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UTags necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
*UTa.gs is a URL shortener for Charity. See http://uta.gs
UTa.gs (Pronounced You-Tags) is a website that will allow bloggers, Tweeters, Facebook users, websites and people passionate about a particular charitable cause to easily shorten a URL for free, and advertise the charity of their choice and share that shortened URL with their audience. This idea was born out of the realization that social influence is growing and people with an existing audience should be able to easily share their cause, whether it be cancer, animal welfare or saving the children to help others. So, imagine a site like bit.ly except that instead of jumping directly to an article, the user is first presented with an advertisement for a charity. You can go here to our very super beta (not ready for release) website to get a feel for how this works. Here's a sample page: uta.gs/99designs-utags - don't worry about the design or colors on the existing website, that's all going to change.
Mission Statement
Monetizing URL shortening for the purpose of raising money for charities, local fundraising and non profits
Our Slogan: A URL shortener for charity
Our Target Audience:
Non Profits, Bloggers, Tweeters, Facebook users, Website owners and People passionate about a particular charitable cause.
We want to use this on Facebook and Twitter so either include an Icon image as well or a design we can use as an Icon.
Take a look at our site at http://uta.gs/
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The virus did tend to revert to more drug-susceptible strains in two thirds of the treatment-interruption patients. However those patients still did worse over all. While the two groups had the same number of deaths (8 in each), the treatment-interruption group had more cases of disease progression -- defined as the first occurrence of a new AIDS-defining condition in that patient. At just under one year, the total number of cases of death or disease progression (the primary endpoint this study was set up to look for) was 22 of the 138 patients in the treatment-interruption group, vs. 12 of 132 patients in the control group that did not interrupt treatment. Only 2% of the patients were lost to follow-up during this time.
In this trial the treatment interruption group had a CD4 count about 85 cells lower than the control group while treatment was discontinued, and a viral load 1.2 logs higher (about 16 times higher).
This study was conducted by the CPCRA -- the Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS. This group has very good patient follow-up, in part because patients are studied scientifically during the course of their regular medical care, instead of entering into a separate clinical trial. For example, in this study patients in both groups were given a regimen prescribed for them by their doctor, which could be changed if needed at any time -- instead of having a standard regimen specified in a research protocol, which usually allows limited changes or none unless the patient leaves the study.
Treating patients who are already resistant to most or all available HIV drugs remains difficult and controversial, with trade-offs between HIV progression, new resistance development, and drug toxicity. New drugs are being developed with different resistance patterns, and often the question is what to do now while waiting for enough good drugs to put together a viable suppressive regimen. In any case this negative result should not prejudice people against clinical trials of other kinds of intermittent antiretroviral treatment, with very different patients, procedures, and goals.
Copyright 2003 by John S. James. Permission granted for noncommercial reproduction, provided that our address and phone number are included if more than short quotations are used.
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TeCECigs needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 100 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Phoenix Electronic Cigarette is our new product line
For company information and our other contest see http://99designs.com/logo-design/co…tity-59595
We are a revolutionary electronic cigarette company looking to launch a cutting edge premium electronic cigarette and ultimately take the industry mainstream. This product will be part of a limited availability prelaunch on Jan 1 2011. Jan 1 is the rebirth of our company in many ways. We are stepping into the majors, expanding our company and product base.
The Product
• Name: The Phoenix
• Tagline: Rise From The Ashes
It's a rebirth for us, our customers and the New Year all at once.
Male and females 18 or older looking for the following.
• A Smoking alternative
• A way to help quit smoking cigarettes or other tobacco/nicotine devices
• A safe way for people who don't smoke because of the side effects that are looking to simulate smoking (with our 0 nicotine e cigs)
• Other Electronic Cigarette users
The requirements to win this contest are to:
• Create a brand logo(that can be used several size variations and printed on a product the size of a cigar)
• Create packaging concepts based off the logo (see attached products sizes)
• Tagline: "Rise From The Ashes"
LxWxH for box - 7 3/8 x 3 1/4 x 1 7/8 in
The box has an plastic "Window" to display th product allowing for only 4.25in of actual space on the top of the box.
We are looking for a unique logo using our branding and a unique color scheme. Preferably with the image of a phoenix made from a smoke or vaporlike image included within the logo, something that can be printed well on a product. It doesn't need to be overly colorful or overly complicated.
The designer that goes the extra mile to create a cool logo and display packaging concepts will win this contest. After the contest we will need high resolution images for printing.
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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsEvents
First 2015 Ford Mustang GT Crossing Barrett-Jackson in January
All Proceeds Benefiting JDRF Diabetes Research
The very first retail 2015 Ford Mustang GT fastback will be sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 18, 2014 with all proceeds to benefit JDRF, the country's leading diabetes research charity. Not hitting the sales floor until fall of 2014, the newly-redesigned '15 Mustang will be the first Mustang to go up for sale and for a great cause.
"We're kicking off the next 50 years of Mustang in style with a 2015 model featuring a sleek all-new design, world-class performance and innovative technologies," says Steve Ling, North America car marketing manager for Ford. "We're thrilled to be able to take advantage of Mustang's popularity to help achieve the dream of ending juvenile diabetes."
The Mustang has always been "the car designed to be designed by you" with a wide range of powertrains, body styles, colors, and many other customizable options to fit all kinds of personalities. This new 2015 Mustang edition is no exception with three different engine options, an abundance of technology features, and unlimited personalization.
The winning bidder of Lot No. 3010 can choose between an automatic or manual transmission, their choice of interior, exterior, and stripe combination offered on the brand-new S550 Mustang. The Mustang will also sport signatures of the team involved in Mustang design.
"JDRF is very grateful for the generous and steadfast support from Ford and its employees over the years. It is an incredible honor to be a part of Mustang's 50th celebration and we are so thankful for the donation of the auction proceeds, which will go directly to JDRF's type 1 diabetes research programs," says Jeffrey Brewer, president and CEO of JDRF. "Ford's charitable vehicle sales at Barrett-Jackson have raised more than $3 million for JDRF through the years, and these funds are helping us make tremendous progress towards therapies and treatments that will make life better for people with type 1 diabetes today as we work to find a cure for this terrible disease."
As one of JDRF's first global partners, Ford has supported the organization since 1983. "Ford Mustangs have always been among the most popular collector cars at Barrett-Jackson Collector Car events," says Steve Davis, president of Barrett-Jackson Auction Company. "While every collector wishes they had snapped up the first Mustang sold in 1964, this is an opportunity to realize that dream in a different way."
