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I'm sick of Apple. Or more specifically, I'm sick of fighting the Apple.
These swings, rallies and sell-offs have gotten to be utterly exhausting. They say the opposite of love isn't hate, but apathy. And I'm almost apathetic about Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL at this point. Maybe that's a great contrarian signal. At any rate, emotions, including love, hate and even apathy are the enemy of the successful trader, so we can't let ours get to us. Last Friday, I added another tranche of Apple calls.
Almost makes me sick to do so at this point. Which leads us to the other point you've heard me make so often — the hardest trade is often the right one (as long as the fundamental reasons behind the initial trade/investment are still in tact, that is). Remember the Facebook buys at $19? Painful at the time, right?
I expect iPad Mini's are maxing out on sales and are actually in enough supply that this quarter's numbers will have to go up. Same for the iPhone 5 sales right now. So my fundamental catalyst into year-end remains in tact. So I look past my emotions and follow the playbook. Doesn't mean I'll be right about this trade. But over the past 1,000 trades like this I've had a lot of net success and over the next 1,000 trades like this I expect and hope to do the same.
I'm deep in research on a few ideas for the Revolution Investing newsletter, including:
A new potential play on 3-D printing — making decisions on it today.
IBM short? I just don't think IBM's /quotes/zigman/230066 /quotes/nls/ibm IBM going to keep this multiple premium that it's still got. HPQ, Apple, MSFT, INTC — most every other mega cap tech stock trades at half the enterprise value (market cap + net cash) to earnings multiple. And like HPQ, IBM's got a bunch of debt on the balance sheet already ($22 billon!), although they do have nearly $26 billion in cash. IBM might be an ideal paired trade hedge to our mega cap tech longs. More to come on this analysis.
Microsoft /quotes/zigman/20493 /quotes/nls/msft MSFT puts? I'm thinking that the new Windows 8 reception is so cold that it's actually helping to drive people to pay up for anything Apple-related. Need a non-Windows 8 PC? Go buy a Mac. And Google's Android doesn't have desktop technology (yet?) does it? Maybe a Chrome/Android PC is in the future, but it ain't here for the iPad/iPhone xMas selling season.
Which brings us to tablets. Want a tablet? You pay up for the simplicity of the iPad or the iPad Mini or you go cheap with an Android.
Windows 8 tablets? Windows Surface? My homework continues to point that the Windows 8 roll-out is a disaster for the Windows 8 PC/tablet vendors. Windows 8 phones are enjoying serious growth as part of the overall smartphone market is (estimates are for 40% or so growth next year for the smartphone market as more of the human population around the globe upgrade) and it might DOUBLE it's market share this quarter. Which would mean it still wouldn't be accounting for even 1 out of every 20 smartphones sold. MSFT is a lot cheaper than IBM, so maybe a lot of this is priced in for the near-term at least.
In my own portfolio, I'm not in any rush to put on new trades just now, as I've done my scaling into both longs and shorts according to the playbook I've outlined at these levels. Patience is one of the most important keys to long-term market success. So be long patience.
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I recently performed for an IT group. (That's Information Technology: computers the internet and the way they connect.) A man came up before the show and said, "I hope you're as good as the guy who spoke at lunch." I asked, "What did he speak about?" and he said, "Cloud computing." Cloud computing is a way to get all that data off your hard drive and make it available anytime and anywhere on the internet. Always connected,no wires.
I'm like that. When I'm with a group I'm connected with open minds. Many years ago a man introduced me as "already being online with your mind." And, "David Winston is the shortest distance between two minds."
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How to Pray for Your Pastor
When Roman legions invaded Caledonia (modern-day Scotland) in the late first century AD, it was said by the historian Tacitus that the powerful Celtic chieftain Calgacus emerged and rallied his tribes against the might of Rome, famously declaring, "They make …Read More
When All Things Are Made New
As a pastor and theologian, I've had to think about a lot of hard questions over the years. Truth be told, however, the most difficult problem I've faced is the problem of suffering. We all face suffering in some way, …Read More
Blessed Are the Meek
It is not uncommon for commentators and Bible teachers to interpret the "blesseds" in the Beatitudes as meaning "to be happy." The Greek work translated as "blessed" is makarios, and while "happy" is one of the ways it can be …Read More
Blessed Are the Merciful
Mercy is the generosity, tenderness of heart, and kindness of soul that is moved to alleviate the sufferings of others. It is one of the characteristics that mark the children of God, for God Himself is "rich in mercy" (Eph. …Read More
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Most of us want peace. Very few of us are willing to make it. If we breeze through the Beatitudes, we might mistake peacemaking for a passive quality, one possessed by people who mind their own business. Their virtue is …Read More
Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
Our family recently visited the beautiful and imposing Field Museum in Chicago. Its neoclassical edifice dominates the landscape. You can approach it from many different angles, but there is only one entrance. You might feel near to it, yet, depending …Read More
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
Purity marks all cultures in their different ways. Sociologists tell us that every tribe or group develops its own expectations regarding social mores and behavior. In speaking of purity, neither Jesus nor the Bible is charting into strange or unfamiliar …Read More
Blessed Are the Reviled
The professor's face was contorted with anger as he yelled and shook a fistful of torn paper in my face. He accused me of harassing and attacking university students. What egregious act had I committed? I had properly posted an …Read More
Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted for Righteousness' Sake
The Beatitudes begin with Godward attitudes—spiritual poverty, mourning, meekness, and hunger—and progress to manward concerns—mercifulness, purity, and peacemaking—before concluding in Matthew 5:10 with the inevitable reality of persecution and insults (see also Matt. 10:22; John 15:20). But this unpleasant inevitability …Read More
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
The first four beatitudes all describe the needs of a disciple. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness" is the last in the series (Matt. 5:3–6). Jesus first said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is …Read More


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Carla Bruni's 'Little French Songs': Exclusive First Listen
Carla Bruni's new album is called "Little French Songs." And they are exactly that: simple but elegant chansons adorned with little more than acoustic guitar and Bruni's dusky voice. But the title also seems a little coy, given the singer-songwriter's personal star wattage and some of the music's subject matter, including an ode to her husband, the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy.
In "Mon Raymond" (Bruni has said she chose a more ordinary alternative to her husband's name) her lyrics, roughly translated, describe him as "a stunner, atomic bomb material," and a pirate in a necktie.
Bruni, an Italian-born heiress and supermodel, married then-president Sarkozy in 2008, the same year she put out her most recent album. Her role as France's first lady more or less paused a music career that had taken off in 2003 with the release of her album "Quelqu'un M'a Dit," which sold 2 million copies. Bruni recorded the material on "Little French Songs" intermittently starting in 2011, when her husband was still in office. She wrote eight songs on the album, and co-wrote or arranged the other three.
"Pas une Dame" ("Not a Lady") has a touch of hip-hop swagger from Bruni, who declares love for her Gitanes and compares herself to a dog, a bartender's rag and "the last drop of gin."
With swinging horns and percussion, "Chez Keith et Anita" is a slightly feverish imagining of the world of Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg in 1970 when the Rolling Stones were recording on the Cote d'Azur.
