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Cory & Kyle looking for payday and championship
A broken foot isn't going to stop factory Husqvarna's Cory Graffunder from claiming his first championship of 2012. The X Games medalist recently suffered a season-threatening crash at Glen Helen that caused him to sit out the Cahuilla Creek round of the World Off Road Championship Series (WORCS). But the Canadian is going to tough it out this weekend in Montana to claim the AMA West Hare Scrambles number one plate at the Kenda Big Sky XC presented by Klim.
"I had a scary get-off at Glen Helen," Graffunder recalled. "I had a mid-air collision with another rider and crashed hard and basically smashed the ball of my foot. I had surgery on it a few weeks ago and just got the pins out last week."
The AMA West Hare Scrambles Championship is well within Graffunder's reach as he holds a 12-point lead heading into the final round. Clinching the title won't necessarily be a cakewalk for the factory Husqvarna racer, but a solid finish will be enough to earn the number one plate. A packed field of world-class riders gunning for the Big Sky XC $10,000.00 purse – including his factory Husqvarna teammate Kyle Redmond – won't make pulling off the win very easy.
"It's all about the championship," Graffunder said. "I'm really actually bummed that I can't go up there 100% healthy and battle for the win. It would be a big statement to win over all the top racers that are going to be there like Paul Whibley, Destry Abbott and Bobby Prochnau. It kinda sucks, but at the same time, I have to remind myself that it's all about the championship right now."
Redmond, on the other hand, is ready to battle at the Big Sky XC, an event that's been on his "bucket list" for quite a while. "I'm happy to be heading to Montana for this event," Redmond said. "It's a race I've been wanting to do for a few years now. The $10,000.00 pro purse is drawing a lot of fast guys out, so it should be a really good race."
The Pro race of the Kenda Big Sky XC presented by Klim takes place on Sunday, August 26. Friend us on Facebook to keep up with race results from the factory Husqvarna off-road race team.
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The world depends on mariners. Mariners depend on SCI. And we depend on you.
Photos of seafarers and SCI staff, taken in the Port of New York and New Jersey, September 2015.
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A first-ever analysis of new figures from the European Union's Statistics on Income and Living Conditions household surveys reveals the extent of child poverty and child deprivation in the world's advanced economies. Some 13 million children in the EU, plus Norway and Iceland, are found to be "deprived", lacking basic items necessary for their development.
Meanwhile, 30 million children live in relative poverty in 35 countries with developed economies.
Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world's rich countries
Innocenti Report Card 10
Tens of milllions of children in rich countries live in poverty. Tens of millions. And it's utterly avoidable. This 15-min interview is a full overview of the situation and solutions from Report Card 10 - the latest study from UNICEF's Office of Research. Interview with Report's author, Peter Adamson
Source: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
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Each content area has a weighted index calculated from the three components. The weighted index iscompared with other similar schools in the same content area and a content area z-score is calculated.
A school-level weighted index is created using all content areas for which a z-score was calculated. The content area weights are divided equally amongst the number of content areas present in a school's ranking calculations.
Finally, the school-level index is standardized with all other calculated school indices. A final z-score is calculated and ranked into an overall percentile rank.
Schools only receive a ranking when they have at least 30 students enrolled for a full academic year (FAY) in at least two content areas.
Components within content areas are weighted 50% achievement, 25% improvement, and 25% gap except where a school's 2-year achievement average is 90% or greater. In these cases the weighting is 67% achievement and 33% gap. The improvement component is not used in these cases.
Improvement – performance level change (year-over-year) is used for math and reading in grades 4-8. A four year achievement slope is used in content areas other than reading and for all content areas at the high school level.
Gap – achievement gap is calculated by subtracting the top 30% of z-scores from the bottom 30% of z-scores.
Z-score - a standardized measure that helps you compare individual student (or school) data to state average data. A Z-score of 0 means the measure is at the state average. A Z-score of 1 means you are one standard deviation above the state average. Negative Z-scores denote a value below the state average.
Student-level z-score – A z-score calculated using student scores from the same test.
School-level z-score – A z-score calculated using scores from the same content area for similar schools.
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These rankings tell us how a school is doing relative to other schools throughout the state on student achievement, improvement in student achievement, and student achievement gaps. Identifying schools with high achievement gaps is a critical step toward Michigan achieving its overriding goal of closing the achievement gap within schools and reducing the achievement gap statewide. Additionally, identifying schools with low achievement and/or high achievement gaps allows schools to target their resources to areas that need the most improvement.
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DETROIT – The casket that once held 93-year-old Clarence Bright's remains was found Tuesday inside a van parked at a gas station on Harper and Dickerson Street.
Bright's body was not inside the coffin.
Read: Casket, body stolen from cemetery.
The body was discovered a short time later inside a home on Eastlawn Street, the home where the dead man's son lived.
"I never seen this before and we never thought he would go out like this," said Neighbor Terrie Gaines. "It's obvious you know he lost his mind."
"Wake up daddy." That's what police say a Detroit man was saying when he stole his father's body from the cemetery on Monday.
Family friends of Bright say he died of a stroke last week. His funeral was held at Swanson Funeral Home on Saturday.
A family friend says during the funeral one of Bright's sons did a wailing, tearful speech about how much he loved his father.
Friends say the ending got weird when the son told other mourners they were going to die and his father wouldn't be dead long.
Bright was to be buried but the ground was too wet. So workers put his casket in the mausoleum.
When they went back to get the casket to put it in the ground, it was gone.
Family and friends knew the son was taking his father's death very hard. They didn't think he'd go to this extreme.
Police say the 48-year-old son and his 38-year-old friend stole the casket Sunday morning and put it in a van.
Sources say the son really thought god would resurrect his father's body and he would soon wake up.
But that didn't happen, so for the second time Swanson picked up Bright's body and took him back to his final resting place.
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Wow - just went through the whole thread and there are some seriously nice customs in here! I gotta say though, Jman's General Kenobi takes the cake! Nice Work!
A good head to use is the Kane face hugger kub. If you remove the face hugger the head has a good pained expression on it.
Nice work! For a minute I was wondering why Han was holding a lightsaber...forgot about his Taun Taun maneuver, haha. Nice background too.
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'Planes: Fire & Rescue' review: OK for kids, not so hot for parents
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Animated comedy-adventure. Starring the voices of Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen and Stacy Keach. Directed by Roberts Gannaway. (PG. 84 minutes.)
Four movies and several more short films into the world of "Cars" and "Planes," cynical adults will continue to ask hard questions.
When a "Planes: Fire & Rescue" character puts an AC/DC album on a record player, does this mean that there is an airplane version of the Australian band, or is the music left over from the now extinct/annihilated human race? Who lives in the skyscrapers we see in the film? Has anyone explained how the vehicles reproduce?
