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As if the DC Circuit Court opinion striking down Obama's recess appointments weren't enough of a blow to liberals, there is the fun constitutional controversy over presidential elections bubbling up again. Liberals who have long hated the Electoral College and want it abolished in favor of direct popular vote are suddenly . . . in love with the EC just as it is. Why? Because noises by some solid blue states to follow the Maine and Nebraska model of apportioning electoral votes by congressional district instead of winner-take-all would tilt the playing field towards Republicans.
I love the situational ethics of today's liberals. Right before the 2000 election, when it appeared possible that George W. Bush might win the popular vote but lose the EC to Gore, there were a series of preemptive articles arguing why an EC result against the popular vote result should be respected. Then, when the opposite happened. . . Well, it was rather embarrassing to see the Left turn on a dime and return to their argument from the 1970s that the EC needed to be junked. More recently, the Left has been arguing for a compact among states whereby states would pledge to cast their EC votes for the popular vote winner regardless of how their state votes, apparently afraid that the Bush 2000 scenario might repeat itself. But now with some Republicans agitating for a similar scheme that would surely hurt Democrats' current geographic EC advantage, the Left is saying, "No—wait, we like the EC just fine the way it is."
Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson is all over this story and directs our attention to the outraged gasps of the Human Sound Bite Machine,* Larry Sabato:
As we suspected, it would permit a GOP nominee to capture the White House even while losing the popular vote by many millions. This is not a relatively small Electoral College "misfire" on the order of 1888 or 2000. Instead, it is a corrupt and cynical maneuver to frustrate popular will and put a heavy thumb — the whole hand, in fact — on the scale for future Republican candidates. We do not play presidential politics with a golf handicap awarded to the weaker side.
Republicans face a choice that can best be characterized by personalizing it. A healthy, optimistic party is Reaganesque, convinced that it can win the future by embracing it, and by making a positive case for its philosophy and candidates to all Americans. A party in decline is Nixonian and fears the future; it sees enemies everywhere, feels overwhelmed by electoral trends, and thinks it can win only by cheating, by subverting the system and stacking the deck in its favor. Whose presidency was more successful, Reagan's or Nixon's? Which man made the Republican brand more appealing?
As Jacobson points out, the district apportionment scheme is perfectly constitutional, and as such the breathless denunciations from the Left that this would "undermine democracy" (Jacobson's post gives a number of examples) are silly.
But I'll add another layer to Jacobson's analysis. Right now a favorite talking point of the Left is that the current GOP House majority is the result of partisan gerrymandering, as Democrats did indeed receive a larger total House vote than Republicans in the last election, and as such it is conceivable that Sabato is right that a district-based EC would favor Republicans. But who is largely responsible for the current gerrymander? Don't be so fast to say Republicans following the 2010 blowout election. One major factor has been the Democrat-driven, Voting Rights Act-fueled drive for majority-minority districts, which have the effect of diluting Democratic voting strength overall. To be sure, Republicans have been only too happy to cooperate to maximize minority districts in a way that distributed the GOP vote more widely and hence enables a House majority with a smaller vote.
So in other words, the current House GOP majority represents the Democrats being hoist by their own petard, and if losing the EC partly on account of the same racial politics they've embraced for the last several decades, then maybe it's time they deserve to have this learning experience. Yet, the Supreme Court is poised perhaps to sweep away the racial gerrymandering of the Voting Rights Act this term, in which case the Democratic Party may be spared from their folly. Either way, the Constitution wins.
*If a journalist calls Sabato's office on election night, you get a phone tree that has messages like, "If you need a Sabato comment on Romney, press 1; if you need a Sabato comment on Obama, press 2; if you need a Sabato comment on the Senate races, press 3," etc.


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President Gregory Hess spoke of Wabash tradition and new goals in Thursday's Chapel talk, the first day of the 2013-2014 school year.
The new President and Sphinx Club broke with recent tradition and hosted a packed Chapel on the first day of classes. Hess delivered a talk titled, "Why I am Thankful for Wabash College." During his remarks he suggested a new mojo to go along with the great mission statement, Gentleman's Rule, and the College's great motto.
"I want us to move from "A to The and from But to And," Hess said. "And by that I want us to be The Liberal Arts College for Men, not just A Liberal Arts College for Men.
"I want us to move from 'We're a liberal arts college, but it's for men,' to 'We're a liberal arts college, and it's for men.' That's what I mean by 'From A to The and from But to And.' "
And then he delivered the words that rang with students and, certainly, alumni alike. "As long as I am President, I will never apologize for Wabash being a liberal arts college for men. I'll ask you never to do so as well. It is what makes us distinctive, and it is what makes us great. We need to demonstrate and educate others about how best to educate men."
He began his Chapel Talk with words from poet e.e.cummings about being thankful. He outlined three themes that he would emphasize throughout the year: The value of a liberal arts education; Our need to continue to expand Wabash's Academic footprint; and, Enhancing the leadership capabilities of our young men.
He said he would not take the time to introduce himself and talk about how he got to Wabash because he thinks he should "tell the story about Wabash College and not be the story of Wabash College."
He praised the College Mission Statement to To Educate Men to Think Critically, Act Responsibly, Lead Effectively, and Live Humanely. He called it "the most elegant, succinct, informative, and parsimonious as that of any liberal arts college that I know." The president then drew laughs when he said it could only be better if it were a haiku.
He saluted the Gentleman's Rule, and compared the expectations of the "lifting our collective sights" to Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream Speech" and President Obama's words at Wednesday's 50th Celebration of King's speech.
He talked about students, staff, and faculty he met during his two months on the job and how "this place drips with commitment to our very unique purpose."
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - World champion Sebastian Vettel will start the Formula One season-opener from pole position on an all-Red Bull front row later on Sunday after posting the fastest time in the rain-delayed qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.
The German, chasing a fourth successive world title this year, swept across the line in one minute 27.407 seconds to clinch his 37th pole as the flag dropped on the session, which was postponed from Saturday because of torrential rain.
"Definitely not easy in these conditions," Vettel said. "I had two good runs and on the drys I got into the groove.
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Australian Mark Webber, still looking for his first home victory at the 12th attempt, also put in a blistering final lap on dry weather tires to finish second fastest in 1.27.827.
"It's going to be just another grand prix when the helmet's on," he said. "I've got to focus very hard on getting the most out of the strategy. A podium would still be good but the middle step would be sensational."
Lewis Hamilton (1.28.087) confirmed the pace of his car in his first qualifying session for new team Mercedes and was third fastest to take a place on the second row of the grid with Ferrari's Felipe Massa.
"What an incredible job the team has done to come from last year where they were struggling a lot," 2008 world champion Hamilton said. "I said yesterday it was a blessing that they had moved (qualifying) to today, and it really was.