In the playful title track she makes the theme of the album clear, weaving in the names of many French musical greats, including Brel, Gainsbourg and Piaf, and reminding the listener of the palliative effects of their music. She sings, "Of course it's not Duke Ellington. It's not Elvis or Jackson. It's not Fitzgerald or Armstrong. It's just a litttle French song. But when the grief remains long, I sing a little French song."
After the jump, listen to an exclusive album stream, which will be available until "Little French Songs" is released April 16 by the Verve label. You can preorder the album here.


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Back to Topic:I have used the mamiya AFD II, III and phase DF on a p45+ and IQ 160. My thoughts since using the gear in the field since 2008.Pros:Built like a tank Good grip and feel in the handslow but most often accurate AF when the supplied 3 AF points work into the shot good battery life with nimh AA's with latest firmware for bodyNever any sync issues with the backCons:Viewfinder to me was always hard to manually focus. Plenty large but I found coming from a canon setup and. Zork adapter where I always had to manually focus much harder to achieve reliable focus. Even with the focus loupe which goes in front of the eyepiece. Mirror slap and vibration, there are some lenses mainly the med to long telephoto that you cannot use certain shutter speeds due to vibration. Example 210mm at 1/30 of a sec even on tripod.Shutter slap/mirror slap issue when camera is vertical on tripod. Even with mirror lock there are vibration issues with the shutter. Especially noticed when shooting longer exposures. This issue has been noted more than once on this site.With a leaf shutter lens you still have to fire both the focal plane and leaf shutter so vibration issues are still possible.Lack of a modern multi point AF SYSTEM and for the price point of the body this is a big deal. The DF+ seems from reports to acquire faster with more accuracy but it still only has the 3 points right together which might as well be one.Lenses: On the mamiya brand the wides are poor 28mm and 35mm mainly due loss of corners i.e. the 28 make a great 35 and the 35 makes a great 45 after you crop out the corners. The 55mm is stellar. All the rest of the newer Mamiya D lenses have nothing but great reports. 150mm 75-150mm 45mm and the old non D glass can be excellent like the 210mm. It seems the new phase Schneider leaf shutter lenses are very good however until recently your widest solution was the 55mm. The new 28mm leaf from the test reports I have read shares many of the short falls of the older non LS phase/mamiya 28. Reports shown on digital transitions website show the 2 are pretty close optically. I still own a DF but switched to a tech camera for the wides as most of my work is outdoors and not tethered and the improvements in sharpness with the tech lenses was worth it. Never have used any Hassy gear. One other note capture one is a big plus for the phase raw especially with vr7. I only wish canon and Nikon would invest the time for their files. Paul
Not discussing the back, is there a real difference in quality?Would it be worth it to not get the Mamiya add-on when buying a Phase or Leaf Credo, finding a used H1 or H2 and than upgrading to a H4x?
On the mamiya brand the wides are poor 28mm and 35mm mainly due loss of corners i.e. the 28 make a great 35 and the 35 makes a great 45 after you crop out the corners. The 55mm is stellar. All the rest of the newer Mamiya D lenses have nothing but great reports. 150mm 75-150mm 45mm and the old non D glass can be excellent like the 210mm. It seems the new phase Schneider leaf shutter lenses are very good however until recently your widest solution was the 55mm. The new 28mm leaf from the test reports I have read shares many of the short falls of the older non LS phase/mamiya 28. Reports shown on digital transitions website show the 2 are pretty close optically. Paul
I shoot my Hy6 handheld about 95% of the time. But everyone has their own method. The problem with the Mamiya is it still can suffer from mirror shake shooting on a tripod unless you mirror up and wait. The Hy6 / AFi is very good wrt mirror dampening. It's probably the best or one of the best MF cameras to shoot handheld since the mirror is so well damped. I very often shoot at 1/30 and sometimes as slow as 1/15. I don't even use the mirror up, but a button is by your thumb in case you want it. Everyone says this is an expensive platform but in truth I'm not sure sure. You'd pay more for a DF+ body new than you'd pay for a Hy6 new. Same goes with lenses, I think the new prices are about the same for any of the systems - Leica S even higher. Just buy direct from the factory, DHW. If you buy from B&H or one of the other vendors like 9 days HK, you'd pay more since DHW doesn't give anyone any deals unless of course you ask. :-) It takes about 3 days once you've paid to get your items and regarding service, yes, its an issue, but service is faster than Leica for sure. The great thing about the AFi is that you can use Capture One software and as was pointed out, a very good lens system. Plenty of quality lenses on the second hand market, too.
There is absolutely no difference between Phase One "Schneider branded" Mamiya made lenses and Mamiya branded lenses that have equivalent models.All the Mamiya LS lenses are the same design as the "Schneider branded" Mamiya made lenses. The Mamiya D lenses are the same as the Phase one non leaf shutter lenses. The only Schneider made lens for the Phase One is the tilt shift lens.The biggest difference is the sales channel. Mamiya Leaf is sold also through Adorama and BH Photo so you can get much better prices than with Phase One Schneider Brandedlenses. (Best price is over the phone from both Adorama and BH).
Sorry to say the best price comes with working with your dealer that you buy your system from. Besides new you can buy demos, workshop leftovers or used from trade ins. Almost all of the glass I bought came from my dealer as he beat anything I could find elsewhere. Also I get full dealer support for everything I buy. As much as I love B&H and buy many things from them including my Nikon gear they do not handle repairs service or support. They only offer returns and replacements for a couple weeks . At least this has been my experience for the last 3 years or so shooting and buying Phase gear. My dealer usually beat anything around including e-bay which i will not buy much over 1k on ebay or what i am willing to lose on it.
Best way to rotate on a DF is a L bracket like the ones from Kirk or really right stuff. Unless you get the optional v grip. On a tech camera, Arca for example, you can easily rotate the back by just rotating the mount plate. As I shoot about 50% vertical this was a big deal for me as I found the Arca the easiest to rotate in the field.Paul
Duh....BH does not sell Phase Gear. Your dealers also happen to sponsor your website/forum Demo isn't new. Normally been handled by many people and "demo" equipment has a really loosely defined definition. Repairs need to be done by the manufacturer. Either you send it in yourself or you can send it to your dealer.If your a good customer with BH they make calls for you. When BH is the biggest camera dealer. No company wants to piss it off.They have been helpful to me more than once. Even from Italy.I once bought a camera from BH with international warranty. Italian distributor did not want to handle a warrany repair. BH rang up the companyand sorted things out in a beat.
Once again you keep posting insinuating comments about people and there bias or whatever fits your fancy to post. With that Fred you should know I was a customer of CI years and a load of gear long before they advertise on our site. Once again you turn someone's post negative to go after Phase and anyone that actually uses them. Again your true colors are showing. Dave Galagher is also one of my best friends and damn happy he is. With that I bid this forum goodbye. With you around there is absolutely nothing I want to be involved with here. I will keep my decorum and not post what I really would like to say. But it's really not worth my time to be anywhere when negativity rules the day than helping people. Happy New Year to everyone else.
Hello Fred,Personally Fred you do have a propensity to piss people off. Im not sure if you do it on purpose but be sure you do. Its a shame Guy has decided to leave the forum I just hope you dont alienate any more forum members to such an extent that they do the same.CheersSimon
Sorry but I think it is helpful for readers to know that there are many recommendations on these forum are closely related to whothey are recommending. Readers can make their decisions keeping this in mind.
