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text: Besides eating your chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs, what else is better than seeing some hot girls in sexy bunny costumes for Easter? While it's not as sexy of a Holiday as Halloween or Christmas, it's amazing how many ladies will get sexy to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, or something. Whatever the reason for season, we're always looking for an excuse to share another themed gallery with you. If you're a sucker who will get stuck at work on a holiday like me, hopefully these sexy bunnies will help you kill some work hours and boost up your Easter spirit. Hare's hopping you get one of these bunnies in your basket this year. Ha! Punny Bunny!

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Today we put under benchmark two graphics cards made by AMD and Nvidia: The GeForce 560 Ti 2GB and the Radeon HD 6790 1GB. The cards are not directly comparable in terms of price and performance. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti retails for $250 and it is placed in direct competition with the Radeon HD 6870. On the other hand, the Radeon HD 6790 1GB has been released at crowded $150 price segment and it has been released as a response to Nvidia's GTX 550 offering, although it is still competing with NVIDIA's GTX 460 lineup.
With all those graphics cards available today out there, the following table may be enlightening:
*By the time this review was published Nvidia had not yet officially announced the GeForce GTX 560. As a result we have not included performance figures of this new card in this article.
About the NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti
The NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti is an addition of the Company's "Fermi" line of consumer GPUs that were designed to deliver DirectX 11 (DX11) performance for PC gaming platforms.
The GeForce 560 Ti GPU is based on a revised version of the GF104 chip, named GF114. The GTX 560 Ti takes advantage of every functional unit of the GF114 chip. It's core clock is set to 822MHz, a 1002MHz (4008MHz data rate) memory clock, it has 384 CUDA Cores, 64 texture units, 8 Polymorph Engines, 32 ROPs, 512KB L2 cache and 4x64bit memory controllers.
Load TDP is going up by 10W, from 160W on the GTX 460 1GB to 170W on the GTX 560 Ti.
NVIDIA's marketing focus for the GTX 560 is to pair it with Intel's recently launched Sandy Bridge CPUs, which have inspired a wave of computer upgrades that NVIDIA would like to hitch a ride with.
The card also fully supports NVIDIA 3D Vision NVIDIA Surround and NVIDIA SLI technologies.
We have in our hands Gainward's implementation of the GeForce GTX560 Ti, the "Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2048MB Phantom," which comes with an extra 1GB of memory onboard compared to Nvidia's reference design. More information about the card is available in the following pages.
About the AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB
AMD launched the Radeon HD 6790 in order to compete with the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. The card is based on the same 40nm Barts GPU that powers the Radeon HD 6800 series.
The Radeon HD 6790 is further cut-down from the 6850, losing 2 SIMD units and half of its ROPs; mitigating this some are higher clockspeeds for both the core and the memory. The card features 800 SPs and 16 ROPs operating at 840MHz, it has a 256bit bus and a 1050MHz (4.2GHz data rate) memory clock.
The card has a 150W TDP, which is almost identical to the 151W TDP of the 6870.
Other features include:
- Second generation Microsoft DirectX 11 support
- PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
- "Eye-Definition" graphics
- AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
- AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration
- UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
- AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing technology
- DirectCompute 11
- OpenCL Support
- AMD HD3D technology
- Blu-ray 3D support - AMD CrossfireX multi-GPU technology
- Integrated HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D
- Integrated HD audio controller
- AMD PowerPlay power management technology
The second card we will put under test today is the Club3D HD6790 CoolStream edition, which is presented in detail later on.


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Friday Video – Panic! At the Disco, "Ready to Go"
Again with that goddamn exclamation point. And to think we thought it was lost forever. D'oh.
When we last saw the then-puncuation-free Panic at the Disco, they were getting their Beatles on in a big way with 2008's Pretty. Odd. We, of course, thought it was awesome, but the younger members of their fan base hated it, which shows that their parents didn't play the Beatles for them when they were growing up and have therefore failed society as a whole, but that's another story. The band, now a duo after the departure of their bassist and guitarist (the latter of whom was also their primary songwriter), the band's new album Vices and Virtues is a unapologetic swipe at the brass ring, and few songs on the album demonstrate that better than new single "Ready to Go." With the sky-high "Oh oh ohhhhh" in the chorus, Panic (sorry, but we cannot bring ourselves to use that exclamation point again) seems to be going after Katy Perry's babysitting money demographic, and to be fair, that's not a bad play. The tune is damn catchy, and better yet, Brendon Urie can sing.
Will it work? Who knows. It's damn near impossible to get a hit these days, even for established artists. But after Urie won us over in an interview earlier this year, it's hard not to root for the guy.
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Collymore slams LMA statement
Former England striker Stan Collymore has described the League Managers' Association's statement which says Malky Mackay's offensive text messages were part of some "friendly banter" as being "f****** disgraceful".
The LMA released a statement on behalf of former Cardiff manager Mackay on Thursday night after the 42-year-old Scot and Iain Moody were alleged to have shared racist, sexist and homophobic texts when they worked together at the Welsh club.
