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By Greg Braxton Los Angeles Times
"The Borgias," Showtime's drama about the infamous Borgia dynasty controlled by Pope Alexander VI, will end its run with its third season finale on Sunday.
Creator and executive producer Neil Jordan said he recently decided not to proceed with a fourth season.
"I never thought I would make a cable series and have enjoyed every minute of it," said Jordan in a statement.
"For a variety of reasons we won't be doing a fourth season, but 'The Prince' (the final episode), when I wrote and shot it, did feel like an end of a journey for the family.
"Whatever bonded them as a family dies in this episode, and the center of the drama for me was always the family."
The show, which stars Jeremy Irons and shows Pope Alexander VI as a cunning and manipulative patriarch who builds a dynasty through corruption, was shot entirely on location in Budapest.


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/dev/urandom wrote:I generally make the experience that Linux is considered a counter-culture and people using it claim to be uber geeks just because they managed to set up a Linux box. Many of them flame Windows users for still using Windows and don't accept that Windows works for them.
Says the guy who's avatar is BSD, ahem, giving it, to Tux. (What'd be real funny is Tux's head stuck in a broken window.)
/dev/urandom wrote:Most Linux users I know were converted by Linux apologetics although they have been having a decent Windows workflow for years. Why don't you all just stop trying to be Sales Staff when people don't need the thing you want to sell? Problem solved.
I agree, and with the above statement too. However, I can't miss an opportunity to call you on it!
You're right, I'm not some kind of super-computer-guy who can program in 8 languages, cracks college mainframes, and hangs out with Morpheus on weekends. However, I enjoy my computer running faster (swifter is more accurate), I enjoy the open-source, and free software that's available, and I enjoy a change of pace from Windows XP, Vista, 7.
The beauty of Linux is diversity. Linux is freedom. Linux allows you to set things up "your way". Choose your interface, choose your distribution, choose what fits you, and what you like. Windows is about as diverse as the food at a mexican restaurant.
"What is nacho? Tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetables. Then what is a burrito? Tortilla with cheese, meat, or vegetables. Then what is a tostada? Tortilla with meat, cheese, or vegetables. Then what is….It's all the same! Why don't you say a Spanish word and I'll bring ya something!" - Jim Gaffigan.


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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Lindsey Wilson College
will graduate the second half of its largest class in college
history on May 11.
The liberal arts college will award 177 graduate and
undergraduate degrees at its spring ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m.
CT on Saturday, May 11, in Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard
Drive. It will be LWC's 97th overall commencement ceremony.
Combined with the 381 degrees awarded in December at
winter commencement, this school year's 558 graduates make the
Class of 2013 the largest in LWC's 110-year history.
LWC awarded a total of 445 degrees in 2011-12, and a
decade ago it awarded 151 degrees.
"To have a 270 percent increase in graduates in 10 years
is pretty remarkable," said LWC President William T. Luckey Jr., who has been the
college's eighth president since 1998.
Luckey said this year's graduating class is "among the
brightest we've had since I became president." He noted that
several students are headed to medical schools in Kentucky,
pharmacy schools in Kentucky and neighboring states, and graduate
and professional schools throughout the region.
The spring commencement address will be given by LWC Vice
President of Administration and Finance Roger Drake, who is president-elect of Central Methodist (Mo.)
University. Drake, who has been at LWC since 2004, will receive
an honorary doctorate from the college.
Also receiving an honorary doctorate from LWC will be
Carol Marra of Louisville, Ky., a longtime educator and 26-year
member of the LWC Board of Trustees.
Commencement Week
Spring commencement week activities also include the
semi-annual "Midnight Breakfast," which was held Tuesday, May 7. On
Thursday, May 9, the LWC nursing program will hold a pinning
ceremony at 6 p.m CT in V.P. Henry Auditorium for its inaugural
group of graduates, and at 4 p.m. CT Friday, May 10, the School of
Professional Counseling will hold a pinning creemony for its
graduates in the Norma and Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship.
The Senior Banquet, sponsored by the LWC National Alumni
Association, will begin at 5 p.m. CT Friday, May 10, in Roberta D.
Cranmer Dining & Conference Center, and the annual
baccalaureate service will be held at 7 p.m. CT Friday, May 10, in
Biggers Sports Center.
Following Saturday's commencement, the Lindsey Wilson
National Alumni Association will host a reception for graduates and
their guests in the Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference
Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive.
For more information about LWC's 2013 spring
commencement, contact the LWC Alumni Office at firstname.lastname@example.com
or (270) 384-8400.
Watch It Live
Spring commencement will be webcast on CampusCentral. To watch it,
click here and select "Live Events."


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TOKYO -- Sega Sammy chairman and chief executive Hajime Satomi said on March 30 that Sega Corp.'s consumer game division will be downsized and restructured in the U.S. and Europe, triggering an unknown number of layoffs. The move is in response to an $86.4 million loss for the financial year, ended March 31.
Satomi blamed the company's setbacks on a "challenging economic climate and significant changes in the home videogame software market environment."
Consumer videogame sales have declined 20% to 30% over the past year as the global recession finally took its toll on a market the previously appeared impervious.
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Mom posts painful video of daughter jumping off roof and breaking feet
(Liz Klimas) A mother of a teenager who broke both of her feet after jumping off a roof and landing on concrete instead of the intended pool is trying to raise funds on the Internet to cover her daughter's expenses. But the Web, in general, is showing it has little sympathy for this fundraising effort.
Wheelchair-bound for at least the next six months and therefore unable to work, the mother of 19-year-old Nicole Easton started a GoFundMe page seeking to raise $4,200 to cover her daughter's rent, food, toiletries, phone, etc.
Here's what mother Carrie Yunker wrote:
My daughter Nicole Just graduated from high school. She had a good job, and had just moved into her very first house as an adult on her own. I'm so proud of her.
Unfortunately Nicole with her roommates, and a girlfriend were being crazy young adults one afternoon. Jumping from the roof of their house into the pool. I'm surprised that Nicole would even try something like that. She's not the very daring type. She hesitated at the last moment. She missed the pool.
Nicole is expected to be disabled for at least 6 months to a year. She's in a wheel chair. Not taking it very well I might add. The issue is that Nicole had just moved into her first house with the best roommates. Nicole not being able to work can't pay her share of the bills. This threatens not only her losing her place to live, but her roommate's as well. Their credit too. They have signed a years lease.
I paid her share this month, but We need help while Nicole is in recovery. Living expenses. I've broken it down for you.
Expected time down is 6 months.
Nicole's share of the rent is $300 x 6 = $1800
Add up to $400 a month x 6 = $2400
Yunker also posted a graphic video of the accident as it happened, but it has since been removed from the site and YouTube.
he footage, which is painful even just to watch, remains on LiveLeak though (Warning: while the video does not show anything overtly graphic, it is still painful to watch):


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Chicago: A Great Place to Bee
February 1, 2012 | Beeyond Beehind The Hives
If you've ever been lucky enough to be in Chicago, Illinois in the summer, you probably enjoyed the scenery of sailboats and skyscrapers and beautifully blue Lake Michigan. Hopefully, you also enjoyed all the dynamic, vibrant flowers Chicago uses to decorate the streets and parks. Everything freezes in Read more >


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The Olympic Games started holding arts competitions with the victors awarded gold, silver and bronze medals, between 1912-48. Medals were awraded for architecture, painting, literature and music, usually with sport as inspiration. London 1948 was the last Cultural Olympiad in this form.