"It's going to be massively challenging with the tires, I've already had graining," he added. "So that means I'm going to struggle to go as long as them in the first stint."
Brazilian Massa (1.28.493) needed a quick late lap just to get through to the final 10-car shootout but made the most of it to edge his twice world champion team mate Fernando Alonso by just three thousandths of a second.
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Spaniard Alonso was fifth ahead of the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg, who topped the timesheets on frequent occasions during the sessions but could not quite get a good flying lap together once most teams had switched to dry weather tires.
Finn Kimi Raikkonen, who had also flirted with an early exit, will start from the fourth row alongside his Lotus team mate Romain Grosjean.
Paul Di Resta steered his Force India to the ninth quickest time to barge fellow Briton Jenson Button, the winner of three of the last four races at Albert Park, into the bottom spot in the final session, nearly three seconds off the pace.
The second and third sections of qualifying were postponed from Saturday because of torrential rain. The race begins at 5 PM local time (0600 GMT).
The rain was much lighter on Sunday morning but parts of the track were still wet, causing a few handling problems for the drivers as they started the day on intermediate tires.
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"When I got to him, he was just moments away from passing," Sorenson recalled. "When he was up in the air pocket, he had told me, later after I got him out, that he was starting to pass out. He knew he was going to die, and at least it would be peaceful and painless."
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in singles play for the Titans, splitting time between the No. 1
and No. 2 singles positions... named to the All-Big West Honorable
Mention Team in singles... finished 10-11 against dual match
opponents and was 9-10 against regional opponents... finished as
the only Titan to post a winning record in Big West play at 4-3...
teamed with Gina Le at No. 1 singles, posting a 13-12 overall
record and an 11-10 mark in dual match play to earn all-conference
second-team honors... the duo won five straight doubles matches at
one point from March 1-18 and finished the year by winning seven of
their last 10.
JUNIOR (2004-05): Posted a team-best 17 singles wins en route to All-Big West Conference Second Team honors and a 17-13 overall record... posted a 12-10 mark in dual match play - all at No. 1 singles... won five of her first six matches on the year and closed out the season equally strong, winning four of her last five... went a combined 16-9 in doubles play, including a team-best 13-3 mark with Gina Le at No. 2 doubles... the duo earned All-Big West Honorable Mention honors in doubles play.
SOPHOMORE (2003-04): Competed the entire season at No. 1 singles, posting a 10-13 dual match record and an 11-16 overall record... had a pair of three-match winning streaks... was a combined 17-12 in doubles play, including 11-7 at No. 1 doubles with teammate Ioana Sisoe... the 11 doubles victories were the second-most among Titan doubles duos... Inalpulat/Sisoe won eight of their first 11 contests... reached the semifinals of the Cal State Fullerton Fall Intercollegiate Tournament with teammate Mai-Ly Tran as the duo went 3-3 in the fall season.
FRESHMAN (2002-03): Finished her first season with the Titans with an 8-21 overall record and a 5-19 mark in dual matches... reached the third round of the Cal State Fullerton Fall Intercollegiates and the second round of the ITA Regionals in October... played the entire year at No. 1 singles for the Titans... was 4-12 against regional opponents and 1-8 against Big West foes... had a pair of two-match winning streaks... spent most of the year playing No. 1 doubles with Ioana Sisoe, posting a 5-16 overall record (5-15 dual matches)... also played doubles with Adriana Hockicko (2-0) and Carla Rocha (2-2).
HIGH SCHOOL: Member of the Turkish Junior Tennis Federation... has been competing at the international level since she was 12 years old... tennis history includes a current national (Turkey) ranking of No. 4 in 16-and-under and a Top 20 ranking in Open Women's... was selected by the Turkish Tennis Federation last summer to be a member of the 16-and-under Summer Cup International Team Championships held in Ankara.
Parents are Feza and Esengul Inalpulat... interested in
directing and producing her own movies... majoring in
communications... she has made the Athletics Honor Roll every
semester and carries a 3.23 grade point average.


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This new, regular feature on NHLNumbers will share interesting stats-related posts from around the web almost every day.
Welcome to edition number 18 of the rebooted Number Chains. In this space you will be able to find the best analytical hockey writing from around the internet on a close-to-daily basis. Subject matter will include statistical evaluation, financial analysis, contractual issues, and (sometimes) closely-related tangential works. If you have something you would like to submit for a future edition (your writing or that of someone else) feel free to send it to me via Twitter @JoshL1220 or leave a comment.
Back in November Chris Stevenson of The Ottawa Sun introduced the hockeyworld outside of North Texas to the thriving megalopolis of Plano, TX. He begins his story with an amusing data point:
This suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex could very well be home to the top pick in the 2013 NHL draft, giving Plano two first-round picks in the last three years.
That's potentially two more than, say, Montreal has produced in that time.
He goes on to describe the successful efforts made by the Stars organization, which spurred the growth of these young players:
Plano is a prime example of the growth of hockey in the U.S. A non-traditional hockey market, the arrival of the Dallas Stars in 1993 — the year Noesen was born — planted another hockey seed in the American west.
Recognizing they needed to grow a generation of hockey fans — what better way than to get them playing the game? — the Stars, led by president Jim Lites (he's back for a third term under new owner Tom Gaglardi as president and CEO) and then-general manager Bob Gainey started an aggressive program that led to rink building (there are now six Dr. Pepper StarCenters in the Metroplex), a program that reawakened the passion for hockey in older fans and started a love for the game among younger ones.
"The surprising part when we got there was there were a lot of latent hockey players from the Northeast, from Michigan, from different places in Canada who had put their skates away because they didn't think they had anywhere to play," said Gainey. "When we opened up the arena that we used as our practice facillity, one way to manage the ice and make some money was to run these rec leagues and they just exploded. There were a lot of people there already who had interest, but for lack of a way to express it had let it go."
And it continues to grow, despite what attendance figures would suggest. After the jump, a week's worth of hockey statistical-related content.
* At Defending Big D I wrote about the Stars prospects NHLe.
* Via Kukla's Korner we have a story from Bill Saporito of TIME about soccer gaining on hockey in popularity.
*At mc79hockey, Tyler Dellow wrote a pair of posts about the financial figures released by Forbes. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
* Neate Sager posted two stories about hockey rink behavior. (Ed. Note: I accidentally initially spelled behavior with a u.) The first was about a Junior A team saying they will escort those who swear from their rink. The other was about a Pee Wee goalie being suspended after multiple racist comments.
* We finish today with a trio of posts from Hockey Prospectus. The first comes from Corey Pronman. He follows up with the top 12 picks from last years draft. Jonathan Willis wrote about the success of the Lightning through unconventional methods. Finally, Matthew Coller discusses a shortened 2012-13 season in the only true lockout post of this edition.
