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All aboard! Java Depot lays tracks
In our yearly round-up of openings and closings, Dish missed one opening on the road to Wintergreen–the Java Depot and Caf©. As co-owner Nancy Kern, who runs the place with her husband, Richard Boyd, wants to remind folks, the Java Depot opened in June last year.
"Our place is unique with terrific coffee and homemade food," says Kern.
Boyd, an architect, actually designed the Java Depot in 2007 using the old Arrington railroad depot, which was built in 1870 to replace the old depot which was burned down during the Civil War. Before being dismantled and moved to its current location along Route 151 in Beach Grove, it housed the Arrington Post Office from 1961 to 1982. Originally, the restored building opened as Sparrow's Cafe a little over a year ago, but that business only lasted about five months. Kern, a lawyer, says she and Boyd, who only live about a mile away, kept driving by the building and were struck with the restaurant bug.
"We decided I could keep my job to put my salary into the Depot and work mornings and weekends," says Kern. "Richard is in charge of the kitchen, me the barista and coffee. It's so much fun. It's not lucrative yet, but there is no better way to spend my salary."
Kern says Nellysford needed a coffee shop, and that she loves the idea of making people happy with homemade food and coffee.
"I'm a coffee snob," admits Kern, "so I shopped around and settled on Shenandoah Joe roasters–- more expensive but better than others I found."
The Depot is opened for breakfast and lunch from 6:30am to 2:30pm every day except Tuesdays, and on Friday nights from 6pm to 9pm they feature live music, dessert, and light dinner fare.
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DOVER — It's that time of year again.
The foliage has peaked, the apples are crisp and the Seacoast's premier fall festival will be officially under way today in the Garrison City.
The 28th Annual Apple Harvest Day attracts more than 25,000 people year after year. Today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., head to downtown Dover for a day packed with entertainment, music, 300 vendors and great food.
The festival kicks off with the Apple Harvest Day 5K at 8:30 a.m., underwritten by PainCare and Salmon Falls Family Healthcare, along with Bernson Legal, PLLC and Kennebunk Savings. The race will start and finish on River Street. The USTAF certified course will wind through historic downtown Dover and is suitable for beginner runners and walkers, as well as advanced racers. It is not too late to sign-up. Registration can be completed at the race for $20.
Six stages of musical performances and entertainment will take over the streets off Central Avenue. The festival's organizer, the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce, and underwriter, Federal Savings Bank, have ensured entertainment for young and old.
For the 27th year, WOKQ will host the Apple Pie Judging Contest on XFINITY Stage. Lower Henry Park will transform into KidZone with inflatable amusements, games and trains. One of the new additions to the festival will display creative art. The McConnell Center, at 61 Locust St., will be transformed into the McConnell Center Arts Pavilion, featuring live music, local artists and food vendors.
Also new in 2012 is the Todd's Touch Auto Alley which will fill First Street with classic and super-modified cars, as well as a monster truck.
Henry Law Park will be the location of Apple Harvest Day's largest food court, complete with traditional carnival foods, as well as seasonal favorites such as candy apples and apple crisp. An additional food court is located in the Ross Furniture Parking Lot on Third Street. Early risers can attend the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast on Orchard Street from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Festival attendees can park at the Dover Library on Locust Street and the Dover Transportation Center on Chestnut Street. Both lots will be serviced by the Apple Harvest Day Shuttle provided by Maple Suites, which will drop passengers off in the heart of the festival at Henry Law Park and at the Janetos Parking Lot on Main Street.
Upon arriving at Apple Harvest Day, festival-goers are encouraged to visit the Chamber of Commerce Information Center at the corner of Central Avenue and Orchard Street or the Measured Progress Volunteer Headquarters inside H&R Block at 447 Central Ave. to receive a Foster's Daily Democrat festival guide complete with map and entertainment schedules.
For up-to-date information on Apple Harvest Day visit www.dovernh.org, www.facebook.com/doverappleharvest or call the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at (603) 742-2218.
It's Apple Harvest Day in downtown Dover
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Character, integrity, and responsible citizenship guide student life in the Deerfield community. We live the goal of celebrating each student's unique perspective to foster an inclusive educational community. Deerfield's program emphasizes students' roles as conscientious leaders in the community and the world.
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We offer small, discussion-based courses in a wide range of academic disciplines. Our faculty has designed a variety of interdepartmental courses, team-taught by two or more faculty members, to enable students to create new and innovative interdisciplinary skill sets. Individual research, off-campus study opportunities, advanced Alternate Study electives, and 19 AP courses provide students with exceptional academic opportunity.
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Deerfield teachers seek to know every student and use that knowledge to advise that student in how to contribute his or her best self to the community. At Deerfield, teaching extends beyond the classroom to the dining table, the co-curricular activity, and the dormitory, to create a well-rounded and individually tailored educational experience for our students.
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Students at Deerfield are encouraged to participate in both arts and athletics. The Arts play a significant role in the life of the school. Deerfield's visual and performing arts department offers a wide variety of academic courses in our innovative Center for the Arts. Students can also choose to participate in the performing arts as a co-curricular activity.
Deerfield has a long and proud tradition in athletics. Students gain physical skills as well as foster sportsmanship and camaraderie through our co-curricular interscholastic and intramural teams. Our on-campus athletic facilities include over 90 acres of athletic fields, and our nearby off-campus facilities include a state-of-the-art boathouse, a first-rate golf course, and a downhill skiing site.
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Deerfield is dedicated to creating a warm and supportive environment for our students. Dorm life fosters a sense of community on campus. Dorm proctors, peer counselors, and peer tutors offer classmates valuable support. Clubs and organizations play a major role in life at the Academy. Student hangouts such as the Greer Center, the Koch Café, and the dorm provide opportunities for students to strengthen friendships and foster community spirit.
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The Academy's tradition is held in our sense of place. The historic village of Deerfield in the Connecticut River Valley offers a long and rich American heritage. At Deerfield, our time-honored traditions foster lifelong bonds. Weekly gatherings such as school meetings, cookies and cocoa, dorm feeds, and sit-down meals draw our Deerfield community together.


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@YFTS I used pcpartpicker.com andjust watched prices flex until I was ready to buy. I don't recommend buying all at once but rather as they go on sale
@spydurhank Dang, man. You've been showing so much love for my content lately. It really means a lot to me.
@TriFlixFilms - DUDE - I missed your filmmaking alone (one man band) episode somehow, but it just caught my eye.
That is some great content. Very honest about the cons of the process but ultimately really positive about what you can achieve as a one man bad. Also shows everyone just how much work is going into these episodes (with the cutaways, which were another nice touch). Really, really awesome stuff.
The fact that you even watch my content mind blowing given that I make videos on your software. It's like Steve Jobs reading my report because I used an Mac to type it. I am very humbled.
Today has been and rollercoaster of a day and I want you to know that you just put a big smile on my face haha. @KirstieT
Maybe someday, I have the skill of Triem and the vision of Corridor Digital, we can partner up for some projects. That's what I'll be working towards at least hahaha.