The 2015 Mustang GT comes with upgrades bumping the car to over 420hp and 390 lb-ft of torque. Under the new body the Mustang has a new front and rear suspension to help with handling and to help throw the power down to the asphalt where it belongs. Another sweet option is launch control, which enables smooth and consistent starts.
This coming April 17, 2014 marks the Mustang's 50th birthday. On that day back in 1964, the first production Mustang was introduced to the public. Each 2015 Ford Mustang model sports the galloping pony logo and the words, "Mustang – Since 1964."
While the Barrett-Jackson auction goes on, Ford will offer ride-and-drives and hot lap experiences at WestWorld for those in attendance. The ride-and-drive will feature Ford's 2014 models with the hot lap featuring the Shelby GT500, Focus ST, and Fiesta ST.
The Need For Speed wide-body Mustang will also be on display during the auction with its 22-inch alloy wheels, large intakes, and supercharged V-8 engine.
For more info, visit Barrett-Jackson or on its Facebook page here.
UPDATE: The First 2015 Ford Mustang sold for $300k benefiting Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation!


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This certificate program in the Department of Geography at Western Michigan University is designed for post-baccalaureate students in social and physical sciences, public administration, information technology, engineering, business and other disciplines where skills in handling and analyzing geographically distributed data are needed.
The program provides a strong framework for developing competencies in geographic information systems, remote sensing and spatial analysis. Students completing the program will be able to:
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Web space is provided via E-Locker for students to complete college web-based projects. By using this service, you must read and agree to the College Acceptable Use Guidelines.
In order to use your web space, you must already have a valid CPCC Login. The following instructions will help you configure your E-Locker space.
- Connect to your E-Locker via WebDAV or on campus or using the SFTP/SCP secure FTP service.
- Create a folder called 'www'.
- Put any content you wish to be available via the web in the 'www' folder.
To access your web content via a browser, the URL will be http://students.cpcc.edu/~<username>
(i.e., http://students.cpcc.edu/~abcde01)
If you are taking PHP/MySQL courses, you can also have your database space created by going to PHPMyAdminSetup and logging in with your CPCC Login. Once the database has been created, the PHPMyAdmin application can be used to work with your database.
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Learn Differential Equations
Res. 18-009 - Learn Differential Equations: Up Close with Gilbert Strang and Cleve Moler (Fall 2015, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Gilbert Strang and Dr. Cleve Moler. This is an in-depth series of videos about differential equations and the MATLAB ODE suite. These videos are suitable for students and life-long learners to enjoy. (from ocw.mit.edu)
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Our February Board Of Directors meeting will be at 11:45 on Saturday 2/10/18 at Fuddruckers located at 3000 Windy Hill Rd. in Marietta. We'll wrap up the meeting by 1:00 and head down the road to the Windy Hill Community Center for our 1:30 meeting start.
I plan to arrive before 11:00 to enjoy lunch before we begin the actual meeting. As always, members are encouraged to attend and participate. Hope to see you all there!


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By Manuela Braun
Antares is an elegant motorised glider – the only aircraft in the world capable of taking off using power from fuel cells alone. An idea conceived at DLR Hamburg just two years ago, it flew at the Berlin Air Show, ILA, for the first time on 8 June 2010.
Two years ago, during the previous ILA, the glider was still in the making. The concept was born at DLR Stuttgart in November 2007, and the official contract for the project was signed in March 2008. The plane was built by April 2009 – an incredible speed for a project of this kind – and the first flight was conducted in May 2009.
Antares' ability to take off powered only by fuel cells is what makes it unique. We asked Project Manager Josef Kallo, Head of Electrochemical Systems at the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics in Stuttgart, and he told us that Antares has no competition.
In aircraft powered by a conventional piston engine, energy is released by combustion of the fuel, and then translated into movement. This movement turns the engine and propels the aircraft. The efficiency of this process (converting fuel into usable energy) is limited to about 28 percent. Conventional aircraft powered by fossil fuels typically only use between 18 and 25 percent of the energy in the fuel for propulsion.
Antares is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. An electrochemical reaction takes place in this fuel cell, combining the hydrogen with oxygen from the atmosphere to produce water and electricity. This electricity powers the motor directly. The efficiency of this direct process is 42-43 percent, much higher than that of a conventional piston engine.
As long as its hydrogen fuel comes from a renewable source, Antares is carbon-neutral, releasing only water vapour into the atmosphere. It also emits no particulates – another advantage compared to conventional aircraft engines. The aircraft itself is extremely lightweight, being made primarily of carbon-fibre reinforced composite materials.
Antares completed its first flight at ILA on the morning of 8 June, to obtain approvals for the first official flight at ILA later that afternoon. Routine checks were performed that morning and the fuel cells were allowed to warm up before the flight began. Antares climbed to roughly 100 metres during its first ILA approval flight.
For the pilot, sitting in Antares is comparable to sitting on a recumbent bike. The flight control layout is also somewhat unusual.
The glider can normally soar to 1500–2000 metres, although the team are confident that 3000 metres poses no challenge. Until now, Antares has flown about 10 to 12 flights in all, 7 or 8 of which have been test flights.
Dr Kallo shared with us the plans for the next generation. The team is working on a fuel cell hybrid. This next generation plane will be more powerful, with the capacity to take on a wider range of missions while remaining carbon-neutral.


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I have a recipe that includes two 6 ounce cans of tomato paste along with one 8 ounce can of tomato sauce. Can tomato paste and/or tomato sauce count towards my daily vegetable requirement?
Yes! Both tomato paste and tomato sauce count towards your vegetable goals for the day. This is fortunate because they can be used as the base for many great pasta and vegetable dishes! Goals will vary due to age, gender and activity level, so check out our website to determine your personal fruit and vegetable goals—then get creative with your sauces!! Be sure to look for recipe tips and suggestions right here on our website.


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"Happy Birthday, Elton" (KASY-50 7 p.m.) MyNetworkTV tries to add a little star power, hosting a celebrity-
"30 Rock" (KOB-4 7:30 p.m.) NBC's increasingly funny sitcom returns with a guest appearance by Will Arnett, the former "Arrested Development" star who's currently adding laughs to Blades of Glory.
"Human Giant" (MTV 11:30 p.m.) It's hard to keep track of all the alterna sketch comedy hitting the airwaves these days. This quartet (Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and Jason Woliner) specializes in super-short, no-budget skits and reality gags obviously inspired by Internet viral videos.
