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KABUL, Afghanistan — Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford took charge of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday as the coalition enters the final stretch of the more than 11-year-old war. The new commander faces daunting challenges, including making sure Afghan government forces are ready to take control and orchestrating the withdrawal of foreign forces during the next 23 months.
Dunford, who will likely be the last commander of the U.S.-led international military coalition, succeeded Marine Gen. John Allen, who oversaw the buildup of governmental security forces and dealt with a series of setbacks —from Qurans burned at a U.S. base to a spike in deadly insider attacks that killed international troops.
"Today is not about change, it's about continuity," Dunford said during the handover ceremony at the coalition's headquarters in Kabul. "What's not changed is the growing capability of our Afghan partners, the Afghan national security forces. What's not changed is our commitment. More importantly, what's not changed is the inevitability of our success."
The change in command comes at a critical time for President Barack Obama, who may use Tuesday's State of the Union address to announce a timetable for pulling out the remaining American combat forces by the end of 2014 and plans for a residual U.S. force post-2014.
Dunford faces the challenge of overseeing the drawdown of about 100,000 foreign troops, including 66,000 from the United States, and helping the Afghans counter insurgent groups, including the Haqqani network, that show no sign of compromise. The Haqqani network, based in Pakistani tribal areas near the Afghan border, has ties to al-Qaida and is thought to be responsible for many attacks on U.S. and Afghan forces, including the recent spate of so-called insider attacks.
Dunford also must help Afghanistan secure its next presidential election in 2014 — the first ballot since the U.S. invasion that will not include President Hamid Karzai as a candidate.
"Much work lies ahead," Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the ceremony, which was attended by senior Afghan and U.S. military officials. Karzai did not attend.
Relations between the United States and Pakistan have greatly improved in recent months after a series of visits to Islamabad by Allen. Allen has worked to patch up ties after they hit historic lows following a border airstrike in late 2011 that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers. Allen took Dunford along last week to Islamabad when he paid a farewell visit to the chief of the Pakistani army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
Afghan Defense Minister Bismullah Khan Mohammadi applauded Allen's military campaign against the insurgents.
"The efforts and the role played by Gen. Allen to apply military pressure against the Taliban and terrorists through joint special operations have led to the death and capture of many terrorists and Taliban leaders," Mohammadi said. The operations, he added, allowed Afghan forces to expand their control across areas heavily influenced by the Taliban.
Obama said last month that the Afghans would take over this spring instead of late summer — a decision that could permit a speedier withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan.
Allen said he told Dunford "our victory here will never be marked by a parade or a point in time on a calendar when victory is declared. This insurgency will be defeated over time by the legitimate and well-trained Afghan forces that are emerging today and who are taking the field in full force this spring."
Allen, however, has acknowledged that the Afghans still have work to do to become an effective and self-sufficient fighting force. But he said a vast improvement in their abilities was behind a decision to accelerate the timetable for putting them in the lead nationwide this spring when the traditional fighting season begins.
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A partisan crowd celebrated his dismissal. Unfortunately, not a single clap was reserved for Shahid Afridi. In the mass hysteria, the fans forgot how privileged they were to be present at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium here on Tuesday to witness an Afridi special.
Afridi left the field grimacing in pain. He had scored 59 off just 25 balls, hit seven sixes and turned the game around. His dismissal was because of his sore hamstring that hampered his running between the wickets. He did push hard after placing an Al-Amin Hossain delivery to mid-on but he never seemed like making it to the other end. Shakib Al Hasan hit the stumps with a direct throw. Afridi was run out and the stands were alive again.
But the target by now was within Pakistans reach. Fawad Alam, who made 74, did get out with just two balls to go but it didnt matter. Needing two runs to win, Umar Akmal found the gap along the midwicket boundary to ensure Pakistan chased down 327 for victory their highest successful chase ever with one ball to spare and reach the Asia Cup final.
Earlier, Afridi had arrived when the chips were down. A mindless promotion of Abdur Rehman as a slogger had made his job difficult. Pakistan were staring at a 10-plus asking rate. The equation - 102 more runs in 52 balls - was challenging. When Afridi marked his guard, spinner Mahmudullah was bowling.
The first ball, Afridi faced, went over the long-on boundary. The next was placed to deep-square leg for a couple. This was followed by another six. A single off the final ball of the over kept Afridi on strike.
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Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim turned to his best bowler Shakib. But Afridi was in the zone as he hit three more sixes in that Shakib over. By the end of the over he had played just 10 balls and raced to 35.
His half-century came in just 18 balls and then Afridi momentarily lost steam. He was dropped on 51 by Mushfiqur Rahim. Eight runs later Afridi departed but the damage had been done and Bangladesh were rattled.
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If the rate of flashing goes up when your PC is online (compared to when your PC is switched off or disconnected), but you do not know of any reason why your PC should be generating network traffic, then that might be a source of concern.