I simply pointed out that there is no difference between Phase One Schneider LS lenses and Mamiya LS lenses. Same design and made in the same factory. I also pointed out that due to different sales channels you can get better prices from big dealers like Adorama and BH. Despite the fact that just about everyone knows that BH and Adorama have the best prices in the USA for just about everything photographicGuy chooses to say I'm wrong.Sorry but I think it is helpful for readers to know that there are many recommendations on these forum are closely related to whothey are recommending. Readers can make their decisions keeping this in mind.I also find it rather ironic that advocates of Phase One keep going on about how perfect and reliable the gear is, but then insist that you need a value added dealer for support and repairs. Interesting that Guy chooses to buy his Nikons from BH Photo.
Jeff,He's Fred Greissing, did some decent hollywood type photo work, maybe still does, but is quickly loosing all respect he might have gotten with his attack posts. It's a shame because his work looks like he'd have a lot of knowledge to share from his experiences but instead he wastes everyone's time with the negativity.
He's Fred Greissing,...


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Chip Yates is one of the world's most recognized green technology innovators and has set 18 World Records in electric vehicles of his own design. Recently nicknamed "The Rockstar of Science" by an inspired audience after witnessing his electrified speech, Yates has an endless supply of up-to-the-minute stories to share from his inspiring ongoing World Record activities.
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A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
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Our games are downloadable to macs or pcs, they have components that play on cell phones, and we are preparing to distribute a mini playable device on our own.
- Clean and professional.
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- While our games target a younger audience, it is teachers, parents, and other industry professionals that will see this logo, so it should not be childish or too cartoony.
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By David Ponce
A lot of good things can be said about the iPad and the post-PC revolution it seems to be ushering. But for those of us who spent their youths on Windows, the linearity of iOS's multitasking is really frustrating. While it's possible to look at several windows at once on a machine running Redmond's code, the fact that you have to double-tab the home button on an iPad and then explicitly pick the next app you want to look at it stupid; the iPad does multitask processing, but not user-interacting. However if you've jailbroken your device, you can bring back a bit of logic with an application called Quasar, by Pedro Franceschi. As you can imagine, it gives you windows, which you can resize and drag around like you're used to on a PC, without giving up any of the perks of iOS. This is particularly useful for those iPhone-only apps which would take up the entire screen when they'd really be much more useful tucked in a corner somewhere instead.
Watch the video below; the app seems to run quite well. It's not free however: $10 on the Cydia app store. Just search for it.
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What Equipment Do I Need To Open A Salon Or Barber Shop?
So, if you are thinking of setting up a beauty salon, it is time that you go searching for the best ever beauty salon equipment for your business. You will need nothing but the most affordable and best beauty salon equipment to provide nothing but incomparable services to your clients.Lets take a look at the different types of services offered by beauty salons and Beauty Shops Near My Location what sort of beauty salon equipments you will need for the services you offer at your salon. If your salon only offer basic hair styling and cutting services, you will need beauty salon equipment to cater to your hair styling needs. You should look at hair styling chairs, wash basins, hair dryers, steamers, trolleys, professional hair styling scissors set and even basic must-have furniture like mirrors, chairs, comfy chairs for the waiting area.
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In the midst of searching for the right equipment to furnish your salon, although it is important to compare prices, please do not settle for cheap, low quality equipment as it could end up sabotaging your business. Lousy quality equipment could break down in the midst of a hair styling session or worse, can you imagine the bath tub leaking or the hair dryer malfunctioning and injuring a client? So, compare prices if you must but do not try to save by buying low quality beauty salon equipment.
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You've decided to open your own hair salon, selected the right location, hired qualified hair stylists and purchased the necessary equipment. Sounds like you have everything you need, right? Wrong. You'll need to have a good handle on the following key elements if your hair salon is to succeed.
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Running a successful salon also requires attracting and retaining quality staff. People become attached to their hair stylists. They want to know that they can call their salon and get an appointment with their favorite stylist. Clients become nervous when they are told that their trusted stylist no longer works at the salon. They will often follow their stylist to another salon. This would mean that you would lose that client forever.
Running a successful salon is not a mysterious venture. All you need to do is ensure the happiness of your clients, retain a quality staff, price competitively, and stock appropriately. All of the other details will simply fall into place.
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In decades past, hair salon services were mainly reserved for women, since they are typically more concerned about their appearance than men. Nowadays however, even men have become increasingly conscious about their personal grooming, thus such services also apply to men. There are different types of hair salon services, which are normally offered on the basis of individual preferences. Further, these services have increased over the years, such that most salons have become a one-stop shop for all forms of beauty care. In this article, different types of hair salon services have been discussed in detail.
The main services offered in hair salons are hair styling and coloring. Good hair styles can greatly enhance a persons entire look, thus most salons have hair stylists specifically for this purpose. There is a wide range of hair styles to choose from, which normally depend on various factors such as the shape of one's face and hair length. It is therefore not just a matter of styling hair, but salon professionals also ensure that such styles are unique to each person. There are various aspects of hair styling such as braiding, relaxing or hair extensions. In the same way, coloring services are offered based on their suitability to specific people.
The services offered by salons are not restricted to their individual clients. Salons also offer some of their services such as hair styling and make-up services during events such as weddings. Most salons have wedding packages, whereby make up services, hair styling and coloring is undertaken by one salon, in accordance with the overall theme of the wedding. With all the types of hair salon services available, it should not be too difficult to adopt and maintain a look that brings out the best in a person.


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Jan. 21—A coalition of New York and Idaho lawmakers called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to change its nutrition guidelines to include Greek yogurt as a source of protein.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Reps. Richard Hanna (D-N.Y.) and Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) sent a letter Thursday to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging him to change USDA guidelines on the protein-packed food.


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Ingram Micro Inc., the worlds largest technology distributor, has reached a deal with RIM to distribute the BlackBerry PlayBook to re-seller partners in the UK.
It has been a bit of a rocky road between consumers and RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, but BlackBerry has still maintained a very strong presence in the business market. RIM's BlackBerry devices are still the choice among many organizations in which security and mobile communications are paramount. The BlackBerry PlayBook has been a step up in many organizations ability to be more productive via cloud services and
RIM's UK managing director Stephen Bates said that Our agreement with Ingram Micro will allow us to broaden and enhance our distribution of the BlackBerry PlayBook. We are leveraging our strengths in communications, social integration and productivity with their strengths in unified communications, software solutions and overall channel reach, This is no little deal Ingram Micro, has local sales offices in 26 countries, has over 105 distribution centers worldwide, represents over 1,300 vendors, and is the only global broad-based IT distributor in Asia. This kind exposure and distribution is exactly what RIM needs for the PlayBook.
Ingram Micro also has a dedicated team that is focused on unified communications, and cloud business development managers. This makes it an ideal fit for the PlayBook as it fits in well with Microsoft Office 365. Ingram Micro is once again providing a solid, expansive offering to meet the needs of resellers, Our continued growth in the telecommunications segment and the ongoing convergence of software and mobile technologies, enhanced with the inclusion of Microsoft Office capabilities on BlackBerry smartphones and the addition of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to our product portfolio, is driving BlackBerry as a strong platform for mobile users of Microsoft Office 365. said Matt Sanderson, managing director at Ingram Micro.
