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Providence signs Cooley to extension
Providence, RI – Providence College has signed a long-term contract extension with head coach Ed Cooley on Wednesday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cooley led Providence to a 19-15 (9-9 Big East) record this season, and entered the Big East Conference Tournament as the eighth seed, but lost to Cincinnati in the second round.
"Coach Cooley has demonstrated in numerous ways that he is the right coach for Providence College," said President Brian J. Shanley. "He is a true leader both on and off the court, and we could not be more pleased to affirm that leadership by extending his contract. I join the College community, our alumni and fans in congratulating him as we all look forward to an exciting year ahead, and to building on the momentum generated by this year's NIT team."
Cooley was hired by Providence on March 22, 2011. In two seasons with the program, he is 34-32.
"Providence is home for me and my family and that is a big part of what makes this a special job for me," said Cooley. "I appreciate the support from Fr. Shanley, (athletics director) Bob Driscoll, the students and all the Friar fans that have helped us move our program forward. We have made progress over the last two years, but we are not satisfied. We came with the goal of winning championships and that remains in our sights. We will continue to work to make Providence College basketball an elite program in the nation."
Prior to joining Providence, Cooley was head coach at Fairfield, where he compiled a 92-69 overall record and went 58-32 in the MAAC over five seasons. He also served for 10 seasons as an assistant to former URI (1996-97) and Boston College (1997-2006) head coach Al Skinner.


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(WXIA) A 69-year-old Lilburn, Georgia man faces a murder charge after authorities say he shot and killed a 22-year-old man who had pulled into his driveway.
Phillip Walker Sailors is being held without bond after the Saturday night shooting outside his home in Lilburn.
An arrest warrant states that 22-year-old Rodrigo Abad Diaz was shot in the head as he tried to drive away from Sailors' home.
Sailors' attorney, Michael Puglise, said it was late at night and he assumed the young man arrived for a home invasion.
Puglise says Sailors was defending his home and maintains his innocence.
"He walked toward the vehicle still trying to ascertain what was going on when the vehicle accelerated toward him nearly striking him. That is when the fatal shot was fired," said Puglise.
Diaz's friends who were in his car when the shooting took place paint a very different picture. Gandy Jiminez, age 18, said they pulled into Sailor's driveway accidentally. They were going to pick up a female friend to go ice skating and their GPS steered them to Sailor's home.
"A man peered out of his door and we thought it was her grandpa," Jimenez said.
Jimenez said Rodrigo got scared and started backing out of the driveway after Sailors fired one shot into the air.
"Rodrigo never said anything and Mr. Sailors, he just came out and shot him, never said anything, never warned us, never asked why we were there," he said.
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I love WinPCD man, great job! I just want to do my part in making it even better. Here is my bug list for my recent use:
* Does not properly load woofer diameter from a saved file.
* Does not properly display INVERT/NORMAL status from a loaded file (gets fixed when you click invert twice).
* Window does not properly fit in the frame, I have to scroll up to the top tabs all the time.
Good job! I'm sure with time this will be perfect!
Also, a comment:
I expected the Transfer Function pane under System Graphs to have a relative index on the vertical, centered on 0db. Does that make more sense to anyone else too?


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Is iPhone 4 Too Well-Made for Apple's Own Good?
One of the interesting tidbits to come out of Apple Inc.'s earnings call on Tuesday was the continued strong sales of the iPhone 4. But the profit margins on those older devices is lower and compressing the company's overall gross margins. MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports. (Photo: Getty Image)
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I ... Apple makes the I phone for a cheap yet ... again Gallagher for MarketWatch in its earnings report on Tuesday after ... a very inching tidbit came out on Apple's all ... of which was at the I phone for the Apple launched nearly three years ago ... is still selling very strong especially in markets like China where there's a demand for oil or price smartphones this is a two inch or for Apple because it helps them ... have a part in this market where there's a lot of growth potential in ... the snow and spar for business at the same time the older device like the I phone for does carry low profit margins ... in the overall problem with gross margins for Apple is that they have been shrinking their expected to continue to be lower in the June quarter ... and that is I've been a big factor in why investors have become a lot more sour on the stock ... Apple shares come from seven hundred dollars only down four hundred ... in the last few months and worries about their margins are factor is well with sales of their new bikes like the I phone five ... on especially in light of the fact that ... the I phone for still still very strong after three years ...


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Gold against blue: Pinnacles of the stupas against the deep blue sky.
Three workers scrubbing the marble tiles before one of the shrines at the south-west corner of the Schwedagon complex.
Left: Woman resting in the shade with her sleeping baby--her offerings are in a carrier bag in front of her. Right: A temple on the west side decorated with painted bas-reliefs inside and out.
Left: A temple on the west side decorated with painted bas-reliefs inside and out — almost dioramas. Right: The reclining Buddha who was resting and not in Nirvana; to the left a man appropriately takes a nap.
Left: Turning 90 degrees from the direction in which the last picture was taken, we see into the next shrine, which is filled with different-sized Buddhas, most with the the right hand touching the ground. Right two: Two gold-encrusted rooflines.
Left: Some more beautiful decoration. Middle: a shrine sheltering three separate Buddha figures. Right: A worshipper at the altar for the second half of Wednesday; the main pagoda rising up in the background. At intervals around the main pagoda are shrines dedicated to each of the eight days of the week (Wednesday divides into two parts); worshippers make special offerings of fruit, flowers and paper umbrellas, and do special acts of devotion, like lighting candles in front of and pouring water over the Buddha and the totem animal of their birthday weekday (here an elephant WITH tusks).
Left: A view toward the north. Middle: Another view of the altar for Wednesday evening seen facing west. Right: The inside of one pagoda, showing the beautifully carved ceiling and gilded carvings on front and sides.
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Wichita Falls Makes List of Best Recreational Havens
Wichita Falls catches lots of flack, much of it unwarranted. 'There's nothing to do here' is a theme we hear often, especially from our youth, but one publication has found Wichita Falls to be a worthy spot for groups looking for a home for their events.
Convention South Magazine has named Wichita Falls one of the twelve cities from across the nation dubbed the 'south's surprising recreational havens'. "Meeting Planners and event organizers from across the country look for unique destinations in the South to hold their meetings and events, and ConventionSouth's 2014 list of the 'South's Surprising Recreational Havens For Groups' provides these planners with interesting insight on some of the South's most unique cities for recreational fun," said ConventionSouth Editor Marlane Bundock.
