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GREENVILLE, S.C. (Feb. 17, 2010) - After suffering a 7-3 setback in its season-opener last Sunday at Charlotte, the ETSU softball team looks to hit the win column for the first time in 2010 as the Lady Bucs travel to Furman on Thursday afternoon. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 2 p.m. inside Pepsi Stadium.
The Lady Bucs, who pounded out seven hits against the 49ers, were led by senior shortstop Cheniece Cason's (
After sweeping the Paladins back in 2007, both teams have split the doubleheader meetings the last two seasons. A year ago, Furman played spoilers, as the Paladins defeated the Lady Bucs, 5-2, in ETSU's first-ever game played inside the ETSU Softball Complex. However, the Blue and Gold bounced back behind Darci Gilbert's (
Furman (1-0) is coming off a 5-4 nine-inning win over
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Hennessey Wants To Boost McLaren MP4-12C To 800 HP
Has John Hennessey ever found a fast car he didn't think he could make faster? His next target is the McLaren MP4-12C, which he's planning to turn the power dial up to a stonkin' 800 hp. Better reach for the fireproof suits, boys, because the flames are comin' this way!

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Fraser Coull at Silly Wee Films are to release the episodes of Night Is Day as a feature length edit.
The sci-fi/drama series follows the life of Jason Mackenzie, a young Glaswegian who is bestowed with the power of ancient lightening demi-gods, allowing him the power of foresight whenever he touches another human being.
However when he does, a charge of electrical energy transfers from his body into the person he touches. This can be fatal to both Jason and anyone he comes into contact with.
The feature length DVD is due for release in January. It will include a 50 minute behind the scenes documentary, outtakes from all 6 episodes, cast interviews, a photo gallery, promotional trailers and a music video for Transaudio's "Frequencies" which is the official theme tune to the series.
Seeing the outcome of the editing will be interesting: will it be edited straight off as it is, sequentially, or will it be edited (as much as can be) across episodes…
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This week the "exclusive negotiating period" enjoyed by Nine and Fox under the existing TV rights agreement ends. It is extraordinary that an agreement that is widely regarded as grossly inadequate gives the rights holders a three month exclusive period to negotiate!
But that is how it is.....and that is how it must not be in the future!
Roy Masters in the SMH on Saturday advanced the possibility that the Seven Network might bid on its own for all eight games, and then on sell some to Fox.
It would be able to share its own coverage between its main channel and its digital channel. In the southern states, it shows the four AFL games it has the rights to on its main channel, and then shows the same games on its digital channel in the northern states. It could do the reverse with rugby league, and in the process give Nine a real run for its money in the negotiations ahead. Fox is simply going to have to put in a strong bid for at least four games live a week.
The ratings the NRL enjoys on Fox continue to grow. Last week's ANZAC Day match was the second highest rating programme on Fox this year - exceeded only by the 20/20 one day cricket final. The NRL premiership on Fox regularly features three or four times in the top ten watches programmes on pay each week!!
The case for rugby league to get the same as the AFL is now getting for its television rights is overwhelming. Rugby league out rates the AFL on free to air and pay TV - but, as Roy Masters highlights, it needs State of Origin to do so! The three Origin games have a cumulative audience of around 11 million.....something the AFL cannot match.
The AFL agreement, now in its first season, is worth around $1.25 million over five years. So far so good.....as I have written previously, but there are a couple of significant hurdles to be negotiated!
The first and foremost is the financial state of the free to air television industry today. It is certainly not as healthy as it was when the AFL secured its record deal last year, and that is a problem. It will be largely offset as a problem if the advertising market place is strong. Sadly, it is not as strong as it was either.
The majority of advertising on sports programmes centres around consumer goods - and we all know the retail market is not in good shape at all.
In summary, we should be getting at least as much as the AFL secured - our overall audience numbers are better. But AFL matches do seem to last an eternity - and that helps when it comes to advertising.
But we are going to need luck, and more than luck, to do so. The "environment" is just not as conducive as it was a year ago. That surely means we must have a competitive negotiation period now.......and that the NRL must let Nine know it does not "own" the game.
And it must also mean that the premiership and the Origin and Tests must be packaged separately, or at the very least valued separately.
Finally, there has been speculation that rugby league may end up only being on free to air television - including the digital channels. That is not going to happen - Fox, which is more profitable that the free to air channels, cannot afford to lose rugby league. And the free to air channels cannot stump up with the $1 billion plus rugby league must demand.....and get!
Sharing the rights is the key to getting beyond the one billion dollar mark.
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Ileen Miller, 85 - February 06, 2008
Ileen Blanche Miller, 85, of Stanton died on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, at the Stanton Health Center.
Memorial services will be Thursday, Feb. 7, at 10:30 a.m. at the New England Congregational Church United Church of Christ in Stanton.
Visitation will be Thursday from 9 a.m. till service time at the church. Burial will be in the Davenport Cemetery in Davenport at 3:30 p.m.
Miller was born May 15, 1922, at Elk City, OK, to James and Lillie (Campbell) Snyder. She attended Davenport Public School and graduated from Davenport High School. She attended Midland Lutheran College in Fremont and later graduated from the Lincoln Beauty College.
She worked as a beautician and later worked at a bomber plant during World War II. In July of 1943, she was united in marriage to Harold L. Baker. She and Reinhold Miller were married in January of 1947. After their marriage, the couple lived and farmed in different communities in western Nebraska before settling in Wisner in 1957.
They had also resided in Wakefield before retiring at Comstock. Reinhold passed away on April 25, 2006.
Miller was currently a member of the New England Congregational Church United Church of Christ in Stanton. Some of her hobbies included gardening, tending to her flowers, crocheting and cooking. She loved her animals, especially her Boston bull terriers and birds, according to the family, and enjoyed playing the piano.
Miller was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three grandchildren and three sisters-Delores, Carma, and Lila.
Survivors include: children Cheryl and Lyle Husmann of Pilger, Linda and Ron Grace of Fallbrook, CA, Dallas and Precy Miller of Stanton and Lynette Larson-Campbell of Norfolk; seven grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Kuzelka-Minnick Funeral Home in Wisner is in charge of arrangements. Words of comfort may left for the family at www.kuzelka-minnickfuneralhomes.com on the obituary page.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese authorities have told Karim Wade, the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade, not to leave the country pending the results of a corruption investigation, a justice ministry adviser said on Friday.
Karim Wade served as a 'super minister' in charge of more than a third of the West African nation's budget during his father's presidency, which ended after elections this year.
The new president, Macky Sall, has said millions of dollars are missing from the state treasury, and has asked former colonial master France, as well as the United States and Britain, to help recover state assets.
"The investigators made it clear to Karim Wade that he can not leave the country," Macoumba Mbodj told Reuters, referring to a recently established court looking into graft.
Karim Wade was called back from France, where he and his father have been living since March elections, for questioning on Thursday that lasted more than 10 hours.
Special prosecutor Alioune Ndao said last week that Karim Wade and four other former ministers were being investigated on corruption allegations.
The former president has said the investigation into his son is unfair, and has threatened Sall with a lawsuit alleging graft if he does not drop it.
"This is a witch hunt, and this court has no jurisdiction to investigate former ministers," a spokesman for the Wade family, Ousmane Ngom, said on Friday.
Wade served as president for 12 years during which he won praise for driving big development projects including roads and an airport, but drew criticism for failing to stem worsening power cuts and rising food prices.
His decision to run for a third term in elections triggered widespread protests, though - in a move that shored up Senegal's democratic credentials - he conceded defeat to Sall after early poll results showed he had lost.
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Dorothy Schilke slammed the brakes a dozen times, but it did her no good -- her Ford Explorer sped through a grassy embankment before flying into a Sunrise lake five years ago.
A school bus had struck her, sending her off the road and leaving a jagged hole in the back of her SUV. Schilke panicked, but she escaped a drowning death when the water sucked her out of that hole and pulled her to the surface.
