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Uplifting Athletes: Changing Lives, Touching Hearts
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Last July 18 was an historical day for Nebraska football ... an inspiring, moving and meaningful day for 47 Husker players who bonded to form the nucleus of a new chapter for Uplifting Athletes, a national nonprofit organization that aligns college football programs with rare diseases. Each chapter chooses a rare disease and then elevates that disease to a national priority through outreach, research, education and advocacy. Scott Shirley, the executive director and chairman of Uplifting Athletes, said the Nebraska chapter is the most advanced starting chapter in history because its launch on day one is comparable to other chapters beginning year three.
When Nebraska hosts Wisconsin Saturday night, All-Big Ten running back Rex Burkhead will receive the 2012 Rare Disease Champion Award, the highest individual honor from Uplifting Athletes. Burkhead earned the award after collecting 76,000 votes in a national online poll. Last April, Shirley was in Lincoln to present the award at Nebraska's annual Spring Game. Heavy rains, however, postponed the ceremony, and somehow the first Big Ten game of the Huskers' 2012 season seems more relevant.
New Chapter Elevating Spirits
Honoring Burkhead five months later than originally planned also seems more timely because Nebraska's Uplifting Athletes chapter is already raising the bar for the entire national organization. The NU chapter is elevating spirits, changing lives, touching hearts and showing how character, structure and a strong belief can redefine the word and refuel the verb. "This football team, led by Bo Pelini, has set the bar incredibly high when it comes to service, leadership and societal impact," said Keith Zimmer, Nebraska's associate athletic director for Life Skills. "Rex's teammates have watched him develop a close relationship with Jack Hoffman, a 6-year-old boy with brain cancer. Little Jack inspires Rex and stirs the spirit for virtually everyone who knows his story. That's why our football team formed an official chapter and decided to take on the very worthy cause of pediatric brain cancer."
Uplifting Athletes and Team Jack are motivating players and influencing coaches, staff members, fans and family members dealing with this deadly disease. When Jack's parents (Andy and Brianna Hoffman) learned that their son would be using the same treatment protocol for pediatric brain cancer that's been used for 25 years, they dedicated themselves to find ways to lift up these kids, raise their cause to a higher priority and find a national platform to fund research. Rex and Jack became that platform, and their tight relationship continues to inspire and reinforce one compelling example after another. Here are several ways that describe how Burkhead and Team Jack are influencing the Uplifting Athletes organization and raising funds:
Little Jack Won Rex's Heart
Last December, at a pre-bowl practice in Lincoln, Burkhead, a Nebraska captain, introduced Jack and his family to his teammates and coaches, including Pelini, who asked Little Jack to help break the team huddle for the day. Burkhead then hoisted his little buddy in the air, so he could put his hands in the large huddle and start the closing chant ... "1-2-3 ... Huskers!" Players who had worn Team Jack bracelets most of the season celebrated their new hero with the same genuine affection that Jack and his family celebrate them.
Team Jack is a support group that includes his family, local residents in his hometown of Atkinson, Neb., and Husker football fans across the country and around the world. Through private prayer and public acknowledgement of Jack's courageous fight, both Jack's and his family's spirits have been uplifted. Awareness of pediatric brain cancer also has been heightened for 3,000 to 4,000 new patients diagnosed with that often deadly disease each year.
Isaiah: Jack's New Buddy
One of those new patients is Isaiah Casillas, another 6-year-old kid with brain cancer. Isaiah lives in McCook, Neb., and was diagnosed with the disease in June. By mid-September, his doctor called Zimmer to see if Isaiah might be able to meet a football player. Ironically, Zimmer already had arranged an Arkansas State postgame ceremony for Jack to be honored by Salute the Troops, a nonprofit, Kansas-based organization that wanted to make a special presentation to Little Jack.
Zimmer didn't hesitate to invite Isaiah and his family to the same celebration for two reasons: 1) He knew implicitly that Jack's parents always have seen their cause in global terms because the mission is to do everything humanly possible to help kids in their fight with brain cancer; and 2) Sadly, Isaiah's brain cancer is terminal and everyone in his family, including Isaiah, knows his time left is only a matter of months.
Terminal Kid Uplifts Others
Here's another bit of irony: Zimmer, the Hoffman family and the Burkhead family discovered another uplifting force that can touch human hearts everywhere. That would be none other than Isaiah Casillas, the charismatic little 6-year-old who made an important celebration an even bigger one and in the process, became another little buddy of Rex, Rex's parents, Jack and Jack's parents.
Isaiah is spirited, animated and perpetually smiling. He's warm and friendly and gives high-fives and low-fives. He took off his Nebraska cap so he could share and compare surgical scars with Jack's. When Gary McGirr, a Salute the Troops presenter from Topeka, Kan., gave Jack several mementos as planned, he also gave Isaiah one, and both cancer patients beamed almost simultaneously.
Burkhead's Mom Gets a Hug
Rick and Robyn Burkhead of Plano, Texas, are Rex's parents, and they have become just as close to the Hoffman family as their son has. They've marveled how Andy and Bri Hoffman always remind them how Uplifting Athletes isn't about Jack. It's about fighting a disease and uplifting everyone's hopes, and if Isaiah has any role in that double-barreled goal, let's just say that he has hope covered like a blanket.
"That whole experience with Jack, Isaiah and Rex left me speechless," said Robyn Burkhead, Rex's mom. "It was such an emotional afternoon that it's hard to describe your feelings. I was just so very proud of how my son is positively impacting the lives of others and sharing his blessings with those around him. At the same time, I was humbled and honored to be in the presence of two amazing children."
Isaiah Stole Some Hearts
"Little Isaiah stole my heart!" Robyn said. "What a precious angel he is, giving and sharing himself with everyone around him. You can tell that he's never met a stranger, and he loves unconditionally. He hugged everyone in the room, and what a special hug it was. It's one that I will treasure forever."
Forever is a word most of us have difficulty grasping, but Patrick Casillas, Isaiah's dad, said his 6-year-old beacon of faith, hope and love understands the meaning of the word. "He believes in eternity, and he's helped his teachers and parents of his classmates understand, too," Patrick said. "He was the strongest baby and the strongest kid you've ever seen. He was never sick. When we learned in early June that his brain cancer was 70 percent, we were shocked. Isaiah lost a grandpa and two other family members unexpectedly, and McCook has rallied around him because he's so positive and inspirational. Even when he's sick, he wants to be in school. Our doctors in Denver are amazed. Isaiah's cancer is terminal, but it did not grow from his last checkup, so they're trying some new treatments to extend his life. He's an amazing kid, and he absolutely loved getting the chance to meet Rex and Little Jack."
Little Isaiah not only stole Robyn Burkhead's heart, but Rick Burkhead's as well. "I didn't see a dry eye in the room," Rex's dad said. The experience followed a game day when a still injured Rex did not play a down, but he may have made the biggest plays he's ever made, connecting with a pair of 6-year-old cancer patients at the same time. "I get more enjoyment watching Rex off the football field as a selfless, positive role model, and I'm proud of him for being such a good person," said Rick Burkhead, a football father who loves game action but has an even keener appreciation for faith in action.
The Salute the Troops presentation to Little Jack included a personal letter from an Army helicopter pilot who has flown combat missions in at least seven countries with an American flag, a Rex Burkhead #22 jersey and several special patches as his salute to
Jack Inspires Combat Pilot
Team Jack. Mike Eckhardt is the pilot who lives in North Carolina. He's a Husker fan who read about Team Jack on Huskers.com. Eckhardt says he's so inspired by Jack's bravery and his courage that he wanted Jack "to know that you are my hero."
There's one more military veteran who feels the same way. John Lehning, 77 and a 25-year veteran of the Air Force, drove from Omaha to watch McGirr salute Little Jack. Lehning stood up, impromptu, and told a small room how he'd gone through 75 radiation treatments for extensive throat cancer. "This is the God's truth," he said. "Since 60 percent of the people going through the protocol that I was taking don't finish it, I was feeling sorry for myself one day. Then I saw Rex and Jack holding hands on TV. Once I saw that clip on television, I felt just like that helicopter pilot did. I felt a big boost of energy and on Dec. 7th, I was cleared of cancer."
Brown Connects the Dots
Nebraska running backs coach Ron Brown hears the series of uplifting stories and does his best to connect the dots. "Scripture tells us how God allows us to go through trials so we can receive his comfort and then pass that comfort on to someone else," Brown said. "Rex Burkhead has great faith in his Lord, Jesus Christ, and it's helped him handle the ups and downs in his own life. He's experienced the trials and made the sacrifices in his own journey. For Rex to have the capacity to take God's love into his own heart and then pour it out onto that young boy, and then have that young boy become an inspiration for a pilot doing battle against worldwide terrorism ... well, that says everything. It's the connective process that takes place. It's the enrichment of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ."
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Tips & Tricks: Using The Numark NS7 Controller
In this article, you'll learn about some big performance tricks for NS7.
- Manual loop slice and stuttering
- Strip Search virtual needle drop
- Instant doubles and beat juggling
- Live sampling and remixing
- Sharing NS7 between DJs
Manual Slice and Stutter Loop
Here's how to create B-More House-style slice and stutter loop build-ups with NS7:
- Load a track to a deck and grab a 2, 4, or 8-bar loop
- Use the 2, 4, or 8 buttons on NS7
- If your track does not have a BPM or you prefer to use your own loop size, stay in manual mode and create a loop using IN and OUT
- Divide the loop until you are down to 1 bar by pressing 1/2X as many times as needed. This cuts the size of the loop in half each time.
- Press MODE to get into Manual Loop Mode (or stay in Manual Loop Mode.)
- Optional: Press MOTOR OFF. This will allow you to edit the loop with more control without fighting the motor.
- Press LOOP OUT, which will allow you to move the end point of the loop manually.
- Turn the platter slowly counter-clockwise and the loop will begin to get shorter and shorter.
- You can get it as far zoomed in as a synthesized tone and open it back up again and tease the roll, creating a dramatic build-up effect.
- When you're ready to release the loop, press Loop Control On/Off and the track will resume play.
- If you turned the motor off, press Motor Off again.
Strip Search Virtual Needle Drop
If you are coming from vinyl you'll love the virtual-needle drop functionality of Strip Search. This feature enables you to use your finger to glide to or jump to a specific point in a track, similar to dropping a needle on a record.
Press Play on Deck A or Deck B and place your finger on the Strip Search pad. You'll hear and see the playback jump to the position relative to the placement of your finger.
Think of the width of the Strip Search pad as the entire length of a song, so the middle point of the Strip Search pad is the halfway point of the song. You can also use a gliding motion across the Strip Search surface to create an audio scrambling effect, which lands at the point you move your finger to.
Strip Search is force sensitive, which means you could use your fingernail to get even more precise with where you drop the playback.
Instant Doubles
Instant Doubles is a feature that enables you to instantly load up (or double) the same song that is loaded on one deck to the other deck and at the exact same position.
Press LOAD twice on the deck where you want to load the double. (So if you have a song playing on Deck A and want to double it over to Deck B, press LOAD on Deck B twice rapidly and both decks will have the same song playing at the same position.)
You can instantly start beat juggling between decks! This is also especially useful if you prefer to scratch on only one deck.
Live Sampling And Remixing
Using NS7's Aux and Mic inputs, you can sample external sources into ITCH and instantly load samples to a deck.
- Connect a source (iPod, turntable, drum machine, instrument, booth output of a DJ mixer, for example) to the Aux or Mic in
- Set the input source in ITCH to either Aux or Mix:
- Mix records input audio with the main output audio together
- Aux records only from the Aux or Mic input
- Click REC in ITCH
- Type a name for the sample into the Name box to the right of the REC button and press SAVE.
- You can access this sample from your Recordings Crate using NS7's Scroll Knob.
Transitioning Between Laptops Live
NS7 is designed to enable multiple DJs to share a setup so as the night progresses, there is no break in the music between DJs.
- While either deck is playing in ITCH, connect an audio source you want to play during the transition, such as an iPod or CD player, into the Aux input on the front of NS7. Don't forget to set the GAIN and EQ
- The Aux input passes straight to the Master Outputs so you may want to fade in the source using the GAIN knob.
- Fade down both decks' channel volumes to zero.
- Stop playback on both decks.
- Launch ITCH on the second computer.
- Detach the USB cable from the first computer and attach it to the second computer.
- Within ten seconds, NS7 will be recognized and enabled in ITCH
- Perform!
We hope these tips give you some ideas to try with NS7. Be sure to keep reading for the latest!

