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An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Understanding Faith," in FIRST SIGHT: The Experience of Faith (London: Continuum, 2011) pp. 14-15.
Confusing faith with belief and so separating them traps us in the Law—within things we can define, regulations we can enforce, specific creedal formulas that justify us in rejecting others.
More than any other religion Christianity has fallen into the temptations of power that uniformity of belief creates. Worshipping orthodoxy of belief—getting the words, rituals, externals and formulas exactly right—betrays the living God for a false one of our own construction. [. . . .] . . .[C]hristianity, perhaps more than any other tradition, has tried to impose uniformity most harshly at times and has therefore acted contrary to the mind of Christ by falling into the trap of exclusion and excommunication. The days of the Inquisition or the wars of religion are over, but the embarrassing, shameful divisions within the Christian world and the levels of anger they generate against each other testify to that same failure of faith even today.
Belief can be heroic. You can refuse to disown your beliefs and may be happy to be burned at the stake or stripped of rank and status for them. Many believers are raised with stories of these heroic martyrs, who laid down their lives rather than disown their beliefs. We shouldn't diminish the heroism of belief in the face of oppression and persecution. Strength and integrity are required to resist the violent force that would make us disown our principles and beliefs. But the spiritual realm is not about heroism. The heroic mentality of the warrior—or martyr—yields to another kind of self-awareness once we experience God as love, rather than the bestower of fame or eternal glory. . . . .Faith is more than the most heroic belief. It is not only a passionately help conviction, however loyal and self-sacrificing the conviction. Faith is more than a concept and more than a sign of loyal belonging to a particular group.
It is a relationship with what we believe; with what we believe because we experience it and with what we experience because we are simply designed for it. And by it. Faith plunges us into ontology and endlessly reveals the full extent of the mysteries of being.
After Meditation, "Song of the Builders" by Mary Oliver from WHY I WAKE EARLY (Boston: Beacon, 2004), p. 60
On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God—
a worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside
this way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope
it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.


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By now, most employers have heard of the federal "E-Verify" program which is designed to identify and prohibit employment of illegal aliens. In the 2008 legislative session, the Mississippi Legislature adopted the "Mississippi Employment Protection Act" ("MEPA") which has features similar to the "E-Verify" Act, but is broader in its application.
Unlike federal law, the MEPA applies to every employer. An "employer" is defined as "any person or business that is required by federal or state law to issue a United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-2 or Form 1099 to report income paid to employed or contracted personnel in Mississippi." In other words, the MEPA applies to virtually everyone.
So what must the employer do under the MEPA? "Every employer shall register and utilize the status verification system [i.e., the federal E-Verify Program] to verify the federal employment authorization status of all newly hired employees." There are no exceptions! So if you are a small business and hire just one new employee, you are still covered and expected to verify the employment authorization status of the employee. Under the law, employers in the state of Mississippi shall only hire U.S. legal citizens or legal aliens. The E-Verify Program is the authorized means by which employers can verify the employee's status.
The MEPA was implemented in stages since its adoption. However, effective July 1, 2011, the MEPA is fully implemented and, as mentioned previously, applies to all employers.
What are the consequences for failing to comply? Substantial! Any contract with the state or other public body can be cancelled and you can be ineligible for any public contracts for up to three years. You can also lose any license, permit, certificate or other document issued by any public entity which gives you the right to do business in Mississippi for up to one year. Effectively, these consequences could put you out of business, even if you do not hire an illegal alien! The mere failure to follow the verification requirements could subject you to these penalties.
Can the state do this? Yes. On May 26, 2011, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision affirming similar laws in Arizona. In the case of Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. v. Whiting, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Arizona's law which the Court concluded did not preempt the federal law, but instead merely imposed licensing conditions on businesses operating within the state. The Supreme Court further concluded that nothing prevented states from making mandatory the federal E-Verify program. The MEPA appears to be consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling and, therefore, would likely be upheld.
Bottom line: Comply with the MEPA. If you have not already registered for E-Verify, do so now and learn how to use it so that you will be ready on July 1st.

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Qin Xie is a London based freelance journalist and trained chef.
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According to friends, her watch is always set to UTC -- ready for the next big adventure. In reality, she is happiest at the dinner table or by the sea.


