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2013-05-01 / Obituaries
We have to act on the lessons we learned from Superstorm Sandy
This week marked the sixth-month anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating storms to hit New York and Long Island in this century. Sandy was a reminder of the fragility of the place we call home. She was also a reminder that we need to, as the Boy Scouts say, "Be prepared."
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Remember that leak from earlier this month that claimed that Motorola might add leather back panels to its Moto Maker customization tool? Well today a new leak claims to have the details on exactly which leather colors Motorola will offer, along with the other 21 options that'll be available for the next Moto X.
According to @evleaks, consumers that buy a Moto X+1 will be able to customize the backplate of their new device with one of 25 different options. Along with the aforementioned leathers, the list includes several different colors as well as the return of wood. The list is as follows:
- Cool: Navy, Turquoise, Olive, Royal Blue, Dark Teal
- Neutral: Slate, Purple, Smoke, Black, Chalk
- Warm: Red, Orange, Lemon Lime, Violet, Crimson, Raspberry, Cabernet
- Wood: Teak, Bamboo, Rosewood, Ebony
- Leather: Black, Red, Grey, Blue
Obviously nothing is official until Motorola says it is, but leather could make for a nice addition to Moto Maker. Not only would it add a touch of luxury to the Moto X+1, but it'd add another type of finish that'd (presumably) offer a very different feel from the regular backs and the wooden ones.
Of the 25 back panel options listed above, which do you think that you'd select for your Moto X+1?


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CEO Brian Gentile: 'Jaspersoft Has Chosen to Disrupt'
Apr 23, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Business intelligence could be one of the most essential but little-known secrets that drives executive decisions in the marketplace.
The BI market is dominated by companies that sell their proprietary business analytics solutions. Few open source companies have countered with software to overtake the traditional vendor establishment.
However, open source does have its BI success stories. Jaspersoft, which markets an open source BI suite that has been deployed more than any other comparable set of software on the market, has a user community of more than 310,000 members, according to Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile.
Jaspersoft has succeeded in monetizing a commercial version marketed to enterprise customers. His foray into the BI market followed years of work at both Sun Microsystems and Apple, where he was Steve Jobs' lead developer evangelist.
"Fortunately for us there is a growing and vital intersection of analytics and reporting, with the need to embed those capabilities into other software that is being built and developed," Gentile told LinuxInsider. "Our open source model put us in a prime position to lead this market. It is an incredible BI market. Embedded BI is a submarket within BI, and is growing at a faster clip than the overall BI market."
In this interview, LinuxInsider asks Gentile about the expanding role of embedded business intelligence in the enterprise, and the ability of open source products to outpace proprietary competitors.
LinuxInsider: What technology demands are required to play in this BI field?
Brian Gentile: It requires characteristics elements that are natural for modern architecture, Web-based design with everything presenting within a Web browser. It needs easy accessibility through comfortable APIs. Our open source roots provided the foundation for Jaspersoft to excel in this market.
LI: What specific problems or needs led you to develop the BI suite?
Gentile: The original problem was with the embedded BI problem. It was the result of a Java engineer in Bucharest, Romania who was building an application on contract. He needed to build from a porting into that application around 2001. He tried to use the old Crystal library toolset that was popular back then. He had some problem doing this.
The first problem was architectural. The old architecture of the Crystal toolset was built on some old languages. He was building a modern Java-based application, and he struggled with language compatibility. The second problem was price. It was far too costly to license that library.
LI: How did his solution lead to a business entity for Jaspersoft?
Gentile: So what he did instead was set out to build his own reporting library based on Java. He put that together and called it Jasper Reports, with the "J" standing for Java. He released that work as open source and allowed its use. It found a huge audience.
That was the origin of Jaspersoft. It came from this born-of-necessity embedded reporting. From that we have grown into a full-fledged embeddable BI reporting company, including a full suite of analytics.
LI: How competitive is this field for embedded BI reporting? Are their proprietary alternatives, for instance?
Gentile: You have to look at the three aspects of the marketplace. There is the open source market for BI. Then there is the embeddable BI market. The third is the overall BI market.
The smallest is the open source BI market because it only has a few players. There are only two or three companies that have a genuinely open source component. The embeddable BI market has more competitors. They include some companies who use open source and others who are strictly proprietary. But in total we are still talking about five or six worthwhile competitors in the embeddable BI space.
Of course, the overall BI space is big and loaded with competition. According to Gartner, this year it should be about a US$15 billion industry.
LI: In light of that, what makes open source so monetarily viable for Jaspersoft?
Gentile: The majority of the market is still held by aged proprietary vendors who still charge a lot for their software. The complexity level of that software is still very high. Therefore, the penetration rate is low. The companies that can afford both the cost and the complexity have used BI in some form. That is just not good enough. The entire BI market requires a disruptive force. And Jaspersoft has chosen to disrupt.
LI: Short of giving your product away for free, what short of disruption did you bring to the competition?
Gentile: We did this first in the form of open source technology successfully now for about eight years. Next is going to be through the cloud and partially with Big Data.
The real disruptive agent is the cloud. So the combination of our history with Jaspersoft's open source heritage and our cloud prowess, we think, puts us in a remarkably powerful position for the next five years.
In the upcoming years, the aged proprietary vendors and the problems they solved become less and less common. The new problems can be solved with lighter weight, less expensive and much simpler BI tools that are either on-premises or in the cloud. That will become more and more prominent. So we like where we are as a disruptive force with cloud capability.
LI: In terms of analytics, how does embedded BI differ from standard BI practices?
Gentile: Embedded BI is a sub-category for sure. To have a great embedded BI tool, you have to be able to have functionality similar to traditional offerings. That is, robust reporting, self-service capabilities, great visualization, the ability to provide ad hoc tools and multidimensional analytic tools. You have all of these foundational BI features that you need.
Then you also have to have a host of developer-oriented features and capabilities that are very uncommon. These would be things like accessible APIs that are well structured and well documented that are available through different programmatic techniques. The rest is architectural. Developers care a lot about architecture.
LI: How did you achieve that level of specialization and still make it customizable -- and still turn a profit?
Gentile: We've taken a lot of care as we built our modern BI platform. We separated layers in our architecture that are simple and built on open standards. Developers can more commonly interact with those and modify them. If you are going to be building our BI tool into your software, you are going to want to modify and customize it. So we stratified the architecture into several layers.
LI: How did that development strategy innovate to your customers' advantage?
Gentile: The topmost layer is built entirely on HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets. The middle layer is built entirely on scripting tools with JavaScript. And the foundation of the architecture is 100 percent pure Java open standard J2 double eagle Java.
So when the developer sees these layers, they are automatically recognizable just because those technologies -- JavaScript, HTML5, Ajax and Java -- are so familiar that all the world's applications are being built around them. So you have to be able to have all these BI tools, and you have to be able to appeal to the developers.
LI: What kind of specific business intelligence do vendors get from using embedded BI tools? Where do you draw the line between useful marketing with user information and overstepping tracking?
Gentile: The quick response is information is power. Today we are awash in data. But just having that data does not make it usable. So with BI the right reporting and analytics tool can create structure from data.
There is a key person in this formula that we refer to as the BI Builder. This person understands the business as well as the technology, and can help structure the information into analytic view and reports. These are things that are actionable for a business user to interact with and be able to make better decisions.
LI: What if the ability to make better decisions for the vendor comes from taking advantage of the consumer or user of the software hosting the embedded BI product?
Gentile: In a sense BI is all about turning information into a powerful insight. Truthfully, that could be used for good or bad. That is not up to us to decide. Generally, it should lead to democratization of data -- information -- so that any one in the organization should have access to the data, and be able to self serve, and get the views of the information in a way that enables them to make proper decisions.
The cost and complexity problem with the old BI tools is that it prevented everyone from getting the information. That is a big problem we have been working to overcome by using our open source heritage and low cost model.
LI: Given your experience with Sun and Apple, how do those companies view or approach open source software?
Gentile: Those two companies handled open source very differently. Sun has been a consumer of open source and a great creator of it over the years. Prior to Sun's acquisition by Oracle, Sun was one of the most outspoken advocates and users of open source across the board. Sun was very much a part of the open source community in a big big way.
Apple, on the other hand, is a big consumer of open source. Apple uses it heavily just like Google does. But Apple does not participate or actively give back to the community. If you think about it, that is really pretty consistent with their personality. That is just the way they are as a company. One model is not better than the other, by the way. The whole world is driven by open source software now.
LI: What, if anything, needs to be done to improve or advance the open source model?
Gentile: There are far too many open source license types today. Those are far too confusing. We need to take away some of the mystique and the mystery surrounding open source licensing. That would be number one.
Number two would be more agreement on standards of technology. We need to standardize on more things. That is a good thing that would help to advance the software.
The third improvement is to give customers a better understanding of that license spectrum. That would directly benefit the consumer regarding the use of free software vs. open source software vs. commercial open source software.


