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Before I even open my eyes, I hear my phone buzz with a new text.
"hey do we hv skool 2day?"
It's from one of my student advisees. The text amazes me--why would we not have school? Also, I am always hyper-aware of the number of days we have until the next day off, which, in this case, is 4 school days left until break.
"Yes," I respond. "Please remember to bring a note from your mom for your absences all last week."
"Ok thnks. I hv a headache and Bad Stomach. Mom wants me to ask you if you think I shld cme to skool 2day."
Really? I am not the mother here.
I don't respond. They'll figure it out.
In between shower and coffee, I remember I need to download a video clip of a play onto my laptop while I'm still at home, since YouTube is blocked at school. This is a play we're studying in class, and it would be really beneficial to have the students hear and see this famous movie actor they admire playing the lead role. I wish tickets were less expensive or I'd try to take them to see it, being performed right here in New York City. But there's no money for that in our budget so a video clip will have to do. When I tried this yesterday it froze and there went my lesson.
With a pile of fresh worksheets still warm from the copier, I arrive at the classroom where I will teach my first two classes. "You're late, Miss" is how the group of four students waiting outside the door greet me. Class doesn't begin until 8:30 and they are supposed to be in the cafeteria, but once again they were released early. They are four of my best students, but who likes to be called out for being late when you are, in fact, early, and so are they? Good morning to you, too.
I unlock the door and sigh. This room…sucks. Two years ago when I was told I had gotten my own classroom, I hilariously thought that meant I would be teaching in there. This year, due to "scheduling issues," I'm teaching in rooms all over the school. This one is particularly grim: small, windowless, with a noisy air vent above that makes it hard for students to hear. I have 28 students on my roster, and 25 chairs in the room. If they all show up on the same day, we're in trouble.
My first class begins to arrive. I don't mind so much that there are only 7 students present for the first 25 minutes. If this is it for the whole period, I'll secretly be okay with that, since these kids are the most well-behaved and engaged. And miracle of miracles: they all even have something to write with! We open the play to where we left off and volunteers begin to read. I note one student who is emerging as a real natural, the way he reads this role. It's a tough role for even a seasoned actor, the rhythm of the language, the word choices—but he seems to take to it like a duck to water. I wonder if he recognizes it, too? Should I say something? Or will it make him rebel and never read aloud again? Hmmm.
I try to play the video clip to end the class on an inspired note. It freezes. Once again, I wish teachers had special YouTube privileges; it would be a great tool to have for moments like this.
My second class begins to arrive and immediately lets me know I'll be working hard for the next 50 minutes. They make their entrance pushing and shoving each other, taking each other's bags, running around the room, ignoring me. They used to be one of the best groups in this grade, but now we commonly refer to them to as "that formerly good class." Where things went downhill, I don't know.
I hand out a quiz. We spent the entire last class reviewing for this test, and yet it seems to take them completely by surprise today. It's clear that no one has studied. "I think you'll find you know more than you think you know," I try to reassure them.
"I think you'll find you're a bad teacher," quips one student, loud enough for us all to hear, even over the air vent.
While I'm bubbling in my attendance sheets in #2 pencil and waiting for a parent meeting, I try calling the father of the student who was so rude during second period. His is the only contact we have listed. The first number is out of service, but the second number puts me through. Dad tells me his son no longer lives with him, and that he rarely sees him. He gives me Mom's number. I relay the story again to the student's mother, who responds, "Yeah, he doesn't really like plays." Upon my pointing out that, regardless of how much he does or doesn't like a subject, this is not an acceptable way to address a teacher, she begrudgingly agrees to talk with him when he gets home.
That last class went a little better, though they left the room a mess. I'm straightening up the classroom after my class when hunger pangs hit. I've forgotten to bring my lunch so I call in my lunch order at the diner on the corner. Getting my coat on to go pick it up, I get a call from the office. The no-show parent that was supposed to be here at 11:00 has just arrived. I have to decide: eat lunch or meet parent? Gritting my teeth against the hunger, I head to the office.
I pull a student aside at the end of class to speak privately about something I've been noticing in class. A good student generally, lately she's been responding to me with the special tone of disdain teenagers usually save for their parents whenever I call on her. I gently point out that I've noticed her tone (you never use the word "attitude" with teenagers; trust me on this) has changed in class, and I wondered if anything was going on that I should know about. At first, she denies it, but then finally reveals that she's had some issues with the boy she is seated next to in class. Nothing serious, she claims, but she has heard him making fun of her and doesn't feel comfortable around him. As we talk about it more, it's clear how much this has been upsetting her. I agree to change his seat tomorrow, and we develop a signal for her to let me know if it's happening again. I also vow to speak to him and his advisor the following day. I encourage her to speak up sooner next time. By the time she leaves, she seems back to herself and even thanks me.
In the hallway I run into the Mr. Natural Actor from first period. I comment how good he is at cold reading, that he has a real knack for acting. "That's all I'm doing all day, Miss, is ACTING!" he says with a flourish. I laugh and marvel at how true that is for most of my students.
I'm dying to use the restroom, but I have a staff meeting that I'm now 5 minutes late for, after talking with my student after class. Why didn't anyone tell me bladder management was such a big part of teaching?
Our teacher meeting ends. As I walk out with the vice principal, I use the opportunity to let him know how badly it's going in the Air Vent room and wonder if he might look again to see if there are any other possibilities for that class. "I'll check," he says, which is code for "deal with it."
The subway took forever getting me home. I have a ton of grading to do, but dealing with students has drained me, and I desperately need a nap.
My phone wakes me out of a sound sleep. It's Rude Student's mother. "My son is denying that anything even happened in class this morning, I just wanted to let you know."
I ask if he admits he was removed from the class. She says he does.
"So what does he say is the reason he was removed from class?" I ask.
Silence. That's right.
Finally his mother speaks. "You'll have an apology from him tomorrow morning."
Finally finished grading quizzes and classwork. Now I just have to print out progress reports so I can hand them out tomorrow, with enough time to make up work before the break. I long for a real meal with my husband. At the dining table, not on the couch, surrounded by papers.
In bed before midnight! I get a page and a half into my book before my eyelids win the battle. As I reach to turn off the light I notice a text. It's from one of my other advisees: "Wassup miss can I get my code thingy so I can chek my grades?"
I turn off the light, ready to put another day to bed.
Anonymous is an English Language Arts teacher in New York City.


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My favorite in the set are Angel men and Le Male. A*Men is more distinctive, but also stronger. Le Male is smoother and more approachable, but less distinctive. So it depends on whether you're ok with strong frags. Personally not a fan of the Burberry.
My favorite warm wintery frag is Chanel Egoiste (the regular Egoiste, not Platinum Egoiste). Warm sandalwood with a touch of candied fruit. Very elegant. Not very easy to find, but not that expensive either.

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By Stiff
My inspiration for cooking can come from a variety of things. Sometimes I get inspired by having a dish from a restaurant that I've never had before and try to replicate it at home. Sometimes inspiration comes from recipes I may see on television. I mostly get inspired by the certain items I see in the grocery store or farmer's market.
Sometimes I fail at the outcome of what I'm making and sometimes I succeed. I just like to try new things and expand my horizons when it comes to testing new ingredients or cooking methods.
James, my fiancé is a great guinea pig. He will generally eat whatever I make and is honest about how the food tastes. Unlike James, I myself am much more critical about how my food turns out.
Salsa Verde
1 lb. Tomatillos
1/2 Medium white onion chopped
1 Jalapaño pepper
2 Cloves garlic
1/4 c. Chopped Cilantro
Juice of 1 lime
1-1 1/2 t. Sugar
1 t. Ground cumin
1 t. Chili powder
1 t. Ground cayenne pepper
Remove husk from tomatillos and wash. Boil tomatillos in water until soft.
Transfer cooked tomatillos to a blender and add onion, peeled garlic, jalapaño pepper (discard seeds), cilantro, lime juice and pulse until it becomes a salsa. Add salt, pepper, sugar and spices and blend once more to integrate ingredients. Taste and add more salt and sugar if necessary.
If the tomatillos aren't cooked all the way through, it can be bitter in taste. This happened to me so I added sugar and it balanced everything out. You can add more sugar to the salsa in small amounts until desired taste has been met.
Serve with chips or on tacos.
In this case, I will top my fajitas with it.
(Stiff is an amateur home cook and food blogger. Stiff can be found at a grocery store, Instagram @stifferoni and Tumblr: http://stiffers.tumblr.com/.)


