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I've been looking forward to this episode since December,
The picture was taken after they got their clue. As for the backpacks.. I honestly can't remember, but I'm pretty sure they carried their backpacks along with them up the stairs. They could've just put their backpacks down momentarily while reading the clue at the cluebox... and in that pic, they were actually waiting for their cameraman/soundman. (Man, those guys can run I tell ya).
Since we started a thread for this episode I will post my airline spec for C/M flying into KL, that is if they are leaving from Warsaw.LOT Polish Airlines Flt 223Warsaw to Vienna 7:40am - 9:05amAustrian Airlines Flt 1Vienna to Kuala Lumpur 10:50am - 4:45amAdd in time to de-board the airplane, make their way through the airport and possibly take public transport or drive to the Batu Caves, that puts them at the Batu Caves by roughly 8:00 am when Izad snapped his pictures of C/M and cheered them on......"Hey Charla and Mirna. Good luck guys, you're doing great. I"m your biggest fan!" (I'm only guessing he said that)Also Izad, posted a "random pic" of a nail in a tire over at Sucks. Perhaps it is a clue to more info that he might have on this leg.http://www.kennebecbikeski.com/KennebecBike/images/bike-shop/park/tirenail1.jpg
COLBY, your analysis makes sense generally. However, if all teams land at 0445, why would there be such a apread in getting to Batu Caves via public transportation? It seems like there must be something in between which spreads out teams a bit.
I dont understant how team could be so spread out at Batu Caves if it is at the beginning of the leg.. apparently C/M come in at the back of the pack in Poland.. so how could they get such a lead so quickly.. those girls are amazing
I just hope they can maintain their lead. All it would take is for them to choose a wrong Detour or get lost and the other teams could catch up.
Quote I dont understant how team could be so spread out at Batu Caves if it is at the beginning of the leg.. apparently C/M come in at the back of the pack in Poland.. so how could they get such a lead so quickly.. those girls are amazing That has bothered me as well but we have seen Mirna and Charla work their magic at the airport before. We just saw that in the previous leg where they took a risk and got on an earlier flight with a risky connection and pulled it off. Therefore, if Charla and Mirna did come in 3rd or 4th in Poland, the still can manag to pull off finding an eariler flight from Poland to Malaysia just like they did in South Africa. I know they are capable but what makes me scratch my head is if the BQ's and Danny and Oswald and Eric and Danielle are first at the airport why did they let Charla and Mirna pull this off again!! Were they too scared to take a risk? Were Charla and Mirna just smarter and found something that nobody else did?
....Or maybe the FIRST FLIGHT (with D/K, Cha & E/D) was delayed at some point en route.
CBS should call this Title : Dedicated to Izad or Thanks A LOT for spoiling our show Izad
Damn you episode title, COME OUT!
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May 5, 2000
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UC Santa Barbara produced a season-best 11-run inning on Friday, enroute to a 12-6 victory on the road at New Mexico State.
The Gauchos, trailing as they entered the eighth, sent 16 men to the plate and scored a season-high 11 runs to record their 13th Big West win of the campaign. In the inning, Jon Stephens logged a pair of hits, Tyler Von Schell had a two-run single and Donovan Warrecker had a two-run triple to lead the way. UCSB got on the board in the second inning when catcher Jimmy Walker belted his third home run of the season.
Not only did UCSB send 16 men to the plate in the eighth, nine of them stepped up after two were out. On the night, the Gauchos were aided by two Aggie errors.
Gabe Neboyia went 8.1 innings for the Gauchos to record his fifth win of the year and he now stands at 5-6. Neboyia settled down after allowing four runs in the first inning.
With the victory, the Gauchos improve to 13-9 in Big West play and 23-21 overall. The Aggies drop to 17-32 overall and 2-20 in the Big West. The teams will play game two of the series Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (PDT).

