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Being evaluated for sleep apnea. American Sleep Apnea Association website. Available at: http://www.sleepapnea.org/resources/pubs/evaluated.html. Published May 2005. Accessed September 17, 2008.
NINDS sleep apnea information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/sleep_apnea/sleep_apnea.htm. Updated December 28, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2013.
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BERKELEY - No. 12/13 Cal's final home series ended in a sweep as No. 17/16 Stanford claimed its third victory over the Golden Bears, 7-5, Sunday at Levine-Fricke Field on Senior Day.
Cal matched its six hits and five runs produced on Friday, but could not capitalize with the bases loaded in two different innings to edge Stanford for a win in the series. Stanford's Kelsey Stevens (14-7) pitched the complete game, allowing four walks and sending seven Bear batters back to the dugout. Freshman Vanessa Alvarez earned her first career start in the circle and delivered two strikeouts with three walks, nine hits and seven earned runs in a 5.1 inning performance. Freshman Nisa Ontiveros relieved her for the 1.2 remaining innings, allowing one hit, walk and strikeout.
Freshman Khala Taylor matched her career-high 3-for-4 total at the plate for one run and one RBI while sophomore Danielle Henderson went 2-for-4 with a run scored and three RBI. Junior LaRisa Jones also tallied a hit, added to her run scored and one walk.
Stanford again scored at the top of the first, quickly capitalizing on a walk by first baseman Kayla Bonstrom using a two RBI homer from shortstop Jenna Rich. The Bears did not let the 2-0 score rattle them, and Taylor started the game with a leadoff double. Henderson smacked a single to the right and advanced on the throw, giving Taylor more than enough time to touch home plate and cut the lead to 2-1.
The score remained the same through three innings before Stanford's Erin Ashby hit a solo home run to add another run on at the top of the fourth. Cal answered with a run of its own as sophomore Breana Kostreba capitalized on an error to get on base, then made her trip around the diamond with a walk and a wild pitch followed by a single by Taylor to bring her home.
With a 3-2 lead at the top of the sixth, Stanford pulled away with four more runs after an error, sac fly and two RBI single. Cal attempted a five-run comeback at the bottom of the seventh as Jones singled, then advanced to second on a base hit by Taylor. A fielder's choice plated senior Lindsey Ziegenhirt and sent Taylor out of the game as Jones made it safely to third, then home on a throwing error by the Cardinal. With Ziegenhirt on base, Henderson, who had been hitting home run-caliber foul balls all day, finally knocked one into the left field bleachers to make the score 7-5.
Before the game, Cal celebrated the accomplishments of Ziegenhirt and Jolene Henderson for Senior Day in the home finale.
The Golden Bears close out the regular season in Seattle, where they'll meet the University of Washington starting Thursday at 5 p.m. Friday's game at 7 p.m. and Saturday's 3 p.m. game will be televised live on the Pac-12 Networks.


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Chairman of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal known as Prachanda (left) and Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai (right) attend the inauguration of the party general convention at Hetauda, some 100km south of Kathmandu, yesterday.
HETAUDA, Nepal: Thousands of Nepal's former rebel Maoists gathered yesterday for their biggest show of strength since taking up arms in a 10-year insurgency and toppling the world's last Hindu monarchy.
Party leaders who swept to power in 2008 elections following a peace deal are using a general convention in the southern industrial hub of Hetauda to shore up grassroots support amid growing disillusionment among the ex-fighters.
Around 3,000 delegates and hundreds of thousands of supporters attending the party's first convention in 21 years are expecting to hear a rousing opening address from leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal calling for unity among the rank-and-file.
"The biggest challenge we face is how to manage the former combatants, especially those injured during the war. The former fighters spent the most productive years of their lives fighting the war," said Uttam Basnet, 49, a regional leader in eastern Nepal.
"There are issues such as reintegrating them into the society they left to fight the war. We need a sustainable solution, not some temporary package."
Hetauda, a small but rapidly growing provincial city 130km from Nepal's capital Kathmandu, has a population of around 80,000 but this is expected to swell at least three-fold during the five-day convention.
A giant marquee constructed at the edge of a playground will house around 200,000 supporters for the inaugural session later yesterday, with buildings across the city displaying the red hammer and sickle flag of the Maoists.
Hundreds of police officers were patrolling streets festooned with banners welcoming the party but also displaying slogans demanding "a new communist party" and "down with factionalism".
Large parts of the city have been painted red and cafes, parks and hotels were buzzing with the excited conversation of Maoists from across the country, many of whom would be hearing from their leaders in person for the first time.
An estimated 16,000 people died in the 1996-2006 conflict fought by the Maoists against the monarchy, which was deposed when the rebels turned to mainstream politics and took power in elections.
Party leaders will spend the next five days trying to ensure the support of former cadres struggling to rejoin civilian life after the war, many of whom feel betrayed and say their sacrifices have been forgotten.
Rights campaigners say Nepal remains deeply divided and riven with gender and caste-based discrimination despite the Maoists' promise after the insurgency to create a more equal society.
"There appears to be collective amnesia among Nepal's policymakers about the inequities and injustice that helped fuel the conflict in the first place," said Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch, which published a report on Friday criticising the nation's lack of progress on equality and justice.
In-fighting, including a split in the party last year, has confounded efforts to draw up a post-conflict constitution spelling out how Nepal should be run as a modern, democratic republic.
An interim assembly elected for the task was dissolved in May last year and fresh elections promised for November were shelved, with a new target of polls by May this year looking equally shaky.
"Although, turning the country into republic and ensuring federalism have been our major achievement, the revolution has not been completed yet," said party member Khadga Yogi, 42, of Okhaldhunga district in eastern Nepal.


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Just started using my new MTE P7 and a twofish handlebar mount. It's the 5 mode single battery unit. If I hit a small bump in the road it's fine. But if I hit a section of road where the surface is really bad - the kind you swear at as you ride over it - the MTE changes modes.
Is this normal for inexpensive lights like this or should I send it back?
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I would be happy if the handling of missed backups within SSR could be changed. At the moment if a backup was missed, it will simply run what as scheduled for the day. It would be better to get exactly what the message says: run the last scheduled backup that was missed or at least give the option to choose one.
Example: You have a schedule running an incremental backup every day from Monday to Thursday. On Friday you have scheduled a full backup. Now for some reason the full backup is not done, because e.g. the system is down. On Monday you get a message that a backup was misseed and iy you want to run the missed backup. Logical the full backup should run, but instead an incremental runs.
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MusicianCorps Service Days
MusicianCorps Service Days bring together musicians, students, parents, and corporate volunteers for a day of community and music engagement.
One to two times per year, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday every January, MNS hosts a Day of Song & Service to celebrate the local music community while putting hundreds of volunteers to work in various service projects benefiting a school or other public setting. Volunteers represent all ages and backgrounds, including students and parents from local schools, community-based organizations, and corporate employees.
Throughout the year, MusicianCorps Mentors and volunteer musicians engage underserved populations in co-creative music making workshops at children's and veteran's hospitals, homeless shelters, juvenile justice centers, foster homes, hospice residences, and other high need settings. Workshops give participants an opportunity to learn new instruments, join in on songs, and work together to create music.
