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It's important to make a distinction between Windows 8 on ARM (Windows RT) and regular Windows. Mike Pall, developer of, among other things, a just-in-time compiler for Lua, explains what, exactly, browser developers do not have access to on Windows 8 on ARM. First, it's important to know that even though Windows RT ships with the Win32 APIs installed, only Microsoft can access them - which it does for Office 15 and Internet Explorer. Third party developer do not have access to Win32; they can only access the WinRT APIs.
"Actually, fully-functional browsers need access to a couple more APIs that is denied to them, too. But the inability to run a JIT compiler has consequences for a much wider range of software," he adds, "For W8ARM there'll be no LuaJIT (in JIT mode), no PyPy, no Java, no v8, just to name a few. Ditto for any software that relies on them (Scala, Clojure, JRuby) or embeds them."
These same restrictions apply to Windows 8 on x86, but only for Marketplace applications. Contrary to Windows 8 on ARM, you can still install your own desktop applications on Windows 8 x86, including a special class of applications which combine the Win32 API with WinRT. In any case, it's pretty obvious the desktop is legacy, so it'll eventually be phased out.
These are some pretty hefty limitations, and considering Internet Explorer on Windows 8 doesn't have to respect these limitations, it's clear it will have a considerable advantage over possible competing solutions. Rightfully so, Mozilla and Google are not particularly happy about this.
"The prospect that the next generation of Windows on ARM devices would limit users to one browser is untenable and represents a first step toward a new platform lock-in," writes Harvey Anderson, Mozilla general counsel.
Asa Dotzler further adds that this goess well beyond tablets alone. "ARM will be migrating to laptop PCs and all-in-one PCs very quickly. If you read Microsoft's blog posts about Windows on ARM, you'll see that they expect ARM PCs to cover the whole spectrum. ARM chips are already being used in servers. This is not a tablet-only concern," he argues.
I agree with Dotzler - heck, the one reason I'm excited about Windows on ARM is that it will finally be interesting for big OEMs to start shipping laptops and desktops with ARM chips in them. Considering I don't give a rat's bum about gaming or things like photo or video editing, I'd love a super-small, silent, and frugal ARM box which I can tape to the back of my monitor, running Windows (yes, I prefer Windows over Linux and Mac OS X - sue me).
However, I'm not particularly enamoured with Internet Explorer as it exists on the preview versions of Windows 8 (for various reasons I won't go into), and I'd love for, say, Google to make a WebKit Metro browser I actually like. The current limitations make that entirely impossible, which sucks.
Speaking of Google, it, too, has raised concerns over the browser situation on Windows 8. "We share the concerns Mozilla has raised regarding the Windows 8 environment restricting user choice and innovation," the company told Cnet, "We've always welcomed innovation in the browser space across all platforms and strongly believe that having great competitors makes us all work harder. In the end, consumers and developers benefit the most from robust competition."
Most responses online have focussed on the fact that Windows RT is supposed to focus on tablets (which isn't true, as Dotzler pointed out, but alas), and as such, the situation isn't much different from iOS. As a geek, this line of reasoning saddens me greatly - it confirms just how out of touch the industry has become with its roots. It's the slippery slope many warned about: now that iOS is successful, we've already accepted that we no longer get to decide what code we get to run on our own devices, so much so that even Microsoft can get away with limiting us in this fashion. Mac OS X is moving in the same direction.
I'm quite young (born in 1984, ironically enough), but even I learned about computers the hard way - by messing stuff up. By breaking stuff. By stepping outside of the boundaries set by my parents and school regarding computer use. By age 6 or 7 I was hooked enough to start dabbling with BASIC - which wouldn't be possible in a Metro and iOS world. This is something that honestly and truly has me worried, because 10-20 years from now, we're still going to need great programmers, and if all they know are the nanny states of Metro and iOS, we're going to be in for a nasty surprise.
Let me be very harsh and make it very clear: I'm not talking about people who write a bunch of iOS applications and call it a day. I'm talking about the nitty gritty stuff. Driver development. Assembly programming. Kernel development. Firmware stuff.
Let me extend an olive branch for once and assume that Microsoft and Apple are doing this for entirely altruistic reasons - under that assumption, this is a well-intentioned but entirely dangerous development that we shouldn't cheer on, but be weary of. It'd be such a huge step in the right direction if they were to, I don't know, commit to implementing a sideloading switch for the foreseeable future.
All in all, this is a major issue, and I don't buy into the whole "it has no keyboard so it shouldn't be your device"-nonsense. If it takes the government or the justice system to step in and resolve this, then, well... So be it.


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NEW YORK – The NBC Sports Network said Tuesday it had strong ratings for its season-opening IndyCar race, with 388,000 viewers who amounted to a 78 percent increase over last year's debut race on the cable channel.
The race Sunday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Fla., earned a .26 rating, up 53 percent from last year, when NBCSN's first telecast of the IndyCar season was the second event of the year. Last year, 218,000 people watched the event at Barber Motorsports Park.
The race, won by James Hinchcliffe, was the second-best season-opener for NBCSN since it acquired IndyCar rights in 2009.
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This article provides information on troubleshooting Windows Time service problems in an Active Directory domain
The Windows Time service is very important in Active Directory. By default, Kerberos authentication requires that the clocks on all machines in the domain be synchronized to within five minutes of each other when corrected for time-zone differences and Daylight Saving Time. Machines whose clocks are outside this range will not be able to authenticate and therefore will have no access to domain resources.
Within an AD domain, the domain controller (DC) holding the PDC Emulator FSMO role is the master time server for the entire domain. This doesn't mean that every machine in the domain synchronizes its clock directly with the PDC Emulator, however. Other DCs synchronize with the PDC Emulator, while member servers and clients can sync with any DC. In this hierarchy, the PDC Emulator should be the only machine that is configured to sync with an external time source, such as a public NTP server. Everything else in the domain should be configured to synchronize with AD. Any other configuration may result in a loss of clock synchronization.
Refer to this TechNet site for detailed information on how the Windows Time service works.
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The first step in troubleshooting a Windows Time service issue should be to determine how many machines are affected. If the time is incorrect on only one machine, the steps required to fix the problem will be different from the steps required to fix a domain-wide time issue.