A Surfboard cable modem has five lights on the front panel, and two on the back panel associated with the ethernet socket. The ones on the front panel are:
The ones on the back of the 3100 are:
The ones on the back of the 4100 are:
Power: When the Surfboard powers up or re-boots, the Power light flashes while it carries out internal self-diagnosis. If it never comes on at all, check the mains supply to the cable modem (it is easy for the little mains plug to come loose within the socket on the back of the modem). If the Power light never goes steady, the cable modem is faulty, and should be exchanged for a new one. When the Power light does steady, the cable modem is ready to try using the CATV cable.
Receive: Next the cable modem begins searching all frequencies on the cable for a channel which looks as if it is carrying the cable modem downstream data. The Receive light flashes while it is searching - this can take several minutes if the cable modem is new or after a hard reset. The cable modem remembers in non-volatile memory the frequency it last successfully used, and it tries that channel first: if that works, this search process will take only a few seconds. If the Receive light never goes steady (and you have to watch it for a long time), then there is a serious problem with your CATV feed, or the local UBR is not working: check that your CATV cable is properly screwed in to the back of the cable modem. If this condition persists, contact your local ISP's Customer Service. When the cable modem has locked on to the downstream data frequency, the Receive light goes steady.
Send: Once the Receive light has gone steady, the Send light starts to flash. The cable modem listens to the downstream data stream. From time to time the UBR sends information out on the downstream channel, telling all newly online cable modems on what frequency to transmit upstream data. When it receives that information, the cable modem tries to announce its presence on the appropriate upstream channel. If the UBR hears the announcement, a set of negotiations (ranging requests) take place during which the cable modem gets allocated a specific minislot (time slot allocation) on the upstream channel, and the cable modem is commanded to adjust its upstream transmit signal level until the UBR hears the right level (so that all cable modems on the same network present about the same signal level to the UBR). If the Send light never goes steady, it is possible that there is a problem so severe with your CATV feed that the UBR cannot hear your cable modem announcing itself: contact your ISP for service. When finally the UBR grants the cable modem permission to access the network, the Send light goes steady.
Online: Once the Send light has gone steady, the Online light starts to flash. The cable modem, having been granted access to the network, broadcasts a DHCP request, sending its own HFC MAC address as data. If this HFC MAC address has been registered with the DHCP server (that's what is supposed to have happened when you registered your HFC MAC address), the DHCP server replies, granting an IP address to the HFC interface of the cable modem (this IP number will be in the 172.xx.xxx.xxx or 10.xxx.xxx.xxx range). If the DHCP server rejects the DHCP request, the cable modem gives up and re-boots, starting with the flashing Power light above. This behaviour (reboot after online light flashed for a short period) is characteristic of your MAC address not having been correctly registered with the DHCP server for your area: call your ISP for help. Having acquired an IP number, the cable modem is now able to initiate TCP/IP requests. It calls again with a TFTP protocol request for a configuration file: the configuration file will be downloaded to the cable modem. See Cable Modem configuration file below for more about this file. Once all this has finished, the Online light goes steady, and all four green lights will now be steadily lit.
The cable modem is now fully online to the network, but there might be a delay of a few minutes before it is ready to offer service to your PC. For instance, it might need to download a firmware update for itself. If you tend to keep your cable modem powered off when not in use, you should wait a while after all green lights have gone steady on the cable modem before powering up your PC, otherwise your PC will make DHCP requests to the cable modem before the cable modem is ready to respond. If this happens, the PC will fail to obtain connectivity to the network.
Activity: this light flashes yellow if the cable modem is receiving or transmitting data on the CATV cable.
ACT: [3100] this light on the back of the cable modem flashes when the cable modem is receiving or tranmistting data on the ethernet link to your PC.
LINK: [3100] this light on the back of the cable modem lights steadily green when the ethernet socket sees a connection from a live ethernet socket on your PC. If your PC is running, and ethernet enabled, the LINK light should be lit. If it is not lit, then either there is an ethernet cable fault, or ethernet networking is disabled in your PC. This is your problem to fix, not your ISP's.
LINK/ACT: [4100] lights steadily when an ethernet link has been made, and flashes when data is being transferred.
100: [4100] indicates that the ethernet link has been sensed to be 100 Mbps.
|Blinking short off, long orange
|Power-on self-test in progress
|Steady orange
|Power-on self-test failed
|Blinking short off, short orange
|Searching for downstream channel
|Blinking long orange, short green
|Acquisition negotiations in progress
|Blinking short off, short green
|Denied permission to go online
|Steady green
|Online and operational
For the sequence of LEDs as the modems boots up, see http://www.ntlworld.com/help/manual/Prodspec.htm#initial.
The centre LED of three flashes while the STB is trying to establish two-way communication with the cable network, and is lit steadily when two-way communication is available. The cable modem service will be available when this LED is steadily lit.
CATV = Communal Antenna Television
UBR = Universal Broadband Router = CMTS coupled with a router.
CMTS = Cable Modem Termination Shelf (or System).