MusicianCorps Mentors lead a drum circle workshop for foster care youth in San Jose, California.


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Michelle is Associate General Counsel and Head of Patents and Patent Strategy at Google, where she is responsible for all patents and various other IP matters. Prior to her position at Google, Michelle was a partner in the Patent, Licensing and Intellectual Property groups at Fenwick & West LLP in the Silicon Valley. She clerked for Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where she worked on the precedent-setting copyright infringement case of Apple v. Microsoft, and for Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Michelle received her M.S in computer science her B.S. in electrical engineering, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she graduated at the top of her class. At MIT, she was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowship for graduate studies in Computer Science.


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Panelists at Charleston Regional Business Journal's Power Breakfast discuss cyberspace, and how the area presents opportunity for the Lowcountry. (Photo/Kim McManus)
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Published April 25, 2013
Businesses and the government need to address every weak link in cyberspace, and as they do so, Charleston has an opportunity to grow its cybersecurity workforce and industry.
"Cyber is the Wild West without sheriffs," said Noah Leask, CEO of Ishpi Information Technologies, during a Power Breakfast hosted by the Charleston Regional Business Journal. "This is the first time that your businesses are connected to a direct warfare domain."
Leask shared the stage with four other cybersecurity officials, including James Ward, executive vice president for Scientific Research Corp.; Csilla Farkas, director of the Center for Information Assurance Engineering at the University of South Carolina; Rick Brisbin, special counsel for Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd; and Erick Fry of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.
Brisbin said the country loses $250 billion in intellectual property to China each year.
"We've got the assets here. This could change the entire face of Charleston with the opportunity we have in the cyberdomain."
— James Ward, executive VP for Scientific Research Corp.
Ward said the Chinese have also stolen specs for the Air Force's F22 from a defense partner and are now making a similar airplane at a fraction of the cost.
"That's cyberwar," Ward said.
Leask said the country and government need to change the way it does business in the cyberworld to protect data and passwords. Most cyberdefenses are static, Leask said, and static defense doesn't always work.
"We've got to change to an active defense," he said.
Farkas said attackers need one vulnerability to get into a network, and companies need to prepare and plan for attacks before they happen.
"We need to address every weak link," Farkas said.
As companies and agencies address those needs, some of the workforce needed has come from outside the Lowcountry.
"We're finding great talent, but we still have a high demand," Fry said. "It is becoming increasingly more difficult to find that talent in the area. We're finding more and more coming in from outside the Lowcountry."
Cybersecurity challenges give Charleston an opportunity though, Ward said. The Lowcountry has the right ingredients, including engineers who are already working here plus an infrastructure supported by businesses and government agencies that focus on cyberspace.
"We've got the assets here," Ward said. "This could change the entire face of Charleston with the opportunity we have in the cyberdomain."
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trucpfan replied to top dawg's topic in Carolina PanthersHe's our offensive line upgrade I can see him making that right side a mauling unit which seemed to be the outlook during last preseason. Wasn't he the highest rated lineman thru the presaseaon last year? With J.M. coaching em up a year of nfl conditioning under his belt should be ready to go. Our overall draft seems right on point with the undrafted gems we upgraded dline found our dbs for the next few years found our Olsen successor and upgraded our special teams with Cash. Call me Mr optimistic but we are good.
Selecting the 2016 Panthers Wide Receivers
trucpfan replied to Jeremy Igo's topic in Carolina PanthersOk not two surgeries but he has missed Valuable playing time because of the same shoulder injury two years in a row. They do have good chemistry but he also has somewhat suspect hands if you watched his catches last year they were 80% body catches that took him to ground allowing a minimal yac. Last season I saw a major improvement in those body catches but still see overall minimal production however you slice it. If Byrd offers similar output but the (John brown) big play affect it puts us in a better position to win long term and current day. From what I say Cotchery was the real security blanket, Brown was an option that played out of neccesity where he preformed decent and above average in two playoff games last year. I like a Brown a lot nothing not to like but Im hoping we field the best team possible whoever that my be.
Selecting the 2016 Panthers Wide Receivers
trucpfan replied to Jeremy Igo's topic in Carolina PanthersBrown definitely came on strong for the playoffs but you have to take one major factor into consideration, this will be his second year in a row having shoulder surgery or let me say a shoulder injury to end the season. They say to be dependable you have to be available and to hurt your shoulder by simply falling on it a year ago then to reinsure it on a simple tackle to me imo means he's no lock because it's not a guarantee he can handle the physicality of the league. Truthfully I'm a big Philly fan but if he is very similar (during camp) to Bryd it's going to be closer then some of us think, because Byrds speed adds a different dimension to the wr group. But Philly also has a huge advantage he's hard as hell to check off the line his initial moves are sick if you ever just watch him shaking a db before he even gets his route started its a thing of beauty similar to Smitty, so we shall see in due time.
LT Tyrus Thompson cut by Lions (At Saints try out)
trucpfan replied to ctrcat's topic in Carolina PanthersYes yes yes the saints are adding a lazy, slow witted, lack of heart player into their mix I love it, now if we woulda signed him I'd be claiming he's the next all-pro but that's the game. ~The Huddle~
Enter Sandland
trucpfan replied to Jeremy Igo's topic in Carolina PanthersWhich seems like a big risk transferring to a much smaller school but it paid of as he said himself. I believe he has all the tools to similar (not jumping the gun) to Wesley walls.
2014 Benjamin vs. 2015 Ginn
trucpfan replied to 15's topic in Carolina Panthersit seems like estimated yard lost might give us a better gage, because a ten yard hitch route vs a fifty yard Td would tells more about the reciever ie big play ability and clutchness. They both have the big play ability I just don't remember KB dropping any potential TD. Maybe someone can refresh my memory
LT Tyrus Thompson cut by Lions (At Saints try out)
trucpfan replied to ctrcat's topic in Carolina PanthersThis is hands down is a good reason to do our due diligence, we've typically score on a situation like this because of our strong coaching staff usually working or being around greatness (Cam/Luke entering their prime) elevates your focus your game even your prep so we definitely should look into it.
Panthers list Jeremy Cash as linebacker.
trucpfan replied to Jeremy Igo's topic in Carolina PanthersThis is the major reason he dropped yea his coverage is sub par but to think with all his positives traits and football tape somebody would draft him with the mind set to develop him into a major contributor. But he couldn't work out either time because of the same nagging hamstring so no one got a chance to really see him work out flip his hips in coverage etc plus the wrist to injury late December that's a bad combo for a player in between positions. I read a couple different articles and that's the main reason I've seen it's still crazy somebody didn't use a late round on him.
Panthers list Jeremy Cash as linebacker.
trucpfan replied to Jeremy Igo's topic in Carolina PanthersWhat's going to be hard for him to catch on here? I'm just wondering becaue it seems like his only responsibilities will be attack the line of scrimmage tackle the ball carrier or play runner in punts. I'm wondering are we grooming him to replace Shaq with Shaq replacing TD next year (typically)?
