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This Week's Reading
Staff Picks: Pop, Rock, and Bear HockBy The Paris Review
John Swartzwelder has written more Simpsons episodes than any other writer (fifty-nine in total). He's also one of the most eccentric writers in the business: one story goes that "when he could no longer smoke in restaurants, he bought his favorite booth from his favorite diner and had it installed in his home." Since leaving The Simpsons in 2003, he has self-published a novel each year, all of which are available on his Web site. After reading his first novel, The Time Machine Did It, I'm not surprised that Swartzwelder is the same person who introduced now-classic Simpsons characters such as Cletus Spuckler, Stampy the Elephant, and the three-eyed fish Blinky (who has now become a symbol among pundits for nuclear waste and wildlife mutation). The novels are pure screwball, honoring the comedies of the Marx Brothers and Preston Sturges as Swartzwelder dismisses any narrative rule for laughs. In The Time Machine Did It, a private detective named Frank Burly ("to give prospective clients the idea that I was a burly kind of man … and who would be frank with them at all times") finds himself traveling through time for a supposed multimillionaire who wakes up one day to find that everything he owns is gone. The plotline includes a homemade time machine and a town taken over by criminals, but why the novel works is the simple fact that it never takes itself too seriously. "On an impulse I mooned most of the 1950's as I went by. I don't know what makes me do these things. I guess it's just part of my charm." —Justin Alvarez
In outline, it reads like something made up by Roberto Bolaño: an Austrian writer crosses America, wracked by nightmares and visions and pursued by his mysterious, estranged wife. Peter Handke's 1972 novella Short Letter, Long Farewell helped inspire the American "road movies" of Wim Wenders, and if Bolaño didn't know the book, there is a strong family resemblance. As the critic Wayne Koestenbaum put it, the two writers share an "ability to sound sane (though vacant-souled) about insane circumstances," whether these involve a desert sunset or a restaurant serving bear hock à la Daniel Boone. —Lorin Stein
That Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" is, in part, a transmutation of birdsong into lines of music has oddly come up several times over the past month, in the course of putting together the Fall issue and elsewhere. At the same time, I've found myself returning periodically to Music & Literature's impressive fourth issue to gaze at the work of British composer Barry Guy, whose graphic scores are translations of sensory experiences relating to literature, painting, and architecture and visual reflections of movement, energy, and pitch. So it felt like the stars had fully aligned when I read Christian Wiman's "translations" of Osip Mandelstam, from a small collection called Stolen Air. Instead of faithfully translating Mandelstam's poems, Wiman has created versions of them: though some closely resemble the originals, others, he says, are "liberal transcriptions" and "collisions and collusions" between the two poets. Wiman sought to get at the sound of Mandelstam's language, its music, without having any knowledge of Russian but feeling buoyed by Mandelstam's notion of a poet's "secret hearing." And so we get silvery, jostling lines like "I love the early animal of her, / These woozy, easy swings" and "Better to live alluvial, / Better to live layered downward, / To be a man of sand, of hollows, shallows / To cling to sleeves of water / And to let them go—" —Nicole Rudick Read More


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Sustainability Report 2013/14
Vehicle Safety and Driver Assist Technologies
Ford's recent safety and driver assist highlights include the following:
Welcome to the 15th annual nonfinancial report of Ford Motor Company. During 2013, Ford Motor Company celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry Ford and the 100th anniversary of his moving automotive assembly line. Today, our sustainability work is history inspired, while thinking forward.
"The future is coming at us fast, offering many exciting possibilities as well as potential bumps in the road."
For nearly 15 years, we have made steady progress in addressing key issues including climate change and human rights.
At Ford, we define sustainability as a business model that creates value consistent with the long-term preservation and enhancement of environmental, social and financial capital.
As a major multinational enterprise, our activities have far-reaching environmental, social and economic impacts.
Our materiality matrix categorizes issues according to concern to stakeholders and current or potential impact on the company.
As our financial security strengthens, we are investing in our products, our people and our communities. The financial health of our company has a ripple effect that goes well beyond our business itself as we work toward profitable growth for all.
In 2014, we will launch 23 new or significantly refreshed vehicles – the most in a single year in more than a century.
Our Blueprint for Mobility sets near-, mid- and long-term goals for solutions to the challenges facing mobility systems now and in the future.
We have comprehensive strategies and goals for minimizing our environmental impacts, including reducing our contribution to climate change.
Ford has a science-based strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Our sustainable technologies and alternative fuels plan is our route to improving fuel economy and cutting CO2 emissions of our products.
We have focused on reducing our water impacts since 2000 when we first began setting year-over-year reduction targets. Since then, we have moved beyond merely reducing the water footprint of our own facilities to working more holistically outside our corporate walls, addressing water concerns in our supply chain and our broader communities.
We achieved our water reduction goal two years ahead of schedule.
Ford's water strategy aligns with the core elements of the CEO Water Mandate, which we endorsed in 2014.
At Ford, we have a long history of developing and implementing new innovations that improve the safety performance of our vehicles. Back in 1955, for example, Ford became the first automaker to offer factory-installed safety belts. That legacy of innovation continues today.
For the 2014 model year, nine Ford Motor Company vehicles earned five stars in the U.S. New Car Assessment Program (NCAP).
