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The Pacers Basketball Camps are back for their best summer yet! Join us at one of many convenient locations to work on your game and experience all the fun and excitement of an NBA team.
These camps include:
• Fun, motivational, and expert instruction provided by TNBA
• Stations, drills, skills contests and live games
• Giveaway package featuring a Pacers t-shirt and basketball
• End-of-camp awards ceremony
• Player evaluation filled out by your child's coach
• And a ticket to a Pacers home game during the 2018-19 season!
Open to boys and girls ages 7-17 unless otherwise specified. All skill levels welcome!
August 6-10, 2018 · 9:00am-2:30pm
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5545 Belmont Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45224
Cost: $230
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The Indiana Pacers Summer Basketball Camps are back for their best season ever! Join us at one of the available camp sessions where we will offer expert instruction, fantastic giveaways and NBA excitement. (Hurry….many sessions will sell out quickly)
Join the National Basketball Academy and the Indiana Pacers the nation's premier basketball clinic programs offered right here in Indiana. Our expert coaches will help you take your game to the next level. You'll also experience all the fun and excitement of NBA basketball via various giveaways, contests and special surprises!
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Academic Title: Professor
Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research
James M. Olson, MD, PhD, is attending physician at Seattle Childrens Hospital and member of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC); he is professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and adjunct professor of Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and on the faculty in the Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, and the Center for Nanotechnology.
He serves as assistant program head of the pediatric oncology program at FHCRC and has mentored more than 30 graduate students and postdoctoral research fellows. He is chair of a national phase III clinical trial for high-risk medulloblastoma/PNET patients and member of the COG Biology and Translational Research Committee. Olson is principal investigator on six projects that focus on developing effective new therapies for pediatric brain tumors, methods that allow surgeons to better visualize the border of brain cancer and normal brain, and the molecular mechanisms of brain development.
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I am principal investigator on six projects that focus on developing effective new therapies for pediatric brain tumors, methods that allow surgeons to better visualize the border of brain cancer and normal brain, the molecular mechanisms of cerebellar development and genetic-based endpoints for neuro-degenerative diseases. A study led by my team and I showed that tumor paint is 500 times better than a standard MRI at helping surgeons distinguish between cancer cells and normal tissue. Our team developed the paint, which is currently being studied in mice models, from a scorpion-derived peptide called chlorotoxin.
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Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with Social Welfare Emphasis Degree Requirements
All requirements for the distance degree program are the same as those for the same degree on the campus. Distance degree program students are subject to all ASU policies, deadlines and graduation requirements, except where noted.
- You will be required to complete 30 Adams State University semester credits which may be met by completing ASU Independent study or online courses approved and listed on the website or other publications.
- Course credits earned through the distance degree program are entered on the student record without distinction between on-campus and off campus courses.
- ASU credits earned in off-campus course are considered to be the same as those earned in on-campus courses for the purpose of meeting residency or other requirements in degree programs of the institution.
Degree Program Total Credit Requirements
- General Education - 37 credits
- Major - Sociology - 34 credits
- Sociology Electives - 6 credits
- Social Welfare Emphasis - 12 credits
- General Electives - 31 credits
Sociology Core (34 credits):*LS 225: Research Skills for the Behavioral Sciences (1 credit)
SOC 201: Sociological Imagination (3 credits)
SOC 245: Criminology (3 credits)
SOC 251: Social Problems/Social Welfare Strategies (3 credits)
***SOC 311: Social Statistics (4 credits)
SOC 340: Readings in Sociology (2 credits)
SOC 365: Race, Culture, and Ethnicity (3 credits)
SOC 395: Pre-Professional Seminar (2 credits)
SOC 401: Social Psychology (3 credits)
SOC 419: Gender and Society (3 credits)
SOC 445: Sociological Theory (3 credits)
*SOC 455: Sociological Research Methods (4 credits)
Sociology Electives (6 credits):SOC 305: Rural Sociology (3 credits)
SOC 315: Sociology of Education (3 credits)
SOC 318: Race, Class, and Gender (3 credits)
SOC 320: Marriages and Families (3 credits)
SOC 379/479: Special Topics in Sociology (3 credits)
SOC 425: Environment and Society (3 credits)
SOC 444: Deviance and Social Control (3 credits)
SOC 479: Field Studies (3 credits)
- For students choosing the Social Welfare emphasis; SOC 346, SOC 347, and SOC 447 are available as Sociology electives
Social Welfare Emphasis (12 credits):SOC 352: Human Behavior & Social Environment (3 credits)
SOC 370: Poverty and Social Inequality (3 credits)
SOC 470: Social Welfare Policy (3 credits)
SOC 493: Internship in Social Welfare (3 credits)
General ElectivesGeneral Electives may be approved transfer credits or courses taken from ASU. General electives are credits that are required, but not used elsewhere in the degree program.
Writing Proficiency
Quality of research papers in SOC 245 and SOC 251 determine whether or not a student has met the writing requirement.
Note: Degree must include 42 upper division (300/400 level) credits. To receive credit, all course major grades must be passing (C or better). A minimum of 30 credits must be ASU credits for the BA or BS degree.
* LS 225 is a prerequisite/co-requisite for SOC 245, SOC 251, and SOC 455.***BUS 120 is a prerequisite for SOC 311. In addition, MATH 106 is the recommended math prerequisite for SOC 311.


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Good food guide
Emma's salmon
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
a salmon steak
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tbsp sesame seeds
For the sauce:
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest and 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
100g low-fat mayonnaise
100g non-fat plain yoghurt
1 to 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp drained, prepared horseradish
salt and pepper to taste
Brush the salmon steak on both sides with one tablespoon of olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Press the sesame seeds onto both sides of the salmon. Heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a large non-stick skillet (flat pan). Add the salmon steak and cook for five to six minutes on each side.
While the salmon steak is cooking, grate enough lemon zest for half a teaspoon, and squeeze enough fresh lemon juice to measure one tablespoon.
Mix the rest of the sauce ingredients, starting with only two teaspoons of lemon juice, in a small serving bowl. Taste and add the remaining lemon juice, if desired.
Place the noodle and cucumber salad onto a plate, followed by the salmon steak. Spoon the lemon mustard sauce over the salmon.
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Fisheries council wants regulation of forage fish
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A draft of an ecological plan that applies to West Coast fisheries has emphasized the need for management of so-called forage fish to improve salmon runs.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider adopting the draft fishery ecosystem plan on April 9 in Portland.
The goal is better fish runs on the Columbia River and other Northwest waterways, The Columbian reported.
Tim Roth, a deputy project leader for the federal Columbia River Fisheries Program in Vancouver, said the plan may lead to more conservative management of West Coast fisheries, at least initially. But that could change as managers learn more about the interactions of interdependent marine species, he added.
"It might mean lower catches in the near term until we better understand these relationships," Roth said.
Forage fish are the small schooling species like sardines, saury and smelt that provide a crucial protein source for larger fish and other animals in the Pacific.
Some of those forage species are largely unmanaged, leaving them vulnerable to unregulated fishing.
Advocates have welcomed the plan and its broad approach to Northwest ecosystems. The Pew Charitable Trusts' environmental arm has recently pushed to raise awareness of forage fish and their importance to the marine food web.
"What really fuels all of this are these little . fish that never get their day in the sun," said Paul Shively, a campaign manager with the Pew trusts.
The plan doesn't have direct regulatory authority, but the council is composed, in part, of federal and state wildlife officials from Oregon, California, Washington and Idaho.
Earlier plans didn't take a big-picture approach, Roth said.