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2013 Annual Meeting
Montréal, Québec, Canada | November 1-5, 2013
Hsin-liang Chen, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Crystal Fulton, University College Dublin
Hannah Gleave, University College Dublin
Yin-Leng Theng, National Nanyang Technological University
Mei-Mei Wu, National Taiwan Normal University
Monday, 8:00am
Global advances in mobile technology have led to international ubiquity of smartphones and other mobile devices promising on-the-go information-seeking convenience. A more robust industry infrastructure, sophisticated input devices and hundreds of thousands of downloadable applications are feeding the phenomenon. This panel will examine the challenges of international technical infrastructure, cultural differences, public policies and research mandates and address a number of questions:


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We can offer the exclusive and sole use of our whole premises and garden or simply the restaurant with no reception venue hire fees, whatever day you choose to marry. Our delightful Courtyard style garden has won local awards; sunny during the day, heated for those cooler days and beautifully illuminated by night.
Hartlip Place has been a venue for civil ceremonies since 1989 and is also proud to have held one of the first civil partnership ceremonies in 2006. I am always pleased to answer queries and we will do our best to help you with any special requests that you may have.
The Kent Event Centre has extensive experience hosting large events and weddings. We appreciate that getting the right venue is crucial, you and your family need to feel comfortable and above all you need to be confident that you have the right space and facilities to make it perfect!
Licensed for ceremonies, there are three delightful banqueting rooms, in the house, for your use on the day. With the option to hold your ceremony and reception in one place and with the support of our Banqueting & Events team, you can just simply enjoy your wedding day in the historic atmosphere of this ancestral home.
The Ridge is a magical location in which to hold Wedding Receptions. The Ridge boasts one of the best views around looking over the Kent Countryside. We have 3 Wedding Rooms to choose from. Importantly it is our policy only to hold one Wedding at a time, so this will ensures your whole day goes to plan.
The Beacon House can be your home at which you prepare, marry, host and honeymoon. Immediately on the Beach, on the beautiful South East Coast in the wonderfully independent town of Whitstable. Quirky, Fun & Relaxed, the Perfect Wedding Venue!
Congratulations on your engagement! Planning your wedding is an exciting time and here at Birchwood Park we share your dream of having the perfect wedding. Choosing one of Dartfords most beautful and popular wedding venues is a great start so you are in the right place!
Spread over 10 Acres we can organise any style of event from 3 to 300 people with each Suite or Lounge catered to your requirements plus each Suite or Lounge can be provided with a Buffet, Light Lunches or a served Three to Four Course Dinner.
No matter what your plans are for the day,we are happy to hand over the reigns to you and your arranged suppliers and just provide the venue or if you desire we can arrange and provide for the whole event, from the horse and carriage arrival to the firework finale.
Fort Amherst is a truly unique and spectacular location for your wedding. You can be married deep within the tunnel complex and light the way with over 800 tea lights and stunning natural foliage from the Fort's grounds. The tunnels can also host your reception for up to 100 guests with open fires and soft candlelight.
The Shepherd Neame Brewery at Faversham makes a unique venue for your wedding. Our planning is meticulous and we will help make your special day truly memorable for you and your guests. We will tailor the arrangements to meet your individual wishes and add special touches to make your occasion unforgettable.
The Marquis at Alkham is a fabulous restaurant with rooms which stands at the heart of the Kent Downs, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The setting is stunning, and the venue is sublime. It's a wonderful setting for the perfect Kent wedding and reception.
We offer flexibility, both in what we can provide and how we can meet your expectations within a given budget. This flexibility extends to how you wish to use the hotel and grounds, and if you wish to have the hotel for your exclusive use for the duration of your wedding then this can be arranged.
The Orchards East Malling is a perfect and unique wedding venue in Kent where you can hold your dream wedding day. The venue is modern and contemporary in style and is perfectly located in the quaint village of East Malling, just minutes from the M20 and Maidstone town centre.
We understand the importance of your day so your dedicated Events Co-ordinator will ensure that this element of your wedding planning will be entirely effortless allowing you to simply sit back and enjoy your celebrations.
Your special day should be a magical and wonderful day. At Court Stairs Manor we aim to add to that magic. Our experienced wedding team including our on-site wedding planner are here to help you create your dream wedding.
We have capabilty and space to cater for a variety of functions in our beautiful restaurant or in our marquee in our gardens. With 13 en-suite bedrooms, the White Horse Inn's boutique-style accommodation promises visitors a comfortable stay.
Arriving at 18 The Friars - just off the pedestrianised High Street in the very heart of Canterbury's historic city centre - your stay with us begins by entering the welcoming atmosphere of the beamed and timber panelled reception area.
We offer the perfect location for your special day with a high level of attention to detail. Little Silver Country Hotel is licensed to hold marriage and civil partnership ceremonies. It offers the perfect location for your special day with a high level of attention to detail to help you plan and host your wedding.
We are a family run hotel, offering a more personal and flexible service, tailoring your day around your vision, from traditional style to something more contemporary or outrageous, we can help you get your day just perfect. Our modern function suites can accommodate from 3 to 300 guests.
We first opened for business in 1996, and have been serving Dover, and the rest of the UK, ever since. We offer a full range of services, large and small function rooms. Catering for weddings, Corporate events, Club functions etc.
We are able to offer a variety of rooms to suit your needs when it comes to hiring the Castle for classes, before the restoration project started art, yoga, pilates, history, horticulture, literature, music, theatre amongst others were held in this exquisite building.
The Coniston Hotel is a unique and contemporary venu. Set in the heart of Sittingbourne The Coniston can cater for a range of size and types of weddings from smaller dinners to full day events up to 240 - 300 guests. We offer a flexible approach to your day tailor making packages to suit each indivuals requirements
Woodborough Hall is truly one of the most beautiful venues in Nottinghamshire and a special venue for that perfect day for both you and all the guests you wish to share an unforgettable experience with. We are able to cater for every individual need and personal requirement.
Holme Pierrepont Hall offers you a choice of delightful settings both inside and out for your civil ceremony and your reception. We work with the finest army of caterers, florists, photographers, cake designers and wine merchants in the region to ensure that your wedding day is flawless.


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doubleLineMkting needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 113 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Double Line Solutions
We are engineers. We love to dine out. We love the earth. Think "Myth Busters" meets Julia Child with a dash of Al Gore. We are looking for a branding logo for our new company. We provide technology that helps restaurants increase their financial bottom line and their "green" bottom line while enhancing the guest experience. Hence our company name: Double Line.... the idea that a company has two bottom lines to meet: financial and environmental.
Food Service Industry types - Restaurants, Hotels. Partners in the technology and green industries.
We are looking for a logo that brands our company.
Here are some thoughts on the design:
1. We'd like a graphic symbol and the company name.
2. The symbol should not be ornate, and the text should be sans serif.
3. We like the idea of incorporating a double line -- but is that too obvious? We want something with a little more guts to it (see - I said we were geeks).
4. We are attracted to green - but again is that too overused for a green company? We are open to any colors.
5. Some words that describe our company personality: Friendly, Innovative, Technology, Green, Simplicity, Conscientious.
6. Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
File formats needed:
Print File format: .ai(CMYK)
Web File format: .jpg and layered .psd
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Charlie Sheen scheduled his ill-fated one-man comedy tour because he was so broke he couldn't afford to pay his bills.
The actor suffered a highly public meltdown and was fired from his sitcom Two and a Half Men in 2011 following a nasty feud with show bosses.
Sheen's bizarre antics became headline news and he appeared to capitalise on his notoriety by setting off on a comedy tour of the U.S. and Canada, called My Violent Torpedo Of Truth/Death Is Not An Option.
However, many of the shows were met with mixed reviews from audiences, and some disastrous gigs ended in walkouts and heckling.
Sheen, who was one of America's best-paid TV actors during his time on Two and a Half Men, has now explained he only set off on the tour because he needed the money after he lost his job.
He tells U.S. TV host Piers Morgan, "It was brutal. I was not winning at all. I think what a lot of people don't realise is I was completely broke, because, you know, when they kept my back end and fired me and all that, I didn't have any money left. So I was using the tour to actually pay child support and mortgages and stuff like that. You know? So I'm grateful for that."
Sheen goes on to admit he wanted to cancel the tour when gig-goers in Detroit, Michigan began hurling missiles at the stage and walking out, but he was determined to fulfil his commitments.