"I was never prepared to survive something like that," said Schilke, 67, a former Pompano Beach resident who now lives in Central Florida. "I mean, who thinks they'll ever end up in the bottom of a lake?"
Accidents that send vehicles into waterways are common in South Florida, where scores of canals, lakes and ponds snake closely to our roads.
Last week, an 8-year-old boy drowned after authorities say his mother became ill and lost control of her car, plunging the vehicle into a South Miami-Dade canal.
On Wednesday, a New Hampshire man died when his car crashed into a Coral Springs lake.
The SunSentinel analyzed fatal crashes where vehicles went into bodies of water between 2004-2007 in the Tri-County area. The newspaper found:
Of the 74 fatal water crashes during that three-year period, Palm Beach County led the region with 29. Broward County followed with 23 crashes and Miami-Dade with 22.
Most of the 89 people killed were drivers, but 24 were passengers, including 10 children.
The dead ranged from a 5-month-old baby to an 87-year-old man.
More than a third of the accidents were in daylight; more than two-thirds happened in clear weather.
The crashes were scattered from the rural roads near Lake Okeechobee to the southern border of Miami-Dade County. There were 13 along Florida's Turnpike, Interstate 595, Interstate 75 and the Sawgrass Expressway.
"They're accidents, and they happen fairly often around here, but tragedies can be easily prevented," said Capt. Jim Bishop with Broward County Fire Rescue. "We don't have to turn the water into a deathtrap."
Escaping a submerged vehicle
Because the accidents that hurl cars into waterways happen so quickly, it's easy to panic.
Take deep breaths and remain still to avoid serious injuries.
Wait until the vehicle is in the water to unstrap your seatbelt. If you unbuckle too early, the impact of the crash could slam you against a seat or dashboard, knocking you unconscious.
Once you hit the water, unbuckle your seatbelt as quickly as possible. It's important to carry scissors or a blade in a secure location like a glove compartment in case the seatbelts won't unlatch.
Tools kept in a door's sidepocket will be flung around and lost when the car hits the water.
Sometimes vehicles will float for a few minutes before the water's suction brings them down. That's the best time to lower windows and escape.
Don't open the door -- water could flood the cabin, pulling the vehicle faster into the sludge.
If you have kids on board, chances are you'll have to help them unfasten their seatbelts or release them from their carseats. Again, staying calm is critical. Quickly unbuckle yourself so you can help the children.
Power windows don't immediately short out. Lower them and swim out.
If the windows don't lower, bust a side or rear window with a strong tool like a hammer or a spring-loaded punch. Don't bother trying to break the windshield -- that glass is too strong and will resist most blows.
Grab any child onboard and lead them toward the opening. Push them away from the vehicle, then follow them out.
Sometimes vehicles flip over because their heavy motors drag them down quicker into the water. At least 19 of the vehicles involved in the crashes analyzed by the SunSentinel overturned once they were in the water.
If this happens, brace yourself against the seat of the car, one arm extended against the roof to provide support. Unfasten your seatbelt and try to shatter a window to escape.
Don't worry about gathering your belongings. Once there's an open space, swim out of it, following air bubbles toward the surface.
Witnessing a crash
A few good Samaritans have had a hand in saving victims trapped in submerged vehicles.
Tom Winders, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, was driving home from work on June 23, 2007, when he noticed an overturned Acura in a turnpike canal, just west of Lake Worth.
Winders jumped into the water and pulled out Maria Gamarra, 20, and Raul Erazo, who is now 23. Gamarra died later at Delray Medical Center. Erazo survived and lives in Wellington.
"If you're another driver or pedestrian who sees a car fly into a canal, it's tough to know whether you should help out or not," Winders said. "It's a split-second decision so everybody responds differently."
The best way to help is to immediately call authorities and let them know how many people you saw in the car, Bishop said.
Detailed descriptions of the victims and vehicle will help officials determine what kind of rescue operation they'll run.
"We also know it's tough to just stand back and wait for us to get there, especially when people's lives are at stake," Bishop said.
Onlookers who know how to swim can attempt to dive in after the crash victims; others with large vehicles like Jeeps or SUVs can try pulling the submerged car onto shore.
"You just have to make sure you're comfortable in the water if you're going to jump in there. Officials have to rescue the people in the car; they don't want to be rescuing you too," Winders said.
Staff Researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Lopez, Lena Dunham, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lucy Liu have received one of the most exclusive invitations in Hollywood.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday that it has invited them, and 272 others, to join its ranks.
Other invitees include Jason Bateman, Rosario Dawson, "Machete" star Danny Trejo, "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig and "Before Midnight" writer-star Julie Delpy.
All 16 branches of the film academy extended invitations to new members, from hairstylists and sound engineers to producers and publicists.
Those who accept the invitations will be able to vote on the recipients of the next Academy Awards, set for March 2, 2014.


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|Perhaps actual developers should summarize status of KDE4 on Windows here, while we encourage users to describe their experiences on the Talk page?
You can use this installer to download and install the various binary packages that you need to run KDE applications on MS Windows. KDE is free and open source so you can build all the applications "from scratch" from their source code; but as a convenience for others, volunteers create these precompiled packages and make them available on the Internet.
Disclaimer These are early days for KDE4 on Windows, some programs work better than others and some fail to run altogether.
If you experience any problems please have a look into our mailing list.
You can also use the KDE Installer for Windows to install source code and the packages that you need to build KDE4 on Windows (although if you are building KDE4 on Windows you may prefer to use the emerge system to build KDE and its requirements from latest source); see Getting Started/Build/KDE4/Windows.
A single program in the The K Desktop Environment depends on many other libraries and packages; that is why each .exe is comparatively small. The KDE Installer for Windows has some awareness of dependencies, but not complete. So, the first few times you try to run an application you may see alerts about missing DLLs.
If you do not intend to build from source, do not click "all" and do not click "src", as you do not need to download the source for each package. Unclear whether you need lib for each.
There are two development systems for KDE on Windows, Microsoft's Visual C and MinGW. Even if you are only running binaries and do not intend to build KDE4 yourself, you need to choose between these. As of October 2007, the former is more stable, so when you have a choice of packages in the KDE Installer for Windows, prefer the -msvc version.
The KDE programs themselves are organized into several groups: kdeedu, kdegames, and kdegraphics.
Here are some of the minimal packages you need to run a KDE application:
The Dependencies tab for a particular package lists some of the additional packages it needs. However, the dependency checking currently only works for first-level dependencies Other dependencies are not easy to determine in advance. For example, if you install kdegames only with its dependencies, you will not be able to start it because you also need libstreamanalyze (for which you have to install the strigi package).
Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/3rd-party_libraries is a more complete list of libraries that a full installation needs.
Currently no issues known. If you found an issue, please report to [1].
Navigate to the bin directory.
See if you can run the Qt program assistant.exe. Qt programs have fewer dependencies than a full-blown KDE application.
If that works, try running a simple KDE application, such as kruler.exe from the kdegraphics package.
The first KDE application you run will start a console window in order to run the D-Bus daemon.
Using the kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.1-2.exe to install packages, dbus-daemon.exe starts up, and many games run.
It seems running kbuildsycoca4.exe by hand helps applications like KStars and Okular to run.
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July 19, 2001
I came here to discuss the administration's efforts to combat gun violence, but first I need to address how the Department of Justice is dealing with an emergency situation caused by a recent Supreme Court decision.
Absent prompt action on our part, that decision could result in the release of thousands of dangerous criminal aliens onto the streets of America over the next several months. Indeed, some courts are already beginning to order the release of such dangerous criminals.
Recently, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government may not detain indefinitely, pending deportation, illegal aliens who have served out criminal sentences.
Ordinarily, criminal aliens convicted of serious crimes are deported after they have served their sentence. However, in some cases countries refuse to, or unreasonably delay, return of criminal aliens.
