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Chijiiwa, 2013, Japan
Why I chose Fletcher: The opportunity to engage in passionate and thought-provoking discussion that targets current international conflicts and issues brought me to Fletcher. At the open house event, I saw a simulation where Dean Bosworth participated as the president of the United States during a National Security Council meeting, and each student was assigned a different role as the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and so on. The main theme of the simulation was the hypothetical collapse of the North Korean regime, an area in which the Dean specialized for a long time. As a journalist covering Japanese politics, I had previously met Dean Bosworth at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo where he was the United States Special Representative for North Korea policy. Seeing the Dean again, this time in a simulation with students, emphasized that on top of its impressive international reputation, its diversity, and its wealth of knowledge, Fletcher is first and foremost a place where students and faculty practice academic understanding.
A favorite Fletcher moment:
"This is off the record," the man from the Department of Defense seriously announced at the beginning of his intriguing speech. It was a special lecture outside of the classroom. His topics ranged from diplomatic and military differences between Russia and China to U.S. missile defense, and true concerns about North Korean security issues. He presented his genuine opinion of international affairs and international security which enabled me to better understand what high-level U.S. government officials were thinking. This is not a rare occurrence, as Fletcher provides a wealth of excellent opportunities to meet and discuss ongoing international affairs with active U.S. diplomats and defense officials.
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French and white wine
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Bob Dylan
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The Dead Sea
Global problem that brought you to Fletcher:
North Korea's nuclear ambition
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The Bruins didn't get the memo about Game 5 starting 7 p.m. Friday night.
By the time they started playing with any intensity, let alone playoff intensity, it was too late.
On the strength of two unassisted goals and strong goaltending from James Reimer, Toronto beat the Bruins, 2-1, to force Game 6 Sunday night back at Air Canada Centre.
The Bruins are now 3-7 in non-Game 7 close-out situations under Claude Julien. But this game was all about a team that made costly mistakes and failed to pick up the slack when David Krejci's line finally cooled off offensively.
In addition to Reimer's 43 saves, the Maple Leafs also made more adjustments, including reconstructing their checking line with Mikhail Grabovski now centering Nikolai Kulemin and Jay McClement, as Jonas Seigel of TSN wrote after the game. The Leafs also finally started matching up the defense pair of Dion Phaneuf and Carl Gunnarsson against Krejci's line. That slowed down the hottest line in the land and forced Patrice Bergeron's line and/or Chris Kelly's line to pick up the slack. They didn't. And so Brad Marchand, Tyler Seguin and Kelly are now goal-less in the first five games. Bergeron has just one power-play goal and Seguin has no points whatsoever.
The Bruins are not going to win this series with one forward line. And with Game 6 and 7 scheduled to be played back-to-back Sunday and Monday anything can happen. If the Bruins put forth the effort from Game 1 or Game 3 in Game 6, they'll avoid a do-or-die game Monday. They'll also need some supporting scoring. Whether that will come remains to be seen.