He adds, "It was in Detroit… that was bad… Detroit was bad… (I was) dodging stuff. Literally dodging stuff…
"The forward momentum of it kind of lost its lustre after about show seven. And I knew I had 15 or 14 left… I didn't have an act. There was no act. I think people were expecting to show up and literally watch me die on stage or spontaneously combust or just like suddenly become cash and women. I don't know what they were expecting…
"That's when I had to dig deeper and keep going, keep moving forward, because I gave this company my word that I would finish this. And I did, against all odds."
Charlie Sheen scheduled his ill-fated one-man comedy tour because he was so broke he couldn't afford to pay his bills.


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Real-World Review
I really want something like SYNC, does the 2013 Toyota RAV4 have that?
The short answer is yes. Toyota's interface for connecting your phone via Bluetooth and running apps like Pandora is called Entune. There are several versions of Entune available in the 2013 Toyota RAV4.
In-car information and entertainment systems like Entune essentially work like any smartphone - with one big exception -- it's integrated into the car, so making and receiving phone calls is as easy as pressing a button on the dash or steering wheel.
Entune also allows you to play Pandora through the car's audio system. You can even create a new Pandora channel right from the RAV4's screen as long as the car isn't moving -- something you can't do with Ford's SYNC.
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Welcome all avid fans of historical fiction! We meet every 6-8 weeks on a Monday evening in central London to discuss a historical novel that we have selected beforehand.
We aim to have the book for each meetup selected at least two months ahead so that everyone has plenty of time to get hold of it and read it. All members get the chance to help select the book from a shortlist of five by voting in an online poll.
Our current venue is The Heights bar at the Saint Georges Hotel in central London.
Just to clarify: the "London" in the group name relates to where the group is based. It doesn't relate specifically to London history. We are reading historical fiction set all over the world!
We ask for a voluntary contribution of 50p to £1 if you attend a meetup - just to go towards the cost of hosting the group on Meetup.com, which is actually quite pricey.
NOTE TO AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, AGENTS, FRIENDS OF AUTHORS AND SUCH LIKE: We do not take kindly to being spammed with promotional messages about new novels that we "absolutely" have to read or discuss. We are all perfectly capable of finding out about new releases by ourselves. If you have joined this Meetup group purely for the purpose of pushing your own or someone else's book, please remove yourself or you will be removed by the organizer.
This does not preclude genuine members from sending a message to the organizer if they hear about interesting events that they feel other members would be interested in or books that they would recommend be considered for selection for future meetups.
Our next book discussion meetup will be scheduled shortly.
Our previous group reads were:
"The Soldier, the Gaolor, the Spy and Her Lover" by Simon Parke
"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
"London Lies Beneath" by Stella Duffy
"The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry
"The Sky's Dark Labyrinth" by Stuart Clark
"The Petticoat Men" by Barbara Ewing
"Cleopatra's Heir" by Gillian Bradshaw
"Succession" by Livi Michael
"Laurus" by Eugene Vodolazkin
"A Burnable Book" by Bruce Holsinger
"The Last King of Lydia" by Tim Leach
"A Place Called Winter" by Patrick Gale
"A Dead Man in Deptford" by Anthony Burgess
"The Moor's Account" by Laila Lalami
"Devil" by David Churchill
"She Rises" by Kate Worsley
"The White Castle" by Orhan Pamuk
"Lust for Life" by Irving Stone
"The Maid" by Kimberly Cutter
"Some Luck" by Jane Smiley
"Gideon's Angel" by Clifford Beal
"The Lie" by Helen Dunmore
"The Devil in the Marshalsea" by Antonia Hodgson
"A Name in Blood" by Matt Rees
"The Summer Queen" by Elizabeth Chadwick
"After Flodden" by Rosemary Goring
"Augustus" by John Williams
"Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent
"Shadow on the Crown" by Patricia Bracewell
"City of Women" by David Gillham
"The Last Caesar" by Henry Venmore-Rowland
"The Garden of Evening Mists" by Tan Twan Eng
"Death and the Devil" by Frank Schaetzing
"The English Monster" by Lloyd Shepherd
"Jezebel" by Eleanor de Jong
"The Winter Palace" by Eva Stachniak
"The Bone Thief" by V. M. Whitworth
"The King's Diamond" by Will Whitaker
"Theodora" by Stella Duffy
"A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury" by Edith Pargeter
"The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
"The Ground is Burning" by Samuel Black
"Half of the Human Race" by Anthony Quinn
"Pure" by Andrew Miller
"The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain
"A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway
"Memoirs of Hadrian" by Marguerite Yourcenar
"The Golden Mean" by Annabel Lyon
"Silent in the Grave" by Deanna Raybourn
"Helena" by Evelyn Waugh
"The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"The Confessions of Catherine de Medici" by CW Gortner
"The Siege" by Helen Dunmore
"As Meat Loves Salt" by Maria McCann
"Spartacus" by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
"The Heretic's Daughter" by Kathleen Kent
"Azincourt" by Bernard Cornwell
"The Fraud" by Barbara Ewing
"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel
"The Great Stink" by Clare Clark
"The Founding" by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
"Affinity" by Sarah Waters
"Empress Orchid" by Anchee Min
"The Last Queen" by CW Gortner
"The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House" by Kate Summerscale
"The Floating Book" by Michelle Lovric
"I, Claudius" by Robert Graves
"The Last English King" by Julian Rathbone
"The Lost Diary of Don Juan" by Douglas Carlton Abrams.
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The deepening of defence and regional cooperation between Australia and the United States is the "natural evolution" of historic ties between both nations, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says.
Australian officials on Wednesday engaged in bilateral discussions with high-level US officials in Perth at the Australia-United States Ministerial (AUSMIN) meetings.
Speaking alongside Defence Minister Stephen Smith, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Senator Carr said both countries shared the mutual goal of achieving long-term peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific.
Australia welcomed the success of the first rotation of US marine troops to Darwin under an agreement reached between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama last year.
The next wave of troops is due to arrive in northern Australia in April next year.
Senator Carr said both nations had discuss potential opportunities for expanding naval cooperation, but all options required "substantial further study".
Territorial disputes over the South China Sea were also on the agenda, with both nations calling for a peaceful resolution to the feud.
"We don't take sides on the competing territorial claims," Senator Carr told reporters in Perth.
Both nations pledged their desire to build positive and cooperative relations with a rising China, while encouraging progress in the area of human rights.
"There is no language of containment in this, but we both welcome China's role as a responsible member of the international community."
Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the importance of Perth naval base HMAS Stirling would increase with more use and they had started talks on more naval access to Australia's ports.
He said they also discussed the issue of space debris, as there is so much up there it was important to know where it was.
The US will transfer a radar to WA to add to surveillance of the space debris.
Ms Clinton said the alliance between the nations provided an anchor of peace and prosperity in the Asia Pacific and that growing trade across the region increases stability and promotes security.
Ms Clinton said the alliance between the US and Australia was "forged in war, but flourishing in peace", and had the bipartisan support of Republicans and Democrats in Washington.
America's diplomatic, economic and security relations with Australia were "inseparable" and the reason for the AUSMIN meetings, she said.
"That approach drives America's engagement across the AP (Asia Pacific), and Australia's strategy as well, as laid out in the government's new white paper," she said.
She also congratulated Australia on becoming a new non-permanent member of the UN security council.
Ms Clinton and Mr Panetta also congratulated the Australian parliament on recently passing new laws to enact the US-Australian Defence Trade Treaty.
The Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011 only passed the Senate late last month, despite strong opposition from the Australian Greens.
"This agreement will boost trade, help our companies collaborate more closely and spur innovation," she said.
"It's a definite win-win."
Mr Panetta paid tribute to the Australian soldiers who had died alongside their US counterparts in Afghanistan.
"Your loss is our loss as well," he told reporters.
He said discussions about relocating a Seaband radar and advanced space surveillance telescope to Australia were a major leap forward.
Mr Panetta said a key focus for America was a rebalance of the Pacific.
"We simply would not be able to do that effectively without allies like Australia," he said.
Mr Panetta said he had discussed the potential for an Australian special forces presence in Afghanistan in the post-2014 period.
"We ought to consider the role of Australia and other countries," he said, adding that after the 2014 troop withdrawal, one mission would be ongoing counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan.
Asked about sharp cuts to defence budgets in both countries, Mr Panetta said he understood budgetary constrictions.