In the statement Mackay apologised for sending messages he admits were ''disrespectful of other cultures'', but he said he would fully co-operate with any official investigation after Cardiff sent a dossier to the Football Association detailing a number of issues during his stay in south Wales.
Former Cardiff manager Malky Mackay is facing allegations of misconduct
Mackay and Moody were sacked last season and the Welsh club have sent a dossier to the Football Association alleging misconduct.
The statement said that Mackay had been under pressure at the time of the messages and that he was " letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter".
The fallout to the statement has not been a favourable one and former Liverpool man Collymore - a prominent anti-racism campaigner - does not believe the LMA's stance is good enough.
He said on Twitter: "LMA statement. F****** disgraceful. Institutional acceptance of the "banter" of casual racism."
He does feel Mackay deserves a second chance, though, adding: "Always kind to me, hope he says sorry (if true), and moves on."
Another former player who has worked closely on eliminating discrimination, Jason Roberts, tweeted excerpts from the LMA's statement and then said: "That's it..I'm done for the evening..The LMA said it better than I ever could.. They are actually being serious! Somebody drafted that..WOW!"
The LMA statement added: ''If Malky has caused any offence by these two isolated matters he would wish to sincerely apologise.''
The LMA claims the club searched more than 10,000 private text messages and found two from Mackay that were ''with the benefit of hindsight, very regrettable and disrespectful of other cultures.
''These were...sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter.
''The LMA does not condone in any way any potential breach of equal opportunities laws but would also point out that out of over 10,000 text messages and 70,000 documents produced over a long period of time it may not be a complete surprise that some inappropriate comments can sometimes be made by employees, like Malky, working under great pressure in highly charged situations.''
However, Mackay was said to be ''very concerned about seriously inaccurate and misleading reports'' in the media.
The statement continued: ''It has never been alleged that he wrote any homophobic or sexist messages and he has confirmed he did not do so.
''Further, there are incorrect and damaging suggestions that he sent a whole host of offensive and unpleasant messages that are simply not true and which give a grossly distorted and unfair view of Malky's involvement in this matter.
''Malky finds it strange that these matters were only raised with the FA and in the media now, eight months after his employment ended and the day before he was reported as being offered the opportunity to become manager of Crystal Palace FC.
''Malky cannot of course comment on the nature of any conduct or communications alleged to have been made by others.
''Malky has said that he will be fully co-operating with any FA investigation and that he looks forward to putting the record straight thereafter.''
Press Association Sport understands Cardiff's sending of the dossier to the FA was not deliberately timed to have any effect on Mackay's candidacy for the Palace job.
Meanwhile, Moody resigned as sporting director of the south London club on Thursday.
Cardiff are due to hold a routine pre-match press conference on Friday morning where manager Ole Gunnar Solksjaer will be asked about the allegations.
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Bombardier Transportation (ZWUS) Polska Sp. z o.o as a leader of the consortium with KZA Krakow SA and Biuro Projektowo Wdrozeniowe SABEL companies, was awarded this full turnkey contract by PKP PLK SA (Polish National Railways Administrator), to supply a complete INTERFLO 200 solution for the 63 km long section of the E59 railway line from Wroclaw to Rawicz in Poland.
The contract includes technical design preparation, delivery, installation and commissioning of all signalling systems and devices with Integrated Control Room in Wroclaw Popowice as well as accompanying branches equipping them with radio and telecommunication, rolling stock diagnostic system, passenger information for example.
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Dumb Trends: Tech Companies Hiring Pop Stars As 'Creative Directors'
from the is-intel-the-new-polaroid dept
Meanwhile, over at the Intel booth, I saw Will.i.am (and an entourage of folks) walking around and checking out the displays. Knowing that folks like Lady Gaga and Will.i.am don't just show up at CES for fun, I just assumed that he had some sort of endorsement deal with Intel. Now, comes the news that he's signed a similar "director of creative innovation" deal with Intel.
Now, to be clear, various reports claim that Lady Gaga was and has been actually involved in product design efforts. And, as an endorsement deal, there's something quite nice about that aspect to it. After all, lots of celebrities sign endorsement deals for products they don't even use or care about, let alone have at least some say in designing. But, does having a celebrity, who doesn't actually have any experience or knowledge about the specific business you're in, as a "creative director" really make sense? The Polaroid products announced by Lady Gaga at CES seemed sort of pointless -- sunglasses that take photos, a paperback book sized "portable printer" for photos (I've had a smaller portable printer in my bag for years, and only recently stopped carrying it around when I realized I never use it any more).
On top of that, the idea that these celebrities have "jobs" as "creative directors" is just silly. They're not creative directors at all, and it's actually something of an insult to people who actually do have jobs as creative directors. They're celebrity endorsers who are also advising on product ideas -- at best. I like the idea of celebrities actually being more involved with the products they endorse, but pretending they have a real "job" at these companies really just insults the intelligence of people.