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Consensus Report
Tracking and Predicting the Atmospheric Dispersion of Hazardous Material Releases: Implications for Homeland Security (2003)Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Topics: Environmental Quality, Health, and Management Disaster Management and Homeland Security Climate and Weather Chemical Sciences and Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security Atmospheric Science Disaster Response and Recovery Air Pollution, Air Quality Disaster Mitigation, Planning, and Preparation Weather Research Terrorism and Homeland Security Disasters Research and Policy
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This report examines ways in which atmospheric dispersion models and meteorological observations can be used to help emergency personnel prepare for and respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear attack.
Key Messages
- Urban building and topography three-dimensional databases need to be developed and maintained for use in numerical and wind-tunnel dispersion simulations.
- Atmospheric observations and dispersion models must interface seamlessly with the needs of emergency responders.
- Civilian instruments currently are available only for research use.
- Dispersion modelers and meteorologists would benefit from learning how nowcasts and forecasts are used in emergency response situations.
- Dispersion models used for emergency planning and response should provide confidence estimates that prescribed concentrations will not be exceeded outside of predicted hazard zones.
- Doppler radar systems can be useful for estimating boundary layer winds, monitoring precipitation, and possibly tracking some C/B/N plumes.
- Emergency managers need a realistic understanding of the bounds on the uncertainties of dispersion model predictions.
- Emergency responders face a confusing array of seemingly competitive atmospheric transport model systems supported by various agencies, and in many cases, they do not have a clear understanding of where to turn for immediate assistance.
- Emergency response managers would benefit from training that conveys the strengths and weaknesses of existing observational and dispersion modeling tools and the situations under which various types of tools perform best.
- Focused field exercises are needed to understand the behavior of modeled transport and dispersion in different weather regimes and C/B/N release scenarios, particularly for nocturnal conditions.
- It is necessary to learn how to more effectively assimilate into models an appropriate range of meteorological data (e.g., wind, temperature, and moisture data) from observing systems as well as real-time data from C/B/N sensors, especially as the quality and availability of these data increase. It also is important to effectively couple dispersion models with appropriate source characterization models.
- Local topography and the built environment lead to local wind patterns that can carry contaminants in unexpected directions. Observational networks must represent these local flows as faithfully as possible.
- Mobile observational platforms can provide valuable information and fulfill multiple needs in the first minutes to hours after a hazardous release.
- New dispersion modeling constructs need to be further explored and possibly adapted for operational use in urban settings. This includes advanced, short execution time models, slower but more accurate computational fluid dynamics and large-eddy simulation models, and models with adaptive grids.
- Radar wind profilers and radio acoustic sounding system profilers, which measure variations of the horizontal wind and temperature, respectively, with height and enable identification of turbulent layers, provide important information for response to C/B/N attacks and are relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain.
- Techniques must be developed for constructing ensembles of model solutions on the urban scale so that probabilistic rather than deterministic information can be provided to emergency managers.
- The bulk effects of urban surfaces on the surface energy, moisture, and momentum are not well accounted for in most meteorological models. Existing development work in this area should be enhanced and the improved modeling techniques adopted more widely.
- The current array of surface observational systems needs to be better used and enhanced.
- The most basic observations required for tracking and predicting the dispersion of a hazardous agent include identification of the plume, characterization of low-level winds (to follow the plume trajectory), characterization of the depth and intensity of the turbulent layers through which the plume moves (to estimate plume spread), and identification of areas of potential agent degradation and dry or wet deposition.
- There is a clear need for more central coordination among the various federal agencies currently involved and among the relevant players at the local, regional, and national levels.
- There is a wealth of knowledge about meteorological and dispersion models residing in universities, National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices, and private sector facilities throughout the nation. These sources of expertise, together with the existing programs in several national laboratories and military facilities, should be integral components of the coordinated national effort recommended above, to assist with developing local and regional models that are optimized for the topography and seasonal weather patterns in vulnerable areas.
- Urban field programs and wind-tunnel urban simulations should be conducted to allow for the testing, evaluation, and development of existing and new modeling systems (both meteorological and dispersion models).
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Organisations that need to automate their backup processes to reduce the need for manual intervention and the risk of human error.
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The current MTE code somehow is not able to get the DATA to the basestation. I can clearly see that it sends the data to the next hop BS, but the basestation has no message that it received the message.
Wondering if the mac address is wrong, and it needs to be a $MAC_BROADCAST, but apparently not.
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"But I don't want to go among weeaboos," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all weeaboo here. I'm weeaboo. You're weeaboo."
"How do you know I'm weeaboo?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
Online forums that exist expressly for the purpose of posting images and/or discussions. They usually have a variety of sub-boards, each with its own focus. Unlike most forums, threads are never archived by the site, so if nobody posts in one for a while, it will eventually be deleted.
The imageboard as it's usually thought of today began in Japan. Futaba Channel, a spin-off of the popular text-based discussion board 2channelnote (2ch) made when the latter was in danger of being shut down, is probably the best-known. Sometimes the blanket term 'wakaba style' board is used (wakaba referring to the board software that runs the board), traditionally allowing anonymous posting with a self-enforcing theme and standard that hopefully keeps it from becoming too mediocre.
The best-known in the US is probably 4chan, created in 2003 to serve as an English-language version of Futaba Channel. Especially among American otakunote , it's quite popular for the generation of memes and, due to anonymous users and loose moderation, extremely variable quality; for these reasons, one could see imageboards to be the antithesis of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Most American wakaba boards trace their heritage to 4chan, as alternate boards proliferated when 4chan went offline in its formative years. The successful ones tend to cover more specific niches, like Meganekko or sad girls in snow. Or guro hentai. Or Lolicon and Shotacon. Or guro hentai with underage meganekkos in snow. Or guro hentai with underage meganekkos in snow weeping profusely over image boards. Or... you know what, let's just stop talking about it.
The only real standing rules of just about every imageboard site in existence (besides specific topic rules for subforums) is that its users can't post anything considered illegal in a site's area of hosting (many admins turn a blind eye to things like unauthorized filesharing, however). Dodgy to outright highly illegal material is occasionally posted anyway just for the pleasure of subverting this rule; mods unsurprisingly counter this with anything from warnings to reports to the FBI.
What many imageboard sites have in common is using the same simple yet distinctive layout and interface from 2ch: there is a sidebar either on the left, bottom, or top (but never the right) that lists each board on the site in a simple URL theme (usually a contraction of their topic name), and to the right of this is the actual site content. Most boards are also set up fairly similarly to 4chan (/v/, /m/, /tg/, etc.), so you can usually count on wholly different sites to have the same general setup.
Not to be confused with our own Image Links Wiki, or Image Booru.
Notable Imageboards (every link below should be considered NSFW unless specifically mentioned otherwise):
- While not an imageboard itself, The Overchan V.2 used to maintain an (as up-to-date as humanly possible) list of every English-language imageboard in existence (including furry imageboards and text-based 2ch-esque boards). It was also the closest thing to a worksafe link from this point forward. Two replacements fortunately have popped up: AllChans and Overchan v3
- The aforementioned Futaba Channel, a spinoff of the text-only, and far more infamous, 2ch. Take note that unless you live in Japan, you can't post at either board, though you're free to lurk. This is to prevent crapflooding and DDoSing from foreigners outside of Japan. And even if you could, it is much more chaotic, vitriolic, somehow more organized than 4chan and far less tolerant of newbies than 4chan is - for a board already disdainful of newbies. Most of the imageboards frequently have discussions and images (or ASCII art) that are unrelated to its intended purpose and spam is basically omnipresent. It has a lot more boards than 4chan and churns out memes, trolling, racism (to the point where there is an entire subboard on 2ch/an dedicated to bashing Koreans), and .gifs at an even faster rate. Unlike its western counterpart, it still maintains its guro boards to this day. 4chan surpassed them in activity around half a decade ago.
- The also-aforementioned 4chan, which hosts boards dedicated to just about every generalized subject you can think of (and a few specialized subjects, as well), is home to the self-proclaimed "final boss of the Internet" (the Random [Bullshit] board, aka /b/), and is the starting point for about half the memes in the various subpages of the Memetic Mutation article. Humorously enough, 4chan was created by a bunch of regulars from Something Awful's anime subforum, a fact that is best left unmentioned on both sites. Has its infamous, luckless spin-off, 7chan, Which has its own spin-off, 99chan (see below). The users consider them 'better' than 7chan - and sometimes even 4chan.
- Infinitechan or 8chan, made by Fredrick "Hotwheels" Brennan (so nicknamed because he uses a wheelchair due to brittle-bone disease), is the Internet's second most popular English-language imageboard after 4chan. The imageboard allows anyone to make their own board and host it on the site, similar to Reddit's subreddits. The site has no global rules other than prohibiting content that would get the site shut down (and even that is laxly enforced), and all moderators are restricted to one board (except for a small group that enforces the global rule). The rules for porn on the main boards (/v/, /a/, /pol/, etc.) are nearly nonexistent, and while most of it is spoilered, there's a lot of it that's not, so NSFW warning. Not to be confused with 888chan.
- Nuclear-IB (more commonly known as NIB) is an imageboard made by Asylum, and is a slow moving but steady imageboard. The site has fairly straight forward rules which mostly consist of people not posting any cp or anything that could potentially get the site in trouble. Most of the boards are NSFW, however their banners in the header of the rotator can sometimes have some adult content in them rendering even the SFW boards NSFW. One unique feature about this board is that instead of using the common country flags, or country balls they have their own set of "Country Nukes" which has your countries flag laid over a nuclear bomb image.
- Mewch (Also known as chanpink) is an English speaking realtime imageboard. Originally created for students on college campuses, this site is used by many and is aimed to be a mature medium of discussion compared to other imageboards and forums that tend to be less mature. Mewch was made on August 9th 2017. They offer a Radio server, Public File Server and a great amount of support and user interaction for our userbase. Not associated with any other website and standing independent with their our culture and values. The site was created to create a stable hub for imageboard users to post and have fun! Mewch is aimed to be as loose as possible with restrictions.
- 420chan, created as a result of one of 4chan's longer downtimes, is a site specifically geared towards drug users (with several boards dedicated to different types of controlled substances; the site refuses to allow people to directly buy or sell drugs through the site itself, though). It also has several non-drug-related boards, including the site's most second-most-visited board, /wooo/. /wooo/ is one of the most well-known Professional Wrestling imageboards on the 'Net, to the point where WrestleCrap considers the board their Arch-Enemy and forbids their Message Board users to mention it. (420chan's most visited board is, as you might expect, /weed/.)
- fchan, which is the most well-known furry (primarily erotic furry) imageboard out there; although assumed to be created as a response to 4chan's infamous "April Fur's Day" pranknote , it was actually in existence for a while prior to it (and was created as a result of 5chan — which hosted a couple of furry-based boards — dying). The site set something of a standard for future furry imageboards by segregating content into different boards (one for female-only art, one for male-only art, and so on); it also marked the beginning of the term "DNP" ("Do Not Post") in the Furry Fandom, due to the list of artists who asked that their work not be posted on the site. fchan's heavyhanded moderation and large DNP list led to several furry imageboards coming into existence to counteract fchan's perceived stupidity, the most notable of which are:
- Lulz.net, which is sometimes referred to just as /furi/ after the site's main board; it is always EXTREMELY NSFW, and not always because of furry porn — and not always because of porn. Many of the board's threads are about gore pictures, grossout images, trolling, and extremely vitriolic politics. There's also more furry-hate on the site than /b/ and Something Awful combined. Even the board's regulars will often admit that the site is basically "/b/, but with less furry porn". If you go in without Adblock prepared beforehand, it's also a great stress test for your antivirus application of choice.
- The Goddamned Furry Board, run by former fchan admin Sage "Goddammit" Freehaven. Notable for having really strict and opinionated moderators (being a private imageboard), and being the butt of Lulz' jokes.
- 55chan, a Brazilian imageboard. Before the site died, it used to attract a good number of functionally illiterate users, commonly assumed coming from the social networking site Orkut. Those users would usually flood the boards with bland topics and requesting the other users to raid their enemies' pages on Orkut. The moderation eventually put a stop to this by enabling a filter that asked the user to copy a simple sentence using capitals and punctuation without using the copy-paste command; only once this had happened would a user be allowed to use the boards. That filter was enough to fend off the vast majority of the problem users. Its replacement is now BRchan.
- 7chan, an imitator of 4chan and purportedly luckless when it comes to actually being recognised. Usually spread by annoyed ex-/b/-tards fed up with the decline of 4chan. Boasts most of the content 4chan does as far as subboards are concerned. Due to lower visitor numbers tends to be less chaotic. Really doesn't like Something Awful or the notion it's a 4chan snowclone. Maintains a lolicon board (among other things) but will ban anything that even smells funny of CP.
- 888chan was the imageboard chiefly used by Project Chanology, an Internet-based movement based on the Anonymous "culture" borne from 4chan's /b/ (the group has no defined leaders, and most of the members of the various Chanology subgroups do their best to remain anonymous) which was (and still is) dedicated to "fighting" the Church of Scientology. (Project Chanology itself has been going for more than two years as of this writing; it has used several different imageboards as their base, with 4chan's /b/ being the original starting point of the movement.) As of 2013, 888chan now has a board for lolcow discussion and harbors the remnants of 789chan's users. Was shut down on March 31, 2014.
- Pooshlmer was for many years the definitive (mostly) worksafe Imageboard for Touhou, but eventually declined in activity and died in 2016. Warning: do not attempt discussing Western fanart here. It will end in tears.
- The other main Touhou imageboard is Touhou-Project.com, which is given over to Choose Your Own Adventure-style collaborative fanfic. It tries to maintain a fairly high standard of quality. Spun off from /jp/ after enough complaints about a Choose Your Own Adventure (which became extremely large) got Touhou CYOAs shut down on /jp/. Mostly ranges from fluffy, cute adventures, to grimdark stories about Touhous abusing each other.
- Desuchan, the result of a certain meme becoming too big and obnoxious for the other imageboards to stand. ~desu (worksafe) It also has its fair share of spinoffs, mostly as backups during downtimes.
- britfa.gs, the main British imageboard. They're generally remarkably decent by imageboard standards, or by internet standards at that. Just be careful about your spelling, punctuation and grammar.
- Krautchan, THE German imageboard. Became famous in the wake of the Winneden school shooting, when the media fell for an extremely obvious fake post announcing it (a real but completely unrelated post photoshopped). Has an /int/ board. Its humour consists mostly of intentionally bad and literal translations of english memes and imageboard slang. (Beweis mich falsch, fappieren)
- Nearly every European country (and a few non-European ones) has their own imageboard. Such as Diochan for Italy, Ylilauta for Finland, Dejimachan for the Netherlands, SectaChan for Spain, several Russian imageboards, and a bunch of others◊note .
- Uboachan, devoted to Yume Nikki.
- GUROchan: note The mecca for guro, guro-manga and all forms of porn you could ever want. Except for real stuff. Worst of all, it's not super active. Not safe for work, school, or anywhere else on Earth. Somewhat notably, a good bit of its userbase is surprisingly friendly.
- TF2chan, devoted to Team Fortress 2 fans. Mostly noted for the massive amounts of shipping and porn.
- Another British Image Board is B3TA, which in addition to message boards, also has weekly or so Image Challenges, quizzes, movies and games. While the vast majority of the userbase are okay folks and the image challenges bring out funny images.
- +4chan, originally started as an offshoot of 4chan prime's /co/ (Comics and Cartoons) board, has since grown into its own standalone site with a very tight-knit userbase. Much of the content is still /co/ related, but there are also boards about anime, video games, music and television, and drawing, among others. Currently serves as a temporary safe haven for when things go too hectic on 4chan proper (mostly used as a porn depository though).
- Ponychan (here), an imageboard devoted to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic; Entirely worksafe, and known for being (comparatively) something of a "hugbox". Has a strangely tight-knit community, for an imageboard.
- MLPchan (here), an imageboard devoted to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as well; NOT entirely worksafe. Was created as an alternative to the relatively "hugbox" nature of Ponychan and the comparative chaos of 4chan's /mlp/.
- As of April 24, 2015, MLPchan has merged with Ponychan. In order to accommodate MLPchan's different policies on worksafe content, NSFW content is now allowed on Ponychan's /anon/ as long as it is properly tagged with a mature content tag.
- ifunny is devoted to image macros. And funny image macros. Has two sites here and here.
- 99chan. Elitist as hell, and damn proud of it. 99chan is even slower than 420chan, but has a huge variety of boards. Expect to be banned if you post demotivators, memes, or if the many mods are feeling bored. Most of the humor on the site revolves around inside jokes and self-deprecation. Practically everything is decided on the IRC (better known as the "circlejerk"), which is self-admittedly populated entirely with pseudo-intellectual gay Canadian alcoholics. Tends to have a "sekrit club" mentality, so if your post smells even faintly of 4chan, expect to be banned.
- MikuChan is an image board dedicated to Hatsune Miku and other VOCALOID characters/voice banks
- "bbw-chan, home to the big and beautiful." Also, they've got other kinks as well... thankfully, on separate subforums.
- 1chan.net BECAUSE TRAINS! Many railfans, especially of the foamer variety. SFW.
- 789chan, an imageboard with a focus on technology. It is, however, most well-known for its /cwc/ section, which, of course, focuses on Christian Chandler of Sonichu fame. Despite the title, very few threads are about Chris, and generally discusses several other people on the internet that users don't like. Was shut down on November 2012.
- Bienvenido a Internet (lit. Welcome to the Internet) is both an imageboard and a textboard for all Spanish-speaking people that, in their own words, tries to stay away from the disaster that are *chan culture and social media, and adopts a closer focus on 2ch/Futaba Channel. It was born in early 2010 from most staff members leaving the Chilean imageboard known as 6-chan to start their own project, not before defacing the site they were quitting first. More than a year later, 6-chan went through some legal issues and Nido, a strictly Chilean imageboard, was born. With a permanent hatred of all the people that commit spelling errors (they have an explicit rule against it, and if you post with any spelling errors you will get banned), it is the most active imageboard from that country to date. All boards except for /int/ (International) only allow Chileans to post.
- Shrekchan a strange and somewhat active board with a focus on all things Shrek. Mostly full of shrek-themed images and NSFW greentext stories with a... unique version of chanspeak. Yes, it's ironic... Probably.
- zerochan labels itself as an HQ Anime image board focusing itself mainly on Japanese animated media. The site itself is mainly used by fan-artists to make fan art and fan comics of the above described media to avert the hatred animesque drawings get on other sites. This is one of the few image boards that is undisputably SFW and is probably one of the most light-hearted image boards ever made.
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State Sen. Mark Grisanti, a member of the New York State Multiple Sclerosis Legislative Alliance in the Senate, and supporters are advocating for continuation of The New York state multiple sclerosis registry and during MS Awareness Week.
"This is very personal to me, my brother Richard has MS and I know firsthand the struggles that MS patients go through,"Grisanti said. "We must be able to detect the causes of MS at the earliest stage. In Western New York we have one of the highest populations of people who suffer from MS in the nation. That is a cause for immediate action and continuing to support and fund The New York state multiple sclerosis registry."
The New York State Multiple Sclerosis Registry and Consortium began in 1996 and is comprised of 15 MS Centers across the state. These MS Centers contribute to the registry and use the collected data. The registry, based in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, includes records from almost 10,000 participants, representing approximately one third of the 30,000 people in new York who have this progressive disease. Consortium researchers from UB and the other major academic centers in the consortium depend on the use of registry data for their work.
Until 2012, registry and consortium costs received significant funding from the state. Changes in federal laws have significantly limited the support they can now provide. Therefore, the UB Department of Neurology, which maintains the registry on behalf of the consortium, is reaching out to lawmakers for funding to continue to study MS.
"MS costs New York state up to $2.5 billion a year in health care costs, lost wages and tax revenue," said Dr. Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, UB professor of neurology and executive director of the state MS registry. "And all that is being asked for is $1 million to continue the registry. The registry provides researchers like me and my colleagues at UB and across the state with an invaluable tool to learn who will best benefit from certain drugs and treatments, what is causing MS and, someday, how to prevent it".
Researchers in various units across UB have been collaborating for years in order to get a better understanding of the disease in order to develop better ways to diagnose and treat it. They say that the registry provides a critical, real-world view of the disease and how patients experience it on a daily basis.
Researchers want to know, for example, if the high rates of MS in New York are due to environmental causes.
"The data supplied by the registry will allow us to study patterns and variations caused by exposure to air, water and other environmental factors throughout the state to see how those factors may affect the risk of developing MS and how patients experience it," said Murali Ramanathan, UB professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and an MS researcher.