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Oscar Goodman doesn't own or manage Oscar's, the new steakhouse at the Plaza, but his influence on the restaurant is unmistakable.
Ride the escalator up to the downtown hotel's second floor and an oversized portrait of Goodman greets you. A bedazzled bottle of Bombay Sapphire, Goodman's signature drink, decorates the bar. Behind it, a glass door leads to a private office that will house memorabilia from Goodman's dozen years as Las Vegas mayor — his desk and throne, portraits and bobble head dolls — and sometimes Goodman himself.
Farther inside the restaurant, a circular glass wine cellar doubles as Goodman's private dining room, and caricatures and newspaper clippings document his decades of work as a mob lawyer and public servant. The menu features an "Oscar's Mayor 'Weiner' Schnitzel" veal chop and Goodman's favorite, a "Spilotro-style skirt steak" modeled after a meal Goodman ate with Tony "the Ant" during a Chicago murder trial in which Spilotro was charged with torturing a man by squeezing his head in a vice until his eye popped out.
"This is a dream come true for me," Goodman said of the restaurant which, along with the adjoining Simpatico Italian eatery, opened Monday. "This is going to be a place symbolic of Las Vegas."
And, of course, of Goodman, who was ousted this summer from City Hall because of term limits.
Oscar's carries the tag line, "Beef, Booze, Broads" a phrase Goodman said he came across during a mob trial and vowed to use one day in a restaurant.
Monday, a handful of "broads," as Goodman calls the restaurant's female concierges, congregated around the former mayor and greeted customers. Looking more like models than waitresses, they wore slinky black dresses, sky-high heels and perfectly-coiffed hair.
Antoinette ("broads" go only by their first names) said she auditioned for the role so she could work with Goodman and help revitalize downtown. She left a career in the vacation ownership industry and considers being called a "broad" an honor, she said.
Goodman said he hopes the restaurants become a hangout for both locals and tourists.
"I'm hoping people will be able to save up a little money, come here and splurge and escape the rigors of everyday life," he said, sipping on a martini.
The steakhouse is bright and airy, with white marble accents and three oversized crystal chandeliers. Chairs and booths are adorned in cool gray-blue leathers, and servers wear mob-inspired striped shirts with white ties.
Simpatico is modeled after a Prohibition-era speakeasy. It sits behind an unmarked door and has a dark, intimate feel. Its walls are covered in brown wallpaper, its seats upholstered in a deep maroon fabric.
At the steakhouse, appetizers such as shrimp cocktail and crab cakes sell for $13 to $15. A 12-ounce filet mignon runs $42, while a piece of salmon costs $25.
At Simpatico, salads range from $7 to $8 while pastas cost $15 to $21. The Zuppa Di Pesce, a seafood stew, is the priciest entrée at $30.
Goodman's contract with the Plaza doesn't include a firm time commitment for the mayor to appear at the restaurants. But he promised to be there often.
"I'm going to be here drinking in excess," he said.
And as with most projects he has his hands in, Goodman has ensured that his presence will be felt even when he's away. Each of the restaurants' menus feature a quote from the former happiest mayor on Earth: "My approach to food and service is the same as my approach to life…eat, talk, have fun and get drunk! Or, in my own words – enjoy our beef, booze and broads!"


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No one kept a poker face during this battle of the divas.
Madonna and Lady Gaga, both sporting leather lingerie and thigh-high boots, squared off in a name-calling, hair-pulling battle of the divas during a sexy staged catfight on "Saturday Night Live" that ended in a smooch.
The two singers appeared on stage together as musical guests on Kenan Thompson's mock MTV show "Deep Dish" -- strutting their stuff in barely there leather duds.
Madonna then reached over and grabbed a chunk of Lady Gaga's golden locks mid-performance. That's when the fists began to fly. The two threw punches then ended up grappling on the floor until Thompson instructed them to sit on the couch and cool off.
"What kind of name is Lady Gaga? It sounds like baby food," Madonna quipped.
"The kind that's No. 1 on the Billboard charts," Lady Gaga fired back as she lunged at the pop icon.
When Thompson instructed the pair to kiss and make up, the two leaned in for a smooch and the late night funnyman stuck his face between to the two warring women.


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Continuing with Dr. Horowitz and Dr. Strecker's interview, they shed some light on the motive behind this scam. Strecker posits that the reason for intentionally infecting gays was because little would be done about it: "If you look in the world, what percentage of the world's AIDS cases are heterosexuals? Over 90 percent … It's only in this country that you have this strange, unexplained predominance of homosexuals … Just think about this. Suppose you put this virus in the heterosexuals or kids. What kind of response would have occurred compared to the response that did occur?" (109-10)
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March 19, 2013
AUBURN, Ala. (seminoles.com) – A big two-run home run by Kelly Hensley and a stellar 3-for-4 performance from freshman Victoria East led the Florida State softball team past Auburn on Tuesday night, 6-3, at Jane B. Moore Field in Auburn, Ala.
The victory for the Seminoles (24-9) ends a four-game skid against the Tigers (20-11) that spanned in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011. Florida State improves to 13-7-1 all-time against Southeastern Conference foe Auburn.
"Tonight was a great way to start off an important week," head coach Lonni Alameda said. "Victoria really stepped up at the plate with a few big hits, and Kelly Hensley's home run gave us some much-needed breathing room. I thought Monica Perry was effective in the circle and Lacey came in in a pressure situation and was great for us."
East recorded her second three-hit game of the season, hitting a mammoth three-run home run to go along with a single and double. The Pensacola, Fla. native plated three runs and crossed the plate twice to highlight the Seminoles' eight-hit day offensively.
Hensley hit a substantial two-run home run in the top of the seventh to give Florida State a cushion after Auburn began charging back in the game. Redshirt sophomore Maddie O'Brien also produced a run-scoring extra base hit, while Kirstin Austin added two hits for the Noles.
Earning the win was redshirt senior pitcher Monica Perry (13-6), who threw 5.2 innings and allowed three runs on six hits with four strikeouts. Perry was nearly flawless through the first five innings, retired 11 Tigers in a row at one point before letting up a few runs in the sixth.
Sophomore pitcher Lacey Waldrop recorded her second save of the season after entering a 4-3 game with two outs in the sixth. Waldrop struck out three of her four batters faced to close the door on a once-tight ballgame.
East extended her hit streak to eight games when she led off the game with a bloop single to centerfield. East then stole her sixth bag of the season but could not be brought home to keep the game scoreless early.
Auburn had a chance to score in the bottom of the first when Emily Carosone singled with two outs, then managed to steal two bases on the same play after no one covered third base for the Seminoles. However, Perry managed to keep all three of her outs in the infield as Caitlin Schultze popped out to Courtney Senas at third base to finish the inning.