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In Logue's disturbing seventh mystery to feature Wisconsin deputy sheriff Claire Watkins (after 2007's Maiden Rock ), Claire's live-in boyfriend, Rich Haggard, gets a frantic, middle-of-the-night call from an old friend, Chet Baldwin. Rich rushes to Chet's house to find Chet lying in bed next to the body of his wife, Anne, who's been shot in the forehead. When Claire arrives at the scene soon after, Chet gets up and drops the handgun he's been cradling. Rich resents the strictly official posture Claire adopts, and their relationship deteriorates further after Claire conceals the fact that Chet attempts suicide while in her custody. Meanwhile, Claire's protégé on the force, Amy Schroeder, looks into the murder of a stranger found floating in the Mississippi River, a case that, predictably, ends up connected with the Baldwin case. Readers who care more about intelligent depictions of passionate emotions than the details of police work will be most satisfied. (Dec.)
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Unbridled Greed By Barry Johnson
Description: A sizzling debut thriller that exposes the seamy and unscrupulous world of health care fraud, Unbridled Greed features protagonist Bryan Hampton, a longtime Department of Justice investigator. A tough, tenacious DOJ investigator, Bryan Hampton is hot on the trail of a greedy doctor suspected of insurance fraud. But when this major medical fraud investigation is suddenly and shockingly derailed by politics, greed, and bribes, Hampton decides he's had enough of Chicago's dirty politics and cronyism—let alone fighting corruption on both sides. Hampton transfers to Las Vegas and teams with Paul Dixon, with whom he shares a common goal: aggressively fighting the health care fraud and abuse that victimizes countless patients and robs every American household of thousands of dollars each year. Soon, Hampton and his team uncover a massive fraud scheme operating beneath the bright lights of Sin City. But this highly organized and highly sophisticated band of fraudsters will stop at nothing—violence, torture, and even murder. As he launches a pulse-quickening quest for justice, Hampton will realize the peril of fighting this good fight. This might be the fight of Bryan Hampton's life—or, if he's not careful, it could be the fight for his life….
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NEW YORK -- The end of Carlos Beltran's career isn't likely to come with retirement ceremonies and gift presentations. He's become a vagabond toward the end of his career. After spending the early part of his time in the majors with the Kansas City Royals, Beltran has played for four different teams the past five years, and that type of instability usually doesn't generate overwhelming sentiment for players.
When the time comes -- and while it's not here yet, it's soon arriving -- the 37-year-old Beltran will likely just fade away, and perhaps he will be largely forgotten by the masses. There will be a certain segment who will always appreciate what he's accomplished, but the mainstream fan likely won't think much about Beltran once he's gone.
Beltran is the most under-appreciated player of his generation. There could be a variety of reasons for this, although there isn't overwhelming evidence to support any one of them: Because he's played in a few small markets; because he's Latino; because he's never won any major award other than his 1999 Rookie of the Year; because he's never played on a World Series champion team. Beltran's lack of mass appeal is somewhat of a mystery.
"That appreciation doesn't really mean much to me," Beltran said recently about his legacy. "I'm satisfied with what I've accomplished, and that's most important to me."
But the beauty of Beltran's career is how elegantly he's steered it toward the end. Early on, Beltran was criticized for not appearing to have fun on the field. He took everything so seriously that people naturally assumed he was always miserable -- and yet there was also the argument that he didn't care enough to become as great as his abilities would allow him to become.
It was only when people went to visit him in Puerto Rico, where he would often spend hours instructing young children, when they saw that actually he loved the game, adored it with a passion. He smiled. He laughed. He cared. Baseball did make Beltran happy, although not everybody could recognize it.
Beltran always appeared more comfortable around younger people, perhaps because his abilities were always far beyond that of people his own age. It was as if Beltran was waiting his entire career to become the sage veteran, because he could not act like an experienced player when he was a young superstar. And he embraced the role of a veteran once he finally reached the age where teammates would listen to what he had to say.
For a long time, Beltran, as the most highly-paid member of the New York Mets of the mid 2000s, has been remembered for the called third strike he took against St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright during the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series. Just like that infamous curveball froze Beltran, his accomplishments for some have also been frozen in time. Nothing Beltran accomplished before or since has mattered because, in that singular moment, some would argue the most important of his career, Beltran could not convince himself to swing, exactly the sign of passivity that had gotten him so much criticism.
But so much has happened since that called strike. Beltran underwent a rather ugly divorce from the Mets, precipitated by his decision to have microfracture knee surgery prior to the 2010 season against the wishes of team doctors. But Beltran, refusing to believe that his injury had no recourse and that he was doomed to become an immobile player, trusted the opinion of his own doctors. And Beltran was right. His career was rejuvenated by the surgery.
Most importantly, since that strike call Beltran has become a leader and a philanthropist. As he heads toward retirement in the next few years, Beltran may not receive gifts, but he's earned the respect of his teammates and his countrymen. There is no better evidence of that than the two years (2012-'13) he spent with the Cardinals.
"He's a good leader, he knows how to talk to players, he knows how to talk to young players, older players, it doesn't matter," said Cardinals outfielder John Jay. "He can relate to you. He's somebody that I still keep in contact with. I consider him a good friend and someone I'll hopefully talk to beyond baseball. He had a big impact on my career."
His legacy transcends baseball in the United States. The opening of the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy is ensuring that baseball in Puerto Rico, which has suffered a sharp decline in the past 10 years, will resurface. Last year, two players from Beltran's academy were drafted and 37 others received scholarships to play college baseball in the United States.
As a young boy growing up in Manati, Beltran learned first-hand the difficulty of prospering in a poverty-stricken environment. Both his father and mother worked tirelessly to ensure the family could survive. Beltran never forgot his parents' sacrifice. But he was lucky. He was a tremendous baseball player and the opportunity to better his life was afforded because of his athletic skills, although it wasn't easy. Eventually he earned millions of dollars.
"God gave me the opportunity to better myself through baseball," Beltran said. "I understand that there are kids out there like me growing up who need an opportunity, a place where they can continue to develop. Also, education is incredibly important to me. When you combine education with sport, whatever sport that may be, you give kids the inspiration to go every day to school to study. One sees the impact and the results the school has provided for kids. You see the grades have improved because they have the mentality that they need to study so they can play baseball. We understand that not every kid can be a professional. But you understand that they can use the sport to get a scholarship to play baseball in the United States so they can continue their education and become a professional in their area of study. This is something that truly fulfills me. To follow a kid's path as they develop and then graduate, it's beautiful."
In that sense, Beltran may not only the most under-appreciated player of his era, but perhaps one of the most important -- someone whose impact will extend beyond his playing career.
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Beltran's evolution into a team leader has perhaps been the most striking part of his transition from phenom to veteran. Not many had pegged him for a vocal clubhouse role.
When Beltran entered the Cardinals clubhouse during that first spring training with the team, Jay was too intimidated to speak with him. Jay had grown up admiring Beltran as a player and he didn't know whether Beltran would be too bothered to help a young player. He didn't assume Beltran was unfriendly, but so often superstars had their own routines at the ballpark that simply couldn't be disturbed.
Beltran quickly erased any anxiety Jay might have had by approaching him for a conversation. The two talked for a long time. Those conversations settled into a routine.
"He loved talking about hitting and he loved the game of baseball, which was awesome," Jay said. "To get to hear his stories, and he's been around a long time and played with a lot of good players. When you look at his numbers and see what he's accomplished in the game, it's pretty remarkable. I look back at those two years playing with him as pretty special for me."
Most impressive to his young teammates, Beltran worked tirelessly in the batting cage, taking more swings than anyone. At the plate, Beltran's approach taught them that selectivity was different than passivity. And Beltran was always approachable and accountable to the media, never afraid to admit to the press he had made a mistake -- and he never left those questions to be answered by someone else.
"What separates him from other people is that not only is he a superstar caliber player, but he's a very genuinely humble guy who cares a lot about winning and cares a lot about his teammates," Cardinals third baseman Matt Carpenter said. "He's just a good person. He's the kind of guy who just takes guys under his wing. Nobody is making him do that. He does that on his own... He loves the game of baseball. That's one thing I really could see that's very obvious with him. Sometimes you see guys that have played as long as he has and they're doing it for whatever reasons, but he truly loves to play. It's just fun to be around."
Beltran believed it had become his responsibility to help out his younger teammates, because he had been blessed with certain abilities. It was selfish for him not pass on his knowledge of the game to others.
"For me I had a lot of people who tried to help me and in the end, I was a person who asked a lot of questions to try to keep learning," Beltran said. "And that helped me try different things and to become a different player."
At the start of his career, it took Beltran almost four years to become accustomed to the grind of the game, which was baseball's most valuable lesson. A certain discipline was required to maintain a consistent attitude. Baseball is a grueling sport; there would be many lows, and it was important for Beltran to never be bothered by them. He was committed to remaining positive.
But he never allowed himself to get too happy with his success, either. Perhaps that's why people believed at the beginning of his career that he wasn't having fun. He just didn't want to lose himself in success because the game had taught him that failure was inevitable. For Beltran, baseball was as much a mental game as it was it was a physical one.
During conversations with his younger Cardinals teammates, Beltran passed on these lessons.
"Physically, we're all here in the majors because we have a talent," Beltran said. "But may times you get lost in the game, not physically, but mentally when you don't get the results you normally expect. Many times when you're a young player you forget that this is a daily game and that the season is long. You start worrying too much. Not that you shouldn't worry, but you worry to such an extent where it affects you every day. It's important to help those younger players overcome that."
Several months after his last appearance in a Cardinals uniform, Beltran's name still resonates in the St. Louis clubhouse.
"Carlos was special, a true gentlemen and one of the elite players in the game," Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said. "He was someone I admired and even though we were only together for two years, we developed a friendship and I still stay in touch with him today."
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Beltran's Hall of Fame resume continues to build. Last year, ESPN's Jerry Crasnick made a convincing case for him. "For me to even be considered is a tremendous privilege," Beltran said. "I hope I can improve my numbers and to keep improving my resume. If the moment comes and I'm in then terrific, if not, I'll just thank God because really I feel blessed to have had this opportunity."
A more pressing concern for Beltran is to continue helping out his teammates. Earlier this year, the unheralded rookie Yangervis Solarte, after a standout game, was selected to appear on the Yankees post-game show. Solarte, nervous about his English, asked for a translator. The Yankees did not have one on hand. Instead, Beltran offered to help the rookie during his interview. It was a show of selflessness that not many players of Beltran's caliber would have emulated.
After Michael Pineda was forced to answer questions from a large press gathering at Fenway Park after he was caught using pine tar, Beltran was also the only Yankees player to express disbelief that teams did not offer a translator to help out a player in such a controversial situation.
He has become one of the most vocal Latino players, and his voice carries tremendous importance.
"He's an idol for all the Puerto Rican kids," Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina said. "All the kids admire greatly the way he plays the game, his professionalism is at an incredible level. He's admired not only in Puerto Rico, but also in all of Latin America."
When his career does conclude, Beltran said he's unsure of what he will do. Certainly he will devote a lot of his time to help his academy flourish. But he wouldn't discount some type of role in the major leagues.
The end is near for Beltran, but it's not here yet. And there's still time to show him the admiration he deserves.