"P. Diddy Presents The Bad Boys of Comedy" (HBO 1 a.m.) To hell with Diddy. The Original Human Beatbox, Doug E. Fresh, hosts! Six minutes. Six minutes. Six minutes, Doug E. Fresh, you're on. Uh uh on. Uh uh on. Uh uh-uh uh-uh uh uh on.
Kaw (Sci-Fi 7 p.m.) Killer ravens. In case you were wondering.
The Ten Commandments (KOAT-7 6 p.m.) It may be on Saturday this year and not Easter Sunday proper; but in my book, watching this still counts as going to church.
"America's Cutest Puppies" (WEtv 7 p.m.) Seriously? This is all it takes to run a cable network? Pictures of cute puppies? Wow. It must have taken three monkeys and a guy with a lobotomy a whole lunch hour to come up with a concept like that.
"Masterpiece Theater: The Wind in the Willows" (KNME-5 9 p.m.) It's probably too stuffy for kids, but this new adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's tale does feature the likes of Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) and Matt Lucas ("Little Britain").
"The Sopranos" (HBO 10 p.m.) Now that you mention it, I do vaguely recall a show with this title.
"Entourage" (HBO 11 p.m.) As good as it is to see "The Sopranos" belt out its swan song, I'm even more excited for a new season of "Entourage," which is really hitting its comic stride. It's good to have the boys back. Now kiss and make up with Ari already.
"Thank God You're Here" (KOB-4 8 p.m.) NBC kicks off the great summer wasteland of reruns and reality shows a bit early with a series that might actually be worth a laugh or two. In it, celebrity funnypeople (tonight: Jennifer Coolidge, Bryan Cranston, Joel McHale and Wayne Knight) compete in an improvisation contest where the performers are dumped into random sketch scenes with the titular catchphrase as their only introduction to what the hell is going on.
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" (A&E 7 p.m.) A whole new season and our boy is still fighting that whole "extradition to Mexico on criminal charges" thing. Kinda ironic, don'tcha think?
"Shear Genius" (Bravo 9 p.m.) It's a reality show competition for models, designers, chefs, hairstylists!


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A month of heavy rains in Niger has caused the Niger River to overflow and flood areas in the west of the country, including the capital, Niamey. Entire communities have been forced to move to higher ground and thousands of families who have lost their homes have sought shelter in schools.
So far, 52 people have died and about 15,000 homes, mostly made of mud bricks, have collapsed. The Government has called for international assistance, and humanitarian organizations that were already in Niger responding to the cholera epidemic and food insecurity are now trying to help more than 400,000 people affected by the floods.
The level of the Niger River has been rising since the end of July. But people living in areas close to the banks in Niamey did not leave their homes until sustained rainfall forced them out in August.
"We had warned that the water level would be higher than last year," said Robert Dessouassi, an expert with the Regional Niger Basin Authority. "By mid-August, the water was recorded at a height of 544 cm, which is 14 cm above the alert threshold."
As the third-longest river in Africa, the Niger runs through western Niger and into the neighbouring countries of Mali, Benin and Nigeria. Western Niger's Dosso and Tillabéry regions, and Niamey were the hardest hit, with entire neighbourhoods, villages, crops and farmlands flooded. Other areas across the country have seen localized flooding.
The World Food Programme, UNICEF, the Red Cross of Niger and local humanitarian partners are supporting the Government's efforts to provide food, water, shelter and emergency healthcare. But more relief supplies, including emergency shelters and hygiene kits, are urgently needed.
Reporting by Franck Kumonu/ OCHA Niger
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I expect that everyone has heard the "Blacks are lazy" slander. I think a single economic principle has two aspects that may explain its genesis: if everything else is the same, people will prefer leisure to work. In other words, everyone is lazy. So why do blacks get picked on? Two reasons: First, racism rewards blacks less for work, giving them less incentive to work hard. Second, that the difference between the work output of a slave versus the same person as a freedman could be perceived as laziness. Even the smallest effect would be picked up by a racist looking for reasons to hate blacks.
It is a fact that blacks are paid less for the same work as whites. Black unemployment is also higher than white unemployment. Racists no doubt think there is one and only one explanation: that blacks work less hard, create less value, and their continued employment can only be justified by less pay. It's much more likely that racism is the cause of "blacks are lazy".
Anecdotal evidence is always suspect, but it can be useful for what it does not show. I, myself, know of no blacks who could remotely be called lazy. A 60-hour work week, a house on the North Shore, and daughters in Princeton and Williams is not evidence of laziness.
I cannot recall where I read this, but freed slaves worked less hard upon receiving their freedom. This is predictable since a slave owner puts the highest value on the work output of a slave, whereas the slave values leisure highest (if all else is the same). Of course, all else was not the same. The slave-holder was free to use violence and imprisonment against the slave, whereas the slave only had underwork and escape.
Note that I'm not saying that blacks actually are lazy. I'm saying that people pre-disposed to find differences between themselves and others based on race (that is, racists) are comforted by the perception that blacks are lazy. It would take very little evidence to convince them of anything bad about blacks, and very large evidence to convince them of anything good. For example, a racist will generalize from a single black person resting on his shovel to thinking that all blacks are lazy. And once a racist starts believing bad of blacks, those blacks get paid less, those blacks want to work less, and you have a vicious cycle. Even if the effect is small in time, space, or magnitude, a racist will pick it up and continue to believe that blacks are lazy.
Rather than end on that depressing note, I'll end on an even more depressing note: I don't think there's anything to be done about it other than to wait for racists to die out.


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U.S. stock-index futures bounced higher on Monday on strong data from China and Japan.
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Today's Markets
As of 8:20 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 28 points to 14937, S&P 500 futures gained 3.5 points to 1657 and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 13.8 points to 3143.
The markets capped the week with solid gains last week, as fears about Syria faded to some extent and traders grew slightly less concerned about the extent at which the Fed is likely to pare back its vast bond-buying program later this month.
Monday was off to a solid start on the back of strong data from Asia. China's exports soared 7.2% in August on a year-to-year basis, widely beating estimates that they would rise 5.5%. Imports climbed 7%, missing estimates they would rise 11.3%.
The data suggest the world's second-biggest economy may be able to dodge a much-feared "hard landing." Indeed, Nomura told its clients it sees "moderate upside risks" to its third-quarter gross domestic product estimates. Still, the Japan-based investment bank believes the recovery might not be sustainable.