Auburn had a chance to put some runs on the scoreboard in the second inning, putting runners on first and second base with no outs. Auburn's Baylee Stephens then popped out to Maddie O'Brien at shortstop, and after both runners reached scoring position Maris Medina hit into a double play on a squeeze bunt attempt that was caught by East at first base and resulted in a throw-out at third base.
East came through in a big way in the top of the third inning, crushing a low 2-1 offering over the Auburn Softball scoreboard in left field for a three-run home run, her second of the season. Florida State drew three walks in the inning to help put runners in scoring position, and O'Brien finished the frame with a sky-high run-scoring triple that nearly left the park in right field to make it 4-0.
The Tigers fought back in the bottom of the sixth. With one out, Branndi Melero lined a 2-2 pitch from Perry over the right center wall for a two-run home run, cutting the deficit to 4-2. Carosone then doubled, but Perry came back to strike out Schultze before Brooke Lathan hit an RBI double to left field to make it a one-run game. Waldrop entered the game with two outs in the inning and struck out Caitlin Jordan swinging.
Hensley provided perhaps the most important hit for the Seminoles in the top of the seventh. With Auburn fighting back and there being two outs in the frame, Hensley unloaded on a 2-1 inside pitch and recorded her team-leading 10th home run of the season on a two-run shot to left. The round-tripper gave Florida State a couple more insurance runs.
Hensley's 10 home runs are already tied for sixth on the school's single-season list with the season reaching just over the halfway point.
Waldrop earned her second save of the season in the bottom of the seventh, getting two strikeouts and a groundout to finish the game.
Florida State gets back into conference play as it hosts ACC rival North Carolina this weekend at JoAnne Graf Field. Both teams square off on Saturday, March 23 in a doubleheader that begins at 1 p.m. The first game of the twinbill will be streamed on ESPN3.com. The Seminoles and Tar Heels play in the final game of the series on Sunday at noon.


text: CALL FOR PAPERS / Call for Mobile Films 2nd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium #MINA2012 Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa 23rd -25th November 2012 Massey University, Wellington, NZ As part of the BLOW Festival 2012, the MINA symposium will take place in the College of Creative Art's magnificent new Te Ara Hihiko building. MINA [www.mina.pro] is an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media. MINA aims to explore the opportunities for interaction between people, content and the creative industry within the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally. The symposium will provide a platform for filmmakers, artists, designers, researchers, 'pro-d-users' and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in art and design environments and the creative industries. MINA invites paper proposals relating (but not limited) to; mobile lens media, iPhoneography, mobile video production, mobile-mentaries (mobile documentaries), mobile network and transmedia, mobile communities, mobile media and social change, mobile visual arts, mobile locative media, citizen journalism, mobile visual literacy, mobile media in education and mobile technologies and civic media. Mobile phones have evolved rapidly from a communication device to a creative and educational tool. For communities world-wide mobile technologies provide access to a vast amount of new services. Mobile media has also established new forms of connectivity and sociability within contemporary art and design practices. The current mediascape can be described as a dynamic ecosystem that has seen the emergence of new media aesthetics and formats, such as iPhoneography and mobile-mentary (mobile documentary) filmmaking. The participatory turn in media culture (collaboration, co-creation and crowd-sourcing) also creates new opportunities and challenges for visual communication design. (Mobile phone) users (or rather pro-d-users), artists, designers, filmmakers and independent creatives can define new modes of mobile media practices transcending the realm of established disciplines and transform the contemporary mediascape. Innovative business models utilise mobile apps and redefine the distribution of media content. Mobile devices enable us to see the world from new viewpoints and angles. The 2nd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium will explore these developments and dynamics in a transdisciplinary context. Paper proposals should be submitted by the 15th August 2012. MINA also welcomes presentations in a variety of formats including workshops, poster presentations, performances, project showcases and screenings. The international symposium will also provide the opportunity to present papers via live video and live web-broadcasts. Papers will be published in the Intellect Journal Ubiquity #MINA2012 Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation special edition. Please send a proposal of approximately 350 words including a title and brief biographical note to max at mina.pro MINA symposium committee Anna Jackson (Transmedia:AM, NZ) Anders Weberg (Artist and Curator, Sweden) Dr. Avnesh Ratnanesan (International Mobile Screenfest, Australia) Dr. Camille Baker (School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK) Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath (Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies, AUT University, NZ) Daniel Wagner (Performing and Screen Arts, Unitec, NZ) Dean Keep (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Gavin Wilson (PhD Research Student, The Graduate Centre, York St John University) Geraldene Peters (School of Communication Studies, AUT University, NZ) John Bavaro, Associate Prof. of Art Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and Director of Bruce Gallery of Art, USA) Karen Curley (College of Creative Arts, Massey University) Laurent Antonczak (Graphic Design and New Media, AUT University, NZ) Associate Professor Lynne Ciochetto (College of Creative Arts, Massey University) Marcelo Godoy (Associated Director IAI - Instituto de Artes Interativas and Mobilefest) Prof. Mark Amerika, Professor of Art and Art History (University of Colorado) and Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe University (Melbourne) Dr. Max Schleser (College of Creative Arts, Massey University, NZ) Mia Robinson (Co-founder/President iAMDA and Artist, New York, USA) Michael Okkerse (Wellington City Council, NZ) Miss Pixels (iPhoneographer, Canada) Muhammad Razlan Rashid Ali (Head of Programme, Faculty of Communication and Media, Universiti Selangor, Malaysia) Patricia Thomas (College of Creative Arts, Massey University, NZ) Professor Roger Guetta (Art, Media, Theatre, Vanier College, Montreal, Canada) Dr Thomas Cochrane (Centre for Learning And Teaching, AUT University, NZ) The #MINA2012 Mobile Innovation and Mobile Creativity Symposium will run in conjunction with the International Mobile Innovation screening in the National Film Archive, Wellington. Further information: www.mina.pro - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call for Mobile Films Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [www.mina.pro] 2nd International Mobile Innovation Screening 2012 in partnership with IdN and the National Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand 23rd November 2012 The International Mobile Innovation Screening 2012 will showcase short films produced on and with mobile devices by international filmmakers at the National Film Archive in Wellington, NZ. Selected mobile films will be featured in the IdN (International designers' Network) Magazine v19n6 issue DVD. The MINA program is curated by Laurent Antonczak, Karen Curley, Benoît Labourdette and Dr. Max Schleser. Deadline for submission of Mobile Films: 15th August 2012 The Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] aims to explore the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the creative industries. International designers' Network (IdN) is an international publication for creative people on a mission to amplify and unify the design community. It is devoted to bringing designers from around the globe together to communicate with, learn from and inspire one another. It has truly become what the initials of its title proclaim it to be — an international designers' network. Deadline for submission of Mobile Films: 15th August 2012 Please send proposals of approximately 250 words including the mobile film title, two still images, link to online preview (if available) and a brief biographical note to max at mina.pro Contact: Dr. Max Schleser for further assistance regarding submission enquiries. [email: max at mina.pro | mobile: +64 [0] 22 692 0872]. Work can be sent in digital format, via post or courier: Dr. Max Schleser, c/o MINA, Institute of Communication Design, Po Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix is teaming up with the creative force behind "The Matrix" action movie franchise for a new science fiction series that will be available only to subscribers of the video streaming service.