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Five Trees Suitable for Small Spaces
I'm always on the lookout for trees that are interesting yet appropriate for my small urban garden. Not every tree thrives by having their roots crammed into a tight space or container. Instead of making an impulse buy — only to see your latest find in a sad state of disarray months down the road — it's always wise to do a little research. Here are a few suggestions that are perfect candidates for confined spaces.
Japanese Umbrella Pine - I bought one of these beauties last year, after numerous trips to my neighborhood garden center, I finally decided to spring for it. While it's not a true pine, what sets this apart for me is that it's almost just as striking in the winter as it is during the growing season. The Umbrella Pine is a compact slow-grower, with shiny dark green needles that form a pyramid shape. It prefers sun over shade, morning sun being the most ideal, and does best in moist-acidic soil. For the dwarf variety, you can expect it to grow about 3 feet over 10 years.
Dwarf or Semi-Dwarf Crape Myrtle - It's a gem seen often in Southern gardens, known for it's frilly flowers that range from pink and red to lavender and white with a long bloom-time. But honestly, I love it even more for its green to silver peeling bark. Crape Myrtles also produce a brilliant fall foliage, they're highly disease resistant, drought-tolerant after established and grow from 3-15 feet tall depending on your variety. Crape Myrtles produce the most flowers when they are located in full sun exposure with proper air circulation.
Japanese Maples - I acquired one of these lovely trees last year, granted it wasn't cheap! There are many varieties out there to choose from, mine is a Dwarf Virdis Laceleaf Japanese Maple. This variation has green lace leaves that turn yellow and orange in the fall before they drop off for the winter, with an average height of about 4-6 feet tall. As with most maple cultivars, it prefers moist but well-drained soil and while it likes the sun, it's best to give it some shade in the afternoon to avoid damaging its leaves.
Flowering Dogwoods - My grandmother, an avid gardener, is a big fan of the Dogwood tree. Not surprising since she's fond of the colonial garden style and after all, they are the Virginia state flower and tree. When I asked her opinion on what tree she would recommend for my urban garden, the Dogwood made it to the top of her list. She said, "you can't beat it for its showy flowers and I love it even more because it's not a messy tree", (unlike her gorgeous, but enormous Magnolia Tulip tree). Dogwoods grow to an average height of 15 to 25 feet and provide interest in all seasons, starting out with flowering in early spring to deep-green foliage in the summer. During fall it turns to purple-red foliage with bright red berries that aren't actually berries but small clusters of fruit called drupes. The fruit will attract a variety of birds and the texture of the bark provides an interesting winter backdrop. The Dogwood loves moist, fertile slightly acidic soil and prefers a semi-shaded area. If you plant them in full sun or deep shade they will have a harder time producing flowers.
Fig Tree - If you're interested in a small space tree that can also produce fruit, I highly suggest taking a look at the Fig Tree. Ever since a friend showed me hers, one she planted in a large container a few years ago, I've been intrigued. And why not? Edible fruit, what's not to love? Fig trees grown in a properly sized container can produce just as much fruit as those grown in the ground, but they do require slightly more care such as fertilizer, lime and water. It's also wise to repot your tree every year or so, going up only a size or two in containers, but make sure this is done during the dormant season. Take a look at this post from the Kitchn for information on the Chicago Hardy Fig.
As always, when purchasing any plant, make sure you know your zone requirements to determine if the tree is suitable to your growing climate.
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The idea that someday the CEO or Head of Sales will click a few buttons to set objectives, budget and timing and a machine will create and execute a marketing plan seems pretty far-fetched.
When IBM's Watson can tackle healthcare issues, marketing advice from machines doesn't seem so unlikely anymore.
As marketers, we will soon be the managers of the machines that are managing our marketing. Are you ready? [Read more…]


