kind of information from 1968, when these murders took place ... please, it's time to have a conscience and it's time to fess up," Hess said Monday.
State police say they are pursuing active leads.


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The Central Connecticut women's cross country team finished third at the CCSU Mini-Meet on Friday afternoon. The 3K race serves as the final tune-up for the Blue Devils before the Northeast Conference Championship meet. Central posted a team score of 63, led by four Blue Devils who finished in the top-10.
Sophomore Elizabeth Eberhardt led the group finishing in fifth place. Right behind her was senior Alasia Griebel in sixth. Eberhardt posted a time of 10:27 and Griebel 10:30.
Senior Amanda Asaro also placed in the top-10, she crossed the line in ninth place with a time of 10:42. Sophomore Krisztina Dearborn notched a 15th place finish with a time of 10:52 and sophomore Megan MacBryde finished the team score with a 28th place finish and an 11:24 time.
Seniors Sara Larkin and Katrina Ainsworth also competed for the Blue Devils. Larkin ran the course in 11:36 and Ainsworth in 12:48.
Providence College won the meet with a score of 37, behind the one two punch of Shelby Greany and Emily Sisson. Both finished in 10:06, breaking the course record set of 10:08 set last year by their teammate Mary-Katie Champagne.
Quinnipiac finished just ahead of the Blue Devils with a team score of 49.
The Blue Devils will return to action next weekend at the Northeast Conference Championships. The NEC Championships will be hosted my Monmouth in Holmdel, NJ.

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Topic: KOTOR I & II discussion thread
LOL it has taught me to open a thread and not read the first post but I thought the other KOTOR thread was just about having a chat about the game.
Anyway I thought that we could have a thread about it and we can all have a blether about how we are getting on the game, how we are enjoying it or are just frustrated by it.
I am really enjoying it at the moment. I have not been able to play it much but when i have I have made good progress (and completing quests)
I am also enjoying playing Pazakk. I am not lost any money but I am not a gambler (LOL I only bet 10 credits at a time) but I have been lucky that the worst off that I am is breaking even.
I have also won 3 of my duels so far.
I am looking forward to grilling Carth some more but I cannot do at the moment and I keep checking him but alas he will not let me pester him anymore


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This is an idea for a new style of redesign competition here on DF. For few next weeks in January there will be some pilot rounds and then we'll see... Competitions will take place every week since 4th Jan 2016 (mo-su). The main rule is a free entry for every user, so no pre-signing, no participant lists before competition, etc. How it works? On Mondays I'll put a crest for redesign, then you've got 7 days to enter a contest.
Posting a project (ONLY ONE per user) = entering, and everyone can enter. You can do it one week, and pass on another, so you only enter if you like to. Deadline would always be su/mo midnight and after that I'll put a board/list with every entry. That's when voting begins - for 5 days (mo-fr) anyone can cast a vote for his/hers favourite concept (the rules here are: 1user=1vote and you CANNOT vote on your own redesign).
Winning project will be named "Redesign of the week X", and then we'go again, next monday=next crest to redesign, so new competition every week! For everyone! And I'm always open for your ideas how to improve it. Let's get ready!
START - MONDAY, JAN 4 [UPDATE] We will continue this competition in February and I hope for the next months of 2016. Through first few week we develop some more rules which are: no changing a project during an entry phase, and no posting other than competition version (even in public gallery, you can do it after phase deadline there). More things you need to know from now on: we've got a schedule for a few next weeks which looks like that - W6 Non-european team, W7 European team, W8 Football federation, W9 European team, W10 YOUR CHOICE, W11 European team... then similar, from the beginning (this is kind of 6 events loop). Also a new thing is that you can choose a team for redesign for one of the contests from time to time. How to do it? Make your proposition in a private message before "DF choice" competition begins and I'll choose (maybe by draw, maybe in some other way, don't know yet) one of proposed clubs.


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Shaun Liszt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 506 diseños de 96 diseñadores freelance.
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Our rapidly expanding company focuses on technical education; education where students learn a specific trade. Our courses range from cosmetology and barbering to massage therapy to online medical classes. We put our students above anything else and want to provide the best possible training to prepare them for the job market. We love what we do and love the opportunities we provide.
Existing markets include 18-35 yr old females, but as we grow we are opening up to all markets. They are people that are looking for a fresh start. "It's your new beginning" is a slogan we have used before. We want to be the start of something great in their lives. Our demographic from here on out will be all ages and genders...anyone looking to do something they are passionate about.
Our aim is this: a modern look with a professional tint to it. We work directly with the government and other accreditation agencies so we need to maintain a sense of professionalism. At the same time, we need to be modern and attractive. If you look at the website (new one coming soon) you can see where we have been for a few years and some major changes are needed. http://www.genesiscareer.com
Our color scheme has been blue and light orange in the past, but this can be altered. You are the expert. We are open to anything in regards to coloration, as long as we stick with the professional theme. Nothing too crazy.
We would like the logo to say "Genesis Career College". Some of our logos will need to include the location. "Genesis Career College of Nashville" for example, the words "of Nashville" being in smaller print. The overall logo will be highlighted in advertising and on the website, and individual locations will utilize the other style.
Ideally we would could have a portion of the logo that can be separated from the text, for use in embroidery and promotional materials. Something that incorporates the letter "G" or the idea of a new beginning, a fresh start or moving forward with your life. Growth. Any visual logo is great really.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same… Recently I read an interesting book, entitled "Are We Rome?" The author remarks how in some regards the Roman Empire and the current United States resemble each other very much. Take, for example, the issue of border crossings.
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For those who remember reading about Julius Caesar and his conquest of Gaul, the Roman Empire went through long periods of expansion, followed by consolidation, and eventual collapse as a political entity. As the Empire was expanding, there was a famous foray across the Rhine into what is now Germany. It did not work out well for the Romans, as they lost several legions, allegedly causing the first Emperor, Augustus, to cry out loud that he "wanted his legions back," while also decreeing that the river Rhine would become the frontier. In 1987, the exact location of that battle was established. For about a century this notion held: the Rhine and the Danube formed the frontier between the so-called civilized world and the barbarians. Then Dacia (current day Romania) was conquered and the Romans found themselves on the other side of the river again. In 272 AD, they abandoned this province in return for a brief period of peace and tranquility.
For a long time, it was thought that the incursion in 9 AD represented the first and last military operation into Germany. Not so any more, apparently. Recent reports out of Germany indicate that some time between A.D. 180-260, there was a major battle fought between Roman troops and Germanic tribes. The newly uncovered battlefield near Kalefeld-Oldenrode, is located south of Hanover. Coins, weapons and other military gear were retrieved from an area one mile long and a third of a mile wide. Interestingly, among the artifacts encountered was a Roman horse sandal, or hipposandal in technical lingo. You read this right: a horse sandal, not a horse shoe.
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In all of this I see parallels to our current situation related to the border between the US and Mexico. What now constitutes the border area, was first inhabited by American Indian peoples, later incorporated into Mexico and ultimately made part of the US, either by force of arms, or by purchase. Along large stretches of this border, a fence is going up. One of the goals is to control who crosses the border and to safeguard life and property on this side of the fence.
All of this echoes sentiments expressed almost two millennia ago.With regards to the Roman situation we have the benefit of hindsight; we know how that story ended. With regards to the current situation, who knows? Future historians will have the privilege of assessing that scenario. Of one thing I am certain: future archaeologists will not be finding any horse sandals along the Rio Grande.


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It was an odd thing for the coach of Team Dysfunction to say.
His star players have repeatedly exchanged angry glances and gestures, a 7-footer has griped about being misused, a reserve has openly complained about not being used at all … and somehow none of it explains the Lakers being three games under .500?
"I understand it a little bit," Lakers Coach Mike D'Antoni said of his team's chemistry concerns before things worsened with a 112-105 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday at Staples Center, "but everybody has a job to do. The only thing we can ask players is to play as hard as they can. Whether you're happy or not doesn't really matter if you are playing as hard as you can."
D'Antoni unfortunately had more to say.
"You don't have to love each other," he said. "I've been on a lot of championship teams in Europe where there's edges and we don't go out to dinner every night. That is not why we're losing. We're losing right now because we don't have a consistent 48 minutes of good basketball."