Burdock outlines three principle criteria the publication used in determining a communities worthiness for the list:
- The city has a wealth of recreational options for groups, including numerous public parks, the falls, a lake, a softball complex, golf courses and more – all giving groups of all types the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors year-round and participate in team building activities.
- The city has the ability to hosts various types of groups for meetings & events, including a meetings-minded Convention & Visitors Bureau, various meeting facilities and hotels.
- The city, in our opinion, is not "nationally recognized" as a recreational hot spot making it a surprising find for meeting and event planners that especially look for destinations in the South with recreational options.
Other cities that made the list include:
Albany, Georgia
Annapolis, Maryland
Auburn, Alabama
Chesapeake, Virginia
Columbia County, Georgia
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Kingsport, Tennessee
Palm Beach County, Florida
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Plano, Texas
Seminole County, Florida
I'm not totally sure what lake they were referring to, since most of our bodies of water have been reduced to very large puddles. But that situation, as it has before, will change in due time.
One aspect they did not bring up is the climate. One of the reasons the military chose Wichita Falls as the site for Sheppard AFB and the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program is the weather. Wichita Falls averages 244 days of sun or partial sun annually, which of course means lots of good flying weather. And let's be realistic, our winters are quite mild. We're not Minot and that in itself is reason to celebrate!


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This is the real man that America seeks to honor tomorrow:
Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken -- the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
There really is no doubt that Dr. King -- who might have turned 83 today had he not been cut down by an assassin -- would have been at the head of the line with the others who flooded back into Zuccotti Park last week after the NYPD took down the barriers. The real Martin Luther King would have been proud at some of America's progress since he died -- the election of the first black president being one part of that. But he would have been appalled by so much else in American life in 2012, including the right-wing assault on basic voting rights as well as the destruction of the American middle class, even as many fight to leave the sacred cow that is the military-industrial complex unscathed.
Tomorrow, millions of Americans will volunteer and do good works in Dr. King's name, and that is a wonderful and highly admirable thing. But that is not the hard part. That will have to take place later, in the streets of Washington and Lower Manhattan and Charlotte and Tampa, and the work will carry great risk but also a mightier potential reward -- an America that is not father from but closer to Dr. King's dream in January 2013.
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I'm obsessed with cranberry sauce. I make tons every Thanksgiving (a double batch of my favorite Slow Cooker Cranberry Pear Sauce) so that I have plenty for leftovers and, you know, to spoon straight from the jar. Though I'm not a huge fan of turkey, I consider roasting one every Christmas just so that there's an excuse for more cranberry sauce. I've never gone that far, opting for roast lamb or a crown roast instead, but I make cranberry sauce anyway.
I've decided that I need to find other ways to get my cranberry sauce fix. Not because I'm opposed to making tons of cranberry sauce—my slow cooker makes having cranberry sauce around really easy—but because my appetite for the intoxicating combination of tart cranberry and sweet orange spiked with cloves and cinnamon is insatiable. It's disturbing, really, but I've learned to love myself, disturbing qualities and all. With that acceptance will come many cranberry sauce inspired recipes starting with this one for Orange Cranberry Spice Pancakes.
These fluffy rounds are like holiday cheer on a plate, so full of spice that the batter turns a light chestnut brown. It's quite beautiful speckled with cranberry red. A kiss of orange zest and brown sugar keeps these from being too tart, not to mention the warm maple syrups that you should pour on top. Liberally. These are officially on the short list for Christmas day breakfast.
School Lunch Alert! Sandwich cream cheese (and maybe some jelly, too) between two of these babies to make a pancake sammy for kiddo's lunchbox. Serve with some mixed seeds and or nuts, a side of fruit, and veggies for a complete afternoon meal.
Orange Cranberry Spice Pancakes
(can be shared with kids 8+ mos)*
Serves 4-6
gluten- and/or dairy-free adaptable
2 cups flour (you can substitute your favorite gluten-free flour blend)
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 1/2 cup milk (you can substitute a non-dairy milk like coconut or almond)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus more butter for cooking
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Zest of 1/2 an orange
1/3 cup chopped fresh cranberries
1. If you want to serve the entire family perfectly warm pancakes all at once, preheat the oven to 200 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, cardamom, salt and cloves; set aside.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, butter, vanilla and zest.
3. Using a wooden spoon, stir dry ingredients into the wet, mixing until most of the lumps are gone (a few small lumps are okay). Add cranberries and stir to distribute evenly through the batter.
4. Butter a large pan or griddle set over medium heat. Using a scant 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake, drop batter in skillet and cook until a few bubbles have burst, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip pancakes and cook until cooked through and golden brown on the underside, another 2 minutes. Repeat until all the batter is done. Serve immediately.
To serve everyone warm cakes all at once: Stack cooked pancakes as they are done on a baking sheet or oven-proof plate kept in your preheated oven.
To freeze: Once pancakes are cooled through, place them in a ziplock bag, each separated by a small piece of parchment paper, and store in the freezer for up to 3 months. You can reheat frozen pancakes in a microwave and/or toaster.
*Note: These make a great early finger food! If your child is not yet managing soft finger foods by 8-months-old, hold off on serving these (pureed pancakes aren't so great!). Otherwise, cut into age appropriate bites and serve. Consider skipping syrup on portions for little eaters. These have a tiny bit of sweetness that should be enough for your littlest ones.
I also made a double batch of cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and it is now sitting jarred in the fridge. Can I put the sauce into the pancakes instead of whole cranberries? Do you think it would work? They look delicious!
Excellent. Thanks! Breakfast tomorrow.


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Nintendo's Wii U Aims to Redefine Gaming (Again)
Released back in 2006, Nintendo redefined the landscape forever with the announcement of the Wii, leading a revolution of sorts. Video gaming had long been the bastion of boys-to-men gamers with a penchant for 1st person shooters, strategy titles, sports and action-adventure. But in just the blink of a start screen, a whole new demographic of casual gamers evolved around the popularity of a gaming system, creating a whole new wireless-interactive titles which are still popular today across all ages and genders. At this week's 2011 E3, Nintendo unveiled the successor to the Wii, the Wii U, building upon the success and technology with a controller that could be best compared to the offspring of a Wii controller and an iPad. Here's our hands-on impressions from the show...