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Scholars Who Study Groups and Teams to Gather July 21 - 23
INGRoup Conference at Carlson School aims to to advance theory and methods for understanding groups.
The 2011 INGRoup (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research) conference will be held at the Carlson School July 21 - 23.
INGRoup is made up of scholars who study groups and teams and are scattered across many social scientific disciplines, including communication, organizational behavior, psychology, and sociology. Their focus is to foster understanding about group dynamics through research and to advance theory and methods for understanding groups. About 170 scholars will be in attendance at this sixth-annual conference.
"Groups of people fly aircraft, perform surgery, operate nuclear power plants, design cars, write legislation, and even entertain us," says Associate Professor Mary Zellmer-Bruhn, a conference organizer. "Most of us work in teams for at least part our work and free time. Therefore, the performance of groups and teams affects us every day.
Because teams are composed of diverse people, often working in organizations and using technology to complete their work, understanding what makes teams work requires a multi-disciplinary perspective - considering social psychology to engineering, organizational behavior to communication, and even culture to computer science. INGRoup is a unique and exciting conference that brings leading scholars from multiple disciplines together in one place to present, interact, and generate new knowledge about teams and groups."
Professor Richard Hackman (Harvard University), recipient of the organization's Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups, will deliver the keynote address on July 22.
Along with the Carlson School, conference sponsors include the University of Central Florida, Sage, the David Eccles School of Business, Noldus Information Technology, and the Army Research Institute.
For more information visit the INGRoup website.


