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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided insights into two recent events on Jupiter: the mysterious flash of light on 3 June and the disappearance of the planet's dark Southern Equatorial Belt.
At 20:31 GMT on 3 June Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley saw a two-second flash of light on Jupiter. In the Philippines, fellow amateur Chris Go confirmed the event.
Astronomers around the world suspected that something had hit the giant planet but they didn't know just how big it was or how deeply it had penetrated the atmosphere.
Astronomers immediately began searching for a 'black-eye' pattern like those left by former impactors, but this time their search was in vain. Now it was Hubble's turn.
But not even the space telescope could see anything. Images taken on 7 June, just over three days after the flash was sighted, continue to show no sign of debris above Jupiter's cloud tops. This means that the object did not descend beneath the clouds and explode as a fireball. If it had, then dark sooty debris would have been ejected to rain down onto the clouds.
Instead, the flash is thought to have come from a giant meteor burning up high above Jupiter's cloud tops.
Dark smudges marred Jupiter's atmosphere when a series of fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit the planet in July 1994. A similar phenomenon occurred in July 2009 when a suspected asteroid slammed into Jupiter, again discovered by Wesley.
This year's intruder is estimated to be only a fraction of the size of these previous ones.
"Comparing the two collisions, from 2009 and 2010, will hopefully yield insights into the types of impact processes in the outer Solar System, and the physical and chemical response of Jupiter's atmosphere to these amazing events," says team member Leigh Fletcher of the University of Oxford, UK.
As a bonus, Hubble's observations also provided scientists with a close-up of changes in Jupiter's atmosphere following the disappearance several months ago of the dark cloud feature known as the Southern Equatorial Belt. The last time it faded was in the early 1970s.
Weather forecast for Jupiter's Southern Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia
In the Hubble view, a slightly higher altitude layer of white ammonia ice crystal clouds appears to obscure the deeper, darker belt clouds. "Weather forecast for Jupiter's Southern Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia," says team member Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
The team predicts that these ammonia clouds should clear in a few months, as they have done in the past. The clearing of the ammonia cloud layer should begin with a number of dark spots like those seen by Hubble along the boundary of the south tropical zone.


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From Farrah, Jaclyn, and Kate to Drew, Cameron, and Lucy - being handed the legendary "Charlie's Angels" halo is not something to be taken lightly.
With "Charlie's Angels" back on ABC 's primetime schedule for the first time in 30 years (just like you, we'll forget all about "Angels '89"), the network is pretty sure that Charles Townsend's new butt-kicking detective beauties are more than up to the task. Freshly embodied by actresses Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh and Rachael Taylor, the new team is ready to start cracking cases.
PopcornBiz caught two of the angelic trinity and got a little sense of what we can expect from this new incarnation.
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"They stayed true to a lot of the main things," says Kelly. "You know there's Bosley, there's Charlie – Charlie will still remain in 'the box' and we'll talk to him and such." This time around Hollywood icon Robert Wagner gives mellifluous voice to Charlie from the speakerphone. "And it's different just because we are all three different Angels – we're not recreating the old ones. So Charlie has found three new Angels to get off the streets and give us a new chance at life."
"It's like the originals with the camaraderie and the relationship between three women," adds Ilonzeh. "There's definitely that sisterhood and that supportive base that the girls have as the originals did, and as the movies did. It's three girls really supporting each other, trying to solve these crimes or these mysteries. It differs because there's a lot more action – I mean, there's a ton of action! Almost every scene someone or something's getting shot at, something's getting blown up."
The ladies did their share of homework – and earned their share of bruises – getting Angel-ready for the action sequences, says Kelly. "We did lots of martial arts training, some car driving training, some gun weapon training. Annie and I both loved it. Rachael, on the other hand – she had to get into it."
"I got off on it," laughs Ilonzeh. "I became addicted. I was like, 'Oh my gosh – I've got to go out and buy all these guns and shoot them all the time and go to the range. And just let out the aggression'."
As for their Angel archetypes, Kelly describes her character Eve French as "a very tough Angel. She's the tomboy of the three girls. She's the least girly of the three. Tougher than you've ever seen me, that's for sure."
Meanwhile, Ilonzeh's Kate Prince is "kind of like Kate Jackson's character – she emulates her a little bit. She's an ex-detective turned dirty. She got caught and Charlie gave her the second chance, and now she's an Angel. She's more of the logical, the leader, the motherly one of all the Angels."
They also got a little heaven-sent advice from someone who knows a thing or two about being a perfect Angel: Drew Barrymore, who re-launched the franchise with two films in the 2000s and executive produces the new series. Says Ilonzeh: "Drew was like, 'Just really bring you and your sass and your craziness to this character. And know that we picked you for a reason, so have the most confidence in yourself that you can have.'"

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URBANA — Life is full of difficult decisions. Now a University of Illinois professor is creating a website he hopes can help.
Ali Abbas says he created the new website Ahoona.com for people to ask for help from other users for any kind of decision from "should I start my own business?" to "should I buy a laptop or tablet?" Access is free.
Abbas tells The News-Gazette in Champaign (http://bit.ly/1bRVJFz ) that Ahoona is similar to a social networking site.
Users can ask for feedback. Then they can use what Abbas calls a decision wizard and get advice on whether they're headed toward a good decision.
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Welcome to the second edition of the new Mobile Mondays. This week we saw the leaked pictures and details of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X7, Xperia X7 Mini and Xperia X12 Anzu. Sony Ericsson confirmed that X10 will get multi-touch support from Q1, 2011. Apart from that LG officially launched the new LG Vortex and LG Cosmos Touch for Verizon. On the other hand LG managed to sell 1 million units of LG Optimus One in just 40 days. Lets start the second edition of Mobile Mondays with some news, views and other interesting stuffs.
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This week, leaked pics and specs of Xperia X7, Xperia X7 Mini and Xperia X12 Anzu have been emerged. Xperia X7 features an impressive 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 processor, Windows Phone 7 OS, 4.3 inch touchscreen display and 8.1 megapixel camera with HD (720p) video recording while Xperia X7 Mini comes with a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen display, 1 GHz Snapdragon QSD8250 processor and 10.1 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and xenon flash. To learn more, head over to this post.
Xperia X12 will be powered by 800 MHz processor, 4.2 inch capacitive display with full multi-touch support, Android 2.3 OS and 12 megapixel camera with HD video recording. Sony Ericsson also announced that the X10 will be getting an OTA (Over-The-Air) software update by Q1 of 2011 which will enable basic multi-touch (pinch-to-zoom) support on the phone.
This week, LG officially launched LG Vortex and LG Cosmos Touch for Verizon and LG Apex for US Cellular. LG also managed to sell 1 million units of LG Optimus One in just 40 days. The LG Optimus One is a low-end Android based phone. LG Optimus One features a 3.2-inch screen, 600MHz processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS with A-GPS, Compass, external memory card slot, FM radio and a 3.5mm jack.
Nokia recently updated its popular business phone, the Nokia E72. The firmware version is numbered 52.005 and it fixes some small bugs and updates the Adobe Reader application. Nokia also launched two new entry-level phones, X2-01 and C2-01. The original C2-00 was a dual SIM phone, but C2-01 is a single SIM phone. Nokia C2-01 comes with 3G connectivity and 3.2 megapixel camera while X2-01 features a full QWERTY keyboard and VGA camera.
Handset Of The Week – LG Optimus One:
LG Optimus One is the LG's most popular Android phone to date. The entry-level Optimus One features a 3.2 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display, Android 2.2 (FroYo) operating system, 600 MHz processor, 170 MB internal memory, 32Gb expandable memory, 3.15 MP camera, 3G Connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and a 1500 mAh battery. LG has sold more than 1 million units of LG Optimus One worldwide. This handset is available In India for just Rs.13,500.