Children, who don't think about these things, are the clear target audience for "Planes: Fire & Rescue," an occasionally rousing but mostly just adequate sequel to last year's "Planes."
Disney has fortified its animation reputation in recent years with movies (from "Frankenweenie" to "Frozen" to the bulk of the Pixar catalog) that were clearly made by filmmakers trying to amuse themselves. These offshoots from the DisneyToon Studios have a different kid-first vibe.
It's not a bad vibe. The sequel quickly removes spunky hero Dusty Crophopper from his established past as a racing plane, and into the visually pleasing world of aerial firefighting. The isolated forest setting seems to be 75 percent inspired by Yosemite and 20 percent by Arches National Park in Utah, with a Yellowstone Park geyser thrown in for fun.
Much is made of Dusty's celebrity from the previous film, and the more humble/noble work of his new comrades. Although there are once again no humans (Are they underground? In a "Battlestar Galactica"-style spaceship looking for a new home?!?), the movie serves as a fitting tribute to smokejumpers and other real-life forest service workers.
"Planes: Fire & Rescue" is at its best during the frequent aerial firefighting scenes, which have a storybook feel, while maintaining a disaster-movie-style momentum. The movie is rated PG, but other than a few scenes of planes in peril, it will play well with all but the most scare-prone children in the G crowd.
The "Planes" writing team comes up with another pop culture nod (with a voice acting cameo) as pleasing as the "Top Gun" interlude in the first film. There are a few other lines that will elicit adult chuckles, many in a country bar scene. The "pick-up truck" definitely delivers.
The rest of the dialogue is hit and miss, with too much sincerity and little attempt at nuance in the plot - which includes an over-the-top bureaucrat, and yet another mentor figure for Dusty with a mysterious past. Also worth noting, sadly: "Planes: Fire & Rescue" is more reliant on cheap bodily-function humor than anything else in the recent Disney catalog.
Coming from a studio that isn't afraid to release animated films that approach two hours, "Planes: Fire & Rescue" ends abruptly at 84 minutes (including an extra-long end-credits sequence that feels a bit like that term paper you wrote with a 14-point font and two-inch margins to fool your professor).
Of course that might be a selling point to some parent chaperones. It's not a poor movie. But it's definitely a better movie for the kids.
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In high school, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson had an idea. Now that he has the means to implement it, he is.
Wilson decided during his junior year to start a football camp that helps inner-city youth. With one year of NFL experience under his belt, the Russell Wilson Passing Academy will arrive in five cities: Richmond, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Madison, Wisconsin; Spokane, Washington; and Seattle.
"Over this two-and-a-half-week period, basically, I'll meet 1,400 kids," Wilson said during the Madison stop, via Tom Mulhern of the Wisconsin State Journal. "If I can change one of those kids' lives, inspire one of those kids, that makes the difference and goes a long way."
Indeed it does. And we've got a feeling he'll be changing more than one of those 1,400 lives, and that he'll spend the next 15 years and beyond changing more and more of them.


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Assume that you turn up to a PUG one evening which downs the first few bosses in a raid. The next day, the raid leader continues with a different bunch of people and clears the rest. Do you feel that it was a joint achievement – we cleared raid instance X?
How about if it was a guild run, and you were on reserve the second night?
I think most people would feel a sense of ownership for the second achievement but not the first, even though they might have put in exactly the same amount of time personally.


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Chain Reaction: Houston's
Reviews of burgers at chain restaurants.
Of course we love our mom & pops, and our favorite burger joints around the country are pretty much all independently owned, but there are certain times in life—overnight layovers, hungover Sunday mornings, all-day shopping trips at the outlets—that the only options around are the chains. Chain Reaction is here to help you decide when to go for the burger, and when you're better off sticking with the chicken fingers.
3539 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327 (Map); 404-262-7130; hillstone.com, 19 locations in 10 states
The Schtick: Upscale chain does a little bit of everything... most of it well
The Burger: Their House-Made Veggie Burger has the most loyal fanbase
Want Fries With That? Yes, if you like shoestrings similar to Steak n' Shake
Setting: Brickwork and black aprons, dark wood and dim lighting
Price: Cheeseburger, $15; House-Made Veggie Burger, $15; Hickory Burger, $15
Even if you've never been to a Houston's, you know the kind of place it is. Lots of brickwork, lots of dark wood. Gaslight fixtures here and there. A waitstaff decked out in crisp white shirts and long black aprons. Always a decent crowd at the bar. Always more people than you expect in the dining room. A menu that wants to be all things to all diners, but never veers into crazy-foodie-land. It's a little upscale, but not so you have to think too hard once you sit down. Salmon? Of course. Double-cut pork chop? You bet. A $36 filet? Sure, but also soup and salad...and sushi. And, of course, a couple of burger options. Is Houston's where you go when you have a burger craving? Of course not. But if you're there with out-of-town visitors or lunching with co-workers, you could do a lot worse.
The Houston's menu changes seasonally and can vary among the chain's 19 locations (spread out from LA to Texas to Florida to Kansas City to Long Island), but perhaps the best-loved of Houston's burgers is the House-Made Veggie Burger ($15). Sacrilege for a place that strives to feel more steakhouse than salad bar? Perhaps, but some quick Googling will lead you to countless clone recipes and passionate professions of love for this meatless burger.
Counting black beans, brown rice, and jalapeños among its ingredients, it gets its noticeably red tint from a heavy dose of beets. Topped with a sweet soy glaze, jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, and pickles, it's a more substantial burger—in appearance, anyway—than many a veggie version. Texturally, it's prone to falling apart, unsurprisingly. But taste-wise, it's got a lot going on. I would never go so far as to say that a hardcore hamburger lover could just blindly swap out for this and come away perfectly satisfied, but Houston's House-Made Veggie Burger is perhaps the first I've found that works as a legitimate sandwich, not some lame imitation of what everyone else at the table is eating.
There is, of course, a regular cheeseburger ($15) on the menu, too. It's touted as "fresh-ground chuck with cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and onion," but if you're nine years old and order it, you're apparently automatically downgraded to the kids' version. There was no kids' menu anywhere at my table (or even offered), and even after my daughter pointed out that her lunch had come sans the advertised LTO, it wasn't until I settled the bill that I noticed the "Child Burger" notation and the lower $10 price.
The kitchen did hit the requested medium quite nicely, and the burger was a hit with my kids, but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way that both my girls—who can hold their own at eating burgers, thankyouverymuch—had ordered off the adult menu and was brought something off the (perhaps-secret?) kids' menu instead.
The Hickory Burger ($15) is as wacky as the Houston's burger menu gets. Crowned with three slices of Canadian bacon and chopped cheddar and onion, the focal point is the chain's hickory sauce. I love it on their fall-off-the-bone ribs, but it doesn't take much barbecue sauce to completely drown out a burger. Thankfully, Houston's gets that and adds a dollop no bigger than a half-dollar in an admirable show of restraint.