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Sharna Burgess Dishes On America's Best Dance Crew, Dancing With The Stars, And More
Chris Trondsen of ABDC Blogging interviewed Dancing With The Stars troupe member Sharna Burgess backstage at America's Best Dance Crew's LMFAO Challenge. Sharna gives the dancers some good advice. She also gives her impressions on the winners and losers on Dancing with the Stars Season 14 as well as how she choreographs on the show. Lots more below including her plans for the summer.
If you missed our in depth personal interview wtih Sharna, be sure to read it here.


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With enormous amount of data on the Web and other information repositories, it is not unusual that multiple data sources may provide conflicting information about the same entity. Consequently, a major challenge for data quality control is to derive the most complete and accurate integrated information from diverse and sometimes conflicting sources. We call this challenge the truth finding problem. We observe that some sources are generally more reliable than others, and therefore a good model of source quality is the key to solving the truth finding problem.
In this talk, we overview a set of recent work on truth finding, with an emphasis on our recently proposed two probability-based models: LTM (Latent Truth Model) and GTM (Gaussian Truth Model). LTM is a probabilistic graphical model that can automatically infer true records and source quality without any supervision. In contrast to previous methods, LTM models multi-valued attribute types and leverages a generative process of two types of errors (false positive and false negative) by modeling two different aspects of source quality. The method is also scalable, owing to an efficient sampling-based inference algorithm that needs very few iterations in practice and enjoys linear time complexity, with an even faster incremental variant. Experiments on two real world datasets show that LTM outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches to the truth finding problem. To handle truth-reasoning with numerical data such as price, weather, census, polls, and economic statistics, GTM is built upon a Bayesian probabilistic model and leverages the characteristics of numerical data in a principled way, when modeling the dependencies among source quality, truth, and claimed values. Experiments on two real world datasets show that GTM outperforms the existing state-of-the-art approaches.
Jiawei Han, Abel Bliss Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been researching into data mining, information network analysis, database systems, and data warehousing, with over 600 journal and conference publications. He has chaired or served on many program committees of international conferences, including PC co-chair for KDD, SDM, and ICDM conferences, and Americas Coordinator for VLDB conferences. He also served as the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data and is serving as the Director of Information Network Academic Research Center supported by U.S. Army Research Lab. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE, and received 2004 ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award, 2005 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2009 IEEE Computer Society Wallace McDowell Award, and 2011 Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award at UIUC. His book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" has been used popularly as a textbook worldwide.
ITI is a campus-wide interdisciplinary unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by the College of Engineering, that is fostering excellence in information trust and security. Participating units include, among others, the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Business; the College of Engineering; the College of Law; the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Department of Aerospace Engineering; the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; the Department of Computer Science; the Coordinated Science Laboratory; the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering; and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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Review Group #425 - Iron Fist: The Living Weapon #1
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by GLX » Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:19 pm
Iron Fist: The Living Weapon #1
Digital copy can be found here.
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Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.
When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.
Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.
I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.
Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.
If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99.
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The Beast
by GLX » Fri Apr 11, 2014 4:17 pmFriday bump.
by HNutz » Sat Apr 12, 2014 12:53 amI liked it. The art was quirky and stylish, appropriate for the series. The story hinges around flashbacks to travelling to K'un L'un as a child. Zombie ninjas with guns and a vapid "love interest" fill out the modern era. It was action packed and a lot of fun. I'll be looking for the next issue!
Art - 7
Writing - 7
total - 7
... I only have 2 reviews?
by Eli Katz » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:11 pmLooks like a cool ish, but does it feature the battle that we've been all waiting for?
by GLX » Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:03 pmIdeas for this week's pick?
http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/week ... =61&pl=348
by Stephen Day » Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:05 pmThere's Hulk #1
Other than that, I'm not sure. It's a pretty crappy week actually.
by GLX » Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:04 pmAs a first issue, Iron Fist: The Living Weapon #1 doesn't do much to astound in terms of its writing. Some of the core building blocks of the plot are hackneyed (ninjas, ditzy sexual interest, etc). What makes the comic entertaining is Kaare Andrews' art. There's a unique look to it, and his framing of the action works most of the time. When it's on point, what would have been a typical comic moment under an average artist reeks of cool under Andrews' hand. If Andrews can get the writing up to par with the art, then this series can go from good to great.
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What Kind of Labor Market Does the Fed Want?
Will the newest jobs report garner any reaction from the Fed? Jon Hilsenrath discusses on Markets Hub.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... you tell me ... all e e thousand jobs in March ... the big disappointment will ... be close to two hundred thousand ... that is not good that has not been good for the stock market ... goes down to just ruined conceived of a hundred and forty four net was down before the jobs numbers even came out the market is skittish ... market is not happy and they got numbers that absolutely ... validated that's good news for what is this all mean for of course the Federal Reserve which is really important that ... John Hills unwrapped is down in DC ... John I how one couple is the Federal Reserve at this point ... when you look at the fact that their policies of obviously helped housing help the auto sector help a lot of sectors ... by then the jobs number like this it's clear the economy can stand on its own two feet of the Fed ... I'm assuming feels compelled to keep going with their policies ... are happy about that ... the bottom line here there there was talk earlier this week a bad deed and truth QE and I think today's report shows that that talk is premature ... yet sentences go Fed President John Williams saying maybe ... the economy all based on up by this summer for the Fed to start pulling back on ... its bond buying programs ... below we see today's report is that the Fed's gotta be very careful very cautious about ... prematurely calling ... a turnaround in the economy ... and we've had to start and stop recovery in jobs ... and we gotta stop any in March the feds don't want to see ... consistent growth ... much stronger than what we got marched over ... and I think the FT stays on the gas pedal ... and you know you look it does the Fed but obviously now the Bank of Japan going in a big way ... the ECB is they're doing with their to do quite as much but I mean ... you know really have all the moving along with all the major central banks to keep this thing going this team list the quantitative easing up ... did does does this sort of the press does one move front of the pressure on another move ... the fence about the new Bank of Japan now the Fed comes back ... it's all worth ... well you know I think I think the central banks are actually all one ... kind of different places right now and that ... you know there was a political change in Japan they brought in a much more aggressive about ... BOJ governor and he's playing catch up right now on what the Fed has been doing the last few years ... really rant about his policies ... yet that that had been storing the conversation in the last few weeks about what it wants to start slowing down these policies solicited different place in that respect ... than the BOJ ... God the ECB is interim we are placed because they're so that this financial turmoil there's a lot of fiscal issues there China work through ... the ECB is trying to figure out what else they can do to support growth but it's a very hard and expect as ... the country is out of the region ... in Europe is ... so divergent Tysabri different emerging growth paths there for different countries ... I he I think what we see when we see report like today's is that it reinforces the idea that we've got a slow very slow global recovery ... among the developed economy central banks sell ... yellow in India and ... the Ralston to stay in easy mode ... for a while I think ... John ... had nothing to the point about the Fed ... but how long can they keep going full bore like this ... that the economy eyes when I know they feel compelled to put on one point to the risks far outweigh the benefits ... well so that's the way they talk about it they they started at a cost and benefits in right now taking their benefits ... autos in housing are improving the lot of light crude was picking up a little bit ... God and the costs and they're looking for so far they haven't they don't see the materializing ... there's not a lot of inflation you not find it fascinating that gold prices ... you know are going nowhere even as the Bank of Japan is ramping up its bond buying in pumping money into the economy ... gold prices ending down US inflation numbers and in soft Committee of the rest of the Fed looks out for his financial stability issues ... we had seen signs of froth in some markets and you know some Fed officials are getting worried about it ... but for the most part they don't see enough there are not to compel them ... to stop so you know until they see some signs of either inflation ... or bubbles