In late 2013 we launched Ford Driving Skills for Life for the first time in Europe.
Ford's suppliers are critical allies in helping us to achieve success in the marketplace and meet out sustainability goals. The basis of our work with suppliers is the Ford Code of Human Rights, Basic Working Conditions and Corporate Responsibility, which applies to our own operations as well as our $100 billion supply chain.
Since 2003, we have conducted more than 900 third-party audits of existing and prospective Tier 1 suppliers on issues relating to ethics and human rights and working conditions.
In 2013, we exceeded our goal to source at least 10% of U.S. purchases from minority- and women-owned businesses annually.
Maintaining strong and open communications and engagement with the people our activities affect – from our own employees and the dealers who sell our vehicles to our customers and our broader communities – plays an important role in our One Ford goal of delivering profitable growth for all.
In 2013 we created nearly 6,500 jobs in the U.S., including 3,300 salaried positions, and planned to hire more than 6,000 employees in Asia in 2014.
In 2013, Ford contributed $37.7 million to our communities.
Around the world, Ford aims to deliver profitable growth for all. In all of our regions, we are taking actions to reduce the environmental impact of our products and facilities, support positive social change and ensure economic viability for long-term growth.
In 2013, we introduced eight new vehicles in Asia Pacific Africa.
We began offering the all-electric Ford Focus Electric in Europe in 2013, and in South America we are now offering the Fusion Hybrid.
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From Andover Answers
The Ballardvale area in Andover is named after Timothy Ballard who owned a salt and grist mill in the 18th century. In 1836 John Marland built a woolen mill on the site that went bankrupt in 1857. The company treasurer, J.P. Bradlee aquired the mill, named it the Bradlee Mill, but the area continued to be called Ballardvale.
The Lithia Spring Company in Ballardvale sold bottled water with lithium in it. Lithia salts were added to the water. Paul Hannigan from Lawrence set up the company in the 1880's. It was later bought by another group of men in the 1890's. Mineral water was very popular at the time. Lithium was not discovered as a treatment for mania unil 1948.
- History of Ballardvale Andover Room 974.45 His A compendium of articles about Ballardvale, taken from a variety of sources.
- "Behind Ballardvale", Townsman, November 6, 2003
- Ballardvale had Something in the Water: Gold-medal Winning Lithium.Virginia Perry Reck. Andover Townsman 8/27/2009, p.13.
- Mills of Ballard Vale Captured Attention of Artist Sheeler (Charles Sheeler) Boston Globe September 8, 1996, Northwest section, p. 17.
- Andover's Former Mill Village. Andover Townsman January 4, 1996, p. 17,18. (elebrating Andover's 350th anniversary insert)


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Walker impresses in Triple-A debut
Mariners top prospect allows three hits in six shutout innings
By Robert Emrich and Josh Jackson / Special to MLB.com | June 25, 2013 10:43 PM ET
For Pacific Coast League hitters, there's bad news and there's ... more bad news.
Taijuan Walker has arrived. And he didn't need to have everything working for him to pitch six scoreless innings in his Triple-A debut.
"I feel like my fastball command could be a little bit better. That, and my cutter," he said. "I didn't really have my cutter at all tonight. That's one of my key pitches."
The Mariners' top prospect gave up three hits, walked two batters and struck out four to earn the win Tuesday night as Tacoma blanked Fresno, 1-0, at Cheney Stadium.
Even without every weapon in his arsenal, Walker impressed Rainiers veteran catcher Jason Jaramillo.
"I've had the opportunity to be around a lot of special pitchers, but tonight you got to see one of the really good ones," he told the Seattle Times. "He's got the composure, he's got the stuff, he's got the talent; he's really blessed. Just being around him a couple of days now, he's special."
Walker spent the first 2 1/2 months of the season in the Southern League, going 4-7 with a 2.46 ERA and a league-leading 96 strikeouts in 14 games for Double-A Jackson. In his final start for the Generals on Thursday, he fanned a career-high 12 against Mobile.
Against the Giants' top Minor League affiliate, Walker threw 56 of 87 pitches for strikes. And although he set down seven straight Grizzlies in one stretch, he could immediately see a difference between the two levels.
"The hitters are a lot more patient and they put the ball in play a lot more," he said. "They don't miss fastballs. But, I mean, it's still the same game. I'm still just trying to execute pitches. I'm not trying to change anything."
The 20-year-old right-hander encountered a little trouble in his final inning when he issued a two-out walk to Johnny Monell.
"He was just being patient," Walker said. "I feel like he wasn't being too aggressive. He took some really good pitches and I walked him."
Brett Pill followed with a single to put the tying run in scoring position, but Walker was unfazed.
"It was a fastball down," he said. "I got a grounder, but it just got through the hole."
The Louisiana native got Roger Kieschnick to ground out to end the threat -- and his night.
Walker joined the Rainiers on Sunday, giving him some time to get acclimated to his new environment.
"It's been a couple days. Things have been going really good," he said. "It gave me the chance to get used to the time difference and the weather. The weather is really different here."
And after Walker's start, so was the climate at Cheney Stadium.
"To think he's here doing this at age 20, at this level, you can really fantasize about what's going to happen in the future with him," Tacoma manager John Stearns told the newspaper. "It was really one of the most incredible, really impressive performances, and showed the maturity of him; his baseball IQ maturity at a young age was just tremendous."