"As (previous plans) were developed, they didn't really look across the broad complexities of species and how they interacted," Roth said.
Information from: The Columbian, http://www.columbian.com


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Irresistible Apple Dessert Recipes
Vanilla Apple Gratin [1]
This simple, orchard-fresh dessert captures the flavor of vanilla ice cream melting into the warm apples in a pie—but more quickly, and with way less fat and sugar.
Danish Pastry Apple Bars [5]
One of Gail Michael's students shared this apple dessert recipe with her long ago. "These were in the lunch box of one of my first-grade students in the fall of 1974," recalls Gail, who lives in West Lafayette, Indiana. The bars taste like apple pie in a baking pan.
Spiced Apple Tarte Tatin [9]
This easy, French-style upside-down apple tart relies on frozen puff pastry. The spice flavor comes from Chinese five-spice powder, a widely available blend with flavors of clove, black pepper and star anise.
Maple-Walnut Apple Cobbler [13]
This easy skillet cobbler is bursting with harvest flavor: crisp apples, cinnamon, toasted walnuts and sweet maple syrup.
Caramel Apple Cookies [17]
Fresh Apple Cake [21]
This nutty comfort cake from Sharon Buckner of Rhineland, Missouri, gets a sugary top and caramelized gooey bottom as it cooks. Don't be surprised by the thick batter; it will bake into a moist, dense cake.
Fresh Apple Cake [22]
Cider-Spiked Apple and Pecan Tart [25]
Apples are gently cooked in butter, then arranged in a prebaked crust and brushed with jelly. The result is an edible work of art.
Applesauce Spice Cake [29]
No granulated sugar is added to this apple dessert recipe; the sweetness comes from cider, fruit and applesauce. The recipe comes from Sandra Schifferle of Lansing, Kansas.
Amish Apple Dumplings [33]
We often equate Amish food with comfort. Here's our version of a favorite apple dessert you might find at Amish-based restaurants in the Midwest.
Crumb-Topped Apple Trio Pie [37]
Crisp on top, sweetly tender inside, this pie blends tart and sweet apples—Granny Smith, Jonagold and Braeburn—with sugar and cinnamon under a brown-sugar and walnut crumb topping.
Dutch Apple Pudding Cake [41]
With apple pie filling on the bottom and a moist walnut cake layer on top, this dessert makes the perfect ending to a fall or winter meal.
Rise and Shine Cranberry-Apple Crisp [45]
Spiced coconut streusel adds crunch to healthy apples and berries.
Apple Harvest Bake [49]
Top this moist cake with a dollop of homemade Cinnamon Butter for a quick and easy apple dessert.
Apple Harvest Bake [50]
Broadway Cafe Apple Cake [53]
In the trendy Westport area of Kansas City, Missouri, customers at Broadway Cafe can taste samples of that day's baked goods, including frosted scones, biscotti, coffee cake and this moist apple cake. A generous portion of chopped Granny Smith apples adds flavor and moisture. Be careful turning this apple dessert out of the pan; it's a tender coffee cake.
Cider-Baked Stuffed Apples with Salty Caramel Sauce [57]
Nuts and cranberries fill these simple baked apples that cook in your slow cooker. Top them with Sea Salt Caramel Sauce and, if you like, a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Apple, Cranberry and Pecan Galette [61]
A free-form tart is the anxious pie-maker's best friend. No fussy crimping, and any torn edges or lumpy folds just add to the charm (especially when sprinkled with sparkly raw sugar).
Rosemary Ward's Apple Cake With Butter-Rum Sauce [65]
"I first enjoyed this at a church circle meeting. Rosemary has since moved from Columbia, but I think of her every time I serve this," says Georgia Morehouse of Columbia, Missouri.
Apple Pear Praline Pie [69]
"The key to this pie is the apples you use," says Mary Schrier of Cumberland, Iowa, who got the recipe from an old handwritten family recipe book. She suggests not using Red Delicious apples. Instead, try Granny Smith, Jonathan or any sweet-tart heirloom apples. "There are quite a few orchards that are starting to carry the heirloom apples, and this old recipe is just waiting for them," she says.
Indulgent Caramel Apples [73]
Wrap your favorite tart or sweet apple in caramel (we even created a less sticky version), then unleash your imagination as you add on nuts, cereal, dried fruit, candy, decorative sprinkles or whatever else inspires you--and your taste buds.
Nutty Caramel Apple Crisp [77]
A double dose of caramel—baked in with the fruit and drizzled on top—elevates the humble crisp to new levels of indulgence. Mix two types of apples for the best texture. The tender apples cook down and create a sort of thick sauce; the firm apples hold their shape. Boiled cider, which you can purchase at specialty stores or online or make using our recipe, adds an extra splash of apple flavor to this dessert.
Apple-Butter Cakelets [81]
Caramel sauce adds a creamy-sweet finish to individual Apple-Butter Cakelets created by Midwest Living® in honor of Illinois' Amish bakers. You can choose from two Prairie State ingredients, apples or pumpkins, for this treat.
Streusel Apple Bread [85]
A touch of lemon, chopped cranberries and walnuts make this quick bread seem like coffee cake. Norma Hendricks of Hopedale, Illinois, likes to serve this for dessert. "I made this by combining a couple of recipes 35 years ago," Norma says. "I think I started with a cranberry bread, but most of my kids don't like cranberries. Then I saw an apple bread recipe, and I thought streusel would be good on top.".
Streusel Apple Bread [86]
Apple-Toffee Tartlets [89]
Try Jonagold, Gala or Granny Smith apples in this easy 3-step dessert. Refrigerated piecrust speeds prep time.
Single-Serving Caramel Apples [93]
Joan Wagner of Overland Park, Kansas, considers this baked apple dessert her easy-entertaining recipe. "You can make these up to six hours ahead and cover them with plastic wrap, so the puff pastry doesn't dry out," she says. "The desserts can bake while your coffee is brewing."
Spiced Apple Drops [97]
An apple a day tastes even better in cookie form, especially with frosting on top!
Spiced Apple Drops [98]
Maple-Apple Pudding Bake [101]
The Wisconsin Maple Producers created this recipe to showcase maple syrup and juicy apples in a moist, rich dessert.
Maple-Apple Pudding Bake [102]
Apple-Cranberry Walnut Pie [105]
Sweet apples balance the tang of cranberries in this fall favorite.
Easy Apple Cranberry Slab Pie [109]
Purchased puff pastry adds to the ease of this dessert recipe, but the real star is the filling the pairing of sweet apples and tart cranberries. Homemade icing rounds out this crowd-pleasing potluck pie.
Apple Pumpkin Sunflower Bread [113]
We packed a bushel of fall into this homey loaf: pumpkin, apple, nuts and spices.
Something Special Apple-Cherry Pie [117]
We combined two favorite pie fillings--apple and cherry--into one fall treat. Almonds add a nutty boost.
Apple Scones with Spiced Maple Butter [121]
They're light, buttery and full of apple flavor. We almost hate to cover up the baked-on apple slice with the whipped maple butter. Almost.
Apple Pudding with Rummy Sauce [125]
Creamy rum sauce tops this warm, homey pudding. Generous scoops of ice cream are good, too!
Praline-Taffy Apple Pie [129]
Creamy caramels nestle between layers of tart cooking apples and a mixture of brown sugar, pecans and melted butter.
Praline-Taffy Apple Pie [130]
Apple-Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread [133]
Biscuits, apples, orange juice? Sounds like breakfast to us. Orange juice adds brightness to both the bite-of-autumn bread and the cream cheese icing drizzle.