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Lt. Col. Greg Gadson is not a bionic man, but he does have a new set of powerful knees.
Iraq war veteran Lt. Col. Greg Gadson shows off his new knees at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Gadson, an Iraq War veteran, was wounded in 2007 by a roadside bomb and lost both legs above the knees. This week, he became the first person to receive the latest version of battery-powered prosthetic knees.
Gadson demonstrated his new knees during a news conference Thursday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
It's "as if you were driving a school bus and then someone put you in a sports car -- you still know how to drive. There's quite a different feeling," he said.
The Power Knee uses sensors (in contact with the thigh muscle, for example) to anticipate how the user will move, and then shifts itself into position.
"This is the second generation Power Knee," says Tabi King, a spokesperson for Ossur Americas, the manufacturer. "It uses the same type of technology, but it's half the size, makes half the noise, is half the weight and is much more intelligent."
King says the knee is learning in real time to react to a patient so the patient doesn't have to think about walking. "There are sensors and artificial intelligence in the prosthetic that are watching what the body is doing. The biggest benefit is by doing so much work on its own, the amputee doesn't have to think about movement."
Gadson, who had an older model of the powered knees, praised the latest ones.
"These knees are a lot lighter. They're quieter and they have significantly longer battery life," he said, adding that the batteries can last up to 16 hours.
Gadson said he hopes his pioneering efforts will help others.
"If this proves to open a door for other people, that's a tremendous feeling, a tremendous reward. I'm not doing it for that, but I hope that this is a path for people to really expand their lives," he said.
Michael Corcoran, a prosthetist who has been working with Gadson, said he thinks prosthetics of the future will be more powerful. The first Power Knee appeared in 2006. Corcoran expects the improved version to reach the general population in 2010.
"It wasn't designed for military use; it was designed as a knee for everybody," Corcoran said. "We're fortunate enough here to be able to put this technology to its test here at Walter Reed, but as a broader application. You know, a year would be great to see these legs on vascular amputees, because it does improve mobility."
The goal is to come up with technology that adapts to all situations, according to Col. Paul F. Pasquina, one of Gadson's doctors.
"We try to challenge each one of our members into real-life situations where they have to use their prostheses not to just walk in straight directions, but to move in an environment that would be simulations of his home -- going up and down stairs, up and down curbs -- so we try to challenge the technology as much as possible."
Gadson is getting used to the new knees and wears them a few hours daily for now. But he has long-term goals for his new limbs.
"My expectations are that I can do whatever it is I used to do, maybe a little bit different. I have some other considerations, and if I can do those things, then I think that's success."
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Project Team Meeting - 2/5/2007
A few notes to follow up the meeting we just had:
Karen will build a profile of California, which we will then suggest improvements for and then build similair profiles for the states we will be visiting. Each state will have a profile set up on the Wiki that can be accessed via this link:
Tommorrow, I will be meeting w/ Madelyn to have her begin moving data we currently have over to each state's profile.
Nancy will begin to re-contact state librarians to determine who we would like to visit in each state and report back via the Wiki.
We will ask state librarians for help in making contacts with certain people and invite them along to the visits they would like to attend. In other cases, we will make contact ourselves and let the state librarians know tht we did.
In regards to state networks, we may not visit them. We may ask them to come into the capitol or we may go to them. It will vary from state to state.
Nancy will host one focus group in each state (except Michigan, where it will be facilitated by someone else). Rick is investigating
In each state, the team will meet for dinner at 6 pm the day before the the first visit for dinner.
For return airfair, we will assume the last meeting will be @ 3 p.m, with some people staying overnight.
Kathy is researching hotels for us and will get back to me tommorrow. I will post the information to the Wiki and send an email to let you know it is there.
I look forward to reading your thoughts on the Wiki.
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Australian Amateur Championships, Smith and Lee Win. January 21 2013
Cameron Smith and Minjee Lee / Snapeture Sports Australian Amateur Championships, presented by Audi, were won by Cameron Smith on the mens tournament and Minjee Lee for the Ladies. Minjee Lee cruised to a 6&5 victory over Australian based Korean Jenny Lee. Minjee had control for most of this match, and it was a chance for the Royal Fremantle member to go one better than her narrow loss in the final in 2011, to Lydia Ko. Minjee feels it was a great reward; "It feels amazing, it's such an honor to win this tournament. It's been a long week so it's a great reward. I felt I could always get back up if I was down. Mum said afterwards she was going to have a heart attack a couple of times, but she's proud of me. " With this win Minjee has earned an exemption into next months LPGA event the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open at Royal Canberra Golf Club, and she is really looking forward to that challenge; " I's an LPGA event so it will have a great field and I'm really looking forward to it." Cameron was at one stage five down to Commonwealth member Geoff Drakeford, but fought his way back to win his maiden Australian Amateur title with a 3&2 victory. Cameron said he was gobsmacked; " I'm gobsmacked, I can't even believe I came back from that. I played some good shots and put him under pressure and holed some putts. I thought if I could him get down the last hole I was in with a shot, but turns out I got it done before that which was quite nice. Mum was pretty stoked when I told her, she was just yelling and couldn't get a word out. It's definitely a good start to 2013 and hopefully this form can carry through to the next few tournaments."