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The Oval, London
This ground is known to people of different generations, differently - The Oval; AMP Oval; Foster's Oval; Brit Oval and most recently, The Kia Oval, due to it's commercial sponsors. A temporary home to prisoners in transit during the Second World War, it was established in 1845 to accommodate a crowd of 23500, but floodlights were installed only in 2009. It is home to England's national cricket team as well as the county of Surrey. Owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, the first -ever Test on English soil was played at this very ground between England and Australia from September 6-8, 1880 with WG Grace scoring a hundred in the first game of his career. The first ODI was played almost 90 years later between England and the West Indies. More importantly, this is the historic venue where the legend of the Ashes was born a couple of years after the inaugural Test, in August 1882. England were all-out for 78 while chasing a small total of 85. The next morning, the famous mock obituary was published.
The Oval has also been witness to many historic matches, England's epic win over Australia by an innings and 579 runs in 1938; Don Bradman's farewell duck 10 years later; Holding's 14 wickets in 1976 and many more. It is also a general sports ground in the world, which staged the first FA Cup final in 1872. The ground has also witnessed rock concerts, ice skating, rugby matches and the traditional end-of-season Aussie Rules match. The most beautiful structures of the ground are the pavilion, built in 1890, and the Vauxhall stand.


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Greenwave Reality receives 2 top industry awards from Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the Global Cleantech Cluster
Connected Lighting Solution receives 2013 CES Best of Innovations Award and Company wins Global Smart Grid award
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA – (November 13, 2012) – GreenWave Reality, a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market, today announces its distinction as a winner of CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Awards for its Connected Lighting Solution. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) honored GreenWave Reality with the 2013 CES Best of Innovations award in the Integrated Home Systems category, as well as an Innovations Honoree award in the new Tech for a Better World category.
In a separate announcement today, the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) recognized GreenWave Reality as a leading innovator in the smart home services market by naming the company a 2012 Later Stage Award Global Smart Grid/Sustainable IT winner. This 2012 Global Top 10 award reflects GreenWave Reality's successful market position as a Global Smart Grid company in the $163.1 billion international cleantech industry, as well as the company's ability to significantly contribute to the growing green economy.
"We consider it a great achievement to have our company's progress and innovation recognized by two such prestigious organizations on the same day," said Greg Memo, CEO of GreenWave Reality. "Winning the CES awards for our Connected Lighting solution validates our position as a technology leader, and being honored by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association reflects our continued innovation and growth, as well as our leadership as a top global cleantech company."
GreenWave Reality's award-winning Connected Lighting Solution combines Energy Star certified LED bulbs with Internet connectivity to provide consumers with fully controllable, rich, warm light throughout their homes. The Connected Lighting Solution, incorporating JenNet-IP™ network layer software from NXP Semiconductors, can be used directly out of the box without any rewiring of the home or need for an electrician. By simply screwing in the bulbs, consumers can immediately begin to control their lights and operate the pre-configured "home," "away" and "night" Smart Controls. Leveraging these highly efficient, controllable LED bulbs, consumers will use only 20 percent of the energy a traditional incandescent bulb uses. Additional savings come from being able to easily control and dim home lighting.
The Connected Lighting Solution is one part of the company's overall Smart Home Platform that allows consumers to easily monitor and control their appliances and heating/cooling systems in the home. Advanced features like interactive coaching, energy budgeting, Smart Controls, and usage alerts all help consumers reduce wasted energy and improve their lifestyles through customized smart scenes in the home. The GreenWave Reality end-to-end solution is built on a highly scalable, secure IP-based network platform that connects all of these devices into an IP ecosystem, creating the foundation for the "Internet of Things."
"By introducing products and services that continue to meet the needs of consumers, our utility and service provider partners can build profitable, long term relationships with their customers," Memo added.
GreenWave Reality's suite of products and services will be on display with other CES Innovations honorees and winners at the 2013 International CES, January 8-11, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. To learn more about the Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering honorees, visit: http://cesweb.org/Awards/CES-Innovations-Awards.aspx
The 2012 Global Top 30 companies were honored at the GCCA's Later Stage Award Event, held in conjunction with the Savannah International Clean Energy Conference, on November 12, 2012. A full list of all the GCCA Later Stage Award 2012 Global Top 10 Finalists can be found at: http://www.globalcleantech.org/2012-winners/
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About GreenWave Reality
GreenWave Reality is a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market that includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services. CES 2012 Innovations award winner and Global CleanTech Cluster Association award finalist, GreenWave Reality solution delivers a breakthrough consumer experience, making it easy to conserve energy, save money and enhance lifestyles. The Smart Home monitoring and control platform is highly secure and scalable, allowing leading utilities and service providers to confidently provide these capabilities to a large number of customers. GreenWave Reality's funding is led by Craton Equity Partners, a Los Angeles-based cleantech fund, and has also received support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). GreenWave Reality has offices worldwide including Irvine, Copenhagen, and Singapore.


