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TRACY - It came down to one match.
Simeon Galano of Bear Creek took an early lead against Richard Vasquez of Tracy and went on to earn a third-round pin, giving the Bruins a 42-36 win over Tracy in a San Joaquin Athletic Association match on Tuesday at Swenson Gymnasium.
Bear Creek entered the final bout with a 12-point lead, but two forfeits by the Bruins and one by the Bulldogs set up the deciding match at 170 pounds between Galano and Vasquez.
"It felt great," Galano said. "I felt on top of the world.
"I just wanted to get the win so the team could get the victory."
Aaron Bugnao (113) and Nathan Morrison (160) had the Bruins' other pins. McKenzie Bacich (106) started out the match for Bear Creek (9-5, 2-3 SJAA) with a third-round technical fall, Bryce Bacich (138) won by major decision and Michael Enriquez (132) won by decision.
"It just worked out that it came down to the last match," Bruins coach Harold Bacich said. "Galano has been up and down this year, but he showed us something tonight."
Bear Creek picked up six crucial points when Tristen Jamarillo (145) was slammed to the mat and could not continue, disqualifying Zoheb Bafaiz.
"Bafaiz had him but let go of him on the way down," Tracy coach Tony Leanos said. "We have to stay composed and in control. Unfortunately, that was a 12-point swing against us."
Tracy (7-6, 2-3) had had three pins with Noah Blackwell (152 pounds) getting the fastest in 52 seconds. Albert Landeros (126) and Dalton Gualco (120) had the other two Bulldogs' pins.


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Oil Spill Flow Calculation Worksheet
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Using the images supplied in the worksheet and with the scale provided calculate the flow rate of oil out of the large riser pipe. The riser pipe has a 21.5 in outer diameter and a 19.5 in inner diameter. The time between images is 0.067 seconds. Please do your work on the back of this sheet. If you need to use the scale below, please tear it off and fold it to get a functional scale. (Note: 1 gal = 231 in3 and 1 barrel or bbl = 42 gal)
- Speed of the surface features of the jet is ____________
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It may be December, but it is definitely the time to start thinking ahead to Spring and building your luxury swimwear collection for next year! If you're like me then you like to stock up on all the must have swim styles early so that the minute the beach weather returns, you are ready to hit the sand and get some some in new sexy swimsuits. Of course I love to get the latest and greatest, but there are some sexy designer swimwear must haves that you should be adding to your holiday wish list this year, you know they will be on mine!
If you haven't already heard, the monokini is a one of the sexiest swimwear styles right now. We have seen almost every bikini clad celebrity rock a monokini at one time or another and everyone I know has at least one in their swimwear collection. If you aren't sure about wearing a one piece swimsuit, then check out these sexy monokini swimsuits that are sure to change your mind. The Rock The Boat Monokini and Jet Set Ready Monokinis from Lady Lux both have a super sexy cut and the perfect cutouts to show plenty of skin. The fun patterns on these designer swimsuits are right on trend for the new year and aren't going out of style anytime soon.
This next luxury swimwear must have on my list is the sexy black bikini. This one should be obvious, because black looks good on everyone and is the ultimate sexy option. A little black bikini doesn't have to be plain, the Tainted Love Bikini has gold and leather hardware for a very sexy and edgy look. For the more glam girl, the Rich Girl Black Bikini is the perfect pick, with rhinestone and gold embellishment that adds just the right amount of sparkle to this classic style. Whether you are headed to a beach paradise or a pool party, the little black bikini is your go-to swimsuit.


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Good news, the official Last.fm audio scrobbler is now available for openSUSE through the Packman package repositories.
Why do I care, you might question yourselves and you're partly right, openSUSE already ships a big bunch of multimedia apps (like Amarok, Clementine and Banshee) that all have Last.fm support built-in. However, for all of those you need a paid account to use it for anything else than just scrobbling, but the official app (still) allows to listen to Last.fm radios (like My Recommendations) for free!


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2013 Missoula Municipal Election Voting Advice for Procrastinators
The Missoula municipal election ballots were sent out to mail boxes weeks ago, but time is running out for voters to get them sent back in. If you forgot to check the mail, or have simply been waiting to cast your vote, there are a few
Since this is Missoula's first go at a mail-in only election for a municipal ballot, it's important to remember that the polls will not be open on Election Day, Tuesday November 5. However, mailing ballots at this point is probably a bad idea, according to Chief deputy for the Missoula County Elections Office Rebecca Connors.
"It's really cutting it close for mail return time because ballots are due by 8 p.m. on Election Day," Connors said. "Postmark does not apply for mail ballot elections or any elections. So it's really important to, at this point in time, be able to deliver those ballots in person. The drop off locations are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and they will each be manned by election judges."
There are nine different drop-off locations in Missoula, all of which are located at traditional polling locations.They are as follows:
- Missoula County Courthouse
- Missoula County Fairgrounds Elections Center
- Cold Springs Schools
- Hellgate elementary
- Paxson elementary
- Russell school
- Franklin school
- Lowell school
- Rattlesnake school
The ballot drop-off boxes should not be too hard to find. They look like this:


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It's a deeply nourishing elixir that I could feel coursing through my body into my bones making me feel instantly warmer and healthier. It lifted my spirits and rejuvenated me when I didn't realize I felt bad to begin with! I can't help but love a soup like that. I'm convinced it has magical properties. Magical, healing properties.
Try this if you're feeling under the weather or just need a little pick-me-up. It works wonders for the body, mind and soul!
1. In a soup pot or large saucepan heat the olive oil and saute onion, garlic and celery over medium-low heat until tender. Add sweet potato and salt; saute 3-4 more minutes.
2. Add seasonings, tomato, broth, chickpeas and kale. Bring to a boil and simmer slowly for 25 minutes until sweet potatoes are tender. Taste halfway through and adjust seasonings if needed. Remove bay leaf before serving. Serve immediately with crusty bread.
I'm linking this to Chaya of My Sweet and Savory for Meatless Mondays and to Deb of Kahakai Kitchen for her Souper (Soup, Salad, Sammie) Sundays event.
The winner of the Tassimo T20 is Raina of Garden of Yum and the winner of the Natural Vines giveaway is Emily Z. of EZ's Recipes. Congratulations to Raina and Emily Z. and thank you all for entering!


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Obama Finally Appoints IP Czar... Puts It In The Wrong Department
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And yet... there was no appointment for so long. Why? Well, a few weeks ago, it was explained that there was a fight over where to put the position and under what group Espinel's office would exist. The most obvious group was the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The problem? Most of the folks in OSTP actually seem to understand the problems of copyright law. They're fans of openness and understand things like Creative Commons. Entertainment industry lobbyists started to freak out again, that even if they got someone on "their side," that placing them in OSTP would stifle them, as the rest of the group might (gasp!) actually push back on attempts to stretch copyright enforcement towards the maximalist position. Instead, they wanted the position to be either its own office (entirely unlikely) or, in the Office of Management & Budget. Why OMB? No good reason. The position doesn't fit there at all... but putting it there keeps it away from those darn "copyleftists" in OSTP.
So where did the position end up? Yup... it's a part of OMB, just like Hollywood wanted. Lobbyists on all sides of the equation -- including consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, though, are saying that Espinel is a good appointee. I certainly hope so, though I disagree that the position should exist at all. Also, Espinel was formerly the IP boss for the US Trade Representative -- a group that has been known to push for more draconian IP laws, and to do so cloaked in secrecy. So... I'm hoping to be surprised, but putting the office in OMB and having someone from USTR isn't encouraging.