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Mallomars or Whippets {Gluten-free}: with a White Wine Kicker
Each year, when the weather turns cool, it's time to keep a lookout for the bright yellow boxes of Mallomars adorning the end of the aisle at your local grocery store. Boxes and boxes of delightful chocolate covered marshmallowy goodness.
And then they're gone.
That's because Mallomars are, according to the NY Times, "The Cookie That Comes Out in the Cold"—a seasonal treat popular mostly in the northeastern part of the US. Well, even more specifically the NY metropolitan area.
For three years now I've looked longingly at those yellow boxes. And today, folks, I satisfied my desire. Made my own Mallomars. Or, Whippets (Canada) or Schokokuss (Germany). So there.
There's one thing—besides being gluten-free—that makes these different from their commercial inspiration—the marshmallow has been jazzed up a bit. (Probably should play this up more because it's kind of unique.) It's made with a boiled white wine syrup. While it doesn't lend a bold flavor to the cookie you will pick up a hint of white grape. Subtle but there—and it makes them a bit more special.
As if they needed anything more to make them special.
Graham Cracker Base
Make one batch of gluten-free Grahams—found here. You will want to keep these cookies plain (not fancy—coated with chocolate).
I rolled the cookies out to about 3/16 inches and cut them with a 1 3/4 inch biscuit cutter that had a nice scalloped edge to it. Just a note: the dough is on the soft side so split into thirds and refrigerate it (at least 60 minutes or even overnight). Take out a third at a time to roll out between two pieces of parchment—leave the remaining dough in the fridge. Be sure to flour the bottom layer of parchment before you roll the dough out. Cut your cookies and remove them to a parchment lined cookie sheet with a flour coated metal spatula. Watch your baking time—these might take a little less time since they're smaller than the original recipe. I would check at 10 minutes. Also, cookies continue to bake when they come out of the oven. You want these just lightly browned. Cool the cookies completely. You do not want them even slightly warm when you pipe the marshmallow onto them.
White Wine Marshmallow
First of all, if you're not into the whole white wine marshmallow thing no problem. Here's a very nice recipe for marshmallow made from either maple syrup or agave that will probably work just fine. Also, I bet you could make this with red wine (an inexpensive sweet wine, like Riunite Lambrusco). I will be trying that for sure!
Make a syrup from the wine. Mix together in a medium saucepan:
750 ML bottle of Riunite Bianco*
1/4 cup sugar
The wine will foam when you add the sugar. Be sure you have a big enough saucepan—the wine should only fill it to the halfway point.
Bring the wine to a boil and immediately lower to a simmer. Continue to simmer until reduced to 1/3 original volume. Remove from the heat and cool until just warm.
Mix together in a glass measuring cup or ceramic bowl:
¾ cup wine syrup
¼ cup agave
Sprinkle with
3 one ounce packages unflavored gelatine
Microwave 30 seconds.
Pour the wine mixture into stand mixer with whisk attachment.
Start on low speed to mix and add:
¼ teaspoon salt
Increase the speed to high (you can tent the mixer to avoid spray).
Mix 10-12 minutes until at least double in volume and holding a peak.
Fill a cake decorating bag equipped with a large tip (I actually just used the coupler) with the marshmallow. (If you don't have a decorating bag you can use a ziploc bag.) Pipe the marshmallow onto each cookie.
*Go with an inexpensive sweet wine like Riunite—my guess is a dry wine isn't going to be as successful. But, you might try it and prove me wrong.
Chocolate Coating
Melt (using one of these methods):
One 10 ounce bag Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
Mix in:
3 tablespoons of melted shortening (measure before you melt)
Gently pick up each marshallowy cookie and dip—marshmallow down—into the chocolate up to the cookie. Use a fork to help pull the cookie out of the marshmallow and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
Allow to cool. I actually placed the cookies in the freezer for about 15 minutes to set the chocolate better. The chocolate never got quite as hard as a commercial Mallomar.
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I've finished Mounce, but I'm sure there are a lot of finer points I've missed. I was going to do a second pass through it, but I read somewhere that for a second pass, it might be better to use a different textbook.
If I'm going to use a different textbook, I wanted one that would provide lots of easy reading (Lingua Latina-style) to drill the basic forms deep so I can really read in Greek rather than decipher/decode (which is what I'm doing now).
I got Dobson's Learn New Testament Greek, Second Ed and Hale's Let's Study Greek, Revised at a used booksale for less than a dollar. Is one of these notably better than the other? How do their strengths and weaknesses line up?


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Some people, they tell me, have a problem with Volkswagen creating a Super Bowl commercial in which a White Minnesotan mimics Jamaican accent and lingo in trying to get his office colleagues to cultivate a positive outlook on life.
Some, I understand, likened the commercial to �blackface with voices,� referring to the days when blacks were dramatized by white people with blackened faces. Some, I also understand, straight out call the commercial racist.
Having grown up in Jamaica, I find these responses somewhat puzzling.
It is true that I left the island in my late teens and, while I have been back occasionally on vacations, I must admit that the Jamaica I knew growing up is not the Jamaica that exists today.
As such, I might not be the right Jamaican to tell those criticizing the commercial to just simmer down and breathe easy.
There is nothing racist or demeaning about the commercial.
The problem here, it would seem, is that too many people are claiming to �understand� Jamaicans, when, as the Rastafarian would say, they should be trying to �overstand,� a word which better describes one�s journey toward enlightenment.
Now, in terms of the commercial, you must overstand that the �blackface with voices� analogy is out of place. Jamaican society, as its motto �Out of Many One People� suggests, embraces an array of ethnicities including West Africans, Europeans, Chinese, Indians and Middle Easterners, all of whom speak with a �Jamaican accent� and with various variations of the country�s spoken dialect, which we call patois.
Hence it is not shocking for Jamaicans to hear a white person speaking patois.
I also find the inference that VW is stereotyping Jamaicans by suggesting that they are always upbeat to be an overreach in cultural sensitivity.
Jamaica does have its share of poverty, corruption and violence, but there is also no denying that there is a predilection by most Jamaicans to look on the bright side of life, an outlook which the Jamaican tourist industry for years has wisely used to sell the country to foreigners.
It is not surprising then that in wake of this particular controversy, Wykeham McNeill, Jamaica�s minister of tourism and entertainment, was one of the first to support the VW commercial.
�I think this is a very creative commercial which truly taps into the tremendous mass appeal that brand Jamaica and its hospitable people have globally,� he said.
The skeptics among us might say that Mr. McNeill, whose job it is to grow the tourist industry, is speaking as a financial manager, not as a cultural icon. There are also those who will say that the sunny outlook portrayed by Jamaicans might be because of the island�s production (those who indulge say) of the best sinsemilla in the world.
Still, I think there is a lot more to it than that.
When the white Minnesotan in the commercial tells his office colleagues �No worries man, everything will be all right,� and �Don�t be no cloud on a sunny day,� and �Julia, turn the frown the other way around,� he was tapping into a philosophy that Jamaicans from all walks of life embrace.
The great Bob Marley was a huge proponent of this philosophical approach to life. Most of us are familiar with his songs such as �Lively up Yourself,� �No Woman No Cry,� �Don�t Worry about a Thing,� but one of my favorites is �Jah Live,� the song Bob wrote to silence a challenge to his Rastafarian lifestyle.
That challenge, of course, came on the death of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, who was considered �Earth�s rightful ruler,� by Rastafarians.
But within days of the announcement of Haile Selassie dying, Bob wrote and released �Jah Live.�
�Fools say in their heart/Rasta your God is dead,� Bob sang.
�But I and I know Jah, Jah dread/It will be dreader dread
�Jah Live children yeah/Jah, Jah Live children yeah.�
I cannot speak authoritatively on the genesis of Jamaicans� lightness of being, but I suspect living on a 4,244 square mile land mass that is completely surrounded by water can force a person facing adversity to consider it a priority to live meaningfully rather than to run and hide.
Of course, I mean no where to run for most of the population, because as Buju Banton, sings, �Who can afford to run will run (emigrate), but what about those who can�t. They will have to stay.�
And if you have to stay, you might as well �lively up yourself and don�t be no drag,� and if you have to work like the white Minnesotan turn Jamaican in the commercial, you might as well make the best of that, too.