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|2012-01-17, 12:31
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oh and something tells me that there are only cut scenes here and there.. not EVERY QUEST... lets see a F2P game like Blade and soul and GW2 have the budget to make those kind of cut scenes for pretty much every quest.
not flaming at you bro, just the people who talk shit from that video.
|2012-01-17, 14:23
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Bugs like those is part of the reason beta testing is fun. Some of unintended bugs almost become better than the intended version in my opinion.
The best cut scene bug in my opinion is the one that randomly reduced an NPC's size drastically. For instance, I still remember a cut scene in which Satele Shan is about the size of a squirrel walking across the scene, while everyone else was normal sized. I think the caption was, "Satele Shan had a hard time fitting in." I wish I saved that pic.
|2012-01-17, 17:38
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I also sometimes love it when NPCs just do thier normal routine in the background, me and a friend once used one of the sensor arrays on Tatooine without aggroing the Tusken Raiders standing there, so in the cutscene we had this one Tusken standing about one step besides us, watching the desert with his macrobinoculars and we were all "Err... okay, must be something pretty interesting going on back there."
|2012-01-17, 17:56
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I mean having a third of your population not still playing even through the free month? Even on weekends?
|2012-01-17, 18:52
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I have been following the graphs too, the way they explained the data seems valid. Although we will not truly know until Wednesday/Thursday when the free month it up. Based on sales, TOR did well, but I do not know if it did as well as intended. I know BW said they would be profitable at 500k, but I feel that they would suffer a backlash from EA, even if the backlash is unwarranted. Hard to tell.
Well, I was going to hold off until tomorrow, but I do want to know how many of you are 50 yet? The reason I ask is that I wanted to know what you think about the story of TOR.
Essentially, what would you have done different if you were a writer (if anything)?
For instance, I feel that Bioware could have taken their dialogue wheel/choices to the next step with a faction system. Take WoW: Burning Crusade with the Aldor and Scryers faction that you built reputation with. I think such a reputation/faction system would have fit TOR perfectly. I mean, you already have a choice system and you have at least companion reputation gain. It you want to give players choices, let them choose to controls a sector or the council, etc. As it stands you cannot seem to change the political situation at all. If not now, I think that is a feature that Bioware should look into for future expansions.
Another thought is that rather than do 8 mini-stories that branch in, I think BW should have started starting at a singular point that branched out, so that your character is undeniably linked to the war. For example, I think they could have started at the battle of Alderan with which Malgus and Shan faced off in that cinematic. The text prologue could say that as Republic you were a refugee from Alderan whereas with the Empire you could have been a slave taken by Malgus. This may seems trivial, but I think they could have done more to make your character feel like the second generation of Republic/Empire to be dragged into the war.
Edit: I just found an article that *speculates* that EA has invested close to $500 million into TOR.
Again it is speculation, but this sounds a tad bit more plausible coming from the Doug Creutz of Cowen & Co compared to EA Louse (who claimed $300 million). I know Reid has denied this figure, but as with anyone spokesmen they spin news, we will probably never know. Ultimately, it could be $500 million in total, but spread out between marketing, production, and setting up the physical location of the Bioware studio. I do remember a news story stating that EA set up a new studio location just for TOR. If EA did open a new location, a new studio with new equipment and new offices to rent could add up easily over time.
Nonetheless, whether TOR actual costs range from $80 to $500 million, it seems like an expensive venture.
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I like the idea of ideas having a... for the lack of a better term larger, more tangible impact on the world. However, the branching story doesn't really work well with a lot of the backgrounds of the class story though. The Jedi characters were raised from childhood for example, the Inquisitor starts as a slave while the warrior is a noble born.
|2012-01-17, 20:30
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True Keroko, branching would have problems.
Another thing, when I see the Sith Warrior I feel as though Bioware was trying to make you feel like Darth Vader, Darth Malgus, and Darth Sion. However, I think they missed one important aspect of these characters in that they were artificially alive in a sense. They were mauled and mostly had mechanical devices. (Sion being the exception) Vader had robotic limbs and was on life support. Malgus also had the breathing device. Darth Sion was probably the most extreme example with his wounds. It looks like they tried to keep with this mechanical/cyborg theme with the Sith Warrior tier armor, but I believe that it should have been an actual part of the Sith Warrior story. As in, at some point you are betrayed, which leaves your mauled, but eventually rebuilt like Vader. From there it could have become a revenge story.
Forgive me, I do not have a good way of articulating this point yet. I read what they did with Malgus' story and design and I think they should have mimicked it with the Sith Warrior down to the story and injuries.
|2012-01-18, 02:58
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Hm, I really need to find a class for myself to stick with instead of rotating between three+ characters in <20 range. It seems that in this level range there is an huuuge influx of Trooper Commandos, Sentinels and JC-Sages on my german server.
|2012-01-18, 15:55
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The everyday life of a Republic trooper....
|2012-01-18, 16:24
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Then again I was given a SWTOR prepayed card for Christmas so it was thankfully on someone else.
I'm currently playing it only about once a week, so those number don't surprise me.
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|2012-01-18, 19:02
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BLARG Stupid CDN. Why did EA and BioWare decide to use a CDN service for patching? Not all the CDN servers are getting consistent files for whatever reason so people are getting stuck in infinite repair loops because the launcher is constantly downloading corrupt files. WTF?
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Yikes, I do not know how many of you experienced Ilum, but Republic players got a raw experience with the faction imbalance in a poorly planned PVP decision. The decision I am talking about is that for each objective controlled said side receives bonus valor rewards, thus the Imperials had the advantage of numbers and not only easily took the objectives, but also easily steamrolled Republic players. In essence, Imperials were able to farm republic players throughout the day and on top of it received large amounts of bonus Valor points. Bioware made a response saying that they would change Ilum in the future.
However, it seems that Bioware will not roll back the servers and so those who took advantage of Ilum today shall keep the valor points. While Bioware stated it could taken action, the sheer amount of players that took advantage makes that possibility appear unlikely in my opinion.
The response on the forum is,well, rage.
|2012-01-19, 00:13
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Wow, EA, just wow...
|2012-01-19, 00:42
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Edit: I see youuuuuu Ryus, typin' dat reply.
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|2012-01-19, 01:44
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^Yeah, a lot of typing...
So glad I haven't done any PvP yet or I'd likely be joining in the rage after hearing that and hiding the unsubscribe button is a bad sign for this games sales rate and a piety move (then again these are the same people who retconned most of the plot points in Kotor 2 for no seemingly good reason other than they didn't like it, so I'm not surprised)
Spoiler for TL; maybe you'll read :p:
|2012-01-19, 01:50
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To be perfectly I honest, I thought they would pull and an Illidan with Revan as in a character that would receive a dedicated expansion with quests/instances, etc to fulfill plot points. Sadly...they needed a boss that fulfilled a pants loot quota.
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This isn't supposed to happen. Not any time, but especially not 11 days before Christmas — a season that, no matter how hard they try otherwise, is going to be forever scarred for victims and survivors of Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
A 20-year-old man, identified in news reports Friday as Adam Lanza, entered the school with two handguns (he left a rifle in his car).
By the time of the inevitable coda — Lanza apparently killed himself — he'd shot 26 people to death, 20 of them children.
Parents of kids that age should be preparing for holiday parties and Santa's arrival right now, not planning funerals.
Law enforcement officials believe Lanza also killed his mother before his deadly journey to Sandy Hook. The story continues to develop at this writing. No one has a clue what imploded in Lanza's brain — what caused him to unleash this horror in a place described by residents in news reports as "an adorable little town," but will be scarred as well. (Places where awful things are remembered by one-word names; Newtown now joins Columbine and the like.)
There may never be a satisfactory answer to this particular "why?"
However, those who question why schools are so security conscious (and are likely to become even more so) got an unmistakable answer.
So did those who gripe about authorities reacting so harshly to things that once might have been viewed as pranks or silly talk.
A local high school student was arrested this week for allegedly threatening to kill classmates. Chances are he wasn't serious. What happened Friday is why law enforcement signaled it wouldn't just throw the book but an entire library at him in response.
Not surprisingly, Friday's tragedy unleashed calls for stronger gun control. We agree with a spokesman for President Barack Obama, who said this isn't the time for that discussion.
We've expressed our support for the Second Amendment, while agreeing with the Supreme Court in its decision confirming an individual right to keep and bear arms that the right is not absolute and can be restricted.
We're not saying a conversation on guns shouldn't take place, but we fail to see how having one when the temperature of the debate is practically molten would be positive or productive.
We'll also point out the damage done 17 years ago in Oklahoma City with a truckload of fertilizer. Someone intent on committing mass murder will find a means to do so, even if the easiest one is denied.
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We should grieve for the victims.
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LONDON (Reuters) - For the world's
hard-pressed aluminum producers the current outlook is
the rosiest in many years.
Russian giant UC Rusal, for example, has just returned to profit for
the first time in five consecutive quarters.
That's largely thanks to the combination of a robust London Metal
Exchange price, currently trading around $2,100 per metric ton
(1.1023 tons), its highest level since early 2013, and historically
elevated physical premiums.
The price recovery is being underpinned by a tectonic shift in
underlying market dynamics. After years of structural surplus, the
global aluminum market finally appears to be turning to supply
deficit on the back of accumulating capacity closures.
Rusal, which reported an 11-percent drop in production in the first
half of this year after its own curtailments, is forecasting a
1.5-million metric ton global deficit in 2014.
That may be at the high end of the spectrum of forecasts but it no
longer sounds like a producer pipe-dream. In the most recent Reuters
poll of analysts four out of 14 submitting a market balance
assessment for this year forecast deficit, the number rising to
almost half for 2015.
The main threat to this new market optimism comes from China.
Production there is still rising. More disconcertingly, so too is
the stream of semi-manufactured products leaving the country.
In the world outside China aluminum production has been trending
lower for a couple of years.
Annualized production in July was 24.38 million tonnes, down by over
1.5 million tonnes from the record high of 25.92 million tonnes in
October 2011.
It's been a painfully slow grind lower with closures of higher-cost
capacity partly offset by new start-ups, particularly in the Gulf
region. And it is continuing, U.S. producer Alcoa announced earlier
this week the permanent closure of its already-mothballed Porto
Vesme smelter in Italy.
Over the same near three-year period Chinese production has grown by
5.7 million tonnes annualized to 23.28 million tonnes in July,
according to figures from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry
Not that Chinese smelters have enjoyed better margins than anyone
else. But local governments and, at times, central government has
subsidized losses, mostly in the form of tweaking power rates, a key
determinant of an aluminum smelter's bottom line.
Even where Chinese smelters have been forced out of business, their
places have been more than filled by a new generation of lower-cost
smelters in northwestern provinces such as Xinjiang.
But China, to quote a phrase coined by Klaus Kleinfeld, chairman and
chief executive officer of Alcoa, exists in a different aluminum
universe, one that has little bearing on what happens in the rest of
the world.
And to a certain extent, that is true.
Certainly, when it comes to primary aluminum, what China produces
largely stays in China.
And it has done ever since the country's authorities increased the
tax on exports to 15 percent back in 2006.
Since then it has been a net importer, albeit a fairly marginal one.
The single exception was in 2009. Imports that year boomed after
government intervention, in the form of "strategic" purchases from
domestic producers, which blew open the arbitrage window.
Not that China really needs more aluminum, just that there is money
to be made from playing the arbitrage, both in terms of metal prices
and interest rates in the shadow credit market.
Copper may dominate the collateral finance trade in China, but
aluminum is used as well, as has become clear from the ongoing
investigations at the port of Qingdao. At the center of a multiple
pledging scandal lie around 100,000 tonnes of aluminum and 200,000
tonnes of alumina, an intermediate raw material.
It is noticeable that China's net imports have slowed significantly
over the last three months to just 19,000 tonnes from 109,000 tonnes
in the February to April period.
That's probably a reflection of the relative under-performance of
the Shanghai price to the LME price.
But from the perspective of Rusal and Alcoa and other Western
producers, at least the net flow is into China and not outwards onto
their markets.
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What Western producers tend to draw a veil over, when it comes to
China, is the steady flow of aluminum in other forms out of the
China has been a net exporter of aluminum alloy for many years. The
tonnages are not huge, just 347,000 metric tons last year, but
enough to counter-balance what enters in the form of primary
The country is a much bigger exporter of products and has been for
almost a decade.
This is in part down to government-led pressure on Chinese smelters
to go down the value-added chain, meaning more products capacity,
and in part down to the simple fact that Chinese products are highly
competitive, since exporters receive a tax rebate.
There have always been suspicions that some of those product exports
may not be quite what they appear, given the incentive to transform
primary metal just enough for it to quality for a tax rebate as a
product rather than be hit by the export tax.
Analysts fear such tax arbitrage, if it is taking place, acts to
disguise the true nature of Chinese surplus.
Macquarie Bank analysts, for example, contend that primary metal is
"exported under a sheet trade code such as continuous cast coil (CC
coil) which is then remelted, cast and alloyed to specifications in
the destination countries."
"We believe this is a trade that many Chinese aluminum fabricators
started to follow over the past couple of years to avoid 15-percent
tax on primary aluminum, which supports our view that some Chinese
aluminum surplus has been replaced by other forms". ("Commodities
Comment", Aug. 18, 2014).
Such concerns are increasing because Chinese product exports are
also increasing.
Product exports rose 3.7 percent in the first half of this year but
July brought a step change with 320,000 tonnes leaving the country,
marking a 14-percent jump on July last year.
One month's data do not a trend make, but the underlying trend is
only going in one direction and that's upwards.
It's just a question of how the trend evolves.
And most analysts seem to be expecting an acceleration in Chinese
product flows over the coming months.
That makes sense, given the incentive of a higher base price on the
LME relative to the Shanghai market and the shift to deficit in the
world outside of China.
The danger, of course, is that Chinese surplus metal moves in
sufficient quantity to fill any evolving Western deficit.
Were this just a case of semi-manufactured products, the parallel
universe argument used by non-Chinese producers would still hold,
albeit somewhat tenuously. But if primary metal is seeping out in
thinly-disguised products form, things get a whole lot messier.
Moreover, the tensions between Chinese surplus and Western deficit
are only likely to become more acute, as long as the underlying
respective trends of rising and falling production continue.
It's worth remembering that it is only that 15-percent export tax on
primary metal that holds back a potentially much bigger export flow.
It's a dam that could be removed at the stroke of a pen in Beijing.
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The Absolut (sorry) Maple Sour/
Booze is at Defcon 1. Repeat: BOOZE IS AT DEFCON 1.
After drinking down our whiskey supply last week to the unspeakable amount of none, on Friday night the PhoBlograpHusband and I (were we drugged? hallucinating?) offered to supply the hard liquor at a friend's get-together in her nearby Plateau apartment. Sean put together an impressive
travel bar backpack full of drinkies-poo: gin, both vermouths, Campari and I think dark rum and bitters. This was not the most experienced cocktailing crowd, which was more than fine, because all we had to do was mix up a nice round of Negronis and we were regarded as freaking geniuses.
Also dry geniuses: Four weeks to go 'til the end of Sean's semester, and what remains of the home stock is... vodka. And I think Calvados. And like two bottles of ouzo. So when Sean mentioned that he came across this Absolut Maple Sour recipe from a Google ad or spam mail (if I were in his shoes, I wouldn't fully cop to it either), what else was a girl to make? Times is tough, and recessions ain't just for breakfast anymore.
Now, this may be burying the lead, but I did NOT make this with Absolut. I have never kept Absolut in my house and have no plans to start. While I am an Absolut snob, I'm not an all-around vodka snob, because who's got the money or the inclination to care? Ketel One always served us fine back in the States. The vodka we happen to have on hand these days is Cupcake Vodka. Those readers who often find themselves purchasing bottles of cheap wine for their cutesy names (it's OK, we're all admitting embarrassing things here) will probably recognize the label from bottles of California vino; it's made by the same guys. And it's incredibly inexpensive and completely pleasant, two characteristics that can also be said about this recommendable sour itself.
The combination of the three ingredients of color gives this cocktail a trompe l'oeil orange tone. The taste is of an old fashioned as much as a sour, with the maple's sugared earthiness covering for the lack of whiskey more than you might expect.
The Absolut Maple Sour
1 1/2 ounces Cupcake (or whatever you like) vodka
3/4 ounces maple syrup
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Lemon peel, to garnish
Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake until your hands are too cold to keep holding onto the tin. (Srsly, because that syrup is a mother to disperse well.) Strain into cocktail glass and garnish with lemon peel.
Tasting Notes
Sean says, "This is good as outlined in the recipe above, but you could use a different liquor just as easily. You could also turn it into a maple Collins by adding soda."