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School Service Privatization: Survey 2008 Map
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy's sixth privatization survey of Michigan's 552 conventional public school districts found that the percentage of districts contracting for the management or operation of at least one of the "big three" support services — food, janitorial or busing — increased for the fifth survey in a row to 42.2 percent, up from 40.2 percent in 2007. That is a rate increase of almost 5 percent.
For a complete explanation of the survey results, the full article — a part of Michigan Privatization Report — can be read here.
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How to Get Around Anywhere Without Using A GPS
GPS devices and iPhones with map apps have definitely allowed many to find their way when they were lost. But what could you do if you don't have those devices? How can you navigate, easily and cheaply, without worrying too much about where you are and how to get there? Read on to find out more.
There are quite a few low tech solutions to this. Before Google Maps was all the rage, there were some dedicated software programs that could help you navigate almost anywhere. Microsoft Street & Trips comes to mind. The newest version of this software comes with a GPS to allow you to navigate even easier.
But for other options, you could easily use Google Maps or Mapquest to find where you need to go. Then, you could print out a portion of this map and take it with you. This is an easy way to do this. I've been using this simple way of navigating and finding where I'm going for a while, and it even works pretty well in foreign countries in Asia and Europe.
It all depends on how well you can navigate by yourself. Some people have real problems, while others just need a few basics and they are ready to go. Naturally, I've gotten lost using this manner from time to time, but usually, I always found my way.
Sometimes, your GPS can even fail to have the right maps. For this reason, Google Maps in an easy fallback. You can also take the time to ask people at gas stations and truck stops where to go. I've been to some regions that weren't on any map, at the time, and I needed local knowledge to find out where I had to go. People tend to be very helpful. It's another matter if you're in a foreign country.
Ultimately, if you have a smart phone, then Google Maps is a nice thing to have since it can show your present location and how to get where you need to go. If that doesn't work, then you can always print out a partial map on your laptop.
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|August 8, 2012, 03:44 PM
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Triple sight mounting solutions
OK, best I could do for a title... Here's the deal. I have a Remington 552 "Speedmaster" .22 rifle that has had thousands of rounds through it. It is still very accurate as it has been lovingly cared for throughout the decades. What I'd like to do is maximize the sighting options now available.
Being 54 years old, my eyes truly aren't quite as sharp as they once were. I have to use reading glasses as my arms aren't long enough anymore, but I can still use the iron sights very effectively. I have a 3x9x40 Tasco scope mounted as low as possible on the standard dovetail/tip-off groove. This set up is very accurate, but does not allow me to use the iron sights. I also have a Bushnell TRS-25 red dot sight that I use on my AR that I would like to use on the .22 as well.
I want to be able to use QD mounts for the scope and I already have QDs on the red dot. The first problem is the dovetail mount groove. I have never seen nor heard of anyone making a QD mount for this type fixture. SO... roll in an "adapter" from UTG that converts the dovetail to a picatinny rail. Sounds like the answer to the problem, right...well, not so much.
I'm not saying that the "adapter" wouldn't mount the scope and red dot, it surely would. The problem was that it set both scope and red dot so HIGH that you almost needed a step ladder to shoot (only a slight exaggeration). This set up also negated the use of the iron sights since the "adapter" is a solid piece of aluminum.
Sooooo, any suggestions for a stable, secure method of adapting this fine old rifle to use the sights that I want to mount as well as the iron sights? I have a couple of ideas, but would like suggestions from those with much more knowledge and experience than I. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
|August 9, 2012, 01:42 PM
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I wanted to mount a better scope on my Marlin model 60 than the dovetail would allow. I like you I didn't want to use an adapter that would raise the scope to high to get the scope tight to the barrel for both looks aswell as accuracy.
I went a different direction. I drilled and taped the top of the dovetail for scope mounts. This would work for you too. After you have drilled and taped for the sccope mounts, get a set of shoot through scope mounts. You would be able to use both open sights and scope.
I thought about doing that myself after seeing some of the lower profiled mounts avail. Anyway just something to think about.
On a side note, if you choose to go this route use a drill press and drill press vise, and make sure the gun is level (goes without saying but I said it anyway). Also it is a good idea to to strip the receiver to keep from having metal shavings fall into the inner working of your gun.
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Have a Special Christmas: NEW Gibson Specials... and More
Guitar giants Gibson have very recently unleashed their latest ranges of guitars, including favourites like the Les Paul and SG among some others like the Midtown Custom and Nighthawk Studio.
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Besides the three show-stopping finishes, the most significant feature of the SG Special is the Gibson Dirty Finger humbucking pickup system. The system was a popular upgrade in the 80s and has pushed the SGs sound into a whole new extravagant territory. Producing high output, "gritty" tones with a seriously aggressive attack, the dirty fingers are back and even more bad-ass than before.
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In addition to the sound improving finish, the Melody Makers are capable of producing an incredible tone, made possible by Gibson's use of the hard, stable and sonically "live" baked maple fingerboard. This wood baking process gives the fingerboard a great "snappy" response, desired by many players.
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From John Main, OSB, "God's Two Silences," THE WAY OF UNKNOWING (New York: Crossroad, 1990), pp. 6-8.
We live in a very unsilent world. We live in a world that is so full of bombarding foreground and background noise that we hear everything at once and listen to nothing. And yet each one of us is called into the state of prayer, of pure attention, of expansion of spirit in the eternal silence of God.
[But a] second sort of silence, when God seems to have withdrawn his presence, is also a reality. It is one where we are left with no sense of his being but only with the sense of his wholesale withdrawal from our world, from our consciousness. . . . It is true that it is wonderful when we do have the sense of God's infinity filling us with an infinite calm, a profound sense of wonder. This is a wonderful gift but it is not one that we must either seek or seek to possess, or to confect. One of the things we learn through meditation as we mature, as we go further along the path, is to be equally content with either of these forms of silence, with the infinite sense of his presence as with the finite sense of his absence. It is harder for us at the beginning because when we start to meditate we haven't learned much detachment. We haven't reached the stage where we can be equally content with absence as with presence, and anyway we are always looking for our meditation to satisfy us. We are always looking to prove to ourselves that it works, that now we know God, now we have learned to live in his presence. But the purpose of the second form of silence, his absence, is to purify us so that we learn to love God selflessly as he loves us (and himself). He teaches us to be strong in love, strong in fidelity and to ensure that we love God for himself and in himself and not only for any manifestation of his presence that satisfies us. [. . . .]
To mature at any level we have to grow through all the difficulties produced by change or loss, all the feelings, emotions and thoughts so generated and learn to love God simply and strongly. Part of the discipline of saying the mantra is that it teaches us to stay in that love, come what may. Nothing will shake us from our conviction that God is, that God is Love, and that his love dwells in our hearts. If we are committed to the journey then the sense of absence will indeed deepen and strengthen our conviction of God's existence, making him more familiar, teaching us to know him more fully. At this depth of faith we are indifferent to whether we have a sense of his close presence or a sense of his absence. Whether he is near or far away in our perception or feeling does not affect the discipline that we bring to the practice of meditation because our conviction is founded not on feeling but on fact: the fact that he is the all-merciful, the all-loving, and all-compassionate God. The two silences are both of them equally powerful in teaching us: the silence of revelations fills us with wonder and the silence of absence teaches us fidelity. The Word is present in both.
After Meditation: The Bhagavad Gita, 4:16-17, tr Mascaro (London:Penguin, 1962).
I will teach thee the truth of pure work, and this truth will make you free.
And know also of a work that is silence: mysterious is that path of work.
The person who in his work finds silence, and who sees that silence is work
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Reeven Hans RC-1205 Review
Reeven Hans RC-1205 Introduction:
While it has been five years since OCC has reviewed a product from Reeven, we now have a couple of recent additions to the Reeven line up to look at. The Reeven RCCT-0901SP was reviewed here on OCC in February of 2009, and a lot has changed since then. And I admit I had not heard of Reeven until the Justice RC-1204 and the Hans RC-1205 showed up at my door. Reeven has a line of CPU coolers, fans, and a nice fan controller. There is even an Extreme Cooling Cup for "Professional Extreme Overclockers" and a warning that "This is not for everybody". Well, that is ok because being mere mortals, we are only focusing on the Hans RC-1205 CPU cooler.
From the Reeven website: "REEVEN is a newly established international manufacturer of PC related products. REEVEN's product lines includes the best quality of advanced CPU coolers, Cooling Fans, Power Supply Units, PC Cases and many other items. the target of our products will be a wide range of audience under our philosopohy 'Professional Quality Gears', for products that will withstand the highest demand." So, I have the Justice RC-1204 and the Hans RC-1205 ready to be reviewed. The Hans RC-1205 is somewhat smaller than the Justice RC-1204. This review is focused on the Hans RC-1205, while the Justice RC-1204 was covered separately.
Reeven Hans RC-1205 Closer Look:
The packaging for the Reeven Hans RC-1205 has a lot going on for such a small box. All sides of the box are full of information and graphics. The top of the box shows a nice view of the top of the cooler, showcasing the Reeven logo on the top logo plate, and lists the socket compatibility. The front of the box shows the cooler fan up front and has some useful dimensional information.
The bottom and back side of the package have technical information and specifications in six languages.
The sides of the packaging show a 360 degree view of the Reeven Hans RC-1205, so you know just what you are looking for once you open the box. Illustrations of the universal socket clips adorn the other side. Socket compatibility runs the gamut of pretty much every current in-production socket from AMD and Intel.
Opening the box, right away you are greeted by a sheet of foam to keep the cooler from bouncing around. Removing the foam, everything seems to be in good order. The base rests against a folded-in side flap, while the installation hardware is in a box below the cooler, and the fan is below the box of hardware.
The hardware consists of mounting components for AMD and Intel installations. The thermal paste is in a clear plastic pouch rather than a syringe-style dispensing tube. There are two metal fan clips to secure the fan to the fin stack.
The instruction sheet is well illustrated with a full parts list, and is laid out with easy-to-follow assembly and installation steps.