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Olympics not top priority for Slingsby
15 November 2013
SAILING: Tom Slingsby has re-signed with rich America's Cup champions Oracle Team USA in a decision that appears likely to scupper any hopes of him repeating his London Olympic heroics.
Slingsby rescued Australia from its silver medal malaise at the London Games,
winning Australia's first individual gold medal of the 2012 Olympics, with victory
in the Laser class dinghy.
But the 29-year-old has now put his Olympic career on hold, re-signing with Oracle Team USA - backed by billionaire software boss Larry Ellison - and saying he wants to concentrate on the lucrative America's Cup competition for now.
Slingsby hasn't completely ruled out competing in the heavyweight Finn class at the 2016 Rio Games.
But he suggested he no longer has the motivation for a gruelling Olympics campaign, which would mean competing and travelling relentlessly all over the world for the next three years.
"It's not entirely off the table, no," Slingsby told AAP.
"At the moment I'm going to concentrate on the America's Cup but in a year or two, if my schedule permits and I've got that drive back to jump in a Finn and have a crack at an Olympic campaign, who knows? I might do it."
Slingsby insisted he could make a comeback to Olympic sailing just a year before Rio.
But that would allow him little time to reach the very high level needed to win a medal in the competitive Finn class.
"I wouldn't do it unless I had a chance of winning," he added.
"So if I do come back it means I think I can win."
Australian sailing team boss Peter Conde said the door was not closed for Slingsby to return to the Olympic fold.
He added: "It will be up to Tom to decide, if circumstances change, whether to take up those opportunities in the future."
Slingsby decided to re-sign with Oracle Team USA - who secured a thrilling come-from-behind victory over Emirates Team New Zealand in September's America's Cup final series on San Francisco Bay - because of their track record and professional set-up.
He served as the boat's tactician alongside Australian skipper and close mate, Jimmy Spithill.
Slingsby's decision also dashes any hopes of him joining Bob Oatley's Australian challenger for the next America's Cup, due to take place in 2017.
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After going many years of not playing board games (not since I was a kid), me and my family started picking them up again last year. Just casually, and mainly Monopoly (though we did dig Cluedo and The Game of Life out of the cupboard as well) and so last Christmas I decided to buy Ticket to Ride as a family gift after coming across it a number of times & watching one of Wil Wheaton's TableTop eps on it. It was a big hit and we played a ton of it over the holidays, and after. As such, I later picked up The Settlers of Catan after doing the same.
I could look around again and watch some more vids (and still might), but I was wondering if any of you guys had any recommendations to share? I'm starting to think of Christmas presents (I always start early) and thought I may do the same again this year if something takes my fancy! (We have the NA version of Ticket to Ride so I'm already considering the EU version)
Thinking 3-4 players, something which won't take too long to learn, has good replay value and would be good for a family setting?