DHCP = Dynamic Host Control Protocol.
TFTP = Trivial File Transfer Protocol.
STB = Set Top Box.
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With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has taken a significant step forward for all potential users and buyers. From the CIO through to system admins and even the end users, Windows Server 2012 is the biggest step forward since Windows Server 2000.
There is a long list of enhancements and top features, some of which might seem small but have a much greater impact than expected. As a result, selecting a top twelve is not easy and the features below have been selected to show key features that will impact different classes of users.
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The holidays are over, the Christmas decorations have been put away and it's time to to get back to looking for work. According to CIO magazine, it's time you changed up your game plan.
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When Schade works with clients he asks them how they go about their search and many times he finds that they are too focused on one position. "It's time to reevaluate. Are you applying to the right type of position and how else can you be going about your search?" asks Schade.
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In addition to those moves, which were reported here Tuesday, the Pawlenty camp announced that Gretchen Picotte will be Florida finance director. Picotte raised money for Gov. Rick Scott's 2010 campaign and was Florida finance director for Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential bid.
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Is it too early to say Jason Terry will be a fan favorite in Boston before even putting on his jersey? Based on his interviews so far this summer I will say that is not a stretch in the least. After finishing a workout at the C's facility. Molly McGrath of Celtics.com was able to catch up with one of the C's summer additions for a few questions about his summer, next season and more.
On His Summer and New Tattoo: "I have been a little busy getting a new tattoo. Obviously I did it with the Mavericks before the season the year we won it, ao hopefully this year, again, we'll have the luck of the leprechaun and we'll get it done again. I definitely believe last year they were right there. They're already a championship team. They just needed a little jet fuel."
On The Celtics' Chances Next Season: "Your strong core group of veterans, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rondo, obviously the best point guard in the league, one of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game in Doc Rivers. And then a young nucleus. I mean, the young nucleus we have with the guys we drafted are incredible, and a healthy Avery Bradley. I think we'll be right there at the end, competing against Miami to win it all."
On his excitement playing for the C's next year: "I'm just excited to be in Celtic green. Again, the mystique, the championship pedigree, the heritage, just being in Boston, it's going to be great for me. Coming from Dallas, that was a great franchise, but this organization here is first class and I just can't wait to put that uniform on."
I'll tell you what, the C's roster just got a bit more charismatic both on and off the floor with the addition of Terry. Their on-floor performance stands to improve as well. Earlier this week, I took part in ESPNBoston's Summer Forecast to predict what we can expect out of Terry next season. Here were my thoughts:
I expect offensive consistency and creativity off the bench. Both have been foreign concepts for the Celtics reserves over the past few seasons, as the team's overall offensive output has steadily decreased largely due to a lack of serviceable production from the second unit. The arrival of Terry should change that. The former Maverick played the offensive-sparkplug role to perfection in Dallas, using his improvisation and shooting ability to average 15-plus points per game for the past six seasons. It's a different supporting cast in Boston, but a revamped Celtics bench, anchored by Terry, should excel as a unit, before the sixth man joins the starters for crunch time most games. Additionally, I expect a full healthy season from the 6-foot-2 guard, who has missed a mere 28 games in his 13-year NBA career, bringing some reliability for Doc Rivers to turn to off the pine. Perhaps most importantly, though, Terry gives Doc another new option at the end of games now in isolation plays besides Paul Pierce. With this additional wrinkle, unpredictability should return to the C's offense late in contests for the first time in a long time.


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The Warren Companion: The Definitive Compendium to the Great Comics of Warren Publishing
TwoMorrows Publishing, 2001 - 271 pages
"The Warren Companion" is the ultimate compendium to the great comics of Warren Publishing, examining all the titles including "Creepy," "Eerie," "Vampirella," "Blazing Combat," "Help!," "The Spirit," and many more! Including the most cross-indexed artist and writer listing, this tome also features a new painted cover by Alex Horley, reams of unpublished art, archival photos, examinations of Warren's competition, plus exhaustive details on Warren merchandise, conventions, top strips, most prolific contributors, foreign publications, and many other fascinating oddities! Also featuring new articles on Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, Steve Ditko and others, and interviews with Bernie Wrightson, Jim Warren, Will Eisner, Neal Adams, Gene Colan and many more.
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Steve Evans, a Lewes Yacht Club sailor, brought home top honors in the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Sunfish championship held July 19-20 and hosted by Rehoboth Bay Sailing Association. He won four of the seven races on Rehoboth Bay and never finished lower than third in any race.
Second-place finisher Daniel McElrevey of RBSA won two races and had three second-place finishes.
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A literary trope in a story is like a cliché with impunity. It's a recognizable convention, but if the author knows what to do, it can be used to great effect. Any writer looking for ways to add useful details and situations to a narrative will find tropes helpful. As such, this series of posts analyzes the endless well of information that is TVTropes.org (from a literary perspective).