From 1952 a series of cultural events to complement the sport was launched, becoming bigger with each games. It was in Barcelona 1992 that the Cultural Olympiad became a four-year event, marking the city's entire tenure as host.


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His coaching staff loves him and his players adore him, so why then is it time for Rex Ryan to change his act?
Well for one, Ryan's loyalty to his hand-picked quarterback almost cost him his job last season. In a results- driven league, where players are rewarded for their on-field production, Ryan praises and encourages his players to the point where he overstates their actual value.
Mark Sanchez, Shonn Greene and Matt Slauson just a name a few fall into that exact category. In 2012 the Jets were a team devoid of playmakers on both sides of the ball, a shortcoming that fell squarely on the shoulders of former general manager Mike Tannenbaum. With newly hired John Idzik at the helm, Gang Green will have some tough personnel decisions ahead and can't afford to play favorites facing a hellish salary cap situation.
Darrelle Revis trade rumors will likely dominate the offseason headlines, and the Jets would be foolish to trade an elite player coming off injury, unless they're able to get fair value in return. While Ryan and company mull their roster options, New York's head man needs to worry about his own job security first and foremost.
Surprisingly Woody Johnson told reporters that if the Jets miss the playoff again next season, it wouldn't necessarily result in Ryan's firing. Entering his fifth year with the Jets, Ryan's fall from grace couldn't have been more pronounced. Following consecutive AFC title berth in his first two seasons, Ryan and crew have become the laughing stock of the league after finishing out of the playoff picture the past two years.
It's truly put or shut up time, but the question remains, can the Jets rebuild their depth chart with a win-now coach?
Or better yet, does Ryan have the patience to revamp his team from the bottom up and part ways with several of his favorite players?
He doesn't have a choice at this point. Ryan faces a crossroad in his coaching career and a possible turning point for the franchise.
The Jets turnaround won't happen overnight, but Ryan's ability to make tough decisions and put aside personal allegiances will prove critical to his future in New York and the any hope of a return to playoff contention.


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The Michigan Natural Resources Conservation Service (originally named the Soil Conservation Service) has provided conservation technical assistance to Michigan landowners since the 1930's. The first Michigan Soil Conservation Service Office was established on the campus of Michigan State University in 1958.
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Hello! How is everyone doing today? My name is Lexi, I am 17 years old and have a beautiful 3 month old baby boy named Nicholas. I am also 7 weeks pregnant (I know, crazy and so soon). My second baby is due on my 18th birthday, July 26, 2013.
I just found this group recently and joined to try to get to know some more teen/expecting mommies. I am also on another group for teen moms, so it's always nice to get to know more people in the same boat :)
So if you can, introduce yourself. Tell me a little about yourself/your pregnancy/baby!


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Huebrix is one of those really simple yet ridiculously addictive mobile puzzle games that will sap hours from your life before you know it. In short, you're presented with a grid that you have to fill by dragging paths from various coloured blocks. Each block provides a path of a specified length, so you have to work out the right way to use it to fill the space, taking into account obstacles as you go.
Okay, so it's pretty hard to describe – but it's easy to pick up once you try it. There's a free version to try out first and, if you like it, you can upgrade to the full paid-for version that offers more than 400 levels and the ability to create your own.
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If Gojee's tagline – "Prepare yourself for a happy mouth explosion" – doesn't draw you in, we don't know what will. One for the foodies among you, Gojee aggregates food and drink recipes from 200 of the world's best food bloggers and presents them for you in one visually striking app.
You can filter by food or drink and then further by telling the app what you "crave" – whether that be a meal type or ingredient. You can then highlight recipes as favourites, which will store them for easy finding later, and let the app know what you like and don't like for more personalised recommendations.
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Got the sports bug after London 2012, or just trying to improve at a sport you already do? Coach's Eye is an app that aims to help you perfect your form in your chosen sport or activity by allowing you to review your performance as if you were a spectator.
First film yourself, or have someone do it for you, then afterwards you can watch every detail back in slow motion. There's even the ability to annotate straight onto the video and record a voiceover to make notes on how to improve.
Once you've got a form to be proud of, you can share your video through the usual social media channels, or even watch it on your TV via Bluetooth or HDMI if you have the right kit.
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Financial meltdowns. Historic elections. Convictions. Corruption. Contamination.
From street corners to corner offices and courtrooms in between, San Bernardino County residents and their elected leaders made some big headlines in 2012.
The story of the year erupted in the heart of the county when the endless political warfare in San Bernardino left blood on the hands of officials as the city filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in August.
San Bernardino lined up behind Stockton and Mammoth Lakes as the third California city this year to file for bankruptcy protection.
The fallout was widespread.
City departments absorbed deep cuts as officials bore the burden of a $45.8 million budget deficit. More than 180 employees have been laid off or voluntarily left.
Among a host of service cuts that has yet to hit the bone, the city plans to close its three library branches, leaving Norman F. Feldheym Central Library to stand alone.
The city almost lost its famous Route 66 Rendezvous.
The California Public Employee Retirement System is poised to sue San Bernardino in state court over missed pension payments that could balloon to a projected $19.8 million by the end of fiscal 2012-13.
Only a stay by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Riverside stands between CalPERS - the city's largest creditor - and San Bernardino.
As officials in San Bernardino wrestled with bankruptcy, federal agents were preparing a raid in Chino Hills to foil an alleged terrorist plot.
They swarmed a car near an apartment complex and arrested three Inland Empire men who they say wanted to join al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
The men in their early 20s - Ralph Deleon of Ontario, Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales of Upland and Arifeen David Gojali of Riverside - planned to join 35-year-old Sohiel Omar Kabir of Pomona, who had traveled to Afghanistan and was gathering contacts from terrorist groups, authorities said.
The four men were arrested and face charges of providing material support to terrorists. They have pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors found no shortage of work this year in the county.
They want the California Supreme Court to review an Oct. 31 appellate court decision not to reinstate bribery charges against high-profile developer Jeff Burum.
Burum is accused of conspiring with former county officials to settle a lawsuit for $102 million with his Colonies Partners LP investor group in exchange for bribes.
The county officials charged are former county Supervisor Paul Biane, former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk, former chief of staff for Supervisor Gary Ovitt.
Burum and the others deny wrongdoing.
The men joined a countywide parade of politicos who garnered news coverage in 2012.
Former Upland Mayor John Pomierski in August was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a bribery charge.
He resigned as mayor in February 2011. Pomierski was named in 10 counts of an indictment in March that year. He pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement to one count of bribery. The other counts were dropped.
Electoral shake-ups
The November election added two first-time members to the county Board of Supervisors.
Former tribal chairman James Ramos defeated incumbent Neil Derry in the District 3 race.
Ramos is the first of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to be elected to the Board of Supervisors.
Robert Lovingood defeated Apple Valley Councilman Rick Roelle in the District 1 supervisor race.
The Board of Supervisors changeover marked but one spot on a political landscape that shifted under congressional realignment.
Voters on election night booted Rep. Joe Baca from Congress and handed the win to his fellow Democrat, state Sen. Gloria Negrete-McLeod.
Baca, D-San Bernardino, was first elected to the House of Representatives in a 1999 special election.
