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On July 9, 2015, a federal court dismissed Rimini Street and Seth Ravin's claim that Oracle engaged in "copyright misuse" through its software licenses.
In this lawsuit -- the second of two cases between Oracle and Rimini -- Oracle alleges that Rimini infringed Oracle's copyrights in "the latest chapter in the long saga of Rimini's" infringement, "masterminded by its CEO Seth Ravin." The Court dismissed Rimini's defense of copyright misuse, in which Rimini alleged "that Oracle is using its software licenses to unlawfully leverage a monopoly in the support services market." As the Court did in the first case between Oracle and Rimini Street, the Court held that "Rimini Street fails to allege any conduct that could constitute copyright misuse."
Additionally, the Court rejected Rimini's attempt to exclude Oracle's damages expert from testifying at trial in the first of the two cases between the companies. In that case, Oracle is suing Rimini for $209 million in lost profits. Trial begins September 14, 2015.
"We appreciate the Court's recognition of the importance of licenses to protect intellectual property," said Oracle's General Counsel Dorian Daley. "Like many technology companies, Oracle relies on copyright law to protect innovation and our investment in products that benefit our customers and their businesses. We filed these claims against Rimini and Mr. Ravin to stop them from misappropriating our intellectual property and harming this investment -- and that is exactly what we intend to do."About Oracle
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To help companies support their complete quote-to-cash process in the Cloud, Oracle announced the expansion of the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud with two new products, Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud. These two products provide modern order promising, management, visibility and fulfillment capabilities, and link the existing quote and sales process in Oracle Configure, Price, and Quote Cloud (Oracle CPQ Cloud) and the pick, pack and ship processes in Oracle Inventory Cloud to billing in Oracle ERP Cloud.
In the past, these different processes were often siloed, particularly when some elements operated in the Cloud and some did not. This made it extremely difficult for companies to create a virtually seamless, transparent business flow, causing significant revenue leakage, high days sales outstanding, and customer dissatisfaction. With these two new products in the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud, Oracle can now deliver a complete quote-to-cash Cloud solution to drive enhanced customer experience, revenues, and margins.
"With the introduction of Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud, customers can now run their entire quote-to-cash process in the Oracle Cloud," said Jon Chorley, group vice president of supply chain management product strategy, Oracle. "By delivering an enterprise-class order management platform, which is also matched with quoting, sales, fulfillment and billing all in the Oracle Cloud, our customers can deliver uncompromising efficiency, satisfaction and performance."Oracle Order Management Cloud
Oracle Order Management Cloud is an order capture and fulfillment Cloud solution that is tightly integrated with Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud. It is designed to improve order handling across the order-to-cash process. Pre-integration, centrally-managed orchestration policies, global availability, and fulfillment monitoring can enable increased customer satisfaction and order profitability.
Oracle Global Order Promising Cloud provides fast, accurate, automated order promising capability on the Cloud to source and schedule each order line to help minimize fulfillment costs and maximize customer service.
Oracle's quote-to-cash solution is an end-to-end business process that integrates Oracle Order Management Cloud and Oracle Global Promising Cloud with Oracle CPQ Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud, connecting the sales, fulfillment and finance organizations.
Oracle's streamlined automated quote-to-cash process helps reduce complexity and IT costs by eliminating bottlenecks and errors for the end-to-end flow across sales, fulfillment and finance organizations. It is designed to increase an organization's overall sales effectiveness which is critical to improving their customer experience, revenues and margins. It is an integrated, flexible, scalable solution allowing organizations to automate the entire business process. Integration of these key business functions can improve order accuracy, drive fulfillment efficiency, reduce billing errors and strengthen revenue recognition processes. Sales effectiveness can increase as the selling experience is personalized to the customer, offering targeted content, offers, bundles, up-sells and cross-sell. This can in turn increase customer retention and lead to more profitable sales as well as prices that are optimized for each customer.Additional Information
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This blog post will show how to use the ReportToPDF tool in order to convert Ranorex Report files into PDF. The platform independent file format allows you to share and distribute the generated reports very easily with people not having Ranorex installed.
Conversion of an Existing Report
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The ReportToPDF executable is a command line tool, which allows you to convert existing Ranorex reports to PDF. The report must be passed to the converter in its compressed form, the so-called "rxzlog". The "rxzlog" is a single archive (".rxzlog" extension) including the report and all associated files. More information can be found in the Additional Report Settings section of the Ranorex User Guide.
Using the following call, you can execute the ReportToPDF tool from the command line:
ReportToPDF.exe <input file> <output file> /<argument>
The input and output file need to be set, whereas the arguments are optional.
<input file>
Sets the file (*.rxzlog) which is converted.
<output file>
Sets the name of the PDF file.Allowed arguments:
style: Sets a custom stylesheet
detail:Specifies how much information is shown within the generated PDF:
For example:
Note: When executing a ReportToPDF tool from command line the return value '0' signals a successful execution and the return value '-1′ signals a failure.On-The-Fly Conversion during a Test Run
The ReportToPDF tool is, besides his existence as a command line tool, also available as a DLL (Dynamic Link Library). The Ranorex.PDF.dll allows you to convert the Ranorex Report into a PDF file at the end of a test run. For convenient usage a Ranorex CodeModule (referring the DLL) is available allowing to convert the report with a few clicks.Steps to be done:
The "ReportToPDF" code module will trigger the conversion of the report at its current state. A message, containing a link to the PDF file, will be logged to the report after the conversion finishes.