"Sense8," a 10-episode series described as a tale of minds linked and souls hunted, will debut on Netflix in late 2014, Netflix said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Several years ago, we had a late night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us, and out of that paradox 'Sense8' was born," directors Andy and Lana Wachowski said in a statement.
"Sense8" is the siblings' first television project. The Wachowskis were behind "The Matrix" movie trilogy and films like "V for Vendetta" and "Speed Racer."
"Sense8" marks the latest foray into original programming by Netflix, following the Kevin Spacey political drama "House of Cards." All 13 episodes of "House of Cards" were released exclusively to Netflix subscribers in February.
The Wachowskis will work with Joe Straczynski, who wrote the story for the 2011 movie version of "Thor," with whom they said they share "a love of genre and all things nerdy."
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Nov. 10, 2007
NEW LONDON, Conn. - MIT men's cross country fell decisively short in its bid to capture its first NCAA Division III New England Regional Championship, finishing sixth out of 47 teams in a fast-paced 8000-meter circuit on Saturday. The Engineers managed an impressive team delta of 32 seconds between No. 1-5, but missed qualifying for nationals as a team by 13 total points.
MIT, which extended its streak of top seven finishes at the NCAA Regional to nine years, started out well for the Cardinal and Gray as the Engineers featured seven runners in the top 25 midway through the race. A combination of challenges, including hamstring cramps endured by speedster Yermie Cohen and an unfortunate series of knock-downs against junior star Jake Ruzevick, knocked MIT from its strong position early in the race.
Senior Joseph Roy-Mayhew, who worked his way toward the top group by the four-mile mark, enjoyed the best race of the day for the Engineers and finished 18th overall with a time of 25:15. Ruzevick closed just back in 20th at 25:18.
Junior Trevor Rundell finished 34th overall after crossing the line in 25:34, while sophomore Hemagiri Arumugum (43rd) and Cohen (48th) rounded out the MIT scoring.
MIT did improve on last year's seventh-place finish as a team however the Engineers had enjoyed great success all season and had defeated four of the five teams in front of them earlier in the year. MIT loses just three of its top 12 for the 2008 campaign including one among the top five. With Ruzevick expected to quickly rebound and compete for an individual title at next year's event, MIT figures to once again be in the mix for a berth to the NCAA Championships.


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The invention of the Web browser added pictures to the Internet, but all those images still haven't made reading online a pleasant experience. If you're someone who uses the Web as your main source of news, you probably have 60 bookmarks that you never use, or you open 30 browser windows simultaneously to keep track of the articles you want to read—but you never get around to all of them. Never mind the killjoy, even on a fast connection, of waiting for some Web pages to load. Surfing within one well-designed site isn't so bad, but when you hop from site to site, there's nothing that replicates the appeal of scanning your local magazine rack or that pile of magazines splayed across your coffee table.
But there's a way to keep track of the New York Times, theWashington Post, Talkingpointsmemo.com, Wonkette—most major newspapers and nearly all blogs—in a lightweight, speed-readable format that lets you scan dozens, even hundreds, of fresh headlines a day without the time-wasting tedium of opening one Web site after another. All you need to do is download and install an RSS reader, which is no harder than installing Netscape's browser was in 1994. You can then scroll through cleanly organized headlines and story summaries. The result is an executive summary of what's new on the Net today. When you see a story you want to read, you click on it. One screenshot is worth a thousand words: Click here to see an RSS reader in action.
RSS ("Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary," depending on whom you ask) has three distinct advantages over Web browsing and e-mail, the two most popular ways to read news online. First, no ads or graphics clutter the headlines and article summaries. True, most news sites make you click through to the full Web page to read the whole story, but scanning an RSS reader is still more efficient than looking at, say, the front page of theNew York Times online. And bloggers, who don't depend on ads for survival, usually stuff their entire posts into RSS.
Second, an RSS reader automatically updates itself with the latest items from the sites you tell it to watch, so it's always fresh. You don't have to hop from site to site, or constantly click "refresh," to know what's been published by the sites you frequent most. Lastly, you can include customized RSS "feeds" that cull material from multiple news sources into a single data stream. For example, John Kerry's staff provides an RSS feed on his blog to funnel the latest coverage and endorsements to RSS-using supporters.
How do you get started? The first step is to install an RSS reader (also known, somewhat clumsily, as an "RSS aggregator"). For PC users, my techie friends and the editors at PC World recommend SharpReader. It's free, although the developer welcomes donations from happy users. If you get error messages when you try to start it (such as, "The application failed to initialize properly" or, "The dynamic library mscoree.dll could not be found"), go to the Windows Update site. There, find and install the Microsoft.NET Framework. Reboot, and you should be able to launch SharpReader. (I'm on a Mac, so I use Shrook.)
Once you've installed a reader, go back to your browser and open your favorite site. Most sites have a link that says "RSS" or an orange button that says "XML." Some sites have multiple links, one for each section of the publication. Cut and paste these URLs into your reader to read the site in RSS. Sorry, there's no one-click or "click here" method for this yet. After a few seconds, a list of headlines should appear. Click on SharpReader's "Subscribe" button if you want to add the feed to your reading list.
There is a neat shortcut that often works in lieu of the above mouse dance. Just type the site's main URL into SharpReader's URL window (e.g., "www.wonkette.com"). SharpReader will go to the site and look for an RSS feed for you. If it finds one, it will automatically load it. I find this trick usually works with blogs but not with newspaper sites.
One nuisance is that some sites, including the New York Times, don't list their feeds on their home pages, even though the Times provides feeds for nearly 20 sections. Even more confusing, some newspapers' feeds are only available through a third-party site such as NewsIsFree, which can prove impossible to search. To find those feeds, use theSyndic8 search engine. (The search box is hard to find; it's halfway down the site's home page, on the left.) If your favorite site doesn't have an RSS feed, odds are it will soon:Slate launched its feed today, and Amazon just added RSS feeds to let shoppers speed-browse its inventory.