First things first, the initial response to the unveiling of the revolutionary Wii U controller we noted echoed all across the blog/twittersphere was, "that thing looks HUGE!". Right and wrong. Yes, the 6.2" touchscreen controller is big…about the size of a Samsung Galaxy Tab. But despite its size, in hand, the Wii U's controller felt comfortable and light, offering grips and a traditional controller trigger+button configuration underneath that keep it well in control even while gyrating and adding body english that undoubtedly comes with playing games designed around motion and an internal gyroscope.
The console itself is about the size of a small hardbound book (we love how discrete it looks compared to the Xbox 360 and PS3), but it was mostly kept out of reach or tucked away at the console kiosks from prying hands/eyes. We do know an IBM multi-core microprocessor and an AMD video processor powers the upcoming 2012 system, pumping out 1080p video through HDMI connection, titles released on a proprietary 25GB disc, four USB ports for accessorizing.
The controller's touchscreen presents gamers with a vibrant display and works much like an iPad; the coolest feature is the implementation of screen mirroring augmented reality, allowing gamers to look above and to the side beyond their television screen, basically extending the playing field well beyond the confines of traditional games. Just imagine horror titles where ghouls and ghosts could lurk around a virtual corner and only unveil themselves when the gamer twists the controller to "look".
Sports titles will obviously benefit from the inclusion of this additional touchscreen system (call out all Madden fans), optimizing play calling and maybe even offering 1st person perspective on the smaller screen, while a more expansive view of gameplay would occur on the main display. The opportunities discussed by attendees previewing the system on the show floor revealed a strong enthusiasm for what is in store for both avid hardcore gamers and casual gamers alike.
More to come...
Our favourite title previewed (and which caused the most rowdy raucous hoots and hollers amongst attendees inside Nintendo's booth) was Wii U Chase Mii.


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Alex McCalister, DE, Clemmons (N.C.) West Forsyth Ht: 6-7 Wt: 212 Class: 2012 Recruiting Buzz: McCalister became the Gators¿ 20th commitment when he picked UF on Jan. 21 over Georgia Tech, North Carolina and six other ACC schools. One of the Gators¿ lower-rated prospects, McCalister ranks as high as 26th nationally at defensive end. He said the opportunity to play the Buck, a hybrid end/linebacker position, helped him make his decision since Florida hadn¿t recruited many players to that position in the class. He comes in with great size at 6-foot-7, 220 pounds, but needs to bulk up. Rankings Rivals: No. 26 WDE in nation Scout: No. 55 WDE 247sports: No. 40 WDE 247sports N.C. rankings: No. 26 overall Back to Sentinel's Recruiting front page Back to Sentinel's 2012 Florida Top 100 Click for Sentinel's 2012 Central Florida Super60
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Katia Klepanchuk, a senior who is pursuing global studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, has been selected for the 2013-14 class of Coro Fellows. Only 64 fellows are chosen nationwide for this honor.
Two students received Fulbright Awards in 2013:
Tyrell (Ty) Edwards (IAS '11) will conduct research on international student development and retention at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Edwards will graduate in June with a master's degree from the cultural studies program in the School of IAS.
Christoper Nelson will graduate with his BSN in June. He will pursue his master's degree in Denmark while conducting research on the expanded scope of nursing work in isolated Arctic settlements in Greenland. Nelson is also the recipient of a Mary Gates Venture Scholarship. This type of Mary Gates award is very seldom awarded. He is the first recipient from UW Bothell.
Paulette Costanza, was awarded the prestigious Mary Gates Scholarship for her work with Professor Santiago Lopez on "Glacier Retreat and Land Cover Change in the Cotopaxi National Park."a senior earning her environmental studies degree with the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, works to understand how change affects socio-ecological systems in the tropical Andes.
Jenia Ostrovskaya won a Mary Gates Scholarship for 2013. This is the first Mary Gates Scholarship awarded to a UW Bothell student for basic science research.
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If you live in a nudist colony, this holiday probably seems elementary. For the rest of us, this is the one day of the year where letting all of your bits and pieces hang out is acceptable, although I'm 95% sure that Officer Fun- Sucker begs to differ.
So how are we supposed to pay tribute to this glorious National holiday without being thrown in jail for indecent exposure? Don't worry, we've got you covered.
At- home celebratory activities include, but are not limited to:
- Washing the dishes wearing, at most, an apron.
- Orgies.
- Paying your taxes in your underwear.
- Naked Chat Roulette.
- Searching for coins between the sofa cushion wearing only socks.
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5 Thin, Fun & Portable Headphones
If you prefer to turn up the noise and avoid all those April Fool's shinanigans today, you might want to check out these bright and fun headphones that are perfect whether you're on the go or simply need of splash of color to your home office...
Urbanears Tanto ($40): Urbanears have always had a thing for color and their light Tanto line of headphones are certainly no exception. With such a sleek and minimalistic look, what's not to love?
ATH-ON300 ONTO Headphones ($50): If you're concerned about headphones messing up your "do," you might want to check out these headphones with a 'seamless headband' by Audio-Technica.
Panasonic RP-HX200 ($40): Want a loud, Japanese-inspired color palette for your portable cans? These are some of the most lightweight headphones you can find and can't be beat in terms of style.
Sony MDR-570LP (~$30): These masculine colored headphones are a beast. Despite the cheap price, they drive sound like no other, boast a portable form factor, and are downright sexy as hell.
Beats Solo by Dre ($180): As much as we hate on the obnoxiously distinct red-colored headphone cable of the Beats line by Dre, they are ultimately a nice pair of headphones that take listening a little more seriously - even if it's ridiculously branded to the core.
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A book title recently came across my twitter stream called: The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care The title sounded familiar and when I went and learned more about the book, I realized it was from the same author of the relatively famous business book called The Innovator's Dilemma The book is written by Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen who is a very popular writer at Harvard business school. I've read a number of his works and the man is just good at what he does.
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SYNAQ is a pioneering technology company situated in South Africa that develops email services and solutions for small to medium sized businesses in Africa. Our solutions are all delivered via "the-cloud". Meaning that we've invested in all the technical stuff (the hardware, the software, the people, the systems, etc) so that our customers can get all the good stuff (spam free email, email archiving, email collaboration and more) without having to worry about the technicalities behind it or the cost.