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But that's not all what the precept says though.Sanghamitta wrote:What we undertake to do is to refrain from that which causes heedlessness and intoxication.mettafuture wrote:But how can one who chooses to undertake the 5th precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs still drink? That doesn't make any sense to me. It would be like saying "I will not buy anymore meat products", and then you go out and order a steak. Aren't you just lying to yourself?Sanghamitta wrote:If by moderation we mean the occasional glass of wine..or a beer on a hot day. I think so..yes. But not everyone agrees...
I think we have to decide for ourselves what enhances or threatens or is neutral in terms of our mindfulness. And that mindfulness is the essence of the precept. Its not that certain things are taboo in general terms. Although for a given individual they might be. It is to some degree an individual issue.
But why do you need to drink at all? What's wrong with sticking with non-alcoholic drinks that don't give you a buzz, or "help take the edge off"? Why can't natural methods that don't depend on external intoxicants be used if a person needs help getting comfortable?For many people a glass of wine or beer does not cause intoxication or heedlessness.
Everyone already knows that. I forgot that I have to be extra careful with my wording around here. I didn't mean for my use of the word "can" to be so blown out of proportion.Furthermore it is not a commandment.
But what you're undertaking isn't one of the Buddha's precept. It's your own version of a precept.The reference to undertaking not to eat meat and then buying a steak is a non sequitur. We dont undertake not to eat meat.


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electrostaticMAGIC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 152 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
We sell Powder Coating Equipment to the Hobby & DIY market through our website and various exhibition events.
We are looking for a new logo incorporating our business name electrostaticMAGIC (lower case electrostatic and uppercase MAGIC all joined) together with the description of what we sell – 'hobby powder coating systems powders'
Our current logo can be found on our website http://www.electrostaticmagic.co.uk
Our main customers tend to be DIY enthusiasts modifying an building Kit Cars, Classic Cars Motorbikes etc. Typical age range between 20 to 60 years old with the majority around 40.
Ideally we would like a graphic that represents powder coating specific to our system with a fun feel to it, as an idea we have attached a picture of the tip of our gun and a hand drawn sketch of one graphic idea, we are open to plenty of 'free' thinking!
Please also watch our video on our website to get a better idea of the process. One logo that recently appealed to us was http://www.shopify.com as it had a nice simple 3D look and custom looking font.
We intend to use the logo for our website, literature and would like the colour scheme to be as per our website colours (green, blue and also a purple found on our system box) and if possible with a 3D feel, however we will also use this logo in mono colour format to have printed on our exhibition marquee so it will need to identifiable as a silhouette.
The winning design will have to be in a format that is printable in a range of sizes, thus if possible a vector scalable type.
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Even with all the hubbub about The Last of Us at E3, the fact that PlayStation and Naughty Dog didn't announce a release date made a 2012 debut seem unlikely. Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Naughty Dog announced that The Last of Us is coming in 2013.
The news came in a shortened version of the E3 demo, which we've embedded below, but you can catch the full demo, an IGN live show walkthrough and an interview with the voices behind Joel and Ellie below that. Whew. Oh, and check out my preview of the extended 17-minute The Last of Us demo, too.
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Sacred Skin: Thailand's Spirit Tattoos
There have been a number of posts on this blog devoted to Sak Yant, sacred tattoos, performed by monks in Thailand. The yantras, mystical diagrams, on skin are not only beautiful, but for many, the tattoos bestow upon the wearer super-human powers.
Exploring Sak Yant from its origins to today is "Sacred Skin: Thailand's Spirit Tattoos" by Tom Vater and Aroon Thaewehatturat.
The book begins with an up-close look into the Wai Khru ceremony at the Wat Bang Phra Buddhist temple: "Uaaahh! The man is running straight at me, his face contorted into a thousand agonies. His bare, heavily tattooed chest gleams with sweat. He screams at the sky, he vomits anger, but he's rushing directly ahead." The frenzied text, like the tattooed man, soon calms and the reader is then led into the studio of Achan Thoy (pictured below), "a highly respected Dabot Ruesi, a hermit sage of Hindu origin, known as a Rishi or Yogi in India, a man with the power to apply sacred and magic tattoos to a devotee's skin." The scene painted in that studio is indeed magic, with incantations, katas, and of course blood. It is not a mere tattoo appointment. It is a ritual.
Tracing the roots of the ritual, the first chapter of Sacred Skin goes back thousands of years in describing Sak Yant designs and the beliefs behind them, particularly beliefs that the tattoos protect wearers against physical attack and further their strength -- beliefs that are still commonly held today. According to the book, it's because of this that many Thai people "disapprove of the sacred tattoos, ridiculing them as superstition and branding Sak Yant as part of the perceived backwardness of Thailand's rural population." Moreover, like in so many other parts of the world, the tattoos are heavily associated with Thailand's criminal underground.
Yet, as the authors explain, there are many layers to these spiritual tattoos. Most importantly, the monks who create them see Sak Yant as "silent and powerful reminders of a righteous path that all of us, whether we wear yant or not, should aspire to follow."
Chapter II on these tattoo masters and their devotees is especially compelling. A portrait of each is presented along with a short handwritten note by that person discussing the art.
Chapter III offers close-ups of traditional tattoo designs and their meanings; for example, this elephant below, Yant Chang, symbolizes strength.
Sacred Skin then comes full circle in Chapter IV, with even more intense photography from the Wai Khru celebration. The book itself is almost a seamless journey into Thai tattoo culture. I highly recommend it.
I also suggest checking out the Bangkok Post's review and CNN's interview with the authors. The CNN interview also briefly discusses Thailand's Ministry of Culture cracking down on religious tattoos (which we wrote about in June).
Sacred Skin can be purchased on Amazon for $24 (originally $33). And for a peak inside, click SacredSkinThailand.com.