Josh Kinney took over for Walker and tossed a perfect seventh. Bobby LaFromboise was flawless over the final two frames to earn his third save.
Abraham Almonte, who spent five weeks with Walker at Jackson, hit a solo homer in the fifth to provide all of the offense. Mariners No. 6 prospect Brad Miller singled in the fifth to extend his hitting streak to 21 games.
As for Walker, he's already looking forward to his next start.
"Hopefully, I'll have my cutter back then," he said.
Robert Emrich and Josh Jackson are contributors to MLB.com. Follow Robert on Twitter @RobertEmrich. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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2011: The Year of Women in FOSS
Registration is now open for SCALE 9X — register now by clicking on the winking penguin.
In my last blog post, which dealt with an issue tied deeply to testosterone and its effect on the faces of human males who deal with FOSS, it has been brought to my attention that I had ignored a significant portion of the FOSS population; that is, those in FOSS who are not bearded and, for the most part, not male.
Oddly enough, one might think that I'm writing this item as a form of penance. Quite the contrary: To be honest, I had written this before the beard item — writing most of this as a lead-in to the beard issue. Then I thought better of it: I could have gone that route and, in the process, belittled the issue upon which this item is based. I realized while writing then thought that this issue was too important to trivialize, and could — not to mention should — stand on its own.
Funny how that happens, huh? But I digress.
There has not been an agreed-upon grand announcement that 2011 is "The Year of the $UNEQUIVOCAL_TREND" — Android and Tablets aside, with which yours truly might agree on the former, but not on the latter — though it is convincingly arguable that 2011 is shaping up to be "The Year of Women in Tech."
Exhibit A that shows the promise that this might be shaping up to be a breakthrough year for women would be the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 9X. Both keynote speakers — Leigh Honeywell and Jane Silber — marks the first time that two keynoters at a major expo were of the same gender where the gender in question isn't male. Exhibit B might be the widespread adoption of a new anti-harassment policy that has been making the rounds of shows like SCALE in order to avoid incidents outlined by writerpar excellence Bruce Byfield in a recent item.
This is a good — no, a great — thing on many levels, especially as a father of a daughter who is tech oriented; this same father who now worries just a little less about what the future may hold for her, while continuting to work toward a day where Mimi and her teen counterparts grow up to be recognized as equal to the males writing programs and/or doing the things they do in the tech realm.
Is it the be-all and end-all to ending sexism in FOSS? No. Is there a significant way to go in gaining gender equality, both in attitude and practice? Yes. Do you hate it as much as I do when people answer their own questions? I hope so.
But 2011, when we look back on it later, could be the point where we say, "Yep, back then folks had enough and that's about the time we started to move beyond it."
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Lindependence Project.)


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Conservative media falsely claim obesity task force "is cutting into our diets and our rights"
Research ››› ››› TOM ALLISON
Conservative media have attacked a White House task force's report that recommends voluntary measures to combat the nation's childhood obesity problem as "cutting into our diets and our rights." However, the report makes recommendations for the food industry to voluntarily follow -- not federal mandates.
Conservative media claim administration "seeks controls on food marketing"
Drudge: "White House seeks controls on food marketing." From the Drudge Report, accessed May 11:
Morrissey: "They want to use whatever power they have to limit choices to children and adults, and interpose themselves in place of parents." Hot Air blogger Ed Morrissey wrote in a May 11 post that the task force recommendations "put the nanny in nanny-state government." Morrissey also wrote: "They want to use whatever power they have to limit choices to children and adults, and interpose themselves in place of parents."
Hannity: "Does every American family need a dietician appointed by the government?" On the May 11 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity said: "We now, in our government, have a government obesity task force, all right? An Obama government obesity task force." Hannity asked: "Does every American family need a dietician appointed by the government to tell them that this food is going to make you fat and this food is not?"
Fox teaser: "How the first lady's task force is cutting into our diets and our rights." Fox News repeatedly ran a promotion for Hannity's May 12 show that stated: "No soda. No snacks. No choice? How the first lady's task force on childhood obesity is cutting into our diets and our rights."
Report offers voluntary recommendations to food industry
Report calls for "providing guidance to industry on voluntary initiatives." The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity report included in its "recommendations": "The Federal government can play a crucial role in improving the media environment for children with respect to the marketing of foods and beverages. It can do so while fully respecting the First Amendment right to free speech." The report stated that "[p]roviding guidance to industry on voluntary initiatives" is part of that role. It further recommended: "The food and beverage industry should extend its self-regulatory program to cover all forms of marketing to children, and food retailers should avoid in-store marketing that promotes unhealthy products to children." [White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President, 5/11/10]
Report stated "the FCC could consider revisiting and modernizing rules" if voluntary recommendations fail. The report also stated: "If voluntary efforts to limit the marketing of less healthy foods and beverages to children do not yield substantial results, the FCC could consider revisiting and modernizing rules on commercial time during children's programming" [emphasis added].
