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Freeman KlopottDean Skelos, a Long Island Republican and co-leader of the New York Senate, said he will block a vote on a bill to extend a ban on fracking.
"It's unnecessary," Skelos said today in an interview in Albany. "The governor has a process that's been going on and I think that's where we should leave it."
Governor Andrew Cuomo has kept in place a four-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas until an environmental review is complete. That review hinges on an analysis by Health Commissioner Nirav Shah, who is considering two outside studies: one by Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System on thousands of people who live near wells and another by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Fracking, in which water and chemicals are injected into shale formations to free trapped oil and gas, poses a dilemma for Cuomo, 55, who must balance prospects for the type of economic development seen in Ohio and Pennsylvania against environmentalists' warnings that it may damage water supplies and make farmland unusable. Last month, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens said the state would begin issuing fracking permits before creating regulations if the Health Department says natural-gas drilling is safe.
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Seriously, do not freaking read this if you plan on seeing the movie. There's a lot to spoil too. But here are a few thoughts:
- Michael Fassbender almost steals the show as David. I loved his cold, calculated nature. When Shaw is demanding that he remove the "fetus" inside her, and she crumples over in pain, he has this utter sterility when he says "It must be very painful". I also liked the line when he's talking to Holloway, right before he poisons him... something like, "Why do did your kind create me?" "I don't know... because we could?" "Would you be disappointed if your creators said the same?"
- Charlize Theron was awesome as Vickers. I like that she starts out as a total ice queen, and while she never really becomes a "good" character, it becomes clear that she has her own struggles and that her motivations are more complex than we initially assume. A little bummed she's out of the running for any sequels.
- I loved the design of the new aliens. Eerily human, almost like what we might imagine our own species evolving into in a few million years. And their seemingly malicious nature fits very well with the idea that a species that would engineer the Xenomorphs probably wouldn't be the benevolent creators we might imagine a highly developed alien race to be.
- I like that the movie doesn't insult its audience with too much exposition. The closest to that came when the Captain was telling Shaw that the installation was "an installation... probably military," but it wasn't out of place. We still don't know much of anything about the alien's motivations for creating human life or its experiments with biological weapons
- It's the most visually amazing movie I've ever seen. The Avengers looks amazing too, but it's still a big cartoon. Prometheus looks real. There's nothing that jumps out as an obvious effect, and most of the technology seems plausible. Although I always have to chuckle at the idea that one of the first things we apparently figure out is artificial gravity... cramming the attractive energy of a whole planet into a spaceship.
- I love the snake-like aliens that attacked the engineers. Brutal. And it looked like the Xenomorphs weren't the first bioweapon to bleed acid.
- Noopi Rapace is fantastic. She's a perfect successor to Sigourney Weaver. The scene in the surgery pod.... damn.

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I've been tasked with my first enterprise application. The application is fairly simple in design from a customer viewpoint. It is an online administrative portal to allow our customers to customize/change their website content. (Right now customers have to call us for changes.) All of their web page content is stored in a database and is retrieved based on the customer id. So here is where I stand.
To paint a picture of my skill set I am a Networking/Communications major with a self-taught programming background from examples, books, tutorials, and etc. I have never taken any actual classes for programming in PHP (few java classes in high-school years ago). The last time I wrote an application from scratch was with PHP4 and I was able to get through it pretty good. Since the addition of PHP5 giving OOP more depth per say I am trying to learn that right now since I've never used it in PHP. All of my past applications have been for personal use and never for a business. So you can see why I'm a bit up in the air right now (I'm a Network Administrator for a small business so I'm having to wear multiple hats now). So since I have never designed an application for enterprise/corporate level before I have some questions.
1) What is the best way to start designing this style of application? (Right now I have some chicken scratchs on paper of the initial visual design but nothing for the server side code layout.)
2) Should I go with procedural code or object oriented? (I was thinking object oriented since it would allow for easy expansion should new features need to be added later on. I'm reading "PHP In Action" right now to help learn OOP.)
Now these are just starter questions. Once I can get these answered I'm sure I will have more.
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Work incrementally (or iteratively, as it's also called). Decide on an initial - very simple - implementation. Then implement that. When it works, refine it, add features, make it look nice and user friendly etc. But take it one step at a time. If you don't keep focus right from the start, it's very easy to get carried away with a lot of clever application design. You can avoid that by always aiming to implement the simplest thing that can possibly work. You can rewrite code later, but you should have a naïve version before you write the refined one.
Chicken scratchs of the visual design is a good starting point. Starting with the interface is a well-known technique, that can work well. You might want to read "Getting Real". It's probably not all relevant to you, but it has some good advice. It's an easy read too. Oh, and it's free.
Use what you know. Good procedural code is better than bad object oriented code. Of course, keeping an open mind and learning new things is important too, but there is only so much new you can cope with at once. Since this is your first project of this scale, I wouldn't advise you to take in an entirely new paradigm. Save it for a later project.


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The Terps came into Saturday nights match-up against the Miami Hurricanes having lost four of their last five games. However, the Terps looked like a completely different team tonight. Maryland used a 17 point effort from Landon Milbourne and a near triple double by Greivis Vasquez to defeat the Hurricans 73-68. Milbourne who has easily been the Terps most consistent player as of late led the Terps on 6-13 shooting and also pulled in six rebounds.
Maryland tried out a new starting line-up as a way to potentially change their luck. They inserted freshman Sean Mosley in place of Eric Hayes. Miami scored the games first bucket on a jumper by Dwayne Collins. Maryland then scored the next seven points to take an early 7-2 lead. Freshman Jin Soo Kim sent the crowd into pandemonium after he dunked in traffic to give the Terps a 25-22 lead with just less than four minutes to go in the half. Maryland held the Hurricanes to just 2-8 from three point range in the first half and forced the Hurricanes into 10 turnovers and took a 27-24 lead into the half.