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posted by Michael on Thu 21st Jul 2011 14:08 UTC
Phoronix has conducted some preliminary benchmarks, comparing Debian GNU/Hurd to Debian GNU/Linux. "There was only a handful of tests that could be successfully run under Debian GNU/Hurd and in those results the numbers were generally close, though Debian GNU/Linux was running about 4% faster in some and with the MP3 encoding the Linux OS was nearly 20% faster. Debian GNU/Hurd is an interesting project but for now its support is still in shambles, the hardware support is vastly outdated, and there is also no SMP support at this time. Regardless, it will be interesting to see how Debian GNU/Hurd turns out for the 7.0 Wheezy milestone."


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Multi-Shot Molding
Multi-shot Molding Incorporates Five Materials in One-Piece Handle
Philips Oral Healthcare, a division of Philips Consumer, turned to Phillips-Medisize to incorporate five materials in a one-piece toothbrush handle. Four of the seven total parts are created using the multi-shot molding process.
The multi-shot molding process, combined with the creation of a one-cavity tool, makes it possible for Philips Oral Healthcare to achieve optimum durability and aesthetic appeal of its Sonicare® Elite electric toothbrush. As an added benefit, the program helps Philips Oral Healthcare save on assembly and material costs.
Testing the Waters
Being a consumer product that is used daily, it's a given that over time the Sonicare® Elite would get dropped and become exposed to elements such as abrasive toothpastes and excess water. As the program progressed, representatives from Phillips-Medisize played an important role in choosing materials that could withstand these mishaps. The rugged, durable materials selected for the toothbrush were chosen based on these worst case scenarios, but the product still had to endure rigorous testing to ensure it would hold up in these extreme cases. Scrupulous chemical, drop, and wash testing were done to determine if the parts were strong enough to hold up. In the end, the product endured the tests, proving it was fit to be used in even the toughest everyday settings.
"I have a very favorable impression of working with Phillips-Medisize. Both Philips Oral Healthcare and Phillips-Medisize are focused on putting the best foot forward to make the best quality product. I received 100% support from every team member – engineers, manufacturing support, supervisors, management, and the people on the floor – everyone stepped up to help out."
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World Percussion covers a vast range of instruments, both ancient and modern, that are either played with the hands or struck with a beater. Percussion is important in music education as it develops rhythm and has links with mathematics, history and culture.
Using world percussion is an excellent way of adding intriguing and unusual sounds into your music and many of today's top artists actively employ many percussion sounds. Probably the most recognised percussion instruments today come from Africa (drumming), South America (Latin percussion) and the Caribbean (steel pans).
African percussion mainly uses hand drums called Djembe to build complex rhythms that are supported by foil metal attachments played in a similar way to cymbals. These are known as Kessing-Kessing after the sound they make. Also common are basket shakers called Caxixi and Gourd Shekeres.
Latin percussion also invokes passion and energy by using hand drums, known as Congas, Bongos and Cajon as well as lighter rhythms from Maracas and Rainsticks.
Caribbean steel pans are made from oil drums of different sizes tuned with different notes and the different sized pans make up steel pan bands. Percussion can be divided into tuned percussion – such as steel pans, marimbas, glockenspiels, xylophones, where individual notes are struck; and non-tuned percussion where the instrument is not tuned to different notes but relies on different tones emanating from the instrument depending on which part of the surface of the instrument is played.
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Few things in life inspire more awe or hope than the miracle of a newborn child. Whether that child fulfils her or his vast potential is largely in the hands of the family, the community and country into which she or he is born.
The early years of life are crucial. When well nurtured and cared for in their earliest years, children are more likely to survive, to grow in a healthy way, to have less disease and fewer illnesses, and to fully develop thinking, language, emotional and social skills. When they enter school, their prospects for performing well are improved. And as adolescents, they are likely to have greater self-esteem. Later in life, they have a greater chance of becoming creative and productive members of society.
In just one generation, these human gains can help break the cycles of poverty, disease and violence that affect so many countries.
It is a child's right to have every chance to survive and thrive. Moreover, ensuring optimal conditions for a child's early years is one of the best investments that a country can make if it is to compete in a global economy based on the strength of its human capital.
Yet, tragically, the early childhood years tend to receive the least attention and lowest investment from governments. Every year, some 132 million infants around the world attempt an extraordinary sprint – from defenceless newborns to pro-active three-year-olds. And every year, countless numbers of them are stopped in their tracks – deprived, in one way or another, of the love, care, nurturing, health, nutrition and protection that they need to survive, grow, develop and learn.
Out of 100 children born in 2000, 30 will most likely suffer from malnutrition in their first five years of life, 26 will not be immunized against the basic childhood diseases, 19 will lack access to safe drinking water and 40 to adequate sanitation, and 17 will never go to school. In developing countries, every fourth child lives in abject poverty, in families with an income of less than $1 a day.
The most egregious consequence is that nearly 11 million children each year – about 30,000 children a day – die before reaching their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable causes. Of these children, 4 million die in their first month of life. In many of the world's poorest countries, child mortality rates have either not changed or else they have worsened. In sub-Saharan Africa, child mortality averages 173 deaths per 1,000 live births, and in South Asia 98 deaths per 1,000 – many times the industrialized country average of 7 deaths per 1,000.
But even when children do survive, they too often do not thrive. At least 10 per cent of all children – over 200 million in all – suffer some form of physical and/or mental disability or developmental delay (significantly low cognitive ability). An even larger number suffer from diminished learning capabilities and other disadvantages that limit their overall prospects for reaching their full potential.
Although it is never too late to improve the quality of a child's life, the first three years are the most crucial for their survival and thriving. Frequent illness, unsanitary environments and poor nutrition steal a child's potential. Overburdened families may not have the information or time to spend in stimulating play with their child. If the extraordinarily receptive brain of the child lacks the stimulation for which it is primed during the first three years, the possibility for various types of learning may be substantially reduced – during key developmental periods, some parts of a child's brain can nearly double in size in a year.
The process of giving children the best start in life begins even before birth. Poor nutrition and ill health on the part of a mother can lead to low birth weight in her children, putting them at much greater risk of developmental delay, malnutrition and death. Moreover, poor health and nutrition multiply the risks that women will die of complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. The consequences are doubly tragic because children's chances of survival and well-being drop dramatically when deprived of a mother's care. Each year, more than 500,000 women die because of complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, almost all in developing countries. A woman's lifetime risk of death during pregnancy or labour is 1 in 13 in sub-Saharan Africa and 1 in 55 in South Asia, while the average for industrialized countries is 1 in 4,100. And for each woman who dies, 30 others develop serious disabilities that may affect their ability to care for their children.
The reasons behind maternal mortality and morbidity are manifold, ranging from poverty and illiteracy to discrimination against women and girls. Breaking this cycle begins with ensuring that every infant girl receives as much attention and care as that given to a boy, that girls as well as boys think of themselves as learning individuals, and that the rights of girls and women are respected within the entire society. Especially in societies where discrimination is rampant, girls benefit more than boys from interventions that foster their physical, cognitive and emotional development. For example, in Nepal, children from disadvantaged families who had the opportunity to attend non-formal pre-school were 20 per cent more likely to attend school than those who did not. But for girls, the effect was even greater: they were 36 per cent more likely to enter school.
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We are rapidly closing in on the February meeting for S3OLV. You might remember reading about the upcoming meeting here.
We are looking to have an excellent meeting this month. We have had a good run on superb presentations, and Troy aims to keep us going in the right direction.
Troy will be teaching us how to use the Merge statement. He will help us to learn how this statement can help improve our queries.
We will also continue our ugly code segment. Bring your ugly code. Send your ugly code to admin at s3olv dot com. We are doing this segment in an effort to have the group help each other and learn from each other. Honestly, it is also an effort to help drive up group interaction.
Here is the information for the meeting.