Michelle Obama: "Not a single expert that we've consulted has said that having the federal government tell people what to do is the way to solve this." In her remarks unveiling the plan, Michelle Obama said: "But we've also known ... from the very beginning that the solution to this epidemic isn't going to come from just Washington alone. Not a single expert that we've consulted has said that having the federal government tell people what to do is the way to solve this." [WhiteHouse.gov, 5/11/10]
CBS: Administration not advocating "any new federal mandates to push the changes." CBSNews.com reported that "administration officials repeatedly emphasized the effort would rely on 'bully pulpit' pressure and not any new federal mandates to push the changes." The article also reported that Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said: "A regulatory approach is certainly not where we want to start. ...You start by pushing self-regulation, by pushing your bully pulpit; sometimes shaming companies that don't do enough." [CBSNews.com, 5/11/10]
Media conservatives previously claimed the Obama administration is "seizing our salt shakers"
Right-wing media invoked fear that big government is coming for your salt shaker. Following reports that the Food and Drug Administration was considering regulating the amount of salt in processed food, media conservatives falsely claimed that the Obama administration is "seizing our salt shakers." In fact, the FDA review had nothing to do with consumers' use of table salt and instead involved examining warnings about high sodium content in processed foods and restaurant meals, the sources of 77 percent of sodium intake.
Fox misrepresents New York's voluntary initiative as a government mandate. Following the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's January announcement of a National Salt Reduction Initiative, Fox News anchors and personalities misrepresented the initiative as a mandatory program, despite the health department's statement that "[t]argets are voluntary, not mandatory, so they cannot force products off the market."
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TODAY marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. The landmark ruling held what most Americans' continue to believe today - that women should have the right to make personal medical decisions without the interference of politicians.
Much has changed in the past 40 years. We've expanded access to birth control so that women can prevent pregnancy until they are ready to start a family. We've fought - and defeated - attempts to establish "fetal personhood" in states like Mississippi, which would not only ban abortion but also birth control and in vitro fertilization.
In California, we've led the nation in reducing teen pregnancy rates through a commonsense approach that includes both medically accurate sex education and increased access to effective contraception.
There is still plenty of work to be done. Last year, Planned Parenthood sponsored important women's health legislation to allow registered nurses in California to dispense hormonal birth control, like the pill, patch and ring, in community health settings.
AB 2348, authored by Los Angeles Assembly member Holly Mitchell, dramatically improves access to preventive health care, especially in rural communities. At the federal level, passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as health care reform, takes groundbreaking steps to improve coverage for basic care, like birth control and life-saving cancer screenings.
Despite the political rhetoric that sometimes surrounds contraception, these are precisely the prevention-based policies that the public supports. Californians, in particular, should be proud, as our state has led the way in advancing access to care.
Of course, there are still some politicians who insist on targeting women and our ability to make private medical decisions. From former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin - who claimed that "legitimate rape" did not result in pregnancy - to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan - who called rape "another form of conception" - demeaning and dismissive comments were plentiful last fall. In state after state, these extremists were defeated by voters who have had enough of playing politics with women's health. Anti-women's health bills, from fetal personhood to mandatory ultrasound requirements, met similar fates when they were defeated in state houses across the nation.
Despite the powerful message sent by voters this past November, we have likely not seen the last of attempts to restrict women's access to safe, legal abortion - which is why we must remain vigilant and engaged.
Research shows that the American public clearly believes decisions about pregnancy are too important and too personal to be made on Capitol Hill. A post-election poll by the Pew Research Center found that 64 percent of voters under 30 think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
In addition, a Quinnipiac poll taken in February found that nearly two-thirds of American voters support Roe v. Wade. What most Americans of all backgrounds and political persuasions understand is that abortion is deeply personal, often complex, and not something that should be reduced to political rhetoric.
While it's important to reflect on how far we've come in 40 years, it's even more important that we keep moving forward. My hope is that, over the next 40 years, we can put politics aside and prioritize the real issues that impact women and families. Instead of political rhetoric, let's focus on legislation that prioritizes prevention and makes care both accessible and affordable for women and their families.
I am proud to live in a state where we can afford to do more than hold the line, defeating dangerous proposals. Here, in California, we're moving the conversation forward - we're putting the health of women and families above politics. I look forward to the day when the rest of the country has joined us.
Sue Dunlap is executive director of the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project Los Angeles County.


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Miller first appeared on the cover of Vogue in 1927 in a blue hat and pearls, drawn by renowned French illustrator Georges Lepape.
It went on to accuse the company itself of misleading the committee and acting to cover up the scandal.
Many who know, work for, or cover Sarkozy as journalists describe his personality as "too much" in most anything that he does.
Out of all the paraphilias you cover in the book, which one was the most surprising to you?
While some claim there was a massive White House operation to cover up the attacks, Rogers and McKeon see a more nuanced story.
How would it be if we were to lay him in that little hollow and cover him with big stones?
It was a great vision, fit to cover the yearnings of the world.
He might see them and could force them to cover with his rifle even at long range.
She touched the chair, the table; she lifted the cover of one of the dishes.
What possible, probable story can man invent to cover a case so cruel as this?
mid-12c., from Old French covrir (12c., Modern French couvrir) "to cover, protect, conceal, dissemble," from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperire "to cover over, overwhelm, bury," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + operire "to close, cover" (see weir). Related: Covered; covering. Military sense is from 1680s; newspaper sense first recorded 1893; use in football dates from 1907. Betting sense is 1857. OF horses, as a euphemism for "copulate" it dates from 1530s. Covered wagon attested from 1745.
early 13c., in compounds, from cover (v.). Meaning "recording of a song already recorded by another" is 1966. Cover girl is U.S. slang from 1915, shortening of magazine-cover girl.
early 13c., in compounds, from cover (v.). Meaning "recording of a song already recorded by another" is 1966. Cover girl is U.S. slang from 1915, shortening of magazine-cover girl.