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New York Yankees v. Boston Red Sox Live On WBSM
We know you would love to be at Yankee Stadium for the New York Yankees game against the Boston Red Sox! So would we! And although we can't transport you to the Big Apple, you can still listen in on all the excitement on WBSM 1420 AM!
Tune in today at 8:05 p.m. to hear the entire game. Listen in for every score, foul, fly ball and home run. Catch every play as Koji Uehara takes the mound, Dustin Pedroia catches the ball or David Ortiz hits the ball clear out of the park! It will be the next best thing to being there, and it will surely be a game to remember.
So tune in and cheer along with the rest of Massachusetts during today's game. You don't want to miss it!


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Noblesse, Tower of God, Kubera, Breaker. All great
If God existed B Gata H Kei S2 would be in the works.
Haha, I was just about to post Kubera and Tower of God! Some more Manhwa's are "Girls the Wilds" ,"Feng Shen Ji", "Fairytale for the Demon Lord", and "Wake up Deadman".
Noblesse chapter 260 is now out, man such a good Manhwa! At first I thought it was going to be just another bloody vampire story, (which I do love.) But NO! This is possibly the best vampire story you'll ever read! I read from 1 to 61 in one sitting!
(Doesn't beat my InuYasha record of 107 chapters tho!)
I adore Frankenstein! Isn't he hottest guy ever? And Rai... no words. This is how vampires should be!
Edit: This is a bloody vampire story, but better... wayyy better!
I agree, it's a good Manhwa.....but once (before I knew what the difference was) I accidentally read one chapter of the "Yaoi Doujin" version.. boy, was I surprised! Not only was it nasty, it was extremely cheezy as well....REALLY bad writing, but the art work was better. :lol:
Watching K-dramas instead of sleeping....;D
I love it. It's the only manhwa/manga I'm reading right now. The story is simple and to the point but full of action. Plus the characters are all so cool! They display their power with ease. I love when Rae is just like, "Kneel." And everyone is just stopped in their tracks. It get goosebumps sometimes.
THIS IS THE BEST MANHWA EVERRR!!! ..... i read it in korean tho; lol
"No matter how fast it flies, a paper airplane cannot break through a brick wall
I'm so happy that other people love Noblesse!! I love M21..Frankenstein and well.. I love everyone.. !! I read the first 100 chapters in 2 days. Now I can't wait for each new chapter to come out!! It's awesome!
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
I'd rather have Noblesse stay as a manwha because of how the cliffhangers and style the author created it. It might be a little hard when it turns into an anime.
It's a great manwha and I enjoy the characters.
~Absolutely great! Got hooked after seeing Franky's abilities! Love how the author can fit in comic relief even when the atmosphere's so serious. Noblesse definitely needs to be made into an anime.
Gonna be busy.
i love this manhwa, one of my fav XD
yea i hope it'll become an anime
~their 6weeks break is killing me lawl
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^^^ love this part
^^^ lawl
occupation: sleepiest girl on the planet
Yaaaaaay, another season ~ Noblesse is probably one of the best manhwa's out there ~
I love this series
Live life without regret
Noblesse is definetely one of my favorite series atm!
And i am SOOOOO happy that rheir 6 week hiatus ended yesterday and 6th season started..
But i do doubt they're gonna animate it. if they do, it's probably going to be in korean, so far i haven't seen a manhwa becoming a japanese anime, and i don't it's gonna happen, because.... it's a korean manhwa though i do wish to see it animated after that animation hat was uploaded on naver ...... waaaauuuwwww
think it was an add for the new season a while back :/
here it is if want to watch it and havent ^^
Busy with school :/
the new chapter is out now by the way it was released tuesday go read its good
Anime and Manga my biggest enjoyment :D
im korean so im watching the korean version one
well that doesn't matter;;
I LOVE TAO. lol i just fell in love with him when he appeared <3
"No matter how fast it flies, a paper airplane cannot break through a brick wall