Cheesy Apple Pie [137]
This juicy pie, from a Purdy, Missouri, reader, has a cheddar-speckled crust and cheesy-streusel topping.
Cheesy Apple Pie [138]
Easy Gingery Apple Sundaes [141]
Cook this easy apple dessert on your grill in summer or on your stove in cooler weather—it's great either way. For outdoor entertaining, scoop ice cream into plastic cups.
Ridiculously Easy Whole-Apple Crisp [145]
A serving of apple crisp has never been so impressive--or easy! There's no peeling or slicing in this apple dessert recipe. Just assemble the "crisps" the night before and bake right before serving. Brushing apples with a citrus juice keeps them from going brown.
Ginger-Cinnamon Apple Crisp [149]
"This is a twist on a popular dish and is one of my personal favorites," says April Osburn from the Clabber Girl Bake Shop in Terre Haute, Indiana. Thinly slice the apples for this apple dessert so they get done in the allotted baking time.
Free printable apple desserts cookbook [153]
Click below to download our FREE printable collection of 10 top apple dessert recipes, or choose from one of our other free printable cookbooks!
More great fall recipes [164]
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May 3, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Season tickets for the 2010 UC Santa Barbara men's soccer season are now on sale and this year's packages include tickets for the NCAA College Cup, being hosted by UCSB on Dec. 10-12 at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium.
Season tickets start at just $75 and include one ticket to all home men and women's regular season games and one College Cup All Session ticket. UC Santa Barbara staff and faculty can purchase their season tickets for a reduced rate of $50.
For the second consecutive season, the Gauchos are also offering a special Family Plan. For just $175, a family of five (2 adults, 3 youth) can get tickets for all home men and women's regular season games and two College Cup All Session tickets - that's just $1.25 per game! Everyone who purchases a Family Plan will also get free GKids memberships for all youth eighth grade and under in their household.
For each season ticket purchased prior to the Gaucho men's match against Creighton on Sept. 9, the buyer will receive the exclusive Soccer Heaven scarf - the official Gaucho Soccer scarf for the 2010 season.
All 2009 UCSB soccer season ticket holders and all Gaucho Fund donors may purchase tickets for the 2010 season starting on May 3. On May 10, season tickets will be available to the general public. College Cup All Session tickets will be made available to non-season ticket holders on Sept. 1.
To purchase your season tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the ticket office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.
Where Can I Sit?
One Donation Is Gold
For more information on the Gaucho Fund and to make your donation, click here.
College Cup Tickets
The Schedule
UCSB will open its 2010 home schedule on Aug. 28 when it hosts an exhibition match with a Mexican National Team. Last September, the Gauchos hosted the Mexican U-17 National Team and welcomed a spirited crowd of 8,425 to Harder Stadium for the exhibition, which ended with a 2-1 UCSB overtime victory.
Highlights of the home schedule include a match with UCLA on Sept. 24 and a Fox Soccer Channel televised game against Duke on Oct. 15. Creighton, a program that has qualified for 17 of the last 18 NCAA Tournaments, and Davidson, out of the Southern Conference, will be making the trek to Santa Barbara on Sept. 7 and 10, respectively.
The Gauchos will begin their quest to defend their Big West Conference regular season title on Oct. 2 when they host UC Davis in their league opener.
The 2010 season will kick-off with the annual exhibition against cross-town foe Westmont on Aug. 21.
For the complete 2010 men's soccer schedule, click here.
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Get your gamer off the couch and into the sack with LELO's new SenseMotion remote-controlled line of technologically titillating toys. Always fancy-shmancy and rechargeable, the ever-popular Swedish designers of LELO have really shaken things up this time by adding their signature sophistication to the same motion-sensing technology found in a Nintendo Wii controller.
No, you don't need to adjust the prescription in your extra-large hipster frames, you read it right! LELO's three new SenseMotion vibrators let you dictate the speed and intensity of their buzz with a flick of your well-trained Wii Tennis wrist.
Each attractive, expertly designed, pornish-named vibrator—Lyla, Oden or Tiani—is controlled by a round, shiny remote with three different SenseMotion control modes. In Mode #1, simply tilt the remote from horizontal to vertical to increase your partner's vibration sensation. Really rattle things in Mode #2, which has the vibrator mimicking however the remote shakes or spins. Or, if things get too hot 'n' heavy to focus on what your hands are doing, switch to manual mode, which takes you through six pre-programmed pulsations.
Giving you more buzz for your buck and keeping everyone in the loop, the remote control also vibrates, giving you essentially two vibrators in one, so you can feel exactly what your partner feels. Creative kinksters will be inspired to find new ways to hold the controller.
Each unique toy design—Lyla, Oden or Tiani—gives couples a new way to add some hands-free zing to their favorite XXX-rated activity.
Lyla is a new twist on the basic egg-vibrator. She can be used as a compact clitoral toy or, with her subtle curved shape, inserted for G-spot stimulation. Oden is a strapping young fellow meant to be strapped to your young fellow, either flesh and blood or silicone. Essentially an egg vibe with an adjustable loop attached, Oden goes around the base of a toy or penis to act as a souped-up vibrating ring to bring clitoral or testicular stimulation to penetrative sex.
Last but hardly least, Tiani steals the show (and possibly another company's ideas) by mimicking a certain C-shaped design originally made famous by We-Vibe, which, tragically, is set to release a new remote-controlled rendition of their own later this year, just a few months too late.
Sex toy industry professionals wonder: did We-Vibe's patent run out? Are the LELO owners sneaky little Swedes with no conscience? Who cares!? Because LELO's improvements on the design simply make for a better toy.
The design in question is a narrow C-shape with one end of the C inserted vaginally while the other rests externally against the clitoris, gently "clipping" onto the vaginal opening to add hands-free vibration internally and externally while still leaving space for vaginal penetration. While the original We-Vibe was also rechargeable, waterproof and came packed with a variety of pulsations, it was clunky and manually controlled by a button that was impossible to find.
LELO's Tiani is the We-Vibe's much hotter cousin. She's more compact, extra svelte (especially on the internal end, leaving more space for penetration), and, like her LELO-born siblings Oden and Lyla, SenseMotion remote-controlled. This toy is sexy. So get on her before LELO gets sued.
Besides being partially rechargeable (the remotes take batteries) and waterproof, Lyla, Oden and Tiani are all discrete toys with a 39-foot range, so you can keep your nerd alert in an endless number of sexy scenarios. Make Comic-Con cool again; score some extra points at the unveiling of a new gaming system; rock her while she eats her Top Ramen; or really beam him up at the next Trekky potluck!
Just cross your Vulcan-saluting fingers that everyone else isn't vibing with the same toy at the same time because these new LELO toys' kryptonite is that their remotes can get their wires crossed.


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Cloud Expo
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Cloud Cost Management
Nick van der Zweep, VP of Products and Strategy at Cloud Cruiser, talks to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
By: Elizabeth White
Jan. 2, 2013 08:00 AM
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"Cloud Cruiser specializes in cloud cost management. To understand what we do, think about the problems our customers are facing - they are losing visibility to IT because their users, developers are using capacity from Amazon, Rackspace and others and they don't even know what's going on. We pull in data and we can show the users, the CIOs what's going on," stated Nick van der Zweep, VP of Products and Strategy at Cloud Cruiser, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, New York, June 10-13, 2013.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!
Cloud Expo New York will attract more than 10,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!
All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 12th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term 'cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with 'computing' and 'software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2013, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."