He blamed his loss in the newly drawn 35th Congressional District - which includes communities in the Chino Valley, Pomona, Fontana and Ontario - on outside spending by Independence USA, a Super PAC reportedly connected with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The Super PAC spent roughly $3.3 million to send McLeod, D-Montclair, to Congress.
"It was a race that didn't get a huge amount of outside attention until the end," said Jack Pitney, a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College. "It was quite possible that she was running close to him anyway. There was no question that (the Super PAC) hurt him."
In another major race, Rep. Gary Miller, R-Brea, defeated Republican state Sen. Bob Dutton in the new 31st Congressional District that ranges from Upland to Redlands.
While some officials were ousted from office, others simply left.
Sheriff Rod Hoops abruptly announced on Nov. 7 he was retiring to take a job with a think tank in Washington, D.C. His last day is Monday.
The Board of Supervisors on Dec. 18 appointed Assistant Sheriff John McMahon to replace him.
Movement at the higher levels of office overshadowed the mayoral election in Rialto, where veteran Councilwoman Deborah Robertson defeated longtime colleague Ed Scott to become that city's first black mayor.
Taking responsibility
Robertson takes the post in a city that will take a cut of an agreement among nine companies and the Defense Department to pay about $50 million to clean 160 acres of contaminated water on the north side.
The agreement announced in early December was not the only landmark decision related to contamination in San Bernardino County.
The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board voted 3-2 to approve a
$3.6 million fine on San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co. related to chromium 6 contamination of groundwater in Hinkley.
It was the first fine the board imposed on PG&E in the 27 years the water regulatory agency has been involved with the Hinkley contamination.
Prosecutors for the water board alleged that PG&E failed to comply with an order to contain groundwater contamination by Dec. 31, 2008, and that the violation continued for about three years.
In October, 200 Hinkley families opted for a PG&E buyout offer on their properties rather than accepting an in-home water-purification system or staying on bottled water provided by PG&E.
PG&E was among a handful of those whose actions were called into question in connection with major projects, including an airport developer and the leaders of a desert city.
Scot Spencer was ordered by a federal judge on Oct. 19 to vacate San Bernardino International Airport and his business interests there.
The airport developer in 2005 came to notoriety when it was shown that the airport hired him with the knowledge that he served time in federal prison.
In June, the San Bernardino County Grand Jury accused the city of Victorville of fiscal mismanagement that saw losses in the millions and possible violations of state law.
The Grand Jury said in its annual report that the city entered into hangar and plant projects at Southern California Logistics Airport that cost Victorville millions, including an unaccounted-for $13 million.
The city said the report did not show evidence of corruption, fraud or other crimes.
Fire, violence, marijuana
But plenty of crime filled the pages of local newspapers.
In September, jurors recommended that Rickie Lee Fowler receive the death penalty for the 2003 Old Fire that scorched more than 90,000 acres in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Prosectors said the fire led to the deaths of five men.
The same jury on Aug. 15 convicted Fowler of five counts of first-degree murder and two counts of arson in connection with the fire. It burned more than 1,000 structures.
Fowler said he did not start the fire.
Three people will stand trial in the slaying of a TV repairman in San Bernardino.
Laurie Cone, Gary Gallion and Shawna Bayless, all of San Bernardino, face charges related to the murder of Cone's estranged husband, 63-year- old John Cone.
Laurie Cone is charged with three felony counts of solicitation to commit murder.
Her estranged husband was hit in the head more than a dozen times with a blunt object. According to testimony at a preliminary hearing, his legs, ankles and arms were bound with duct tape and electrical cord.
The homicide was one of 46 in San Bernardino by the end of November. San Bernardino had 29 homicides by the same time last year.
In early December, police at Cal State San Bernardino shot 38-year-old graduate student Bartholomew Williams five times during an altercation with officers.
Police said officers tried to subdue Williams with pepper spray and batons, but the 6-foot man showed "superhuman strength."
Civil-rights activists suggested Tasers could have been used instead.
In October, a former Westminster police detective convicted of kidnapping and raping a local waitress killed himself inside his jail cell just hours before his sentencing.
Deputies at the Central Detention Center found Anthony Orban unresponsive in his single-man cell, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Orban was found guilty in June of kidnapping the woman at gunpoint in an Ontario Mills parking lot on April 3, 2010. He took her to Fontana and beat and raped her for about an hour.
Law enforcement officials made big drug busts in 2012.
On Aug. 9, state Justice Department, narcotics and local authorities shut down a meth lab operating for about a month and a half out of a rented home in Rialto.
The lab was linked to a violent Mexican cartel.
Authorities seized 191 pounds of methamphetamine from the Rialto home as well as $15,000 in cash.
In April, authorities announced that 15 people had been arrested on suspicion of dealing Mexican "tar" heroin in eastern parts of San Bernardino County, including Yucaipa, Redlands and Highland.
The arrests were part of a 10-month investigation by the Redlands Police Department, members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department narcotics unit and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Juan Belez, a 20-year-old barber, gave his take on life in the county, while waiting outside San Bernardino City Hall on a chilly Thursday afternoon.
"If you kick it with the wrong people, it's bad," he said.
A friend of Belez waited with him. He goes by "Zee."
"I was raised here," Zee said. "But to an outsider coming in, it feels dangerous."
Medical marijuana shops continued to operate illegally. Or legally. Depending on whether an agency wanted to raid them. And what judges say when the cases shake out.
Rancho Cucamonga resident and medical marijuana businessman Aaron Sandusky is in jail awaiting his Jan. 7 sentencing in U.S. District Court for two federal convictions of drug trafficking.
He could serve 10 years to life.
California voters made medical marijuana legal 16 years ago when they passed Proposition 215. But marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
Amazon comes to town
While marijuana dispensaries operated under hazy legal status, other businesses continued to push ahead in a tough economy.
Online retailer Amazon in October completed work on a nearly 1 million-square-foot warehouse at the former Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino.
Bruxie, a popular waffle sandwich restaurant that started in Orange, opened a new location in Chino Hills in November.
In related business news, a December report released by Los Angeles-based Beacon Economics in partnership with the UC Riverside School of Business Administration showed that the San Bernardino-Riverside county economy is in the midst of an economic recovery that includes industries ranging from construction to hospitality.
A move to use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages in San Bernardino County could come to fruition in 2013.
Mortgage Resolution Partners floated the idea to cities throughout the U.S., and the county was the first to take steps to consider it.
Parents take control
As the county mulls mortgages, parents in Adelanto took over a school.
In October, the parents announced they'd selected LaVerne Preparatory Academy in Hesperia to take over the struggling Desert Trails Elementary School.
La Verne Preparatory Academy is run by charter school operator Debra Tarver.
The parents used California's "parent-trigger" law, which allows groups who collect signatures from more than 50 percent of parents to impose changes on a school and force the school district to give up control of the campus when the current school year ends.
In other education news, Tomas D. Morales took over as Cal State San Bernardino's president, following the retirement of Al Karnig. Superintendent Dale Marsden began his first year leading San Bernardino City Unified School District.