Meanwhile, Japan saw its second-quarter GDP revised up to an annual rate of 3.8% from 2.6%. The Bank of Japan has embarked on an aggressive easing program aimed at dramatically ramping up growth and increasing inflation in a bid to shake off a decades-long deflation trap.
The U.S. data docket is light on the day, but traders will get a reading on consumer debt conditions in afternoon.
On the corporate front, Koch Industries unveiled plans to buy Molex (NASDAQ:MOLX) for $38.50 a share in a $7.2 billion deal. BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) shares rallied on a report from The Sunday Times that Prem Watsa was mulling a bid for the embattled smartphone maker.
In commodities, U.S. oil futures fell 35 cents, or 0.32%, to $110.20 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline slid 0.99% to $2.826 a gallon. Gold slipped $3.20, 0.22%, to $1,384 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.34% to 2793, the English FTSE 100 dipped 0.4% to 6521 and the German DAX rose 0.02% to 8277.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 soared 2.5% to 14205 and the Chinese Hang Seng jumped 0.57% to 22750.


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The Summer of Content (SoCon) program offers budding creators mentorship and stipends to develop open content and run free culture events throughout the world. Inspired by Google's Summer of Code program, our goal is to support a self-sustaining ecosystem of open content by encouraging growth of contributor communities, and attention to communication and accessibility around projects, where they're most needed.
There are two Summer sessions a year, each lasting approximately 10 weeks: a Northern Summer running between June and August and a Southern Summer running between December and February. (The current Northern Summer 2007 is a pilot run, taking place in August and September 2007.)
Each summer, applicants, mentors, and the open content community define open content projects that need working on. Applicants describe the projects they want to work on and the kind of work they want to do. Mentor organizations describe the projects they can support and the mentors they have available. SoCon acts as matchmaker for mentors and interns, and project work begins! The Summer ends with a series of local Jams around the world to showcase and gather feedback on the new creations.


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Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
One of the most striking public policy stories in urban America for the past generation – true all across the country but mysterious in its causes – has been the steep decline in gun homicides and violent crime since the early 1990s. Gun homicides peaked in the United States in 1993, a zenith that coincides with the worst reputations of devolving cities in the midst of crack epidemics and white flight.
Since then, firearm homicides have declined, dramatically through the 1990s and then more slowly since 2000. Non-fatal firearm crimes have declined. And violent crime in general has gone down, too. By 2010, the firearm homicide rate in America was 49 percent lower than it was in 1993. This chart, from a report out today by the Pew Research Center, shows the long-term trend in gun homicides since 1980:
And one more, showing non-fatal gun crime since 1993:
This latest Pew study, primarily based on federal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey, contained one other odd finding: A majority of Americans seem oblivious to these trends. In Pew's survey, 56 percent of people believe that there's more crime involving guns in America today than there was 20 years ago. Only 12 percent of people get this question right.
So why might this be? If gun violence has dramatically declined in America, and many cities are safer today as a result – and plenty of people moving back into them seem to intuitively understand this – why do so many people think gun violence is getting worse?
For one thing, mass shootings invariably weigh more heavily on the public psyche than lone gun deaths, and shootings involving three or more victims have slightly ticked up. In Pew's 2012 News Interest Index, the mass shooting in Newton, Connecticut, ranked second only to the presidential election among stories Americans followed most closely last year. Also among the top stories last year: the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting (ranked fifth) and the Trayvon Martin case (ranked 11th).
It's also possible that Americans have been confused about the trend precisely because researchers and policy wonks have been confused as well about what's behind it. Some law enforcement agencies have tried to take credit for safer cities thanks to police tactics (the decline has been national, though, occurring across cities with varying strategies). Increased incarceration rates suggest that fewer criminals might be on the streets today relative to the 1980s (but foreign countries have seen similar declines without our prison system). Other researchers have pegged the decrease in crime to America's rise in legal abortions, or to the drop in lead in gasoline. But the National Academy of Sciences has questioned both of these two hypotheses.
Twenty years into this safer era, we still don't know quite how we got here. Perhaps in absence of a logical narrative, many Americans simply find it hard to believe this is true.
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Puerto Rico just adopted legislation that commits it to generating all its power from renewable sources. Here's what separates that from what's going on in D.C.
The landmark Children's Health Study tracked thousands of children in California over many years—and transformed our understanding of air pollution's harms.
As prices drop for renewable power, some researchers hope the island state could be the ideal testbed for hydrogen fuel cells in public transportation.
In the beginning, it was a policy-shaking event that awakened a new generation of activists. But now even environmentalists have misgivings about it.


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Now that the election is over, President Barack Obama and Congress must confront the fiscal cliff—sweeping tax increases and spending cuts that would sharply reduce the federal deficit but likely push the U.S. economy back into recession, experts say.
Without congressional action, Jan. 1 will bring expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts, extended jobless benefits and 2 percent payroll-tax cut. In addition, there will be deep reductions in Medicare payment rates and across-the-board spending cuts in most defense and non-defense discretionary programs.
The plurality of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll says Congress should enact major spending and tax reform before the looming fiscal cliff deadline.
Nearly half of poll participants—47 percent—want Congress to enact major spending and tax reform before the Jan. 1 deadline. Some 44 percent recommend extending current spending and tax rates, then making tax and spending reform the top priority next year.
Less than 10 percent think it's a good idea to allow the fiscal cliff spending cuts and tax increases to occur.
Nearly 100 top U.S. CEOs recently declared their support for the Fix the Debt campaign, which advocates phased-in major deficit reduction through both spending cuts and changes that "simplify the tax code and eliminate loopholes through pro-growth and revenue-positive tax reform." As a starting point, it uses the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission recommendations.
In response, the Tax Relief Coalition—which includes the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups—urged Congress to extend current policy to avoid the fiscal cliff. Then, tax and entitlement reform should be the top priority of the next Congress, with "significantly more in spending reductions than in (increased) revenue." The coalition believes the Simpson-Bowles plan calls for too much increased tax revenue.
Roughly 42 percent of Snap Poll respondents favor more spending cuts than increased tax revenue as the approach to fiscal reform. Slightly less than a quarter call for equal amounts of spending cuts and increased tax revenue.
Roughly 735 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted Nov. 5 and 6.
How should Congress and the president deal with the fiscal cliff?
