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Honda Announces 2013 Contingency
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Torrance, CA: American Honda proudly announces the continuation of the Red Riders Rewards program for 2013, with more than $5 million in earnings available to racers. For the upcoming racing season, the Red Rider Rewards program will provide Honda owners with thousands of opportunities to earn payouts at more than 1500 race events across the United States including motocross, off-road events, dirt track, ATV and road racing. There's even contingency for the exciting new CBR500R. Riders on CRF150Rs will benefit from industry-leading payouts in both off-road and MX events.
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Another star bid a tearful goodbye to the "Dancing with the Stars" ballroom on Tuesday night, but it wasn't Pamela Anderson.
Despite several weeks in the bottom two over the season, the blonde bombshell managed to survive the cut with her partner, Australian professional dancer Damian Whitewood.
Instead, it was the "Bachelor," Jake Pavelka, who got booted.
"This is, I think, the best season of 'Dancing with [the] Stars' I've ever seen. I was so honored to be here," Jake said after learning the news he would not be continuing in the competition. "I enjoyed every second of this."
The reality romance star went on to thank his home state of Texas, as well as all the support he received over the season from fans near and far.
"Thank you for keeping me here for six episodes," he said. "I can't even put into words how much I've enjoyed this.
"This is a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be to say goodbye," Jake continued as he began to get choked up. "I consider the judges, the cast, the crew, all of the viewers — family."
The tears came, however, when co-host Brooke Burke asked Jake what he wanted to say to his professional dance partner, Chelsie Hightower.
"Thank you so much Chelsie, you're one of my best friends," he said, pausing as tears welled up in his eyes. "I have loved every second of this. I love you. Thank you for being so great to my beautiful fiancee, Vienna. Thank you everybody for watching and keeping me in. Thank you so much."
While Jake was sent home, Niecy Nash and partner Louis van Amstel, who were also in the bottom two, were given a warning that they need to improve from judge Len Goodman.
"If you wanna shine, you've gotta polish," he said. "So polish up those dances."
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St. Cloud Rox Lose Season Opener at Duluth
The St. Cloud Rox lost their season opener at Duluth 6-1 Wednesday night. Duluth scored 3 runs in the 6th inning to lead 6-1. Alex Roberts started the game for the Rox and allowed 8 hits and 2 earned runs in 5 innings to take the loss. St. Cloud managed just 2 hits. Both Adam Martin and Ryan Kiesel each had a hit for the Rox.
The Rox will play at Duluth at 7:05 tonight, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 6:35. The home opener for the Rox is Saturday night against Mankato at 7:05, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 6:35.


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Notified bodies: appointment and co-ordination
Apply to become a notified body or identify a notified body.
How to become a notified body
Under the new approach directives on non-automatic weighing instruments (NAWI) and measuring instruments (MID) the United Kingdom has statutory obligations to ensure that conformity assessment schemes operate effectively.
The Secretary of State is responsible for the appointment or designation of notified bodies to undertake duties as set out in the regulations. In order to assist bodies requiring to become a notifed body, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has produced guidelines on the appointment of notified bodies under NAWI and MID. The guidance also includes an application form at the end.
Find a notified body
Notified bodies are third party organisations that have been appointed by a European Union (EU) member state competent authority following completion of an in-depth assessment. The primary role of a notified body is to provide services for conformity assessment on the conditions set out in the new approach directives in support of CE (conformity european) marking. Conformity assessment can be inspection, quality assurance, type examination or design examination, or a combination of these. This area provides information for the ongoing operation of a notified body, a search tool facility and information on how to report issues relating to a notified body.
OPSS maintains an up to date search engine to help identify notified bodies and which types of equipment they initially verify.
The new approach notified and designated organisations (NANDO) information system allows you to search for notified bodies across the EU.
Maintaining notified body status
OPSS has developed a protocol to assist notified bodies in maintaining their status through the peer auditor scheme. We also maintain a spreadsheet to assist in identifying appropriate peer auditors and an audit form and ISO 17020 checklist. The protocol lays down a framework through which local authorities wishing to operate as notified bodies (approved bodies) for the task of EC verification under NAWI and MID can be independently audited. It also allows for OPSS on behalf of the Secretary of State to be satisfied that the core criteria of directive 2009/23/EC and 2004/22/EC continue to be adequately fulfilled.
Market surveillance
OPSS is responsible for market surveillance activities under the new approach metrology directives covering NAWI, water meters, measuring systems for liquids other than water, capacity serving measures, length measures and automatic weighing instruments.
Desired outcome
OPSS on behalf of the UK has a statutory duty under the metrology directives to ensure that all appropriate measures are taken to ensure that measuring instruments that are subject to legal metrological control but do not comply with the applicable provisions of the directives are neither placed on the market or put into use.
Enforcement policy
OPSS works with notified bodies, inspection authorities and individual manufacturers and importers to achieve the desired outcome of the directives. We employ a variety of techniques including market intelligence gathering, test purchases, product testing and any other innovative solutions to deliver the outcomes.
OPSS follows the approach identified by WELMEC (European Cooperation in Legal Metrology) in market surveillance guides 5.2 'Market Surveillance (NAWI and MID)' and 5.3 'Risk Assessment Guide for Market Surveillance: Weigh and Measuring Instruments' to fulfil a programme of interventions in the market place.
Each market surveillance activity will be targeted at a sector, product type, manufacturer, distribution method or individual product following a risk assessment exercise.
When non-compliances are discovered the response will be both proportionate to the impact on consumers and the market place whilst remaining consistent with responses by other member states throughout Europe. OPSS participates in the activities of WELMEC working group 5 to ensure a high level of European consistency is achieved.
OPSS uses the appropriate sanction where necessary to ensure the outcomes identified in the directives are achieved. A full range of sanctions is available from administrative actions through to a full European safeguard action including product withdrawal from the market. Regulated entities that are affected by OPSS' use of sanctions have a right of appeal.
Reporting issues with notified bodies
If you are an approved verifier, an approved manufacturer, a notified body or an inspector of weights and measures and have concerns about the way a piece of equipment was verified or conformity assessed by another organisation or the supporting processes, then read this guide to find out more details on what to include when reporting issues and email: email@example.com
Notified body verification stickers correspondence and pricing
Occasionally, OPSS receives queries regarding verification stickers. Read more on the following page about how to order stickers and how much they cost.
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A history of the architecture at Frescati.