The Literary Trope: Refuge in Audacity
TV Tropes defines the trope as follows:
Usually, when characters do something illegal or socially unacceptable, they'll try to be discreet about it, keep their misdeeds small and subtle enough that either no one knows what they've done, or no one cares. Sometimes, however, it's refreshing to see a character do the exact opposite, take their misdeeds so far over-the-top that there's no way they can't be noticed, and still get away with it.
The most common use of this trope is the "ridiculous confession" in which the character admits to doing something wrong, but the act of wrongdoing is so bizarre or seemingly out-of-character that the police don't take it seriously and let the confessed criminal walk free.
But the trope has other variants too: Frodo and Sam dropping the ring in Mount Doom right under Sauron's nose is a course of action that relies on its audacity to work and to be believable. Another example of the trope in action is the scene in the film adaptation of Fight Club in which the protagonist beats himself up in order to blackmail his employer into paying him for not working (on the basis that if the employer doesn't, the protagonist will accuse him of inflicting the wounds he actually just inflicted on himself).
In real-life, the man that inspired Spielberg's Catch Me if You Can is a perfect example of why we believe this trope is possible. This trope depends on the "truth is stranger than fiction" principle, which we readily accept as readers because we see it proven time and time again by ludicrous news stories of people getting away with the most unbelievable things.
It follows that when the principle of "truth is stranger than fiction" is used in actual fiction it actually boosts the realism of the larger fiction because it seems so random it's almost credible.
Why You Need "Refuge in Audacity"
One reason why we need this trope is that it allows our characters to accomplish something that defies logic without us having to come up with a "realistic" explanation for how it was accomplished. For instance, if you want your character to get away with robbing a bank but you don't want to do all the work of having her learn how to crack safes and perform an armed robbery, this trope allows you to have her simply proclaim herself the bank's new manager, waltz right into the vault, and walk out with whatever she wants. You can see how this is an enormous time-saver in a narrative. It allows you to gloss over something that would, in reality, be very tricky to explain realistically.
More broadly speaking, we need this trope because it is essentially the backbone of all fantasy. A fantasy author doesn't spend her entire book justifying the existence of dragons or wizards, she just plops them in her story and knows the reader will accept it. Therefore, fiction is "refuge in audacity" made incarnate.
How to Make Sure this Literary Trope Doesn't Become a Cliche:
A few guidelines:
1) Try not to use this too much for crime scenes. As you can see from most of the above examples, it's just too easy and perhaps too overdone.
2) Lampshade it. Consider addressing the trope head-on if you use it. Have a character explain that it's a cliché and it's ridiculous course of action.
3) Subvert it. Allow the trope to go awry. Have your character think she can walk right into the bank, pretend to be its new manager, and take the money. But then depict everyone at the bank realizing what she's trying to do and thinking she must be stupid or insane. That presents opportunity for both humor and original plotting.
What are your favorite "Refuge in Audacity" moments?
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Jan Hidders wrote:
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> mAsterdam wrote:
>> Jan Hidders wrote: >>> It's not uncontroversial, by the way. >> Could you share some of the controversy?
Maybe we should just write them - or is the criticism about something else?
> Keep in mind that just because Date writes something in his
> "Introduction ..." or in of his other books, that does not mean that it
> is widely accepted by the research community and all the other experts.
> Usually it is the non-experts that are impressed the most by Chris
> Date's writings. You may also notice that Date doesn't get the
> definition of 5NF right in his "Introduction ...". Not a good start for
> somebody who wants to tell the world how 6NF should be defined.... But I
> digress.
Heh - when I read that chapter long time ago I constructed an example myself (about tracking manufactured parts placed by subcontractors at projects for garantee litigations), and I could not map it to Date's explanation. I never got around to discuss it with another reader :-)
> Another criticism is that 6NF is too strict. If there is no intervals
> anywhere it still says you have to normallize to INF, (all JDs are
> trivial) and not just to PJNF. Why would you do that? Sure, you could
> argue that we always want access to historical information, so we always
> have an interval, but why not be modest here and let the data modeler
> decide.
See below.
>>> ... Actually finding out what the elementary facts are is essentially >>> the same as normalizing to 5NF. >> >> That is, only when you exclude intervals as key-attributes. >> When you allow intervals as key-attributes (and... why not?) >> it maps to 6NF.
>> My take is that Date, Darwen and Lorenzos formulated 6NF the way they >> did to make it fairly obvious that 6NF is more strict than PJNF (5NF) >> (i.o.w. that every set of relations (relational variables) in 6NF is >> by definition also in 5NF so 6NF is another step on the lossless >> decomposition ladder). However, until I see an counterexample - >> preferably pizza orders related - I'll look at 6NF as an alternative >> predicate for the INF, the irreducable normal form (loose definition: >> just one non-key attribute) (BTW great >> acronym, don't you think? :-).
I think they did (just a hunch).