Note: The default filename of the generated PDF is the same as the Ranorex report filename but with a different extension (*.pdf).Custom Stylesheet
Do you want to change the look and feel of your PDF report? No problem, just use a custom stylesheet in order to change various settings.
For example:
Each entry of the table of contents is a direct link to the specific test case or module.
Once navigated to the test case/module, you can easily jump back to the table of contents using the link in the header (see screenshot below).
Additionally, you can use the bookmark pane of your PDF viewer in order to navigate through the PDFWhere Can I Get the ReportToPDF Tool?
The ReportToPDF tool is available as a standalone executable as well as in the form of a DLL.
The ReportToPDF tool allows both, converting an existing Ranorex Report to PDF using the command line as well as an on the fly conversion at the end of a test run.
Both ways can perfectly be integrated into an already existing Continuous Integration (CI) process. The PDF can easily be shared via mail and/or archived for later usage.
Although many users preference the ease and convenience of ¬Ýexporting, modifying and creating code coverage projects through the NCover GUI, there may be situations when you prefer to directly manage projects from the command line or as part of a scripted process. ¬ÝIn these situation, NCover offers the ability to create projects, import projects and project settings and export projects directly from the command line.Export A NCover Project From the Command Line
Exporting projects can be useful if you want to make a¬Ýbackup of all your project settings as part of your¬Ý¬Ýnormal process or if you want to make a project and all of its settings portable to use on another machine or in a different environment. ¬ÝIn order to export a project, it must first be setup with NCover.
The Export Project command can then be used to export all of the project settings into a JSON file. Here is the usage:
NCover Project-Import --file=<file name> [--project=<project name>]
Here is an example of how you would export an exiting project named "Return Of The Override" to a JSON file:
ncover project-export --file="C:\MyPath\return-of-the-override" --project="Return Of The Override"
Please reference¬ÝExport Project Settings in the NCover Documentation for additional details.Import A NCover Project From the Command Line
The Import Project command can be¬Ýused to modify existing NCover project settings from the command line. ¬ÝThe simplest way to accomplish this is by first using the Export Project command to export the project settings to a JSON file. ¬ÝYou can then directly¬Ýedit the JSON file and use the Import Project command to update.
If you are updating an existing project's settings, it is important to note that you must use the –overwrite option, otherwise an entirely new project will be created.
Here is an example of how you would export¬Ýa project and then re-import it to update the settings:
ncover project-export --file="C:\MyPath\return-of-the-override"¬Ý--project="Return Of The Override"
Modify the exported JSON file to change the project settings
ncover project-import --file="C:\MyPath\return-of-the-override.json" --project="Return Of The Override" --overwrite
Please reference¬ÝImport¬ÝProject Settings in the NCover Documentation for additional details.Create A New NCover Project From the Command Line
Finally, the Import Project command can also¬Ýbe used¬Ýto create a new project from a settings file. ¬ÝThe steps for creating a¬Ýnew¬Ýproject are the same as for importing a project EXCEPT THAT YOU¬ÝDO NOT USE the overwrite command when using the Project Import command.
Please reference¬ÝCreate A Project¬Ýin the NCover Documentation for additional details.
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Join us for the 2015 VisibleThread Users Conference on Wed 21st October in Tysons Corner, Va. Hear how customers like¬ÝNoridian Healthcare,General Dynamics ¬Ýand¬ÝMilestone Systems¬Ýuse VisibleThread to win more.
After a very well received keynote at last year's conference, Kevin Plexico, VP, Information Systems at Deltek is back again this year. Kevin oversees Delteks Federal Information Solutions and will talk about the current federal market trends as we look to Fiscal 2016.
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Mozilla has released the latest version of its Firefox browser - Firefox 13.
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Business Outlook For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014, the Company expects:
Expected non-GAAP net income excludes approximately $33 million related to stock-based compensation expense, approximately $9 million related to the amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs, and approximately $3 million related to the amortization of acquired intangibles. The fully diluted share count for the year is expected to be approximately 70 million, except in the event we have non-GAAP net income, in which case the share count would be approximately 73 million shares.
The following table reconciles net loss per share to the non-GAAP net income per share range: Guidance Range for YearEnding December 31, 2014Low HighNet Loss Per Share$ (0.54)$ (0.51)Stock-Based Compensation Expense0.470.47Amortization of Debt Discount and Debt Issuance Costs
0.130.13Amortization of Purchased Intangible Assets0.040.04Non-GAAP Measure of Net Income Per Share$ 0.10$ 0.13Accessing Cepheid's 2014 Second Quarter Results Conference CallThe Company will host a management presentation at 2 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, July 17, 2014, to discuss the results. To access the live webcast, please visit Cepheid's website at http://ir.cepheid.com at least 15 minutes before
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In this companion to the phenomenally best-selling The Day the Crayons Quit, Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers once again offer perceptive and frequently hilarious insights into the emotional lives of supposedly inanimate objects that most of us don't think twice about. One by one, the lost, broken, forgotten and discarded crayons from Duncan's collection write postcards begging to be rescued from their current circumstances.
Lisa Graff's latest novel is a feast for all kinds of readers. She writes convincingly in the voice of a middle school student, and young readers will relate easily to the main character, Trent. Graff's stories always foster a better understanding of young people in parents and teachers, but never more so than in Lost in the Sun.
