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SOURCE: Apigee
January 08, 2014 09:00 ET
Apigee Integrates the Power of APIs With the Agility of Predictive Big Data Analytics to Help Digital Business Leaders Quickly Adapt to Business Changes
Apigee Integrates the Power of APIs With the Agility of Predictive Big Data Analytics to Help Digital Business Leaders Quickly Adapt to Business Changes
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 8, 2014) - Apigee, the digital business company, today announced that it has acquired InsightsOne, a technology company that provides big data predictive intelligence to help businesses understand consumer preferences. InsightsOne expands Apigee's big data analytics portfolio to deliver the only platform that integrates the power of APIs with the agility of predictive big data analytics, enabling digital business leaders to anticipate and quickly adapt to business changes. InsightsOne will be offered as a stand-alone product today and part of Apigee's integrated digital business platform for mobile apps, APIs and data analytics by mid-2014.
"Success in today's mobile-first digital world requires a single vision that spans and connects business and technology," said Chet Kapoor, Apigee CEO. "In this new world, the business intelligence and context gleaned through the massive amount of big data available about customers, products, developers -- every part of a digital business -- must be tightly integrated with technology infrastructure to effect real change. InsightsOne dramatically expands Apigee's big data predictive analytics capabilities, and we welcome the accomplished InsightsOne team to Apigee."
InsightsOne delivers big data predictive intelligence products to marketers and customer service organizations serving the healthcare, financial services, telecommunication, and ecommerce sectors. For example, InsightsOne can predict which healthcare payer members are likely to complain, so that proactive member outreach can be done. For marketing, InsightsOne could trigger a targeted buying offer for a high value customer at the right time, through the right channel. InsightsOne delivers a predictive analytics infrastructure that is consistent with Apigee's big data offerings, built on top of a massively scalable distributed processing foundation based on open-source Hadoop and an in-memory real-time processor.
Somesh Nigam, senior vice president and chief informatics officer at Independence Blue Cross, commented, "Independence Blue Cross is at the forefront of increasing the effectiveness of health care through predictive analytics and big data. For example, InsightsOne has helped us move beyond simply answering customers' calls about their Medicare Advantage plans to reaching out proactively to our members before they have issues that would require our help."
Waqar Hasan, InsightsOne CEO, will join Apigee's executive team. Hasan added, "Predictive is the 'killer app' for big data, and Apigee is the only company that delivers predictive analytics with API and app infrastructure in an integrated platform. InsightsOne is a natural fit for Apigee, expanding its big data analytics to make all customer interactions smarter and more effective. We are thrilled to be joining Apigee as the company helps businesses -- including many of the world's largest companies -- transform into leaders in the new digital world."
The Apigee digital business platform is designed to help companies of all sizes succeed in today's mobile world by integrating big data analytics with API and app technology infrastructure. Today, hundreds of enterprises use Apigee, including 20 percent of the Fortune 100 and nearly half of the top 100 global brands.
Actionable big data analytics have been a core capability in Apigee's integrated platform. Last year, the company introduced Apigee Insights, a big data analytics product that improves business results by applying context and predictive analytics. InsightsOne adds consumer predictive analytics to Apigee's big data capabilities, significantly expanding the insights and context available to Apigee customers from its digital channels. InsightsOne and Apigee together give organizations predictive big data analytics and the digital infrastructure to make informed business decisions -- and to act on those decisions in real-time, for unmatched agility in the digital enterprise.
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Blog by InsightsOne CEO Waqar Hasan
Blog by Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor
About Apigee
Apigee provides a digital business platform that helps companies of all sizes become leaders in the mobile-first digital world. Through big data analytics integrated with app and API digital infrastructure, the Apigee platform gives enterprises unmatched business insights and the decision-making speed required to compete in today's digital world. Apigee customers include global enterprises such as Walgreens, eBay, Shell, Live Nation, Kaiser Permanente and Marks & Spencer. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California. To learn more, go to www.apigee.com.
Apigee is a registered trademark in the U.S. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
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It's a double blessing to encounter Ed Young's childhood memoir, The House Baba Built (see my earlier article here); and to follow up with Allen Say's memoir of growing up with his mentor, in Drawing from Memory (illustrated below), when selections from both books are also in The Original Art Show.
In his feature in the N.Y. Times Book Review, Terry Hong writes:
"… Both books describe how family can guide artists in their early years. In Say's case, it was a chosen family; for Young, the extended family into which he was born …"
Medium: Watercolor, pen, ink,pencil and photography
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Imprint: Scholastic Press
Art Director: David Saylor
Editor: Andrea Davis Pinkney
An interview with Allen Say
A list of Allan Say books
Illustration by Nancy Carpenter (below) from Imogene's Last Stand
When artist Nancy Carpenter was asked what she did for relaxation, she replied "Fix lamps and rearrange my furniture."
This aptly describes the spunky exuberance of her visual story-telling, coupled with superb draftsmanship, plus an innate knowledge of how a child's mind operates.
I asked her to share highlights with us from her Original Art Show selection, 11 Experiments That Failed, and she sent the following images, alongside her comments.
Nancy Carpenter: This is a close up of the opening experiment, (figure 1, left) "Hypothesis: Ketchup and snow are the only food groups a kid needs."
The protagonist here starts out with the exuberant confidence she displayed in 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to do Anymore (Jenny Offill & Nancy Carpenter's previous book together).
The experiment is having some effects on her and her brother after what could be several days of the snow and ketchup diet (figure 2, right).
Here's another experiment, called "What makes fungus grow" (figure 3, below).
NC: This experiment, called "Can a washing machine wash dishes?" (figure 4, below), is very close to one I have tried (and failed at) — Can the dishwasher wash my socks?
JC: I must confess I've tried that experiment too. Once…
Joy Chu: These pieces are so delightful and full of life. Every detail tells its own story! Do you create a foundation of sketches; that is, clean up & add ink; make scans first; then add layer upon layer via Photoshop? How's that for a multi-layered question?
NC: I do my drawing in india ink on bristol board. I typically draw freehand with my sketch as my reference. I like the unexpected mistakes drawing with permanent ink creates. It makes the lines more lively and spontaneous. The downside is that I often need to do dozens of drawings to get one that looks like I just sat down and quickly drew it.
I then scan the black lines and add colors with layers of collage, or layers of paint swatches with Photoshop. If you look carefully, sometimes you can see the strokes from one layer going in one direction and then another thin color layer going in another direction.
I haven't used real paint in quite a few years. This approach is far less toxic or messy. I do, however, miss having a finished painted piece.
JC: Which one of these is the piece that's hanging in the Original Art Show?
NC: The piece I used in the Original Art Show is the washing machine washing dishes. I felt, among all the art, it conveys the essence of the character as well as the idea of that particular experiment, without needing words.
JC: You provided a print-out, then. Who took care of the framing?
NC: I had it framed myself, with a black frame and later painted the frame a Pepto-Bismol®pink. I thought [the effect] was more light-hearted and fun.
I enjoyed your link [on the public Got Story Facebook page] to a blog article by Will Terry — Get Over It — You're Just Another Artist! My sentiments exactly. At first I started out determined to win awards and be on top. Now, years later, I'm just happy to be able to do this full time, and continue to get work.
I go to the Original Art Show to see if anyone is worse than I am and still allowed to hang a piece of art. It makes me feel momentarily above average.
JC: I can think of no one else who does smart and spunky, naughty yet charming, little girls better, nor more colorfully, than you do. Thank you for sharing your process with us.
Click here for a list of books illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
Illustrations and cover from 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to do Anymore (above right), the prequel to 11 Experiments That Failed (below)
Medium: Pen and ink with digital
Publisher: Random House/ Schwartz & Wade
Art Directors: Lee Wade and Rachael Cole
Editor: Anne Schwartz
While Carter Goodrich's dogs, Zorro and Mr. Bud (right), won a place as a selection (and in the official Society of Illustrator's catalog), circumstances prevented getting an original piece from Say Hello to Zorro! on display at the show itself.