(First sketch in nearly a year, be gentle on the critisism)
Umm...is there a missing teleport at 1:04 from atmosphere into space?
Not really reading the sneeze very much. For comedic value, Perhaps he (you) could have arrived with red eyes and a runny nose and have to blow into a handkerchief? But, otherwise: pretty solid.
That is a great point! I really wish I could have invested more time into it and I think that the extra port-effect at 1:04 would have been a great touch.
It was for a film challenge but I was a day late to entry, because of that I thought it would be best to sped my time making the initial effect look polished so the audience understood what was going on, which I believe it did. Like you said though, it would have deffinatly helped the short.
The short had untones of humor and the hankerchief would have been very nice comic relief hahaha. I hadn't even thought of something like that
Thanks for the critique, I think I need to improve my adr for the next challenge to bring attention to the audience like "HEY! This effect does this ability." Blending all the sound/music together and making it smooth/seemless. @Palacono
Oh yes, there is definitely lots of great stuff in there - love the phone argument ending with "...Mom", which went against expectations too.
Nicely done. Perhaps an Ah Choo would have made the sneeze a bit more obvious. Other than that, I truly enjoyed the video.
Noted: Make the initial effects more distinct
Now that I watch it, without the title saying sneeze some may think 'dabbing' teleports me haha. @BobDiMarzio
MUSIC: Piano Emotional - Ammar Javid
(We are so lose to being all caught up to the currently weekly videos!)
Nice looking rig, a couple of odd parts though. I was wondering why you brought the GTX970 over say the GTX1060/70 given the price vs performance. I ask becuase it seems the rest of the tech is pretty high end, and the GTX970 while a great card, is a bit last gen tech for such a computer. I might have saved on the SSD and put the power into the GPU.
I bought the 970 before this 1070 was announced and it was only a cheap fill in card while I wait for Nvidia web drivers to release, no point buying a GPU that I can't dual boot OSX with @andy001z
@TrilFlixFilms arrhh good point. New there had to be a reason. What's the performance like on that beast with Hitfilm 4.
The 970 is meh... pretty fast but nothing that will make you say 'wow.' I think the 1080 would be the only thing worth buying thought because the performance gap between 970 and 1070 just insn't big enough from what I've been reading. I'd like a 1080ti though @Andy001z
Totally understand and respect a man that has his priorities in order! @Andy001z
Depending on where I work for my next summer intership, I should be able to afford it right around when they recieve their first price dip, around Q2 of sales
Its offical, we are finally all caught up. All previously created content has been posted on this thread so... now what?
Like many of you, I am in the midst of a whirlwind comprised of school, work, and family. My goal is to maintain a schedule of one video per week that will fall into the category of Tech, Vlogs, Films, or Music.
My next upload will go into more depth on the direction I plan on taking my company, with what will hopefully be some 'Big News'. I try my best to keep thing short and sweet, with that being said...
Thank you everyone for your support, youve truly helped me grow as a person and a filmmaker
Congratulations on being all caught up - that's an achievement in itself! Good luck with everything you've got coming up over the next few months - hope that you can keep with the one video a week because it's been great seeing you learn and grow over the course of this thread
Look forward to your next one (and thanks for the lovely sentiment at the end there - we're glad to be part of the support!)
Wow... so busy semester but finally have time to catch up.
Nice video. I saw what you did there with the speed changes, the reversing and the go, go back, go stuff. Nice variety.
No credits for the music in the info? What were the tracks and any links to them or the musicians?
Edit: Also nice camera work. What were you shooting with and was that with a gimbal, EIS or stabilized in post?
First off, so glad you enjoyed it! The comments on the footage have varied but all love on the editing (which is my favorite part of filmmaking). I have much to learn but am grateful for the forums encouraging feedback.
The music was all free from YouTube Creator audio so I didn't bother worrying about legal. If you want the names of the tracks for personal use, I'd be happy to give them to you.
As soon as I figure out what I like best, I'll make a video on my set up.
I was beyond PO'ed with HF/Mocha after that stabilization fiasco on the first shot so (video below)...
I have no idea how Casey Neistat does this daily... I'd be happy to get it done 4 days a weeks. @Palacono
Well, that stabilisation looked pretty good, so other than the time element: Result!
Yes, please PM me the track names if you prefer not to share them. I'm always after nice tracks and searching through YouTube is fairly hit'n'miss. It needs some sort of algorithmic breakdown for BMP, volume, intensity, style etc. so you can say "more like this" and send it something to compare to.
If you'd seen Casey's daily timeline - which he's posted a couple of times - he spends about 6 hours EVERY DAY (even after three years at it) editing the videos. That's more time than he spends sleeping. And the variety in his shots takes a massive amount of work. In one of the latest (one of the Inauguration ones, I think), there was an 8- 10 second segment of him travelling on his Boosted board with 5 or 6 x 1sec-1.5sec shots of him simply skating past his camera on a tripod; one after the other. Just filler between story highlights.
Those alone must have taken 3-5 minutes each shot, even if done at some speed (due to long practice).
Stop, place camera on Tripod, start camera, go back a way with Boosted board, travel past camera, stop, return to fetch camera, continue journey. Repeat. So 20-30 minutes work, plus Editing time for 8-10 seconds of 'texture'. That's why his videos are so watchable.
Your little enhancements similarly made your video more interesting to watch too.
I aspire to reach levels of cinematography that others such a Casey Niestat, Brandon from Linus Tech Tips, and Hardwood Canucks achieve. @Palacono
I hate using the same music as everyone else and take great pride when I find unique gems haha. My primary goal is to help others though, so I anytime someone has a question I try my best to assist
So much has happened in the last few months and it feels great to be back. Now its up to you to pick what's next!
New Videos Every Week!
Got to collaborate on another lovely lyric video. The artist was really cool and said he loved the results, hope you guys do to Enjoy!
I liked it.
The text wasn't done in Hitfilm, unless you separated each word into individually masked letters; because some overlap others.
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That basically sums up the strategy being employed by the Intelligent Design (ID) movement as it continues to attack public science education across the U.S., say scientists and science educators. How to counter these attacks in the classroom, at school board meetings and on the national level, is the focus of two expansive sessions with 24 wide-ranging presentations on Sunday and Monday, 16 and 17 October, at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.
Among the first mistakes scientists and educators make is actually arguing with ID proponents in politically-staged events, says Lee Allison, Senior Geologist for the Kansas Geological Survey. Not only does that allow the ID promoters to control the debate, but it pits scientists and educators against highly trained professional ID debaters, and implicitly lends credibility to their anti-evolution manifesto.
"Even the best science teachers are not prepared," Allison said. Allison has been involved in defending science education standards in Kansas, where the ID movement has concentrated its efforts at the state level. In his GSA presentation titled, "Evolution in Kansas: It's the Politics, Stupid!", Allison outlines the case ID proponents recently made to the already anti-science-leaning Kansas State School Board. He rebuts their arguments, which are:
1) Evolutionary Theory is facing a crisis. (It isn't.)
