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- For the game played by loyal fans, see Ice Warfare.
"It's hockey, not ice hockey, idiots!"
"I have a dream that one day more than two Black people will play the sport of hockey. But I won't be one of them. Too cold for me."
"I'm not wearing hockey pads!"
Hockey is a popular Canadian religion and style of street fighting. Because black people dominate nearly every other sport, Caucasians have made sure to protect hockey from them at all costs. For example, the NHL over-reacted to Chris Rock's joke, "Once they make a heated hockey rink, we're takin' that shit, too" by dismantling the heaters from every ice arena. This overly-cautious attitude caused hockey to lose much of its luster, and the sport is now bringing in ratings lower than "Bingo Live!" on ESPN the Ocho. Today, no one cares about hockey, except Canadians.
Rules of Play
Hockey is fought between two teams each consisting of 20 fighters and a goaltender. At least 10 of the fighters must be Canadian. The 20 fighters are divided into four specialized lines, each consisting of 5 players:
|First Line:
|2 Wingers
|2 Defensemen
|1 Ape
|Second Line:
|3 Astronauts
|1 Lawyer
|1 Seeker
|Third Line:
|3 Eskimos
|Wayne Gretzky
|Fourth Line:
|2 Amorfos
|2 Chinese
|Willem Dafoe
The objective is to kill all enemy fighters. The Eskimos and Chinese are worth triple points. The fight consists of three periods of 17 minutes and 9 seconds. In some games, less than 3 periods are needed to determine the victor. In the event of a tie, a final "Puck-Off" occurs, in which breaking the opposing team's teeth becomes the primary goal.
A secondary objective is to score goals. In the event that both teams lose all fighters, the team that has the most goals loses the game. A tertiary objective is to avoid killing the referees, although this is merely honorific and no awards are given for it.
Before fights in Detroit, a squid is often thrown onto the ice. It tries to devour as many enemy fighters as possible. There have been questions about the integrity of this practice, but it has been ruled legitimate because there is nothing else that's fun to do in Detroit.
Equipment Required
Each fighter is given a light saber, except for the lawyer, who carries a gun.
The wearing of pads is optional, but many fighters have shields powered by generators on Forest moons. Ewoks can also be used as protection, except in the NHL, where it is prohibited. Eskimos are allowed to use their pet polar bears, as long as they are not actually two or more Ewoks duct taped together.
America and Hockey... America = More money for less talent. Buy from the Canadians.
Canadians and Hockey... Canada = Less money for more talent. Sell the worst to America, unless you're in Edmonton, which trades the good players away for a bad deal that ends up destroying the team.
There have been rumors about the "League" which supposedly abducts small children and then transforms them into meat puppets. These meat puppets have roughly the same amount of skill as an American Hockey player.
Hockey and Beer, the most wonderful of combinations. Funny to watch and fights occur very often. The boards which surround the rink aren't designed to stop the puck from hitting people. It's to stop people from beating the crap out of players and refs.
Another great thing about hockey is Rassentrasser. I never have to do any more work in corners. I hate Rassentrasser now. I tried to take canned pears and he stole my YOP. It made me mad.
Hockey is thought to have originated in ancient Greece. During their summer break, many Greeks would take vacations down south in what is today Florida and California. When the oceans froze over, the Greeks would undress down to their tighty whites (unless it was dangerously cold) and play a game strikingly similar to hockey. It was called sleeping. The local population were intrigued by this sport and adopted it as their own. Since they decided to keep the sport for them selves they were screwed and thrown in jail for 2 months.
The first modern hockey team was the infamous Pittsburgh Power Rangers (not to be confused with the New York Hoboes or New York Glue Sticks), which formed in 1400. At first, people went to them mainly because they thought they were at a boxing match, but then a hockey game broke out. The story continues from there.
Famous Hockey Players
There are a few famous Ice Hockey players. They are:
- Willem Dafuck
- God: The Vancouver Canuck's Saviour. Goes by the name Roberto Luongo.
- The Great One: I met him once. He was a dick.
- Alex Ovechkin: The other Great One that likes to get suspended a lot.
- Sidney Crosby: The Jewish one. (See NHL Rules)
- The Pretty Good One: Not quite as Splendid as the Other Chap One.
- The Meh One.
- Miroslav Satan: He goes by Satan.
- The Pocket Rocket: He's not just happy to see you.
- Andy Gill: The inventor of the mullet
- Sergé Lucienne LaFrenchie
- Don Cherry: Dresses like a cross between Captain Kangaroo and Liberace
- Tie Domi: That guy that likes to fight
- Sergie Fedorov: The first Russian to elude the communist Swine Richard Nixon and join the NHL
- Happy Gilmore: He left hockey for a career in swearing/golf
- Lomaoasjk Speausidhb: He started as a flute player
- Ken Dryden: The alter ego of Jason Voorhees
- Reggie Dunlop: Known to fuck his opponent's wives and announce to everyone on the ice that she's a dyke.
- Scott Lopez: Alaskan-born Mexican for the Los Diablos Nuevo Jersey and famous to kicked a puck into the goal net in the 2001 Stanl;ey Cup against Los Avalamachos Colorado. !GGGGGGOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!
Famous Black Hockey Players
Yeah, didn't think so!
Famous Women Hockey Players
Go Fernie Swastikas! 1923 champions! Sieg Heil to our Nordic Aryan beauties from the Great WHITE North!
(I betcha Anaheim Ducks' goalie Hiller is Hitler's secret bastard-great-grandson.)
The Swastika Ladies is yet today the only successfull female hockey team, mostly because of the fact that a game takes 60 minutes (plus fighting) for men while the time is three months for women. But Fernie Swastikas got their hands on East German steroids to solve that. As that made it possible for women to compete with men, the use of steroids became forbidden the very next year. Hockey remained an initiation rite for young men in the entire Arctic region. Well, except for Norway, Iceland and Greenland. And since they suck at hockey they shouldn't be counted anyway.
See also
- Don Cherry
- Hockey Night in Canada
- Greg Pull, virtual hockey player


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Acadia National Park has been on our must-see list since we moved to the East Coast and we decided to make a trip in October, trying to time our visit with the fall colors. Of course, the fall colors were unusually late, so we missed the peak color, but we still had a great trip and enjoyed exploring the park.
We spent 3 days and two nights in the park. We stayed in Bar Harbor since the weather can be a bit unpredictable and the potential of camping in cold fall rain didn't sound too appealing. But Bar Harbor is a really cute town, and very convenient for accessing the park, so it turned out to be a great choice and allowed us to experience a small coastal New England town. Also, lobster for dinner!
Sunrise from Cadillac Mountain
Hikes to lighthouses, waterfalls, peaks, and sunsets
We also spent a couple half-days in Portland with Katharine's friend Kate. She gave us a tour of the city with stops for blueberry beer, and we made a trip out to the famous Portland Head Light.
We really enjoyed the ocean views and challenging hikes of Acadia. Another National Park checked off the list!