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Object Oriented Programming: The Wrong Path?
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"If you look back at where object orientation came from with Smalltalk-80 with message passing, and look at the current state of inheritance and things like that, have we gone down the wrong path?" This is the opening question of a QCon London 2010 interview with Joe Armstrong, the original developer of Erlang, and Ralph Johnson, long associated with Smalltalk, OOP, and Patterns. Both interviewees suggest that we have meandered down the "wrong path" but this is due to flaws in the implementation of object ideas and not the ideas themselves. This is, in fact, Ralph Johnson's intial point:
One of the things that always happen when you get an idea and it comes out and it's too radical for most people. Most people don't adopt the whole thing, they take a piece of it and then you get this approximation.
Even Smalltalk, held by many to be the exemplar OO language, is seen as an approximation of object ideals. Dr. Johnson suggests two specific issues with Smalltalk:
... I think Smalltalk made a fundamental error. I think it's hard for people who aren't Smalltalk programmers to appreciate this, but when you are programming in Smalltalk, when you are debugging in Smalltalk, you are debugging the whole system.
Because in Smalltalk you have everything in the image. You can't keep track of the versions between the old and the new one ... and there is also the issue of complexity. You build a system, so it gets to the limit of what a few people can do and there Smalltalk doesn't work too well.
The fact that everything (your application classes, development and debugging tools, and libraries) is in the 'image,' has always been an issue with Smalltalk, even for the language's most ardent admirers. However this did not stop people from building very large, mission critical, systems - like the Cargill Lynx Project. Lynx is a global grain trading system that supports over 1,500 users at 150 sites around the U.S. and has been in production for over a decade. During its existence, Lynx has involved well over a hundred programmers, with full version control, and rubust testing and debugging. Successful large systems, like the Lynx Project, do not allay Ralph Johnson's concerns, nor do they refute the premise that Smalltalk was a flawed implementation of object ideas; they merely add additional perspective.
The question of what set of characteristics made a language object-oriented was extensively, and emotionally, debated in the 1990's. In the QCon London interview, Joe Armstrong's thesis advisor is quoted making a very similar argument:
I started wondering about what object oriented programming was and I thought Erlang wasn't object oriented, it was a functional programming language. Then, my thesis supervisor said "But you're wrong, Erlang is extremely object oriented". He said object oriented languages aren't object oriented. I might think, though I'm not quite sure if I believe this or not, but Erlang might be the only object oriented language because the 3 tenets of object oriented programming are that it's based on message passing, that you have isolation between objects and have polymorphism.
Dr. Armstrong indicates he is not entirely convinced by his advisor's arguments, but does seem to think that Erlang "might be the only object oriented language." In addition to the three characteristics cited in the quote, single inheritance and dynamic typing were often cited as "absolute requirements" to be an OO language.
In the interview, both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Armstrong, seem to suggest that the object idea was and is an important one. Dr. Armstrong spends his time pointing out how Erlang attempts to implement object ideas and OO language characteristics. Dr. Johnson spends more time critiquing previous attempts at implementating object ideas, specifically Smalltalk. While it might seem strange that a long-time advocate of Smalltalk and of objects (the Design Patterns book that Dr. Johnson co-authored includes object-oriented in its title), Ralph Johnson is not alone.
Dave Thomas is another person closely associated with objects and with Smalltalk. His team created the first "Goodies Packs" for Digitalk's Methods (the first Smalltalk for the PC), he was founder and CEO of the company that created what was to become IBM's VisualAge Smalltalk, and his team developed the very popular programming tool, Eclipse (originally written in and for Smalltalk). Dr. Thomas has been quoted saying, "Objects were a mistake," and "I am a stateful sinner." These statements were made for dramatic effect, but also to point out "errors" in the Smalltalk implementation of object ideas - e.g. the focus on state, the lack of of good concurrency models in a class and image-based language, and the lack of focus on messaging.
Even Alan Kay who first coined the term "object-oriented" and who, with Dan Ingalls and others at Xerox PARC, created Smalltalk is critical. In a recent interview in Computerworld Australia
Dr. Kay noted:
I did make up this term (and it was a bad choice because it under-emphasized the more important idea of message sending). Part of the idea existed (in several systems). I could see that a more comprehensive basis could be made by going all the way to thinking of efficient whole virtual machines communicating only by messages. This would provide scaling, be a virtual version of what my research community, ARPA-IPTO [The Information Processing Techniques Office at the US Department of Defense's research facility] was starting to do with large scale networking, and also would have some powerful "algebraic" properties (like polymorphism). ... However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today (I don't like any of them, and I don't think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for end-users).
The recent flurry of criticism directed towards Smalltalk brings to mind the repeated aside in the lyrics of the old Coasters song, Charlie Brown: "(Why's everybody always pickin' on me)." Johnson, Armstrong, Kay, and Thomas are not, of course, "pickin' on me (Smalltalk)." implicit in the QCon London interview, and the other criticisms, is the question of to what degree can an idea that is "too radical for most people" (Dr. Johnson), be implemented in any programming language?
It is also possible that the object idea does not lend itself directly to the definition and structure of a programming language. In the Computerworld Australia interview, Dr. Kay also points out:
To me, one of the nice things about the semantics of real objects is that they are "real computers all the way down (RCATWD)" – this always retains the full ability to represent anything. The old way quickly gets to two things that aren't computers – data and procedures – and all of a sudden the ability to defer optimizations and particular decisions in favour of behaviours has been lost. In other words, always having real objects always retains the ability to simulate anything you want, and to send it around the planet. ... And RCATWD also provides perfect protection in both directions. We can see this in the hardware model of the Internet (possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order). You get language extensibility almost for free by simply agreeing on conventions for the message forms. My thought in the 70s was that the Internet we were all working on alongside personal computing was a really good scalable design, and that we should make a virtual internet of virtual machines that could be cached by the hardware machines. It's really too bad that this didn't happen.
If 'real objects' are RCATWD, then each object could be implemented using the programming language most appropriate for its intrinsic nature, which would give new meaning to the phrase 'polyglot programming.'
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Excessive interpretation
martraire cyrille
I would suggest the readers to focus on the interview and draw their own conclusion.
Re: Excessive interpretation
Rafael de F. Ferreira
However this did not stop people from building very large, mission critical, systems - like the Cargill Lynx Project. Lynx is a global grain trading system that supports over 1,500 users at 150 sites around the U.S. and has been in production for over a decade. During its existence, Lynx has involved well over a hundred programmers, with full version control, and rubust testing and debugging
have no place in an interview report unless they are literal quotes from the interviewees.
Very abstract
Ashutosh Singhal
In todays programming world where most of the application is developed using OO based languages, saying that OO has gone in wrong path is a big probe unless detailed out.
Re: Very abstract
Luis Espinal
Being an OO programmer and designer I was expecting details in the interview like what has gone wrong during the evolution of OO programming, but the article looks very abstract.
In todays programming world where most of the application is developed using OO based languages, saying that OO has gone in wrong path is a big probe unless detailed out.
OO as implemented today has gone wrong a lot for the fact that the focus is more on class hierarchies than on messaging among objects. Besides, most of development done with OO languages barely qualify as OO systems. People are using OO languages to create what amount to be badly-written procedural systems.
So, in a way, OO has gone the wrong way because people to this date still don't know how to proper OOAD.
Generalizations of OOP
Alexandr Savinov
OOP is dialectical all the way down
Tim Lee
Kristen Nygaard founded OOP on the Marxist theory of dialectical materialism. In that frame of reference, reality is viewed as a social construct and the communication between people is a form of message passing. This primacy of consciousness orientation elevates the relations between people to a higher status than the relationship between an individual and the physical world.
Translated into the computer programming realm, message passing between imaginary objects would seem to a Marxist to be more politically correct than the procedural execution of instructions issued by an individual to a computer. In other words, there's a collectivism vs individualism issue involved that derives from the metaphysical world view implicit in OOP theory.


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The Pycnogonida are a group of marine arthropods known as "sea spiders" for their resemblance to true, terrestrial spiders. Although there has been much debate during the past century regarding which arthropod groups are their closest relatives, growing consensus places the pycnogonids as an early branching lineage that is the sister group to the chelicerates (arachnids plus horseshoe crabs) (Giribet and Edgecombe 2012).
There are around a thousand described species of pycnogonids (and probably hundreds more not yet described). They are found worldwide from the intertidal zone to depths of nearly 7,000 m. Most pycnogonids are small, with leg spans of less than a centimeter (in some species, just a few millimeters), but some deep-sea species have leg spans of up to 60 cm. Many species are errant (i.e., they actively move about), but others live on seaweeds or on other invertebrates, such as sea anemones, hydroids, ectoprocts, and tunicates (at least one or two species live on the bells of pelagic medusae and pycnogonids have also been observed on the huge vestimentiferan worms living in the hydothermal vent community of the Galapagos Rift).
The walking legs of pycnogonids are 9-segmented. Most of the commonly encountered intertidal species have short, thick legs and are quite sedentary, moving very slowly. Deep-water bottom-dwelling species tend to have longer, thinner legs and to be more active, walking on the tips of their legs. Many pycnogonids are also known to swim periodically.
Most species are generalist predators (and, in many cases, scavengers), although a few feed on algae. Food is obtained by sucking it through the proboscis (often just body fluids and tissue fragments from their prey.).
Pycnogonids are dioecious (i.e., with separate males and females) and embryos are brooded by the male. In many species, distinctive 6-legged larvae (immature forms) are released by the brooding male that live in some sort of symbiotic relationship with cnidarians, molluscs, or echinoderms.
(Brusca and Brusca 2003)
Bamber and El Nagar provide an online database on pycnogonid names, taxonomy, museum specimens, and literature.


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I will have a local function at the gorgeous, historic home of my dear friend Joanie Heyward in old town Bluffton on Thursday. It is a reception for your representative, with remarks by special guest Bobby Harrell, Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives.
Every few years, we talk about it, and then decide to have one of these events — but they just never seem to happen. In fact, it has been 10 years since we had one. However, with the dramatic changes we are soon to undergo because of redistricting, as well as the changes we have undergone relating to our economic circumstances, it is time we invite interested stakeholders to participate in this timely exercise.
This Thursday at 5:30 p.m., your representative and the Beaufort County delegation, including Senator Tom Davis, Rep. Shannon Erickson, and Rep. Andy Patrick, will join in welcoming Harrell to this registration-only affair. Participants will hear not only prepared remarks from the assembled leaders, but also ask questions and share insights with your state's most effective leadership.
The overall theme of the evening will deal with the delicate balancing of priorities as we shrink the size of government. This involves not only the philosophy of what should be the appropriate role of state government (or government in general), but also the practical mechanics of maintaining core functions while decreasing the size and scope of government. How do we decide what is meant by a core function? (Hint: You tell us.) Also, what part does redistricting play in the politics of downsizing?
I personally have a great relationship with the speaker, based largely on a shared history of accomplishment for the folks of District 118 and Beaufort County that goes back to my first days in the House of Representatives. At that time, Harrell was the chairman of Ways and Means and I was the new man from Bluffton. One of the success stories of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was the Waddell Mariculture Center in Greater Bluffton at the end of Sawmill Creek Road. Despite its international reputation for groundbreaking research and many practical enhancements to the tax base, each year the Mariculture Center faced budget cuts from those who did not have a good understanding of its mission and accomplishments. I was able to make the case to then-Chairman Harrell that resulted in the Mariculture Center being put on line-item funding, which is the basic step toward administrative sustainability.
Another example of how we can get things done at the statehouse has to do with the traffic light in front of Sun City, which I believe has saved countless lives over the years. My friend, former Councilwoman Margaret Griffin had been working at the county level for more than two years on the light project, but appeared to be stymied by jurisdictional issues. Margaret gave me a petition from an overwhelming number of her Sun City neighbors. I took it to Columbia, and with a big push from the speaker, secured the funding in a record 15 days.
Needless to say, it is important for the leadership of the General Assembly to hear from local stakeholders to help calibrate the aforementioned balance of priorities in this time of shrinking budgets and refined government missions. For those of you not signed up to attend Thursday's event, I will have a comprehensive overview and commentary next week in this space.
Bill Herbkersman, R-Bluffton, represents District 118 in the South Carolina House of Representatives. He can be reached through his Web site at www.herbkersman.com or by telephone at 757-7900.