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"The state has long planned for this scenario. It realizes the asset bubble and Ponzi scheme economy cannot be sustained and the crash will be catastrophic. The plan is to blame COVID-19 for the crash. This will not only allow the real culprits — central banks, the Federal Reserve, investment firms, and other scam artists and economic criminals — off the hook but flood them with trillions of bailout dollars. Trump the crony capitalist will spend billions in nonexistent money to prop up transnational corporations and banks while sending small checks of a few hundred dollars to citizens as a token gesture. Fast-forward to next month, or the one after. Behind this noble effort, however, is a plan to enforce an unnecessary lockdown and confront with deadly force rioters, looters, as well as folks outraged over the systematic dismantling of civilization, many whom see this viral outbreak (natural or manmade)…
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"Cabalist Judaism is a Satanic cult that exercises tyrannical control over its members. It is the template for the totalitarian NWO. The Rothschild cartel consists of Cabalist Jews and Cabalist Freemasons who seek to enslave us. They turn reality upside down. Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Justice, are all inverted. Satan replaces God at the apex. The Coronavirus panic was contrived by the media and fanned by politicians. Why should we trust these people? They covered up the murder of 3000 Americans on 9-11 (I'm including Trump here). They have run regular mass shootings and false flags: Sandy Hook, Parkland, Las Vegas, Aurora CO. Remember the 2014 'terrorist' attack on Parliament in Ottawa? The government and media were complicit. Yet we still trust these people? They lied about JFK's assassination; Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and Al Assad gassing his people. Why do we believe anything they say? Our whole political and cultural edifice is rotten…
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Today's TED Talk, however, might actually convince me to give meditation another shot.
"We live in an incredibly busy world. Our pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something," says Andy Puddicombe at the TEDSalon London Fall 2012. "The sad fact is that we're so distracted that we are no longer present in the world in which we live. We miss out on the things…
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Few people saw their career gain as much steam in 2009 as Michael Fassbender, who is now faced with a choice between lead villain roles in two of the biggest and best superhero franchises.
Fassbender has been offered the role of the young Magneto in "X-Men: First Class" and the as-yet-unidentified bad guy in "Spider-Man 4," according to Hollywood 411.
Magneto, previously played by Sir Ian McKellen, would be a nice fit for Fassbender, though he seems like a bad match against James McAvoy as a young Professor Xavier.
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As for "Spider-Man," our friendly neighborhood webslinger has already faced off with the Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Sandman and Venom. During the whole Sam Raimi-Sony meltdown that led to Marc Webb being named director of "SM4," the Vulture and Black Cat were the baddies being mentioned the most -- Fassbender would be a good fit for one, but definitely not the other.
Other Spidey foes still up for grabs are:
- Kraven the Hunter, aka Sergei Kravinoff/Vlad Kravinoff/Alyosha Kravinoff: We love the idea of Fassbender wrapped in pelts tearing across New York City in an attempt to put Spider-Man's head in his trophy case -- and so will the ladies.
- Lizard, aka Curtis Connors: The guy accidentally turned himself into a reptile while trying to regrow his arm. Spidey helps find a cure that proves tragically short-lived and turns Connors into a bad guy.
- Morbius, aka Michael Morbius: Wouldn't it be nice to again have an irredeemably evil vampire in the zeitgeist?
It would be a serious roll of the dice for Fassbender to take this role without knowing who's going to play Spider-Man, though maybe Sony has assured him that the rumors about Jamie Bell (Fassbender's "Jane Eyre" co-star) are true.
That Fassbender is in the mix is a pretty strong indication that Sony has backed off of Black Cat, who was pretty clearly little more than an excuse to put a hot young actrees into this outfit like one of these.
Having received raves for his roles in both "Inglourious Basterds" and "Fish Tank," Fassbender has been fielding offers left and right since last year. In 2010 alone, he's starring as a Roman soldier in "Centurion," a goon in "Jonah Hex," and opposite Mia Wasikowksa as Rochester in Cary Fukunga's "Jane Eyre."
He'll also be starring in Steven Soderberg's "Knockout," about a black-ops agent out for revenge against the people who betrayed her and as Carl Jung opposite Viggo Mortensen's Sigmund Freud in David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method."


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Carole Rodoni, a renowned speaker on the economy and real estate who is often called the pundit of the Peninsula, brought her New Year's message to Tri-Valley Realtors last Friday with much to cheer about.
Rodoni was formerly president of Fox and Carskadon Real Estate, chief operating officer of Cornish and Carey Real Estate, and president of Alain Pinel Realtors. She is currently the president of her own consulting company, Bamboo Consulting.
By 2040, she told members of the Valley Real Estate Network in Pleasanton, the Bay Area will be home to 2.1 million more people with at least 1.1 million more jobs to choose from. All-cash home sales in September accounted for 24% of everything that was bought and sold here.
Two-bedroom, two-bath apartments in California now rent for an average of $2,100 a month, higher in Pleasanton, and as much as $3,300 for a nice rental in a decent (though not wealthy) neighborhood in San Francisco. Better yet for Realtors looking for buyers who are choosing between renting and buying, there really aren't many apartments available, with 97% of them already leased in Rodoni's survey.
The No. 1 buyers of homes here today are "echo boomers," those 35-50 year olds who are the children of the Baby Boomers who are already settled and, for the most part, living comfortably. They may someday sell their Pleasanton homes, but a tight inventory market today indicates that most are staying put. That's causing a price squeeze which is slowing down sales a bit and certainly limiting opportunities for first-time buyers.
But price may not be a concern of the Millennials, a new wave of Echo offspring now in their mid-20s. Rodoni said Millennials made up 28% of everything that was bought in residential real estate last year, and their numbers and finances are both growing
Many in this age group work at at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, LinkedIn and Twitter and other large high tech, software and social media companies whose multi-billion-dollar portfolios are passing those revenues on to employees. They are also part of the baby incubator companies that are being bought out by the "big mommas and poppas," Rodoni said, gaining bonuses and buy-out offers making them independently wealthy and hungry for better lifestyles and homes.
They'll be heading this way to take advantage of more reasonable housing prices. In the next four years, 140 of these small start-ups will go public, as Twitter did this week, or will be merged and acquired in the Silicon Valley.
The Millennials offer Tri-Valley cities, businesses and Realtors unique opportunities to lure these newly-rich away from places like Facetown, a $120-million, 394 rental unit housing community that will be built within walking distance of Facebook's campus.
Filled with amenities that may keep their workforce happy, including sports bars, yoga workout centers and even free ice cream and lattes along trails and walkways, crying babies and toddlers won't fit in as renters marry and start their families.
"Imagine when all these financially-independent couples leave places like that, and they will," Rodoni asked. They'll be attracted to communities that have these types of services best suited to their lifestyles as young parents, including good shops and coffee shops, schools, parks and transportation."
"At the end of the day," Rodoni said, the next year for Realtors in the Tri-Valley will be great, the next three years "are going to be wonderful," and the amenities Pleasanton and nearby cities can offer the new generation of homeowners will bring major economic gains.
Already, buyers are paying 30% over premium on the Peninsula, and sellers in the Tri-Valley also are seeing multiple offers. "The Millennials are coming," Rodoni told those at the real estate meeting. "Are you ready?"


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Liberty boasts a trio of redshirt sophomore post players standing 6-4 or taller in Katelyn Adams (left), Ashley Rininger (middle) and Catherine Kearney (right).