A little boy's adorable bear cub is the perfect pet—until he begins to grow . . . and grow . . . and grow! Soon this huge bear with his "bearish" ways is just too big to continue living in a human house. But what would be a better home for him?
It's one thing to learn your ABCs. It's quite another when Oliver Jeffers is in charge. His new picture book, Once Upon an Alphabet, contains 26 very short stories, beginning with "An Astronaut" and ending with "Zeppelin." Preschoolers and beginning readers will delight in these vignettes featuring everything from a lumberjack who repeatedly gets struck by lightning to, of all things, a puzzled parsnip.
Lisa Graff has written several books for middle grade readers, including the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots. Graff has an uncanny ability to give a simple story an intensity that makes you want to keep turning the pages. In her latest offering, Absolutely Almost, 11-year-old Albie is struggling with the idea that he should be "better" than he is: better at math, better at spelling, better at being cool. We asked Graff a few questions about Albie, about writing, and about fitting in.
It is true that Lisa Graff's latest book, Absolutely Almost, brings to mind someone else's work, but not because Graff is in any way imitative—she's far too brilliant to sound like someone else. Lately the patrons of my school library have been asking, "Do you have any books like Wonder by R.J. Palacio?" and now I have the perfect offering. Like Wonder, Absolutely Almost is the story of a boy struggling to fit in. Unlike Auggie, however, Graff's protagonist Albie doesn't have any noticeable problems; he just cannot succeed at school.
Kristy Dempsey revisits a watershed moment in performing arts history in her sparkling new book, A Dance Like Starlight. The story's spirited young heroine, an African-American girl who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, lives with her mother in Harlem. The year is 1951.
Whether it's a baby shower or a sip-and-see (for you non-Southerners out there, it's a gathering where an infant is adored), there is nothing I love more than holding a baby. In lieu of a real baby, I have to settle for books about babies. Lucky for me, there are some adorable new ones to add to my collection. Melissa Guion's newest offering, Baby Penguins Love Their Mama!, is...
Light the fire, grab a mug of hot cocoa and cozy up with the kids for some holiday reading. You're sure to find magic in a fine Christmas picture book—the best of which will earn a place in your heart and become a treasured part of your family traditions.That special magic is brilliantly captured in The Christmas Wish, a family project that involved photographer Per Breiehagen, his...
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Link Roundup: Resources for Teen Writers
October 7, 2015 | E Writer in Residence 2015 — Eve Silver | Comments (1)
Today's post is all about resources for teen writers.
Blogs and Boards for Teen Writers
Go Teen Writers "exists to provide encouragement, instruction, and community for teen writers." There are posts on craft and getting published and more.
Teens Can Write, Too supports and encourages teen writers and though the blog officially closed in August 2015 there are many archived posts that are great resources.
Scholastic's Write It Community is a message board where young writers can connect with other teen writers, post works in progress for peer review, offer your opinion on the work of other teen writers, and try step-by-step writing workshops.
Teen Ink Writers Workshop Forums offer teen writers a chance to comment and connect and submit work for peer review. Teen Ink also offers a variety of contests for teens.
Submission Opportunities for Teen Writers
Author Karen Krossing has amazing info and links for teen writers, including Tips for Young Writers and Where Young Authors Can Submit.
Contests for Teen Writers
NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program is an event that happens every November 1st to 30th (NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month) and offers young writers (17 and under) a chance to challenge themselves and set writing goals. The NaNoWriMo adult program challenges those over 17 to write 50,000 words in a month!
The Aboriginal Arts and Stories Competition is open to Canadians of Aboriginal ancestry (Status, Non-Status, Inuit and Métis) between the ages of 14-29. The contest welcomes short stories, plays, poetry, and screenplays. Submission deadline is March 31, 2016.
The Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth invites submissions in two age categories. Deadline is January 15, 2016.
The Writers' Trust of Canada invites high school students to submit their work. The details of the 2016 writing contest will be announced in early 2016.
Write for a Better World is a writing contest run by World Literacy Canada for Canadian students in grades 5 through 8 challenging students to create a story of 400 words or less. Submissions are closed for 2015, but bookmark the page and watch for the 2016 contest!
The Junior Authors Short Story Writing Contest invites young authors ages 11 through 21 to submit their short stories (under 1,000 words) in various age categories. Entry is free. The 2015 contest is closed, but check the site on April 1, 2016 to enter next year!


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Baldwin to pay another $100,000 toward NY tax bill; 'Fifty Shades' fiasco discussed at studio meeting; Galaxy of stars help open performing arts center.
An undercover prostitution sting at a Madera hotel led to the arrests of eight Central Valley residents, from felons to a schoolteacher, earlier this week.
The Madera Police Department will start issuing concealed-carry gun permits after a vote Wednesday by the City Council.
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After four years of battling in the County/Metro Athletic Conference, the Madera Coyote girls water polo team finally overtook the San Joaquin Memorial-Fresno Panthers.
For the second year in a row, the Liberty Hawks football team heads into its homecoming game undefeated, albeit two games later this season.