All of our table's burgers displayed gorgeous grill marks, but my Hickory had some interior color issues. That's supposed to be medium rare. Umm...yeah. Thankfully, the beef grind had a loose texture and the meat itself was seasoned tastefully. And for a burger at a chain restaurant, that's more than half the battle.
But of course, you may be distracted by that gigantic mound of shredded cheese on top of it. It was a bit overboard even by my you-can-have-my-Gouda-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands standards. The cheese never got any melt going whatsoever, and in fact, was distractingly cold in the center of that supersized cheddar stratum. The good news, though, is that there was so much cheese that it helped keep the hickory sauce in check.
The fries at Houston's are of the shoestring variety, immediately reminiscent of what you get at Steak n' Shake. Mine were crisp and pleasantly salted, a good example of how the chain pays attention to the details and mostly gets them right.
Houston's seeded burger buns, for instance, are baked in-house and have a great pillowy quality that, frankly, many fancy-pants designer bakery buns don't have. They stood up well to the beef patties, which I'd place at somewhere just shy of a half-pound. Also of note, the beef itself is ground in-house each morning and is never saved overnight to be served the next day.
I'm not sure any of the burgers will supplant the rack of ribs as my menu selection of choice at Houston's, but by and large, I'd have no problem ordering any of them again.
About the Author: Todd Brock lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home freelance writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Besides being paid to eat cheeseburgers for AHT, pizzas for Slice, and desserts for Sweets, he's written and produced over 1,000 hours of television and penned Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. When he grows up, he wants to be either the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or the drummer for Hootie & the Blowfish. Or both.
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31 artists...31 days. Spend every day of March with me at The Altered Page to meet the 31 spotlight artists in my book The Pulse of Mixed Media: Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed. See their beautiful faces, read their 'quirky' bios written in their own words, see some of their art that led me to invite them to be a part of my book, and hear my story of what they each mean to me. Then click on over to their sites and see what they have to say about The Pulse of Mixed Media.
She made this & that (& called it all ragtags), in a little house where the prairie ends & the mountains begin & the skies are the bluest of blues...&
she thanked her lucky star, for every single day.
Sarah Fishburn is yet another artist that I first "met" through True Colors. She is one of the originals. I have continued to be a fan of her work since that time, enjoying her blog, her books and her sensational zine that she publishes along with Angela Cartwright: Pasticcio Quartz. Sarah infuses her artwork and her life with an abundance of color. She is amazing at creating layer upon layer in her work, a process that is near and dear to my heart.
I met Sarah in person several years ago during one of her visits to NYC. We met in Central Park and spent part of a day wandering around the neighborhoods of the city. Of the wonderful qualities that Sarah possesses (and there are many), the one that impressed me the most was her generosity. We spoke about our journeys as artists and she offered me an endless amount of advice, wisdom, and direction. Spending an hour in Barnes and Noble with Sarah, wandering among the books and talking, was a priceless experience I will never forget. Happily I will be seeing her again in April when my book tour takes me to Colorado. Maybe we can find a few minutes to head to bookstore again Sarah!


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In my previous post, I talked about a concept which I first heard about in Khan's lecture at TED "flipping the classroom". The idea of recording videos of lectures and devoting classroom time for practice activities seems to be VERY INTERESTING.
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Then, I thought, how could we flip our English classes? In my context, in language institutes, we normally start our classes presenting a new topic (vocabulary or grammar) and then move on to exercises (written and oral) to help students consolidate knowlegde by using it.
I guess a way of flipping our classrooms would be to record mini lessons presenting the topic beforehand and then practice, practice, practice in class.
My question is: would students watch the video at home?
I've just talked to 3 Brazilian teenagers at home (my son and 2 cousins) and I made them the same question:
If you had to watch a video for homework, would you watch it?
Boys- Maybe not.
But if your teacher told you to watch a video in order to be able to do some exercises the following class, would you watch the video?
Boys - We would, we would be afraid of not being able to do the exercises the following class but many of our classmates wouldn't. They would ask the teacher to explain again.
And if you had access to lots of video lectures before tests, do you think it would help you study?
Boys- Sure, if we had problems we would be able to watch the video lecture again and again.
Well, I think the idea is fantastic, however, I don't know how well Brazilian learners would adapt to it. The problem is that our students have been accustomed to the traditional format for too long and end up having a passive attitude to learning.
Is it worth a try? I truly think so. If I'm brave enough, maybe next semester, I'll post about a flipped experience in an English Class.
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About 6 months ago I had a BV infection. I rarely get any yeast infections at all but, I wasn't concerned. My doc prescribed something called Clindesse. It seems to clear things up but the BV came back. Since then I've experienced 4 more, back to back. One every month. I asked the doc if my boyfriend could be transmitting it back to me, but she said no. We have both oral and vaginal sex regularly. She told me that frequent sex could cause BV so she told me to get something called RePhresh. It's an over the counter and it's supposed to help keep the vaginal PH levels balanced. Well I tried it last month right after my cycle ended and for the first time in months I actually felt "healthy" down there. No BV either. Then this month right after my cycle I began symptoms of BV again. I used the RePhresh, twice, and it seemed to calm things down, but I'm beginning to feel that irritation (and slight fishy ordor) again so I called my doc today for another prescription. This will be my fifth BV and I'm getting concerned about the frequency. Anyone else ever experience this or have any suggestions of what I should be asking my doc for next? Is it "normal" to keep having these infections? Could this just be my body going through changes? I will be 39 this summer. Help!Reply Follow This Thread Stop Following This Thread Flag this Discussion
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The game Freeblades is a fantasy skirmish game set in the vibrant world of Faelon. Freeblades are fortune hunters who operate under a warrant from one of Faelon's many factions. A freeblade warrant permits the holder to operate without restraint outside of the issuing faction's boundaries for a share of any plunder or profit. In return, the freeblades can expect protection once back inside the faction's borders.
Freeblades uses a unique tiered dice system and is quick-playing, with most games completed in less than 90 minutes. The rule system is suited for casual gamers as well as tournaments. There is also a special section on campaign play.
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What all men fear, the Dryad makes men believe she is what all men seek. Dryads reach into the minds of their victims and become what they most desire, luring them into servitude and worse.
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First day of ICA Pre-Conference on Global Media and Human Rights
The ICA Pre-Conference on Global Media and Human Rights took place in Prague between May 23-24, 2018. Here is a report from the first day of the conference.
The Pre-Conference is organized by the Leading Research Environment at The Department of Media Studies, the Pre-conference precedes the 68th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference held in the Czech capital between 24-28 May.