If only a few machines are affected
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Windows Time service registry settings
The w32tm commands specified in the above procedures make changes to the Windows Time service registry values, which are all located under the following registry key:
It is possible to set these values manually rather than using w32tm commands, of course. If you choose to do so, the following sites may prove useful:
Group Policy
If you make changes to the Windows Time service using w32tm commands or via the registry, but those changes don't take effect at all or take effect for only a short time before reverting to their previous values, there may be a Group Policy Object (GPO) overriding your changes. Group Policy settings for the Windows Time service include many of the same items that can be configured via the registry or w32tm commands. These settings can be found in the following location:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service
Reset the Windows Time service registry values to default settings
If all else fails, this procedure will reset the Windows Time service to its default settings:
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Here we will take a look at several key ratios for Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA), starting with the Book to Market (BTM) ratio. Value investors seek stocks with high BTMs for their portfolios. The ratio is a comparison of the firm's net asset value per share to it's current price. This is helpful in determining how the market values the company compared to it's actual worth. The Book to Market value of Seabridge Gold Inc. currently stands at 0.372974.
In terms of EBITDA Yield, Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) currently has a value of -0.023274. This value is derived by dividing EBITDA by Enterprise Value.
Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) presently has a current ratio of 2.80. The current ratio, also known as the working capital ratio, is a liquidity ratio that displays the proportion of current assets of a business relative to the current liabilities. The ratio is simply calculated by dividing current liabilities by current assets. The ratio may be used to provide an idea of the ability of a certain company to pay back its liabilities with assets. Typically, the higher the current ratio the better, as the company may be more capable of paying back its obligations.
The Price to book ratio is the current share price of a company divided by the book value per share. The Price to Book ratio for Seabridge Gold Inc. TSX:SEA is 2.681153. A lower price to book ratio indicates that the stock might be undervalued. Similarly, Price to cash flow ratio is another helpful ratio in determining a company's value. The Price to Cash Flow for Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) is -118.715748. This ratio is calculated by dividing the market value of a company by cash from operating activities. Additionally, the price to earnings ratio is another popular way for analysts and investors to determine a company's profitability. The price to earnings ratio for Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) is -49.708476. This ratio is found by taking the current share price and dividing by earnings per share.
Looking at some ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) numbers, Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA)'s ROIC is -0.058990. The ROIC 5 year average is -0.042601 and the ROIC Quality ratio is 1.782692. ROIC is a profitability ratio that measures the return that an investment generates for those providing capital. ROIC helps show how efficient a firm is at turning capital into profits.
Free Cash Flow Growth (FCF Growth) is the free cash flow of the current year minus the free cash flow from the previous year, divided by last year's free cash flow. The FCF Growth of Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) is -0.176532. Free cash flow (FCF) is the cash produced by the company minus capital expenditure. This cash is what a company uses to meet its financial obligations, such as making payments on debt or to pay out dividends. The Free Cash Flow Score (FCF Score) is a helpful tool in calculating the free cash flow growth with free cash flow stability – this gives investors the overall quality of the free cash flow. The FCF Score of Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) is 0.592705. Experts say the higher the value, the better, as it means that the free cash flow is high, or the variability of free cash flow is low or both.
The Gross Margin Score is calculated by looking at the Gross Margin and the overall stability of the company over the course of 8 years. The score is a number between one and one hundred (1 being best and 100 being the worst). The Gross Margin Score of Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) is 50.00000. The more stable the company, the lower the score. If a company is less stable over the course of time, they will have a higher score.
At the time of writing, Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) has a Piotroski F-Score of 1. The F-Score may help discover companies with strengthening balance sheets. The score may also be used to spot the weak performers. Joseph Piotroski developed the F-Score which employs nine different variables based on the company financial statement. A single point is assigned to each test that a stock passes. Typically, a stock scoring an 8 or 9 would be seen as strong. On the other end, a stock with a score from 0-2 would be viewed as weak.
Shifting gears, we can see that Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA) has a Q.i. Value of 68.00000. The Q.i. Value ranks companies using four ratios. These ratios consist of EBITDA Yield, FCF Yield, Liquidity, and Earnings Yield. The purpose of the Q.i. Value is to help identify companies that are the most undervalued. Typically, the lower the value, the more undervalued the company tends to be.
Watching some historical volatility numbers on shares of Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA), we can see that the 12 month volatility is presently 34.906800. The 6 month volatility is 39.737200, and the 3 month is spotted at 48.639000. Following volatility data can help measure how much the stock price has fluctuated over the specified time period. Although past volatility action may help project future stock volatility, it may also be vastly different when taking into account other factors that may be driving price action during the measured time period.
In trying to determine the current valuation of Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) shares, we note that the Book to Market ratio of the shares stands at 0.712119. It's commonly accepted that a Book to Market ratio greater than one indicates that the shares might be undervalued. The book to market ratio has some limitations in certain industries however where intangible assets (such as knowledge) often are not represented on a balance sheet. The ratio is calculated by dividing the market price per share by book value per share.
When putting hard earned money at risk, investors will want to look at all the angles in order to make sure that no stone is left unturned when building the stock portfolio. With so many different stocks available to trade, investors may need to figure out a way to make the selection process manageable. Some investors may choose to start with industry research first and eventually filter down to individual stock picks. Others may want to start at the individual stock level and go from there. Whatever the approach the investor chooses, putting in the time and effort might greatly help the long-term performance of the stock portfolio.
Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) presently has a current ratio of 2.61. The current ratio, also known as the working capital ratio, is a liquidity ratio that displays the proportion of current assets of a business relative to the current liabilities. The ratio is simply calculated by dividing current liabilities by current assets. The ratio may be used to provide an idea of the ability of a certain company to pay back its liabilities with assets. Typically, the higher the current ratio the better, as the company may be more capable of paying back its obligations.
Return on Assets
There are many different tools to determine whether a company is profitable or not. One of the most popular ratios is the "Return on Assets" (aka ROA). This score indicates how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. The Return on Assets for Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is -0.069897. This number is calculated by dividing net income after tax by the company's total assets. A company that manages their assets well will have a higher return, while a company that manages their assets poorly will have a lower return.
Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI)'s Leverage Ratio was recently noted as 0.364199. This ratio is calculated by dividing total debt by total assets plus total assets previous year, divided by two. The leverage of a company is relative to the amount of debt on the balance sheet. This ratio is often viewed as one measure of the financial health of a firm.
ERP5 Rank
The ERP5 Rank is an investment tool that analysts use to discover undervalued companies. The ERP5 looks at the Price to Book ratio, Earnings Yield, ROIC and 5 year average ROIC. The ERP5 of Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is 11863. The lower the ERP5 rank, the more undervalued a company is thought to be.