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Hello everyone,
I have been searching for the right laptop for BT3 for a long time.
site shows which laptop brands are running fine or not with the BT2 & BT3. And the newest laptop brand is Asus EEEPC in there which has some problems but the forum about it explains how to overcome with those problems. The rest of the laptops are in that site are really old ones which are really hard to find nowadays in stores.
Every month comes with newer models in laptops but I don't see any tests about those laptops in the HCL:Laptops site. I really want to purchase a laptop for only using BT3 but don't know which one to buy. For example, I have been thinking about new IBM model X300 series but it just hit the market so new so the tests on it will take time for BT3. Besides that, the new EEEPC is a good choice but I have read that the wireless is a little bit weak to get the signals.
If I would buy a new brand model of any laptop, what should I look for in the specifications in that particular laptop for the use of BT3? Because it seems like I could never purchase one when the tests of those laptops tested out only on the old models.
I also know that the best test is to grab a BT3 CD with me and try on any laptop to see if it works. But I cannot test every laptop to see if the BT3 works on that particular laptop before the owner of the store gets a little nastier on me.
Any help is really appreciated.
Thank you goes out there upfront who help me on this irritating bug in my brain.


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The Friar 5k is well on its way!
Office of Institutional Advancement and the Providence College
community invite you to participate in our 2nd Annual Friar 5K on Saturday, October 22, 2011 benefiting the PC Fund. More than 215 race participants have registered and the race is still 5 weeks away!
Students, alumni, faculty, staff and the
general public are invited to run or walk this 3.1 mile USA Track and
Field sanctioned course, with a shotgun start at 10:00 a.m. You will find yourself running in
and around the Providence College campus.
"I particpated in Friar 5k last year, and it was so much fun," said Terence McTague '10. "Getting together with alumni, parents, students and families made the 5k such a community event."
Gifts to the PC Fund are put to use immediately and directed to the areas where they are most urgently needed. The generosity of our donors is critical to the quality and well-being of the College.
Pre-registration is highly recommended and a free cotton race t-shirt is included in the entrance fee.
Register Now!
A special thank you to our headliner event sponsor:
Thank you to all of our sponsors for supporting this event: Speidel, Prime Cut, World Trophy, Bentley Foundation, Dave's Marketplace, Student Congress, New England Ambulance, LaSalle Bakery, Boston Sports Club (Pitman Street, Providence, RI) and Reebok.
Are you the biggest Friar Fanatic?
Now is your time to show your spirit by wearing your best Friar attire at the Friar 5K. The participant with the most Friar Fanatic spirit will be recognized at the award ceremony and will receive a Friar fan pack!
Friar Fan Fest
Immediately following the race, all participants and their families are encouraged to attend our Fan Fest (co-sponsored with Athletics) on Slavin Lawn. Awards will be given out to participants at this celebration. The Fan Fest will include music by "Matt Koelsch and The Allies"
led by alumnus Matt Koelsch `07, vendors, activities, farmer's market, and food.


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Internet Explorer XP 8.0 Beta 1
Che cos'è la garanzia di sicurezza FileHippo?
Sappiamo quanto sia importante mantenere la sicurezza online, quindi FileHippo utilizza la tecnologia di scansione antivirus fornita da Avira per garantire che tutti i download su FileHippo siano sicuri. Il programma che stai per scaricare può essere installato sul dispositivo in sicurezza.
The rest of our talks and demos focused on seven other areas that appeal to developers:
1. Our goal is to deliver complete, full CSS 2.1 support in the final IE8 product. IE8 Beta 1 for developers delivers better interoperability with other major browsers, addressing major pain points (e.g. floats and margins) from previous IE releases. We're not finished ' there's much more to come in Beta 2.
2. We've contributed over 700 test cases to the W3C CSS working group because we think a comprehensive certification test suite for CSS is important for true interoperability and we support the W3C's effort to deliver such a suite. The CSS spec is good, but contains many ambiguities, and a test suite will help resolve them and benefit web developers and designers. We're making these available under the BSD License, which is the license that the W3C CSS working group has proposed using for the rest of its test cases. Of course, we will contribute more tests en route to a full test suite, and welcome your feedback on the tests using the W3C's CSS test suite mailing list.
3. We've delivered better scripting performance because we heard from developers that they needed it given how heavily the latest rich web experiences rely on script.
4. We've started delivering support for HTML5 because we understand that developers want to start delivering richer web experiences, with great interoperability, as soon as possible.
5. We've delivered the first installment of great, built-in developer tools. We understand that script, CSS, and layout debugging are crucial today. Again, we're not finished here ' there's more to come.
6. We've delivered a better way for web services to integrate into the user's workflow with 'Activities.' For example, a user can select text on a web page and map it, blog it, look for it, or just act on it without having to copy it, open a new tab, navigate to another site, and paste. We made the OpenService Format specification available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
7. We've delivered a better way for web services to enable their users to keep an eye on interesting parts of a webpage within the browser with 'WebSlices.' Developers can make parts of their pages 'subscribable' with just a little mark-up, and users can easily subscribe and keep an eye on information (like their social network, an auction, or a sports score) within the browser, even when users are not at the developer's site. We've made the WebSlice Format specification available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and is dedicating copyright in the specification to the public domain using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.