Gentlemans plans seem to assume he can....
trucpfan replied to trucpfan's topic in Carolina PanthersHahahahahahaha I was about to change or try to edit it but it became to much a part of the whole convo.
Your biggest concern going into the season?
trucpfan replied to Ruff's topic in Carolina PanthersIf Daryl W has progressed just a marginal amount he's pronanly gonna be a stud based off his strong preseason before the injury and then we got on a roll so you can't switch up if you haven't lost. He's insertion into lineup feels like we are getting another starter added so OT isn't as weak at seems.
Gentlemans plans seem to assume he can....
trucpfan replied to trucpfan's topic in Carolina PanthersThis is very true but I mean in terms of needs it seems like his evaluation and scouts can find a starter at almost any position without drafting one Glanton played well in limited times Cory could start for us Norwell is a beast Remmers was on somebody practice squad chilling next thing u know our SB starting right tackle it's seems like his consistency let me say with picking studs all throughout and after the draft has him choosing what seems like Greg Olsen 2.0 right before Mr irrelevant. It just seems like positions will be filled with good players no matter how we acquire them (udfa late picks etc)
Gentlemans plans seem to assume he can....
trucpfan replied to trucpfan's topic in Carolina PanthersThis is funny, i was on the iPhone driving home this morning I'm going with Nipple shorts from here on out
Gentlemans plans seem to assume he can....
trucpfan posted a topic in Carolina PanthersIt's starting to seem like players or needs we may have or seem to have Gettlemen makes moves with the cockiness, confidence, or sheer true football knowledge that is superior to others in a manner where he knows he will fill positions with excellent UDFA year after year. Maybe simply from vigorous scouting he plans to acquire the best undrafted talent and expects them to contribute sooner then later. Does anyone else get this feeling from Daves moves?
Panthers Tango with Cash
trucpfan replied to Jeremy Igo's topic in Carolina PanthersMan what's crazy is Gettlemajic does this consistently now. I think this deserves its own thread im about to make one, I'm feeling crazy not like that #bromance crap tho


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First look at this team.
R.I.P "Gibbons" 4/3/2012
R.I.P RollsRoyce 4/12/2012
when? TV? Got a pretty easy schedule tonight and wouldn't mind watching for a bit
Hilton Coliseum was specifically built to hold in sound with a solid concrete structure, steel doors, and a crowd that sits just a few feet from the court. With a fan base that frequently ranks among the nations largest crowds, players from opposing teams, as well as Iowa State, have said that the floor has shaken due to the loudness of the crowd
Baylor is looking pretty disorganized.
On now.
Baylor is HUGE inside, but not much of outside game. Their offense is mostly one on one game for the bigs. Not much of team concept, just like they were last year.
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Baylor is looking pretty disorganized.
I agree with you on this. They don't look like the top 25 team right now.
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A bunch of tall skinny dudes that are ranked high based on potential and not actual production.
Little teamwork. Don't know where the ball is going or should go. It is very confusing to watch. I am not a professional by any means but they just look a little lost.
Those of you at work, or can't watch at this point San Diego state is up by 2, 20-18
Baylor is all street ball.
Jeff Hornacek reference from Fran.
White is gonna destroy those scrawny sticks baylor calls posts! And does anyone else think anthony jones looks like brittney griner on the court??
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A bunch of tall skinny dudes that are ranked high based on potential and not actual production.
this. not looking too hot against SDSU. And SDSU graduated their top 4 guys from the sweet 16 team from a year ago.
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Not making excuses for Baylor but their best player is suspended isn't he?
Scott Drew getting outcoached once again, what else is new.
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Director Marina De Van has had a curious career, emerging from the shadows of collaborator Francois Ozon. Her first two films were strongly indebted to a culture of Gaellic body horror that plumbed greater depths than the more commercial sadism expressed in films like "Martyrs" and "Inside," with her starring role in "In My Skin" providing stomach-turning sights as well as insightfully mapping the sadness of a person alone in her own suffering, addicted to self-mutilation. A similar prison awaited Sophie Marceau in "Don't Look Back" as she found herself morphing into Monica Bellucci, a fantasy conceit with very real consequences. In some ways, her latest film "Dark Touch" pulls back considerably, tackling a more commercial story of a telekinetic young girl. But in others, De Van is right at home exploring the disturbed side of an identity conflict, and the way our physical experiences shape us as human beings.
At the start, young Neve (Missy Keating) appears to be part of casual suburban family in the Irish countryside, but all is not right with the young girl, who constantly flees the house. What we see, and learn, skews the truth a bit: her parents are complicit in ongoing abuse, De Van elegantly depicting a monstrous act with shadows, sharp cuts, and seemingly innocuous visuals; on its own, the sight of Neve's father removing his own shoes at the foot of her bed means little. But coupled with a montage of moments putting the girl to bed, it reveals everything we need to know about what secrets this house lies.
But Neve is still just a little girl, and what she's fleeing from is the natural inclination to get revenge. Neve's resentment and low self-esteem manifest themselves physically in a horrific onslaught of violence, the house seemingly coming alive one item of furniture at a time. As Neve watches with horror, her parents are impaled and executed in a variety of manners, as if their home has come alive, reacting with rage to what has occurred underneath this roof. Credit to the effects team for going all out: it doesn't seem like there'd be hundreds of ways to impale a human being, but the crew behind "Dark Touch" certainly find a way.
"Dark Touch" deftly portrays this retaliation in the appropriate light, giving this legacy of youth-revenge films an appropriate moral conscience. Neve isn't secure or vindicated but rather ashamed. She can't explain how or why, but she feels as if she is responsible for killing her family (including an infant brother she accidentally smothers, a horrifying accident caused by Neve's naive kindness). Taken in by a neighboring couple with two children of their own, Neve's guilt soon manifests itself, an emotional response that leads to traditional horror movie spooks like the opening and closing doors and the shattering glasses. The police believe the initial assault to be the work of meticulous-but-bloodthirsty marauders, but Neve's new adopted family can't help but blame her when she's left alone in the kitchen, only to find pots, pans and chairs strewn about.
For a good portion of its runtime, "Dark Touch" sensitively expresses the struggles of a victim of abuse in expressing themselves. Because of the film's structure, we don't know a Neve pre-trauma. This sort of abuse has caused her to feel a lack of agency; her response only conveys the same idea, as she stands by powerlessly while her thoughts lead to casual violence she'd never be physically capable of. "Dark Touch" externalizes the suffering of these victims with surprising nuance, allowing for quieter moments with flummoxed adults of varying degrees of compassion; there are no bad guys, but it doesn't seem like any heroes are going to emerge to contain the rage that is using poor Neve as a conduit.
It's unfortunate that commercial considerations seem to play into the third act, adding a more concrete representation of a very abstract idea. "Dark Touch" evolves into either a less stylistically-adventurous pre-teen "Carrie," or perhaps even a prequel to "Who Can Kill A Child?": it's not really necessary to present the issue that powerful Neve is not only telekinetic (and even that feels overly conventional) but must she also be a telepath? By the time a bombastic CGI-enhanced finale arises, it almost feels like we're in DC Comics territory.