To make RSS live up to its "really simple" moniker, I've compiled the feeds for some favorite reads—everything from Slate to the "Today's Papers" newspapers to some major blogs—on this page. Just right-click on the link, save it to your desktop, then import the file to your RSS reader. To do that in SharpReader, click File, then Import Subscriptions.
Most RSS programs have a Preferences option that lets you tell the program how often to check sites for updates. Once you've subscribed to a feed, SharpReader will update it every hour. You can fiddle with the Preferences menu to speed that up to as little as 15 minutes.
For advanced info junkies, there are more extreme ways to dose yourself. Feedster searches the content of thousands of RSS feeds and returns the newest posts first. It's sort of the Google News for RSS, but you can find stuff posted an hour ago that won't show up on Google for days. NewsGator is a program that works with Microsoft Outlook so you can sync incoming news and blogs to your PDA.
No need to begin by going off the deep end, though. Start with SharpReader, cut and paste the RSS links from five or 10 of your favorite sites, and you'll instantly be rewarded with faster, less frustrating Net reading.


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vcprompt ======== vcprompt is a little C program that prints a short string, designed to be included in your prompt, with barebones information about the current working directory for various version control systems. It is designed to be small and lightweight rather than comprehensive. Currently, it has varying degrees of recognition for Mercurial, Git, CVS, and Subversion working copies. vcprompt has no external dependencies: it does everything with the standard C library and POSIX calls. It should work on any POSIX-compliant system with a C99 compiler. To compile vcprompt: make To install it: make install PREFIX=$HOME To use it with bash, just call it in PS1: PS1='\u@\h:\w $(vcprompt)\$' To use it with zsh, you need to enable shell option PROMPT_SUBST, and then do similarly to bash: setopt prompt_subst PROMPT='[%n@%m] [%~] $(vcprompt)' vcprompt prints nothing if the current directory is not managed by a recognized VC system. Format Strings ============== You can customize the output of vcprompt using format strings, which can be specified either on the command line or in the VCPROMPT_FORMAT environment variable. For example: vcprompt -f "%b" and VCPROMPT_FORMAT="%b" vcprompt are equivalent. Format strings use printf-like "%" escape sequences: %n name of the VC system managing the current directory (e.g. "cvs", "hg", "git", "svn") %b current branch name %r current revision %u ? if there are any unknown files %m + if there are any uncommitted changes (added, modified, or removed files) %% a single % character All other characters are expanded as-is. The default format string is [%n:%b] which is notable because it works with every supported VC system. In fact, some features are meaningless with some systems: there is no single current revision with CVS, for example. (And there is no good way to quickly find out if there are any uncommitted changes or unknown files, for that matter.) Contributing ============ Patches are welcome. Please follow these guidelines: * Ensure that the tests pass before and after your patch. If you cannot run the tests on a POSIX-compliant system, that is a bug: please let me know. * If at all possible, add a test whenever you fix a bug or implement a feature. If you can write a test that has no dependencies (e.g. no need to execute "git" or "hg" or whatever), add it to tests/test-simple. Otherwise, add it to the appropriate VC-specific test script, e.g. tests/test-git if it needs to be able to run git. * Keep the dependencies minimal: preferably just C99 and POSIX. If you need to run an external executable, make sure it makes sense: e.g. it's OK to run "git" in a git working directory, but *only* if we already know we are in a git working directory. * Performance matters! I wrote vcprompt so that people wouldn't have to spawn and initialize and entire Python or Perl interpreter every time they execute a new shell command. Using system() to turn around and spawn external commands -- especially ones that involve a relatively large runtime penalty like Python scripts -- misses the point of vcprompt. In fact, you'll find that vcprompt contains hacky little reimplementations of select bits and pieces of Mercurial, git, Subversion, and CVS precisely in order to avoid running external commands. (And, in the case of Subversion, to avoid depending on a large, complex library.) * Stick with my coding style: - 4 space indents - no tabs - curly braces on the same line *except* when defining a function - C99 comments and variable declarations are OK, at least until someone complains that their compiler cannot handle them * Feel free to add yourself to the contributors list below. (If you don't do it, I'll probably forget.) Author Contact ============== vcprompt was written by Greg Ward <greg at gerg dot ca>. The latest version is available from either of my public Mercurial repositories: http://hg.gerg.ca/vcprompt/ http://bitbucket.org/gward/vcprompt/overview Other Contributors ================== In chronological order: Daniel Serpell Jannis Leidel Yuya Nishihara KOIE Hidetaka Armin Ronacher Thanks to all! Copyright & License =================== Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, Gregory P. Ward and contributors. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.


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Stemler1932 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 25 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
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Walkers (friends of APC) who raise $200 in donations for the Walk for LIfe and those who attend the Walk and would like to make a donation to purchase a tshirt or sweatshirt. Age range from little kids to sr citizens, men and women.
our aims are to have a fun tshirt that men might want to wear (even though most of the tshirt wearers are women). The shirt can be humerous, fun and celabratory.
The Walk is about babies and Walking.
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Guild Hall will open three art shows this weekend with a reception on Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. — exhibits of work by Drew Shiflett and Rafael Ferrer (see related story) and a permanent-collection show.
Ms. Shiflett's "constructed drawings" can look like hand-painted fabric because they use handmade paper as their support. She applies graphite, ink, watercolor, and Conte crayon to sections that she then layers and places together. She won top honors at the 2009 Guild Hall Members Exhibition from Jodi Hauptman, a drawings curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City who served as juror for that show.
She was "intrigued by the way the artist emphasized the material aspects of the work of art . . . the many mediums used, the handmade paper, and the actual putting together of the pieces," Ms. Hauptman said. "It made me want to see more of this artist's work."
Ms. Shiflett's work will be on view with Mr. Ferrer's "Contrabando," key selections from his work from 1972 to the present with a focus on painting. Esperanza Leon was guest curator for the exhibit. All three shows will be on view through Jan. 16.
The art exhibits will have a number of public programs associated with them. On Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., there will be a celebration in Spanish and English called FIESTA! Events include a puppet show, "La Cucarachita Martina," or "Martina, the Little Roach," by Teatro SEA of Puerto Rico and New York from 3 to 4 p.m. for children ages 3 to 8, a crafts workshop for children 5 and older at 2:30, and a gallery talk by Mr. Ferrer. The events are free.
On Nov. 12 at noon, there will be a hand-papermaking workshop with instructors from the Dieu Donné organization, which has its own handmade paper mill. There is a $25 fee for the workshop, $20 for museum members. Each student will have an opportunity to make a sheet of paper and create their own art with it.


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But first, they must embrace science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to build the skills that will serve as their tool set for the future. For that to happen, we must work together to ignite their curiosity and get them excited about STEM in their everyday lives.