We are a young company passionate about what we do and changing the world in our own small way. Our company mantra is "reducing the barriers to technology" and we're passionate about making technology simpler, more affordable and more accessible for our customers.
We are about to launch a new initiative that we believe will revolutionise the industry and want to create a micro-site to launch this new service.
In Africa, bandwidth is extremely expensive and is the major inhibitor preventing companies from embracing cloud computing. We want to break this barrier by giving our customers free, unlimited bandwidth (Internet access) to our cloud services. i.e. they wont pay for any of the bandwidth that they use to access our email services. This is what we call "openQloud" unlimited high-speed access to the cloud, at zero cost.
more about us @ http://www.synaq.com
The target audience for this campaign are IT Managers, Financial Directors and Managing Directors of small to medium sized businesses (50 to 500 people) that are interested in moving their email systems to the cloud but have always been hesitant to do so because of the perceived bandwidth related costs and speeds in doing so.
They are generally male and between the ages of 28 and 45. English speaking. Are normally not too technical but understand enough about technology and the latest buzz words (like cloud computing). Are in charge of the IT department within their company and have limited technical resources available to them at the company which they represent.
What they are looking for is an affordable hassle-free way to solve their email problems with the peace of mind that everything is taken care of by a focused and reputable provider so they can focus on their core business and not have to worry about email.
The microsite needs to be designed around the openQloud logo (previous 99designs contest) and be extremely impactful to this target audience showing the excitement and "largeness" of this new service offering.
The site therefore has to depict what the service is doing, essentially opening up the cloud providing our customers with high speed free access to our cloud services.
We're looking for a 4 to 5 page site that we can explain the service and attract leads with. The site needs to immediately depict to our potential customers what openQloud is about - that we're here to remove the barriers to technology for our customers and revolutionise their accessibility to the cloud, for free - while showing that we are a professional, reputable and reliable company. The website will be used to drive all traffic to promote the openQloud service. Users will go to http://www.openqloud.co.za
To deliver the free cloud service, we have formed a joint venture with a market leader in internet connectivity, a company called VoxDatapro (http://www.voxdatapro.co.za). They have launched a product called Fishbone (http://www.voxdatapro.co.za/fishbone/default.asp).
Fishbone allows companies to take multiple ADSL lines and combine them into one single pipe providing high speed internet access. Through our openQloud offer, customers can get the benefits of Fishbone but at zero cost - simply by signing up for any of our email services.
We also require an add banner that we can use on pay for advertisting sites to push traffic to the micro-site.
The payoff line for the site and banner is "Every cloud needs an orange lining" linking our Orange CI and brand to the campaign. Please design the site and ad banners around this as the core.
The site is a 3 page micro site containing a visually effective landing page that explains the service and prompts people to contact us for more information by submitting their name, email address and phone number (see openQloud.docx).
A frequently asked questions page giving a lot more detail about the offer, who its available for and what you need to do to qualify and an about us page which gives a bit more info about who we are, who our partners are and why we're trying to open the cloud in South Africa.
The entire campaign is being built around the notion that "Every cloud needs an orange lining" basically saying that we're making the cloud accessible to small and medium sized business through openQloud.
We call this "breaking the cloud barrier" which is linked to our company mantra of "breaking the barriers to technology"
The design should follow that of the openQloud logo (attached) while keeping inline with our brand identity (see attached brand identity document).
Addtional docs attached to help:
- Free Cloud Launch press release (to be sent to media on launch date)
- Brand Signature
- Binder4: new website design
- openQloud 1.png: the openQloud logo
- Vox_Fishbone_ProdSheet_LR.pdf: the Fishbone product data sheet
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The No. 1 King Lady Tornado went a combined 18-2 in individual bouts en route to a pair of wins in Saturday's King College Duals. The Lady Tornado defeated Missouri Baptist by a score of 36-6 prior to taking care of No. 5 University of the Cumberlands, 37-4. With two wins, King improves to 7-1 in team duals. King's Scarlett team also took three wins away, including one over Cumberlands' varsity squad.
King, currently ranked No. 1 by the Women's College Wrestling Association (WCWA), began their opening bout against Missouri Baptist with three straight wins by fall. Shannon Constantine (Haverhill, Ma.) and Samantha Klingel (Kresgeville, Pa.) both pinned their respective opponents in the first period of action, adding to defending national champion Emily Martin's fall over Caitlyn Chase. King won four straight bouts and picked the pace back up with Katarina Perez's win by decision in the 136-pound bout. Hannah Martin's technical fall victory over Sarah Holdman sealed the team's win, though King added three more wins by decision to lead to a 36-6 win over the Spartans.
The Lady Tornado returned to the mat against No. 5 University of the Cumberlands and after dropping the opening bout of the match, ran the table the rest of the way en route to a 37-4 win over the Patriots. Down 3-0 after the 101-pound bout, King outscored the Patriots 37-1 through the remaining nine bouts that included two tech falls and three pins. Emily Martin (Frisco, Texas) got the ball rolling with a technical fall over Alex Campbell (0-6, 0-7). The Lady Tornado surrendered only one point the rest of the way in their second match victory of the day.
Julia Salata (Canton, Mich.) won both of her bouts at 155 pounds, each by decision, surrendering only one point in four periods of action. Freshman Malexis McAdoo (Amarillo, Texas) took a pair of victories away, including a fall over Janet Mitchell in the second period.
King dressed a second team, the Scarlett squad, which took three wins away from Missouri Baptist and both Cumberlands squads. Ashley Iliff, Marina Sanchez, Kayla Brendlinger, Kayla Bartosch, and Rebecca Mattes all went 3-0 on the day. They defeated the Cumberlands Red team, 32-11, Missouri Baptist, 25-20, and the Patriots varsity squad, 29-15.
The Tornado will split their squads in their next competitions on Nov. 11. The team will participate in the Missouri Valley Open in Marshall, Mo. while select individuals will compete in the prestigious NYAC Open in New York, N.Y. Last year, Alli Ragan was named Most Outstanding Wreslter at the competition among some of the world's best grapplers.


