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If everything went according to schedule, the Federal Communications Commission on Friday concluded its testing of possible interference between its proposed smut-free plan and nearby spectrum bands. T-Mobile led the campaign for the experiments, which M2Z Networks, the proposed service's biggest booster on Thursday called "an obvious delay tactic sprung upon the Commission."
Whatever the motives for the event, FCC spokesperson Robert Kenny told Ars that Friday was the last day for the three-day testing period, conducted by a team of agency engineers at a Boeing facility in Seattle. Kenny says that, if all goes according to plan, the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) hopes to evaluate the results and come up with recommendations for contouring the band by the end of this year.
The FCC's proposal, at present, is to auction off the 2155-2180MHz spectrum to a bidder who will over a decade build a national, free broadband service, filtered to block out pornography. After the Commission accepts the OET's recommendations for the band, the agency hopes to set up rules for the auction early next year, then launch the bidding six to nine months later.
That would put the sale some time between September of 2009 and January of 2010. But Kenny hastened to add that this tidy scenario is predicated upon its approval by a majority of three FCC Commissioners, which, as Ars readers know, cannot be taken for granted.
When the FCC announced these interference tests, T-Mobile told Ars that it was pretty confident of the results: "We are convinced the FCC will learn [from these experiments] that its proposed rules are not viable because of the impact on existing wireless providers in the neighboring spectrum bands," the company declared.
On Tuesday, just before the Seattle experiments began, a small battalion of T-Mobile execs and an engineering consultant from telecom law firm Wiley Rein met with OET senior engineer Julius Knapp, who is supervising the tests. There T-Mobile laid out its expectations for the tryouts—whether the 2155-2180MHz's transmit powers will mess with the reception ability of the nearby Advanced Wireless Services 1 (AWS-1) band, which T-Mobile paid billions for a chunk of in 2006.
But M2Z, the most likely bidder for the FCC's plan, has also declared victory in advance, albeit a little more cautiously. The company told the FCC on Thursday that the company is "is highly confident that this week's testing, if performed impartially and consistent with state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing spectral co-existence," will confirm that no "onerous technical limits " will be needed in the AWS-3 band.
M2Z's filing includes a timeline of big wireless requests for delays in the proceeding. In light of these, the company's legal affairs, vice president Uzoma C. Onyeije warned, the Commission "should look with extreme skepticism on any 'follow-on' delay requests such as are likely to come after completion of these open tests."
Ars anticipates the possibility of further partisan announcements of technical success or failure prior to the OET's conclusive assessment of its experiments. The FCC constantly warns reporters that these sort of engineering trial runs are not "pass/fail" tests, and should not be interpreted as such.


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Annual to trees, some dioecious
Stem: nodes often swollen
Leaves simple, basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally entire; stipules 0 or obvious and fused into a generally scarious sheath around stem
Inflorescence: small cluster, axillary or arrayed in cymes or panicles; involucres sometimes subtending 1many flowers
Flower generally bisexual, small, ± radial; perianth generally 56-lobed, base ± tapered, often jointed to pedicel; stamens 29, often in 2 whorls; ovary superior, styles generally 3, generally fused at base
Fruit: achene, generally enclosed by persistent perianth, generally 3-angled, ovoid, and glabrous
Genera in family: 50 genera, 1100 species: worldwide, especially n temp; some cultivated for food (Fagopyrum ; Rheum , rhubarb; Rumex , sorrel) or ornamental (Antigonon , coral-vine; Muehlenbeckia ; Polygonum )
Reference: [Ronse Decraene & Akeroyd 1988 Bot J Linn Soc 98:321371; Reveal et al. 1989 Phytologia 66(24):83414]
Treatments of the 15 eriogonoid genera are based on the monographic work of James L. Reveal, who is gratefully acknowledged.
Annual, perennial herb, glabrous or hairy, sometimes glandular
Stem generally scapose (made up of inflorescence axes)
Leaves basal (rarely some cauline); stipule 0; blade generally ± oblanceolate
Inflorescence open or of few heads, sometimes 1-sided; bracts generally opposite, leaf-like to scale-like; involucres 1several per axil, sessile, tube cylindric to bell-shaped, generally ± cross-ridged or net-veined, bracts (and ribs) 36, awns straight or hooked; flowers 12 per involucre
Flower: perianth white to red or yellow, lobes 6, entire to fringed or toothed; stamens 39
Fruit 1.54.5 mm, generally ± brown, glabrous
Species in genus: 50 species: temp w North America, sw South America
Etymology: (Greek: divided flower, from perianth)
Reference: [Reveal & Hardham 1989 Phytologia 66(2):98198]
Stem ± erect, 550 cm, thinly hairy
Leaf: blade 1040 mm, ± linear to oblanceolate
Inflorescence breaking at nodes; involucral tube 35 mm, cylindric, green, thinly strigose, bracts 6, awns hooked
Flower: perianth 24 mm, generally white, glabrous, lobes equal, ± linear, entire; stamens 3, attached near top of perianth tube
Ecology: Common. Desert scrub, sagebrush scrub, juniper woodland
Elevation: < 3000 m.