But it may depend on *not* letting the modeller decide. My bet is: there are more books in the making :-) Received on Tue Apr 13 2004 - 18:59:06 CDT
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A dog is a four legged fur covered animal that comes in many breeds, and makes a great and loyal pet.
Episode Summary
Abby has a magical book to read with Telly and Baby Bear. It's called The Wild Adventures of Action Dog and it moves and makes sounds right along with the story! Just as they are all getting into the action, Abby has to leave, so Telly and Baby Bear ask to borrow the book. Abby agrees, as long as they are careful with it.
Being careful is becoming hard to do as the book begins to move wildly out of control. It suddenly flies out of their hands and lands with a crash. Thankfully, the book is okay, but they realize that the word "dog" has popped out of the book and run off. Now they have to figure out how to find the word and get it back into the book.
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I'm sick of everything.
I'm sick of everything.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
aahh...what's a matter fuzzy? do you need a hug?
don't cry emo kid.
why so fuzzy. I think you should ride your bike..
I am actually sick.. srsly.
don't you have some cool bikes fuzzy?
that's something to be stoked about.
I'm sick of everyone's b**** s***. Srsly, its like stfu and leave me alone, no need to worry, thxkbai. But no, they have to go on and on.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
alright, let me see if I can get jsharr up...
*quietly slinks back in* hope you both feel better
Last edited by UnsafeAlpine; 09-11-08 at 10:11 PM.
Fuzz - I planned on a good 25 er to back up my 35 yesterday - but when I walked out of the office - it was blah. Didn't feel like doing anything - blah.
And so I embraced the blah and came home and did the nightly kitteh litter vacuum and extraction of my backpacks - got my tools together and felt better. And so ..
I basically took it easy tonight - which worked out extremely well. And yes it will rain on me coming home tomorrow - MEH! - I'll just make sure I take a jacket and yellow glasses.
Hope ya get outta the funk!
Last edited by Tude; 09-11-08 at 10:12 PM.
My friend might go shooting tomorrow.
lulz jk
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Go for a drive and listen to some music.
Good times.
Ok, fine, no emo posts tomorrow...
do it! or not! woohoo fReeDoM
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1. "Parks and Recreation"
Originally envisioned as a spin-off of NBC's most successful comedy, "The Office," and undoubtedly a kind of spiritual successor (it uses the same mock-documentary, talking-head filled format), "Parks and Recreation" had a fairly unpromising first six-episode season. It wasn't bad -- the cast, including Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, Rashida Jones and Paul Schneider, were too talented for that -- but it was a little awkward, a show visibly trying to work out what it wanted to be. But it hit the ground running in its second season, and for its recently-completed third, it managed that rarest of TV feats, pitching a no-hitter, pulling off 16 excellent half-hours without a weak episode. The sitcom, which focuses on a government branch in Pawnee, Indiana, has essentially become the closest thing we have to a live-action "Simpsons," creating a living, breathing world populated with dozens of gut-busting recurring characters, most notably the Vince Vaughn-loving douchebag prince Jean-Ralphio, local TV anchor Perd Hapley, and iPod/vacuum cleaner hybrid DJ Roomba. New additions, namely "Party Down" refugee Adam Scott and Rob Lowe (never better than he is here) have bolstered the cast, and those that survive have settled beautifully into their parts. In particular, in Nick Offerman, as man's man Ron Swanson, and Chris Pratt, as the boundlessly enthusiastic Andy, it has secret comedic weapons powerful enough to form the basis of the invasion of a Middle-Eastern country. But what really separates it from the rest is its big, beating heart: it's a show that loves and cares about every one of its characters, who love and care about each other. If its fourth season can keep it up, it'll cement its place in the hall of fame.
Must-Watch Episode: "Fancy Party," which sees Andy and nihilistic receptionist April impulsively tie the knot. It was a bold move, but the hilarious, touching episode entirely justified what could have been a ratings-chasing move. Plus it featured an absolutely lovely use of Simon & Garfunkel's "April Come She Will."
Honorable Mentions: It speaks to the strength of the work being produced on the small screen these days that we easily could have run a list twice as long, and there's some tremendous shows that, for one reason or another, we couldn't fit in. AMC's duo of "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" are among the best dramas being produced in any medium, but both last aired in the summer of 2010, so it was just too far away for our list, aside from the fact that both have already been praised to the skies in every quarter (the same goes for "Party Down," which aired its second and, sadly, final season a year ago). Still, if for some reason you've yet to get involved, now is the time: "Breaking Bad" airs its fourth season in July while "Mad Men" will return at the beginning of 2012.


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D. Leona Barner - July 21, 2010
D. Leona Barner, age 79, passed away surrounded by her family, July 21, 2010 at her home near Stapleton, Neb.
Leona was born June 13, 1931 to Leo Douglas and Mable Quinn (Allen) Cash near Ringgold, Neb.
On June 23, 1948 she married the love of her life, Glen D. "Red" Barner in North Platte, Neb. They resided on a farm near Stapleton in the house Red built for her early in their marriage.