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Breanne's Polenta with Black Beans and Coconut Tomato Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009
Recipe: Polenta with Black Beans and Roasted Coconut Tomato Sauce
How long does it take? 35 minutes
Category: Vegetarian
Name: Breanne
Why is it a favorite meal? Many of the ingredients are pantry staples and very adaptable to whatever you have on hand. You can substitute different beans, greens, or even roasted peppers for the tomatoes in the sauce. It's a warm and filling autumn dish.
Polenta with Black Beans and Roasted Coconut Tomato Sauce
1 can black beans (15 ounces)
1 can diced tomatoes in juice (28 ounces)
6 large stalks swiss chard, kale, or collard greens
3 large or 6 small garlic cloves, diced
1 package pre-cooked polenta (18 ounces)
1/2 cup coconut milk
2 tbs. jamaican jerk seasoning
3 tbs. olive oil
1 tbs. apple cider vinegar
1/3 cup water
1 tbs. chopped fresh thyme
Preheat oven to 500F. Empty entire can of tomatoes in a ceramic or glass baking dish, add coconut milk, and place in the oven. Bake 35 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat 1 tbs. olive oil in a saucepan. Add 1-2 cloves diced garlic, 1 tbs. jerk seasoning and cook 2 minutes. Add entire can of black beans and set heat to low, stirring occasionally.
Separate swiss chard stems from leaves. Dice stems very fine and add to a saute pan with 1 tbs. of oil and 2-3 cloves diced garlic. Heat through on medium 2-3 minutes, then add chopped leaves, apple cider vinegar, and 1/3 cup water. Cover with a lid and set heat to low.
Check on the tomato sauce. Stir in fresh thyme and continue to roast.
Heat 1 tbs. olive oil in a skillet on medium heat. Slice polenta in 1/2" thick slices. Sprinkle one side with remaining 1 tbs. jerk seasoning. Fry polenta, about 3 minutes per side until light brown and crispy.
To serve: spoon about 1/3 cup of beans on a place. Top with a heaping spoonful of greens and a slice of polenta. Top with about 1/4 cup tomato-coconut sauce and enjoy!
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Get free tickets to see 12 of the country's most talented girl and boy dancers compete for a $100,000 cash prize and a scholarship to the Young Dancer Program at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York.. and you can be in the live audience!
Joining Abby Lee Miller at the judges table is Robin Antin, founder of the pop group sensation Pussycat Dolls, and dancer and cutting-edge celebrity choreographer Richard Jackson (Lady Gaga's "Marry the Night"). Kevin Manno (MTV's "The Seven") is the host.
The contestants will learn new routines and compete in a number of challenges designed to test their skills when they perform before Miller, Antin and Jackson, as well as the live audience! The intense on stage competition and stakes between dancers and mothers increase throughout the season — culminating with a finale performance that assuredly will change the winning dancer's life forever.
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This modern Mediterranean style 7 bedroom/6 bathroom villa, sleeping 13, is set high above the La Manga Club, away from the centre, overlooking the North golf course and offering fantastic views of the La Manga resort and beyond. It is fully air conditioned/heated with a secure private garden and terrace area with its own pool which can be heated if required. (supplement £225.00 per week or part thereof). The facilities at Las Lomas, which include restaurants and a deli, are a 10-15 minute walk.
Please note that due to its location close to the North golf course, the villa is some distance from the facilities of the resort and car hire is essential for your stay. The villa is accessed via a steep drive and has parking outside, with 12 steps up to the front door.
This villa has sports rights entitlement for 10 people. Free wi-fi is available at this property.
The villa may be rented without the annexe as a lower occupancy villa (5 bedrooms) in low and mid season – please call to discuss requirements.
Living Room – Sofas, coffee table, TV, DVD/CD player, elevated dining area with large table and chairs. Patio doors from living room lead on to large terrace and pool area.
Kitchen – Fully equipped, with oven, hob, microwave, fridge freezer, dishwasher and dining area with table and chairs.
Cloakroom with WC.
Off Main Floor:
Bedroom 1: Double bed, bedside cabinets, built in wardrobes, TV. En-suite bathroom, walk-in shower, bath, double washbasins and WC.
Bedroom 2: Twin beds, bedside cabinets, built in wardrobes, with patio doors to terrace and pool. En-suite bathroom: Single washbasin, WC and shower.
Bedroom 3: Twin beds, bedside cabinets, built in wardrobes, TV. En-suite bathroom: Shower, double washbasins and WC.
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The old garage has been converted and leads to a Games Room with table tennis table, Wii console and games and a television.
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The Best Gift of All
I know, it's been a long time, and I've missed you too. But it's not like I was just sitting around ignoring theater. In fact, I've been in graduate school working on a paper about classical performance reception theory and Lysistrata. Wanna see it? No? Fine, I wouldn't either.
Here's something I very much want to see: a gift guide for lovers of Philadelphia theater. Broadway bundles abound, and that's great, especially when they benefit fabulous organizations such as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
But giving one of these gifts is practically like giving your loved ones a backstage (or green room) pass to street cred, that street being the Avenue of the Arts, of course. Best part? When you've finished snapping up and doling out all the merchandise, your friends and relatives might just take the hint and get you a subscription of your very own for next season. Even out-of-towners can get in on the action with a few of these, and perhaps sporting/owning some Philly swag might inspire others to get here and check out the theater scene (hint: September = awesome), which is still under the radar enough to have an entrant in the Under the Radar Festival, but appreciated enough on its home turf to make a hot ticket something of a commodity.
1. Read all about it: The nation's oldest theater, the Walnut Street Theatre, just celebrated its 200th birthday and put out a pretty cool little tome about it. In fact, it's sits prominently placed in my guest bathroom today, and judging by how often I have to straighten things up in there, it sees much leisure-time riffling by visitors. Don't want to play favorites? Try Philadelphia Theaters, a Pictorial Architectural History, which traces all 200 years of our sawdust-coated, gaslit stages. The American Theatre Wing's (ATW) The Play That Changed My Life has both a great premise and a local connection; it includes a chapter by Philadelphia-born Pulitzer-winning playwright Charles Fuller. Finally, if, like me, you're annoyed that ATW cut journalists from its Tony voting ranks this year, then go on and support your local critics--we don't get paid enough anyway. Philadelphia Inquirer critic and University of the Arts professor Toby Zinman wrote Edward Albee last year, and though yeah, I know, it kills you to do something nice for a critic, American Theatre magazine gave it a great review, and they don't care what you think of her. Go on, maybe you'll learn something.