However, Carter Goodrich writes:
"I'm so happy to hear that your students like Zorro! Please tell them book number two, Zorro Gets an Outfit will be out in May."
Check out Carter Goodrich's website, which includes his animation work and studies for many familiar Pixar characters.
Medium: Watercolor
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Art Director: Dan Potash
Editor: Justin Chanda
Author: Carter Goodrich
We switch gears to an art style that's soft-with-panache, via selections from two books — I Had a Favorite Dress, and Just Being Audrey, both illustrated by Julia Denos.
Julia's exquisite line work, design sense, and spare application of color displays the influence of her affiliations with advertising for luxury living spaces, alongside fashion-themed flair.
Some behind-the-scenes commentary from Julia herself:
"…Boni Ashburn wrote a lovely story with a very fun cadence to it. Right from the get-go, it made me feeling like dancing; I wanted the text to dance, and I wanted the art to dance…(I'm not gonna lie, I had a sweet summer soundtrack consisting of Animal Collective /jazz blasting, so I did a lot of dancing around). Boni's words, "SNIP SNIP, SEW SEW" helped me feel playful enough to want to cut up, collage, get messy…"
"…I spent my weeks in a blissful world of little dresses, buttons, city scapes, and thread……"
"…A very SERIOUS struggle to find the right pink…"
"…[art director] Chad Beckerman helped turn these thumbnails into something that made sense…"
"…[here's the] cover sketch on the light box…"
Medium: Watercolor, colored pencil on hot press paper
Publisher: Abrams/ Abrams Books for Young Readers
Art Director: Chad W. Beckerman
Editor: Maggie Lehrman
Author: Boni Ashburn
Earlier in her blog, Julia walks us through her creation process for Margaret Cardillo's picture book biography about Audrey Hepburn, Just Being Audrey:
"…While working on the book for Audrey, I've been lucky enough to get to research her dreamy era for cues on dresses, buildings, streetcars, hats and important places like the old Fulton Theater in New York … As an added bonus in making biographical art, I feel I have made a dear new friend. Audrey did not have an easy life by any means, but seemed to glean joy from most any circumstance (which is not always easy!) making her luminous…"
"…Here's a peek at some of my desktop reference I was looking at as I finished painting the interior art … Dreamy reference, right?…"


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Introduction to the Lumagen Radiance XS-3D
Last year I looked at the Lumagen Radiance Mini-3D and its interaction with ChromaPure software for automated calibrations. Paired with an older projector, it was able to provide an accurate grayscale, gamut, and gamma providing an image that was far more accurate than without it. Since that is just scratching the surface of what the Radiance series can do I went back to write an in-depth review that covers the Radiance XS-3D model.
- Inputs: 4x HDMI 1.4, 2x S-Video, 2x Component, 2x Composite, 1x RGBHV, 2x Optical Audio, 3x Coaxial Audio, 2x Stereo LR Audio, IR, RS232
- Outputs: 2x HDMI 1.4, 1x Coaxial Audio
- Features: 1080p Scaling, 3D and 2D CMS, De-interlacing, Mosquito and Block Artifact Noise Reduction, Adaptive Filtering
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Design of the Lumagen Radiance XS-3D
The Radiance XS is unassuming on the front, with a single LED light. The back has a large array of inputs, both analog and digital. There are four HDMI 1.4a inputs and two outputs, allowing the XS to run two separate displays, or send one to a display and one to an audio processor. There are also component, composite, and S-Video inputs along with optical, coaxial, and analog audio inputs. For many people this will be enough to handle all of their video signals, allowing the processor or receiver to totally bypassed for switching video signals.
The performance of the Radiance XS is the same as the Mini or XE models, with the difference being on the inputs and outputs available. The Mini has only a pair of HDMI inputs and a single output and likely will be installed after a receiver or processor. The XE adds two more HDMI inputs, more analog inputs as well analog outputs, allowing it to serve as a complete input manager for a larger system with many legacy devices. You can optionally add a 3G-SDI input as well.
Setup of the Lumagen Radiance XS-3D
Setting up the Radiance, at the most basic level, is simply inserting it into the device chain and then setting it to the correct input. Taking full advantage of everything it can offer will take a long time so it may be wise to budget a weekend for this. Each input has its own bank of settings, allowing each item to be calibrated independently from the other. Additionally these can be tied to different resolutions or refresh rates, to be very exact in how sources are managed. Does the display handle 1080p24 and 1080p60 just slightly differently? The Radiance can calibrate for each of these settings to get the best from every source.
Many displays perform differently with 24p sources than 60p or 60i sources as they display them with a different refresh rate. With the Radiance they can be calibrated differently so that the grayscale and gamma are as perfect as possible for both of these options even if the black level is different. This allows for the best performance from film, video, and all other content instead of having to choose one.
Using a 2.40 screen in a theater provides that movie cinema feeling for cinemascope movies. What has recently started to happen is that IMAX releases like The Dark Knight that are mostly 2.39:1 but have sequences that are a 1.78:1 aspect ratio. With a 16:9 screen this is fine, but on a cinemascope screen the top and bottom of the frame now spill over onto the walls. The Radiance can setup masking for this image, which only allows the 2.35 or 2.40 area to be seen and cuts off the rest. This effectively crops out content, but that's how The Dark Knight was shown in non-IMAX theaters originally. It effectively removes the light spill and presents these hybrid titles as if they were native cinemascope.
Another 2.40 screen issue is that title screen of movies are typically 16:9, requiring a zoom out to use the menu and then a zoom back in for the movie. Just like with the masking the Radiance can create a preset that will scale the image to a smaller size, making the 16:9 menus fit in a 2.40 screen. You wouldn't want to do this with movie content, as it reduces resolution, but for menu selections it is fast and effective.
Many people won't use these features on the Radiance, but they might choose to use many others. Coaxial output is very use for those that are still using older receivers, and the S-Video and Composite inputs are there for those with library of VHS tapes or classic video game consoles. The real key is that the Radiance has all of this power and features and can grow with any system over time. Many features are there that might not be used when it is first installed, but will be there and available when the time comes.
Lumagen has also continued to enhance the test patterns available in their firmware to make it easier to setup a display correctly. Setting brightness and contrast is much easier, and there is a pattern to check for color clipping all the way up to peak levels in red, green, and blue. Calibrators will differ on what level they prefer to calibrate clipping so (some prefer 235, some 255, and some in-between), but these patterns make it easy to choose one. There is also a new pattern that can be set to any RGB value. This allows for programs like CalMan and ChromaPure to measure any color and saturation they want, not just primary or secondary and give you a much better idea of how the display performs.
The Lumagen Radiance XS-3D In Use
I tested the Radiance XS with a wide variety of displays. It was tested on a Sony VPL-VW95ES projector, JVC X30 projector, Samsung PN50B650 plasma, and an Epson 6500UB projector.
The JVC X30 projector is a fantastic projector and comes highly recommended by me. One area that certainly is lacking was the CMS system. There is only a 2-point grayscale control, and the gamma control works with presets, but adjusting those causes bad posterization. With the Radiance connected, I could get a perfect grayscale and gamma, and bring in those color errors that had been present. One thing to keep in mind that is if your display has too large a colorspace, the Radiance can bring that in by pulling those points back, but it can't add luminance or saturation to a color that is too low in them.
Using the CMS and 21-point grayscale with the JVC took an already outstanding projector for the price to new highs. The grayscale, gamma and CMS were more accurate than with an X70 or X90 model and their internal CMS, and the additional features on the Radiance enabled the Lens Memory feature to be even more valuable. Paired with the Radiance the JVC goes from a fantastic projector for the price to one that can outperform anything for the same price as the pair.