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1 pint (568ml Bottle) of Cider (Magner's, Strongbow): 2.5-3 units
1 Pint Stella / Kronenbourg: 3 units
1/2 Bottle of White Wine (12%): 4 1/2 units
1 pub measure of Bacardi / Vodka / Whiskey: 1 unit
1 bottle Smirnoff Ice / Bacardi Breezer: 1.5 units
As you can see, it doesn't take a lot before we are pushing the daily limits with some common drinks. A couple of pints of cider / lager, a half bottle of wine and two or three alcopops all put us well above safe drinking limits. Now think what you have to drink on an average night out!
Alcohol affects just about every part of our body including our brain, heart, stomach and liver. Most of us have a drink because it relaxes us and gives us an initial feeling of well-being. However, drinking alcohol in excess of safe limits can have serious consequences for our health, these include:
These are only a few examples. There are also indicators that alcohol may be affecting our health - such as heartburn, stomach upsets, changes in mood and sleep disturbance which we often blame on other things.
Most people who drink do so because they enjoy it. What most of us want is to continue getting pleasure out of drinking without it affecting our health. To do this however many of us may need to think about cutting down. Below are some tips for doing this.
4. Problems
By learning a bit more about what we drink and how it affects our health most of us can continue to enjoy drinking and by staying within safe limits continue to stay healthy. If, however, you think alcohol is beginning to become a problem for you and your family it is important you seek help. Below are a few useful contacts:
Drinkline: 0800 917 8282
Alcoholics Anonymous: 0845 769 7555


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Robert Fisk — The Independent April 18, 2013
Syrians who settled down to listen to Bashar Assad's independence day speech two nights ago were sorely disappointed. He didn't exactly offer blood, sweat and tears. Just more war, and the assurance that he would win. Up to 7,000 prisoners would be released to celebrate Syria's freedom from French rule 67 years ago – which goes to show how many prisoners are still held in the country's jails – but Assad wanted to assure his people that this really was a war. As if they didn't know. It was not sectarian. Foreign news media were portraying a lie: that "a president was holding on to his seat against a population who want him gone, but that is not the case". France still regarded Syria as its colony. Western nations wanted the Arabs to submit to them. "We saw their humanitarian intervention in Iraq, in Libya, and now we see it in Syria."
But Assad had a point. London, Paris and Washington love exiles. Into Iraq, we tried to inject the ghastly and wealthy exile Ahmed Chalabi. And we all know how reliable he turned out to be. We pretended that Libya's freedom fighters were Homeric warriors; and now they control their little Islamist fiefdoms in Benghazi and Tripoli (having done away with the US ambassador), courtesy of Nato air strikes against Gaddafi. If Algeria was not such a loyal ally of Syria, Assad might have pointed out that the French handed their colony over to the Algerian exiles who had largely avoided the war of independence – and who produced the autocratic and vicious state which slaughtered its own people in the Islamist struggle of the 1990s and which remains a corrupt and corrupted regime to this day.
And then we have the Syrian "opposition", insofar as it exists, with its endless fraternal arguments and juvenile infighting – what on earth does dear leader Khatib think he is doing? Has he resigned or not resigned? – and its alliance with the very same al-Qa'ida groupuscules that are supposed to be the centre of jihadism in Mali. Remember Mali? This was the centre of world terror back in January. Now the centre of world terror is supposed to be in northern Syria – fighting on "our" side against the hated Assad. And we brave Westerners are worried, supposedly, that Bashar's chemical weapons will fall "into the wrong hands" – being presumably in the "right hands" (Assad's) now! It makes you wonder who writes the Assad speeches. Can't they do better than the curmudgeonly interview that Assad gave on Wednesday night?
But we still don't understand the autocracies of the Middle East, both those we love – Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other well-known freedom-loving, pro-American democracies – and those we loathe – Syria, Iran, possibly a future Iraq (if it doesn't obey our orders) and potentially Egypt (unless the army takes over and returns the country to a Mubarak lookalike). Never will I forget the fantasist Daniel Pipes' suggestion that what Iraq needed in the aftermath of Saddam was "a democratically minded strongman". Isn't that what Assad would claim to be?
And all the while, we are content to see Arab nations ganging up on the Syrian regime, pushing more and more weapons into the war – which is indeed, contrary to what Assad says, more and more sectarian – even though the Islamist al-Nusra movement is now by far the strongest among the rebels. Yet we are outraged that Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah might be involved – in Hezbollah's case, there is no "might" about it – in the same war. Up to 40 Hezbollah fighters are now said to have died in the Syrian conflict, most in Shia Lebanese villages on the Syrian side of the border. In Qusayr last week, at least five Hezbollah fighters were killed. One of them, Assad Ali Assad – and here we have a name, in case anyone cares to deny the story – was buried in southern Lebanon at the weekend.
But Hezbollah's involvement is important because Iran and its allies are also part of the reason for this conflict. And it remains a fact, even though Assad did not – could not – mention this in his independence day speech, that Iran is the target of the Syrian war, the overthrow of Assad part of our plan to destroy his Iranian ally – just as it was part of Israel's plan to deconstruct Iran by fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?
We have, in London, Paris and Washington, an odd habit. We believe that those dictators we don't like will actually go – "step down", "step aside", lose the war, whatever phrase we like to use – because we want them to go. Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either – though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list. And here's some bad news for Assad's foes.
He mentioned the Syrian government army on Wednesday night. What he did not do was refer to their recent expansion of territory. His soldiers have now retaken most of rebel Deraya and are advancing into Harasta in the suburbs of Damascus. The 100-mile highway to Tartus, and thus to Latakia – long closed by the armed opposition – has just been reopened by Assad's divisions. For the first time in months, Syrians can now drive from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast. The rebels so beloved of Nato nations are losing their hold of Damascus. Yes, they may get it back. The road to Latakia may close again. This war – beware – may last another two, three or more years. Nobody will win.
But the power that will have to be reckoned with – barring some mass mutiny – will be the Syrian army of Bashar Assad. It is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war: not just al-Qa'ida, al-Nusra, defectors and Nato, but with the intelligence services whose brutality in Daraa struck the match to the Syrian uprising. And just at the moment it is fighting back against Assad's enemies. Western "statesmen", diplomats, "analysts" and those absurd think-tankers so beloved of the networks may yet have to buy a new crystal ball.


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Diversity of Living Pigs
The family Suidae (pigs) is one of a number of families in the mammal order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). Meijaard et al. (2011) recognized 12 species in the Suidae, although they note that clarifying the status of some of these will require further work, especially in the Philippines. One or more species are found throughout most of the Old World except for Australia, northern Africa, and far northern Eurasia (feral pigs are found even more widely, including in North America and on many Pacific islands). Various species can be found from near-desert conditions to closed forest in tropical, subtropical, and boreal regions. The most unusual-looking pigs are no doubt the babirusas, which have long, spindly legs, a nearly naked body, and, most strikingly, upper canines which (in males) grow up through the snout and continue to grow in a backward-curving spiral. The function of these remarkable, greatly enlarged canines remains unclear. The babirusas share a number of other unusual characteristics as well that have raised questions about whether they actually fall within the Suidae, but this question has not yet been resolved.
A distinctive feature of pigs is the unusual snout, with terminal nostrils which can be closed; the snout can be moved by the pig without moving its head. Most pig species are highly omnivorous, feeding even on carrion, but plant material typically accounts for a large proportion of the diet. With the exception of the Forest Hog and babirusas, pigs use their canines and flexible snout disk to root through soil looking for food and dig up roots and bulbs. Babirusas specialize on fruit and Forest Hogs feed more on grasses than any other pig species; Forest Hog piglets are fond of fresh elephant dung.