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"As well as increasing ATM availability, NAB will continue working with NCR to deliver consistently better service and more convenient banking for our customers around the clock," he said in a statement.
The bank will complete the rollout of NCR Predictive Services by the end of July 2013.
- AusCERT 2013: Police urge banks to install ATM chip technology
- Adelaide Oval to introduce NCR POS reporting system
- NAB moves to `infrastructure on demand'
NAB's sister bank, Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), was the world's first bank to deploy the solution back in April 2012.
According to BNZ, the predictive technology raised ATM availability to 99 per cent. Visits by engineers were cut by 30 per cent and over 40 per cent of more complex issues were fixed before they put the ATM out of service.
"Achieving similar improvements across NAB's ATM network will equate to serving customers for an extra 60,000 hours each year," said Munro.
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In aftereffect to the advertisement of 100 canicule calendar of HRD of admiral by Hon'ble Human Resources development Minister, a New Action on Ambit Acquirements In College Apprenticeship Sector was drafted.
1. In agreement of Entry 66 of Account 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, Parliament is competent to accomplish laws for the allocation and assurance of standards in institutions for college apprenticeship for research, and accurate and abstruse institutions. Parliament has allowable laws for absolution this albatross through: the University Grants Commission (UGC) for accepted College Education, the All India Council for Abstruse Apprenticeship (AICTE) for Abstruse Education; and added Approved bodies for added disciplines. As commendations college education, through the ambit mode, Indira Gandhi Civic Accessible University (IGNOU) Act, 1985 was allowable with the afterward two prime objectives, a part of others: (a) To board opportunities for college apprenticeship to a ample articulation of population, abnormally disadvantaged groups active in bound and rural areas, adults, housewives and alive people; and (b) to animate Accessible University and Ambit Apprenticeship Systems in the educational arrangement of the country and to alike and actuate the standards in such systems.
2. The history of ambit acquirements or apprenticeship through ambit approach in India, goes way aback if the universities started alms apprenticeship through ambit approach in the name of Accord Courses through their Directorate/School of Accord Education. In those days, the courses in abstract and/or in business were offered through accord and taken by those, who, attributable to assorted reasons, including bound amount of seats in approved courses, employability, problems of admission to the institutions of college acquirements etc., could not get themselves enrolled in the accepted `face-to-face' approach `in-class' programmes.
3. In the contempo past, the appeal for college apprenticeship has added awfully throughout the country because of acquaintance about the acceptation of college education, admitting the arrangement of college apprenticeship could not board this anytime accretion demand.
4. Beneath the circumstances, a amount of institutions including accounted universities, clandestine universities, accessible (Government) universities and even added institutions, which are not empowered to accolade degrees, acquire started cashing on the bearings by alms ambit apprenticeship programmes in a ample amount of disciplines, alignment from abstract to engineering and administration etc., and at altered levels (certificate to under-graduate and post-graduate degrees). There is consistently a crisis that some of these institutions may become `degree mills' alms sub- standard/poor superior education, appropriately acerbic the believability of degrees and added abilities awarded through the ambit mode. This calls for a far college amount of allocation a part of the anxious approved authorities, primarily, UGC, AICTE and IGNOU and its ascendancy – the Ambit Apprenticeship Council (DEC).
5. Government of India had antiseptic its position in account of accepting of degrees, becoming through the ambit mode, for application beneath it vide Gazette Notification No. 44 anachronous 1.3.1995.
6. Despite the risks referred to in para 4 above, the acceptation of ambit apprenticeship in accouterment superior apprenticeship and training cannot be ignored. Ambit Approach of apprenticeship has an important role for:
(i)providing befalling of acquirements to those, who do not acquire absolute admission to face to face teaching, alive persons, house-wives etc.
(ii)providing befalling to alive professionals to amend their knowledge, enabling them to switchover to new disciplines and professions and acceptable their abilities for career advancement.
(iii)exploiting the abeyant of Advice and Communication Technology (ICT) in the teaching and acquirements process; and
(iv)achieving the ambition of 15% of GER by the end of 11th Plan and 20% by the end of 12th 5 year Plan.
7. In adjustment to acquittal the Constitutional albatross of assurance and aliment of the standards in College Education, by ensuring allocation a part of assorted approved authoritative authorities as aswell to ensure the advance of accessible and ambit apprenticeship arrangement in the country to accommodated the aspirations of all cross-sections of humans for college education, the afterward action in account of ambit acquirements is laid down:
(a) In adjustment to ensure able allocation in adjustment of standards of college apprenticeship in altered disciplines through assorted modes [i.e. face to face and distance] as aswell to ensure believability of degrees/diploma and certificates awarded by Indian Universities and added Apprenticeship Institutes, an acme body, namely, Civic Commission for College Apprenticeship and Analysis shall be accustomed in band with the recommendations of Prof. Yash Pal Committee/National Ability Commission. A Standing Committee on Accessible and Distance
Education of the said Commission, shall undertake the job of coordination, assurance and aliment of standards of apprenticeship through the ambit mode. Pending enactment of this body:
(i) Alone those programmes, which do not absorb all-encompassing applied advance work, shall be permissible through the ambit mode.
(ii) Universities / institutions shall anatomy ordinances / regulations / rules, as the case may be, spelling out the outline of the programmes to be offered through the ambit approach advertence the amount of adapted credits, account of courses with assigned credits, account references in accession to cocky acquirements material, hours of study, acquaintance classes at abstraction centres, assignments, assay and appraisal process, allocation etc.
(iii) DEC of IGNOU shall alone appraise the adequacy of university/institute in account of administering ambit apprenticeship programmes by a aggregation of experts, whose address shall be placed afore the Council of DEC for consideration.
(iv) The approval shall be accustomed alone afterwards application by Council of DEC and not by Chairperson, DEC. For the purpose, minimum amount of binding diplomacy of DEC may be prescribed.
(v) AICTE would be directed beneath area 20 (1) of AICTE Act 1987 to ensure accreditation of the programmes in Computer Sciences, Advice Technology and Administration advised to be offered by an institute/university through the ambit mode, by Civic Board of Accreditation (NBA).
(vi) UGC and AICTE would be directed beneath area 20 (1) of their corresponding Acts to anatomy abundant regulations prescribing standards for assorted programmes/courses, offered through the ambit approach beneath their mandate,
(vii) No university/institute, except the universities accustomed by or beneath an Act of Parliament/State Legislature afore 1985, shall action any programme through the ambit mode, henceforth, after approval from DEC and accreditation by NBA. However, the universities/institutions already alms programmes in Humanities, Commerce/Business/Social Sciences/Computer Sciences and Advice Technology and Management, may be accustomed to continue, accountable to the action to admission beginning approval from DEC and accreditation from NBA aural one year, declining which they shall acquire to abandon the programme and the absolute onus with account to the bookish career and banking losses of the accepting enrolled with them, shall be on such institutions/universities.
(viii) In ablaze of ascertainment of Acme Court, ex-post-facto approval accepted by any ascendancy for ambit apprenticeship shall not be honoured and accepted henceforth. However, the universities accustomed by or beneath an Act of apprenticeship programmes in the streams of Humanities/Commerce/Social Sciences afore the year 1991 shall be afar from this policy.
(ix) The accepting who acquire been awarded degrees through ambit approach by the universities after demography above-mentioned approval of DEC and added approved bodies, shall be accustomed one chance, provided they fulfil the claim of minimum standards as assigned by the UGC, AICTE or any added accordant Approved Ascendancy through Regulation, to arise in examinations in such affidavit as absitively by the university appointed to conduct the examination. If these accepting authorize in this examination, the university anxious shall affair a certificate. The amount forth with the said condoning affidavit may be recognised for the purpose of employment/promotion beneath Central Government.
(x) A description shall be issued with advertence to Gazette Notification No. 44 anachronous 1.3.1995 that it shall not be applicative on to the degrees/diplomas awarded by the universities accustomed by or beneath an Act of Parliament or State Legislature afore 1985, in the streams of Humanities/Commerce and Social Sciences.
(xi) The action initiatives spelt out in afterwards paragraphs shall be appropriately applicative to institutions alms ambit education/intending to action ambit education.
(b) All universities and institutions alms programmes through the ambit approach shall charge to acquire above-mentioned recognition/approval for alms such programmes and accreditation from appointed competent authority, mandatorily in account of the programmes offered by them. The violators of this shall be accountable for adapted amends as assigned by law. The universities/institutions alms apprenticeship through ambit approach and begin complex in cheating of students/people by giving wrong/false advice or wilfully suppressing the advice shall aswell be dealt with carefully beneath the chastening accoutrement of law.
(c) The universities / institutes shall acquire their own abstraction centres for face to face counselling and abatement of difficulties as aswell to seek added bookish and authoritative assistance. Franchising of ambit apprenticeship by any university, institutions whether accessible or clandestine shall not be allowed.
(d ) The universities /institutions shall alone action such programmes through ambit approach which are on action on their campuses through accepted mode. In case of accessible universities, they shall necessarily acquire the adapted departments and commonsense above-mentioned to alms accordant programmes through ambit mode.
(e) It would be binding for all universities and apprenticeship institutions alms ambit apprenticeship to use Advice and Communication Technology (ICT) in supply of their programmes, administration of the apprentice and university diplomacy through a web aperture or any added such platform. The said belvedere shall invariably, affectation in accessible domain, the advice about the approved and added approvals forth with added all-important advice about the programmes on action through ambit mode, their accreditation and accepting enrolled, year- wise, etc. This may be affiliated to a civic database, as and if created, to facilitate the stakeholders to yield a appearance on the accepting of the degrees for the purpose of bookish following or application with/under them.
(f) All universities/education institutions shall accomplish optimal use of e-learning capacity for delivery/offering their programmes through ambit mode. They shall aswell be encouraged/required to acquire e-surveillance technology for conduct of clean, fair and cellophane examinations.
(g) The focus of ambit apprenticeship shall be to board befalling of apprenticeship to humans at educationally disadvantaged situations such as active in bound and rural areas, adults with no or bound admission to apprenticeship of their best etc.
(h) In adjustment to advance adjustable and charge based learning, choice-based acclaim arrangement shall be answer and all ODE institutions shall be encouraged to acquire this arrangement and advance a apparatus for accepting and alteration of credits of the courses auspiciously completed by accepting in contiguous or ambit mode. For the purpose, enactment of a acclaim coffer may be considered. Similarly, accepted universities, alms face to face approach programmes shall be encouraged to acquire the credits becoming by the accepting through ambit mode. A about-face over from anniversary to division arrangement shall be essential.
(i) Convergence of the contiguous approach teaching departments of accepted universities with their ambit apprenticeship directorates/correspondence advance wings as aswell with accessible universities/institutions alms ambit education, shall be afflicted aloft to arch the gap in ambit and accepted contiguous approach of education.
(j) Reputed Adopted apprenticeship providers able-bodied established, accustomed and accepted by competent ascendancy in their country and accommodating to action their apprenticeship programmes in India shall be allowed, accountable to the accomplishment of the acknowledged claim of the country.
(k) A Civic Advice and Communication Technology basement for networking of ODE institutions shall be created beneath Civic Mission on Apprenticeship through Advice and Communication Technology.
(l) Efforts would be fabricated to actualize favourable ambiance for analysis in Accessible and Ambit Apprenticeship (ODE) arrangement by ambience up basement like e- libraries, agenda data-base, online journals, captivation approved workshops, seminars etc.
(m) Training and acclimatization programmes for educators and administrators in ODE arrangement with focus on use of ICT and self-learning practice, shall be encouraged.
(n) ODE institutions shall be encouraged to yield affliction the educational needs of learners with disabilities and chief citizens.
(o) An official notification allegorical the affair of accepting of bookish qualification, becoming through ambit mode, for the purpose of employment, shall be issued.
(p) A apparatus shall be set up for appraisal of degrees of adopted universities for the purpose of bookish following as able-bodied as for application beneath the Central Government. This may cover the appraisal of the accreditation of the university anxious as aswell to analysis the adequacy of the amount holder, if needed.