Bioregional distribution: East of Sierra Nevada, Desert
Distribution outside California: to se Oregon, s Idaho, Utah, Arizona, nw Mexico

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IT departments need productivity plan: Gartner
Users will make your life hell with "Shadow IT" if you don't do more
Pockets of IT activity beyond the IT department are inevitable and clever IT folk will find a way to embrace it gently and then hatch plans to become so marvellously responsive that you deliver things users would otherwise build for themselves.
So says Mark McDonald, Ph.D., a Group Vice President and Head of Research in Gartner Executive Programs in a new blog post.
McDonald labels IT beyond the IT department "Shadow IT" and says it emerges thanks to consumerized technology, mobility, the availability of cloud solutions and quite frankly relatively slow cycle times within captive IT organizations."
Shadow IT is a risk for organisations, he says, because those who develop it quickly lose interest in it or, when things go pear-shaped, hand it back to the IT department and say 'here operate and integrate this, after all isn't this your job."
One response is to unleash the BOFH. McDonald's rather more sensible approach is to look at why IT has gone rogue in the first place.
"Go back and look at the real nature of Shadow IT demand and solutions," McDonald advises. "In many cases the shadow applications are requests for greater information consumption and rather than information creation or production systems." Adding an API so that business people can get their hands on more information can help things along.
Computer says no
McDonald also suggests IT departments get more done, so that business folk get what they want and don't head off-piste. Becoming more productive needs a plan.
"Chances are that while you have a plan to allocate all IT resources to projects, you lack a plan for driving IT productivity to make the pie bigger," he writes.
Such a plan is important because only greater productivity will help IT departments meet demand driven by ravening hordes of consumers-IT-fired users. Clamping down on those users won't work, Gartner says, Instead "Greater capacity, productivity and throughput from within IT is the only sustainable solution." ®


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The Fatboy Charging Pillow is running in the neighborhood of $80-100. Verizon has the charging pillow on sale for $59.99. While details are a little sketchy, it looks like the Fatboy is only available in black. Still, it's a nice deal.
You can find all the details on Verizon's Fatboy charger offer here. Oh...not entirely sure why Verizon is listing the 8X as not compatible. Especially when Verizon's product page notes the 8X's wireless charging feature.
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Uncle Pete and Leigh sit down to have a good old catch up. But as always we quickly start talking about overly ambitious ideas…
What you don't want to do is spend Christmas driving around Bristol with food poisoning. Meanwhile, New Years' resolutions and thw whole concept of new years' in general are foolish ideas. BBC Breakfast last year were talking about Blue Monday. 20 Questions game to work out Pete's new BIG project. Leigh decides that he and Uncle Pete should team up to write a self-help book to "help and support" people who want to get motivated. Leigh reckons all the selfhelp books just tell you to write lists – and if Charles McFall & Mordant can do it with Success
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Chris Humphreys and LoneSQRL call in for the second hour – where we talk about why Leigh now has a private and personal Twitter account, how Gay John looks like Robbie Rotten, Husband Dismisses Wife Because Of Strange Body Odour and What Lives in Your Belly Button? Study Finds "Rain Forest" of Species.


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Playing the game
Catherine Goode describes how a degree in physics and a childhood passion for computer and video games led her to a career in game design.
When I was younger, my hobbies were drawing, playing with electronics and chemistry sets, and watching documentaries about space. But the activity I was exceptionally passionate about was playing video games. I enjoyed classics such as Mario and Sonic, and my absolute favourite was Dungeon Keeper, but I also spent lots of time playing PC Sim and "god games" such as Black & White and Theme Park.
When it came to choosing my career path, though, I had a problem. The standard advice is "do what you are passionate about", but it was not at all clear how I should prepare for a career in games. The only computing courses offered by my school were geared towards giving students a basic understanding of Microsoft Office products, so they were no help. On the other hand, I knew that going down a purely artistic path would limit my ability to work in game engineering and design. I thought about doing a games-related course at university level, but none of the ones I found seemed suitable: either they were not academic enough, or they left me with few alternatives if my preferred option did not work out.
Fortunately, I was still very interested in science, so I decided to concentrate on the most interesting and core science: physics. The physics degree at Birmingham University offered exactly what I was looking for: experience in creating space technology, a solid understanding of how to program in C++ and plenty of contact with the practical side of physics. I loved learning about real-world applications such as medical imaging and spacecraft design, and I particularly liked labwork, where I could take what I had learned, use it to devise a way to achieve a result, consider all possible outcomes and finally write up my findings to explain them to someone else.