The Sony VPL-VW95ES already has a full CMS built in, but it doesn't provide for 10-point or 21-point control over the grayscale, and the gamma had a bas bump at 90. Sony provides software to control the gamma, but it won't run on 64-bit versions of Windows so many people can't take advantage of it. While the CMS on the Sony is very good at improving the color dE, when individual saturations and intensities are measured they are not as good as when using the Radiance. With the Radiance the grayscale is dialed in perfectly, and almost no any adjustments to the primary or secondary colors are required to correct them. This doesn't use the full power of the Radiance, but the tint at the low end of the grayscale is gone and the image on the Sony is undeniably improved.
These intermediate saturations and intensities are often overlooked when evaluating a display or projector. Most reviews only cover the main primary and secondary points, which are 100% saturation and 75% or 100% intensity. Together with white, these make up seven out of millions of different colors. In theory every display should be able to get the other colors correct if these are, but practice is much different than theory. Here is where the Lumagen excels as it manages to perform these calculations perfectly, so intermediate saturations and intensities are displayed correctly and your color gamut is as good as your calibration report seems to indicate. Unfortunately many vendors seem to cut corners with their internal CMS systems so that the numbers in a review look great, but the overall performance leaves much to be desired.
Very few grayscale controls have the ability to get the grayscale perfectly flat along the whole spectrum. With 2-points or 10-points, they are often too coarse at any individual point to be everywhere, or the points interact with each other so you have to make a sacrifice somewhere in the spectrum. With very fine control at up to 21-points, and by having the points interact with each other far less than on a display, you can really dial in the grayscale and gamma to a level that usually isn't possible on a display CMS. As the basis of all images from Blu-ray to HDTV is a grayscale with color laid on top of it, having a totally neutral, accurate grayscale is often the single most important factor to having a quality image.
The simple fact is that the Radiance does one thing: It takes every other video component and pulls the absolute best performance out of it. DVDs upscale better, anamorphic systems work correctly, and the projector or display suddenly has an image that wasn't possible before. A fellow Secrets writer bought a Mini3D after I told him about using it and hooked it up to his Epson 6500UB, then had me calibrate it for him. The graphs of the grayscale and color improvements show you what the Radiance can do.
The green tint in the dark shadows of his projector is now gone, shadow detail was more apparent, colors are more accurate and flesh tones correct, and everything looks far better than before. Now he isn't worried about upgrading his projector, as the image looks as good or better than if he had upgraded
The scaling and processing of the Radiance was tested by using our standard Blu-ray Benchmark, using an Oppo BDP-93 in Source Direct mode as the source. Doing this the Radiance not only flew through the tests, but also provided the clearest, most noise-free scaling on the DVD sections of the testing that I have seen. Many people watch very little, if any, DVD content anymore but likely still watch SDTV or streaming content. The Radiance handles this content better than anything else I've tested and provides a sharp, detailed image but doesn't add halos or other artifacts that other processing can.
Conclusions about the Lumagen Radiance XS-3D
It's obvious that I love the Radiance XS-3D. There isn't a component that I used it with that wasn't improved by using it, nor a feature that I found it to be missing. There is so much inside of the Radiance products that any review that doesn't go for 10,000 words isn't going to be able to cover it all. Lumagen has packed their Radiance line with more features than anything else I've used and really brings something to any system you use it with.
Since I finished testing the Radiance just a couple weeks ago, Lumagen has improved it to allow you to convert to any of the 3D formats for output, made it easier to use Reference or Adjustable patterns, and they have plans to add even more feature going forward. In addition to offering these free updates at their website, they also run their own support forum as well as actively monitoring the forums at AVS to support their users. You can even call and actually talk to their employees to get support for your issues. Their website also has an archive of Tech Tips to help you setup certain features that might be fairly complex to do. With a device as capable but complex as the Radiance, this level of support is important and sometimes essential.
Unless a display is absolutely perfect in all aspects, and each component is as well, any theater can benefit from the Radiance. You may not use all the features, but it has the power and ability to grow as you change your system around. There have been very few products that I can enthusiastically recommend as highly as I can the Lumagen Radiance. It really is a component you need to try and see for yourself to understand the difference it can make.


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Welbound is synonymous with adhesive binding in India. The group manufactures various machines that complete the post-press cycle from paper folding machines to three knife trimmers. Together with its partners the group delivers technology that converts the printed information into a well bound book.
Majority of books made in India has been touched by Welbound - be it in terms of the folding, gathering, hot melt glue binding or trimming.
India has a population of 250 million that goes to school. Welbound has partnered with publishers, printers, bookbinders and exercise notebook manufacturers to deliver better bound books.


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The idea is simple, you've definitely played some awesome games before but for fucks sake can't recall their names. Post the game descriptions in the reply and let's get down to business!
My shot at this:
I remember playing a medieval themed game with vampires, zombies, etc. (monsters in general), the main protagonist was a guy with a crossbow, if I recon correctly, he might have had the ability to transform to a different form (like a werewolf or some shit). It wasn't a free roam like Gothic or the Witcher, it rather had some closed levels. I remember that this game's ending was in a church of some sort. Also it's story is told in both medieval and "present time". The game is definitely sub 2008, maybe even older. Has some rpg elements to it. 3rd person point of view.
Edit: as I wrote this I got the urge to search for the game myself. Got it. It's called "SHADE: WRATH OF ANGELS"


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Emerging Nations Embrace Internet, Mobile Technology
Pew Research Global Attitudes Project
In a remarkably short period of time, internet and mobile technology have become a part of everyday life for some in the emerging and developing world. Cell phones, in particular, are almost omnipresent in many nations. The internet has also made tremendous inroads, although most people in the 24 nations surveyed are still offline. Meanwhile, smartphones are still relatively rare, although significant minorities own these devices in countries such as Lebanon, Chile, Jordan and China. People around the world are using their cell phones for a variety of purposes, especially for texting and taking pictures, while smaller numbers also use their phones to get political, consumer and health information. Mobile technology is also changing economic life in parts of Africa, where many are using cell phones to make or receive payments. READ MORE
How Emerging Markets' Internet Policies Are Undermining Their Economic Recovery
NSA surveillance activities are projected to cost the American economy billions of dollars annually. Washington is not alone, however, in pursuing costly policies in the technology and Internet realm. Several emerging economies – including Brazil, Turkey, and Indonesia – are likewise undermining their already fragile markets by embracing Internet censorship, data localization requirements, and other misguided policies – ironically often in response to intrusive U.S. surveillance practices. These countries should reverse course and support the free and open Internet before permanent economic damage is done. READ MORE
Law and disorder: rough justice rules in the developing world
The Guardian
Around 4 billion people live without the protection of the law, making justice an urgent priority in new development goals. In eastern Burma last month, in northern Shan state, I witnessed farmers trying to register their land claims under a new process set out by the ministry of agriculture. Some of them have had land stolen by the military government or by crony companies. All of them have lived under a regime in which the law has been more a threat than a source of protection. Their decision to take part in an official legal process signals courage, and a measure of hope. Those farmers' chances in life depend on whether they can make the law work for them. They are not alone: around the world, some 4 billion people live without the protection of the law. As a result, they can be unfairly driven from their land, denied essential services, and intimidated by violence. READ MORE
One in four young people in developing countries unable to read, says UN
The Guardian
One in four young people in developing countries are unable to read a sentence, according to a report, which warns that poor quality education has left a "legacy of illiteracy" more widespread than previously believed. Research published on Wednesday by Unesco, the UN's educational, scientific and cultural body, suggests that 175 million young people lack even basic literacy skills. "Access [to education] is not the only crisis – poor quality is holding back learning even for those who make it to school," said Unesco director-general, Irina Bokova, in a foreword to the 11th annual Education for All global monitoring report, which measures progress towards global goals. READ MORE
Better Mapping for Better Journalism: InfoAmazonia and the Growth of GeoJournalism
New Security Beat
Nearly every local story has a global context. This is especially true when it comes to the environment, and there may be no better way to show that context than through visualization. But in developing countries, where so many important changes are happening, journalists often lack the resources or skills to make data visualization a part of their repertoire. With this in mind, Internews' Earth Journalism Network (a project for which I serve as coordinator) and the Brazilian environmental news agency O Eco, worked together to pioneer the concept of "geojournalism" by launching InfoAmazonia at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. READ MORE
Can Twitter Predict Major Events Such As Mass Protests?