FCF Yield 5yr Avg
The FCF Yield 5yr Average is calculated by taking the five year average free cash flow of a company, and dividing it by the current enterprise value. Enterprise Value is calculated by taking the market capitalization plus debt, minority interest and preferred shares, minus total cash and cash equivalents. The average FCF of a company is determined by looking at the cash generated by operations of the company. The Free Cash Flow Yield 5 Year Average of Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is 0.002851.
Ever wonder how investors predict positive share price momentum? The Cross SMA 50/200, also known as the "Golden Cross" is the fifty day moving average divided by the two hundred day moving average. The SMA 50/200 for Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is currently 1.03465. If the Golden Cross is greater than 1, then the 50 day moving average is above the 200 day moving average – indicating a positive share price momentum. If the Golden Cross is less than 1, then the 50 day moving average is below the 200 day moving average, indicating that the price might drop.
Magic Formula
The MF Rank (aka the Magic Formula) is a formula that pinpoints a valuable company trading at a good price. The formula is calculated by looking at companies that have a high earnings yield as well as a high return on invested capital. The MF Rank of Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is 12686. A company with a low rank is considered a good company to invest in. The Magic Formula was introduced in a book written by Joel Greenblatt, entitled, "The Little Book that Beats the Market".
Stock volatility is a percentage that indicates whether a stock is a desirable purchase. Investors look at the Volatility 12m to determine if a company has a low volatility percentage or not over the course of a year. The Volatility 12m of Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is 45.913100. This is calculated by taking weekly log normal returns and standard deviation of the share price over one year annualized. The lower the number, a company is thought to have low volatility. The Volatility 3m is a similar percentage determined by the daily log normal returns and standard deviation of the share price over 3 months. The Volatility 3m of Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) is 39.816200. The Volatility 6m is the same, except measured over the course of six months. The Volatility 6m is 38.247700.
After a recent scan, we can see that Team, Inc. (NYSE:TISI) has a Shareholder Yield of -0.006133 and a Shareholder Yield (Mebane Faber) of -0.02315. The first value is calculated by adding the dividend yield to the percentage of repurchased shares. The second value adds in the net debt repaid yield to the calculation. Shareholder yield has the ability to show how much money the firm is giving back to shareholders via a few different avenues. Companies may issue new shares and buy back their own shares. This may occur at the same time. Investors may also use shareholder yield to gauge a baseline rate of return.


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A few weeks back, Sabrina Chap (born Chapadjiev) contacted me to see if I wanted to review her new album, Oompa! Never one to turn down a free meal from female musicians, I obliged and she mailed me a copy (with a handwritten letter, no less — thanks, Sabrina!). While the item was in transit, Kjerstin Johnson at Bitch reviewed it for B-Sides.
Having not heard Chap before, the article gave me a good idea of what I'd be listening to. The cabaret sensibility of "Never Been a Bad Girl" suggested The Dresden Dolls (though not Evelyn Evelyn's super-problematic crip drag) on first listen, as well as Inara George and Jolie Holland in louder moments. The emphasis on classical and ragtime instrumentation also recalled Squirrel Nut Zippers' dedication to jump blues, jazz, polka, and swing. Both the Zippers and beloved Austin mainstay White Ghost Shivers have cultivated antiquated aural aesthetics to undermine nostalgia with biting observations, sly asides, and at times bawdy lyrics about the realities of modern life. Finally, Chap also seems to share similar feminist camp sensibilities with fellow New York-based retro revisionists Ménage à Twang. I haven't heard Chap on KOOP's "What's a Girl to Do" program, but I think she'd be a perfect fit.
I don't offer these artists up to slight Chap as derivative, but rather to put her in a larger context of artists. I believe Chap's talents stand up on their own. I'm also interested in pursuing her written work. She's penned some plays and edited a zine called Cliterature. She also edited Live Through This, an anthology about women who use art to work through self-destructive tendencies. The book contains interviews from Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Eileen Myles, and Annie Sprinkle. That's a helluva dinner party.
Most of Oompa! charmed me. The songwriting is sharp, the melodies are catchy, and Chap's band possesses the sort of musical precision that allows it to really swing. I especially liked the self-effacing opening track "Blueprint for Destruction," idyllic "Carolina," reflective "Illinois," spunky "Never Been a Bad Girl," and the uncertain but defiantly optimistic "Boat Song," which closes the album. "Failed Waitress/Failed Astronaut" may rank as my favorite track, as it turns the all-too-relateable subject matter of being college educated yet maligned by limited career prospects into a fun little jig. The slinky "Idiom," which documents a clandestine hook-up with a sexy female stranger, is a close second.
Unfortunately, there are two songs on Oompa! that I can do without. "Little White House" brings to mind the nuclear family idyll espoused in Little Shop of Horrors' "Somewhere That's Green," which feminist-minded pop stars like Paula Cole critiqued in "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" I'm of the mind that Chap is doing similar work here, as the minor key and stately pace suggest compromised expectations. However, much like I felt with "Cowboys," it's hard for me to not hear this song as being condescending to its subject.
I also cringe when I hear "Ze Paris Song," a song about a tourist trying to fit in with her surroundings while eating baguettes and brie as she reflects on the tragic men who love her and eschews the Eiffel Tower. That Chap delivers it in a put-on accent doesn't help matters. Much like "House," I believe Chap is being critical here. The results just rub me the wrong way.
Yet despite those minor grievances, I'd still recommend Oompa! Give it a spin on the ol' Victrola.


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It was deja vu all over again in Washington on Tuesday as the federal government entered the second week of its partial shutdown. Calling on Democrats to negotiate a budget deal, House Republicans proposed a new version of the deficit-reduction "supercommittee" that unsuccessfully sought a similar agreement in 2011 — only this time, with less power and no deadline. But the GOP was just posturing. Rather than prolonging the shutdown and raising the prospects of a ruinous default, House Republicans should agree to reopen federal agencies, raise the debt limit and then begin the long, hard process of negotiating the elusive "grand bargain" on the budget that both sides want.
To recap for those who tuned in late to this fiasco, federal agencies ran out of money Oct. 1 after House Republicans refused to pass a stopgap funding bill unless it defunded or delayed the 2010 Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Never mind that they don't have the votes in the Senate for that, let alone the two-thirds majority in both houses needed to override a certain presidential veto. Since then, Republicans in the House have argued that Democrats are to blame for the shutdown because, rather than negotiating over Obamacare, they insist on a short-term funding bill free of controversial riders.