2. Someone still wants A Christmas Carol, right? Otherwise there wouldn't be an entire section in my paper devoted to places you can see it. Rose Valley's Hedgerow Theatre hosts tea parties before performances on the second Sunday of every month, and they don't cost anything extra, which is nice, because even though your kids/grandma might be having the time of their lives, you're probably thinking Hedgerow owes you big. Have a scone and consider the debt paid. Jews, however, generally don't care for Scrooge and his tsouris, so Hedgerow has wisely brought them an offering, and it's better than frankincense: a bus trip to New York to see The Addams Family musical. And no, a bus trip to New York doesn't defeat the whole purpose of Philly theater gifts, because lookit, for some reason Jews always want to take bus trips to New York, no matter what you try to tell them, so at least this way a local theater still gets to make a buck off them.
3. Screw Teams Jacob and Edward. Romance-minded adolescents and teens need to get with Team Romeo. The Arden Theatre offers a full-day Shakespeare workshop--yes, it includes stage combat--for kids in 6th through 12th grades. Philly heartthrob Evan Jonigkeit (he also recently finished a successful run as Dakin in the Arden's production of The History Boys), who just happens to play Romeo in the company's Romeo and Juliet later that afternoon, leads the workshop. Also included? A ticket to the show and all the raw materials for weeks of copious swooning, parries and ripostes at the dog, and sudden cries of "Alack the day!" No teens? That's okay, the Arden's date night package gets you a pair of Romeo and Juliet tickets and a $25 gift certificate to Serrano restaurant, and you can do your own swooning afterward, in private, where it won't annoy anyone.
4. You may have noticed that I think Pig Iron Theatre Company is pretty dope. Chances are, you do too, but even if you don't, there's no denying their steampunk-ish, Edward Gorey-esque, line-drawn, Trey Lyford-designed logo looks great. It's compelling on a t-shirt or tote bag without being too obvious, but recognizable enough to elicit appreciative nods when you're trolling the Piazza for hipster camaraderie. Best of all, they're both so cheap that if you stuff the bag with the t-shirt and toss in a copy of the company's indie-pop Lucia Joyce Cabaret CD, you will reap all the benefits of being cool and generous even if you're neither.
UPDATE: Apparently Sens. John McCain (You remember him, right? Old guy, has a thing for crazy backwoods ladies?) and Tom Coburn think Pig Iron is JUST LIKE SHAKESPEARE! Sort of, anyway. Like, because they both drain the public coffers (See items #25 and #26). But I guess that's even more reason to buy their stuff; get 'em off the dole and into your hearts.
4. Relive the glory days when every crappy play that didn't make it to Broadway met its maker right here, and a couple of decent ones lived to see another day. Yiddish theater's mammeleh Molly Picon in How to Be a Jewish Mother? Nah, never heard of it. Orson Welles' "Around the World," with music by Cole Porter? Why haven't I heard of it? Today, there are 38 Playbills available on EBay from these lost treasures. Tomorrow there might be more. Wait until the 7th day of Chanukah or the night before Christmas, and who knows? You might never learn how to be a Jewish mother. Not that that seemed to bother anyone who watched Ms. Picon when she was doing the teaching.
5. Go back to where it all began. Philly owes much of its theatrical genetic code to the Barrymore family (insert your own comment about our alcoholic actors here), as evidenced by our naming the city's theater awards ceremony after them. This item might not do much to enhance the family's reputation, but it sure would make a swell gift for someone.
If all else fails, go to the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, get a few gift certificates, and let your friends/lovers/family to pick their own damn show. Just make sure they take you.
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Thursday night at North Marion High School, a King could not be toppled.
SPARR — Thursday night at North Marion High School, a King could not be toppled.
Forest pitcher Chase King went the distance in a 6-0 victory over the Colts.
The senior was more than economical, throwing first-pitch strikes to 19 of the 26 North Marion hitters he faced.
"He had everything going out there," first-year FHS coach Jed Yancey said. "He started all those guys off 0-1 it seemed like, and they had a hard time battling back into the count."
King threw 81 pitches in the shutout, which was his first appearance of the season for the 4-0 Wildcats. He scattered five hits, allowed one walk and struck out five.
"I prepared pretty well and thought I'd do good coming out here," said King, who is in his second year on varsity after throwing out of the bullpen as a junior. "My curveball was doing pretty well, and I was able to spot up my location with my fastball."
With district play starting next week, Yancey is happy with the way his starting pitchers are rolling early on. Senior Blake Waldren and sophomore Kirby McMullen have looked sharp too. The trio of starters have yet to allow a run this season.
"All our guys have thrown, so it's good to get the beginning of year jitters out (ahead of district play)," Yancey said. "Blake's throwing it well. Kirby's throwing it well when he throws. This was (King's) first start. We've got three of them clicking, so that's always good."
The offense was sparked by senior center fielder Kameron Proctor. Up 5-0 entering the sixth inning, Proctor led off and put his blazing speed on full display with the play of the game.
Proctor dropped down a bunt. Colts catcher Matt Thomas' throw to first sailed high and down the right-field line into the corner. Proctor rounded first and didn't stop, scoring easily on the play.
"(Proctor's) one of those kids who's just an athlete," Yancey said. "Soccer, football three years, and in my opinion he could run a little bit of track. He runs well. We've got a couple who run well, and when they put a bunt down, you put a lot of pressure on the opponent to make a play."
The Wildcats put up three runs in the second to build a cushion that would never be challenged by North Marion. David Stromwell doubled in Phillip Felicien. McMullen and Stromwell then scored on consecutive wild pitches by Colts starter Tony Morales.
A bloop single by Hagen Samson in the fourth drove in McMullen to make it 4-0. McMullen got into the act an inning later with an RBI single that scored Sam Armstrong to make it 5-0.
Stromwell, McMullen, Zach Davis and Trey Lagasse all had two hits apiece for FHS.
Morales hung in there for six innings, allowing nine hits and four walks. Kadyn Uhl pitched a scoreless seventh inning for NMHS.
"Tony did a good job throwing strikes," North Marion head coach Dale Hall said. "There were a lot of situations where the defense couldn't quite make plays behind him. Forest did a good job tonight making all the plays, and we didn't."