Then, when I was in my final year of university, I attended a careers fair for scientists and engineers. The company that caught my immediate attention was Frontier Developments, a Cambridge firm that is best known for creating the games Elite, Lostwinds and Kinectimals. Their representatives at the careers fair seemed to pick up on my passion for games, and they invited me along for a studio tour. At the time, I still wanted to become either an artist or a programmer – but when they explained the role of designer, I knew that was what I wanted to do.
Building a game world
At Frontier, my primary role was "level design", which involves taking a game where the basic story outline and theme have already been worked out and then filling in the details of individual levels. In a way, this role seems similar to being a director of a film: you have a rough script prepared, but it is up to you to keep it interesting and bring it to the big screen.
The first step in designing levels for a new game is to create a document that describes each level in detail. For example, you start by filling out the story with action and puzzles, and then you move on to modelling the level maps using 3D tools to determine where each of the enemies would be, where players would be allowed to save their progress and so on. Obviously, the tips I had picked up through years of playing games myself were very useful in this role, but I was also using the analytic writing skills I had gained from my degree.
Once the studio's artists returned the artwork for all the levels, my next step was to create each level using specialized in-house tools to build walls, place cover for gunfights, script enemies to come out and shoot at the right times, and program set-piece events such as "boss battles" that give players an extra challenge at the end of levels. Once one of my levels was completed, I would watch other people play it and analyse their experiences to improve the level and fix the bugs.
At Frontier, I was also given a few tasks that would normally be done by a system designer, which is a very different role to a level designer because it involves devising the core game play. For example, a system designer may decide what the controls are going to be like for the game, or design the system that determines how characters in a game gain experience. This role is more technical than level design, but the process is similar: you create documentation to describe the system fully, program a prototype or rough version of the system, and then iterate on that system until it is working and fun to play.
In 2010 I moved to a new company, Lockwood Studios, which is much smaller than Frontier and specializes in creating content for Sony's social-gaming platform, PlayStation Home. Working in a small team meant that my role there was quite varied: not only was I designing, but I was also using a high-level language called LUA to create the editing tools and mechanics behind the game. Programming meant that I was applying a lot of the mechanics and mathematics that I used during my degree, and I am hoping to do the same when I start work at Sony shortly after this article is published.
Winning strategies
I really love what I am doing, but games development can be a high-pressure career. I have heard horror stories about "crunch time" when employees are expected to work overtime late into the night – including weekends – for no extra pay or time off in lieu. This does not happen at every studio, but most are under pressure from their project funders (which are usually publishers such as EA Games). If a funder pulls out, this can mean lay-offs and there is also the possibility that a project you have worked on for years will never be seen by the public. The threats of funding loss and redundancy are what I like least about the job.
Luckily, it is not all negative. Some studios work independently of publishers, and recently there has been a massive growth in the number of people going it alone. Independent studios tend to sell their games directly to their customers using services such as Steam and PlayStation Network. This means they are not reliant on a publisher, which reduces the risk of having their games cancelled and also means they can keep nearly 100% of their profits. Independents also have alternative forms of funding such as selling the game in its alpha testing period, or asking fans to donate towards an idea.
There are also some really great traits to the games industry. Everybody knows each other, which means that if you move to a new company, you will find that many of your co-workers already know you. The atmosphere is a lot like at university – it is easy to find social groups that share the same interests, and no-one wears a suit. Of course, the best bits are creating games, sometimes on new technology that the public does not even know about yet, seeing your game out on sale, watching a strong community of players grow and reading reviews as they roll in.
If you want to get into the games industry, the best thing to do is to try creating a game yourself. Work alone or with others, and do not worry about the art or sound – just use existing tools such as Unreal or RPG Maker and have a go. Showing a commitment to making games – rather than just playing them – will look great at interviews, and will also show you what designing a game is actually like.
As for academic courses, I would not recommend doing a degree course in game development. These degrees are not transferable to other fields, and often they are not well respected within the games industry. In my experience, an academic degree in a relevant subject such as physics or computer science will stand you in much better stead. Also, it is important to remember that even if you want to work in an artistic role within the games industry, you will need to have some scripting knowledge, so look for a course that has a good programming component and think carefully about how the rest of the course can be applied.
Working in games has always been a dream of mine. I feel incredibly lucky that every day I get to help create experiences that fellow gamers around the world will hopefully love and remember, just like I loved playing Dungeon Keeper (which I still install on every machine I own). Someday I hope to create a game like that – one that someone will want to play throughout their life.
Catherine Goode is a technical designer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in London, UK, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
This article appears in the May 2012 issue of Physics World


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Neymar inspires Brazil to big win
Neymar scored one goal and set up two others to help Brazil defeat Panama 4-0 in a World Cup warm-up match on Tuesday.
Neymar broke the deadlock with a well-struck free kick from just outside the area in the 26th minute, and then sent a perfect back-heel pass for Hulk to score less than a minute into the second half. Neymar also started the move that led to Willian scoring in the 73rd.
Neymar's Barcelona teammate Dani Alves had struck Brazil's second goal with a right footed shot in the 40th.