As President Obama made clear Tuesday, however, the issue isn't whether the two sides will negotiate. It's the context for those negotiations. Senate Democrats have been trying for six months to convene a conference committee with House Republicans on the budget resolution for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, which could have averted the fight they're having now. But the GOP doesn't like the procedural rules that apply to such measures, which limit the minority party's influence in the Senate while boosting it in the House.
The new deficit-reduction committee the GOP proposed Tuesday would be bipartisan in terms of membership and power, but not agenda. It wouldn't be able to recommend tax increases or even the elimination of tax loopholes. Instead, it could address only spending limits, the debt ceiling and "reforms" to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. What's worse, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) seemed to be making the committee a prerequisite to reopening the government or raising the debt limit.
In any case, as the first supercommittee's dismal results showed, there's no deal within easy reach. So there's no point in keeping the government shut down, costing the U.S. economy an estimated $160 million per day in the interim, let alone threatening not to pay some of the government's creditors when the debt limit is reached later this month. It's past time for the House to accept Obama's offer: Reopen the government, lift the debt ceiling and then hammer out a long-term budget deal.


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(previously titled: that's so gay...) Edward's life before his beautiful Bella, how did it feel to grow up, without really growing up? Chapter 5 is finally up!
this is a bit of Edward's life before Bellakins came to town!
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I hate high school. It's like a prison in which I cannot reach out of. Seriously, listening to all the petty teenagers, the dramatic teachers, and then their thoughts. It's enough to make me rip my hair out. Or perhaps, someone else's.
Wow. Edward is so hot when he pushes his hair out of his eyes like that…a familiar thought of an adolescent girl entered my mind. I shifted a little in my seat at the front of my English class. Idiotic teacher who alphabetizes her student's seats just had to put me in the front, where I couldn't stay out of everyone's sight. As if I hadn't learned the same material about 50 times over.
"And the end punctuation of the sentence should be…?" Mrs. Greene said, pointing to the large overhead projection. I didn't even have to look up from my desk to know what the answer was. Oh come on, we've been learning these things for three weeks, now! The teacher's thoughts said.
"Hello, does anyone know? Anyone?" she said out loud. "Ok, Jessica, you tell us." Edward…What? Oh, the answer. Jessica's scattered thoughts were always quite indecent.
"The square root of 100?" She said. The teacher sighed and shook her head.
"Ms. Stanley, this is English, not Math. Okay, obviously no one is paying any attention; maybe we should just move up the test to tomorrow? Yes, tomorrow." Mrs. Greene said, writing it on the board. Abruptly, the word 'test' and 'tomorrow' entered everyone's mind and a number of groans and whimpers situated behind me.
Then, as the bell rang and I stood up from my desk, I heard a stranger thought. Why is Edward so alone? Alex told me that he is gay… I froze, and slowly looked for the owner of that thought; Michael Newton. He looked startled that I was staring at him, so I turned back around and headed for lunch.
Oh my gosh, it's Edward…it sucks that he's gay, why do the hot ones always have to be gay? I heard two more thoughts of such opinions and it made me testy by the time I was at lunch. Forks High school was so small that you could say one thing to one person and by another 10 minutes, the whole school would know.
"Hey Edward!" Alice said. I nodded and sat down, not even buying a lunch for my fake prop. Rosalie was looking in her compact mirror, obviously admiring herself, Emmett was flexing his muscles and Jasper was sitting rigidly and staring at his plate. Alice was as usually jumping in her seat, and saying 'hello' to everyone who walked by.
"Guess what I just found out?" She said, looking around at everyone. We all looked up, trying to bring at least a little excitement into our dreary lives.
"Shawn Western is going to ask Edward to the homecoming dance!" Everyone busted out laughing and even Jasper relaxed, forgetting about the blood around him. If I were human, I would have been blushing from embarrassment. I ducked my head and glowered at my shoes.
"Stop it now!" I growled under my breath. Everyone quieted down but they were all thinking snide thoughts about me, taunting me; especially Emmett, who is always concerned with my virginity. I clenched my teeth.
"Hey, can I sit here?" a voice behind me said. I was too preoccupied to even notice the person coming. I turned around and felt my eyes widen. It was that Shawn Western they were all talking about. I looked around desperately, trying to find escape. There were two other empty chairs at our table, and one was next to me.
"Yeah, please do!" Emmett said to the boy. I felt the power of my glare should have physically hurt Emmett, but he just grinned and winked at me.
"Thanks…so Edward, how are you?" Shawn asked me. I shrugged and looked the other way. I know it was rude and improper, but…it was gross. Oooh, a shy one is he? I can change that…Shawn's thoughts said. I had to resist the gag that formed in my throat.
"Yeah, I heard you were a quiet kind of guy…so I wanted to ask you something?" he asked. This time I didn't even stop the gag, and turned around sharply. "Will you go to---"
"I'm not gay, and I'm not interested, so if you could just leave me alone, I really wouldn't mind. Ok?" I asked rudely. Oh my, if mum were here, I would have received a sharp slap. The boy looked stricken, and his thoughts became fogged as he nodded and got up, leaving the cafeteria.
The whole room was quiet and staring at me, some with shock, and some with pure glee. The girls were excited that I was now available again, and the boys had mixed emotions. I turned back around and saw the faces of my family.
Alice was glaring at me, Rosalie was smirking, and Emmett was laughing. Jasper was rigid again, because the boy had come too close to him.
Haha, You are such a goner, Edward, you're not going to get any sex for the rest of your life if you keep this up. Emmett thought. Shawn and Edward sitting in a tree…
"If I hear the word 'gay' or 'Shawn' one more time, I will punch a hole through the wall." I said; getting up swiftly and leaving the cafeteria, going to my car.
Later that night, I was sitting at the piano, playing a depressing Beethoven melody. I felt Esme sit next to me, but I didn't stop playing, letting her get her thoughts together before she spoke to me.
"Edward…" she put her head on my shoulder and I stopped, putting my arm around her.
"Yes, Esme?" I asked softly. Esme's motherly nature made me feel younger; only a teenager once again.
"You know I worry about you, right? Maybe you were too young when Carlisle changed you…I just don't want you to be alone. I want you to experience love, and bliss, and happiness, or at least companionship with someone outside the family." She said. I sighed and closed my eyes.
"Esme, you don't have to worry about me, I'm perfect. I am happy and I love you and Carlisle, and everyone else. I don't need a companion…they complicate things." I laughed, and she smiled.