Leona enjoyed raising their six children, being involved in 4-H, bowling and yard work. She was secretary and timer of the Logan County Rodeo for several years.
She is survived by her husband, Red of Stapleton; children, Joleen and husband Kenny Blake of Maxwell, Neb., Don and wife Joan Barner of Wallace, Neb., Glenda and husband Jack Krebs of North Platte, Teresa and husband Steve Facka of Dickens, Neb., Kyle and wife Veda Barner of Big Sky, Mont., and Trent and wife Marissa Barner of Fremont, Neb.; 12 grandchildren, Stacy and husband Dan Iske of Sutherland, Neb., Shane Mathers of Anappolis, Md., Justin Krebs of Cheyenne, Wyo., Deonna and husband Josh Phelps of Denver, Allyson and husband Mark Dennis of Maxwell, Casey and wife Deavon Blake of North Platte, Malery Mathers of North Platte, J.D. Barner of Wallace, Koby Krebs of North Platte, Tad Mathers of North Platte, Andy Barner of Lincoln, Neb. and Taylor Barner of Fremont; ten great-grandchildren; two sisters, Audrey and husband Al Coleman of North Platte and Evelyn Brown of Grand Island, Neb.; and a brother, Larry and wife Charlene Cash of North Platte.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two infant brothers; and her mother and father-in-law.
Memorials may be made in her name to the Logan County Ag Society and online condolences may be shared at www.adamsswanson.com.
Graveside services were July 24, 2010 at the Loup Valley Cemetery near Stapleton with Pastor Bob Anderson officiating.
Adams and Swanson Funeral Home of North Platte was in charge of arrangements.


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WCM, ECM have more in common than you think
Last week at the Gilbane Conference in Boston, Stephen Powers from Forrester postulated that web content management and enterprise content management might have more in common than we previously thought--but not necessarily for the reasons you might think.
Powers admitted that for years he had told clients that WCM was very different from ECM, but there is a place today where they are overlapping. "We remember the Utopian dream of the ECM content management suite," he said. There would be one big content repository and a set of applications on top of that including document management, asset management and so forth and all would be from single vendor and would have similar look and feel. Sounds great doesn't it?
Powers explained that there was a big flaw in this approach though. "This idea of ECM suite didn't exist," he said "because nobody had best of breed ECM solutions [across all application categories], and even if some vendor did come out with an end-to-end suite, most clients would have said we can't do rip and replace."
Since no one vendor could really do it all for a company, the model moved from a one-stop shop to one where vendors sold different solutions for different types of content.
And Powers believes that WCM has some striking similarities. That's because once again we have vendors building monolithic suites and once again customers aren't buying it because they already have existing solutions in place. "Even if somebody did have that, customers would have to rip and replace all of the customer experience technology they already have," Powers explained. And of course as with ECM, nobody is about to do that no matter how good an offering may be--and no one vendor can ever be best breed across the board.
So, Powers says this is going to be an integration play where customers find the new technology that meets their needs and find key integration points across those technologies. Therefore, it's going to be key to play nicely with others and he says too many of the large vendors are still stuck in the mindset that they will meet your needs, so long as your content is in their repository.
"I think you have to expand beyond dealing with content in your own repository. If you don't do that, one of the upstarts is going to," Powers said.
Powers also says it's time to move beyond this idea of one solution set for everyone. As we've learned with ECM, that's a great play for the vendor, but it doesn't really meet the needs of the customer, and WCM vendors are going to have to offer solutions with key integration points, especially around engagement and customized content delivery--or risk suffering the same fate as big ECM vendors in recent years.
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- SuperBasketballFightingExcitementBattle! - Hardwood Paroxysm brings us some photoshopped King of Fighters NBA Player Cards. It goes without saying that this one is my absolute favorite:
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- Cannon Brown: "TNT": LD2K has compiled a collection of high-flying dunks by Shannon Brown over at The Lakers Nation.
- '10 Nets vs. '99 Clippers vs. '89 Heat: Basketball Reference takes a look at the three teams that have started out with an 0-17 record.� The '99 Clippers were pretty bad considering the following:
- Nine Predictions for the rest of the NBA Season: Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel gives his predictions. One prediction he makes is Carmelo Anthony winning his first scoring title.
- LA Clippers to host Filipino Hoops Heritage Night: Yup. December 5th against the Indiana Pacers. The first Filipino-American NBA player, Raymond Townsend will be in attendance.
- Who is the Most Hated Active Player?:� If there's someone you love to hate, then join the discussion over at Binary Basketball.
- Dwight Howard with his best HORSE shots:
- Just in case you missed Paul Pierce's knee to Bosh's groin dunk:
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July 1, 1998
There is a community on the uptown campus whose members are marked by their graceful carriage, their territorial instincts and their tendency to flee when approached by a student. No, it's not the faculty; it's the society of feral cats that makes its home underneath buildings across campus, from Norman Mayer Hall to Irby House.