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RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil – Antoine Griezmann can hardly believe he's playing at the World Cup.
With Franck Ribery out injured, Griezmann has been thrust into France's attack and into the spotlight. Despite playing only a few international games, he looks settled and was impressive at times in Sunday's 3-0 win over Honduras in Group E.
His versatility allows him to make the most of the "total freedom" which coach Didier Deschamps gives his mobile forwards.
The 23-year-old Griezmann's national team prospects appeared dim when he was banned by the French Football Federation for one year over a disciplinary issue.
When asked how he would have reacted a year ago if he'd been told he would be playing on football's biggest stage, he said: "I would probably have said 'Are you having a laugh?'"
In October 2012, he was among a group of under-21 players who left their training camp late at night and drove two hours to go to a Paris nightclub and back between two playoff games against Norway for the 2013 European Championship. France lost 5-3 and failed to qualify.
"I knew I had to work hard and show another image of myself," he said.
Once his ban was over, Deschamps called him up to face the Netherlands in March last year and Griezmann has scored three times in five appearances.
He is part of a revamped forward line that is interchangeable. Deschamps lets his forwards roam around at will, providing they don't neglect their defensive duties.
"We have total freedom in attack," Griezmann said. "He gives us carte blanche to enjoy ourselves as long as we help our fullbacks out."
Griezmann played in three positions against Honduras, with Valbuena and Benzema playing in two each.
Early on, Valbuena did most of his attacking down the right, but moved to the left midway through the first half to initiate an attacking move.
When Benzema dropped deep to collect a pass, Griezmann replaced him at center forward, and when Valbuena shifted over to the left Griezmann moved to the right.
"The coach gives me a lot of freedom to play between the lines," Valbuena said.
When Deschamps took Valbuena off, Olivier Giroud came on at center forward, Benzema took Griezmann's place on the left and Griezmann moved to the right — meaning Honduras had faced three different center forwards.
"It's easy to come into this team, because we play a possession game and the technical ability is high. I try to play one-touch football and speed the game up," Griezmann said. "It's pretty easy to play with Valbuena, because his style of play is similar to mine and we like to play one-twos."
His understanding with Benzema is also promising.
"He gives me a lot of advice on the pitch, tells me not to get stressed out, to play the way I do for my club and to pay attention to his runs," Griezmann said. "We're together a lot and we like to have a laugh."
For a diminutive player, Griezmann also has a great natural spring, as he showed by leaping above taller center half Maynor Figueroa to head the ball against the crossbar.
"That goes back to when I was young, when we were out playing with mates," Griezmann said. "One of us crossed the ball and the others did headers. I have this heading ability thanks to my friends."
Although Griezmann comes across as pretty unflappable, there is one thing that does annoy him: comparisons with Ribery, who was the same age when he broke into the France team just weeks before the 2006 World Cup and shone at the tournament.
"There's no comparison," he said. "Of course I'm flattered because we're talking about Franck Ribery, but everyone has their own way of playing."


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//February 17, 2012
WILMINGTON, Del. — After a long and contentious legal battle and more than three years in bankruptcy, Washington Mutual Inc. on Friday finally won court approval of a reorganization plan.
"It took three and a half years, but I think the result is remarkable and well worth it," said Judge Mary Walrath, who had twice rejected reorganization plans filed by Washington Mutual before giving her blessing to a revised plan Washington Mutual submitted in December.
"I'm happy to confirm this plan," the judge added. "I thank all the parties for not giving up."
As with its earlier proposals, Washington Mutual's plan is based on WMI, JPMorgan Chase and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. settling lawsuits they filed against one another after the collapse of Seattle-based Washington Mutual Bank in 2008 and the sale of its assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion. It was the largest bank failure in U.S. history.
The plan calls for some $7 billion to be distributed to creditors and includes significant recoveries for shareholders, who often are left with nothing in bankruptcy cases.
"This Chapter 11 plan is a tremendous success," said Washington Mutual attorney Brian Rosen.
In denying a previous WaMu plan in September, Walrath granted permission to the official committee of equity holders to pursue claims that hedge funds supporting the plan had engaged in insider trading based on information obtained during the bankruptcy.
Following court-ordered mediation, the hedge funds agreed to provide $75 million in cash to the reorganized Washington Mutual, a small reinsurance company in which current Washington Mutual stockholders will hold 95 percent of the equity. The hedge funds also will provide a $125 million credit facility to the reorganized company. The hedge funds denied the allegations of insider trading.
Walrath agreed with Edgar Sargent, an attorney for the equity committee, that individual shareholders had played an extraordinary role in the case.
"I have never seen a case where the shareholders had been so active and so interested in what is going on, and what their rights are and how they can protect them," she said.
Having satisfied stockholders with the December revisions to its plan, Washington Mutual cleared away the final significant obstacle on Thursday, when it reached an agreement with a group of dissident creditors who had voted against the plan, which received overwhelming support from other creditor classes.
The dissident creditors held certain WaMu securities that were converted into preferred stock when regulators seized WMI's flagship bank and sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase. Facing far less chance of obtaining recoveries as stockholders rather than debt holders, only 62 percent of them voted for the plan, short of the required two-thirds majority. That raised questions as to whether Walrath could approve it.
But in return for rescinding their "no" votes and agreeing to support the plan, the securities investors will receive $18 million from JPMorgan and will be allowed a general unsecured claim of about $618,000. They also will be allowed to seek reimbursement of up to $15 million in legal fees without opposition from Washington Mutual or its official committee of unsecured creditors.
In approving Washington Mutual's plan, Walrath agreed to strike language in her September ruling that referred to the insider trading allegations against the hedge funds, a condition the hedge funds had demanded in the December settlement that paved the way for the plan.
While denying Washington Mutual's previous plans in January 2011 and again in September, Walrath ruled that the global settlement agreement among WMI, JPMorgan and the FDIC that was the foundation for the entire reorganization effort was fair and reasonable. She reiterated that finding on Friday, saying the agreement resolved "very thorny" issues that could have taken years to litigate.l


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Atypical (a.k.a., "second-generation") antipsychotics are commonly used in the treatment of psychotic disorders, and mood disorders as well. Compared to typical (first-generation) antipsychotics, the atypical antipsychotics have lower affinity for dopamine D2 receptors, and they also act at serotonin (5-HT) receptors (they are antagonists for these receptors). Other neurotransmitter receptors are affected as well, and each atypical antipsychotic preferentially antagonizes different receptors.
When atypical antipsychotics were first introduced, it was hoped that they would be more effective than typical antipsychotics and have fewer extrapyramidal side effects (see below). While these expectations may have been somewhat overblown and atypicals are not markedly superior in decreasing psychosis symptoms, most atypicals certainly have a lower risk of developing extrapyramidal side effects. However, they do come with their own array of side effects.
Extrapyramidal side effects (EPSE): These are movement-related side effects caused by dopamine antagonism. These include acute dystonia (torticollis, an uncomfortable muscular spasm of the neck; as well as spasms of the eyes, tongue, jaw), akathisia (motor restlessness and a need to remain in motion), tardive dyskinesia (repetitive, involuntary movements usually involving facial muscles), parkinsonian symptoms (resting tremor, rigidity, slowed movements), and neuroleptic malignant syndrome (potentially fatal!).
Elevated prolactin (PRL): This can lead to gynecomastia (breast growth) and galactorrhea (milk-production), which can be very distressing for male patients! Can also cause infertility and sexual dysfunction. It also happens with typical antipsychotics.
Weight gain: This can be very a troublesome symptom, and may lead to diabetes in some patients.
Sedation: This may prevent patients from engaging in their usual activities and work.
Orthostatic hypotension: Drop in blood pressure after standing from sitting position.
Some antipsychotics have especially severe side effects. Clozapine, for example, is extremely effective in treating psychosis but can lead to fatal agranulocytosis (drop in white blood cells), as well as tremendous weight gain and sedation. Ziprasidone use can lead to QTc prolongation and increase the risk for serious cardiac arrhythmia.
The above chart shows the relative side effect profiles of eight atypical antipsychotics (aripiprazole, clozapine, lurasidone, olanzepine, paliperidone, quetiapine, risperidone, ziprasidon) versus two typical antipsychotics (chlorpromazine, haloperidone).
- Haddad PM, Sharma SG. 2007. Adverse effects of atypical antipsychotics: Differential risk and clinical implications. CNS drugs; 21:911.
- Leucht S, Cipriani A, Spineli L, Mavridis D, Orey D, Richter F, Samara M, Barbui C, Engel RR, Geddes JR, Kissling W, Stapf MP, Lassig B, Salanti G, Davis JM. 2013. Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 15 antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia: A multiple treatments meta-analysis. Lancet; 382:951.
- Meltzer HY. 2013. Update on typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs. Annual Review of Medicine: 64:393.
- Sadock BJ, Sadock VA (Eds.). 2007. Serotonin-dopamine antagonists: Atypical antipsychotics. In: Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia PA.