"Yes, but what if you're alone forever? Wouldn't you want--"
"To lose your virginity?" Emmett said, bounding down the stairs. I got up and punched him squarely in the jaw. He had me pinned down in a second, and I would have released all my anger on him, until Carlisle came through the door; doctor bag in one hand, and his lab coat in the other.
"Emmett! Edward! Not in the house!" Esme yelled. Carlisle chuckled and kissed his wife on the cheek.
"What is it about this time, boys?" He said, getting Emmett off of me. I stood up and glared at Emmett, daring him to tell.
"Nothin'" Emmett said; I relaxed. "Just tryin' to figure out if Edward's gay or not." He finished. I punched him in the gut with most of my force, making him crash through the brick wall of Esme's treasured living room. Esme gave a shriek and Carlisle was just staring at the hole. Everyone else ran downstairs."I told you I would punch a hole in the wall…it just happened to be in the shape of your body."
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WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- Former national security contractor Edward Snowden will not face the death penalty for releasing classified document, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said.
Holder said the Justice Department assurances "eliminate" claims by Snowden, accused in the United States of espionage, that he should be granted asylum or treated as a refugee, CNN reported.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin had said Snowden would "no doubt" stop leaking secret U.S. intelligence if he were given temporary asylum in Russia.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had "expressed a firm intention to not allow" further leaks, RIA Novosti reported.
"And I have no doubt this is how it will be, no matter how the situation develops," Peskov said.
Washington has called on Moscow to reject Snowden's request for asylum and send him to the United States for trial. Peskov said the former National Security Agency contractor would not be handed over to U.S. authorities, Voice of America reported.
Snowden's father, Lon Snowden, told NBC's "Today" show Friday he was "extremely disappointed and angry" by the way his son has been portrayed.
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Annual HIMSS Analytics Health IT Trend Report moves toward Quarterly Releases
CHICAGO (February 26, 2013) – In an attempt to keep industry leaders abreast of the latest developments within the ever changing health information technology (HIT) landscape, HIMSS Analytics announced today that the annual Essentials of the US Hospital IT Market report – 8th Edition, will now be released on a quarterly basis. Based on data reported in the HIMSS Analytics Database, the revamped quarterly reports will focus on select sectors of the HIT industry on a rotating basis. In addition to the revised release schedule, the information and analysis on each application profiled in the reports will be much "deeper" than previous annual editions. The new Essentials Reports now includes:
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The report is available in its entirety, by financial or American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) clinical volumes. Clinical Volume 1, now available, offersinformation on all applicable applications used in the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption ModelSM.
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One very important New Orleans Saints defensive player to keep your eye on in 2013 is second-year defensive lineman Akiem Hicks.
Hicks, who the Saints selected in the third round in 2012, had a baptism by fire last season, and while he showed his inexperience and a lack of good techniques at times, he also showed that athletically he is the most talented big man the Saints have along their defensive line.
One very important New Orleans Saints defensive player to keep your eye on in 2013 is second-year defensive lineman Akiem Hicks.
Hicks, who the Saints selected in the third round in 2012, had a baptism by fire last season, and while he showed his inexperience and a lack of good techniques at times, he also showed that athletically he is the most talented big man the Saints have along their defensive line.
Defensive end Cameron Jordan is not a gold chip NFL performer, but he is a good blue chip player. Jordan excels in stopping the run, but last season he displayed good pass-rush skills at times and the ability to close in fast on a quarterback.
For Hicks, if the light comes on for him like it did for Jordan in 2012, he has a chance to be a special defensive lineman.
The 6-foot-5, 320-pound defensive lineman is being played across the board in Rob Ryan's new defensive 3-4 format.
"They are preparing me for every spot up front," Hicks said. "I'm working at defensive end, nose tackle and playing the 3-technique. I like playing defensive end. It gives me an opportunity to use my athleticism and my speed coming off the ball. To be honest I am really a power-type player, but I surprise people on how quick I am coming off the ball. It's a lot of one-on-one stuff at defensive end. When you play inside you are taking on a lot of double-team blocking. It's adjusting and seeing what is best for me to excel and what is best for the team. It doesn't matter where they play me, I just want to compete and play."
Hicks said he has worked hard to improve his pad level and upgrade his leverage skills this offseason.
"In this league everyone is big, strong and fast, and it is an old saying, but a true one that the low man wins in football," he said. "I have a tendency to play a little too tall and that gives blockers a chance to get under my pads and move me around some. I have to learn how to stay low, and I have a great teacher in (Saints defensive line coach) Bill Johnson. It's the same thing with leverage. When I was younger I wrestled a lot, and that taught me a lot about leverage, but this is a different kind of leverage. It's a lot about using your hands better and turning and leveraging your body quickly to defeat your man."
Last season the Saints saw Jordan develop into a very good starting defensive end and Hicks believes that he can make that move in 2013.
"Things are different defensively from a schematic standpoint, but Coach (Rob) Ryan likes to play aggressive football and you have to understand your assignments," Hicks said. "That is the big key I see in this league, and that you have to understand the different sets and alignments and not get caught out of position. This is an aggressive game, and it's not about read and react. It is all about recognize fast and react fast, if not you get beat. I thought I played pretty well at times last season, but I just wasn't consistent. I really like what I see that we are doing defensively, and we all know that we need to rush the quarterback better and also get off the field better on third down. When you have an offense like what we have and Drew Brees in control it is not about making big defensive plays all the time, and that would be great if we did, but it is about slowing down your opponent and then giving our offense a chance to get back on the field too. Really what gets a crowd excited, especially the "Who Dat Nation" pumped up loud, is making a big play on defense. We want that too and we want to get them revved up for our unit like they get excited for our offense."
There are two key elements for the Saints defense to get better in 2013. The first is a consistent edge pass rush from free agent outside linebacker Victor Butler and matching up better down field in coverage with tight ends. That part of the equation has to come from 2013 first-round pick Kenny Vaccaro from the University of Texas.
The third piece of the puzzle is the continual development of Hicks along the defensive line, most likely at defensive end.
Hicks not only has a chance to be a good NFL player, but a special one for a team that desperately needs a big-time performer up front defensively. Like tight end Jimmy Graham did for the Saints in his second season, the boys in black and gold are hoping Hicks becomes that sort of player on defense.
If the New Orleans Saints can get some pressure from the likes of Hicks, Jordan, Butler and Junior Galette or Martez Wilson, it will relieve what was a troubling spot on the team in 2012.