A timeline of buildings
|1790 – 1900
|Bloms hus, Gréens villa, Gula villan, the buildings in Frescati Hage (1890s and 1960s), the buildings in Kräftriket (1880s and 1950s), Naturens Hus, Skogstorpet, Skära villan.
|1900 – 1950
|Bergius Foundation main building, buildings at Frescatibacke, The Old Orangery, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), Lantis, Manne Siegbahn buildings, Nobel buildings, Småbrukarhemmet, Sveavägen 160-162 at Sveaplan, Victoriahuset, Villa Bellona.
|1950 – 2000
|Allhuset, Arrhenius laboratories, Aula Magna, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences building in Lilla Frescati, Edvard Anderson Conservatory, Frescatihallen, Frescativägen 54, Geovetenskapens hus, Juristernas Hus, Stockholm University Library, Södra huset, Metro station - Universitetet, AlbaNova University Centre, Wallenberglaboratoriet.
|2000 –
|Extension of the Arrhenius Laboratories and the new student centre, Studenthuset (2013).
Detailed information about the buildings, including directions and current 'tenants'
Some of the architects
The architecture of the current main campus of the university, Frescati, reads like a history of the changing educational and societal roles that Stockholm University has played since the campus gradually moved from central Stockholm - a story told through brick, plaster, concrete and glass.
Some of the most famous architects who designed and planned the campus area include Fredrik Blom, Axel Anderberg, Lars Myrenberg, Paul Hedqvist, Gunnar Asplund, David Helldén, Ralph Erskine, Carl Nyrén and Henning Larsen.
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March 16, 2017
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Mass. Catholics pull invitation to Islam critic
Group objects to 'speaker's anti-Islamic views'
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester has rescinded an invitation to a speaker at a men's conference after Muslims objected to what they call the speaker's anti-Islamic views.
The diocese on Wednesday withdrew an invitation for Robert Spencer to speak at the March conference. Spencer, a Catholic, runs blogs and has written books that some consider anti-Muslim.
A spokesman for the diocese says Spencer's appearance at the conference "is being seen as harmful to Catholic-Islamic relations."
A spokesman for the Islamic Council of New England called Spencer a "hatemonger" and lauded the diocese's decision.
Spencer in emails to The Boston Globe said there is "nothing hateful or bigoted" about his views, and called the diocese's decision to pull his invitation "evidence of the cowardice of Roman Catholic officials."


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Where are we pulled in off the street to teach English? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Where are we pulled in off the street to teach English? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Asia Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message edgrimleyJoined: 12 Jun 2003Posts: 14Location: Canada Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:18 am Post subject: Where are we pulled in off the street to teach English? Well, that's the story one used to hear about Taiwan and Japan (ten and fifteen years ago respectively?) I was fortunate enough to be in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 1994-95 during which time I taught for the most prestigious private school with many government and NGO contracts. The rate was US$16 per hour after the first term at $12. Although the six days a week classes that started at 6 am(!) wrecked me it was a great life of cheap grass (I didn't indulge), cheap ass (no comment), and warm people. The school was basically honest and there was no cheating of teachers (though I think using Headway was little benefit to students) Cambodia was perhaps a unique situation - an NGO circus of tax dollars, starting to recover from civil war, fire fights at nights between rival police, military and political factions, but I loved it. I was a good teacher and students were polite and some even eager (two Russian brats not withstanding). A few years after 1995 teachers were a dime a dozen and rates went down because people are not afraid to go there anymore. In fact it wasn't really horrible. I even went out during violent conflicts to buy sandwiches. Tanks in the street on CNN. Call mom to tell her not in my part of town. Hey, life goes on... So where is the new 'Wild East' where the living is cheap, wages high and living adventurous? Most of all where middle aged men with no degree can easily find work based on their white faces and teaching experience, that is. I considered East Asia for income but I lived in Japan in 1991 also teaching and frankly hated the mentality. South-east Asia rules. I'd much rather live well than save money. But Thailand is out 'cause I've spent so much time there it's time for a change. Back to top khmerhitJoined: 31 May 2003Posts: 1874Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:42 am Post subject: Still Selling Cambodia Quote: For the film, Jolie spent two weeks on location in Cambodia a beautiful country with a terrible history of civil war and genocide. Jolie said the experience deeply moved her. "When we left, I cried for about three days, and I didn't know why," the actress told ABCNEWS' Barbara Walters in an interview airing tonight on 20/20. "I didn't know what that country had gone through, I didn't learn about it in history, and they were so warm, and so beautiful, and so pure and honest, and the country, I just loved the country." Watch Angelina Jolie's Interview with Barbara Walter July 11, Friday at 10 p.m. on ABC 20/20 ABC Angelina Jolie's Interview Angelina doesn't really know very much about Cambodia, but her first impressions are authentic. Nobody forgets Kampuchea. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Asia Forum All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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After a Hall of Fame career as one of the great playmakers in basketball history, Lenny Wilkens turned to coaching and led his teams to more wins than any other coach in NBA history when retired (Don Nelson surpassed Wilkins in 2010).
As a player, Wilkens was diminutive in stature, but his list of accomplishments made him one of the giants of the game. His reserved demeanor belies his achievements while his self-effacing manner is reflected in his coaching style: a game plan based on unselfish offensive and defensive play that creates powerhouse teamwork.
"I've always believed you need balance," he explained to the Boston Globe. "It's not that I don't want a star -- I'll always take a star -- but even if you have a star, it's important to surround him with the right kind of complementary players."
Wilkens' formula has succeeded beyond even his dreams. On January 6, 1995, in his 22nd NBA season as a head coach, Wilkens became the winningest coach in NBA history, notching his 939th coaching victory to surpass Boston Celtics legend Red Auerbach's 938. The milestone victory came when Wilkens' Hawks defeated Washington 112-90 at the Omni in Atlanta, with Auerbach on hand.
"Red is a legend, so this is a huge achievement," said Wilkens, who took a few puffs from a cigar in tribute to Auerbach. "When I started coaching, all of us looked at Red and thought his record was something that would stand forever. The satisfaction is that only one person can be No. 1 at the time. Only one guy can be at the top. It's nice to be there, for however long. I got there, and no one can take that from me."
Wilkens reached another milestone on March 1, 1996 when his Hawks defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 74-68, making him the first coach in NBA history to record 1,000 regular season NBA victories. After 30 seasons as an NBA head coach, Wilkens left the bench with his last stop being with the Toronto Raptors in the 2002-03 campaign. He had coached 2,046 regular season games, 164 playoff games and four NBA All-Star Games, making him the only head coach in NBA history with more than 2,000 games under his belt.
He trailed only Major League Baseball's Connie Mack (53 years) and John McGraw (33) and the National Football League's George Halas (40), Curly Lambeau (33) and Don Shula (33) for the longest tenure as a head coach in a major professional sports league.