2) Science, as is, is inherently Godless (It isn't) and therefore a religion.
3) Science errs in not including supernatural power to explain things. (It wouldn't be science if it did.)
If this is the case, why are school boards scattered throughout the country accepting the ID arguments? One reason is that for years many scientists thought they could stay out of the unpleasant fray, says paleontologist Carol Tang of the California Academy of Sciences.
"If we liked debate, we would have been lawyers," said Tang, who helped organize one of the GSA sessions. In her own GSA presentation, she points out how the ID debate is no longer just something biologists have to contend with, and that scientists in an ever widening range of fields rely on the principles of evolutionary theory. Geoscientists, for instance, have long used fossils to measure the age of rocks - a vital tool in oil exploration. The new fields of geobiology and astrobiology depend on the principles of evolution observed on Earth to search for and define life elsewhere in the universe. "Geologists think this is something we don't have to deal with," said Tang. But that is increasingly not so, she said.
So how does a scientist or teacher defend evolution against trained attackers? "Don't," suggests geoscientist Donald Wise from the University of Massachusetts. Instead, go after the deep flaws in ID. Take the human body, for instance, he says in his GSA presentation. It's a great argument against ID. Anyone who has ever had back pain or clogged sinuses can testify to this. Our evolutionarily recent upright posture explains our terrible back problems better than ID, and our squished, very poorly "designed" sinuses don't function at all well and are easily explained by the evolutionarily rapid enlargement of our brains.
Wise's advice to scientists and educators is to: 1) get off the defensive; 2) focus on the ample weak points of Intelligent Design; 3) keep it simple; 4) accentuate it with humor; and 5) stick to irrefutable facts close to evolution and relevant to voters.
Convincing voters is vital because the ID movement is not, as many people think, a local grassroots movement. It's a well-funded national movement that uses a full range of local, state, and national strategies to supplant science and have nonexistent "evidence against evolution" taught in the classroom, says Eugenie Scott, Director of the National Center for Science Education. Scott focuses on the three strategic levels that science is being attacked in her GSA presentation "Multiple Levels of Antievolutionism."
* Evolution in Kansas: It's the Politics, Stupid! (Lee Allison)
Monday, 17 October, 11:45 a.m. - Noon, Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom J
View abstract: http://gsa.
* Not Just for Biologists Anymore: The Evolution Controversy Impacts Geoscience and Space Science Education (Carol Tang)
Sunday, 16 October, 8:15 - 8:30 a.m., Salt Palace Convention Center Ballrooms AC
View abstract: http://gsa.
* Intelligent (Incompetent?) Design Versus Evolution: New Tactics for Science (?) (Donald Wise)
Monday, 17 October, 11:30 - 11:45 a.m., Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom J
View abstract: http://gsa.
* Multiple Levels of Antievolutionism (Eugenie Scott)
Monday, 17 October, 8:45 - 9:00 a.m., Salt Palace Convention Center, Ballroom J
View abstract: http://gsa.
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* Hot Topics panel: Kansas, Intelligent Design, and the National Attack on Science
Wednesday, 19 October, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., Salt Palace Convention Center 250 A/B
* Separate GSA Tip Sheet, 05-41, Antievolutionism Addressed by Top Geoscientists and Educators, dated 14 October 2005
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News from the world of Maths
Deciding who is to blame and who should pay for the financial crisis will be a hot topic at the G8 next week. Financial mathematics received a lot of bad press in the aftermath of the crunch and many believe that it was the popularity of mathematical models – often borrowed from physics — that put the financial system at risk. But now models borrowed from biology are helping us understand how this risk might be reduced.
A quick and easy way of adding using handshakes.
At 9:59 pm (UK time) on Friday, May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the Moon, its closest approach for at least the next two centuries. And you can also catch a glimpse of the asteroid by the power of the internet.
Is there a perfect voting system? In the 1950s the economist Kenneth Arrow asked himself this question and found that the answer is no, at least in the setting he imagined.
Ben Allanach is a theoretical physicist who has worked at CERN and is interested in something called supersymmetry, which predicts particles that could be dark matter and might be produced in the collisions at CERN. Watch Ben explain it all in this TEDx lecture.
From the makers of Dimensions comes a great free online movie exploring dynamical systems, the butterfly effect and chaos theory by means of stunning visuals accompanied by a beautiful musical score.
Every year the London Mathematical Society puts on a pair of popular lectures that are well worth seeing. This year's topics are maths in the court room and the mysteries of additive number theory. Find out more here.
Cosmologists gathered in the Netherlands last week to discuss a new view of the Universe. The Universe as seen by Planck was an international conference to discuss the recently released scientific results from the Planck satellite, including two particularly striking snapshots of the early Universe.


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I am working on the Java development in Eclipse environment. And I want to see the jar file contents [Name of the files] and its code [.class files code] as well through the Eclipse IDE directly. As per my knowledge there is some plugins readily available for this feature.
could you please help me to find it out.
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Washington DC-area CLL Patient Support Group
July 17, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The CLL Society invites you to join a CLL patient and caregiver support group in the Washington DC-area sponsored by the CLL Society Support & Education Network on the 3rd Saturday of each month.
Updates on CLL research are shared during each session with opportunities for Q & A.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Saturday, July 18
Tom Watson Is a Shock to My Golf Senses
If Watson holds it together and wins on Sunday, 59-year-olds all over the Third Planet will feel a tiny bit invincible on Monday.
As for me, I'm in golf shock. I still don't think my mind has fully comprehended what my senses are telling me: Tom Watson, winner of the 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983 British Opens, is leading the 2009 British Open after 54 holes. Are we in some kind of weird golf time warp?
Tiger Woods misses a cut in a major. Tom Watson is leading at Turnberry. Still. On Saturday night. I'm wondering how much more shock my golf senses can take.
My dad even called from California this morning. "Neil," he said, "I was just sitting here watching the British Open and I had to call someone to talk about it. What do you think about Tom Watson?" I said all the obvious things. He has a lot of experience. He knows how to play links golf. He makes good decisions. Blah, blah, blah. I heard my words, but I still couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Jack Nicklaus made some serious noise at the 1998 Masters, finishing in a sixth-place tie at the age of 58. Sam Snead tied for third in the 1974 PGA Championship at the ripe old age of 62. But this, golf fans, is uncharted waters.
By the way, does anybody know what happened to that young whippersnapper from last year … Greg Norman?
−The Armchair Golfer
Tom Watson Tops News About 59-Year-Olds
5 comments:
- Unknown said...
I wrote twice saying something special was going to happen this weekend in Scotland.
Never in my wildest dreams and ample imagination could I have envisioned Tiger missing the cut and Huckleberry Dillinger leading The Open going into Sunday.
I liked Watson 25-30 years ago as I like Tiger these days. I am rooting for Tom Terrific...