North Marion (2-3) got a pair of hits each from Thomas and Dalyn Jones. Ryan Owens had the other hit for the Colts.
NMHS hosts District 5A-5 opponent Gainesville Eastside today at 6:30 p.m. Forest's next game is at home Tuesday against cross-city rival Vanguard at 7 in a 6A-6 game.


text: At 'BtoB's' Digital Edge: Yolton discusses social business at SAP By Kate Maddox. Published on December 07, 2012. New York—During the closing keynote at BtoB's Digital Edge virtual event, Mark Yolton, senior VP-digital, social and communities at SAP, talked about how the software company is using social media and other digital programs to drive business and engage with its customers and prospects. "SAP has been using social media since before it was even called that—for many years; and we continue to evolve as new platforms and new customer needs emerge," Yolton said. Yolton leads the group within SAP's marketing organization that includes SAP.com, SAP's online communities and social media initiatives, and more than 70 websites around the world. In explaining why social media is so important to SAP's marketing, Yolton said: "Our buyers are looking at social media and are looking for peer recommendations before making technology purchase decisions. Those buyers are about 60% down the purchasing funnel before they ever contact us or any other vendor, so we'd better be in that space when and where the customers are looking." Yolton said another important driver of social media is helping SAP achieve its corporate goals. "At SAP, we have set some longer-term goals. By 2015, we want to exceed $20 billion in revenue. We want to achieve a 35% operating margin, and we want to reach 1 billion people. So tying our social media goals and our digital and community goals to these corporate goals is very important in order for us to be relevant to the company and for us to be funded." Yolton presented a diagram of concentric circles to show how SAP is using social media, online communities and digital programs to engage with customers, giving up control as it moves further out in the rings to gain more engagement. "At the center of the bull's-eye is sap.com. Sap.com is a traditional broadcast medium—it is the official voice of SAP, broadcasting out into the marketplace. We have maximum control but, as a consequence, we have very little engagement," he said. Moving out to online communities hosted on the SAP site, "we give up some control but gain more engagement," Yolton said. "Further out, we orchestrate conversations in social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. We have a bit of control, but not complete control. Finally, we seek to participate in conversations where our customers and prospects already are, such as a CFO or financial community. On the outside rings, we have lots of engagement but very little control because we do not own or host that environment." SAP's Community Network (launched in 2003 as the SAP Developer Network) now has more than 2.5 million members, gains more than 30,000 new members a month and attracts more than 1.2 million unique visitors a month. Users on the network engage in between 3,000 and 4,000 discussions a day, and there are more than 450 blogs posted a month. The company has also had widespread success with social media, with more than 4 million fans on various social networks, 16.5 million video views, more than 700,000 mentions of SAP in social networks and more than 1.5 billion social media impressions this year. Yolton also discussed how SAP integrates social media into events, such as its Sapphire Now annual conference in May, which garnered over 100 million social media impressions. "We aspire to be the most socially integrated technology company in the world," Yolton said, noting that SAP will soon be integrating even more social media and online community content into SAP.com, such as providing live Twitter feeds, community links and blogs from customers and partners on SAP.com and other Web pages. Visit the show archive to see the sessions. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Barriers to Collaborative Information Seeking in Organizations
Arvind Karunakaran and Madhu Reddy
Sunday, 3:30pm
There has been a growing interest within the information sciences and HCI communities to understand the role of collaboration in facilitating information seeking. This focus had led to the emergence of the research area of collaborative information seeking (CIS). Although researchers are starting to identify various components and activities that underlie CIS, we still know very little about the barriers to CIS. In this study, we used Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to gather data from 307 participants to understand about these barriers. Through our data analysis, we identified a variety of barriers that hinder CIS. These barriers fell under four broad categories - organizational, technical, individual, and teams. These barriers also had a strong temporal component which we highlight in the discussion. From these findings, we discuss some design implications for information retrieval systems.


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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation's most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world's first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it.
Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.
Empires of Light is the gripping history of electricity, the "mysterious fluid," and how the fateful collision of Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.
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Jill Jonnes's compelling Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World offers a multi-sided tale of America's turn-of-the-20th-century quest for cheap, reliable electrical power. Along the way, the book profiles key personalities in both the science and industry of electrification and dramatizes the transformation of American society that accompanied the technological revolution. As her sub-title suggests, Jonnes's focus is on the three great personalities behind the building of the electricity industry. But, as she makes clear, the electrification of America was much more than a pathbreaking scientific quest. The genius of such poet-scientists as Nikola Tesla depended on the more finely tuned business skills of George Westinghouse and the towering capital of J.P. Morgan to achieve actualization. And even Thomas Edison and Westinghouse--innovative industrial combatants in the war between AC and DC current--were victims of the far more powerful and conservative financial forces of Wall Street. Indeed, for Jonnes, the story of electricity is as much about the legions of patent attorneys and bankers who controlled the flow of industry as it is about the circulation of current. Her sophisticated portrait of Gilded Age science, business, and society brings new light to the forces that underlie technological revolutions. As she reveals, it is not so much the great public men of science who directed the destiny of America's eventual empire of light; rather, the path was solidified by those men behind the scenes who were wise enough (and perhaps ruthless enough) to impose their legal, financial, and political dominance onto the scientific innovation--a valuable message for all eras. --Patrick O'KelleyFrom the Back Cover:
"[Empires of Light is] a very accessible and informative historical account that will be fascinating reading for a general audience as well as those with a more specialized interest." -Booklist
"Empires of Light is a thoroughly engaging and highly informative account of three inventors who pioneered the production and distribution of electricity. Without these three engineers the world would simply not be what we know today." –Henry Petroski, author of The Evolution of Useful Things
"[Empires of Light is] thoughtful and well paced." -Kirkus Reviews
"[Empires of Light is] a crackerjack account of the race for electrification." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Jill Jonnes' Empires of Light is the captivating–no, let's say electrifying–saga of the "War of the Electric Currents" fought at the close of the 19th century with typical Gilded-Age excesss by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse. From the electrification of J. P. Morgan's New York mansion to Westinghouse's subjugation of Niagara Falls, Jonnes explains in human terms how alternating current achieved dominance over direct current, a victory of incalculable importance in the history of the world–and she tells the story with great, at times even macabre, verve, as in her account of the invention of the electric chair and its horrifying first use. Along the way she solves numerous little mysteries of electric power, among them why Broadway became nicknamed "The Great White Way." -Erik Larson, author of Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Bair Calls for More Capital Requirements
Former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair tells the WSJ's CFO Network in Washington, D.C., that banks need stronger capital requirements to avoid a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
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The Arkeais Convergence: Flight from Hellhold as the story between real battle reports in my Arkeais storyline.