With the exception of the babirusas, which appear to have retained the foregut fermentation characteristic of ruminants, most pigs use hindgut fermentation in the caecum to digest cellulose, but their cellulose digestion is inefficient and pigs consequently must spend much of their time feeding.
All pigs use mud wallows when they have an opportunity to do so. Wallowing serves to cool the animal them and to protect it from ectoparasites (external parasites) and biting flies. Pigs nearly always rub themselves against a tree after wallowing.
Pigs are generally considered to be among the most intelligent mammals, after humans and other great apes, dolphins, and elephants. Their intelligence has been likened to that of a three-year-old child.
Pigs have a remarkable variety of scent glands, used in scent-marking, which are distributed over various parts of their bodies.
Pigs are the only ungulates (hoofed mammals) to commonly produce large litters of offspring (up to half a dozen or even more than a dozen offspring at once).
Pigs and Humans
There are an estimated two billion domestic pigs on Earth (domestic pigs are derived mainly from the Eurasian Wild Pig and the Sulawesi Warty Pig). Pork accounts for a large proportion of global meat production (41% in 2007). In addition to eating pigs and, in some places, keeping them as pets, humans have used them to detect and dig for underground truffles. Available evidence suggests that pigs may have been domesticated independently in Europe, Asia Minor, the Far East (including Japan), and various parts of Southeast Asia. In many traditional human societies around the world, pigs have tremendous cultural importance. Feral pigs wreak environmental havoc in many regions where they occur. On the other hand, populations of most of the world's pig species are declining, some critically. Particularly vulnerable are those species ocurring in small and isolated populations in archipelagoes such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan.
(Meijaard et al. 2011 and references therein)


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READING, Pa. - December 7, 2013 --An eastern Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to two to 23 months in prison for giving her baby granddaughter a fatal dose of morphine to ease the baby's teething pain.
Fifty-three-year-old Penny Kochel said before her sentencing Friday in Berks County Court that she wishes she'd have died instead of 14-month-old Leanna McEntee.
Leanna died of a lethal dose of morphine at Kochel's Heidelberg Township home in May 2009. Kochel pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
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All participants must be 60 years or older with low back pain that has lasted for at least three months and symptoms of depression, including low motivation, irritability, insomnia, anxiety and social isolation. Up to 25 percent of older adults suffer from both low back pain and depression at the same time, leading to physical inactivity and loss of independence.
Participants in the study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, will receive a thorough evaluation of low back pain, other medical conditions and mood. They must agree to take the study medication ― an antidepressant with pain relief properties ― and, if assigned, be an active participant in counseling sessions. This brief counseling teaches problem-solving skills specific to managing pain, mood, sleep and other problems commonly experienced by seniors living with these linked conditions.
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District officials said increases would only begin to help stem years of reductions.
Schools will get a boost in the Florida House's $74.4 billion budget proposal, but local school leaders say the uptick will likely not be enough to derail previously announced budget cuts that follow years of funding shortages.
Legislators on Friday touted the increases, which in the House will raise the basic funding formula for the K-12 system by more than $1 billion, or a 6.1 percent increase from this year.
The Senate is proposing a similar increase for K-12 schools, with a total boost of $1.2 billion — or a 7 percent increase.
"Education is the big winner in this budget," House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said Friday.
He outlined the House spending plan along with House Appropriations Chairman Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland.
School officials in Sarasota and Manatee counties were not nearly as optimistic, however. While the House funding plan would result in a $17.9 million increase for the Sarasota school district and $22 million more for Manatee County, school officials in those districts said the increases would only begin to help stem years of budget cuts and would not save programs on the chopping block, such as the Phoenix Academy in Sarasota County.
"Right now, we are about 10 years ago in our funding level," said Al Weidner, the Sarasota School District's deputy chief financial officer.
The Sarasota school district has proposed $4.67 million in cuts next year, even with the anticipation of extra funding from the state, Weidner said.
"The main thing is that most of it is earmarked for teachers' salaries," he said. "That doesn't help balance the budget. That's why we are reducing."
Weidner said that in a time where most Florida districts are spending more than they are taking in, more flexibility is needed with funds allocated from the state.
"When the recession came, our fund balance was quite high, and the School Board made the decision to use a portion of it each year to keep as many programs intact as possible," Weidner said. "We are getting to the point where we can't do that any longer."
School officials have other concerns: A new teacher evaluation system that some say is flawed relies heavily on standardized tests to evaluate all educators, even if they don't teach correlating subjects.
The House bill provides $676.4 million for teacher pay raises.
Weatherford said the House is giving districts the discretion on how to use the funding, although the House is suggesting that half of the pay raises be linked to teacher performance in the classroom. The Senate has set aside $480 million for raises.
Additionally, the House measure would boost the fund that helps teachers pay for classroom supplies, translating to $250 per teacher, up from $200.
Manatee Education Association president Pat Barber said that any decision about how the Manatee district uses the money for teacher raises would have to come from the bargaining table.
"I would see this as an opportunity for our district to recover some of the lost salary," Barber said Friday. Teachers took pay cuts in 2009 and 2012, and average salaries are below the national and state levels, she said.
"We are more in favor of raising all teacher salaries up to a competitive level before we talk about performance pay," Barber said.
Though extra money is needed in the district, Barber said there is a wariness about whether the funding will actually materialize. Even if it does, she said, it might not be enough to recover what has been cut.
Though a $250 supplies allowance would be an improvement from what teachers received from the state this school year, Barber said, that won't meet the needs in every classroom.
"They are buying books. They are buying supplies," said the union chief, who says she knows teachers that spend more than $1,000 on classroom needs. "They used to buy enrichment things, now they are buying the necessary things."
Weidner said he has seen that, too, particularly in elementary schools.
Negotiations in the Manatee district, which will include new superintendent Rick Mills, will not occur until the state makes funding decisions.
"Everybody's waiting," Barber said. "It's wait and see."
Weidner said the increased funding from the Legislature also needs to become stable.
"It needs to be recurring," he said. "The worst thing they could do is that we have to increase our salary schedule and then the following year they don't continue to fund it."
He also said that despite the added funding, the Phoenix Academy — an alternative school for academically struggling students — will still need to close, as the district announced last week.
"We don't have the luxury to continue that kind of a program," Weidner said. "If this money wasn't earmarked for specific appropriations it would definitely help us balance the budget and we might not have to make as many reductions that we are looking at."
The House and Senate will reach agreement on school funding and other decisions over the next few weeks as they head to the close of their 60-day annual session in early May.


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U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index reaching a third straight record, as earnings from Pfizer Inc. to Xylem Inc. beat estimates and data indicating slower growth fueled bets the Federal Reserve will maintain stimulus.
Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker, jumped 1.7% as the company cut costs and increased drug sales. Masco Corp., which makes faucets and kitchen and bath cabinets, rose 3.5% as its sales topped forecasts. Xylem Inc. surged 12% after the water company whose pumps helped clean tunnels in New York flooded by Hurricane Sandy raised its annual earnings forecast.
The S&P 500 rose 0.5% to 1,770.50 at 2:56 p.m. in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 101.95 points, or 0.7%, to 15,670.88, within 10 points of its all-time closing high. Trading in S&P 500 stocks was in line with the 30- day average at this time of day.