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I put concrete in the foot and made it stable. it needed weight on the bottom of the feet to keep it standing the joints are fine. my boys have 2 and they move them like they should.
http://www.jedidefender.com/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1347521356,73627,Worked for me just now. Or did you mean the link I put in this thread?
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I'm sure a lot of it is simply luck of the draw on the plastic that was used during whatever run it was through... It's a very slight problem where it could be just a hair away from toppling or standing fine forever... or toppling over time. Mine was fine out of the box but after I played with it posed it some during happy fun time an evalution period, it started crapping out on me.
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Bucs look to make it four in a row against the Owls
KENNESAW, Ga. (Feb. 19, 2014) – The ETSU women's basketball team will continue its late season stretch of road contests with a trip to the state of Georgia to first take on the Kennesaw State Owls on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. inside the KSU Convocation Center.
Beginning a stretch of five of their next seven games on the road, the Buccaneers fell, 69-60, to the USC Upstate Spartans on Saturday, Feb. 15, inside the Hodge Center. The Blue & Gold came out energized with a 10-2 run to begin the game, holding a lead throughout, and staved off a Spartans' comeback to take a 27-22 lead into halftime.
To open the second period, ETSU continued its momentum before Upstate went on a 10-4 surge to pull within two points with 13:48 left to play. The Bucs then answered to take a firmer hold onto the lead, but the Spartans responded with another burst to tie things up at 48 with seven minutes to go. Both teams traded the lead over the next few minutes before Upstate went on an 8-0 run over the final two minutes of the contest to take control and down the Blue & Gold, 69-60.
ETSU was led by a pair of double-doubles from post players Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.) and Serena Clark (Stone Mountain, Ga.). Bond paced the Bucs on the scoring end with 15 points as well as a career-high 15 rebounds in her first career double-double, while Clark notched her ninth double-double of the season with 10 points and 15 rebounds.
ETSU (7-16, 3-9) and Kennesaw State (6-18, 4-9) will square off Thursday in the 17th all-time meeting between the two schools; a series that ETSU dominates, 15-1. The Bucs prevailed in the last three meetings versus the Owls including the most recent matchup earlier this season on Jan. 23 when ETSU knocked off KSU, 74-68, inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center. Kennesaw State's only win against the Blue & Gold took place in Kennesaw, Ga. on Feb. 4, 2012 in a 78-68 Owls' triumph.
For more on Thursday's game, read the game notes below. For more on ETSU women's basketball throughout the 2013-14 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's hoops link.
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The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" throughout the 2012-13 season ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics, please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
The ETSU Buccaneers enter the 2013-14 season under the guidance of first-year head coach. Brittney Ezell. A two-sport star in basketball and softball at the University of Alabama, Ezell comes to ETSU after spending three seasons as head coach at Belmont University where she compiled a 41-52 overall record. The Franklin, Tenn. native takes the reigns of a veteran-heavy team that returns nine letterwinners from an 8-18 overall 2012-13 campaign. Among the nine returnees are six players who started 10 or more games last season. Highlighted among the returnees is last year's team-leading scorer and rebounder Destiny Mitchell who led the way with 11.5 points and 8.1 rebounds per game. Supporting Mitchell are juniors Serena Clark and Cara Bowling who each averaged 9.5 points per game last season.
As a result of a leg injury suffered in the first regular season game of the season at Memphis on Nov. 8, senior forward Destiny Mitchell will miss the remainder of the 2013-14 campaign. Mitchell will undergo surgery and continue injury rehabilitation while the ETSU compliance department petitions for a medical redshirt to have the forward cleared to participate in 2014-15.
In the matchup against KSU, the Owls came out energized, scoring the first five points of the contest and building up a 16-9 advantage six minutes into the game. The Blue and Gold responded with a 14-2 run to take a 23-18 lead with nine minutes to go in the first half. Back and forth play continued for most of the duration of the half before Kennesaw State went on a 7-0 run to close the period to leave the Bucs trailing, 37-30, at the break. After falling behind by as many as eight points nearly three minutes into the second half, the Bucs answered with a 10-0 burst to take a 42-41 advantage with 14:44 to go. Tightly-contested play continued throughout until an ETSU surge put the Blue and Gold up nine points with 2:30 remaining. Solid ball protection and clutch free throws down the stretch allowed the Bucs to ultimately come away with a 74-68 victory. Freshman Shamauria Bridges led ETSU with a career-high 19 points, while sophomore Chandler Christopher recorded her first-career double-double with 14 points and a career-best 14 rebounds.
Junior forward Serena Clark has started 2013-14 off strong, scoring in double-figures in 13 of the 23 games this season. After falling just one rebound short of a double-double in the season opener at Memphis (11/8), the native Georgian reeled off four-consecutive double-doubles for ETSU in games from Nov. 12 - 29 including a career-high 21 points and 11 rebounds in a 82-65 win against Alabama A&M (11/29). The junior's most recent double-double came in a loss at USC Upstate (2/15) where she posted 10 points and 15 rebounds. Clark has now exceeded her double-double total from last season just 23 games into the 2013-14 campaign with nine this season and is poised for more throughout the year. The forward's 10.1 points per game currently ranks among the top-20 in the A-Sun, while her 10.3 boards per game are second in the league.
Junior guard Cara Bowling is currently the leading scorer on the team with 11.6 points per game during the 2013-14 season. Presently, this point total per game ranks among the top 15 in the A-Sun while her 1.8 three-point field goal makes per game is in the top 10 in the league. The Elizabethton native posted a career-high 22 points vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (11/24) including four makes from behind the arc. The guard did miss six games this season, from Jan. 19 – Feb.1, due to a hip injury, and returned to action on Feb. 8 against Stetson.
Sophomore guard Chandler Christopher has proved to be a valuable piece for the Bucs during the 2013-14 season. After spending the entirety of the 2012-13 campaign as a seldom-used freshman walk-on, first-year head coach Brittney Ezell liked what she saw from Christopher and decided to elevate the Greeneville native from walk-on to scholarship status prior to this season. Christopher has since recorded her first-career starts in 21 of the 23 games this season and has been a vital cog for the Blue and Gold. After netting two points, five rebounds and three assists in the opener at Memphis (11/8), the guard followed with career-highs of 17 points and four assists in an also career-best 37 minutes played in ETSU's 81-72 win at Appalachian State (11/12). Christopher's performance in the Bucs' first win of the season at App State led to her being named A-Sun Player of the Week by College Sports Madness on Monday, Nov. 18. The sophomore then added another team-leading scoring performance to her résumé with 15 points in a 77-69 loss to Morehead State on Nov. 21. In her first game off of the bench this season, the guard notched her first-career double-double with 14 points and a career-best 14 rebounds in a 74-68 win versus Kennesaw State (1/23). Recently, Christopher added career-highs of 17 points and five steals vs. Stetson (2/8).
Freshman Shamauria Bridges has been a great offensive boost for the Bucs during the 2013-14 season. The rookie guard is averaging 6.9 points per game in 20 minutes of play and has demonstrated the ability to knock down shots from the perimeter. The Florida native has knocked down a trio of triples in three different games this season with the most recent performance coming on Jan. 25 versus Mercer. In her first career start, Bridges led the Bucs with a career-best 19 points in a 74-68 win against Kennesaw State on Jan. 23. The guard also led ETSU in scoring with 13 points in a loss vs. Florida Gulf Coast (2/6).
Through 23 games during the 2013-14 season, ETSU is currently averaging 66.4 points per game which is fourth in the A-Sun. With the 66.4 points per game also come successes in field goal percentage, where the Bucs are fourth in the league at 40 percent, and in three-point field goal percentage, where ETSU is fifth in the conference at 32 percent.
After averaging 6.7 points and 4.4 rebounds per game in 26 games and six starts in 2012-13, junior forward Maria Bond has proved to be a force in the interior during the 2013-14 campaign. The native Georgian has started 21 games this season and is currently averaging 10.4 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. Bond posted a season-high 18 points in a 75-67 win versus Indiana State (12/18) and notched her first career double-double with 15 points and a career-best 15 rebounds at USC Upstate (2/15). The junior remains a vital piece in ETSU's paint production going forward.
Since the 2002-03 season the Bucs are 111-20 when the they hit the 75-point plateau, including 80-15 since the 2006-07 season. In the early portion of the 2013-14 conference season, ETSU put up 78 to defeat Lipscomb (1/2), 78-75, to earn the 111th such victory.
The Bucs have enjoyed a lot of success since joining the A-Sun in 2005-06 … since joining the league, the Buccaneers have averaged double-digit conference wins a year, including a league-best and school record 18-2 mark in 2009-10, three Atlantic Sun Tournament titles (2008-2010), and two regular season championships (2008 and 2010) …in total, ETSU is 108-55 (.663) against conference foes since moving into the A-Sun … the Bucs have also won 88 of their last 133 games against conference foes (includes A-Sun Championship games).
The Atlantic Sun coaches picked the Bucs to finish tied with North Florida at fifth, while in the media poll ETSU was selected seventh ... the coaches picked FGCU with seven first-place votes to win the conference, while the media selected FGCU with 30 first-place votes ... the Bucs finished the 2012-13 season in eighth place.
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|A newspaper book review editor's office.
These cuts have an effect. This year, 11 of the books I've read came to my attention from book reviews. Book reviews, whether positive or negative, publicize books.
The New York Times Book Review is touted as the most influential book page. I no longer depend on it personally, though. I've been burned, not by critics, but by novelist reviewers writing too kindly about other novelists. It's not that I want unkindness, but neither do I want to rush out to buy a flawed book because I am too easily influenced by big-name reviewers. In other words, I have passed Book Reviewing 101 and have become impervious to reviews. Book reviewing is a tough job--it's no fun reading bad books--but, all the same, we look for the reviewer's true opinion and assessment of how well the writer has succeeded in achieving his or her goal in his or her genre.
The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker still have energetic book sections. They recognize reviewing and book news as an art, and also publish articles about old or out-of-print books.
The Guardian is eccentric, never afraid to eviscerate even a famous writer's book (and these negative reviews often send me searching for the book). The Washington Post has an excellent crew of in-house critics. The New Yorker is, well, The New Yorker.
Of course there are other venues. Many bloggers take contemporary literature seriously. But sometimes they are "compromised." (Have I been watching too much "Battlestar Galactica?") Sometimes they're doing obvious PR, out of naivete or to return a favor. Some may actually be PR people. If they're bookstore affiliates, watch out. Every time you click on one of their links to a bookstore and buy something, anything, they profit. It may not be by much, but it's something. (By the way, I'm not a bookstore affiliate.)
What would I do if I had to do without book reviews for, say, a year? I suppose I'd go back to the system I had in the old days. Most of the new books I read, by the way, are not the result of reviews. A few new books are bought on impulse, a few inspired by recommendations at Amazon or The Barnes & Noble Review, a few from prize longlists. The older books I pick out according to my own system.
We need our book reviews, though.