Among his coaching trophies are a 1979 NBA championship with the Seattle SuperSonics and a 1994 NBA Coach of the Year Award with the Atlanta Hawks. These accomplishments and others often overshadow his equally impressive feats as a player. In 15 seasons as a 6-1 point guard for the St. Louis Hawks, Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers, Wilkens accumulated 17,772 points, 7,211 assists, and nine trips to the NBA All-Star Game.
For his exploits on the court Wilkens was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988.
Ordinarily, a player and coach with Wilkens' remarkable record would garner considerable media attention. Yet despite his tremendous success as both a player and a coach, Wilkens has not achieved the celebrity accorded some other NBA greats. His gentlemanly manner and humble disposition have not changed in 30 years, observed Jack Ramsay, who posted 864 coaching victories in the NBA ranks. "He's poised, calm and patient, always under control, accepting the good and the bad equally," Ramsay told the Miami Herald in 1993.
Wilkens' career in basketball almost foundered at the start. Despite making the Boys High School team in Brooklyn, N.Y. as a freshman (the last man on a 12-man squad), Wilkens did not go out for the team the next two years because he didn't think he was good enough to play. He honed his skills instead in various Catholic Youth Organization leagues.
Tommy Davis, a close friend from their Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood who would eventually star for the Los Angeles Dodgers, encouraged his buddy to try out for the high school team during his senior year. As a midyear graduate Wilkens played only half the schedule, missing the city tournament and the resulting publicity. But his CYO coach, Father Thomas Mannion, convinced Providence College coach Joe Mullaney to offer Wilkens a scholarship for the fall of 1956.
Wilkens established himself quickly at Providence, leading the freshman team to a 23-0 record in 1956-57. In his three varsity seasons Wilkens averaged only 14.9 points, but the defensive skills he had acquired as a teenager in New York began to attract attention. He contributed 15.7 points per game as a junior, helping Providence to the National Invitation Tournament semifinals. As a senior in 1959-60 Wilkens led the Friars to the NIT championship game, which they lost to Bradley University, and earned tournament MVP honors. He was also a first-team selection to two All-America squads.
The St. Louis Hawks selected Wilkens in the first round of the 1960 NBA Draft. Even then he wasn't sure he wanted to play in the NBA. He didn't see his first NBA game until after he had been drafted. After attending a Celtics-Hawks matchup he decided he could play better than the Hawks' guards he saw on the floor. So Wilkens went to training camp and, sure enough, earned himself a spot in the starting lineup.
He scored 11.7 points per game as a rookie, fourth on the team behind Bob Pettit, Cliff Hagan and Clyde Lovellette. The Hawks won the Western Division title and advanced to meet the Boston Celtics in the 1961 NBA Finals, which they lost in five games.
St. Louis had a frustrating season in 1961-62, as injuries and other circumstances caused a severe drop to a 29-51 record and a fourth-place finish in the Western Division. Veteran guard John McCarthy missed 65 games with a leg injury, Lovellette missed 40 games, and Larry Foust sat out 23. Perhaps most damaging, however, Wilkens couldn't avoid a prior military commitment; he played in only 20 contests while commuting from Fort Lee, Virginia. In those 20 games he averaged 18.2 ppg and 5.8 apg. The Hawks missed the playoffs in 1962 for the only time in the eight years that Wilkens spent with the team.
Wilkens returned to regular NBA duty in 1962-63 and continued his development as a confident and savvy playmaker. He tallied 11.8 points and 5.1 assists per game that year and made his first appearance in the NBA All-Star Game. He guided the Hawks to six consecutive playoff appearances beginning in 1963, but St. Louis wouldn't return to the NBA Finals. A five-time All-Star during those six seasons, Wilkens had his finest campaign in 1967-68, averaging 20.0 ppg and 8.3 apg and finishing runner-up to Wilt Chamberlain for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award.
However, following that season the Hawks traded Wilkens to Seattle for Walt Hazzard. The expansion Sonics were entering their second season in 1968-69, and Wilkens helped them to a respectable 30-52 record by averaging 22.4 ppg and 8.2 apg.
Prior to the 1969-70 season Seattle general manager Dick Vertlieb asked Wilkens to become player-coach. As Wilkens remembered in the Boston Globe almost 25 years later, "We went around and around. I told him no at first. I finally decided, what the heck, I had nothing to lose; I'd try it and see if I liked it. Everyone always said I was like a coach on the floor, anyway."
In his first year as player-coach, Wilkens described the dual job as "a novelty." By his third year the Sonics had posted a 47-35 record to go over the .500 mark for the first time in franchise history. He continued to shine as a player, leading the league in total assists in both 1969-70 and 1971-72. But as the novelty wore off Wilkens began to feel the strain.
"I began to realize that I had to do a lot more to coach successfully," he told HOOP magazine. "After a while, we had started to do more things within the league, with trapping and double-teaming, becoming more sophisticated. And we were finding that young players were coming in and they didn't really know the game. So that required a lot of teaching, and helping them to understand situations, and I began to realize after awhile that I couldn't do both."
Nissalke had a long-term vision for the team, and that vision did not include Wilkens, who at age 35 would be the oldest starting point guard in the NBA. In a move that drew the ire of loyal Sonics fans, not to mention Wilkens himself, Seattle traded Wilkens and Barry Clemens to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Butch Beard. On the day the trade was announced, 200 Sonics ticket holders signed a petition that stated unequivocally, "If Lenny goes, I stay home."
The Cavaliers were entering their third season in the NBA and had averaged only 19 wins in their first two campaigns. At first the disillusioned Wilkens refused to join the team, and when he finally did Cleveland already owned an 0-6 record.
Before Wilkens's arrival, Cleveland's set offense usually consisted of five men who stood around until the time on the 24-second shot clock had nearly expired, at which point someone would toss up a questionable shot. However, with Wilkens directing the action the attacks became crisper, even if the art of shooting eluded the team.
"We're still using basically the same offense we've had since the team's first year," coach Bill Fitch commented to Sports Illustrated in his assessment of Wilkens' contribution, "but now if it breaks down, Lenny will make a play. A playmaker isn't a guy who simply runs patterns for you. He's the guy who can make things happen when the set things haven't panned out. When the clock gets down to five or six seconds, he'll go to one of the basics -- one-on-one, pick and roll, pass-and-cut. And he'll make them work."
Wilkens represented the Cavaliers in the 1973 NBA All-Star Game during a season in which he averaged 20.5 ppgand 8.4 apg. He concluded his playing career with the Portland Trail Blazers during the 1974-75 season, once again seduced by the dual role of player-coach. But this time he knew that his on-the-job training as a guard was no substitute for his role as teacher, which demanded a great deal more of his time. "I realized I would have to start focusing more on the coaching end of things to be successful at it," he told HOOP.