RIM is looking to push the PlayBook even more into its enterprise market and this new move will do just that. The PlayBook is expected to become even more desirable later on this year as it will be compatible with RIM's much anticipated, BB 10 platform.
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We think of reefs as exotic, distant places with little or no connection to our everyday world. Yet every reef is a living city beneath the sea with a parallel existence to ours, distant yet undeniably connected.
Reefs are hotspots of biodiversity as vital to life on earth as the rain-forests. They have been shaping our shorelines, literally forming islands and mountains, for millions of years.
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Father Maurice Tew and Children, 1961
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741.26.a.7
Staff Person: Maury York
Description: Father Maurice Tew came to Greenville from West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1935 to assist the priest at St. Peter's Catholic Church. Charged with the responsibility of ministering to African Americans in the city, Father Maurice spearheaded the construction of a mission church on West Fifth Street. Named in honor of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother, the church was dedicated on March 1, 1936. In 1956 the church built a school for African American children. The nuns who taught the eight grades lived in a convent across the street. Of the 170 students who enrolled in the school initially, most were not members of the Catholic Church. A man with good sense of humor, Father Maurice endeared himself to many, as this photograph would indicate. He employed both radio and television broadcasts as a means of outreach to the broader community. (Source: Greenville Times, June 26-July 9, 1991).


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A status page generator that lets you host your status page for free on GitHub. Statuspage uses issues to automate displaying incidents and labels for severity. When you create your page you'll be prompted to enter the systems you want to display on your status page (e.g. your apps website or backend). Once your page is up and running, you can create an issue in GitHub to display a new incident and select labels to identify the system and severity. When the incident is resolved, just close the issue to remove it from the status page. Statuspage also comes with a fully customisable template and CSS.
A NoSQL cloud document database from Firebase that lets you easily store, sync, and query data for your mobile app. Cloud Firestore provides SDKs that synchronises data between devices in real-time with offline data access via an on-device database. The SDKs also take care of the complex authentication and networking code you'd normally need to write yourself paired with a comprehensive set of security rules so you can access your database without needing to write any server-side code.
Managed infrastructure and built in APIs that give you access to complex backend functionality without writing any code. Hasura uses the power of Postgres to give you instant data APIs that let you query the database in JSON without any backend code, or you can extend the built in functionality with your own custom micro-services. You also get out of the box auth APIs for a number of common authentication providers including Facebook, Google, and email. Finally, you get filestore APIs to handle user based file upload, download and deletion.
A push notification platform for iOS, Android and web. Notificare lets you send interactive and contextual notifications based on the insights gathered by the drop-in SDK. Features include location based messages (geo-fencing and iBeacons), advanced segmentation, contextual content, loyalty cards and coupons. There are a range of price plans available that scale with your audience from developer to enterprise, and there is also a whole suite of add-ons available to add extra features.
A online service that lets you search for SDKs and third party code used by popular apps on the App Store. AppSight lets you pick an app and view all the SDKs used to create it, along with some additional details such as device requirements, requested permissions, URL schemes, and version history. You can also view the data the other way by picking an SDK and viewing a list of the apps that currently use it, along with related SDKs and quick links to the code on Cocoapods, GitHub, Twitter, etc.
A companion Mac application for the Perfect server-side Swift framework. The Perfect Assistant is a set of convenience tools designed to help Server Side Swift developers start, manage, compile, test, and prepare for deployment more easily. You can set up new projects and get access to ready-to-roll project templates; manage dependencies; create simultaneous macOS and Ubuntu builds on your local machine; push projects up to EC2 servers; and it can integrate the Linux build process directly into Xcode.
A set of tools for macOS that simplify the management and deployment of server-side Swift on IBM's Bluemix. IBM Cloud Tools for Swift includes a sample app to get started using Kitura. You'll get a local development environment and tools to easily deploy and manage the status of your IBM Cloud runtimes, including unified credentials management, centralised control and monitoring of deployed assets, and local notifications of remote actions. You can also add your client side code to a project to link it to cloud services.
A new complete backend solution for the popular Realm database. The Realm Object Server is a self-hosted solution that enables realtime data sync and powerful event handling between the server and devices running the Realm Mobile Database. Features include user authentication; two-way data sync with conflict resolution; server-side events triggered by data changes; access control; and loads more.Realm Mobile Platform is free to use in production for commercial use with paid options for an enterprise SLA.
A logging platform for Swift that lets you access app logs in development & release with end-to-end encryption. SwiftyBeaver includes a drop-in framework that lets you easily log to the Xcode console, a file and the SwiftyBeaver Crypto Cloud, as well as providing user analytics, release logging and Swift 3 compatibility. The Crypto Cloud securely stores your logs in the cloud and includes and API and unlimited data. The platform also includes a Mac App that lets you instantly search and filter your logs with zero latency. All data is stored in an SQLite database and can be easily exported.
A hosted, automated, customisable status page service. Hund offers several infrastructure integrations including Amazon Web Services, Pingdom, New Relic, and more, to constantly monitor the availability of your web service. Unlike other status pages that require manual changes, Hund updates automatically and can be configured to notify your audience of any issues by email, RSS and Twitter. You also get detailed performance metrics and historical uptime charts, and the status page styling can be customised to match your brand.
A modular web framework written in pure Swift that works on iOS, OS X, and Ubuntu. Vapor provides request routing using pattern matching with full Swift type safety for the request details and parameters. You could use it to create a full web service with JSON responses, or a complete website with pure HTML views or templated views rendering using Mustache or Stencil. It also includes support for custom cookies and there's some clever validation features to validate the data coming into your application. Vapor is open source and accepting pull requests.
A free hosted status page for your backend service. Runstatus is hosted separately from your app, so continues informing your users even if you have an infrastructure issue. The status pages include detailed status information for each component of your service including timelines of uptime history and scheduled maintenance windows, and are fully responsive and customisable with your branding. There's also Twitter integration to tweet your status changes and API and finger terminal support.
An asynchronous, simple, powerful, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift inspired by Play Framework and Express.js. Swift Express runs on OS X and Linux with and without Dispatch, is 100% asynchronous and compatible with Swift 2.1 and 2.2. It currently offers a simple routing mechanism, request handlers chaining, response templating with Stencil and Mustache, built-in JSON support, and static file serving. It also includes a command line tool for managing dependencies, building the project and running the app.
A drop-in SDK and backend service that makes it easy to add realtime in-app messaging and chat. SendBird provides all the features you need to enable one-to-one messaging, group messages, or public chat rooms, including customisable white-label UI elements, and a powerful realtime chat API. You get complete control over your chat platform with profanity filtering, user blocking, multi-platform SDKs and an analytics dashboard. Your users get messages syncing across all their devices, typing indicators, read receipts, and delivery status. It's free to get started with additional paid plans.