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Chris Brown to remain in treatment
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Chris Brown will remain in anger management treatment, despite calls from prosecutors that he be jailed for a probation violation. The Los Angeles District Attorney argued on Monday that the singer's arrest for assault in Washington D.C. last October shows a pattern of increasing violence.
TMZ says prosecutors believe Brown is "an increasing danger to society," but a judge sided with the singer's attorney, Mark Geragos, and allowed him to stay in rehab. Brown was ordered to spend 90 days in a residential treatment facility back in November.
While at the center, Brown has been subjected to several drug tests, all of which he's passed. Brown has been on probation since 2009 when he pled guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna. He will return to court on February 28th.
Last month, Chris Brown rejected a plea deal in his D.C. assault case. He and his bodyguard are accused of striking a man outside of a hotel in the nation's capital. That trial will continue on February 20th.
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Mighty Rage [Epic]Edit
Str 21, Con 21, greater rage class feature, rage 5/day.
When the character rages, he or she gains a +8 bonus to Strength and Consitution and a +4 morale bonus on Will saves. (These bonuses replace the normal rage bonuses.) (This feat is old, and Mighty Rage is now a class feature as of 3.5.)
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Former Gamecock goalie playing in World Cup
Brad Guzan
When the U.S. opens its sixth-consecutive World Cup appearance against England on June 12 in Rustenburg, South Africa, Gamecock soccer alumnus Brad Guzan will be suited up and ready to play.
Guzan's selection to the U.S. World Cup team marks the third U.S. World Cup roster with a former Gamecock selected -- Clint Mathis was on the 2002 roster and Josh Wolff was a two-time selection in 2002 and 2006. All three former Gamecocks played for South Carolina's head men's soccer coach Mark Berson.
In January 2005, Guzan made MLS history when he was the No. 2 overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft, selected by CD Chivas USA. In the fall of 2007, Guzan was selected as the 2007 Panasonic MLS Goalkeeper of the Year. He received his first invitation to the U.S. National Team Camp in January 2006 and was selected as the starting goalkeeper on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team that competed in Beijing.
The U.S. Men's National Team has been drawn into Group C with England, Slovenia, and Algeria for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Following its opener versus England, the U.S. will follow with matches against Slovenia on June 18 in Johannesburg and Algeria on June 23 in Tshwane/Pretoria.
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DEEP FC in Japan has a new facebook fanpage and youtube channel.
New and entertaining content will be added frequently so subscribe to the youtube channel and like the facebook page so you dont miss it:
The youtube channel will have new videos of full fights uploaded every friday, last friday they finished uploading the DEEP Featherweight tournament from 2005 that had names like Mike Thomas Brown, Masakazu Imanari, Yoshiro Maeda and Fabio Mello competing in it.
The Facebook page will have news and comentary from the colorfull DEEP President, Mr. Shigeru Saeki.


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i seen an amatuer fight the other day and it didnt have headshots, had shin guards too.
looks a bit like a mixture of BJJ and no headshot thai sparring.
i do muay thai and ju jitsu and i think this amatuer matches look fun.
what level abilty do you need? do you need to be in an mma club and where are comps held?


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The Catholic Doodad Shop — not its real name — stands kitty-corner from the L.A. Fitness where I work out. It's also about two miles northwest of the Pima reservation where I buy my tax-free cigarettes. (Though I've driven my monthly intake down below a carton, I still consider the discount worth the hike, even [Read More…]
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Best Of :: Bars & Clubs
This colorful hotspot — popular both with stylin' gay guys and ladies who lush — does a great job with every drink on the menu. Lychee mojito? Guavatini? Trust us: You can't go wrong. But our quaff of choice has become Ticoz's passion fruit sangria. Think Cabernet, passion fruit, pineapple, and orange, all in a lightly iced blend. Yum! And for just $7, we guarantee you're going to want more than one glass.
We've got a passion for anything old school. Vinyl's way better than MP3, Grandmaster Flash will always trump Jay-Z, and the original Nintendo is far more fun than the Xbox 360. And when it comes to the game of darts, we prefer old-fashioned boards made from sisal fibers to them new-fangled electronic Galaxy machines. Call us crazy, but we prefer it when our darts actually stay sunken into the target after we throw them, instead of falling to the ground (which usually happens with plastic-tipped darts and worn-out machines). It's just one of the reasons why we've dug aiming our steel-tipped darts at bull's-eyes available at Clicks. While most Valley bars and clubs feature an array of the aforementioned electronic dart units, this east Phoenix pool hall follows the less-is-more philosophy, with three bristle boards available. Another plus is the place's pub-like atmosphere, which is somewhat fitting, as the sport originated in Britain. There's also a gigantic big-screen sitting close by, just in case you wanna catch a D-Backs or Suns game while beating your buddies at a game of "cricket" or "round the clock." Don't get too distracted, however, as the owners would prefer it if you didn't miss and accidentally put someone's eye out.