As the Liberty women's basketball team prepares for its Nov. 8 season opener at Charlotte, LibertyFlames.com will provide a four-part preview of the 2013-14 season. Today's article provides a look at the Lady Flames' post players. "Our foundation will begin with very capable, competent, talented post play," Green noted. "This is a known commodity that we can depend on. Katelyn Adams, Catherine Kearney and Ashley Rininger will lead us in that foundation under the basket. "I have high expectations and believe that these three can equip us to begin our quest for another Big South championship and the opportunity to advance in the NCAA Tournament," added Green. The formidable trio of Adams, Kearney and Rininger are all redshirt sophomores who stand 6-4 or taller and have made notable contributions during the early stages of their respective careers. The 6-5 Adams made arguably her biggest impact at the defensive end last season, ranking eighth in the Big South with 1.1 blocked shots per game. She averaged 4.6 ppg and 4.3 rpg in just 14.5 minutes of action per contest and recorded a pair of double-doubles. Kearney, the tallest player of the bunch at 6-6, was limited to seven games due to injury in 2012-13 and received a medical redshirt. The previous season, the New Jersey native contributed 4.0 ppg and 3.8 rpg off the bench as a freshman. Rininger enjoyed a promising redshirt freshman campaign a year ago, as the 6-4 Buckeye Stater was a three-time Big South Freshman of the Week. She is the Lady Flames' top returning scorer from 2012-13 (6.9 ppg), while also pulling down 6.4 rpg and ranking seventh in the conference with 1.2 bpg. Senior Jasmine Gardner started the first 33 games last season before suffering a season-ending injury prior to the NCAA Tournament. Gardner, who was the Lady Flames' second-leading rebounder a year ago (7.3 rpg), will be working toward a return to the court in 2013-14 following off-season surgery. Newcomers Victoria Schuler and Mickayla Sanders will add to Liberty's depth in the post. Schuler joins the Lady Flames for her junior season after playing basketball for Kutztown in 2010-11 and competing on Liberty's lacrosse team during the 2013 season. Sanders, a versatile 6-0 freshman from Clayton, N.C., scored a school-record 2,423 points for Cary Academy. She made 60 three-pointers as a senior and was also a double-digit rebounder.
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Compliance stands for conforming to applicable rules and doing the right thing. We operate with a fundamental respect for the rights of the individual, our employees as well as business partners. We are firmly opposed to all forms of human rights violations or deficient labour conditions, and expect this across our value chain. At INEOS Styrolution, compliance is a non-negotiable foundation of how we do our business. We do not compromise on compliance and seek to ensure that our commitment to lawful, responsible and ethical conduct is practiced every day, everywhere.
Our approachINEOS Styrolution, with the strong support of its senior management, is dedicated to maintaining a high standard of corporate governance and regularly articulates the company's policies on business integrity and human rights. We believe that high standards on business integrity and human rights are critical to deliver our strategy, create long-term value and maintain our social licence to operate.
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Our performance
All relevant employees undertook a comprehensive online training on anti-bribery and anti-corruption in 2017. An online Code of Conduct training was provided to the entire active employee base in EMEA and the Americas. Our management board decided on a biennial training cycle on the Code of Conduct. While geographic transfers, temporary leaves, recent hires, and job changes within the company prevented achieving 100% participation in this training, the expectation of the company continues to be that all active employees complete the training and be held accountable for the content of the Code of Conduct. Training on Code of Conduct is part of the on-boarding programme for all new joiners.
An awareness campaign as well as on-site training against email phishing and social engineering attacks was also provided to all relevant employees globally.
We revised our Delegation of Authority and we updated our International Trade Policy. Finally, we also introduced a checklist on "Know your contract partner" to highlight the importance of performing and documenting due diligence with respect to contract partners.
We have defined global sustainability targets for seven focus areas of our business including compliance. These targets are aligned with our material topics and underscore our commitment to continuous improvement.
The newly adopted European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in 2018. To meet the demands of this reform, we will introduce a new data protection policy and – together with our Data Protection Officer – document relevant processes to support our data protection strategy. We aim to provide a web-based training on data protection to the relevant employee base in 2018.
For the awareness on the criticality of antitrust concerns, a refresher training will be offered in 2018. We will also continue our biennial training cycle on our Code of Conduct to our entire active employee base in 2019.
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With respect to our Code of Conduct and in particularly our gift policy, INEOS Styrolution EMEA has been refraining from the common practice of sending gifts to customers and suppliers for Christmas and the year's end and has been asking INEOS Styrolution's business partners to support us by not offering any gifts to our employees as well.
The money thus saved was donated to charity instead.
In 2015, INEOS Styrolution EMEA supported the Ambulanter Kinderhospizdienst Frankfurt am Main – an initiative that provides home support to families with children suffering from life-limiting illnesses – with a donation of €5,500.
In 2016, we donated €7,500 to Hannibal – a charity of the JKVG Association in Antwerp that brings together kids and young people with and without disabilities to spend a wonderful holiday and have an unforgettable time together.
Although this fund-raising campaign was compliance-driven, it fits perfectly with INEOS Styrolution's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability approach. With our CSR program, we place a strong focus on future generations and donate our efforts and money to drive initiatives that support the health and well-being of young and disadvantaged children at our company's various locations.
Also in 2017, INEOS Styrolution EMEA continued this compliance approach and donated the proceeds of €10,000 to the Children's Cancer Association Cologne. The Children's Cancer Association Cologne – in German Förderverein krebskranke Kinder e.V. Köln – is an organisation that supports parents whose children are diagnosed with cancer, providing psychological assistance and on-site family apartments for the affected families.
In 2018, INEOS Styrolution EMEA donated €7500 to the Kinderschutzbund Neustadt/ Bad Dürkheim. The main focus of this organisation is to support children who live in difficult social conditions by offering assistance and accompaniment through services such as a telephone helpline, prevention training and visits.
To find out more about INEOS Styrolution's community involvement activities, please click here and flip through our global community involvement initiatives published in our current GRI sustainability report "Living Sustainability. Together.".
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Talkie of the Week: The Lone Hand
USA 1953, 80 minutes, color, Universal International Pictures. Director: George Sherman, Written by Joseph Hoffman and Irving Ravetch. Cast: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Jimmy Hunt, James Arness, Ray Roberts, Frank Ferguson, Wesley Morgan.
Plot summary: In order to secure the survival of his family, Zachary Hallock gets involved with the wrong side of the law and thus puts the trust of his son and newlywed wife to the ultimate test.
Review: As a widowed father who is trying to start a new life with his son (Jimmy Hunt), Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) works hard on a little farm he only recently purchased and soon occupies with his new wife. In order to overcome the sudden loss of his harvest, he gets involved with a local gang of outlaws who are notorious for their robberies. His son, raised to be inquisitive and righteous, gets suspicious of his father's new source of income and soon starts asking questions like his stepmother Sarah Jane (Barbara Hale). Unable to tell them the truth behind his actions, Zachary loses his son's respect and his wife's trust. It takes an unexpected turn of events to win them both back and make them understand the situation.
Shot in Colorado in 1953, The Lone Hand would be the first out of two movies starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Hale. As a reliably gifted Western star, McCrea governed the movie from the start, supported by Jimmy Hunt's touching performance and Barbara Hale's always hearty and wholesome presence. Together, they turned this little film into a memorable experience for anyone who is fond of family Westerns with a dash of suspense. Unavailable on DVD so far, the film is a gem that can be seen in occasional reruns on TV and deserves to be passed on from one generation to the next.
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We're experiencing a weird issue wherein address are failing to ship in FedEx ShipRush when they contain "COURT" or "CT" in the Address line. The error looks like this:
Initially, I thought this was an issue on FedEx's end, but these addresses appear to go fine in FedEx Ship Manager software.
Additionally, when I independently run these addresses through FedEx's API, they appear to come up clean with "Resolved" set to "true." I have an example of the xml results of one of the API address validations that can share via PM, but I don't wish to post a customer's address in a public forum.
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The Research Help site is an online guide designed to help you perform research at the Hiram College Library. This guide will help you understand basic research skills including:
- How to locate books and periodicals using the Hiram Catalog.
- How to locate full-text articles.
- What to look for when using the Web for research.
- How to cite books and articles.
- How to calculate how long an assignment will take to complete, using the Assigment Calculator.
While eventually this guide will help you through the research process, each page now acts as a separate guide. If you need to familiarize yourself with one or more particular aspects of research, such as citation styles or evaluating resources, you can use the site index to go directly to that particular page.


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Users on laptops often use different input devices than on phones.