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Calling ALL Cool Designers: Cool Garden Things Needs A Logo Now! Must Be Cool, Fresh, Rich in Taste but NOT Stuffy. - - - -> We are a new (cool) garden decor online retailer (site not designed yet, so future project to winner is po$$able).
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Well, it's gotta be COOL! With a name like "Cool Garden Things", we really need an innovative, fresh, edgy (kinda), unique but elegant and sophisticated design. We will be retailing (online) garden decor products (from wood patio cafe sets to hummingbird feeders and gazing balls). Our online store is going to be fresh and innovative with many "cool" products. We have *strong* connections with manufacturers, product designers and wholesalers, so, if you can get our logo good (and cool), we many have additional work for you...including, but not limited to, our website template design...if you're up to it. Please note that future work is not a requirement, but could be benificial for us and you. I have a background in design, but, as alot of good designers know, when it comes to my own stuff, it's oddly difficult to get my ego/feelings out of the way. I'd rather just say yeah do this or that and get it done. So, with all that said, I hope you are ready to make a splash and WIN my contest with your design.
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The Writers Guild of America union today hit the picket line. After weeks of negotiations and the expiration of the writers contract last Wednesday, thousands of the people who provide the plots, storylines and jokes for your favorite movies and television shows are slated to hit the picket lines on Monday.
This isnt your typical auto-worker or transportation worker strike, in that most employed Hollywood writers are well-paid and enjoy many workplace perks, compared to national standards. What the writers are fighting for is a bigger cut of the monies that come in from home video and downloaded content. It is not uncommon today to see a television show be a moderate success on the airwaves, then become a very profitable cult phenomenon on DVD. The off-color Family Guy on Fox was actually canceled and then brought back to the network first-run production, based on its success in syndication and on DVD. The main sticking point is that the writers want to get paid more for their work when it is sold in these relatively new venues. The effect of a writers strike will be seen right away by many Americans. Daily TV shows rely on their writers to come up with witty lines and punched up copy. If you ever wondered just how funny John Stewart or Jay Leno really are next week is the time to test them. Sitcoms and more complex programs often have as many as a dozen shows in the can and depending on the length of the pending strike, these shows can run out quickly, as can the sponsors, whose ad dollars make the shows worth creating. There is a lot to lose for both sides. The members of the Writers Guild of America create an important element of a product that hundreds of millions of people enjoy each day, and the studios know that. At the same time, Hollywood is packed with up-and-coming writers who could potentially work as scabs. If the two parties cant find a middle ground in the negotiation, the studios may have no choice but to look to non-union talent to write their shows. Will they be as experienced? Not a chance. Would a young writer jump at a chance to write for a hit show? Bet on it even with the threat of retaliation. Because in Hollywood, the truth remains that you are only as good as your last hit and if new writers can get it done in this town, they will have work for a long time to come. Insiders suggest that scabs were not used in the 1988 WGA strike and likely wont widely be used in the 2007 strike because many of the directors of the shows being made today are or were members of the WGA themselves. Also reality show writers were absorbed into the Editors Guild thus many of those shows can continue to be made despite the strike. |
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How they resolve this mess, might also become a HUGE precedence... simply because DVD and Download royalties are going to become increasingly important to everyone who contributes to these creative productions.
Meanwhile, some media "experts" are already misleading the public, by summarizing that these writers want to "double the DVD rate". But their DVD rate is currently 3/10s of one cent on a dollar... and the writers are asking to change that to 6/10s of one cent on a dollar (for discs that cost less than $1 to manufacture and sell for between $11 $22.) I wonder why "the suits" feel that this is an unreasonable request? And does this mean that the upcoming season of LOST, is going to be replaced by reruns of Desperate Housewives? WTF? DD |
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that all of the studios are using the "force majure" clause in their deals to suspend projects that are less than profitable for them. Many of these productions are funded by the studios and would leave companies with steep rent, overhead and other expesnses that will have a DEEP and LASTING impact on the Los Angeles economy.
Without question the issue of home video and downloads is of growing importance. Seemingly an increase of 3/10 of one penny at least on the surface doesn't seem to be too impactful but clearly the studios feel as if this is worth going to war over. Perhaps it is the war that will help them clear away the dead weight of their past deals now before they settle and get back to production. Is it possible the studios WANTED the strike for just this reason? Do the writers have enough power to UP their demands as the strike goes on? Wait until the next episode of.....
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Look what the writers can do in their spare time
It seems silly not to pay writers a mere 3/10 of a penny that they are asking for. Its not like digital entertainment doesn't make money now. I still think the studios want to get out of some bad deals now before settling.
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It should be noticed that Dred Scott -- which did much more than affirm the practice of slavery, but went further and ruled that African-Americans could not be citizens or equal human beings, and was later overturned via the 14th Amendment -- is often used by pro-life politicians as a dog-whistle message to their base, signaling opposition to Roe v. Wade.
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Fantastic to hear, JWorks! Glad the surgery went well and the recovery seems to be smooth! Best wishes on getting back to normal!
Great news, glad it went well!
it was probably my prayers that did it.
JW - glad to hear -and see - that it all went well. I think the nurse went a tad bi overboard in the drawing and gave you a wee bit of a goatee. Perhaps she thought it would look good on you? Or was it a murse?
I think so too. I'll be sure to send a donation to the temple in your name.
LOL, it was the surgeon. Those were medial markers. The dotted markers are to delineate where they look to hide the scar. I think it's called a Zeus line, but I could be wrong.
One week post-op, *****es!!!
Feeling pretty good, surprisingly.
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[July 21, 2005 is the first day of Caturmasya, the four month period each year, from July to November, in which devotees observe certain rules and regulations in order to advance in their bhakti. Srila Narayana Maharaja speaks about Caturmasya each year, and we are sending you an excerpt of one of the lectures in which he discussed it. This particular lecture was given on the first day of the second half of Caturmasya, a few years ago. For those of you who do not have the calendar and would like to follow the austerities of this month, or some part of them, the list is included at the bottom of the excerpt. -ed] Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja VISVARUPA MAHOTSAVA AND THE SANNYASA CEREMONY OF SRILA BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA (Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha: Mathura, India, September 13, 2000) Today is a very sacred day in our line. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa
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Turning one of the darkest moments in modern French history into syrupy historical drama, writer-director Rose Bosch's "The Round Up" is a polished, pathos-driven re-creation of the Vichy regime's mass imprisonment and disposal of 13,000 Parisian Jews in summer 1942.