These campus cats, neither pets nor inherently wild, actually make up what is called a "feral colony." Feral cat colonies form, claim animal welfare groups, when abandoned domestic pets find an area with available shelter and food and then reproduce generations of cats.
Territory initially populated by only one female and one male cat producing eight kittens per year can potentially result in 174,760 cats in seven years, according to studies published by the American Veterinary Medicine Association. While no one knows how many feral cats live on the uptown campus, there could be as many as 100, says the felines' foremost friend, Valerie Greenberg, dean of Newcomb College.
"Why do we have so many?" prompts Greenberg. "The answer is very simple. People abandon pets that have never been spayed or neutered and the cycle starts. The problem is not animals; the problem is people, and the only long-term solution is education."
To educate the Tulane community about responsible pet ownership, Greenberg and colleagues on the uptown campus have formed the Feral Cat Initiative at Tulane, which will also organize volunteers to manage the cat population on campus. Managing a feral cat colony involves humanely trapping adult cats, testing them for feline leukemia and feline AIDS, vaccinating them, spaying or neutering them, marking their ears and returning them to their territory where volunteers will provide them with food.
Volunteers will also seek homes for any healthy and adoptable kittens captured on campus. This type of management program has worked on college campuses and municipalities across the country and is the most effective and humane way to reduce feral cat populations, says Paul Berry, director of the Southern Animal Foundation, a group that provides free and low-cost spaying and neutering to residents of southern Louisiana communities.
Berry, who has studied the situation in New Orleans over the past four years, met with concerned Tulane community members in April to discuss the feral cat situation on campus.
"A trap-neuter-and-release program is an ecological approach to the problem," Berry says. He cites one of the first such programs that emerged in Miami after the city failed to control feral cats by trapping and euthanizing them. Other cats soon moved into the area cleared of the original cats and repopulated it within a few months. "They found that when they neutered and released the cats, the colony's growth stabilized and eventually decreased," Berry says. "The cats also stopped all of the bad behaviors that come with reproduction, like fighting and territorial marking."
Since cats are territorial and keep other stray cats from infiltrating their colonies, managed populations ultimately result in fewer cats than a strict trap-and-euthanize program, where new cats simply move into vacated territory, Berry says. It's also less costly in the long run.
"It's not practical nor economically feasible to go out and trap every cat out there and euthanize it," he says. "And you won't find the volunteer labor force that you can with a trap-neuter-and-release effort."
The Southern Animal Foundation has approximately 400 volunteers managing colonies in a 10-parish area around New Orleans, he adds. Volunteers to help with the Feral Cat Initiative at Tulane shouldn't be hard to find, Greenberg says. After she was profiled as a champion of the campus cats in a Hullabaloo article and published an editorial on the issue in the Newcomber newsletter, numerous people have offered their assistance and praised her for addressing the problem.
"Of all the things I've done since I became dean, this has garnered the most attention," she says with a smile.
Greenberg says she wasn't fully aware of the campus cat problem until she became a campus resident herself when she moved into the Newcomb dean's residence on Newcomb Place last July. Under her patio lived a mother cat and four sickly kittens that tugged at the new dean's heartstrings. She began feeding them and became aware of a society of cats that lived around her house and the University Center. In total, the Greenbergs have trapped and altered 14 cats and kittens. They found another group of five kittens this spring under roofing tiles in the backyard of the dean's residence.
Feral Cat Initiative member Allison Raynor, director of alumni affairs for Newcomb College, tamed the kittens, who were placed for adoption at the Prytania Veterinary Hospital in early June. Greenberg hopes to enlist volunteers from the student body, faculty and staff to help trap cats, vaccinate and alter them, and then continue to feed them in their original territories.
The group also needs donations for traps and veterinary expenses and volunteers to adopt any kittens born on campus. To those who would argue that keeping cats on campus could lead to outbreaks of diseases like ringworm and rabies, Student Health Center Director Paul Dyment says the public health concerns are minimal.
"You are probably not going to get infected by touching a cat with ringworm once," Dyment says. "You get an infection like that only after living with a cat in close quarters."
Rabies is also rare in New Orleans, he adds. His only memory of a student receiving rabies shots was after a chipmunk bite in Audubon Park. "I have no overriding concerns about the health risks of cats on campus," Dyment says.
Tom Armitage, superintendent of grounds in the physical plant department, says the biggest problem the cats pose for his crews are the food cans left by those who feed the animals. The cats may also be the reason why some buildings are periodically infested with fleas, he adds.
As for keeping the rodent population in check, Armitage says that rats and mice were never a big problem on the uptown campus. Another member of the physical plant department heads the local chapter of a national bird-enthusiast group long considered adversaries of outdoor cats, both feral and domestic.
Yet Michael Crago, energy management control systems coordinator and president of the Orleans Audubon Society, says he believes that managing feral colonies on campus shouldn't negatively impact rare birds in the area.