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Whether lifting weights in a gym or just walking around the block, exercise has many benefits, such as helping people lose weight and build stronger muscles. Some studies suggest that it may reduce the risk of developing cancer and other diseases. Researchers now report in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research that moderate, long-term physical activity appears to improve cardiovascular health in mice by targeting the heart cells' powerhouses — the mitochondria.
Eduard Sabidó, Francisco Amado and colleagues explain that despite the well-documented benefits of exercise, the exact way that it helps the heart is not well understood. Sure, it helps strengthen the heart muscle so it can pump more blood throughout the body more efficiently. And people who get off the couch and exercise regularly have a reduced risk of developing heart problems and cardiovascular disease. One estimate even claims that 250,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are at least partially due to a lack of exercise. But how this all happens in the body at the molecular level has perplexed researchers — until now.
The team found that laboratory mice (stand-ins for humans) that exercised for 54 weeks on a treadmill-running regimen had higher levels of certain proteins in the mitochondria of their heart cells than mice that did not exercise. Mitochondria produce energy for the body's cells. In particular, they identified two proteins, kinases called RAF and p38, that "seem to trigger the beneficial cardiovascular effects of lifelong exercise training," they say.
The authors acknowledge funding from the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, QREN, FEDER and COMPETE.
"Lifelong Exercise Training Modulates Cardiac Mitochondrial Phosphoproteome in Rats"
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If you're hosting a holiday themed gathering of some kind this year, there's a chance you're going to play Netflix's "Fireplace For Your Home" on your television in the background. Why will you do this? It's hopelessly tacky. And yet, it will feel totally right; a bit like eating fruitcake and decorating with poinsettias. But who the hell makes these videos in the first place?
This hilarious video from the folks at Netflix takes a "behind-the-scenes look" at the making of "Fireplace For Your Home," and imagines the weird, manipulative, obsessive compulsive filmmaker responsible for the work.
He seems like a real asshole! In reality, whoever makes these videos is probably just an opportunist—but it's funnier to imagine him as a total jerk. This video could have gone so terribly wrong—but instead of a failure of marketing, it's a triumph of comedy. [Devour]


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Seemingly anxious to get the next version of the Java programming language ratified, Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation to reconsider its stance on the proposed Java Standard Edition 7.
"We would encourage Apache to reconsider their position and work together with Oracle and the community at large to collectively move Java forward," wrote Don Deutsch, Oracle vice president of standards and architecture, in a statement posted Monday on an Oracle blog site.
Last week in a statement, the ASF board encouraged other Executive Community members of the JCP (Java Community Process) to vote against the proposed Java 7 Java Specification Request.
The ASF maintains that Oracle has put restrictions on a Java TCK (Technology Compatibility Kit) used to test Apache Harmony, Apache's open source implementation of Java SE. The FOU (Field of Use) restriction violates the terms of the original agreement, called the JSPA (Java Specification Participation Agreement), ASF said.
"Oracle is attempting to place the FOU restrictions on Apache Harmony via the TCK license, which is unacceptable to us because it would mean that we couldn't distribute Apache Harmony under an open source license," explained Geir Magnusson Jr., an ASF board member, in an e-mail to IDG last week.
In his post, Deutsch did not respond to ASF's specific charge, noting only that "Oracle provides TCK licenses under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms consistent with its obligations under the JSPA." Instead, he emphasized the need for getting the future Java Specification Request approved, alluding to the frustrationsome members of the JCP have felt over how approval of the standard has thus far been stalled over this issue.
With Apache's support, "the Java community can get on with the important work of driving forward Java SE and other standards in open, transparent, consensus-driven expert groups. This is the priority. Now is the time for positive action. Now is the time to move Java forward," Deutsch said.
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Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will leave the social networking company on July 1, a move that comes after months of intense pressure from disgruntled investors.
Twitter co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey will be taking over as interim CEO while the company looks for a new chief executive, the company announced Thursday. This doesn't appear to be a Steve Jobs-esque return to the company for Dorsey, who will remain CEO of Square, the payments company he co-founded in 2009. Costolo will remain on Twitter's board of directors.
The search for Costolo's replacement will be conducted by a committee formed by Twitter's board of directors. It will be helmed by Peter Currie, the former Netscape CFO and Twitter's lead independent director. Company co-founder Evan Williams and venture capitalist Peter Fenton will also serve as members of the committee. Internal and external candidates will be considered for Twitter's top job.
Twitter's financial performance has been a consistent source of frustration and disappointment for many investors who have been calling for Costolo's head for the better part of a year. The firm has yet to post a profit since its initial public offering in 2013. Furthermore, the company's revenue growth has slowed over the past few quarters, and its first quarter revenue came in below analyst expectations.
Sun Trust financial analyst Robert Peck said in December of last year that "there's a good chance he's not there in a year." He told CNBC at the time that Costolo's continued presence at the company was the top question he received about Twitter from institutional investors.
The company's lackluster user growth has been another source of frustration for investors. Twitter has embarked on a number of new initiatives to grow its user base, but those changes have yet to translate into massive gains in the number of people logged into and using the service.
So far, Wall Street has welcomed the news, sending shares of Twitter's stock up almost 8 percent in after hours trading.
In Twitter's press release, Costolo was quoted as saying he was "tremendously proud" of Twitter's staff and its accomplishments in his six years with the company. He said the company has "great leaders" and a "clear strategy," and expressed confidence in Dorsey's ability to lead Twitter during the transition.


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Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET.
Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Florida, invites you to participate in the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative's (NNHQCC's) third face-to-face Learning and Action Network (LAN) event in Florida.
The LAN aligns national nursing home quality initiatives and partnerships such as the Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and the Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes Campaign. This "all-teach, all-learn" workshop will use Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement (QAPI) as the framework and provide participants with the opportunity to learn, share best and promising practices, and network with peers.
- Review the essential areas and objectives of the NNHQCC.
- Understand your facility Quality Measure Composite Score for current performance in quality measures.
- Describe the burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in nursing homes and strategies for improvement using QAPI.
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General Motors is working on a second generation of its EN-V electric-car concept and might test the two-seat, pod-shaped vehicle in large cities around the world.
The EN-V will wear the Chevrolet badge. It is designed to communicate with other vehicle and city infrastructure to minimize congestion.
"By 2030, more than 60 percent of the world's 8 billion people will live in urban areas," said Chris Perry, vice president of Chevrolet marketing and strategy. "The Chevrolet EN-V represents a possible solution for global customers living in markets where alternative transportation solutions are needed."
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NSA whistleblowers: Government spying on every single American
The TSA, DHS and countless other security agencies have been established to keep America safe from terrorist attacks in post-9/11 America. How far beyond that does the feds' reach really go, though?
The attacks September 11, 2001, were instrumental in enabling the US government to establish counterterrorism agencies to prevent future tragedies. Some officials say that they haven't stopped there, though, and are spying on everyone in America — all in the name of national security.Testimonies delivered in recent weeks by former employees of the National Security Agency suggest that the US government is granting itself surveillance powers far beyond what most Americans consider the proper role of the federal government.In an interview broadcast on Current TV's "Viewpoint" program on Monday, former NSA Technical Director William Binney commented on the government's policy of blanket surveillance, alongside colleagues Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe, the agency's respective former Senior Official and Senior Analyst.The interview comes on the heels of a series of speeches given by Binney, who has quickly become better known for his whistleblowing than his work with the NSA. In their latest appearance this week, though, the three former staffers suggested that America's spy program is much more dangerous than it seems.In an interview with "Viewpoint" host Eliot Spitzer, Drake said there was a "key decision made shortly after 9/11, which began to rapidly turn the United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for dragnet blanket electronic surveillance."These powers have previously defended by claims of national security necessity, but Drake says that it doesn't stop there. He warns that the government is giving itself the power to gather intel on every American that could be used in future prosecutions unrelated to terrorism."When you open up the Pandora's Box of just getting access to incredible amounts of data, for people that have no reason to be put under suspicion, no reason to have done anything wrong, and just collect all that for potential future use or even current use, it opens up a real danger — and to what else what they could use that data for, particularly when it's all being hidden behind the mantle of national security," Drake said.Although Drake's accusations seem astounding, they corroborate allegations made by Binney only a week earlier. Speaking at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City earlier this month, Binney addressed a room of thousands about the NSA's domestic spying efforts. But in a candid interview with journalist Geoff Shively during HOPE, the ex-NSA official candidly revealed the full extent of the surveillance program."Domestically, they're pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you're doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it's a very dangerous process," Binney said.Drake and Binney's statements follow the revelation that law enforcement officers collected cell phone records on 1.3 million Americans in 2011. More news articles are emerging every day suggesting that the surveillance of Americans — off-the-radar and under wraps — is growing at an exponential rate.