Brazil had been struggling until the first goal and fans had started to jeer their team at the nearly packed Serra Dourada Stadium in Goiania.
It was Brazil's second-to-last match before the World Cup opener on June 12.
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But wait, you say - how about the Ancestry and Reunion apps, Google Earth, the neat genealogy books you can load onto the readers, and a whole host of apps with genealogy relevance?
Oh, yeah. But first I have to check out the App Store, put a good station on Pandora Radio or crank up the iTunes, read my blogs ... you know.
And then it gets late.
2. Have cats. They play on their new condo, fight over Prime Real Estate (= my lap), knock my charts and papers off the table, and constantly demand to be fed and loved. Am I going to enter that ancestor into my database or kiss R.B.'s nose?
And then it gets late.
3. Work by an open window. The sun is shining, there is a bit of a breeze making the wind chimes go bing-bong-bing, a nuthatch is hanging upside down on the bird feeder, and the squirrels are playing tag.
And then it gets late.
4. Work to music. I really work best to music. So I put on iTunes or Pandora, and some of my favorite music cycles on. I think: "I should see if I can find this group on YouTube." So I look it up, find a clip, and play it. And then YouTube suggests more interesting music in the same vein. And I click on it. And I keep on clicking.
And then it gets late.
And then I see "Popular Clips." And I see "Kitten in a Hamster Ball."
And then it gets really late.
5. Have Facebook, Google+, or Twitter accounts. I don't have to detail this one for you. You know what happens. It gets late.
But it's a new year now, time for a new start. So I am going to crawl upstairs to my office, pull down the shades on the window, keep the music off, put away the iPad and ...
Oh, look! The cats have all run to the window! There's a squirrel on the bench, looking inside, and ....


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Kirk Cousins' night came to a premature conclusion.
The Washington Redskins' backup quarterback was forced to exit Monday's 24-13 preseason win over the Pittsburgh Steelers after suffering a right foot injury.
NFL.com's Albert Breer reported that X-rays on Cousins were negative. Citing a source, Breer said Cousins' injury is being called a mid-foot sprain. Wearing a boot after the game, Cousins told NFL.com's Jeff Darlington that he didn't anticipate missing much time, if any.
Cousins was hurt while trying to get out of bounds on a scramble in the second quarter. Steelers linebacker Lawrence Timmons caught Cousins from behind, and the quarterback got his right foot rolled up on along the Redskins' sideline.
Cousins attempted to walk off the injury but then sat down near the huddle. After being tended to by trainers, he walked off the field under his own power. Rex Grossman replaced Cousins in the lineup.
Cousins remained on the Redskins' sideline several minutes after the injury, but he eventually left for the locker room.
Cousins wasn't the only Redskins player to go down Monday. Defensive tackle Barry Cofield (hand) and wide receivers Leonard Hankerson (knee) and Aldrick Robinson (thigh) all exited the game and did not return.
Cofield underwent X-rays on his right hand. Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said after the game that Cofield had a small fracture in his hand and would have to wear a cast for a while, but he isn't expected to miss any regular-season playing time.The "Around The League Podcast" is now available on iTunes! Click here to listen and subscribe.


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There is a growing chorus for governments to help established media transform themselves in the digital age. From the U.S. to the Netherlands, from the U.K. to France, governments are being asked to help both print and broadcast media innovate their products and services to help make them sustainable.
State support for innovation is not a new concept. Support of cooperate research initiatives involving the state, higher education institutions, and industries has been part of national science and industrial policies for many decades. There has been significant state support for innovation of agriculture/food products, electronics, advanced military equipment, information technology, and biomedical technology and products.
State support tends to work best in developing new technologies and industries and tends to focus support on advanced basic scholarly research through science and research funding organizations, creation and support for research parks and industrial development zones for applied research, and incentives and subsidies for commercial research and development.
Many governments also support efforts to transform established industries. These are typically designed to promote productivity and competitiveness as a means of preserving employment and the tax base. In the past there has been some support for technology transfer from electronics and information technology to existing industries and for retraining, facilities reconstruction, and entering new markets.
Trying to apply those kinds of research and transformation policies in media is challenging, however, because much of media activities tend to be non-industrial and are dependent on relatively rigid organizational structures and processes that are difficult to change. These factors are complicated by the facts that media engage in negligible research and development activities, have limited experience with product change and new product development, and tend to have limited links to higher education institutions.
It is clear that a growing number of managers in media industries understand the need for innovation because of the declining sustainability of current operations and because Internet, mobile, e-reader, and on-demand technologies are providing new opportunities. The real innovation challenges in established media, however, are not perceiving the need for change or being able to get needed technology, but organizational structures, processes, culture, and ways of thinking that limit willingness and ability to innovate. This is compounded because many managers are confused by the opportunities and don't know what to do or how pursue innovation.