Enact major spending and tax reform before the Jan. 1 fiscal cliff deadline: 47%
Extend current spending and tax rates; make tax and spending reform the top priority next year: 44%
Allow the fiscal cliff spending cuts and tax increases to occur: 9%
Which of the following approaches to fiscal reform do you favor?
More spending cuts than increased tax revenue: 42%
Equal amounts of spending cuts and increased tax revenue: 24%
Spending cuts only: 21%
More increased tax revenue than spending cuts: 11%
Increased tax revenue only: 1%
The Simpson-Bowles plan has been on the table for more than a year. It is a well-thought-out, bipartisan approach to the debt-deficit issue. It's time Congress took it up.
—Jim Haefner, Pittsford
The $16.20 trillion debt must be addressed. Each citizen's share of the debt is over $51,000. We have a spending problem; it can't be solved with increasing taxes only.
—David Young, Young & Co. CPAs LLP
The United States needs to get serious about cutting military spending. The U.S. military budget accounts for approximately 40 percent of global arms spending. The 2012 budget is six to seven times larger than the $106 billion of the military budget of China and is more than the next 20 largest military spenders combined!
—Lawrence Jones
Simply to increase taxation and reduce spending without rethinking and recreating how the United States spends and allocates her financial resources will likely increase the burden on the middle class and increase the plight of the poor.
—Leslie Apetz
I would like to see some collaboration in Congress.
—Joy Ryen Plotnik
I quote Sen. Alan Simpson, who said that anyone who comes to Washington unwilling to compromise is someone with rocks in his head. Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge is dogma. And fact-free dogma, at that. We need expedience.
—Jon Wilder, president, H&W Technology LLC
Congress will never reach agreement on this critical issue this year. If this country falls off the tax cliff, there is no doubt in my mind that the country will quickly fall into a very deep recession. We must not let that happen.
—Doug Flood
With unprecedented deficit spending already in place, I'm not sure how anyone can be sure about a precise approach, but clearly a lot of programs/agencies/institutions need to accept a hit to their budget and the base of citizens who actually pay taxes must expand, since we have passed the point where more is paid out than is paid in.
—Bob Miglioratti
I suggest that Congress take this all the way to the cliff's edge—and then jump!
—Bill Lanigan
If government employee entitlements were reviewed in the areas of benefits, retirement and anything else they receive (that) the average worker does not, I have to believe there would be a huge impact on the debt. It is not fair that they are not treated equal to the rest of us Americans. Therein lies their lack of empathy to our needs for pensions, Medicare and Social Security. It isn't right.
—Roberta Favitta
This is not that complicated. Start with rolling back government expenditures (and personnel) to a pre-Obama level. Look at every "grant" that goes from the federal government to the states. Stop at least one-third in value. Then begin to really work on reducing the expenses of federal government to no more than 20 percent of gross domestic product.
—Bob Worden, Penn Yan
Go back to 2008 levels of spending, and the problem disappears. We engineered the bankruptcy of America in two years, from 2009-2010, and we can undo the damage if we have the political willpower to do it. Unfortunately I have little confidence the Republicans really mean it when they talk about the deficit, and I am certain the Democrats don't. When the history books are written in 100 years, they will look at 2009-2010 as the tipping point in America's decline.
—Bob Sarbane
Let the federal government go over the cliff. Then the cuts will truly happen. Next, immediately pass a new budget that restores cuts made to the military. Then President Romney can propose and Congress can pass the new "Romney-era" tax cuts that mirror the old Bush tax cuts and include permanent reductions to the "death tax." In the meantime, Romney will unshackle business and industry, and millions of people will go back to work in new jobs. The payroll taxes collected from these now working people will contribute mightily to reducing the deficit without raising anybody else's taxes!
—George Thomas, Ogden
The subject of the fiscal crisis is a very complicated issue. One thing for certain is that we cannot expect the same amount of services nor continue to pay as little as we do until the crisis is over. Another thing that would help tremendously is to have more people employed. In that way the revenue stream would be increased. So here are some things that we should do: Revenue increases: 1. Move the tax rates back to the Clinton era and hold them there until the budget is balanced or that a new fairer tax code is implemented. 2. Require people to pay into Social Security, unemployment and Medicare for their entire working career. Require higher wage earners to pay more with no loopholes or exemptions. 3. Aggressively seek streamlining government. By eliminating redundancies, challenging spending, eliminating congressional perks and allowances. Savings: 1. Stop paying subsidies for companies not developing resources on federal lands. 2. Stop subsidizing companies that ship jobs overseas. 3. Stop subsidizing or giving tax breaks to companies who do not produce more than 50 percent local content in their products. 4. Require Congress to have the same benefits and health plans as normal Americans. 5. Eliminate the current wars and stop providing foreign aid to countries that are developed or are enemies of the US. 6. Stop buying weapons that the military does not want but that which a congressman wants. 7. Stop subsidizing energy companies or providing access to federal lands if they do not provide enough energy to stabilize U.S. energy prices at a level reasonable enough to promote recovery. None of these, or any other significant changes, will be enacted before the end of the year. I expect only Band-Aids to be used. These changes will take time to develop and enact. The deficit will not go away overnight like the Tea Party wants. It took 12 years to build the debt. We need reasonable time to get rid of it. But we need legislation that cannot be reversed.
—Bob Stein
I agree with the Simpson-Bowles commission recommendations as the starting point. This should have been done right after the commission completed about two years ago but the Republicans in congress "just said no," and that is all they have done since they took power. They have done nothing to help the average American or to foster business. Their only objective was to defeat President Obama. The Republican-led Congress makes me sick! Get off your ass and work together on bipartisan reforms before it is too late!
—Stanley Hilt, lifelong Republican
Our leaders need to work with big business to bring jobs back to the U.S. We need to lower taxes and do a better job of scrutinizing those truly in need. Our leaders need to tighten their belts—no more "free lunch," and work together. And, first and foremost, we need to honor our Constitution!
—Rich Mileo
We should take the politicians to the cliff and give them a lemming training seminar.
—Daniel Mossien, architect
There is a $16.5 trillion debt. The annual deficit is growing by almost $1.5 trillion per year! Grow up, everyone. We are already over the fiscal cliff. The question is, when are we all going to realize it and begin to start climbing back up the cliff. Washington, you guys, all of you, grow up first and start doing your jobs.