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In iWork Smarter, not Harder I mainly talked about Pages, but the iWork suite also consists of Keynote and Numbers.
Keynote is for giving presentations, and if you've ever used PowerPoint, well, it's like that, except you don't want to kill yourself while you are using it. I mean, I'm sure there are people who enjoy using PowerPoint. I think they are called masochists. (I kid, I kid!)
PowerPoint, you're fine for the Windows-wielding corporate drones of the world. Make your charts & graphs showing projections for the 4th fiscal quarter… someone has to do it. Is it my background as a designer that makes me feel like Keynote "gets it" where PowerPoint does not? I don't know… but I actually like using Keynote for building presentations. In the olden days (2006) I'd probably be all hellbent on using S5 or some (web-)standards based presentation thingy, to avoid using a PDF, or a PowerPoint file, or some other thing I deemed "evil" or such… but I guess I've mellowed a bit… and, I like Keynote.
As for Numbers, I have less use for it, but appreciate the fact that I have a spreadsheet application that runs on my own computer instead of the cloud, and feels cleaner and functions better than the offerings of NeoOffice or OpenOffice. I tend to use spreadsheets as spreadsheets and not databases, as many people do, so I don't use it a lot. I did find that making charts & graphs was pretty damn easy. I never knew how to make a damn chart in Excel, but Numbers was intuitive. In the olden days (2004) I'd probably be all hellbent on writing some Perl code to generate an SVG file if I needed a graph. It is nice to have Numbers around as an option though.
So while I'm thankful for these useful tools, I'm still a fan of writing HTML for presentations, and (being able to) write code to generate charts & graphs. I mean, choice is a good thing… right?
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Proximity sensors work on the eddy current principle. A proximity system consists of an eddy current probe, extension cable and driver. A high-frequency RF signal is generated by the driver, sent through the extension and probe cables and radiated from the probe tip. The tip consists of a precision wound copper coil inside a chemical and temperature resistant PEEK case.
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Current output drivers give a 4-20mA output directly proportional to the measured component and allow direct connection to PLCs and other industrial controllers. Can be used with any probe type.
The most common probe for high speed pumps with plain metal bearings able to measure small vibration levels and gaps up to 2mm.
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Current output driver for vibration measurements. Range dependent on associated probe, typically 125micron peak-to-peak vibration for turbine and pump shafts. Loop-powered.
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ADOPTED (ABC) - Christine Baranski ("Happy Family") and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe ("Nash Bridges") have both been cast in the comedy pilot, about a thirtysomething writer (Andrew Walker) whose life is turned upside down when his biological mom (Baranski) shows up on his doorstep one day, resulting in his adoptive (Bernadette Peters) and birth mothers comically competing for his attention. Baranski will play Judy Rabinowitz, said biological mother in the project, which comes from 20th Century Fox Television. Her character is described as: "48 plus. Lloyd's biological mother, she is Jewish, a child therapist and the single parent of beautiful 26 years old Rachel. While generous of spirit, with a warm heart, and cozy, lived-in house, Judy can turn on a dime, revealing her more frenetic, out of control nature."
O'Keefe then is set as Rachel: "26, incredibly beautiful. She is Judy's biological daughter and therefore Lloyd's younger half sister. Smart, dry, caustic, self-involved and not one to miss a good family feud, she grabs some wine and sits back to watch the fireworks as Judy does her best to entertain Lloyd and his strange family. She's also clearly attracted to Tucker [Lloyd's younger non-biological brother], and the two are soon making out." Kevin Abbott, Peter Principato, Paul Young are executive producing the project with Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, E. Brian Dobbins co-executive producing.
BEHIND THE CAMERA: MORK & MINDY (NBC) - The Peacock's latest entry in its "Behind the Camera" franchise is set to air on Monday, April 4 at 9:00/8:00c. Chris Diamantopoulos and Erinn Hayes star as Robin Williams and Pam Dawber respectively in the project, from director Neil Fearnley and former "Mork & Mindy" writer David Misch.
BLUE SKIES (NBC) - Jay Paulson ("Go") has joined the cast of the comedy pilot, about a 27-year-old former golden child (Anna Faris) who finds herself becoming a reluctant enabler to her crazy family. He'll play Matthew, the brother of Faris's character in the project, which comes from NBC Universal Television and creator Jhoni Marchinko. Missi Pyle also stars.
CONFESSIONS OF A DOG (NBC) - Bianca Kajlich ("Rock Me Baby") is the first to be cast in the comedy pilot, about a likable self-deprecating serial dater who has never been in a serious relationship and his two best friends. It's understood Kajlich will play one of the man's two best friends, a woman who, after playing the field for years, has fallen in love and gotten engaged. It's not clear if Kajlich's casting lifts the cast-contingency off the pilot's production. Nevertheless, the pilot is currently scheduled to tape on Thursday, April 21 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Bill Lawrence and Eric Weinberg ("Scrubs") are the executive producers.
DIRTBAGS (FOX) - The Melissa Joan Hart-led comedy pilot is set to tape on Friday, April 15 at Fox Studios. The 20th Century Fox Television-based project revolves a group of twentysomething friends in a blue-collar suburb of Boston, some of whom have never left and others who have ventured out and returned. Will Gluck is executive producing the pilot alongside creators Matt Boren & Doug Segal.
FILMORE MIDDLE (NBC) - Marc Buckland ("Scrubs") has signed a two-year, seven-figure overall deal with Touchstone Television. The pact calls for Buckland to develop original projects for the studio as well direct several of its pilots this season. Currently, he's set to helm NBC's "Earl" as well as "Filmore Middle." The latter pilot, about disillusioned teachers at a rundown public school, has been scheduled to tape on Tuesday, April 19 at Sony Pictures Studios despite its cast-contingency.
FOUR KINGS (NBC) - The comedy pilot, about four childhood friends in New York City (all yet to be cast), is currently scheduled to tape on Wednesday, April 13 at the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. David Kohan and Max Mutchnick ("Will & Grace") are behind the Warner Bros. Television/KoMut Productions-based project, to be directed by James Burrows.
HOT PROPERTIES (ABC) - The comedy pilot, about four women (Sofia Vergara, Gail O'Grady, Nicole Sullivan and one yet to be cast) who run a real estate office in New York, is set to tape on Thursday, April 21 at the Warner Bros. Studios. Suzanne Martin created the project, which also stars Stephen Dunham.