"Most of the birds in the city are starlings and house sparrows, which are considered nuisance birds," he says. "There aren't many songbirds on campus."
Crago, however, agrees with the national Audubon Society's position that domestic cats should be kept indoors, although he concedes that a well-fed cat wearing a bell might cut down on bird predation. Students are some of the most vocal champions of the campus cats, says Rebecca Teagarden, resident director of Bruff Quad.
Residents of the dorms that line the quad donate food that is kept at the front desks of the dorms and bring the friendlier cats to the veterinary clinics. But students may be a big part of the problem, too, says Teagarden.
"A lot of these cats are house pets that students couldn't take with them when they left Tulane."
Greenberg says the Feral Cat Initiative will provide first-year students during orientation with information about responsible cat care. In the meantime, she will continue to care for the campus cats she has trapped and altered and hopes to educate campus citizens about the plight of the Tulane felines.
"The cats live pretty horrible lives of great suffering," she says. "They can starve to death. They can be run over. They can be killed by dogs and die of disease. They are plagued by parasites and fleas and they live in constant terror. It's one pretty awful life."
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 One of the top barriers to entry for predictive analytics consistently cited by businesses is "inadequate skills and staffing." This is a significant problem because the amount of data businesses are collecting or have access to continues to grow exponentially – from web, to transactional, behavioral and attitudinal, and from social media to sensors. Businesses that are successfully utilizing this data and incorporating predictive analytics into their business operations are outperforming their competitors.

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 IBM SPSS Analytic Catalyst represents a significant step forward in the field of analytics. It is an innovative, ground-breaking analysis tool that makes predictive analytics and discovery more accessible to business users than ever before by automating several analysis steps and removing the need for a business user to understand which statistical technique or algorithm to choose. IBM SPSS Analytic Catalyst does all of this automatically based on the target the user is trying to predict.

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Amazing Spider-Man 2 – MinimatesPosted by: Adam T in Movie News, Toy News
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One of the smarter moves President Barack Obama used during his campaign to lure the interest of the casual voter was to introduce his athletic side and interests into his platform discussions. It started with shooting baskets with Sports Illustrated's Scott Price, while discussing his background in and affinity for basketball. He threw out a first pitch and donned his beloved White Sox cap; he played more hoops with the University of North Carolina on another primary stop, analyzed NCAA brackets, talked BCS and hit some golf balls for fun. Meanwhile Senator Hillary Clinton looked uncomfortable talking baseball, Senator McCain, despite being an avid outdoorsman, stopped in at a NASCAR event but took his private time hunting away from the cameras, and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin regaled us as a hockey mom. None were as effective with the casual male sports fan as President Obama, and that feeling resonated with a male audience who may not have followed his campaign closely before. It made him much more "one of the guys." He shoots hoops and likes baseball and talks about it all very comfortably. Did it lure some votes? Probably. Did it detract at any point? No way.
So the election comes and goes and the President continues his sports interests ... he attends a Wizards game in a turtleneck and sits court-side, and talk of bringing a basketball court to the White House to replace the bowling alley runs rampant. Staff members are frequently seen being part of pickup games on the road. Athletes and teams make a trip to the White House a must stop during their D.C. swings, whether the President is in residence or not. Hall of Famers show up in record numbers, a new office to assist in growing Olympic sport and youth issues is announced. Talk of Opening Day for baseball and Final four predictions abound, despite all the challenges that are ongoing in the real world for the new President.
Yes there are the traditional champion's visits, but the sense of sport for this President (even with his predecessor being a former MLB owner) has never been higher. Even on the international scene, the optimism around the coming vote for the 2016 Olympics, right in the President's backyard, gives the Chicago bid a welcomed boost.
Time then moves ahead, and alas, our sporting President has moved on to bigger issues than pickup ball. Healthcare reform, the repayment of bank loans, and the war in Afghanistan rightfully dominate the agenda these days, and his most forward link to sports lately, August's trip to Copenhagen to support Chicago's Olympic bid, ended badly.
Has the President abandoned using sports as a social unifier to reach the young male who loved watching him mix it up on the court and play catch? Probably not. Using that sports platform to address the growing issue of childhood obesity in this country, will be a welcomed statement at the right time, perhaps as a part of another step in healthcare.
One prominent former athlete, (now NBC broadcaster) Tiki Barber, has made a trip or two to the White House to show his plans to use playgrounds ... the plan is called "Play Proud"... as a spot where children in inner cities can resolve conflicts and build a base for healthy play, and that could certainly factor into the administrations' plans for the future. The Office of Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport, announced in June, is also finding its place amongst those in DC, and could be rolled out on a larger platform as we move toward the Vancouver Olympics in February. All will find its place in time.
So has the President stopped being the "sports guy"? Nope. Will we see him dropping in on a Georgetown hoops game, or the NHL Winter Classic or the Super Bowl? Probably not soon.
Like all of us he just doesn't have time right now for catch. That's also probably a good thing.


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