Turning one of the darkest moments in modern French history into syrupy historical drama, writer-director Rose Bosch's "The Round Up" is a polished, pathos-driven re-creation of the Vichy regime's mass imprisonment and disposal of 13,000 Parisian Jews in summer 1942. With impeccable production values and all-around stirring performances, pic emphasizes the unbearable emotions caused by "events, even the most extreme, that actually happened" (per opening credits), though it often oversimplifies them into a framework of good vs. evil. Following wide local release March 10, this €20 million ($27 million) co-production should round up ample worldwide biz.
Script is based on years of research and interviews compiled by journalist-cum-screenwriter Bosch ("1492: Conquest of Paradise," "Pact of Silence"), including input from French Holocaust expert Serge Klarsfeld (credited as historical adviser). It dramatizes certain stories and characters while attempting to stick close to the record. After an opening newsreel showing Hitler and his cohorts prancing around a conquered Paris, the action cuts to the idyllic neighborhood of Montmartre, where 10-year old Joseph "Jo" Weismann (Hugo Leverdez) runs amok with school buddy Simon (Olivier Cywie) and his younger bro, Noe (played by identical twins Mathieu and Romain di Concetto). Despite the yellow stars sewn to their sweaters, the boys are ignorant of the fate that awaits them. Their parents — Schmeul (Gad Elmaleh) and Sura (Raphaelle Agogue) for Jo, Bella Zygler (Sylvie Testud) for Simon and Noe — seem to trust blindly in the corrupted Vichy government. Directed with assertion and fluidity by Bosch, these early parts are somewhat marred by the naivete of the dialogue and a need to overstate the heaviness of everything onscreen. But the fact that the helmer concentrates mostly on the gang of charming tykes makes all the tear-jerking easy to digest and, in the end, undeniably endearing. As the film follow the two families in the days leading up to the roundup, the narrative crosscuts to scenes showing interim French leader Petain (Roland Cope) selling off his Jewish citizens to a German army eager to carry out its final solution. Also included are several sequences of the Fuhrer (Udo Schenk) barking orders from his Bavarian retreat, in a cartoonish manner that seems lifted from "Inglourious Basterds." Midway through, Bosch provides her most visceral, bravura sequence when the Vichy authorities launch a mass arrest of 25,000 Jews living in Paris. "Only" 13,000 are actually nabbed, and then detained for several days in an indoor cycling stadium nicknamed the "Vel' d'Hiv" — recreated with impressive, life-size detail by p.d. Olivier Raoux. However, their abominable treatment at the hands of mostly willing French officers is shown as the first step on a road that will end in the concentration camps of Eastern Europe. During the roundup, two of the pic's more believable characters also take centerstage: Protestant nurse Annette Monod (Melanie Laurent) and Jewish doctor David Sheinbaum (Jean Reno), who first team up at the Vel' d'Hiv and then join the imprisoned families in an internment camp at Beaune-la-Rolande. Laurent is particularly strong, depicting Annette's perseverance in the face of collective physical and psychological suffering, while Reno lends David a sense of weary dignity. Final segments concentrate on the nurse's last efforts to save Jo and the others. However, a 1945-set epilogue unfortunately heads in a direction reminiscent of "Life Is Beautiful," taking some steam out of the otherwise dark narrative. Beyond the praiseworthy art direction, tech highlights include rich widescreen lensing by David Ungaro ("Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky") and starkly hewn costumes by Pierre-Jean Larroque ("Female Agents").The Round Up
A Gaumont Distribution (in France) release of a Legende, Legende Films, Gaumont, Legende des Siecles, TF1 Films Prod., France 3 Cinema, KS2 Cinema, Alva Films (France)/EOS Entertainment (Germany)/Eurofilm Bis (Hungary) production, with participation of Canal Plus, CineCinema, TF1, France Televisions. (International sales: Gaumont, Neuilly-sur-Seine.) Produced by Ilan Goldman. Executive producer, Marc Vade. Directed, written by Rose Bosch.
Camera (color, Panavision widescreen), David Ungaro; editor, Yann Malcor; music, Christian Henson; production designer, Olivier Raoux; costume designer, Pierre-Jean Larroque; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS Digital), Laurent Zeilig, Raphael Sohier, Jean-Paul Hurier; visual effects, Thomas Duval; associate producer, Catherine Morisse; assistant director, Nicolas Guy; casting, Olivier Carbone, Agathe Hassenforder. Reviewed at UGC Cine Cite Les Halles 10, Paris, March 9, 2010. Running time: 124 MIN.


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Casting Changes at "General Hospital" and "The Young & the Restless"
This week was full of shocking casting changes at "General Hospital" and "The Young & the Restless." Vanessa Marcil and Ingo Rademacher will be returning as Brenda and Jax for the show's fiftieth anniversary. Entertainment Weekly reports that the duo is "expected to stay for more than a few weeks." But Rademacher, who is also competing on the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars," told access Hollywood, "It's quick but it's exciting." Here's hoping that even if Jax doesn't stick around, Brenda will so the character can be rehabilitated after her underwhelming return to the soap in 2011.
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Julie Marie Berman (Lulu) and Brandon Barash (Johnny) have chosen to leave GH. Both actors announced their departures on Twitter. Emme (formerly known as Marcy) Rylan, who currently plays Abby on "The Young & the Restless" will be taking over the role of Lulu. Melissa Orbach ("Hollywood Heights") will assume the role of Abby. In one final bit of casting news, Tony Todd, best known for playing the title role in the "Candy Man" horror movies, will be joining Y&R in the role of Leslie and Tyler's father, Gus.