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL (FOX) - Nicholas Brendon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") is the latest addition to the comedy pilot, about a bad-boy, down-on-his-luck chef who takes over at a top New York restaurant and must fight off all the urges of his former lifestyle. Brendon will play Seth Klein in the project, which also stars Owain Yeoman and John Francis Daley. His character is described in the casting notice as: "20s. A pastry chef extraordinaire, and is also a compulsive gambler, who�ll take odds on ANY bet! He is lured to Bistro Pino by a desperate Jack. Despite some misgivings, Seth joins the team." Darren Star is directing the single-camera pilot from a script by David Hemingson. Star, Hemingson, David Knoller and Jim Rosenthal then will executive produce the project, which is set up at 20th Century Fox Television, New Line Television and Darren Star Productions.
LAWS OF CHANCE (ABC) - Michael O'Neill ("Secondhand Lions") has landed a role in the drama pilot, about a feisty female A.D.A. (KaDee Strickland) in Houston who uses unconventional methods against the old-boy Texas defense attorneys. No details however were released about his character. Bruce McGill and Fran Kranz also star in the project, which comes from Grant Scharbo, Gary Glasberg and Gina Matthews and is set up at 20th Century Fox Television and Roundtable Ink.
PROJECT GREENLIGHT (Bravo) - A disappointing 311,000 viewers tuned into the show's third season premiere on the cable channel. Said number however was on par with the debut of "Project Runway" (354,000), which eventually went on to draw more than 2 million viewers for its two-hour finale.
THE SHIELD (FX) - A whopping 3.93 million viewers tuned into Tuesday's fourth season premiere of the cable drama, a growth of 37% from last year's opener (2.82 million). Among adults 18-49, "The Shield" fared equally as well, earning 2.34 million viewers (1.8 national rating/5 share) in the key demographic. The broadcast was also the second most-watched program on cable Tuesday, behind only a repeat of "Law & Order" on TNT (4.51 million) earlier that night.
THE SHOW WITH AJ CALLOWAY (UPN, New!) - UPN has added another comedy pilot to its roster, this time for a "Larry Sanders"-esque comedy about the host (BET personality AJ Calloway) of a fictitious broadcast network late-night talk show whose life is complicated by old flames, dysfunctional friends and ever-present family members. The project is set up at Sony Pictures Television and Handprint Entertainment with David Goetch ("Game Over") and Handprint's Benny Medina, Jeff Pollack and Evan Weiss executive producing. Calloway himself, Mike Brillstein and Adam Lublin are also attached as co-executive producers.
SHOWTIME ORIGINALS - The pay channel has confirmed premiere dates for several of is upcoming original projects. In addition to the previously announced "Reefer Madness" (Saturday, April 16), "Our Fathers" will premiere on Saturday, May 21 followed by the final season premiere of "Queer as Folk" on Sunday, May 22 at 9:00/8:00c. On Monday, June 13 look for the series premiere of the Mary-Louise Parker-led comedy "Weeds" with "The Cell" due in August (exact date TBA), "Barbershop" in the fall and "Brotherhood" in early 2006.
THICK AND THIN (NBC) - The comedy pilot, about an obese woman (Jessica Capshaw) who turns thin and struggles in her relationships with her still-large family and friends, has been scheduled to tape on Friday, April 22 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. The project, which is set up at NBC Universal Television and Broadway Video, comes from executive producers Paula Pell, Lorne Michaels and JoAnn Alfano.
UNTITELD BILL OAKLEY/JOSH WEINSTEIN PROJECT (FOX) - Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein's comedy pilot for FOX is set to tape on Wednesday, April 20 at Universal Studios. The workplace comedy, which will also feature single-camera elements, revolves around a police precinct in New York's Times Square. The pair are executive producing the NBC Universal Television/Broadway Video-based project along with Lorne Michaels and JoAnn Alfano. No casting has been announced.
UNTITLED DAVE FLEBOTTE PROJECT (NBC) - The comedy pilot, which stars Vincent Pastore as the head of an Italian-American family running a deli/coffee shop in Boston's North End, has been slated to tape on Friday, April 22 at the CBS Studio Center. James Burrows is set to direct the NBC Universal Television/Wolf Films-based project from a script by creator Dave Flebotte. Flebotte will also executive produce along with Dick Wolf and Nena Rodrigue.
UNTITLED JEFFREY LIEBER PROJECT (FOX) - Megalyn Echikunwoke ("Like Family") is the latest to be cast in the drama pilot, around a brother (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and sister (Leslie Bibb) who manage a Las Vegas wedding emporium. She'll play Christina Chase in the Spelling Television-based project, which also stars Dagmara Dominczyk. Jeffrey Lieber created the pilot, which he's executive producing along with Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Warren Littlefield. Thomas Carter directs.
UNTITLED MARTHA STEWART PROJECT (CBS, New!) - The Eye reportedly is fast-tracking a new original movie for May sweeps about the life of Martha Stewart and her recent legal troubles. The network is also understood to be in talks with Cybill Shepherd, who played the media mogul in the 2003 NBC original "Martha, Inc.," to reprise her role. The new effort, which will begin production on March 28 in Toronto, will also feature a more serious tone as well as spend more time on her trial, imprisonment and eventual release. Eric Bross (USA's "Traffic") will direct from a script by Charles Bohl ("Swimfan") with Tom Patricia ("Dawn Anna") executive producing and Frank Siracusa producing.
UNTITLED MICHAEL CALEO PROJECT (ABC) - Brian Benben ("Dream On") has joined the cast of the comedy pilot, about two feuding neighbors that are forced to contend with each other when their wives and kids become friends. He joins the previously cast Lenny Clarke in the project, which comes from Michael Caleo, Matt Gross and Touchstone Television. Taping on the pilot is scheduled to take place on Friday, April 15 at the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles.
UNTITLED SUSIE ESSMAN PROJECT (CBS) - The Susie Essman-led comedy pilot, about a woman who becomes a surrogate stepmom of her boyfriend's four kids in the suburbs, has been slated to tape on Wednesday, April 13 at the Culver Studios in Los Angeles. Essman created the project, which is set up at 20th Century Fox Teleivison, Paramount Network Television and Brad Johnson's Watson Pond banner, with Tom Leopold, who wrote the pilot script.
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New York, NY – The New York Knicks have signed forward Kenyon Martin for the remainder of the season.
Martin is averaging 5.7 points and 3.2 rebounds in six games since signing with the Knicks. He'll be a focal point now that the team has been hampered by injuries to Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler.
Martin had his best game as a Knick on Thursday when he had 12 points in 30 minutes of a 105-90 loss at Portland.
Before signing with New York, the 35-year-old veteran had not landed a job this season after playing 42 games for the Los Angeles Clippers last season. He averaged career lows of 5.2 points and 4.3 rebounds during the shortened 2011-12 campaign.
Martin, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2000 NBA Draft and a 12-year veteran, was an All-Star with the Nets in 2003-04 and has averaged 12.9 points and 7.0 rebounds over 702 career games with New Jersey, Denver, the Clippers and Knicks.