Date: February 9, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM Pacific
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Beco Gemini Baby Carrier
Talk about versatile! The Gemini, Beco's newest model, is a front carrier, back carrier and hip carrier. In fact, the Gemini offers six different ways to carry your child hands-free from birth until she weighs 35 pounds. ($130, becobabycarrier.com)
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ErgoBaby Sport Carrier
Perfect for on-the-go summer vacations, the ErgoBaby Sport Carrier is designed to keep baby and parent cooler with a blend of cotton and polyester fabrics. And with a waistband that adjusts from 30 inches to 48 inches, it's a perfect choice for more than one parent or caregiver to share. ($105; ergobabycarriers.com)
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phil&teds Pepe
We love the one-handed loading and adjustment and the silky New Zealand merino wool that is anti-microbial, washable and excellent at regulating body temperature. ($80; toysrus.com)
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Babywearing coat by Lilies of the Valley
It's a maternity, nursing and babywearing jacket all in one! In fact, it's simply an ingenious invention that works for moms in almost any stage of life—even post baby. ($112; babywearing.etsy.com)
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Morph by Mamas and Papas
One of our favorite new baby-gear makers is throwing their hat into the babywearing ring. The Morph has a molded pod that offers support but is still breathable. And forget the learning curve, the Morph goes on and off like a jacket. (coming in April, $150; mamasandpapas.com)
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BabyBjörn Comfort Carrier
Finally a Björn for the toddler set! The new Comfort Carrier's adjustable waist belt transfers your child's weight to your hips, letting you go hands-free from 3 months until about age 2. And depending on your baby's age and size, the leg holes adjust for a perfect fit. ($200; giggle.com)
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Infantino EcoSash
We love that the EcoSash just wraps and ties, meaning there are no complicated buckles to figure out. Baby can ride in front, facing you or forward, or be carried on your back. Plus, it's easy to clean: Simply put the carrier in the provided mesh bag and throw in the washer. ($60; babiesrus.com)
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Belle Organic Jubilee Carrier
Count Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba among the fans of Belle baby carriers. The design promotes bonding because no fabric separates baby from parent. Belle's washable carrier is made of organic cotton with hemp-blend straps. ($110; bellebabycarriers.com)
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The folks at BabyHawk know that all moms are different and allow you to custom-order one of their soft structure mei tai carriers to suit your own personal style. Pick your fabric, your strap color and add to cart! A mei tai (pronounced "may tie") is basically a rectangular piece of fabric with straps on all four corners. Wrap and tie the straps to get a perfect fit. (Starting at $80; babyhawk.com)
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Moby Wrap
Moby moms (celebs Brooke Shields and Elisabeth Hasselbeck included) swear by these wrap-style baby carriers. While there is a slight learning curve for using the Moby, it's worth the effort. The snug wrap evenly distributes baby's weight, making for a comfy (and secure) carry for everyone. (Starting at $40; mobywrap.com)


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CORTLAND, NY -- Training camp is open. Finally: hitting, passing, gassers, sleds, 7-on-7's and full-squad scrimmages. Sweaty, satisfying football action!
[Eric] Fisher will receive a signing bonus of $14.518 million, with $10 million of that coming in five days, according to Ian Rapoport. The cash-flow issue (having up-front money) was what was negotiated in exchange for having offset language in the deal. -- Gregg Rosenthal, NFL.com.
Yes, yes, cash flow and offset language. But what about quarterback battles and new systems, scuffles between rookie defenders and veteran tackles that the coach tsk-tsks with a gleam in his eye? Unheralded nobodies moving up the depth chart and one-handed catches along the sideline and …
Matt Ryan just took a giant leap up the quarterback pay scale, striking a five-year, $103.75 million extension with the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday that makes him the NFL's second-highest paid player … His new deal -- with a $63 million three-year payout that is the most in league history -- contains an average salary of $20.75 million that ranks second to the $22 million average garnered by Green Bay Packers star Aaron Rodgers in April. It leapfrogs the $20.1 million average that Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco received with his six-year, $120.6 million deal in March, at the time the biggest deal in NFL history.
Sheesh, what's with all the math? Better focus on Cowboys camp: there won't be any mamby-pamby, geeky-weeky number crunching …
If you're running straight from the line of scrimmage, six yards deep, that's a certain depth, right? It takes you a certain amount of time. But if you're doing it from 10 yards inside and running to that same six yards, that's the hypotenuse of that right triangle. It's longer, right? … We talked about Pythagoras and it's been going for the last few days. -- Jason Garrett
High school geometry? JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT, GARRETT PULLED ME BACK IN. At least that explains this leaked page from Tony Romo's playbook, including his study notes:
Such is the nature of the first week of camp: starving fans are served a seminar on the cost-benefit analysis of steak. First-round picks haggle for a few days over the language in the fourth years of their contracts, and it is big news. Young veteran quarterbacks sign the contract extensions we all knew they would eventually sign, and it is big news. Jason Garrett discusses the hypotenuse of a triangle … well, that was bound to be news, no matter what. The Wall Street Journal stuff gave way almost immediately to the New England Journal of Medicine reports, with Dennis Pitta of the Ravens and Jeremy Maclin of the Eagles suffering season-ending injuries before we could even settle into the whole "preseason report" routine.
Before we major in on-field goodness, we have to slog through the freshman requirements in econ and anatomy. Most teams were still not practicing in pads until late in the week, and a few teams were not yet practicing at all (the Bills opened camp on Sunday evening). But our insatiable craving for football news had us scrutinizing the ledgers instead of watching the grass grow beneath stretching players. First-round pick and franchise quarterback extensions were all we had for much of the week, and it was better than nothing.
Looking for camp … in all the wrong places?
With the NFL news wire reading like midday CNBC, it was time to head to Cortland, where the Jets unveiled something different this year: an actual training camp. Not a Tebow Circus, Rex Ryan Comedy Jam, or ESPN programming marathon, but an organized attempt to prepare football players for a successful (or at least not depressingly inept) season.
Those of us who were in Cortland both last year and this year could feel the difference immediately, in part because there were about half as many of us this year. Watching Mark Sanchez clown around with Stephen Hill on the sideline, or rookie Sheldon Richardson breeze through a press conference that focused on fundamentals instead of telenovela theatrics, it was clear that the Jets were looser. That is not the same as being better, but it is a step in the right direction.
The "Circus is Over" storyline is the prevailing storyline in the opening days of Jets camp. Braylon Edwards first made the observation late last week. Edwards was not in camp with the Jets in 2012 -- he was competing with Terrell Owens for reps in Seattle, which must have been its own little carnival -- but he has been an on-and-off member of the Jets for years and knows the culture. "Just listening to people, there's been a consistent theme people are happy about," he said of the new, buttoned-down tone.
So the suddenly businesslike Jets delivered the cure for the Talkin' Offset Language Cap Management Amortization Blues this weekend. The team was in shells on Saturday, which usually cuts down on the hitting, but tempers flared when low-string wide receiver Vidal Hazelton pushed off of Antonio Cromartie during 1-on-1 receiving drills. Cromartie walloped Hazelton after the catch, and both parties came up jawin' and shovin'. An old-fashioned, rite-of-summer donnybrook ensued: nothing serious, but enough to clear the dollar signs from the brain. Another tussle between obscure players broke out during Sunday's spongy afternoon session. Ahhhhh, contact talk, not contract talk.
The Jets are awash in storylines; this year, most of them are refreshingly non-ridiculous. There is a quarterback controversy, though it provided few fireworks in the early days of camp. Mark Sanchez took all of the reps with the first-team offense on Saturday and he looked precisely Mark Sanchez-ish, rudimentarily competent when required to do little more than fire short passes. Geno Smith, live-armed and inexperienced, ran the second team on Saturday and got a few first-team reps on Sunday while Sanchez handled one-on-one drills. He enjoyed his moments -- a read option in which he outran upstate New York, a bomb to up-and-coming receiver Clyde Gates, another bomb to Stephen Hill -- but also demonstrated his inexperience by overthrowing the occasional screen pass. Already, this year's quarterback battle feels more like a "who will win" scenario than last year's "what will this team resort to" sadness.
The Jets have new players at the skill positions. Edwards and Kellen Winslow are in camp to recreate the magic of 2007 Cleveland Browns football. No, no, that is "old Jets" talk. General manager John Idzik is familiar with both from their time in Seattle last year (Edwards in a handful of games, Winslow during a brief camp stint), so the Jets are really trying to recreate the magic of the 2012 Seahawks training camp, which worked out much better than 2012 New York Jets camp.
Idzik called Edwards a "plug 'n' play" receiver who can walk right into a system and pick up his role. As a veteran on the decline who was waived by Idzik's Seahawks late last year, his role may be to serve as a veteran security blanket during camp and the early part of the season, while the team develops Gates and a deep pool of other big, promising receiving prospects. Edwards is clearly a step slower than he was in his 2007 heyday, but still has the size and body control to make leaping catches and work inside of press defense.