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This stunning vision is of the magic Blue Eye, just off the salubrious coast of Corfu ( where my great hero Napoleon was born). Please don't ask me to explain it. All I know is that I nearly fell out of the small motor boat we were in, sailing around the beautiful islands, when our captain decided to take a small detour to show us this magnificent sight inside a grotto. Even he couldn't quite explain the phenomenon.... and does it really matter? Just feast your eyes on Nature's miracle.... life is beautiful, na??
This column appeared in Hi! Blitz....
Zara zara Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me....
This column has been inspired by a man who has been boasting, somewhat stupidly, that he is the person responsible for "corrupting Indian culture"... or something equally idiotic.Give us a break, Emraan Hashmi. Just because you are on a roll right now, and feeling chuffed about your recent successes, you don't have to give yourself itna saara importance either! Get over it! Emraan is a talented actor. No debate there. It's not his fault he got stuck with that silly tag 'Serial Kisser'. Earlier, he used to be most defensive about all that kissing-vissing, and insist he was a loving husband who indulged in some heavy duty smooching on screen only because he had a job to do. Someone's got to do it, right? Right! Nobody took the bloke seriously at the time, even though his movies did better than the movies of star sons, who waltzed into the industry thanks to their papas and got paid the top buck even though they failed to deliver the goods.... much less make a living out of kissing. That's how Bollywood works. So there was poor Emraan, suffering through kiss after kiss after kiss and making us feel rather sorry for putting him through such an ordeal. All this torture for the sake of his art , naturally. Today our man is singing a different tune. Theek hai. Success make people learn new ragas overnight. And Hashmi has definitely worked hard for his success. After 'Shanghai', film makers across the spectrum are taking another dekho at the guy. Never mind that 'Shanghai' didn't break box office records, its critical acclaim was enough.
Emran could well be the male version of Vidya Balan. After 'Dirty Picture', Indian fans discovered Balan's boobs – and she discovered her sexuality. Quite like Emraan. Vidya too couldn't stop discussing her inner raunchy girl, having wisely decided to brazen it out, once everything was on public view. Shunning the usual defensive strategy heroines trot out ( "It was done so tastefully.... the scene required exposure..the approach was artistic."), Vidya happily swung her hips , rolled her tongue, bit her mouth, winked wickedly and said saucily that the movie had freed her from her own inhibitions. Boy! Don't we know it! And aren't we impressed! Vidya's bold, upfront acknowledgement took care of any criticism that might have come her way. She silenced critics and took the wind out of their sails by second guessing their barbs. Smart girl, that Vidya. Perhaps, taking a leaf out of her book, Emraan has also changed tracks. He is secure enough to make fun of his 'serial kisser' reputation, now that he has unequivocally established his credentials as an actor of note.
But what is it about Indian viewers and kissing? Why do we make such a big deal out of a lip-to-lip? And more importantly, why are we so bloody bad at it – on screen, off screen? Can nobody get it right? From the current brunch, I thought those two young ones – Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra in Íshaqzaade' managed better than the veterans – Hashmi included. Their kisses were passionate, uninhibited and yes – they had their mouths open! The last time Bollywood saw tongues in action was when Aishwarya Rai ( post-shaadi), and Hritik Roshan took each other's and the nation's breaths away in Dhoom -2. My, my, said shocked uncles and aunties, is that any way for desis to kiss???? Implying that the only kiss permissible was a chaste one on the forehead or cheek. And if lips had to meet, then it was better they remained clamped and pursed. Teeth on teeth, but no tongue on tongue. Got it?
After that red hot chumma, there has been no full on kiss worth noting on screen. It's almost embarrassing to watch the clumsy attempts of top stars as they resort to the ancient trick of turning the back of the head to the camera, and indulging in a coy 'pretend kiss'. Oh come on, people. Grow up. We can handle it. We can handle a lot – try us! Arunodaya's amazing and extended kiss in the backseat of an auto-rickshaw while holding a gun to the driver's head, remains a powerful memory, since the picturisation of such a sequence must have been a technical feat! Not only was the kiss most imaginatively shot, but it was charged with raw erotic power. I was hoping it would start a trend, with directors opting for more such breakthrough situations for kisses that really rock! What is bewildering to me is that considering how liberally we borrow and steal from foreign movies, why have we not maroed their kisses? Or at least, taken a few tips? It's all about camera angles.... forget chemistry and similar hogwash. The success of a movie kiss depends on the technical expertise of all those involved. For starters, Bollywood's kissing aspirants should take a crash course in smooching by watching Hollywood classics like 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Çasablanca''. The men should concentrate on the tilt of Clark Gable's chin, and the women on Ingrid Bergman's inviting mouth. Uske baad, we can go for the real thing. And no, Emraan Hashmi is excused. He has retired from kissing and gone back to the Pavilion. Bring on the boys... new ones. And lots of pretty girls. Starting with Nargis Faqri, who has the most kissable mouth in Bollywood. Right, Ranbir??


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I haven't been able to blog as much this year, as I did last year, but I really appreciate your support and I cannot wait to see what the new year brings! Here are just a few of the projects that I completed this year.
If you're interested here's my Top Projects of 2011 and for more furniture inspiration check out my Portfolio page.
Happy New Year!!
I'm sharing with Southern Hospitality, Bliss Ranch, and Knick of Time.


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Oct. 4, 2011
BOSTON, Mass. - This afternoon's women's tennis match at Salem State University has been postponed due to inclement weather in the forecast. No make-up date has been scheduled.
Women's tennis returns to action tomorrow when they travel to Eastern Nazarene for a 3:30 p.m. non-conference match. Also last Saturday's match at Bridgewater State which was postponed, has been rescheduled to this Friday and will be played at 3 p.m. at Bridgewater State.


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The use of direct deposit is now a condition of employment for a person appointed to a position in State government on or after July 1, 1996. It is therefore the agencys responsibility to insure new employees understand the requirement for compliance before they are offered employment. This new law does not apply to persons employed by the State before July 1, 1996 unless they subsequently change to a different personnel system.
OPS employees are encouraged to use direct deposit, but are categorically exempt if they desire.
Employees who can demonstrate a hardship or can demonstrate that he or she is unable to establish an account at a financial institution may request an exemption. Employees desiring an exemption based on a hardship should prepare a letter, addressed to the Comptroller, explaining the hardship and requesting the exemption. The letter must be endorsed by the agency personnel Chief as delegated by the agency head. If approved by the agency personnel Chief, the letter should be sent to the address indicated on the attached sample letter. If the request is approved by the Comptrollers Office, notice will be given and the employee will be paid by State warrant. If the request is denied, notice of such denial will be provided to the agency within 20 calendar days of the agency submission date. Employees transferring from another agency, changing from another personnel system or re-employed retirees do not need to complete a new Direct Deposit Form if they are currently participating.
Employees covered by this law shall authorize direct deposit on a Direct Deposit Authorization Form and submit it to our office, at the address indicated on the form, within thirty calendar days after employment with the State. We recommend the employee attach a voided check to the form to assist in processing the transit routing and account numbers.
A savings or checking account at a financial institution is all that is required for direct deposit. Commercial banks, savings and loans and credit unions are all considered financial institutions. Most, if not all, State employees have one or more credit unions they may join. Additionally, most commercial banks offer free or reduced cost accounts with the use of direct deposit to State employees.
New employees should be encouraged to check with various financial institutions during the selection process.
An employee who is changing his or her authorization and receives a warrant while the new authorization is in process is not considered to be in non-compliance with the statute.
Attached is a summary indicating changes from the draft Comptrollers Memorandum to the final Comptrollers Memorandum, questions received during the exposure of the draft Comptrollers Memorandum and our responses to those questions, and a sample format to use for a letter requesting a hardship exemption.
If you have any questions,
please call Mike Crowley at 488-2922 or Suncom 278-2922.
FINAL MEMO: No Direct Deposit Compliance Form is required.
FINAL MEMO: Completed Direct Deposit Authorization Form is required to be sent to the Comptrollers office by the employee within 30 days.
FINAL MEMO: Exemption is to be requested by employee in the form of a letter.
FINAL MEMO: Justification of hardship is required to be approved/endorsed by agency personnel Chief and then submitted to Comptrollers Office.
ANSWER: Yes. If a participant is changing bank accounts, it is necessary to stop the old account in order to begin a new account. During that time period, the employee will receive a State warrant.
ANSWER: The employer should explain, at the time of making the offer to the prospective employee, that participation in direct deposit is a condition of employment and that the employee is expected to comply with the Law.
ANSWER: Unless the employees qualify for a exemption otherwise, they will be required to open an account.
ANSWER: A new account will have to be opened.
ANSWER: It is impossible to define every situation. Be assured we (Comptroller) will be sensitive to individual needs and respectful of Agency recommendations.
ANSWER: No. Additional justification is required.
ANSWER: No. Approval will depend upon the justification provided.
ANSWER: The approved exemption will remain in effect. However, we would encourage participation if circumstances change which would allow for participation.
ANSWER: It is a good business practice. The Federal Government is above 90% direct deposit and has been mandatory for years. This is the mere adoption of a best business practice.
The Honorable Robert F.
Room 1301, The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0350
Dear Comptroller Milligan:
I hereby request an exemption
from the requirement of mandatory participation in direct deposit
for the following reason:
Thank you for your consideration
of this request.
Name of Individual
This request is recommended