Great post, but,like you, I have no comments worthy of note. He is doing the seemingly impossible and I really don't know what to make of it. I still don't think he'll win but I wouldn't have picked him to be in the position he's now in either.
- Heather Kerrigan said...
Tom Watson leading the British Open--this is one of the many reasons I love golf. Anything can happen. Truly anything.
Never count anyone out and never count anyone in.
Fantasy golf teams all over the world have gone haywire.
- Bedlam said...
Hi Armchair, The old fella still got it, (something) I like the fact that Tom is getting the attention here. We forget the older guys with all these young hitters like my man (ADAM SCOTT, kiss, kiss) Tom im with you here.
- stephen said...
brillant watched the open for the last 4 days not worried about tiger woods going home,we had watson that was a super human effort ,golf is not about hitting a driver 350 yard its about touch and feel and my heart is broken after seeing Sink win the open big up to kansas my new hero tomtom waston.............


text: I received a question this morning about whether there are any ways to estimate the memory requirements of executing SSIS packages? In the case of the question, the emailer wanted to know how to do things like find out the data size at the source and at the destination of a data transformation, or how to reckon the memory consumption of a SSIS package of variable size. It turns out there are several good sources of information for this question and for others like it. First of all, I always recommend that you investigate http://www.sqlis.com, a site dedicated to Integration Services and supported by my MVP friends in the UK, Allan Mitchell and Darren Green. Next, I googled for help on this specific question and came up with these resources: 1. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/ssisperf.mspx#EK 2. http://www.scalabilityexperts.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=167 3. And finally, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137622(SQL.90).aspx, showing how to monitor the performance of the data flow engine in SSIS. I hope this helps, -Kevin P.S. Thanks to Wee Hyong for also tackling this question


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Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couple's specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her skeptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy.
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Microsoft Confirms Dangerous Vulnerability in Windows 2000
In atypical fashion, Microsoft program manager Stephen Toulouse remarked on the issue on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Microsoft has confirmed reports that a potentially dangerous security hole exists in Windows 2000 systems and that users could be at risk for attack.
Details about the vulnerability were first reported by Israel-based GreyMagic, which posted details and relevant code on its Web site.
The company issued an advisory warning users that a malicious hacker could use Windows Explorer to navigate through the Windows file system of an unsuspecting user.
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In atypical fashion, Microsoft program manager Stephen Toulouse remarked on the issue on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog . Usually, Microsoft managers do not comment on specific security issues, especially on a blog.
Toulouse noted that the issue involves the Windows shell, and the company's initial investigation found that significant user interaction would be required for an attacker to exploit the vulnerability.
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows XP , Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 are not affected by the bug.
Manager Insight "We're also looking into reports of proof of concept code that has been made public that could seek to exploit this reported vulnerability," Toulouse wrote. "On that note, we're not currently aware of any customer impact as a result or an attack that seeks to exploit this vulnerability."
Once Microsoft's investigation is complete, it might decide to provide a fix through an out-of-cycle security update, he added.
In the meantime, he recommended that users block Server Message Block communications at the firewall to protect themselves from possible attack.
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Microsoft has criticized GreyMagic for publishing proof-of-concept code with its advisory, a move that is more true to form for the company, said Secunia security researcher Thomas Kristensen.
"Microsoft very much believes that code should not be made available and freely disclosed in the security community," he said.
As the debate rages over whether to disclose code, the fact remains that Microsoft patches for vulnerabilities like the Windows 2000 flaw are closely watched, Kristensen noted.
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Cider is so perfect for the hearty, rustic flavors of fall that it just feels right for Thanksgiving (and it's historically accurate, too.) But which cider should you choose? Here are a few general cider-choosing guidelines, plus some foolproof cider options that would be a welcome addition to any Turkey Day feast.
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When picking cider to serve alongside your turkey and stuffing, there are a few key characteristics to look for.
First, choose a carbonated cider, not a still one. Thanksgiving food is typically heavy and the cider's carbonation will help cleanse the palate and prepare it for the next course.
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Foggy Ridge First Fruit (750ml, $14) is versatile and delicious, with a tart beginning and lingering finish. Walking the line between mineral and fruity, the cider's slate notes are balanced with green apple and preserved lemon flavors. If you are looking for a versatile cider to please even the toughest palate this Thanksgiving, First Fruit is a great choice.
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What could be better on Thanksgiving than drinking the same cider as our founding fathers? Thankfully, due the the resurgence of heirloom apple growth in America, you can get pretty close. Originally grown in Long Island, NY, the Newtown Pippin is the most famous apple varietal from America's colonial period.
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew Newtown Pippins for making cider and when Jefferson was abroad in Paris, he wrote, "They have no apples here to compare with our Newtown Pippin."
Original Sin cider has celebrated this colonial apple in the first release of their new single varietal heirloom cider series. Original Sin Newtown Pippin (750ml, $12, 6.7% ABV) is bright and bursting with fresh-pressed apple flavor. Fair-skinned apple notes make up the bulk of the cider's flavor but there is also a soft earthiness and lingering hint of citrus peel that create enough body to support the cider's slight sweetness. Plus, it's a good conversation piece for history buffs.
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If you are looking to add some variety to your Thanksgiving beverage offerings, but still only want to dip your toe into the world of cider, then start with Julian Hard Cider (22oz, $7, 6.99% ABV). Produced in California from Washington state apples, Julian is a great everyday cider that's almost too easy drinking.
It leads with real cider character, tart with a slight earthiness, and finishes dry with lingering tannins. There is a bit of drop-off in the middle (this isn't the most complex cider you could buy) but at half the price we are more than willing to look the other way (and have another mouthful of Mom's mashed potatoes. Julian Hard Cider is ideal for anyone serving a lot of guests this holiday season or just looking to add a bit of fun to their feast.
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"Ariel Linden, DrPH" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
re: Re: st: Not Quite Quadratic Regression
Sun, 5 Aug 2012 15:45:15 -0400
I agree with David's general assessment of the situation here. I would point
you to two possible options to model your data here: -mfp- and -mvrs- are
user written programs by Patrick Royston (both available through ssc). The
first program fits multivariable fractional polynomial models, and the
second fits multivariable regression spline models.
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 08:05:34 -0400
From: David Hoaglin <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: st: Not Quite Quadratic Regression
If theory predicts a u-shaped relation, it may be useful to transform
y, but it probably will not make sense to transform x. Does theory
provide any guidance on the scale for y or the scale for x? Common
transformations include log and square root.
I suppose theory does not predict the functional form of the relation.
Since the relation is u-shaped, you may want to center x at the value
corresponding to the bottom of the U (either based on theory or based
on the data).
You may be able to use lowess to trace a fairly smooth summary curve
through your noisy scatterplot. That may suggest a functional form.
Many nonlinear relations are not well approximated by a quadratic.
When the amount of data is large enough, I have sometimes been able to
let the data guide the choice of functional form by replacing x by a
piecewise-constant function of x with fairly narrow intervals. In
your model, the piecewise-constant function would replace ax + bx^2.