Lacking the intellectual heft of De Van's earlier films, it's at least the third straight picture she's directed with a strong central performance (De Van herself holds the center quite well in "In My Skin," and it would be a pleasure to see her in front of the camera again). Most children performances in horror films are, let's face it, terrible. Horror productions usually have smaller budgets and an emphasis on aesthetics and pyrotechnics, leaving the performances lacking, particularly kids forced in a situation that probably isn't very kid-friendly. But the young Ms. Keating is almost supernaturally skilled in her ability to modulate between disturbed and confident. Tragically, you're never thinking this is a child actor, but rather that this is a genuinely broken kid. Uncommon for most horror films with kids, she takes up a majority of screentime, but while Neve is not very verbal, Keating remains a compelling, heartbreaking presence, conveying a small lifetime of suffering with only a look. The movie may spin out of control, but she remains excellent throughout. [B]


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The Walking Dead: Episode 4 - Around Every Corner (X360) - ReviewJoseph Trotter, posted on 05 November 2012 / 2,101 Views
Less Talking, More Running
Now folks, we've been here before haven't we? I'll say it once again though. If you haven't played the Walking Dead yet there is no point reading this review; go, play them, appreciate the terrific narrative and follow the reviews with each episode. Better yet, wait until the last episode is released and buy them as a bundle.
Oh, and spoiler alert... obviously.
For those of you still here, Around Every Corner cranks up the action considerably; things are starting to come to a head as the series rapidly approaches its conclusion, but it could be argued this is at the detriment of the overall pacing of the series. Up to this point the characters, especially from the original band, have been well-developed with a studied sensitivity to the extraordinary situation these ordinary people find themselves in. Yet, as the series continues apace, the story is starting to focus more and more on Lee and Clementine as other characters are stripped away. Although this is understandable – you do control Lee after all – it is disappointing to grow attached to characters to have them flung aside merely as narrative devices, somewhat spoiling the impression of a living, breathing catastrophe which had been until now so carefully crafted.
This narrative technique becomes clearer in Around Every Corner due to the influx of new characters, who for the most part prove themselves superficial accompaniments to the story as they emerge, talk, plan and die. At no point do you grow attached to these characters, as there is simply not the time nor incentive to grow attached to them. This is a shame; it's not that they lack personality, they just get so little time to show any.
Part of the cause of this is the more action-orientated nature of the gameplay. Around Every Corner sparks along at a frenetic pace, partly because of the need to tie all the strands together before the series ends, but also to show the desperateness of their situation. Although it is always good to express variety, this results in a forfeit of the series' strengths, namely its edgy tension and real palpable sense of threat. As shown by the change of focus in the Resident Evil series, action-orientated games tend to lose any notion of peril through the strengths and abilities necessary for an action character to be convincing. The Walking Dead has so far been extraordinary due to its exemplary story-telling and ability to portray the humane horror; anyone and everyone could die at any time.
The problem in this regard is that gameplay has never really been the Walking Dead's strongest point. The point and click style is terrific for the narrative and searching sections, building tension and bringing the player into the experience, but it never really worked in the action sections. Likewise, the introduction of shooting in the third episode was poorly implemented, with clear shots ranging over the target's head. Shooting has been improved but is still used sparingly, meaning that much of the reaction relies on QTEs which are as hit and miss as always.
Despite all of this, Around Every Corner is still a thrilling experience. Although it plays more conventionally than previous instalments, and lacks the shocking humanity of the previous episode, it is still a tour-de-force in quality story-writing and invigorating set-pieces, despite the subdued tension. You will complete this in one sitting; it hooks you, introducing vigilantes and pseudo-fascist states as it drags you to its seductive conclusion. It is not the strongest instalment in the series, far from it, but this is a testament to the high standards that the Walking Dead has already achieved. On its own, Around Every Corner is terrific. As part of the Walking Dead series, it is a little too formulaic, a little too obvious; it may be that the quirks have been found, the pacing figured out, but it just seems to lack the direct drive that made the previous efforts such compulsive playing.
It goes without saying that this is worth getting if you've played the previous games in the series. But there is no point playing Around Every Corner on its own. This makes it difficult to score. By itself, it is an invigorating videogame experience, engulfing to play and difficult to put down, driven by a fantastically dark storyline. As part of the Walking Dead series, however, the story has been better portrayed in previous instalments, whilst the gameplay is slightly too action-orientated to be comfortable when set against the tense and ponderous atmosphere. It feels too rushed, trying to cram too much into too short a space. The Walking Dead: Episode 4 – Around Every Corner is still great, it's just not as great as the others. I wouldn't let that put you off though.
The Walking Dead: Episode 4 - Around Every Corner was reviewed using an Xbox Live Arcade version of the game. Around Every Corner is also available on the PlayStation 3 and PC.
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|Running Time: 80 mins.
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BRITISH post-punk band White Lies' sound is not novel by any means, which makes it all the more remarkable that it is able to carve an engaging record out of such an oversaturated genre. There are naturally bits of Bloc Party, The Killers and Interpol in each track, but the band has managed to draw the listener away from the obvious influences by concentrating on delivering solid songs.
And the songwriting, for the most part, is strong. The title track, which opens the album, signals the bands' epic intentions, starting with a brooding overture before gradually building into a classic synth-driven, New Romantics dance track.
If the band was a mere pretender, then it's done its job well. Single There Goes Our Love Again takes a brighter and more uplifting route but White Lies' influences are yet again unmistakable. More importantly, though, despite delivering a chart-worthy single, it did not come at the expense of the band's moody ethos. It has largely managed to introduce variation without fracturing the overall record stylistically.
The synths are, at times, almost aggressive in nature, driving the songs ahead more than the guitars, which adds to the honesty of the songs. Frontman Harry McVeigh's baritone is as authentic as the ones that came out of Manchester in the early 1980s.
Big TV is by no means a record that will stop traffic or have people buzzing about in cafes. But it's a solid, dependable record that somehow manages to find something fresh in this lumbering genre.
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By P Alfonso on Dec 25, 2009 | In 1.5 The Economy
If you were to pick and choose the good news that the media reports about the U.S. economy, you could clearly see that it is on the way to recovery and the recession has ended. These forecasters are a new breed of economists who unscrupulously have invented what we could refer to as Pinochionomics. Their economic forecasts and reports are nothing more than lies stacked up upon lies. On the other hand, if you look for indicators of an economical disaster looming in the near future, you will be able to find plenty of them.
Putting aside the ailments of our economy private sector and just concentrating on the fiscal condition of our government it should not be difficult to see that it is on life support. Our government's health is under the care of the same people that just passed the Health Care bill. This bill is designed among other things to eventually replace Medicare and Medicaid although they would not dare tell you. Our government cannot continue to operate at a 50% deficit for much longer and at some point, it will become unmanageable.
The meaning of the value of money has become murky with the spending of hundreds of billions and trillions. The perspective of the magnitude of the government's debt and deficit seems to go beyond the comprehension of most of our citizens. Not counting the tens of trillions that our government has of unfunded debt, we have once again reached our approved debt ceiling of $12.1 trillion.