The first day of the Pre-Conference on May 23 was opened by Professor Miyase Christensen, followed by four sessions covering topics such as "migration, asylum-seeking and refugees", problematizing the contested concept of "the migration crisis" which has permeated public discourse, particularly in Europe and North America. The rise of the far-right; the media's relationship with politics and their role in fuelling populism; the growing significance of environmental degradation and climate change in all spheres of human life and non-human systems as well as the right to communi¬cate; access to information; and, identity and media representations as key components of citizenship and civic presence were amongst the themes that were addressed throughout the day.
In the first panel of the day, entitled "Media, Human Rights and Migration", Lilie Chouliaraki of the London School of Economics and Ekaterina Balabanova of the University of Liverpool presented their respective works on the topic. Professor Chouliaraki spoke about the digital border and refugee migration in the Mediterranean, while Balabanova discussed rights, mobility and what she termed the "illiberal wind in Europe".
In the second session, entitled "Media, Human Rights and Populism", Alexa Robertson and Christian Christensen, both of Stockholm University, presented their ongoing studies. Robertson's talk on "Global Media and Information Inequality", contained results from her project Screening Protest. Christensen critiqued the European far-right and US imagination of what he referred to as an "Ethno-Disneyland".
In the third session entitled "Human Rights and Environmental Communication", Miyase Christensen of Stockholm University and KTH the Royal Institute of Technology gave a talk entitled "Media, Communication and the Environment in Precarious Times" and proposed rethinking of media and communications theories from the perspective of media materialism, new forms of imperialisms, and human and non-human rights in the Anthropocene, using electronic waste (e-waste) as an illuminating example.
In the final session, entitled "Communication Rights under Globalization", Kristina Riegert of Stockholm University and Florencia Enghel of Jönköping University gave talks on the broadening concept of culture in culture journalism, and on human rights intervention as digital business, respectively.
The four sessions together set the stage for the second day of the Pre-Conference, which brings together a rich variety of academic perspectives on Global Media and Human Rights.
Rebecca Bengtsson
Second day of ICA Pre-Conference
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This is the top level page for the OpenSim wiki. The links below are to various pages useful in obtaining, compiling and running OpenSim on both Windows & Linux.
- OpenSim
- OpenSim: FAQ (A set of Frequently Asked Questions)
- OpenSim: Install (How to install the simulator software)
- OpenSim: Configuration (How to configure the simulator for various modes)
- OpenSim: Network settings (How to setup the network for the simulator)
- OpenSim: Running (How to run standalone, local grid & public grid modes)
- OpenSim: Connecting (How to connect to an OpenSim server)
- OpenSim: Testing (What is tested)
- OpenSim: TechRef (A technical description of the simulator operation)
- OpenSim: Bootable ISO (Information and links about bootable ISO for download)
- OpenSim: Grids (Known Public grids currently available)
- Opensim: 0.4 Release Target Discussion
- Opensim: 0.5 Release Target Discussion
- OpenSim: Development Team
- OpenSim: Class Diagrams
- OpenSim: Scripting (How to use scripts and what limitations apply)
- Development Documentation
- PhysicsEngines (Options for physics engines in OpenSim)
- MonoSqlite (How the database model currently works)
- llFunction implementation status (What LSL commands has been implemented)
- OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine (How the ScriptEngine looks internally)
- RegionModules (The various modules that are used in the RegionServer and how to write new ones)
Who are the developers
OpenSim is an open source project. This means that it is developed by anyone who wants to participate. This could be you!
Making first contact
We welcome testers and developers alike.
If you need help or want to help the best way to get in touch is IRC (chat network). There is a lot of activity there every day.
- IRC on EFNet, channel #OpenSim. Download an IRC client like X-Chat and go to EFNet (server irc.efnet.net), channel #OpenSim. If you already have an IRC client installed you can just follow this link.
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- The mailing lists are in the process of moving to another server. The archives are available for OpenSim-Dev and OpenSim-Commits.
- You can browse the source code for opensim at OpenSim SVN browser (currently broken - use svn directly - svn co svn://opensecondlife.org/opensim/trunk opensim.new/trunk)
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"I am Troy Davis"
posted by: Alison Leslie
published: 18th December 2011
News or updates listed at the foot of this item
Since the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia on Sept. 21, people have asked me why his case garnered such worldwide attention. With seven of nine witnesses recanting their testimony and no physical evidence connecting him to the murder of Officer Mark Allen MacPhail, the obvious answer is that far too much doubt existed in the minds of far too many people to move forward with an execution.
Yet, there are other death penalty cases across the country that lack physical evidence and rely on the testimony of unreliable witnesses. So what about Troy Davis' case rallied people worldwide? For me, the answer lies not in what made the difference but in who made the difference: Martina Davis Correia, Troy's sister.
For 22 years, Martina struggled to make sure the world knew her brother's story. She led an international campaign, partnering with Amnesty International and the NAACP, to save her brother's life and prove his innocence. For her tireless efforts, the Southern Center for Human Rights recognized Martina in 2009 with the prestigious Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award.
Article: NAACP: Troy Davis' sister has died
1 December 2011, USA Today
Troy Davis is dead – snuffed out by the American judicial system. Why?
According to President Jimmy Carter, who described the killing as "unjust and outdated," the reasons behind the execution of Davis are a tragedy.
Carter hopes this tragedy "will spur us as a nation toward the total rejection of capital punishment.
Davis, who was executed by lethal injection on September 21, 2011, had been on death row since 1989 for a crime he consistently said he did not commit. Davis had even gone so far as to request he be given a polygraph test to prove his innocence, but the court would not permit that as evidence, nor would they grant him a new trial, even in light of the fact that, in the United States, since 1973, more than 130 people have been exonerated from death row because further evidence, including DNA testing, found them to be innocent.
Is this logical? And if not, how can it be considered fair?
President Obama has chosen to remain silent on the death penalty question, making no comment on the Davis decision. Yet for decades, advocates around the world have been pressing America to swear off the death penalty forever.
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CALGARY - Alison Redford says she is looking forward to being the first Alberta premier to attend the Gay Pride festival in Edmonton.
She doesn't know why it has taken so long for a premier to participate.
"I can only speak to who I am and what I think and what I believe," she said Wednesday.
"I've been, of course, a supporter of diversity and equal rights for the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered) community and every other Albertan."
"I'm very happy as premier to participate."
She said she believes Albertans feel the same way and want to live in a community that is respectful, tolerant and inclusive.
Redford is to offer greetings in downtown Edmonton after the Pride parade on Saturday.
Wildrose Opposition Leader Danielle Smith is also to make an appearance at the week-long festival, which runs Friday through June 17.
Smith's party struggled with accusations of homophobia in the recent provincial election campaign, when an online video surfaced of a candidate saying homosexuals would burn in a lake of fire.
While Smith herself said she was pro-gay marriage, she defended Hunsperger's right to his religious beliefs.