So we ask you to join us in connecting the dots between learning and life so that we can provide pathways for kids to achieve today and lead tomorrow. Whether inspiring interest in STEM subjects and careers with Discovery Education's free STEM resources, becoming a STEM mentor, or co-viewing STEM programming on Discovery Channel and Science Channel, you can join our mission to propel today's students to success in college, careers, and citizenship.
Inspiring Students through STEM Mentorship
Discovery has joined the movement to connect the dots between the classroom and the real world by teaming up with US2020, an organization with the mission of matching 1 million STEM mentors with students at youth-serving nonprofits by the year 2020. As part of our mentorship program, we're helping students to understand the importance of science and technology in pursuing a career in broadcast television. We'll be connecting students with Discovery STEM professionals in broadcast engineering, information technology, and broadcast operations exposing them to the many STEM related career opportunities that exist in the rapidly evolving world of media.
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Igniting the Spark: Discovery Education STEM Camp
While after-school learning and summer programs provide rich opportunities to keep students inspired beyond the classroom, we know that unequal access to these programs can contribute to disparities in student achievement.
As part of our commitment to STEM education for all students, we are excited to announce the launch of the Discovery Education STEM Camp - a dynamic series of standards-aligned curricula available at no cost to schools, districts, non-profit organizations, and parents for use as part of summer camps, after-school STEM programs or wherever support is needed.
STEM Camp combines hands-on labs, engineering challenges, digital investigations, and more - all designed to immerse kids in the grand challenges of science set forth by the National Academy of Engineering.
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Spending a week learning about the properties, functions and roles of water doesn't sound like the typical summer camp. Read more.
STEM Camp Middle School Students in Grand Prairie
GPISD and Discovery Education are teaming up for the second year to offer STEM Camp to middle school students. For one week, the students learn hands-on about conservation, energy, and water issues by building light bulbs, wind turbines, and boats that are test in pools. More on this.
Atlantic City Electric Introduces STEM Club Activities for Kids
Atlantic City Electric is teaming with a local youth group to introduce STEM Club activities to kids in South Jersey. More on this.
How Discovery Education Helps Students Achieve Through Digital Environments
On June 16, Discovery Education and PGCPS kicked-off a new phase of collaboration with the largest professional development event in the school system's history. Read more.
Pepco STEM Club
Pepco and Discovery Education have joined forces with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington to support youth achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math with an exclusive initiative available at select Boys & Girls Club sites.
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Discovery En Espanol launches their 3rd Annual "Descubre Tu Talento", highlighting and promoting job skills for US Hispanics. This year, the focus is on STEM careers with tips, resources and video testimonials.
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Wine Chat: WineAlign's National Wine Awards
WineAlign, Canada's largest and most popular online wine site, recently announced the results of its annual wine competition, which was judged by 16 independent wine critics.
Join this week's wine chat to find out about the winning labels and why the judges chose them.
We'll be joined by some of WineAlign's judges: Treve Ring is a Victoria/Vancouver-based sommelier, wine journalist and critic; Craig Pinhey is a sommelier and wine consultant who has been judging Canadian wine competitions for more than 10 years (and was the only Atlantic judge at this year's WineAlign National Wine Awards); Sara d'Amato is a Toronto-based wine consultant who has worked in cellars in Niagara and France and is the former sommelier for Toronto's Four Seasons Hotel; and Rémy Charest is a Quebec City-based journalist who has been writing about food and wine since 1997 and is an editor of Palate Press, an online wine magazine.
And of course, we'll have our regular panel of wine experts: Gurvinder Bhatia (@EdmontonWineGuy) is the owner of Vinomania, a wine consultant to more than 100 hotels and restaurants and an international wine judge and published wine writer. James Nevison (@HADAGLASS) is the co-founder of HALFAGLASS, a boutique wine consultancy in Vancouver, and has co-authored several best-selling books about wine. Michael Godel (@mgodello) is a Toronto-based chef who consults to restaurants and wine collectors and blogs about wine for canada.com, and Rod Phillips (@rodphillipswine) is a professor who teaches about the history of food and drink, has written books about wine and regularly contributes to wine magazines in North America and Europe.
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healthcoach needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
A very unique looking logo that will establish a brand for my company and is fitting to be used on the web and print marketing that is fitting for corporate entities.
Holistic Transformations
I am a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Nutritional Consultant and Wellness Educator. I work in Brooklyn, New York and have a private practice, counseling clients on how to reach their goals for optimum health, weight loss and stress reduction. Additionally, I present workshops and lectures on living a healthy, balanced life for individuals as well as corporate organizations.On a more personal note, I am vibrant and energetic with a real passion for living the best life possible and that is something that people notice about me before I even open my mouth. I always have a great big smile on my face and am totally extroverted. I have found my purpose in educating people about how they can create their own version of living the best life possible as well.I am looking for a logo design that is clean, but vibrant and energetic that can fit a corporate environment as well. Since my business name is Holistic Transformations, I want something that uses the moon phase as a symbol of the stages of change and transition, but I am open to other designs as well just as long as it connects with my personality, which is shown in my business.My compsny offers a variety of health programs, workshops, teleseminars, wellness services such as foot detox and energy healing services. Most of my clients are virtual, but i do have a good number of them that I see in person as well.
- I would like to incorporate the moon phase if possible to reflect the stages of change when a person is deciding to join my health community
- I would love to see a clean logo design that is simple but has an energizing feel to it
- I would like to incorporate my tag line which is "Guiding You To Wellness, Changing Your World!"
- I would love try to incorporate the colors that are already on my website - http://www.holistictransformations.net, but I am open to other colors as well
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How would you like to be able to steer your tractor or sprayer or planter so that no matter how many passes you make each one is almost exactly on line with the initial trip across the field?
Trimble says that kind of accuracy will be possible with the new EZ-Guide-Plus System it introduced at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Jan. 9. The lightbar guidance system combines the latest in graphic LCD and GPS technologies — the Ag GPS and EZ-Guide Plus — according to Trimble.
Its representatives say the system allows operators to manually steer tractors, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, air seeders and large tillage tools with typical pass-to-pass accuracy of 1 foot or better. Its new lightbar technology provides operators with intuitive and accurate guidance in bright or low light, wind and dust, fog, rain or even snow.
"EZ-Guide Plus is a true breakthrough in lightbar guidance," said Alan Townsend, vice president and general manager of Trimble's Field Solutions Division. "It's the first affordable system to combine crystal-clear guidance LEDs and a sunlight-readable LCD screen — all with the slimmest profile of any lightbar on the market.
"Because its controls are easy-to-use and its display simple to follow, the EZ-Guide Plus helps reduce driver fatigue and allows extended working hours when necessary during peak seasons," added Townsend. "This is truly an economical solution to enhance in-field productivity — just eliminating 'guess rows' is a great productivity booster."