Our elected unrepresentative leaders are requesting another $1.8 trillion in debt which they hope will last until shortly after the 2010 elections. That would raise the debt from $12.1 trillion to $13.9 trillion, conveniently just below $14 trillion. This addition of debt is still been debated but since our government will run out of money before the end of this year they have passed an emergency increase of $290 billion which they hope will last until mid February. If you want to know how much $290 billion is in a less abstract manner, it is equivalent to giving 15 million Americans a brand new Ford Fusion Hybrid capable of getting 41 MPG. If we were to do the math with the $1.8 trillion that they have requested then you come roughly ten million short of giving every household in America one of of them. And of course bear in mind that this is only to satisfy their thirst of borrowing for just one more year.
In summary don't be fooled by the Pinochionomists, they are lying and what our government is trying to do cannot be sustained much longer. Visit Wikipedia and read about the collapse of the Soviet Empire as nearly thirty years later we appear to be next in line. Visit the link and have a better understanding of where our nation is heading.
With the worthless trillions that the Fed has printed to keep the banking system from collapsing, they could have bought the debt of the American public and set them free. To the contrary, they have set up a chain of events that will destroy the wealth of the middle and upper middle class and keep them enslaved forever via taxation and porverty.
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Polymer Melt Flow Instabilities in Extrusion: Investigation of the Mechanism and Material and Geometric Variables15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549207View Description Hide Description
A comprehensive study of the effect of material, geometric, and operating variables on the onset of melt flow instabilities in extrusion was made. Primary objectives were to compare such melt instabilities for a variety of materials and to correlate instability criteria with independent rheological parameters. Seven polymer melts were studied: two polyethylenes, polypropylene, polystyrene, two polybutadienes, and an SBR copolymer. Two distinct extrusion apparatuses were used: a die fed by a screw extruder system and a die fed by an Instron rheometer. The variables studied were temperature, entry cone angle, length/diameter ratio of the die, and flow rate. Independent rheological measurements were performed. These consisted of the evaluation of normal stresses on the Weissenberg rheogoniometer, entrance pressure drop measurements on the Instron rheometer, and viscosity measurements on both instruments and the screw extruder. In a companion study, flow visualization studies were made in the die entry region of the Instron rheometer, for most of the above materials and also a solution of polyisobutylene and glycerine. Distinctively different patterns were observed for the various materials, ranging from severe channeling with corner eddies to nonchanneling flow. Interrelationships between the onset of instabilities with other measurements were noted. In comparing a variety of materials, a decrease in the critical shear rate is generally associated with an increased tendency of the material to channel, an increased normal stress/shear stress ratio and an increased entrance pressure drop/shear stress ratio. It is argued that the instability phenomena are strongly associated with the elastic properties of the materials.
The Fracture Energy and Some Mechanical Properties of a Polyurethane Elastomer15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549209View Description Hide Description
The energy required to form a unit of new surface in the fracture of a polyurethane elastomer is determined. The rate sensitivity of the material has been reduced by swelling it in toluene. This paper primarily describes the experimetal work of measuring the lower limit of the fractureenergy. With this value and the creep compliance as a basis, the rate dependence of fractureenergy for the unswollen material has been determined. It is thus shown that the dependence of the fractureenergy on the rate of crack propagation can be explained by energy dissipation around the tip of the crack. Good agreement between the theoretically and experimentally determined relationships for the rate‐sensitive fractureenergy is demonstrated.
Interfacial Morphology and Mechanical Properties of A‐B‐A Triblock Copolymers15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549210View Description Hide Description
The unique thermoplastic elastomerproperties of A‐B‐A triblock polymers, where A is polystyrene and B is polybutadiene or polyisoprene, are analyzed by means of an adsorption‐interdiffusion (A‐I) model for the interfacial phase. The model defines the size, shape, and connectivity of the domain microstructure based upon free energy balances for the interfacial phase. The interfacial phase model is utilized to predict the phase relationships: and consequent mechanical properties based upon the volume fractions and of A and B components. The filler‐reinforcing function of polystyrene is isolated in terms of the A‐Iinterfacial phase model and analyzed by means of the Takayanagi series‐parallel (S‐P) analog model of mechanical response. Triblock polymers of A‐B‐A type are distinguished from (a) elastomers with rigid fillers, (b) incompatible polyblends, and (c) semi‐crystalline polymers based upon the A‐Iinterfacial phase model.
Cotton Fiber Tenacity: Some Structural Relationships15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549211View Description Hide Description
A theoretical approach, relating cotton fiber tenacity to macromolecular geometrical parameters, follows. Assumptions as to the changes in fibril orientation within the secondary wall of the fiber and as to radial stress distributions resulting from axial strains are based on convolutions induced. Effects of tenacity are calculated on the basis of these assumptions and compared with experimental values.
Cavitation in Viscoelastic Media15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549233View Description Hide Description
A theoretical model for cavitation in viscoelastic media is developed which incorporates both interfacial and rheological arguments. The properties of interfacial and bulk cavities are correlated, and the influence of time‐dependent cavityvapor pressure or hydrostatic tension are correlated with the extension ratio of the cavitysurface in a stress relaxation model. Experimental data are analysed for cavitation by peeling, tensile loading of butt joints, and superheating of swollen elastomers. For each case an agreement between theory and experiments is obtained which identifies the specific mode of cavitation and indicates for all cases the presence of prenucleated cavities with radii microns. The direct correlation of peeling stresses with viscoelastic restraints to interfacialcavitation provides a new type of experimental confirmation for the applicability of rate‐temperature superposition to peeling data. The implicit assumption that the interfacial failure stress depends upon frequency or strain rate in the same fashion as cohesive failure stress is confirmed by cavitation theory for the general case where surface tension constraints are negligible compared to viscoelastic constraints.
Particle Motions in Non‐Newtonian Media. II. Poiseuille Flow15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549212View Description Hide Description
The behavior of rigid and deformable particles suspended in pseudoplastic and elasticoviscous liquids undergoing tube flow was studied. The velocity profiles were more blunted than those obtained for Newtonian fluids and, as in Couette flow, the measured angular velocities of rigid spheres, rods, and discs were in accord with the theory for Newtonian liquids. There was also a drift in the orbit of the cylinders to limiting values corresponding to minimum energy dissipation in the flow. In elasticoviscous liquids, rigid particles migrated across the planes of shear towards the tube axis whereas in pseudoplastic liquids, the opposite was observed, rigid spheres actually coming in contact with the wall. The lateral migration of deformed liquid drops in elasticoviscous fluids was, as in Newtonian systems, towards the tube axis whereas in pseudoplastic liquids the drops attained an equilibrium position between the tube wall and axis. An accumulation of rigid spheres behind an advancing suspension‐air meniscus was observed in elasticoviscous media at all initial volume concentrations, the rates of accumulation increasing with flow rate and particle size. In the pseudoplastic fluids, however, there was a dilution at concentrations less than 10% followed by an accumulation at higher values but the rates of accumulation decreased with increasing flow rate and particle size. As in the Couette flow of non‐Newtonian suspension, it was not possible to interpret the observed radial migration of the particles in terms of the known rheological properties of the suspending fluids.