"It still seems that the Fed has created this good news is bad news, bad news is good news scenario," Randy Bateman, who oversees $15 billion as chief investment officer of Huntington Asset Advisors in Columbus, Ohio, said by telephone. "The anticipation is that the Fed will retain its purchasing of $85 billion in monthly Treasury and mortgage securities, which is going to continue to help the housing market. That will be taken fairly well by the market."
The S&P 500 climbed in 12 of the past 14 sessions through yesterday, as companies beat estimates in the current earnings reporting season and signs of slower economic growth fueled bets the Fed will maintain stimulus measures after its two-day meeting that started today. The rally has pushed the index up 24% this year, leaving it poised for the best annual gain in a decade.
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The 16-day government shutdown earlier this month took at least $24 billion out of the economy and will spur the Fed to wait until March to taper, a Bloomberg survey showed this month. The central bank's policy makers convene today and tomorrow.
Data today showed retail sales dropped 0.1% last month, restrained by the biggest decrease at auto dealers since October 2012. Wholesale prices unexpectedly fell in September as food costs retreated. Inflation has been running below the Fed's 2% objective in the near-term, giving policy makers room to maintain monetary stimulus.
A separate report showed confidence among U.S. consumers declined in October by the most since August 2011 as the budget impasse and debt-ceiling negotiations in Washington took a toll on outlooks.
Weak Data
Weaker-than-forecast data yesterday on factory output and sales of previously owned homes added to concern that growth slowed in the weeks before the shutdown. Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in August from a year ago by the most since February 2006, the S&P/Case-Shiller index indicated today.
The Fed's stimulus has helped propel the S&P 500 up more than 160% from a 12-year low in 2009. While the rally lifted equity valuations to a four-year high, with the index trading at 15.9 times estimated operating earnings, that's still below the multiples at the market's two previous peaks, when the ratio reached 16.5 in October 2007 and 25.7 in March 2000, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Some 39 members of the S&P 500 release results today, including Pfizer Inc. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Earnings for the broad equity gauge probably increased 3.7% in the third quarter as sales climbed 2.4%, according to analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Profits have grown by an average of 5.7% among the 282 companies that have reported so far, while sales have gained 3.5%.
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Tegan from Sheboygan, WI
Reviewer is A current student here.
1 of 7
Categories Comments Bang for the buck
I look at other colleges I want to go to, and look at 200,000 for everything after 4 years. Here I'm looking at maybe 20,000
What to do for fun
Enjoy the campus. It is beautiful all times of the year. Plus there are different things going on all the time.
Food and Dining
The lunch food is great. Overpriced, but every cafeteria is. The pancakes are kind of iffy though. I would grab breakfast at home.
Dorm Life
There aren't dorms.
Academic Rigor
Classes are challenging but doable.
Tips for prospective students
Work hard and teachers will respect that effort. Everyone here is really understanding if you forget to do something. Life happens.
In three sentences
LTC is a great college with good teachers and a beautiful campus. I've been to college before this and I didn't really like it, but I love it here. I'm really glad I'm going here.
Craig from Two Rivers, WI
Reviewer is A current student here.
2 of 7
Categories Comments Food and Dining
The food is good when I eat there.
In three sentences
This is a very good college to attend. It is very easy to get the classes and schedule you need.
Jesse from Manitowoc, WI
Reviewer is A current student here.
3 of 7
Categories Comments Campus Safety
Very safe, high police presence and campus security. We have a Police Academy on campus.
Greek Life
Again, what is this relating to?
Clubs and Activities
I'm a part of the CJSA simply because I joined the program. We do a lot of volunteer work.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Other students try to steal my red gun when I have my duty belt on. They get steal it then you owe them a meal.
Bang for the buck
I've been satisfied with my 'bang for the buck' except for mathematics. That was a waste of money.
What to do for fun
My program is very volunteer service orientated so I'm always signing up for activities.
Food and Dining
Simple foods in the cafeteria, good portions for the money paid.
Dorm Life
There are no dorms.
Academic Rigor
I do not find this college difficult, but I never found school difficult to begin with. Some students have had problems. But, the instructors do their jobs excellently and do prepare us.
Tips for prospective students
Make sure you're serious about your program and you keep up with it. This is not high school.
In three sentences
Knowledgeable and friendly come to mind when I think of Lakeshore Technical College. They focus their teachings on setting you up for your career. In our program I see them prepping us to achieve above standards and get us above the rest of our competition.
Richard from Sheboygan, WI
Reviewer is A current student here.
4 of 7
Categories Comments Campus Safety
Lakeshore Technical College takes school security very seriously. They have an on campus policing system and several well known policies protecting the school and campus, and also their students and staff. I have not had any worries since I started attending school here.
Clubs and Activities
Their are many clubs like a marketing club, a sustainability club, study groups, and event planning groups. The school does a great job of offering employment opportunities to students who might be in need of a job while attending school. The best thing is if there is not a club or a group for something you are interested in you have the freedom to try and successfully set one up.
Great for these types of students
This school particularly applies to students who might not like the traditional UW style school. It is also great for working adults, it offers day and night classes, classes on a fewer smaller campuses spread within the region, and schedule flexibility and online classes.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Lakeshore is a technical college so if you are attending you get to experience alot of different people and their cultures. You might see young adults fresh out of high school first starting out, or you may also see adults that have been working for many years trying to move up or change their career path. Not only the wide variety in students is unique, the programs that LTC offers can fit your needs no matter what your interests are. This school is a very cool school to check out some new things.
Bang for the buck
LTC is a very fairly priced college, a full semester in tuition costed me 1700 dollars and I was able to get help through financial aid and different scholarships. You are going to stay up to date with new technology, new programs and curriculum, and you are going to get a great education for a great value.
What to do for fun
LTC offers a ton of clubs and activities students can get involved in. They have trails winding through the surrounding woods that are fun to explore and a full disc golf course designed right on campus. Any day at LTC is never too long because there is always something that can be found to do.
Food and Dining
The school opens it's cafeteria for breakfast and lunch operations. They offer a wide variety of foods consisting of everything from soups to chicken wings, sandwiches, salads, pizza, potatoes, and other delicious snacks. You may also purchase things like yogurt, fruits, different juices, and bottled water and milk.
Dorm Life
There are currently no dorms here, because the school is conveniently located in between the Sheboygan and Manitowoc cities. This provides access from many cities in the Sheboygan and Manitowoc counties. The school is however looking into purchasing land for dormitories to be made for students
Academic Rigor
All of my professors here so far have held their own on their standards and what is required to be done in order to do well in a class. The school seems to do a great job staying current in what is expected from state board policies. They also implement their own insight into their curriculum which makes your education very current and very well rounded.
Tips for prospective students
Students, this school is a great place to check out. Chances are you are going to find a program that matches your career choice, comes close to your interests, or a program that sparks a new interest entirely.
In three sentences
Lakeshore Technical College is a great college to attend. They are constantly updating their programs to match employer needs and staying relevant with updated technology. If you are looking for a school that offers variety ranging from a Wind Energy Technology program to a Dental Assistant program and everything in between this is the place to go.
Cheryl from Manitowoc, WI
Reviewer is A current student here.
5 of 7
Categories Comments What to do for fun
There is a great frisbee golf course on campus
Food and Dining
I do not know I bring my lunch
Academic Rigor
The classes are challenging, but the teacher will help one succeed
Tips for prospective students
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NEW YORK – The City Council voted Thursday to create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes and prompting him to say the city's safety is being jeopardized.
Bloomberg said the new oversight at the New York Police Department will make it "harder for our police officers to protect New Yorkers and continue to drive down crime."