The year saw several notable passings that included: Rodney King; Grand Terrace founder Tony Petta; pioneer educator Dorothy Inghram; former county Supervisor Ruben Ayala; Tony Trozera, founder of The Mug restaurant in San Bernardino; radio legend Brian Lord; Tom Minor, former San Bernardino mayor; former Colton Fire Chief Leonard Temby; stalwart redevelopment lawyer Timothy J. Sabo; George Borba, founder and board chairman of Ontario-based CVB Financial Corp. and Citizens Business Bank; former Sun editor Wayne Cummings Sargent; and Don Tucker, producer of the Huck Finn Jubilee.
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Why Conn. assault weapon owners may now be felons
(NEWSER) – The vast majority of assault weapon owners in Connecticut appear to have totally ignored the state's new law requiring them to register the guns. Police received 47,916 permit applications by the Dec, 31 deadline, reports Dan Haar at the Hartford Courant, which sounds like a lot—until you realize that by some estimates there are many as 350,000 assault weapons in the state. That means that tens of thousands of people have now committed Class D felonies—in some cases, possibly without having realized it.
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GREENVALE, NY -- Apple Industries has downloaded a suite of eight Halloween-themed photostrip border options to all its Face Place photobooths. The new artwork was downloaded on Oct. 1, and is free to Face Place operators as part of Apple's ongoing program of providing free software updates, reports chief executive Allen Weisberg.
During the week leading up to the big night, customers will see the themed borders appear as the first option when they reach the step of formatting their pictures in all Apple photobooths running Smile 2.0 software. These include the NGX Face Place Juke, co-created by Apple and AMI Entertainment to offer patrons of digital downloading Rowe jukeboxes the opportunity to make photobooth-quality self-portraits.
Apple's U.S. sales and marketing vice-president Mel LaForce reported that the company discovered the popularity of horror-themed picture borders last year, when the availability of the special-occasion artwork induced patrons to purchase more photos. "Around Halloween, people love to send fun pictures of themselves surrounded by cartoon vampires, haunted houses, ghosts or witches," LaForce said. "Putting our Halloween art prominently on display clearly drives more sales and repeat business for Apple operators."
The borders, all done in a cartoon-inspired style suitable for children and adults, come in two series. Set one includes a vampire of the Dracula sort holding a candelabra; a mad scientist closing a switch, a green-skinned witch stirring a cauldron and a depiction of Dr. Frankenstein's monster. Set two adds a haunted house under a full moon, a Halloween pumpkin-patch being overflown by bats, and two "Happy Halloween" greetings, one featuring a witches' cauldron and the other adorned with friendly ghosts.
The Face Place photobooth vends two 4x6" strips with four photos on each. Customers may choose the same optional border for both strips, or a different border on each. Those not desiring Halloween border art still have access to the usual classic border themes, or can choose to print with no border artwork.
Apple reports that the Halloween border art is just the beginning of the company's holiday promotional campaign. On Nov. 1, Face Place Smile 2.0 photobooths will display new Thanksgiving border themes as the first choice displayed to patrons; options also include Hanukah border themes. In 2013, Thanksgiving falls on Nov. 28, which also is the first night of Hanukkah.
Similarly, Face Place default border options automatically will begin to showcase Christmas themes on the day after Thanksgiving, and then will switch to New Year's themes on Dec. 26.
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Agreed, been surfing for 10+ years and still found tons of good info and reminders of some bad habits I've developed.
Good call, CBSCREWBY.
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Agreed, been surfing for 10+ years and still found tons of good info and reminders of some bad habits I've developed.
Good call, CBSCREWBY.
Go for the line not straight. Big waves have walls. Start paddling sideways w the wave not straight in tonthe beach. If ur just beginning bottom turns are probably alittle out of ur skill range no offense. Just practice bo but dont keep doing the same thing if its not working. N screw that nonsense about get rid of ur foam board. U can catch more waves than anybody if u swim strong. Check out jamie obrien surfing pipe on a 25 dollar foam board. Back door switch
On smaller waves, paddle on an angle in the direction you'll be going. Also, paddle harder and earlier. The hardest thing for me to figure out when i started is how hard you really need to paddle to catch the wave at the ideal time.
Most beginners stay way too far back when they are first starting out. If your digging the nose, your probably closer to the sweet spot than most beginners.
Thank you to everyone for all of the help! Those videos were great. I feel like I'm probably not taking the wave a an angle and just paddling in towards shore. I'll give everything you guys said a shot! Thanks again!
Thats what were here for man. For those of us who love the sport we enjoy to watch ppl learn. Bot only cuz they eat **** n its funny but more importantly another person is getting into touch w the gods n their spirit. Juat remember if ur patient ur wave will come. Straight to u. U ahldnt have to cut anyone off ur stress cuz i started paddling towarda what u thought was a peak n see a set roll in right where u just were. Dont lose hope n remember y u started. Cuz its fun. The second u stop having fun n start getting pissed just take a break
Nothing to tell you but to keep surfing having fun, because you eventually adapt to avoid nose diving and any other problem you're gonna get. Its just natural! It will all click eventually and you'll get that stoke to get even better, and better, and bigger and badder:cool:
Yeah man stick with it, the Surf Simply videos are very good, I remember watching those last year when I was just beginning. Should probably watch them again. The biggest reason I kept nose-diving was because I was trying to catch the wave too far in, it was too steep and I would just pearl over and over until I realized I could catch the wave earlier (especially on a longboard). So it might not necessarily be your position on the board, but rather where you are trying to catch the wave. Just a thought.
You should be able to swim for at least an hour, hold your breath for at least a minute and a half, and be able to paddle for hours on end without pausing.You need a board suitable for the conditions, generally longer, narrower, with a rounded pin or pintail, the proper wetsuit, a strong leash.
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Man, I wrote a long post but it disappeared.the gist of it was that I stopped pearling when I started to shift my weight to back foot when taking the drop. I also have a soft top longboard. But on big days, I take out the short board.


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Acne is an inflammatory skin condition characterized by clogged pores, blackheads, and pimples. The oil glands, or sebaceous glands, are connected to hair follicles and release a substance known as sebum that lubricates hair and skin. Usually, sebum travels up the hair follicle and out onto your skin. But when the sebaceous glands produce too much oil that combines with dead skin cells, the follicles become blocked and inflamed. Acne most often affects the nose, forehead, cheeks, chin, back, and trunk. Between 17 - 45 million people have acne, making it the most common skin condition in the United States. While it tends to last longer in women, men are more likely to get acne and to have more severe cases. Acne is most common in teens, and it generally goes away by age 30. Although it is not a serious health threat, severe acne can be painful and may cause permanent scarring.
There are several types of acne lesions:
Lesions can cause scars ranging from small, sunken pits to large elevated blemishes, depending on how severe the acne is and what your skin type is.
Acne is caused by the combination of too much sebum and a buildup of dead skin cells. No one knows what causes too much sebum to be produced. In teens, rising hormone levels are thought to be a factor. Too much sebum blocks hair follicles, and small bacteria filled cysts called comedones form. If these comedones do not rupture, they develop into whiteheads or blackheads. When comedones rupture, the inflammation can spread into the surrounding area. Papules, pustules, cysts, and nodules are types of inflammatory lesions. Acne may also be associated with certain endocrine disorders, non endocrine diseases, and the use of certain medications.
The following may cause or worsen acne:
Acne is rarely a serious health problem. General practitioners and internists can treat most people with mild to moderate forms of acne. People with more severe cases are often referred to a dermatologist. Your doctor will take a complete medical history that includes questions about
Your doctor will also examine your face, chest, back, and other areas for blemishes, lesions, and scars.