A drop-in SDK and backend service that makes it really simple to add complete social features to your add to create a social network. Tapglue offers fully customisable plug & play tools for all the social network features you need, including new feeds with likes, comments and shares, user profiles with friends and followers, social activity notifications, Facebook and Twitter integration, and more. It's free to get started up to 1,000 users with paid plans beyond that.
A drop-in SDK and backend service that aims to improve mobile engagement in your app with customisable user on-boarding, feature walkthroughs, product tours, update suggestions, permission requests and more. Elasticode lets you design your user interactions online using over 10,000 different elements and animations before pushing to your app remotely without having to go through app review. The latest feature, BackView, even lets you utilise how your app appears in the multi-tasking app-switcher to encourage users to come back to your app.
A new lightweight web framework from IBM that lets you build end-to-end web services with complex routes in Swift and quickly deploy them on both OSX and Linux. Kitura's design is inspired by popular Node.js framework, Express.js, in particular its URL routing and pluggable middleware. It currently includes URL routing for GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests, support for URL parameters, static file serving, JSON parsing and pluggable middleware. Kitura is an exciting project that promises to let you build both mobile front-end and back-end portions of an app in the same language.
An iOS app that lets you manage your apps on Heroku while on the go from your iPhone or iPad. Saber offers complete Heroku management including an interactive console for connecting to Dynos. You can also scale dynos, view realtime logs, instantly restart your apps, rollback releases and toggle maintenance mode. Saber is currently optimised for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro, but a Mac version is coming soon as well.
A new certificate authority that's free, automated, and open. Let's Encrypt aims to allow anyone who owns a domain (including this site) to use a trusted certificate to secure their server at zero cost unlike other CAs that may charge over $100 per year to do the same. It also includes a command line tool that runs on your web server that makes it painless to obtain a certificate, securely configure it for use, and automatically take care of renewal. Let's Encrypt is backed by some big sponsors, including Cisco, Mozilla and Facebook, and has just entered public beta so can now be used by everyone.
A framework for developing web and other REST services in Swift. Perfect's primary focus is on facilitating mobile apps which require backend server software, allowing you to use one language for both client-side and server-side development. It consists of: PerfectLib, a module components and utilities for client and server including JSON encoding/decoding, cURL support, byte stream management, and more; Perfect Server, a backend server supporting FastCGI or stand-alone HTTP; and a set of connectors to add server side support for technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
A new devops tool that automates the way application environments are created for both development and production use. Created by HashiCorp, Otto aims to be the successor to Vagrant by abstracting away the complexity of learning all the tooling required to develop locally, provision infrastructure, deploy applications, and secure applications, into one tool to handle all the aspects of development and deployment to any cloud platform. A great tool for iOS developers that need to build a backend service but don't have to time to learn all the tooling required to develop and deploy.
A service that provides realtime communication capabilities for your app. Bit6 provides a drop-in SDK that lets you add app-to-app voice and video calling, text, photo, location and video messaging. It can even provide integration with PSTN lines and SMS so you can make calls and send messages to landlines and feature phones from your app. The Bit6 SDK also handles all the identity management and user authentication and discovery through phone number, email, Google or Facebook. The SDK is available for iOS, Android and Javascript for web apps.
A site where you can discover the tech stacks behind some of the world's best software companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Dropbox. StackShare lets you see which tools and services they use, and how they're using them. If you need to set up a backend service to support your iOS app but don't know what tools to use, StackShare is the best place to start. Once you're happy with the tools and services you've chosen, you can share your stack for other developers to discuss and vote on.
A new suite of cross-platform mobile development tools from Twitter that helps developers solve several common challenges. Fabric is comprised of all seven of Twitter's SDKs organised into three distinct 'Kits': the Crashlytics Kit, the Twitter Kit, and the MoPub Kit, covering crash reporting, testing before going live, driving downloads, onboarding new users, social features, understanding your apps's growth and monetisation. It's also really easy to incorporate the tools using a Mac app that integrates with Xcode to walk you through the steps required.
A tool for helping you design the best API before having to write any code. Apiary lets you design and test your API with an API Blueprint written in a open sourced, Markdown-like language that defines your API endpoints and how they should work including a mock server, tests, validations, code samples and your language bindings. Apiary will also convert your API Blueprint into interactive, comprehensive documentation for your API that you can share with other developers. It also offers a Traffic Inspector that will show exact data for requests made on your API, down to HTTP level, and outline differences from API documentation, or even perform validations against your schema.
A backend as a service that provides an API to both store and sync data in realtime across all your clients. When data changes, apps built with Firebase update instantly across every device - web or mobile. Firebase-powered apps also work offline, data is automatically synchronized when your app regains connectivity. With Firebase you don't need to write any backend code - or worry about scaling that backend.
A cross platform app communication service that can provide a persistent connection for server-to-user or user-to-user WebSocket style communication. PingPal is currently in beta but they have drop-in iOS and Javascript SDKs for you to try now, with Android coming soon. The service also includes "UniPush" which provides a single fully transparent push mechanism that automatically selects the right push service for the user's platform.
An extensible open-source backend framework for iOS apps from Mattt Thompson. Helios is built on the Rack webserver interface and is comprised of a collection of backend components that you can mix and match to provide features including data synchronisation, push notifications, in-app purchases, Passbook, Newstand, logging and analytics.
Not exactly an iOS development tool, but it is an idea that is mad enough to get a mention. As the name suggests, Objective-Cloud allows you to run Objective-C in the cloud. You can develop your custom web applications in Xcode, deploy straight to the cloud and they handle all the scaling. They also provide an SDK that includes a custom HTTP handler for creating RESTful web services. Price tiers are very reasonable as well.
A very comprehensive backend-as-a-service provider. Like most providers, StackMob offers a datastore API, social login, push notifications, file storage and custom business logic code, but it also adds some other unique features such as a geolocation API, analytics and deployment management. They do offer a free tier but you have request pricing if you need more.
An alternative backend-as-a-service provider very similar to Parse. Like Parse, it offers cloud storage, push notifications and custom business logic, but also provides an out-of-the-box implementation of Facebook Open Graph for apps that don't have websites.
Parse makes building the backend for your app easy. They provide a complete backend-as-a-service through their many SDKs that allow you to save objects in the cloud with just a few lines of code. You can also add custom business logic using their "Cloud Code". They were recently bought by Facebook so they should know a thing or two about scaling.
Urban Airship used to just provide the backend for push notifications but has now expanded into other services such as analytics, audience segmentation and Passbook support. The SDK is simple to implement and the free plan includes 1 million push messages per month!


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Struggling to provide water to rice farms along the lower Colorado River, LCRA has started pumping water out of the river to fill two abandoned gravel pits in Colorado County in an effort to develop new methods of providing water for rice irrigation.
Feeling the pressure of greater water demands from growing cities like Austin in recent years, LCRA has also been taxed by the growing demands of agriculture and other industries along the river.
Following last year's drought, the water authority was forced to reduce the amounts rice farmers could pull from the river, according to LCRA Information Officer Clara Tuma. The reduced water available for irrigation has caused an estimated 60-precent drop in rice production this year.
"Providing water to all of our customers is challenging especially in a dry year," she said. "This pilot project is collecting water from the natural flow of the river, thanks to winter and early spring rains. A prescribed amount of this water will fill the pits and be used for agricultural irrigation," she said.