MIT Technology Review
The idea that social media sites such as Twitter can predict the future has a controversial history. In the last few years, various groups have claimed to be able to predict everything from the outcome of elections to the box office takings for new movies. It's fair to say that these claims have generated their fair share of criticism. So it's interesting to see a new claim come to light. Today, Nathan Kallus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge says he has developed a way to predict crowd behaviour using statements made on Twitter. In particular, he has analysed the tweets associated with the 2013 coup d'état in Egypt and says that the civil unrest associated with this event was clearly predictable days in advance. READ MORE
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Why Nursing Isn't Recession-Proof
Although healthcare is hiring, but there are some reasons healthcare might not beat the recession:
• Patients are cutting back on elective surgery. Considering a face-lift this year? Probably not. Patients aren't getting as much plastic surgery as in past years because it's almost never covered by insurance. Individuals are also cutting back on treatments that may help them in the long run, but don't seem necessary right now – like knee replacements.
• Pharmaceuticals are no longer a safe harbor. It seemed like pharmaceutical companies would be able to weather the storm. Their stocks took the smallest hits and continued to develop new products. However, when pharma giants like Merck and AstroZeneca began laying people off, stocks dropped and healthcare began to feel the pinch.
• Median hospital profits are at zero. More than half of the hospitals in the US are losing money, which means there is the potential for lay-offs.


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Missouri Valley Commissioner Patty Viverito on 2013 Sesason [AUDIO]
We're closing in on four weeks to the start of the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference football season, and the only commissioner the conference has ever known is very bullish on where things stand a month before kickoff.
Patty Viverito has been with the league since 1982, when it was operating at the Gateway Conference. She's seen a lot of things change on the landscape of college football over the years, most recently the trend of top FCS schools like Georgia Southern and Appalachian State moving from FCS to FBS. The move is one Viverito says has its downfalls.
The makeup of the entire FBS as we currently know it may be changing, as the top five FBS Conferences (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, PAC 12, SEC) continue to hint at breaking away from the rest of the pack to form their own subdivision. It's a move Viverito thinks may bode well for Missouri Valley teams.
Another challenge on the horizon for FCS teams, conferences like the Big 10 adopting new scheduling policies eliminating games against non-FBS teams.
On the field, the FCS playoff brackets are being expanded for the second time in three years, from 20 to 24 teams this season. One additional automatic qualifying conference (accounting for 11 of the 24 spots) has been added, leaving three additional at-large spots (up from 10 to 13).
2013 also features two important changes to the at-large selection process: Division I wins and a new rating system.
This season, about 50 Missouri Valley Conference games will be broadcast on a host of different TV networks this season.
The MVC also has the #1 presence of any FCS Conference on two national watch lists:
5 players on the Walter Payton List for top offensive player (including SDSU's Zach Zenner).
4 on the Buck Buchanan list for the top defensive player. USD's Tyler Starr is on that list.


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MACAU (Reuters) - When junket operator Suncity opened its first high roller baccarat table at Steve Wynn's Macau casino in 2007 to lure China's wealthiest punters, the firm had fewer than 30 employees and no computers or equipment other than pen and paper.
Five years later, Suncity has emerged as the dominant junket in the Chinese territory. It is planning to open its own resort, independent of casino stalwarts such as Las Vegas Sands, and is expanding into everything from mining to films.
Macau's booming revenues that totaled $38 billion last year - six times that of the Las Vegas strip - are indebted to its unique VIP junket system, where licensed middlemen act on behalf of the casinos to attract "big whale" spenders by arranging their travel and accommodation and handle their gambling credit.
Now the transformation of the former Portuguese colony from a hotbed of crime into a playground for China's nouveau riche has spawned a new breed of junkets, eager to shed the industry's shady image and establish themselves as multinational conglomerates.
"Suncity is a young and very energetic corporate. There is a need to be diversified," said YM Choong, a senior executive at the company, in an interview with Reuters.
"For future investments we would look to expand in different areas, particularly property, finance and media. We would look to list other parts of the business."
The evolution of the junkets is welcomed by the authorities, who are eager to re-position Macau as an all-round international travel destination, but could shake-up the dynamics of the world's largest gambling market.
The junkets have traditionally worked for the casinos, which rely on them for more than two-thirds of their revenue. Now, leveraging their extensive customer databases and sophisticated resources, they could one day start competing with them.
"Macau's junket operators are fully aware that their network and database of high net worth VIPs is valuable," said Edmund Lee, a partner at PwC in Hong Kong who focuses on the gaming sector.
Suncity, headed by 39-year-old Alvin Chau, is one of more than 200 junket operators licensed in Macau, on China's southern coast, the only place in the country where locals are allowed to gamble in casinos.
The biggest operators, which include Neptune, Golden Group, Jimei and Dore, account for more than half the monthly junket turnover of $75 billion.
Despite robust mass market demand, a crackdown on corruption and pervasive graft has seen the supply of millionaire VIP players to Macau decline over the past year, prompting junkets to seek to diversify their income streams.
Suncity, which makes around HK$135 billion ($17 billion) in monthly gaming turnover, according to Choong, has expanded into mining with iron ore operations in Indonesia.
It has also branched out into financial services in Hong Kong with 24-hour securities, forex and commodities trading, real estate in China, food and beverage, film and media. The company has two listed arms, Sun International Resources Limited and Sun Century Group Limited.
Golden Resorts Group, headed by Hong Kong billionaire Pollyanna Chu, has been invested in financial services through listed arm Kingston Financial Group since 2011.
But the trend for larger junkets, flush with cash from the gambling boom over the past decade, to diversify as a hedge against the volatile VIP gaming sector has accelerated over the last year.
Large junkets such as Jimei, which operates casinos in the Philippines and hosts golf tournaments, have moved into wealth management and securities, which complement their VIP clientele base.
Neptune, which also uses the name Guangdong Group, sponsored a high profile poker tournament this month, while Dore Holdings announced it was buying a majority stake in a Chinese pawn loan business.
Macau's junket system was created in the 1970s with the rise of Stanley Ho, an influential local businessman who opened the gaudy egg shaped Casino Lisboa.
Ho gave the junkets control of the casinos' VIP rooms, sparking a turf war in the late 1990s as rival gangs fought to dominate.
Since the liberalization of Macau's casino market in 2002, which marked the entry of foreign players such as Las Vegas moguls Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, the junket industry has been a subject of scrutiny from U.S. regulators, who allege the operators have ties to organized crime and facilitate illicit money flows.
To combat this image, Emilie Tran, a professor at the University of Saint Joseph Macau, says junkets are trying to associate with more wholesome activities, such as organizing community and youth events.
"Working for a junket is now seen as respectable and a job like any other," said Tran.
The shift to sophisticated corporate entities with sizable business development, accounting and marketing teams is clearly visible. Shabby junket storefronts at the Hong Kong-Macau ferry terminal have been replaced with marble offices in prime business districts, while customized Hummer limousines owned by the operators are frequently seen parked outside Macau's newest casinos.
Politics is the next phase of the junkets' makeover, says Tran, who cites the example of Suncity's Chau, who joined the Guangdong provincial committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's parliamentary advisory body, this year.
Chau, with his dapper appearance is often likened a famous Hong Kong movie star. An avid tennis player and gym-goer, he is frequently pictured in the local tabloids at parties.
Pollyanna Chu of Golden Resorts Group, ranked by Forbes as the 35th richest billionaire in Hong Kong, sits on the CPPCC national committee, while Hoffman Ma, deputy chairman of Success Universe Group sits on the Chongqing Committee of the CPPCC.
Manuel Neves, head of Macau's gaming body the DICJ, said junkets diversifying into other industries fitted into the government's attempts to wean the territory, home to 600,000 people, off the gambling industry that accounted for more than 80 percent of government revenues last year.