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Who'd've thunk it? Have we just seen Facebook getting up on its high horse in order to lecture Google about privacy issues? Whatever next?
It's fascinating watching these two behemoths (it's arguably premature to call them dinosaurs) locking horns – they do it in such a slow and laborious way that it's sometimes just about possible to believe that they're not locking horns at all.
And, indeed, it has been interesting to note significant numbers of analysts downplaying the aggressive implications of last week's pronouncements from Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
Even the bit where Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook had been talking to Google about developing a joint search initiative – but had hit an ideological impasse.
Facebook wants to allow its users to search for shared interests among their networks of friends. Google could have created such a system in a heartbeat, but would have insisted on storing information on users even after they had deleted it from the Facebook site.
Thus Facebook's decision to develop its existing partnership with Microsoft's search engine, Bing.
Facebook, it will be remembered, does not exactly have an exemplary record when it comes to the whole issue of privacy. So, make of that what you will. And, yes, arguably it's true – Facebook's Graph Search isn't really a threat to Google in exactly the same way that the Google+ social media product, launched in 2011, isn't really a threat to Facebook.
However, most observers agree that this is a hugely significant initiative from the social media giant. It is, after all, its first major product launch since its botched IPO in May 2012. Zuckerberg himself described Graph Search as a new "third pillar" propping up the company, joining its existing pillars, Timeline and News Feed.
So he must have been more than a little disappointed at the response from investors.
1. At the Graph Search launch, Zuckerberg played down the revenue-generating potential of the new service, pointing out that the main short-term motivation was to improve user experience. This disappointed many analysts, who had been rather hoping to see the launch of a product with instant appeal to advertisers. As a result, Facebook's share price, which had risen to $31 in anticipation of a potent new revenue stream, dropped below $30 again. Still, Facebook mustn't grumble – that's still well above the stock's all-time low of $19.69 in August of last year.
2. Meanwhile, Google's utter dominance of the search market has been in the news again on both sides of the Atlantic. On 4 January, the Federal Trade Commission announced it was to introduce new rules forcing Google to behave in a fairer and more transparent way in its relationships with smaller companies. But it was cleared on a more specific charge of artificially demoting the search rankings of the products of rivals such as Microsoft.
3. However, Google is still awaiting the results of a similar investigation (begun in November 2010) by the European Commission. Last week, Joaquín Almunia, the commissioner responsible for competition issues, said he was now almost certain that Google had been abusing its position of market dominance.
4. The Facebook deal is also a pleasing reminder (some cruel observers say) that Bing still exists. Bing is the fourth iteration (it was called Live Search, then Windows Live Search, then MSN Search) of Microsoft's search product. Bing was launched in May 2009 as a new take on the search concept (it was initially marketed as a "decision engine"), one that was expected to begin eating into Google market share. In July 2009, Yahoo! signed over its search capability to Bing. In October 2010, Facebook and Microsoft signed a limited partnership deal that attempted to push Bing forward as the preferred search engine partner for Facebook users. Tellingly, in announcing that deal, Zuckerberg described Bing as the "underdog" in the search market. As, indeed, it still is: according to most measures, Google continues to enjoy a global market share in excess of 80 per cent.
5. The jury is still out on the potency of Google+ as a rival to Facebook. It has in excess of 400 million members; but only a quarter are reckoned to be active users.