Treatment is aimed at reducing sebum production, helping the skin shed dead cells so they don't build up, and preventing bacteria from accumulating. You can help by doing the following:
Topical formulations are usually the first line therapy for acne. Your doctor may also prescribe topical medications to treat acne. The most commonly used include:
Your doctor may recommend a combination of topical medications, such as benzoyl peroxide and clindamycin, or tretinoin (a retinoid) and clindamycin.
Your doctor may prescribe oral (taken by mouth) antibiotics either alone or in addition to topical medications for moderate-to-severe acne. For those with severe, inflammatory acne that does not improve with other medications, an oral retinoid called isotretinoin may be prescribed.
Some women may be prescribed birth control pills that seem to reduce acne.
Surgery or other procedures can help improve the appearance of skin scarred by acne. Chemical peeling (where a chemical solution is applied to the skin that causes it to blister and eventually peel off) can reduce minor scars. Dermabrasion (a procedure that uses a rapidly rotating brush to remove the top layers of skin) can help more severe scarring. Laser resurfacing uses pulses of light to remove the top layer of skin and reduce scarring. However, few studies have compared light and laser therapy with conventional acne treatments.
Complementary and alternative therapies (CAM) may have a role to play in the treatment of acne. You should work with a knowledgeable provider and make certain that you inform all of your physicians about any CAM therapies you're planning on using. Some CAM therapies may interfere with conventional treatments and may not be right for every person.
Some studies suggest that foods with a high gycemic load, such as processed snacks, refined sugar, and baked goods, may exacerbate acne. Dairy intake also appears to be weakly associated with acne. A low glycemic diet helps keep blood sugar stable and under control. It's also possible that food allergies may play a role in adult acne, and people may want to avoid foods that appear to make their symptoms worse.
Herbs are generally a safe way to strengthen and tone the body's systems. As with any therapy, you should work with your health care provider before starting any treatment. You may use herbs as dried extracts (capsules, powders, teas), glycerites (glycerine extracts), or tinctures (alcohol extracts). Unless otherwise indicated, make teas with 1 tsp. herb per cup of hot water. Steep covered 5 - 10 minutes for leaf or flowers, and 10 - 20 minutes for roots. Drink 2 - 4 cups per day. You may use tinctures alone or in combination as noted.
There have been few studies examining the effectiveness of specific homeopathic remedies. Professional homeopaths, however, may recommend one or more of the following treatments for acne based on their knowledge and clinical experience. Before prescribing a remedy, homeopaths take into account a person's constitutional type. In homeopathic terms, a person's constitution is his or her physical, emotional, and intellectual makeup. An experienced homeopath assesses all of these factors when determining the most appropriate remedy for a particular individual.
Pregnant women should avoid all retinoids (those either taken by mouth or applied to the skin), isotretinoin, and the antibiotics tetracycline, minocycline, and doxycycline because they can be harmful to the fetus. The antibiotic erythromycin (either applied to the skin and taken by mouth) is safe to use during pregnancy.
Acne is not a serious health threat, but severe acne can be painful, emotionally upsetting, and may cause permanent scarring. Squeezing lesions can rupture comedones and cause inflammation. Symptoms generally diminish after adolescence and disappear by age 30. However, adult acne, especially in women, seems to be increasing and is not unusual in women in their 30s and 40s.
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Richard Littlemore | April 9, 2007
By Richard Littlemore • Monday, April 9, 2007 - 11:18
Here's a vintage piece from Canada's National Post, a long non sequitur that presumes to prove that CO2 is not threat - by calling it benign and by suggesting that there really isn't that much of it around.
The case for CO2 being benign seems to be wrapped up in this statement: "We each expel it every time we exhale." And that's true, but I don't see much merit in arguing for the safety of substances that the human body is designed to expel at its earliest convenience.
The case for there being only "a tiny amount" of CO2 in earth's atmosphere is more than just silly, however. In Lorne Gunter's flawed calculations, it is plain wrong - which we would have to blame on incompetence or dishonesty, take your pick.
Gunter says, "at most, 5% of carbon dioxide … comes from human sources."
If he means five per cent per year, he should have said so - and then dealt with the problem of compounding interest. In fact, the most accurate measurement of CO2 in the atmosphere is currently about 380 parts per million, an increase of 36 per cent since the Industrial Revolution, when humans started pumping CO2 out of the ground and into the air.
Therefore, humans are responsible for about 26% of total CO2 in the atmosphere today (380 minus 280 divided by 380).
And CO2 is like water - benign up to a point. But when the best climate scientists in the world say that CO2 is now, officially, over our heads, it's time to dismiss those whose phony arguments have nothing to do with science, or even garden variety common sense.
(With thanks to DeSmogger S Berg)
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Makes CanWest look bad
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His Real Intended Audience
I think that this guy's real intended audience is the scientifically illiterate business reader. You know the type: mid to upper management, very little scientific education or knowledge of the scientific process; the type that those of us with a bit of scientific knowledge hate to work for, because they wouldn't recognize a rational fact based argument if it bit their nose off. They are aiming for this specific audience because these managers have decision making power within organizations.
[rant]What we should probably recognize that these desperate neoconservative denialists will never be convinced of the reality of the danger of climate change until it is far too late, and perhaps not even then. I would hypothesize that if we could transport some of them to the future to see the impacts of climate change, they still wouldn't admit their error because it isn't in their short term self interest. These people have always existed in society; the only difference is that in the past they weren't given the prestige that they seem to have today. I would be charitable if I called him a sycophantic courtier in the court of big money. Or if I wasn't charitable, I would say he is a small step up from a mafia minion. [/rant]
[rational argument]As with so many fallacy filled arguments, it takes more work to refute them than to make them. So let me address the 5% argument. Firstly, we can categorize two types of carbon: carbon that has been stored deep underground, nearly permanently sequestered from the atmosphere (e.g. oil, coal); and carbon that is either in the atmosphere or temporarily stored in a form that will be returned to the atmosphere by processes such as decay (e.g. trees). In the absence of humans, the main way that sequestered carbon could reenter the atmosphere was by volcanic eruption. The amount of carbon produced by volcanoes is actually quite small relative to human emissions. In other words, humans are the dominant source of new carbon to the atmospheric system.[/rational argument]
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So often people forget to
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Ocean CO2
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the ocean is soaking up a large potion of CO2
And of course all that excess CO2 going into the ocean is increasing the acidity of the water, which is among other things making the ions needed for shell building less available to shellfish and plankton. Messing with the lowest levels in the ocean food chains is a rather dangerous thing to do, especially since the ocean supplies 70% of our oxygen and a large amount of our food.
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-quote- … he ceded grudgingly: 'I am happy, for the purposes of this discussion, to accept all the scientific arguments behind their proposals.'
…Ebell insists that neither he nor his colleagues dispute the fact of global warming as they once did. 'We try to react to the scientific research that comes out – and we've adjusted our political rhetoric as well,' he says. The new line goes something like this: sure, we'll accept that global warming is occurring and humans bear some responsibility, but it's hard to predict exactly how bad a warmer world will be.
…'We've had a flat global mean temperature since 1998,' he notes. 'So what are we worried about?' Ebell is cherry-picking here – 1998 was an exceptionally hot year, thanks to El Nino, but global average temperatures have risen steadily since 1900.