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Energy Companies Trying To Abuse Intellectual Property Law To Hinder Research Into Impact Of Fracking
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[W]e remain concerned that the fracking industry has opposed the reasonable efforts of regulators throughout the country to have access to information about the exact chemical composition of fracking fluids. Such access should not only be uncontroversial, as trade secret information is shared with regulators at all levels of government and in a range of industries, but should be standard operating procedure for any regulatory entity charged with stewarding our nation's natural resources. To deny regulators and the public access to such information is to prevent an evidenced-based analysis of the EHS impacts, if any, of fracking. It is, in sum, an effort to render the regulation of fracking as a game based upon guesswork and supposition rather than hard data. Moreover, we believe that the alleged competitive harm associated with the possible disclosure of these trade secrets (if they qualify, in fact, as trade secrets) to the public is at best overstated, and at worst reflects a skewed placement of commercial interests over the broad interests of the public in transparency, accountability and safe environmental management.We don't talk that much about trade secret issues around here, usually covering other areas that are often lumped together in the "intellectual property" bucket. However, there's been an increasing push by some big industry players to increasingly rely on and expand trade secret law in all sorts of dangerous ways -- not to actually "protect trade secrets," but to avoid regulations (such as here) and to limit and stifle innovation and competition. Unfortunately, it seems likely that issues around trade secrets are quickly going to be nearly as important as the fights over things like copyright, patents and trademarks in terms of how they're abused by companies.