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If you're getting bored of the traditional timelapse tour of a major metropolitan city, this hyper-lapse run through Berlin should reinvigorate your passion for virtual tourism. Its frantic crash zooms and warped panoramic shots are the video equivalent of HDRI photography. Except, you know, not horribly unappealing to the eye.
Shot with a Nikon D7000 over a six day visit to Berlin, Vimeo user b-zOOmi had to track and stabilize many of the shots by hand in After Effects since they were manually moving and repositioning the camera between shots on location. As a result, a lot of the sequences look almost computer generated. But it's just a result of the extreme movements and bizarre parallax shifts that make this hyper-lapse look beyond real. [Vimeo via Coudal]


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When the bride and groom arrive at the Mandaean Association, the Middle Eastern salad is ready and flower petals are lightly strewn across the floor.
For these Iraqis who follow the teachings of John the Baptist, weddings are an opportunity for the small community to come together as believers try to preserve their heritage far away from their ancestral homeland.
As young and old dance to American and Arabic songs inside the suburban Detroit mandi, the Mandaean house of worship, a dozen young Mandaean-Americans getting fresh air outside reflect on their role in Mandaean society: This crew of cousins is the "next generation" whose parents and grandparents believe will determine whether the Mandaean faith lives or dies in the United States.
"Being first generation is going to be the hardest," said Eva Majdob Rojas, 26, of Monroe. "We have to either stick to those really old traditions or break the ice as individuals and get our parents to understand that."
After more than 2,000 years of practicing their Gnostic faith almost entirely in Iraq and Iran, some Mandaean-Americans fear their ancient beliefs may fade in the U.S. unless they can agree on a cultural course that keeps traditions intact while dealing with the pressures of American society.
The world's roughly 60,000 Mandaeans have been coming to the United States in small numbers for several decades. Surges occurred at the outbreak of the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, after the Gulf War in the early 1990s and after the 2006 bombing of Iraq's al-Askari Mosque, which set off sectarian violence.
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Now, an estimated quarter of the population is in refugee camps in Jordan and Syria, while 10,000 remain split between Iran and Iraq. The remainder are scattered from San Antonio to Sydney. Several thousand are thought to live in the U.S., according to Mandaean-American leaders, but no formal totals are kept.
Members of Mandaean organizations from across the globe are convening in Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday to discuss ways to keep their religion alive in the diaspora.
One of the focuses of the conference will be language. Linguistically, the Iraqi community has all but lost its connection to the spoken Aramaic dialect of its Mandaean forefathers.
Charles Haberl, director of the Middle East Studies Center at Rutgers University, said that while Arabic and German translations of Mandaean holy scripture are available, the young Mandaean-American community is cut off from its texts because most cannot read Iraqi Arabic even though they speak it.
"When you grow up as a Christian, you know the story of (Christianity). We can't even read the Ginze," the central Mandaean religious text, said Mais Mandwee, 21, of Kalamazoo. "It's a shame."
Suhaib Nashi, general secretary of the Mandaean Associations Union, hopes English translations of sacred texts will be produced as a short-term fix.
"I am pushing to start a quick translation establishment to change the Aramaic to English, at least to give Mandaean children some understanding of their religion so we buy some time," Nashi said.
Marriage is a 'pressure point'
Time, however, is short for the generation of U.S.-born or U.S.-raised Mandaean youth approaching marrying age: Mandaeans must marry a fellow believer in order to have Mandaean children.
"Marriage is a real pressure point for the Mandaean community," said Nathanial Deutsch, a professor of literature and history at the University of California Santa Cruz who has studied Mandaeans. "First of all, there is no mechanism for conversion. That would have to be introduced."
Rojas was among the first of the younger generation of Mandaean-Americans in Michigan to be married. When she exchanged vows with a Mexican-American in October 2008, only one of her more than 10 uncles was in attendance.
"I didn't expect that much," Rojas said.
Parental understanding of mixed marriages is rare.
"The way I teach my kids: You have to get married (to) a Mandaean. I push them. This is very hard for them to understand," said Anees Rabie, president of the Mandaean Association of Michigan.
Still, not all younger Mandaeans revolt against their society.
"What I love about my religion and my culture is that it brings all of us together. I enjoy hanging out with my cousins who I haven't seen in months and it's beautiful because you walk into a room where everybody loves you and everybody wants to see you," Mandwee said. "I have a lot of friends who don't get to do that."
For the younger generation, attempting to reconcile their American upbringing with Mandaean customs can be bewildering.
Adam Mandwee, 18, of Kalamazoo, a cousin of Mais Mandwee, said "we're surrounded by non-Mandaeans and we create so many different relationships and networks and then it comes around to marriage and I have to search for a wife and then the question is 'Where do I start? I don't really even know these people.'"
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2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
Time is of the essence. The last 25 years have seen an unprecedented expansion of the concentrated legal authority exercised by intellectual property rights holders… So far, however, neither the substantial risks of intellectual property maximalism, nor the benefits of more open approaches, are adequately understood by most policy makers or citizens. This must change if the notion of a public interest distinct from the dominant private interest is to be maintained.
These words are taken from the opening paragraphs of the Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, an "action agenda" devised by 200 participants from 30 countries across the world who came together for the inaugural 2011 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Washington, D.C., in 2011.
Sixteen months later, this broad coalition of civil society groups and developing country governments will come together in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to mark their progress. The theme for this year's Congress will be "Setting the Positive Agenda in Motion," and will have a special focus on developments and opportunities in the so-called "BRICS" group of emerging economies.
Registration to attend the Congress is open until November 1, 2012. The Congress will cover the registration fees and all on-site costs for all attendees, including lunches and dinner receptions.


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While you were watching "Hit List" come to life at 54 Below, here's what was happening this week In the Wings.
The Nanny is coming to Broadway. Fran Drescher will make her debut in "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" starting Feb. 4 and thru April 13. She'll be playing Cinderella's evil stepmother Madame, succeeding Harriet Harris, who originated the role in the Broadway production. Mr. Sheffield must be so proud! [More info]
"Designing Women" star Annie Potts heading to "Pippin." She'll play Berthe in the Tony-winning musical, starting Jan. 21. If all goes well, hopefully "Pippin" will stage a full "Designing Women" reunion. Jean Smart as Fastrada! Meshach Taylor as Charlemagne! Delta Burke as the Leading Player! [More info]
Leighton Meester is playing Curley's wife in "Of Mice and Men." The "Gossip Girl" star joins James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in the limited run production, opening April 16. Meester's character in the play is a scheming, beauty-obsessed temptress. So it's not that much of a stretch from Blair Waldorf, huh? [More info]
"The Velocity of Autumn" joins the lineup of new plays debuting this Spring. Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony winner Stephen Spinella will star in the Molly Smith-directed play, written by Eric Coble. The comedy, about a mother and her estranged son, will open at Broadway's Booth Theatre for a limited engagement on April 21. [More info]
WNET will air The Public Theater's acclaimed "The Apple Family Plays: Scenes from the Life in the County." The four Richard Nelson plays – "That Hopey Changey Thing," "Sweet and Sad," "Sorry" and "Regular Singing" -- have premiered at The Public Theater each year since 2010. No official airing dates have been announced yet, but expect to see it sometime in 2014. [More info]


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More Heroclix coming too
Via Gamers Daily News comes word of a new Heroclix expansion set, coming in September:
The DC HeroClix: Superman expansion will feature more than 50 figures in standard five-figure boosters. Celebrating over 70 years of history, Superman brings all of the action and amazing power that only the Last Son of Krypton can deliver, and where Superman treads his greatest villains and allies cannot be far behind! Popular sub-themes in the set will include: All-Star Superman, the World of New Krypton, the Legion of Super Heroes, the exciting and pivotal Flashpoint mini-series and more!


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Ingrid Farrell
Ingrid Farrell came to the University of Maryland, College Park campus from The George Washington University where she served in management in the areas of budget and human resources. Since arriving at the University of Maryland in 2000, she served as Assistant Dean for Finance and Personnel in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences for approximately 6 years. Currently she serves as the Assistant Dean for Internal Affairs and Budget in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Ingrid enjoys interacting with all levels of faculty, staff and students. She also enjoys helping to bring resolution to problems no matter how daunting they may appear to supervisors and employees. She firmly believes that listening to others and being honest and confidential in all matters are vital to creating an effective work environment. She derives great satisfaction from leading the Staff Support Team at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and she takes great pride in providing superior service to all of the school's clients.


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Oh how I LOVE Pinterest!
But who doesn't!? :)
I have a board just for all the pretty makeup looks I want to try.
And I found a couple looks with Gold that I knew I wanted to give a try for New Years,
since The Hubs & I are throwing a Party!!!
This one was especially the look I wanted to go for, except without the brown.
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Watch Brian Williams Make a Crack About Michael Bloomberg on Today
Kathie Lee and Hoda spent their entire hour-long broadcast exercising, prompting Brian Williams to crash the show. Donut in hand, he goes on about fat America and calls out Mayor Bloomberg for New York City's trash problem.
As a Manhattan resident who's a little concerned with Bloomberg's trash clean-up efforts post snowpocalypse, I appreciate Brian Williams' frankness. Yesterday, I noticed a box from a pair of boots sitting on the street that I thought I threw away before I left for the holidays on December 21st. That's just plain disgusting.
[There was a video here]
The Bloomberg jokes begin around the 1:25 mark.


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TAMPA — USF athletic director Doug Woolard was in New York on Monday for a meeting of the Big East's football athletic directors, and while his preferences for a new football coach remain shrouded in secrecy, many top candidates — including Western Kentucky head coach Willie Taggart — are also in Manhattan for tonight's National Football Foundation Awards Dinner.
The NFF event at the Waldorf-Astoria is an annual hub for coaching-search interviews, and the 36-year-old Taggart is a Palmetto native who played and coached against the Bulls and has helped coach WKU to both a I-AA national title in 2002 and the school's first bowl this year. Taggart may represent the best intersection of upside, interest, affordability and local ties out of a long list of coaches linked to USF's opening.
"I don't know who South Florida's AD is truly interested in; but goodness I've heard of a lot of coaches that want that job," read a tweet from Footballscoop.com, a site that specializes in coaching search news, later adding that "a lot of quality coaches" had expressed interest.
A familiar name for Bulls fans that resurfaced Monday: Calvin Magee, 49, the former Bucs tight end and USF assistant from 1996-2000, who has helped Rich Rodriguez with prolific offenses at West Virginia, Michigan and now Arizona. The USF graduate interviewed for the job when Skip Holtz was hired and has been contacted again, with a strong interest in returning to Tampa. He has worked with quarterbacks such as West Virginia's Pat White and Michigan's Denard Robinson, and his Arizona offense averaged 521 yards this season while piling up 58 touchdowns.
The Bulls have also had initial contact with former Marshall coach and USF defensive coordinator Mark Snyder, who left the Bulls after last season to take the same job at Texas A&M. Two other former Bulls assistants — North Texas coach Dan McCarney and his offensive coordinator, Mike Canales — are also interested in returning to Tampa.
Woolard, who is not commenting on the coaching search, announced Sunday the firing of Holtz after three seasons and a 5-16 record in Big East play. This year's team lost nine of its final 10 teams for a 3-9 record, the worst in the Bulls' 16 seasons. Holtz will be paid $500,000 in each of the five seasons remaining on a contract extension Woolard gave him in June.
The initial names floated by media outlets for USF's opening run the gamut from out-of-work veteran coaches (ex-Arkansas coach Houston Nutt, ex-Florida coach Ron Zook) to smaller conference head coaches (Florida International's Mario Cristobal, Middle Tennessee's Rick Stockstill) and up-and-coming assistants from top programs (Florida defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris).