"For the government, when people talk about Macau, we want them to not talk about gaming. We are doing a very big effort to push the diversification. It's not an easy task," said Neves.
Despite the move to diversify, the role of the junket is likely to remain critical to Macau gaming sector over the coming years, as gambling debts are not legally enforceable in China. Junkets bring in gamblers from the mainland and then find their own ways to collect debts.
Suncity is massively expanding its gaming division, doubling its workforce to 1,200 over the past year and is still short staffed.
But as major junkets move from operating one or two VIP rooms in Macau's flashy casinos to owning their own properties, Macau's licensed concessionaires Sands, Wynn, MGM, Melco Crown and Galaxy may have to find new ways to lure the customer.
"I think everybody is fighting for the customer," said Francis Lui, head of Galaxy Entertainment. "We are doing the same thing, I am sure the junket would be thinking the same thing. We just have to offer more, a bit extra something new, something more creative to get them to come back again."
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This assortment of quotes focuses on the missionary work of the Christian Church - regarding the fulfillment of the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
(Although the term missional is sometimes used by the emergent church movement, the quotes here are not specific to the terminology of that movement.)
Holy Bible[edit]
– from the New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jesus Christ[edit]
On Being Sent[edit]
- Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work." John 4:34
- "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." John 5:30
- "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." John 6:38
- "I know Him; because I am from Him, and He sent Me." John 7:29
- "And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him." John 8:29
- "We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work." John 9:4
- And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me. And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me." John 12:44-45
- "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak." John 12:49
- "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." John 13:20
- "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." John 17:3
- "For the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them; and they received them, and truly understood that I came forth from Thee, and they believed that Thou didst send Me." John 17:8
- "As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." John 17:18
- Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you." John 20:21
On Mission[edit]
- "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
- "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
- "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10
- "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him." John 3:16-17
- "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Acts 1:8
Apostle Paul[edit]
- "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." Romans 1:16
- "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20
- "...in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord." Ephesians 3:10-11
- "And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ." Colossians 1:28
- Every heart with Christ, a missionary; every heart without Christ, a mission field.
- Dick Hillis (1913-2005), Missionary to Asia, Founder of OC International (formerly Orient Crusades)
- Mission cannot be something separate from or added to the essence of the Church. The essential nature of the local congregation is, in and of itself, mission, or else the congregation is not really the Church.
- God's Missionary People by Charles Van Engen, 1991, p. 70.
- The church is missionary by nature because God has sent it on a mission in the world under the leading of the Holy Spirit. It is to bear witness to God's redemptive reign. Just as God is a missionary God, so the church is to be a missionary church.
- The Essence of the Church by Craig Van Gelder (p. 98)
- God's church falters from exhaustion because Christians erroneously think that God has given them a mission to perform in the world. Rather, the God of mission has given his church to the world. It is not the church of God that has a mission in the world, but the God of mission who has a church in the world. The church's involvement in mission is its privileged participation in the actions of the triune God.
- Beyond Duty: A Passion for Christ, a Heart for Mission by Tim Dearborn (p. 2)
- The church exists, in other words, for what we sometimes call "mission": to announce to the world that Jesus is its Lord.
- Simply Christian by N. T. Wright, 2006, p. 204.
- When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.
- The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch (p. 82)
- It is not the local church that will change the world; it is Jesus. Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.
- Organic Church by Neil Cole (p. xxiv)
- It's possible to be a missionary without ever leaving your zip code.
- Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer (p. 2)
- Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining biblically sound.
- Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer (p. 19)
- The church exists for the sake of the world....The ultimate goal of all ministry is to reach others for Christ.
- The Master's Plan for the Church, by John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1991, p. 59.
- Christ's strategy is to scatter His people throughout the world between Sundays, penetrating society's structure from within. They are the true ministers of Jesus Christ in the world. Rightly understood, every believer is in full-time service for Jesus Christ. That movement is a lay movement, and the church's impact is the aggregate of all the laity's impac as they carry out their common tasks between Sundays.
- Perspective (a biweekly devotional letter of Concern Ministries, Inc) by Richard Halverson, n.d.
- Our mission has not life of its own: only in the hands of the sending God can it truly be called mission. Not least since the missionary initiative comes from God alone.
- Transforming Mission by David J. Bosch (p. 390)
- Jesus was the first apostle. He was sent by his Father. He, in turn, sent the Twelve. They went to people who would then take the gospel to the rest of the world. Whoever received it would understand that they, too, had been sent. With the gospel being what it is, the church as bearer of the gospel is bound to be apostolic.
- The Insider by Jim Petersen and Mike Shamy
- The essence of any church is its mission. The essence of God's mission is extravagant love, which Jesus Christ communicated and displayed for us on the cross.
- Lost In America by Tom Clegg (p. 20)
- The calling of the church in every culture is to be mission. That is, the work of the church is not to be an agent or servant of the culture. The churches' business is not to maintain freedom or to promote wealth or to help a political party or to serve as the moral guide to culture. The church's mission is to be the presence of the kingdom. . . . The church's mission is to show the world what it looks like when a community of people live under the reign of God.
- The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber (p. 133)
- If we want to be on mission with God we simply must pause long enough to understand how God is on mission. Only then can we know with some degree of certainty that we are aligned as his instruments and not misaligned as his obstacles.
- Church Planting Movements by David Garrison, 2004, p. 28.
- The church doesn't exist for itself; it exists to serve the world. It is not ultimately about the church; it's about the people God wants to bless through the church. When the church loses sight of this, it loses its heart.
- Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell (p. 165)
- At the core, it is not the number of activities a church is involved in that defines success, but whether those activities result in accomplishing God's mission for His church.
- Shaped By God's Heart by Milfred Minatrea, 2004, p. xvi.
- It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and his gospel as Jesus was in his own time and place.
- The Radical Reformission by Mark Driscoll (p. 40)
- It is in the very being of God that the basis for the missionary enterprise is found. God is a sending God, with a desire to see humankind and creation reconciled, redeemed, and healed. The missional church, then, is a sent church. It is a going church, a movement of God through his people, sent to bring healing to a broken world.
- The Shaping of Things to Come by Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch, 2003, p. 18.
- The time for getting people to come to church is over. It is time now to get people to come to Christ.
- Faithquakes by Leonard Sweet (p. 28)
- The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
- The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Roland Allen (p. 96)
- The Church is sent into the world to continue that which he came to do, in the power of the same Spirit, reconciling people to God (John 20:19-23).
- The Gospel in a Pluaralistic Society by Leslie Newbigin (p. 230)
- Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity, But worship abides forever.
- Let The Nations Be Glad by John Piper (p. 17)
- The Church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning.
- The Word and the World by Emil Brunner (p. 108) (Quoted in Michael Griffiths, God's Forgetful Pilgrims: Recalling the Church to its Reason for Being, p. 135)
- The life of the church is the heart of God. The heart of God is to serve a broken world. When Jesus wrapped a towel around his waist, he reminded us that only he could wash away our sin. The church cannot live when the heart of God is not beating within her. God's heartbeat is to seek and save that which is lost. The church exists to serve as the body of Christ, and it is through this commitment to serve that we are forced to engage the culture.
- An Unstoppable Force by Erwin Raphael McManus, 2001, p. 23.
- Jesus came to ignite a fire within you that would consume you and ignite you. Jesus the King came to fight for your heart. If He has won your heart, then to follow your heart will always lead you to follow the heart of God. He will always lead you to advance forward behind enemy lines to win the hearts of those who do not yet know Him or love Him.
- The Barbarian Way by Erwin Raphael McManus (p. 14)
- A mission focus looks first at those who are outside the church before it ever looks at the internal needs of the church.
- Invading Secular Space by Martin Robinson & Dwight Smith, 2003, p. 167.
- Success is achieving an intended outcome. Success in God's Church is achieving the outcome God intends. Another word for this outcome is mission.