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Labor of love continues at Hubbard Hall
CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. -- When Benjie White describes his 37 years as director of Hubbard Hall, the theater and arts center in Cambridge, N.Y., it sounds like a long renovation project. He had a bell tower to repair, stenciling in the main hall to preserve, and several feet of clay to remove from the cellar to create the right amount of head room.
In addition to the challenges of running a small arts nonprofit in a town of just over 2,000 people -- like organizing programming and making payroll -- he faced things he didn't expect, like finding a way to fund a new septic system for the center and its surrounding businesses.
It was a mission of love for White, who at 70 is ready to step down this summer. He said through it all, he remembered the goal of the arts organization he founded.
"The process of struggling to find how to communicate something excites me," he said. "It's just as noble to facilitate the passion and talent of others. I've been incredibly lucky to have known a string of people I could help gather resources to support."
White's successor, David Snider, is director of artistic programming at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. He will join Hubbard Hall in May, and White will officially depart at the end of June.
White is a native of Cambridge. His father owned a seed-packing company in town, at a time when he said nearly half the students he went to school with lived on farms.
White said his interest in theater developed in school, fueled by school performances and trips to events, like the then-new Williamstown Theater Festival.
"I was interested in how people handle the grief, fear, love, and how they try to articulate it," he said. "Theater was doing it much better for me than religion."
From there, he went to Wesleyan University, where he studied acting and directing, and stayed around after he graduated to teach. As he put it, he realized he knew more about the technical aspects of theater, as he still worked as a carpenter's apprentice on his summers. "I was a builder," he said.
Then he heard that Hubbard Hall -- the town's "opera house" built in 1878 -- was up for sale. The theater had fallen hard from its heyday in the late 19th century, when it was a vital part of the touring circuit tied to the railroad. Since the 1920s, the large hall had been no more than the attic for the shops on the ground floor. And White felt a clear change of mission.
The price of the building was $20,000 -- $21,700 eventually to account for a new furnace. And that's when the hard work began, as the community coalesced around the facility. There were events to get the ball rolling -- a chamber opera performance at the Presbyterian church, a concert at the school, a contra dance at the Town Hall.
The early decades saw a string of renovations. Asked if he would do it again, knowing now just what kind of work would go into the project, White thought for a few moments.
"I have a tendency to dream really big and recognize that's what it is: dreaming," he said. "It wasn't unenvisioned ... but it wasn't unexpected either."
For many years, the hall hosted concerts, but its ambitions grew in the early 2000s. The nonprofit bought the nearby freight yard -- which now houses dance studios, a black-box theater and offices. In response to the need for more waste treatment, they put in a new septic system.
White said he told the board he was ready to retire three years ago. "It would be better for the organization to make the change before it needed to make the change," he said.
Reached by phone, Snider said the area appeals to him. He has two small children and his wife is originally from New Hampshire. They are interested in trying life in a small town.
"I've come to understand community-based work is important to me," he said. "This is a lot of what we were looking for."
He praised what is happening in Cambridge, where he finds "a strong commitment to the center" and "a great arts ecology."
He said he has talked with White frequently, and the two will overlap for a few weeks before White's departure. He said his first priority will be to listen to the community's wants, but he foresees specific things he'd like explore. More community outreach -- especially in the schools -- is one, as well as finding more ways to tell local stories and to bring outside artists to the area through residencies.
White said they were lucky to find someone like Snider, and he looks forward to what the future holds.
"Hubbard Hall 10 years from now could be very different," he said. "And appropriately so, if [the next director] finds in the community the passion that wants to lead it in another direction."
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A state parole board has denied bids for freedom by two inmates convicted in separate Orange County murders.
Charles Burke, 48, was sentenced Feb. 5, 1988, to 25 years to life in prison for bludgeoning a man he lured to a Laguna Hills trail in 1985 under the guise of a sexual encounter, prosecutors said.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation board Friday also rejected parole for Russell Clyde Capers, 55, who was convicted of murdering a Santa Ana food store co-owner and robbing employees at gunpoint in 1977 with two fellow Los Angeles gang members, according to prosecutors.
Burke and Capers are being held at the California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville, and will next be eligible for a parole hearing in 2016, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said. Both have been denied parole several times before.
On the night of Aug. 11, 1985, Burke, then 20, and a friend were in a restaurant consuming alcohol when Gregory McGowan approached Burke for a ride home in exchange for some beers, according to prosecutors.
Burke agreed to leave with McGowan and lured him down a dark path with the intention of robbing and assaulting him for "making eyes at him," prosecutors said. Burke repeatedly bludgeoned McGowan on the head with a rock before fleeing.
He later confided in his girlfriend, and she eventually turned him in to police, prosecutors said. When interviewed, Burke told police officers he killed McGowan because he was "gay."
"This one was really personal to him," Deputy District Attorney Marc Labreche said Tuesday. "He used the rock to bash someone's head to the point where the person's face is unrecognizable."
Labreche also represented prosecutors at the parole hearing for Capers, who was sentenced in 1977 to seven years to life.
On the night of March 2, 1977, Capers, then 19, entered Santa Ana Food Market with two co-defendants to rob store owners and employees, prosecutors said. Gunfire was exchanged between the defendants and a store employee. Co-owner How You Lau, 64, and her son Ken Lau were wounded; How You Lau died at a hospital.
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FCM audit – what you need to know
On March 28, 2014, the CFTC's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) issued interpretive guidance on this issue (release PR6897-14). The interpretation states that "it is DSIO's view that a public accountant of an FCM will comply with the Commission's Regulation 1.16 auditor independence requirements if such public accountant complies with the SEC and PCAOB audit independence requirements applicable to broker-dealers."
In November 2013, the CFTC approved a final rule on enhancing customer protections, which, in part, will require audits of futures commission merchants (FCMs) to be performed in accordance with PCAOB standards by a PCAOB-registered firm that "must have undergone a PCAOB inspection". The compliance date is June 1, 2014, which coincides with the SEC's recent requirement for broker-dealer audits to be conducted under the PCAOB standards for fiscal years ending on or after June 1, 2014. The CFTC is deferring the "inspection" requirement (that is, in order to qualify to conduct an audit of an FCM, a public accountant must have undergone an inspection by the PCAOB) until December 31, 2015.
The CFTC lists the independence of the certified public accountant as one of the factors for the governing body of the FCM to consider when assessing the qualification of an auditor engaged to perform an FCM audit. The CFTC, presumably, refers to the PCAOB independence standards, which would include all independence requirements set by both the PCAOB and SEC. Therefore, unless the CFTC specifically clarifies which PCAOB and SEC independence standards should apply to FCM audit engagements, FCM auditors should acquaint themselves and start following PCAOB and SEC independence standards for current audits. This requirement differs from the requirements for broker-dealers under SEC Rule 17a-5.
Auditors of broker-dealers also have to comply with PCAOB standards for fiscal years ending on or after June 1, 2014. Recent technical amendments to the PCAOB rules require that broker-dealer auditors follow certain of the PCAOB's ethics and auditor independence rules (Rules 3500T, 3501, 3502, 3520, 3521, 3522 and 3526) but not others (Rules 3523, 3524, and 3525)1. Auditors of broker-dealers will continue to be required to comply with SEC independence requirements. SEC Rule 17a-5 specifically states that auditors of broker dealers must be independent in accordance with § 210.2-01. The SEC broker-dealer rule specifically noted that auditors of non-issuer broker-dealers are not subject to
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Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has many churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland under the jurisdiction of one metropolitan and five bishops.
British Orthodox Church
His Eminence Seraphim, Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Glastonbury, and Primate of the British Orthodox Church. 10 Heathwood Gardens, Charlton, London,SE7 8EP.
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Ireland, Scotland and North England
His Grace Antony, Bishop of the Holy Diocese of Ireland, Scotland and North East England, United Kingdom. The diocese was established in 1995.
Coptic Orthodox Church of St. John (Bromley, Kent, UK)
Westmoreland Rd Bromley, Kent, BR2 0TB
- Services
- Saturdays
- Divine Liturgy (9:30-12:00)
- Aghapy (12:00-1:00)
- Bible Study and Sunday School (1:00-2:00)
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands and its Affiliated Regions
His Grace Bishop Missael, Bishop of the Holy Diocese of the Midlands, and its Affiliated regions, U.K.
There are two Churches in Birmingham including the Coptic Centre and serving them with His Grace Bishop Missael is Fr. John & Fr. Peter, there is a rented church in Northampton, also served by Fr. John. There is a church in Manchester, Stockport, served by Fr. Bishoy, and another church in Llandudno, Wales also served by Fr. Bishoy. Another church in Nottingham served by Fr. Seraphim. The Diocese is based at The Coptic Centre in Birmingham: Hill park House, Lapworth Street, Lapworth, Warwickshire, B94 5QS.
In Birmingham, the Coptic Centre of St. Mary & St. Mark has a church within it named after St. Mary & St. Abu-Seifin. The other church in Birmingham, in Solihull, was named after St. Mary & St. Antony. The Church in Manchester, Stockport was named after St. Mary & St. Mina.
South Wales
- Coptic Orthodox Church in Wales
- St Mary's and St Abu Saifain's Coptic Orthodox Church located at 112 St Mary Street, Risca, South Wales NP11 2GP. This Church is, however, under patriarchal supervision of HH Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria since he is currently the head of the Parish's Council. Accordingly, this Church is supervised by His Grace Angaelos, the General Bishop and Patriarchal Exarch.
Patriarchal Exarchate at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, South England
His Grace Angaelos, General Bishop & Patriarchal Exarch for the Youth Ministry at the Patriarchal Center and the Coptic Orthodox Theological College at Stevenage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Eritrean Orthodox Church Congregation in the United Kingdom
His Grace Markos (Mark), Bishop of the Eritrean Orthodox Church in the UK. Member of the Eritrean Holy Synod.
See also
- Coptic iconography
- Coptic music
- List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria
- Shenouda III (Gayyid) of Alexandria
- The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
- Oriental Orthodoxy
- British Orthodox Church
- Orthodoxy in Africa
- Coptic Orthodox Church in Wales
- St Mary's and St Abu Saifain's Coptic Orthodox Church Risca, South Wales
- The French Coptic Orthodox Church
External links
- The French Coptic Orthodox Church website
- Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Midlands and Affiliated Regions
- British Orthodox Church website
- Coptic Orthodox Centre Stevenage
- St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church , London website
- Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Ireland, Scotland and North East England, United Kingdom website