Video games are an absolute religion for some people. Magazines like GamePro and Electronic Gaming Monthly, their bibles; digital heroes like Master Chief and Mario, their gods. And arcades like King Ben's Castle at Golfland SunSplash are virtual temples, where vidiots genuflect (so as to better insert tokens, natch) and become joystick Jesuits among the 200 different games available here. Even though home systems like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 dominate the gaming world, the arcade is still packed with teens and 20-somethings eager to show their stuff on such old-school units as Centipede or Street Fighter II, as well as rack up high scores on newer games like Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune and Aliens: Extermination. This palace of play also boasts numerous racing simulators, fighting titles, and beat-matching dance pad games (such as Dance Dance Revolution and its ilk). Plus, the snack bar offers pizza and other snacks for between-game cravings — but make sure to wipe your hands before heading back to the action.
You won't find any death-defying rides, outrageous animals, or complicated midway games at a monthly Sadisco* affair. Just freaks . . . and plenty of them (like, enough to fill an insane asylum or a sideshow). Be they leather-clad rivetheads, mayhem-craving punks, or gloomy Goth types, the monthly dance parties put on by the debaucherous dance collective draws out nightcrawlers of every stripe interested in some countercultural fun. Each edition of Sadisco* (shorthand for "Sadistic Disco") goes down at one of several rotating Valley clubs and features a fantastically freaky theme, with décor, costumed revelers, and activities to match. J-Heads hosted a raucous edition of "Fight Club Sadisco" (where patrons engaged in fisticuffs, à la the Chuck Palahniuk novel); the now-defunct Shayna's in Scottsdale was once the site of "Sadisco in the Land of Mistreated Sex Toys" with dildo and blow-up doll decorations; and Homme Lounge gave up space for "Sadisco* Goes to Leary's * Town: The S*uicide Cool-A©id Test!" All of the bizarrely bacchanal action is backed by a hardcore soundtrack of industrial and EBM music courtesy of resident DJs Squalor, ///she///, 5arah, Blonde NOize, and $&M, as well as various bands. If you dare to sample the strangeness, bring some earplugs in addition to your pleather pants.
The musicians, singers, and comedians that hit the stage at Celebrity Theatre not only get to perform in the round but get to experience the rotating stage, which may be as unique an experience for them as it is for us. How do we know? Well, Celebrity stage newbies tend to remark on their rotation virginity, while returning artists often express their fondness for the ride. The circular motion is slow enough not to be jarring for performers and playfully pumps up the intimacy that Celebrity is known for. If all the world's a stage, it's nice to see a stage that mimics the world right back.
Mill Avenue may be known as Tempe's main drag, but you'll find us off the beaten path, most weekends: There's a sleeping sonic giant just steps away from Mill known as Mitchell Park, an old-timey 'hood built between the '30s and '60s. Some of our town's best musical talent, such as Foot Ox, Bri White, James Fella, and the members of My Feral Kin, reside in the area loosely bounded by University Drive to the north, 13th Street to the south, Roosevelt Street to the east, and Hardy Drive to the west.
When the neighborhood's guitar-wielding and drum-whacking residents aren't playing at more traditional Tempe spots like Cartel Coffee Lab and Three Roots, some will open up their living rooms for open-to-the-public shows at places called The Manor and Bike Saviours Co-op. Thing is, these gigs aren't very well promoted, so be sure to troll MySpace for e-announcements or Eastside Records for paper fliers.


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Administrator Names FAS' Coleman as Acting GSA CIO
June 26, 2007
Contact: Steven Hoffman, (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC – GSA Administrator Lurita Doan today announced Casey Coleman will serve as the Acting Chief Information Officer for the agency. Ms. Coleman has been serving as the first CIO of the new FAS organization when it was created in October of 2006. Previously she served for two years as the CIO for the GSA Federal Technology Service and also headed the GSA Office of Citizen Services from 2002 - 2004.
"Casey Coleman has been a key player in the transformational change at the Federal Acquisition Service and she brings an incredible set of IT skills and management talents to this position. Her extensive experience in GSA senior management and successful projects makes her the right person for this critical position", Administrator Doan said.
Ms. Coleman is involved with the Federal IT community and is a board member of the Government Information Technology Executive Council. Coleman also championed a business process redesign of the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) procurement process, with new supporting technology, reducing process time from over 100 days to less than 20 days. She was also named a 2007 recipient of Federal Computer Week's "Fed 100" award. Ms. Coleman is a native Texan with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in business administration and finance from the University of Texas at Arlington. She will be the first woman to serve as GSA CIO.
"I am very happy for Casey. She is an outstanding leader and will do a great job at the level of GSA CIO," FAS Commissioner Jim Williams said.
Ms. Coleman is replacing Mike Carleton, who is leaving GSA to join the Department of Health and Human Services as their Chief Information Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology. Both positions are within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Resources and Technology.
"Mike is a creative leader who has furthered the President's Management Agenda eGov program through quality performance gains at GSA with enterprise architecture, compliance and customer service," said Administrator Doan.
Mr. Carleton joined GSA in June 2000 and has served since October 2000 as the principal advisor to the Administrator and all GSA offices on information technology and management.