I got the idea from this/these guy(s) and from my time as a CGT major in college all those years ago (where I did a godawful sprite comic for a final project once).
Please enjoy or ignore as you see fit. It's a fair bit more effort than I wanted (mostly because of the setting up of pictures) so my motivation to continue it slowed. I'll make an effort sometime later to complete at least this part of it, if only for my own gratification. I figured I would put it up here while I was busy being devastatingly bored.


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Australians have been told to leave Iraq immediately by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who has described the escalating crisis as deeply disturbing.
Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have taken a swathe of mostly Sunni Arab territory in northern Iraq in an offensive that has brought fighting to within 80km of Baghdad.
The worsening crisis prompted Ms Bishop to urge Australians to leave "immediately".
"The airport in Baghdad is still open. Commercial flights are still operating out of Baghdad," she told the Ten Network.
"But if Australians must stay in Iraq, they must ensure that their personal circumstances and their security is absolutely safe."
The Australian embassy in Baghdad would be "very constrained" in the support it could provide, she said.
On Saturday US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf as President Barack Obama considers possible military options, after he ruled out sending troops into Iraq.
Speaking to reporters in Houston, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he would wait to see how the US responds to the situation before developing an Australian response.
Ms Bishop said the US would take the lead when it came to any military action.
"I didn't envisage a circumstance where we would be sending in troops," she said.
"But we certainly stand ready to support the humanitarian crisis should a request be made."
She defended the 2003 military intervention in the country, which she supported as a member of the Howard Government.
"I thought Saddam Hussein was one of the worst dictators on the planet at that time. His removal was a good thing," she said.
Greens leader Christine Milne said following the US into Iraq was not going to "fix" the violence in the country.
"We do not want to follow the United States blindly as John Howard did (in 2003)," Senator Milne told ABC Television.
"Clearly it didn't work last time in Iraq and it won't work this time."


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This year's Oscars may have drawn some blistering reviews along with its solid ratings. But the producers of the telecast say they don't put much stock in the negative chatter.
"When you take the job, you know you're in jeopardy of being ripped to shreds," producer Craig Zadan said in an interview with The Times. "No matter what you do with the Academy [of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences], people take sides. We judged the show by what we wanted to do."
Added Neil Meron, who produced the show with him. "None of us expected to be lauded by the press."
Oscars 2013: Nominee list | Red carpet | Highlights
Broadcast Sunday from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, the 2013 Oscars featured a grab bag of entertainment meant to appeal to a wide demographic. In addition to its 24 awards, the telecast featured a controversial hosting performance by the 39-year-old "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane and a reunion of the cast of "The Avengers" — along with older-skewing material such as musical performances from Barbra Streisand and an homage to movie musicals.
Viewership was up — 2% over last year, to 40.3 million, and a notable 11% among viewers ages 18-49, the demographic that many advertisers target. But critical reaction included a large number of tepid reviews.


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STOCKTON - With new equipment installed and ready to go, local disaster-response officials are geared up to blast a warning directly to the mobile phones of anybody in San Joaquin County who could be in harm's way.
STOCKTON - With new equipment installed and ready to go, local disaster-response officials are geared up to blast a warning directly to the mobile phones of anybody in San Joaquin County who could be in harm's way.
It's not delivered like a typical text message. It's called a "wireless emergency alert," which an increasing number of cellphones are able to receive through a national system that began rolling out last year.
Depending on the type and scale of the emergency, officials can target a specific geographical area, officials said.
So if there's a breach somewhere in the 1,000-mile network of levees in San Joaquin County, and you're in the neighborhood, your phone could tell you about the danger.
Which is why the county began putting the agreements and equipment in place as soon as it could, said Michael Cockrell, county director of emergency operations. "We have so many hazards in this county ... we (had) to be ready for this."
In the headquarters of the county Office of Emergency Services in French Camp, he showed how he could outline a small area of Stockton on a computer screen for a targeted blast of information to anybody within a few city blocks of a hypothetical chemical spill.
It could also be used to warn people of an out-of-control fire, keep people away from an armed criminal fleeing police or to send out an Amber Alert if a child had been abducted. In addition to Cockrell's office, the city of Stockton and the county Sheriff's Office have local authority to send out blasts through the system.
It would likely have been used during a gas-line break in Stockton last November, when crews went door to door with sirens and loudspeakers to evacuate a neighborhood, Cockrell said.
Existing methods of notifying the public about emergencies through radio and other means remain in place with the addition of the new, powerful tool, he said. It's one part of nationwide changes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to warn the public in emergencies. And Cockrell said it opens up other new ways for local authorities to get the word out to local residents in future phases.
Not everyone will get the mobile notifications. Not yet. It depends on their cellphone carrier, the type of handset they're carrying and whether a particular cellphone tower has been brought into the system, he said.
According to FEMA, most cellphone providers are already part of the wireless-alert system, and most phones on the market will be compatible with the system by 2014.
And it's already been used in a crisis.
During a recent ice storm in Nashville, the National Weather Service sent out a warning to 1.5 million people, telling them to get home as quickly as possible, spokeswoman Susan Buchanan said. Some people were confused to see the warning on their phones, she said. "As with everything new, people are going to have to use it a few times before they get used to it." There wasn't a negative response to the mobile blitz, she said, but a few comments from people who described scenes in restaurants when every phone in the place went off at the same time.
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the system was used to warn people of flash floods and blizzards, she said.
Emergency officials said they want to be careful not to "cry wolf" with the new method of notification.
"We have to have a really high bar set. ... This is about notification to people who are in immediate danger," said Dan Keeton, the meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office in Sacramento. But it was used around Sacramento in October, when tornadoes touched down in the area.
There are some kinks to work out in the system statewide, but for those whose job it is to warn people when they are in danger, wireless notification to mobile devices is a pretty big deal.
"The ability to put a warning right in the hands of the person that needs it is pretty awesome," Keeton said.
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