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The following piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. We all have at least one social or political issue that gets our blood boiling. The question is whether it boils vigorously enough to incite action. Of course, the majority of us vent our frustrations about these issues at the water […] more »
The following opinion piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. "I almost wanted to vomit." "I was insulted." These statements could well be reactions to any of the sleazy comments we regularly see online. But instead, they are reactions from members of Congress to last year's New York Times op-ed […] more »
In late August, a moderator for the Landscape Photography Google Plus community posted an event page to the platform. As with Facebook events, Google Plus allows users to RSVP to events and also post photos and messages within them. This particular event announced a themed photography contest; participants had until September 1 to upload their entries […] more »
This week we explore three examples that mine electronic Web data to inform news coverage. PART 1: Vocativ The news organization Vocativ uses sophisticated online surveillance tools that dive into the "deep Web" to find and surface newsworthy items. Chief Executive Officer Scott Cohen tells us how the combination of intelligence technology, data analysts and […] more »
Harassment has become intrinsic to life online for the 89 percent of American adults who are Internet users. Nearly three-quarters of adult Internet users have witnessed some form of online harassment and 40 percent have personally experienced it, according to a new Pew Research survey on the topic that's the first of its kind. Young […] more »
BANGKOK — As a high profile case against a prominent media campaigner returns to court in Bangkok, it has emerged that the long arm of Thailand's lèse-majesté law has reached into California. On Thursday Chiranuch Premchaiporn of the Thai current affairs website Prachatai returned to court in the Thai capital to face vague-sounding allegations that […] more »
If you're a self-described journalist who posts on Internet message boards, then you're not protected by the reporter's shield law. So says, at least, the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Earlier this week, it handed down Too Much Media LLC v. Hale [PDF file], a case featuring porn, cybersecurity and death threats. (What more could […] more »
Online hate speech is becoming more and more widespread in Lithuania and until recently, comments like, "The world needs Hitler again to do the cleansing job," which was posted on a website called Delfi, or "Expel dirty Roma people out of Lithuania" would have gone unheeded by criminal justice. "Although the Lithuanian Criminal Codex includes […] more »
Bit by bit, feature by feature, Facebook is making inroads into sites that live outside of Facebook.com. Major publishers now sprinkle their sites with Facebook plug-ins, from fan page widgets to friend recommendations to the ubiquitous "Like" thumbs-up. And hey, why not? It's a win-win, with publishers getting more engagement and increased traffic from Facebook […] more »


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185th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Carried live October 3-4, 2015 on KSL Television Channel 5, KSL.com and KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM & 1160 AM.
LDS Church News
Quiz: Do you know who spoke these words at LDS General Conference?
Megan Marsden Christensen | Posted Oct 4th - 9:20am
Once again, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are gathering Saturday and Sunday to listen to General Conference.
3 apostles called to LDS Church leadership
Celeste Tholen Rosenlof and Natalie Crofts | Posted Oct 3rd - 10:38pm
Three men were called Saturday morning to join the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and lead The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
'Now We Have 20'
Angie Denison | Posted Oct 3rd - 1:52pm
Doug and Deanne Walker always wanted a big family. At first they thought they'd have 10 children, but now they have 20.
Love & Marriage: A Modern Take on a Traditional Vow
KSL.com | Posted Oct 3rd - 1:39pm
College campuses used to be a prime venue for not only gaining an education but also a spouse. That has changed with the recent rise in age at first marriage.
21K girls, women gather for LDS General Women's Session
Carole Mikita | Posted Sep 26th - 11:05pm
Female members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will gather Saturday evening to listen to the General Women's Session of General Conference.
Meet Bonnie Oscarson, worldwide Young Women's leader for the LDS Church
Angie Denison | Posted Sep 25th - 10:29pm
Dave McCann had the opportunity to sit down one on one to learn more about Bonnie Oscarson, the general Young Women's president for the LDS Church. See what she has to say about what our youths want and need today.
Finding faith in prime time: Behind the scenes of 'A.D. The Bible Continues'
Angie Denison | Posted Apr 5th - 4:31pm
This 30 minute special will explain why NBC chose to air the new Christian-based series "A.D. The Bible Continues." The special is called "Finding Faith in Prime Time"; it takes you behind the scenes of this new epic series.
Four families, four faiths
Carole Mikita | Posted Apr 5th - 2:03pm
Members of Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu families share what they believe, how they worship and how they feel about living in Utah, which has a predominant faith.
Conference special: 'Faith on the Front Lines'
Keri Wilcox | Posted Apr 5th - 1:34pm
In this special we profile four Utah soldiers who told us that amid the dust, heat and blood of battle came moments of grace where their faith was increased.
Conference special: 'Steadfast in the Spotlight'
Michelle King, KSL.com Contributor | Posted Apr 5th - 1:05pm
Michelle King goes behind the scenes to share the stories of Richard Elliot, the principal organist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Savannah Stevenson, the actress who plays Mary in the LDS Bible Videos; and the musical group The Lower Lights.
Conference special: 'There is hope — the John Volken Story'
Carole Mikita | Posted Apr 5th - 12:35pm
A wealthy man decides to give away his considerable fortune to bless others in need and offer hope.
Mitchell's Journey: The ripple effect of a father's blog
Candice Madsen | Posted Apr 4th - 5:01pm
A father's blog about his young son's journey towards death goes viral. The messages in this blog flood the world with hope and provide comfort and direction for people of many faiths.
Conference special: 'Going Viral, Family Style'
Candice Madsen | Posted Apr 4th - 12:35pm
"Going Viral, Family Style" goes behind the scenes with three LDS families who have found phenomenal success with their YouTube channels. Hear how their success has strengthened their faith and their families.