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Ryan Rowney, LCRA's manager of water operations, says the gravel pits, pre-existing but no longer in use, are 100 acres and 40 acres respectively and located adjacent to pre-existing irrigation canals in the Garwood irrigation district. Temporary pumps were in operation Friday, May 4.
"We have been negotiating contracts for about six months, tying down the details of how this would work. It's important to remember that this water does not represent a release from the dams on the Highland Lakes, but is natural flow of the river. If we didn't catch this water, it would flow by and into the Gulf [of Mexico]," he said.
While winter and early spring rains have helped increase the flow in the Colorado, Rowney says last month was the sixth driest April on record, so the demand for irrigation is going to rise.
"We will be testing the ability of these gravel pits to provide water for agriculture use throughout the course of the summer, and we hope to add more gravel pits to the chain. At the end of the growing season we will evaluate how effective they were in providing additional water for irrigation and hopefully will be expanding on the project," he added.
Rowney says the idea of using gravel pits to catch water for agricultural irrigation was a collective project of a number of LCRA personnel.
More creative
"We have been studying and talking about ways to be creative with making more water available to rice growers, and one day we stumbled on the idea of catching water in temporary ponds. The pilot grew out of those brainstorming sessions, and we went to work trying to identify areas that could provide what we were looking for.
"We needed existing pits that were strategically located on existing canals, and we needed to see if landowners would come onboard with the idea," he added. "It is a cooperative effort between LCRA and property owners, and we are hoping it proves to be a successful model."
While the project will provide much needed water for irrigation, LCRA officials say they realize it is not an answer into itself.
"It's not 'the' solution, but it's clearly a step in the right direction and has the potential to be very beneficial," Tuma added.
LCRA hopes that water stored in the pits will provide several thousand per acre feet, per year for all affected districts. Pilot testing will continue through the summer to check how well the gravel pits hold water and to develop efficient pumping methods.
Goal for 2017
The project was approved at a special LCRA Board meeting on April 10. Officials say the project is part of LCRA's commitment to obtain 100,000 acre-feet of new water supply by 2017.
LCRA plans to fill the pits several times over the course of the irrigation season. The water will be pumped from the pits to the irrigation canals to determine if the pits can make the irrigation system more efficient. LCRA won't know if the gravel pits can achieve that goal until the testing is complete in mid October.
Because of the drought, LCRA will not send Highland Lakes water to farmers in the Lakeside, Gulf Coast and Pierce Ranch irrigation operations this year. LCRA officials say if this pilot project works, it is possible that similar projects could be conducted at other downstream gravel pits.


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Abstract: The Patron is the Program: Understanding Roman Domestic Decor as Autobiography
This paper takes as a point of departure the problem of finding thematic displays among the suites of decoration in Roman residences of the Late Republic and Early Empire as well as the difficulties involved in understanding ancient viewer experience in these settings. I offer the possibility that displays of frescoes, mosaics, sculpture, and furnishings could have been read as a sort of autobiography of the house's owner. This model is not meant to supplant modes of viewing in which aesthetic, formal qualities were appreciated or in which iconological exercises took place. Rather, this autobiographical reading should be added to the list of possible experiences an ancient visitor to a villa or house might have had.
Primary textual sources, for example extended ekphrasis on art collections, indicate that programmatic readings of displays were extremely rare and that many viewers had more self-centered or at least subjective responses to art. As archaeologists and art historians have come to approach domestic decoration as a status symbol and a tool for self-fashioning, these displays can perhaps be seen as more literal commemoration of an owner's various achievements.
This paper addresses the ideological connections between the Roman house and personal identity, formal associations between public and private displays of art, and the actual interactions ancient viewers had with artworks. What I have concluded is that there was a strong connection between the house and autobiography and that it is possible to read a suite of domestic decorations as if the patron himself were the program. The owner symbolically made references to his own achievements, personal and intellectual powers through his decoration, and more than likely assisted his visitors in reading the displays.
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SqueakyNick needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 100 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
DataGenetics is a small, high tech, consultancy firm specializing in data mining.
We "boil the ocean" of data to find common themes, patterns and genotypes of customers to allow our clients to maximize their profits.
We like to build "genetic" profiles of users based on their activities.
(Our founder is a rocket scientist)
We pitch our services to companies with large internet prescences, and large databases of customer data. Our earlier clients are in the online gaming world, but we do not wish to narrow ourselves only to that segment.
We're initialy looking for assistance with two components in this bid:
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Because of the "genetic" theme, we'd like to see designs that feature a DNA double helix. We'd also like to merge this with graphs and charts where possible.
Attached are a couple of (very rough) ideas (but feel free to be creative in other diretions). Our initial thoughts were designs like this merged with line graphs, or maybe lots of scientific (statistical based please) formulae, bell-curves, equations floating in the background like the white boad of a mad rocket scientist ...
Whilst we're not set in stone with this, we thought about a dark color for the theme (gray, dark blue, silver, black ...), with the helix and associated graphs, formula in a lighter watermark form so that we could overlay bright colored graphs if needed (in strong bright primary colors) with some transparency, and the the background image would not interefere too strongly with a image.


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WelLU is excited to present, Dr. Larry Rosen of California State University, a research psychologist, computer educator, keynote speaker and internationally recognized expert in the psychology of technology.
With the ever-increasing presence of technology in our lives (and our subsequent dependency on it), it is important to take a look at the role we are allowing it to play on a day to day basis. This event is open to Lawrence staff,faculty, students and our friends in the surrounding community and promises to be insightful and applicable to all ages. There is no admission cost.
Here's a sneak peak from his book "iDisorder", which is the launch point for this talk:
"Many of us are on the verge of an iDisorder as our daily interactions with media technologies may be imbuing us with signs and symptoms of one of many psychological disorders, including narcissism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addiction, attention-deficit disorder, social phobia, antisocial personality disorder, hypochondriasis, body dysmorphic disorder, schizo-disorders, and voyeurism… Luckily for us, our brains are constantly changing. Neuroscientists call this 'neuroplasticity,' which is basically a consta
nt process of strengthening and weakening neural (nerve cell) connections in the brain as a function of our experiences…. Given that our brains are inundated with stimuli all day long and that the digital content currently available in our world is the equivalent to everyone in the world tweeting or blogging constantly for a century, neuroplasticity is a brain-saver."
iDisorder will be presented on February 18 at 8:00pm in the Warch Campus Center Cinema at Lawrence University. We hope to see you all there.


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Three-time Wimbledon champion Becker, Olympic gold medallist Lewis, and Montgomerie, a Ryder Cup winning captain, have each created a personal film talking about what makes the UK special to them.
The films will be broadcast across digital channels www.visitbritain.com,and www.visitbritain.tv, and promoted through the tourism body's Facebook page, Love UK, and its @VisitBritain Twitter account. They will use the 'Great Britain - You're invited' messaging.
Commenting on the campaign, Becker said: "I've been called Britain's favourite German, but quite honestly I don't think the list is very long."
With the Olympics just weeks away, VisitBritain is expecting a surge in visitor numbers.
It believes the UK is at the start of a "golden period" that will have the country hosting sporting athletes from around the world for the next seven years.