Meanwhile, many global-warming sceptics are suffering the indignity of having to deny they were ever deniers in the first place. Take Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Institute. In 2004, Green wrote a paper with notorious climate-change denier Timothy Ball arguing that the scientific models used to predict global warming were 'of dubious merit'. Now he insists he accepts the IPCC's baseline conclusions and says of his relationship with Ball: 'The fact we haven't worked together since then suggests we don't agree.' Sounds like the heat is getting to him.
-end quote- The Australian. Science and Nature. April 10, 2007. Bradford Plumer
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lasting impressions
"Global warming has a lot of people worried. None of them seem to be from Canada."
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"Carbon dioxide makes up just 0.04% of the entire atmosphere, and most of that – at least 95% – is naturally occurring (decaying plants, forest fires, volcanoes, releases from the oceans). At most, 5% of the carbon dioxide in the air comes from human sources such as power plants, cars, oilsands, etc."
So the human part of the jump this century of 25 to 30% is called "at most 5%?" Assuming he knows nothing about 14C or land clearing, is there another wild explanation for all the CO2 generated, perhaps by killer trees? He must be able to find out how low the volcano output is, … unless the figure came from Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano, or Pierce Brosnan in Dante's Peak. If Crichton is considered a well-known scientist, then these are too, I guess.
CO2 is a total lie. The CO2 is not the main element that made the temperature go up. Actually is a phase that our planet goes through. It is a cosmic change which is manifesting on all planets in our solar system. You can check on Google and you see that 350 million years ago, the CO2 level was 10 times higher and at that time it was an ice age. Figure it out. ========================================
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REVIEW: Divergent
By Derek Sante - Review Nation
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Set in a world that is divided by the people, and supposedly, for the people. Divergent bring class warfare into the everyday. We follow a young girl named Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) as she emerges from her upbringing to redefine herself and her way of life. Unfortunately, when she finds herself, she also discovers an anomaly that if discovered could be disastrous.
Hiding in plain sight and working to understand an emerging conspiracy are only two items on the to-do list. Tris must survive her new and violent station in life as well as her growing interest in her leader named Four (Theo James). Twists, turns and danger spill out of this movie as girl-power gets put to the test when a power struggle for the city comes to light.
A movie more interesting than the first Hunger Games, Divergent has many options for an all-out war. Meanings that are less than "hidden" and life lessons softened by love and companionship are plated in heaping portions. Aiming to be likened to many popular brands, I look forward to the opportunity of Divergent breaking ground in some way when it moves into its sequel.
Grade: B-
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running time: 2hr 20mins.
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Yousef Nadarkhani still looks set to become the first Christian executed for apostasy in Iran since 1990. Unfortunately, he may be merely the first in a new wave of Iranian persecutions–yet the media has hardly noticed.
Abdolreza 'Matthias' Haghnejad, a pastor in the Evangelical Church of Iran, was arrested August 17 while on a pastoral visit. It is not known where he is being held, or what charges he may face, and he does not have access to a lawyer.
Haghnejad and others were arrested last April, but acquitted in mid May when Mohammed-Ali Dadkhah, a human rights lawyer, took on their case. Despite this high-profile acquittal, other Iranian Christians have also been arrested in recent days:
Last month, a Christian man and woman were detained in Iran. The man was released but the woman, Leila Mohammadi, was arrested and is believed to be behind bars in Evin prison.
CSW's Advocacy Director Andrew Johnston said: "It is vital that the Republic of Iran ensures due process and ends this practice of incarcerating persons simply on the basis of their faith as this is in clear violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
"Those who, like the pastor, have been arrested must either be charged and tried in a timely manner or released, and all detainees must be allowed contact with their families and lawyers."
Stories like this are on the rise in Iran, a fact that has largely been ignored in the media despite having been addressed at the U.S. State Department and by Canadian officials.
Arrests are not the only setbacks Iranian Christians have had to endure:
In August a consignment of 6,500 Bibles was confiscated as it was being transported between the cities of Zanjan and Ahbar in the north-western province of Zanjan. In a comment on the seizure, Dr Majid Abhari, advisor to the social issues committee of the Iranian parliament, declared that Christian missionaries were attempting to deceive people, especially the youth, with an expensive propaganda campaign. He also indicated his belief that all religions are strengthening their power to confront Islam.
This rhetoric is the latest in a stream of condemnations of Christians from members of the Iranian regime, who have attempted to demonise Christians as western-backed conspirators, 'parasites' and 'like the Taliban'.
Christians are not the only religious minorities to be targeted in Iran; Sufis and those in the Baha'i community have also seen an uptick in persecution.
Iran's treatment of its own legally-protected minorities may prove a harbinger of things to come in its relations with the rest of the world. That's especially relevant given the nation's penchant for nuclear weapons development. As Walter Russell Mead observed,
Interestingly, like many stories of Christian persecution in the Middle East and elsewhere, the stories of Iranian Christians and Pastor Nadarkhani have received widespread attention in the US religious press — and are covered much more episodically and lightly if at all by mainstream outlets. The contrast not only undermines public credibility in the mainstream press as readers take this as evidence of an anti-Christian or anti-western PC bias in the press; it blinds those who rely on mainstream reports to the actual state of US public opinion.
For many Americans, evidence of how Iran treats its Christian minority is an indicator of the kind of uses to which it would put nuclear weapons.
This should concern even those who are uninterested in what happens to Iran's Christians. Iran persecutes its own people–why should should it treat other nations any better, especially if it gains access to nuclear weapons?


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Linux World Day 2 (Wednesday)
Best Swag: PCBSD is giving out devil horns to those who stop by their booth, so while no one has given out any penguin feet or gnu horns (is that in the future?), they win.
Another busy day: It's been fairly busy in the morning, but it's tending to taper off in the afternoon. We've had a wide range of people at the booth and, much to the delight of whomever has to bring all the swag home. And, I have to confess, I haven't really gone too nuts in the swag department, being a little more selective in what I take. That's for a couple of reasons — first, I don't want to have to rent a forklift this year to take my stuff out of here, and also there's a environmental component to the equation: If more stuff isn't flying out of here, maybe they will make less.
More people who stopped by: David Eisenberg of Evergreen Valley College gave a brief show of Stolaria and Celestia to Pat Moloney, an astronomy professor at Santa Clara, while both were at the Fedora booth. Daniel Gimpelevich, Linux wizard extrordinaire, has been floating around the exhibition floor, and every time I have a chance to speak to him he's speaking to someone, and every time he's free, I'm talking with someone else. I might get a chance to talk to him soon. Grant Bowman, who diid yeoman's work for Ubuntu at Lindependence, had a chance to stop by during the slowing afternoon as well.
Penguins on the deck: ZaReason has Open Animals' penguins at their booth. The stuffed penguins were a hit at the Lindependence events in Felton in July.
More to follow.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
Linux World, Day 1 (Tuesday)
First things first: If you're at Linux World in San Francisco this week, feel free to stop by the Fedora booth and say hello. For those of you keeping score at home, I'm a Fedora ambassador and I've been staffing the booth at the exhibition. If you aren't at the show, you're missing a good one. More details to follow.