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On June 1, Michael "Rocky" Rackover, PA-C, M.S., a consultant to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), received the 2011 PAragon Outstanding PA of the Year Award from the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) for outstanding service. Mr. Rackover, associate professor and associate director of Philadelphia University's physician assistant studies program, received the award for introducing genetic literacy to physician assistant (PA) education.
Mr. Rackover said he first became aware of the impact that genomics would have on clinical practice while working in a radiation oncology clinic 20 years ago. "People would ask me questions about how they got their cancer and, at that time, there was not much information to give," said Mr. Rackover. "With the completion of the Human Genome Project, more information became available to help patients understand the diagnosis and treatment of cancer."
In 1995, Mr. Rackover helped start the physician assistant program at Philadelphia University. Five years later, he was invited to join the human genetics curricula committee for the health professions led by Dr. David Gale, dean of the college of health sciences at Eastern Kentucky University. Mr. Rackover surveyed physician assistants and found a gap in their knowledge about genetics. Fortunately, he was in a position to improve the curriculum. As director of the physician assistant master of science degree program from 2005 to 2010, he developed the PA program's educational standards to help students better understand the coming "genomic technology revolution."
Boosting genetic literacy among health professionals was a goal he shared with Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., former NHGRI director, and Alan Guttmacher, M.D., former NHGRI deputy director. In 2006, Drs. Collins and Guttmacher asked Mr. Rackover to take a four-month, NHGRI sabbatical to implement projects that enhanced the integration of genetics and genomics into physician assistant professional practice and education.
"I cannot overstate how much Michael Rackover's unique efforts to place physician assistants in the forefront nationally of efforts to integrate genetics and genomics effectively into daily patient care have not only advanced the PA profession and made it a model for other health professional disciplines, but also have served to improve the health of patients for generations to come," Dr. Collins wrote in a letter in support of Mr. Rackover's APPA award nomination. Dr. Collins is the current director of the National Institutes of Health.
Mr. Rackover's greatest contribution to the genomic field was his work on the 2007 landmark meeting of executives from the four PA organizations: AAPA; the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants; the Accreditation for Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc.; and the Physician Assistant Education Association. Participants focused on the future practice of medicine using genetics and genomics for personalized care. By the end of the meeting, the PA organizations reached consensus to support NHGRI's educational mission for health care providers (See: Physician Assistant Competencies for Genomic Medicine: Where We Are Today and How to Prepare for the Future ). Mr. Rackover received a U.S. Public Health Service coin from Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., acting U.S. surgeon general of the United States in recognition of the successful meeting.
Mr. Rackover was a board member of the National Coalition for Health Care Professional Education in Genetics and an advisor for their targeted education program, Genetics in the Physician Assistant's Practice. Mr. Rackover also made significant contributions to the Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2) [g-2-c-2.org], a free, Web-based collection of materials that helps educators locate resources to teach the next generation of physician assistants and nurses about genetics and genomics.
"Everything has escalated in a very positive way. We now teach genomics across the physician assistant curriculum and there are test questions on the national board exam," said Mr. Rackover. "It's not just me getting the award, it's my profession. Genomic literacy will benefit both physician assistants and their patients as the scientific research becomes applicable to the clinical practice of medicine."
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I recently helped a friend out who only had access to SQL Server Management Studio Express, and he needed to copy a database locally from his PC to his remote web hosting company. Normally, the process is a simple backup/restore, but his hosting company does not allow restoring databases. Luckily, however, the company does allow direct access to his hosted database via client tools such as SSMS. Unluckily, SSMS Express does not include any tools that allow you to export data to a remote server.
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You're INSERTing multiple rows from an un-normalized import table. Each row is assigned an identity primary key. You know you can use scope_identity() to retrieve one identity at a time, but how do you retrieve a whole set of them? Are cursors the only answer? As usual, it depends on having logical specifications and a good design. read more..
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In my SQLBulkCopy article, I mentioned that you can quickly copy data from anything that implements IDataReader to a SQL Server table using SQLBulkCopy (new in .NET 2.0). In this SQLTeam forum post, Jesse Hersch (jezemine) tells us that SQLBulkCopy only actually uses 3 methods of the interface. This means that it is very easy to quickly create your own custom class which implements this interface to bulk copy pretty much any type of object collection or array to a SQL Server table.
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.NET Framework 2.0 introduces a very handy new class in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace called SqlBulkCopy that makes it very easy and efficient to copy large amounts of data from your .NET applications to a SQL Server database. You can even use this class to write a short .NET application that can serve as a "middleman" to move data between database servers.
If you ever need to move large amounts of data to SQL Server from a .NET application, SQLBulkCopy...
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Quirky, happy, and incredibly catchy – this is a song that will get into your head and wont want to come back out again!
I have used just about everything in the bag on this track, to try and get everything that is happy into the two and a half minutes of sonic fun! Acoustic guitars, electric guitars, organs, whistles, (and bells!), recorder, hand claps, rhodes piano, harmony backing vocals, bongos, tamborines, and, fo course, the KAZOO !
This song is a real smile-bringer, and has an extremely positive and uplifting feel and groove to it. Whilst I was creating it and listening back to it throughout the entire recording process, I got images of so many situations and applications where it will sit nicely : technology, IT, engineering, manufacture, childrens products, skincare, food products, logistics, ... the list goes on and on.
I think the reason for this is that there is an element of innocence and youth in the music – it is simple, but at the same time there is also a strong undercurrent of organisation and togetherness. The feeling of teamwork, or all working together towards a singular goal. A strong hook has also really helped to hold it all together whilst allowing the Kazoo to be the leader of the pack without becoming too overpowering!
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Trumbo living up to billing in Arizona
DENVER -- Mark Trumbo knows his job. He is expected to hit with power and drive in runs. And he does it well.
As inconsistent as the opening games of the 2014 season have been for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Trumbo has delivered what the D-backs envisioned when they acquired him in the three-team offseason deal that saw Arizona send center fielder Adam Eaton to the White Sox and left-hander Tyler Skaggs to the Angels.View Full Game Coverage
DENVER -- Mark Trumbo knows his job. He is expected to hit with power and drive in runs. And he does it well.
As inconsistent as the opening games of the 2014 season have been for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Trumbo has delivered what the D-backs envisioned when they acquired him in the three-team offseason deal that saw Arizona send center fielder Adam Eaton to the White Sox and left-hander Tyler Skaggs to the Angels.View Full Game Coverage
"He is a very formidable bat and a smart hitter," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said on Sunday after Arizona knocked off the Colorado Rockies, 5-3, at Coors Field.
It was just D-backs' second win in nine games, matching the inaugural season of 1998 for the worst start in franchise history. And Trumbo delivered a two-run home run, the 100th of his career.
"It's something I'm known for," he said of hitting home runs, "and 100 is a nice round number."
Five of those home runs and 13 of Trumbo's 297 big league RBIs have come in six career games at Coors Field, which should not be surprising.
"My job," he said, "is to hit the ball in the air. A stadium like this plays really well for that."
Trumbo has done his job so far in Arizona. He is leading the Major Leagues with five home runs and 13 RBIs. Trumbo has homered in each of his last four games, equaling a streak he put together with the Halos from May 27-30, 2012.
"I've had hot stretches in the past where the home runs come in bunches," Trumbo said. "I can't tell you when they are coming or why they happen, but they do happen."
And the home run on Sunday happened to come at an opportune time.
It came in a win. It came after the D-backs had taken a 3-0 lead. It sent a message to a Rockies team that had rallied from a four-run deficit for a 9-4 victory on Saturday night that Trumbo and his teammates weren't backing down.
"When you get blown out, it doesn't feel great," said Trumbo. "You enjoy these games more."
And while Trumbo grew up in Villa Park, Calif., just a couple of miles down the road from the Angels' home in Anaheim, what he is really enjoying is being with Arizona. Even the fact he is being asked to become a full-time outfielder hasn't been a distraction.
Primarily a first baseman/DH in his four years with the Halos, Trumbo arrived in Arizona having started 122 games in the outfield with the Angels, but he also had been removed in the late innings in 57 of them.
The D-backs weren't concerned.
They were confident that, given Trumbo's pride and work ethic, he'd become a solid outfielder. More importantly, they wanted to add his power bat to the lineup to help offset the focus that opposing teams put on Paul Goldschmidt.
So far, so good.
"He has a good attitude," said Gibson. "He wants to learn. He has done a decent job for us in the outfield. He is a headsy player."
And Trumbo is realistic.
"I've got a lot to learn, but it's coming along," he said. "I pride myself on my defense."
Trumbo, however, makes his living swinging the bat. He hit 95 home runs in three full seasons with the Angels, driving in 282 runs from 2011-13. Trumbo has hit home runs at home (47 in 235 games) and on the road (53 in 234 games). He has hit them off right-handers (one every 18.7 at-bats) and off left-handers (one every 15.5 at-bats).
That is what caught the attention of the D-backs. And Trumbo understands that.
"I don't care if some people don't feel [driving in runs] is important, but I feel there's something to be said for getting a guy home in a pressure situation and the pitcher is bearing down on you, trying to get you out," he said. "I'll take the RBI."
Not that Trumbo is satisfied with his offensive game. The 471 strikeouts in 469 big league games -- 184 of them last year -- aren't acceptable.
"It's too many," he said. "I know that. I want to be a better all-around hitter. I need to be more patient. There's time to shorten up [the swing] a little with two strikes, but not too much. I know what my job is."
Nobody can question that. The results speak for themselves.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban won't join talks with the United States and Afghanistan because of a dispute over the name of its representative office in Qatar, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
The official said the Taliban never replied to an offer to meet U.S. diplomats in Doha on June 23 and are now resisting peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government, as the Taliban previously had agreed. The official said the Taliban have taken those positions because they insist their facility in Qatar be called the "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" and be identified as such on an exterior sign. They also want to fly the same flag they flew when the ruled Afghanistan, the official said.
The United States and Afghanistan objected to the name, the sign and the flag when the office first opened in mid-June. They say an agreement brokered with the Taliban allows them to call the facility "The Political Office of the Taliban" or "The Political Office of the Taliban Movement," neither of which implies that it represents a sovereign government.
Qatari mediators got the Taliban to remove the sign and the flag but the official said the group was now insisting they be replaced before any talks could take place.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak by name about the matter, which has complicated U.S. efforts to plan and prepare for the withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan.
The official said the Taliban could call their office whatever they wanted internally and could even fly the flag or keep the sign provided that they were not able to be seen by the general public or presented to the media.