The result of the Supreme Court's ruling is that criminal aliens will be released from detention onto the streets of America simply because their countries of origin refuse to live up to their obligations to take them back under international law.
The Department of Justice believes these criminal aliens must be deported because their history of serious crime makes them a threat to our community. The Court's decision, combined with the refusal of some countries to respect their responsibilities to accept the return of these dangerous criminals, clearly presents a great challenge to our responsibility to ensure safety for the American people.
I am especially concerned that these criminal aliens may re-enter and prey upon immigrant communities within the United States. Many of these criminal aliens have extensive histories of brutal violent crime and pose a serious danger to society.
According to Immigration and Naturalization Service statistics there are nearly 3,400 criminal aliens who are or will be subject to release under the Court's order within the next three months. Among these criminal aliens are hundreds of sexual predators, including a rapist and serial child molester, hundreds of drug traffickers, and hundreds of violent criminals including murderers. According to INS statistics, these criminal aliens have 1,851 drug convictions, 772 convictions for assault, 387 convictions for sex offenses, 125 homicides and thousands of other convictions.
The Department of Justice and the INS are obligated to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling and to apply it to those aliens who are currently detained whenever the courts order such releases. For this reason the Department of Justice has developed the following plan of action to comply with the ruling and to minimize the risks to the public. The primary reason America is faced with this problem is the home countries of these aliens often delay the deportation process or refuse to take them back at all.
Our first priority will be to work with the State Department to request that the home countries of these criminal aliens live up to their international obligations and repatriate them. Most countries such as Great Britain, Canada, Brazil, Bolivia, and Mexico fulfill their obligations and take back criminal aliens. A relatively small number of countries either refuse or unreasonably delay doing so.
We owe it to the American people to make every effort to get these countries to live up to their obligations. We will pursue the full range of appropriate diplomatic measures.
Under U.S. law, the Attorney General has the authority to notify the U. S. Secretary of State when a foreign government refuses to or unreasonably delays accepting the return of a criminal alien from that country. Once that notification is provided, the Secretary of State is obligated to discontinue granting immigrant and /or non-immigrant visas to nationals of that country. This should be an enormous incentive for countries to take back their criminal aliens.
If necessary to protect the American people, I will not hesitate to exercise my responsibility under this statute to identify countries which repeatedly and wantonly violate international law. Despite our best efforts to repatriate these criminal aliens, we recognize that some countries may continue to refuse or delay in fulfilling their obligations to take these individuals back.
Therefore, I am directing the Department of Justice to take a number of steps to ensure that dangerous aliens are not released to the public as a result of the Court's decision. These measures include steps the Department of Justice can take unilaterally and in coordination with state and local authorities.
First, some of these criminal aliens have additional state or local sentences which they have not yet served. The Department will work closely with the state and local authorities to determine if any of these criminal aliens can be returned to state or local custody.
Second, some of these aliens may be subject to additional criminal charges. I have instructed U.S. Attorneys to bring additional federal charges where appropriate. We will work closely with our state and local counterparts to ensure that any appropriate state or local charges are filed.
Third, we are also developing procedures to continue to detain aliens where special circumstances may justify continued detention even if their prompt removal is not likely. This includes special risks such as terrorists and especially dangerous criminals. The Supreme Court suggested that such detention might be appropriate in special circumstances.
I have directed the INS to issue appropriate regulations as quickly as possible, and in the interim I am ordering implementation of such procedures by memorandum. That memorandum will be submitted to and published in the Federal Register.
Fourth, we are developing procedures which will maximize our ability to continue to hold criminal aliens while our diplomatic efforts are underway. These procedures will give the INS, in consultation with the State Department, an opportunity to evaluate the likelihood of repatriation, prior to any decision to release an individual.
Again, I have directed the INS to issue appropriate regulations as quickly as possible, and in the interim I am ordering implementation of such procedures by memorandum. Finally, if we are unable to repatriate the individuals or to continue to hold them, we are developing conditions governing their release which will maximize public protection and permit us to return them to detention if the criminal aliens violate those conditions.
Conditions may include reporting requirements, limitations on certain activities, registration requirements for certain categories of individuals and others. Again, I have directed the INS to issue appropriate regulations as quickly as possible, and in the interim I am ordering implementation of such procedures by memorandum.
These criminal aliens never had a legal right to be in the United States or forfeited that right by their own criminal conduct. They have been afforded complete due process and have been ordered deported. I believe we owe it to the American public to take every step necessary to avoid releasing these dangerous criminal aliens onto our streets.
I believe these emergency steps the Department of Justice is taking are reasonable and responsible to protect the American public. The guiding principle for what I have just described is public safety. I have the opportunity while here in Denver to recognize a local program and announce a federal initiative, both focused on protecting the public from gun violence.
I recently had the honor of joining with President Bush to announce an unprecedented partnership between local, state and federal government to reduce gun violence in America.
Today, it is my privilege to announce that the Department of Justice is taking an important step to strengthen and solidify such a partnership right here in Colorado.
The United States is a nation plagued by unacceptable levels of gun violence. In America today, a teenager is more likely to die from a gunshot than from all natural causes of death combined.
We all have a moral obligation to see that this carnage ends. We have, as well, a legal obligation to enforce the law.
Federal law makes it a felony for convicted felons and other dangerous persons even to possess a gun. America has good, strong gun laws on the books. When gun laws are enforced, two things happen: First, gun criminals serve real time. Second, the word goes out into the community that offenders can and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Both of these things are happening here in Colorado with Colorado Project Exile, a cooperative effort among local law enforcement, state officials and the federal government to fight gun violence.
Since this partnership was begun in September 1999, Colorado Project Exile has brought charges against 265 individuals for gun law violations. Of the cases that have been resolved, the conviction rate is almost 90 percent. And the average sentence received by gun criminals prosecuted under Colorado Project Exile is over four years in prison.
Just yesterday a Colorado jury returned a guilty verdict against a Denver woman who was indicted in April for possession of a firearm. Because the woman had three prior felony convictions, she was prosecuted under Colorado Project Exile as an armed career criminal.
Thanks to cooperation between the Denver police and federal authorities, the woman faces 15 years to life in prison for her gun crime. President's Bush's initiative to reduce gun violence, called Project Safe Neighborhoods, incorporates and builds on the success of innovative programs like Colorado Project Exile.
Our goal is not to come in and federalize all gun prosecution - quite the opposite. The objective of Project Safe Neighborhoods is to provide new resources and unprecedented cooperation between all levels of law enforcement.
As part of this initiative -- and in the spirit of cooperation and partnership it embodies -- I have the privilege to announce today that the federal district of Colorado will receive a new federal prosecutor dedicated exclusively to prosecuting firearms violations.
According to the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, this represents more than a 33 percent increase in manpower devoted to gun prosecutions in Colorado.
Colorado's new prosecutor is part of a commitment of federal resources to enforce our gun laws. Project Safe Neighborhoods devotes more than $550 million over the next two years to fight gun violence. Over $15 million in funding will go to provide 113 new assistant United States Attorneys to serve as full-time gun prosecutors.
Another $75 million is set aside for new state and local gun prosecutors to work in partnership with federal law enforcement authorities. These are tough prosecutors determined to enforce the law, including the federal law that makes it a felony for convicted felons and other dangerous people to lie about their records in attempting to buy a gun.
I have directed all U.S. attorneys to prosecute to the fullest extent practicable those who attempt to purchase a gun illegally. "Lie and buy" is against the law, and I am determined that the law be enforced.
Project Safe Neighborhoods looks for five key elements in state and local gun prosecution efforts:
partnership between local, state and federal authorities
a strategic plan to attack gun violence
training of officers and prosecutors in firearms enforcement
outreach to the community to increase awareness and deterrence, and
accountability for results.
Each U.S. attorney is asked to implement these five core elements in a manner that fits the needs of his or her district. By building on the efforts already begun here, I am confident that all these goals can and will be achieved in Colorado.