—Jay Birnbaum
The government should approach this no differently than a wise business would or a wise family, for that matter. Reduce expenditures first. To do otherwise assumes that government can successfully operate outside the laws of economics. Government does not deserve a pass on imprudent spending. After all, the only money it has is money it first takes from its citizens. I'm confident most citizens will much more wisely invest and spend their own money than a third —party ever could.
—Mimi Bacilek, president, SuccessBuilders, LLC
I have become interested in and support the work of the Americans for Responsible Taxes organization, which is a "coalition of concerned communities and working families united to repeal the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest, reinstate the estate tax to at least 2009 levels, close tax loopholes, and inform Americans and their elected officials about the importance of responsible tax and budget policies. ART engages in grassroots activism, legislative lobbying, public outreach, and communications work to advance responsible taxation." Please check out their website (http://www.responsibletaxes.org) if you want to help promote a realistic solution to our fiscal problems without destroying critical government spending. Urge your elected officials from both sides of the aisle to work toward these goals. We can do this.
—Greg Reynolds East Rochester
We have to stop worrying about this imaginary "fiscal cliff" and do what it takes to create jobs.
—Eric Bourgeois
Increase tax revenue on the top 1 percent. Spending cuts prudently (as has been the case for the last four years), where it is unlikely to affect economic recovery or increase unemployment drastically, and can be proven to be fraudulently or wastefully spent. No earmarks at all. Abolish earmarks. Channel more money to small business and less money to the military/industrial complex.
—Lee Drake, CEO, OS-Cubed Inc.
If I ran my business the way Congress runs the country's business, I would have gone broke years ago: little, if any strategic planning, no cash reserves, little if any cooperation among the inside players and stakeholders, poor service and little consideration for the taxpayers, lousy leadership. It is a pathetic way to run an institution, company or a nation.
—R. Tarantello, Tarantello & Associates
The spending cap is an artificial limit placed on our society for political, and not for economic reasons. It is too disruptive for modern economy.
—K.C. Chin
I'm tired of brinksmanship. Ideologues from both parties draw their lines in the sand and dare their opponents to step over the line. At the same time, we have campaigns awash in special interest money, superPACs delivering "hate" messages while congress and the president "kick the can" down the road. Fiscal policy cannot embrace draconian spending cuts and ignore the need to increase tax revenues. Either one by itself fails. And, yet the lines are still drawn in the sand, and "hate" campaigns are constitutionally OK.
—Wayne Donner, Rush
The truth is that there will always be budget deficits, and the whole debate has become too ideological rather than rational and pragmatic. We need to parse the business and personal components, and reduce the number of deductions and loopholes. We don't need draconian social program cuts, and we should re-evaluate how health care reform is paid for. I like the idea of a single payer, which could bring major reductions in drug costs. Spend more money on strengthening anti-fraud efforts. Military spending should get a zero based budget approach to assess needs and effectiveness every five years. Most important, we need to assess how we treat our returning veterans. It might be better to have all budget expenditures run by a panel of moms and grandmas to see what they would spend money on. When Bob Duffy ran for Mayor, his theme was public safety, education and economic development. Maybe the Congress and Senate should identify similar basic priorities. Including health and support (Social Security) as components of public safety. Force Congress to halt any new spending, until all spending is accounted for. Force payment of debt obligations as the first priority, then whatever costs for direct benefit to all our citizens second. Lowest priorities should be assigned to the military, and "member items" and special interest spending. Finally force a simple up and down vote on each specified priority. If we don't have enough money to meet those priorities, increase taxes on a sliding scale with those making more paying the highest amount to balance the budget.
—Frank Orienter, Rochester
Any business that spends more than it makes is finished. Any business that keeps raising prices (taxes) will lose customers (taxpayers) and will also be finished. Our government is that business but will never go out of business. Why? Because its business is printing money.
—John Malvaso, FSI Systems inc.
Just do it!
—G. Palis
A "Simpson-Bowles" type commission should be established both to determine the revenue increases, tax reform, and spending cuts recommendations AND then to implement the changes. The political repercussions of any significant changes are too difficult for Congress to finalize and implement.
—Mike Bleeg Strategic Results
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(Source: WhatSellsBest.com) – This mint condition vintage Burton Snowboard fetched a final bid of $11,211 on eBay.
The Snowboard, described by the seller as a BB1 Londonderry made between 1978 and 1979 (Burton Company History), appeared to have never been ridden and in absolutely perfect condition.
The seller also stated; "(This is) Literally The Holy Grail of collectable snowboards. This board was hand made in Londonderry Vermont by Jake himself and was pulled from his personal archives and sold for a charity event."
The auction received 29 bids from 13 bidders over the course of 5 days. The eBay view-counter recorded over 3600 visitors to the listing. The auction ended Monday March 25, (2012) at 5:26pm Pacific Standard Time.
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And we're at £66k on the Kickstarter. The latest update is here, and details about the stretch goals are here.
Spread the word! We have just two weeks left to make this a roaring success.
Please watch in HD!
And we're at £66k on the Kickstarter. The latest update is here, and details about the stretch goals are here.
Spread the word! We have just two weeks left to make this a roaring success.
As you know, the basic result of our being funded is to expand our prototype into a full game.
You've already seen the results of our work in the videos and screenshots we've released so far. Right now we can generate islands, be hunted by robots, loot buildings, and engage in survival and stealth activities. Kickstarter money gives us time to expand and polish all those basic aspects of the game, and lets us put real time into the things that really matter in play, like how the "feel" of combat comes across, and how the thresholds of detection and activity make the stealth game play out. This are critical design problems that require serious focus. We can now get on with that.
We can also finish work on our cast of NPCs, developing both their general AI behaviours, and – most critically – the animations that bring them to life. Here's the cast of horrors you've already unleashed.
The Hunters
These come in a number of tweedy flavours, but the net result is always that you are hunted across woodland and heath, with shotguns and worse. The hunter is the most common of the killer gentry, and they're keen on murder and tea. They aren't always friendly to each other, either. Different robot families have oil feuds that have been going on for years – expect to see them settling their differences while on the hunt.
The Hound
The hunter's best friend. The razor-jawed beasts chase the player down, pin them down, and let the hunter's rifle do its work. Learn to deal with these four-legged nasties with haste.
The Poacher
A trap-wielding, near-invisible interloper. Crudely armed with a blunderbuss and bear-traps, the poachers lie in wait, and will kill whatever wanders into their traps, whether it be robot or human…
The Squire
Middle-class mechanical, The Squire, isn't interested in hunting. He's not really interested in open hostility at all. You can walk up to a passive Squire without any danger. The huge beasts wander amiably around the villages, humming popular music hall tunes. That is until you try to loot a building. Then there might be trouble.