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To be frank, I'm a bit sick of talking about The Walking Dead: The Game. For more than a year now, IGN has been covering developer Telltale Games' newest project, but we haven't actually seen much of it -- just had interviews and story tidbits to dissect. In that time period, episodes of Back to the Future started strong but faltered while Jurassic Park disappointed.
What does that mean for The Walking Dead: The Game? Well, not much. I've played the first episode, and as a fan of the franchise, I'm happy to tell you it's really good. Why? Well...
Above is the first four minutes of The Walking Dead. If you don't want to watch it because of spoilers, just know that it starts us off as protagonist Lee Everett and allows us to ease into the role. Once everything is established, it's irrevocably destroyed.
Episode one took two hours to play through for the first time, and there are plenty of moments like this -- where the action slows, the dialogue takes over so I get to know the characters, and then action hits. If you're not reading The Walking Dead comics, that's how creator Robert Kirkman has it play out. It feels like the book.
One of the biggest complaints with Jurassic Park was that the action didn't feel right. For years, audiences knew these dinosaurs as clever killers, and suddenly humans were outrunning them and getting plenty of time to make what should've been split-second decisions.
The Walking Dead game doesn't suffer from that problem -- so far. The video above shows how fast a zombie can get the drop on Lee, and it feels like just the right amount of time. The shambling horde is going to come after you, and as they do, red seeps from the corners of your screen to give you an idea of how close to dead you are.
I took out my fair share of walkers in episode one, and at no point did I feel like, "This is nonsense, I should be dead."
Historically, Telltale titles don't shoot for the "M" rating, so some were worried about how the developers would handle killing the undead. But there's no reason to be concerned. The babysitter video above is one of the more graphic kills in the episode, but it's not the most graphic kill. Here's another kill that, again, isn't the most graphic one. Seems like Telltale's got the blood and gore down.
Make a Choice
Still, the coolest thing The Walking Dead game has going for it is choice. Throughout the game, you're presented with game-altering choices. Sometimes they are little things like your response to a question influencing how a person feels about you, but other times they are massive decisions like saving one person over another. These choices are cool enough that as soon as I beat episode one I immediately wanted to replay it to make the other decisions, but I'm even more jazzed to see how they play out episode after episode. My group of survivors and how they feel about me could be vastly different than yours come episode five.
Plus, you get to see how other players chose when you finish an episode, and there are multiple save slots so that you can have multiple playthroughs for each episode and thus multiple takes on the same overall game. (Spoilery image of the stats in the image gallery.)
It means that I'm really excited to get my hands on the final version of The Walking Dead: The Game episode one and make different decisions to see how my relationships and experiences change. Other than being excited to play again, it doesn't mean all that much. I loved the first episode of Back to the Future, but the experience lost me by the end. After talking with story consultant Gary Whita about later episodes and all the crazy crap that's going to happen, I'm not too worried about that being a problem with the Walking Dead, but just like in a zombie apocalypse, it's better to be safe than sorry.
The first episode of The Walking Dead will be available this month for 400 Microsoft Points or $4.99 on the PlayStation Network. PC and Mac players can also get the first of the five episodes this month, but they have to pay $24.95 upfront for the entire season.
Greg is the executive editor of IGN PlayStation, cohost of Podcast Beyond and host of Up at Noon. Follow IGN on Twitter, and keep track of Greg's shenanigans on IGN and Twitter. Beyond!


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Actually this should've been really easy. A small script loop on the kindle to log the battery consumption and then plug that data into gnuplot. But it turned out gnuplot afaik doesn't support to output the difference between values. Thanks to apo_ from #gnuplot I've got it running with the help of awk now. The great thing is that this script runs in busybox and can hence easily be adapted for pretty much any kind of portable devices including Android phones, Kindles, Tablets, Notebooks, Netbooks, etc. And that's how it looks.
|Kindle 3 Battery Consumption
Measurement points are marked with an x.
First the very simple kindle log script:
#!/bin/shThen a little awk script to calculate the difference between the values for gnuplot:
while true;
cat /sys/devices/system/luigi_battery/luigi_battery0/battery_mAH >> $LOG
sleep 180
zero="$(awk -F ';' '{ print $1 }' batterylog.txt | head -n1)"
awk -F ';' '{print $1-'$zero',a-$2; a=$2;}' batterylog.txt | sed '1d' > /tmp/batterylog
awk -F ';' '{print $1-'$zero', $2 / 100;}' batterylog.txt | sed '1d' > /tmp/batterylog2
awk -F ';' '{print $1-'$zero', $3 / 200;}' batterylog.txt | sed '1d' > /tmp/batterylog3
And now gnuplot that!
set xlabel "Time [s]"
set ylabel "Battery [mAh/mV/mW]"
set style fill solid 1.0 border
plot "/tmp/batterylog2" using 1:2 title "", \
"/tmp/batterylog" using 1:2 smooth unique title "Battery Usage [delta mW]", \
"/tmp/batterylog2" using 1:2 smooth unique title "Battery Absolute [mAh/100]", \
"/tmp/batterylog3" using 1:2 smooth unique title "Battery Absolute [mV/200]"
pause 100;
All very easy stuff of course! ;-)


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The news last week from the Pentagon's supersecret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that it had successfully tested a hypersonic missile capable of speeds up to 3,082 mph caused quite a stir in military circles, and no wonder. Imagine being able to aim at and hit any target on the planet within an hour; or soldiers in Afghanistan calling in a pinpoint airstrike with missiles fired from Omaha.
Taken together with the successful test by the Office of Naval Research over Halloween of its hypersonic electromagnetic railgun — which, once it goes into action, can knock out approaching missiles as far away as 100 miles — and we may be entering an era as revolutionary as when gunpowder replaced the crossbow.
Unfortunately, now that Congress' supercommittee has failed to reach some kind of budget deal, we may be doomed to crossbows for good.
The resulting sequestration of funds could strip away as much as $1 trillion from defense spending over the next decade — and put future weapons systems like hypersonic in permanent eclipse.
The House Armed Services Committee's Democrats and Republicans have issued a chilling report on what happens if sequestration sets in.
We'll be losing 60 ships from the Navy, including two carrier battle groups, and we'll have 200,000 fewer troops than in 2010. Production of the Army's Apache attack helicopter and Kiowa reconnaissance helicopter will have to shut down. No vertical take-off F-35 fighter for the Marines — and no next generation bomber for the Air Force. On top of losing ships, the Navy will also see fewer and fewer replacements, as lack of cash slows production schedules.
Is there wasteful spending at the Pentagon? Sure. Are certain weapons programs like the F-35 running way over budget? Of course. Does the military service's very expensive health-care and retirement systems (the fastest-rising costs in the entire Pentagon budget) need some revamping and new thinking? Absolutely.
But the sequestration budget cuts will run up the white flag for friends and foes alike — and require major mission shrinkage in places like the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. And they'll mean losing the future while the Pentagon scrambles to save what it can of the present.
Which brings us to hypersonic. Programs involving first-time technologies have historically been extremely expensive to develop and engineer, and almost as costly to test. Like ballistic missiles in the 1950s and the Strategic Defense Initiative in the '90s, expect serial failures on the launching pad until the technology is understood, let alone perfected. DARPA's two earlier test hypersonic vehicles both crashed and burned — though not before the last reached Mach 20, an incredible 20 times the speed of sound.
But even if the will to persevere is there, the funding may not be. Future Congresses laboring under sequestration rules, and facing headlines proclaiming still more costly delays in a "flawed" hypersonic program, will be tempted to cancel the whole thing.
Congress has already cut funding for a free-electron-laser program. And despite successful tests, money for railgun development has been terminated, as well.
If hypersonic is next, the United States may be unable for the first time since World War II to exploit the next major military technology revolution — and so fall permanently behind those who are willing to try, including (inevitably) the Chinese.
The good news is that the Budget Control Act still allows Congress and the president to propose alternative cuts even after sequestration beings. This law was never meant to grind the government to fiscal standstill — or hollow out our military.
But those hard choices will now be postponed until the 2012 election — when American voters have to decide whether they want a permanently weakened defense structure or are willing to use the savings from our withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan to modernize our military for the threats to come, from a nuclear Iran to a hegemony-minded China.
Meanwhile, the future of America's military superiority hangs in the balance — and by a budgetary thread.
Arthur Herman is an American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar.