- Winning on Purpose by John Edmund Kaiser (p. 19)
- If the Church is to be missional rather than institutional, we must begin with a clear understanding of what that mission is....Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, the Lord of the Church. Christ cast the only ballot that counts. Since Jesus Christ is the owner of his Church and thus all of its local expressions, we do not get to dream up the mission for our congregation.
- Winning on Purpose by John Edmund Kaiser (p. 52)
- Christians living in modern culture face a fundamental challenge. That challenge is to learn to think about their culture in Missional terms.
- Write the Vision by Wilbert R. Shenk (p. 43)
- To fulfill the Great Commission, we need to stop doing ministry by addition and start doing ministry by multiplication...planting churches that plant churches that plant churches that plant churches.
- Be Fruitful and Multiply by Robert E. Logan (p.58)
- Mission is no longer about crossing the oceans, jungles and deserts, but about crossing the streets of the world's cities.
- A Theology as Big as the City, by Ray Bakke (p. 13)
- Remember, you are never more like God than when you are living in relationships with God's people and working in partnerships for the re-creation and redemption of God's world.
- A Theology as Big as the City, by Ray Bakke (p. 35)
- The Church is by nature missionary to the extent that, if it ceases to be missionary, it has not just failed in one of its tasks, it has ceased being Church.
- What is Mission?: Theological Explorations by J. Andrew Kirk, 2000, p. 30.
- Participating in the mission of God means leaving our place of security, to travel to the place where other are. This is the heartbeat of the incarnation....Mission is always in the direction of the other, and away from ourselves.
- Threshold of the Future: Reforming the Church in the Post-Christian West by Michael Riddell, 1998, p. 24.
- When the church ceases to reach out to all people, it ceases to be a true church. This is why the Great Commission is a controlling and central command. All these metaphors and commands spring out of one profound reality: the church is a result of and a participant in the mission of God.
- Planning Strategies for World Evangelization by E.R. Dayton and D.A. Fraser, 1990, p. 45.


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Following a year marked by hundreds of arrests and national publicity but few policy victories, leaders of the movement opposing the Republican agenda in North Carolina vowed Saturday to keep fighting and to speak clearly at the ballot box in 2014.
Thousands of people angry with GOP policies approved in 2013 were energized while attending the "Moral March on Raleigh," the largest gathering of its kind since weekly Monday protests began last spring at the Legislative Building.
"We return to Raleigh with a renewed strength and a renewed sense of urgency," the Rev. William Barber, president of the state NAACP shouted to a packed crowd that extended at least three blocks along Fayetteville Street south from the old Capitol building. "This Moral March inaugurates a fresh year of grassroots empowerment, voter education, litigation and nonviolent direct action."
Raleigh police didn't give an attendance estimate. Event organizers predicted between 20,000 and 30,000 people would attend when seeking a permit with the city to march from near Shaw University less than a mile. It took more than an hour for the last marchers to reach their destination.
There were no reported arrests or disturbances. More than 900 people were arrested during more than a dozen protests during the 2013 legislative session in nonviolent opposition to the GOP agenda. Saturday's event was not intended to include such civil disobedience.
Event organizers said people from more than 30 states planned to attend the rally, a reflection of the spread of the "Moral Monday" protests to nearby Southern states. It was a diverse group of rally participants who chanted, sang and danced at the end, waving placards on topics ranging from campaign finance and education funding to gay rights and abortion rights.
"Someone can say, 'what can one man or one woman do?" asked Kirkland Carden, 25, a Georgia State University student who traveled with Planned Parenthood organizers to participate. "But when everybody comes here, you get waves like this."
The NAACP and like-minded advocacy groups have held similar annual winter marches and rallies for the past seven years demanding changes in North Carolina government, but none received the kind of attention as Saturday's event. Everything changed when the Republican-led General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory passed laws last year opponents call extreme and backward.
Those laws include a refusal to expand Medicaid to more working people under the federal health care law, a photo identification requirement to vote in person, additional abortion rules, taxpayer-funded grants for low-income children to attend public schools and tax changes critics say hurt the poor.
"I mean, this legislature is disgusting," said Susan Stone, 71, of Black Mountain. She left on a bus at 2 a.m. Saturday from Asheville to attend the rally. She held a sign reading, "Why don't you care about the least of these - God does!"
Democrats in the General Assembly were largely helpless to stop the laws. McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis, Senate leader Phil Berger and allies defended them as promoting a stronger economy, more jobs, better educational opportunities for students in failing public schools and improved confidence in the election system.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or other groups and voters have sued to challenge the elections overhaul law, taxpayer-funded education grants and public school teacher tenure changes. The cases are pending.
Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, said Saturday the NAACP was being hypocritical for directing marchers on a document to bring photo identification when it opposes a photo ID requirement for voting. Lewis helped shepherd a voter ID law through the legislature.
The conservative North Carolina Values Coalition criticized the event beforehand, saying it was being spearheaded by groups that support abortion and gay marriage. The Republican General Assembly put on the ballot a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage, which voters approved in 2012.
"The so-called 'moral march on Raleigh' is anything but moral," coalition executive director Tami Fitzgerald said in a release.
Barber said Saturday it was the "Moral March" movement that had the high ground on supporting equality and justice for all and would keep working against Republican leaders. He said the NAACP would ramp up a voter registration and education effort in all 100 counties this year while continuing to fight bad laws in court.
"We will encourage voter turnout regardless of party," Barber told the crowd. Speaking rhetorically to Republican state government leaders, he added later: "You don't have enough political power to vote us away."
Attendees, who swayed arm-in-arm while singing "We Shall Overcome" at the rally's close, went away emotional and enthusiastic.
"This huge demonstration of unity and commitment to each other, it's a beautiful thing," said East Carolina University student Demonte Alford, 22, of Laurinburg. "We got our marching orders today."
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press.


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This is another video that my wife and I put together on kneading and folding. Just a little more detail than the PSB video with some commentary. Hope you guys like it.
This is another video that my wife and I put together on kneading and folding. Just a little more detail than the PSB video with some commentary. Hope you guys like it.
I like the other video better, closer views of the dough and your immediate work surface. I like the dark counter tops, they really show off the flour how little or how much is being used. The beginning of the video showing the entire kitchen is unneccesary information, too much distraction from the work going on, the bar tends to block the view. I tend to loose interest before the close ups.
The music adds a little shock effect starting off with the sound of telephone ringing, which adds a certain stress factor to the beginning that tends to soften as you start to talk. But I feel like I'm about to be interrupted during the video. I'm tempted to turn the sound off. I would like to see more on texture and stiffness of the dough before you start kneading. Strikes me as a very stiff dough that doesn't really need folding.
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I felt that only in the beginning did the bench impede some of the view for me. I like the music. It adds an extra element to the video, and am wondering whos the band?
I thought that the close up especially was good and detailed. Your explanation clear and easy to understand.
Liking the darker benchtops also.
Mini O. I always fold my dough. Even if it might not need it. It has become that "extra step" to ensure my bread doesnt suck too much......:S
I too found the music to be distracting and had to turn the sound down. Then was surprised to have to turn the sound up when the speaking started; you are quite soft-spoken. Because 1/3 of the commenters liked the music (a large percentage), perhaps you could make sure that it is at the same sound level as your voice (rather than louder) and fade it out as you begin speaking.
Nice opening showing the whole kitchen, however I would have liked to go earlier to the closer view of you kneading - especially to see how much flour you scatter initially and when you stop scattering it - showing how the dough stops sticking to your hands and bench. I would also like to see the degassing just before folding - to get an idea of how many bubbles there are.
Nice looking dough!
Do you do any slack dough breads? Your sticky buns? I'm always curious to see how others manage to knead slack dough.
I liked the music in the sweet roll video better, less distracting to the project. If it were me, I would use more of the guitar solo quietly in the background, nice touch. I don't see a need to have different music for each video. It's pretty unique to have music anyway, you are starting at the top of the class Mark.