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August 2013 Uniform Collateral Data Portal Release Notification and Uniform Appraisal Dataset Update
August 27, 2013
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) are providing you with the August 2013 Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®) Release Notification and Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) Update. This notification announces that the second phase of the conversion of current UAD compliance warning edits to fatal UAD edits in the UCDP will occur in early 2014.
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Reminder: The first phase of fatal UAD edits were implemented in the UCDP on June 22, 2013. If an appraisal submitted to the UCDP receives one or more fatal UAD edits, a "Not Successful"; status will be issued. The loan will not be eligible for delivery to either GSE unless an appraisal with the required data in the correct format is resubmitted to ensure a "Successful" status.
Also included in this notification are updates on the following:
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SimCity Mod Gives Gamers a Glimpse of What Could Have Been
Mar 14, 2013 1:19 PM PT
Since it was announced months before its official release that SimCity would require an online connection to play, fans of the urban planning game have voiced their frustration. Their angst only intensified after this month's launch, which was plagued by crashes and server connection issues that made the game unplayable at times.
Game developer Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts worked hard to rectify the issues, and as of this week, SimCity gamers were by and large happily building, zoning and managing their creations. However, a game modder using the moniker "UKAzzer" created a demo that suggests the game can be played in an offline setting.
So with a little bit of package editing within SimCity, and a little playing about in the code, it's possible to enable debug mode. I linked the activation to the "Help Center" button in the main menu for ease. Most debug features are disabled without having an actual developer's build (they have terraforming tools etc. available in the full developer build!), but a few things do still work -- including editing the main highways.
Not only that -- but you can edit the highways ANYWHERE -- even outside of your city boundary... and even if you quit the game and log back in later, it's all saved safely on the server.
This shows that highway editing will be easily possible, AND that editing outside of the artificially small city boundaries should be very viable too.
Other things I have modded out with a quick change: Unlimited time to remain disconnected (won't get booted at 20 minutes, can now be disconnected "forever"). Population count now shows REAL figure, not the "artificially inflated" figure. My large cities have a population of about 15k now, not 100k :P
This seems to contradict the game maker's claims that SimCity needs a persistent connection to play due to factors other than DRM (digital rights management).
The version of the game modded by UKAzzer reportedly runs in debug mode, which is usually used by programmers to find and later fix problems in the code.
"How stable it is has yet to really be seen," said independent videogame industry analyst Billy Pidgeon.
The modder "probably could make it offline, but programming games is a complicated thing," he added.
"I've worked with programmers who have gone into another game designer's code, and it has proved not to be that easy to change," Pidgeon told TechNewsWorld.
Always On, Always Problems?
SimCity is not the first game to require a persistent connection to play, even in single player mode. Valve Software's Steam service requires players to log in to play games, but for all other purposes, they're played in an offline capacity. Steam was created as a way to combat the issue of digital piracy, but couldn't a common ground be found to allow for limited offline play?
"There are good arguments for always-online games, but being able to play a game like SimCity on an airplane is a good argument against requiring it to have that always-on connection," said Paul Semel, editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly. "The reasoning for DRM protection is a good one, but there has to be another method."
"There have been similar games that didn't need to be online to play," Semel told TechNewsWorld.
However, given that SimCity has incorporated a virtual global economy where gamers can build their respective cities next to other players' is a reason for requiring the connection.
"It is part of the game design to have this level of interaction with other players," Pidgeon emphasized. "I do buy that it is difficult to change the game to remove this online requirement. It is EA's game, so it is up to them what they want to do with it."
DRM or Happy Customers
Still, it is not entirely clear if the online connection is entirely necessary for the reasons given.
"[There is no] reason the calculations had to be done on remote servers," said video game analyst Mark Baldwin of Baldwin Consulting. "Servers in this case serve two purposes. The first is theft protection. The second would be social communication, which would not have to be necessary for SimCity."
"The DRM issue is not new," Baldwin added. "It has caused problems before -- Spore comes to mind -- and it certainly can and does lose sales."
The issue here is which is worse: loss due to annoyed customers or loss due to piracy?
"[Annoying] the customers also affects future sales," Baldwin noted. "I've always tried to be as accommodating as possible to the game player when I've implemented protection schemes, but others think differently."
Sandbox Solution
UKAzzer's demo suggests the sandbox mode, which doesn't utilize interaction with other players, could have been offered as a SimCity option.
"The requirement for the connection doesn't mean EA is wrong. This just shows that if EA wanted an off line version they could," Electronic Gaming Monthly's Semel stressed.
"I wonder whether we would have seen this brouhaha if the game worked from the beginning and EA didn't have the server problems," he added.
Bug-Laden From the Start
Why wasn't EA better prepared to handle the massive immigration to SimCity at the beginning, having decided that the online connection would be required? The flubbed launch was reminiscent of big PC game debuts a decade or more ago, when server issues were often just one of many problems with so-called "finished" games.
"It wasn't right then, and it isn't right now. If it is in the box, it should be finished," said Pidgeon. "This is a mass market title, so it should work as soon as it's loaded. If you are a large company like EA, you should be ready for the tremendous success."
Nor should the DRM issues be totally blamed for this hiccup.
"It is the negative consequence of the requirement of it having to be online, which is more than just DRM protection," Pidgeon stressed, "but really, this is just a case where the servers weren't ready for that amount of demand."
With the server issues resolved, the question is whether mods could make it possible to play offline, and whether that might lead to other problems.
Those who do mod the software can't expect their changes to have perfect results. While many games now allow and even encourage mods, game publishers do warn consumers that results may vary and are beyond their control.
"If you mod a game, you should expect it to break," said Pidgeon. "That's the way it ought to be."


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Drake And Bieber Surprise Fans at Toronto Show
Justin Bieber had his stans believe in surprises when he brought out fellow Canadian Drake to the stage at the Toronto Skydome for his show Sunday (Dec. 2).
The beliebers were rabid with Twitter and Instagram shots of the Drizzy cameo, thus this collection of flicks for those who weren't as lucky to be there.
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Professor Gokay Deveci was born in Cappadocia, Turkey and he first studied architecture and engineering at Gazi University, Ankara, and followed this with masters degree in Architecture from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Professor Deveci RIBA, FRIAS leads a housing and urbanism unit at the School of Architecture, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He leads a practice-based research unit. His main contribution has been in the field of innovative housing design, especially relating to low energy and low cost solutions that uses appropriate technology and building materials, as well as being culturally sustainable.
His projects have been ground breaking and has won a series of prestigious design awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), Scottish Design and the Saltire Society Awards, as well as regional design awards. He has been a frequent speaker at professional conferences both at home and abroad. His innovative housing designs have featured widely in publications, as well as gallery exhibitions.
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Gallery: Here Are Some Gross Photos Of Mischa Barton With Meat On Her Face
This week, photographer-to-the B-list-stars Tyler Shields continued his quest to become the poor man's Terry Richardson (did you know such a thing was possible?) by convincing Mischa Barton to interact with a steak in various ways. In a new series of photos he posted on his blog, Mischa can be seen alternately salivating over the meat like a dog, and holding it to her face like someone just gave her a black eye. Really, dude? Are you sure you don't want to show her serving it to a guy in a suit while wearing only an apron and fuck-me heels, as well? Or perhaps shoving it into her various orifices? It's so edgy when people glorify the misogyny that's dominated the status quo for hundreds of years.
It would seem Shields has amassed quite the stable of admirers, so as with his Lindsay Lohan shoot, I've appended comments from his blog post to each picture. As Tyler says, "You will never get what you want if your [sic.] scared to ask for it." Enjoy!
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Wolves Fall To Magic 102-93
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando Magic had to figure out how to defend down low before they could make their move.
Using a second-half rally, Glen Davis and the Magic won their third straight with a 102-93 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
"It boiled down to who was going to be the aggressor, that team was going to win," Magic coach Jacque Vaughn said. "That was my message at halftime. It was good to see our bigs respond to that kind of physicality."
Orlando got manhandled inside by Minnesota's front line in the first half, but Magic big men Davis and Nikola Vucevic pushed back in the second half to help their team to its third straight victory.
Davis scored a game-high 28 points and Vucevic had his third straight double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds. J.J. Redick contributed 18 points and seven assists as Orlando rallied from 15 points down in the third quarter to snap Minnesota's four-game win streak.
Kevin Love led Minnesota with 23 points and 15 rebounds and Nikola Pekovic added 19 points and 12 rebounds, but they did most of their damage in the first half when Minnesota shot 49 percent from the field while building a 61-49 lead at the break.
The Timberwolves shot only 31.9 percent in the second half (15 of 47) with Love and Pekovic a combined 5 for 18 (29.4 percent).
"What happened in the second half is exactly what has been happening the last few games," Pekovic said. "We have a good first half and then lose our concentration. They played good. They didn't give up, even when they were losing by 15. They just kept playing."
Davis fueled the rally with a five-minute stretch in the third quarter where he made all six shots, three of them dunks. The Magic's big man beat Love and Pekovic down the floor time and again to get position inside for easy baskets.
Minnesota led 87-85 with six minutes left in the game when Arron Afflalo hit a 3-pointer to start a 9-0 run by Orlando. Vucevic finished the run with a layup that made it 94-87 with 3:23 left in the game.
Love scored on a hook shot and Andre Kirilenko had a dunk to make it 94-91 with 2:53 left in the game, but Davis scored six straight points and Redick hit a layup that gave Orlando a 102-91 lead with 44 seconds left.
Minnesota's big men had 20 points in the paint in the first 10 minutes of the game, helping the Timberwolves jump out to a 28-17 lead. Pekovic led the way with 11 points and six rebounds, four of them at the offensive end.
The Magic, however, closed the period with a 10-1 and trailed only 29-27. Orlando got 10 points from center Vucevic and six from Redick to keep close.
The Timberwolves were even better at the end of the second period, going on a 20-7 run to build their halftime advantage. Pekovic, Love and Andre Kirilenko were the stars again, accounting for all 20 points.