Without further adeiu:
Hopping: The word from the floor is that this is a more subdued Linux World than years past, according to those who stopped by the Fedora booth (where I essentially was stationed all day). I couldn't disagree more — this place was absolutely hopping on Tuesday and materials and media flew off the Fedora table. A very healthy crowd traversed the floor of the exhibition throughout the day, tapering off during times when sessions were, well, in session.
The crowd on day one was also a huge cross-section of people with a wide range of abilities. Those who are new to GNU/Linux and FOSS — those are the folks whose eyes are a tad wider than the others — were very receptive to our neighbors and us (we're bounded on the north by Creative Commons, on the south by Bay Area LUG). All were great — and I certainly hope that those who are new to this find the same passion and satisfaction in FOSS that most of us already share.
Observation: Those show-goers who have more experience in GNU/LInux and FOSS generally fall into three categories: uniters, dividers and whiners.
The uniters "get it." — they understand that, for all intents and purposes, we're all in this together. Those are the folks I've talked to who may not use the same distro or desktop environment that I use, but realize that what's good for one is good for everyone — we all rise up together. Generally speaking, these are the open-minded folks who keep FOSS afloat, regardless of one's preferences.
The dividers, well, just don't get it. The dividers, of which unfortunately there are many, would rather talk about how great their distro is and not pay attention to what you — another distro user — has to say. They come in different levels and garden varieties, but let's look what could be (could be) more than coincidental happenstance on Tuesday. Exhibit A presents several CentOS users who have come to the Fedora booth to, essentially, tell us how great their distro is in comparison to ours; some without the courtesy to me (or anyone else) to hear us out about why we prefer our distro.
[Note to CentOS users at the show or beyond: Feel free to flame here, but bear in mind that I think CentOS is an excellent distro. However, if the centerpiece of CentOS's marketing plan is to trash other distros, then you may want to try something else.]
While I'm not one to shy away from a debate (or worse), I do have my diplomacy hat on during the show, so you won't hear any arguments from me.
The whiners: That's pretty self explanatory, and in more than a few instances, the reason they're whining has something to do with a facet of a distro — any distro — that's sort of impossible to address, at least digitally; and if it is addressable digitally, it's so far removed from the normal course of the average computer user that it's not included in the release (which begs the question for those advanced users who also double as whiners: Want that feature? Ever think of contributing it?). But this is what we hear: "You're distro won't run on my toaster and won't walk the dog in the morning. What's wrong with you guys?" A shrug and a smile kind of sends them on their way, and I'm not convinced there's much we can do about them.
Who's here: While the usual cast of characters are here, a couple of folks who deserve special mention are here so far and have stopped by the booth. Cathy and Earl Malmrose have the ZaReason booth up and running great guns a few booths down from us — go guys! Tod Landis of dbEntrance also came up from Boulder Creek and spent some time in the booth. Christian Einfeldt of the Digital Tipping Point, camera always at the ready, also got yet even more footage around the Lindependence event from the floor of the exhibition.
[Again, let me emphasize, as I did on camera, that I am not a slob — if it appears I haven't shaved in several days, it's because I haven't: I'm regrowing my beard so I look more like my picture here.]
More from the floor of the show on Wednesday as things develop, connectivity willing.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Katia and Marielle Labèque, pianos
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphonic Dances (30-second excerpt) Program Notes
About This Performance
Ravel's vibrant tribute to the land of his mother is heard in its original form for two pianos.
Though he did not start studying music formally until he was 20, Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon has quickly made up for lost time, garnering prizes, awards, performances and recordings at the highest level. His new Concerto is written specifically for the Labèque sisters.
In his Symphonic Dances (1940), Rachmaninoff summarized his compositional output, reflecting his characteristic late style, with its curious, shifting harmonies and its focus on instrumental colors (he uses the solo alto saxophone here for the only time in his career). Drawing on his previous compositions and ecclesiastical chants, the three-movement orchestral suite also combines energetic rhythmic sections with some of the composer's lushest melodies. Originally titled Fantastic Dances (with movements called "Noon," "Twilight" and "Midnight"), it was premiered by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, its dedicatees, in 1941.
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Lefty Nationals prospect allows just one hit over 7 1/3 innings
By Josh Jackson / MiLB.com | August 6, 2013 8:34 PM ET
Brett Mooneyham never quite felt comfortable throwing from the stretch Tuesday.
A simple solution seemed to work -- keep batters off the bases, and thus, keep throwing from the windup.
Mooneyham threw 7 1/3 innings of one-hit ball, striking out seven and walking four in Class A Hagerstown's 3-0 win over Lakewood on Tuesday. At two hours and two minutes, the shutout marked the Suns' shortest game of the season, thanks in no small part, to how the 24-year-old lefty coasted through the middle innings.
"I felt like I was in the windup for a long time," he admitted even though he realized he'd given up just one hit. "It's hard. You try to just go pitch to pitch, which is what's been successful lately."
The stellar outing makes four consecutive wins for Mooneyham, and he's allowed one run over 22 1/3 innings, a stretch that goes back three starts. The 2012 third-rounder has given up just 45 hits in 80 South Atlantic League innings this year, and he's 8-3 with a 2.25 ERA. After giving up five runs over five innings at Hickory on July 17, Mooneyham altered his delivery.
"I just feel like I've been able to clean up the kinks a little bit in my mechanics. I'm more in line with the plate, more gathered early for balance, as far as keeping myself over the rubber. I'm in control more. I'm not going off toward the first-base side," he said. "That's allowed me to get my fastball inside better when I need to, and it's better for my offspeed stuff too and my breaking ball late in the count."
On Tuesday, the only hit he gave up came with two outs in the first inning when 11th-ranked Phillies prospect Larry Greene singled for the BlueClaws.
"I felt like the hit came on a good pitch," Mooneyham said. "It was low and inside, and I think he was out in front of it a little bit. But he got the barrel on it and blooped it out into left field."
The Stanford product then walked the next hitter, Willie Carmona.
"The walk was the first hitter out of the stretch. The whole game, out of the stretch, I wasn't as sharp," said Mooneyham. "He sees the ball a little better out of the left side of the plate, which is where he's going to be when he's facing me obviously. I was missing up. I just couldn't get ahead of him. He's a free swinger, Carmona, and I thought if I could get one or two strikes on him, I'd be able to get him to chase something."
Mooneyham worked a 1-2-3 second. After allowing another walk in the third, he retired 13 in a row. Still, by the eighth inning, he was slightly fatigued.
"In the later innings, I felt less comfortable. I was up in pitches. I wanted to stay aggressive enough to make them keep swinging," he said.
It worked against the first Lakewood hitter of the inning.
"I didn't have as much life on my fastball. I still got a broken bat, though," he said. "There was still good movement on my two-seamer -- I got [Mitch] Walding to hit that one back to me softly in the air."
He walked the next hitter. Brian Pointer.
"My mechanics were slightly sloppier," he said. "I was a little off balance, and I was trying to catch up with my arm."
Pitching from the stretch again, he gave up another walk to Angelo Mora end his outing.
"I have to keep with the pitch-to-pitch approach. It's a cliche, but it really helps. You try to win each pitch and if you don't, you get the next one. And if you do, you get the next one too," he said. "During the days I'm not pitching, when I'm throwing I try to stay with the mechanics that are working. When it comes down to it, physically, that's the most important part. I feel like I've been able to do that the last four starts."
Pedro Severino, Mooneyham's catcher and the Nationals' No. 15 prospect, tripled and knocked in two runs for Hagerstown.