Redford attacked Smith for her position, stating at the time that if Hunsperger was a Progressive Conservative, she would have removed him from her team.
Smith cited the incident as one of several missteps in the dying days of the campaign that led to the Tories being re-elected.
A university group is planning to sell T-shirts at the festival that mock Hunsperger's comments. The shirts read "I stayed at the Lake of Fire and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta says proceeds from the shirts will go to a camp for gay youth.


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FORT MEADE, Maryland - U.S. soldier Bradley Manning's former commander in Iraq says morale among his troops "took a hit" after they learned their colleague was suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents.
"The last thing I anticipated was an internal security breach from one of our own," Col. David Miller said Friday as the fourth week of Manning's trial on charges of aiding the enemy drew to a close.
Manning admits he leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, but he says he did it to expose wrongdoing and document "the true costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," including the deaths of two Reuters news employees killed in a U.S. helicopter attack.
The 25-year-old soldier has admitted sending more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and State Department diplomatic cables, along with several battlefield video clips, to WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in from November 2009 through May 2010.
Manning said the diplomatic cables revealed secret pacts and duplicity that he thought should be exposed.
Manning's fellow troops felt the allegations were a blemish on the otherwise good work they'd done in the war zone, Miller said Friday.
"My read of my staff at that time was, it was like a funeral-like atmosphere fell over that crowd," said Miller. "That's the best way I would describe it - they were angry, sad ... frustrated all at the same time."
Earlier Friday, the military judge ruled prosecutors can introduce tweets suggesting Manning took his cues from WikiLeaks in disclosing classified information. But the judge also ruled that prosecutors had not authenticated another piece of evidence, a "most wanted" list that WikiLeaks purportedly posted in November 2009. She said prosecutors still can try to authenticate the list.
The list and tweets were offered as evidence that Manning aided the enemy by leaking documents he knew would be published online.


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I'm playing an April 2011 build of a game due out in 2013. It only has one level, one hero and only six enemies to dispatch. I've played through it a dozen times since last night.
The stark and striking black and white visuals of Ben Ruiz and Matthew Wegner's Aztez are what initially drew me to this combination side-scrolling beat-em / turn-based strategy game. That odd marriage of game genres captured my imagination. Then the sleek and sexy combat sealed the deal.
I've seen it described as a 2D God of War, but then I've seen many things described as a 2D God of War. Hell, I think I was once described as a 2D God of War.
Having only experienced the game through a playable build from April of last year, I can't speak for the strategy side of the game. The fighting, however, is so very fluid. Playable with a gamepad or keyboard, it's simple combination of slam, strike and two dash buttons makes for a very enjoyable minute of gameplay. Or twelve minutes, if you keep going back as often as I have.
The game's come a long way since last year, as you can see in Ben's developer playthrough from back in February, during which he expounds on fighting mechanics and the smell of blood.
Aztez is due out in early 2013 for Mac and PC. From my tiny taste of the game I feel that is far too long to wait. Luckily Ben and Matthew maintain an incredible entertaining and thoughtful developer blog to keep us abreast of the game's progress. I'll be watching with great interest. Watching and waiting.
Aztez [Official Website]


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Sustainable Investing
April 03, 2019
How to Select Sustainable Compounders
Sustainable Investing
How to Select Sustainable Compounders
April 03, 2019
Very few companies make the grade to be included in the Global Sustain portfolio, in our view, one of the highest-quality ESG-integrated portfolios available to investors. We only invest in businesses we believe can generate high, sustainable future returns on operating capital. These high-quality companies are extraordinarily rare.
Quality: It's all about sustainability of returns
We explicitly exclude capital-intensive, low-return companies because they are unable to sustain high returns on operating capital. Energy and materials companies, for example, are too cyclical to meet our requirements. Even utilities, which are less cyclical, fail to generate sufficient returns on capital due to their massive amounts of capital and equipment.
Instead, we target high-return on capital, non-cyclical companies with pricing power. Many are found in the technology, health care and consumer-oriented sectors, which tend to pollute less. We believe Global Sustain is, therefore, an inherently low-carbon portfolio. Its carbon footprint is less than 30% of the MSCI World Index (left chart).
Carbon intensity scores, however, do not drive our security selection. We first screen the universe for high-quality companies with attractive valuations. As part of our fundamental research and engagement with companies, we consider – on a case-by-case basis, where appropriate – material environmental or social or governance issues that have the potential to either enhance or disrupt a company's sustainability of returns. These issues include energy sources for data centers, the sustainability of supply chains, packaging for fast-moving consumer goods companies, consumer relevance, data privacy/security and product quality.
A portfolio that avoids controversial sectors
Global Sustain is tobacco-free, alcohol-free and free of fossil fuels. The most capital-intensive sectors – commodities, fossil fuels, utilities and weapons – are naturally excluded because they are too cyclical to meet our criteria. The resulting Global Sustain portfolio compares favorably to ESG peers in terms of two key quality metrics: margin stability and returns on operating capital (right chart).
There is no assurance that a portfolio will achieve its investment objective. Portfolios are subject to market risk, which is the possibility that the market value of securities owned by the portfolio will decline. Accordingly, you can lose money investing in this strategy. Please be aware that this strategy may be subject to certain additional risks. Changes in the worldwide economy, consumer spending, competition, demographics and consumer preferences, government regulation and economic conditions may adversely affect global franchise companies and may negatively impact the strategy to a greater extent than if the strategy's assets were invested in a wider variety of companies. In general, equity securities' values also fluctuate in response to activities specific to a company. Investments in foreign markets entail special risks such as currency, political, economic, and market risks. Stocks of small-capitalization companies carry special risks, such as limited product lines, markets and financial resources, and greater market volatility than securities of larger, more established companies. The risks of investing in emerging market countries are greater than risks associated with investments in foreign developed markets. Non-diversified portfolios often invest in a more limited number of issuers. As such, changes in the financial condition or market value of a single issuer may cause greater volatility. Nondiversified portfolios often invest in a more limited number of issuers. As such, changes in the financial condition or market value of a single issuer may cause greater volatility. Derivative instruments may disproportionately increase losses and have a significant impact on performance. They also may be subject to counterparty, liquidity, valuation, correlation and market risks. Illiquid securities may be more difficult to sell and value than public traded securities (liquidity risk).


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This article is part of the Washington Post's "A Living HIV Quilt".
Carl, a 19-year-old Prince George's County resident, spoke with reporter Susan Levine about finding out that he was HIV-positive — and about his life after the diagnosis. Excerpts from that conversation:
I've now been diagnosed for two years. Well, not two years, going on two years. January 13th. I found out on January 13th, 2006. It was Friday the 13th. I never forget, Friday the 13th, what a horrible day to find out . . .