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Yesterday, the Washington Post reviewed the life of Phyllis McClure, who was an advocate for federal education spending in low-income neighborhoods.
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I Cut Spending by 10%
House Republicans proposed some small cuts to the federal budget on their new YouCut website last week. I noted that the GOP cuts amounted to just 0.017 percent of the federal budget, and suggested that the conservative party in Congress could do much better. Below I've listed 10 terminations that would save about $380 billion a year, which is more than 10 percent of total federal spending.
'YouCut' Spending by 0.017%
House Republicans unveiled a bold strategy to cut 0.017 percent from the $3.7 trillion federal budget this week. Republican Whip Eric Cantor unveiled the GOP's "YouCut" website, which includes five possible spending cuts for citizens to vote on. Mr. Cantor promised to take the favored cut to the House floor next week for members to consider.
Should the Government Promote Fishing?
A Cato essay on special-interest spending explains how many federal programs deliver subsidies to particular groups of individuals and businesses while harming taxpayers and damaging the overall economy. A major reason why spending has spun out of control in Washington is that thousands of special interest groups have secured a slice of the spending pie, and they fight tooth and nail to make sure policymakers keep baking.
The USPS and the Constitution
In a Washington Post article on the U.S. Postal Service's continuing problems, Ed O'Keefe calls the USPS "a quasi-government agency enshrined in the Constitution but required by law to act like a business."
Microcosms of Government Waste
As a fiscal wonk, I spend a lot of time digging through the federal budget looking at the spending trends in the biggest programs such as Medicare. But I'm often struck by the large amounts spent on the tiniest and most obscure activities. Eliminating any one of these tiny activities wouldn't save much, but they are illustrative of a spending culture in Washington oblivious to the ongoing trillion-dollar deficits.
The Liberty Bus Tour
A new organization called Liberty in America has launched a nationwide "Liberty Bus" tour. The goal is to educate Americans across the country on the need to reduce the federal government's role in our lives. Downsizing the Federal Government materials will be among the educational resources the Liberty Bus will be making available to concerned citizens.
California's High-Speed Rail Boondoggle
Earmarks vs. Bureaucrats: Both Wasteful
One of the justifications members of Congress offer for earmarking is that the Constitution gives the legislative branch the "power of the purse." Congressional earmarkers often denigrate the executive branch's inability to effectively allocate funds. But just because the federal bureaucracy does an abysmal job of spending taxpayer money, it doesn't mean lawmakers would do any better.


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Bootstrap Analysis has moved: point your browers here. The old content is on the new site.
I moved because I find Typepad to no longer be the high-quality, functional, easy-to-use platform it once was, and the customer service steadily declined.
I am now using Wordpress and love it. Escaping Typepad is notoriously difficult, but at the new site, I have provided detailed instructions on how to do it.
There has been some speculation on whether Typepad will continue, and in what form., another reason I moved. Reading the Typepad terms of service sealed it for me. For example:
- "Six Apart, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password and/or account and remove and discard any content within the TypePad Service for any reason..."
- "Six Apart, in its sole discretion and at any time, may discontinue providing the TypePad Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice."
- "...by using the TypePad Service or Six Apart's Web properties through which the TypePad Service is available, you are granting Six Apart a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable right and license to use, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display your content, subject to any restrictions on such distribution which you may implement through any content distribution controls provided to you by Six Apart as part of the TypePad Service."
The Typepad TOS does not allow for me to get a refund for the remaining time on my account, so this post will stay up until June 2011.


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A large crowd filled the Gary Dickinson Performing Arts Center for the Chillicothe High School Baccalaureate service last night (Thursday).
A large crowd filled the Gary Dickinson Performing Arts Center for the Chillicothe High School Baccalaureate service last night (Thursday).
Sponsored by the Chillicothe Ministerial Alliance, the Baccalaureate is an interdenominational service featuring music, messages and fellowship. The evening began with the Chillicothe Orchestral Ensemble playing the familiar Processional tune. The song led the CHS seniors, dressed head to toe in bright red cap and gowns, down the aisles and into their reserved seats in the center of the auditorium. The crowd remained standing for the singing of "Amazing Grace" by the congregation.
Alan Brock, Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church, officially welcomed the crowd to the evening's service by delivering the evening's Invocation.
Following the moment of prayer, graduation senior Anna Pitchford performed a clarinet solo of W. A. Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto Adagio," accompanied on piano by Carolyn Johnson. (Pitchford's performance can be viewed online at chillicothenews.com.)
The spotlight continued to shine on CHS seniors as Shelby Bush delivered the evening's passage of scripture. A quartet of Senior Choraliers performed Carl Strommen's "The Road Less Traveled."
Aaron Douglas, Youth Pastor at Cornerstone Church, then took the stage to deliver the evening's message. Douglas encouraged the graduating seniors to exhibit a heart of service and put others before themselves.
"My advice to you tonight as some of you go off to college, and some of you don't, and some of you pursue a dream, is that no matter what career or what profession you choose, I believe your goal in life should be to help and serve other people," Douglas said. "As a result, you will be more fulfilled in the process."
The service ended with a second congregational hymn, "On Eagle's Wings," and the Benediction by Tommy Sandefer, Pastor at Soul's Harbor Church of God. The Chillicothe Orchestral Ensemble then played the seniors and other members of the audience out of the PAC with the Recessional.
Graduation festivities will wrap up this weekend at the commencement ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday at the CHS gymnasium.


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Every year, deputies, police and roadway officials from six south-central Louisiana parishes get together to discuss how to make the roads safer.
Every year, deputies, police and roadway officials from six south-central Louisiana parishes get together to discuss how to make the roads safer.
This year, that meant discussing issues such as distracted driving, no-refusal DWI policies and bicycle safety at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center on Thursday.
"This summit is our opportunity to network, get together with our partners and exchange effective ideas," said Terrebonne Councilman Greg Hood Sr., who also chairs the South Central Safe Community Partnership that hosts the conference.
The partnership is "progressive" and a "very good group," said Sherri LeBas, secretary of the state Department of Transportation and Development. "Just having this summit every year shows their commitment to safety."
Deputies and police from Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption, St. Charles, St. James and St. John parishes, as well as people from groups such as South Central Planning and Bayou Region Mothers Against Drunk Driving participated.
A state Highway Safety Commission grant and the DOTD pay for the partnership, said officials with South Central Planning, which runs the partnership.
Students from a handful of schools in the surrounding parishes made field trips to the conference, watching demonstrations that showed them how being drunk affects their driving skills, how seat belts protect them if their car rolls over, and how far 18-wheelers' blind spots and braking distances stretch.
Several 18-wheeler drivers who work for Walmart arrived in Houma to do a presentation about this last issue. Walmart's "Committed to Safety" program sends these drivers to teach adults and students alike.
Truck drivers Albert Jones, Malcolm Taylor and Chris Colomb said they bring people up into the driver's seat and show them how expansive an 18-wheeler's blind-spots are. They show them how many feet between vehicles their trucks need to keep for braking.
It's a dangerous issue that's often glossed-over in driver's education classes, they said.
It's also nice to travel throughout the state, teaching driving safety "versus being in our own other world" on the road, Colomb said.
The "No. 1 priority" of the conference "is to provide safe transport for our traveling public," LeBas said.
Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or email@example.com.