During Wilkens' 15 years as a player in the NBA, he scored 17,772 points for an average of 16.5 ppg and handed out 7,211 assists. He ranks among the all-time leaders in assists, games played, minutes played and free throws made. The nine-time All-Star was also the MVP of the 1971 midseason classic in San Diego.
After retiring as a player in 1975, Wilkens stayed on with the Blazers to coach one more season, guiding a team led by Bill Walton to a 37-45 record in 1975-76. After that campaign Portland replaced Wilkens with Jack Ramsay, who would become the most successful coach in that team's history.
Wilkens returned to Seattle in May, 1977 as director of player personnel. But 22 games into the 1977-78 season, with the Sonics at 5-17 under Bob Hopkins, Wilkens moved into the head coaching role. He then engineered a remarkable turnaround, guiding the team to the NBA Finals that season and then to an NBA championship the following year by defeating a favored Washington Bullets team led by Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld. Using a team-oriented philosophy, Wilkens crafted a championship club out of a competent but unspectacular unit that included Gus Williams, Dennis Johnson, Jack Sikma, Fred Brown, John Johnson and Lonnie Shelton.
"I still remember when I took over that team," Wilkens recalled in 1994. "I had heard general managers and other people say it was the worst team ever. And when I turned them around, all of a sudden everyone said, 'Well, we all knew they had the talent.'"
Wilkens remained in Seattle as head coach and director of player personnel through the 1984-85 season, guiding the Sonics to the playoffs in six of eight years. In 1985, following a 31-51 campaign, he relinquished the coaching duties and became the team's vice president and general manager.
After one year in the front office Wilkens was lured back to the bench by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who hired him as head coach for the 1986-87 season. Wilkens joined the Cavaliers with a promising crop of newcomers that included rookies Brad Daugherty, Ron Harper, John "Hot Rod" Williams and Mark Price. During the next seven seasons Wilkens took a team that had finished 29-53 in 1985-86 and molded it into a perennial Eastern Conference power. He logged three 50-win seasons, including a franchise-record 57 victories in 1988-89 and 1991-92, and reached the conference finals in 1992.
During his tenure in Cleveland, Wilkens received his most cherished honor: in 1989 he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Wilkens enhanced his place in basketball history during the summer of 1992 when he worked as an assistant coach on the U.S. Olympic basketball team. He joined head coach Chuck Daly and fellow assists Mike Krzyzewski and P.J. Carlesimo in leading the original Dream Team to the gold medal in Barcelona.
The 1992-93 campaign was one of chart-climbing for Wilkens. He began the season ranked No. 5 on the all-time victory list of NBA coaches and ended it in the No. 2 spot with 869 wins, only 69 behind Red Auerbach. But the season ended in familiar frustration. After winning 54 regular-season games Cleveland was bumped from the playoffs by the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls for the fourth time in six years. Wilkens had developed the Cavaliers into a solid, fundamentally sound team, but he could never lead them past the Bulls and into the NBA Finals. He resigned after the playoffs.
Other teams came calling almost immediately, and by June, Wilkens signed on to coach the Atlanta Hawks for the 1993-94 season. With typical efficiency, Wilkens' team-oriented strategy began to work, quickly taking Atlanta to new and higher levels. The Hawks, who had finished 43-39 the previous season, set a team record for scoring defense (96.2 points allowed per game) behind a stifling backcourt of Mookie Blaylock and Stacey Augmon. They finished the campaign at 57-25, matching the best record in franchise history and winning their first Central Division title since 1987.
In 1994-95, the Hawks recovered from a sluggish start to go 42-40 and earn a spot in the playoffs, where they were eliminated by Indiana.They improved by four wins in 1995-96, a season in which they acquired Christian Laettner in midseason, and stunned favored Indiana in the first round of the playoffs before bowing to Shaquille O'Neal, Penny Hardaway and the Orlando Magic in the conference semifinals. And they continued to build in Wilkens' defensive mold by signing free agent center Dikembe Mutombo, the NBA's shotblocking king, in the summer of 1996.
For Wilkens, however, the summer of 1996 will be remembered for the time spent coaching the Dream Team to Olympic gold. Despite some slow starts and close first-half play, Team USA won each of its games by at least 18 points and defeated Yugoslavia 95-69 in the gold medal game.
The Hawks, featuring a stifling defense led by Mutombo and Blaylock, improved by 10 games to 56-26 in 1996-97 to finish second behind Chicago in the Central Division. Atlanta then defeated Detroit 3-2 in a spirited first-round playoff series before bowing to the eventual champion Bulls in five games in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
It was the fourth 50-plus win season in the past six years for a team guided by Wilkens. He was enshrined in the Hall of Fame as a coach in 1998 but continued to coach through the 2002-03 season.


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One of the biggest challenges I am faced with as a constantly developing leader is finding balance between my left- and right-brain thinking. What I mean is finding the way to get both hemispheres working together so that I am able to make the best decisions and tap the best skillsets for the specific situation at hand. This is tremendously difficult—I believe it may even be a lifetime battle for me. But it's also extremely important to truly effective leadership—something we've only really begun to recognize over the past couple of decades.
An MIT study released last month found that entrepreneurs tapped both sides of their brain when successfully playing a game of strategy; Dr. Mary Lou Décosterd, author of Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership: Shifting Style for Maximum Impact, argues that the most effective leaders are those who can fluidly shift their leadership style in specific circumstances where one side of the brain might attain better results than the other. Being such a "hybrid" leader who possesses more than just one leadership style has become the latest trend in the management world.
Someone who I believe has mastered this approach to leadership is Bill Chetney. You have probably heard of him—many of my peers and the professionals I come across recognize him as one of the founding fathers of the very large (and growing) 401(k) advisory industry catering to plan sponsors. That is because throughout his 25-plus years in the business, he's done more than most do in a lifetime. In 1991, Bill's entrepreneurial endeavor, Reliastar Financial Corporation, designed one of the very first open-architecture 401(k) plans. He then went on to successfully launch the nation's largest 401(k) advisory firm, National Retirement Partners, by purchasing highly successful retirement plan advisory businesses to create a powerhouse which included not only the country's top advisors but a wealth of shared resources and knowledge to help them scale their practices. By the time he sold NRP to LPL Financial three years ago, the company was advising on over $40 billion in assets.