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By Keith Peters
Palo Alto Online Sports
The beginning of her career wasn't all that special for Hailie Eackles. The Pinewood girls' basketball team finished 19-10 her freshman year and lost in the semifinals of the Central Coast Section playoffs.
But, much like her game, it's all about finishing.
Eackles hopes to put the finishing touches on her career with two more victories, the first of which could come Saturday in the championship game of the CIF NorCal Division playoffs at Folsom High. Tip off is 1 p.m.
Eackles and her top-seeded Pinewood teammates will put their 26-5 record on the line against No. 3 seed St. Josephs-Notre Dame of Alameda (25-4). Pinewood is ranked No. 1 in the state in Division V and No. 29 overall, according to MaxPreps. St. Joseph is No. 2 in the state for Division V and No. 55 overall.
Eackles brings a 23.5 scoring average into the game, which will send the winner to the CIF State Championships the following Friday at ARCO Arena in Sacrament at 3:30 p.m. The NorCal winner will face either SoCal No. 2 seed Santa Clara (28-6) of Oxnard or No. 4 St. Bernard (23-14) of Playa de Rey.
How Eackles performs, of course, is crucial to Pinewood's hopes. In the past five games, which includes three CCS games and two NorCal contests, Eackles is averaging 28 points and 9.2 rebounds while shooting .566 from the floor (51 of 90).
She has made 21 three-pointers while carrying the defending state champion Panthers closer to a second straight appearance in the state finals.
Pinewood and St. Joseph have met before, as recent as last year's NorCal quarterfinals that saw the Panthers come away with a 64-46 victory on their home court. This matchup, however, will be different with so much at stake.
"I've been watching a lot of film of the St. Joseph-Eastside Prep game," said Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler. "I learned we don't have anybody to guard the big girl."
The "big girl" is 6-foot-4 Carmen Lockhart, who takes up a lot of room on the floor and will cause both offensive and defensive matchup problems. She scored only five points in a 45-38 semifinal victory over Eastside Prep last Saturday, ending the Panthers' season at 22-9.
"We're giving away a lot of height," said Scheppler, who likely will have 5-8 Angelina Mapa on Lockhart. "The girl is just huge. She poses a problem. We're going to have to find a way to minimize her effectiveness."
Fortunately for Pinewood, St. Joseph plays a 2-3 zone.
"We average 11 threes, so we're going to get our shots, that's for sure," Scheppler said. The comparative scores indicate we should be better. It will be interesting, to say the least."
Pinewood hit 14 three-pointers in last year's win over St. Joseph and the Panthers likely will have to approach that Saturday, unless Lockhart gets into foul trouble thus allowing Eackles to drive and Kelsey Morehead to penetrate and dish.
"We played them at home (last year) and we shot pretty well," Scheppler said. "We actually took them out of their zone."
Perimeter shots will be Pinewood's starting point, but Scheppler said "We'll do everything to create a fullcourt game.
Eastside Prep did a nice job of limiting Lockhart, but the Panthers shot poorly and got into foul trouble -- 5-10 Kimberly Leu fouled out in the third quarter and senior Takara Burse got her fifth with 3 1/2 minutes to play. Senior Ahjalee Harvey scored 21 points to keep her team in it and sophomore Hashima Carothers grabbed 14 rebounds. Still, it wasn't enough.
Scheppler hopes to re-create Eastside's defensive effort on Saturday, using his team's speed to tire out Lockhart.
Even more important, however, is that St. Joseph will be playing in only its first NorCal final.
"This is their first big game," Scheppler said. "When you play these big games, nerves play a part.
"We've been here before. We've played (and won) this game before. I've had some great teams. These girls are playing great. They just rise to the occasion."
Scheppler hopes that's the case two more times, starting on Saturday.
"We're happy to be the only CCS girls' team still playing," Scheppler said.
Pinewood advanced with a 66-37 victory over Bradshaw Christian in the NorCal semifinals last Saturday. Eackles had 32 points and 10 rebounds with Morehead adding 14 points while fellow senior Miranda Seto had nine points, seven assists, six rebounds and three steals.
The No. 2-seeded Pinewood boys, however, saw their season end at 23-6 following an 81-75 loss to University (San Francisco) in a NorCal Division V semifinal. Dante Fraioli and Cameron Helvey each scored 20 points while fellow junior Solomone Wolfgramm added 18.