The Bog Creature
Briefly revealed at the end of our Kickstarter pitch video (admittedly in placeholder form) the bog creature is a mysterious tentacular contraption which lurks beneath the murky surface of the waters surrounding the archipelago. We 're going to love crafting that one. (Sorry.)
Oh, and, since a few of you asked about this, the game will, as standard, come in "Sir, You Are Being Hunted" and "Madam, You Are Being Hunted" modes. You will get to choose gender on game-start.
Stretch goals are additional features that we can promise if we hit higher levels of funding, now that the £40,000 goal has been reached. Here's what we're planning.
£45,000 – The Landowner UNLOCKED!
At this amount we'll be expanding our NPC roster with "The Landowner." This chap is an aberrant mechanical ultra-toff. He's a leader among hunters, and the nightmare gaze of his glowing monocle means near-certain death, and at the very least lots of peril. With The Landowner in play, the player is truly in trouble – his tracking skills and his riflemanship are peerless. Fear him.
£50,000 – Hunting! UNLOCKED!
This stretch goal will allow us to include additional wildlife-slaying functionality. You will be able to hunt pheasants and rabbits and then cook them for sustenance. This will provide a complementary mode of survival for players aside from scavenging, as well as furnishing the world of Sir with more life. (And death.)
£55,000 – The Castle biome! UNLOCKED!
A completely new island type on which a ruined castle is procedurally generated across the entire island. This will provide the game with both a radically different terrain, and an atmospheric arena in which to be systematically hunted down and shot. (We're really excited about this one – more proc-gen makes Tom happy.)
£60,000 – Hot Air Balloon Spotter Patrols
This will probably take a little bit of explaining. Basically, the robots will man a hot air balloon which will make passes over the islands. From there they'll be able to direct hunters on the ground, and take pot-shots at you if and when they spot you. This adds some verticality to think about, especially as balloons are silent most of the time. Keep your eyes on the skies! These balloon patrols might be slow moving, but they will provide platforms for the hunters to spot you over a large area at any one time, and as such should provide serious jeopardy.
As for the multiplayer question, well, we are focused on delivering a single player game right now. We do have a plan for multiplayer, but it will take a lot more cash. Therefore we'll place it very high on stretch-goal targets. That's all we can say for now.
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New Trailer For JUPITER ASCENDING - Now THIS Is More Like It !!
Finally a good glimpse at what the Wachowski's have in store for us in JUPITER ASCENDING because the first looks were not all that thrilling for me. With the release of this trailer however, I can foresee a much better future for the movie and even if they delayed the movie only to get the right marketing in place, I'm ok with that!
Further, the movie is being painstakingly converted to 3D by none other than Stereoscopic Supervisor Chris Parks (GRAVITY), who I just interviewed for our Fall Stereographer Series - be sure to check that out. So you can expect an amazing 3D experience. Legend3D is the conversion house.
The scope of the movie is jaw-dropping and it looks like the VFX are up to the task. It's all got to be believable - the story will stretch our suspension of disbelief dramatically, but then again this is coming from the makers of THE MATRIX sooooo....
Here's the storyline for the movie:
From the streets of Chicago to the far-flung galaxies whirling through space, "Jupiter Ascending" tells the story of Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who was born under a night sky, with signs predicting she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.
JUPITER ASCENDING opens on February 6, 2015 in 3D, IMAX 3D and flat.


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It's been a while since we had an update on here, so I thought I'd say a few things about how we're getting along.
Our Channel 4-funded project, Fallen City, is storming ahead (as you can see above) and we've now got our angry little chaps wandering about in cities that are part placeholder, part final art. It's a lovely feeling to see the vision we had for the game being slowly filled in with the details required to make it real. The two artists we have working on the game are doing a great job, in spite of the strange brief we gave them, and the occasional problems generated by myself and James (my co-designer) really not being artists in at all. We're also really getting to grips with bug-hunting, and okay, wow, we've managed to create, identify and (hopefully) expunge some exotic Ouroboros worms of design-meeting-code-meeting-design.
Fallen City, as I've mentioned before, is an educational title about appreciating cities. The tagline will be something like "Get The Fallen City Back On Its Feet!" That's precisely what you'll be doing. Turning a delapidated, abandoned city into something beautiful and alive. It's a sort of a metaphor for reciprocity in living, in which you prod the resident "Angries" into tidying up the city and, ultimately, causing them to drop their cynicism about the place they live in. Having realised that taking care of the world around them means that the world takes care of them, the Angries become something else. Maybe not Happies, but certainly something less frowny. It's an odd little game, but it's starting to have real character, and I hope people will take to it.
Our impossibly industrious programmer and 3D graphics master Tom has also been putting the finishing touches to a project that he started way before Big Robot began flexing its pneumatics. That's AV-Seq, which you can see an image from, below.
It is, as the title might suggest, an audio-visual sequencer game. Nodes fall from the top of the screen and must be connected according to colour and the detonated in the sequencer grid below. Detonations open up patterns within the sequences, which is based on the musical track that is playing underneath. The patterns create their own sort of melody over the top. It's shaping up to be a fine musical puzzle game, and it's already rather mesmerising. We'll have more on this soon, I suspect, because it might well be our first proper release.
Much further away, in the realms of strange experimentation, we are producing things that look like this:
This is our other, more ambitious spare-time project. I am playing games like Stalker and Darwinia as part of my research for it. We're designing clever, polygonal robots to live in it. It also has a name: The Bunker. This is our long term plan, and something that we're going to have to raise money for to make in the way it deserves. It's going to be the project that – in a nonetheless lo-fi indie sort of way – expresses my interest in open, living worlds, and also robots. Robot ecologies. More on that soon.


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New York (CNN) -- The Egyptian cobra that turned into media darling after its escape and subsequent capture at the Bronx Zoo is looking for a name.
The Bronx Zoo and the New York Daily News are asking the public to vote for the best name of the mischievous cobra. After receiving 33,000 suggestions, they whittled the list down to five nominations, zoo spokesman Stephen Fairchild told CNN.
The options are:
-- Agnes, which is Greek for pure or holy, and is also a reference to St. Agnes.
-- Amaunet, an ancient Egyptian goddess, meaning 'the female hidden one."