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Customers `Must Be Pleased, Not Just Satisfied'
Stephanie Anderson ForestFriday, 7:30 a.m.: Time for Dell Computer Corp.'s weekly Customer Advocate Meeting, "The Hour of Horror." Employees, from top managers down to assembly workers, pore over customer complaints and employee suggestions. At a recent meeting, participants hear how a customer received the wrong order; how too many calls reached voice mail; and how 80 internal test calls resulted in four unsatisfactory answers. Whatever problems aren't fixed in a week get reviewed every Friday until they are solved.
Such unending scrutiny of customer needs is the key to success at Dell Computer, the eight-year-old mail-order PC marketer. Dell's first-quarter profits rose 96%, to $20 million, on a doubling of sales, to $366 million. Behind the stellar numbers is a company credo that makes every employee focus on selling. All employees memorize the "Dell Vision," which states in part that a customer "must have a quality experience, and must be pleased, not just satisfied." Says Michael S. Dell, the company's 27-year-old founder, CEO, and author of the creed: "People who come here and don't gravitate to that don't last long."
DETAIL WORK. Now, the Dell Vision faces its toughest test. Compaq Computer Corp., once a seller of high-priced PCs, is meeting Dell on its own turf with a new PC priced at a low $899 and beefed-up customer services. Dell has cut prices on its own line, and its 100 highest-paid executives have taken a 5% pay cut. Most analysts expect the Austin (Tex.) company to suffer margin erosion but keep its market share, thanks to its mail-order cost advantage. At Dell, operating costs are 18% of revenues vs. 26% at Compaq. But Michael Dell, who hawked IBM clones from his University of Texas dorm, is also adding new services and stressing his credo more than ever.
Company credos, of course, are just so much corporate corn unless they're backed up by the sort of detail work Dell stresses. When one customer complained that he had ordered a Word for Windows package but received a Word for Windows License Pack instead, a customer-advocate meeting redesigned an internal form, distinguishing the two products by placing one in italics. Such actions have helped Dell cut purchase-order errors from 30% of all orders 17 months ago to 3% in June.
Constant training helps Dell maintain its edge. A core program lasting up to five weeks includes course work and such exercises as having an employee unpack a Dell computer. The idea is that staffers experience what customers go through when they open the box. Later, sales employees receive advanced training in such skills as handling big accounts and creating a new sales territory. Students completing each of six courses can check off each course on a T-shirt. A shirt with all the courses checked off is a badge of honor.
Nonsales executives often team up with salespeople to clinch a deal. Last year, for example, G. Glenn Henry, senior vice-president of the product group, helped Dell salespeople land the Price Waterhouse account. The accounting firm wanted to know more about Dell's upcoming products, so Henry produced a prototype of a future Dell PC for a Price Waterhouse team to examine. Henry, an IBM veteran, rarely had such customer contact in his 21 years with Big Blue. "At IBM, I got the impression that the sales force wanted to control the customer. Here, the sales force sees my team as an advantage," he says.
At Dell, the contact with customers can reach a high level indeed. Mark Hildebrand, manager of network and computer operations for Banyan Systems Inc., a software services provider that uses more than 100 Dell PCs, rarely gets to meet with CEOs of the companies he deals with. But recently he met with Michael Dell, who surprised Hildebrand: "He asked me what I'd like to see in the machines. He actually took notes." With Dell's superior brand of selling, no wonder some of the company's biggest established rivals are taking notes, too.


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But for Sandra, her family is her true reward in life. The actress became teary-eyed a few weeks ago when she paid an emotional tribute to her family during her acceptance speech at the People's Choice awards. "To my family," she said. "Life is hard sometimes, but we get through it with laughter. And, to my Dad — I hope you're feeling better. And my husband, who is my boyfriend, who makes me feel like this every single day. He allows me to leave the house and he keeps things settled until I get back so I get to do what I get to do."
Then, just last week at the Golden Globes, Sandra, who won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, said, "To my husband. There's no surprise that my work got better when I met you. Because I never knew what it felt like for someone to have my back.
Read Sandra Bullock's Tears for Her Stepdaughter
"Jesse is so taken aback by Sandra's desire to be his child's mom. He was thrilled that she stepped up to take care of Sunny, but now for her to cut back on her workload for her – he's just overwhelmed with happiness."
And, as if taking care of a husband and kids wasn't hectic enough, in addition to running her production company, Sandra also owns a restaurant, Bess Bistro; a bakery, Walton's Fancy and Staple, and a flower shop in Austin, Texas.
"I'm lucky and this blessed," Sandra told the friend, who adds, "She's a perfect mom. She's very organized and focused. She's considered Jesse's kids her own from the moment she met him. The kids come first, no matter what."
In fact, Sandra always jokes that she has four kids – including Jesse. "He's like a kid with a toy when it comes to his motorcycles. Jesse spent his time at the Golden Globes talking with Mickey Rourke about motorcycles. Jesse was thrilled to find a new pal with the same interest and the two exchanged numbers." Sandra told her pal, "Jesse's got a new best friend. He is so funny. This kind of stuff [the award show] is not for him, but talking choppers is."
JoAnna Zulli is a New York-based writer who has worked for Star, Soap Opera Magazine, Woman's World, In Touch and the New York Post.


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Explosion near PETCO rattles Cards
Explosion near PETCO rattles Cards
SAN DIEGO -- No Cardinals personnel suffered injuries in a construction-site explosion near PETCO Park on Monday, but a couple of players felt some blowback from the blast.
Third baseman Troy Glaus and outfielder Chris Duncan were arriving at the ballpark when the explosion occurred at approximately 2 p.m. PT. They were signing autographs near the players' entrance, just a couple of blocks from the under-construction Hilton Hotel where the explosion took place.
Both players said they felt concussion in the air from the blast, as well as a jarringly loud noise.
"It was definitely an explosion," Glaus said.
According to news reports, 13 people were injured, two of them critically.
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians suffered a traumatic incident during his second tour in Iraq that triggered "tremendous depression," his lawyer said Wednesday.