You didn't really ask for suggestions on this but for my .02, I would like to know what the plan is for the video in the opening seconds. For example start by saying, today I will mix, stretch and shape 4 # of sweet roll dough. Knowing in advance makes it easier to focus on the details. Your close up shots of kneading are great, very descriptive. More close detail less wide shots. You must have a great art director/photographer!!
Seriously? The beastie Boys???
My hubby loves them, and I tend to cringe when he plays them :S
hhhhmmmmm. I'll have to have a listen. Thanks Mark :)
Let us know when you have edited the video :)
Perhaps "Fight for your right" should be your next theme song....... ;D
I look forward to seeing the new version. I am just mad about bread.....dough, kneading, finished product......Its an illness. I am working on getting fixed...but I think its contagious. ;)
Here are some more videos...
Kneading http://www.sourdoughhome.com/kneadingconverting.html
Stretching and folding http://www.sourdoughhome.com/stretchandfold.html
Hope they help,


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OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- West Corporation (Nasdaq:WSTC), a leading provider of technology-driven communications services, plans to announce its fourth quarter and full year 2013 earnings results after market close on Thursday, January 30, 2014. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss results on Friday, January 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Central Time). Investors may access the call by visiting the Investor section of the West Corporation website at www.west.com and clicking on the Webcast link. A replay of the call will also be available on the website.
About West Corporation
West Corporation is a leading provider of technology-driven communication services. West offers its clients a broad range of communications and network infrastructure solutions that help them manage or support critical communications. West's customer contact solutions and conferencing services are designed to improve its clients' cost structure and provide reliable, high-quality services. West also provides mission-critical services, such as public safety and emergency communications.
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, West serves Fortune 1000 companies and other clients in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, retail, financial services, public safety, technology and healthcare. West has sales and operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For more information on West Corporation, please call 1-800-841-9000 or visit www.west.com.
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The good news: one shot of tasty swine flu vaccine is all it will take to save you from the dreaded pig virus this year! The bad news: All the medicine is going to special interests.
That means it should be possible to vaccinate - well before the flu's expected midwinter peak - all the 159 million people that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate are in the high-risk groups: pregnant women, people under 24 years old or caring for infants, people with high-risk medical conditions and health-care workers.
Whoa whoa whoa—I could have sworn that there are 300 million people in the USA. The socialist government is once again telling the Middle-Aged White Man to suck it! Fend for yourselves! Give the life-saving medicine to welfare people! NObama's not a pregnant woman but how much do you want to bet he gets some vaccine, hmm?
Even hogs are treated better than the Grown White Man these days. Outrageous.
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I presented these slides at the Scotland Malawi Partnership Conference at City Chambers in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2009. If you are interested in the slides, particularly if you were able to attend the conference, I encourage you to contact me with follow up questions.
The short one-day conference was great. A few interesting tid bits I learned: More than half of all international health and development aid from the Scottish government goes to Malawi. Until Malawi began to build its first medical school just a few decades ago, most Malawian doctors were trained in St. Andrews. Blantyre (Malawi's largest city) was named after Blantyre, Scotland, the birth-place of Dr. David Livingston. Dr. Livingston (of the oft' quoted question "Dr. Livingston, I presume?") was a Scottish Doctor who was the first European to explore much of East Africa, and his story is at the root of much of the long relationship between Scotland and Malawi. It was great being at a conference with so many people with extensive experience working in Malawi, and I particularly enjoyed meeting Maeghan Ray and the other conference organizers and speakers.
Since the conference I've been as busy as ever, meeting up with Ken Banks in Cambridge, visiting Dutch friends and host family that I hadn't seen since I was an exchange student in the Netherlands (4 years ago!), and most recently re-launching the FrontlineSMS:Medic website.


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George Barris, the custom carmaker who designed the Batmobile made famous in the mid-1960s "Batman" television series, died Thursday at his Los Angeles home at age 89.
Barris' son, Brett, announced his father's death in a Facebook post.
"Sorry to have to post that my father, legendary kustom car King George Barris, has moved to the bigger garage in the sky," he wrote. "He passed on peacefully in his sleep at 2:45 a.m."
Barris — who died 15 days shy of his 90th birthday — also created vehicles for the TV shows "Knight Rider," "The Munsters" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the films "North by Northwest" and "Teenage Confidential."
Born in Chicago on Nov. 20, 1925, Barris and his brother Sam migrated to California as children and developed a keen interest in automobiles.
By their teenage years, they were creating custom cars.
Barris and his brother moved to the Los Angeles area and opened their first shop in 1945, growing that business into a multimillion-dollar operation.
Barris Kustom Industries is still operating in North Hollywood.
The Batmobile — which Barris made in about two weeks from a 1955 sedan he for bought for $1 — became arguably the most famous car ever created. It sold in 2013 for more than $4 million.
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(Reuters) - Memory drive maker Fusion-io Inc reported higher-than-expected revenue for the third quarter and forecast current-quarter revenue ahead of analysts' estimates, pushing up its shares 11 percent in after-hours trading.
The company, which makes solid state memory drives using NAND flash technology, forecast revenue of about $110 million for the fourth quarter. Analysts on average were expecting $107.3 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"I think the sentiment was negative after the company cut its (full-year) outlook after the December quarter, but the third quarter results have signaled to the investors that the company is back on track," Craig-Hallum Capital Group analyst Rajesh Ghai said.
Fusion-io slashed its fiscal 2013 revenue forecast in January as key customers Facebook Inc and Apple Inc delayed orders.
"Our relationship with Facebook and Apple is strong. Their orders this quarter were in line with our expectations. We are a key part of their infrastructure and expect to grow as they grow," Chief Executive David Flynn said on a call with analysts.
Fusion-io's net loss increased to $20 million, or 21 cents per share, in the third quarter ended March 31, from $4.7 million, 5 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding items, the loss was 3 cents per share.
Revenue fell 7 percent to $87.7 million.
Analysts on average had expected a loss of 1 cent per share on revenue of $107.3 million.
The company also said it had agreed to acquire Louisville-based NexGen Storage for $114 million in cash and $5 million in stock. Fusion-io said it would add about 50 NexGen employees to its team.
Fusion-io shares fell to $18.42 in after-market trading after closing at $16.63 on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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text: On 9/30/08 8:37 AM, "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Lux, James P wrote: > > This is a very nice response, and I think you're on a very good track. > IIRC from discussion a few years ago, GPS can yield what, microsecond or > better timing (if used to adjust drift and resync all clocks)? In > principle sub-microsecond, since a microsecond is order of 300 meters > and GPS can get you within 30. The grottiest grungy GPS receiver can probably do 100ns on its 1pps tick, and most are in the 20ns range. There ARE receivers that have systematic errors (i.e. Some sort of sawtooth in the error) and, of course, there are countless schemes to compensate in one way or another. When you get into the 1ns area, you have to start worrying about multipath (1 ft/ns and all that) and the apparent position of the antenna (phase center for you EM folks) varying as a function of look angle (because the satellites are moving across the sky, eh?) Again, there are fancy algorithms to compensate for them (because it's repeatable and predictable). Also such things as ionospheric variations, temperature variations on the antenna and coax cable, and hordes of other problems. But, if you're trying to sync the CPUs in your Beowulf to 1ns, I think you'll have bigger problems than the GPS time reference moving around. Time to buy yourself a good crystal oscillator. GPS isn't all that hot in the fine scale (20ns in 1 sec is 20ppb, 2E-8) even cheap quartz is better (<1E-10 over 1 second). What it's good for is "absolute" calibration (so you can know that your quartz oscillator is 10.000 000 000 MHz and not 10.000 000 001 MHz) and for establishing synchronization over a large distance (e.g. If your cluster is spread over 100km, GPS can be used to sync it to the 20ns level. A notional application along these lines is the cluster of computers that form the cellphone switching system, distributed among those fake tree towers, etc.) For more info than anyone should want to know: http://www.ieee-uffc.org/fcmain.asp?view=review#tutor The tutorial from John Vig is particularly to be recommended (especially for you physicists out there.. Quartz is a fascinating material, anisotropic, etc.)