Prosecution of criminals is not the only - or even the paramount -- objective.
Deterrence of gun crime is a vital component of Colorado Project Exile and the other state and local initiatives that together constitute Project Safe Neighborhoods. Perhaps you've seen the billboards and the commercials.
The message of Colorado Project Exile to would-be gun criminals is simple and direct: "If you pack an illegal gun, pack your bags for jail." Here in Colorado and across the fifty states we are sending a clear message that gun crime means hard time.
People who violate federal gun laws will find a determined adversary in the Bush Administration, the Department of Justice and the Colorado law enforcement community.
With your commitment to enforce gun laws aggressively, we will fulfill our moral and legal obligation to reduce gun violence in America. Thank you.
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When should students start using the Career Services Center?
We suggest that students familiarize themselves with the CSC as soon as they are comfortably settled during their first year. We serve all students from their freshman year to senior year. We also serve alumni and graduate students.
What if I need help in choosing a major or career?
Career Services utilizes MyPlan, a web based assessment tool, that will assist you in examining your interests, values, abilities and personality. It should take you over an hour to complete-try not to overanalyze your answers-go with your first response. Be sure and print your results and then you can make an appointment for career counseling to review the results and explore options regarding majors and career choices.
Does Career Services charge a fee?
All of our services are free, except for the Business Etiquette Dinner. The fee for that is $25.
I am looking for a part-time job; where should I go?
Career Services has a listing of on-campus and off-campus part-time jobs posted on Handshake (We do not assign or match jobs to students). Students can choose which jobs they are interested in and apply directly to the employer.
Why should I post my resume in the Hire A Texan?
Employers that are specifically interested in hiring Tarleton students have 24/7 access to resumes in Handshake. Students must have their resumes posted to interview with companies coming to campus throughout the year. We recommend that you do this by the end of your junior year and keep your information updated.
Who can sign up for interviews? And when is the best time to start interviewing?
Any student who has posted a resume in the Handshake and meets the criteria specified by the company can sign up for interviews. Many companies prefer to screen the resumes and then decide who to interview. It is best to start early in your senior year and interview with as many companies as possible.
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You can't come to Salzburg and not be inundated with all-things Mozart. Gain a little perspective by visiting Wolfgang's birthplace before heading elsewhere to hear a performance of his music. www.mozarteum.at.
This traditional Austrian restaurant is housed in an 18th-century building (a former goldsmith) and now serves authentic Salzburg cuisine to the city's movers and shakers. Getreidegasse 37; (43-662) 80840.
This architecturally intriguing restaurant in the Salzburg airport also houses a fleet of vintage aircraft and Formula 1 race cars. www.hangar-7.com.
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One of the most beautiful regions in Austria, Salzkammergut is dotted with sparkling lakes and rugged mountains. It's great for all outdoor pursuits. www.salzkammergut.at.
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In 2010, DaShan Donique White Jr. was stabbed protecting a woman and child from being attacked in a Victorville shopping parking lot. "Our organization has established an award to recognize the outstanding contributions of community service made by our young people. Through a financial gift pledged by Gi & Associates we are now able to annually give this award of $200 to a deserving young person. It was by the Board's unanimous vote that DaShan would be this year's recipient," stated Theresa Polley-Shellcroft, founder and President of tps, Creative Expression, Inc. "We are compelled to support an award that recognizes the service and positive acts performed by our young people. Equally it's our honor to partner with a Foundation that enriches our community through the cultural arts and education," says Regina Weatherspoon-Bell, President of Gi & Associates.
During the recent Victor Valley African American Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon, Dashan and his mother, Franshella Hopkins was introduced to the many chamber members, business and community leaders in attendance. DaShan received his award along with several certificates and a special recognition was presented by Victorville Mayor Ryan McEachron. Mayor McEachron was the luncheon's featured guest speaker.
Lionel Dew, President of the Victor Valley African American Chamber of Commerce addressed the crowd stating, "We are honored to recognize DaShan White Jr. for his unselfish act to save someone else's life. Without regard for his own life and without thinking twice he felt compelled to take it upon himself to be extraordinary in action. We extend our sincere gratitude."
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Gainesville no longer faces a $50 million legal threat over the biomass plant.
Gainesville no longer faces a $50 million legal threat over the biomass plant.
On Friday, the company behind the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center told the city it was dropping its arbitration counterclaim with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled.
GREC had requested the "cooperation" of the city in efforts to draw in tax equity investors or sell off the plant before construction is formally declared substantially complete in about a month. That milestone in construction is a deadline to capitalize on the renewable energy tax benefits of the plant, GREC President Jim Gordon said in a letter to the city.
The company had asked the city to suspend its right of first offer to buy the plant for about four months. GREC also asked the city to suspend for that same 120-day span its authority to consent to or reject any transfer of ownership "so long as the purchaser is an affiliate of one of the top ten largest by market capitalization regulated utilities in the United States."
"This has been a long and difficult period for all parties," Gordon said in a letter to the city. "Resolving disputes through the legal process is a time-consuming, emotional and absurdly expensive ordeal. We are pleased to put this matter behind us and look to the future. Our goal from the beginning has been to build a state-of-the-art biomass facility that provides reliable renewable energy, jobs and economic stimulus to the Gainesville area. With plant construction now approaching completion, we are very close to accomplishing this goal."
"It's good news," Commissioner Thomas Hawkins said of GREC's decision to drop the counterclaim. "It's very good news."
Hawkins said that since he'd just received the GREC proposal, he hadn't decided on the voluntary contract changes the company sought.
Commissioner Todd Chase, who had argued that GREC should drop the counterclaim without conditions, said Friday's decision from the company was a positive move.
"It's certainly a step in the right direction," Chase said. "It's always better to talk to a business partner without a gun sticking against their head — and they just removed the gun."
Mayor Ed Braddy said it was a relief to no longer have a $50 million legal claim over the city's head. Braddy said Friday's developments increased his consternation with the fact that Gainesville Regional Utilities General Manager Bob Hunzinger last week signed a settlement agreement on terms requested by GREC.
"The general manager's push to settle is now way out of line and now really disturbing," Braddy said.
On Aug. 15, Hunzinger signed a proposed settlement agreement that had GREC dropping its counterclaim if the city waived its right of first offer to buy the plant, making it easier for GREC to sell the plant and significantly reducing its ability to file a lawsuit or legal claim under the contract.
City Attorney Nicolle Shalley would not sign off on the settlement, which still needed and did not get final approval from the City Commission.
The city's arbitration claim alleged that two sales combining to make a 57 percent stake in the biomass plant constituted a change of controlling interest that should have triggered the city's contractual right of first offer to buy the plant.
At arbitration, Gainesville was seeking to require that GREC sell the plant to the city.
On Aug. 1, the arbitrator granted GREC's motion to dismiss, ruling that the transactions were unrelated sales of minority ownership interests.
The GREC counterclaim alleged that potential tax equity investors, who would put money toward the project in exchange for receiving its tax incentive benefits, did not move forward because the city's arbitration claim was a "cloud" hanging over the plant.


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According to information from Sgt. Chad Hogan of the Orange County Sheriff's Office (OCSO), on Monday October 1, 2012 the Orange County Sheriff's Office received a call from the Administration at Community Christian School at 3400 MLK Drive in Orange concerning an Improper Relationship between Educator and Student. The alleged incident involved an educator at the school and a high school student.
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It's been a long time since the name Tiger Woods has been associated with good news for anyone other than the guys who come up with front pages for the New York Post, but that changed Wednesday when he was named Athlete of the Decade by the Associated Press. Woods got 56 of 142 votes for the honor, with more than half of the ballots sent by AP editors sent in after the entire world stopped paying attention to anything but his sex life late in November.