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The Jets never disappoint.
Thanks to the anonymous "terrible" comments about Tim Tebow, they dealt with controversy all week that the media fed on like hungry sharks. It didn't take them long after their 27-13 win over the Rams to stoke the flames and ensure more scrutiny of life in the locker room.
Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post reports that linebacker Bart Scott led a "media mutiny" in the locker room after the game by the team's defense. Per Hubbuch, Scott threatened any player on the defense who said anything other than "both teams played hard." That included calling linebacker Bryan Thomas a "MF—ing sellout" for saying more than Scott wanted him to say. The attempted mutiny came to an end after safety Yeremiah Bell told Scott to stop, which was followed by Scott talking "calmly and openly" to the media.
It's not Scott's first attempted mutiny of the season. He declared one after the season opening victory over the Bills and later had a locker room confrontation with another reporter.
So much for that more placid week in the wake of a win.


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In the early hours of 11 September 1907, a prostitute, Emily Dimmock, took a client to her home at 29 St Paul's Road, Camden. The next evening her naked body was found by her husband on the blood-soaked bed, her throat cut from ear to ear. The killer had washed the blood from his hands at the washbasin and left locking the door behind
him. As with the savage killings by Jack the Ripper in 1888, the case quickly became an ongoing source of prurient sensationalism in the press, fuelled by the acquittal of the only suspect, artist Robert Wood. The exact events of the fateful evening remain unknown and no one was ever charged with Dimmock's murder.
Painter Walter Sickert (1860–1942) shared the widespread fascination with the dark and sinister Ripper murders and the killing of Dimmock. They were a source of inspiration for many of his paintings including various lugubrious female nudes, his series entitled 'The Camden Town Murder' and Jack the Ripper's Bedroom. He was rumoured to have boasted that the acquitted Wood sat for the paintings with his long-time model Marie.
The Old Bedford Music Hall was a popular haunt for Sickert and another source of great interest to him. It became the subject matter for various paintings and etchings. The hall is often depicted from complex and ambiguous perspectives, confusing the spatial relationship between the audience, dancer and orchestra, and the paintings often
have an underlying sexual current.
Sickert's fascination with Jack the Ripper caused significant controversy and led to various claims (all now widely discredited) that he was associated with the murders. One theory alleged that the painter was introduced to the young Prince Eddy (Albert Victor, Queen Victoria's reckless grandson) in the hope that Sickert would teach the prince about art. It was claimed that the prince had an affair with Annie Crook, a shop girl and one of Sickert's models, at Sickert's studio at 15 Cleveland Street. Prince Eddy and Annie were secretly married (with Sickert and Annie's friend Mary-Jane Kelly acting as witnesses) and Annie bore a child, an illegitimate heir to the throne. Queen Victoria ordered a raid on their apartment, led by the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, in the fear that public knowledge of a potential heir to the throne would result in a revolution. Prince Eddy was placed in the custody of his family, Annie was certified as insane and institutionalized, and Mary-Jane Kelly – as the only remaining witness – was brutally and savagely murdered.
Watch Liam Scarlett rehearsing Sweet Violets with Leanne Cope and Thiago Soares:
Sweet Violets opens on 5 April as part of a triple bill alongside Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia and Wayne McGregor and Mark Ronson's Carbon Life.


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Topic: Roadmap of iRedMail/iRedOS-0.7.1
Dear all.
We plan to release iRedMail-0.7.1 and iRedOS-0.7.1 (CentOS based) on 2011-05-01. Also, new versions of iRedAdmin-Pro will be available too.
What's included in iRedMail-0.7.1?
Integrate Fail2ban to harden your mail server. A separate wiki tutorial will be available soon, you can install Fail2ban manually on all iRedMail versions.
A little minor fixes for iRedMail-0.7.0.
What's included in iRedOS-0.7.1?
Based on CentOS-5.6. If 5.6 is not available, use 5.5 plus updates instead.
Ships iRedMail-0.7.1.
Both i386 and x86_64 editions will be available.
Any comments or suggestions?


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Washington, D.C.-based Graham Holdings Co. (NYSE: GHC) has bought a majority share in Troy-based Residential Healthcare Group Inc., the largest provider of Medicare-certified home health care services in Michigan, in a deal that closed Thursday.
Terms were not disclosed. Residential, which operates the Residential Home Health and Residential Hospice business units, had 2013 revenue of about $80 million, said Mike Lewis, who will continue as chairman and CEO.
David Curtis will remain president of Home Health and Justin DeWitte president of Residential Hospice.
Residential Healthcare, founded in 2001, operates in 34 counties in the Lower Peninsula and in six counties in the Chicago area. About 650 of its 825 employees are in Michigan, Lewis said. Graham Holdings, former owner of The Washington Post, is a media company whose principal operations include educational services, television broadcasting including WDIV-Channel 4 in Detroit, cable systems and online and print news. It expanded into health care in 2012.