Today, Bill has accomplished yet another major industry milestone as executive VP of LPL Financial Retirement Partners, the broker-dealer's retirement plan-focused division and umbrella to over 1,500 LPL advisors. Working with a highly talented team, Bill spearheaded LPL's Worksite Financial Solutions program which is changing the way the industry approaches participants' retirement preparedness. The program does something that has never been done before, on a mass scale, to deliver holistic advice to American workers.
It combines unbiased behavior-changing education with advice delivered through a combination of in person sessions and managed accounts, and a service designed to help employees transition into and out of their plans so they don't cash out their retirement savings when they switch jobs.
The program is designed to shift the minds of advisors, plan sponsors and their participants around what retirement education should look like and help participants achieve retirement security with more holistic, personalized, ongoing retirement guidance designed around the principles of behavioral finance. At the more tactical level, Bill's goal is to enable top-performing retirement plan advisors to take their businesses to the next level through the use of the Worksite Financial Solutions program, as well as other programs LPL has available to acquire new and larger plan sponsor clients.
(Disclosure: Financial Finesse is the firm responsible for the financial education component of Bill Chetney's worksite financial solutions program. We intentionally separate editorial and sales efforts, but our working relationship has provided a perspective that we might not otherwise have. )
If we are to also be successful leaders like Bill, we need to shift our perspective of what it means to lead. Like most great leaders, Bill is more focused on overcoming the next challenge than reflecting on his past successes. It took a series of conversations and interviews with both Bill and those who know him best, but my team and I ultimately peeled back the layers to identify the most important drivers of Bill's success—which are tips that I believe can benefit all of us who lead.
Principle 1: Recognize Patterns and Timing
Successful leaders seem to possess two traits. The more obvious one is an innate ability to see ahead of the market and spot the opportunities for providing an unmet need. The second trait, sometimes overlooked, is having an expert understanding of timing—jump too soon into a market and it could kill your business; jump too late and you'll be behind the leaders.
Being able to see ahead of the market is more of a right-brain skillset—we tap this side of the brain's ability to think outside the confinements of current structure and envision new ventures. Being able to understand timing, however, requires left-brain thinking, where confinements of structure and extrinsic factors are considered, such as what others will think of the service or product and how it can actually be sold.
Bill (left) has mastered both skills—he's able to recognize patterns in the industry through what his clients, his peer, and his employees (and now, his network of advisors) are saying and doing in their individual areas of the market to spot opportunities. He also innately understands timing so that he is never too far ahead of demand, but never behind it, either.
Even when it requires years of advocating your cause before you actually act on it, it's often better to wait and time the market well, so you set yourself up as the leading expert in the area, rather than to sell something no one is ready for. Bill, for example, has spent the majority of his career stressing the importance of more holistic financial planning for participants. Before the recession, there was far less consensus from the industry and our clients that this was really necessary to improve participant outcomes since everyone's portfolios were doing well. Today, however, it's a very different picture and what Bill has been advocating for years is coming to light for the rest of us.
Principle 2: Grow the Pie Rather Than Fight Over Slices
In everything he does, Bill wholeheartedly commits to an important principle: Whatever new business, program or initiative he is building should benefit all parties involved. Yes, he needs to see the financial benefit to his company, but he is also a believer that long-term success is not sustainable unless what you build makes others successful. He would rather build something great with a lot of stakeholders that share in its success than play a zero-sum game where his gain is someone else's loss.
This extends to his feeling about society and his own legacy. When you look at what he has done throughout his career, including 401(k) enrollment meetings very early on as a young professional, he's always kept in mind the "greater good": the impact on the average American and their own financial security. He is passionate about leaving the world, the financial services industry and the average consumer of financial services better off than where they started.
It is for this reason he has the trust and respect of thousands of advisors and literally helped shape the retirement plan industry into one that is much more productive than it was years ago.
It may sound too good to be true—indeed, I've seen those who don't know him well doubt the authenticity of his social mission—but reputations and results built transparently, over decades, do not lie.
Of all three principles, this one is probably the most critical to long term success. I follow it myself every day, and virtually every single successful leader I know approaches life the same way. Zero-sum thinkers might win a deal, or get the better end of a negotiation but they can't change hearts and minds, and they can't scale their reputations and their leadership to achieve greatness.
Principle 3: Learn How to Relate to People
Since Bill started as an advisor himself, he is able to relate to his network of advisors better than most leaders do with their employees. Beyond relating to people, he recognizes how to best work with people on an individual level, based on their preferred frame of thinking.
This is hugely important because sometimes we need the people we're working with to shift their own mindsets. Sometimes we need them to be more creative and defy boundaries to take risks for greater opportunity, while at other times we need them to stick to tactical plans in order to achieve very specific goals. Most of us don't think in both frames of mind, of course, and while strategy and business development tend to come easier to left-brain thinkers, collaboration and innovation do not.
On the other hand, get together a room full of right-brain thinkers (typically the very collaborative and innovative types) and you'll never get anything done! Great leadership requires us to be able to relate to both frames of thinking, and not just our own preferred frame of thinking. When we are able to tap both brain hemispheres and the leadership styles that each side favors, we are able to lead people toward our visions with great passion, but also with greater chances of implementation—something that is nearly impossible when we approach our businesses from only one side of the brain.
We can start making better leadership decisions if we first understand what motivates our individual employees, our peers and our clients.
Though it's broad based, start by putting each person you work with into one of two categories, either right brain thinkers who often tend to be intrinsically motivated, and left-brain thinkers, who typically are motivated by more extrinsic factors. An intrinsically motivated employee might prefer a flat management system where their feedback is encouraged and implemented as part of the company's growth strategy; an extrinsically motivated employee might be more highly motivated by a new title and higher compensation. Once you have this understanding, train your brain to tap the best hemisphere for relating to individuals based on their motivators.
There is no single recipe for great leadership, of course—that's why through the ages there has been such a wide range of incredibly influential people, from Ghandi to Steve Jobs. But identifying patterns in the market, creating new solutions and strategizing how to effectively reach and motivate people toward our visions so that they literally change and shape entire industries, requires different skillsets.
It isn't realistic to think we'll master all of them all of the time, but it is realistic to learn how to tap the right and left brains when we need them for better leadership and it is very doable, if we're willing to follow in the footsteps of leaders like Bill Chetney.


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I started Eldhelm as a Rogue. so your situation may vary but i expect some of this information is useful to All classes.
Some of the features may be hard to find so here's a list of how i get to them.
Collector deck = Market > 2 cards icon
Salvage = Market > Character sheet icon > Decks > Salvage
Stats = Market > Character sheet icon > Stats (this is where you can spend level points if you dismiss them at level up)
Combo LIst = Catalog > Combos
In the Beginning:
When you first start playing your main goal should be to collect cards. this is after all a CCG(collectable card game). The easiest way to do that is to play.