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The Defense Information Systems Agency will re-open to competition a sole-source contract it just awarded for big data storage after potential competitors emerged to pursue the advanced cloud services contract.
DISA said in a May 20 notice that it would cancel the $45 million non-competitive contract it made in April to Alliance Technology Group, a small disadvantaged business based in Hanover, Md.
The contract called for developing a large data object (LDOS) cloud service capable of storing the torrent of imagery files generated by Defense intelligence sensors and systems.
In justifying the original award, DISA had said it needed the LDOS technology because it lacked capacity in its own data centers to build it and did not have the funding to purchase the hardware to do the job.
The contract for a secure intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) storage cloud called for systems capable of handling an exabyte, or 1 million terabytes, of data, some of it generated by drones and other advanced data-taking technologies.
DISA wanted the cloud to be capable of storing full-motion video, including data from the Air Force's Gorgon Stare surveillance sensor system.
In canceling the contract, DISA said the response period following the award to ATG, "provided an opportunity for industry to respond to the requirement," and that "based upon capability statements and responses received, DISA plans to pursue competitive means through the National Security Agency Acquisition Resource Center to satisfy the requirement."
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So I'm mucking about in my task manager this evening trying to get an old dos game to run on this box, and I find a file - Runservice.exe - that I wasn't sure about. Innocent looking as it was, I figured I was being paranoid, so I fired up Spybot and Adaware, and found nothing. Then being the good nosey kinda techie I am, I pull up my trusty Winpatrol window and look up the details on the file - sure enough, no author, no info.
This raised a *huge* red flag - so I googled it - to find, at this location -
oops. Hmm. wonder where I picked that little nasty thing up.runservice.exe description:
eLicense, licensing system incorporated with some software and games.
File runservice.exe removal: WARNING!!! File runservice.exe is related to spyware. This is serious violation of your privacy, your system is under security threat.
We advice you to scan your computer and eliminate possible threats.
Before I go through the routine of removing it, I'm curious if anyone can post me some more detailed information on this file other than 'it's related to spyware' - what does it do, what's the correct technique for removing it, are there innoculations out there, who wrote the bloody thing in the first place?
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Special Section
The Semantic Web: More than a Vision
Jane Greenberg is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, principal investigator of the Metadata Generation Research project (http://ils.unc.edu/~janeg) and program committee co-chair of the 2003 Dublin Core Conference. She can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
Our dependence on World Wide Web (Web) technology for information, communication and services grows daily. Consider the slightly frantic behaviors people often exhibit when they are unable to access the Web for an extended period of time. Of course there is the other side a break from interacting with a computer is viewed as a relief for the eyes. Even so, it is clear that our information society is becoming wedded to Web technology for daily activities. The proliferation of library and information science publications addressing and researching aspects of the Web still a relatively new phenomenon provides even further evidence of our dependence on this technology. In fact its difficult, if not impossible, to find an information science periodical without one article dealing with Web technology.
While all this is exciting, there are many limitations to the current Web. Visionaries and researchers throughout time have talked about exploiting our mass of information to automatically produce new knowledge, build intelligent systems and eliminate human burdens associated with information seeking and problem solving activities. There have been successes, but they are often limited by domain or infrastructure. The Web offers us a new playing field for addressing these goals through the Semantic Web, which is an extension aiming to foster communication between computers and people via semantically encoded information.
This special section includes four articles about the Semantic Web. A great deal of the Semantic Web activity is taking place at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In this review of the field, Eric Miller and Ralph Swick provide an overview of W3C Semantic Web activities. They discuss Semantic Web enabling technologies and important Semantic Web Advance Development (SWAD) initiatives. These include SWAD DAML, SWAD-Europe, SWAD Simile and SWAD Oxygen.
Bijan Parsia focuses on Semantic Web services (remote programs). Parsia outlines the shortcomings of the current Web, explaining why current services are severely limited and how they could be improved. Attention is specifically given to the problems of service discovery. Parsia explains current efforts to solve this problem with Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of Web Services (UDDI) and demonstrates the significant role of semantics in problem solving. This article draws from work currently being conducted in MIND's Semantic Web Agents Project at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Jane Greenberg, Stuart Sutton and D. Grant Campbell address the fundamental role that metadata plays in building the Semantic Web. We discuss the vision and architecture underlying the Semantic Web and explain how each layer of the Semantic Webs architecture, as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee, is connected to or directly involves metadata. Topics include metadata vocabularies, enabling technologies and Semantic Web authoring and annotation. We find ourselves, in some respects, as early pioneers exploring the potential roles and forms of metadata related to the Semantic Webs emerging architecture.
Elin Jacobs article concludes this special section with an article on ontologies. Jacob offers a philosophical and practical discussion of ontologies and their roles in building the Semantic Web. Specific attention is given to ontology languages, such as RDFS (Resource Description Framework Schemas) and OWL (Web Ontology Language) and their application to the Semantic Web. Jacob urges us to think outside the box and realize that there are indeed new capabilities that we need to explore.
To pick up on Jacobs remarks, I have heard people say the Semantic Web is old wine in a new bottle. There is likely some truth here, as is always the case with innovations drawing upon developments and ideas from earlier times, but I agree with Jacobs line of thinking. The technology underlying the Web is unprecedented and affords us new opportunities to turn segments of the growing mass of electronic information into new intelligence for both humans and computers. The Semantic Web is an engaging territory to explore and cultivate.
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Mali Gambles on Warlord as Peacemaker
Winning Over Key Regional Commander Stands as an Attractive Way to Make Inroads in the Fight Against al Qaeda
BAMAKO, Mali—Iyad ag Ghaly—a bearded, 50-something warlord—personifies the complicated business of uprooting al Qaeda militants from Mali's vast desert.
Mr. Ghaly commands an Islamist militia called Ansar Dine, or "Defenders of the Faith." Earlier this year, his men swept through Mali's north. Fighting alongside combatants from al Qaeda's AQIM Saharan branch, they conquered a swath of desert larger than France. Now, as Mali pursues both peace talks and preparations for war, many leaders in this region suspect the...


text: Centre-half returns to lineup - The Vancouver Sun September 20, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next John Atkinson Special to the Sun A fully fit Wes Charles returns to the Whitecaps (14-7-8) starting line-up at Seattle's Starfire Sports Stadium tonight determined to make up for lost time. The St. Vincent and the Grenadines international defender has missed the Vancouver sides last four USL First Division games with a quad strain. But he has patiently accepted waiting until the time was right to return and is now a potentially crucial part of the Whitecaps push for playoff success. "I've missed four games, so it is good to feel fit and healthy again," Charles said, ahead of the Whitecaps final match of the regular USL-1 league season. "It will also be good to play [Seattle] and get 90 minutes under my belt. "It was frustrating watching the home games from the sidelines and I did try to come back for the [Montreal] game, but the physio and coach both wanted me to wait. "I think that was the best decision as my leg is now 100 per cent and I'm good for the play-offs [providing], fingers crossed, I don't get injured [against Seattle]." Whitecaps head coach Teitur Thordarson is also happy to have the burly centre-half back for what will be the last league encounter against Seattle (10-9-10) for a while as the Sounders will become a Major League Soccer (MLS) outfit next year. "It is extremely good to have Wes back," Thordarson said. "We have been doing quite well without him, but he could have made a difference in the games we have played. He is a very solid defender and a leader type and we always need those kind of players." Left-back Takashi Hirano is also close to full fitness again and will likely come off the bench to play some part in Washington. Only centre-half Omar Jarun (suspension) and Georgie Lyall (groin injury) are unavailable. Regardless of whether Puerto Rico grabs at least a point tonight in Atlanta to clinch the league title, Vancouver is already guaranteed to finish second in the table. Whitecaps skipper Jeff Clarke said his side would be on the offensive tonight. "We're going out for a win in Seattle," he said. "We have a healthy squad right now and just need to manage the minutes and get through the game without any injuries." At which point, the Whitecaps can really think about repeating their 2006 play-off final success. As it stands, Thordarson's team is in line to face Minnesota Thunder (currently lying seventh) in the first playoff round with the Whitecaps (a high seed) likely to elect to travel to Minnesota for the first leg. "[In] my experience of the European Cup, it is always better to play the first [of major two-legged games] away," Thordarson added. "[Because] if it is then a tight second game, which goes to extra time and penalty kicks, its better to be at home [with the crowd support]." Though the Whitecaps are gunning for three points against the Sounders tonight, one would be enough to clinch their third Cascadia Cup, the tri-club competition which also features Portland Timbers. © The Vancouver Sun 2008 Previous Next