Today, the innovation challenge facing media—especially newspapers--is not mere modernization, but fundamentally reestablishing their media functions and forms. What is needed is a complete rethinking of what content is offered, where, when and how it is provided, what new products and services should be provided and what existing ones dropped, how content will differ and be superior to that of other providers, how to establish new and better relationships with consumers, how the activities are organized and what processes will be employed, what relationships need to be established with partners and intermediaries, and ultimately how the activities are funded.
The state's ability to influence media innovation of this type is highly constrained. Governments worldwide have proven themselves ineffectual in running business enterprises and they have limited abilities to affect organizational structures, processes, culture, and thinking in existing firms. What governments can do, however, is to fund research that identifies threats, opportunities and best practices, provide education and training to promote innovation and help implement change, offer incentives or subsidies to cover transformation costs and support new initiatives, and help coordinate activities across industries.
These kinds of support will be helpful, but they will not be a panacea because the greatest impetus for and implementation of change and innovation must come from within companies. The support will only be helpful if companies are actually willing to innovate and change to support that innovation. The extent they are willing to do so remains to be seen.
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Brain Metastases in Lymphoma
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
In December 2005, I completed 6 treatments of R-CHOP chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. My "final" PET scan (skull to thigh) showed no evidence of residual active neoplasm - good news. I have recently read of the advisability of a brain scan in the management of essentially all cancers to detect early indications of brain metastasis. Did the skull-to-thigh PET scan which I got after completing chemotherapy include the brain? If not, is a brain scan recommended for patients like me?
Babis (Charalambos) Andreadis, MD, Assistant Professor in Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center and an Associate Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Brain or central nervous system (CNS) involvement can occur with many different types of cancers. However, development of this complication in lymphomas is relatively rare. Information collected from several studies suggests that the average rate of CNS involvement in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is only 5% over the course of the disease. Rates may be higher for a few subgroups of patients (more aggressive histologies such as diffuse large B-cell, Burkitt's, or lymphoblastic; bone marrow involvement; the presence of "B symptoms" such as night sweats, significant weight loss, itching; disease outside the lymph nodes; high blood LDH; and advanced age). These factors may predict for higher rates of CNS disease.
Screening for CNS involvement in the presence of neurological symptoms is definitely recommended. Screening for asymptomatic CNS disease is indicated for certain patients that have the high-risk factors listed above. However, even then, the yield from asymptomatic screening is low and the benefit obtained from this information is debatable. In other words, it is not clear that picking up CNS involvement early, in the absence of symptoms, has any benefit in terms of complications or survival.
Finally, the best screening modalities for CNS disease are a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) and brain MRI, when indicated. A PET scan, although very sensitive for certain kinds of lymphoma, has a limited track record in this setting. Alas, a "whole body" or "skull-to-thigh" PET scan only goes from the base of the skull to the thigh, and thus does not include the brain. A separate whole brain PET study has to be performed for the brain to be imaged, but would not likely be very helpful in lymphoma.


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Was James Ira Copeland the 6th (or 7th) and last husband of my great grandmother Dovie C McBurnett Hall Stanley Epperson (Epperson) Priddy Bailey Copeland?
Let's examine the evidence:
My great grandmother was born Dovie C McBurnett, but over time her given name changed from Dovie C to Ruby Dovie
- 1900 Census- Dovie C McBurnett, age 8
- 1910 Census- Dovie Hall, age 19
- 1920 Census- Dovie Stanley, age 29
- 1930 Census- Ruby D Epperson
- Delayed birth certificate for son Delbert Eugene Hall, date unknown- Ruby Dovie McBurnett Hall
- 1942- Mrs Ruby Epperson marries John O Priddy
- Delayed birth certificate for son Victor Earl Hall, 1942- Ruby Hall Priddy
- Death certificate, obituary 1969- Ruby Dovie Copeland
Dovie C McBurnett was born in 1890 and for the last 60 years of her life lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
James Ira Copeland was born in 1897 and apparently lived his entire life in the North Texas area, much of that in Titus County, Texas.
A marriage license shows that James Ira Copeland married Ruby Priddy in Jan 1957 in Titus County.
A death certificate shows that James Ira Copeland was killed in an auto accident in Arlington, Texas in May 1957. He was married at the time of his death and was buried at Liberty Hill Cemetery in Titus County, Texas.
At this point, I believe James Ira Copeland was probably my great grandmother Dovie C McBurnett's 6th (7th) and last husband. However, I'd still like more evidence to support this opinion.
My plans:
Visit the downtown Fort Worth Public Library and hunt through the archived Fort Worth Star-Telegrams for an obituary and article about Copeland's fatal car wreck
Visit the local Family History Library to get a copy of the Copeland/Priddy marriage license
Looks like the schedule for my next day off is set!


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A Gaza hospital director says foreign activists, including a US citizen, are working as human shields to try to protect patients in the facility from Israeli strikes.