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COLUMBIA - The Bluffton High School swim teams posted a pair of top 10 finishes in their first trips to the SCHSL Class AAAA state championships at the University of South Carolina.
The Bobcats boys placed eighth and the girls finished ninth.
The boys 200-yard medley team of Jake Minasi, John Evans, Sebastian Bedon and Andrew Faciszewski finished fifth.
Faciszewski was second in the 500-meter freestyle and third in the 200-yard freestyle; Bedon was sixth in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard butterfly; and Minasi was fourth in the 50-yard freestyle.
Minasi, Bedon, Faciszewski and Drew O'Brien placed seventh in the 400-meter freestyle relay.
Danielle Faciszewski finished fourth in the 500-yard freestyle and eighth in the 200-yard freestyle; and Madison Wall was fifth in the 100-yard freestyle and ninth in the 50-yard freestyle.
The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Faciszewski, Wall, Charlie Hancock and Ashleigh Pangilinan finished ninth. Faciszewski, Wall, Pangilinan and Ali Shaw placed 10th in the 200-yard freestyle relay.


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SACRAMENTO - California Secretary of State Debra Bowen today reminded voters that state and federal election laws provide rights to eligible Californians who are fluent in languages other than English, and pointed to election resources in Korean. Secretary Bowen also invited organizations to help link voters to nonpartisan election information.
"It's natural for people to feel more comfortable reading detailed election documents in the language in which they are most fluent," said Secretary Bowen, the state's chief elections officer. "From registering to vote to casting a ballot, my office offers voting assistance in several languages, including Korean, so every eligible person will be equipped to vote this year."
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Detroit K Jason Hanson retiring after 21 seasons, all with Lions
Detroit Lions kicker Jason Hanson is retiring after 21 seasons.
The 42-year-old Hanson announced his decision Thursday. He said he gave serious consideration to returning, but problems with his heel prompted him to call it a career.
Hanson became the first player to play 300 games with one franchise, finishing with 327. He also set an NFL record last year when he played his 21st season with the same team.
Hanson made a record 52 field goals from at least 50 yards. He's third on the career scoring list at 2,150 points and third in field goals with 495.


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Meet the 'Real-Life Q' Who Builds Secret Spy Gadgets for a Living
I grew up watching James Bond films. My favorite part was always the same: the part where "Q" would outfit our hero with the latest in spy technology. Ralph Osterhout also grew up loving Bond — but he took it to the next level. He spent his life building real spy gadgets, for operators in the field.


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OXNARD, California – Nizar Khalfan and Kyle Porter each netted a pair of goals, as Teitur Thordarson's Team Blue defeated Colin Miller's Team Orange 4-0 in a Vancouver Whitecaps FC intrasquad match on Sunday.
Thordarson's side consisted mainly of players with whom he's familiar, while Miller's team was comprised mainly of trialists. "We purposely set up quite a strong team on one side against the trialists to see how they reacted and to show them the level that they are competing against," explained Thordarson.
The first goal of the match came in the seventh minute when Terry Dunfield chested down a cross from Long Tan, allowing Khalfan to volley a shot into the bottom corner.
Miller's Team Orange looked to get on the board on 18 minutes, but Simon Thomas was there to tip a long strike over the net. Thomas was called on again two minutes later, deflecting a dipping shot out of play.
The Team Blue doubled their lead on 28 minutes when Khlafan headed home a terrific cross from Blake Wagner for his second goal of the match.
"He was very mobile," said Thordarson of Khalfan. "He did the right things and scored some great goals."
The second half saw eight new players come on for Thordarson's side, including Residency products Kyle Porter and Russell Teibert.
Porter opened his account on 57 minutes when he was sprung in on goal by Cornelius Stewart and calmly finished with a low shot to the far corner. Two minutes later, he struck again, heading home a pinpoint cross from Teibert for the fourth and final goal of the match.
Although the final score was one-sided, Thordason was overall pleased with the way the match was played. "I felt both teams played quite well in periods," he stated. "I think the trialists fought well all the way through and really showed us their best. In the second half, it was more about our players because they took over a little bit and dominated the game, but the first half, I felt it was especially good."
Scoring Summary:
7' - Nizar Khalfan (Terry Dunfield)
28' - Nizar Khalfan (Blake Wagner)
57' - Kyle Porter (Cornelius Stewart)
59' - Kyle Porter (Russell Teibert)