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Emery, Blackhawks silence Predators
Nashville, TN – Ray Emery made Bryan Bickell's first-period goal hold up as the winner with a 20-save performance in Chicago's 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena.
Emery earned his second shutout of the season and 13th of his career as the NHL-leading Blackhawks took the opener of this home-and-home set with a struggling Predators team.
"Rock solid. He did what he had to do," Chicago head coach Joel Quenneville said about Emery. "I thought he was in control around the net."
Pekka Rinne stopped 29 shots for Nashville, which has dropped two straight and five of its last six overall.
The Predators remain four points out of the West's final playoff spot.
Bickell tapped in a feed from the recently acquired Michal Handzus on a 2-on-1 rush 5:31 into the game. The Blackhawks obtained the veteran Handzus from the San Jose Sharks on Monday.
Emery turned aside five shots in the first period, eight in the middle stanza and seven during the final frame.
Nashville pulled Rinne late in the contest in hopes of producing an equalizer, but was unable to solve Emery.
"We had some great chances at different parts of the game, especially late. I don't know how we didn't bury a couple of those," said Predators forward Mike Fisher.
Game Notes
The Blackhawks host the Predators on Sunday ... Chicago defenseman Johnny Oduya played in his 500th career game ... Nashville was 0-for-3 on the power play.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Tony Kilbridge, MIT's Director of Rowing, announced the hiring of Will Oliver as the new head coach of the men's lightweight team on Tuesday. Oliver joins the Engineers following a one-year stint as an assistant coach with Georgetown University's men's heavyweight team.
A 2004 graduate of the University of Virginia, Oliver was a team captain and three-year first boat rower for the Cavaliers. After college, he spent one season coaching prep school boys at the Bryanston School in Dorset, England. Oliver returned to his alma mater as the men's freshman coach for one year before being promoted to the men's crew head coach position. During his three-year tenure, Oliver's crews finished as high as 15th nationally among Division I schools.
"We are extremely happy to have hired Will Oliver to coach our lightweight men," said Kilbridge. "Will is a skillful coach with great leadership qualities and a strong work ethic. He will be a welcome addition to the Pierce Boathouse."


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Three consecutive years of smaller U.S. corn harvests are driving inventories of the world's most-consumed grain to a 39-year low and spurring Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to predict that prices will rise near record highs.
Global stockpiles will drop 11 percent to 117.61 million metric tons by Oct. 1, or 13.6 percent of what will be used for food, ethanol and livestock feed, the lowest ratio since 1974, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a report.
Prices surged 44 percent since mid-June as U.S. farmers endured their worst drought in 56 years, and heat waves and dry weather seared crops from Australia to Europe. While futures fell 14 percent since reaching a record $8.49 a bushel on Aug. 10, tightening supply before next year's harvest will drive prices to an average of $8.25 in the next six months, 13 percent higher than today, Goldman said in a Dec. 5 report.
"It will take more than one year of good weather and high yields to dig the world out of this supply hole," said Peter Meyer, a senior director of agriculture commodities at PIRA Energy Group in New York. "While corn prices may not spike, they will remain well supported until the extreme moisture deficits in the U.S. are rectified."
Grain Rally
Corn was down 0.1 percent at $7.295 as of 8:23 a.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, paring this year's rally to 13 percent. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index of eight commodities gained 7.8 percent since the start of 2012, while the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities advanced 12 percent. A Bank of America Corp. index shows Treasuries returned 2.7 percent.
Production in the U.S., which accounted for 32 percent of world supply this year, fell 13 percent to 272.4 million tons, the smallest harvest since 2006, the USDA said Nov. 9. That's 18 percent less than the record 332.5 million tons in 2009 after dry weather in 2010 and heat waves last year.
Global consumption will exceed supply for the second time in three years, even as a faltering economy erodes demand by 1.7 percent to 862.52 million tons in the season ending Oct. 1, according to the USDA. While that would be the first drop since 1995, the decline in production will be even steeper, retreating 3.7 percent to 849.09 million tons, the agency said.
Prices will reach $7.85 in six months because inventories are "precariously low," Hussein Allidina, the head of commodity research at Morgan Stanley in New York, wrote in a Dec. 5 report.
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More than 33 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft over the past two decades
Con artists come and con artists go, but the scam will go on forever.
It's a hard, cold fact that people living in the 21st Century must come to realize. Those armed with the right knowledge and a little common sense, however, could avoid falling victim to the tricks crooks play to swindle people out their money.
More than 33 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft over the past two decades, and that number grows constantly as con artists develop new tricks and tactics of deception.
Clark County Sheriff Jason Watson, a longtime officer of the law whose background includes work in criminal investigation, often presents seminars to offer tips on how to keep scams at bay.
There is a scam for all walks of life: from the elderly to those who shop in public malls and from those needing home improvement to those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. It doesn't matter where you live or what you do, Watson says, as even the common scams that pop up in larger cities eventually trickle down to rural communities.
One popular scam deals with foreign lotteries. Watson said the con artist usually is someone overseas who claims to have won a lottery and wants to share a portion of it. "They'll need to wire some money back to a certain account, and they need you to help them. If you can send them the money to get over here, the money will be at the bank and you both can split it up." Naturally, though, the money the victim puts up is put into the account, never to be seen by the victim again.
In another scam, the con artist will drive to the victim's house with a load of asphalt or roofing supplies — which he says was left over from a previous job and is looking to get rid of it for a discounted price. "He'll ask you for payment before he completes the job," Watson said. "Once you pay him, he might dump some asphalt or shingles and leave, for good, with your money."
Simply put, "If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true. Be leery of anything that sounds too good to be true," Watson said.
While con artists prey mostly upon gullible elderly, they also find ways to trick the bereaved or giving. Most of the scams are committed in larger cities. Although Watson's constituents live in rural southwestern Arkansas, he still informs them of all the scams since crime "always trickles down."
"There's the obituary scam," Watson said. "The thief preys on the grief of a loved one." The scam artist disguises himself as a minister who wishes to council the bereaved.
Once he makes entry into the house, he might ask to use the restroom. "He takes that opportunity to try to steal anything." This type of con artist usually reads the obituaries in the newspaper. If someone well known or with a large family perishes, the thief will know the out-of-town relatives will be traveling to the funeral with cash and jewelry. Looking at the obituary, the thief will know what time the funeral is so he can make a visit to the deceased's home and burglarize the place.
Then there are charity-related scams that Watson said are growing in popularity and are easy to carry out since the victim usually will give to charity. "The swindler might call and identify himself as being with a law enforcement agency that is trying to carry out a fundraiser," Watson said. "The Clark County Sheriff's Office does not solicit any funds over the phone, and I don't know of any agency that does. In fact, we had somebody call the sheriff's office last week asking if we were collecting money for teddy bears." Obviously, the CCSO was not trying to sell teddy bears, and Watson applauded the could-be victim for reporting what was likely a scam.