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The Christmas tree had been knocked down by Friday morning's high winds long before Carl Zencey arrived at the memorial outside the entrance of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Zencey, who has lived in Newtown for three decades, couldn't leave it like that.
So, as the wind blew and the rain came down sideways, Zencey went to work. He propped the tree up. He looked for a way to screw it back into its stand, and he asked for help.
It looked like an impossible task. But after a lot of effort and with the rain pouring down as hard as it had all morning, Zencey had the tree back up.
"I tend not to look at these things as signs or omens," Zencey said.
Soon enough, others followed suit with other Christmas trees that had fallen at the memorial.
Zencey visited the memorial after the nation observed a moment of silence for the mass shooting at Sandy Hook a week earlier. Then he left to attend another funeral. He is a parishioner of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, where the majority of the memorial services for victims of the second-deadliest school shooting have been held.
"There are 11 funerals at my church," Zencey said.
Friday, Zencey and hundreds of others came to two more funerals at St. Rose of Lima Friday to remember Grace McDonnell, 7, and Olivia Rose Engel, 6.
Donna Stoetzner and Scott Belter had come from Salisbury to pay their respects during the funeral of Olivia and stood outside holding a floral arrangement. "We just decided to come," Belter said. "It's really devastating."
"Gracie" McDonnell loved the beach, lighthouses and seashells. Her funeral program said, "May you always have a shell in your pocket, and sand in your shoes."
Every night at bedtime, 7-year-old Grace and her mother would do their secret handshake and end it with them both saying, "hot fire," the New Haven Register reported. They called themselves "fashionistas."
When her funeral Mass began at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, it was pouring rain, the newspaper said. But as the service ended with "Amazing Grace," the sun poured through the stained glass windows of pink and purple — Grace's favorite colors. The priest wore a pink vestments, and Grace's mother, Lynn, wore a pink shawl.
Pink and purple balloons were outside the church, and as the family and mourners left the church, bagpipers played "Amazing Grace."
Next was the funeral for Olivia, who was to be the angel in St. Rose of Lima's Christmas pageant, which has supposed to be Saturday.
Throughout the service for Olivia, which lasted about 75 minutes, several people came up and placed flowers on a memorial outside.
Monsignor Robert Weiss told those at Olivia's funeral that as she lay dying in Sandy Hook Elementary, a Newtown police officer held her in his arms and said, "I love you."
On Friday, a state trooper stood at attention by the 6-year-old's closed white coffin, looking down as if watching over it, The Advocate of Stamford reported.
"If we listen really closely, we will hear Olivia speak to us," Weiss said: "'Mom and Dad, it's OK, I'm with Jesus."'
At about the same time, in Bethlehem at the Church of the Nativity, the sun came out just as Rachel D'Avino's sister began delivering her eulogy.
D'Avino, 29, was a behavioral therapist who hadn't worked long at Sandy Hook Elementary. She had just completed her requirements to become a certified behavior analyst, the New Haven Register reported.
"That was Rachel — a hard worker, a risk taker, a winner," her sister Sarah D'Avino said, according to the Register. "She excelled at everything she did, such as her incredible patience and ability to work with those with special needs, adults and children alike."
Dylan Hockley's public memorial service at the Walnut Hill Community Church in Bethel Friday afternoon included New York City Port Authority bagpipers and purple and white balloons. Dylan's mother remembers asking him once why he flapped his arms when he got excited.
Dylan, who had a form of autism that hindered his language development, answered: "Because I am a beautiful butterfly," said Nicole Hockley, who shared the anecdote Friday, according to the New Haven Register.
She referenced the so-called "butterfly effect," a theory that the flapping of a butterfly's wings can cause a chain reaction that influences weather a world away.
"If one butterfly can cause a hurricane, then 26 butterflies can change the world," she said.
Dylan's family moved to Sandy Hook two years ago from Hampshire, England. At the end of the ceremony, everyone gathered outside the church and applauded as Dylan's parents and brother released purple and white balloons.
Late Friday morning, at St. Stephen Church in Trumbull, Sandy Hook school psychologist Mary Sherlach – who rushed the gunman who killed her and 26 others -- was remembered as a caring professional, a Miami Dolphins fan and someone who ultimately put the lives of others ahead of her own.
A standing room-only crowd filled St. Stephen to mourn Sherlach, 56, who was remembered as "very loving and caring," said Brian Wallace, spokesman for the Diocese of Bridgeport. The Rev. Stephen Gleason presided in the Mass that was also attended by former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays. He said it "was a blessing" to be present at the service for a woman who gave her life for the children of her school. The funeral was a "celebration of her two daughters and husband," said Shays.
The church was adorned with a Christmas tree and several wreaths, including one with the teal and orange colors of the Dolphins.
Gleason said her love was Christlike: "No one has greater love than to give one's life for his friends," he said. "And she did so in an attempt to save others."
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THE MODERATOR: Want to give us an update on Clement's leg and status before we get started with questions.
TERRY FRANCONA: Sure. What's going on right now is batting practice. I don't have an update as much as you need. We'll assess every day where they're at and that's happening probably in a few minutes.
Q. Terry, is your team as capable of coming back in a Playoff series as they were last year?
TERRY FRANCONA: It doesn't matter. We need to win today. I think comparing the ability has no bearing on what we're trying to do. We need to win the game today and go from there.
Q. Terry, would you consider using Curt out of the bullpen today if you needed him?
TERRY FRANCONA: I hope you never get a managing job, you will be horrible. Again, I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. We really need badly to win today, and we would start him tomorrow.
Q. When you take a look at how people have done historically against him, do you think the match-up numbers are as important in deciding things when Wakefield pitches as they are with the other pitchers.
TERRY FRANCONA: That's actually a really good point. As far as Aaron Rowand goes, that's one that's very difficult for us. I think the point is, regardless of what people have done against Wakefield, if he's throwing the ball like he needs to, they may not be able to hit them anyway. Rowand has given our team fits and Wakefield fits. I agree with your point, I think if he throws the ball the way he's capable of, you can throw those numbers out the window.
Q. Terry, you constantly said in these elimination situations, win today and you've got to focus on the game at hand. Does that mean you focus any harder on this one game than you normally would or do you try to keep everything the same?
TERRY FRANCONA: You keep it simple. I think it's a philosophy that we've taken actually the whole time, but it bears out now. That's why we do it. If you look at things differently, you can get overwhelmed. You never hear me say we're going to try to win the series. We're going to try to win tonight. We've always felt like that because I think it's the best way for a team to be good. Stay in the moment and take care of what you can take care of and the rest of those things will answer themselves, are you good enough to come back, did you win 2 out of 3? Those things take care of themselves if you stay in the moment and take care of what you can take care of.
Q. (Inaudible?)
TERRY FRANCONA: No, that's my point. I think you missed my point. I believe in it. I'm not just saying that. I woke up this morning with a lot of anticipation, not anxiety, but anticipation. These things I say to you or the ball club, I didn't read them in a coaching book, I didn't make them up. That's how I feel about things.
Q. How does the weather affect Wakefield's knuckle?
TERRY FRANCONA: Rain, he gets wet, but as far as wind goes, it does affect his knuckle ball. If the wind is at his back, it can make it tumble sometimes. You can't always go on the flags out there, though. It could be swirling at times. Again, I think it can help the ball break. It also can be tougher on his command. I think the relatively warm weather or humidity is very good in him. Last year in Game 1 against the Cardinals, it was so cold that it was difficult for him to get a feel for it.
Q. Terry, last time out on three days rest Tim didn't pitch as well as you would have liked. Do you know how he does on an extra day's rest?
TERRY FRANCONA: I think last time out, he felt great. He didn't have a good feel for his knuckle ball. It was something he had to battle. He took it into his throwing on the side. Like he said, his legs felt great. I think with an extra day's rest his legs will feel better. It was getting the feel for his pitch. He never really got comfortable last time out.
Q. I know that this may seem like an odd question with -- Doug catching today.
TERRY FRANCONA: Nothing you ask would ever seem odd.
Q. Do you think that Jason gets shaken off by your pitchers more than other catchers on a team?
TERRY FRANCONA: I don't know. I wouldn't know where to begin that one. I have no idea.
Q. Can you talk a little bit about pitch selection in Game 2, about when you go back-to-back with the same pitch, because Wells threw the same pitch twice. I was wondering, I don't remember Wells shaking it off much, but do you see that a lot?
TERRY FRANCONA: No, I think our pitchers have a lot of confidence in -- when he puts a finger down, there's a reason, and if a pitcher, a lot of times it can be the wrong pitch, but if they throw it with commitment, it ends up being the right pitch. When you ask somebody, a pitcher late in the game to throw a fast ball, if you don't throw that pitch with commitment, it probably won't end up. With Varitek back there, there's so much relief him being there.
Q. Do you think Varitek should win the Gold Glove?
TERRY FRANCONA: I can't vote for him, he's on our team. I think he's awesome. Anybody that's ever been around him, I think that things, if you look past numbers, what he does defensively is -- I think the word awesome is not a big stretch, everything he does, I like that word.
Q. I don't know how much you've gotten to know Graffanino. What are your thoughts on how he's handling the last couple of days?
TERRY FRANCONA: That's how he's been since he got here. I don't think we ever expect anything different. I think Tony understands the team concept, responsibility standing up. He's handled this just like he's handled everything else, which is very professionally, again with a great attitude. That doesn't surprise me one bit, and it doesn't surprise me the way our players -- this is always going to be us and I think we do a great job with that.
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Into Harm's Way The Vietnam War continues to cast a shadow on surviving members of the West Point Class of 1967. Compelling interviews, archival photographs and footage, animated sequences and contemporary clips chronicle the men's experiences - from their challenging first year as plebes to the fierce hand-to-hand jungle combat to their post-Vietnam lives. A collection of West Pointers poignantly share, sometimes with great emotion, their first-hand stories about the carnage of war, the war's impact on their lives and beliefs, and their enduring bonds of brotherhood.G
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T. Moffatt Burris and the Crossing Few know the privilege of being portrayed on the silver screen by Robert Redford, but that's exactly what happened to South Carolinian Moffatt Burriss. Major Cook, Redford's character in "A Bridge Too Far, " was based in part on Burriss' heroic actions during World War II. The 1977 film tells Hollywood's version of the failed attempt to capture several bridges in Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation in history. D
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Moyers & Company "Going to Jail for Justice" In December 2008, during the closing weeks of the Bush White House, 27-year-old environmental activist Tim DeChristopher went to protest the auction of gas and oil drilling rights to more than 150,000 acres of publicly-owned Utah wilderness. But instead of yelling slogans or waving a sign, DeChristopher disrupted the proceedings by starting to bid. Given an auction paddle designating him "Bidder 70", DeChristopher won a dozen land leases worth nearly two million dollars. D
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Located along the east edge of Markham Stouffville Hospital on Bur Oak Avenue at Church Street, Cornell Community Centre and Library opened its doors December 17, 2012. This 129,000-square-foot centre was designed to meet LEED Silver Certification and boasts an array of unique features promoting education, community, fitness, inclusion and accessibility. These features include a multi-level, fully-equipped health and fitness centre, an indoor playground, a youth centre, three pool areas including a therapy pool, water slide and splash pad, a triple gym, a multi-sensory room for toddlers and individuals with autism and developmental disabilities, dementia or brain injury.
There are also many all-purpose rooms and a 200-seat rehearsal/performance hall available for rent. Cornell also boasts a state-of-the art Library with medical resources, children and youth sections and study rooms.
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MUMBAI--The Indian unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) Saturday said it is in talks with tax authorities in India over alleged tax evasion.
Earlier in the day, Mint newspaper, citing a person familiar with the matter, said that the Indian income tax department charged Shell India of under pricing a share transfer within the group by 150 billion rupees ($2.8 billion) and consequently evading taxes.
Citing television channel ET Now, the report also said that the income-tax order relates to the issue of 870 million shares by Shell India to an overseas company Shell Gas BV in March 2009.
The shares were issued at 10 rupees a share, which the income-tax authorities contest and peg higher at 180 rupees a share instead.
"Shell India tax experts have indeed been in discussions with the Indian tax authorities on this issue over the past week and do not agree with their views," a spokesman for the company said.
The spokesman said a tax officer has made an assessment of the situation and has passed an order. "We will review the order and initiate consequent appropriate actions."
Officials at India's finance ministry under whose purview the income tax department falls, could not be immediately reached for comment.
Transfer pricing is a relatively new field of study in the Indian tax regime. It refers to the practice of arm's-length pricing of transactions among companies that are part of a group across different countries. The law seeks to ensure that fair prices are levied in cross-border transactions.
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Since 2008, more than 7,000 people have been killed in violence associated with the drug war in Mexico. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is traveling to the region this week, and said Wednesday that the United States shares the blame for the violence.
In today's Cato Daily Podcast, Cato scholar Doug Bandow offers analysis on how the U.S. should respond to the crisis on our southern border.