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This week's 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy written by Amy Coffin is:
Play with Google Maps. This is a helpful tool for determining the locations of addresses in your family history. Where your ancestral homestead once stood may now be a warehouse, a parking lot or a field. Perhaps the house is still there. When you input addresses in Google Maps, don't forget to use the Satellite View and Street View options for perspectives that put you were right there where your ancestors once stood. If you've used this tool before, take sometime and play with it again. Push all the buttons, click all the links and devise new ways it can help with your personal genealogy research. If you have a genealogy blog, write about your experiences with Google Maps, or suggest similar easy (and free) tools that have helped in your own research.
I chose to map where some of my ancestors lived in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
The green pin is where Valentine BLITZ and family lived on Hughes Street.
The red pin is where Frank A HAEFNER and family lived on Franklin Street, now a parking lot.
The blue pin is St. Boniface Church where both families were members and my family still attend.
The yellow pin is the Williamsport Cemetery (also known as the Washington Street Cemetery) where some of the BLITZ family are buried.
It is interesting to look at where these families lived and see how close they were to each other, their church and other locations.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
52 Weeks to Better Genealogy: Week 7 - Google Maps
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Well done! It is also interesting to note how certain ethnic groups banded together and named their churches and such. In Chicago, for example, you might have 4 Catholic Churches in a half-mile raius, but by looking at the names of the Churches, you could determine that the Germans attemded St. Boniface, the Hungarians attended St. Stephen, the Polish parish was St. Stanislav's, the Irish attended St. Patricks, etc...ReplyDelete
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text: On Monday (TOMORROW), December 26th at 18:30, Haifux will (fingers crossed) gather to hear Ofer Rosenberg (AMD Israel) talk about GPGPU - Case studies, Dos and Don'ts Note: This is the first hands-on lecture. Arriving with laptops with at least the AMD APP SDK (regardless of your computer's GPGPU, if any) is highly recommended. This meeting (and the next one) will take place in Taub 337 for the sake of better Wifi support. For instructions see: http://www.haifux.org/where.html Abstract This is a series of 4 talks about GPGPUs, intended for the practical engineer. 1. Motivation, AMD's architecture 2. OpenCL overview 3. Case studies, Dos and Don'ts 4. Tools and Profiling for Performance For slides, installation instructions, and updates, please visit http://haifux.org/lectures/267/ ================================ Attendance is free, and you are all invited! ================================ Future Haifux talks include: 02/01/2011 GPGPU - Tools and profiling for performance by Ofer Rosenberg 09/01/2012 Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout by Amir E. Aharoni ============================================================ We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event Haifux might be interested in, please contact us at webmaster at haifux.org -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://haifux.org/pipermail/haifux/attachments/20111225/706c461d/attachment.html


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Man in Afghan army uniform shoots, kills NATO member
KABUL, Afghanistan – A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform on Sunday shot and killed a member of the U.S.-led coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan — the latest in a spate of insider attacks that are fracturing the trust between NATO and Afghan forces.
Separately, officials said 11 Afghan civilians were killed by land mines on Sunday in explosions in the east and south.
U.S. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for the coalition, said the service member was killed in the south. His identity and nationality were not disclosed.
Mohammad Zarak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand province, said the shooting took place in Nad Ali district after an argument between an Afghan soldier and coalition service members.
Coalition figures show at least 60 coalition service members have been killed so far this year and others have been wounded in about 45 insider attacks, where members of the Afghan security forces or insurgents dressed in their uniforms turn their guns on U.S. and allied troops.
The insider attacks have raised questions about how effectively the allied forces can train the Afghans to take over security of their own country in 2014 and beyond. Foreign forces are due to turn over security responsibility to the local military by the end of 2014.
A roadside bomb killed three men, two women and a baby in Khost province of eastern Afghanistan, deputy provincial police chief Youqib Khan said. He said their vehicle hit the bomb as they were returning from a hospital.
Three other civilians were killed when their vehicle detonated a land mine on the road between Helmand and Kandahar provinces, a government statement said.
Also in the south, two civilians who were walking were killed by a land mine in Khakrez district of Kandahar province, said Ahmad Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
The United Nations says homemade bombs continue to be the weapons that kill the most civilians in the war.


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Jim Rutkowski Jr. needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Industrial Sales and Manufacturing, Inc.
We are looking for a front and back tee shirt design for our manufacturing plant. We are an US manufacturer in the machining fabrication and assembly field for original equipment manufacturers. We are and extremely proud hard working group of 120 associates. We were founded in 1967 in Erie Pa. It is a family owned and run concern. Our website is http://www.ismerie.com. We are looking for a design around the theme of manufacturing matters to all of us. We would like a retro style shirt design.
Our culture is one of intense pride that is customer focused and quality products delivered in a timely manner.
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December 21, 2012
Keisy Chavez, a Latino activist with Latinos for Obama, and daughter Cinthya Qureshi at their business in Herndon.
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Immigrants make significant gains in influencing political system.
On Election Night Nov. 6, Keisy Chavez's nerves were frayed. The Fairfax single mom had been campaigning hard for Democrats since the official launch of Latinos for Obama last April.
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Mein Hanzy:
As I've recently discovered, genius comes in rather small measures, yet a fool and his passion can crush a concrete overpass. In the perpetual and occasionally frustrating search for additional horsepower for my rather anemic Porsche 944, I came across a device called the Transeptular Vortex, which for the paltry sum of $89 promised to increase my power and fuel economy by up to 10 percent. The glowing and allegedly unsolicited testimonials—plus the offer of free shipping—did the trick, and within minutes I began to conceive that if one of these miracle devices can give a 10 percent increase in performance, then perhaps two would yield 20. Four of them would return 40 percent, and so on. In my lathering and breathless wisdom I finally settled on 16 of these marvels, and three days later they arrived at my home in four gigantic boxes.
I installed the first one by carefully following the pidgin-English directions supplied with the kit and I also managed to screw two more of them into the engine compartment. I then jacked-up the car and screwed three more to the chassis using long, self-tapping screws. Two more went on each of the doors, three on top of the hood, and three more on the roof of the car just aft of the sunroof. By my conservative calculations I conceive that I should achieve nearly 630 hp from my 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine, and, even better, I should use almost no fuel at all. The only downside to this modification, so far, was that my car no longer looked like a Porsche and more closely resembled Skylab.
I fired up my 944 Skylab and pointed her towards the highway, the Transeptular Vortexes whistling in the wind with all the subtlety of a blown REO Speed Wagon pulling a steep grade. Ignoring the frightened looks from my fellow motorists who were only too happy to move out of the high-speed lane, I carelessly jumped into the throttle and unleashed the madness of cheap horsepower and torque upon the unsuspecting two-laner. My 944 lifted its nose like a stallion catching a promising feminine whiff as we galloped down the highway at a fearsome pace, and I started to think that, finally, I'm going to need some bigger brakes. Fast approaching redline in Fifth gear I slowly eased off the throttle and the nose of the car began to settle as we left the realm of triple digits behind. Checking my gauges, I noticed my fuel indicator seemed to be rising and within moments the needle was pegged at full. I suddenly detected a strong odor of fuel and wisely pulled my Skylab over into the breakdown lane just as my gas cap blew off and sent a geyser of 93 octane fuel shooting deep into the woods. Several startled motorists pulled over, not so much to assist me but more to view the spectacle of a 944 Skylab disgorging itself on the side of the highway. Someone produced a siphon hose and within minutes I was dispensing fuel to my fellow motorists and enjoying a decent return on my investment in 16 Transeptular Vortexes. My gas cap, however, proved unrecoverable, as it had been hurled into the woods with all the subtlety of a howitzer. So after siphoning my tank down to the point of activating the low fuel warning light, I stuffed a rag into the filler neck and slowly drove back to my drawing board.
So as with life in general, and cars in particular, the shaky solution to one problem only serves to peel the onion and reveal yet another one—sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. With my eye cast towards cheap horsepower and establishing a viable cottage industry, I've purchased a tire trailer and a pair of 50-gallon drums, and I'm welding the whole mess together and mounting a large hand pump on the top. I still need one of those "All Taxes Included," signs and maybe a permit or two, but I'm confident that by the time you read this missive, OPEC will be courting me with handfuls of flowers and entreaties of brotherly love.