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Despite missteps, Novell still has some valuable tech products.
Novell has long since lost its position as a dominant vendor in the operating system market, but the vendor's long, slow decline didn't change the fact that Novell still has some valuable technologies.
The value still inherent in Novell was, to some extent, reaffirmed Monday by a definitive merger agreement in which Attachmate is expected to purchase Novell for $2.2 billion.
Why is Novell still worth that much? Despite the decline of Netware, Novell has SUSE Linux, one of the most popular commercial distributions of the open source operating system.
Novell's SUSE Linux business reportedly attracted VMware, which seemed to be interested in purchasing this portion of Novell. But in the end all of Novell, with the exception of $450 million worth of intellectual property assets purchased by a Microsoft-organized consortium, went to Attachmate. A deal has seemed likely since at least March of this year, when Novell rejected a $2 billion bid from Elliott Associates.
"Probably the biggest plum here is the SUSE Linux assets," says Pund-IT analyst Charles King. "SUSE has run a fairly distant second to Red Hat, simply because I don't think Novell had the wherewithal to expand services around Linux. They were a bit over their heads there. With Attachmate being focused on enterprise modernization, cloud computing and so on, I can see where Linux could be a particularly valuable asset there."
With Oracle making a new Linux push, King says the commercial Linux market could see increasing fragmentation, although he adds, "I don't expect Linux as an entity to change greatly."
Novell pulled in $199 million in revenue in the quarter ending July 31, with $37.6 million coming from open platforms, mainly Linux maintenance and subscriptions. In the quarter, Novell also reported $69.3 million in revenue for collaboration licenses, maintenance and subscriptions; $32.1 million in identity and security management; $38.5 million in systems and resource management; and $21.6 million in services.
Quarterly operating income was $21 million, identical to Novell's reported income in Q3 2009. However, quarterly revenue declined from $216 million to $199 million year-over-year.
Novell reports $1.846 billion in total assets and $850,000 in liabilities, leaving nearly $1 billion in stockholder equity.
Novell's acquisition marks "the end of an era," Gartner analyst Earl Perkins writes in his blog. Although Novell failed in market execution, "what remained consistent throughout most of Novell's existence was by and large the technical quality of most of its products." Perkins continues.
"Novell represents one of the original key players in the network operating system and identity management period from the early 1990s until today," Perkins also writes. "In fact, one could make an interesting case that the company made Microsoft what it is today through the early market battle between Novell NetWare and Microsoft Windows Server. We all know how that battle ended, but in the long run Windows Server was a better product because of it.
"Novell had significant and continued influence on many vendors, ranging from the identity and access management to the Linux market, from email to virtualization, and of course security. In most of those cases the company made a good to excellent showing of technology and was quick to improve upon it and in some cases to outpace its competitors both in terms of vision and architecture."
Attachmate, founded in 1981, was known early on for its terminal emulation software and more recently has expanded into management software, with buyouts of companies such as NetIQ and OnDemand Software. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo.
While SUSE Linux is a totally new business for Attachmate, there may be some synergy between NetIQ, a systems management company owned by Attachmate, and Novell's technology from the Managed Objects acquisition, says Forrester analyst J.P. Garbani.
Attachmate has run NetIQ largely as a separate company, as there was little overlap between Attachmate's traditional product lines and NetIQ, Garbani notes.
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Five Simple Steps to Control Your Blood Pressure
Your HBP deserves your attention
Uncontrolled high blood pressure (HBP or hypertension) can be fatal. If you've been diagnosed with high blood pressure, these five simple steps can help you keep it under control:
Know your numbers
Most people diagnosed with high blood pressure want to stay below 130/80 mm Hg, but your health care professional can tell you your personal target blood pressure.
Work with your doctor
Your health care professional will help you make a plan to lower your blood pressure.
Make a few lifestyle changes
In many cases this will be your doctor's first recommendation, likely in one of these areas:
- Maintain a healthy weight. Strive for a body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 24.9.
- Eat healthier. Eat lots of fruit, veggies and low-fat dairy, and less saturated and total fat.
- Reduce sodium. Ideally, stay under 1,500 mg a day, but aim for at least a 1,000 mg per day reduction.
- Get active. Aim for at least 90 to 150 minutes of aerobic and/or dynamic resistance exercise per week and/or three sessions of isometric resistance exercises per week.
- Limit alcohol. Drink no more than 1-2 drinks a day. (One for most women, two for most men.)
Keep checking your blood pressure at home
Take ownership of your treatment by tracking your blood pressure.
Take your medication
If you have to take medication, take it exactly the way your doctor says.
Check. Change. Control.
What's your risk for a heart or stroke event?