1. If you can play it. You can keep it
The random deck allows you to draw cards that range from Normal to Mythic. Generally the more rare the card..the more energy it costs to play. This means the points you get when you level should be spent on Energy first! i would suggest getting your energy to 125 or better. My first hand i drew a Death Trap. it costs 124 to cast. which i never got to play because my energy was too low..so i didn't get to keep it. Cards you draw from your Collector deck are not Duplicated. They were your cards already.
2. Keeping it.
You can only put 3 of any card in a deck until much later in the game (lv 60) when you can purchase Mentality. Any extras you get you can Salvage for gold. This process can be a PAIN. In my early days i found the Salvage all button. A nice feature but DANGEROUS. You can accidentally salvage cards you meant to keep. To avoid this.. Make SEVERAL collector decks. IF ITS IN A DECK IT CANNOT BE SALVAGED. The first one you make should be your PLAY deck with whatever cards you like. The rest will be your collection decks. One for Epic/Mythic and 2 or 3 for Elite and Rares. Normal cards i wouldn't worry about saving..they are VERY easy to replace if you need them.
3. Using it.
So you have a few cards collected..some rares and elites, maybe an epic or 2, and if you are lucky..a Mythic. Its time to work on that PLAY deck. You can choose to draw cards either from the RANDOM deck or your Collector deck(i call mine PLAY) In the early stages i used the collector deck to focus on DEFENSE. On my turn i would draw from the random deck. On their turn i would draw from my play deck, which made sure i always had a defense against whatever they were attacking with. Your strategy may differ here. You could focus on Attack or Disable or Healing. Later you might want to use a technique called Short Stack.
4. Combos and the Short Stack
Eventually you are going to want to look at the combos you can create with your cards.. Certain cards played together are much more powerful than they would be individually. you can find these combos in the catalog tab. You COULD stuff your PLAY deck with a bunch of combos and hope you draw the right cards together or you could Short Stack. Short stacking is when you Intentionally leave your PLAY deck very small. This tactic can be used to get your "perfect" first hand. Or more often, First hand + 3-5 draws. This is where Combos become VERY useful...IF you have the energy to play them. Some combos only take 2 cards. some take 5! Use your Short Stack to get those 5 card combos off. Plan out your first 2 turns and Rush or Disable your opponent.
5. Leveling.
You gain experience for winning or losing. So if your playing to gain cards...dont worry so much about winning. it might be worth drawing the fight out to get more chances to draw better cards without sitting thru loading screens. Eventually you will level up! As you level up you get some nice perks at certain levels.
A. Your hand size will go up to a maximum of 10
B. Your "buff" slot goes up to a maximum of 3
C. Your collector deck can be bigger. (mine is at 60 so far)
D. You get points to spend on your stats like Energy, HP, Might, Resistance, or Regeneration
Next Update will go into the Combat system
Tips for the Beginner
Read tips tricks and learn how to get started and get good. Ask questions and get answers regarding your progress.
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Good contribution keep going
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Thanks a lot.
Re: Tips for the Beginner
Great info! Nice and short also. New people should read this before Aleatory's Level Up Guide to Success.
T.O.I.M.U. = The One I Made Up
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stats : Energy, HP, Might, Resistance, or Regeneration
a short question
as :
to have Might+1 active, we need to put an attack card on the table,
do we need to use a defense card to benefit Resistance+1
and a regen card to benefit Regeneration+1 ?
a short question
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to have Might+1 active, we need to put an attack card on the table,
do we need to use a defense card to benefit Resistance+1
and a regen card to benefit Regeneration+1 ?
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Might acts as a Bonus Damage. You need a card with Damage to activate it.
Resistance is like Defense and Regeneration is like Heal - they work without the need of a card.
Resistance is like Defense and Regeneration is like Heal - they work without the need of a card.
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Recipe from Edie Clayton of Broken Arrow, Okla.
Total time : 14-17 minutes
1 lb. sausage (Jimmy Dean, or any brand you like)
2 tbsp. chopped onion
½ tsp. Cajun seasoning
4 eggs
1 tbsp. milk
1 can flaky biscuits
½ cup grated cheese (any kind you like)
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Open biscuits and peel off half of the biscuit.
Place biscuit half into nonstick muffin pan - firmly push dough into the pan making sure it comes up on the side a little bit. (8 biscuits will make 16)
Brown sausage and onion in skillet over medium heat.
Stir and break up sausage while browning to make small pieces.
Drain when cooked.
Add Cajun seasoning.
Beat eggs.
Add the milk to the beaten eggs and stir.
Add eggs to cooked sausage and cook until eggs are done.
Take off heat and sprinkle cheese on mixture and mix well.
Put 1½ tbsp. of mixture onto biscuit half and cook for 14 to 17 minutes.
Servings: Makes 16
Comments: Makes a very good Breakfast Meal
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Did PAPI nvml component support K20c for getting power usage?
Because I nvml API "nvmlDeviceGetPowerUsage" is available on K20c, but when I use "papi_native_avail" to show available events, Power usage event does not contain in the list, only contain 5 event showing below
Does there any feature or configuration should I set?
Here is the system environment
OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (64bit Server)
Kernel: 3.8.0-33-generic
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 2.00GHz (6C12T)*2
Mem: DDR3 1333 8G*2 (16G)
PAPI version: 184.108.40.206
GCC version: 4.4.7
CUDA version: 5.5
NVIDIA driver: 331.20
NVML version: 331.20


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I'll get to the headline quote in a moment.
Yesterday was Memorial Day. I think I ended up making three separate trips to the grocery store due to one count of broken-down communication and a count of stupidity. I saw these evil twin police cruisers at a local cheesesteak shop. Mind you, I might ride a bike, but I have a soft spot in my heart for sharp-looking cars, and I happen to think that these are some seriously sexy police cars.
At least one of those grocery runs was made on my way home from the Monday Night recovery ride, so it wasn't a total disaster. Speaking of the Monday Night ride, I saw this and lol'd.
Then there's Dora, who is not amused that "I stoled her yarm."
I cheated and took the bus this morning. A whopping two miles ridden. I went to bed late, woke up late, and was expecting a storm when I woke up. Instead, I just got wet pavement that my fenders would have made short work of. Lame.