As for Winslow, he rode from the team facility to the practice field on a bicycle; either that, or the Jets just signed Chris Froome. Winslow is in shape and behaving normally when not trying to climb back into the Peloton, but Jeff Cumberland looks better than Winslow right now and faster than he looked last year.
There are other football stories. Santonio Holmes is hurt, a sure sign of July. Journeyman running back Mike Goodson's status is a mystery; he was arrested on a sampler platter of DWI-drug-possession-weapons charges in May, but he is not incarcerated or suspended, so he should be here. Goodson's absence is getting stoked as a scandal/cover-up by some of the New York media crew, who may just be reflexively focusing on the non-football stories after a full season of non-football. Goodson is an obscure, knockaround player who was not particularly good in his best season (which was 2010, for the 2-14 Panthers).
Goodson's absence has paved the way for John Griffin to get more reps. Griffin is a second-year back from UMass who is fast and has great receiving skills. Griffin spun his body and leapt to make a catch along the sideline on Saturday, though he bobbled some kick returns in the rain on Sunday; coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said that Goodson has the talent to play a role but most improve his consistency. The same can be said of Goodson, but Griffin already appears to have more talent and consistency.
I don't want to oversell the transformation. Veterans who were cut by the Seahawks are not going to make the Jets contenders. In some important ways, Jets camp has not changed. The defense is still well ahead of the offense, though that is a typical July phenomenon at every camp. Most passing drills look like sack-and-pass-breakup drills. Referees supervised the one-on-one drills that briefly erupted in Cromartie-versus-Other-Guy violence, and they threw so many yellow flags that it looked like early leafing season in Cortland County.
But the madness has subsided, and one of the biggest reasons is Idzik, who provides the Jets with something every interesting NFL organization needs: a really boring guy. Come to Cortland to get away from the money stories and focus on the hitting. Stay for the new general manager, who has his mind on the money.
Move Over Dad, 'Cuz I'm a Double Dipper
Offset language is a by-product of the dream logic that prevails in the world of the NFL contract. Since 2011, all first-round picks have signed four-year contracts which are really five-year contracts which only last three years. From there, it gets confusing.
At the end of the third year, the team can pick up the option for the player's fifth year, or they can flat-out release the player. If they release the player, they must pay him his salary for that fourth year, even if another team picks him up and signs him to a new contract. But through the miracle of offset language, the team can specify in the contract that it is off the hook if it releases a player and another team signs him, making a four-year contract with a fifth-year option a three-year contract with a sort-of fourth year option and a fifth year option.
You are probably swallowing your tongue right now, and that was the simplified definition. It's amazing how much NFL coverage revolves around offset language in late July, when offset language itself is one of the most tedious morsels of accounting I can imagine, and it is a difficult issue for most of us to relate to. Basically, teams are trying to squirm out of the four-year contracts that they agreed to when they negotiated the rookie salary cap in 2011, while players are trying to codify their right to "double dip" for a year. Both sides are hedging -- the team against making a bad pick, the player against not fulfilling his potential -- which makes the whole business unseemly, if understandable. The player and team (and the fans and the writers) want to see the player in a helmet on July 28th, 2013, but the player and team are focused on who will write what check in the spring of 2016. It's an argument over the prenuptial agreement during the bouquet toss.
But offset language keeps players out of camp, so it is a matter of interest. Eric Fisher agreed to offset language in exchange for the quicker delivery of up-front money, 2013 bucks being worth more than 2016 bucks as a simple rule of economics. Fisher was the first pick in the draft, so no one is safe from offset language moving forward: look for 2014 to be the last offset battleground, for better or worse.
But this summer, offset language is still a team-by-team trench war, and no team exemplifies that like the Jets. First-round pick Sheldon Richardson is practicing here in Cortland, while fellow first-round pick Dee Milliner is holding out.* Richardson signed a contract with offset language. Milliner's holdout is almost certainly offset related. Idzik made it clear that the Jets are insistent about offset language, and he isn't budging. Idzik is not one to launch inflammatory quotes, but he said that there would be progress in the Milliner talks "whenever there's more than one party involved."
*UPDATE: Milliner agreed to terms with the Jets on Sunday night. Terms were not disclosed.
Idzik arrived from Seattle with a reputation as a cap guru, so the offset language standoff makes sense. So far, he has been even more than a bursar for the Jets. He is a detail guru, an executive who appears to be bringing organization back to the Jets organization. Mark Sanchez singled him out as the person who has changed the team's personality. "You talk to the guy: He doesn't say much," Sanchez said. "There's not much to say. Go put it on the film, we'll evaluate it, we'll play the best players we've got and go win as many games as possible; it seems like a simple formula, but when you get back to basics sometimes that's the most effective way to do things."
Idzik used similar words to say the same things on Saturday. "In the NFL, you are going to live with distractions and to the extent that you can maintain your focus on the tasks at hand," he said. "But if you can just focus on the basics … yes, we have tried to instill that mindset not only with the players but throughout the organization. And hopefully you're sensing that." He realized while talking about staying focused on the basics that he lapsed into cliché-speak. "It sounds so trite," he admitted. It does, but this was a team that ignored the trite-and-true in recent years, with disastrous results.
Idzik talked about communication and consensus building, about basing decisions on an "accumulation" of evidence. Some of my colleagues, bless their Jets PTSD-suffering souls, sense a power struggle. Who really has final say on personnel matters or the quarterback controversy: Ryan, Idzik, or Woody Johnson? For the recent Jets, that was always the best question to ask. But for better organizations, that is often the worst question, because the "final say" is organizational.
"It's a collaborative effort, guys," Idzik said, sounding a little exasperated with final-say questions. "It's not how it seems: that you wake up one morning and everyone's waiting out with bated breath on someone with the scroll." In the past, a Jets executive talking about opening a scroll would prompt a Seventh Seal apocalypse joke, but times are slowly changing.
The Seahawks created a new culture of success while Idzik was there; they made it irrelevant whether a particular decision was made by Pete Carroll, John Schneider, Idzik, or Paul Allen. Idzik may not be able to transplant that in New York, but players have noticed that he is trying.
The Dollars and Sense of Quarterback Salaries
Matt Ryan needs to thank Joe Flacco for his new contract. I read that sentiment several times in the last four days, in Tweets and blog posts and on comment threads. I picture Falcons owner Arthur Blank and general manager Thomas Dimitroff, their eyes blurry and shirts pitted, brainstorming into the night among empty cartons of low-mien:
ARTHUR BLANK: Gosh, Tom, I am at my wit's end. Our quarterback is excellent, and he is in the final year of his contract. He could leave and seek employment elsewhere if we do not act soon. What on earth do we do about it? Should we throw him a party? Buy him a new hat?
THOMAS DMITROFF: Say, you know what the Ravens recently did? They paid their young, successful quarterback an incredibly large sum of money. He signed the contract, and that solved their problem.
ARTHUR BLANK: Why, that's brilliant! By offering financial compensation which accurately represents the value and scarcity of the player's skills, we can extend his period of employment! It's a totally new economic paradigm!
Yes, the Falcons learned their lesson from watching the Ravens. They learned that if they let their playoff-caliber quarterback play out the final year of his contract, he may have a sudden late season surge that propels the team to a Super Bowl victory, then sign back with his team for a huge wad of money, though not quite as huge as what the Falcons ended up paying Ryan…
Wait a minute: the Falcons learned nothing from the Ravens! They did everything exactly opposite of the way the Ravens did, though trying to repeat the Ravens model would be unwise for a number of reasons.
Quarterback contracts are a matter of slow inflation. The highest paid quarterback is typically among the most recently paid quarterbacks, and the contracts of Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, and Joe Flacco will only look like a big deal until Colin Kaepernick gets deeper into the third year of his four-year contract and Robert Griffin III gets to discuss his importance to the Redskins in 24 months or so.
There was a lot of conversation about whether Ryan is worth the money, a drearily prepackaged sports-talk debate in which we all pretend to fathom the difference between 20 and 21 million dollars. Terrell Davis unintentionally hammered home the futility of such a "worth it" debate when talking about Texans quarterback Matt Schaub on Friday: "Until he gets to the Super Bowl, I cannot consider Matt Schaub a potential Super Bowl quarterback." Well, once he gets to the Super Bowl he is no longer a potential Super Bowl quarterback, is he? Until a quarterback proves absolutely that he will earn Super Bowl money, he will appear to not deserve Super Bowl money, and once he wins a Super Bowl, he may well be too expensive to re-sign.