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15 Spectacular things to do in Argentina
15 Spectacular things to do in Argentina Argentina is a vast and varied land of cosmopolitan cities, wide-open plains, eerie glaciers, snow-capped peaks, and l…
Across the Magellan Strait from mainland Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego is a land of windswept bleakness, whose settlements seem to huddle with their backs against the elements: cold winters, cool summers, gales in the spring, frost in the autumn. Yet this remote and rugged archipelago, tucked away at the foot of the South American continent, exercises a fascination over many travellers. Some look to follow in the footsteps of the region's famous explorers, such as navigator Ferdinand Magellan, naturalist Charles Darwin or, more recently, author Bruce Chatwin. Others just want to see what it's like down here, at the very end of the world. While it may be expensive, fast-developing and time-consuming to reach, Tierra del Fuego offers up an easily accessible national park, epic mountain scenery, diverse wildlife, a truly fascinating history and an array of outdoor activities – from hiking and skiing to boat trips and dog-sledding. There's nowhere else quite like it on Earth.
Though comprising a number of islands, Tierra del Fuego is more or less the sum of its most developed part, Isla Grande, the biggest island in South America. Its eastern section, roughly a third of the island, along with a few islets, belongs to Argentina – the rest is Chilean territory. The major destination for visitors is the Argentine city of Ushuaia, a year-round resort on the south coast. Beautifully located, backed by distinctive jagged mountains, it is the base for visiting the tremendous Beagle Channel, rich in marine wildlife, and the wild, forested peaks of the Cordillera Darwin. With the lakes, forests and tundra of Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego just 12km to the west, and historic Estancia Harberton, home to descendants of Thomas Bridges, an Anglican missionary who settled here in 1871, a short excursion from the city, you could easily spend a week or so in the area.
Lago Fagnano, and the village of Tolhuin at its eastern end, is the main focus of the island's central area, which is of considerably greater interest than the windswept plains and scrubby coirón grasslands in the north. The southeastern chunk of Isla Grande, Península Mitre, is one of Argentina's least accessible regions, a boggy wilderness with low scrub and next to no human habitation, while, to its east, lies the mysterious Isla de los Estados, known in English as Staten Island. It is an extremely difficult area to visit, even more than the great white continent of Antarctica, which can be reached from Ushuaia – at a price.
In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, in his attempt to be first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed through the straits that were later named after him and saw clouds of smoke rising from numerous fires lit by the indigenous Selk'nam along the coast of Isla Grande. He called the land Tierra del Humo (Land of Smoke); it was the king of Spain who thought Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) would be more poetic. Early contact between indigenous groups and other European explorers was sporadic from the sixteenth century onwards, but this changed dramatically in the latter half of the nineteenth century, with tragic results for the indigenous population. When Robert Fitz Roy came here in the Beagle in the 1830s, an estimated three to four thousand Selk'nam and Mannekenk were living in Isla Grande, with some three thousand each of Yámana and Kawéskar in the entire southern archipelago. By the 1930s, however, the Mannekenk were virtually extinct, and the other groups had been effectively annihilated.
White settlement came to Tierra del Fuego in three phases. Anglican missionaries began to catechize the Yámana in the south, and Thomas Bridges established the first permanent mission on Ushuaia Bay in 1871. From the late 1880s, the Italian Roman Catholic Salesian Order began a similar process to the north of the Fuegian Andes. From the mid-1890s came a new colonizing impetus: the inauspicious-looking northern plains proved to be ideal sheep-farming territory, and vast latifundias sprang up. Croat, Scottish, Basque, Italian and Galician immigrants, along with Chileans from across the border, arrived to work on the estancias and build up their own landholdings.
The issue of the international border has been a contentious one over the years, as it has been along other sections of the Argentina–Chile boundary. Frontier disputes at the end of the nineteenth century required the arbitration of Great Britain, who in 1902 awarded Argentina the eastern half of Tierra del Fuego; land squabbles were still going on over eighty years later, the two countries almost coming to war in 1984 over three islands in the Beagle Channel. This time it took the intervention of Pope John Paul II, who, possibly to even things up, gave the islands to Chile. A cordial peace has reigned since. In 1991, the Argentine sector gained full provincial status and is known as the Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur. Its jurisdiction is seen to extend over all southern territories, including the Islas Malvinas/Falklands Islands, which lie 550km off the coast, and the Argentine segment of Antarctica.
Tierra del Fuego's economy is now dependent on the production of petroleum and natural gas, fisheries, forestry and technological industries, attracted to the area by its status as a duty-free zone. Meanwhile the tourist industry, centred on Ushuaia, continues to expand. Luxury items are comparatively cheap, but basic items such as food are much more expensive than in other parts of the country, owing to the huge distances involved in importing them.
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Jelly Bean's install base got a huge boost in the past 30 days, but it still only powers less than 7-percent of all Android devices. Today's version number release from Google sees Jelly Bean with a 4-percent jump from November, while Ice Cream Sandwich sees a smaller increase of 1.8-percent with a total of 27.5-percent of all devices sampled. We see Gingerbread still holds the lion's share (and likely will for a while), and Jelly Bean growing faster then ICS. This is because many of the phones running Gingerbread aren't going to be supported with an update, and phones that shipped with ICS are getting updated to Jelly Bean.
The sampling process is pretty simple, just keep track of the version on every phone that visits Goggle Play in a 30-day period. This means devices that don't have Google Play services aren't counted, and devices that do have Google Play but weren't designed to are being counted. It's a bit of a mess, but one that we should be used to by now. Next year, ICS will be dominant while we look at the small number of devices running Android 5.0. We don't have to like it (especially when it's one of our phones a version or two behind) but there's not much that can be done about it. We expect a similar picture next month.
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Computer Vision research at XRCE - Collaborating with the world's best
The Computer Vision research area at Xerox Research Centre Europe in France creates cutting edge technology that makes everyday interaction with visual content, such as images and video, simple and effective. What they develop is applied in innovative solutions in particular in the Xerox Transportation and Document Management businesses.
The reputation of this prominent research group has been steadily growing as a result of their many publications in leading computer vision conferences and journals and their world-class results in international benchmarking competitions.
This recognition has made it possible to initiate a number of open innovation collaborations, notably with the world's top four academic institutions1 in computer vision namely the University of Oxford, UK the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation INRIA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC. The collaborations are either specific open innovation projects with XRCE, UAC grants or national government funded research projects in the fields of large-scale object detection, fine-grained recognition, large-scale visual recognition, visual memorability and scene understanding. The team also plans to start another partnership in 2014 with the computer vision research team at CVC in Barcelona, Spain.
"Open innovation projects are a cornerstone of our group strategy. It boosts our competencies, increases our visibility and attracts more talented scientists to join us" says Florent Perronnin, Principal Scientist and XRCE Computer Vision Area Manager.
In December and with Open Innovation partner INRIA the XRCE computer vision team won the 2013 international competition in fine-grained image classification (FGComp) outperforming research at Microsoft, NEC, Oxford University, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Berkeley.
In late February Florent Perronnin, Computer Vision Area Manager gave an invited talk at the University of Oxford, UK on some of the current XRCE research in the field whilst research team member Eleonora Vig gave a tutorial at the scientific talent camp in Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania.
More recent highlights of the group can be found on online or by contacting Florent Perronnin.1source: Microsoft academic research over last 10 years


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Feb 18, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Coker men's tennis team picked up their first shut out victory of the season with a perfect 9-0 win over Johnson C. Smith on Saturday. The win improves the Cobras to 2-2 on the season.
Jeremy Curtis (Chesterfield, S.C.) and Manel Estruga (Spain) earned a perfect 9-0 win at No. 2 doubles, while James Corfield (New Zealand) and Ricardo Perez (Corpus Christi, Texas) picked up an 8-1 win at No. 1 doubles.
Corfield, Estruga and Guillermo Alyon (Spain) each had 6-0, 6-0 victories at No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 singles.
The Cobras will be back on the courts on Sunday against Francis Marion University. Match time is scheduled for 2 p.m. at FMU.


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If you don't fancy using the magic circle, you can make a ring by making 4 chain stitches and joining them into a ring. Please note, I am using the American crochet terms in this tutorial. :-)
July 2012 - Please note: my interests have changed and I do very little crochet these days. I'm sorry I do not have the time to answer emails about help with crochet. Try the Ravelry site for help instead. Thank you for understanding. :-)
Please respect my copyright. Please do not copy this tutorial and post it on your own site or blog in any form. This includes translations of the tutorial. Please respect the time and effort that goes into writing and photographing a tutorial. If you see this tutorial posted on someone else's site or blog in any form, please let me know. Thank you. Happy crafting! :-)
Por favor, respeta mis derechos de autor. Por favor no copies y pongas este tutorial y mensaje en tu blog en ningun formato. Esto incluye traducciones del tutorial. Por favor, respeta el tiempo y esfuerzo puesto en escribir y fotografiar este tutorial. Si ves este tutorial en cualquier tipo de formato en alguna pagina o blog, por favor, dimelo. Gracias. Felices creaciones. :-)
Img. 1: Ch3 in the magic circle, counts as first dc, 2dc into circle, ch2, 3dc, ch1, 3dc, ch2, 3dc, ch1, 3dc, ch2, 3dc, ch1, join into top of chain
Img. 2: notice how I am holding the ring? It actually makes it easier to hold onto the work at this stage
Img. 3: When you get to the end of the round you should pull tight the magic ring if you are using it. But don't cut off the 'tail' - you may need it later
Img. 4: See how that's all neat and tight?
Img. 5: Once you have joined the round, slip stitch through the stitches between the join and the first ch2 space, make sure to crochet into both the front and back of the stitches
Img. 6: when you get to the ch2 space, make a slip stitch around the chain
Round 2
Img. 7: chain 3, counts as first dc
Img. 8: 2dc in the corner/ch space, ch2, then 3dc in the corner
Img. 9: find the ch1 space from the last round - sometimes a bit tricky to find..
Img. 11: if you got the sequence right, you should now be at the end of the round, join with ch3 and then slip stitch through the stitches to the corner
Round 3
Img. 12: chain 3, counts as first dc, 2dc in the corner/ch space, ch2, then 3dc in the corner
Img. 13: 3dc the space between two 3dc groups from the last round, then 3dc in the next space. Then repeat the following sequence twice: 3dc in corner, ch2, 3dc in corner, 3dc in space, 3dc in space.
Img. 14: join with ch3 and that's your triangle!
You can of course add more rounds if you want a larger triangle! As you're working, the centre of your triangle may start becoming a bit loose, but that's ok, just use that 'tail' to pull the magic ring tight again.
Next, stay tuned for what I used my triangles for - it's fun and colourful! :-)