Lawyer John Henry Browne said he could not discuss the details of the matter because it remains classified. But he expects the issue to become a focal point in the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
"It caused him tremendous depression and anxiety," Browne said.
The lawyer previously said Bales experienced other major dangers in his deployments, including a serious foot injury and head trauma. In addition, a fellow soldier's leg had been blown off days before the Afghanistan massacre, he said.
Bales was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and other crimes. He is being held at a U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
A defense team is now in Afghanistan to collect evidence and interview other U.S. soldiers who knew Bales.
"Everyone they've spoken to in the military has nothing but amazingly positive things to say about him," said Browne, who is not part of the team in Afghanistan.
Due to security concerns, Browne doesn't think the team will visit the villages where the killings occurred. The investigators are likely to stay in Afghanistan a few more weeks.
Browne questioned the U.S. government's case against Bales, noting there is no preserved crime scene to assess.
"It's going to be a difficult case for the prosecution to prove," Browne said. "There's no 'CSI' information. There's no DNA that I know of. There's no ballistics that I know of."
Bales has indicated that he had no recollection of prescription drugs he may have been taking before the shooting -- something the attorney took as an indicator of larger memory problems. The lawyer also said his client has a sketchy memory of the night of the shootings.
U.S. military officials said Bales was drinking on a southern Afghanistan base on March 11 before creeping away to two villages at night, shooting his victims and setting many of them on fire. Nine were children.
Bales has had incidents involving alcohol and violence in the past.
In 2002, He was arrested for a drunken assault of a security guard at a Tacoma casino. That charge was dismissed after Bales completed 20 hours of anger management training.
In 2008, a couple accused an intoxicated Bales of grabbing a woman's hand and thrusting it toward his crotch before kicking and punching the woman's boyfriend, according to a police report. Prosecutors declined to pursue that case.
Associated Press writer Mike Baker can be reached at http://twitter.com/MikeBakerAP


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Alarum. Excursions. Enter the king, the prince, Lord John 2958of Lancaster, Earl of Westmorland.
[Exit Lancaster and Westmorland.]
Exit [Prince].
[Enter Douglas.]
Exit King.
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5.4.61A very valiant rebel of the name.
5.4.743038Falstaff Well said, Hal! To it, Hal! Nay, you shall find no boy's 3039play here, I can tell you.
Enter Douglas, he fighteth with Falstaff, [who] falls down 3041as if he were dead. [Exit Douglas.]
The prince killeth Percy.
[He dies.]
He spieth Falstaff on the ground.
5.4.1093077Falstaff Embowelled? If thou embowel me today, I'll give you leave 3078to powder me, and eat me too, tomorrow. 'Sblood, 'twas time 3079to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me, scot and lot 3080too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit. To die is to be a 3081counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not 3082the life of a man. But to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth 3083is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. 3085The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part 3086I have saved my life. Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder 3087Percy, though he be dead. How if he should counterfeit too, and rise? 3088By my faith, I am afraid he would prove the better counterfeit. 3089Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I killed him. Why 3090may not he rise as well as I? Nothing confutes me but eyes, and 3091nobody sees me. Therefore, sirrah, [stabbing him] with a new wound in your thigh, 3092come you along with me.
5.4.1193104Falstaff No, that's certain: I am not a double man. But if I be 3105not Jack Falstaff, then am I a jack.
[He puts down the body.]
5.4.120There is Percy. If your 3106father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next 3107Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can 3108assure you.
5.4.1223110Falstaff Didst thou? Lord, lord, how this world is given to 3111lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath, and so was 3112he; but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by 3113Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them 3114that should reward valor bear the sin upon their own 3115heads. I'll take it upon my death I gave him this wound in the 3116thigh. If the man were alive and would deny it, zounds, I would 3117make him eat a piece of my sword.
Exeunt [Prince and Lancaster].
5.4.1313128Falstaff I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, 3129god reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll 3130purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman 3131should do.
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Glow in the dark skatepark: OTRO by Koo Jeong A
Otro, a skateable sculpture at Vassiviere Island (France).
Otro is a daring skateable artwork, composed of different bowls, a cradle and a tunnel.
Koo Jeong A invites novices and experts to share the physical and sensorial experience of her work by "skating the landscape".
The concept of OTRO, its ovoid shape, the use of green phosphorescent paint, its progressive discovery, and its integration in the island meadow make this artwork become an infinite land of investigation, that reflects all details like the light, its link with the site, the atmospheres, the dream and the fantastical.
OTRO is an artwork made of bumps: the cradle and hollows, bowls and a tunnel.
This work of Koo Jeong A refers to both definitions of sculpture and representation: hollows and bumps, shadows and lights, soft or accentuated reliefs.
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Creating maps before they are shown for the first time does not work on Maemo. Currently this leads to a crash at the first start, when the Atlas map is trying to be created. A workaround is described in the development environment page. See also bug 233153.
Fonts in the control widgets are too big, fonts in the map too small.
A stripped down version of the control box would help. The tabs itself take more than half of its space.
The main menu is currently stripped down and provides only basic actions. Other useful actions need to be added or replacement actions be implemented (e.g. plugin selection).
Maemo devices have uncommon partition layouts and sizes. In particular, space on / is quite limited, /home has more and /home/user/MyDocs plenty. Cached data could be written to /home/user/MyDocs/marble. See also XDG Base Directory Specification, Bug 230714 and this patch. When using /home/user/MyDocs, it would be nice to find a way that prevents the Maemo built-in photo application stop indexing downloaded tiles. This should be doable by adding /home/user/MyDocs/marble to the NoWatchDirectory entry in /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg. Could be done while installing or in the startup script.
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We booked the hike a couple weeks in advance, which turned out to be unnecessary and ended up rushing the last half of our trip. Had we gone in the high season pre-booking probably would have been a good thing, but when we were there in March people showing up and paying ten minutes before the hike was scheduled to depart.