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Nats launch 5 HRs, get by Reds in extras
Cincinnati, OH – Ian Desmond and Wilson Ramos each homered in the top of the 11th inning, and the Washington Nationals held on to beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-6, at Great American Ball Park.
The Reds launched six home runs while opening this three-game series with a 15-0 drubbing Friday night. On Saturday afternoon, it was the Nationals' turn to display their power as they went yard five times.
Desmond took Cincinnati reliever J.J. Hoover (0-2) deep to left field to begin the 11th. One out later, Ramos crushed his second home run of the game, a drive over the center-field wall to put the Nationals up 7-5. The Washington catcher also belted a two-run blast off Reds starter Mike Leake in the sixth.
Craig Stammen (1-0) struck out the first two Cincinnati batters in the bottom of the 11th before Joey Votto walked and scored on a double by Brandon Phillips. Stammen, however, fanned Jay Bruce on three pitches to end the contest.
The Nationals overcame blowing a 5-1 lead they carried into the eighth. Cincinnati pushed two runs across in the inning, then pulled even in the ninth against new Washington closer Rafael Soriano.
"Good job battling back by our guys," Leake said.
Drew Storen struck out Votto to open the eighth, but three straight hits produced a run, with Phillips scoring on Todd Frazier's single.
With two outs, Devin Mesoraco hit a grounder that eluded the shortstop Desmond and the costly error allowed Bruce to race home to make it 5-3. A throwing error by left fielder Bryce Harper put runners on second and third, but Storen fanned pinch-hitter Xavier Paul to end the frame. Paul had come off the bench to hit a grand slam on Friday.
Shin-Soo Choo greeted Soriano with a leadoff home run to right field, and Votto nearly tied the game with an opposite-field shot. His drive off the top of the left-field wall resulted in a one-out triple and he scored on a Soriano wild pitch.
"I thought (Soriano) made some pretty good pitches and missed and then he had to get the ball out over the plate and got hit hard," Washington manager Davey Johnson said.
Harper smashed a two-run homer off Leake in the third inning.
The Reds put the leadoff hitter on base four consecutive innings from the second, but Washington starter Ross Detwiler surrendered just an unearned run.
Phillips led off the fourth by reaching second base on Desmond's errant throw and scored on a Frazier double.
Jayson Werth's leadoff homer off Cincinnati's Sam LeCure put the Nationals up by four runs in the seventh.
Game Notes
Werth and Frazier each had three hits ... Ramos notched the second multi-homer game of his career ... Choo has homered in three straight games ... The Reds have established a franchise record for strikeouts in the first five games of a season with 52 ... Cincinnati was 4-for-17 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.


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Jayalalithaa forces Sri Lankan players out of T20 in Chennai
The Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa bowled the Sri Lankans out of the Twenty 20 League in her state even before it began. HT reports. Jaya refuses to host Lankan players in TN during T20 matchesindia Updated: May 16, 2013 16:22 IST
The Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa bowled the Sri Lankans out of the Twenty 20 League in her state even before it began.
On Tuesday, she sent a letter to the Prime Minister making it clear that T20 matches would be permitted in the state only if the organisers gave an undertaking that no Sri Lankan players, umpires, officials or support staff would be allowed to participate in the matches.
Hours later, the T20 governing council and the BCCI announced their decision to drop the Sri Lankans from all Chennai matches of the sixth edition of the T20 slated to begin on April 3.
In her letter, Jayalalithaa wrote that keeping in mind the anger and antipathy in the state against the actions of the Lankan government, participation of players from that country would only "aggravate an already surcharged atmosphere".
She was referring to the continuing outrage in the southern state against the treatment of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
"The governing council decided that Sri Lankan players will not participate in the T20 League matches in Chennai and will advise the nine franchises accordingly", T20 chairman Rajeev Shukla said in Tuesday's statement.
Shukla said the decision had been taken after factoring in the local sentiments as well as the safety and security of Sri Lankan players.
"If the local administration has given something we have to listen to that as ultimately we need the help of the state authorities to hold the tournament…We can't ignore the advice from the local administration," he said.
Altogether 13 Sri Lankan players, two of whom are captains of their respective teams, were to take part in the series.
Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India Prasad Kariyawasam told CNN-IBN on Tuesday that the mixing of politics and sports was "very unfortunate".
(With agency inputs)
First Published: Mar 26, 2013 14:34 IST


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Definitions of ideal
a. - Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. 2
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a. - Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy. 2
a. - Imaginary. 2
n. - A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc. 2
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Study Says!: People Who Don't Drink Alcohol Are More Likely to Die Early
A recent study suggests that if you're middle age and don't drink alcohol, your mortality rate is increased. That means that, according to this study, moderate drinking (2 or 3 drinks a day) may help you live longer!


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Here's what Mitch McConnell, the Republican Minority Leader in the Senate had to say this morning:
Those are some awfully tough words for a Senator who pulled his punches and allowed Harry Reid's healthcare bill to come to a vote this morning.
Mitch McConnell Caves
Instead of putting pressure on the Democrats and holding the vote off until this evening (which under procedural rules in the Senate, McConnell could have done), he moved the vote to this morning so he and his Republican colleagues could get home for Christmas.
In an e-mail update I received from the Campaign for Liberty: "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell caved in on health care, rushing the bill through to an earlier vote so he and his buddies can make their vacations on time. Merry Christmas, from the spineless Republican leadership."
Unbelievable! How on earth are we supposed to keep our country free and prosperous, when freedom's alleged defenders are working with its detractors to rush through terrible legislation like this!?
I say the biggest problem on Capitol Hill, and the greatest threat to our liberties is not the Democrats, who overtly believe in a command-and-control, centrally-planned economy and society, but the Republicans, who claim to oppose such grand and critically-flawed schemes, but who always manage to end up complicit in their successful implementation.
Mitch "McCoward"
Seriously, Mitch! Why don't you just put a middle finger right up in our faces? How about a little sacrifice? We have kids over in Afghanistan who aren't going to get to see their families for Christmas, and you couldn't hold the line for just a few more hours to improve our chances of blocking this legislation? Then you have the audacity to get up and lecture about how bad this bill is? This bill whose passage you pushed up to this morning?
And patriots- if you want to witness some serious audacity/hypocrisy on the part of Senator McConnell, you should check out what Michelle Malkin is reporting in this regard:
'I listened to Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell on Sean Hannity's radio show yesterday.
He sounded tired and barely able to rally the troops against the Democrats' government health care takeover.
He told Sean's guest host at the end of an obligatory-sounding critique of Harry Reid that, and I quote, "We're going to fight 'em all the way to the finish line."
That's what he said:
"We're going to fight 'em all the way to the finish line."
Before the cloture vote on sneaky Sunday, Sen. John McCain had sounded the same message with more energy, invoking John Paul Jones and vowing: "We have not yet begun to fight."
Well, the fight's been called off.'
This is what passes for leadership. For goodness' sake get some freaking spines! Then again I should not have been surprised at this kind of behavior out of Moderate McConnell. He's an establishment Republican, not a true believer, not a grassroots Republican. Senator McConnell- you are right that voters will not forget which Senators supported this bill with an "Aye" vote. I hope Kentucky voters also will not forget who rushed the bill to a vote in the first place.