I do not know when or where I was infected. . . . All I can give is a time period, an estimated time period anywhere between the ages of 15 and 16.
If you are what they call an at-risk person, the average teen, you kind of know, you've got to know, you have a feeling, look, I'm doing certain things, I'm living a certain lifestyle that can be damaging in the future.
So kind of by the age of 17, I started thinking, you know, all my friends kept saying, we're all gonna go get tested, and we should all get tested together, but I lived with a certain fear because, a fear of knowing. You know, I kind of said to myself, I think I might have it, but I'm not sure.
To me, at the time, at the time, not knowing was waaaay better than knowing. Because if I didn't know, I did not have to deal with the pressures or, for lack of understanding at the time, you know, ending my life. You know, it was like a death thing, what I thought at the time.
I was very uneducated about the subject. You know, when things came up on TV about AIDS or HIV, when they talked about it in school, I kind of ran away from it. You know, cut the channel, cover my eyes, 'cause I was scared of, I was scared of the facts, I didn't want to know the facts, I wanted to stay ignorant to the subject . . . because as long as I was ignorant to the subject, I thought, Okay, I'm fine.
That kept me sane. I'm thinking, If I don't know anything about it, I'm fine. But if I knew what was going on, it made me feel more and more guilty about the things I was doing as a teenager.
I was afraid my mom was going to throw me out, she was going to disown me as her child. . . . I did not know what the outcomes could be, you know. We didn't grow up with the best of relationships, so I didn't know how she was going to feel if I was positive.
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It is He Who has created hearing, sight and minds for you. What little thanks you show! (Qur'an, 23:78)
Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and minds so that perhaps you would show thanks. (Qur'an, 16:78)
Say: "What do you think? If Allah took away your hearing and your sight and sealed up your hearts, what god is there, other than Allah, who could give them back to you?"… (Qur'an, 6:46)
We created man from a mingled drop to test him, and We made him hearing and seeing. (Qur'an, 76:2)
The information only recently obtained about the formation of the baby's organs inside the mother's womb is in complete agreement with that revealed in the Qur'an.
The above verses refer to a number of senses given to human beings by Allah. These are always referred in a specific order in the Qur'an: hearing, sight, feeling and understanding.
In a paper published in the Journal of the Islamic Medical Association, Dr. Keith Moore states that during the development of the foetus, the eye begins to form after the inner ear has assumed its first form. He says the brain, the centre of feeling and understanding, begins its development after the ear and the eye.94
The foetus' ears begin to develop as early as the twenty-second day of pregnancy and become fully functional in the fourth month. After that, the foetus can hear sounds in its mother's womb. For that reason, the sense of hearing forms before the other vital functions for a new-born baby. The order set out in the Qur'an is striking from that point of view. (See Harun Yahya, The Miracle of the Creation of the Human Being, Goodword Books, New Delhi, 2001)


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text: birthday hair was done on Saturday courtesy of Cristal at Hand. thanks babe. you make me look like someone who is 'zany, cool and deserving of a ticket to the VICE magazine launch'. Oh, and thanks to WeAreAwesome for the ticket to the VICE magazine launch. it's the hair, right? See y'ulle on friday night (or not, if you're a laggard. VICE is strictly early adopters y'ulle. time to 'get nasty'.)


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Here are some links to new Ancestors-at-a-glance™ charts for Veterans Day 2009. A few were warriors, and the others served or are serving our country in other ways that support American armed forces service people.
Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the famous document that started it all, the Declaration of Independence.
Francis Scott Key in the aftermath of a pivotal battle in our nation's history, gave us the most well-known inspirational song of our nation, The Star-Spangled Banner.
General Douglas MacArthur and General George S. Patton are probably the two most famous warriors of World War II, and they have both been immortalized in Hollywood films.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt steered our nation through World War II and made the tough decisions that impacted all of our lives.
Kristine's Uncle Donald was killed in action early in World War II and the USS Spangler was named in his honor.
Senator John McCain has not only served our country as a warrior and endured the unimaginable horrors of being a POW, he has been a leading spokesman for our nation's veterans from a number of wars.
After "Saving Private Ryan," famous Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks has also become a prominent figure head for World War II and veterans. He has been involved with the new National World War II Museum which just opened this month in New Orleans.
The Family Forest® National Treasure Edition honors many of our nation's veterans by passing along their heritage digitally to future generations in a way I feel certain would make them proud.


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One of the difficult things about writing is narrowing down your options to the ones that best resonate with the story you want to tell. For me, it's much easier to write a story when I already have the field narrowed. When I have to write a blog, for example, and if I know it could be about anything, I'm almost always stumped. If I narrow the field down to writing, then that helps me focus–but even with the category of "writing" there are all sorts of sub-categories, from marketing to creativity to time management to craft. And within each of those, more nesting categories. It's a matter of choosing a subject and then refining, drilling down until I find the one specific point that resonates with my mood the day I'm writing the blog and then plucking that idea out, and examining it from as many sides as I can.
It's also the same thing with life. You have so many choices every day–from simple things like "Will I apply for that job?" to "Will I have patience with the idiot co-worker or go postal?" to "Will I pursue my dream?" Each one of those choices then beget more… and if you focus on the totality of all of the choices, you're very likely going to be paralyzed. You have to take the project–any project–step-by-step.
Fiction's no different. You have to look at each set of choices you're making and think about how they're going to help you throughout the story. Do you want to do first person POV? Or multiple third person POVs? What type of story do you want to tell? What sort of tone fits that story? What sort of characters fit that tone? What sort of setting and premise fit those characters? What sort of ambience and socio-economic backgrounds fit that setting and premise? Etc… drilling down until you find the details that illuminate your original inspiration / goal.
This is where voice comes in–it's your take on those choices that ultimately define your voice. It's showing the world how YOU see the story, and giving us a slant on that that makes it uniquely yours. Which will make it memorable.
Instead of using a writing example to show you what I mean, let me jump into a different arena and use a couple of examples.
When I had the idea for this blog, I grabbed a couple of photos I'd taken, and I decided to show you the "before" image and the "after" results once I'd noodled with it in Lightroom. (I also have Photoshop, but for the purpose of these photos, Lightroom did enough of what I wanted, fast enough. If I were going to print and frame these photos, I'd pull each of them into Photoshop and clone out some of the flaws until I had it exactly as I wanted it… i.e., a "final polish".)
I want to walk you through this process, because it's going to show my voice and my editing process (same as I use for writing, in a lot of ways).
When I was vacationing in Moab, Utah last year with our oldest son, Luke, and my fabulous daughter-in-law, Amanda, I was experimenting with my camera, and I had a goal of getting some shots that I could play with for dramatic effect.