Woods's stunningly quick fall from grace perfectly captured so many other defining trends of the last 10 years that it is hard to imagine how you could come up with an argument for anyone else. Breakthroughs in communication like blogs and Twitter have made Woods the subject of a million public conversations in a million different places, and the growth of celebrity coverage through TMZ and Us Magazine ensures that even the less tech-savvy are getting healthy doses of Tiger and his many ladies.
In every way, this story encapsulates this decade. There's the seaminess of reality TV -- in the way that the women of Woods's past keep rushing forward for their 15 minutes of fame -- and the drop in education standards -- illustrated by the rise of "transgressions meaning" in Google searches following his statement.
If accomplishment in sports were the the thing that matters most, other athletes might have fared better than Woods. Lance Armstrong won six Tour De France titles in the last 10 years and raised millions of dollars to battle cancer. Roger Federer spent the last 10 years dominating tennis and gaining acclaim as the greatest player ever to don whites. Tom Brady, Albert Pujols, Usain Bolt and Floyd Mayweather, among many others, reached athletic heights that would make them worthy choices if only on-field or positive contributions mattered.
None of those guys has ever captured the full attention of the American populace the way that Woods has over the last three weeks, however. More than that, none of them have ever carried a billion-dollar business on their back the way that Woods has carried golf over the last decade. Without Tiger, the sport will have to face difficult questions about how they can sustain their ratings, sponsors and public interest because he was the primary driver for all of them. His fall will ripple throughout his sport in a meaningful way, yet another indication of the magnitude of the Woods story.
According to AP, the vote "was more about 10 years of performance than nearly three weeks of salacious headlines." That's a nice idea, but it was those three weeks of headlines that really separated Woods from every other athlete who reached professional heights in the last 10 years.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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Yes, things have come this far. There is open talk of killing NSA leaker Edward Snowden via a drone strike.
Remember that saying "Don't kill the messenger?" This is the ultimate form of doing just that.
There is open talk in the media of killing National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden via a drone strike. The online version of the magazine Popular Science had point and counterpoint articles debating all the reasons why the U.S. government might or might not consider drone striking Snowden in Hong Kong, the city he ran to fearing federal retribution for leaking information regarding the NSA's PRISM program, a vast spying operation that has been turned against the American people at large at the expense of their constitutional rights.
Truthstream Media reporters Melissa Melton and Aaron Dykes discuss this apathetic acceptance of government assassination of American citizens:
Part of the PopSci discussion centered around the inoperability of large-scale Predator drones, which would potentially cause too large of a collateral damage footprint, thereby triggering a wider diplomatic disaster. The tinier and tidier Switchblade drone, on the other hand, writer David Hambling argues, would be more effective than other drones: "The small size of the warhead means that collateral damage would be limited to anyone else in the room with Snowden."
Not only did these PopSci writers discuss limiting 'collateral damage' and drone strike logistics such as speed and strike range, but the gamut also included whether or not China would appreciate such an attack, and Hambling even asked, "So why wouldn't the U.S. government just send a guy with a gun to kill Snowden?"
These articles were apathetically written as if outright federal assassination of anyone who speaks out against the government is so commonplace, it's expected.
Snowden's constitutional rights or the fact that government assassination of crime suspects would be tantamount to murder were not mentioned even once in either article as reasons why the U.S. shouldn't go around drone striking American citizens.
Scarier still is the fact that the idea itself is plausible enough to garner such casual banter. The thought of permanently silencing dissenters through targeted strikes would not only eliminate embarrassing disclosure from government employees and contractors like Edward Snowden, but it would effectively freeze free speech by intimidating anyone else from coming forward, all while skirting the real issue at hand (in this case systematic, wholesale spying on Americans by the NSA).
This all came days before Snowden was even charged — albeit ironically — with espionage for reporting on the illegal surveillance of the NSA, which has been going on openly since shortly after 9/11. In our bizarre new reality, the systematic criminality of the government is a blasé fact of life, but those who would dare to uncover, spotlight and quantify this fact are considered criminal, and even treasonous. It doesn't take a genius to realize that such unwarranted spying is not compatible with a free society, and that the counter-terrorism and national security rationales for concealing the scope of the PRISM program and others like it are insufficient — such secrets are not worth keeping.
Curbing government abuse and protecting the privacy of the populace, on the other hand, remains a worthwhile goal, even in the age of metadata.
Regardless, even if Snowden's actions had been clear-cut crimes, his flight to Hong Kong poses no imminent danger, so the very thought of taking lethal action defies the basic common law spirit and protections of the Constitution and Bill of Rights which have been so readily degraded in this country.
Ron Paul was the first (former) public official to voice his concerns that Snowden could hypothetically become the target of a drone attack. The former Congressman and presidential candidate told Fox News:
"I'm worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile. I mean, we live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed. But the gentleman is trying to tell the truth about what's going on.
I don't think for a minute that he is a traitor. Everybody is worried about him and what they're going to do and how they're going to convict him of treason and how they're going to kill him. But what about the people who destroy our Constitution? … What do we think about people who assassinate American citizens without trials and assume that's the law of the land? That's where our problem is."
Indeed, due process has effectively been thrown out the window along with any other rights considered inconvenient to the roaming psuedo-anti-terror apparatus that has occupied the once-free United States.
Using the pretext of wider threats and the vague but reaching powers of the National Defense Authorization Act's (NDAA) indefinite detention clause and its concept of a worldwide battlefield as a basis to justify preemptive strikes on dissidents who pose no actual threat is beyond disgusting.
Yet as reported before, the Justice Department under Holder considers drones and other actions as useful tools in their kit. The justifications for the supposed legality of striking an American citizen with a drone, even on American soil if the circumstances arise, are already on paper, which will in turn erode the protections in place for other cases…and other Americans.


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The guidebook also features 36 pages of zone maps with station index, 42 blank pages for free notes, 96 notched pages for your city file, and an expandable inner pocket.
Founded in 1824 and located on the central Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of Western European paintings dating from the mid-13th to the 20th Centuries.


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Forget notebooks. If Intel has its way, and if the buzz at this week's Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas is any indication, everyone will be craving ultrabooks in the near future.
Now, as my colleague Greg Crowe so elegantly pointed out recently, being the darling new technology at CES does not ensure mainstream acceptance. However, I think ultrabooks might be different, and have a good chance of being embraced by the public.
An ultrabook is not a reinvention of the wheel. It's a notebook design that attempts to add together components that people find cool and useful without the headaches that people don't want or need. In that sense, it's more of a reinvention of what a notebook is and has become in recent years.
So what is an ultrabook? Based on the descriptions and specs, we can put one together. To start with, every ultrabook will need to be thin and fast. That's kind of a no-brainer that people want a sleek notebook.
The ultrabooks displayed at CES tended to have 13-inch or 14-inch screens in thin-bezel formats, thicknesses of a half-inch to 0.78 of an inch and weights of less that 3 pounds. They mostly run low-power Intel Core i5 chips and have solid-state drives, which makes for fast start-ups. Prices for the early models (and most if not all notebook-makers are producing ultrabooks) range from about $800 to $1,400.
But the real appeal of ultrabooks will be in the user experience. For starters, ultrabooks should all have touch screens. (And you thought Windows 8 was going to be just for tablets?)
People seem to like the touch-screen interface. But lots of folks, myself included, don't want to give up their keyboards. Typing is part of my job and a keyboard is the perfect tool for that. Although I enjoy and appreciate programs that are optimized for touch screens, I feel more comfortable using a physical keyboard for those long-haul, late-night writing sessions. So thankfully, an ultrabook won't be another tablet, and the keyboard is safe.
There may be some other inputs, however, that will make an ultrabook easier to use. Intel has tapped Nuance Communications to provide voice recognition on all ultrabooks. It will be interesting to see how native voice recognition works. Intel has even hinted at a Siri-like interface like that on the new Apple iPhone 4S, which would give ultrabooks intelligent personal assistants. Obviously, a lot will depend on the quality of the voice recognition.