Running on Chromebooks, Android apps find themselves in an environment they were not designed for, displayed inside a window on a laptop with mouse, touchpad and keyboard. While Android does have support for those devices, they are rarely properly implemented in apps. In order to make these apps work, Chromebooks use a compatibility mode that is applied to all apps by default.
Compatibility mode
In compatibility mode, your app will receive events differently from how they are provided by Android APIs. This mode is useful for developers that do not want to implement Chromebook-specific features, but want their touch-centric app to just work.
The compatibility mode introduces the following behaviors:
- Touchpad scrolling may emulate touch screen scrolling with 2 'fingers'.
- Mouse wheel scrolling may do the same.
- All measurements and events behave as if the app window is displayed full
screen. Methods like
getRawYmay not return display-space coordinates but window-space coordinates.
Depending on the API level your app is targeting, compatibility mode provides more or less of these compatibility treatments.
Use android.hardware.type.pc
If you want to optimize your app for running on Chromebooks and to make good use of the input devices, declare the following in your app manifest:
android:required="false" />
This tells Android that you are targeting PC devices that are typically used with keyboard, mouse, and touchpad. It disables the compatibility mode and allows you to develop custom behavior for mouse and touchpad.
Beware the DecorCaptionView
In free-form window mode, the apps caption bar is part of your view hierarchy and under your control. You generally do not have to be aware of this, but there are cases where you have to be careful:
- Do not fiddle with
Window.getDecorView(). If you want to add top-level views, add them to the view you have set as
- Do not expect your
Activity.setContentView()to be at (0, 0) of your app. That's where the caption bar is.
- If possible, avoid using
MotionEvent.getRawY(). If you do use them, use them in conjunction with
View.getLocationOnScreen()to transform coordinates to view-space coordinates.
Input device support
Once you are targeting PC devices via the
android.hardware.type.pc flag,
you can expect the following events:
Mouse and touchpad support
Mouse and touchpad both generate
MotionEvents just like touch events.
MotionEvent.getSource() to distinguish
SOURCE_MOUSE and
- Mouse/touchpad movement. Generates
ACTION_HOVER_MOVEevents. Those are handled in
- Mouse/touchpad buttons. Sends
ACTION_BUTTON_RELEASEevents to
View.onGenericMotionEvent(). You can also check for pressed buttons in all mouse/touchpad events by using
- Touchpad scrolling. Scrolling using two fingers on the touchpad is
reported similar to touchscreen drag events to allow for smooth and kinetic
scrolling. Use
getSource()if you want touchscreen drag and touchpad scrolling to behave differently.
- Mouse wheel scrolling. Mouse wheel scrolling is reported as
ACTION_SCROLLevents to
- Mouse/touchpad click and drag. Click and drag events are very similar
to touchscreen drag events. Use
getButtonState()to distinguish click and drag from a touchpad scroll event. Click and drag will always be accompanied by a button, while touchpad scrolling does not.
Right-click support
Handling right-click events, otherwise known as Context Click events is simple
by setting an
View.OnContextClickListener to your view.
yourView.setOnContextClickListener { //display context click options true }
yourView.setOnContextClickListener(new View.OnContextClickListener() { @Override public boolean onContextClick(View view) { //display context click options return true; } });
This method was added in API level 23 so if you want to allow the same functionality on other devices that could be running an older version of Android, you can use generic motion events as shown above.
Keyboard input is important on desktop and laptop devices. It is also highly required for accessibility.
To get proper input focus activation, you should follow the normal resource additions as outlined in the default Android API:
- If you want to handle keyboard input yourself, you can use the default
functions via
KeyEvent.callback. There is no need to handle keyboard input inside a
- If you want to edit text yourself, you should use
onKeyUpbut not
onKeyPreIMEevents unless you want to implement the full breadth of IME—which is not recommended.
A stylus reports events similar to a touchscreen via
However, stylus events carry more information that should be accounted for:
MotionEvent.getToolType(). The tool type allows you to distinguish
TOOL_TYPE_STYLUSevents. It also allows you to recognize the usage of the eraser side of a pen if the user has one via
MotionEvent.getPressure(). Represents the physical pressure applied to the stylus pen if supported.
MotionEvent.AXIS_TILT/AXIS_ORIENTATION. Can be used with
MotionEvent.getAxisValue()to read the physical tilt and orientation of the stylus if supported.
Historical points
Android batches input events to be delivered once per frame. A stylus pen, however, can report at much higher frequencies (200Hz being quite common). When creating drawing apps, it is important to use the points acquired from the historical API:
Palm rejection
Chrome OS attempts to recognize resting palms so they are never
reported to the app. However this is not always possible: sometimes a touch may
be reported before the OS recognizes it as a palm. In that case, touches will
be cancelled by reporting an
ACTION_CANCEL event.
This event tells the app that all touches are invalid and it should undo all interactions caused by the touches. For example, in case of drawing apps, the app will temporarily draw new lines and commit them to the canvas only once the touch series is finished cleanly. If the touch is cancelled, that temporary line can be easily removed.
Note-taking intent
Chrome OS displays a list of apps that are registered to handle intents
containing an
org.chromium.arc.intent.action.CREATE_NOTE action and the
Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT (i.e.
android.intent.category.DEFAULT) category
as shown in the following code snippet:
<action android:name="org.chromium.arc.intent.action.CREATE_NOTE" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
The user will be able to select an app, and that app will later be launched when a note-taking app is requested.
When the user requests creating a new note, the app will be launched using an intent containing just the aforementioned action and category. The app should create an empty note in a mode where the user can write using a stylus.
When the user requests annotating an image (e.g. a screenshot or downloaded
image) context, the app launches using an intent with the
aforementioned action and category, including
ClipData containing one or more items
with content:// URIs. The app should create a note that uses the first attached
image as a background image in a mode where the user can draw on it using a
Testing without a stylus
- Switch to dev mode and make the device writable.
- Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 (forward-arrow) to open the shell.
- Run the command
sudo vi /etc/chrome_dev.conf.
- Add
--ash-enable-paletteto a new line at the end of the file.
- Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 (back-arrow) to return to the UI.
- Log out and back in.
You will now see the stylus entry points: - In the shelf, you can tap the stylus button and choose "New note". This should open a blank drawing note in your application. - If you take a screenshot (from shelf: stylus button > Capture screen) or download an image, you should see the option "Annotate image" in the notification. This should open your app with the image ready to be annotated.
Chromebooks support up to 4 gamepads and follow standard Android APIs for reporting them. Unfortunately, it is quite common that gamepads not designed for Android show the wrong button mapping.


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It's safe to say that blogs have come a long way since their inception in the early 1990s. As you've browsed the Internet in recent years, you probably noticed that everyone, from your next-door neighbor to local real estate agents,seems to have one or more blogs. No longer serving merely as online diaries, blogs can contain anything from news stories to personal commentary, and from fashion advice to business resources. Anything – and everything – goes when it comes to blogs, their writers and the messages thousands of bloggers send out every single hour of every single day.
It was this blogging platform that allowed Lisa Stone, Jory Des Jardins, and Elisa Camahort Page to launch BlogHer, an online blogging community which includes a majority of women bloggers of all ages as well as a number of men . BlogHer is holding its 9th annual conference on July 25-27. The first BlogHer conference, debuting in 2005, had about 300 attendees; BlogHer '13 is expected to have between 5,000 and 6,000 attendees.
Following is an edited transcript of an online Question-and-Answer conversation with BlogHer co-founder and COO, Elisa Camahort Page.
Sharon Sultan Cutler: How did the idea to begin BlogHer come about?
Elisa Camahort Page: My two co-founders, Lisa Stone and Jory Des Jardins, and I started BlogHer to answer a question, namely: Where are the women who blog? Rather than continue to talk about it on our blogs, we thought it would be great to hold a conference, just like any other blogging or tech conference, but to have all the speakers and experts be women. We blogged the idea, got a ton of positive response, and 120 days later we held BlogHer '05. During that time we were not a non-profit and not a for-profit; we like to say we were three chicks with credit cards who had an idea and decided to run with it.