Last season the Saints allowed opposing quarterbacks a passing rating of 93.8. That was the fifth worst figure in the NFL behind the Kansas City Chiefs (99.9), the Philadelphia Eagles (99.6), the Oakland Raiders (97.5) and the Dallas Cowboys (94.7).
Of those five teams, only the Eagles finished overall defensively in the top half of the league, and they finished 15th overall. The Saints finished 32nd overall defensively in 2012. Not one of those five teams posted a winning record or made the playoffs last season.
One thing defensively you will see more of out of the 2013 Saints under Ryan is more press-coverage schemes. Last season the Saints under Steve Spagnuolo played a lot more off-cover schemes than we had ever seen when Gregg Williams was in charge of the defense. But this season under Rob Ryan, whose dad Buddy Ryan was a mentor for both Williams and Rob Ryan, the Saints will go back to more press-cover schemes.
Former Saints safety Brett Maxie, now the secondary coach with the Tennessee Titans, said that the press-cover method dictates to the receiver what type of route he can run.
"If you play off a receiver, then you have to cover or react to every type of pass route," Maxie said. "If you play press coverage that gives the cornerback an opportunity to get closer to the receiver and limit his overall route running tree. Now you are dictating to the receiver what he can do, but on the negative side, when you play a lot of press-cover schemes there are certain risks that you take and it heightens the chance of giving up the big play if you fail to execute well. Defensive backs get flagged more in press-cover situations and your margin of error on the deep routes down field is magnified. But what's worse, having a quarterback pick you apart with the underneath stuff on the short passes or give up the big play over the top? You have to mix and match some, but you have to limit the short game today. You have to be able to take away some aspect of that because the way the rules are today and the quality of quarterbacks we have in this league they will eat you up if you consistently play off a receiver."
Last season the Titans gave up a passer rating of 92.7 per game — the seventh-worst in the NFL, and they also had a losing record.
There has been a steady flow of college coaches headed to South Lafourche High School over the past few weeks. Tarpons standout offensive tackle Bailey Granier is the most heavily recruited football player from Lafourche Parish since Thibodaux High School star quarterback/ wide receiver Trovon Reed decided to leave the state to sign with Auburn a few years back.
The 6-6, 320-pound tackle, who I project will play guard in college, has scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida State, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Arizona, Houston, Central Florida and Vanderbilt, along with instate offers from Louisiana Tech and Louisiana-Lafayette.
While Granier has visited LSU, he has not yet received a scholarship offer from the Tigers.
In many ways Granier reminds me a lot of current LSU offensive guard Josh Williford.
While Granier has gotten a lot of attention from national schools, another Tarpons player, linebacker Peyton Guidry, is also getting looks from instate schools and from those around the country.
I got a chance to watch the 6-1, 200-pound linebacker last season a few times, and I was impressed with his instincts, his speed to the football and his flow ability from sideline to sideline.
South Lafourche head coach Dennis Skains talked highly this spring about Guidry.
"He's a guy that will catch your attention quickly," Skains said. "He's aggressive, real smart. He carries a 3.7 GPA, and he scored a 30 on the ACT, and there is little hesitation when making a move toward the ball carrier. He's a very focused young man and plays hard every down. There is no doubt he can play at the next level, and he's worked hard to improve his coverage skills and drops."
Guidry has gotten attention from Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech and Princeton.
NFL analyst Mike Detillier is based in Raceland.


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The Answer Man: Bill Clinton's Comeback
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It's becoming increasingly clear that Bill Clinton can't function without Hillary Clinton. Nor can Hillary Clinton function without Bill Clinton.
When Barack Obama signed up Hillary for Secretary of State, he knew that he was getting a twofer. Now that Bill has successfully completed his North Korea mission, he is sure to play an increasingly prominent role in foreign affairs.
The trick for Hillary will be to use him to solidify rather than undermine her position as Secretary of State. Her husband solved a thorny problem in helping to liberate two American journalists who either strayed into North Korean territory or were seized in China by border guards. The episode earns him some plaudits, allowing him to burnish his reputation as well as his wife's.
So far, so good. But will Obama use Bill as the magic bullet in the future to deflect, or solve, crises? Or will he find that Bill becomes a freelancer, exceeding his mandate? It will be interesting to learn, for example, if Clinton confined himself to his mandate of extricating the two women, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, from the North Korean Gulag or whether he broached the subject of nuclear weapons in meeting with Kim Jong Il.
At a minimum, he did accomplish something else -- a fresh photo of the frail dear leader, sitting next to a former president, the kind of homage and fealty that the North Koreans crave. For make no mistake: Clinton was paying court to Kim. Conservatives will remonstrate that Clinton and, by extension, Obama were extending feckless apologies that will only prompt the North Korean despot to engage in further shenanigans.
For Obama, however, the hostage crisis -- which is what it really was -- will have to prompt him to further mull over the use of Bill Clinton as an informal representative. For Hillary, there is only an upside; as long as the White House assents, she can tap Bill as her troubleshooter of troubleshooters. She has a whole battery of them, after all, beginning with Richard Holbrooke, who is supposed to pacify Afghanistan and Pakistan.
For now, Bill has emerged in a new incarnation -- as a statesman. It's a role that he tried to play as president, but always slipped from his grasp, whether it was the refusal of the Palestinians to reach a lasting peace with the Israelis or his own sexual peccadilloes or his pardoning of Marc Rich. Now both Bill and Hillary have left behind politics to become emissaries to the world and begin their latest comeback together.
This photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (Front R) posing with former US President Bill Clinton (Front L) and his delegation members in Pyongyang. North Korea will pardon and release two US journalists after Bill Clinton apologised to leader Kim Jong-Il for their behaviour, state media reported. (AFP/KCNA/KNS)
Former Vice-President Al Gore embraces former President Bill Clinton (R) after Clinton's arrival with freed U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea in Burbank, California August 5, 2009. Ling, 32, and Lee, 36, American journalists freed by North Korea after months of detention, returned to the United States on Wednesday accompanied by Clinton, who secured their release in a meeting with the reclusive state's leader Kim Jong-il. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok (UNITED STATES POLITICS)
Bill Clinton, the man of the hour. Aside from the apology which is prominent in this cabinet's playbook, I'd like to know what other considerations were given to North Korea government before we got the journalists back.
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Leighton Meester to Perform at LA's Troubadour - Exclusive
Leighton Meester performs at The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles earlier this month, singing an acoustic 11-song set – "On My Side," "Jenny," "Entitled," "Blue Afternoon," "Heartstrings," "Runaway," "The Stand In," "LA," "Never Know," "Change Your Heart," and "Still Yours."