These are the kinds of problems that the Jets would love to have. They extended Sanchez's contract last year, a decision that did not reflect consensus or collaboration, but did raise questions about who within the organization had final say. Sanchez is now a walking, talking freshman philosophy class conundrum: would you rather have eight million dollars and no respect from the public at large, or a living wage and a name that does not prompt immediate giggles?
A few days in Cortland serve as a helpful reminder that Sanchez can walk, chew gum and throw a football 20 yards with some zip and accuracy. He is also a fifth-year veteran who does the things veteran quarterbacks do: barks and jokes at his teammates, takes charge of drills, runs the simple stuff as if he has been doing it for years (which he has). The NFL is full of mediocre-to-middling quarterbacks, and it is possible to win a bunch of games with one if the circumstances around him change. Circumstances are changing, from the front office culture to the offensive staff (it's hard to get a sense of Mornhinweg's system from a few practices, but the Eagles at their worst were never as hapless as Tony Sparano's Jets), to the skill position rebuild.
Sanchez could end up becoming another "circumstance," sooner than later. Smith demonstrated velocity and release quickness unlike anything the Jets have had in recent years. Last year's backup quarterback reps were essentially wasted practice time. The defense blew up the plays too easy to get anything out of it, receivers had no hope of seeing a crisp pass whether they were open or not, and few Wildcat-type plays were executed in full-pad practices, lest the ever-present ESPN cameras see too much. Smith already executes plays well enough to make reps meaningful for his receivers: another tiny step in the right direction.
Sanchez-fatigued fans may clamor for Smith, but there is no sense of urgency right now. Smith's second-round status and Jets-friendly contract are part of the reason. Idzik and his staff negotiated a deal with Smith and his Jay Z-backed agents that did not include a "quarterback premium," the sweetener middle-round quarterbacks often receive to signify that they are in a different situation than, say, a middle-round linebacker. Smith's deal also includes bonuses tied to offseason workouts, a hedge that will discourage holdouts or flighty behavior from a player who scared off some teams by the way he handled the pre-draft process. Insiders are chirping that the novice agency got snookered. The bigger story should be that the Jets were the ones doing the snookering.
Loud Silence
As the discussion returns once more to dollars and contractual minutiae, we look again to the field at SUNY-Cortland for a nourishing dose of real football, even if it is just in shells, like on Saturday, or delayed and rain-drenched, like on Sunday.
The Jets ran some direct snap plays on Saturday, with Sanchez split wide while Jeremy Kerley executes a Pistol option and Bilal Powell or Joe McKnight take snaps and fire up the middle. These are not necessarily bad-acid flashbacks to Sparano: Mornhinweg had some direct snap plays in his Eagles playbook back when Brian Westbrook was around to run them. Last year, of course, Wildcat flourishes were big news in Jets camp. Now, they are camp notes, as they should be.
While Milliner holds out, Richardson demonstrates some of the confidence that made admirers of some and detractors of others during his college career. "I ain't stuggling," Richardson said of his rookie adjustment. "I'm picking it up pretty fast." Richardson batted a pass back into reserve quarterback Greg McElroy's face during an 11-on-11 drill. "I hope I don't get a fine," he said. "I was kinda close to [the] quarterback".
Quinton Coples, drafted as a defensive end, took his first reps as a hybrid end/outside linebacker, but was not nearly as confident as Richardson as a rookie last year. When asked about Idzik's role in changing the team's personality, Coples delivered a priceless response: "Who?"
John Idzik: the general manager. (Coples knows this; he just did not hear the question clearly.) The person who will have the final say on major personnel decisions, but only after accumulating consensus. The guy who worries about dollars and cents. The guy who doesn't say much, but who is sending a loud message to Dee Milliner, and who has upstaged the fading bluster of Rex Ryan. The best way to intrigue jaded, traumatized Jets observers is to bore them.
Speaking of Ryan, he has been toning down his act for years, and it was refreshing to hear a tactician from a family of tacticians talk about strategy instead of using the daily press conferences as performance art platforms. Ryan talked a little about the read-option, how good he thinks Geno Smith can be at it, how effective he wants to be at executing and stopping it, how defenses addressed it back in Fran Tarkenton's younger days (it involved stitches to the face) and why such tactics will not work today. "The zone read, the option, is just mathematics," Ryan said. "The offense is trying to get the numbers advantage."
Now Ryan is talking mathematics? What hath this Idzik character wrought? Ryan is making sense for now, but if he starts spouting right triangle trigonometry, it may be time to worry about what is written on that scroll.


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The former Sahara has been surrounded by chain link fencing since owners Sbe, whose chairman and chief executive is Sam Nazarian, closed the historic hotel about two years ago.
The company is pumping $415 million into renovating the property, which has stood on the Strip since 1952. The Los Angeles-based developers plan to incorporate plenty of familiar, Southland chic into their latest project.
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The fee for murdering one of the greatest rappers of all time? $13,000.
COMPLEX interviewed the LAPD detective who was in charge of Biggie's murder investigation from 2006 to 2009, and he's absolutely convinced that Suge Knight's right hand man Poochie killed Biggie and Orlando Anderson killed Pac. He also explains why the investigation will never be officially solved, even if it is considered solved internally by the L.A.P.D.. This is probably one of the most controversial interview's to say the least.
Fifteen years after Biggie's murder, retired detective Greg Kading debunks a few bogus theories and explains why the case will never officially be solved.
According to the police detective who spent three years investigating the murder of Biggie Smalls, the man pictured above—Wardell Fouse a.k.a Darnell Bolton a.k.a. "Poochie"—was the triggerman who killed Biggie fifteen years ago today. His fee for murdering the greatest rapper of all time? $13,000.
On March 9, 1997, Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death while sitting in a Chevy Su
burban outside of a hip-hop industry party in Los Angeles. Biggie's drive-by shooting occurred just six months after his friend turned foe, 25-year-old Tupac Shakur, suffered a similar fate after a boxing match in Las Vegas. These killings remain the worst tragedies in hip-hop history.
Seeing the two greatest rappers of a generation cut down in their prime was bad enough. The death of two young men who were so beloved by their family, friends, and fans was worse still. Adding insult to injury, Big and Pac were both murdered on busy city streets, in view of numerous witnesses. Yet there has never been an arrest in either case and both murders remain officially unsolved to this day.
Greg Kading is neither a journalist nor a conspiracy theorist. A retired L.A.P.D. detective, he was in charge of the special task force that investigated Christopher Wallace's murder.
Although the police investigations in Los Angeles and Las Vegas have failed to bring the truth to light, there is no shortage of websites, documentaries, and books detailing various theories and counter-theories—ranging from rap beef and gang violence to crooked cops and government conspiracies. But the latest book to be published, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. by Greg Kading (second photo), is different from the rest.
Kading is neither a journalist nor a conspiracy theorist. A retired L.A.P.D. detective, he was in charge of the special task force that investigated Christopher Wallace's murder between 2006 and 2009. After Biggie's mother Voletta Wallace filed suit against the City of Los Angeles and the L.A.P.D.—seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages—the department was highly motivated to solve the case. That's when Kading got the assignment.
After his efforts led to two sworn confessions from people who said they played a part in the killings of Wallace and Shakur, Kading was suddenly pulled off the case. At the time, he was under investigation by L.A.P.D. Internal Affairs for allegedly making false statements on an affidavit in a separate case. However, in the end, Internal Affairs cleared Kading of any wrongdoing. Around the same time, the Wallace family's lawsuit was dismissed.
When the 22-year veteran saw the case he built being shelved, he became so frustrated that he quit the force—but not before making copies of his evidence so that he could put all his findings into a book. His conclusions are controversial to be sure, but they are so thoroughly researched that they're hard to ignore.
Complex caught up with Kading to talk about the results of his investigation, why no arrests have ever been made, and why he believes these cases will never be officially solved.
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On Biggie's Murder
"Suge Knight was absolutely enraged. Not only had he been shot at, but his friend [Tupac Shakur] was killed next to him in the car. Suge always knew who was responsible. He looked directly into the eyes of Keefe D, who was in the shooter's car. Keefe D was a member of the Southside Crips and a well known person to Suge. That explains why the next day this huge war broke out in Compton between Suge Knight's gang entourage and Keefe D's gang entourage.
"Suge Knight ended up going to jail on a probation violation, stemming from the beating of Orlando Anderson [Ed. Note—Anderson is Keefe D's nephew, also a Southside Crip who allegedly shot Tupac.] in the MGM Grand hotel. While Suge was in jail, he conspired with his girlfriend. Suge gave her the directive to get Poochie.