And in a nod to gaming, ultrabooks will likely have gesture recognition, which is already doing quite well as part of Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect gaming system. Microsoft announced during CES that the retail version of Kinect for Windows, along with a free commercial software development kit, will arrive Feb. 1.
Reporters were only given a few minutes with an ultrabook at CES, but the main feature everyone seemed to enjoy most was the gesture ability. Wave your hand to page through your contacts, expand and close windows and do pretty much what you could with a touch screen, only without touching the screen. Ultrabook ultimate dance games can't be too far behind.
But seriously, gesture recognition combined with voice technology will be a powerful tool, yet we aren't asked to forfeit our beloved keyboards just yet. So while ultrabooks don't reinvent the wheel, they improve it quite a bit, kind of like adding inflatable tires.
For that reason, I actually believe Intel when it predicts that 40 percent of notebook sales by 2015 will be ultrabooks. If the new devices are as cool and functional as they might be, the numbers could even be much higher.
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This is blatantly an advertising scheme for the ultrabook.
Anyone with any technological expedience would be crapping all over this product, well done for getting paid off there.
Nobody who truly cares about using a laptop for what a laptop is intended for needs half of the features HP has decided we need.
A laptop is not a phone, or a tablet. Its a laptop. It shouldn't have a touch screen. And gesture recognition and voice recognition? That's all software.
This is nothing but a stupid consumer ploy. Stupid people with money will of course buy these, but nobody in their right mind should...
If they don't use Intel chips, what do they use that has equivalent power?
Appreciate your column and thoughts, John. As far as the Ultrabooks, I bought an HP Folio (with backlit keybd)recently which I really like (although I preferred an Apple ultrabook, but ESRI's ArcGIS seems a better fit on the native Windows ultra), but I do miss a touch screen (a significant omission on this initial offering), GPS, and second camera. Which for at least two of the three might work best on a tablet or i.e., the iPad. And as in all other gadgets the price most likely will drop.
I agree totally. I want one NOW.
I see the ultrabooks as the future for all laptops. Yes Mark has a point that regular notebook computers are a lot cheaper but so was everything else several year ago. Cheap computers will always be around for the cheaps who don't want to save up to have it all, but they will certainly be the minority. How do you think Apply is doing so well even though they have expensive products. People are willing to spend the money if they know what they are getting works.
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A Molecular Isotopic Proxy for Precipitation in Arctic Lakes
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Accurate records of the pattern and timing of climate change in the Arctic are important to understanding how the global climate system functions. The Arctic is a significant region with respect to climate, and the effects of global climate change might be identifiable in the Arctic before they can be found elsewhere, as suggested by the large and rapid changes documented throughout the Arctic environment in recent years. In addition to showing sensitivity to global changes in climate, the Arctic may also be capable of forcing widespread climate shifts. Changes in Arctic precipitation and river runoff could alter the freshwater flux to the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean and influence the rate of thermohaline circulation, thus impacting hemispheric heat transport and possibly global climate. Models predict that warmer global conditions will generate increases in high-latitude precipitation, and such changes have been observed in syntheses of 20th-century freshwater discharge from Eurasian rivers into the Arctic Ocean. Evidence for correlation between Arctic precipitation and global mean temperature (and thus predictions of continued increase in the future) is controversial however, and additional records of precipitation change in the Arctic are critical to resolving this important question. Accurate calibrations of precipitation proxies are needed to enable reconstruction of precipitation change throughout the Arctic for comparison to large temperature changes in the past.
This work will develop and refine a new precipitation proxy based on compound-specific hydrogen isotopic analysis of organic biomarkers for use in lakes throughout the Arctic. Accurate estimates of past precipitation change from Arctic lakes are currently difficult to obtain, and proxies are often available only on a lake-by-lake basis. We will measure independent δD values from organic compounds synthesized by vascular plants and aquatic algae, respectively. The terrestrial δD will be contrasted with values from aquatic biomarkers in order to produce an index reflecting plant evapotranspiration and soil evaporation. We will compare this aridity index to steep precipitation and temperature gradients across the Baffin Island region as well as northern Labrador, southern Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic. This surface sediment network will provide calibration of a novel precipitation proxy that will be applicable to small lake catchments throughout the Arctic. As part of this proposed work, long sediment cores will be targeted for high-resolution measurements for comparison to paleo-precipitation records previously constructed from independent proxies.
In previous work, surface lake sediments were collected from Baffin Island and the Labrador coast, to be compared with climate data (mean annual, mean January and mean July precipitation) available as a 25-km gridded climatology. The surface sediment samples have already been obtained and are being analyzed as part of funded work to develop new temperature and runoff indices from archeal membrane lipids. Therefore, the organic lipid extractions have already been completed. Downcore samples will also be obtained from sites with known histories of precipitation change, to extend the calibration into the temporal as well as spatial dimension. This proposed work will leverage substantially against funded work to investigate these samples for a similar purpose, but using a very different analytical tool. We request funding only for the costs associated with the additional chemical procedures necessary to isolate and purify the leaf waxes and algal biomarkers, and for the compound-specific δD analyses in the Fye Facility at WHOI, using previously established techniques. Results from these calibrations will be applicable to extensive networks of lake sediment records already collected and being analyzed for paleotemperature synthesis as a part of the SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) Science Implementation and the International Polar Year. This degree of coordination could allow us to construct a spatial network of Arctic precipitation changes in relatively short time, compared to the decades required to construct the original paleotemperature records used for the synthesis efforts to date. If this proposed work is successful, it will provide the preliminary data necessary to support proposals to NSF and NOAA, potentially as part of the end of IPY (synthesis) and as part of continued SEARCH funding for the next several years.


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TRACY - Brookside Christian junior Tiara Tucker scored on a layup 4 seconds into the game against Tracy and the Knights never looked back in a 78-15 victory in the Tracy Breakfast Lions Tournament semifinals Friday at Swenson Gymnasium.
TRACY - Brookside Christian junior Tiara Tucker scored on a layup 4 seconds into the game against Tracy and the Knights never looked back in a 78-15 victory in the Tracy Breakfast Lions Tournament semifinals Friday at Swenson Gymnasium.
Tucker, who didn't play Thursday to attend her father's funeral, returned to lift her teammates with a game-high 17 points, three rebounds and two steals to help send the defending champions into tonight's tournament final against Patterson at 7:30 p.m. in Swenson Gym.
"We always want to try to stay sharp regardless of who we play," said Brookside Christian coach Que Ngo, whose players got into a little foul trouble with 13 fouls in the first half. "We didn't play well as a group and fouled a lot. (Tracy) did a good job of attacking our press and we didn't play the (passing) lanes well."
Brookside Christian's Ra'kyra Gabriel scored 16 points and added eight rebounds and five steals, while teammate Mi'cole Cayton scored 12 points, including a 3-pointer.
The Knights (10-2) held the Bulldogs to three points in the first quarter and hustled to a 47-10 halftime advantage before holding Tracy (8-6) to five second-half points.
"We anticipated (the Knights') pressure," said Tracy coach Derek Solano, whose team committed 34 turnovers.
Guard Karsi Fyfe led the Bulldogs with five points.
Tracy plays Modesto-Gregori in the third-place game at 6 p.m. today at Tracy High.
The Warriors held the Spartans to one point in the fourth quarter to pull away from a scrappy Lathrop squad.
Grace Lee scored 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Fremont-Mission San Jose (7-4).
Jazlyn Simon led the Spartans (4-7) with 10 points as Lathrop closed within 29-25 late in the third. But the Warriors pulled away in the fourth as the Spartans' lone point came off a Simon free throw.
Lathrop plays Modesto (6-6) in the seventh-place game at 3 p.m. at Swenson Gym.
The Tigers (11-1) outmuscled the Jaguars (11-1) in the fourth quarter to grab a physical semifinal victory and a berth in the championship against Brookside Christian.