JustJared.com can exclusively report that the 25-year-old Gossip Girl actress will be performing again at the Troubadour in L.A. on Monday, June 13, with the band Check in the Dark. Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased at TicketFly.com!
Watch one of Leighton's performances from earlier this month below!
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You can usually determine someone's emotional state just by looking into that person's eyes. You can see if he or she is happy, sad, angry or tired by looking at the expression in the eyes. In some cultures, the eyes are believed to hold mystic powers, which can deliver misfortune to whomever the gaze is directed to.
The Turkish Evil Eye is a stare that is believed to cause bad luck and maladies. When someone stares upon another with disdain, envy or jealousy, the person stared at can be inflicted with negative energy that can bring about poverty, illness and even death. Even if the person with the evil eye stare had no intention of ill-will towards the other person, the gaze can still cause harm. Specifically in Turkey, the Evil Eye is a blue talisman and is known as nazar and is found in or on houses and vehicles or worn as beads.
The belief of the evil eye is widespread but is especially concentrated in the Middle East where Islamic doctrine states that the evil eye is real and presents a legitimate danger.
In response to the hysteria and fear of being harmed by the evil eye, talismans have been created as a form of protection. In Jewish culture, the Hamsa Hand is used as a charm for necklaces and bracelets as a way to repel the effects brought on by the gaze. Trinkets depicting the evil eye itself are also widely used as charms for the same intended purpose as the hamsa hand.
In Islam, talismans are generally prohibited as it is believed to be a form of idol worship. Muslims are instead encouraged to say "Masha Allah," which translates to "God has willed it." This is believed to invoke the presence of God to protect one from the evil eye.
Out of fear of becoming a victim of the evil gaze, people will often refrain from talking about subjects concerning their wealth, family or other positive points in their life as it is believed to attract stares of envy.
Those who strongly believe in the evil eye may even keep their children indoors as it is believed that they are vulnerable to the stares due to their innocence and young age, especially from childless mothers. In those cases the use of Hamsa Baby Pins and Hamsa wall decor for the children's room is sometimes used.
The eyes are believed to hold unseen powers and can cause misfortune to others even if no harm was intended. Even in modern time, people continue to turn to various forms of talismans and invoking the word of God to receive divine protection. Whether the eyes really hold such powers, hundreds of years of tradition certainly make it real for believers.
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Are you in love with being in love? When that infatuation fades are you the type of person who moves on to someone else? According to experts, you could be addicted to love — and we're not talking about a song by Robert Palmer, but a real problem that can cause brain reactions similar to drug addiction.
"When you first meet somebody and you feel that connection and all the buttons are going off, that causes changes in the brain similar to ... taking cocaine," said Dr. Judith Orloff, author of the book "Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life." "It's the brain on drugs, basically, when you fall in love."
Orloff said our desire to want to feel in love is hard-wired in our biology for species survival, but we can get addicted to the rush. Once the fascination wears off (in about a year) the chemicals stabilize, "and then the hard work comes in because you have to start relating to them just like any other person," she said, adding that this is when most love addicts jump ship.
"A chemical connection has a lot of razzle dazzle but it's limited," Orloff said. "It's the deep, intimate connection that comes later that I encourage people to find because they're so satisfying and they can last a long time."
Stephen Arterburn, author of "Addicted to Love: Recovering from Unhealthy Dependencies in Love, Romance, Relationships and Sex," said parental neglect is often the trigger for love addiction.
"When they find someone who has that interest in them, there's a sense of fulfillment and completion," Arterburn said. "It feels like it makes up for all they didn't have when they were younger."
But when there's conflict, the love addicts often think this means the relationship is doomed — which may not be true, Orloff said.
"There are the positive traits of someone and the negative traits," she said. "There's no way you're going to like everything about somebody. But when you choose to take the relationship to a deeper level, it's is such a great teacher because it allows you to learn tolerance and to teach you deep companionship ... through all of life's trials and tribulations."
Here are some characteristics of a person who is in love with being in love:
You wait for lightning to strike.
"I recommend if you have lightning strike, to run in the other direction because that's a sign of neuroses and a sign of destructive patterns that don't serve you," Orloff said. "On the other hand, if you meet someone and you feel a little glimmer of something, you want to stoke it like a fire and see if there's something there."
It's not you, it's them.
"One of the reasons people do this for so long is they don't think this is unhealthy behavior, but that they have high standards," Arterburn said. "If the relationship doesn't fulfill them they feel the other person is falling short — but what's really happening is they are trying to fill a need and they feel incomplete if they're not involved in a romance. They feel like something is missing."
For women: You have few female friends.
"Most often a female romance addict will have a few or no same-sex friendships," Arterburn said. "They jump from male relationship to male relationship. Maybe they were rejected by dad so this is a way to fill that need."
Your friends have dropped hints that you don't want to hear.
"Really take a look at what people have said to you — people who care about you or maybe even people you've broken up with. What messages have people tried to communicate to you that you have resisted?" Arterburn said.
You need a relationship to be happy.
"If you're going to a gas station to be filled up by somebody else, that's not going to make you happy because that tank will keep running out," Orloff said. "... One thing I stress is that nothing on the outside can make you happy unless you have happiness inside yourself. I mean money, success, fame, fortune, love — none of that can make you happy. It can add to your happiness, but you have to have some kind of inner peace and something that you can bring to somebody else first."
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St Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus (354–430 ce), was born at Thagaste (mod. Souk Ahras, Algeria), son of Patricius, a modest town councillor of pagan beliefs, and a dominant Catholic mother, Monica. Educated at Thagaste, *Madauros, and Carthage, he taught rhetoric at Thagaste, Carthage, and Rome and (384–6) as public orator at Milan, then the capital of the emperor Valentinian II. Patronized at Rome by *Symmachus (2), the pagan orator, he hoped, by an advantageous marriage (to which he sacrificed his concubine, the mother of a son, Adeodatus—d. c.390) to join the 'aristocracy of letters' typical of his age (see ausonius). At 19, however, he had read the Hortensius of *Cicero. This early 'conversion to philosophy' was the prototype of successive conversions: to *Manichaeism, a Gnostic sect promising Wisdom, and, in 386, to a Christianized *Neoplatonism patronized by *Ambrose, bishop of Milan. Catholicism, for Augustine, was the 'Divine Philosophy', a Wisdom guaranteed by authority but explored by reason: 'Seek and ye shall find', the only scriptural citation in his first work, characterizes his life as a thinker.