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The junior finished 11-of-19 from the field and 3-of-3 from three-point range while securing seven rebounds and distributing three assists, also team-highs for the Tornados.
The Cobras jumped out to an early 18-3 lead to start the game and never trailed on their way to the win. The Cobras shot a ridiculous 66.1 percent (41-for-62) from the field in the game, including 73.3 percent (22-for-30) in the second half.
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Good news on the whole for the British MMA scene.
it's about time.
Good news on the whole for the British MMA scene.
it's about time.
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Great idea, but where is all the money coming from?
As a promoter I need to pay £600 for access to a database of approved fighters (most of whom will be signed up to the aforementioned big promotions) which will severely restrict my available fighters (its hard enough now to get good match ups)
As a Gym as well I pay another £240 for?
The fighters now need to pay out an extra £235+GP medicals(£??) per year, if they fight twice they will want an extra £150 to cover this on their purses on my promotion, so if I have 6 pro fights on my card, thats 12 fighters all wanting an extra £150 = £1800
So that's an extra £2,640 I need to find from the spectators/advertisers.. how long do I have to wait before they all come running in with there money because its now mainstream and acceptable?
Sorry, its been a long week and I'm feeling cynical, I'm all for the principle but the practicalities come first.
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what happens in the US with the small amateur shows? Do they follow this set agenda too?
I think it sounds alot of work and money to people yet if things were a little clearer like the members could work it out for them then they would be better placed to make a decision.
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
Firstly had I of known that Mark Goddard and Rosi Sexton where involved from the beginning my initial approach would not have been so aggressive but that aside there are many questions that need to be asked.
Let me state that this is extremely positive and is a huge step in the right direction but somethings need to be ironed out because they appear to have been rushed.
For example they have given fighters 2 months before Christmas to join before they will become ineligible to fight on all of the top promotions but as yet there are no statements from the promoters to say how they will help fighters selected on their cards comply.
The local shows will be crippled for a period as they will be unable to join for fear of losing most of their cards as many of them only have 1-2-3-4 significant fights and the rest are ticket sellers to make them viable.
The UFC invested heavily and lost millions to grow the sport and they did it because they knew they would be the ones to make Billions in the future.
Our promoters should learn from this and if they truly believe in this then they need to demonstrate it by helping.
With regards to transparent finance, the accounts filed on companies house are not transparent.
They will not show the names of suppliers and how much those suppliers have been paid to enable those transactions to be scrutinized.
I sent an email to the press enquiry email box yesterday requesting a simple piece of information to enable me to research further.
I have had no response, lets see how long it takes.
Another thing I am not quite clear on is the fact that this is NOT a governing body but we do have a governing body who is a member of the IMMAF that is going to be charging people money for membership so surely this is something that should be encompassed into that rather than a separate entity?
I would understand if it was unrelated but Rosi and Mark are involved with both so why keep the two entity's separate?
Does not make sense.
Many people appear to be giving this the stamp of approval without reading all the documents, i have read some three times and I still need to read them a couple more times.
My advise to everybody is give it a chance, read everything and ask questions when you have all your answers make your decision.
Just so we are clear, I personally will not accept any scripted generic PR responses to specific questions and nobody else should either so if any PR person just happens to be reading this and receives an email from me then it is better you maintain your policy of not responding to my emails than insult me with nonsense.
I am afraid that is a small price to pay for greatly increasing the safety of your fighters. A pro fighter should (barring injuries) fight 3- 5 times a year.
If you read the SAFE MMA literature there is a good chance the cost of £235 (plus GP fee) will decrease in the future as more fighters sign up for SAFE MMA.
Promoters who only pay £150- £200 for a pro fighter probably have no respect for what they do or their safety . In turn will be reluctant to join SAFE MMA and have no place in the sport in my opinion.
BTW Mad Dog Im not directing this at you just using your costing argument as a yard stick for some of the many promotions.
Oh and lastly I would expect something like this to be phased over at least a 12 month period to enable all the smaller shows, gyms and fighters to prepare.
SAFE MMA is currently ready to go - and believe me, the process has taken a long time and many meetings to work out the details. A functioning governing body will take considerably longer, and there are many more issues to address. As you say yourself, it's important not to rush these things.I would understand if it was unrelated but Rosi and Mark are involved with both so why keep the two entity's separate?
The two entities will, when up and running, be working together.
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Remember that the scheme is voluntary. Promoters are under no obligation to sign up to it. Although quite a few shows have already announced their support, and we hope that more will follow, please recognise that nobody is being forced to join straight away. If smaller shows wish to take more time to prepare themselves to sign on to SAFE MMA, they are at liberty to do that!Oh and lastly I would expect something like this to be phased over at least a 12 month period to enable all the smaller shows, gyms and fighters to prepare.
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J Street kicks off annual Washington conference (JERUSALEM POST) By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER IN WASHINGTON, LAHAV HA 03/25/12)
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Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett was added on Friday to the list of speakers to address the J Street conference opening here this weekend.
She joins Tony Blinken, national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, in representing the administration before the 2,500 activists the progressive Jewish lobby is expecting to host at its third annual conference.
They will appear at a plenary session Monday asking whether the US can help to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though Jarrett usually focuses on domestic issues in her role at the White House.
Later that day, at the gala dinner, J Street activists will hear from former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who joins four current Labor and Meretz members of the Knesset at the conference as well as a handful of other Israeli political and social leaders.
In addition, for the first time the Israeli Embassy will send a high- level participant. Barukh Binah, the deputy chief of mission, will offer opening remarks at the gala dinner.
An Israeli official pointed to recent steps that J Street has taken that show a positive trend in its positions, which have often been criticized by the Israeli government. He pointed in particular to J Street President Jeremy Ben-Amis rejection of journalist Peter Beinarts call for a boycott of West Bank settlements in contrast to Israel proper published on Monday in The New York Times.
Beinart, however, is still being welcomed at the conference and will hold a book signing for his new work, The Crisis of Zionism.
Novelist Amos Oz will be another participating offer, and he is set to speak at the opening session Saturday night.
The conference runs through Tuesday, when the participants will head to Capitol Hill to lobby their members of Congress on the need for the US to continue pushing for a twostate solution and to push back against those would question the US role for political purposes understood to be aimed at Republican presidential candidates who have criticized many of President Barack Obamas policies on Israel.
A J Street spokeswoman would not specify whether J Street constituents would have a letter making these points for members of Congress to circulate and sign on to, which is traditionally a component of such lobbying.
Five members of Congress are scheduled to address the gathering, including Democrats Barbara Lee of California and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts.
J Street estimates that about 60 members of Congress will participate in the conference, including at the panels, the gala and the pre- lobby welcome event on Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning, roughly the same as last year.
MK Danny Danon (Likud) sent a letter to all 120 members of Knesset on Friday, telling them to stay away the J Street conference.
Promoting Iranian interests in the US, working against the state in its battle against the Palestinians in the UN and censuring the Israeli government while supporting the Palestinians are only the tip of the iceberg for the anti-Israel organization called J Street, Danon wrote.
The Likud MK said that it is the duty of all MKs to reject any connection with an organization that works against Israeli interests.
Senior officials participation legitimizes J Streets destructive messages, Danon said.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai last week urged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman not to allow high- ranking officials to attend the conference. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 03/25/12)
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