So, here's what happened. I was cruising down Southwest Boulevard, just about to enter Johnson County. I approached a stop light at a pretty good clip, probably 25 MPH or so. There's a huge pickup behind me. The light changes, and there's no way I'll make it. I downshift, signal my stop, and start braking. I also move over to the right. The pickup pulls up next to me. F-650 Super Duty dually. Nice. Triton V10 or something like that, who knows. Noisy as hell and reeks of Diesel fumes. I hear the passenger window roll down, and glance over. Two hard-workin' American guys inside. Just about what you'd expect. I'm ready for "Git off duh roawwwd" or something. The ensuing dialog went something like this:
Passenger: "Hey there, what kinda mileage ya get on that thing?"
Me: "Thirty Miles Per Ham Sandwich, Sir! Trying to make a living."
*Some huge belly laughs come from inside the truck.*
Driver: "Right on. Be safe."
Me: "Thanks, guys!"
Not all is as you would expect. It's why I don't judge until it's earned. Condition Yellow, I suppose, keeps me cautiously guarded with 360° situational awareness and ready for almost anything. I'm willing to accept adversity, but I expect kindness and adversity alike, ready for both.
Later on during my homeward commute, I quite literally ran into some chalkwork on Turkey Creek Trail. Outside the spectrum of kindness vs. adversity, it was, in fact, unexpected.
Nearing Aristocrat Motors, I saw these two guzzlers in the overflow parking lot. I can tell they're jealous.
Sorry, you really have to admit, that Porsche has some voluptuous curves and seductive lines. Sitting next to that bricky made-over GMC Yukon, she seems even more sleek and gorgeous.
Great Scott! 1.21 Jiggawatts!
Miscellaneous Photography
I dropped a pair of oldsters. :P Naw, these seniors were just out for a nice cruise. You don't stop riding because you get old. You get old because you stop riding. I almost made the man crap his diapers as I passed. I guess he wasn't using his mirror.
Oh, the business park. Not to be confuzzled with the Industrial Park. This is the last leg of my homeward commute. It's a curvy road with smooth, easy hills and not much traffic to speak of when I roll through.
Jeez, do you think this guy sells... I don't know... stickers or something?!
See this green crap on the ground? It's the bane of my existance. It's everywhere. It's on my cars. It's on the trails. It's in the parking lots. It gets slimy and slippery when wet.
The offending tree. No idea what it is. 15 years ago, I could have told you. Frankly, I replaced most of my botany knowledge with something similarly useless after graduating high school.
Random Tunage:
Madonna - What it Feel Like For A Girl
Spirallianz - Heiterheute (rmx)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
"Thirty Miles Per Ham Sandwich, Sir!"
I'll get to the headline quote in a moment.
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That GMC Yukon is a Hummer H2. Not that it matters mind you. If you've seen one moving brick, you've seen them all.
- May 27, 2008 10:20 PM
- Noah said...
I said "made-over" Yukon, and linked to a wikipedia entry showing all the trucks that share the Yukon's platform (which includes the H2). I know full well what it is. I just fail to see the point.
- May 27, 2008 10:30 PM
- MRMacrum said...
I almost called you on it too. But then I realized what you meant and kept mum. As Joihn says, it does not matter, one brick tends to look like another.
- May 28, 2008 7:30 AM
- Apertome said...
Cool photos, as always. I really like the ham sandwich quote, I might have to use a similar one sometime. We've got the same green crap on the ground here, it's kind of gross.
- May 28, 2008 9:48 AM
I think that is a Locust (sp) tree. I've got some of them in my back yard.
- May 29, 2008 8:44 PM
- Noah said...
This is very cool.
- May 31, 2008 6:56 PM
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U.S., Canadian women facing off for hockey gold
SOCHI, Russia -- Julie Chu remembers watching the U.S. Olympic women's hockey team win the gold medal at the Nagano Games in 1998, when she was in high school.It would have been hard to believe that she would play for Team USA at the next four Winter Games.
It would have been even harder to believe that the Americans would still be searching for their second gold medal 16 years later.
"I've been fortunate to be able to play in three past Olympics," Chu said on Wednesday, a day before the United States will play Canada for the Olympic gold medal for the fourth time in five Winter Games. "But it's not time to think about what happened in the past or, for the younger players, what's going to happen in the future."
Four years after losing to Canada in the gold medal game, the U.S. forward is getting another chance - her fourth chance - at her first gold medal. She won silver in Salt Lake City, bronze in Turin and silver again in Vancouver. Each time, the Canadians won the gold.U.S. forward Hilary Knight, who at age 20 was the youngest member of the Vancouver team, told CBS News before the Sochi Games that the players haven't forgotten 2010.
"It wasn't a great feeling and it's still a feeling that haunts a bunch of us today and it's definitely in the back of our minds that we don't want to feel that way again," Knight told CBS News.
The Canadians are in Thursday's match for the fifth time in a row with a chance to win their fourth straight Olympic championship, a string of dominance that first-time coach Kevin Dineen couldn't really fathom.
"Oh, boy. I haven't really looked at the big picture," the Canada coach said, nodding toward his team. "But there are a lot of people in there who have some pretty special jewelry collections."
Canada holds a 2-1 edge over the Americans in Olympic championship games, and it also beat them 3-2 in a preliminary round last week that the U.S. players took as a warning.
"Whenever film sessions run 30 minutes or longer, it's not the happiest moment," U.S. forward Monique Lamoureux said after the team's last full practice before the gold medal game. "I got called out, and a lot of people did. We took it to heart.
"After that, we felt a lot better because we know we can do better and we will do better."
The U.S. recovered for a 6-1 victory over Sweden in the semifinal to set up the expected gold medal rematch. Canada beat Switzerland 3-1.
Canada forward Marie-Philip Poulin said the team feels pressure to win but "it's a good pressure."
"We have a lot of support in Canada," she said. "So we'll be ready."
The teams moved from the temporary Shayba Arena to the larger Bolshoy Ice Dome next door for their final workouts Wednesday. Canada went first on the practice rink inside the 12,000-seat Ice Dome, where Sweden and Switzerland will play for the bronze medal Thursday afternoon before the championship.
"I don't get nervous. It's just another game," said Canada defenseman Jocelyne Larocque, who was one of the last players cut before the Vancouver Games four years ago. "You just focus on the present and not try to think like it's bigger than it really is."
The puck, the rink, the clock are all just like they always are."Everything is the same," she said, "other than it's for an Olympic gold medal."


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Shareology was thrilled to be at the very first Minnesota Blogger Conference held September 11, 2010 at CoCo St. Paul. Great info, great speakers, great networking.
A few glimpses: (group photo below courtesy @MarketingMamaMN aka Missy !)
Can you spot Shareology above? Here's a hint — she's drawn to the color orange lately.
Shareology gets asked a lot what to use for a beginning blogger. Given the learning curve on wordpress, I've been known to suggest blogger or blogspot. After sitting in on Julio Ojeda-Zapata's session, I now know that Posterous, Tumblr and SquareSpace are key platforms.