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Voodoo Hosiery Enlists Ellen Von Unwerth to Lens Their Most Provocative Campaign Yet
Popular hoisery brand Voodoo is renowned for its bold and seductive advertising campaigns, so it's fitting that they've enlisted the help of Ellen Von Unworth to shoot their latest. The German photographer and director's risqué vision is a perfect match for Voodoo's provocative yet playful brand of sex appeal. In the past, Voodoo campaigns have […]Read more


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A federal grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday afternoon charging Jared Ehlers, age 35, with violations of federal law in connection with the excavation and removal of the dinosaur track from the Hell's Revenge area of the Sand Flats Recreation Area on Feb. 17.
The stolen track was made by a theropod – a three-toed meat-eating dinosaur. The print was part of a rock slab measuring about 1 foot by 3 feet and weighing approximately 200 pounds, BLM officials have said.
In the first count of the indictment, Ehlers is charged with "removal of paleontological resources." Federal prosecutors allege that Ehlers "knowingly excavated, removed, damaged or otherwise altered or defaced the three-toed dinosaur track, located on federal land." The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Ehlers is also charged with theft of government property and depredation of government property. Both charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Prosecutors also allege that Ehlers "tried to destroy or conceal the dinosaur track in an effort to obstruct or influence the investigation." That charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors emphasized that an indictment is not a finding of guilt. "Individuals charged in indictments are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty in court," prosecutors said in the news release.
A summons will be issued to Ehlers to appear in federal court, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Salt Lake City.
This weekend, the search for the dinosaur track went underwater after authorities received a tip that the artifact had been dumped into the Colorado River.
A dive team from the Utah Department of Public Safety and volunteers with Grand County Search and Rescue spent most of the day on Saturday, March 8 using sonar equipment to try to locate the dinosaur track in an area of the Colorado River near Dewey Bridge on state Route 128. The search, however, was unsuccessful and no additional search effort is planned.
"The search is over," Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Salt Lake City, said Monday, March 10.
Grand County Sheriff Steve White said March 9 that the divers "felt confident that they had covered the area thoroughly." However, dark, murky conditions underwater and the presence of debris hampered the efforts.
"They were focusing pretty much near the bridge. There was a lot of old rebar and other material down there that created a dangerous situation for the divers," White said. "It was called off as it started to get dark."
Being submerged in water for an extended period of time will almost certainly severely damage or destroy the dinosaur track, said ReBecca Hunt-Foster, a paleontologist with the Moab BLM Field Office.
"[The block containing the track] is sandstone, but luckily, the layer the track was in is a thin limestone," Hunt-Foster said this week. "So it's possible it could potentially hold up for a little bit."
She said the incident has been frustrating for both BLM officials and the public.
"It's frustrating and disappointing that somebody would want to take something like that away from everybody else who wants to enjoy it," Hunt-Foster said.
However, the theft has rallied many local residents to be proactive in helping protect archaeological and paleontological resources. "
If there's any positive that's coming out of this it's seeing people's reactions," she said. "And there is interest in seeing these resources protected. The community support has been amazing."
Part of that support has come in the form of pledges for reward money. A group of local outfitters, individuals and organizations has raised almost $7,000 toward a reward. That includes a pledge of $5,000 from the Red Rock 4-Wheelers. The BLM is also offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Sheriff White said he believes the fundraising effort played a role in helping law enforcement identify Ehlers.
"To my mind it certainly was a part of it," White said. "I think it helped."
The case is being investigated by BLM special agents and the Grand County Sheriff's Office. The Utah Department of Public Safety also assisted in the case.


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Champions League: Yaya Toure admits he was the target of racist chanting in Moscow
Yaya Toure has confirmed he was the target of racist chanting as Manchester City beat CSKA Moscow 2-1 in Russia.
Last Updated: 24/10/13 7:20am
Chants could be heard from the home fans as City came from behind to win thanks to two goals from Sergio Aguero to boost their chances of progressing from Group D of the UEFA Champions League.
The Ivory Coast international admitted he was disappointed with the actions of some fans and has called on UEFA to take firm action.
"It is quite disappointing when you're talking about people continuing to do that," Toure told Sky Sports 2HD. "It is unbelievable and very sad on my part.
"I think UEFA need to do something strong. It would be nice if we could stop that.
"Some of the songs today were quite stupid and I think UEFA have to do the work. Every time we say something it continues, something has to be done to stop it."
Asked what action he would like to see the European governing body take, Toure called for stronger punishment in place of the often small fines which have been handed out in the past.
"They need to do a lot," added Toure. "I think UEFA has to be stronger, and hold all the clubs and all the fans that do that (responsible). Maybe they have a stadium ban.
"For me as an African player it is always said to hear something like that and we need to do something about it."
Later Toure tweeted: "Thank you for your support! Hate or racism cannot affect me when so many people are showing me love and support on a daily basis! I believe in football institutions, I know decision makers will take their responsibilties and show a red card to racism."
City manager Manuel Pellegrini said he had not heard the chanting, but hopes action is taken against the offenders.
"It is a pity that these things happen and I hope that the right measures are taken," noted Pellegrini.


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PY03 WIA Adult Employment Retention Rate State Rankings
|This map shows the Employment Retention Rate for the WIA Adult program in PY 03. The rate ranges from a high of 92.5% in Arkansas to a low of 70.1% in Delaware. The ten highest and ten lowest states for this ranking are highlighted on the map. The ten highest states in order are Arkansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wyoming and Idaho. The ten lowest, from top to bottom, are Connecticut, California, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Nevada, the District of Columbia, Oregon and Delaware.