After experiencing the passion and commitment of the community at the conference, and gathering their feedback, we realized there was an opportunity there. So, we scheduled our next conference. We launched the BlogHer.com web community and news service by and about women who blog, and ultimately we launched the BlogHer Network to help women achieve economic empowerment and be paid for their work.
SSC: What do you hope to accomplish by showcasing blogs by and/or for women?
ECP: Women are more than half the population, more than half the voters, more than half the Internet users, more than half the users of almost every social tool, driving more than half the traffic and activity. And women control more than 80% of household purchasing power. And yet, women are not represented in any hall of power to nearly that degree, from media to commerce to academia to government/politics. As long as that is the case, we think it's holy work to shine a light on what women are doing and raise their voices.
SSC: How do you think blogging is changing the status of women's exposure in the media?
ECP: If you have something to say, you now have a mechanism to say it. History has traditionally focused on government, commerce, and war. Until recently (relatively speaking) those were primarily men's pursuits. Blogging is literally allowing us to re-write history, to incorporate a broader perspective and to bubble up stories that otherwise get left behind or buried.
SSC: How profitable is blogging?
ECP: Thousands of bloggers and social media influencers are thriving as part of the growing "BlogHer Economy" – BlogHer, Inc., the premium cross-platform media network and publisher for women, paid out $25 million to 5,000 bloggers from 2009 to 2012. Writers were paid for their influence, reach and writing via BlogHer Inc's publishing model, which compensates bloggers via a revenue share from advertising BlogHer published on their blogs, and via payments for writing commissioned by BlogHer for editorial and advertorial initiatives.
BlogHer Publishing Network members report spending their BlogHer checks on everything from extras to necessities, from family dinners out to medical bills, mortgages and tuitions. The majority of the BlogHer Publishing Network members surveyed (52%) report spending their BlogHer-generated income on discretionary items. Another 43% reported using their income to support their work, paying for expenses and expansion of their business.
SSC: How many writers participate on BlogHer?
ECP: Our publishing network is comprised of more than 3,000 blogs and 7,000 additional influencers across other social platforms.
SSC: How does BlogHer choose which blogs to feature?
ECP: It's important that we build a network that serves our community and our mission. We look for bloggers who are engaged, influential and info-savvy, those who share a breadth of advice, opinions and recommendations that resonate powerfully with the BlogHer community. BlogHer's team works hard to curate the best and brightest conversations, writers and speakers – online and in person. That's what we do best.
SSC: Does BlogHer offer any special benefits for their bloggers?
ECP: Exposure to a global network of fellow bloggers, readers and leading brand sponsors provides opportunities to be seen, grow an audience, build relationships with peers, and create opportunities to earn income via brand advocacy relationships.
SSC: How many readers does BlogHer have?
ECP: Today, BlogHer is the largest community of women who blog: 92 million across blogs and social tools, including 55 million blog readers alone (May 2013, Nielsen Site Census).
SSC: What demographic makes up most of BlogHer's readers?
ECP: BlogHer is the #6 women's network on the Internet for women 18-34.
SSC: How many men are on BlogHer?
ECP: About 10% of our conference attendees, network publishers and active community members are men.
SSC: What are the most popular topics on BlogHer? (for readers and writers)
ECP: BlogHer covers every topic under the sun, because women care about every topic under the sun. Food, Parenting and Lifestyle may be our top ongoing topics, but our traffic spikes for great stories and hot news from the world of Politics, Technology, Business, Health and more.
SSC: What do you hope readers and writers gain from BlogHer?
ECP: Our mission is to create opportunities for women who blog (and their readers) to pursue education, exposure, community, and economic empowerment.
SSC: Do you have any special inspirational quotes about blogging to share with our Splash readers?
ECP: Blogging is like your own personal printing press, to quote Jay Rosen. With all the freedom and opportunity that comes with that!
Photos: Courtesy of BlogHer
Sharon Sultan Cutler is the co-author of the upcoming book, Once Upon Our Times: (Because Life Isn't a Fairytale) 65 Years Growing Up Baby Boomerwww.onceuponourtimes.com Esther Reisberg contributed to this article.
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PONTIAC, Michigan (Reuters) - General Motors Co is counting on muscled-up, more refined versions of its lucrative Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks to show investors and car buyers that the No. 1 U.S. automaker is back on track.
The 2014 model-year trucks are the most critical launch for the Detroit company since its bankruptcy and $50 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009. The trucks are also a linchpin in GM's ongoing battle with No. 2 U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co, whose F-150 truck is the industry's top-selling vehicle.
GM showed off the new full-size pickups in Pontiac, Michigan, on Thursday, and executives are touting the benefits of the vehicles, which will initially be offered in the most popular four-door, "crew cab" version in the second quarter of next year.
"There's nothing more core to our business than our trucks," GM North American President Mark Reuss said at the introduction at a movie studio north of Detroit.
"Our competitors may think that they have smooth sailing ahead, but let me tell you the weather is about to change," he said, adding the goal was to beat Ford's F-Series.
GM better hope so. Analysts estimated the company has invested $3 billion to $4 billion on developing the new trucks and related engines, as well revamping the plants where they are built.
Their reception on Wall Street will also be closely watched by officials at the U.S. Treasury, which still owns about 26 percent of GM. The fate of that stake has been the subject of much speculation, with analysts suggesting divestiture might occur closer to the trucks' launch next year.
This week, Treasury sold the rest of its position in American International Group Inc, which also received a federal bailout.
The current versions of the big trucks and related SUVs generate profit of $12,000 or more per vehicle and account for about 60 percent of GM's global profit, analysts said. Citi has estimated the new models could bring the automaker more than $1 billion in additional operating earnings in 2013 and 2014.
That would be welcome, since the last major redesign of the trucks was in 2006, and delays caused by GM's bankruptcy in 2009 have put it at a competitive disadvantage in a segment that accounts for about 11 percent of the market, analysts said.
GM noted that the average age of big pickups on U.S. roads is more than 10-1/2 years, and the need to replace aging vehicles means plenty of room for sales growth.
GM's Reuss did not provide sales projections for the new trucks, but said they would attract new buyers and that demand would be there as the U.S. housing market improves. "We're timing this very, very well in terms of construction and growth in the economy."
GM's inventory of the current large pickups surged in November as it was caught off guard by aggressive deals by rivals.
AutoPacific analyst Dave Sullivan said the new trucks simply allow GM to catch up to rivals. As a result, he said the automaker will likely need the next redesign much faster than normal once Ford comes out with its next F-150 design, due in 2014.
"For the traditional pickup truck buyer, they're going to love this truck," Sullivan said of the new GM trucks. "It's a simple and well-engineered vehicle, but it appears not to leapfrog any of the competition."
GM's U.S. dealers are champing at the bit for the new trucks, saying the interior design is a big step forward from the current models. They say the new design will make the automaker more of a player, especially at the top end of the market, where prices approach $60,000 and margins are high.
"Us having a class-leading truck is critically important to the success of Chevrolet," said Jason Brickl, chief executive of Ballweg Chevrolet in Wisconsin, whose two dealerships in the Madison area derive about one-quarter of sales from the Silverado.
GM said its 2014 trucks will be new "from hood to hitch," including a trio of new V6 and V8 engines meant to improve power, torque and efficiency. GM also touted a quieter, more comfortable cab; improved steering, suspension and brakes; and the use of more high-strength steel. New safety features will include forward collision alert, lane departure warning, and front and rear parking assist.
The company said horsepower, torque and EPA fuel economy estimates will not be available until early next year, but said the new trucks will outperform the current models.
Analysts said GM's comments about strategy indicated the new trucks' mileage would not likely challenge the 22 miles per gallon on the highway achieved by the Ford F-150 equipped with the turbocharged Ecoboost engine. GM executives on Thursday questioned whether small displacement turbocharged engines are the best technology for large pickups.
GM has not announced pricing for the new trucks.
The current Silverado has a starting price of about $24,000, rising to almost $44,000, and the price tag of the most expensive Sierra is around $57,000. Ford's F-150 starts under $24,000 and runs to almost $54,000.