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Top prospect Meyer shipped to Twins
Nationals trade 2011 first-round draftee for outfielder Span
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | November 29, 2012 11:57 AM
Those two motives led to the swap of 22-year-old Washington pitching prospect Alex Myer for in-his-prime outfielder Denard Span. The trade was announced by the teams Thursday afternoon in advance of next week's Winter Meetings.
Meyer, who was the Nats' second first-round draftee in 2011 and their second-ranked prospect last season, immediately became the No. 1 pitching prospect in the Twins' Minor League system. He dominated the Class A and Class A Advanced levels in his first pro season, recording a 10-6 record and a 2.86 ERA in 25 starts. He also struck out 139 batters in 129 innings before Washington shut him down.
"It caught me off guard, but I'm really excited about it," Meyer told MLB.com by phone. "It's going to be a great opportunity for me. I'm thankful for what the Nationals helped me out with. I'm looking forward to getting ready for Spring Training with the Twins."
Expected to begin the season in Double-A New Britain, Meyer added that he was ready to adopt whatever developmental plan Minnesota has in store for him.
"I'm just trying to learn as much about the organization as I can," he said. "But of course it's everybody's goal to make the Majors. But the Twins will have a plan and hopefully I can follow suit with it and let them make their decisions."
Picked 23rd overall out of the University of Kentucky, Meyer brought with him to the pros an inconsistent delivery in a superlative repertoire. The 6-foot-9, 220-pound right-hander, seen towering over Futures Game manager and Hall of Famer George Brett on the mound in July, has an unusual collection of pitches -- a "no-seam" fastball that ranges 93 to 98 mph, a spike curveball and a circle-changeup. He told MiLB.com in September that he planned to add a more traditional four-seam heater to the mix this winter.
Span, who will be 29 come Opening Day, gives the Nats the ready-made leadoff man and center fielder they coveted this offseason. A first-round pick of Minnesota in 2002, Span reached the Majors for good in 2008. He enjoyed a strong campaign this year, batting .284 with 46 extra-base hits and 17 steals while bringing his usual brand of strong defense.
To get their man, the Nats sacrificed another elite prospect. Nearly a year ago, on Dec. 23, general manager Mike Rizzo traded four talented farmhands -- pitchers Tommy Milone, A.J. Cole and Brad Peacock, as well as catcher Derek Norris -- to the A's for proven starter Gio Gonzalez. Lucas Giolito, a 2012 first-round pick who will miss 2013 due to Tommy John surgery, becomes Washington's top-ranked pitching prospect.
The Twins' talent pool was already deep, thanks to a group of position players led by third baseman Miguel Sano and outfielders Aaron Hicks and Byron Buxton. Meyers slots well in front of hurlers Adrian Salcedo and Jose Berrios, who like Buxton was a 2012 first-rounder.
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text: Originally hailing from the sunny shores of South Florida, Greg Hejja considers himself a professional artist--in the broad sense. A highly accomplished songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (drums, bass, piano, guitar, mandolin, voice), he has written songs in all styles for Sony/ATV music publishing and performed for audiences worldwide. But when he's not melting faces, Hejja indulges in a quieter, more visual form of artistic creation, drawing and painting in his downtown home studio.Hejja loves painting because, for him, it's both a fun outlet for self-expression and a cool way to be a part of his community. He often paints community-based subjects, such as the downtown Houston skyline and his friend's bulldog, Maynard; and with each piece, his goal is to externalize his feelings about his subjects as artistically as possible. So while he experiments in many styles from the stark and expressionist to the geometrical and abstract, Hejja hopes that, for all of his works, the viewer engages not just with their aesthetic composition, but also with the sentiments manifested within them. Maybe when you look at his painting of Maynard, you'll want to get down on all fours and wrestle with him. Or maybe when you look at his painting of New Orleans, with its swirling lines and rolling colors, you'll imagine that you're stumbling down Burbon street around 3:00am after an epic night out, contemplating the dichotomy of good and evil with some old buddies. Of course, Hejja recognizes that for his more abstract works, those sentiments are more ambiguous, if they exist at all. Those pieces are specifically for aesthetic appreciation, so if you just like looking at them, groovy.Philosophically, Hejja enjoys contemplating the connection between his music and his visual art. For instance, both jazz and blues have roots in the idea that there is beauty inherent in improvisation and imperfection, and for Hejja, making art is kind of like jamming. It starts with a basic idea, and each brush stroke, perfect or imperfect, contributes to the final composition of the piece. If you think that's cool, then you and Hejja would probably get along. But, if you think that it's all just a bunch of intellectual hogwash, he thinks that's perfectly fine too, and he just hopes you enjoys his art.


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Green Style: Mismatched Vases
Use what you have. That's something we talk a lot about on Re-Nest, and something we're trying every day to get better at. And in this case — using mismatched vases for your flowers to create an eclectic grouping — it's much preferred over the alternative. Who wants five of the same vases anyway? This is much more fun.
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John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.
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There is a very simple rule when it comes to storing (and returning) data, which I see violated all the time, making life so much more complicated for everyone involved. In case you haven't noticed, that's a common theme I discuss here on this blog -- different ways programmers make life more difficult for themselves, instead of simply following good practices and doing things the easy way. This is yet another example of that situation.
The "Golden Rule of Data Manipulation" is a simple, but important rule that you should always follow when designing a database, writing database code, or really...
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At this point, I have received over 1,700 comments over the years, and while all of them are truly appreciated, I have noticed that unfortunately many of the, uh, less helpful comments do seem to consistently fall neatly into various categories.
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Let's say you are called in to troubleshoot a stored procedure that is performing poorly.
You dive in to investigate and this is what you find:
create procedure ProcessProducts
declare @Products cursor, @ProductID int
set @Products = cursor for select ProductID from Products order by ProductID
open @Products
fetch next from @Products into @ProductID
while (@@FETCH_STATUS=0)
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Wayne State University study targets patterns of excessive alcohol use and life commitments in at-risk young adults
DETROIT — A Wayne State University researcher believes a better understanding of risk factors for excessive alcohol use may one day help at-risk adolescents transition more quickly to healthier and more productive behavior patterns in young adulthood.
To further that understanding, Tim Bogg, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in WSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has received a three-year, $731,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health. Through "A Longitudinal Study of Alcohol Dependence in Late Adolescence" he will investigate the influences of conscientiousness-related personality traits, cognitive ability and social investment on patterns of excessive alcohol use over time. He also will examine how specific brain regions might play a role in reward-seeking behaviors.
Recent decades have given rise to what Bogg calls "extended adolescence," an increasingly longer time span when many young people begin making personal and social investments in their education, careers and personal relationships. Such commitments can be affected by excessive alcohol use and related problems, such as drug use, conduct or antisocial personality problems. Research has shown that people with such problems tend to display reduced self-control, responsibility, intelligence, short-term memory, and ability to successfully shift attention.
The social investment hypothesis Bogg will test holds that individual differences in development during late adolescence and young adulthood are influenced by participating in and committing to normative social roles. Meeting expectations of roles such as college student, employee or romantic partner leads to positive reinforcements that reward more controlled, plan-oriented and reliable behaviors and tendencies.
His current study extends his work at Indiana University, where he earned his doctoral degree in 2006, which also investigated such associations.
"Here we're looking at whether commitment to school, work or a romantic relationship predicts, decreases or even buffers against problems for people who, through personality or reduced cognitive capacity, might be at risk for excessive alcohol consumption," Bogg said.
Over two and a half years, researchers will examine patterns of change associated with social investment. The study also will track the interaction of brain activity and personality traits over time — something very few researchers have tried, Bogg said.
A subset of subjects representing a full spectrum of alcohol consumption will complete a computerized balloon inflation task to examine reward-seeking cognitive control. The task requires subjects to decide whether to continue inflating a balloon based on an increasing wager amount. As in real life, the balloon can be overinflated and explode, resulting in a lost wager.
During the task, a magnetic resonance imaging scanner will be used to look at the medial prefrontal cortex of subjects' brains, an area thought to be involved in risk and reward appraisal, as well as performance monitoring, which involves updating future responses based on past outcomes.
"The idea is to see whether there are differences in brain activity depending on alcohol consumption and related levels of conscientiousness, social investment and cognitive ability," Bogg said. "We're also trying to see if we can predict change. The real question is, how do these things influence each other over time?"
The amount of engagement or involvement in normative roles might act as a buffer against alcohol abuse or dependence, he said. Many Wayne State students tend to have more outside commitments than participants in his previous study, and Bogg expects that to be reflected in the results.
The current study also aims to use the data to develop interventions that can help foster maturation by increasing normative social investment. Such interventions could last eight to 10 weeks and include a social cognitive psychology principle called "implementation intentions."
For example, Bogg said, when a student is tempted to go out on a Thursday night before an exam on Friday, that student can be taught to develop their own concrete and specific alternatives, such as planning and committing to study with a friend at a library or cafe.
Interventions also could involve inducements for social investment by clarifying individuals' goals and providing accountability for those goals.
"Some students come in with a good understanding of what it takes to succeed; others with no tools at all," Bogg said, noting that drinking can interfere with poorly formed goals.
"Bringing those goals to the fore can have two benefits," he said. "One is curtailing excessive alcohol consumption; the other is helping the person achieve those personal goals that relate to educational development and career aspirations."
Emerging adulthood is a relatively new life stage in the developed world, Bogg said. It can be a time of personal exploration and trying different roles without many serious consequences. However, as economic conditions stagnate and the job market becomes more competitive, he believes shortening that period could prove useful for some people.
"If maturing out of excessive alcohol use is a developmental process, then providing a little inducement and training to help people further commit to a role in which they're already engaged might help push them toward healthier drinking patterns and increased psychological maturity."
Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.