This approach works when the model contains predictors other than x.
It may lead you to a suitable (linear) spline.
David Hoaglin
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 6:56 AM, A. Shaul <email@example.com> wrote:
> Hello Statalisters,
> Theory predict an u-shaped relation between two variables, y and x.
> When I perform a quadratic linear regression with a model like
> y = ax + bx^2 + constant + error,
> the coefficients a and b are not significant. However, if I change the
> exponent to something less than 2, e.g. 1.5, I obtain significance. In
> other words a model like
> y = ax + bx^1.5 + constant + error,
> yields significant estimates of a and b. The curvature is still quite
> marked using the exponent of 1.5. I can even use an exponent of 1.1
> and obtain significance and a nice shape. But I don't think I can
> simply choose the exponent based on whatever yields significance. Or
> can I? This is my question.
> I have tried to run a non-linear regression where the exponent was a
> free parameter. Although it tend to yield an exponent around 1 to 2,
> everything turns out highly insignificant. If I plug the estimated
> exponent into an OLS model, like the ones above, I get significance. I
> have also tried to use splines as well as a piecewise constant
> formulation. Again the results are less than ideal (although I get the
> same overall picture).
> The non-linearity is rather apparant in a scatterplot (although
> extremely noisy), and the problem shows up when controlling for other
> covariates where a simple graphical/nonparametric approach is
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is defending her decision to ask for recounts in three states that helped give President-elect Donald Trump his victory, arguing there could have been issues with how the votes were counted.
"Tampering is not done in a way that declares itself. You have to actually go in and count the paper ballots," she said Sunday evening in an interview with necn.
Stein's push for the recount gained new momentum Saturday when Hillary Clinton's campaign broke its silence to say it would join the recount in Wisconsin and possible recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Trump's margin of victory in each state was slim, while Clinton won the popular vote by over 2 million votes, according to one tracker.
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The Clinton campaign's support for the recount drew harsh criticism from Trump, who took to Twitter to call the effort a scam and suggested, without evidence, that he would have won the popular vote after deducting "millions of people who voted illegally."
"There is no evidence of illegal voters," Stein said in respose. "You're entitled to your own opinions but you can't have your own facts."
The Clinton campaign also found no "actionable evidence" of hacking or machine manipulation, but joined the ongoing effort to make sure the recount process is fair to all parties, a campaign lawyer wrote online Saturday. He added that the campaign is aware that the margin of victory in Michigan exceeds "well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount."
Stein took just 1 percent of the vote in the election, but says she does not believe her candidacy would have affected the election results, nor is recount being done "for one candidate or against another."
"Sixty-one percent of Green voters would not have cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump," she said.
Stein has raised more than $6 million to pay for these recounts. Wisconsin's recount is scheduled to start this weekend, pending approval from the Elections commission, and the deadline to file for recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan are Monday and Wednesday, respectively.
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A patient admitted to New York City's Mount Sinai hospital is being tested for Ebola after returning from West Africa, we recently reported. It is not yet known whether the patient actually has the virus. However, this past weekend, Dr. Kent Brantley, an American doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia, arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
The current outbreak of the deadly virus, which is thought to originate in bats, has killed more than 800 people in West Africa. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and often bleeding inside and outside the body.
A quick scan of recent headlines — "Ebola outbreak moving faster than efforts to contain it" or "Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel "— makes it easy to jump to the conclusion that bringing Ebola patients to the United States is risky and could cause a similar outbreak here.
However, U.S. government officials and health experts say this is simply not true: Ebola will not spread through the United States like it has in West Africa.
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Don't Believe Everything You See In The Movies
Part of the fear about an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. stems from how the virus has been treated by Hollywood and the media.
"Ebola has a mystique about it because the way that it has been treated in fiction," Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Center for Health Security, told Business Insider.
He specifically referenced the 1995 movie "Outbreak," starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., which features a fictional Ebola-like virus. Richard Preston's book The Hot Zone, a terrifying nonfiction thriller that inspired the movie, is another well-known reference.
While fictional stories just aren't true-to-life, there are a few legitimately scary things about Ebola.
The symptoms are viscerally horrifying, and treatments and vaccines against the disease don't exist at this time.
And because scientists aren't totally sure how the virus outbreaks jump to humans, there is also the fear of the unknown. "The outbreaks are mysterious, they appear out of nowhere, they're explosive and then they disappear," says Adalja.
All of these factors work to fuel a panic mentality. But in the United States, Canada, Europe, and most countries with well-developed health care systems, Ebola poses almost no real risk, because patients can be isolated and treated without spreading the virus.
Don't Panic: The Virus Doesn't Spread Very Efficiently
Ebola "doesn't spread very efficiently through humans," says Adalja.
While the virus is deadly, it's not very contagious. Unlike the common cold or the flu, which spreads through airborne droplets, Ebola can only spread through contact with bodily fluids, like blood, vomit, and diarrhea.
Adalja also points out that Ebola is less contagious than Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, which recently arrived in the United States but was contained. No secondary cases, meaning new cases spread by the individuals who had arrived to the country already infected, were reported.
"Ebola is a very rare disease that infects a very small number of people," says Adalja. "It doesn't have that same type of burden of illness of other diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV."
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The two American patients are being treated in a special biocontainment unit. But this is an extra precaution as the patients could be treated at a normal hospital that follows proper isolation procedures.
One of the main reasons that the virus has killed so many people in West Africa is because healthcare infrastructure in the region is extremely limited, meaning that hospitals — where they even exist — are understaffed and don't have the same technology as those in the United States. That means the monitoring and isolation techniques that are relatively routine in many modern hospitals often can't be implemented.
That being said, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is cause for international concern.
Reuters reported on Sunday that the bodies of Ebola victims were left in the streets of Liberia's capital Monrovia for four days before being removed by health workers. It will require the combined effort of many countries and resources to get the epidemic under control. The CDC announced earlier this week that the U.S. plans to send 50 disease control specialists to the region.


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Amazing sound with a beautifully soft curved design, the Soundbar is the perfect match for your Samsung Curved TV. Audibly remarkable, visually appealing.
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The Wireless Surround Kit* lets you expand your Soundbar to a surround sound system easily without the mess of wires**. Together with your Soundbar, you can create a channel system for a true surround sound experience.
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An excerpt from John Main, "Kissing the Joy as it Flies," in THE HEART OF CREATION (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2007), pp. 74-75.
Meditation is concerned with detachment. And as in our Western religious vocabulary there is no word more misunderstood than detachment, meditation can often present unnecessary problems or complications for people. It seems to us, generally, that detachment means a frosty sort of platonic indifference and it was this that put most of us off the idea when we came across the word in many spiritual books of the past which talked of Christian life from a largely negative or repressive view of detachment.
Yet I feel that detachment is the most important lesson that mediation has to teach us today as men and women of the West, affected by this often badly-emphasized religious culture.