Ashley Rothmann hit a 10-foot turnaround jumper with 30 seconds remaining and added two free throws down the stretch to lead the Cougars past the Lancers (3-6) and into the consolation final.
Both teams picked it up in the second half after an abysmal first two quarters with Palo Cedro-Foothill (6-7) leading 13-11 at halftime.
"You can watch a game like that and talk about how you didn't score enough points," East Union coach Jim Agostini said. "But what it boils down to is not doing the little things and this team is not doing the little things right now."
Rothmann scored a game-high 17 points, and Olivia Vezaldenos led East Union with six points. Victoria Vezaldenos had 11 rebounds and Olivia Vezaldenos had 10.
Foothill and Manteca play for the consolation championship at 4:30 p.m. today at Steve Thornton Gym, preceded by East Union and Turlock at 3 p.m.
Jessica Hasal hit three 3-pointers and scored a game-high 12 points for the Buffaloes (6-5), who relied on their defense after a slow start.
"Solid defense is something we were looking to extend from our previous games," Manteca coach Cody Norman said.
Aubrey Glidden led Turlock (2-8) with nine points.
The Vikings (6-4) held the Tigers to two first-quarter points and single digits in the other three quarters.
Milbrae-Mills' Julia Gibbs scored a game-high 19 points. Justine Lynch scored nine for Tokay (3-12).
The Tigers play West at noon today at Steve Thornton Gym, followed by the Vikings against Sacramento-El Camino at 1:30 p.m.
The Eagles (6-9) exploded for 25 points in the third quarter and picked up their first win of the tournament.
Emma Bell scored a game-high 15 points for the Wolf Pack (8-7).
Courtney Brignac and Brianna Luna scored 13 apiece for Sacramento-El Camino.


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SAN JOSE, Calif., January 10, 2005 – SEMI and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announce their agreement to jointly conduct a comprehensive study on nanotechnology applications in the electronics industry. The study will provide definition of the rapidly-emerging global nanoelectronic markets and offer a global perspective of requirements and opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers.
Global Nanoelectronics Markets and Opportunities will be available in the third quarter of 2005. The report will be based on interviews with industry executives in China, Europe, Japan, Korea, North America, Taiwan and Rest-of-World regions.
"Nanosciences are a new frontier of technologic pursuit. They have numerous potential market applications in the electronics industries and represent great opportunities for those that provide the enabling materials, processes and systems to exploit them," said SEMI President and CEO Stanley Myers. "We are pleased to partner with the SIA and to leverage our combined research capabilities and industry relationships in order to provide an authoritative resource on this quickly developing field."
"The nanoelectronics era will revolutionize the semiconductor industry as we utilize new materials, new device structures and new assembly methods to extend Moore's Law," said SIA President George Scalise. "This study will provide quantified insight and in-depth analysis to help companies understand the new landscape and to focus their business and investment strategies on applications with the greatest opportunities for commercialization."
The report will identify the current and planned nanotechnology activities of semiconductor, display, storage, optoelectronic, sensor and MEMS companies. Additionally, equipment and materials process technologies, applications, requirements and opportunities will be defined.
Nanotechnology equipment and materials market size will be provided by business segment and 5,10 and15-year market forecasts will be presented based on various scenarios of new technology penetration.
The single-user cost of the study ordered prior to August 31, 2005 will be $4,000 for SEMI and SIA members and $5,000 for non-members. After August 31, the cost will be $5,000 for SEMI and SIA members and $6,500 for non-members. Multi-user license may be purchased for $12,500 for SEMI and SIA members and $15,000 for non-members.
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SEMI is a global industry association serving companies that develop and provide manufacturing technology, materials and services to make semiconductors, flat panel displays (FPDs), micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and related microelectronics. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose (Calif.), Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit SEMI at www.semi.org.
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- Is it fun writing code for the CDT?
You betcha! And the Eclipse SDK is such a great environment to work in. We've pumped out quality code by the boat load without a lot of effort.
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We have a build machine, cdt.eclipse.org, that we use for our builds. You can access them from the builds section on its home page. You can also generate your own builds by checking out the CDT out of CVS and using the Export -> Deployable Feature menu item provided by the PDE.
- Can I find a method declare when my mouse point to a method for the CDT?
If you have a method selected in the Editor, pressing F3 will take you to the declaration (i.e. the prototype) and Ctrl-F3 with take you to the definition (i.e. the body). Both options are also available from the Context menu.
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More than 2 million games sold across the franchise and Mama is still cookin'!. In her Wii sequel, Mama brings a lot more to the table, including all new 3D graphics, new recipes, comedic kitchen minigames, new gameplay modes and much more!
In Cooking Mama World Kitchen, Mama and friends have a whole new look given the game's upgrade to full 3D graphics. By utilizing the Wii Remote as a universal kitchen utensil, players can simulate actual cooking by chopping, grating, slicing, stirring and rolling their way through all new recipes that range from parfait to shrimp au gratin. Best of all, kitchen mistakes during meal preparation result in comedic mini-game surprises; for example, if you flip a burger too high, you can control Mama as she rushes in to save the day by catching it in her apron. Finally, a new game play mechanic integrates traditional Wii Remote utensil play with additional rhythm and motion that makes cooking easier and more enjoyable.
Key Features:
- The Wii Remote is your universal cooking utensil, putting you in total control of the cooking action as you chop, grate, slice, stir, roll and much more! Hold and point it in many different ways depending on the task to get the real sensation of cooking in a kitchen!
- Mama and friends look glorious in all new 3D graphics!
- All new recipes including: potato salad, California Roll, parfait, ginger pork, shrimp au gratin, fruit jello and many more
- Cook off against friends in 2 player local play
- New gameplay mechanic integrates Wii Remote utensil play with additional rhythm and motion that makes cooking easier and more enjoyable
- Share the cooking experience with Mama and all of her friends since everyone can now prepare meals in Mama's kitchen. Mama's friends will evaluate your meal once it's made so put in the extra effort to satisfy these finicky tasters.
- New kitchen surprises in the form of comedic mini-games (i.e. flip a burger up in the air and Mama's dog will run in and snatch it away; toss a pancake and control Mama as she runs in to save it with an apron catch)
- Save these surprise animations in an album you can review after gameplay
- Real-time effects make you feel like you're actually cooking. Adjust your timing and make decisions about your next course of action based on what you see on screen (i.e. if food is starting to look burned, quickly remove it from the burner, etc.).
- Earn bronze, silver, and gold medals from Mama in Let's Cook mode based on the quality of your cooking.
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Men in Black II is a landmark Hollywood disgrace; Mr. Deeds is both bad and "bad."
After decades of paranoid counterculture thrillers, in which the heroes routinely stumble on some secret government organization that runs roughshod over the Bill of Rights in the name of protecting our American way of life, it was a lark in Men in Black (1997) to be finally on the side of the hiply poker-faced fascists: men who put the highest priority on maintaining order while keeping their existence a secret, who make deals with aliens (in this case genuine extraterrestrials) while blanking the memories of ordinary citizens. The truth, as The X Files has it, might be "out there," but it's better for society if we don't go looking for it.
Although the film, based on a comic book by Lowell Cunningham, pretended to lampoon all those '50s, J.-Edgar-Hoover-vetted FBI dramas, in which the super-competent agents wore identical suits and reveled in their own conformity, it delivered the same sort of pleasure—and in a way that, thanks to the miracle of irony, the ACLU couldn't touch without looking like a bunch of killjoys. Men in Black was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld with a heavy, unvarying hand, but it felt naughty (in an authoritarian sort of way) and made a terrific platform for the smug, good-ol'-boy deadpan of Tommy Lee Jones, whose every line had the subtext: "Civil liberties? I don't give a shit." That his protégé (Will Smith) was an African-American—and one who jabbered incessantly about police surveillance—was the most disarming stroke: The Men in Black constituted a fascist rainbow coalition. And it was absolutely delightful.