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Huff signs 3-year deal with Ravens, hopes to 'carry on' Ed Reed's legacy at free safety
OWINGS MILLS, Md. – Michael Huff intends to help the Baltimore Ravens defend their Super Bowl title by filling Ed Reed's role as the last line of the Baltimore Ravens defense.
Huff signed a three-year contract with the Ravens on Thursday. The free safety was released by the Oakland Raiders last week.
He replaces Reed, who signed as a free agent with Houston last week. Reed was Baltimore's starting free safety for the past 11 years.
Huff says he told Reed in a text message that would "carry on his legacy and carry on the tradition of great safeties in Baltimore."
The 30-year-old Huff played seven years for the Raiders. Last season he had two interceptions, one of which came against Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco.
He has also played cornerback and free safety.


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By: Brandy Bidlack, sports information assistant
March 3, 2009
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - The Bluffton University baseball team lost to John Carroll in the first game of the Snowbird Classic on Tuesday, March 3, 2009, by a final score of 5-1. The Beavers dropped to 3-2 and John Carroll improved to 2-1.
Bluffton's Mike Ramthun (Springfield/Southeastern) reached first on a walk and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from freshman Aaron Koonce (Toledo/Start) before a balk by JC pitcher Tom Schaberl sent him to third. Ramthun scored on the next play when freshman third baseman Tyler Stephenson (Springfield/Northwestern) singled through the right side, making it 1-0 in the home half of the first.
The Beavers held onto their 1-0 lead over the Blue Streaks until a Tom Hickey run tied the game in the top of the seventh inning. Two frames and three pitchers later, John Carroll blew it open with four runs thanks to three hits and two Bluffton errors, giving the Blue Streaks a 5-1 win over the Beavers.
Adrian Fritch (Edon) allowed only three hits and finished with four strikeouts in seven superb innings on the hill. Relief pitchers Nathan Blanton (Cincinnati/LaSalle) and Kelly Barnes (Toledo/Toledo Christian) gave up two and three hits, respectively, while Barnes picked up two strikeouts in his first collegiate performance. Cody McPherson (Northwood/Millbury Lake), Stephenson, and David Riddle (Loveland/Milford) all had hits in the disappointing setback.
The Bluffton baseball team will return to action on Wednesday, March 4, when the Beavers face another OAC heavyweight, Heidelberg, in Port Charlotte. The JV game is scheduled to start after the completion of the varsity game.


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NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650 Ti Review
Over the past six months NVIDIA has steadily launched cards in the Kepler product stack seemingly every month. A pretty ambitious goal to say the least. Having looked at all of the cards in the GTX product stack from the recently introduced GTX 660 Ti and GTX 660 all the way on up to the top of the line GTX 690, it has proven to be an interesting year for NVIDIA. With each launch a new segment of the market has been able to take advantage of all that the Kepler architecture has to offer including 3DVision, PhysX, Adaptive VSync, and TXAA - a new anti-aliasing algorithm designed to reduce temporal aliasing.
Released just three and a half weeks ago, the GK106-based GTX 660 and GK107-based GTX 650 brought Keplar to the $250 and $120 price points. With the GTX 650 Ti the GTX product stack is fully fleshed out with a card that targets the $150 price point putting a Kepler-based product in every price/performance target. With each successive launch the performance and price of entry have dropped to fit into a specific price/performance envelope. Whereas the GTX 690, GTX 680, and GTX 670 are targeted at the upper end of the gaming spectrum, the vast majority of players are at the mid to lower end where video cards such as the GTX 660 Ti, GTX 660, and GTX 650Ti will shine.
The GTX 650 Ti is a step up in performance over the standard GTX 650 with double the CUDA core and texture unit counts helping to drive performance higher by up to 40%. As game developers continue to program for a DX11 environment, older hardware is just not up to the task of enjoying this new content to the fullest. This coming season is going to see a new wave of DX11-based games with improvements to visual quality and effects that older hardware in the $150 range will not be able to deliver smooth game play. Will the GTX 650 Ti be able to deliver on the promise of smooth game play at 1080p resolutions with the eye candy on? Let's see whats under the hood and take it for a spin.
Closer Look:
The GTX 650 Ti is a scaled down version of NVIDIA's 28nm GK106 Kepler core introduced with the GTX 660 that uses the same SMX architecture introduced with the GTX 680 back in April of this year. This implementation on the GTX 650 Ti features a pair of Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC) with shared access to the 256KB of L2 cache, four SMX units, each with 192 CUDA cores (768 total), 64 texture units, and 16 ROPs. The base clock speeds for the reference version come in at 925MHz and does not support a boost clock. The memory subsystem of the GTX 650 Ti includes 1GB of GDDR5 memory running on a 2 x 64-bit (128-bit) memory controller. Memory clock speeds are a bit slower than on the GTX 660 at 5400MHz effective (1350MHz actual). Without the ability to use a boost clock like the rest of the GTX Kepler family it will be interesting to see just what kind of overclocking headroom is available to increase the performance envelope on this mini-me version of GTX family.
The GTX 650 Ti that I am looking at today is a pure reference design card. You can be sure that there will be an offering from each of the AIB partners that uses this design. However each of them already have custom designs in the pipeline that offer improvements to the cooling and board component selection to improve long term reliability and stability. Below you can see a good selection of designs that will be offered from the board partners. All of the top players are represented and should deliver an excellent choice around the $149 range.
The GTX 650 Ti promises impressive gains over previous generation products such as the 9600GT that no longer have the ability to play at 1080p resolutions with even medium settings. Tack on the inability to play the latest DX11-based games and it really is time to move into the now. Let's see what the GTX 650 Ti has to offer the gamer.