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Check out this guy that's staying with us. His name is Teddy and he's a pretty cool dude. He thinks he can bark louder than me, but we have barking contests to settle the fact that I am MUCH louder (M's been complaining about a headache). He's a foster dude from a local rescue called Austin Dog. Unfortunately, he's got heartworms pretty bad and is getting treated for them. When he was pulled from the shelter, he had one huge shell of matts all over his back and lower body. He still has some, but he needs to keep some of his fur for the colder days this time of year. One of his ears is a little twisted, either something from birth or from a fight with another dog at one point. Mom says he really is cuddly like a teddy bear, but that he needs a cooler name to match his personality. The person that adopts him when he's ready to go is going to be sooooo LUCKY.
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Wednesday is the day of the Great Pundit Pivot. It happens every four years, the day after a presidential election. Before the election, every commentator wants to be Michael Barone. Afterward, everyone wants to be Oswald Spengler.
Barone is a rightly esteemed Washington journalist — long ago a wonky liberal, now a cranky conservative, but still an intrepid interpreter of demographic and political statistics — whose claim to fame is that he's visited every one of the country's 435 congressional districts. There is no bit of electoral minutiae too small for Barone to explain how it just may be the key to understanding everything. Long before NBC's Chuck Todd and CNN's John King, Barone was reading the tiny tea leaves and noticing an increase in the population of Armenians in South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District that might tip the balance in the House of Representatives.
Up to election day, Baronism dominates the coverage and commentary, as political journalists compete to display their expertise. The ultimate goal is to find the one person, probably in Ohio, whose vote — through a series of complicated and subtle developments involving the electoral college, "super PACs" and tracking polls for each election cycle — will determine the result.


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The Real History of Cheerleading Might Just Shock You
As we watch a Dallas Cowboys game and see the famous Cowboys cheerleaders, do you ever wonder how cheerleading came about? Here is a little back story on the history of cheerleading, and it contains a fact that may shock you.
I have always believed cheerleading to be a female sport. There have even been controversies surrounding males that try to join teams that cheer for large teams like the Cowboys.
It is seen as almost taboo for men to want to cheer. A lot of people are under the impression that those men that want to join in the "Go Team" chants are homosexual. This is not always the case, but it is hard to break that stereotype.
What people do not know is that the very first American cheerleaders were all men.
The tradition of cheerleaders was first invented in Great Britain in the 1860's. About.com explains that after the sport began over the pond it moved here to America."The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were organized by Princeton Pep club member Thomas Peebler."
Six men, the first cheerleaders, revved up the crowd at a game between Princeton and the University of Minnesota.
The first female cheerleaders did not show up until the 1920's. Those first male cheerleaders began in 1898. That is a long time for men to have complete control over the activity. So why is it so weird now to see male cheerleaders?
Could it be that men watching a bunch of other sweaty men wrestle with each other on the field was too much? Where woman allowed to cheer because men needed a break from the other men?
I believe this is probably the case. If men wanted a distraction from all the other men in tight uniforms, it would explain the uniforms that the cheerleaders wear being so almost nonexistent.
So, this might change the way you look at cheerleaders from now on. The next Cowboys game that you watch, imagine those tiny uniforms on a group of guys.


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By Patrick Kevin Day As far as monster flicks go, zombie movies are like snowflakes -- no two are the same. Frankenstein movies are inevitably about the dangers of technology run amok, vampire movies are almost always about sex, and you can't make a werewolf movie without saying something about the duality of a man's nature. But zombies can be whatever the filmmakers want them to be. Commentary on class inequality? Zombies can do that. Commentary on the shallowness of the modern lifestyle? Yup, yup, zombies can do that too. And zombies can even work on our behalf, demonstrating just how brain-dead some teenagers can be (and taking care of them in ways we never would). With the eerie "Walking Dead" back on AMC for a fourth season, it's a good chance to examine the many ways zombies have been used to point out the flaws, foibles and quirks in our society.
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ASHLAND — Sydney Paulsen and the Southern Oregon University soccer team have at least temporarily alleviated any concerns about the Raiders' lack of firepower around the goal.
And they cracked the school record books in the process Wednesday at University Field with a 7-0 win against the Holy Names Hawks.
Paulsen scored three times and the Raiders used their opening game as a platform to beat up on the Hawks for the third straight season and showcase their play-making potential. Their goal total was higher than in any game since 2007 and tied for the fifth-best mark in program history.
Serena DeChristofaro, Alyssa Bricker, Presley Lambert and Lisa Elledge also scored for the Raiders, who out-shot the Hawks 19-6 and put eight of them on goal.
"I think it was a little better than we envisioned it might be," SOU coach Jon Clement said. "We showed a lot of versatility across the board, and the quality of some of the finishes and interchanges leading up to them were great."
DeChristofaro and Bricker put the Raiders up 2-0 less than 12 minutes into the game on feeds from Chloe Welch and Sara Dutra.
Paulsen took it from there. The senior forward scored SOU's next three goals, the first on an unassisted shot from 15 yards out. The next served as the most striking — a 30-yard rocket of a free kick that snuck into the upper right corner of the goal to give the Raiders a 4-0 halftime lead.
"I had goosebumps for like 10 minutes after I kicked that," Paulsen said. "I don't know if I've ever been so excited about a shot."
She connected with Bricker to complete the hat trick in the 51st minute.
"Sydney puts her foot through the ball as well as anybody," Clement said. "As you could see, that free-kick strike was world class. That's gonna be a goal against any goalkeeper in the world I think."
Lambert's goal came less than a minute later, and Brook Gaddy assisted Elledge's score in the 86th minute.
The Raiders have outscored Holy Names 16-2 in three meetings since 2011.
"There's always room for improvement, but this was the first season we've really focused on offense over defense and I think it showed," Paulsen said.
Freshman Kylie Moltzen made a relaxed debut at goalkeeper and recorded four saves.
The contest went down as an exhibition for Holy Names, which competes at the NCAA Division II level, and therefore didn't count against their record. The Hawks play in Ashland again on Friday against Concordia.
The Raiders, who have now started their last three seasons with wins, play next on Aug. 28 at Cal State Monterey and on Aug. 29 in an exhibition at Chico State.
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ASHLAND — Sydney Paulsen and the Southern Oregon University soccer team have at least temporarily alleviated any concerns about the Raiders' lack of firepower around the goal.