-- Cleopatra, the last ruler of ancient Egypt, who supposedly killed herself by means of an Egyptian cobra bite.
-- Subira, which is Egyptian for patient.
-- Mia, an abbreviation for Missing In Action.
The public can vote for their favorite names on the zoo's website.
The 3-ounce, 20-inch reptile slithered out of her enclosure on March 26 and turned up five days later, after zoo officials scattered rodent-scented wood shavings to lure her out in hopes of a meal.
Zoo officials still don't know how the snake got out, director Jim Breheny said.
"Anyone who has ever dealt with snakes or kept snakes knows that they are notorious as escape artists," he said.
The disappearance of an animal whose venom can kill an elephant in three hours and a human in 15 minutes sparked more amusement than panic, drawing 200,000 followers to an anonymously authored Twitter feed. It had the snake taking tours of the city and threatening to drop down the chimneys of unsuspecting city dwellers.
All the attention has brought plenty of notice to the zoo, Breheny said with a laugh.
"It certainly has put us out there," he said. "But we would have preferred to be out there for another reason."
Zoo workers will closely monitor the snake to make sure she's suffered no ill effects from her escapade, then will put her back on display so people who have been so supportive since her disappearance have a chance to see her, Breheny said.
The winning name will be announced on Thursday.


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- WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Round One
Tiger and Rory crash out in Arizona
WGC Match Play Championship draw and results
The WGC Match Play Championship has a history of providing shocks and two of the biggest were served up as Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods crashed out in Arizona.
McIlroy, the world No. 1, was beaten one-up by Shane Lowry, while world Mo. 2 Woods was ousted 2&1 by Charles Howell III.
It is the second first-round loss for Woods in three years, but he did not play badly - being bogey free and making two birdies. He just bumped into an opponent at the top of his game.
"It's the nature of the format," Woods said. "You've just got to beat the guy you're playing against, and I didn't do that today. Chucky won the match."
The pair were given the option to suspend play after 16 holes but elected to carry on. Woods felt he could find a couple of birdies but Howell, who never trailed in the match, stood firm to progress. Woods levelled the match with a win on the 13th but the match tipped Howell's way with birdies for wins on 15 and 16
Woods' fellow Nike pal McIlroy will join him on the plane home following defeat to Lowry. The pair are close pals and it appeared as if the star was set to shine following the lengthy weather delay as McIlroy raced into a two-hole lead. McIlroy was pegged back but a bogey from Lowry handed the initiative back to McIlroy.
The match, though, turned at the 12th as Lowry chipped in for birdie to win the hole and then eagled 13 to move two-up. McIlroy got back to within one when taking the 14th but he found three bunkers while making his way down the 15th and three pars coming home were enough for Lowry to celebrate victory.
"I didn't make enough birdies in the end," McIlroy said. "Shane had a nice little stretch around part of the back nine. I hung in there, but I just didn't do enough."
Lowry said: "At the end I just tried to stay in the present. I ttried to play one shot at a time. I knew he was going to be under pressure coming down the stretch, especially when I was a couple up. That's why I was quite annoyed at myself that I handed him 14. I can't really afford to do that against him, what I thought.
"But he obviously felt the pressure. I mean, everyone feels the pressure. It's the world match play at the end of the day, and everyone that's here deserves to be here, and no one is going to be an easy match."
Luke Donald narrowly avoided it being the top three seeds who crashed out as he holed a 10-foot birdie putt to halve the 17th hole and then birdied 18 to beat Marcel Siem.
Lee Westwood, though, did fall as Rafael Cabrera-Bello secured victory on the 19th after Westwood missed a six-foot par putt for victory on the 18th.


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Johnson will be reading from his recent hit novel "Pym" (part adventure, part meditation of race, literature and obsession set against Edgar Allan Poe's novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket") as well as discussing other works, including "Hunting in Harlem," "Drop," and his graphic novels "Incognegro" and "Dark Rain."
Recipient of a United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, as well as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, Johnson has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut for his ironic vision and passionate humanitarianism, James Baldwin for his probing intelligence, and Dany Laferriere for his scalding satire.
Johnson was born and raised in the Philadelphia area to an Irish-American father and African American mother, and writes primarily about the lives of African Americans using fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels as mediums. Currently he is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, a scholar of African American literature, and, despite his fame, first and foremost a father. "I still have to get the kids ready for school in the morning."
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Sharon Stone is a long way from her star turn in the movie Basic Instinct as a femme fatale who flashes her vaj during an interrogation. Thirty years on, paying audiences don't want to see her vagina anymore. And, if the bitterness and sour grapes that drip from this recent interview with Stone are any indication, not many quality men in her real life want to see her vagina either.
After two divorces and decades in the business, Sharon Stone isn't looking for a casual romance.
How convenient.
The 58-year-old actress opened up to AARP magazine about the effects of aging on both her personal and professional life.
"Obviously it's pretty easy to get a date," she said. "But to me, my life is so full. I don't want to take time out to just go on a date, or to just have sex with a stranger."
Translating from the hamsterese: "There's a whole world between 'sex with a stranger' and involuntary solitude, but I can't access it because obviously it's pretty hard to get a date with a man who doesn't eat his own boogers as a woman over 50."
"At this point, I get more satisfaction – physically, spiritually, emotionally – from a smile, a laugh, a warm conversation or a really sexy look," she told the magazine. "You know the way a man can look at you? Where you know he really sees you? I don't want to be with someone unless it's like that."
The above is what age-related low libido looks like in words.
The aging beauty claims to seek romantic perfection as an ego emollient to avoid the crushing reality that imperfect romance isn't even an option for her anymore.
Why pick on Sharon? Isn't her personal torment enough punishment? The problem is that, unlike most aging women who must nurse their fantasies and shill their platitudes in private or to a small audience of immediate family and close friends who know better, Stone has a public platform to spread her lies to impressionable younger women who can't see through the bravado to the sexual market rejection hurt underneath. At the margins, some younger women could be convinced, to their detriment, by Stone's false pride that playing the field until late middle age is a viable route to life happiness, instead of what it really will be: a big mistake.
Making an example of Stone is a lesson for the others to avoid the same lonely fate. Prime fertility women need to know with the utmost seriousness that it will NOT be easy for them to get a date at age 58, with ANY man, and an old lady saying otherwise is blowing smoke up their skirts. Platitudes are cute when no one really believes them, but they're downright malevolent when asserted with righteous authority as truth.