With all the talk about trading civil liberties for security, the time would seem perfect to bring the Men in Black back for even more double-edged satire. But Men in Black II(Columbia) was hatched before 9/11 and doesn't have a thing on its mind except more and bigger squiggly beasties. If it isn't the worst sequel ever made, it's only because it has too much competition: Impersonal and frenetic, it's a landmark Hollywood disgrace. The premise is that Jones' Agent K, who was "neuralized" (i.e., his memories were erased) at the end of the last movie, is the only one who knows the whereabouts of something called "the light," for want of which an alien disguised as a dishy supermodel (Lara Flynn Boyle) is on the brink of destroying the Earth. So Agent J (Smith), who has yet to find a satisfactory new partner, must track down K, now an unassuming postmaster in Truro, Mass., deneuralize him, find the light, and return it to a distant galaxy. I can't help but think that life in Truro is the better deal, whether one is neuralized or not.
Although the script (by Robert Gordon and Barry Fanaro) is broad and slapsticky and the sound effects plaster-cracking, there's enough here for a top-flight kiddie movie: a lewd talking mutt called Mannix (with the voice of Brad Abrell); a posse of party-hearty, artillery-wielding earthworms; and a miniature civilization (complete with furry mayor and marching-band) out of Horton Hears a Who. Bo Welch (production designer) and Danny Elfman (composer) continue what Max Weber would call the bureaucratization of a charismatic leader—i.e., Tim Burton, who once upon a time encouraged each of them to push the boundaries. The movie would always have been derivative, but it could still have been a Burtonesque romp: Beetlejuice (1988) is the gold standard in anarchic, FX-laden comedies.
The mystery, kiddies, is what has happened to Sonnenfeld, a man of delicious wit and sophistication who has progressively unlearned everything he once knew about making movies. In Men in Black II, the former cinematographer (he got his start with Joel and Ethan Coen) puts everyone in the center of the frame and uses fish-eye lenses to shove them in our faces. The jokes go thunk!… thunk!…thunk! as if fired from a tennis-ball machine: You don't want to laugh, you want to duck. And all the actors—save the computer-generated ones—are poorly lighted. They look as over-made-up as cadavers.
Tommy Lee Jones needed a good cinematographer. In real life a famously nasty character whose acidic temperament has often given him an electrifying edge, he now seems bleary and mechanical, and his fallen, pouchy visage is like Joe E. Brown's death mask. He looks more at home in the Truro post office. That said, he's easier to watch than Agent M, the tight, white-faced creature with a triangle nose who shows up to beg Zed (Rip Torn) to let him be a Man in Black. There's rumor going around that this is Michael Jackson, but I pray that the animatronic guys are just having us on.
Adam Sandler was heartbreakingly silly in The Wedding Singer (1998), and word is he's marvelous in Paul Thomas Anderson's new romantic drama, which is due out in the fall. But he walks through the title role of Mr. Deeds (Columbia), the slovenly and contemptuous reworking of the folksy Frank Capra-Gary Cooper chestnut Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). As a New Hampshire rube who inherits $40 billion and a multimedia conglomerate, Sandler is supposed to be so in touch with his inner child—which translates as his inner purity—that he's blessedly nonchalant about his new wealth. And in the course of the movie he brings out the inner child/purity in a host of other jaded types, from greedy stockholders to the tabloid producer (Winona Ryder) assigned by her boss to bring Deeds down. The weirdest stroke might be the casting of Ryder as a hard-drinking cynic pretending to be a doe-eyed Midwestern ingénue: Her private malfeasance notwithstanding, Ryder's dazed, goody-good aura kills all her jokes. A trashy/funky type like Jennifer Lopez might have brought the house down.
Mr. Deeds, directed by Steven Brill from a script by Tim Herlihy, wasn't doomed from the start: The idea of taking Capra's pious fable and giving it a jolt of gonzo surrealism has promise. The Coen brothers tried something like that (laboriously, I thought, but with impish daring) in The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), and the fish-out-of-water template has so much built-in appeal that it's hard to go too wrong. But Brill and Herlihy (and Sandler, of course, who co-executive-produced) have retained the creakiest sentimental contrivances and added a few violent, gross-out set-pieces to keep the 12-year-olds chortling. This is another of those post-Saturday Night Live vehicles in which ineptitude and laziness are supposed to be taken as irony: It's not bad, it's "bad." Actually, it's "terrible": Anyone who could script and direct the scene in which Sandler offhandedly saves an elderly black woman and her cats from a conflagration while the firemen in the street below applaud and cheer must have spent the last year in some remote galaxy. Call the Men in Black: There are cretinous aliens among us.
A more complex and tantalizing picture of the inner "purity" of children can be found in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (ThinkFilm), based on the novel by Chris Fuhrman. Peter Care's movie (from a script by Jeff Stockwell and Michael Petroni) has its share of familiar coming-of-age motifs: These aren't the first Catholic boys to smoke, drink, have sex, blaspheme in the presence of sacred icons, and razz the repressive nun (Jodie Foster, who co-produced) who seeks to tame their self-expression. But there is something deeply disquieting about the protagonists' roiling mix of delinquency and creativity. The hero (Kieran Culkin) is a cartoonist who portrays himself and his friends as freakish, overmuscled superheroes continually beset by Nunzilla—a nun devil on wheels. Todd McFarlane's animated sequences, which transport us into this fantasy world, are explosively liberating, but their real-life correlatives (which include toppling power lines and drugging cougars) are more difficult to sanction. The movie says that the rebellious spirit that generates art can also consume and destroy—that there's no undangerous way to ride the tiger.


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Use your yellow page money for search engine submission.
I'm going to get some hate mail for what I'm about to say. I'm encouraging all of my customers to downsize their yellow page advertising as soon as they possibly can. The yellow pages are dying – and dying fast. take look at how much you're spending on yellow page ads – you're in for a shock.
Use the money you save on something that works harder for your business. this week do a fun, informal poll – ask anyone under 40 where they go to find phone numbers. They'll Say "the internet." have your intern or favorite 10 year old update your internet yellow pages to make sure your business name, phone and address are correct. the advertising world is changing – make sure your business changes too.
Take the money you've been spending on yellow pages and spend it on high quality search engine optimiztion. Do it now and get a jump ahead of the competition - many who still don't even have a web site!


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Gray Works: Handcrafted Cutting Boards & Serving Trays (Great for Gifts!)
the first time we've talked about Gray Works. Their gorgeous hand-hewn footed cutting boards and serving platters have captured our attention for years. We love them for entertaining, and think any one of the boards makes a stellar gift, particularly for a wedding. (You can also get them engraved!) Most of the boards are in that special-treat $50-$75 range, but there are a few mini platters under $30--in other words, the right price to treat yourself!
All of Gray Works' products are one-of-a-kind and handmade in their small studio in Woodstock, New York using only locally and sustainably harvested or salvaged American hardwoods, and natural, food-safe finishes. The woods they choose are beautiful in that old, gnarly kind of way, and they shape the boards to bring out the unique aspect of the wood, whether it's a beautiful grain or a unique knot. From long serving platters that run the length of the table to smaller breakfast-in-bed trays and regular ol' kitchen cutting boards, they're all worth the investment.
- Mini Footed Platte, $39
- Mini Maple Footed Platte, $25
- Heart-Shaped Cutting Board, $70
- Footed Platte and Serving Platter, $75
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- Large Footed Cutting Board, $175
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Yaris Sanchez Maybe Dating Joe Budden..Excuse To Post Her in Jets Gear
Not a fan of Joe Budden, but I give credit where credit is due he is the undisputed King of pulling Twodels.
Yaris Sanchez is the latest one he is linked to.
She is a Jets fan, heard she converted a lot of thirsty men from Giants to Jets Fans after these pics were released.
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