GM's big trucks and SUVs - Chevy Tahoe and Suburban, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade - remain top draws at dealerships. Their combined U.S. sales rose 11 percent last year to more than 799,000 vehicles.
The redesigned SUVs will debut in 2014, followed by new versions of the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon midsized pickups in late 2014, Reuss said.
GM's pickup truck sales fell in November, with the automaker blaming aggressive discounting by rivals Ford, Chrysler and Nissan Motor Co Ltd. GM has added new incentives for the trucks for December, and executives indicated they will cut production to reduce supplies.
Reuss said pickup truck sales were "much better" so far this month, and that inventory would end the year close to company targets. GM ended November with 139 days' worth of pickups and had said it would miss its year-end target of having U.S. inventory of no more than 220,000 pickup trucks, or 85 days of supply.
In a positive sign for the truck market, however, Citi analyst Itay Michaeli expects U.S. demand for full-size trucks to meaningfully outperform the overall industry in the next 12 to 18 months as consumers move to replacing aging vehicles.
LMC Automotive expects total U.S. sales of full-size pickup trucks this year to rise 8.4 percent to more than 1.62 million vehicles and hit more than 1.8 million in 2019. It sees GM's combined pickup sales topping Ford's next year and holding that lead through 2019.
Officials at Ford said the company is happy with F-150's lead over Silverado. The F-150 was last redesigned in 2008.
"We're very pleased with the performance of our pickup truck over the years," Ford U.S. sales analyst Erich Merkle said. "It's been the best-selling pickup in America for 35 years straight."
Meanwhile, GM will stick with its strategy of offering both full-size and midsized pickups as a way to satisfy more consumers. Ford and Chrysler have discontinued their midsized trucks.
Additional reporting by Paul Lienert in Detroit; editing by David Gregorio, Jeffrey Benkoe and Matthew Lewis


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With boaters facing record high fuel prices this summer Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatU.S.) has a few tips that could help stretch their fuel dollars:
1. Leave the extra 'junk' home: Don't load the boat up with weight you don't need. Do a little spring cleaning - unused equipment that has been collecting mildew in the bottom of lockers for years should be taken home.
2. Water weight: At 8.33 pounds per gallon, why keep the water in the tank topped off if you're only going out for the afternoon?
3. Tune her up: An engine tune-up is an excellent investment and should easily pay for itself over the summer.
4. Tune your prop: If your boat goes 30 mph with a like-new prop and only 27 mph with a prop that's dinged and out of pitch, that's a 10% loss in fuel economy, or, you're wasting one out of every ten gallons you put in your tank.
5. Paint the boat's bottom: When boating in salt or brackish waters a fouled bottom is like a dull knife. It takes a lot more fuel to push your boat through the water.
6. Keep the boat in trim: Using trim tabs or distributing weight evenly will help move your boat through the water with less effort - and less fuel.
7. Go with the flow: Consult tide tables and try to travel with the tide whenever possible.
8. Install a fuel flow meter: A fuel flow meter is like a heart monitor; when consumption starts to rise, it's an early warning that something is amiss. A fuel flow meter also allows you to select a comfortable cruising speed that optimizes the amount of fuel being consumed.
9. Do the math: If you don't want to spring for a fuel flow meter (about $300), you can calculate your fuel mileage by dividing distance traveled by gallons at fill-up. Using your logbook, you can then approximate fuel flow using average speeds and time underway.
10. Get a discount: Many of the 885 BoatU.S. Cooperating Marinas around the country offer up to 10 cents off a gallon of gas. To get the discount all you have to do is to show your BoatU.S. membership card. If you aren't already a member, join online now for a special rate of $19.00 by going to BoatUS.com/membership or call 800-395-2628.
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The following appeared in the Summer 1995 issue of Caelum et Terra:
Was it really only a year or so ago, when Pope John Paul began showing signs of physical weakness, that his critics were eagerly discussing his demise and speculating about his successor? At least one of them–Peter Hebblethwaite–himself met an untimely death, may he rest in peace, but the Holy Father has gone on to the most spectacular phase of his already spectacular papacy. In the past year or so he has: stared down the powerful of the world at the Cairo population conference, preached to the largest gathering of human beings in history (five million) in the Phillipines, promulgated the Catechism, released a best-selling book and an apostolic letter on the coming third millenium. And as a sort of stern counterpoint to the radiant hope reflected in the book and the letter, John Paul has given us Evangelium Vitae, a prophetic masterpiece and a rallying cry for resistance to the "culture of death."
The world has fallen back astonished, sort of like the men in the Gospel who came for Christ in the garden. The phrase "the lion in winter" keeps reappearing in their mumblings, and while I think they have the leonine image right they may well have mistaken the season. John Paul is planning on greeting the year 2000, and while the charism of infallibility does not extend to such plans, this man has other, more personal charisms and I tend to think he'll make it. Another five years like this last one? This may be, not winter, but spring: as aging takes its toll on John Paul's physical strength it seems to concentrate and focus the fire that burns within him, strong and pure and radiant. I have long said it, and I repeat it: he will be known as Pope St. John Paul the Great, a pivotal figure in human history.
The mistake of his would-be pallbearers was to see only the outward, immediate evidence: the cane, the wince of pain passing across his face, the occasional stumble. They missed the wider pattern, the deeper movement. "In our weakness is our strength" wrote St. Paul, and it is really no great wonder that this pope has found new strength in the crucible of physical suffering. Long may he live, and long may he guide Christ's Church.
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Brewers Seeing Red In Game 3
Have lost 2 of 3 to Cincy in Series
Finally healthy after a lost season, Johnny Cueto is dominating every time out.
Cueto gave up three hits over eight innings, including two solo homers, and singled home a run on Saturday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Reds have won two of the first three in the series, leaving Milwaukee with a six-game lead in the NL Central.
Cueto (3-2) gave up homers by Aramis Ramirez and Mark Reynolds and an infield single by Jean Segura. He walked one and struck out 10. The right-hander has allowed only three runs in his last 38 innings.
"He was unbelievable again," catcher Brayan Pena said.
Cueto was on the disabled list three times last season, when he made only 11 starts. Everything is coming together for him so far in 2014.
"He's taking his game to an even different level," manager Bryan Price said.
Cueto is the first Red to throw at least seven innings in each of his first seven starts in a season since Bucky Walters in 1944. He's the first Red to throw at least eight innings in four straight starts since Jose Rijo in 1990.
"I've said before: He doesn't have the body of an Olympic athlete, but he plays like an Olympian-caliber athlete," Price said.
One curiosity with Cueto: He has given up six homers, accounting for seven of the eight runs he has allowed this season. He gave up two homers in a game for the first time this season.
Cueto has already thrown 55 innings. With the injuries last season, he managed only 60 2-3.
"It's really important to be throwing this many innings," Cueto said, with assistant trainer Tomas Vera translating. "I thank God that I'm feeling really strong. I've been working for this."
The Reds piled up the singles against Yovani Gallardo (2-1), who failed to produce a quality start for the first time this season. Cincinnati had nine singles in Gallardo's six innings, including Cueto's RBI hit in the sixth inning for a 4-2 lead.
"They put the ball on the ground," Gallardo said. "There's nothing I can do after that. It's frustrating when you make a good pitch and something happens. Cueto was a fastball away and he threw the bat out and made contact."
Ryan Ludwick singled home a run, and Pena drove in two more with a single in a three-run fourth inning. Todd Frazier doubled home a run as the Reds pulled away against the bullpen.
The game matched two of the NL's stingiest pitchers. Cueto got the better of it, leaving his league-leading ERA at 1.31.
Reds leadoff hitter Billy Hamilton was out of the lineup for the second consecutive game because of sprained knuckles on his left hand.
The Brewers' offense has struggled and been in flux for the past week because of slumps and injuries. It took a significant hit on Saturday when Ryan Braun went on the disabled list with a strained right oblique.