Rate‐Dependent Relaxation Spectra and Their Determination15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549213View Description Hide Description
Stress overshoot at the start of a flow,stress relaxation after the stoppage of a flow, and superposition of a small oscillation upon a steady shear flow are treated by the use of the concept of a deformation rate‐dependent relaxation spectra. These analyses are used as the basis of methods to determine the spectrum of relaxation times. Although the treatment is restricted to specific types of constitutive equations in which the response function depends on the rate of deformation invariants, it is not necessary to specify any functional form of the response function. Experimental determination of the rate‐dependent spectrum may play an important role in the discussion of the relative applicability of different forms of constitutive equations recently proposed in the literature.
The Decay of Stress Waves in One‐Dimensional Polymer Rods15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549214View Description Hide Description
Application of The Valanis‐Landel Theory to Small Deformations Superposed on a Finite Stretch15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549215View Description Hide Description
Expressions were obtained for the Young's modulus,E, and the shear modulus,G, of an elastic material, resulting from a small extension, twist, or shear, respectively, superposed on a finite uniaxial stretch. The expressions are given in terms of the stretch ratio, λ, and the partial derivatives of the strain‐energy function with respect to λ. The predictions of the theory arising from several proposed forms of the strain‐energy function are calculated and compared. If the small deformation is imposed after the stress resulting from the finite stretch in a viscoelastic material has relaxed, substitution of the time‐ or frequency‐dependent viscoelastic functions for the elastic constants describes viscoelastic behavior in the small deformation when the finite stretch is within the region in which strain and time effects can be factored.
Entrance‐ and Exit‐Correction in Capillary Flow of Molten Polymers15(1971); http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.549208View Description Hide Description
An apparatus is designed for the determination of the axial pressure distributions of molten polyethylene and polypropylene, both in a capillary and in a reservoir. Experimental results reveal that the pressure at the tube exit, termed "exit pressure," is above atmospheric and it is found to be shear dependent for a given ratio. The authors suggest a modified Bagley plot corrected for "exit pressure." Such plots show curvature at the entrance region. The plots of entrance‐correction vs. wall shear stress also show curvature, thus indicating that Hooke's law in shear is not obeyed by the polymers under study. The "exit pressure" is further used to correlate with the total pressure drop at the entry to the tube.


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In this week's episode, Colleen discusses the cold, harsh realities of what happens when things go haywire. The truth is, we learn some of our best marketing and planning lessons when the road gets rocky. With her humor always in tact, she refers to the Odd Couple episode where Felix shows the group what happens when you A-S-S-U-M-E... Tune in to find out what Colleen learned this week...
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I had to take a quick trip down to Dallas for a meeting, and while the trip was nothing special, it was my first time on one of the larger E-Jets, so I figured I'd share my impressions/ experiences from this trip.
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For starters, I had no influence on the itinerary for this trip- I did the outbound flight with my boss, and she prefers United and only likes flying out of IAD, and tries to avoid DCA and especially BWI at all costs. This didn't bother me at all as IAD is my airport of choice as well, and it allowed me to finally add an ERJ-170 to my list. I had checked in the day before at work, but I still wanted to check my bag, so I arrived at Dulles before 6am, parked the car in the Daily 2 garage, and immediately swore quite loudly- as anyone who's familiar with Dulles knows, I'd just given myself the longest possible walk to the United ticket counters! Fortunately, the terminal wasn't crowded and I had dropped off my bag by 615. This was my first trip through the new security check at Dulles, and while nice, the TSA still managed to foul it up. While there were two separate entrances to the security lines, one for elites, one for everyone else, they both led to the same line, with only one person checking IDs/boarding passes. Also, the elite entrance was right at the bottom of the escalator, while the other one was at the far end of the hall, so I had to backtrack, enter the line, and then walk all the way back to the bottom of the escalator, where they were checking IDs. Fortunately, the line moved quickly, and there was only a short wait to get through the metal detector. Once through security, I made the scenic trip on the people-eater to Terminal D and our gate, D16, was directly opposite from where the mobile lounges dock at the terminal. The gate was full, as there was a flight to LAX getting ready to board. Once that flight had begun boarding, I grabbed a seat by the window, and was met shortly thereafter by my boss. We chatted for 90 minutes or so until our flight began boarding shortly after 8am. We were in different rows, but didn't make any efforts to swap seats. I did manage to snag the last overhead bin space over my row for my laptop, so I didn't have to worry about kicking it if it were under my seat. We departed the gate on-time, and made a quick taxi over to RWY 19L for departure. I was amazed at how loud the plane was on departure, but once we got to altitude, it got much quieter. Service was just a drink pass, and I spent the flight reading. Comfort-wise, it was average- the flight was pretty full- 62 of 70 seats taken (including the one next to me), but for a 'regional jet' it was pretty good- much better than the CRJs or even the Avro RJ100s I've flown on. The flight got bumpier as we approached Dallas, so the last part was done with the seat belt sign on, and I couldn't see anything out the window until right before we touched down on RWY 31R at DFW. Taxi to the gate took a while, as we had to wait for a few departures crossing RWY 17C and RWY 17R, but we eventually made our way over to Gate B30. While taxiing in, the F/A in the back got on the intercom, and began welcoming us to Houston, and giving us all sorts of information about the Houston airport, going on and on about Houston, until the F/A up front yelled the length of the plane "We're in Dallas!" (pretty good lungs on that guy IMHO) to which the other F/A said "Oh. Welcome to Dallas." and promptly got off the intercom. Once off the plane, it was a pleasantly short walk to the baggage claim, and it was off to get the rental car and find the hotel in foggy, rainy Dallas.
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My boss was continuing on to other meetings, so I'd be returing to DC alone. During the lunch break in our meetings on the 14th, I jumped on the United website and checked in for the return flight. When I confirmed my itinerary, it offered me an upgrade, and I figured why the hell not? So I shelled out the $200 and snagged the last seat in First- 1F. My boss had flown out the night before, so I didn't have to wait for her to go to the airport, which was nice, since I woke up at my usual time of 6am, DC-time, which is 5am in Dallas. Not having anything better to do, I said the hell with it, got up, had breakfast in the hotel, and went to the airport, gettting there at 730 for my 1130 flight. So I took my sweet time returning the rental car and getting to the terminal. Once at Terminal B, I checked in my bag, picked up my ticket, and went through security where I got to listen to the deep philosophical musings of the guy behind me in line wondering "Why do I get to Sacramento before I leave Dallas?" and "What the am I going to do in the Denver airport for 40 minutes?" Once through security, I wandered through Terminal B before getting a cup of coffee and settling in at Gate B29 to watch what felt like half of AA's MD-80 fleet taxi past over the next several hours. Due to nasty headwinds, our plane didn't arrive at the gate until our scheduled departure time, but they did a very quick turn, starting boarding pretty much as soon as the last inbound passengers had gotten off. I was the first on the plane, and put my laptop in the overhead bin before settling into my seat. Despite what Seat Guru says, 1F is perfectly fine- I am 6ft 5in and had no issues at all with the legroom. The F/A passed around waters to those of us in F, and we pushed back around 40 min late, at 1211. Despite the late push, we still taxiied all the way over to RWY 35L, even though they were using RWY 36R for departures as well. Once airborne, we were offered drinks and snack boxes. The boxes were pretty good- they had crackers and cheese spread, some dried fruit, pepperoni slices, a 100-calorie pack of mini rice cakes, and a chocolate chip cookie. I was disappointed that we didn't get the full can of coke though. Thanks to the promised tailwinds, we had a somewhat bumpy flight, but nothing terrible. I finished my book, and then spent the remainder of the trip staring out the window at the clouds. Also, thanks to the tailwind, we were almost on-time when we arrived back on RWY 1L. However, it was a slow, halting, taxi over to Gate D4. By the time I had made my way off the plane, and over to the main terminal, our bags were just starting to come off the carousel. Mine was one of the first off, and I was back to my car within 40 minutes of landing.