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Here is the final installment of Christian`s email from his Norway trip. Please leave a comment if you have a second, I changed the setting so it should be easier to leave one…
"We took the Kraemmervika speedboats out today and went fishing! SO ZINE dude… I caught the biggest fish I've ever caught in my life. A huge Cod! I only caught two fish but they were both pretty big. Probably about two or three feet long. Cod is the number one export in Norway. It is very interesting. You see thousands of cod hanging from wooden stilts in uniform lines. The cod dries for 2-3 months. There are 17 catagories of Cod. The highest quality goes to Italy and lowest quality, the fish heads, go to Africa for Cod stew. Pretty weird how the world works like that. Anyways, the bay where we fished today was incredible. Huge sheer mountains come down into the ocean and create an insane fjord which is like a huge bay.
As far as the surf goes, it's been pretty flat but really nice weather. We surfed once and it wasn't even that cold. I thought it would be colder, but then again, the sun was out, and it was keeping us fairly warm. The waves were fun too. Fun little lefts for the CJ Nelson Aviso model I brought.
That's pretty much what we're up to. Soon we will be camping about an hour away on some deserted beach where we have to take a boat to. Then we have to hike about an hour to the beach where will then post up and really live it rugged because at the moment we're living like kings eating waffles and cod all day. The outdoors will be a great angle for the Outside Magazine article. After camping for as long as we can bear without getting frost bite, we're heading North to Russia to camp some more. We've heard there's a lot of radio activity along the coastal waters so I'm a little nervous about that but what's an adventure without a little fear? I'm looking forward to it. After that we are flying over to the Faroe Islands. That's an entirely different adventure we'll be tapping into. I'll try and send out more updates as soon as I have more to write about because that's pretty much all of it. Thanks for reading!" Christian
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The Cambridges in Cambridge
A flurry of pre-holiday royal activity before the break...
William and Catherine Cambridge went to Cambridge today to visit with university students and staff. The Prince wore a grey overcoat. The Princess was in pale pink with brown suede booties. And those layers we've been noticing. They were overcurled today I think. It's a fine line between a nice stylish wave and a tucked under fringe.
Lots of messages from you yesterday about the "glow" in her face and this and that and you are SURE SURE SURE that's heir-ing. Do you or don't you want her to be pregnant at the same time as Porny Simpson?
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Mr. Todd Lambert, who resides in Okinawa, was kind enough to write regarding my description of the term "naichi." He wrote:
I believe that Mr. Lambert is correct. In Hawaii, I hear the word "naichi" used rather than "naicha," but that may be a local slang. The word "Yamatunchu" is used in a more formal sense.In the "Karate, A Minority Art, Part 8" post, the word "naichi" is used by Okinawans to refer to mainland Japan (hondo, or main island, in standard Japanese). The word "naicha" is used to refer to those from the Japanese mainland (yamatunchu was also used, and was less derogatory than naicha).
Actually, I am half-naicha (my mother is from Fukuoka). I am a hapa shin-nisei (actually kotonk since I was born on the mainland).
I will tell you a funny story. Many years ago when I began working more closely with people at the Hawaii Okinawa Center, an Okinawan lady told me, "You mother is from Kyushu and your wife's family is from the Philippines -- that makes you Okinawan!"
Of course, she was joking, but the Okinawans in Hawaii are very accepting of "outsiders" who are interested in their culture. They are especially supportive of people who contribute to their culture. They have often told me, "If does not matter if you are Okinawan or not. If you are helping our culture, we want to help you."
My point is that terms such as Uchinanchu and Naichi (Naicha) may have reflected a much deeper cultural divide in the past than they do now. Some the most active people in the Okinawan community I know are Japanese. I am hapa (half/half). For two years, I taught the Karate class for the Okinawan summer camp for children. I may not be Okinawa, but the Karate I practice is (Shorin-Ryu).
Karate is one of the entry points to the Okinawan culture. See: Karate: A Window to Okinawan Culture.
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Welcome on the Intelligence Silliness website!
This comic, based on Team Fortress 2, the class-based multiplayer shooter by Valve,
will tell about the adventures a team of mostly imcompetent mercenaries trying to
retrieve a suitcase of intelligence. What should you expect? Action, bravery, but above
all, humour!
A new issue is posted twice a week ; the days on which the comic will be updated vary
depending on how much work I have, but I tend to add new episodes on Sunday and Wednesday
If you're new to the comic, or even to TF2, feel free to have a look at the different pages,
there's a lot to learn, and some may help you understand the events much more easily.
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M'Baye Niang has revealed his aim is to be better than France striking legend Thierry Henry.
The AC Milan starlet is predominantly a winger but has played in a central role too, and some have suggested he could eventually mirror the Arsenal and Barcelona icon's switch from the flank to the middle.
The 18-year-old refused to be compared with Henry so soon in his fledgling career, however, but said that someday he would like to exceed his compatriot's achievements.
"No, I am a long way off him yet," he said to Milan's official website. "He achieved so much and I have to work hard, but my objective is to become better than Henry."
Niang joined the Serie A club last summer from Caen and, although he took a few months to break into the first team, he has become a regular starter under Massimiliano Allegri in 2013.
"There is only Milan for me," he said, dismissing speculation he might move away from San Siro in the near future. "Yes, I was born in Paris and I like Paris Saint-Germain, but I want to win everything here, starting with the Champions League.
"At the start I struggled because Italian football is very tactical and physical, but everything is fine now. Milan are a great club and I love many things about them. Everyone here helps you out. I need to learn a lot from the coach and his staff.
"When I played for Caen, my objective was to join a big club. Today I am at Milan and hope to stay as long as possible."
Niang had a golden opportunity to score an away goal in the last-16 clash with Barcelona which instead struck the woodwork, but he insists that the 4-0 Camp Nou defeat is history in his mind and wants to focus on the league.
"I was unlucky in Barcelona, but I am still young and can make up for it in another game at that level," he added. "The Barcelona game is in the past and I don't think about it anymore.
"As for in Serie A, I really don't want to lose against Inter, even if truth be told I want to win against everyone we face."


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Suspects' mother: Sons 'set up'
The mother of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings is charging that her sons had been set up.
"It's impossible, impossible for them to, for both of them to do such things, so I am really, really, really telling you this is a set-up," said Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, speaking on CNN on Friday afternoon.
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She is described as the mother of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who have been identified as the two suspects in the bloody Monday bombings at the annual marathon. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with authorities Thursday, reports said, while Dzhokhar, the younger brother, was apprehended late Friday.
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"My youngest one was raised actually from eight years, he was raised in America," she said. "And my oldest son, he is like, really proper raised in our house. Nobody talked about terrorism."
She said that the FBI was aware of Tamerlan.
"And my son Tamerlan really got involved in the religion, you know, religious politics five years ago, so he… never, never told me that he would be like on the side of jihad," Tsarnaeva continued. "He was counseled by FBI for three, five years. They knew what my son was doing. They knew what actions and what sites on the Internet he was going. How could this happen? How could they — they were following every step of him and they're telling today this is a terrorist act."
( Also on POLITICO: Portrait of suspects takes shape)
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), also appearing on CNN, bashed Tsarnaeva's accusations of framing.
"Again, it must be traumatic for the mother and the father but, again, to be saying the FBI set them up or the FBI controlled them, is just absolutely wrong," said King, the former chairman of the House's Homeland Security Committee. "It's really offensive. Here's a country that gave them sanctuary and asylum, the United States, and to turn against the country like this, [it's] bad enough what their sons did, but for the parents to attack the country, to me, is wrong."
( Also on POLITICO: Father: Boston suspect an 'angel')
Breanna Edwards contributed to this report.


text: I don't desire to start a flame but it seems to me that for computational intensive and memory intensive work that 2 singles are better and in most cases cheaper then a dual setup. The dual SMP systems out there now have to fight for bandwidth along the same bus. The AMD chips while fast appear to be starved for data when *big* memory jobs are running. Further I don't see the cost benefits, if you actually dig into the "bang-for-buck" duals never seem to win. The only significant benefit I see from dual is less hardware and higher computing density, that may be reason enough to go with duals esp. if your application does not require a lot of memory fetches. Jim Fraser