That right there is the first level of writing: the area was narrowed down: Moab. The tone: artistic–something that I could show off certain ideas I had in my head. So that eliminates me selecting for this exercise all sorts of candid shots of people. As I sifted through dozens of images, I had an idea of what I wanted to play with that would further my goal of an artistic take on a subject. This means eliminating shots that were perfectly good, but which didn't have an angle or lighting or a detail that I could emphasize.
Okay, let me show you. Here's the first shot that caught my eye of the ones I took. Now this is straight out of the camera, untouched. It's a lazy shot–I didn't bother to stop to get a good light read on the leaves, nor did I bother to frame the shot much. I knew, though, when I saw the leaves originally that I would end up turning the photo in a different direction from the image and playing with it in black and white and cropping it.
It started here:
It's kinda boring, huh? But when I was walking by those leaves, I didn't see what's in that photo up there. I saw this (click on the image to see it in better detail):
The first photo is an example of writing that's decent, serviceable. The second is voice: I not only converted it to a black and white, I boosted the contrast, the highlights and lowlights, the exposure, and futzed with things like luminescence to gain that "painting" quality. I then framed it tightly. In the first photo, there's a little fluidity to the leaves, but we've got too much backstory around it: the wall of mud, the other leaves, the other sticks, and the dull, monochromatic color. By tightening in on the fluidity of the curves, I tell a story here: something dying can be beautiful, too. I love the almost lace-like quality of that bottom leaf, and I could've zeroed in on just that one detail, but I'd have lost the movement this image now has.
A lot of times, writers are afraid that readers won't "get" the whole idea if we don't lay out every single piece of information for them in one big information dump. But by giving so much, we render the overall "image" stagnant. There's this resistance to getting in tight in a scene–a resistance to trusting that the reader will "get" the big picture. Often, it's too easy to forget that you're not going to just have that one scene. You're going to have dozens of them, and if you're giving us just the information that we need right then, we'll "get" what we're looking at, but we'll also "get" the overall idea as you string a series of those tight images together. I could do an entire series right here on these kinds of details.
A second example I wanted to show you is one where what we see is not what I want you to focus on in the original. Here's one of the arches in the National Park there in Moab:
Again, kinda boring. I was in a hurry at this point, and tired. I remember thinking about what I'd do with this image, and I took several quick shots. I should've metered better for the lighting, but I was starting to lose the sun. Here's what I ended up with, after playing with it for about five minutes (again, click to see better detail):
That's the same image, but the second one has drama. It's going to grab your eye much better than the original, and you're going to focus on that contrast between the sky and the mountains, whether you knew that's where I intended to force your eye or not. By converting it into black and white and adding some sepia tones, I was able to get a lot more detail out of the rock face, and more contrast and boosting of the blacks in the photo gave me that effect with the sky.
So if you have a scene that you know is just sort of there, doing its job, looking decent, but it doesn't feel like it's grabbing the reader (and if it's not grabbing you, it's very likely it's not going to grab them), then ask yourself, "What's my vision here? Where do I want them to focus?" I took several shots of that arch above from different angles, but this one had the rockface in the forefront pointing to the sky and so I chose this angle to manipulate. Then I started playing with the colors, with converting it, playing with the contrasts, until the photo started telling you the story I wanted you to see.
In a scene, I'll do the same thing–I'll have a scene that's functioning okay, but it's too easy for my eyes to pass over it. I want you engaged in what you're reading–or seeing–and to do that, I've got to think of ways of bringing out the details that create a vivid mental image for you. I ask myself, what's the conflict here? (contrast) What do I want to highlight? What is the emotional response I want to have in the reader at the end of this scene? Do I need the reader to be close in on the detail, or pulled back for the perspective?
Imagery inspires me. If I were to do a final pass on these two images to make them into something that I actually liked enough to frame, I'd pull the top b&w leaf one into photoshop and I'd clone out that bottom stick that protrudes up into the lacy-leaf area. I'd probably futz a bit more with the contrast and texture, and I might add some actual textural overlays onto it to see how they looked (giving it more of an antique feel). On the bottom one, I'd pull it into photoshop and isolate the sky and then increase the contrast just in the sky without screwing with the rocks… so that there was a bit more of that lovely contrasty-sky feel to the piece. Or maybe not. I'm not sure–which is what happens sometimes in the final draft–I'll put things in, decide they don't help, and take them back out.
I love editing. I'm a far better editor than I am a writer–or a photographer, for that matter. It's where I get to refine the choices I made, or throw them out and start with something else.
Imagery inspires me. I love photography for this reason, because it interlaces with how I see the world and informs how I write.
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Elisabeth Moss is on the cover of New York Magazine and describes her marriage to SNL star Fred Armisen as "extremely traumatic, awful and horrible." Saying she didn't realize how young she was at the time and that she's very glad she got out before she was 50 or had had kids.
Armisen described himself — on Howard Stern — as a "bad husband."
But you know who the real villain is here?
According to the internet, it's Elisabeth Moss, of course.
Why is she being so vague? If she's going to talk about it, then just TALK about it. What does she have to hide? Why is she just trying to destroy poor Fred? If something really happened, she would just tell people what it was. It couldn't have been that bad, or she would be scared of speaking out.
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Frankly, it's none of my business what happened in her marriage, but asking her to shut up unless she wants to give detailed reports is just ludicrous. And if she gave detailed reports, people would likely ask why she didn't call the cops. And if she did call the cops, people would point to the fact that he was never arrested or imprisoned for any crime.
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The boy, whose identity was not released, went for a walk with his grandfather in the 3900 block of Nails Road, a rural part of the county near Fulshear, around 4 p.m. when the two heard a loud noise, said Ft. Bend County Sheriff's spokesman Bob Haenel.
Shortly after the sound, the boy fell to the ground in pain and his grandfather saw a bullet wound on the top part of his leg, Haenel said.
His grandfather rushed the boy to an 24-hour emergency room clinic and then transferred by paramedics to Texas Children's Hospital. The injury was non-life threatening and the boy is expected to survive, Haenel said.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 4, 2013) – The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson took its first tournament victory on Saturday, defeating Brazil's Pedro Salgado and Bruno Schmidt in the final of the Shanghai Grand Slam, part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
Playing in their second tournament together, Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.), seeded No. 9 in the main draw, held off No. 3 Bruno and Pedro 21-16, 9-21, 15-9 in 43 minutes in the gold medal match to finish with a perfect 7-0 win-loss record in Shanghai.
"Beyond excited! Amazing match," said Patterson, who won his first medal of any color at an FIVB tournament, in an FIVB press release. "It was very windy so it was very hard to do anything; serve, side out, pass, set, so it was pretty much a survival match. Whoever can survive, who is going to win.
"It's a match of big runs and we ended up getting the last big run. I think that's a big deal. In the first game we had a big run, and in the second game they had a big run. We were just taking turns and whoever survived the wind was going to win. Gibb did a couple of big blocks and I had a couple of digs in the end and that was the difference and it was crazy.