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Upsilon Andromedae A System
This is an artist's illustration of the Upsilon Andromedae A planetary system, where three Jupiter-type planets orbit the yellow-white star Upsilon Andromedae A. Astronomers have recently discovered that not all planets orbit this star in the same plane, as the major planets in our solar system orbit the Sun. The orbits of two of the planets are inclined by 30 degrees with respect to each other. Such a strange orientation has never before been seen in any other planetary system. This surprising finding will impact theories of how planetary systems form and evolve, say researchers. It suggests that some violent events can happen to disrupt planets' orbits after a planetary system forms. The discovery was made by joint observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, and other ground-based telescopes.
Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI);
Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. McArthur (The University of Texas at Austin, McDonald Observatory)


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I know you've been there. Your kid comes in and tells you that they have a school report and that they must construct an Indian a Native American costume in which to deliver it. They tell you this at 4:48 on a Tuesday. It is due at 8 AM on Wednesday. It was assigned two weeks ago.
After you finish beating your child (you guys do that, too, right??), you haul cookies to your local craft store to gather supplies for what will undoubtedly be the shoddiest, most poorly crafted costume in the room that will make all others wonder if you are the developmentally disabled mother of an above-average-intelligence child ('cause all our kids are brillz, huh??). Sadly, those other Alpha Moms already KNOW you so you'll have to suck up their pitiful glances in your direction as you drop off Chief Hot Mess.
Anway, back to your trip to the craft store... which seems to have been taken over by total fucking aliens and possibly a busload of German tourists. Nothing is where it should be logically placed, the place is like a wandering through a warehouse of absolutely useless-for-your-needs crap.
And can I just ask: When did pattern-makers decide that Native American costume patterns were no longer needed by moms? Yes, I get it. Playing cowboys and Indians isn't PC, but fer Chrissakes, are we going to just ignore the fact that our national history includes Native Americans? And sometimes school dictates that not only Pilgrims show up to a party!??! WTF?! I found patterns for cowboys & pilgrims, soldiers, gladiators, and even entire passion play set-ups but not a SINGLE Native American one! Evidently the pattern-makers think a retarded chimpanzee can knock together a good Tecumseh costume... but they are mistaken. Long story short: I was on my own.
So as I wandered the aisles, heart racing in panic, eyes darting through the wares (There! There! I can construct a full headdress out of a pink boa, right?!?), what should fall upon my gaze? Only the creepiest fucking craft box I've ever seen.
Behold, The Reborn:
You really have to see it in person, but hurry! It's on clearance. Strange these devil-spawn reborn babies aren't flying off the shelves!
Maybe it was because I was in a Hobby Lobby (which, you know, is so Christian it's closed on Sundays...) but when I was faced with the word "Reborn" in the baby context I couldn't help to wonder if this isn't some sort of new post-abortion therapeutic craft? (In which case they should hand them out at Planned Parenthood.) Or some sort of Evangelical Baptismal deal... which is silly since a baby has no sins from which to be "reborn"... but whatever.
My absolute favorite is the little "Make a Baby!" florette!! Which got me to thinking maybe this isn't a craft at all, but there's a tiny man trapped in that box, all studly and fertile, just waiting to knock a sister up. Or maybe it's a cut-rate spermbank option? You crack open the box and find a little vial of hobo semen, a turkey baster and a squeeze-tube of cut rate lube and instructions in broken Chinglish. I don't know.
I don't know what the fuck is in that box, and frankly, it has kept me up wondering. Mostly because now I am too terrified to sleep for fear of dreams of little "reborn" preemies. And the type of woman who would want one of these laying around her house.
Oh! The costume? Yeah, I ended up renting one from the local dinner theater. Yep. Suck that, Alpha Moms!!
And I heard from a friend who witnessed it: Deuce (Chief Dinner Theater) told the entire class a long, elaborate story about how he & I made the damn thing in my studio! Yep. He lied his ass off. Without me even TELLING him to! God, I love that kid.
Oh shit. I just realized I haven't returned that costume yet....


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THU, APR 30, 2009 at 9:52 AM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With the fall semester in full swing, new Lipscomb men's basketball head coach Casey Alexander has rounded out his roster for the 2013-14 campaign.
"After a lot of last minute scrambling to finish off the 2013 recruiting class, we're excited to finally have our full roster together," said Alexander. "These new additions are a nice complement for our returning players and offer us increased depth."
Completing the 2013-14 squad are junior guard Alex Brayboy along with freshman guard Cam Miller and freshman forward Brett Wishon.
Brayboy joins the Bisons after averaging 16.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per outing in 14 games of action at Allegany Junior College in Cumberland, Md.
"Alex comes to us after an exceptional year at Allegany where he put up big numbers before an injury-riddled finish to the season," said Alexander. "He's a very athletic player with the versatility to play a number of positions. His experience has allowed him to blend right in and we expect him to make a difference for us."
Wishon comes to the Music City after a season at Fork Union Military Academy, a boarding school located in Fork Union, Va.
"Brett is a skilled player with size, two essential characteristics for us when we look for post players," said Alexander. "He's most comfortable letting threes fly and that fits nicely into our style of play."
Miller is set to don the Purple and Gold after a standout senior campaign at Independence High School in Franklin where he earned AAA All-District honors.
"Cam is a local product that had an outstanding senior season," said Alexander. "Before I even made contact with him I heard from several people that he would be a great addition to our team. After spending some time with him on and off the court, I completely agree. I want walk-ons that have expectations to play, yet are always willing to play the role handed to them. Cam will do both."
Brayboy, Miller and Wishon join fellow newcomer Josh Williams, who was announced earlier in the summer, as the new faces on the 2013-14 roster.
"Josh signed with us just prior to our arrival and is off to a great start," said Alexander. "He has some raw basketball power that will allow him to contribute early. As he continues to adapt to the demands of the college game, I expect him to make a real difference for this program."
The quartet of newcomers will see their first action on Halloween night, Oct. 31, as the Bisons host Freed Hardeman in an exhibition tilt that gets underway at 6 p.m. at Allen Arena.
2013-14 season tickets are on sale now. Vist http://www.BeHerdLU.com to purchase or call 615-966-HERD (4373) to place an order or for more information.