Israeli airstrikes hit El Wafa Medical Rehabilitation Hospital in Gaza City five times Friday, said executive director Basman Alashi. The hospital normally houses 30 patients in varying stages of occupational and physical therapy, Alashi said. During the current operation, he trained the families of 16 patients to help provide care at home. For those too incapacitated to move, he resorted to another tactic: asking foreign activists to act as a human shield.
"After the fifth hit we decided to go on air and declare our case," Alashi said by telephone. "All hospitals in Gaza are extremely busy and there is no other space for our patients. We decided not to take them out. They need the care 24 hours. We can't leave the building and leave the patients. They are helpless."
Alashi said he held a press conference Friday evening at Gaza's Shifa hospital and asked for help. Eight foreigners agreed to stay in shifts in the hospital, including American Joe Catron, a pro-Palestinian activist from Hopewell, Virginia. Catron, 33, said in a telephone interview he hoped the presence of activists from the US, England, Spain, Sweden and Venezuela could bring enough attention to the hospital to deter the Israeli army from striking it.
"The hospital's administration asked us to come here and maintain a presence," Catron said. The Israeli army "may have had designs on it at but at this point I'm optimistic that the amount of attention they've got on the hospital has discouraged them from carrying through."
An Israeli army spokesman said that the military takes great care to protect civilians in Gaza, including firing dud missiles and calling residents to warn of impending bombings.
"Hamas is renowned for its use of civilians to protect terror operation centers; whether it be storing missiles under schools, harboring terrorists in hospitals or sending children to the roof of terror operation sites," the Israeli military said in a statement to McClatchy.
"Generally speaking, despite every effort made by the IDF to prevent civilian casualties, the reality of Hamas' indifference to non-combatants has lead to tragic consequences."
Alashi said he was not warned of impending strikes; however, he did receive a call in Israeli-accented Arabic inquiring about the condition of his hospital after it was hit. The caller identified himself as with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Alashi said, though he believed it was an Israeli probing for information to guide future military moves.
Israel launched Operation Protective Edge seven days ago to stop Hamas rocket attacks, which include rockets that have hit Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel has targeted more than 1300 sites in Gaza in the current operation. More than 160 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting.
Militants in Gaza have launched about 940 rockets at Israel since the beginning of the operation, according to the Israeli army. There have been no direct Israeli fatalities, although an elderly woman in Haifa died after suffering a heart attack while rushing to a bomb shelter.
El Wafa hospital is in the eastern part of Gaza City. Director Alashi said it treats only rehabilitation cases, so there are no casualties arriving from the current round of fighting with Israel. Alashi said he did not know why Israel had targeted the hospital. He said there are no weapons or Hamas members in the hospital.
The first strike was Friday at 2 am, Alashi said. It hit the eastern side of the fourth floor. Two more strikes followed to the same wall. The fourth strike came through the roof. The fifth came again through the eastern wall. Alashi said the Israeli strikes destroyed the rooftop water containers of the hospital, but he managed to get another water supply for his patients.
Foreigners acting as human shields in Gaza are not a new phenomenon. In March 2003, Rachel Corrie from Olympia, Washington, died when an Israeli bulldozer drove into her as she stood in front of a Palestinian home in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. The Israeli driver of the bulldozer claimed he did not see Corrie; her parents are still embroiled in a lawsuit in Israel. A month later, British activist Tom Hurndall was shot by Israeli sniper fire in Gaza; he fell into a coma and died in 2004.
Catron said he believes he faces less risk than those activists before him.
"Something was different in the Israeli equation in 2003," he said. "I think after the deaths of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, and the international outrage that followed, the Israelis realized that course of action wasn't very good."
Alashi said he is trying to help his patients cope with the trauma of war. None have been killed or injured by Israeli fire in the current operation, he said. However, although the hospital still stands, Alashi said his patients are terrified by the bombing of nearby buildings. Some grip his hands and beg him not to leave. There are 32 nurses, organized in 24-hour shifts to reduce the risk of driving back and forth. He said he feels the activists have helped him feel "a little bit safer." They will stay until the operation is over, he said.
"At least I have someone...who understands we are suffering," Alashi said. "We are human, we are not target practice for the Israelis."


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Cameron, who stood beside Obama on the warm March afternoon, reaffirmed his support, saying, "We will not give up on this mission, because Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for al Qaeda to launch attacks against us."
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Kathy Kelly remarked on Democracy Now! on the recent massacre of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a U.S. soldier:
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OAKLAND — Even as police were trumpeting a new program to buy back weapons on Saturday, a man was killed in East Oakland, a grim reminder of just how badly Oakland needs to get guns off the streets.
The killing of a man was the city's 122nd homicide this year. It happened at 3:30 p.m. at 83rd Avenue and D Street, just as police brass and leaders from community organizations on both sides of the bay were holding a news conference to promote an anonymous gun buyback program Saturday in Oakland and San Francisco.