Braun had missed the last six games with the injury. He's eligible to return on May 12. Outfielder Logan Schafer, who had been disabled by a strained right hamstring injury, was activated in Braun's spot.
Ramirez and Segura, the shortstop, missed time in the past week because of injuries. Ramirez, bothered by a bad elbow, was in an 0-for-28 slump that matched the longest of his career when he led off the second inning with a homer.
The Reds broke a 12-inning scoreless streak by piling up singles in the fourth. They loaded the bases on hits by Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce, and Frazier was hit by a pitch. Ludwick singled home one run, and Pena drove in two more.
NOTES: Alfred Simon (4-1) faces Milwaukee's Kyle Lohse (4-1) in the final game of the series on Sunday. ... The Reds activated OF/INF Skip Schumaker before the game. Schumaker separated his left shoulder while diving for a ball in the outfield on March 21. OF Roger Bernadina was designated for assignment. ... Closer Aroldis Chapman pitched one inning for Class A Dayton at Lake County on Saturday, throwing 16 pitches. He's expected to continue his rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville and could be activated within a week. Chapman was hit on the forehead by a line drive on March 19 and had surgery to insert a plate.


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So there is a huge movement in Christianity that encourages a kind of carte blanche support for Israel. The reasoning goes like this: God instituted the state of Israel with his blessing. Christians who support Israel take part in that blessing, and those that don't won't. This movement terrifies me, because you don't have to dig very deep to find scary little artifacts of terror. Google around and you'll find Christians supporting preemptive strikes, Christians saying that Jerusalem indisputably is the Capital of Israel, and so on. Even Mitt Romney seems to be on that boat, given his remarks about Jerusalem during his visit to Israel, and the fact that he's hinted he would support a preemptive strike on Iran.
But are Christians obligated to support Israel in everything it does? I doubt it. If that belief is based off of the fact that Israel is the "Chosen land" promised to Abraham I feel the need to go no further than Israel's history of being captured, burnt to the ground, decimated, imprisoned and exiled throughout the old Testament. God never gave the nation of Israel carte blanche support when they ignored His leadership, why should we? If the argument is that in the New Testament you see Christians that honored the Jews receiving the greatest/first blessing, my response is with Romans 10:12 and Galatians 3:28- there is no longer Jew or Gentile. We are all the chosen children of God, and that includes all of the Christians in Iran, too. Would God really want His children in Israel given thoughtless approval to kill His children in Iran? I really don't think so. If the argument is that Jerusalem itself is sacred and Jesus went to Jerusalem "first", I would like to point out that the curtain in the temple was torn at Jesus' death and that the amazing thing about Jesus sacrifice was it got rid of the need for a sacred home for God's presence on earth. Jerusalem is no longer the holy seat of our faith, our own seat is so to speak. We are the temple of God, now. His holy city is all around us.
The problem with uniform, thoughtless support for Israel is that it ignores the wide reaching implications of our choices. Israel as a nation does not get a free pass to flout the laws of God in favor of self-preservation. Christians that support such actions risk doing evil in the eyes of God. If Israel's actions lead to a preemptive strike against Iran and the death of tens of thousands, can we really, truly believe that is in God's plan?
For those that believe the Israeli/Arab conflict is part of the Book of Revelations and that this whole thing is inevitable anyway, all I can say is that no man can know the time or the place. Such devastation is nothing that any man should wish for or pray for or support, and should it come in our lifetime I wouldn't consider it a blessing.
I support the faith. I support my Christian brothers and sisters. I support the cause of love, peace, stability, constancy, grace, sharing, and comfort. I do not support war.
That's all I can say.


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Jean Reynolds
Cancer Treatment Centers of America H.O.P.E. Team Pet Therapy
Wet nose. Hairy body. Drooling. Panting. Not exactly words you would typically use to describe an ideal hospital volunteer. But when Nelli, a 6-year-old Australian Shepherd wakes up in the morning, she knows she has important work to do as part of CTCA's pet therapy program. Jean Reynolds created the program in 2008 and now has eight teams – all certified through the Delta Society for animal assisted therapy – volunteering at the hospital.
Reynolds developed the program out of her sincere desire to give back to the community with the help of her therapy dog, Nelli. She relentlessly labored to expand the program, has spent countless hours recruiting and training other pet therapy team, all while managing the nonprofit organization and continuing hospital visits with Nelli.
According to CTCA volunteer coordinator Jennifer Kehren, the H.O.P.E. Team Pet Therapy program has a profound impact on cancer patients and their loved ones. As she explains it, their faces light up when the dogs come to visit. A patient can be having a mad day, but suddenly they are laughing and smiling when their furry friends comes to play.
Ronald J. Sell, M.D.
Hope Community Health Center
Sell has been the medical director for HCHC since April 1, 2011. He is responsible for overseeing the medical care for approximately 1,000 patients seen at a community medical clinic that serves uninsured patients. Sell personally sees about 30 patients each week, while directing the activities of approximately 20 other volunteers, including two other volunteer physicians. Sell has worked tirelessly as a volunteer in the community, providing medical care for indigent, undocumented and unemployed people who could not otherwise afford even basic health care. He has recruited other physicians and ancillary service providers to provide free or low-cost medical services.
Phyllis Gormley
La Paz Regional Hospital
Gormley, 92, has held many positions with the hospital's auxiliary – president, fund raising and development, scholarships and more. She has worked in the gift shop and helped in administration. In 2005, at the age of 85, Gormley headlined the hospital's "Hey, Seniors – Get Pumped" newsletter about physical fitness and aging. Gormey was – and still is – a model of physical fitness. She continued to waterski until age 87, using a wetsuit so she could continue into the winter months. She credits walking and sports – along with her volunteer activities – with keeping her mentally and physically fit.
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Acer has announced three enormous TFT displays – two in its Value Line and one in its Office Line.
The additions to the Value Line are a 22 inch and 26 inch model, while the Office Line is boosted by a 24 inch offering.
The 22 inch Value Line AL2216W has a resolution of 1,680x1,050, contrast ratio of 700:1 and a 300cd/m2 brightness rating as well as a response time of 5ms (typical).
You'd have thought that was a grey-to-grey rating, however the other two models are specifically quoted as grey-to-grey, whereas the AL2216W doesn't get that distinction so it could well be a true response time in which case it's hellish quick.
It's got a D-Sub (no digital) and Acer helpfully points out that the 16:10 aspect ratio is ideal for watching movies.
The other Value product is the AL2616W, which measures a mighty 26 inches on the diagonal and supports a native WUXGA resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. Brightness is 500cd/m2, contrast ratio is 1000:1, the response time is 6ms grey-to-grey and it's also got a VGA connector but no digital output.
Both models are available in silver and black finishes.
So far so good, except that pricing is yet to be announced.
However, Acer dropped a minor bombshell when it added that "Acer shall also upgrade both the 22 inch and 26 inch widescreen models with high digital content protection interface (HDCP) with HDTV (1080p) support during the last quarter of 2006".
Turn that around and it's clear that the AL2216W and AL2616W currently don't have HDCP and, therefore, won't be able to display protected content properly. You might not be fussed about this short-coming, but Acer clearly feels it matters enough to update the displays in a few months time.
The final model in the trio is the AL2423WR which sits in the Office Line. It's a 24 inch display with the same WUXGA resolution of 1,920x1,200 pixels as the AL2616W. It also shares the 500cd/m2 brightness rating, 6ms (G-to-G) response time and 1000:1 contrast ratio, so it' probably more appropriate to play spot the difference, which throws up VGA and DVI connectors and integrated speakers.