Faith, family main focus for special weekend programming
Angie Denison | Posted Apr 2nd - 9:46pm
It has become a tradition at KSL TV to create uplifting and inspiring original shows to air between the LDS General Conference programming on both Saturday and Sunday. This year, audiences will be treated to an impressive assortment of programs.
LDS Church leaders urge women to build 'strong families' in annual meeting
Carole Mikita | Posted Mar 28th - 10:43pm
The 185th annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially began Saturday evening with the General Women's Session. Conference-goers were urged by church leaders to fill their homes with light and truth.
'Meet the Mormons': The movie and the message
Carole Mikita | Posted Oct 5th - 11:59pm
Go behind-the-scenes of the making of "Meet The Mormons." See how the crew captured the day-to-day lives of six Latter-day Saints and how their faith plays a role in their lives.
LDS general conference wraps up with messages of choice
Carole Mikita and Sam Penrod | Posted Oct 5th - 10:27pm
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were uplifted by messages from their leaders, musical numbers and a new religious art exhibit this weekend.
Daring to serve: Young, willing and faithful
Michelle King | Posted Oct 5th - 3:15pm
After church leadership lowered the age for missionary service, thousands of youths from the LDS Church have chosen to serve full-time missions. Discover what impact this surge of younger missionaries is having on the missionary effort worldwide.
Family history unites family in 'Turn Our Hearts'
KSL.com | Posted Oct 5th - 1:36pm
In "Turn Our Hearts," see what happens over the course of several months as the Jess family engages in family history work and why they say this work ultimately saved their family.
'Life's Miracles:' The story of Seth Christensen
Ken Fall, KSL Photojournalist | Posted Oct 4th - 11:54pm
As the ALS ice-bucket challenge gained steam across the country, Seth Christensen continued to fight his own battle with the deadly disease. His faith in God, his belief that miracles happen and his love for his family and friends has given him hope.
Conference Resources
On-Demand Programming
Going Viral, Family Style
- Real Women, Real Faith
- David Archuleta: Called to Serve
- Jerusalem: Link to the past, hope of the future
- Grit: The true story of Steve Young
- A Mighty Band of Youth
- The Miracle of Music: Lessons learned by The Piano Guys
- The Ministry of President Thomas S. Monson
- Fruits of Faith: Celebrating a Small Town Temple
- The Tie: Be Thou An Example
- The Hill Cummorah Pageant: Seventy-Five Years in the Making
- Movies With Meaning: The Rebirth of Mormon Cinema
- Reach out and share
- Saints in Swaziland
- 12 Steps - The road to recovery
- Healing the Broken-hearted
- Something Extraordinary: the Relief Society
- Footprints of Faith
- An Army of Faith: Inside the MTC
- For the Welfare of All
- Healing the Broken Hearted
KSL Newsradio Programming
- 8:00 am - Special Edition of the KSL Greenhouse Show
- 9:30 am General Conference Saturday
- 12:00 pm Just Let Go - A Story of Forgiveness
- 1:00 pm The Lehi Roller Mills Story
- 4:00 pm LDS Singles: A New Approach to Dating in the 21st Century" - sponsored by The LDS Matchmaker
- 5:00 pm "America's Real Deal"
- 7:00 am - Cultural Connections General Conference Special: Wain Myers
- 8:00 am A Woman's View General Conference Special
- 9:00 am Everyday Lives, Everyday Values
- 9:30 am Music and the Spoken Word
- 12:00 pm "Lindsay Aerts...About Moms"
- 1:00 pm "Kenneth Brailsford: My Life Encapsulated"
- 4:00 pm "Faith on the Front Lines"


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The apartment was fine for myself and friend however not big enough for 6 people. The room with 2 beds is tiny with one bedside draw in. The locks on the doors really need to be sorted out as we both had issues with the locks being difficult to get into.
Unable to close the door on the en suite bathroom as got locked in twice. Huge lovely balcony to sit out on, living room area very comfortable, kitchen great with washing machine, cooker and large fridge freezer.
Pool area could be great with sun beds made available and the pool cleaned once in a while.
Lots of dead things and leaves in the pool made it not dipping friendly at all which is a shame as we wanted to lie out down their.
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Senior Editor Seyth Miersma takes Volkswagen's four-door coupe out for a test drive. Does the top-level Executive trim make this pricey VW worth it?
Volkswagen Videos
37Daily Driver: 2015 Volkswagen CC
57VW CEO Winterkorn issues video apology for diesel scandal
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16Jack Kevorkian's old van up for sale in Detroit [w/video]
26This semi-autonomous stroller from VW is a great idea
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1172015 Volkswagen GTI: Clicking, beeping, and trying to stay cool [w/video]
4VW pits Foust against Winslow in epic sound-effects battle
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8Tanner Foust and Scott Speed get VW internships
8Tanner Foust drifts Rockstar Passat around US Cycling TT course
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13MotorWeek recalls the glory days of the VW Cabriolet
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John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated internationally, quoted in numerous books and mentioned in debates on the floor of Congress.
Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers.
Nichols is a frequent guest on radio and television programs as a commentator on politics and media issues. He was featured in Robert Greenwald's documentary, "Outfoxed," and in the documentaries Joan Sekler's "Unprecedented," Matt Kohn's "Call It Democracy" and Robert Pappas's "Orwell Rolls in his Grave." The keynote speaker at the 2004 Congress of the International Federation of Journalists in Athens, Nichols has been a featured presenter at conventions, conferences and public forums on media issues sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Consumers International, the Future of Music Coalition, the AFL-CIO, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the Newspaper Guild [CWA] and dozens of other organizations.