On the whole, it was a solid trip by Shuttle America- the flight crews were all nice, the planes were clean, and they got me my first E-170 trip. Again, the E-170 was equally average, nothing special, but I wouldn't go out of my way to avoid/not avoid flying one. Thanks for getting this far, and comments are always welcome!
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Showtime
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Description: He's smart, he's good looking, and he's got a great sense of humor. He's Dexter Morgan, everyone's favorite serial killer. As a Miami forensics expert, he spends his days solving crimes, and nights committing them. But Dexter lives by a strict code of honor that is both his saving grace and lifelong burden. Torn between his deadly compulsion and his desire for true happiness, Dexter is a man in profound conflict with the world and himself.
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Pity the studio corporate flacks who have to keep straightening out the rumors that hit the internet--especially big-name movies that will build traffic as they spread like kudzu. For example, IESB reported that Sony Pictures is apparently "displeased with the results" they've seen so far of Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet film adaptation, citing claims that the "tone is too campy, they're not happy with the work from director Michel Gondry and Seth Rogen does not look the part. At all. In fact, the feeling at Sony is the movie is a disaster."
Sites like Cinema Blend took up the story, which fed into a lot of initial concerns about the hiring of Seth Rogen and director Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
Sony spokesperson Steve Elzer responded by saying that the IESB story was "complete garbage." Studio execs had only seen about a third of the movie, Elzer said. "What we have seen is outstanding. The piece is unfounded."
This reminds me of the extended Warner Bros./Spike Jonze adventure on Where the Wild Things Are. It took a great deal of work, money and effort to marry the commercial needs of the studio with the artistic vision of the filmmaker. Which they eventually did. Similarly, didn't Sony know who they were getting into business with? Added Elzer: "The stuff that has been shown to us is remarkable. We fully support [Gondry] and are confident in the direction he is heading."
Word is The Green Hornet is visually stunning--as you would expect--with strong performances and action sequences, and not at all campy. But does it add up to a commercial movie that audiences want to see?
Over at Summit, a company spokesman insists that contrary to a widely disseminated report from Lainey Gossip about the need for lengthy reshoots--without director David Slade--on the Twilight sequel Eclipse in Vancouver, the company has long planned to do two to three days of "pick-ups" with Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Vancouver, in the next few weeks. The spokesman (who called Lainey Gossip Vancouver's Perez Hilton) would not specify the exact shots, but asserted that Slade would be in charge (the story rather improbably suggested that Summit was seeking help from ex-Twilighters Chris Weitz and Catherine Hardwicke). Summit is so over-the-top in their praise of the director, in fact, that they say this movie could be "the best of the three."
Where there's smoke there's fire. There's no way that Gondry is directing a Green Hornet with Seth Rogen that will resemble a commercial studio movie--it will be movie that I might want to see, though. As for Summit, while Slade is a strong director, he always seemed like a very macho choice for a romantic franchise aimed at women.


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I think Pedrosa is going to unravel this year big time, he has a strong younger teammate with the world at his feet.
Where as Dani has blown it, in a very unlucky way.
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Can't believe that trippng call on Bykov in the third. I know it's difficult for a small, unskilled player like Lindros to step around an attempted hip check, but hey, were talking about a guy (along with Mario) who basically invented diving. On another note, is anybody disgusted or at least disturbed by the number of players who turn their backs to a check inorder to get the call? Granted, hits from behind should be penalized, but do we now need a penalty for turning away from the check? We'll call it butt ending. No wait, that's taken.
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Oh yeah, that's really getting on my nerves. What this game needs is for some team that's out of the playoff race right now like Colorado or Calgary ( ) to just start creaming the people who do that and accepting the penalties. Eventually, players will be afraid to turn their backs to an oncoming check 'cause they'll get nailed.
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I have an Ubuntu machine that works fine most of the time, but every few days one of two things will happen:
- I'll be logged into the machine and start getting a "cannot allocate memory" message anytime I try to run any command
- I'll try to SSH into the machine but I'll get an error that says "Connection closed by remote host"
If I log into my host's web interface and restart the server, the problem will completely go away but it always comes back.
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this. Every time I do
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Wickaninnish Inn Wins TIAC's Business of the Year Award
The Tourism Industry Association of Canada has announced that the Wickaninnish Inn, Tofino, has won their highest and most prestigious award tonight at The National Awards for Tourism Excellence, presented by the Toronto Star. The Awards have been presented since 2003 by TIAC to recognize the best of Canada's tourism industry, and to reward those people, places, organizations and events that have gone above and beyond to offer a superior tourism experience to travelers in Canada. The Wickaninnish Inn has won the honour of Business of the Year.
Bruce McDiarmid was in Quebec, proudly representing his family and all of the team members who work at the Wickaninnish Inn, at TIAC's Tourism Summit gala awards. McDiarmid says, "It is a true honour to be part of this exceptional night. TIAC is a key organization in Canada's tourism industry. Having this group tell us we are doing something right means a great deal to my family and to all of us at the Wick."
TIAC President and CEO David Goldstein has said of the 2010
finalists "We are very proud of this outstanding list of
finalists. This impressive collection of tourism businesses - and
the people who make them thrive - demonstrates the wealth of
ingenuity, enthusiasm and perseverance in our sector."
Honourable Rob Moore, federal Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism was on hand at the gala and presented Bruce McDiarmid with the Business of the Year Award. McDiarmid goes on to say, "We are pleased to know that we have been associated with organizations offering the highest level of service. CN Tower in Toronto and Estrimont Suites and Spa in Orford, Québec were the other two finalists in the category for the Business of the Year Award, an award sponsored by Air Canada. All finalists should be proud of their acknowledgement from TIAC."
The Wickaninnish Inn, perched on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, has been a Relais & Chateaux member property since 1997. A year-round destination for "rustic elegance on nature's edge", the Inn is owned and operated by the McDiarmid family of Tofino, and is the only resort located on beautiful Chesterman Beach. Each of the 75 oceanfront guest rooms and suites offer the luxury of comfort with a gas fireplace, soaker tub, locally-created art, and a personal patio.