Poochie lay in wait outside the Petersen Automotive Museum. As soon as he became aware of where Biggie was sitting in his car, he drove up, and he shot him.
"Wardell 'Poochie' Fouse was paid to kill Biggie. At the time, he was a 36-year old member of the Mob Piru Bloods. According to several Death Row insiders and FBI informants, Poochie was a down-for-the-cause, hardcore gang member. Confidential sources from the Death Row entourage, the Mob Pirus, and [Suge's girlfriend, identified in Kading's book by the alias "Theresa Swann"], said Poochie had done shootings for Suge in the past. Reggie Wright Jr.—who was the head of Death Row security—said Suge and Poochie's relationship was different than other members of the gang. They had a very secretive and exclusive relationship.
"[Suge's girlfriend] and Poochie agreed to terms. He received two payments, one for $9000 and one for $4000. Poochie lay in wait outside the Petersen Automotive Museum. As soon as he became aware of where Biggie was sitting in his car, he drove up and he shot him."
On Whether The Cases Will Ever Be Solved
"It comes down to how you define solved. Both law enforcement agencies—the Las Vegas Police Department and the L.A.P.D.—have drawn the conclusions that Tupac was killed by Orlando Anderson and Biggie Smalls was killed by Wardell 'Poochie' Fouse.
"Those are the facts within law enforcement. They're considered solved internally, but the public's definition of solved is different. They haven't gone through the judicial process and nobody has been prosecuted.
"Both shooters are dead. Orlando Anderson was killed outside a Compton record shop in May 1998. Poochie died in July 2003 as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton. He was supposedly killed as a result of in-fighting between the Mob Pirus—Suge's Blood associates—and another Blood gang known as the Fruit Town Pirus.
Both shooters are dead…That's all the justice that these cases will see.
"That's all the justice that these cases will see. The co-conspirators are never going to be prosecuted. Unfortunately, the cases are so complicated and convoluted. These will never see criminal prosecution.
"The co-conspirators are absolutely known and I say that with conviction. I worked directly on these cases for years and know exactly where they stand within law enforcement. They would be very problematic prosecutions because of all of the convoluted peripheral issues that were raised during the investigation.
"The D.A. in Los Angeles knows that this is an extremely difficult situation to try and prosecute. Here's the problem; You've got [Suge's girlfriend] confessing, and then, there was a bad move by law enforcement to give her immunity. The shooter's dead, the female confessor has immunity, so you just have Suge Knight.
"The D.A.'s office in Los Angeles has a policy: They don't prosecute murders based on the testimony of one witness, which is now just the girlfriend. So the D.A.'s realizing, 'OK, what are we going to do? We're going to prosecute Suge Knight for solicitation of murder and the whole thing's based on the testimony of his girlfriend? We can bring in all this circumstantial stuff and we can bring in the history between these crews, but ultimately, a good defense attorney's going to say, Hey isn't this all just an elaborate cover-up, because the L.A.P.D. actually murdered Biggie?' The defense is going to try and turn the thing back around. So the D.A. realizes that there's not really a potential for a successful prosecution."


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Paypal is not staying behind in mobile payments. The highly popular internet bank has just announced Paypal Here and its mobile credit card reader. This would allow customers with a smartphone to charge credit cards straight from their devices, a feature that most users currently turn to Square for.
Paypal is a much larger company, though. And it is utilized by most users that deal with any type of internet currency transactions. It will be convenient to integrate this service to one's current Paypal account.
The global e-commerce company is also bringing a bit of extra competition by offering lower fees; charging 2.7%, as opposed to Square's 2.75%. The app and encrypted card reader are offered for free. Paypal also reminds us that their free debit card offers 1% cashback, virtually bringing the fee down to 1.7%.
It is fairly simple to operate. The user needs to set how much the customer will be paying. After that, they simply swipe the card, and hand the device over to get a signature (and a tip). It is even possible to send a receipt to the customer's phone. The app also works as a checkbook, as it records purchases made with cash or checks. And if the card can't be read, the credit card transaction can be done manually.
The free card reader looks rather nice, albeit a bit bigger and bulkier than Square's. It features a sliding "wing," which helps stabilize the reader with the phone's support when connected to the headset jack. It looks like a great option for small businesses and individuals.
If you are looking to join the party, you might have to wait a bit. The app will first be launched for iOS, which is what Paypal used to demo the new product. But an Android app is in the works, so we shouldn't have to wait too much.
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They say luck favors the prepared. My 18-year-old neighbor Ian Baker caught this awesome scene last week at Seminole State College where he is a student. Ian and his brother Tim, who is also a student at SSC, always have their cameras on them. Ian shot this photo with a Rebel T2i near the Student Center at the college around 6:30pm.
He noticed the squirrels eating and liked the light so he started snapping away not knowing he would capture this shot of two squirrels frozen in the air in mid fight.
"I was happy it came out in focus," said Baker who does photography and video mostly as a hobby.
People love photographs and video of animals doing funny things. Just look at YouTube. I tell myself that I am a serious photojournalist taking photographs that I feel tell a story and are meaningful, but my most famous work is a video of a shark jumping over a surfer. True story.
I did not take the squirrel photograph but I wish I took that photograph. I would put that photograph in my portfolio.
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Georgia upsets top-seeded Stanford, advances to Elite Eight
Spokane, WA – Jasmine James led the way with 16 points as the fourth-seeded Georgia Lady Bulldogs used a second-half surge to take down the top-seeded Stanford Cardinal, 61-59, in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament at Spokane Arena.
Jasmine Hassell and Tiaria Griffin both netted 13 points for Georgia (28-6), which will advance to the Elite Eight to take on California. Shacobia Barbee and Anne Marie Armstrong were both crucial in the rebounding battle with 12 and 10 boards, respectively.
For Stanford (33-3), Chiney Ogwumike shined with 26 points and 12 points, while Amber Orrange added 17 points and eight boards.
Stanford took control of the game in the first half, outshooting Georgia from the field, 46.9 percent to 30.3 percent, as it carried a 34-27 lead into intermission.
The Cardinal led by eight, 42-34, midway through the second half, but the Lady Bulldogs surged ahead with a 10-0 run over the course of less than two minutes. The teams went on the seesaw down the stretch, and with the game tied at 56-56 with just over a minute remaining, Hassell drained the game-winning jumper to lift Georgia to the upset victory. The squad shot 3-of-4 from the foul line in the final 23 seconds to seal the deal.
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On Friday shares of Research in Motion shot higher, up more than 10% during the session. And lately those kinds of gains are nothing new.
The stock is more than 70% higher over the past 6 months. From a performance standpoint, RIM certainly has had a dramatic turnaround.
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Little Senegal (2001)
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A man goes on a pilgrimage in search of his heritage -- only this time it's an African coming to America in this offbeat drama. Alloune (Sotigui Kouyate) is an elderly man who works at a museum in his native Senegal that is devoted to documenting the history of the slave trade in Africa. Many people come to the museum hoping to learn about their past, and Alloune is equally curious about his own heritage, and his research into his family tree suggests that he had several relatives who were kidnapped and sold to slave traders working out of South Carolina. Alloune decides to visit America to learn more about his kin, and he uncovers documents suggesting his relatives were renamed Robinson by their masters in the U.S. Alloune's research dictates a trip to New York City, so he pays a visit to Hassan (Karim Koussein Traore), a nephew who lives in Harlem and drives a cab. Hassan and his girlfriend Biram (Adja Diarra) let Alloune stay with them in their tiny flat, and while in the neighborhood, Alloune makes the acquaintance of Ida Robinson (Sharon Hope), a sharp-tongued woman who owns a corner store. Alloune believes Ida may be one of his relatives, but he isn't certain, and while he tries to find out for certain, he convinces her to give him a job -- never explaining that he thinks their family trees may be linked. Little Senegal was shown in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Evan Rachel Wood gives birth to baby boy
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NEW YORK (AP) — Evan Rachel Wood is a mom.
Her representative said Monday that she gave birth to a baby boy. The 25-year-old actress married British actor Jamie Bell last year.
The rep adds that "parents and baby are all doing well." No more details were provided.
Wood's credits include "The Wrestler," ″Thirteen" and HBO's "True Blood." She earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her supporting role in "Mildred Pierce."
Bell, 27, is best known for his roles in the films "Billy Elliot," ″Jumper" and "The Adventures of Tintin."