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Despite YouTube have 1 billion monthly users, these users are not able to earn money to the company.
It is a substantial balance between income and expenses.
And Google? Obviously it is not satisfied with their investment / acquisition.
According to a research carried out by the WSJ (Wall Street Journal – ed)
YouTube does not generate gains / profits for Google (which bought YouTube).
The YouTube's revenues in 2014 amounted to 4 billion dollars.
These revenues must be added the costs and reach more or less in balance.
While in 2013, YouTube, generated revenues of 3 billion dollars.
The increase of 1 billion dollars, the revenues of 2014 was generated thanks
to greater collection for online advertising on YouTube.
The basic problem is that they weigh the costs of two items:
– Content (YouTube pays video editors, to have quality content on its network)
– The technology infrastructure (for 1 billion active users per month, the cost for hosting / server and engineers is very high)
But what is the real YouTube problem?
The answer is: the target
That is, the YouTube audience is made up of teens and tweens, "penniless"
without an income and purchasing power.
But these teens and tweens, "penniless" YouTube video of what you think you look?
Simply, they think of Youtube like it's "their portable hard drive":
an archive made of videos to watch and then move on to other sites that publish video.
bankruptcy business for YouTube?
Maybe yes, maybe not, for sure who manages the YouTube marketing, will have no easy days to live,
with Google that "press" to get profits from their investment / acquisition (YouTube – ed)
And what would then be the goal (or hope – ed) Google?
Compare YouTube to TV (television – ed), in Access, but the TV is immediate mode, while for YouTube, like any other web site, you need some time to load the platform (or through a PC (personal computer – editor's note) or via a notebook (laptop – ed) or via a tablet, or via a mobile smartphone).
And at what targets would be addressed?
entertainment channels, mainly.
In 2012, YouTube (or better: Google is what you pay for YouTube), paid to the producers of video content, hundreds of millions of dollars to generate quality video content in an effort to create quasi-TV channels, without obtaining the desired results.
"Google (owner) YouTube, launched more than 100 thematic video channels"
Google paying for content?
The old Google motto was "content is king." In fact it was because since 2012, Google pays to generate content.
But the contents are not artificially generated against Google's guidelines?
So, with YouTube, Google goes against their own "rules and principles."
But we know that the rules are always valid for others and never for ourselves, dear Google "takes all."
YouTube-Google strategy to increase revenues?
To get a YouTube-quality programming, and have more users "in target", in January 2015, Google signed an agreement with the US National Football League, to see
the Highligths (short video clips – ed) of the matches, on YouTube.
Whereas previously, in November 2014, YouTube announced a music subscription service, in "iTunes" from the name "Music Key" style, where there will be a database with available Millions of songs and videos, without the much-hated publicity.
The monthly music subscription cost should be of 7.99 Dollars / Euros (we await confirmation from Google & co )
Internet – YouTube does not earn money to Google (which bought YouTube)
Despite YouTube have 1 billion monthly users, these users are not able to earn money to the company.


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J&L Collection (PCGS Set Registry)
David Hall: The 1936-D is the most common of the three Arkansas issues in all grades from MS63 thru MS67. It is one of the more common of the 1935 to 1939 Arkansas issues. Superb MS66 speciemens are scarce nonetheless, and MS67 examples are quite rare with maybe just a few dozen known. This coin is basically unknown in circulated condition.
The typical 1936-D Arkansas has either frosty luster or varying degrees of toning. Many Arkansas issues are toned. The toning can range from beautiful rainbow to really splotchy and unattractive, so eye appeal is a big issue for Arkansas commemoratives.
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Primrose Hill woman's tragic miscarriage inspires naked charity calendar - Hampstead and Highgate ExpressA Harrods executive who suffered from a rare miscarriage that triggered cancer has raised £70,000 by stripping naked for her own calendar to help prevent others experiencing the same heartbreak....She channelled her experience by kick starting a fundraising campaign to research the condition, and convinced 28 female friends to join her in the calendar.
..."It wasn't too difficult convincing my mates to join, as they had all been through the journey with me, and were more than happy to peel off and help out for such a good cause."
Here's the official calendar site. Or make a donation here.


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Call Server: Connection between Unified CVP and IVP cannot be established when setting up TLS
From DocWiki
Connection between Unified CVP and IVP cannot be established when setting up TLS
|Problem Summary
|Note: This tip applies to full video only.
When the Transport Layer Security (TLS) is being set up, the connection cannot be established between Unified CVP and IVP
|Error Message
|SSL session handshake failed (is the server SSL enabled?).
Log messages constantly show connection being made and then broken.
|Possible Cause
|The TLS setting is enabled on the Call Server but not in iContact. Enable TLS setting on Call Server and IVP are not in sync.
|Recommended Action
|Verify that both Call Server and iContact are configured for TLS. Call Server configuration is enabled via OAMP. iContact configuration is via iContactConfiguration.xml. Both Call Server and IVP must be restarted if their settings for enabling/disabling TLS are changed.
|Release 7.0(2)
|Associated CDETS #
|Possible Cause
|The required procedures to import/export keys between Call Server and IVP has not completed or is not accurate.
|Recommended Action
|Verify that the proper keys are imported and exported. Refer to the TLS configuration documentation for procedural Call Server/IVP information.
|Release 7.0(2)
|Associated CDETS #


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Perkins teaches a wide variety of classes including introductory geology, mineralogy and petrology, environmental science, and economic geology. In the past, his research focus has been on mineral thermodynamics and metamorphic petrology. More recently, most of his research is on geoscience education.
Perkins has published three books and many scientific papers. He has been editor of several different professional journals, has organized and conducted many teaching-related workshops, and has participated in many national and international organizations. He has received many research grants and has received several professional awards and recognitions. Most recently, he was recognized as the Case/Carnegie North Dakota Professor of the Year.
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Holder Says Justice Department Investigating Death of Journalist Foley
U.S. Attorney General Says 'We Will Not Forget What Happened and People Will Be Held Accountable'
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the death of journalist James Foley, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.
"Those who would perpetrate such acts need to understand something," Mr. Holder said at a news conference. "This Department of Justice, this Department of Defense, this nation, we have long memories and our reach is very wide. We will not forget what happened and people will be held accountable one way or the other."...


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Lenten Series features Jesuit lectures and Latin Mass
Loyola press release - February 27, 2012
Loyola University New Orleans' Jesuit Center and the Alumni Association present "The Spiritual Exercises: The Heart of Ignatian Spirituality," a series of lectures on Wednesdays in February and March to observe the season of Lent. Each of these free events will take place on Loyola's main campus at 7 p.m.
2012 Lenten Series schedule:
Wednesday, Feb. 29
"From Servant to Friend: The Ignatian Path to Discipleship"
The Rev. Jerry Fagin, S.J., Ph.D., will give an overview of the spiritual exercises of Ignatius, focusing on the dynamic of the exercises and some of the virtues they instill.
Ignatius Chapel / Bobet Hall
Wednesday, March 14
"Taught by God: Ignatius as Teacher and Student"
Sylvester Tan, S.J., will show how God treated Ignatius just as a schoolmaster treats a child whom he is teaching.
Ignatius Chapel / Bobet Hall
Wednesday, March 28
"Not just 'Jesus and Me'"
The Rev. Fred Kammer, S.J., J.D., will discuss the social implications of the spiritual exercises and Ignatian spirituality.
Ignatius Chapel / Bobet Hall
The entire Loyola community is also invited to attend the Gregorian Chant Laetare Mass on Sunday, March, 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Holy Name of Jesus Church. Co-sponsored by the College of Music and Fine Arts, this Mass in the Latin rite will be celebrated during Lent.
"Experiencing the Eucharistic celebration in the Latin rite, which may not be as familiar to most, is a way to further enrich our Lenten observation. This Eucharistic celebration with Gregorian Chant also allows the community to experience a spirituality that has been a part of the tradition of our faith over the centuries," said the Rev. Ted Dziak, S.J., director of the Jesuit Center.
For more information, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-798-ALUM, 504-861-5454, or email@example.com.