"Make no mistake: The communities that will feel the most negative impacts of these bills will be minority communities across our city, which have been the greatest beneficiaries of New York City's historic crime reductions," he said in a statement.
Proponents see the legislation as a check on a police force that's come under scrutiny for its heavy use of a tactic known as stop and frisk and its extensive surveillance of Muslims, which was revealed in stories by The Associated Press.
Cheers and applause burst out in the packed spectators' gallery when the council's vote was announced. Later, supporters exchanged hugs outside City Hall.
A federal judge recently ruled the NYPD discriminated against minorities with its stop and frisk program and ordered a monitor to oversee changes.
The measures mark the most aggressive legislative effort in years to put new checks on the NYPD. And the vote comes less than two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for a monitor to focus on stop and frisk, a practice she said the department had used in a way that violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men. The city is appealing.
The lawsuit-related component of the legislation passed in June with just the 34 votes needed to override a veto. At a rally before the council's meeting, activists chanted "34" and held signs that said, "Override."
"What happens in New York city has consequences for the nation," National Association for the Advancement of Colored People head Benjamin Jealous said, suggesting that police elsewhere look to the NYPD as an example.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said earlier Thursday there were enough votes expected, though she opposed the lawsuit component. She supported the inspector general.
Civil rights groups and minority advocates had pushed for the legislation. It's been propelled by complaints about stop and frisk and the department's extensive surveillance of Muslims.
The laws will bring "oversight, transparency, accountability and, yes, efficiency, to the NYPD," said Fahd Ahmed, the legal director of Desis Rising Up and Moving, a South Asian advocacy group with mostly poor, Muslim members.
Supporters say the new laws, coupled with the judge's ruling, will end practices they see as unfair and would mold a more trusted, effective police force.
Bloomberg and police Commissioner Raymond Kelly say that between the council measures and the court ruling, a police force that has fought crime down to record lows will be tangled up in second-guessing and lawsuits.
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(Reuters) - FactSet Research Systems Inc reported lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue, and the financial information provider forecast current-quarter results largely below estimates as banks and brokerages cut costs.
FactSet shares fell 5 percent before the bell on Tuesday.
The company, which provides data to portfolio managers, research analysts and investment bankers, forecast second-quarter earnings of $1.11 to $1.13 per share, on revenue of $212 million and $215 million.
Analysts on average were expecting earnings of $1.13 per share on revenue of $216.3 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
FactSet's financial sector clients are cutting staff and trimming costs to cope with increased regulation and a struggling global economy.
In the United States, financial companies have announced plans to cut 28,000 jobs through the first nine months of this year, compared with 54,000 during the same period in 2011, according to executive placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
FactSet said its net income rose to $49.8 million, or $1.11 per share, in the first quarter, from $45.5 million, or 99 cents per share, a year earlier.
The company earned $1.22 cents per share, excluding items.
Revenue rose 7.5 percent to $211.1 million for the quarter ended November 30.
Analysts on average had expected earnings of $1.11 per share, on revenue of $212.3 million.
FactSet rival Thomson Reuters Corp, the owner of Reuters News, last month reported a 15 percent fall in operating profit for the quarter ended September 30, on declining revenue and higher costs in its division that serves the financial industry.
FactSet's shares closed at $96.39 on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
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Now You See Me ... adding Jesse Eisenberg?
I left Toronto for Vegas on Friday for The Hangover 3 junket. Those interviews will air on ETALK over the next couple of weeks. My flight back to Vancouver wasn't until Sunday but many of the reporters left on Saturday to head straight to New Orleans for the Now You See Me junket. Several of them had already screened it prior to the trip because of the Hangover overlap and almost all of them told me it's really, really good. I really, really want to believe it. Because I love illusion movies, even though so many of them aren't very well done. Also, over the last year or so, I've had a thing growing for Jesse Eisenberg. And God he's sexy in this film. At least it seems so from the previews. Oh...and Mark Ruffalo. And the two of them together, when Jesse transfers the handcuffs? Jesus, his lips. There's something about the way he talks, his lips...
The first 4 minutes of Now You See Me was released online last week. I've attached it below, followed by the trailer with the aforementioned interrogation scene. I watched this trailer on a big screen recently and it did exactly what a trailer should do -- make you want more. A few journalists told me the CGI works very well. There was also special mention of how great Woody Harrelson is in the film. Now You See Me is out on May 31. I think I might have a Jesse Eisenberg problem by June 1. I think I might have to toss Tom Hardy from the Five List.
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|2013-01-28, 01:19
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Well, for starters, an avatar is pretty much your desires and traumas made physical, so he'll probably have abilities that are based more on one-on-one matches, and will probably have an avatar that's completely crap at tag-team battles. Either that, or his tag-team partner will usually end up at a disadvantage, thus making people reluctant to tag with him.
The brother complex isn't much of a heart wound/trauma but more of an infatuation, though. If it stems from the desire of being protected, then perhaps the avatar could be a puppeteer type, controlling a much large puppet while remaining behind the scenes. To tie it in with the brother complex, perhaps the puppet could be nicknamed "Ani".
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Anomaly / 矛盾存在
Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
"Anikin, I choose you!"
More seriously, do we know anything about the Chocolate Puppeteer that showed up recently?
And for Lone Wolf, I'm beginning to seriously consider taking a character from churchblue. Aren't they all loners and observers? And best, the lucky guy gets to be slaughtered by Kings at the end.
The guy has to be given credit for only one thing, for following a Hollywood checklist on how to design a main character. Annnd I'm done.
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|2013-01-28, 20:50
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You know, I really don't know why Duel Avatars are given the ability to eat and enjoy virtual food, but it makes one wonder...
Well, as Silver Crow, Haruyuki felt the warm, soft hands of Kuroyukihime Black Swallowtail avatar on his face. He immediately realized that the Accelerated World lacked "adult/child restrictions".
I wonder if it's possible to have on-line sex with Duel Avatars.
I keep think about Scarlet Rain getting a boyfriend and doing it inside the confines of her Immobile Fortress. She sits on his lap and fires all her weapons when she hits her peak. (It's unlikely but possible that she already did this with Cherry Rook.)
Cyan Pile could pay Chiyu back for that Accel Assault incident.
Lime Bell can turn back the clock so that you're immediately ready for the next round.
Silver Crow and Sky Raker and any partners of whom are inevitable members of the Mile High Club.
For the protection of her partner, Black Lotus needs her arms restrained. (It also eases any fears of suffering Death By Embracing.)
Cobalt Blade and Manganesse Blade privately insist that Blue Knight's greatest sword isn't the Impulse.
The young man who was once Red Rider really doesn't know where his curiously selective masochistic streak came from, but he's fascinated by precise, electrical shocks. Also, he occassionally daydreams about creating or modifying toys for his lover.
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|2013-01-28, 21:07
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Small, lightweight, weak, frail. Graceful, but without strength it isn't very fast or agile.
As an Orange avatar, likely uses a "pet" for fighting. Like maybe a teddy bear that transforms into a grizzly for battle. This makes her look all the cuter by providing a constant contrasting companion -- the bigger the bear, the smaller she looks. She can even claim that the bear's savage actions are automatic rather than her deliberate control (especially if it means her brother makes sure to fight as many of her battles as possible to prevent the bear from mauling people).
As a Yellow avatar, uses some insidious method of defending herself and attacking an opponent that isn't immediately obvious. Being able to win even though it doesn't seem like she's fighting at all. Invisible poison gas, or radiation? A special attack that exchanges her Health Meter for her opponent's?
Or is the sister less concerned about gaining all of her brother's affection and more interested in being useful to the brother?