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Career: Three-time All-American, including two-time first team selection … Arguably the best midfielder to wear a Duke jersey … Two-time L.T. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin Award winner as the nation's top midfielder … Two-time Tewaaraton Award Finalist … 2016 ACC Offensive Player of the Year … One of 11 Blue Devils to earn All-ACC honors three times in his career … Owns the Duke midfield record for career and single-season points with 231 and 77 … Ranks seventh at Duke in career points, 12th in career goals (126) and fifth in career assists (105) … His 231 career points are the second most by a midfielder in NCAA Division I history … First midfielder in NCAA history to record 100 career goals and 100 career assists … Owns two of the top 20 single-season points and assists totals in Duke history … One of three Blue Devil midfielders and 23 in NCAA history to score 40 goals in a season.
2016: L.T. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin Award winner as the nation's top midfielder … Tewaaraton Award Finalist … USILA All-America first team … ACC Offensive Player of the Year … All-ACC … Ranked second on the team in points with 70 … Led all midfielders nationally in points and ranked 28th nationally … Tops on the team with 37 assists … The 70 points tied for 15th in Duke single-season history, while the 37 assists are seventh … Finished his career on a 54-game point streak … Compiled five-plus points in five games … Had three hat tricks … Distributed three-plus assists five times … Matched the Duke single-game record in points with 11 in the setback to North Carolina (4/1) … Recorded five goals and three assists for eight points in win over Loyola (3/12) … Garnered ACC Player of the Week honors following performance against the Greyhounds … Registered at least four points in eight games … Scored the game-tying goal and assisted on the overtime winner in ACC Semifinal victory over Notre Dame (4/29) … Added two goals against Syracuse (5/1) in the ACC Championship contest to earn ACC All-Tournament Team honors … Scored two goals and four assists in win at Virginia (4/17) … Scored two goals and two assists in overtime regular season victory over Syracuse (3/26) … Picked up 16 ground balls.
2015: Started all 18 games on the first midfield … LT. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin Jr. Award winner as the nation's top midfielder … USILA All-America first team … Tewaaraton Finalist … All-ACC … Led the Blue Devils in scoring with 77 points from 40 goals and 37 assists … Led all midfielders nationally in scoring and ranked fourth overall in points per game (4/28) … Also ranked fourth nationally in assists per game (2.06) and 10th in goals per game (2.22) … Became the 43rd Blue Devil in program history to reach 100 career points with five points against Denver (2/14) … Scored three goals and an assist in the win over Marquette (4/18) to become the top scoring midfielder in Duke history, passing Jim Gonnella's 145 … His 77 points are the most by a midfielder in Duke single-season history and rank 11th on Duke's all-time list … His 37 also are a midfield record and rank seventh in program history … With 40 goals he became just the second Duke midfielder to record 40 goals in a season, joining Rob Rotanz … Scored a goal in 17 games and had at least one point in all 18 games to push his point streak to 35 … Registered a team-high 10 five-point games and had nine hat tricks for the year … Dished out at least three assists five times … Matched his career high with eight points from three goals and five assists at Georgetown (3/14) … Had the game-winner in the 15-13 victory over the Hoyas … Compiled four goals and an assist in win over Loyola (3/7) … Scored at least five points in each of his first four outings on the year, including five points (3g, 2a) in loss to No. 1 Denver (2/14) … Had two goals and three assists for five points in win over Virginia (4/12) to clinch a spot in the ACC Tournament … Tallied three goals and two assists in ACC Championship loss to Syracuse (4/26) … Also had three points (1g, 2a) in the semifinal win over No. 1 Notre Dame … Named to the ACC All-Tournament team on strength of his eight points and four ground balls in the two games … Led all Duke offensive midfielders with 25 ground balls … ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2014: Played in all 20 and started 16 games on Duke's first midfield line … USILA All-America second team … All-ACC … NCAA All-Tournament Team … Part of the highest scoring midfield trio in Duke lacrosse history … Compiled 37 goals and 26 assists for 63 points … Ranked fourth in goals and third in assists on the team … Had at least one point in 19 of 20 outings and registered 15 multiple-point games … Finished the year with five hat tricks … Tallied a career-high five goals and six points in regular season win over Syracuse (3/23) … Added four goals in wins over Harvard (3/29) and at Virginia (4/11) … Also handed out two assists versus the Cavaliers … Provided five assists and a goal in victory over Rutgers (4/19) … Registered a career-high eight points on three goals and five assists in NCAA Tournament first round win over Air Force (5/11) … Had three goals and four assists in NCAA quarterfinal game versus Johns Hopkins (5/18) … Tallied matching two goals and one assist performances in NCAA semifinal and title game wins … Compiled 10 goals and 11 assists for 21 points in the four NCAA Tournament games … Scored 28 goals and 22 assists for 50 points in the final 11 games of the year after scoring just nine goals and four assists for 13 points in the first nine.
2013: Played in 18 games and started five games at midfield … Finished the year with 16 goals and five assists for 21 points … Tallied his first collegiate point with a goal against Jacksonville (2/10) … Registered his first multiple-point game against Mercer (2/17) with a goal and a career-high two assists … Notched two goals at Penn (2/22) for his first career multiple-goal game … Had a hat trick and a career-best five points at Marquette (5/5) … Scored two goals in NCAA Tournament action … Had one in 12-11 double overtime win over Loyola (5/12) and one in the NCAA Championship win over Syracuse (5/27) … Scored a point in 13 games overall … Had seven ground balls and one caused turnover.
Prep: A four-year letterwinner for Bob Howell at Walt Whitman High School ... A four-time Suffolk County All-League selection ... Tallied 149 goals and 123 assists for 272 points in his scholastic career ... Rated as the No. 8 postgraduate player by Inside Lacrosse ... Ranked among the top 10 players by Inside Lacrosse throughout his high school career ... Earned all-county honors his final three seasons and was a US Lacrosse and Under Armour All-American his final campaign ... Picked as an honorable mention All-American his sophomore and junior seasons and was named to the Under Armour All-America underclassman team in 2009 ... Voted to all-tristate in 2010 and 2011 ... Had a career-best 82 points from 42 goals and 40 assists as a junior ... A gold medalist at the Empire State Games ... Competed at Salisbury School in a postgraduate year ... Also lettered four years in football and basketball at Walt Whitman .. A 1,000-point scorer and earned league MVP honors as well as all-Long Island, all-league, and all-county recognition on the basketball court ... All-league and all-county as a quarterback.
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Jason Aldean to Help Judge MLB's 'Honorary Bat Girl' for Breast Cancer Awareness
Jason Aldean is teaming up with some big names to help Major League Baseball pick the 2014 Honorary Bat Girls to raise awareness for breast cancer. The annual "Going to Bat Against Breast Cancer" initiative helps recognize those baseball fans who have been affected by the disease -- and are dedicated to helping spread awareness.
Aldean will join three big MLB names and Sam Ryan, a MLB Network host and reporter, in picking the winner for each ball club. He'll be joined by Freddie Freeman, of the Atlanta Braves, Evan Langoria, of the Tampa Bay Rays and Pablo Sandoval, of the San Francisco Giants.
The candidates were asked to tell their story about how breast cancer affected them and why they want to represent their favorite baseball team. Fans are able to vote for the winners at the Honorary Bat Girl website through April 14. There will be one winner per ballpark who will take part in activities before the game, be honored on the field during the game and receive some pink breast cancer merchandise along with their tickets to the game. This all takes place as part of MLB's Mother's Day celebrations.
"The Honorary Bat Girl nominees exhibit tremendous courage in the face of cancer and it is a great privilege to use the combined power of Major League Baseball, its clubs and players, Stand Up 2 Cancer and Susan G. Komen For the Cure to recognize them across the league on Mother's Day," Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says.
Aldean was selected as one of the judges because of his breast cancer story -- he lost a close family friend to the disease and has since done great work wht Susan G. Komen For the Cure.