Detachment is not dissociation from yourself or an evasion of your problems or your responsibilities. It is not a denial of friendship or affection, or even of passion. Detachment is, in essence, detachment from self-preoccupation, from that often unconscious mind-set that puts myself at the centre of all creation. Detachment is equally concerned with a commitment to friendship, to enduring brotherhood and sisterhood, to a self-transcending and outreaching love. Detachment makes love possible because love is only possible if we are detached from self-preoccupation, if we have moved out of self-isolation, if we are freed from self-indulgence. The disengagement that detachment involves is from using other people for one's own ends. But above all, and this is the important lesson we have to learn in meditation, detachment is liberation from the anxiety we have about my own survival as a self. Life teaches us all that loving is in essence losing oneself in the larger reality of the other, of others, and of God. Detachment from self-centredness liberates us for love so that we are no longer dominated by the animal quest for survival. Detachment requires fully human trust: trust of the other, both in other people and in God. It requires the willingness to let go, to give up controlling, and to be.
Meditate for Thirty Minutes. Remember: Sit down. Sit still and upright. Close your eyes lightly. Sit relaxed but alert. Silently, interiorly, begin to say a single word. We recommend the prayer phrase "Maranatha." Recite it as four syllables of equal length. Listen to it as you say it, gently, but continuously. Do not think or imagine anything spiritual or otherwise. Thoughts and images will likely come, but let them pass. Just keep returning your attention – with humility and simplicity to saying your word in faith, from the beginning to the end of your meditation.
After Meditation, "In Blackwater Woods," Mary Oliver in NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Boston: Beacon. 1992) pp. 177-78.
In Blackwater Woods
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its name, is
nameless now.
Every year
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
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Science and food links from around the web!
Were chickpeas responsible for the rise of a human empire? Cultivated chickpeas had more than three times as much tryptophan as their wild cousins. Increased amounts of tryptophan in the diet can improve performance under stress and also promote ovulation, handy advantages when you're taking over the world.
An In-depth scientific explanation of why we develop food allergies.
Duda Farm Fresh Foods has engineered celery to grow with hollow stalks, thus celery straws.
MIT Technology Review's two-parter, "The Alchemist" (part 1, part 2) goes deep with Grant Achatz and Alinea:
The highest and most expensive forms of cooking have always involved the latest kitchen technology. But seldom has technology worked to bring food as far from what was considered normal as it does today. Cooks are straying into the preserves of the laboratory, appropriating equipment, processes, and ingredients that were formerly of interest only to biology researchers and industrial food manufacturers. Among American chefs, it's Achatz who has most successfully walked the balance beam between weird and appealingprobably because of his rigorous apprenticeship with [Thomas] Keller.
Serious Eats on Alinea: Alinea's Most Exciting Food.
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Well, here we go: It's the game that will let us know whether we're gonna have a rollicking drunk Tuesday 11 a.m. party next week, or whether ... well, whether the United States will be playing during said drunkenness. As you know, the United States needs an Italian win and a win here, both of which seem firmly within the realm of possibility. But don't forget: A win for Ghana gets them in too. They'll probably show up.
But yeah: It's the United States vs. Ghana. We think it would be funny if the winner of this game gets the right to have Freddy Adu on their team from now on.
Your live-blogger today is Adam Baruchowitz, of Heeb Magazine. He's got the marquee role today, and he's up for it: He was in attendance for both of the U.S. games in Germany. Follow along in the comments, and, you know ... U-S-A!
(UPDATE: Hey, the US lost. Did you see that?)
While I have a public forum i would like to give a bit of a wrap up of the state of US Soccer. This world cup appeared to be over 5 minutes into the first game when Jan Koller nailed home a header against us. The US appeared to be overmatched both on the field and on the coaching side. All the US has to take home from the world cup is a gutsy match against Italy. Arena didn't react to any of the needs of his squad and failed to instill an urgency and confidence that is necessary on the international scale. Not to mention how the US could have had the Mexican draw if Arena played the qualifying matches differently. He is gone in my mind. It is obvious that the US lacks star power. They didn't have anyone who stepped up. Donovan is clearly not the answer. He was dominated in so many ways. Maybe the expectations were too high coming after a remarkable showing in 2002 but the US growth seems stunted. If there is one thing i think we could work on its our theatrics. For a country that prides itself on the entertainment industry you would think our players could take advantage of the poor refereeing the way the other countries had. Maybe it's because we pride ourselves on toughness as well, and don't want to look like pussy cats. The US is out and i feel now i feel bad for the ESPN executives. How will they keep the general population interested? i'll be watching!
Tachie mensah in for Draman
78' Most of the game is being played in the midfield with a lot of back and forth. Not much real action to speak of.
Time is becoming a factor. 15 minutes left.
Convey in for Lewis
72' Appiah gets an opportunity but his shot is blocked by conrad
68' The pressure is on...the invisible man Donovan was offsides.
67' Onyewu heads a corner just over the crossbar. He was wide open.
65' Mcbride hits the post on a great near side cross by Lewis. US is stepping up the offense. I am hearing chants of Oy Vey, Oy Vey, Oy Vey from my neighbors
62' It is a back and forth game right now with no one dominating the ball. The US needs to step up the pressure
Eddie Johnson comes on for Cherundolo—-FINALLY!!!!
59' Olsen gets tripped up in the midfield
Eric Addo comes in for Amoah. Ghana goes on the defensive.
57' Nice long ball from Onyewu to Dempsey but his cross is intercepted by the keeper.
56' Appiah takes a free kick from 40 yards out and sends it wide left of the net.
54' Ghana counters with numbers and Amoah rips one on net. Beautiful save by Keller!
52' US gets a free kick from the left side, cleared for a corner.
49' Arena still apears content with his squad out there. but players are warming up.
47' Essien laying on the ground but no foul called.
Ghana substitutes Addo in for Boateng
The referee's have been way too involved in this world cup. I have said it before both teams seem to be taking the sit back and wait approach to this game. Let the other team come to them and counter. Besides the goals there hasn't been a whole lot of action. Beasley showed the spark needed from him and Dempsey nailed one home but US opportunities have been few and far between. US will have to find a way to put more pressure on the Ghana defense who have not been impressive. I imagine Coach Arena will finally toss away his defensive minded game plan and put in Eddie Johnson and maybe John O' Brien. The US is getting help from the Italian squad now we will see what they are made of in the second half. For the US, this will be one more instance of the Nuremburg trials..
Extra Time' Goal Ghana...Appiah tucks the penalty kick away upper left side...There goes my breath again.
45' In extra time the referee awards Ghana a penalty Kick off a BS call on Onyewu. Unbelievable!
43' GOOOOOOOOOOOAL USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beasley steals the ball from Boateng who gives back the gift that Reyna gave to Ghana. Beasley sends a perfect cross to Dempsey who buries it in the back!! I feel like i can breathe again.
41' Free kick by Appiah but nothing comes from it.