"This is only my second year playing in the World Tour and I have been prepared for things like this for a long time."
In the women's bracket, the U.S. beach volleyball team of April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Jennifer Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), seeded fourth, fell in the second round to Brazil's No. 10 Talita Da Rocha Antunes and Taiana Lima, 17-21, 21-17, 15-11 in 56 minutes.
In the men's semifinals, Gibb and Rosenthal defeated Poland's No. 13 Michal Kadziola and Jakub Szalankiewicz, 21-17, 22-20 in 39 minutes.
In the men's final, Pedro and Bruno were trailing by one set when they fought back strongly with improved defense in the second set for a 14-4 lead on the back of four blocking points from Pedro and never looked back.
It was tight early in the third set before the U.S. team ran off six points in a row thanks to three straight stuffs by Gibb to make it 14-7. The Brazilian tandem withstood two match points, only to find Gibb convert on the third with his fifth block point in the set against Pedro.
Earlier on Saturday in the bronze medal match, Brazil's No. 12 Ricardo Santos and Alvaro Filho eased past Kadziola and Szalankiewicz, 21-12, 21-10 for their first medal together.
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Swiss cities remind me of the kid at high school who's great at sports, has perfect hair, the best girlfriend, and the teachers all love him. He's just too perfect. Sometimes you just want to see him trip or get a pimple. Switzerland's cities can seem too perfect, too. For me — and most travelers — the mountains provide more real travel thrills per mile, minute, and dollar. But don't neglect Switzerland's pristine urban offerings in Zurich, Luzern, and Lausanne. With interesting art, colorful old towns, and serene waterfront settings, these cities are worthy stops as you head for the hills.
Zurich, located in the north, is Switzerland's biggest city — and a major transportation hub. Even though you won't find a hint of Heidi or the Swiss Miss, Zurich makes for an enjoyable quick visit.
Like most Swiss cities, Zurich embraces its resident body of water in a fun-loving way. The lakefront is a springboard for romantic walks, bike rides, and cruises. A great way to glide across town is to catch the riverboat, which functions like a city bus, and just enjoy the view. Its old town is lively night and day with cafes, galleries, and a colorful cobbled ambience. Touted as Europe's most "fountainous" city, Zurich has more than 1,200 fun and fresh fountains, spouting water that's as good as the bottled stuff — a blessing in a town where restaurants charge for a glass of tap water.
The city's art treasure is a set of Chagall stained-glass windows, located in the Fraumunster church. Done in Chagall's inimitable painting style — deep colors, simple figures, and shard-like Cubism — the five towering windows depict Bible scenes.
An hour south of Zurich, Luzern sprawls along the edge of a lake, with a striking alpine panorama backdrop. Since the 19th-century Romantic era, this charming city has been a regular stop on the "Grand Tour" route of Europe, entertaining visitors from Mark Twain to Queen Victoria.
Luzern's Chapel Bridge — one of two picture-perfect wooden bridges — was built at an angle to connect the town's medieval fortifications. Today it serves strollers rather than soldiers. About 100 colorful paintings — some replicas and some dating from the 17th century — hang under the bridge's rafters, showing scenes from Luzern and its history. Swans cluster near the bridge. Locals say they arrived in the 17th century as a gift from Louis XIV in appreciation for the protection his Swiss Guards gave him.
For fans of Picasso, Luzern's Rosengart Collection is a must, with several dozen black-and-white candid photographs of the artist. You'll see Picasso in the bathtub, getting a haircut, playing dress-up, and horsing around with his kids. I've seen a pile of Picassos, but never have I gotten as personal with him as I did here.
If you're arriving in Switzerland at Geneva's airport, a good first stop is Lausanne, perched elegantly above Lake Geneva. Hotels range from moderate to pricey. On my last visit, the tourist board put me up at the Lausanne Palace and Spa Hotel. I wanted to have two shirts and a pair of pants ironed. Room service told me it would cost about $60. I thought, "For that price, I'll body-iron my clothes."
Known as the Olympic Capital, Lausanne has been home to the International Olympic Committee since 1915. A museum celebrates the colorful history of the games, with a century's worth of ceremonial torches and a look at how medals have changed over the years. Surveying gear from each sport (such as Carl Lewis' track shoes and Sonia Henie's ice skates), you can follow the evolution of equipment that was clearly state of the art — in its day.
Lausanne has two tourist zones: the idyllic waterfront area of Ouchy (pronounced oo-shee) — the happy domain of commoners, office workers, and roller skaters strutting their stuff — and the tangled and historic old town, directly uphill from the lake. Locals nicknamed their town the San Francisco of Switzerland for all its hills. There's no way to see it without lots of climbing.
One of Europe's most thought-provoking art galleries is Lausanne's Collection de l'Art Brut, presenting works produced by people "free from artistic culture and free from fashion tendencies" — many of whom were labeled (and even locked up) by society as criminal or insane. These loners, mavericks, prisoners, and mental-ward patients were completely untrained, as free-spirited as artists can be.
Whether presenting unusual modern art or serving up traditional Old World charm, Swiss cities get it right. Most people come to savor the mountains. But there's far more to this country than towering alpine peaks. No trip to Switzerland is really complete without also sampling its urban treats.
(Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com, or write to him c/o P.O. Box 2009, Edmonds, Wash. 98020.)
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In January of 1943, 15-year-old Sidney Poitier left his poverty-stricken family in Nassau and headed for the United States, the "land of opportunity," in search of a better life for himself and, ultimately, his loved ones. Months of low-paying jobs in Miami followed, and then countless nights sleeping rough as he slowly made his way to Harlem. Once there, still only 16 and unable to find a job to keep him afloat, he lied about his age and joined the U. S. Army, from which he was discharged after a year. Very quickly his money was gone and he was ready to give up. Desperate to return home but unable to scrape together enough money with which to buy a ticket, he wrote the following letter to President Roosevelt and asked for a loan.
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Dear President Roosevelt,
My name is Sidney Poitier and I am here in the United States in New York City. I am from the Bahamas. I would like to go back to the Bahamas but I don't have the money. I would like to borrow from you $100. I will send it back to you when I get to the Bahamas. I miss my mother and father and I miss my brothers and sisters and I miss my home in the Caribbean. I cannot seem to get myself organized properly here in America, especially in the cold weather, and I am therefore asking you as an American citizen if you will loan me $100 to get back home. I will send it back to you and I would certainly appreciate it very much.Your fellow American,Sidney Poitier


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"Jon and Kate Plus 8" might be no more – but it didn't take Kate Gosselin long to get back in front of the cameras.
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As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, in Novembber TLC announced they were scrapping plans for a "Kate Plus 8" spin-off. However, they noted a new series for the reality mom was in development.
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