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Today I am extremely excited to be able to announce the release of the Flurry Analytics SDK for BlackBerry 10! I have been working with Flurry for a couple months behind the scenes to help get this SDK created, tested, and finally available for you to download and integrate into your Cascades or Native applications. In just a few minutes of creating your account with Flurry and downloading the SDK, you can have the service integrated into an app and begin logging events to the Flurry Dashboard.
For anyone new to analytics let me explain why I am so excited and why you should be as well. Analytics gives you the ability to know who is using your application as well as how they are using it. Sounds easy enough right? The Flurry SDK integrates with your application and allows it to log "events" when they occur. A simple example would be logging an event where a button is clicked. That data is recorded and then sent up to the dashboard where patterns start to emerge on how many people are clicking that button, how they got to it, and what users do after it gets pressed.
Analytics helps by telling you two very important pieces of information:
Who is using your application?
The Flurry Analytics service will report the following information about the user/user's device by default:
- Locale set on the device
- Time Zone
- Approximate location
- Device name (ex "BlackBerry Z10")
- Device OS version
- Carrier
And can also be configured by you to report:
- The version of the app being used
- The user's geolocation (with permission from the user)
- The user's gender (if supplied by the user)
- The user's age (if supplied by the user)
- The user ID (if used by your application)
This will let you know where your application is being used, as well as provide you an idea for the type of people that are using it. This in turn gives you the ability to tailor content to various regions and locales based on demand, as well as determine which device models you may want to focus on in the future.
How are people using your application?
Of course after you know who is using your application you will definitely want to know how they are using it. Flurry lets you log events that occur within your application, letting you map out every step the user takes. This is helpful so you can see trends for where they may be getting stuck, areas for improvement, and features that are being used more than expected and can be prioritized for enhancement in future releases. This information is invaluable for making informed decision on where to take the direction of your application.
From the aspect of monetization, knowing user patterns can help you understand what will make your application and possibly digital goods for sale, more attractive/valuable to the end user. Events would also allow you to track the success of promotions within your application. If you happen to sell a limited edition digital good, or offer to unlock the premium features of the app at a reduced price, you have the ability to track the success of the promotion with a relatively short turnaround.
The idea of tracking everything your users do may sound like a scary concept, however all data is made anonymous by the service meaning there is no way of tracking specific actions back to one device/user. Keeping the data anonymous keeps users from compromising their privacy while still maintaining the integrity of the data.
If you're ready to add some analytics to your application then getting started is easy. Simply go over to the Flurry home page and create an account. Then create an application to get the analytics SDK for BlackBerry 10.
I've also whipped up a sample app that you can take a look at to get a feel for the APIs that can be downloaded from the Community Samples Repo on GitHub.
JAM68 – Flurry Mobile Analytics on BlackBerry 10!!
If you're lucky enough to be at BlackBerry Jam Americas this week, you can attend JAM68 where Anthony Watkins and Rich Brett from Flurry will be presenting with me on how to integrate the Analytics SDK into your BlackBerry applications. For those unable to make it, the recording should be posted a few days following the session and you can always send me a message on Twitter with your questions/comments: @garettBeuk
For more information you can also refer to our Analytics page on the forums:
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A Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection
Tuesday March 26, 2019
Additional Dates:
- Wednesday July 24, 2019
- Thursday July 25, 2019
- Friday July 26, 2019
- Saturday July 27, 2019
- Sunday July 28, 2019
Museum of International Folk Art
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone: (505) 476-1200
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Phone: 505-476-1217
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Comprised primarily of ceramic traditions from Mexico, Spain, France, Hungary and Morocco, the collection includes rich holdings of N.M. santos, retablos and metalwork, furniture and textiles from around the world. Runs through 8/25/19.
Free admission, live music, hands-on art projects are added attractions planned around the opening of A Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection. The exhibition celebrates the promised gift to the Museum of International Folk Art of the collection of Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg. The museum opens the exhibition Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018. It runs through Aug. 25, 2019.
The opening reception will be held Sunday, December 16 from 1 – 4 p.m. at the Museum of International Folk Art. The day's festivities include live jazz music by the Cyrus Campbell Group. Ceramic artists Mary Olson and Lucy will help patrons make festive clay candle holders.
The reception will be hosted by the Women's Board of the Museum of New Mexico. Free admission for everyone sponsored by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Fund for Museum Education. www.museumfoundation.org/join
Comprised primarily of ceramic traditions from Mexico, Spain, France, Hungary, Morocco and numerous other countries, the collection also includes rich holdings of New Mexico santos, Latin American retablos and metalwork, and furniture and textiles from around the world. The exhibition brings together the various voices of international cultures and living traditions, through the vision of one collector.


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The film tells the rise and fall of one of the first all-chick rock band the Runaways, from being rebel kids in Los Angeles to rock goddesses performing their jailbait anthem "Cherry Bomb" on stages across the world. The film focuses on the friendship between the lead singer Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning, all grown up) and the lead guitarist Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart, with a mullet and without her vampire), as they deal with insane tours, controlling managers, and making the music they love. The girls become as iconic as their band's music - Jett becomes the badass black leather-and-mullet-wearing rock'n roll pure heart, and Currie becomes the resident jailbait sex kitten - a Bowie-Bardot hybrid in a corset and fishnets.
The Runaways' story is interesting because of the decadent time period - a post-hippie, pre-heavy world that thought itself wild (and was!) but was innocent to the future (AIDS, etc.). The fact that they were still teenage girls when they were thrust into the world of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll is remarkable, and it is easy to see how the band fell under the resident Svengali of Kim Fowley, legendary music impresario who crafts the Runaways' image to make them into a smash hit, no matter how bruised or battered the girls get along the way.
If The Runaways turns out to be anything like Satisfaction! or Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, I will be a very happy girl. I feel like this film could initiate a revival in late-seventies, post-glam pre-grunge awesomeness in the way that girls dress. Joan's uniform of leather pants and faded rock tees with slept-in eyeliner is still working on her over 30 years later, and Cherie's femme fatale looks could easily be channeled to today's wardrobe. It doesn't matter if you just wear a little something that is Runaways-approved, like beat-up black Chuck Taylors or studded dog collar jewelry, as long as you keep that rock'n roll spirit alive. I know that I'm already breaking out my black leather jacket, platform boots and black makeup in preparation.


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Hot-hitting A's seek sweep of Astros
Winners in seven of their last eight contests, the Oakland Athletics attempt to secure a three-game series sweep of the Houston Astros on Sunday afternoon at Minute Maid Park.
The sticks were working early and often for the Athletics on Saturday night, as they finished with a season-high 18 hits on their way to dismissing the Astros, 11-5.
Josh Donaldson finished 4-for-4 with a home run and two RBI, raising his average to .322 in the process.
"My goal every day is to go out there and put good at-bats together," Donaldson said. "The last two games or so I have felt a little bit more overaggressive. I was trying to be a little more patient tonight and get a good pitch to hit. They fell behind me a couple of time, and I was able to get a pitch to hit."
Chris Young, who had three hits and the game-winning home run on Friday night, collected three more hits on Saturday. Seth Smith and Coco Crisp also had three-hit days for the Athletics, and every batter had at least one RBI.
The run support was more than enough for A.J. Griffin (5-3) to work with, as he allowed five hits, a walk and four earned runs in 5 2/3 innings while striking out seven.
Oakland has yet to lose to Houston in eight contests this season.
Lucas Harrell (3-6) was torched in the loss, yielding six earned runs while failing to make it out of the second inning. Harrell has now dropped four straight decisions after winning his previous three.
"There's pretty much only two things to say about the game: It's embarrassing and it's frustrating," Harrell said. "That's pretty much all I have to say."
Jason Castro and Matt Dominguez each belted a pair of homers for the Astros. Jose Altuve also had two hits on the night.
Fresh off one of his strongest outings of the season, Bartolo Colon will attempt to hammer down the series for the Athletics on Sunday afternoon. After earning the win on May 20 on the road against Texas (7 IP, 6 H, 2 ER), Colon improved to 4-2 on the season with a 4.31 ERA.
The veteran right-hander, who turned 40 years old on Friday, defeated the Astros back on April 17, allowing just one earned run and four hits over six innings of work. He's now 5-2 with a 3.42 ERA in eight career starts versus Houston.
Taking the hill for Houston will be Dallas Keuchel, who is 1-1 with a 4.93 in nine combined appearances between the bullpen and the starting rotation.
The 25-year-old left-hander got the nod on May 20 against the Royals and earned his only win of the young season, pitching 6 2/3 innings allowing nine hits, four walks and four earned runs while striking out six.
Keuchel made two relief appearances against Oakland in April, surrendering just one earned run over six innings.