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I'm having some problems with Opera - every time I open it, it goes through the EULA again, and it won't save my browsing history or any of the feeds/bookmarks that I add. Is there any way to fix this? I've tried uninstalling it and then reinstalling, but I still have the same problem.
I thought it might be something I could fix through preferences, but I didn't have any luck. Any suggestions for what else to try?
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When last year's NBA 2K11 came out, it broke the mold. It took the bar and raised it high. It became the king of the hill. It did all of these things as well as several other clichés, and it went on win acclaim both critically and commercially. In other words, the game was swell.
It redesigned the way we play basketball, then added several layers of awesomesauce on top of it to create a burrito of incredible. So can 2K Sports go on and repeat by releasing yet another amazing basketball game? Yes, they sure can.
There are a few little nagging issues with this year's model, but in general NBA 2K12 takes what worked so well last year, tightens it up and adds a few new elements. It isn't a perfect basketball game, but it is the closest thing we have ever had to one.
Just Like the NBA! (Minus the Lockout, Contract Negotiations, Threats of Playing Overseas…)
As you might expect, NBA 2K12 is first and foremost a basketball game–makes sense, right? There are plenty of additional game modes, including the addictive My Player and the Association, but beyond the presentation, none of it would mean a thing if the gameplay wasn't strong. And it is. Strong like bull.
The fluid motions and finely tuned controls from last year have returned, which means that you probably won't be able to go NBA Jam on people and continually lay down reverse tomahawk dunks, but instead you will need to use your tactics and look for the best possible scoring opportunities. The shooting remains smooth and well designed, and most players have their own animations to gauge the proper time to release a shot. In some says it becomes like an insanely addictive mini-game, and someone that learns the timing can turn a game around with a rain of threes.
The passing is also improved—not so much in the way you pass, but the way you don't. Last year's game had an issue with passing down court off-screen and right into the hands of an opponent you didn't know was there. It was also an annoyingly frequent occurrence to see a pass near a defender suddenly be sucked towards that defender as if the ball was metal and he was Magneto. That is less of an issue this year, and while you can still screw yourself over with bad passes, it is harder to do so and you will rarely do it by accident anymore.
The defense is also a little tighter, and it is fun to stick with your man, even when they don't have the ball. Applying pressure away from the ballhandler can make a huge difference, and while someone like Carmelo Anthony may still put up crazy numbers, shutting down his teammates can make for an easy win. On top of that, the ability to run defensive plays is easier than ever, but you would expect that with a new version of an annual release.
It really is hard to fault the gameplay, but sometimes the AI can be a bit goofy—usually when it comes to off-court things like the supposedly automatic substitutions for your team that never happen and therefore make you do it to avoid your players going into the next game dead on their feet. This isn't a big issue in single games because you can burn players up without a care. In a season though, it can be frustrating.
But a lot of that is due to the complexity of the options. You can choose to take total control of the game, from defensive sets to who to guard, or you can let the AI decide. It adds depth more than anything, and while most probably will skip it in a single game, when you get into a season having those options makes a huge difference.
Excellent control, with unique moves and animation for individual players is what makes a sports game great, and NBA 2K12 has that in spades.
Last Name Ever, First Name Greatest
While there is obviously a quick play option, NBA 2K12 has several game modes as well. The most touted though is definitely the NBA's Greatest games. Where last year took you through Jordan's best moments, this year opens it up to a much wider selection. There are 15 players highlighted, going as far back as Bill Russell's 64-65 Celtics, through the modern days. Dr. J, Bird, Magic, Wilt Chamberlin and of course Jordan are just a few of the names, and every player is a massive stars.
Each player has one specific game highlighted for you to win, and there are also sub-goals as well. Once you win, you unlock both that NBA great's team as well as the opposing team for use in the exhibition games–meaning that you can unlock 30 additional teams (plus two more you can download when you buy the game new). There are even a few hidden surprises—unlocking Jerry West also unlocks the 70-71 Atlanta Hawks, featuring "Pistol" Pete Marivich, and that is just one of 15 examples.
One of the best aspects of these legendary games is the presentation, which changes to match the time period. If you play a game set before 1984 there will be no three-point line and the visuals are grainier the older the game is. The displays will also be retro to match the period. The announcers will be heard as if the recording was aged, but the commentary will be current and some of the comparrisons between the legend you are playing as and their modern counterparts is actually fairly insightful. With 15 games, the NBA Greatest has a limited lifespan, but it is just one part of many, and an excellent addition to the game.
Going the Distance
The real value of NBA 2K12 comes in the My Player and the Association Mode–the Association is the name for the season/dynasty. It plays out very well, and the presentation is designed to mimic an NBA season as seen on TV. Between quarters of your game, you may even see an ad for another upcoming game, or at halftime it may show scores from around the league.
The Association essentially gives you what you want from a season, and it does it well. Every possible aspect of the game is at your control, or you can automate it all. If you want to renegotiate your coach's salary, you can. If you want to change your team's dynamic and make a starter into a role player you can—although you may then need to keep an eye on that player to make sure they are happy or their play could suffer. You could also propose trades and create your uber-team.
Sometimes the trades will just go through, as long as they are under the salary cap. To my surprise, the Nuggets were happy to take on Greg Oden from the Trail Blazers for Nene, but the Bulls were slightly more reluctant to give up Derrick Rose for Marcus Camby. An override showed them the error of their ways. I'm sure Luke Babbitt will flourish in Los Angeles, and Blake Griffin seemed perfectly content to move to Portland anyway.
There are a ton of options, and it all works intuitively, with enough customizable options for anyone to enjoy.
There is one slightly major downside to the season though—and it runs throughout the entire game—there are no rookies. It isn't 2K's fault. The Lockout has put a legal hold on including them, but it does take away from things a bit. Again, you can't blame 2K for it, but it does hurt the game. The lockout will also affect the available quick games. When the season begins, you should be able to jump in a digital version of a real life game and play it through. That option is gone with the NBA season, as is the NBA ticker and stream of real-life basketball news. It was never a major point, but it was a nice touch to the last game. If the lockout ends, expect a major update with new rosters and games.
Your First Steps to Stardom
The My Player feature has also received an overhaul, and it is now dangerously addictive. Once you create your avatar, you then assign points and make him into whatever type of player you want. He can be a 3-point specialist, a monster under the paint, whatever you choose. You then go through the draft following a rookies' game, and you answer questions from a few teams to find your best fit.
Once you are drafted, you then come in when the coach wants you in, play your minutes and earn both skill points and a teammate grade. If you play like a moron, your teammates won't like it and your rating will drop during the game, and it will eventually hurt your playtime. Passing and choosing good shots will help raise your stock in the eyes of your teammates, but so will things like not breaking coverage and slowing down the opponent you have been assigned. Being the next Jordan helps, but so does being a role player—which is important since you start out with a low overall skill point total.
The gameplay is slightly different as well in this mode. The camera follows you specifically, and the angle changes to a pursuit cam style rather than a full display of the court. It would never work to control a whole team, but for a single player it works perfectly well.
As you progress you can then buy new moves, different shot animations, new skill points and a handful of other upgrades. You can even throw parties for your team or help out in the community to increase your teammate's respect, or gain local fan support.
After each game you answer reporters' questions, which can be fun, but slightly aggravating. You are given four choices, but sometimes the answers won't be what you expect. Your character may start by saying that the win was a team effort, then go on about how the team's best move was picking him up because he is the best thing since air was invented. Its entertaining.
The mixture of gameplay and RPG-like elements make the My Player mode a highlight of NBA 2K12, and something you may find yourself lost in for hours and hours at a time.
And Then There's the Online
So there I was, playing online against a random opponent in a hotly contested, and fairly lengthy match filled with timeouts, substitutions and fouls that I still say he paid the refs to call. The back-and-forth was epic. It was the stuff of legends. Magic vs. Bird. Kobe vs. LeBron. Me vs. NoobPwner1881.
With a minute left, and me trailing by three, I took the ball down to the 3-point line and put up a shot. Then the game froze. Moments later I was greeted with a screen that will haunt my dreams "The 2K Sports Server is not available at this time. Please try again later."
It was like the kid from Christmas Story hearing that he wouldn't be receiving the Red Ryder BB gun. Nothing made sense anymore.
So after I went for a long walk, I returned and walked across the room to pick up my controller that had "accidentally" slipped out of my hands with great force and hit the wall. I tried reconnecting online, but the error returned.
My harrowing tale comes courtesy of Xbox Live, but it is also a common scene on PSN. When online problems plague a game, an update patch can usually go a long way, and to be fair the dropped games and connection problems were not the rule, but rather the exception–and yet I will always be wary with the game when playing online.
The online was also an issue in last year's game, but not nearly as consistently bad. There has to be a patch on the way, but as of now it is controller-breakingly frustrating. There is also an association mode that you and your friends can all join to make an online season, but it will be tough to justify until the online mode is stabilized.
Despite a few minor things, NBA 2K12 is easily the best pro basketball game on the market. Sure it is also the only pro basketball game on the market, but that is beside the point. 2K Sports have managed to take a sport that has in the past been unruly and hard to control, and produced one of the finest sports franchises ever made. NBA 2K12 takes the solid foundation created by its predecessor, and builds on it perfectly. They tweaked what they needed to, kept everything that worked, then added an overhauled My Player mode as well as 15 NBA legends as a bonus.
Even without the NBA Greatest, which has become the focal point of the marketing campaign, this game would still be amazing. The lockout is going to hurt this game a bit, but it may also be an answer to fans that are desperate for some pro b-ball. It's a shame that legal wrangling and things that have nothing to do with the game could hurt it, and you can't hold it against 2K Sports, but it is what it is.
But while the lockout is out of 2K's control, the online is not, and it needs a massive patch soon. You have to assume that it is coming, and once it does the game will open up a bit. Even without the rookies and the real life intertwining between the NBA and the game, NBA 2K12 is an amazing game that has a ton of appeal to any gamer regardless of whether or not you like pro basketball. For fans of the NBA it may not make up for a season that may be cancelled, but it is the next best thing.
Score: 9 out of 10
(This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360 on a copy provided by 2K Games)


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Christine's Miniature Modern Makeover
Name: Christine
Location: In Christine's Workshop
Christine's house call is a little different than our usual 5 photo look at a home - yes, it's a before and after and it is also all in minature. She's working room by room, modernizing a dollhouse called a "Lolly's Citadel" that she purchased on eBay from a seller in Chicago.
If this first room is any indication, the makeover from traditional to modern should be spectacular and the sources are top rate:
Pixel chair and ottoman: minimodernistas
Light: vintage Strombecker
Plant: Lolly's
Rug: The House that Jacq Built
Side table: vintage German
Vases: Barbie by Jonathan Adler
Book: AG Minis
We're looking forward to seeing how the rest of the house comes together. For more info Christine's projects, visit: Call of the Small.
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Designing Instant Pot Model IP-LUX60/50
After a runaway success of our model IP-CSG60/50, we have been looking for design ideas for our new models. Our source of inspiration came from user feedback. In general, the vast majority of our customers approves of our design philosophy of "Safe, Convenient and Dependable". Instant Pot is about "set and forget" cooking style, leveraging the micro-processor controlled smart cooking programs.
Summarizing the user feedback, we found two areas which need improvement or enhancement.
- Convenient and intuitive user interface.
- Versatility of cooking capabilities.
We have taken these two points to heart and implemented them in the design of our new model IP-LUX60/50. This blog covers how the user interface is improved. I'll talk about how the versatility is enhanced in my next blog.
We have a confession to make. The most support calls we received are questions about the flashing dashes and the marquee symbol (for pre-heating) in IP-CSG60/50. We decided to use plain English on the display to make the status display intuitive. Due to the limitation of the LED display panel, it's a small challenge to find the right words.
Now in our new model IP-LUX60/50, the followings are used.
Another improvement to usability is to allow manual changes to all preset cooking time. Simply, press and hold "+" or "-" to race the number to your desired cooking time. Note this doesn't apply to the fully automated "Rice" and "Multigrain" programs.