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Would I do it again? Probably not unless it was part of some larger trek and I needed to do it to get somewhere. For me it falls into the category of, "once in a lifetime, not to become a new hobby" activities like cage diving with great whites would be if I could ever work up the courage to do that.
Would I recommend it to others? Absolutely. The experience is well worth it and it did end up being one of the cooler things we did and saw on our trip. It's not like it's something that the majority of the world can do on a daily basis, so why not try it out when you get the chance?
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Sen. Bob Kerrey penned this letter to Deb Fischer benefactor and former Nebraskan Joe Ricketts regarding his contributions to Fischer's campaign.
For the record I take Sen. Fischer at her word that you and she have never met. Nor do I suspect there is any quid pro quo for her vote to cut your business taxes.
My purpose in writing this letter has nothing to do with either of these.
My purpose in writing is an attempt to discover what it is you are trying to accomplish. Are you attempting to persuade Americans that we should amend our Constitution requiring a balanced budget? If so, have you examined the consequences on Nebraska and our Nation that this amendment would cause? Have you considered that there might be a better way of getting this done?
I do suspect that you may be motivated by a desire to keep your personal income taxes from rising. I suspect you were angry about my vote in 1990 to support President George H.W. Bushs budget that contained an increase in the top rate and my vote in 1993 to do the same. I suspect you have not done the math to determine whether you benefitted from my vote to cut the capital gains rate in 1997 as well as the run up in the stock market that occurred in part because we also cut spending and were paying down our debt when I left the Senate in 2001.
And I suspect you do not support the Campaign to Fix the Debt, an effort led by the CEOs of many major U.S. companies to urge Congress to agree to a budget deal that puts us on a sustainable path to balance. Even though this could give Congress the boost it needs to cut significant spending, my guess is that you do not share the willingness of these CEOs to support an agreement that would include higher taxes on themselves.
That is most unfortunate. If you did agree with these CEOs and became a part of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, your concern about our budget deficit and the accumulation of debt that began shortly after I left the Senate in 2001 just might be converted in something very constructive for our Nation. Otherwise all your $1 million might give you is the satisfaction of electing a Senator from your former State whose promises at best will not enable her to participate in actually solving the problem. At worst her proposal will do significant damage to the economy and lives of Nebraskans.
Mr. Ricketts, I do respect and admire your success a great deal. I also respect, admire and appreciate your personal generosity. Most of all I respect your right to make free decisions about your choice in any election. I do not write out of disrespect. I write out of a genuine desire to learn what it is you are attempting to accomplish and to suggest an alternative course of action for you to consider.
I wish you good health and continued prosperity.
Bob Kerrey is a former governor and U.S. Senator of Nebraska. After a decade as the president of the New School University in New York City, he is again running for a Nebraska seat in the U.S. Senate. Joe Ricketts grew up in Nebraska. He is the founder, former CEO and former chairman of TD Ameritrade, one of the largest online discount brokerages in the world, based in Omaha. He currently owns the Chicago Cubs. Joe Rickett's son Pete ran for the Senate in 2006. He was soundly defeated by Ben Nelson.
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Weak Property Rights and Holdup in R&D
We study how the sequence of financing of R&D varies according to the ease with which property rights over knowledge can be defined. There are two financiers: a venture capitalist (VC) and a corporation. The knowledge acquired in costly research becomes embodied in the researcher's human capital, and she may hold up the financier and walk away with the project to develop it elsewhere. The main results are: (1) When property rights are strong, research is always funded by the VC, development is performed efficiently, and breakaways from the VC to the corporation are observed in equilibrium. (2) When property rights are weak, projects may be financed by the VC or the corporation, or may remain unfunded. (3) When property rights are weak, no breakaways occur in equilibrium; local spillovers and strong product market competition increase the likelihood that research projects will get funding. (4) The equilibrium sequence of R&D finance need not be first-best efficient. (5) In equilibrium, and controlling for the strength of property rights, VCs finance projects that are more profitable on average. Copyright (c) 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The new online tests, called Smarter Balanced Assessments, would start in the 2014-15 school year and be given in spring.
The new stanards and assessments are already changing how students are taught, said Joe Balleweg, a principal on special assignment in the Temecula Valley Unified School District. Instead of showing students how to solve a problem, teachers are presenting the problem and encouraging students to solve it themselves with tools theyâre given in class, he said.
âWe're trying to teach our students to be problem-solvers,â he said. âWe're training our teachers to sit back and let them grapple with a problem.â
Riverside parent Sandy Ramirez said she would like to see more details of the change but hopes the new program will have incentives for students.
âMy kids talk about other kids just filling in dots on the test because it doesnât matter to them,â said Ramirez, the mother of six.
Torlakson said he wants the Legislature to discuss having the new tests count toward graduation or university admission.
Statewide, schools have one computer for every three students, he said. Torlakson said the testing window will be long enough for most schools to rotate students through their computers to take the tests.
Schools without enough computers can give the new tests on paper for up to three years, Torlakson said.
Torlakson said he envisions students spending less time on the new tests, allowing teachers more time to teach.
The new tests would be taken by third- through eighth-graders and 11th graders in English and math every spring. All second- through 11th-graders take the California Standards Tests now.
Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Kenneth M. Young expressed concerns about not testing ninth- and 10th-graders. The tests get more difficult then and studentsâ performance drops substantially. Waiting from eighth grade to 11th grade is too long for teachers to change instruction to address what students donât know, Young said.
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We've reached the point where things you used to love back in the day getting a big second chance have become commonplace. Oh, a Star Wars movie that seems to evoke the original trilogy? That's nice. Six new hours of The X-Files? That's good. Nothing is ever dead anymore – it's just taking a little nap before it's roused from its slumber, given a new coat of paint, and asked to win over the fans and attract new admirers. With all of that said: holy crap, Showtime is releasing a new season of Twin Peaks and David Lynch is directing it and everything! How'd that happen?
Anyway, the latest news to emerge from the ultra-secretive Twin Peaks camp is that Miguel Ferrer, who played FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld in the original series, is set to return for the new batch of a episodes.