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Greg "Craola" Simkins and I love a lot of the same things, but mostly we love Halloween, Jack o' Lanterns, old SuperFriends cartoons, non-existent animals, and telling ridiculous stories by the campfire.
A couple of months ago, while photographing some monsters for reference on an old shipwrecked boat that had washed up somehow 8 miles inland from the shore, Greg and I stumbled upon a small orange ring mixed in with some dried seaweed. When we brushed it off, BOTH of us SAW it glow. We can swear by that. It only happened for a second, but it happened.
Then it stopped.
But that didn't stop our imaginations, immediately we were arguing where it came from, why it was discarded, and what type of powers this orange ring really did have. But what eventually DID happily transpire was a brand new addition to mine and Greg's "Scared Friends" universe that we juggled back and forth and ultimately molded into a brand new monstrous holiday icon. I present to you, just in time for Halloween, from Greg "Craola" Simkins & Myself, "JACKSON O'MALLEY: THE ORANGE LANTERN":
"The Orange Lantern" Is now available as an ultra limited giclee print from Zerofriends, and, as an extra bonus, comes with a FREE additional print that displays the story of Jackson O'Malley as told by Greg & myself (which you can read in full below). Here is all of the info on the brand new Collaborative print!
By Alex Pardee & Greg "Craola" Simkins
Produced By Zerofriends
Ultra Limited Edition of 100
17" x 22" Printed with archival inks on Velvet Cotton Rag Paper
Each Print is hand signed, numbered, and loved by Alex Pardee & Greg Simkins
Also, each print comes packaged with a FREE additional 10" x 8" print displaying the story of The Orange Lantern
Direct Link to purchase the print:
Here is the full story of The Orange Lantern:
"Piles of hay created an elaborate maze with large costumed sentries guarding the entrance of Mrs Cottone's Pumpkin Patch. They looked like carnival prizes from years past: noses falling off and black button eyes staring blankly. But today they seemed even a bit more menacing. Jackson O'Malley shuttered as he quickened his step past them.
"Ummmff!" Jackson grunted as he fell to the ground tripping over a rather stubborn branch. Or WAS it a branch?
Looking up, Jackson laid his eyes upon what must have been the ugliest, oldest withered scarecrow he had ever seen. Its putrid and sunken head looked like it must have been left over from last year's crop of pumpkins and a nice family of beetles were having their way with its rotted skin as beetles often do.
On further inspection, something odd stood out to Jaded Jackson. He hadn't tripped over a branch or a root, but rather a curled up withered claw, and it was grasping at something. In its rigor-mortised grip was an orange ring with some odd symbols on it.
"Well this is my lucky day", thought Jackson as he broke the ring clear of the grasping claw. "I'll just add this to my collection of Weird Things From the Pumpkin Patch". That collection didn't really exist, however. This was actually the oddest thing he had encountered at Mrs. Cottone's Pumpkin Patch in all of the years he had been kicking off his Autumn and coming here.
A strange warmth pulsed through the ring as he held it, and as he slipped it over his finger two things happened. The fallen scarecrow's head abruptly shifted his gaze at the boy and a wicked grin grew across the face of the scarecrow. Then immediately, Jackson bent over vomiting in horrific pain. Pumpkin seeds, alongside the gooey lining of the gourd that fills the sink as it's carved each October seemed to leap endlessly out of his mouth and nose. Then…all went black.
When he awoke, the pumpkin patch was bathed in darkness. All the guests had seemingly left to return to their T.V. trays and their nightly Wheel of Fortune on the Zenith. Even the scarecrow, which had caused this strange hallucination earlier, was gone. Weirder yet, it appeared as though someone had switched his clothes with the scarecrows. "Perverts", he thought, "who would take the time to slip my clothes off and put these filthy tights on me. I hope no one took secret photos. I won't here the end of it". He said the latter part out of this thought out loud but his voice was labored, as one seed from his earlier puke-fest still remained lodged in his throat. As he swallowed it so as not to give in completely to the desires of his bitter bowels, a little crackling voice whispered inside his ear: "Please…come over here".
"It wasn't a question. Come over here NOW!"
As Jackson approached his reflection in the window of an abandoned trailer, led somehow by an inner-ear-navigator, things quickly became clear.
He threw up his hand in pain as a bright glow shot past him! Dodging the blast, the source of his inner driver began throbbing in pain, and as the bad seed he had swallowed just minutes ago grew inside of him, it burst through side of Jackson's now-pumpkinesque face, fiercely displaying the new tormented duality of …"The Orange Lantern!"
And check out some detailed shots of The Orange Lantern print:


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Duke University is committed to excellence in athletics as part of a larger commitment to excellence in education.
The guiding principle behind Duke's participation in Division I athletics is our belief in its educational value for our students. Intercollegiate athletics promotes character traits of high value to personal development and success in later life. These include the drive to take one's talents to the highest level of performance; embracing the discipline needed to reach high standards; learning to work with others as a team in pursuit of a common goal; and adherence to codes of fairness and respect. Athletics also plays an important role in creating a sense of community in the University.
Duke's mission defines expectations both on the field and off. In the name of excellence, Duke aims for a level of athletic performance that will frequently produce winning seasons and the realistic opportunity to compete for team or individual championships. Our mission also requires that Duke athletes be students first, that they be admitted with careful attention to their academic record and motivation, that they benefit from Duke's educational programs and make satisfactory progress toward a degree, and that their attrition and graduation rates be comparable to those of other students.
Duke is also committed to the physical and emotional well-being of student-athletes and to the social development of the whole person. We recognize that great demands are placed on students who participate in intercollegiate athletics, and we are committed to providing support to help them manage these demands and get the most out of their Duke experience. Athletes are also expected to adhere to a level of conduct that brings credit to themselves and the University and uphold the values of citizenship and service.
Duke's intercollegiate program shall be composed of nationally or regionally recognized sports that meet the needs, interests, and abilities of male and female students; that provide adequate institutional collateral benefits; that reflect due regard for the athletic traditions of Duke University and the Atlantic Coast Conference; and that fall within the financial capabilities of Duke University to fund at adequate levels.
In view of the health and educational value of athletics, in addition to varsity programs, Duke will create rich opportunities for participation in club sports, intramurals, and individual exercise and recreation.
The mission of the athletics program ultimately is that of Duke itself: "to engage the mind, to elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University."


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The Erie Extension Canal was the major means of travel from Pittsburgh to the Great Lakes from 1854-1871. This canal system was vital to the iron industry in western Pennsylvania before the introduction of the railroads.
Inside the Canal Museum, visitors will find various artifacts and historical information from the canal era, including a replica of the Rufus S. Reed -- a typical canal boat.
Greenville's Canal Museum preserves some of the history of the Erie Extension Canal. Visitor's to the area will find it on Allan Avenue (the site of Lock No. 22).
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Texas Horned Lizard
The Texas horned lizard is commonly referred to as "horny toad."
The Texas horned lizard has a flat body that is somewhat circular in shape. Their head has several horns, with two large head spines that are much longer than the others.
It is brown or sandy colored with two rows of scales on each side of the body. They are masters of camouflage and generally rely on their coloration to protect them from predators. Sometimes they partially bury themselves in the sand to hide. If their camouflage fails they can squirt droplets of blood from their eyes, confusing a predator and allowing them to escape.
They are commonly found in loose soil, because they dig to hibernate.
About 70% of the Texas horned lizard's diet is made up of harvester ants, and they sometimes eat other small insects. The Texas horned lizard has declined by about 30% of its range. This can be caused by the overuse of pesticides and the spread of the red imported fire ants. These invasive fire ants destroy the Texas horned lizard's source of food.


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