40' Olsen substitutes for Reyna who is obviously hurt. This might be the last match for the long time captain. If it is, Thanks for the memories Claudio!
38' Slow roller across the box from Lewis but no one is there.
38' This has been a game of sitting back and counter, Ghana has been more successful so far.
35' Cherundolo picks up a foul on the right wing. Free kick from outside the box. Hit out of bounds by the goalie.
34' McBride passes it over the top to Donovan who shoots it over the net
31' US playing very sloppy on defense but Ghana doesn't want to take advantage. US doesn't seem to realize the importance of a win. They have still not shown any creativity on offense. Seem to have reverted back to quality of play in the first game against Czech.
28' Reyna back in and gives the ball away again to Pimpong who shoots it wide.
Sidebar—-Italy scores to take the l;ead against Czech.
25' bringing out the stretcher for the Ghana goalie who collides with Bocanegra.
22' GOAL Ghana! Draman picks Reyna's pocket who stupidly tried to dribble out of the back. Draman puts one in the side netting on the breakaway....Reyna down, knee looks hurt but ego probably hurts a lot more.
21' ESPN shows people in Columbus going nuts...that is once they realize the camera is on them
20' Corner for Ghana off a cross by Appiah
19' Donovan called for a very close offsides
Back to the Game
BREAKING NEWS—Knicks fire Larry Brown—-What a shocker! 50 million not bad for one year!
16' Dempsey gets a soft header on net off a corner.
15' Lewis has some blood streaming from his eye....man, are we showing our true blood or what!
14' No dangerous attacks yet for the US but they have made the goalie touch the ball a couple of times at least.
12' US is playing our patented kick and run, hoping to catch the lakadaisical Ghana defense off guard. it worked in 2002.
10' Ghana shows its speed and counters but Pimpong is called for offsides
9' Essien shoots wide off a free kick entry pass
7' Lewis gets a yellow card for an intentional hand ball..these refs are card happy!
6' US is controlling the ball while Ghana appears very tentative
4' Yellow card on Essien for taking out Reyna..he's gonna have to sit out the next match if they advance..
2' Cherundolo crosses to Dempsey but nothing comes of it.
1' Lewis dumps a cross in on net
In a moment of despair after the embarrassing Czech loss, I waved my 6th row ticket to this game in the air basically giving it away. To the lucky fan who grabbed it i want to say enjoy the game, and beware of the puking Kennedy boys sitting beside you. I was also able to catch the England-Trinidad game in Nuremburg and i am sure the the American contingent will be in full force rocking the tiny stadium, making this feel like a home game. After reading comments from the Ghana side, they seem to be brimming with confidence to the point of cockiness, looking forward to a match against Brazil in the next round. Yes, that is the reward for advancing to the next round, a chance to get your samba on.
Both coaches have their hands full replacing players who are suspended due to red cards and yellow card accumulation.Ghana will be without it's two goal scorers in the Czech game while USA have lost two of their central defenders. It will be interesting to see how Coach Arena sets his lineup, but one thing's for certain he won't be doing it with a smile. So far in this tournament the USA have been Jekyll and Hyde. (To the tune of Slim Shady) Will the real USA please stand up, please stand up.
USA Lineup:
Keller, Onyewu, Cherundolo, Bocanegra, Conrad, Beasley, Reyna, Lewis, Donovan, Dempsey, McBride
Arena opts for speed in the midfield, basically playing the 4-5-1, hoping to keep Ghana from scoring while taking advantage of the counter-attack
Ghana Lineup:
Kingston, Dramani, Koffour, Mensah, Paintsil, Appiah, Essien, Mohammed, Amoah, Boateng, Pimpong
Dujkovic chooses to keep the pressure on by inserting speedy forwards.
wow, that was a real touching commercial by Gatorade in the pregame, almost made you feel like they are beginning to believe soccer is a real sport with drama and everything.


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IBM Corp. and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC released results from their global CEO surveys. For the first time the IBM study identified technology as the most important external force impacting the business. Both studies recognized the need to employ finer customer segmentation and use IT to change business processes to take advantage of new opportunities.
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- IBM released results of its fifth biennial CEO survey, in which the company interviewed more than 1700 CEOs with more than six years tenure in 64 countries. One of the top findings was that technology is now driving more organizational change than any other force, including the economy. In this regard, outperformers embrace openness, excel in executing tough changes, differentiate themselves through better data access and insights which are put into action, and are more likely to partner for innovation and driving revenues from new sources. The top three sources of sustained economic value come from human capital, customer relationships and products/services innovation. Internal and external collaboration are being used as tools for creating organizational change. The second finding was that CEOs create more economic value by engaging customers as individuals. These companies are investing in getting customers to share their insights into what they value individually, and when and how they want to interact. Then they develop and execute plans to interact using social media as well as traditional face-to-face engagements. Outperformers in this category strongly differentiate themselves through better data access, insight, and translation into actions. While big data is playing a role in this dimensional change, other factors are the old fashioned way of listening and capturing what employees see and hear, and then being where the customer expects the company to be.
- The third major CEO survey finding was that CEOs create more economic value by pursuing more disruptive innovation with partners and collaborating to drive new revenue sources. In some cases they create new industries while in others they merely move into new industries. Two of the keys to more effectively meeting the partnership challenge are making the partnerships personal and breaking the traditional collaboration boundaries. In effect, these companies are themselves becoming disruptors. While CEOs have shifted to address the transformational needs of the organization, CFOs are still concerned with controlling cost and improving efficiency. In a separate IBM retail study, IBM found most customers were willing to share information if they perceived there was a benefit to doing so. The greatest areas of reluctance for data sharing were in the categories of financial and medical data.
- The PwC study of more than 160 CEOs in the U.S. identified customer demand as the primary driver of corporate strategy in 2012. While the executives are slightly less optimistic than last year, 40 percent expect their own companies will grow and approximately the same number expect to complete a cross-border merger or acquisition this year. To deliver on their strategies CEOs are reconfiguring operations in local markets, nurturing talent and addressing potential talent shortages, and encouraging the free flow of ideas and innovations. Two significant findings in the survey were a major jump in the concern about competitive threats (73 percent of the CEOs are worried) and a considerable decline in anxiety about risk exposure (a 20 point drop to 19 percent). PwC notes that with more growth opportunities arising in distant lands business leaders are acknowledging that an overly conservative attitude will put their companies at a competitive disadvantage. Lastly, PwC determined that the top CEO priorities overseas are growing the customer base followed by access to the local talent base. Additionally, the PwC study confirmed one of the IBM findings – most CEOs were planning on entering into new strategic alliances or joint ventures this year.