Nichols is the author of The Genius of Impeachment (The New Press); a critically acclaimed analysis of the Florida recount fight of 2000, Jews for Buchanan (The New Press); and a best-selling biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, Dick: The Man Who is President (The New Press), which has recently been published in French and Arabic. He edited Against the Beast: A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire (Nation Books), of which historian Howard Zinn said: "At exactly the time when we need it most, John Nichols gives us a special gift–a collection of writings, speeches, poems, and songs from throughout American history–that reminds us that our revulsion to war and empire has a long and noble tradition in this country."
With Robert W. McChesney, Nichols has co-authored the books It's the Media, Stupid! (Seven Stories), Our Media, Not Theirs (Seven Stories), Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (The New Press), The Death and Life of American Journalism (Nation Books) and, most recently, Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street (Nation Books). McChesney and Nichols are the co-founders of Free Press, the nation's media-reform network, which organized the 2003 and 2005 National Conferences on Media Reform.
Of Nichols, author Gore Vidal says: "Of all the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols's sword is the sharpest." (Photo by Robin Holland / Bill Moyers Journal)
At precisely the same time that members of the Bush administration and Congress are scrambling to publicly declare their willingness to crack down on corporate wrongdoing, they are working behind the scenes to reward corporate lobbyists with a dramatic victory.
Key members of Congress reached an agreement late Thursday night to give President Bush Fast Track authority to secretly negotiate a sweeping Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement. The deal was necessary because, earlier this year, the House and Senate passed different Fast Track resolutions. Last night, representatives of the two chambers cobbled together a "compromise" plan that now faces final votes in the House and Senate.
If the legislation passes, Fast Track authority will be granted to Bush and a new era of trade liberalization will open the door to a dramatic expansion of corporate power in the US and abroad.
A crack in the façade of Congressional congeniality was discovered last week, as Senate Democrats gathered to discuss particulars of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill.
That bill was passed with overwhelming support from Senate Democrats and general opposition from Senate Republicans. But that does not mean that Democrats really favor reform; for most of them, backing McCain-Feingold was an act of political positioning, as became obvious at last week's closed-door gathering of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
At the session, senators heard from Democratic campaign lawyer Bob Bauer, a favorite of those senators for whom reform is less progress than threat. Bauer delivered dire warnings about the dangers of the McCain-Feingold law -- and of moves by US Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wi., to toughen Federal Election Commission regulations and enforcement procedures.
US Rep. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who has for years been one of the Congress' most consistent critic of corporate excess, is worried about the current controversy about corporate governance. Don't get Sanders wrong: He's delighted that revelations about wrongdoing by executives of Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom and other corporations -- not to mention the whole Martha Stewart insider-trading scandal-- has forced everyone from President Bush to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, to recognize that government must reassert itself as a regulator of business behavior.
The problem, says Sanders, is that, while today's corporations are just as bad as the trusts that needed busting at the start of the last century, Bush is no Teddy Roosevelt and Daschle is no William Jennings Bryan. Instead of real reform, Republican and Democratic leaders are proposing half-steps aimed at requiring accountants to produce better balance sheets. While Democrats and Republicans frequently stop Sanders in the halls of Congress these days to tell him they should have listened to his complaints about corporate misdeeds, most refuse to recognize that the corporate crisis is about a lot more than accounting.
"The American people have a much better understanding that members of the Bush administration or members of Congress that this is not just about a few bad rules or a few bad apples. This is about how corporations do business in America today, and about what members of Congress who take immense amounts of corporate money to finance their campaigns allow those corporations to get away with," says Sanders. "Sure, corporations and their accountants have taken advantage of loopholes and lax regulations to inflate their earnings statements, and sure they have used their campaign contributions to make sure that the loopholes stay open and that the regulators let them get away with murder. But if you close the loopholes and increase the level of oversight, that is not going to usher in a new era of corporate responsibility. If all that comes out of this are a few accounting reforms -- necessary as they may be -- most Americans are going to say, rightly, that the corporations were let off the hook again."
Anyone searching for hypocrites on issues of prayer and patriotism would be well advised to begin the hunt on Capitol Hill.
On most days when Congress is in session, the overwhelming majority of members cannot be bothered to show up for the morning prayers and patriotic pronouncements that open the House and Senate. However, after a pair of senior jurists on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals questioned the Constitutionality of laws requiring schools to organize recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance -- with its "one nation under God" line -- it became clear that political points could be scored with shows of national pride and piety. So Congress' sunshine patriots and preachers came rushing into the Capitol.
All but a handful of members of Senate crowded the Senate floor Thursday to listen to the usually neglected prayer and to join in a fumbling recitation of the Pledge. Over in the House chamber, members gathered to chant the Pledge -- with many shouting the phrase "under God!" The lawmakers gave themselves a two-minute standing ovation before breaking into an off-key rendering of the song "God Bless America."
It is not often that a Democratic primary for a US House seat representing rural Alabama is big news in the United States -- let alone abroad. But the defeat of US Rep. Earl Hilliard, D-Alabama, in Tuesday's primary election runoff made headlines around the world. While voters in Selma and Tuscaloosa may have thought they were simply choosing between an aging veteran of the civil rights movement and an energetic challenger born the same year that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, analysts around the world were reading the results for signals about the character and scope of the debate over US policy regarding the Middle East.