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With a good chunk of refuge-in-a-bag trait packages approved early this year, seed companies now are gearing up for what promises to be one of the most anticipated, and most hyped, ag product rollouts in decades.
With the EPA approval this April, and additional approvals expected late this year, seed companies will have in their portfolios the single-bag combination of refuge and traited seed that producers have been anticipating. In its simplest form, a refuge-in-a-bag product combines the EPA-mandated refuge with insect-resistant trait packages in one seed bag. It eliminates the need to plant a separate refuge block that has been critical in ensuring the long-term health of the technology.
"Refuge in a bag is the ultimate in simplicity," says Bill Belzer, senior marketing manager, North American corn, for Pioneer. "Producers can place in-plant insect protection on former refuge acres, allowing them the opportunity to have more productivity on their acres while maintaining the durability of the traits."
The single-bag solutions for 2012 combine 95% traited seed with an in-bag mix of 5% non-insect-traited seed. This single-bag solution has been shown to meet the necessary requirements of a refuge program.
Each of the major trait providers is anticipating full rollout of its refuge products by spring, with products tailored to meet the needs of producers in differing geographies with varying pest control needs.
With Syngenta's Agrisure Viptera trait launch in 2010, the company laid the groundwork for its refuge-in-a-bag products, called Agrisure E-Z Refuge. Agrisure Viptera was the company's new mode of action for lepidopteran control and was integrated into nearly 20% of Syngenta's corn portfolio.
"Today, Syngenta is fully traited with our own trait portfolio for lepidopteran and coleopteran insect control," says Grant Ozipko, traits marketing manager for Syngenta. "This portfolio is our foundation in which we are building our refuge reduction strategy."
Syngenta will have products with dual modes of action for above- and belowground pests, called Agrisure 3122 E-Z Refuge and Agrisure Viptera 3220 E-Z Refuge. "The dual aboveground is intended for geographies with low or no rootworm pressure, and this product will have both a 5% structured refuge and a blended refuge pending final EPA approval," Ozipko says.
Agrisure 3122 E-Z Refuge is for areas with moderate to high corn rootworm pressure, as well as corn borer and broad lepidopteran pressure. Its partner is Agrisure Viptera 3220 E-Z Refuge, which is intended for non-rootworm geographies.
"Our intentions are, pending approval, to convert our seed portfolio to these offerings as soon as possible," Ozipko says. "We anticipate having a good supply available for our customers."
Ozipko anticipates interest, and adoption, of refuge products to be swift. "There is much more interest in adopting this new refuge strategy," he says. "Producers are familiar with the concept of insect control traits, they understand that it will make compliance easier, and it will help them be more productive. The big driver is convenience." These products will initially be available from Garst, Golden Harvest, and NK and, in the future, from more than 125 local and independently owned seed companies that license Syngenta technology.
Dow AgroSciences
The first Dow AgroSciences refuge-in-a-bag product, called Refuge Advanced powered by SmartStax, was planted on a limited number of acres in 2011, following EPA approval in early April. "We did get a bit of Refuge Advanced placed this year, and we are rapidly building our supplies for a full launch in 2012 across our product portfolio," says Steve Thompson, who heads global seeds and traits research and development for Dow AgroSciences. SmartStax is a combination of above- and belowground insect control traits as well as herbicide tolerence traits. It combines Dow AgroSciences' Herculex I insect protection and Monsanto's VTPro, as well as Monsanto's YieldGard VT Rootworm/RR2 technology and Dow AgroSciences' Herculex RW insect protection technology. It also uses the Roundup Ready 2 technology and LibertyLink from Bayer CropScience.
Refuge Advanced will be offered only through Dow AgroSciences seed brands, including Mycogen Seeds, Brodbeck Seeds, Dairyland Seed, Pfister Seeds, Prairie Brand, Renze Seeds, and Triumph Seed.
Casey Onstot, traits marketing manager for Dow AgroSciences, says this year's Refuge Advancd seed was planted in several different states so producers will be able to review results. "It's a technology that really works, and producers are excited that it will make refuge compliance much easier because it's compliance in a single bag," he says.
Also building on the SmartStax technology is Monsanto's single-bag refuge solution. Called Genuity SmartStax RIB Complete, it offers above- and belowground insect protection in a single-bag refuge product. The company also will offer Genuity VT Double Pro pending regulatory approval, which is a blended refuge product for aboveground insect protection, says Matt Kirkpatrick, corn traits manager for Monsanto.
Genuity SmartStax RIB complete is a blend that contains 95% SmartStax seed and 5% non-insect-traited corn seed. Genuity VT Double Pro provides dual modes of action against aboveground insect pests. It will be targeted for areas with low corn rootworm protection.
Monsanto corn seed brands and licensees in the Corn Belt that are expected to have Genuity SmartStax RIB Complete product available in 2011 include national brands Dekalb and Channel; regional brands Fontanelle, Gold Country Seed, Heritage, Hubner Seed, Jung, Kruger, Lewis, Rea, Specialty, Stewart, Stone Seed Group and Trelay Seeds; and also licensees of Monsanto's seed technology.
Product supply was limited this year, but full-scale introduction is expected in 2012. Targeted areas for the RIB complete product include areas in the 90- to 105-day corn maturity range, including parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and southern Michigan. VT Double Pro will be marketed toward the northern and southern geographies. Kirkpatrick says southern cotton areas are still required to plant a 20% corn refuge, so these products will not be marketed there.
Monsanto plans to convert 100% of its brands from SmartStax with structured refuge to Genuity SmartStax RIB Complete in the Corn Belt, Kirkpatrick says. "Producers are already familiar with the technology, so we expect adoption to be quick," he says. "We will convert our portfolio quickly as well."
Pioneer unveiled its first single-bag refuge product for the 2011 planting season, Optimum AcreMax1, and it was planted on nearly 4 million acres.
The next generation of Pioneer products will offer both aboveground, and above- and belowground insect protection in single-bag solutions. Optimum AcreMax will be for aboveground insect protection, and Optimum AcreMax Xtra will combine both above- and belowground insect control. "The primary areas with more rootworm pressure — eastern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana — will be primary areas where Optimum AcreMax Xtra products will be used," Belzer says. "For producers who do not need rootworm protection, they can use Optimum AcreMax for all their aboveground insect control needs."
Belzer is optimistic that both products will have a commercial rollout in 2012, pending final EPA approval. He says, "Given that the EPA has looked very favorable to single-bag refuge solutions, we feel good about the prospects of offering these products to growers in 2012."


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Happy B-day, Nishijima Roshi & Macalester College Today at 4:45
Nishijima Roshi turned 90 on November 29th! The photo to your left is from the party held for him by students of Dogen Sangha in Tokyo, who meet each Saturday at Tokyo University's Young Buddhists Association. I guess 90 is pretty young! At the bottom of this post is a video made for his b-day by one of the Dogen Sangha groups in Frankfurt, Germany.
I'm in St. Paul today enjoying their double good hospitality and warmth. I sat in on a poetry reading at Macalester College last night, which was a lot of fun. Especially the poem about burgers! In just a few hours I'll be speaking at the college.
I'm kinda nervous as I always am before these talks. This will be my second talk about Buddhism and sex. It's the subject of my forthcoming book from New World Library. The book isn't due out until next Fall. But it's mostly finished at this point. Still, everything I write is a work in progress as far as I'm concerned -- even after it's already on sale in the stores.
What I've tried to do in the book is take a personal view of Buddhism and sexuality as it has developed for me. It wasn't until I started writing the book that I realized I lost my virginity and began my Zen practice at roughly the same time. So almost all of my life as a sexual being has been affected by Zen practice and Zen philosophy. Whether I am a shining example of how to reconcile the two remains to be seen. I think I'm a little better at it than a few and a lot worse than others. In short, I handle it about as well as can be expected.
But I really believe that the Buddhist approach has been invaluable in allowing me to have a pretty happy sex life without a lot of the intensity and weirdness I've seen a many of my friends deal with. Sure I've had some heartbreak. I break pretty hard when I break. I've done a few things I shouldn't have. But overall, I feel like it's been mostly really, really good -- even when it's been bad. That's probably the part where the Zen stuff helps the most. It's a way of maintaining some kind of balance even when you're freaking the fuck out.
Anyway, as usual I have no clue just what I'm gonna say to the students of Macalester. But I got a few notes written down on a little notepad in my pocket. So I can always whip that out if I completely lose track.
Hope to see you there!
All times, dates, locations and suchlike are AT THIS LINK.
And remember I'm leading a half-day sit at Macalester tomorrow (Saturday) and doing the Dharma Talk at Dharma Field in Minneapolis on Sunday. The info about those is also at the link above (or just click here, lazy-pants!).
And, and, and, as usual zazen at Hill Street Center in Santa Monica is ON this Saturday in spite of the fact I won't be there.


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To the Editor:
As the summer heat began to build in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court issued a much anticipated decision that gutted key components of the monumental Voting Rights Act of 1965. The decision in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder erased fundamental protections against racial discrimination in voting that have been effective for more than 40 years and opened the floodgates for a wave of attacks on voters. Only strong action from Congress can fix the court's mistake.
Before the ink was even dry on the decision, several states rushed to implement racially discriminatory anti-voter laws, including several states where the League of Women Voters had previously succeeded in blocking voter restrictions in the courts and state legislatures. Sadly, this is only the beginning. Without a strong VRA, our ability to fight off anti-voter legislation and keep our elections free, fair and accessible is significantly weakened.
As we hit the 48th anniversary of this historic civil rights legislation, the VRA remains an essential protection against the thinly veiled discrimination that still threatens Americans' right to vote. Congress needs to move swiftly to overcome this decision and restore the effectiveness of the VRA. The Shelby decision is a call to action for all who believe all Americans should have fair and equal access to the ballot. Now is the time to contact your member of Congress and tell him or her to repair the VRA before any more damage is done.
Jean Pierce
First vice president of the League of Women Voters of Central Kane County


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