RFG POV: CEOs are embracing the belief that true insights into customer wants and needs will generate additional revenues and loyalty, and customer needs may be better satisfied through acquisitions and partnerships than organic investment. CEOs are also recognizing technology must play a leading role in the areas of business analytics -- including big data collaboration and social media, and business process management. All this is driving cultural and organizational change. However, one of the perennial inhibitors to change is the human behavioral theory "culture eats process for lunch every day." Thus, business and IT executives must excel in executing tough cultural and process changes if they expect to convert their goals and strategies to reality. In that an Economist Intelligence Unit study found that 60 percent of executives believe their main vertical markets will be barely recognizable by 2020, it is imperative that the executives overcome their risk aversion and exposure concerns. Moreover, they must also step up to the challenge and provide the strong leadership required to transform the organization to meet the demands of tomorrow.


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Back in 2010, Singapore's RazorTV asked a handful of Singaporeans to reveal the weirdest names they knew. Here's what they answered:
- Annamalai
- Aries
- Chimene
- Chlorophyll
- Edvarcl (He was named Edvard originally, but a friend who couldn't pronounce "Edvard" started calling him "Edvarcl," and he liked the new name so much that he adopted it. He said some people mishear it as "Avocado.")
- Lim Beh Song
- Farkay
- Johnboy (Inspired by The Waltons.)
- Marah (Means "angry" in Malay.)
- Thaddeus
- Tiger
- Titiporn
- Yttrium (Has an older brother with an element name as well.)
A more recent article about unusual names in Singapore mentioned Singaporean siblings named Pebble, Boulder and Coral. Their father, Rocky, was a landscape specialist who "thought it would be cool to name them after [his] work."
Somewhat related: English Names in China – Frog, Dollar, Samanfar, Smacker
Sources: Unique Names Pt 1 [vid], Unique Names Pt 2 [vid], Unique Names Pt 3 [vid], Singaporeans stand out with unique names


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This year I decided I want to grow some tomatoes and French beans – we used to grow amazing tomatoes in the last house we lived in, because the patio area by the French windows was such a suntrap, and tomato plants loved it. But I hadn't managed to find a comparable spot in this house, even though we've been here over 10 years now (having three growing kids might have had something to do with it!). The house faces south so the front gets the morning sun, but the back, where the patio is, faces north. Besides this, the patio was a bit overgrown a week or so ago…
This is it halfway through being cleared! Most of the pots are now empty because they were full of weeds.
What I decided to do about the tomatoes was to take photos of the various possible areas hourly throughout the day to see which bit got the most sun.
This is the bit that won… trouble is, that was a tad overgrown too…
That is the garden path you can see in the foreground, so I had to clear that and reclaim a couple of feet against the wall so I could put two growbags there. And what a difference!
I took this before I'd cleared all the debris… but that's all gone now so I'll give it till the end of May for the weather to do its worst and plant them to see how the tomatoes fare there.
While I'm on the subject of gardens, I would like to draw on your expertise … in the front garden, we have some mystery plants which come up every spring. I think they belong to the onion family because they smell of onions when you rub them, and I'd love to identify them to see if they are edible. These are the leaves… an untidy mass of droopy plants. I'm pretty sure they're bulbs.
Here is a photo of them over the wall:
They have a small white flower, about an inch in size. I couldn't get a very good photo of it, unfortunately – I did pick one and tried to take a close up but it didn't seem to have enough contrast to focus properly.
Can anyone shed any light on this? I did look it up in my wild flower book and wondered if it was something like ramsons but they have wider leaves and clusters of small flowers, but I think it is similar.


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Most portable speakers offer an audio experience that can be about as aurally rousing as slipping a pair of underpants over your head. Muffled, distorted, not suitable for public eye - or ears - and, well, just a bit silly really. Assuming that's not your kind of thing, and we really hope it's not, then there are better options out there. The Pasce Minirig is a mini industrial-looking cylinder speaker which has the aim of delivering big sound for a relatively small price. But is it any good?
Price Pinch
The Minirig is available for £89 which is one of its significant selling points. That's less than many pairs of current headphones, but has a wider, more social use - whether at picnics, parties in the park, festivals and so forth. Or, as desk-on-the-go workers we've used it as a portable speaker system laptop side and when away working.
While we agree there are few things more annoying than a "yoot" on public transport belting out tinny pseudo hip-hop - we're all about the golden era thanks - from their godawful smartphone, it's more the crushed-to-bits pots-and-pans sound that's the irritation. The Minirig has no such issues. Far from being an irksome devil, instead it delivers some significant punch for its price point. It's really rather loud.
Loud and proud
Not only is the Minirig's 3-inch driver powerful, it sounds rather good to the ears too. Now don't anticipate audible perfection by any means, but for under ninety quid it's a triumph. Crank the volume right up and there's some subtle distortion but, still, it gives music plenty of welly without any crunches to a serious level of volume.
The speaker is designed to launch audio upwards through its coarse mesh top, so by the nature of the way it sits the best listening experience comes from being fairly direct line of fire. If not there's a more muted sensation - you'll notice it when standing up, sitting down or wandering around a room that the Minirig fills certain positions better than other.
While ultra-low-frequencies aren't quite catered for, there's still some presence of bass from the 100Hz-20kHz frequency range, enough to pump out some rumbles to whichever surface the 'Rig is sat on. If you want more then there's a Minirig subwoofer that Pasce has confirmed to Pocket-lint will be available from summer 2013, with an approximate price around the £150 mark.
The Minirig also dishes out suitable top-end sparkle, although the overall sound does feel a little central and almost compressed overall. But we're being critical here - crank the Minirig up and you won't quite believe that this little cylinder delivers such big sound for under £100. That's the crux of it - it's quality for the price.
Charge and go
Plug in the Brit-made speaker - yup, this one's not shipped half way around the world, so wave those Union flags one and all - via USB to charge its interior battery and it'll last for up to an alleged 60 hours depending on the volume. We've been using it over a week and it's held up very well indeed.
There are two 3.5mm jack inputs, equivalent of phono and auxiliary ports as the former will further amplify the sound from quieter sources. We've run sound out from smartphones, laptops and found the included cable has held up well.
But here's a point that many tech savvy users will be wondering: why no wireless connectivity? The Minirig is all about the hard-wired connections which, while fine enough, might not scream and shout in the most current "this is 2013" kind of way. However if it was a wireless system then it would not only cost more but it would also eat away at the battery life at a faster rate. Minirig does a fine job just as it is.
One feature we were unable to test was the Minirig's daisy-chain connectivity. It's possible to string multiple 'Rigs together for stereo support. A splitter cable is all that's required. Sure lives up to its name then - a true modular, riggable system.
The Minirig's industrial-like design is functional, and while that minimal look may not suit all, we can't argue with the hard-as-nails aluminium build quality. In fact we can't argue with much else; we have few qualms about the Minirig.
It's really loud, pumps out good audio quality considering the £89 price point and will be the perfect accompaniment to this Pocket-linter's summer festival jaunts. There's no excuse to not pack it considering it weighs a mere 426g and is small at roughly 10cm in each direction.
There may not be wireless connectivity, but take it for what it is as the Minirig is the best budget portable speaker we've wrapped our ears around. It's quality for the amount of money.