Greg Swan and Tony Saucier add a certain j'ne sais quoi as only they can do…..
Finally, towards the final presentation, a sad, dejected figure appeared at the back of the room. It appears the Gophers had the audacity to not win to a team from (horror upon horrors!) South Dakota..let's all be extra kind to @MNHeadhunter in the next few days….
For details on the entire day's events: http://mnbloggerconference.com/schedule/
Kay Roseland @KayLoire


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A group of over 200 Russian role players enacted their own Fallout-style video game, offering a taste of how the nuclear apocalypse might look. Check out the gallery of their gameplay, complete with military encampments, radiation suits, and atomic zombies.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a Ukrainian video game in a similar vein to the Fallout franchise. Borrowing material from the novella Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and Andre Tarkovsky's film Stalker, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in the Zone of Alienation after a fictional second Chernobyl Disaster, which killed or mutated many of Chernobyl's residents.
This past August, over 200 players got together to organize a real-life version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., with the Russian town of Vyborg standing in for Chernobyl, and latex masks representing nuclear mutations. Their photos provide a veritable storyboard for military response to a mutant apocalypse.
Stalker: Inhabitants of core 2009 [LiveJournal — Thanks, John Struan!]


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About get_iplayer
This tool allows you to search, index and record/stream:
- BBC iPlayer TV – up to 3200 kbps HD 720p H.264 / Quicktime / MP4
- BBC Live TV – 500 kbps H.264 / MP4
- BBC iPlayer Radio – up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC and Realaudio
- BBC Live Radio – up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC, WMA and Realaudio
- BBC Podcasts – up to 192 kbps MP3 / AAC
- BBC iPlayer TV subtitles – SubRip / srt
Unlike the web sites above, get_iplayer has PVR-like capabilities (like Sky+ / TiVo / Series-Link); You can save lists of programme searches which are automatically recorded when they become available so that you can watch them when you choose and on devices that cannot run Adobe Flash Player – even if you don't have adequate broadband speeds or if your broadband streams too slowly at peak hours when you want to watch a programme.
The iPhone H.264 feeds from the BBC are higher quality than in the Flash iPlayer (normal quality). See the beebhack wiki for a comparison. They are intended for the Apple iPhone and are consequently difficult to download for any other OS. The same goes for the iPhone MP3 radio streams. get_iplayer also allows recording of the high-quality (even HD 720p) flash based content using flvstreamer. None of the above content is 'protected' by DRM. get_iplayer cannot remove DRM.
Myself and a few others worked out how to work around these problems and now have tools which essentially simulate an iPhone as far as the BBC web servers are concerned.
get_iplayer, does the recording, indexing and searching of the iPlayer TV/Radio programmes and podcasts available. It can even stream the iPlayer TV programmes while recording them to mplayer, vlc or xine, etc. It does not circumvent any digital rights management security (see the BBC's website on how to do that with the Windows-only DRM content they provide). get_iplayer does not circumvent any effective technological measures. The BBC, for example, does not implement any such measures. They use RTMP which is a streaming protocol now publicly published by adobe. Sometimes they use RTMP 'SWF verification' which has proven to be ineffective in it's current BBC implementation (flvstreamer cannot handle such verification requests so the stream is dropped and is then automatically resumed). The iPhone streams are also unprotected and use plain progressive download HTTP protocol. The WMA and realaudio streams and likewise unprotected. The BBC may at some point choose to effectively protect their streams with DRM or some 'effective technological measure' in which case get_iplayer will no longer be a useful tool for those streams. The BBC do implement DRM on their adobe air downloadable files and therefore get_iplayer is not useful with those. The BBC iPlayer TV only works in the UK so that they can limit the reach of their output to UK TV License fee payers who fund iPlayer (although legally you do not require a license to watch non-live iPlayer output).
The script is primarily intended for use for recording and playing back TV and Radio content on devices that cannot support adobe Flash/Air/Silverlight, systems which run entirely on open-source software (i.e. no Adobe flash/air or Silverlight), recording content for mobile devices that have no access to broadband/wi-fi or running on devices that have such limited memory that running a browser with a flash player or AIR is not possible (or not permitted). For me this would be an Xbox running Xebian Linux with Freevo or XBMC. The Xbox only has 64MB of memory and struggles enormously with Adobe flash (Adobe doesn't permit you run flash player or AIR on a games console either). One major use of get_iplayer is for those unfortunate enough to have slow broadband speeds; get_iplayer can pre-record the programme you wish to watch so that you do not get the endless re-buffering that you experience with the flash player. Some ISPs actually throttle iPlayer streaming during peak hours. get_iplayer can actually lessen the ISP's (and BBC's) traffic load if the PVR functionality is used off-peak. Please use this tool responsibly and don't try to download all BBC programmes for example. There is a built-in 'limit matches' option to stop get_iplayer doing this just in case you accidentally set it up wrongly.
Fair Use
Of course, to respect the content providers' wishes and fair-use legislation in your jurisdiction, you should keep the recorded content for no longer than is locally acceptable (30 days seems to be accepted in the UK for TV video recordings for example), not attempt to obtain it from outside of the UK and not redistribute it. get_iplayer is not intended for use in making illegal copies of copyrighted content. Please respect the rights of the content owners when recording. get_iplayer will attempt to remove it's recorded content which is more than 30 days old. Podcasts and certain radio programmes can be kept for longer but you must investigate this on a case-by-case basis.
- Recording/Streaming of TV, Radio and Podcasts from BBC sites
- Recording/Streaming of Live BBC iPlayer TV & Radio
- Recording/Streaming of Embedded media in BBC Learning Zone, Archive and News sites
- PVR functionality allows predefined searches to be recorded from a scheduler such as cron or Windows scheduler
- Queuing of programmes for batched recording or for recording off-peak
- Resume recordings of partially recorded content
- Stream iPlayer or podcast content via mplayer or xine while recording it
- Allow multiple programmes to be recorded in one command
- Indexing of all available programmes
- Script update capability
- Advanced Searching on programme name, episode, description, channel or category, etc
- Limit search by programmes made available after a specific number of hours
- Removal of recorded content which is more than 30 days old
- Meta-tagging of recorded iPlayer iPhone/H.264 and mp3 files for importing into iTunes
- Plug-in based architecture to allow new channels and sites to be added by 3rd-parties
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It has been tested by users under Linux (Fedora, Centos/RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuSE, OLPC, ArchLinux, Puppy, NSLU2), MacOSX, iPhone and Windows XP/VIsta/7 (Cygwin, Strawberry Perl)
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