"Mideast Was Issue In Democratic Race," read the Washington Post headline. "Mideast Fires Up Alabama Runoff," declared the Washington Times. "Mideast Conflict Comes To 'Bama," reported CBS. A National Review editor went so far as to declare the primary contest "a sideline skirmish in the war on terror." Overseas, Al-Jazeera's website described "The Middle East Conflict in Alabama's Seventh." The mass-circulation Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz thought enough of the story of Hilliard's defeat to publish an analysis that cited the result as one explanation for why President Bush's recent stances regarding the Middle East peace process have been so sympathetic to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"To understand the political background to Bush's speech, it's worth taking a look at the Web site of the US Federal Election Commission," noted an analysis by Akiva Eldar for Ha'aretz. "Look for contributors to Artur Davis, a black lawyer who won the Democratic primaries in the 7th Congressional District in Alabama on the day of the speech. Davis beat his rival, the 60-year-old, five-term Earl Hilliard, who is also black, by a 56-44 percent vote. Here are some of the names from the first pages of the list of his contributors: there were 10 Cohens from New York and New Jersey, but before one gets to the Cohens, there were Abrams, Ackerman, Adler, Amir, Asher, Baruch, Basok, Berger, Berman, Bergman, Bernstein and Blumenthal. All from the east coast, Chicago and Los Angeles. It's highly unlikely any of them have ever visited Alabama, let alone the 7th Congressional District.
The Senate Ethics Committee has denied US Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wi., permission to join a lawsuit that asks the federal courts to clarify whether it was appropriate for President Bush to unilaterally end participation by the United States in the thirty-year-old Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
But that does not mean that Feingold is giving up on the suit brought by 31 member of the House of Representatives, or the cause of pushing the Senate to assert its Constitutionally-defined authority role in deciding whether the US enters and exits international treaties.
"I wanted to be a part of the lawsuit because I think this is a fundamental issue for anyone who cares about the separation of powers. The fact that I am not going to be allowed to be a plaintiff does not make the lawsuit, or the issue, any less important," says Feingold, a lawyer who says he is considering filing an amicus brief in support of the legal action. "I am going to continue to do everything I can to help the members of Congress that are bringing the suit."
To hear Texas populist Jim Hightower and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. tell it, one of them should be running for president in 2004. Trouble is that each one says the other guy would be the best candidate.
Hightower and Jackson have been star speakers on the Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour, which rolled into Chicago last weekend. The Chicago event -- the second on a national tour that began in Hightower's hometown of Austin -- drew 5,000 people for workshops of food, agriculture and democracy issues, speeches by the likes of Studs Terkel and Patch Adams, and music from artists such as Grammy Award winning singer Erykah Badu.
At this county fair of the left, where progressives played TrueMajority carnival games ("Knock-a-Nuke/Build-a-School") and downed Organic Valley toasted cheese sandwiches and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, talk of a two-years-off presidential race ranked surprisingly high on the agenda. For the most part, supporters of the 2000 campaigns of Democrat Al Gore and Green Ralph Nader put old arguments behind them and focused on the task of beating Republican George Bush in 2004. While Gore and the predictable crowd of Democratic insiders are already hustling for the next nomination, however, there was no consensus about the identity of the best standard bearer for progressives? There was talk about U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who has won high marks for his challenges to the Bush administration on military issues.
Outgoing US Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, was furious when the Senate failed this week to enact his pet project: permanent repeal of the federal estate tax.
"This will be a campaign issue," grumbled Gramm, who decided not to seek reelection as it became clear that his ties to Enron and other crumbling energy concerns were no longer a political asset.
Despite his lame-duck status, Gramm still likes to offer political advice, especially when it comes to lowering taxes for wealthy campaign contributors. And he is not alone. White House political strategist Karl Rove -- who is paid with taxpayer dollars to run George W. Bush's continuous campaign -- told business owners after the vote: "Don't look at it as a defeat. This is a war, and we need to make an ongoing commitment to winning the effort to repeal the death tax."


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Top 10 draft picks, everybody loves them but how good are they?
Let's start by stipulating that ALL NBA PLAYERS come from the draft. Duh. This isn't about draft vs. free agency vs. trades. We'll leave that for some other bar stool.
This is about being realistic about what to expect from those high lottery picks the Phoenix Suns are destined to accumulate over the next few years and as such, to properly gauge their value when it comes to thinking about using them in possible trades.
What we did with this thought experiment was look at all the players picked over the past five years in the top ten slots in the draft. That's fifty players for you math geniuses.
Then we ranked them.
We asked 11 NBA writers* from various markets to rank each player's potential on a scale of one to six:
1- Franchise Player; 2- All-Star; 3- Solid Starter; 4- Rotation Player; 5- Deep Bench; 6- Out of the League
The picks were then averaged in the chart below. Others have done similar research of draft picks using various statistical measures to rank players (which would have the same issues with young players). I prefer crowd sourcing. Get over it.
There are obviously some issues with the rankings.
Tyreke Evans in his rookie year would have easily been seen as a possible All-Star or even franchise player and he is now considered a "solid starter". Half-way through his rookie year, would Michael Beasley be considered a "deep bench" guy? No. Along those lines, will Andre Drummond will turn into an All-Star? John Wall? I doubt it, but they averaged out that high in their current rankings.