Calling to report potential scams helps law enforcement know what scams are popping up in their community, arming them with information to get the word out to the public in order to keep others from falling victim. "Use your best judgment — if it doesn't feel right, call us," Watson said. "It's best to be safe than sorry in the world we live in."
The sheriff offers tips on how to avoid falling victim to scam.
• If anyone comes to your home: "A) You don't have to let them in, and B) call us immediately. It's our job. The deputy will escort the person off the property, and this helps to identify these people and build an intelligence file."
• Be very skeptical of any solicited claims of home improvements. "Don't rush in to sign a contract. If it's that good of a deal, it'll be that good tomorrow, also."
• Watch out how much personal information you input into your computer or put out over the phone.
• Always report potential scams. "Don't neglect to pursue it just because you feel embarrassed. These people are professionals — lying is what they do for a living."
Who to call
Arkadelphia/Gurdon/Clark County
Arkadelphia Police Dept. 870-246-4545
Clark Co. Sheriff 870-246-2222
Gurdon Police Dept. 870-353-2211
Heber Springs/Cleburne County
Heber Springs P.D. 501-362-3661
Cleburne Co. Sheriff 501-362-8143
Helena-West Helena/Phillips County
Helena-West Helena P.D. 870-572-3441
Phillips Co. Sheriff 870-338-5563
Hope/Hempstead County
Hempstead Co. Sheriff 870-777-6727
Hope Police Dept. 870-777-3434
Eighth Judicial District-North Prosecuting Attorney 870-777-0900
Prescott/Nevada County
Prescott Police Dept. 870-887-6779
Nevada Co. Sheriff 870-887-2616
Stuttgart/Arkansas County
Stuttgart Police Dept. 870-673-1414
Arkansas Co. Sheriff 870-673-2121
Bastrop/Morehouse Parish
Bastrop Police Dept. 318-281-1322
Morehouse Parish Sheriff 318-281-4141
Helena World — Helena-West Helena
Phillips Co. hit by sweepstakes scam
Sheriff Deputy David Lawman reports that the most recent money scam in this area, concerns winning of a large amount of money.
Lawman told the Helena World that the latest scam involves a con artist who reports that you have won a cash prize in the amount of 2.7 million dollars.
The con then requests that the victim go to a local retailer purchase a money card and load it with a certain amount of money reported to be close to $500. The card must be turned over to the con before they give you your prize.
Lawman reports that residents need to be aware that this scam is currently circulating throughout Phillips County and that calls are being made using a blocked number.
The Phillips County Sheriff's Dept urges anyone that has become a victim to this latest scam, or has suspicions that they have been contacted by these individuals, to contact their local law enforcement agency.
Nevada County Picayune — Prescott
Homeowners duped in Nevada Co.
A homeowner scam is going around Nevada County.
Recently, according to Nevada County Sheriff Danny Martin, two men approached a homeowner about caulking the gutters around his roof. The men quoted a price of $54 per unit, which, Martin said, was thought to be the cost of a tube of caulk. The owner was told it would take 30 units to do the job.
The homeowner apparently asked the two men to wait, but they were insistent they begin the job immediately, even without the homeowner's approval.
When the owner went to call his daughter, the two apparently thought he was calling law enforcement, made an excuse and left.
Bastrop Daily Enterprise — Bastrop, La.
Bastrop woman 'wins,' loses $4,000
It started with an excited, unexpected phone call, but then ended with the helpless wait on the limousine and cash that never arrived.
Telling Faye Jones, 82, she was the winner of a $450,000 lottery drawing, crooks caused the Bastrop resident to become another victim of a kind of crime whose culprits are faceless and rarely, if ever, prosecuted.
"I generally enter Publisher's Clearing house, and that's how I was duped," she said, noting that she never forwarded her Social Security or bank account information. "They are smart. They convince you and are very cunning."
According to the Better Business Bureau, sweepstakes and lottery scams rank no. 2 on top 10 scams in 2012 for people to watch out for, right behind job hunter scams.
By the time that Jones became aware that there were no lottery winnings, after she had forwarded continual money orders to cover transference fees and taxes the criminals convinced her she must pay up front before receiving her award, the local sheriff's department could not do anything to help.
Jones said that as her resentment eases, it's been replaced with the intention of making others aware of her trial."My main thing now is that I want others to know about this," she said.
Stuttgart Daily Leader — Stuttgart
SPD reports debit card scam
The Stuttgart Police Department received approximately 30 calls in mid-June from local residents saying they received a pre-recorded phone message that their debit card had been deactivated. The message then asked those on the line to reactivate their card by entering in their card number.
The calls came from at least eight different phone numbers, which were all logged in the SPD system. One police report was filed for someone who did enter their card number.
SPD said in all the calls they received, the scammers were using the BancorpSouth name.
According to Bancorp South, the institution would never ask for account numbers or PIN numbers over the phone. They advise customers to never give out their debit or credit card information.
SPD Assistant Chief Steven Bobo said customers of BancorpSouth and non-customers were contacted. He even received the pre-recorded message himself.
The Sun Times — Heber Springs
Scams seem to target the elderly
The latest scam hitting Cleburne County is the Publisher's Clearing House phone call scam. According to Detective Alan Roberson with the Cleburne County Sheriff's Department, people receive phone calls saying they have won the Publisher's Clearing House and that in order to collect their winnings, they have to send a money order of X amount in order to receive their prize.
"This is just a new twist to a basic scam," Detective Roberson said. "You are informed you won a prize, but in order to claim it, you have to send money. It is hard to convince people that if they won a prize, there should be no need to send money."
According to Detective Roberson, these scams tend to play on people's fears. "In our current economy, lack of money can lead people to do desperate things, including sending money to gain more," he said.
Those these scams will go after anyone, they seem to target the elderly more than anyone else. "We've recently seen a scam where people go door to door saying they can help with utility bills by surveying and measuring the person's house," Detective Roberson said. "While one is keeping the homeowner busy measuring and jotting down numbers, the second person is stealing money or other small valuables."
Hope Star — Hope
Blevins man loses nearly $1,500
Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton said a Blevins resident lost $1,425 in the process in a scam lasting more than a month, beginning in May.
"The victim said that he received a phone call from a person who identified himself as Agent Malone, telling him congratulations, that he had won a new car and $225,000," Singleton said. "He said that Agent Malone told him that all he had to do was send a MoneyGram for $600. The victim said he went to Walmart and sent the first MoneyGram to Pine Bluff, addressed to Brenda Ward."
As a result, Singleton said the victim received a second phone call in about mid-June, asking that another $600 be sent to the same Brenda Ward in Pine Bluff, and the victim complied. The third call changed things, however, Singleton said.
"This time, he needed to send it to St. Mary, Jamaica, for $100 to a Michael McKenzie," he said. "The victim said that he was, then, to send another MoneyGram to St. Mary, Jamaica, addressed to Latoya Clarke, for $125."
In a subsequent conversation on July 3, Singleton said the purported Agent Malone requested another $550, and the victim refused to comply.
"Agent Malone told him that all the money he was sending to them was for a delivery fee, so that he could receive the prize money and the car," Singleton said.
He said the victim provided the money gram receipts and the Wal-Mart receipts to the Hempstead County Sheriff's Department, and an investigation of the originating telephone numbers and phone numbers to which the money grams were sent resulted in no responses.
"If you receive a call out of the blue telling you that you have won a large sum of money, a vehicle, or anything else, please do not send any money, and report it to your local law enforcement agency immediately," he added.