A Yellow avatar based around scanning the environment, detecting enemies, scanning and analying abilities and tools would make her a valuable support. This could even be tied into a predictive ability (Spider-Sense) that alerts her to incoming attacks, for her own personal defense.
(And if she knows exactly when and from where an attack comes, she can afford to just barely dodge them and perhaps even make it look like she's doing it accidentally, through adorable clumsiness. Which might provoke a big brother instinct.)
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|2013-01-29, 02:33
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
So, what happens if a girl suddenly drops her avatar in the safety of their home server in response to a guy saying he wants to stay with her that night?
|2013-01-29, 02:35
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 14
Look what you've started, Sunder...
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If food, then sex.
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Give up Lord Chaos, the legion of 34 is universal.
Somehow I'm reminded of the weirdness of Busou Shinki physiology. Getting drunk on HARD NITRO lolololol
|2013-01-29, 10:10
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Anomaly / 矛盾存在
Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
I leave for a day, and... ._."
Shino is mainly interested in just being with her brother forever; it's more of Sora/Haru relationship (minus the 16.5) than a Kirino/Kyousuke relationship. Rather than merely being useful to him, that takes out all the affection.
The duel avatars of Kyousuke and Shino, I have in mind, are supposed to be complementary in alot of ways. Eg. Turquoise Protector has strong shields, but the armour on his body is super weak; his wish is to protect his sister, not himself. Shino, I have in mind, is not aiming to support anyone else, but her brother alone. How that translates is the difficult part.
One of my earlier ideas was for Shino to be a long-range specialist, her special move is a killer thunderbolt from the sky that takes really long to charge. The idea was to complement Turquoise Protector; he hugs her, rendering her invulnerable to frontal damage while she charges. And another was for her to 'summon' Protector via teleportation. The perfect tag team.
The thing is, I myself don't believe duel avatars can be so highly specific as to complement only a single avatar. Even an avatar like Lime Bell, her dream was to rewind time of Haru and Taku but she can use it on anyone. That's why I turned to this thread for ideas.
|2013-01-29, 21:24
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I failed to account for the idea of an older sister with a brother-complex, though. That is, a big sister obsessed with protecting and/or monopolizing her cute little brother.
But that's not much different from a protection-oriented brother with a sister-complex.
Sand Duct sort of employs this. His Sand Blaster attack (when used against anyone besides Aqua Current) probably blasts someone off their feet and far away. His Molecular Driver sucks opponents closer.
His hover-skating ability also allows him to more easily close distance against Reds or create distance from Blues.
(His large size is probably also misleading; I'd bet he's not as strong or armored as he appears, but he LOOKS intimidating until you know better.)
I'm not sure how an avatar could be better than Duct at moving other people around, considering how limited he was at it.
Two avatars can be specialized in such a way that their strengths cover for each other's weaknesses, but each avatar MUST be designed to fight alone.
That's why they're called DUEL avatars. Essentially, everything must begin from (and come down to) a duel.
|2013-01-29, 22:07
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I now want to share with you a concept for a unique duel avatar.
Color: White or [Black/Colorless]
This avatar has no ability at all except the power to copy the appearance, abilities (and weaknesses), and items (equipped and stored) of another Duel Avatar.
"Mimic" is a normal ability which costs no Special Meter. The transformation lasts for 30 minutes (the maximum length of a duel) or until the copied target has been KOed, disconnected, or removed from the challenge zone in the real world.
Outside of a duel, if the transformation is canceled, a new target can be copied immediately; however, no transformation can be voluntarily canceled, so Faker has to choose carefully each time.
"Mimic" does not change Faker's own Level, so he becomes a weaker copy when targeting higher Level avatars. That is, if a Level 1 Faker copied the Level 9 Black Lotus, he would become a perfect copy of the Level 1 Black Lotus. But if a Level 7 Faker copied a Level 1 Silver Crow, he would become a Level 7 Silver Crow.
The transformation does not copy any of the bonuses a target chose for leveling up. Even if he achieved Level 9, he would not be able to copy all of a King's abilities. Further, this could mean a Level 7 Faker might be not as fast a flier as the Level 5 Silver Crow, who has put bonuses into improving his flight speed, so they might be more evenly matched than they first seem.
This is especially true when one considers the fact that Silver Crow will be far more accustomed to his avatar's own strengths and how to use them. Copying a King likewise grants none of a king's combat skills or experience. So even a perfect copy would not make Faker the equal of his target.
This becomes triply-true when one factors in Incarnate System skills.
Kaleidoscope Faker has two basic paths for how his level-up bonuses can improve his Mimic power.
1) Improve the quality of the copy; for each bonus he invests here, he can copy one of his target's own level-up bonuses, starting with the first they chose and moving down the line.
He cannot pick and choose the bonuses unless targeting a character who has fewer bonuses than Faker has invested in this ability. For example, if Faker has invested four level bonuses into this upgrade, he could target a Level 1 Silver Crow and then choose four of Silver Crow's potential upgrades.
If Kaleidoscope Faker reached Level 9 and sunk all bonuses into this upgrade, he could copy all of a King's abilities, except their Incarnate System skills.
2) Remove Mimic's restrictions. For example, being able to cancel the transformation early, so that Faker can choose a different target when his current form is no longer advantageous.
If Kaleidoscope Faker reached Level 9 and sunk all bonuses into this upgrade, he could possibly STORE the form of anyone he's ever copied, even if they've been deleted from the Accelerated World.
There's a third possible path for improving Faker's Mimic ability, but first I need to explain the one part of his power that I am having the most trouble with:
At present, I'm not sure how Faker should be able to select his targets. One must not only consider duels, but also the Unlimited Neutral Field.
If his sight is normal, and he can only select targets he can see, that puts him at a miserable disadvantage against duel avatars that can hide while they snipe from cover or ambush him at close range. Since his basic form has no abilities at all, and since copying his opponent almost never makes him their equal, this is a problem.
One solution is to give Kaleidoscope Faker a basic "special ability" to detect when other avatars are within range in the Unlimited Neutral Field -- perhaps his own personal "matching list".
In a duel (or team-battle), this only lets him target and copy an opponent immediately (assuming he doesn't want to copy one of his his own allies).
But in the Unlimited Neutral Field, this becomes a powerful information-gathering ability, since he learns WHO IS IN THE FIELD at that time, and thus also who is not.
A MUCH weaker alternative is to give Kaleidoscope a choice between targeting an avatar he can see or letting Mimic choose a random target.
In a duel, it doesn't matter -- there's only one target.
In a team-battle or the Unlimited Neutral Field, he could randomly end up as anyone. Or he could wait until he can see at least one target.
Investing level up bonuses into himself rather than Mimic could grant him better vision, or the "personal matching list" mentioned above.
I haven't given much thought to Kaleidoscope Faker's possible Incarnate Skills, since I haven't given serious thought to what kind of person could end up with an avatar like this. I leave that as an exercise for other people.
As one suggestion, he might be able to hypnotize himself into thinking he actually IS the person he's copied, gaining access to their memories and skills for as long as he is transformed... To keep this from overwhelming the story, he might become so perfect a copy that his own motivations and goals are temporarily lost, and he probably should forget everything he's "learned" when he returns to normal.
Or perhaps his Incarnate Skill can manifest upgrades that the target never chose, allowing him to overcome his imperfect copies by going BEYOND a mere copy.
I think Faker works best as the central protagonist of a story (starting as a Level 1 character and working through his considerable mental issues) or as a major villain (starting as a high-level character, with all of the powers granted by his possible bonus choices).
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