On the flip side, James Harden certainly wouldn't have ranked as a franchise guy until perhaps his second or even third year.
Evaluating young talent is hard even after the guys are in the league. It's even harder before they are drafted. Some teams are better than others but there's a huge element of luck involved.
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What does it all mean?
Here's what jumped out at me from this little game. I'm sure others will look at this and see different things. Opinions are wonderful!
- 36% of top ten picks project as Franchise or All-Star players. If your goal is to get these studs you are going to need more than one top ten pick since fully 64% (exactly and without fail or variation) will not get you anything you can't find elsewhere.
- None of these guys have won a ring and only Harden, Westbrook and Durant playing together (that's three franchise players on one team) reached the level of being a true contender (so far). Point is, young players take a long time to develop, especially when you have several of them as your core.
- To be even a decent playoff team -- forget contender -- you need several of these top tier players on your roster. The Suns, as Jim C. pointed out in an email, have no one that is or projects to be an All-Star unless you are REALLY high on Dragic....or just really high.
- I look at these names and think about the Pistons. They have two guys on this list (Monroe and Drummond) projecting as stars and a third guy (Knight) who looks like a solid starter. All three taken seven or higher. It's hard to argue they drafted poorly and yet they are still a bad team and look to be years away from being a threat to make it past the first round of the playoffs.
- Because of the vagaries and luck of the draft you need multiple high picks to get one of the studs and Phoenix needs several. That means the Suns will need perhaps four to six top ten picks over the next few years. Then, as we well know, it takes several years for young players to learn how to play and win in the NBA.
- Following a draft strategy, how many years away from the Suns from being a five seed in the West? I would guess six years. Fortunately, I doubt the Suns front office has the patience to wait that long.
Thanks to the following writers for providing their rankings: Kris Habbas, Akis Yerocostas, Jim Coughenour, Conrad Kaczmarek, Mike Levin, Patrick Harrel, Evan Dunlap, Chris Clark, Rich Hofman, Jesus Gomez.
20113 Mock Draft
Be sure to check out Kris Habbas' 2013 Mock Draft. Are there any franchise players here?
"We are in a bad spot right now."
That's Gentry talking about the team's current state of affairs, losers of 8 of their last 9 games and 16 of 21 overall since a 7-8 start to the season.The team is now 12-23 on the season.
Gone are the days of the easiest schedule in the league, which was the case in the first 20 games of the year based on their opponents' current winning percentage on the season. The Phoenix Suns have beaten only one team that is still above .500 right now (the Memphis Grizzlies).
But they have beaten 6 teams that were above .500 at the time of the game. So there's that. And they've played nearly every game down to the last few minutes of the fourth quarter, only to lose at the end.
"We've got to play with a little more confidence," he said yesterday in reaction to Luis Scola's comment that the team is almost expecting the worst now. "Not looking for the bad thing that's going to happen. As coaches, management, and as players, it all starts with confidence."
But bad things do happen. Like after a first quarter on Friday night that Gentry deemed "the best they played (offensively) all season" when everything just fell apart and never came back.
The team came into the Grizzlies game lacking confidence again last night when they started the game 2-for-14 with 4 turnovers. That's not going to get it done.
The guys are starting to realize that the season is already way down a slippery slope, and they have to fight to keep it together.
"The road can bring you together," Jared Dudley said, trying to grasp at anything. "But I don't know the stats, but we've lost something like 8 or 9 in a row."
He said it starts with the team captains, him and Jermaine O'Neal, to keep the team from falling apart.
It starts with Goran Dragic too.
"Goran's the point guard, he's got to get everyone into it," he said. "When he does bad, we struggle. When he goes good, we have a chance. I don't know how he did statistically tonight, but I think overall there was a lack of ball movement, turnovers. They got a lot of easy layups and we didn't."
The guys on the court don't always turn to Dragic though when things start to go sour. They try to do too much on their own. Dudley had six turnovers on bad passes on Friday night, and couldn't get his shot off very well against the Grizzlies' Tony Allen on Sunday.
Rebound outlets too often go to someone else, who doesn't often get a good shot once they cross the time line.
"We don't have one-on-one players, period," Gentry said before the game. "It's detrimental to our team. We are a much better team when we have 3 or 4 passes."
Yet guys are jacking up shots anyway, or trying to make hero passes that just aren't there. Some of it is a broken down offense. Dragic is getting trapped more and more often, forcing him to give up the ball to someone else on the perimeter (ie. not in shooting position) to restart the play. But the ball isn't getting back to him.
As Gentry says, there are "a lot of young players on this team that are trying to carve out a reputation."
One of those is Shannon Brown. Brown knows he's basically on a one-year contract, and he's trying hard to show he's worth a long-term deal. Getting relegated to the bench is not helping his confidence.
"He really enjoys starting, it's important to him," Gentry said of Brown's recent poor play. "But we need firepower off the bench. He needs to understand that."
Ultimately, it's sink or swim time. There's no easy road to turn onto. The Suns face a schedule that won't favor them for a single win between now and the All-Star break. Welcome to the world of Sacramento, Charlotte and New Orleans.
"The easiest thing to do it to point fingers and go our separate ways," Gentry warns. "We have just got to believe in ourselves. We're not just going to play out the season."


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