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Guy Maddin's movies exist on a bizarre dreamscape, but they also retain a certain disarming familiarity. Everything original about Maddin's surreal black-and-white excursions come with a simultaneous reference to the movies that inspired him, particularly silent cinema and sultry film noirs. His latest effort, "Keyhole," culls not only from those same influences but from Maddin's existing filmography, from "Tales from the Gimli Hospital" to "The Saddest Music in the World." Even by those standards, "Keyhole" never comes together, but that's part of Maddin's creed. He makes movies about movies to express his love for movies, which is to say he makes movies about himself.
The free-associative "Keyhole" follows a 1940's gangster cliché with family issues named Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) literally battling through the memories locked within his old home. Arriving in a hail of gunfire, he journeys to his estranged wife (Isabella Rossellini), a fierce woman hiding in the shadows of the top floor with Ulysses' tortured father; meanwhile, his late son has seemingly risen from the grave. That's enough to keep "Keyhole" moving forward with spooky pastiche galore, flash cuts and ghostly fades, Freudian symbolism and a playful B-movie mentality meshed with excessive melodrama apparently gushing straight from the filmmaker's psyche--and the movies that inspired him to explore it.
While Maddin's craftsmanship and use of playful metaphor in "Keyhole" lack the same coherence of his earlier films, not to mention the deeply involving first-person voice of his quasi-documentary "My Winnipeg," the new movie still demonstrates how cinema informs Maddin's view of the world. Every moving image in "Keyhole" is simultaneously Maddinean and, for that same reason, a savvy quotation device.
However, while consistent in his unique manner of culling from the past, Maddin's movies also demonstrate a larger tendency among filmmakers to tell new stories based on the ones they have seen before. I mean that differently from the protocol of the proverbial "movie brats" (Spielberg, et al) whose love for childhood spectacles led them to make their own. Maddin and his ilk don't try to replace their memories with fresh product; their movies are like shrines.
"Keyhole" isn't the only new release hailing from the amorphous genre best described as "nostalgia cinema"; another marginalized release uses a very different set of reference points to tell a similarly tense family drama, with a narrative logic that makes "Keyhole" look like a wholesome version of the genres it references.


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Students from GMU build medical record systems on Windows 7 at BizSpark event
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Larry Gregory talked to the student team of Bo Yu and Changwei Liu from George Mason University at a recent BizSpark incubation event hosted by
Sanjay Jain.
Their research interests and technology focuses on making it easier to access your medical records in a secure manner.
Both students gained great insight into developing using Windows 7 and .NET during this event.
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The storm also sank two Vietnamese fishing boats that had been seized for illegal fishing by the Royal Thai Navy.
Sattahip Mayor Phawat Lertmukda urged sailors to stay off the high seas and moor their boats in sheltered area to prevent more damage.
The January 28 storm was too much for 4 fishing vessels in Sattahip Bay.


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How Toyota got their Hybrid owners to let strangers test drive their car for free
In both loyalty and customer satisfaction Toyota Norway are on top. In sales, top two. They have a unique contact with their customers, resulting in top scores in consumer tests for years. Nevertheless, they have a long way to go when it comes to winning new customers.
For the automotive business it is crucial to get people to test-drive cars. The conversion from completed test drives to selling the car is very high. From European tests we know that the propensity to buy a hybrid is very high if you have test driven a hybrid for 15 minutes. However, the numbers of test drives are decreasing. Now people are looking up information online and through friends and acquaintances before buying a car.
The idea:
If customers are as happy as tests showed, would they be willing to talk about, show off and even let people try their hybrid- without payment? If so, this would not only be a great story to tell for Toyota as a brand, but also a nice way for people to experience and learn about Toyota hybrids form someone they trust more than car salesmen: the owners themselves.
So, to once and for all prove that Toyota's Hybrid owners are the proudest and most satisfied in Norway, and to get more people interested in Toyota hybrids, we introduced "Try my hybrid".
Through Toyota's Facebook page, we secured a base of 100 hybrid owners all over Norway so proud of their cars that they, without pay, volunteered to let strangers, friends and neighbours test-drive their cars. Selected owners were the faces and voices of the campaign locally and nationally. When this was in place, we launched the website. The website had two ways in: one for hybrid owners where they could sign up, and one for the rest. On the last one people not only could find Hybrid owners close to where they lived, but logging in with Facebook, allowed them to find friends - and friends of friends, who's hybrid they could test drive.
In a small country like Norway, this basically meant that every Norwegian on Facebook indirectly knew a hybrid owner they could test drive with. This completely new approach generated a lot of publicity. 55 newspapers all over Norway ran the story. The campaign also got a real boost when head of PR at Toyota Norway, Espen Olsen, called the host of "the Morning Club" – one of Norway's biggest radio shows – Øyvind Loven, who happens to be a hybrid sceptic. Loven was caught totally off guard when Olsen challenged him to try his hybrid on-air. The result was that the entire show was broadcasted live form a Prius the following Friday.
Try my hybrid shows that when a brand dares to let go, their customers can be their greatest vehicles of communication.
The process at Saatchi & Saatchi Norway
In order to execute projects like this, you can't work in silos. We're an agency where there are no departments. Where account, creative and digital are part of the same team. We merged with a small digital agency three years ago, but it was not until 2013 that it really started to pay off in terms of better work. It's a slow and painful process for sure. But by tearing down old hierarchies, and working as one unit, we've definitively succeeded. With digitally creative talent and production in-house, we've made more ideas happen. Ideas that would otherwise die, or be executed poorly due to lack of funds or bought resources. Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts' take on the subject is a good principle to work by: "Nothing is digital, everything is digital".
It boils down to the simple fact that work seldom turns out great - if the team doesn't respect each other, or speak the same language. And although that might sound like a cliché, it's an area in which many are failing. This subject has recently been debated in the Norwegian marketing community. More than a few traditional agencies have failed to adapt themselves culturally when merging with digital shops.
Team at Saatchi & Saatchi Norway:
Kristoffer Reppen, Senior Creative
Ida Fjeldbraaten, Copywriter
Christopher Køltzow, Digital Creative
Rune Sandnes, Head of Technology
Ola Bagger Skar, Production Art Director
Øyvind Waage, Creative Director
Snorre Martinsen, Senior Creative
Linus Hjellström, Designer
Mads Rønold, Content manager
Håkon Fretheim, Digital Director
Joe Langdon, Motion Designer
Patrik Bergfjord, Planner
Nanna Skipper Grønli, Account manager
Magnhild Foldøy, Account Manager
Eiliv Gunleiksrud, Creative Director Digital & Design
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If you're saying you've had direct experience of Google abusing your personal data, and suffered consequences because of that, then I'd very much like the opportunity to see what happened
Sorry - it's not my job to convince anyone one way or the other. I have my reasons and I'm happy to leave Google well alone.
And quite right too. Google are absolutely not a benign force in the world and you should always try your best to minimise what they can take from you.
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For you wireless security geeks, looks like WPA got cracked.
This is WPA-TKIP, not WPA2-AES, so if you are using WPA2, you are OK. WPA was intended to be a transitory protocol, to let older equipment which didn't have the CPU power for AES encryption have non-trivial security.
For you non geeks, if you are using a wireless Internet connection, get it checked out, because you might have uninvited guests sucking up your bandwidth soon.