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ECM is a relatively new area of warfare, born from the Twentieth Century's fascination with electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum in weapons technology. It arises in part, however, from an ancient practice (going all the way back past Sun Tzu) called deception. To practice deception, in a military sense, is to take action to increase the chances your opponent (and sometimes your notional allies) will conclude you've done/are doing/are about to do something different. This is quite advantageous when it works. It can also lead to disaster when it fails. For more information, see military deception.
During World War I, electronic devices began to come into widespread use. Telegraph communication was the most common, followed by radio communication (although the latter was still in its infancy). Once it became clear how important these avenues of communications could be to the conduct of modern war, all players began to eagerly spend resources on discovering means to deny their use to the enemy. Telegraphs were really vulnerable (at the time) to physical interference only; cutting lines, destroying power, etc. Radio, however, could easily be denied by simply broadcasting a signal on the frequency in use by ones opponent, resulting in awful noise.
It was during World War II, however, that the modern use of ECM really took off. The advent and adoption of radar was probably a large driver in this escalation; like radio, once everyone figured out how important radar could be, everyone set out trying to deny it to the enemy. The favored method of this was to broadcast powerful radio beams back at the radar site on its own frequency and those immediately near it. This would have the effect of drowning out the relatively weak signal caused by an actual radar return, and the operator of the radar would be unable to see targets.
With this, the arms racing got off the ground. There are a number of physical constraints to jamming which favor the defender. First, it's easy (sometimes) to switch frequencies on your equipment, meaning the jammer has to figure out where you've gone to and then switch their jammers there. There is usually a brief lag, enough that the system will work for long enough to see what's going on. Second, the very act of jamming is a giveaway that something is going on. Third, (related to the first), jamming multiple frequencies is difficult; either the jammer must accept that he cannot broadcast continuously on all frequencies (frequency-hopping) and therefore offer the defender small 'windows' of clear air, or he must pay a price in power requirements (that increases faster than arithmetically) to simultaneously jam multiple frequencies at once. Finally, especially in modern times, practitioners of ECM are finding out that operating jammers is a risky bet, because since they're (by design) even stronger than the radars or systems that they are designed to affect, they're extremely easy to find and target. Entire systems (ARMs) and platforms or missions(Wild Weasel, Iron Hand) are devoted to killing these systems.
Back to World War II. The other type of ECM, aside from jamming radars or communications, is active defense. This is the utilization of electronic means (typically broadcast) to disrupt the functioning of enemy electronic systems. One of the first examples of this took place off the Allied invasion of Sicily. The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) had a new weapon designed to destroy enemy shipping. It was named the Fritz-X, and was the precursor and parent of the modern SLAM. Essentially, it was a small radio-controlled airplane with a television camera in it. The view from the weapon was relayed to a mother ship (typically a medium bomber) and an operator there would control the weapon using radio remote control.
The Allies were aware of the Fritz-X's existence. During the invasion and ensuing air attack by the Germans, the Allied naval vessels kept a close ear on the electromagnetic spectrum. When a Fritz-X was launched, they learned to identify the signals that went to it, providing early warning. They also learned to duplicate these signals at strengths aircraft transmitters couldn't possibly match, causing the missiles to go out of control and crash into the ocean. This is probably the first example of active ECM.
From there, things just got more complicated at an exponential pace. By the 1960s, the electromagnetic signature of a radar system (it's operating mode) became a closely guarded secret until its use. NATO and the Warsaw Pact both learned to send 'provocation' missions out designed to force the other side to turn on their targeting and search radars, and then carefully record the emissions of said radars so that they could be analyzed and countermeasures devised. The U.S. maintains to this day an enormously expensive, fairly secretive fleet of assets designed to do just that as well as to perform SIGINT based on such observations. See RC-135 Rivet Joint for an example.
In addition to jamming radars and radio, ECM systems have begun to reach out into the enemy aircraft themselves. The main radar in the U.S. AEGIS systems such as those aboard the DDG-51-class destroyer USS Cole are capable of putting out (at maximum power) approximately seven million watts of RF energy along an extremely narrow path. This level of emission is capable of literally frying the electronics of an aircraft or missile at close range (<1 km) or severely disrupting their function at longer ranges. Even in the air, the U.S. EA-6B Prowler jamming aircraft has the capability of disrupting the normal air traffic control systems of, say, the United States from Chicago to New York - from one airplane.
This, then, is ECM. There are of course answers to it - Electronic Counter-Counter Measures, or ECCM - but those swiftly begin to blend into the category of ECM itself. As with any other area of military technology, it's a competition, and the leaders tend to jealously guard their secrets.
ECM can be added to aircraft through the installation of a jamming pod such as the ALQ-131, designed to be hung from the ventral hardpoint of the F-16 Falcon. These can offer purely self-defense ECM capabilities to small planes. With enough power and pods, fighters can be made into limited-capability jammers; however, purpose-built aircraft are always more effective. The U.S. acknowledged this by continuing to remanufacture the EA-6B despite having retired its combat version, the A-6E Intruder several years ago. The U.S. Air Force even 'borrows' Prowlers to do its jamming…and if you know anything about interservice rivalry, that fact in itself is an astonishing admission of the Air Force's shortsightedness in retiring its own jamming platform, the EF-111 Raven.
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Need further evidence that social networking has changed everything when it comes to the sports news cycle? We present Flip Saunders' Twitter takedown on Wednesday evening.
In response to a tweet from Hall of Fame sports columnist Peter Vecsey in which he indicated that Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love told the team before the All-Star break that he would opt out of his contract in the summer of 2015 and sign with another team, the T-Wolves' president of basketball operations countered with a tweet of his own.
"Rumors of Love telling me he's opting out & wants 2 b traded r false. Last convo I had w/ him was him telling me how bad my sports coat was."
In case Saunders' stance wasn't clear enough, a person with knowledge of the Timberwolves' strategy insisted late Wednesday night that their three-time All-Star would not be traded before the 3 p.m. Eastern deadline on Thursday. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the situation.