Founded in 1949, GSA serves as a centralized procurement and property management agency for the federal government. GSA manages more than one-fourth of the government's total procurement dollars and influences the management of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,300 government-owned or leased buildings and 205,000 vehicles. GSA helps preserve our past and define our future, as a steward of more than 420 historic properties, and as manager of USA.gov, the official portal to federal government information and services. GSA's mission to provide superior workplaces, expert technology solutions, acquisition services, purchasing and E-Gov travel solutions and management policies, at best value, allows federal agencies to focus on their core missions.
Did you know? On average, GSA procures more than $10 billion in goods and services from the private sector for federal agencies in a year.


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WATCH: ISS Commander signs off with amazing 'Space Oddity' cover
(NEWSER) – After five months sitting in a tin can far above the world, International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield made a final addition to his series of space videos in the hours before his return to Earth. The Canadian astronaut, whose daily photos and tweets from space made him a star on social media over the last few months, plays guitar and floats through the station as he sings David Bowie's 1969 hit "Space Oddity." It's the first music video from space, notes Seth Fiegerman at Mashable. "Not only is Hadfield brilliant and fearless, he's also a great singer." He arrives home later today.


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Depending where you are standing, bad news can seem even worse. Just ask a medical social worker.
"If I told a patient's loved one in a hallway that the patient was dying, I would get a much more adverse reaction than if I took them into a nice, quiet, calming room with a view," says Lorissa MacAllister, AIA, an architect and former medical social worker who began to see how the physical environment could affect people's emotions and reactions—in good ways and bad.
And, she's not the only one.
In recent years, academics and practitioners in the fields of architecture and healthcare have become acutely aware of the relationship between design and health. Sterile white rooms with buzzing lights are not only unpleasant, they can actually be unhealthy.
"We're needlessly harming hundreds of thousands of Americans due to infections and preventable medical errors in hospitals, and are spending far too much for healthcare, but there's evidence that the built environment can play a role in addressing those problems," says Craig Zimring. An environmental psychologist and professor of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Zimring has helped to pioneer the concept of evidence-based design, an approach to architecture that uses data to guide the design process. Often, it's an approach taken in the healthcare setting with one main goal in mind: Let the design help, not hurt.
Under the leadership of Zimring—who also sits on the board of the Center for Health Design—the Georgia Tech College of Architecture is at the forefront of this work. Through a Ph.D. concentration in evidence-based design, doctoral students are developing new ways to understand and address architecture's potential to heal patients through a building's impact on the behavior, satisfaction, and performance of individuals and organizations. Gathering evidence can tell designers, for example, that workers are likelier to be happy in rooms with more natural light. Or that fewer mistakes occur in rooms. Or that fewer patients will fall through the cracks if facilities are designed to encourage more coordination between healthcare providers.
But this is not new information in healthcare, the spaces of which have been transformed by evidence-based design over the last 20 years. Outside of healthcare, however, evidence-based design is just now starting to influence the ways in which architects approach a range of typologies.
Buildings such as prisons, courthouses, and embassies—what Zimring calls "high-stakes buildings"—as well as schools and office buildings can benefit from this type of design. Students in the evidence-based design concentration are looking at things such as the importance of wayfinding, the measurable benefits of natural light, environmental contributors to stress, and the ways people relate to complex building forms and layouts.
And because the concept of evidence-based design can cross disciplines, the Ph.D. students in Georgia Tech's evidence-based design concentration are exposed to a wide variety of coursework and classmates in industrial design, health systems engineering, applied physiology, mechanical engineering, and city planning. Specialists in architecture, healthcare management, nursing, medicine, and psychology typically sit side by side in lectures and labs, a unique approach that Zimring says is representative of the multifaceted design challenges that the field faces. He argues that by emphasizing outcomes, such as improvements in patient health or workplace productivity, a focus on evidence-based design helps prove the value of architecture to clients.
And the clients do seem to be receptive. Students work on research from a range of sources, such as the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Military Health System, and the Global Health and Safety Initiative. The program has also been intimately involved in various military hospital designs, including the newly opened Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia.
MacAllister, the former medical social worker now two years into her Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, focuses on the relationship between user satisfaction and the way that
people experience the physical design of medical settings. Her research shows significant correlations between the two, and she's hoping to work with the planners and designers of healthcare environments to improve the sometimes unpleasant experiences of hospital visits.
Altug Kasali, another Ph.D. candidate in the evidence-based design program, has taken a more localized approach by correlating data and design's intent in a medical facility under construction in Georgia. Kasali's research draws from a number of sources—both scientific and anecdotal evidence proffered by senior healthcare executives, designers, engineers, doctors, and nurses.
Hui Cai graduated from Georgia Tech's evidence-based design program last year, she's led research at the Health+Science Practice Group in RTKL's Dallas office. The firm has instituted a new initiative, "Performance-driven Design," and Cai says she's analyzing architectural, clinical, environmental, and financial performances of the firm's previous best practices, and conducting Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) to help develop a database of guidelines for future projects. "The hope is that with the accumulation of projects, we'll gradually build more and more knowledge around what we know about design and what we can do better," Cai says.
Zimring says the evidence-based design concentration is purposely preparing doctoral students for leadership positions such as Cai's. Other graduates are in similar leadership positions, both in practice and academia, which Zimring and others see as key to the future of the architecture profession. The evidence-based approach, Zimring argues, "adds value to a field constantly pressed by economic concerns." -Nate Berg
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