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Man killed in Bryan County wreck
A man traveling from Florida to New Jersey to assist with recovery from hurricane Sandy died in a traffic accident Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Bryan County.
Richmond Hill Police Chief Billy Reynolds said the man was heading north between exits 87 and 90 when he lost control at about 2:15 p.m., striking vehicles being used by maintenance workers and flipping his vehicle.
The workers were not hurt in the accident, Reynolds said.
The Georgia State Patrol is investigating the accident.
As of Tuesday night, the name of the man had not been released pending notification of his family.
Compiled by Jamie Parker


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LOUDON, N.H. – Denny Hamlin loves coming to New Hampshire. So, when NASCAR notified the Sprint Cup Series points leader that he'd be visiting the Granite State as part of the "Chase Across America," Hamlin was more than happy to oblige.
Hamlin visited a National Guard Aviation facility, as well as fans, media and voters on Tuesday in Concord, N.H., 12 days before he leads a field of 12 championship-thirsty drivers into New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the Sept. 23 SYLVANIA 300, the second race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
"This is without a doubt one of my favorite stops in the series," said Hamlin, who will begin the Chase on Sept. 16 at Chicagoland Speedway atop the standings. "We've had a very good season so far, but our goal is that championship, and New Hampshire is a crucial stop for us in making that happen.
"We expect to run well at most of these final 10 tracks, but we expect to win at New Hampshire."
Hamlin began his day by visiting the 169th National Guard Med-Evac Aviation Unit, which will be deploying to Afghanistan six days after the SYLVANIA 300. Hamlin was given a tour of and even sat in the pilot seat of a Black Hawk helicopter. Hamlin returned the favor by giving the unit a tour of his No. 11 FedEx Toyota.
Jerry Gappens, executive vice president and general manager of NHMS, plans on inviting the 169th unit to the race on Sept. 23 to cheer on Hamlin and, of course, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is sponsored by the National Guard.
"We're looking forward to going out to the track and watching you," said Andy Foote, Chief Warrant Officer for the 169th. "We've got a lot of NASCAR fans in this group and I think you've made a few more today. We wish you the best of luck when you come back here."
"This is the first time I've had the chance to meet with a military unit outside of the track," said Hamlin. "You guys are the true heroes and I know I can speak for a lot of people when I say that I wish you a safe and speedy return home."
After departing the aviation facility, Hamlin spent time eating lunch and visiting with fans and media at The Red Blazer. He held a Q & A with fans, who were eager to get Hamlin's thoughts on the upcoming Chase.
"Well I'm still burning a bit from not winning the race here back in July," said Hamlin, who had the dominant car, but communication issues on pit road cost him the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at NHMS on July 15. "I know we've got a great chance at this thing and we're going to do all we can to make sure we come out on top after these next 10 races – but it's all about taking it one race at a time."
The final stop of the afternoon was the polling station at Broken Ground School. Hamlin spent time visiting with voters and there were even some fans on hand holding up "Hamlin in 2012" signs.
"That's pretty cool," said Hamlin. "I hope it comes true."
It just might, too. Hamlin has been one of the hottest drivers in NASCAR over the past month with two wins in the last three weeks and a Cup-leading four victories this season. He has 13 top-10s, 11 of those top-fives.
"It's hard to believe that he's been around for seven years already, but Denny has been consistent and strong since he burst onto the season as a full-time driver in 2006," said Gappens. "I think this is as deep a field as we've ever seen in the Chase, but Denny has to be the favorite right now."
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Wozniacki reaches third round in Charleston
Charleston, SC – Former world No. 1 star and former champion Caroline Wozniacki was an easy second-round winner Wednesday at the Family Circle Cup tennis event.
The second-seeded Dane blew past Spaniard Silvia Soler-Espinosa 6-1, 6-1 in exactly one hour on the green clay at Daniel Island Tennis Center.
Wozniacki was the big winner here just two years ago.
Meanwhile, American qualifier Mallory Burdette pulled off an upset by dismissing 15th-seeded former champion Sabine Lisicki, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5. Burdette is rewarded with a match against world No. 1 superstar and reigning Charleston champ Serena Williams.
In some other second-round action involving seeds, No. 10 Julia Goerges of Germany held off Belarusian Olga Govortsova 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 and Canadian qualifier Eugenie Bouchard upended No. 16 Brit Laura Robson 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
Promising American Madison Keys eased into the round of 16 with a 6-4, 6-3 handling of qualifier compatriot Grace Min. Keys will battle another fellow American, wild card Bethanie Mattek-Sands, on Thursday.
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Warriors get in close and beat the crap out of skeletons, zombies, and demons. Wizards stay back and spam fireballs and other spells. This is the natural state of fantasy RPGs. There's always a sacrifice choosing one over the other. Either you lose the visceral elements of hacking and slashing or you lose out on cool-looking spell effects . The 2012 RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning destroys this old notion. You can be both. This game has the bad-ass mage.
Dual-wielding razor-edged throwing discs, called Chakram, the mage can be a force in combat even without the benefit of his spells. The combat is simple button presses with a system similar to Fable -- with a button dedicated to melee, one for ranged attacked and one for spells. While the mage's staff may not cleave enemies in half like a sword, it can have similar attack chains. The mage lacks a true warrior's strength, but not his skill at putting the beat-down on enemies.
And, like any character in Reckoning, the mage has access to fate-shift kills. These special finishing moves are rewards for effective use of combos and lead to brutal, cinematic kills of enemies. These end with a simple button mash to finish off an enemy, but fate-shift kills give that sense of combat superiority over an enemy. An odd feeling, for sure, for a mage in an RPG.
Rather than a roll-dodge, the mage teleports short distances. In skilled hands, this is an impressive tool to get in close, dodge a stream of attacks, unleash a devastating combo with the staff, leap backwards and throw the Frisbee-like Chakram to slice into an enemy before tossing a fireball to finish the group off.
A mage is all about spells -- at least that's the expectation -- and there seem to be plenty in Reckoning to play with. A detonation spell seems quite effective. You tag multiple enemies, then choose when the spell "explodes" them. This adds more strategy to magic than I'm used to seeing. And then there's the big daddy spell -- the meteor strike. Just as it sounds, this rains down hell. This one's at the top of the spell tree, so you'll have to work to acquire it. And when it's used, be sure you have some distance from the strike point, because it's easy to get caught in the massive blast.
Now consider being able to mix this in with weapons such as the Chakram or a staff that is almost as effective as a sword and it's easy to see how mage combat in Reckoning could be very special.
The beauty is the way each element of combat chains together. Going from one to the next looks fluid and opens up the possibilities for tackling a group of enemies. Mages no longer have to hang to the outside, backing away at an enemy's approach. Though you may have some AI-controlled allies along the way, Reckoning has you largely on your own. Now you don't have to lose having an awesome hand-to-hand combat experience for the sake of being a spellcaster.
This is largely made possible thanks to Reckoning's player progression system. There isn't a point in Reckoning where you pick a class and are stuck along a particular way of leveling up. Instead, Reckoning has a series of "destinies" which players invest experience points into. As you pump in experience to the mage destiny, you unlock new spells and skills. But at any point, you can start investing in the warrior destiny. In this way, you can create different hybrid classes that suit your gaming style.
In truth, there shouldn't be many pure mages in Reckoning. Instead, most people will create interesting amalgams of traditional roles -- a heap of the mage spells here, a dose of warrior might there, and a dash of rogue stealth to top it off. Even if you do stick strictly to the mage path, you will have skill enough to utilize your non-spell aspects and mix it up with enemies. But I find the possibilities of melding these different skillsets into my own unique character the most exciting prospect of Reckoning.