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Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Files/Reuters Dominic Lau in Tokyo
India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd has agreed to buy generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd for $3.2 billion, betting it can fix factory quality glitches that plagued the current owner, Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co, and got Ranbaxy India-made drugs barred from the United States.
The all-share transaction, the biggest pharmaceutical sector deal in the Asia-Pacific region this year, will create the world's fifth-largest maker of generic drugs.
The acquisition comes as the pace of consolidation increases in a market that's primed for growth in the US and emerging markets and could be worth $335 billion globally by 2017, according to Lucintel.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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For Daiichi Sankyo, Japan's fourth-biggest drugmaker by revenue, the deal marks a significant retreat and highlights the lingering quality problems facing India's drug industry.
The value of the Japanese firm's investments in the country has been halved since it bought control of Ranbaxy in 2008.
The deal comes against the backdrop of a slew of sanctions against Ranbaxy by the US Food and Drug Administration because of concerns about manufacturing processes at its India plants.
Sun Pharma's strong sales base in the US, along with India supply chain management that has been tight enough to meet FDA standards in most cases and a good record in managing troubled acquisitions, made the firm an attractive buyer for Daiichi Sankyo.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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For Sun Pharma, the relatively rare purchase by a leading Indian company of a local rival creates the biggest generic drug business by sales in India, with combined revenue estimated at $4.2 billion.
Under terms of the agreed deal, Ranbaxy shareholders will get 0.8 Sun Pharma shares for each Ranbaxy share they own.
"This transaction helps us transition to our long-held ambition of becoming a successful Indian company in the global pharmaceutical space," Dilip Shanghvi, managing director of Sun Pharma, India's largest drugmaker by market value, said in a conference call with analysts.
Including Ranbaxy debt, the overall value of the transaction is $4 billion.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
The global generic drugs sector has also seen a wave of mergers recently as companies seek economies of scale in an industry that sells low-cost, commodity products.
The sector has had a good run in the past decade selling copycat versions of medicines but recently times have got harder, thanks to a dwindling number of patent expirations. Mergers are seen as one way to improve efficiencies.
Analysts estimate that recent deals in the sector have led to savings of about 8 per cent of sales.
The deal relieves Daiichi Sankyo of a troubled subsidiary that has diverted resources and weighed on profits -- at a price.
Under the deal, expected to close by year-end, the Japanese company will end up with a stake of about 9 per cent in Sun Pharma valued at about $2 billion, compared with the $4.2 billion it paid for a 63.9 per cent stake in Ranbaxy in 2008.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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"Given Ranbaxy's problems, I'm sure Sun would have spent some time doing their homework on this issue," Sujay Shetty, pharmaceuticals leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers in India told Reuters.
"To me, as a layman, it's not obvious that it is going to go away just now, but maybe Sun probably has assessed it to be something they can get on top of."
Daiichi Sankyo Chief Executive Joji Nakayama said Daiichi had learnt a lot about emerging markets through its relationship with Ranbaxy and saw those lessons as valuable for its further global expansion.
The Ranbaxy deal was intended to establish a 'hybrid' business model offering generic medicines as well as innovative brands sold by the Japanese firm.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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The company wrote down 359.5 billion yen ($3.5 billion) in 2009 to cover a drop in value of its initial investment after regulatory problems in the US triggered a sharp fall in Ranbaxy's share price.
The stock has since recovered, more than doubling since a March 2009 trough.
"We don't think we can make much progress in emerging markets with just innovative medicines," said Nakayama, speaking at a news conference in Tokyo.
"So we are exploring many different possibilities for emerging markets, including tying up with local partners and we believe that will expand our business chances."
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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Quality concerns
The broader issue of the quality of drugmaking has become a major concern both inside India and across the sector.
India is second only to Canada as a drug exporter to the US, where it supplies about 40 per cent of generic and over-the-counter drugs.
The FDA, which last month called for more collaboration with the Indian regulator to improve drug quality, has banned imports from all the Indian plants of Ranbaxy over production quality lapses.
Sun Pharma, whose plant at Karkhadi in the western state of Gujarat was banned from shipping products to the US last month, has been the subject of comparatively fewer regulatory actions in the past.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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The company's managing director Shanghvi said the combined entity would focus on the fixing manufacturing quality issues at Ranbaxy so that facilities currently banned from shipping to the US, the biggest export market for both Ranbaxy and Sun, can resume exports.
"The quality of business at Ranbaxy is in no way inferior to business at Sun Pharmaceutical," he said.
"Our focus will be to address the issue of achieving compliance.
"We are not looking at synergies of manufacturing; the focus is to achieve compliance."
Sun Pharma, which will get access to Ranbaxy's new product pipeline, including a generic version of AstraZeneca's heartburn drug Nexium, said the acquisition is expected to be accretive to earnings per share in the first full year.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
Photographs: Jason Reed/Reuters
The deal values Ranbaxy shares at Rs 457 apiece, representing an 18 pct premium to their 30-day volume-weighted average share price.
Sun Pharma shares rose as much as 4 per cent in Mumbai on Monday before ending the day up 2.9 per cent.
Ranbaxy, whose shares rose by nearly a quarter over the previous three sessions, fell 3 per cent to Rs 445.75.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded Sun Pharma to buy from neutral, saying that Ranbaxy's regulatory tangle was already at its height.
There was 'significant scope for operational improvement', it said, since Sun has a successful track record of turning around distressed assets.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
Photographs: Stephan Wermuth/Reuters
Sun Pharma in 2010 bought all the outstanding shares of US-based Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories at a time when Caraco was struggling to address manufacturing quality concerns that led to FDA bans on its plants.
Sun was able to resolve those issues and Caraco plants resumed production in 2012.
Shares in Daiichi Sankyo climbed as much as 5 per cent in Tokyo to a two-and-a-half-month high of 1,844 yen.
Analysts welcomed the deal, saying it doesn't necessarily signal a pullback from India by Daiichi Sankyo.
"I wouldn't call this an exit. It's an ownership transfer," said Jefferies & Co analyst Naomi Kumagai.
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Sun Pharma to buy Ranbaxy in $3.2-billion deal
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"Another company will take over control for them of a place that had a lot of issues.
"In that sense, it should be a good thing."
In a separate statement, Daiichi Sankyo said the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey had issued an administrative subpoena to Ranbaxy seeking information related to the company's Toansa plant in India.
Ranbaxy is cooperating with the information request.
Under the terms of the deal, Daiichi Sankyo has agreed to indemnify Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy for, among other things, certain costs and expenses that may arise from the subpoena, the company's statement said.
Citigroup and Evercore Partners are advising Sun Pharma, while Daiichi is being advised by Goldman Sachs Group and ICICI Securities is the financial adviser to Ranbaxy, the statement said.
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Chalet Sonneck Reviews
We arrived in a white out which dumped about 3ft of fresh powder for our amazing week in Lech. The chalet is basic and the pillows need to be replaced but everything very clean and the staff are excellent. The sauna and pool relived the hard days on the piste and breakfast and dinner were great and there was a wide variety to cater for all tastes. Everyone from the chefs to the hostess to the bartenders were chatty and very friendly and helpful with suggestions for dinner and drinks out. We are already considering going back to Lech next year!
Apres Ski: 4/5
Accommodation & Value: 3/5
Alexa Haywood
When I retire i'm going finish my knees off here in Lech. The restaurant at the top of the chairlift in Zug I think might have the best views of any restaurant I've been to. The best thing about Lech though is access to powder... there's so much space there's no way everyone can track out Lech after a dump of snow. I know some hidden spots but I'm not telling you where they are :-) It's a chilled out resort with more chatting rather than jumping and shouting. As all Austrian resorts, service is fantastic and you're surrounded by Austrian culture. If you have a few quid then luxury hotels are in abundance in Lech. If you want something affordable the Sonneck just outside Lech or chalet hotel Mont Fort. The Alberg is huge ski area, if you want to let off some steam then the steep stuff in St Anton way... I can't wait to go back.
Apres Ski: 5/5
Accommodation & Value: 5/5
Adrian Scott
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Courses & Programs that Transfer
SCC is a great place to start your education. Knock out your general education courses here before transferring to a four-year college.
SCC also provides articulation agreements (special transfer agreements) for some of
our Associate of Science and Associate in Applied Science career programs with other
colleges & universities. Colleges review and change their requirements from time
to time, so be sure to check with your SCC Enrollment Specialist to get the absolute
most up-to-date information.
Give us a call at (866) 722-4692 ext. 5010 for West Burlington, or ext. 1923 for Keokuk.
View the transfer guidelines for the most popular state colleges & universities (Iowa, ISU,UNI,WIU) that the majority of our students transfer to. Be sure to also check out TransferInIowa.org - an online resource to help you learn how your SCC college credit will apply toward a degree at Iowa State University, University of Northern Iowa, or the University of Iowa.
The following four-year colleges and universities have articulation agreements with SCC. These websites provide specific transfer information and/or SCC course equivalencies.
Culver Stockton College - Canton, Missouri
Academic programs
Hannibal LaGrange College - Hannibal, Missouri
Transfer Equivalencies
Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa
General course equivalencies plus transfer plans for business, engineering, and family and consumer science majors.
Iowa Wesleyan University - Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Home page and transfer information
Mt. Mercy College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Information on transferring
Palmer College of Chiropractic - Davenport, Iowa
Home page and information on prerequisites
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Illinois
Capstone program for students with AAS degrees
Truman State University - Kirksville, Missouri
Transfer course equivalencies
University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa
Transfer credit policies and course equivalencies
University of Northern Iowa - Cedar Fall, Iowa
Transfer admissions and course equivalencies
Western Illinois University - Macomb, Illinois
Transfer information and course equivalencies
Drake University - Des Moines, Iowa
Transfer information and course equivalencies
Simpson College - Indianola, Iowa
Transfer information and course equivalencies
Upper Iowa University - Fayette, Iowa
Transfer information and course equivalencies
More Transfer Info
The following websites will link you to additional schools that provide information specifically for transfer students.
Central College - Pella, Iowa
Transfer info
Monmouth College - Monmouth, Illinois
Transfer info
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champagne, Illinois
Transfer info
On-Line Degree Completion Programs
The following schools provide information on how to complete a bachelor's degree on-line once you've completed your associate's degree.
Capella University
Online bachelor's degree completion
Northwest Missouri State University
Online BS business completion degrees
University of Phoenix
Online articulation information
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