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Earlier this year, Carlos Nava Sr., the father of Carlos Nava Jr., 3, who was killed in August 2011 on International Boulevard in Oakland, joined a small-scale gun buyback, offering gift cards for the first 100 people who turned in guns.
Nava was one of three children younger than 5 killed by gunfire in 2011. In Oakland this year, homicides are up compared with last year, with 122 killings to date. There were 105 for all of 2011.
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Alajuelense are just a point behind Costa Rica Primera Division leaders Herediano thanks to their win on Saturday.
Oscar Ramirez's side put the pressure on Herediano with a 3-1 win over Santos de Guapiles drawing them level on points.
Herediano were unable to collect three points against Cartagines on Sunday, held to a 0-0 draw away from home.
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American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition. These criteria are listed in the Paraphilia section, pg. 525.
- Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving the act (real, not simulated) of being humiliated, beaten, bound or otherwise made to suffer.
- The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Diagnostic criteria for 302.84 Sexual Sadism
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The cookbook we will be discussing this month is "Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book". Stop by the library to check out a copy. Bring a sampling of a recipe from the book to share. The library will provide plates and silverware. Register at the Information Desk, or call 330-683-1065.
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Most wearable tech focuses on the external and social aspect of things. For instance, Google Glass comes with an impressive facial recognition system that could let you identify and look people up while you're literally looking at them. And that's fine, if you want to spend most of your time wearing smart glasses that let you do more with what you're seeing.
But if you want to start looking within, then you might want to check out the Jins Meme sensory glasses. These smart specs make use of electro oculography, which is the process of sensing electrical potentials vie eye movement, thanks to its six-axis acceleration sensor. It also has three additional sensors on the frame on the touch points of the wearer's face in order to detect and monitor changes in body physics.


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Earlier this summer, Pixar told the story of a young woman determined to change her fate. The theme of a daughter on the verge of adulthood seems to be a common thread between Brave and Columbia Picture's animated film Hotel Transylvania, as evidenced by this new clip for the movie.
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, Hotel Transylvania follows Drecula (Adam Sandler) as he runs a fancy resort where monsters and their families can relax and enjoy being monsters, away from those pesky humans. That changes when a human stumbles upon the hotel during the weekend of Dracula's daughters' 118th birthday celebration.
The clip below (via Moviefone) gives us a look at a conversation between Dracula and his daughter (Selena Gomez).
She does a pretty solid Dracula impersonation, and her ceiling-pacing is top notch. As for Dracula's response to her request, the yes seemed to come a little to easily. In fact, she never even got her question out before he was saying yes. Is there a catch? With the arrival of a human, it seems the world is coming to Mavis in the form of Jonathan (Andy Samberg).
Hotel Transylvania arrives in theaters September 21. Catch the trailer for the film here and find more information and photos in our Blend Film Database.


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Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Curriculum Vitae
|Anna Preis
|2012 - present
PhD Student at International Max Planck Research School, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Dissertation: Proximate mechanisms of conflict management in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus).
Biology diploma (Masters equivalent) at MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Titel of thesis: Androgen levels in serum and urine of east African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).
|2003 - 2009
Study of Biology, Georg August University Goettingen, Germany
Main subjects: Zoology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Conservation
Work and Field Experience
|2011 - 2012
Parc National de Loango, Gabon
Field Research Assistant: Habituation of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). Behavioral and camera trap (long term monitoring and tool use) data collection.
|2009 - 2010
Research Assistant: Endocrinology Lab at MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, run by Dr. Tobias Deschner.
Extraction of steroids in wild chimpanzee and bonobo urine samples and analyses of LC-MS results.
Student Assistant at MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Dr. Gottfried Hohmann
Literature research and data management.
University Field Trip: La Foret des Singes – Rocamadur, France
Subject: Aggression and reconciliation in adult male Macaca sylvanus. Supervisors: Prof Dr. Julia Fischer, Dr. Kurt Hammerschmidt.
Lajuma Research Centre, South Africa
Subject: Feeding ecology of Sykes Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis). Supervisor: Dr. Ian Gaigher
Field of expertise/Range of methods
Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
Extraction and analyses of steroid hormones from urine and serum of chimpanzees and bonobo urine, especially gonadal and adrenal androgens, as well as glucocorticoids.
Enzyme-Immunoassays (EIA):
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Color, Value, and Evolution of Logos
Logos are very important to a business. A good logo can sell itself, especially if the colors match the product correctly. Color, Value, and Evolution of Logos infographic found on Finances Online.
Do you know how colors influence your buying decisions? Why the charging bulls in the Red Bull logo are red? Or why McDonald's double arches are yellow? It's because the emotional power of logos is closely tied to specific colors.
It turns out, our emotions are results of the precise science of effective logo design. In fact, psychologists proved that famous logos are so wired into our brains, that at the age of 2 kids can already link a product with its logo in 67% of cases. You can find even more interesting facts about logos in our latest
The meaning behind logo colors is always a popular infographic topic, and you can see some prior posts here. This design goes a bit further by also looking at brand values, the cost to design some of the more famous logos and how some logos have evolved over the years.