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FRVTA Hosts Industry Outlook Panel at Confab
September 19, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on FRVTA Hosts Industry Outlook Panel at Confab
Editor's Note: The Florida RV Trade Association (FRVTA) recently sent out to members a recap of its annual convention. The following is an excerpt focusing on an industry outlook panel held during the gathering.
Over 250 members gathered for the 31st Annual FRVTA Convention at the Harbor Beach Marriott in Fort Lauderdale Beach, September 8-11.
As part of the event, which included an address from Florida Gov. Rick Scott, FRVTA again hosted an industry outlook panel featuring representatives from all sectors of the RV Industry.
The following offers some key points from the participants.
• Rick Compton, senior vice president and general manager of BB&T's Recreational Lending Division in North Carolina, thought this next year would be a bellwether for all businesses since it would be an election year. Additionally, Rick believes high fuel prices will make 2012 a challenging year, but he nevertheless is expecting slow and steady growth.
• Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) President Mike Molino said he believes these past several years have been among the roughest he's ever seen due to the economic uncertainly. With some economic certainty, he thinks consumers would feel more comfortable spending money. "It was a credit problem earlier, now we're into a credibility problem," he exclaimed. Not to be too downbeat, Mike did say that RVs are being used, just not being sold as readily as needed. Nationally, he said the industry is still losing dealers either through closure or consolidation. And, while retail sales aren't currently pretty, he does expect things to stabilize and improve following the 2012 presidential elections.
• Martin Street, Stag-Parkway Inc.'s COO, related that he joined the company in May 2008 just as the "Great Recession" was firmly taking hold of the nation. Unlike many retailers, his business was going great through the first quarter, but slowed dramatically once April hit. He attributes much of this to the weather extremes the nation suffered this past spring that reduced customer traffic. Sales picked up however, once July and vacation season started. Saying it's hard to predict future sales activity, Martin believes 2012 will be flat due to the uncertain presidential elections and the European economic problems that affect the stock market. He also stressed the effects of a change in consumers buying habits. "Consumers are using the Internet to price compare," he said, "so we must offer items to distinguish ourselves from competitors." Citing personal service as a winning strategy, Martin believes the RV Industry should stress the positives the industry offers consumers in order to drive sales changes.
• FLARVC President Bobby Cornwell told member that "flat is the new up," adding that most of his RV park and campground members are stable. However, a big change in his industry is the increased presence of corporate park ownership versus the traditional "mom & pop" ownership. "I'm also seeing increased demand for tent and park model camping, probably as a result of the economy," he said. Saying "buddy sites" are increasing in popularity within campgrounds, Bobby believes parks are seeing more campers in their 40's, which is down from previous years when campers in their 60's dominated. Additionally, long weekend trips with reservations made at the last minute are more likely. Campgrounds have responded to all this by upgrading their sites with 50-amp service and a variety of high-end amenities.
• Mark Schroeder, senior executive/credit products manager of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, offered members a comprehensive overview on commercial RV lending, the loan process and what's needed/required to obtain a commercial loan. Schroeder said credit consideration is based on three years of business and personal tax returns, audited business statements and inventory aging reports, among other items needed. Good capitalization is a must, he stressed. "Avoid high leverage in your business to remain flexible," he said. "High liquidity and good cash flow are important to making sure the dealership is strong and able to pay bills adequately."
• Winnebago Industries Inc. Chairman Bob Olson, who also serves as co-chairman of the Go RVing Coalition, praised the national Go RVing marketing campaign as a way to increase physical activity, which in turn promotes a healthy lifestyle. He said that thus far the campaign, targeting 30 to 64 year-old-adults, had achieved 2.4 billion impressions nationally. Bob also informed members about the new "Away" marketing campaign that will stress the affordable travels aspects of RVing for families. Three new TV spots will be unveiled at this year's National RV Show in Louisville and are scheduled to begin airing in 2012. "This new campaign will keep the RV Lifestyle in front of American consumers," he detailed.
• Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) President Richard Coon spoke discussed the problems concerning economic and political uncertainty and how it has affected consumer sentiment. But, he remains positive saying that due to pent-up demand for RV products and election year efforts to "juice up" the economy that 2012 "may not be all that bad." He also exhorted dealers to push their technicians toward certification via the new "RV Career Ladder." One major issue Richard said RVIA is carefully monitoring is government efforts to increase the CAFE standards for trucks up to an average of 35 miles per gallon. "Since medium- and heavy-duty trucks are used as RV tow vehicles, this has the potential to have a major impact on the RV Industry," he explained. Richard also announced that the 2nd Annual RV World Conference would take place in Tampa Jan. 17-20, 2013 at which he expects speakers from throughout the world to present their views and opinions on RVing. He ended by saying he hoped the conference would produce "world standards" for RV manufacturing as the lifestyle's appeal grows globally.
FRVTA also named its slate of executive officers that included: President Larry Schaffer, Vice President Sam Abdo, Treasurer Rob Rothenhausler and Secretary Ryan Hollan. Donnie Davis remains FRVTA chairman.


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I want to make it clear right from the beginning..my language will be fruity and will be difficult for the professionally offended to accept as it challenges the very thing they are not...a parent..I welcome others opinions if you disagree or even agree...but if you like blinkered sheeple tribal scripts..then aven and not this thread maybe better for you.
I watched Obama's tour with interest given he was extolling stupid comments on Brexit like back of the queue and ten years away, given that in 8 months, he will be unemployed and out of that job.
on the second public speech there was a girl called Maria Munir who made a passionate for her, speech about being a non binary person. Much of what she said was incorrect and selfish but it was important to her.
I want to correct a few things she said then make an observation
She said "In the UK we don't recognise non-binary people under the Equality Act, so we literally have no rights."
this is incorrect...should you choose to read it here is the government act with it's nuonce's attached... https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance
2 points..much in the same way the snowflakes claim erasure..Maria's claim is based on not "specifically" being mentioned rather than general protection..she is protected ..but to list every different variation is simply not possible or plasuable..look at our own network..asexuality is just one thing but thanks to aven and tumblr..the label idiots seem to have made it 99 things and rising..no legislator or law could be updated every single day with every single new variation or every thing created..so it is blanket protected under the sexuality and equality protection part of the act
her claiming Non Binaries are not specifically mentioned so are not protected is wrong and should not be promoted as the truth
Non binary...what weird people you are...this reminds me of those who wrongly identify as asexual then look at sexuals in the same way as binary's..they alledge sexuals go around thinking about sex all the time...sexuals do not..absolutely do not...they spend most of their time thinking about colleges, education, bills, debt, relationships, rent, doing the food shopping, that bloke on the tube needs a shower as he stinks and who is going to clean out the cats litterbox etc etc..they think exactly the same as we do
The same with binaries...they don't go round all day every day and every minute of every day thinking I am male or I am female, they simply do not so why do non binaries seem to wonder around largely telling everyone they do not think of themselves as male or female? most people do not either..honestly..it is like stating the bleeding obvious then trying to decide it is a "new minority"
Minorities it seems..from all walks of life ..have groups within them that see themselves as just that one thing and nothing more...and that is why minorities..particularly sexual identification minorities..cause us to be laughed at
My own feeling is..and it is my own personal feeling..if you identify as just one thing and one thing only..then you have issues
if on the other hand you identify as a normal person who happens to be (insert identification) and that is part of you and not the whole of you...then you have a better chance to be a more balanced and very much at peace with yourself person.
I am not an asexual and you need to bow to me...I am a person who happens to be asexual, how do you do and nice to meet you.
Lastly...I have thought how to express this in different ways and since first hearing it, my anger has subsided but it still leaves me with the same level of ways to explain it...When Maria Munir said what she said, I thought..what a selfish bitch.
You may feel that is strong and some may object to it but before you do let me put this too you
Maria's grandparents were poor manual labourers from Pakistan, they fought to give their child the ability to have a better life...Maria's parents themselves moved across many continents for her father to become a manual labourer in Saudi Arabia, again in the hope he and his wife could give their kids a better life
They then moved to the U.K. so moving half way around the world from pakistan, to give their children a far better way of life. Her parents fought to build up a small business that prospered in a way that they were able to fund her going to university..a total committment and love was offered by those parents
And she repaid them by?
By telling a room full of strangers in front of multi national media...some thing she should have had the love and respect for her parents and telling them first..in the scale of things, her announcement was nothing more than I don't identify as any sex...most people do not think about their sex on a daily basis..big deal..she even insuated that being muslim may put people at risk with her announcement (unlikely) but if she thought there was a risk..did she not owe it to her parents to inform them first?
What has annoyed me is..her parents moved halfway across the world for her future, did shit jobs and they still fought a battle to be able to send her to have a better education and a better future....and she didn't feel that they deserved the respect and privacy they were entitled too but a room full of strangers and media deserved more than her parents
Some of you who may be offended by this post will not understand because you are not parents...but I can assure you...when you turn your life upside down and move half way across the world to give your kids a better life and they repay you buy wanting to talk to a room of strangers more than you....that is hurtfull and disrespectfull.
I would add, she was not the "dewey eyed, fan my face innocent" she appears either...she is very much a politician who knows how to play an audience
So kids, when you think your parents "don't understand you" .....boo f*cking hoo....they do understand you, more than you will ever know, why do you think they are in debt to send you to college and uni?..that doesn't happen unless love and wanting better for your kids is a parents wish.
Obama and THAT non binary speech
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