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Air travel has certainly picked up since the dark months post-September 11, when people stopped flying altogether and a number of airlines went bankrupt as a result.
Since then, air travel has picked up steadily, and the four flag carriers in the MIS100—Garuda Indonesia, Malaysia Airlines (MAS), Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Thai Airways International—have been able to stay aloft fairly comfortably.
However, while air travel is on the increase overall, one major trend affecting the four flag carriers is the recent emergence of budget airlines that are threatening to take away large chunks of their business.
Indonesia has Lion Air, while Malaysia offers AirAsia. Singapore has Valuair and Tiger Airlines, while Thailand is the home base of no fewer than three budget carriers: Thai AirAsia, One-Two-Go and Nok Air.
As a result of competitive pressure from airlines like these, with their much lower cost bases, the four flag carriers are looking very closely at how they can reduce their own cost structures. For some, the answer lies in outsourcing. In addition, they are investing in customer relationship management (CRM), in a bid to attack the no-frills carriers from another angle.
In a bold move last year, MAS signed a 10-year outsourcing deal with IBM worth about US$100 million. The deal covers infrastructure and applications operations and management.
IBM now manages the airline's daily IT operations, while MAS' IT division focuses on enabling and improving the company's business performance. MAS may also transfer assets if it decides such a decision would be more cost-effective for the business.
As a result of this outsourcing agreement, 118 MAS staff members have joined Big Blue's ranks. The rest have been distributed across different business units in the airline, with some retained by the IT division.
Garuda Indonesia followed suit earlier this year. It has entered into a joint venture with Germany's Lufthansa, under which Garuda will transfer all its commercial IT operation systems to solutions provided by Lufthansa Systems.
The long-term objective of the partnership between Garuda and Lufthansa is to migrate all of the Indonesian airline's core processes, including inventory, departure control, check-in and reservations, to Lufthansa Systems solutions.
For instance, the Indonesian carrier will be using Lufthansa's NetLine for airline fleet planning and scheduling, and its ProfitLine for pricing and revenue management. Garuda also plans to outsource its desktop support, although here it intends to choose regional vendors.
While not going as far as MAS or Garuda, Thai Airways does see outsourcing as critical, simply because the IT department's workload is high and it is difficult to retain staff. IT director Bu-nga Kornvinai says one of her top priorities next year will be to find more outsourcing partners to help spread the burden.
Outsourcing can certainly be attractive from a cost point of view, as well as a way to become more efficient. However, there is no way in which a full-service carrier can compete with a no-frills carrier on price alone.
A no-frills carrier such as AirAsia, which offers a low-cost SMS [Short Message Service] booking service, and whose staff run the carrier's reservations programme on second-hand PCs, will always be able to offer cheaper flights.
Customer relationship management
One way for flag carriers to fight back is to leverage on their existing customer databases. This, certainly, is the approach SIA is taking.
SIA rolled out a major new project this year, its Marketing and Relationship Management System (MARMS). This is a consolidated global customer database that tracks SIA's KrisFlyer frequent flyer program, its Priority Passenger Service, the SIA Web site's registered users and other regional databases from field offices.
Staff in 66 cities can access updated customer information online to provide better service. Web site customers can also view and update data stored in MARMS, making any changes instantly accessible. Thanks to MARMS, SIA has been able to cut the time taken to award frequent flyer miles from over 72 hours to just six hours now.
SIA's marketing and sales offices use MARMS to analyse customer data and plan marketing with a campaign management tool that shortens planning and execution times, especially those of direct marketing programs and e-mail promotions.
Perhaps amazingly, the carrier was able to transform and consolidate four years of historical transactions, and in addition current data on its known customers, without impacting the operations of KrisFlyer.
Data was migrated in three rounds in a period of two months. Finally, after 18 months of planning and development, SIA cut over to MARMS in January this year.
SIA is by no means the only airline to realise the importance of data mining customer information.
In late 2001, the consulting group of Sabre, a provider of technology, distribution and marketing services for the travel industry, completed a comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) plan for Thai Airways. This is designed to improve customer service for the airline during the next three years.
Sabre evaluated the product and customer service sectors of the airline. Key recommendations made included the development of a CRM blueprint in terms of business model, processes, organisational and performance measures, and a detailed implementation plan for each project that is part of the CRM strategy. Thai Airways is now in the midst of implementing its CRM solution.
Garuda is also keeping an eye on its frequent flyer program, which currently runs on a mainframe. The carrier wants to retrofit the existing system, possibly by moving to a client-server platform.


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South Dakota State Offense Looks to Keep Good Times Rolling at Eastern Washington
If South Dakota State is going to keep pace with a high powered Eastern Washington offense Saturday in round two of the FCS Playoffs, the Jackrabbits are going to need to continue to run the ball with the same effectiveness they have the last two weeks - more than 600 combined yards on the ground against Youngstown State and Northern Arizona.
The running game, of course, falls squarely on the shoulders of junior running back Zach Zenner, who currently leads all FCS backs with 1,944 yards.
Zenner has been known to eat up chunks of yards on a single play, something he did in the playoff opener at Northern Arizona last Saturday, busting off an 87-yard scoring run. It was the type of play that had been missing from the Jacks arsenal since early October against Western Illinois.
The big play drought was due in part to Zenner being a bit banged up and as senior offensive lineman Bryan Witzmann told me, a missed block here and there:
With Zenner always a threat to go the distance, opposing defenses have had to key on stopping him, freeing up other runners, like Reggie Gandy to contribute.
Even quarterback Austin Sumner, never known for his speed, has benefited from distracted defenses, picking up more than 100 yards on the ground in the last two games:
When Sumner does throw the ball these days, he's getting better protection. The SDSU offensive line has allowed two of fewer sacks in four of the last five games - about half as many as the first half of the season.
When South Dakota State plays in Cheney, Washington Saturday afternoon in round two of the FCS Playoffs, the bright red turf at Roos Field will be a dead giveaway they're not in South Dakota anymore, but the weather will feel just like home.
Game time temperatures are expected to be in the teens - a full 20 degrees below normal for Eastern Washington in early December.
Witzmann is a big fan of that forecast:
The last time the SDSU offense faced lousy weather was in the regular season finale at
Youngstown State - a game the Jacks had to win to secure a post season spot. The conditions didn't slow down the running game that day as SDSU racked up 312 yards on the ground, en route to a 42-13 win.
That was one of five straight games now the Jacks have had to win to keep playing in 2013. That 'backs-against-the-wall' mentality will be nothing new for this team in Washington Saturday:
For the second straight year, the Jacks find themselves in virtually the same spot - on the road against a Top Five team in round two of the FCS Playoffs. But how this year's club arrived at this point is what's driving the confidence level of this team:


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South Dakota State is in Select National Group
South Dakota State's first ever berth into the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament has capped a historic sports calendar for the Jackrabbits.
The baseball team joins both the football team and basketball team with post season appearances this school year.
How rare is that?
Only 11 schools pulled it off this season and most of them are college sports heavyweights. According to FootballScoop.com, the other ten are:
Kansas State
NC State
Oklahoma State
Ole Miss
San Diego State
What the Jackrabbits accomplished in 2012-13 is impressive no matter how you look at it, but to really appreciate what went on in Brookings this school year consider this: SDSU is the only FCS school on the list, meaning teams must finish near the top of the standings (football) or win their conference tournament (basketball and baseball) to qualify. The road to pull of this 'trifecta' is much easier at major conference schools.
Of course, let's not forget about the Jackrabbit women's basketball team which has made five straight NCAA Tournament appearances.