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I really like that they added a few "Tweetable Facts and Figures" on the landing page below the infographic to help encourage readers to share the infographic. They even have convenient "Tweet This" links that will fill in the Twitter post with the text for the user.
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The numbers don't lie — Pleasant Valley at East Stroudsburg North might be the biggest game of the year for both teams. The 6-2 Bears travel to Bushkill to play the 6-2 Timberwolves in a game that will have Mountain Valley Conference and District 11 playoff implications.
The numbers don't lie — Pleasant Valley at East Stroudsburg North might be the biggest game of the year for both teams.
The 6-2 Bears travel to Bushkill to play the 6-2 Timberwolves in a game that will have Mountain Valley Conference and District 11 playoff implications.
PV is unbeaten in conference play, holding a 6-0 record with two games to play. The Timberwolves (5-1 MVC) suffered their first conference defeat a week ago at the hands of Stroudsburg, the third spoke of the MVC frontrunners.
Tonight, PV has a chance to make it a two-team race for the MVC title, while ES North has a chance to put its name back in the championship conversation.
"At this point, playing games of this magnitude, there's a reason it's this magnitude," ES North coach Chuck Dailey said. "Credit to the kids. There's no mismatches anywhere and that's what makes this game intriguing."
The Bears feature one of the top offenses in the MVC. Freshman running back Austyn Borre has run for 1,091 yards and 13 touchdowns, while quarterback Brandon Leap has thrown for 1,390 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Leap's favorite targets are Sekou Jones (23 catches, 413 yards, 3 TDs) and Andrew Romeo (21-471, 8 TDs).
Dailey said that PV's versatility on offense is impressive.
"One time they will line up in a pro set and they will come at you," Dailey said. "The next time they'll go five wide."
Slowing down Borre will be a tough task for North's defense.
"The thing that impresses me is he runs extremely hard," Dailey said. "He doesn't go down on first contact. That's one thing that sticks out to me."
The Timberwolves will be without quarterback Will Quiles, who went down with a shoulder injury last week. Dailey said he expects Quiles to return before the end of the year.
Lorenzo Melchiorre will get the start under center tonight and will have David Allbaugh (970 yards, 8 TDs) at fullback.
"He's outstanding, an outstanding athlete," PV coach Jim Terwilliger said of the senior fullback. "I saw him make a play versus Dieruff where he did a spin move and jumped over a defender. He's one of the best backs in our league."
Caseem Johnson (417 yards rushing, 5 TDs) had a big game last week against the Mounties, running for 113 yards, while Abdul Murphy has the speed and the athleticism on the wing to make a big play.
North and PV are left with a big hurdle to clear tonight, and only one will make it.
"If I can quote my sister, she said, 'What's the best thing about being 5-0? It's a chance to be 6-0,'" Terwilliger said. "Looking at our situation, we're approaching Friday night like it's a championship football game, and it is for both teams."
The pick — The loss of Quiles is a big hit for ES North. Melchiorre will run the offense very well, but having Quiles out is a lost weapon. PV's defensive line and Dakota Everett at middle linebacker have a big task in stopping Allbaugh. If Leap limits interceptions, PV should survive. Bears, 27-25.
Here's a look at the rest of tonight's games.
The Canaries struggled through a 42-0 loss last week against Pleasant Valley. Allen's lone victory came two weeks ago, a 26-14 victory over Lehighton.
Pocono East running back Devyn Papa missed last week's game, a 45-35 loss to Coughlin, putting the focus on the passing game. QB Evan Fardella threw for 248 yards, giving him 1,085 for the year.
The pick — Good chance for East to end a four-game losing skid. Cardinals, 34-14.
Tough year for Dieruff, which is allowing over 51 points per game the last four weeks.
Good chance for Stroudsburg to keep everyone healthy and ready for the regular-season finale against Pleasant Valley Nov. 2.
The pick — Mounties, 42-7.
Hazleton's offense has disappeared the last three weeks, averaging 8.3 points during that span against Crestwood, Dallas and Wyoming Valley West.
South suffered its worst loss in some time a week ago, falling 22-19 to Lehighton, a game in which the Cavaliers allowed 394 yards of offense.
The pick — Expect the Cavaliers' defense to make a statement. South 28-6.
Lehighton's Jacen Nalesnik is tough to slow down. He ran for 191 yards and a touchdown against the Cavaliers last week.
Pocono West quarterback Jeff Krisiak (1,984 yards, 21 TDs, 4 INTs) is teaming up with receivers Matt Shelter (38 catches, 516 yards, 4 TDs), Jordan Hardy (36-686, 8 TDs) and Mark McMaster (24-312, 7 TDs) to have a big season.
The pick — West's defense needs to get Nalesnik off the field. Indians have some confidence after a win last week. Closer than anticipated. Panthers, 27-21.


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