Townsend says Trimble's EZ-Guide Plus can be installed in field equipment in just a few minutes. Operator training takes just a few minutes more. Components include a 35-LED lightbar with integrated graphic LCD display and survey quality antenna.
The EZ-Guide Plus lightbar guidance system can be controlled with just three buttons. The lightbar screen walks the operator through a simple set-up procedure for each field, then displays a map showing current position, the path to follow and other guidance text information.
The system provides the operator with a variety of real-time information, including offline distance, swath number, speed and field area. It also outputs NMEA position data to other equipment such as yield monitors, planters and field computers.
The EZ-Guide Plus system provides the flexibility needed to be efficient in any terrain. It can be programmed for straight, curve, headland or center pivot guidance patterns. The graphic LCD screen displays intuitive turn and curve guidance, and it automatically advances to the next swath during turns for all patterns.
With a manufacturer's suggested list price of $2,795, the EZ-Guide Plus system is fully upgradable to grow with the user's precision farming needs, including as-applied mapping, soil sampling, flow control, variable-rate management and other functions. The system can also be upgraded to Trimble's Ag GPS Autopilot for automated steering on a wide variety of vehicles.
The system is expected to be available in February 2004. For more details, visit www.EZ-Guide.com to view an interactive demo of the EZ- Guide Plus system and to locate a dealer. For more information call 800-259-6501 or contact a local Trimble, Ag Leader, Case IH, New Holland or HARDI Inc. dealer, Townsend said.
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Full dress sporran brown rabbit w Thistle cantle Design
|- Brand New Full Dress Kilt Sporran in Black Leather, with a ORIGNAL brown Rabbit Skin(FUR).The facing of the
- sporran is made of Rabbit fur, with three tassels in brown Rabbit Fur Nickel Silver coloured Cantel has been
- embossed with a beautiful Thistle cantle Design.Sporran closes with a Black Stud fastening to the rear of
- the Cantel.Comes complete with a black leather strap set and chrome chain.Sporran belt, is made of two
- black leather straps, with adjusting buckle, with two chains which clasp onto the Sporran at the rear. It is
- adjustable so it can fit any size from 28" to a 44" waist.
Sporran is a customary part of male Scottish Highland dress. It is a pouch that executes the same purpose as pockets on the pocketless Scottish kilt. Made of leather or fur, the decoration of the sporran is determined by the formality of dress worn with it. The sporran is worn on a leather strap or chain, conventionally positioned in front of the groin of the wearer.Since the traditional kilt does not have pockets, the sporran provides as a wallet and container for any other essential personal items. It is basically a survival of the common European medieval belt-pouch, archaic as clothing came to have pockets, but enduring in the Scottish Highlands due to the lack of these garnishing in traditional dress. "Day sporrans" are generally brown leather pouches with simple adornment. These "day" sporrans mostly have three or more leather tassels and commonly Celtic knot designs carved or embossed into the leather."Dress sporrans" can be larger than the day assortment, and are mostly highly elaborate. Victorian examples were usually quite pretentious, and much more comprehensive than the simple leather pouch of the 17th or 18th centuries. "Animal mask sporrans" are made from the pelts of mammals such as the badger, otter, fox, pine marten, or other small animals, with the head forming a flap that folds over the front and closes the opening at the top of the sporran."Horsehair sporrans" are mostly worn as a part of regimental attire. Pipers will frequently wear the mainly flamboyant sporrans with long horsehair that swishes from side to side as the piper marches.


text: Recommend me a lossless codec—looking for a nice compression–to–speed 2012-01-25 23:15:05 Howdy, people from HydrogenaudioAs per the topic's title, I am looking for a lossless codec that offers a nice compression (something around Monkey's Audio's High) along with a nice encoding/decoding speed (I am more concerned about the decoding). I initially stumbled upon TAK, which had everything I could ask for, but much to my demise, I found out that the playback of TAK is rather buggy—the official Winamp plug-in does not work well with 24/96 files (even though the TAK format supports high resolutions). Furthermore, I would ideally want the codec to be stable.I would be very grateful to anyone who helps.PS: Before mentioning FLAC, I have to say that I am dissatisfied with the compression it offers, as my storage space is pretty limited (and won't be improving until this summer at earliest).


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A dry fountain bears witness to the ruin of Pompeii after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, Pompeii, Italy.
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I saw The Galloping Gourmet on PBS many years ago. It was truly bizarre. It was not long after my arrival to the US, and I was already culture-shell-shocked. (It took me a while to wrap my brain around MASH and The Beauty and the Beast being TV shows.) I have no idea why he popped into my head recently. Must have been the booze.
Back in the Old Country we used to bake a certain fruit and nut-studded loaf that had absolutely no relation or resemblance to fruitcake. I went on a hunt for a recipe, found several, in Hungarian and metric. From them I cobbled together my own version. It took several tries till I got everything right.
Fruit Loaf
8 oz butter
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup of flour
1 cup of brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon molasses
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup dried fruit, chopped
1/2 cup chopped nuts
2 tablespoon orange liquor
1 teaspoon vanilla
ca 1/4 cup crystallized brown sugar
Macerate the dried fruit with the liquor for at least an hour.
Preheat oven to 350º F
Butter a loaf pan and dust it with crystallized brown sugar. Shake out the excess.
Cream the butter with the brown sugar.
Mix in molasses.
Add eggs one by one.
Mix the flour and baking powder together, add to the egg mixture. Combine well.
Fold in the fruits and nuts, add vanilla.
Pour the batter into the loaf pan.
Bake for 50 minutes, or till toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
· Most recipes will tell you to butter your baking dish or coat it with those suspicious baking sprays. I also dust it with sugar when baking something sweet. It will stick even less. You pour some sugar into the buttered pan, shake it around to coat all sides and shake out the excess. I prefer using brown sugar because it's not as sweet as white, but it has to be the crystallized kind, as the regular one is too moist. Additional benefit is that your baked good will have a crunchy sweet outside.
· Molasses are optional, but they add a deep, rich tone.
· I use dried apricots, cherries, cranberries, mangoes, but anything goes. If you want to get fancy, you might try candied orange peel and candied ginger.
· Hungarian recipes all had rum in them, but I prefer orange liquor. I think Hungarian cuisine developed a reliance on the cheaper and more common rum as an economic necessity.
· I discovered a novel way to macerate the dried fruit: in a ziplock bag! It's perfect, alcohol and fruit are all sealed in together with nothing better to do then soak into each other. No messy tossing required—you just flip the bag over.
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Has your brown sugar ever turned into a dry brick? Do not despair, there's a way to fix it. Put the brick in a bowl and cover it with a clean, wet kitchen towel. Leave it like that overnight. By morning your brown sugar will be back to it's moist self.