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There's another baby on the way for Jeremy Sisto and his wife Addie Lane.
The Suburgatory star confirmed the news during a Tuesday appearance on The Talk adding, "It's a boy!"
Due in March, the couple's son will join big sister Charlie-Ballerina, 2½.
And while the actor didn't divulge any hints about a possible name for their little one, perhaps they plan to hit the books as they did with their daughter.
"I never really pictured myself having a family so it felt strange to name my child after anyone else alive. So my wife went through the dictionary, page by page, looking for words that weren't normally names," Sisto, 37, shares.
"Ballerina, we liked it. But we saved her a little bit, we made it a hyphenated name … so she can go by Charlie … Chuck B."
"I'm hoping she goes for Chuck B," he adds, laughing.
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Fantasy (Young Adult)
Article in Young Adult Fiction and Fantasy categories.
YA Bell, Hilari The Last Knight by Hilari Bell
- Fisk is poor but street-wise; Sir Michael is rich but a knight in a time without them. Watch them try not to kill each other or be killed as they try to rescue Lady Ceciel.
YA Berry, Julie Secondhand Charm
- On her way to the university to become a physician, Evie has a series of adventures and learns of her Serpentia heritage, her magical powers, and the secret of the gypsy charm she wears around her neck.
YA/YA PB Black, Holly White Cat The circumstances surrounding Lila's death are somewhat foggy in Cassel's mind. All he remembers is that he killed her. But when a mysterious white cat enters his life, he learns that his curse-worker brothers have manipulated his memories, and that his own latent talents are even more powerful than theirs. He must use this power to control his family. The story continues in The Red Glove.
YA/YA PB Black, Jenna Glimmerglass
- Frustrated with her alcoholic human mother, Dana travels to Avalon to find her faerie father. But her father's life is more complicated than Dana realized, and she soon gets swept up in faerie politics, kidnappings, and assassination attempts. She also must determine if her new friend Ethan is just the bad-boy that he seems to be, or if he really has feelings for her. Followed by SHADOWSPELL and SIRENSONG.
- The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem
Only useful things have names on the Island. Medford's world is turned upside-down by the goatman who challenges all the rules.
- Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken
An attractive wizard has information that could prevent an impending war, and he chooses Sydelle, the weaver, to guide him to the capital city. Through their dangerous journey, a romance begins to develop.
- Jinx by Meg Cabot
Jinx's bad luck got her booted from Iowa, but it may stop her cousin's black magic.
- Fireby Kristin Cashore
Fire, the last human monster, is determined to use her powers of mind-control only for good. When the ruling family seeks her protection from usurpers, she finds herself wrapped up in a net of political intrigue and conflicted in her affection for her lover, Archer, and her new attraction to Prince Brigan. Prequel to GRACELING.
- Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools by Philip Caveney
Sebastian's a terrible court jester and his buffalope is a terrible coward, but these two may be the only ones to save Princess Kerin and stop her evil father. Hilarious!
- The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
Jack's not just some kid, he's the last of Weirland warriors and now he has to fight to the death.
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Clary's sudden ability to see demons might hold a clue to her mother's disappearance.
- Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore
When Nimira begins working for a young sorcerer, she discovers that his piano-playing automaton servant is actually a fairy prince, held captive in the metal body. As she begins to fall in love with him, Nimira searches for a way to set her prince free. Followed by MAGIC UNDER STONE.
- Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Finn can barely remember his life before his imprisonment in Incarceron, a living prison which drives its inhabitants into a feral, war-like state. When Finn meets Claudia, the Warden's daughter who wants to avoid an arranged marriage, the two begin to plot their escape. Followed by SAPPHIQUE.
- Reckless by Cornelia Funke
When he was twelve, Jacob discovered a magic mirror in his father's study and began his journeys to the Mirrorworld, an alternate reality full of faeries and war-like, stone Goyls. But years later, his younger brother travels through the mirror and is wounded by a Goyl claw, and Jacob must race to find a cure before his brother turns to stone.
- The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
He's a prince who talks to animals, she's a princess who only has a dog for a friend. Can they fall in love and save their kingdoms?
- The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
Turns out Anita isn't a normal teen from London, she's the lost daughter of the king and queen of the faerie's. Can she forget her old life and save the faerie world?
- The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge
Aoife is just a few weeks away from her sixteenth birthday, the age when everyone in her family catches the "madness." But after finding a cryptic note from her older brother, she stumbles into the Land of Thorn, the magical world her mother and brother described in their ravings. Along with her friend Cal and an intriguingly dangerous underworld boy, Dean, she embarks on a quest to save her brother.
- Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Stephanie's only 12, but she's inherited her uncle's estate and his evil-fighting skeleton.
- Morpheus Road: The Light by D.J. MacHale
MORPHEUS ROAD: THE LIGHT When Marshall drew the ghoulish figure of "the Gravedigger," he never expected it to come out of the page and haunt him. Now people are disappearing, including Marshall's best friend Cooper, and some of them have died violent deaths. Marshall must figure out what is happening and find Cooper—if it's not already too late! Followed by THE BLACK.
- Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
A decade after the royal family was assassinated, the kingdom of Lumatere is still waiting for the return of the lost heir to the throne, Balthazar, who will break the magical barrier that has isolated the kingdom. When Finnikin, a childhood friend of Balthazar, meets a girl who has visions of the heir's triumphant return, they join forces to restore the kingdom.
- Pegasus by Robin McKinley
When Sylvi joins in the traditional ritual bond with her Pegasus, Ebon, she discovers that they can communicate telepathically. But as Ebon allows her unconventional privileges, such as riding on his back, the break from tradition threatens the peaceful alliance of humans and Pegasi.
- Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
While camping in his father's controversial dragon preserve, Jake finds a poacher killed by a dragon and an orphan dragon. What he does with the information could ruin his dad.
- Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Orphaned by assassins, Princess Ben is secretly learns magic while locked away in a tower for refusing to marry. It's her stubbornness and magic that might save her kingdom from invaders.
- Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
Ewy hasn't been a mage for long, but she holds the clue that will save the island of Starns from a dormant volcano.
- The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Twins Sophie and Josh's quiet summer explodes when they are thrust into the battle for the secret formula for immortality and forced to master their new, and different talents.
- Dusssie by Nancy Springer
Dusie wakes up to a head full of snakes and a family curse. Puberty = not cool.
- Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
Halli's practical joke gone wrong sends him on an epic quest.
- The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud
In 950 B.C.E., the djinni Bartimaeus has been assigned to a cruel human master. When meets Asmira, a young assassin whose target is none other than King Solomon, they become entangled in a plot to steal Solomon's powerful magic ring. Followed by THE BARTIMEUS TRILOGY.
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
After accepting an invitation from the Green Wind, September finds herself in Fairyland. She quickly befriends some magical creatures and just as soon needs to complete a quest in order to rescue them from the hands of a wicked Marquess.
- Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde
Is the teen found in the woods really Isabelle, stolen by a witch six years earlier?
- The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Mackie knows that he is a changeling, a fragile non-human creature that the faeries left behind when they stole his parents' real baby as a human sacrifice. Unlike most replacements, Mackie has survived to his teenage years, and when the next human baby is stolen, Mackie is determined to challenge the faeries—despite his failing physical health—and rescue the little girl.


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Alexion Software necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Tattje Training & Coaching
I coach people and groups. I do that using my horse Nocky as a mirror to people's behaviour without prejudice, because animals don't have that. A google translation of my goals is on my current website:
http://www.lerenmetpaarden.nl is the Dutch version.
In Holland coaching with horses is kind of unknown, I want to start a serious business, NO woolly feeling.
My new website is being designed at this moment. See a peek at:
You can see me beeing interviewed for television. The Vimeo file is best:
Everyone who likes or need coaching in an unconventional and refreshing way
- Private people (e.g. you and me)
- School counselors (for their students)
- Business who want their employees trained (as a group or induvidualy)
- Other trainers & coaches who may want to hire me for shortterm projects
I need a simple but strong logo in 3 or 4 colors. It needs to reflect the combined coaching with humans (me and coachee) and animal (my horse Nocky).
I have been looking around in 99designs and found a few good one's. And I attached these "logo's 2.png". No. 1 and 2 I like because they are strong. I miss the horse thing (eg like a styled horse head). No. 9 I like because of the flow it represents: coaching is a flowing proces.
A triangle is what I imagined: me - client - horse. The head of the horse being the most difficult part not to let it be too dominant yet still recognisable as an animal.
Bright colors I like very much eg red, yellow and blue. But red, yellow and green or red, green and blue may be suitable.
I have two companies and for both I need a new logo. Tattje training & coaching first, later also for Alexion Software :-)
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