After the Olympics, Britain will host the Rugby League World Cup in 2013; the Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup in 2014; the IRB Rugby World Cup in 2015, and the World Athletics Championship and the ICC Cricket World Cup, both in 2017.
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MMRPG Network needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
This is a Login Page for a Pirate RPG, looking for something unique as well as high quality. Gamer/Action Theme
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We are a gaming company looking to find the assistance of an amazing designer who can help bring our games to the next level. This is the first of 6 similar projects, we may or may not go with the winner of this project on the development of the others.
Login page is very basic in terms of what is required, you can view one of our very simple login pages and see the basic structure at War2072 dot com.
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National Fitness Products of Canada (NFP) became authorized distributors in the Canadian market for FreeMotion Fitness Products. Included in the partnership is FreeMotion Fitness Products EPIC Strength and NordicTrack Commercial Cardio. With no retail stores, NFP is a wholesaler of fitness products, supplying fitness facilities across Canada.
A new student recreation center is in the works for Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA). The SFA Board of Regents authorized up to $150,000 for programming and design development after students approved a fee of up to $120 per semester to build the facility. Of 1,501 students voting, over 82 percent of them approved the measure.
Desert Southwest Fitness celebrated its 25th year in business by releasing their 2005 anniversary catalog.
Life Fitness exercise equipment helped keep the cast of "Ocean's Twelve" in ship-shape during filming. The manufacturer of cardiovascular and strength-training equipment was the official fitness equipment supplier to the cast of the new film, a sequel to the 2001 "Ocean's Eleven." During filming in Amsterdam and Rome in early 2004, Life Fitness Atlantic BV and Life Fitness Italia designed exercise facilities to help the cast maintain their fitness levels. Both gyms had a wide range of Life Fitness' cardiovascular and strength-training equipment. The Amsterdam facility included a treadmill, Lifecycle exercise bikes, a total-body elliptical cross-trainer, a ParaBody GS4 Gym System and free weights. The Rome gym featured treadmills, Lifecycle exercise bikes, total-body elliptical cross-trainers, LeMond Revmaster group cycling bikes, and strength equipment from the premium Signature Series and Hammer Strength lines.
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24 Hour Fitness will open a 24 Hour Fitness Sport Club in Austin, TX in early 2005 as a full-service fitness facility with numerous amenities including an indoor pool, an extensive line of cardio equipment, free weights, whirlpool, steam room and sauna. Members will have access to group exercise classes including yoga, Pi-Yo, 24 Tai Chi and cycling. Of particular note will be the availability of 24 Hour Fitness' newest Xpress Zone, a 30-minute circuit program designed in a specific order to maximize a full-body workout in a short amount of time.
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Hubby was very excited when we pulled up and discovered that the campsite they stayed in last year was free. He motioned to a small walking track amongst the tress and instructed that we start hauling our gear in that direction. As the trees cleared I was lost for words. This is what I saw.
This was the most beautiful camp site that I had ever seen, and we had the place to ourselves.
Here is out campsite taken from the opposite direction.You can just see our tents nestled amongst the trees.
The kids were able to paddle in the lagoon and walking along the beach was pure bliss.
The Bay of Fires is most famous for its stunning white beaches and rocks which are covered in a natural Lichen.You will soon see what I mean when you look at the photos.
Hope you have enjoyed seeing a bit of Tasmania, it is an amazing place to live and I feel very grateful.
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WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University had four players honored by the University Athletic Association (UAA) on the 2013 All-UAA team. Junior guard Gabriel Moton of St. Petersburg, Fla., was a first-team selection, while classmate forward Alex Stoyle of Goffstown, N.H., was named to the second team. Juniors Youri Dascy of Fall River, Mass., and Ben Bartoldus of Hillsborough, N.H., were honorable mentions.
Moton, a transfer from Boston College, led the Judges in scoring (14.5 ppg), rebounding (5.7 rpg) and assists this season (4.0 apg), one of only three players in the UAA to accomplish the feat. He finished seventh in the UAA in scoring, 10th in rebounding and fourth in assists. Moton was the team's leading scorer in 11 games, their leading rebounder eight times and had the squad's top assist total 15 times.
Moton scored in double figures in 21 of the Judges 24 contests, scoring 20 points or more four times. He also recorded a team-high four double-doubles on the campaign, tied for second in the conference. Moton's 28 points on Nov. 24 against Tufts tied for the Judges' season-high performance, while his 12 rebounds on Dec. 29 against Bates and his four six-assist performances were each one shy of the team's best performance of the season. In UAA play, he had 17 points and a key 3-pointer to help defeat eventual conference champions Washington University, 67-62, in St. Louis on Jan. 20.
Stoyle averaged 9.7 points per game, fourth on the team (22nd in the UAA), and finished second in rebounding at 5.2 board per game (12th in the UAA). His 14 blocked shots were also second on the team. In UAA play, he led the team in rebounding (4.8 rpg) and was second in scoring at 10.9 points per game. Stoyle had 10 games scoring in double figures and two double-digit rebounding games, leading the team in scoring three times and in rebounds four times.
In one three-game stretch, he scored 27 points in a win over Emory, 15 in a loss to Rochester and 28 in a win over Chicago – matching the squad's season best – hitting 24-of-31 shots (77.4%) from the field and 11-of-16 from 3-point range (68.8%) in that span. He also pulled down 13 rebounds against Emory for his first career double-double.
Dascy was named an All-UAA honorable mention for the third year in a row. He was the squad's third-leading scorer at 9.8 points per game (21st in the UAA). Dascy also led the team in field goal percentage for the third year in a row, placing sixth in the UAA at 52.7% (97-184), while finishing third in rebounding (4.4 rpg). He will enter his senior season ranked third on Brandeis's career field-goal percentage list at 56.1 percent (315-561) and seventh with 58 blocked shots.
Bartoldus finished the season as Brandeis's second-leading scorer. He averaged 10.1 points per game before suffering a season-ending injury with four games to go in the regular season. He was also the team's fourth-leading rebounder (3.0 rpg). He scored in double figures in 10 of the 20 full games he played, including a pair of 20-point performances in games against UAA co-champions Rochester and Emory. Bartoldus needs 10 3-pointers next season to become the 12 player in school history with 100 for his career.
In head coach Brian Meehan's 10th season on the sidelines, the Brandeis men finished the 2012-13 season with a 17-8 record, 8-6 in the UAA, good for fourth place. The Judges started the campaign at 14-2, reaching No. 19 in the nation in the d3hoops.com national poll. The Judges stumbled a bit down the stretch, playing without at least two of their top five players in the final five games of the season due to injury and illness.
Moton is a 2010 graduate of St. Petersburg High School
Stoyle is a 2010 graduate of Tilton School.
Dascy is a 2010 graduate of St. Andrew's School, R.I.
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You cannot help cracking a smile when you see this feline, who's actually called Garfield in his hometown. Although it doesn't stuff it's face with pepperoni pizza, so says owner Laura Santarelli, it's somehow managed to balloon itself to 35 lbs. Apparently, Orazio has no health issues as of yet, so we guess it can continue eating whatever it wants. The lucky bastard.