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LAS VEGAS — Hey, BCS — No. 8 Boise State wants your attention.
The Broncos see their 56-24 victory over Arizona State on Thursday night in the MAACO Bowl as more than just a win over a middle-tier Pac-12 team.
"I think we made a statement," said Doug Martin, who returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown and was voted the game's MVP. "It comes down to players who have a chip on their shoulders. It shows we're here and we're winners."
Boise State (12-1) finished seventh in the BCS standings, but wasn't invited to one of its big-money bowl games — the fourth time that has happened after the school finished within the BCS' top 10. The Mountain West and Pac-12 each received $1.1 million from the bowl.
Coach Chris Petersen said the Broncos looked at the game as another chance to showcase the program to a national audience.
"There were two things we wanted to do in this game: Start fast, and they did that, and finish strong, and they did that," Petersen said. "We had a chance to be back on ESPN and have a lot of people see our game and our team."
It also gave the Broncos a chance to say goodbye to Kellen Moore, the NCAA's winningest quarterback who led Boise State on a remarkable four-year run.
"You got to finish things off," Moore said
He threw for 293 yards and two touchdowns, though he also had two interceptions and lost a fumble. The turnovers won't matter as fans in Idaho remember the star who has set school records for passing yards, touchdowns, completions and total offense, and finished fifth among NCAA quarterbacks for passing yards while racking up 50 total wins.
"We always talk about finish seasons or finish games," Moore said. "You're talking about finishing careers, so there's no reason to settle or relax."
Along with the return, Martin ran for 151 yards and another touchdown.
Arizona State (6-7) never seriously threatened the Broncos even though Boise State allowed Rashad Ross' 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to start the second half.
"It spread the word about Boise State," Moore said. "We took advantage of opportunities to elevate this program."
Petersen said the program will miss Moore.
"I have no idea what we're going to do without Kellen Moore — so don't even ask," Petersen said before reporters could ask a question during a news conference after the game.
Arizona State missed on several opportunities to make the game closer, wasting a bowl-record 241-yard receiving effort by Gerell Robinson, who caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter after the Broncos had already scored 49 points.
Moore played well enough in his last college game to keep his team scoring, despite some missteps.
"When you're at a good place with good people, good things happen," Moore said.
Petersen said it was important to put a stamp on the careers of Moore and his fellow seniors.
"These guys took it up a notch or two," Petersen said. "It was extremely important to the coaching staff and this team."
Martin finished with 301 all-purpose yards, breaking a bowl record set in 1997 by Air Force's Pat Johnson. His touchdown return also set a record for the longest kickoff return in MAACO Bowl history. It was the first time the opening kickoff had been returned for a score in any bowl game since Ohio State's Ted Ginn Jr. did it in the 2007 BCS title game.
Boise State finished with a bowl record in points scored by a single team, and the teams combined for the highest scoring game in the bowl's 20-year history.
The most costly mistake for Arizona State came in the third quarter, as the Sun Devils tried to capitalize on a fumble by Moore — his third turnover of the game. The Sun Devils drove 49 yards to Boise State's 1, but Brock Osweiler's fourth-down pass was intercepted by Jamar Taylor, who returned it 100 yards for a touchdown to make it 35-10.
Moments before the play, Arizona State coach Dennis Erickson tried to call a timeout as his team was late to the line of scrimmage, but his attempts weren't acknowledged by the referees.
"I should have just called a timeout," said Osweiler, who threw for 395 yards with two touchdowns.
Osweiler said his team had some confusion before the play, with the wrong players on the field and a delay in communicating what they wanted to do.
The Broncos led 28-3 at halftime with Martin's kick return, Moore's passing touchdowns and another by wide receiver Matt Miller on a trick play in the second quarter.
Arizona State didn't score after its first interception and failed to pick off a lofty, poorly aimed toss from Moore's brother, receiver Kirby Moore, that hit a defender in the chest during a trick play. Boise State scored its fourth touchdown later in the drive.
"In a game like this, momentum is everything, and we didn't capitalize and they did," Robinson said.
Erickson was coaching his last game for Arizona State, which let him go in November after the Sun Devils finished the regular season on a four-game losing streak.
Erickson said he doesn't think his career is finished.
"I'll be involved in football some way. I'm not sure exactly what," he said.
Moore said he isn't sure where his future in professional football may go.
"I focused on this thing first. (I'm) looking to the opportunities ahead of (me)," Moore said. "We've been playing well for four years and you want to see where you can go from here."
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Not to be all paranoid and everything, but is someone out to get me -- er, us?
You have to admit, given the week's news, that Buffalo Springfield may have been on to something in the summer of '67:
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away.
Don't believe me? Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) certainly does. He took one look at a letter from Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. -- in which Holder opined that under "an extraordinary circumstance" a president could order a drone strike to kill an American citizen on U.S. soil -- and promptly stalled the Senate's confirmation of John Brennan as CIA director on Wednesday with a daylong filibuster.
I'll spare you the full 13 hours of Paul's talk-a-thon. Here's his argument in a nutshell:
"Are we so complacent with our rights that we would allow a president to say he might kill Americans? No one person, no one politician should be allowed … to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual. It goes against everything we fundamentally believe in our country."


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Lioness in Tarangire / Photo by: Leslie Wainger
Our final "day" in Tarangire was really just a drive out of the park, then on to Manyara Ranch and the affiliated primary school, before finishing up at Gibbs Farm, a resort (the only appropriate word, if you ask me) aka eco-lodge where we would be spending the night before moving on to the Ngorongoro Crater. But honestly, there was just no such thing as making a "clean getaway" from Tarangire, because the wildlife would not be denied.
Day 3 was our first all-day drive, and I loved it. If it were up to me, we would have done all-day drives every day. Of course, if it were up to me we'd also still be in Africa and the safari would never end. If I'd thought Day 2 brought a lot of elephants, Day 3 was the Powerball jackpot of elephants.
Full days in the parks followed one of two patterns: separate morning and late afternoon drives (the norm) or an all-day drive with a picnic lunch in the park. As you'll see later, though, some of those picnics were pretty impressive. Our first full day in Tarangire, aka Day 2, was a two-drive day, and our second (Day 3) was an all-day adventure. The pictures you'll see with this post will be a small (very small!) selection of the many shots from those two days.
I won't pretend to remember every animal or even species we saw every day, especially when it comes to birds, but here's at least a partial look at our first afternoon of wildlife viewing.
Let's just say I'm really glad I'm short and leave it at that, because I can't imagine being tall and taking such a long flight in such a small seat. But as with all amazing journeys – and trust me, this trip was the very definition of amazing – all the rigors of travel were forgotten when we landed at last at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Arusha, Tanzania. Just the words sound magical, and that's another very accurate way to describe our trip, as you'll see.


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The Redhawks rarely found their offensive rhythm Monday.
Fortunately, their defense more than compensated.
Breaking things open with a pair of 10-0 runs, the North Tama girls basketball team rallied behind a stifling defensive effort to dispatch Dunkerton 38-28 in an Iowa Star Conference clash Monday.
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North Tama's Josie Youel leaps past a Dunkerton defender for two points during the 38-28 conference victory on Monday.
Defense was at the forefront of both Redhawk rallies as North Tama's swarming half-court trap led to breakaway baskets. Leading 21-13 early in the third, Sam Zobel cued up the Redhawks' second surge with a basket before Emma Knoop and Josie Youel added layups.
"The girls really reached down when the offense wasn't working and got the defense rolling," said North Tama coach Phil Moss.
"Dunkerton likes to run and they're quick like us. Our defense was a little bit stronger than theirs, which gave us that edge."
An Abi Watson putback and another steal and layup from Anna Kvidera gave North Tama (9-11, 9-7) an 18-point advantage with 1:50 left in the quarter, before the Raiders regrouped with nine unanswered.
Emilee Miller's free throws trimmed the lead to 31-22 with just under eight minutes to play, though both offenses stalled for the next three minutes in a physical contest. Allison Zobel all but sealed the win with a 3-pointer pushing the lead back to 12 with 4:48 to play as Dunkerton didn't get below double-digits the rest of the way.
"That was a good shot by Allie," Moss said of the 3-pointer that halted Dunkerton's 9-0 run.
"That was kind of the story of what we had. We'd get a little flat and then we'd have a big shot, which would help propel the defense."
Allison Zobel led all scorers with 12 points, seven rebounds and three assists, while pacing the Redhawks with nine points in the first half. She hit a pair of treys in the first as North Tama jumped out to a 13-4 advantage late in the opening frame. The Redhawks' aggressive defense also allowed some free throw opportunities for Dunkerton, which failed to take advantage by making just 5-of-12 in the first half.
The Raiders (9-13, 8-9) pulled within 13-7 before Zobel added a 3-point play and the Redhawks took a 21-9 cushion into intermission.
Aubrey Duncan and Alece Kimbal led the Raiders with 10 points apiece, while Watson added seven points, seven rebounds and five steals for North Tama. Sam Zobel chipped in six points, six blocks and five boards.
The Redhawks, who finished fifth in the Iowa Star Conference and third in the South Division, face Iowa Valley on the road Saturday in Marengo at 7 p.m. in their Class 2A Region 3 opener.


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Columbus Enquirer Archive
- Coverage Dates: 1828-1890
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The Columbus Enquirer Archive provides online access to early issues of the Columbus Enquirer ranging from its inception as a weekly newspaper in 1828, through the daily issues of the late nineteenth century. Consisting of over 30,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.
Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar, the future president of the Republic of Texas, established the Columbus Enquirer as a weekly newspaper in May of 1828, making it the third oldest newspaper in Georgia. During its earliest issues, the paper supported the ideological cause of state's rights, exemplified by the quote used in its title banner: "The Union of the States, and the Sovereignty of the States." In the decades that followed, the paper aligned itself politically with the Whig Party and by 1860, broke with many other prominent newspapers of the time by rejecting secession and calling for cooperation with the North, but quickly realigned itself with the Georgia once secession became official. In the post-war period, the Enquirer continued to provide the citizens of Columbus with the latest news with the use of newly available telegraphic news services. In 1874, the Columbus Enquirer merged with its largest local competitor, the Columbus Sun, and became the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
The Columbus Enquirer Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
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