The premise in play here, of course, is that Love is likely headed elsewhere eventually (widely believed to be the Los Angeles Lakers) and some executives believe Saunders is better suited trading him now rather than waiting to do it later or risk losing him later for nothing. Instead, it appears they've continued exploring trade options to improve the supporting cast around him and will apparently hold out hope – at least for now – that he can still be won over. Winning, of course, is the easiest way to do just that.
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Yet despite their impressive win vs. the Indiana Pacers Wednesday, Minnesota (26-28) has lost six of its past nine games and is 5 ½ games out of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The T-Wolves failed to make the playoffs in each of Love's first five seasons.
Love's latest comments on the matter were more than enough to throw the dogs off his trail, as he told GQ magazine, "People think it's so far-fetched that I would stay in Minnesota. And I'm not (expletive) on the Lakers, but we have the better team, the better foundation. I'm having fun."
How much fun he has from here until the summer of 2015, meanwhile, will dictate how long he stays.
Other rumblings…
- While the Oklahoma City Thunder have been tied to trade talks for Milwaukee Bucks guard Gary Neal in numerous reports, a person with knowledge of the Thunder's thinking said they do not have interest. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of trade talks.
- On the Phoenix Suns front, they were not close to any deals as of late Wednesday night. According to a person with knowledge of their situation, it's possible that the Suns (32-21) ignore all of our claims that they'd be among the most active teams at the deadline and wind up standing pat. Or, of course, they could be among the most active teams at the deadline.
It's clear that the Suns are still looking for a high-level player to upgrade their already-surprising operation, but they also see value in not disrupting the team in the middle of the season. Exhibit A on that front: the fact that Phoenix did four trades last summer, thereby establishing the roster long before the season began while netting two 2014 first round draft picks. Assets like those are the very reason the Suns are in a position of strength to begin with, but we shall see which direction this goes.


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I'm seriously wondering...
after seeing all the new pics at the Wizard con, who do we thank at Hasbro for finally getting them to make consistently awsome figures?
I'm seriously wondering...
Who ever it was deserves high fives all around. Great work Habro, KEEP it up. :D
Someone must have gotten drunk and then lost a bet. That's the only plausible explanation.
Lets all hope it keeps up! I even like the new lightsaber blade sculpt. It represents the bright spot at the emitter
I'm sure that Hasbro does listen to it's fanbase quite a bit. The see which way the wind is blowing with better sculps and more articulation from other companies and they had to figure out a way to maintain interest in the line and get hardcore collectors to buy all the same characters over again so...
Even though they look great, they are still a few evolutionary steps behind.
They must be getting ready for Episode 2s line so they are testing some things out :)
I have a feeling that this sudden upswing in fan support will decrease in the future. 2006 maybe? I don't know.
The answer was Galoob division.
They should put them back in charge, all the Droids from AOTC and ROTS wilt after 6 seconds, my Security Droid hasn't wilted even after 6 years. Yet, Hasbro is still trying to "perfect" a Battle Droid. :rolleyes:
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Farmigo wants to bring locally grown produce to the places you already go — work, schools and community centers — and provide something approaching the convenience of home delivery without the cost.
The company launched its local food communities on Tuesday, an effort to deliver a personalized, online farmers' market experience to entire communities. The idea is to make it super simple to order vegetables online and pick them up at a convenient location, like your office. Farmigo isn't catering to individuals, and in fact won't deliver veggies to anyone's home. It's all about going where the people are, whether it's at work, school, church, whatever. And you'll need to sign up as a community in order to access the service.
"Home delivery is very expensive," founder and CEO Benzi Ronen told Wired. "The idea is that you come to work every day. You pick up your kids at their school everyday. You go to a community center if you're working out there every day. We turn those into food communities, so it's not an extra place you need to go to. The nice thing about it is that we are automatically going into an existing community of people."
Farmigo's local food communities will initially launch in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, with plans to expand to Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago and Philadelphia. When you sign up a community, Farmigo provides food coaches, who will survey the people in that community and line up farmers to serve them. Each online market features five or six farmers offering everything from produce and dairy to meat and fish. People place a weekly order, which is delivered to your community location.
The convenience of online shopping and direct delivery could make local produce more appealing to people who don't already shop at farmers' markets. But this isn't something everyone will want, or be able to afford. Fresh eggs cost $6 a dozen, and produce can run $2 a pound or more. That adds up fast.
Farmigo isn't alone in the food-tech startup space. San Francisco's Good Eggs also offers local food through a web portal. Whereas Good Eggs makes it possible for individual consumers to buy directly from individual vendors, Farmigo is focusing on catering to groups. Several companies already have signed up, including Brooklyn's Etsy and San Francisco's Kiva.
"I call it economies of community," Ronen said. "We're not trying to compete on economies of scale like the industrial food system. The only way you can create an alternative food system is to get the community to be part of the solution."
Farmigo launched in 2009 as a cloud software company catering to farms that provided CSA (community supported agriculture) boxes. It has since expanded to provide software support to hundreds of farms across 25 states, which should make it easier to expand the local food community service. It's part of a shift toward serving consumers. Ronen notes that less than 1 percent of the country buys food directly from farms through the CSA model. "We started to ask ourselves, 'How do we become relevant to 20 percent of consumers?'" he said.
Farmigo will take a percentage out of each purchase made through its site. It has also recently raised $8 million in series B funding.
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Former Duck Boynton suspended for gesture
September 24th, 2010, 9:56 am by Curtis Zupke, Staff writer[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpL5C4ORI4[/youtube]
The NHL is rolling out new rules for the 2010-11 season and it already had to re-emphasize one after former Ducks defenseman Nick Boynton made a throat-slashing gesture in Chicago's preseason game Wednesday against Tampa Bay that earned Boynton a one-game suspension.
Such actions are specifically prohibited, as demonstrated in this NHL video on the new rules. Look for brief appearances by Ducks winger George Parros and former Ducks defenseman James Wisniewski.
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