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The counter argument was written by a guy with NPR type aspirations (thoroughly enjoyed it!), the first by a guy who wants to join the Fox news team. He didn't do any research, never asked anyone's opinion on the DG side, and stated his personal opinions as if they were actually facts.
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Companies like Boeing, Raytheon and General Dynamics reap in billions of dollars in government contracts.
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But getting that information? Good luck — some of those records are essentially secret thanks to a maze of federal bureaucrats and regulations.
Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden's leak of a treasure trove of classified information has led to new questions and scrutiny about how contractors have expanded their operations and influence, seemingly creating another branch of government with little oversight.
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Under a little-known federal law, some companies that get federal dollars have to go above and beyond the standard disclosure forms and further detail their lobbying activities. But when POLITICO sought records from the White House Office of Management and Budget, Justice Department, Defense Department, National Security Agency, FBI and CIA, the government response was an almost universal brush-off.
"Thank you for contacting NSA. We do not have anything for you. Please submit a FOIA request," said NSA spokeswoman Marci Green Miller.
"You'll for sure have to go through FOIA for this. Sorry," a Department of Defense spokesman said.
"We are forbidden from lobbying at the FBI," an FBI spokesperson emailed back in response to a detailed query. "Are you referring to contractors? What is it exactly you want to see/know?"
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Press officers for most of those agencies initially said they'd never heard of the form required of government contractors and grant recipients, which are separate from the lobbying disclosures filed with the House and Senate that are easily available online.
Almost all agencies advised POLITICO to file a Freedom of Information Act request — the costly, difficult, backlogged and sometimes expensive process that can take years. The ones that didn't declined to answer the request entirely. The White House also declined to comment.
Some agencies also said that since some disclosure forms were submitted as part of classified contracts — they therefore could not say whether the responses are classified or not. Others were not sure whether they'd ever received the forms despite the legal requirement that lobbyists file them.
POLITICO also requested the forms from a half-dozen of the government's top contractors, all who declined to provide them or did not respond.
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The confusion highlights problems with the federal government's own lobbying rules and laws — which critics say are rife with loopholes and carve-outs intentionally put in place by Congress. Corporations and firms are free to lobby intelligence agencies and administration civil servants without much oversight or disclosure — they're not considered "covered" under the current lobbying law, for instance.
"This is one of these strange things where the federal government has laws on the books that they don't follow themselves," said Bill Allison, editorial director at the Sunlight Foundation who said he spent a significant chunk of time trying to get the disclosures from various government agencies. "They still have this requirement to do this," but many agencies don't.
Here's how it works: government contractors who receive federal funds do fill out a special lobbying disclosure form required by an obscure 1989 law called the "Byrd Amendment" — OMB form LLL — that discloses some of that advocacy and outreach.
On the same form, they must also certify that they did not use any federal money to obtain more federal money.


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Two weeks ago I wrote about the mural that once covered a large liquor store wall facing the McDonald's near the intersection of Edinger Avenue and Edwards Street. It depicted all of the most iconic McDonald's characters.
I wrote about how the McDonald's manager discovered one morning that the word "vegan" had been painted in large block letters over a large portion of the mural.
As I lamented, this painting was not some crass commercial statement. It was a gift from Saeed Danosian, an Iranian immigrant who came to America to become an artist.
Within a day or so of the story being posted online, it took on a life of its own. It was picked up by dozens of news outlets, local and national, and TV news crews reported from the site. I received lots of feedback. And there were layers of chatter across the social networks.
Much of the feedback I read was from vegans, who decried this sort of tactic to gain attention. As I wrote, this is not about veganism. I have plenty of friends who are vegan, and I respect their right to be vegans as they respect mine to eat meat. The majority of their comments expressed anger with the graffiti for the simple fact that you can't just go around destroying or modifying — or however you want to describe it — things that happen to offend you.
Several other vegan activists wrote and expressed that while they believe in vehemently promoting their cause, they don't see this sort of action as being effective because it tends to turn more people against you. Agreed.
Some activists suggested that perhaps it was a non-vegan doing the dirty work in the hopes of creating a backlash against them, but that sounds like a long shot to me.
Perhaps most revealing were the thoughts, emails and comments from the more extreme activists. Not that I didn't know they existed, but the eye-opener was just how public some of them are in proclaiming not just their obvious, abject hatred of essentially any restaurant that serves meat, but how they justify snuffing out messages that run counter to how they think.
Yes, it is a minority. But it is a vocal and active minority that seems to have a fairly casual view of what constitutes vandalism. An online post from a discussion about the mural: "We have an AR [Animal Rights] squad that goes around vandalizing local restaurants. Spray painting 'meat is murder,' 'remove the cruelty from your plate' etc. Usually on the front walls of restaurants."
Another: "It's a pretty graffiti. It says vegan. People who know about veganism won't care, people who don't know about veganism will ask, 'What's vegan?' So it's mostly neutral, but possibly positive. As for vandalism: property is an arbitrary concept. As long as it doesn't impair function and isn't discriminatory or otherwise violent, it's perfectly fine."
And another: "The graffiti converted a mural which celebrates corporate sociopathy into an ironic piece of street art. Kudos to the street artist."
I am all for passionate activism. But I am not for social chaos fueled by intolerance.
Most vegans I know are not activists. They choose veganism for health and/or moral reasons, and they respect the dietary habits of others. But to those who are activists, just like meat-eaters, vegetarians, pescetarians and every other gastronomical group, you are not entitled to your own set of rules or laws.
That said, this column was never intended to be about vegans, carnivores or fast-food chains.
My friend, the excellent writer and OC Weekly Editor Gustavo Arellano, got it right in a piece he wrote: "While I am no fan of McDonald's, I'm a HUGE fan of folk murals, and this one was definitely one — hence, my anger at whoever did this."
That's what this was about. A piece of art. It wasn't about defending a company or challenging a lifestyle. It was about a piece of art created by an earnest, well-intentioned man, something the community clearly cared about, based on the outpouring.
I'd like to give the final word to the artist's daughter, Sepi Danosian, who provided the marvelous photo of her dad starting work on the original mural in 1992. She expressed eloquently her thoughts about the mural, her father and his legacy. Here is what she wrote to me:
"The main reason I'm upset is because I feel like that mural represented the American dream for my dad. It's the story we've all heard a million times. An immigrant comes to America not knowing the people or the language and ends up becoming successful. And the painting of this mural was the beginning of his full-time devotion to the career he had his education in.
"Obviously a person with a master's degree from the top art school in Vienna wasn't going to be a restaurant manager forever. When my dad looked at that blank wall and envisioned a mural and made it come to life, that in turn took his career to the next level — he quit and opened an art school in Lake Forest, then a gallery in Laguna Beach, he displayed his art at the Art-a-Fair in Laguna beach, and most importantly became an art history professor where he was awarded with national professor of the year a few months before his death.
"So to me, that mural represented the beginning of all his success! I'm so sad to see it go. Especially because I'm now seven months pregnant with my first child and my dream was to take my daughter there and show her a landmark that her grandpa created."
CHRIS EPTING is the author of 19 books, including the new "Baseball in Orange County," from Arcadia Publishing. You can chat with him on Twitter @chrisepting or follow his column at http://www.facebook.com/hbindependent.


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