Ah, that's why there's no photo of the AL2423WR. Integrated speakers tend to look bulky and horrid while the AL221W and AL2616W look amazingly sleek and neat. ®


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9:30 a.m. Basketball: Feb. 1993: Kecoughtan boys vs. Phoebus.--LSC 48
11 a.m. Basketball: March 1993: Bethel boys vs. Hopewell.-- LSC 48
12:30 p.m. Tennis: 1994 Newport News Open final: Mark Tepes vs. Muri Ajibade.-- LSC 48
1 p.m. Tennis: Men's Rogers Cup round of 16 (in Toronto).--ESPN2
1 p.m. Golf: PGA Championship first round (at Kiawah Island, S.C.).--TNT
2 p.m. Baseball: Little League Midwest Regional semifinal: TBA(in Indianapolis).--ESPN
3 p.m. Golf: U.S. Women's Amateur match-play second round (in Cleveland).--Golf
3 p.m. Track and field: 2012 competition from Boo Williams Sportsplex (d.).-- LSC 48
3 p.m. Motorsports: NASCAR K&N Pro Series (d. in Colorado).--Speed
5 p.m. Baseball: Little League Northwest Regional semifinal: TBA(in San Bernardino, Calif.).--ESPN2
6 p.m. Basketball: March 1995: Hampton girls vs. James Madison.-- LSC 48
6 p.m. Tennis: Rogers Cup (in Toronto).--Tennis Ch.
7 p.m. Preseason football: Washington at Buffalo.--WTKR 3, WRIC 8, CSN
7 p.m. Baseball: Little League Midwest Regional semifinal: TBA(in Indianapolis).--ESPN2
7 p.m. Football: 1992 state Division 5 semifinal: Bethel vs. Huguenot.-- LSC 48
7 p.m. Baseball: Kansas City at Baltimore.--MASN
7 p.m. Baseball: Boston at Cleveland.--MLB Network
8 p.m. Baseball: Washington at Houston.--Cox 11, MASN2
8 p.m. Preseason football: Green Bay at San Diego.--ESPN
9 p.m. Baseball: Little League Southwest Regional semifinal: TBA(in Waco, Texas).--ESPN2
11 p.m. Baseball: Little League Northwest Regional semifinal: TBA(in San Bernardino, Calif.).--ESPN2
11:30 p.m. Preseason football: Baltimore at Atlanta (d.).--CSN
Midnight Preseason football: Denver at Chicago (d.).--NFL Network
12:37 a.m. Golf: PGA Championship first-round highlights.--CBS: WTKR 3, WTVR 6
At last, we'll get to see Robert Griffin III in a Redskins uniform for a few plays. Washington opens its preseason at Buffalo, with 7 p.m. coverage on WTKR, WRIC and CSN. Among the defenders he'll be facing could be Bills linebacker Arthur Moats, a former Churchland High and James Madison standout.
8 a.m. Women's soccer: Bronze-medal match: Canada vs. France.--NBC Sports Net.
9 a.m. Equestrian: Individual dressage final.--MSNBC
10 a.m. Women's volleyball: Semifinal: South Korea vs. U.S.--NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
10 a.m. Synchronized swimming: Team qualifying.-- NBC Sports Net.
10:45 a.m. Women's wrestling: Qualifying, wrestlebacks and finals at 55 and 72kg (also at 2 and 5 p.m.).-- NBC Sports Net.
11 a.m. Men's field hockey: Semifinal: Australia vs. Germany.-- MSNBC
11:45 a.m. Swimming: Women's 10K (update at 12:45 p.m.).-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
Noon Track and field: Qualifying heats.-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
Noon Women's handball: Semifinal: Norway vs. South Korea.-- MSNBC
Noon Women's basketball: Semifinal: Australia vs. U.S.-- NBC Sports Net.
1 p.m. Canoe/kayak: Sprint finals.-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
1:30 p.m. Women's water polo: Bronze-medal match (Australia vs. Hungary), then gold-medal match (U.S. vs. Spain) at 3.-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
1:30 p.m. Taekwondo: Semifinals and/or finals.-- MSNBC
2:30 p.m. Women's volleyball: Semifinal: Brazil vs. Japan.-- MSNBC
2:30 p.m. Women's soccer: Gold-medal match: U.S. vs. Japan.-- NBC Sports Net.
4 p.m. Beach volleyball: Men's bronze-medal match: Latvia vs. Netherlands.-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
4 p.m. Women's basketball: Semifinal: Russia vs. France.-- MSNBC
5 p.m. Women's boxing: Flyweight, lightweight and middleweight gold-medal bouts.--CNBC
8 p.m. Primetime (d.): Track and field finals (decathlon, men's triple jump, 200 and 800 meters); women's platform diving final; men's beach volleyball final (Brazil vs. Germany); men's BMX quarterfinals.-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
12:35 a.m. Late Night (d.): Rhythmic gymnastics qualifying; women's javelin final.-- NBC: WAVY 10, WWBT 12
Note: (d.) = delayed.
After a memorable, controversial victory Monday over Canada, the United States women's soccer team faces Japan for the gold medal at 2:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network. It's a rematch of Japan's memorable victory on penalty kicks in last year's World Cup.
9 a.m. Talk: The Leaderboard (golf).--910AM
Noon Olympics: Periodic reports (until 4 p.m.).--94.1FM
2:30 p.m. Olympics: Women's soccer gold-medal game: U.S. vs. Japan.--910AM, 1490AM, 102.1FM
4 p.m. Talk: Nick Cattles Show.--94.1FM
4:30 p.m. Talk: Redskins pregame show.--950AM, 1490AM, 102.1FM
TBA p.m. Talk: Sonny Randle, followed by Mike Tirico, ESPN "Xtra Point," NFL Minute, Monarch Minute.--94.1FM
6:30 p.m. Preseason football: Washington at Buffalo.--950AM, 1490AM, 102.1FM, (also maybe on 99.1FM)
6:35 p.m. Baseball: Harrisburg at Richmond.--910AM
6:50 p.m. Baseball: Norfolk at Gwinnett.--94.1FM
11 p.m. Olympics: Late Night in London.--910AM, 94.1FM


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On the eve of the world premiere of "Shrek Forever After" at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, the studio has unveiled a clip featuring a really-let-himself-go Puss-in-Boots.
Antonio Banderas provides the voice for the famed cat, who has achieved a belly-draggin girth since he last rolled with Shrek. Just how bad has it gotten? See for yourself.


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Enoch, Demons and Aliens
Posted 31 May 2014 - 02:22 PM
Pax Tecum,
Fr. Ashcraft
Posted 27 September 2014 - 09:35 PM
Posted 05 October 2014 - 05:16 AM
I've never seen or heard anything regarding the aliens' opinions (one way or another) of Jesus or the supreme deity of any religion...
The stories of Enoch, the Nephilim, etc is all well and good, however this completely whitewashes the fact that good and evil are both parts of human nature. It's how we conduct ourselves that make us either good or bad. It's easy to say something after-the-fact that something was the work of demons (or, as Flip Wilson used to say 'the devil made me do it'), but we as humans have the ability to be either or. It's what we do that makes that distinction. To look at something that we don't understand and say it must be the work of the devil or whatever is also part of human nature - not accepting that it's our own fault, or beyond our comprehension.
There is no devil or satan - it is the humanization of the evil that is inside all of us, the boogey man that we can point to when something bad happens. Most of us have control (in various degrees) over this "inner evil", guided by our own definition of morality and goodness. Whether this is from what we've learned in books like the Bible, the Torah, the Quran or even Dr Suess...we have a guide. Some either forget or ignore what we know is good because...again, here comes human nature, we want more. Power, money, land, property, people...whatever it is, some people just feel they want (or are 'entitled' to) more.
Everyone has choices - good or bad. When the good is shown, things are wonderful; when the choice is for bad, it's quite simple to shake your fists and say it was the devil. I, personally, don't believe there is an actual devil. But it does make a quick, simple scapegoat doesn't it?
Beannacht ort
Posted 23 December 2015 - 02:42 PM
I believe that aliens are fallen angels as well. I once had an alien encounter where I believe that Father God had intervened and chased them away.
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Posted 29 April 2017 - 11:33 AM
Here is an interesting article about aliens, demons and the end of times. Enjoy.
Strong Delusion - Bible Prophecy - Alien Resistance
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