Oh, and, did anyone notice that, in the photo of Will.i.am showing off his "Intel badge," it looks like he's wearing the "Polaroid sunglasses" that Gaga revealed at CES? Maybe they have some sort of "mutual celebrity fake creative director appreciation society" thing going on between them.
"But do HIS glasses take pics and have screens built in...?" -- caption and photoshop thanks to Notcot


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The Slithering DarknessAstrid Bjornrittar wants you to slay 8 Ravenous Jormungar in the Hibernal Cavern east of Brunnhildar Village.
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DescriptionThe vile jormungar have taken over most of the Hibernal Cavern. They are despicable beings... children of Loken, Thorim's scumsucker of a brother.
As Thorim's servants we owe it to ourselves to kill these scum where we find them. You'll find the cavern just east of here, outside the village.
You've returned!
The Jormungar are vile creatures. You did well in destroying them.
RewardsYou will be able to choose one of these rewards:
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I have one free download code for Quicken 2015 for Mac to give away to a lucky reader. Instructions are at the bottom of this article.
It's been nine years since Intuit released a version of Quicken that was both fully-featured and designed to run on Apple's hardware and operating systems. The Quicken Essentials for Mac bridged a technology gap between Quicken Mac 2007 and the Windows versions of the software, but many important pieces were missing.
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Intuit has no announced their plans to release Quicken 2015 for Mac, and the software is available for pre-order beginning today. I had a chance to take a look at Quicken 2015 for Mac earlier this week. I am not a Mac user; I've been using Quicken Deluxe or Quicken Home & Business on Windows for years, and I've upgraded every year except this past year. But every time I've written a review of the latest Quicken product for Windows, I've heard from many readers who have been dreaming of a Quicken Mac version that contains all the features of the Windows version that can be run natively in OS X.
And that's what Intuit is presenting today. It's a complete re-write of the Quicken codebase (as it would need to be because of the requirements of OS X). And sometimes, from an application development perspective, when you've been modifying the same code for two decades, it's good to start from the beginning with a fresh codebase.
Mac users will like the improvements. The interface borrows from what has worked well in Quicken's mobile versions, and in fact, Intuit is also releasing an update mobile application for Quicken (the 2014/2015 mobile app).
The Quicken 2014/2015 mobile app.
Intuit promises the new mobile app will provide faster syncing between your desktop financial information and your mobile. A new feature allows you to easily take a snapshot of your receipts and enter the information for easier entry as a transaction, either on the spot or later. There are many mobile applications that allow you to organize your receipts, but if you're a Quicken user, this built-in feature is essential.
Quicken 2015 for Mac desktop.
The sleek new interface is a welcome change. This overview screen shows how Quicken has improved its budget tracking features over the years, and most newer Quicken users are interested in tracking a budget. Quicken has really focused on household spending, and this has been seen more in the recent versions of the Quicken mobile app, and the same approach is now being featured in the desktop version of Quicken 2015 for Mac.
But the new version also finally gives Mac users powerful tools for tracking investments. It's been almost ten years since a version of Quicken for Mac was able to do anything more than track investment balances. Like Windows users, Mac users can now track not only the balances in investment accounts, but the transactions as well. The investment features of the latest software are finally on par not just with the Windows version, but with users' expectations for fully-featured personal financial management software.
Mac users can now track gains and losses, investment performance over time, and other important facets of all types of investment accounts, from stock trading portfolios to 401(k) retirement accounts.
Automatic upgrades for one year.
Intuit is trying something new with Quicken 2015 for Mac. When you buy the software, you will receive free, automatic software upgrades for one year. This is somewhat similar to how the Windows version works. Every time you open the Quicken software, the software checks to see if any new updates are available. There's an important difference, however. The Windows updates are only bug fixes. And as most Quicken for Windows users know, there are undoubtedly bugs that need to be fixed with every new version.
However, with Quicken 2015 for Mac, the updates throughout the year will also include new features. According to Intuit, they are closely listening to their community of Mac users to determine what features to include. Any new features for one year will be automatically rolled out to all Mac users.
What's missing from Quicken 2015 for Mac.
Intuit prioritized the features to include in the software based on feedback from Mac users. But as this is a new piece of software, built from the ground-up, and because Intuit is keeping to a release schedule, there are many interesting features available in the Windows version of Quicken that have not yet found their way into this new release for Mac users.
For instance, there is no calendar view of upcoming bills. The Mac version doesn't include a debt reduction planner, something that many Windows users have found useful or at least interesting. Quicken for Mac doesn't support some types of investment transactions, particularly those dealing with employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP). That would have been a deal-breaker for me. The retirement planner and goals planner are among some of the Windows features that are still missing from the Mac.
You can, however, vote on the features you'd like to see added to Quicken for Mac 2015 throughout the year. Intuit plans to listen to its community of users as much as possible, and implement the features that are most desired.
Final words.
For a Mac user that is serious about his or her finances, Quicken 2015 for Mac is a must buy. There's always the alternative of running Quicken for Windows on a Mac through emulation, but the new interface makes the native version more appealing, but only if you don't need the features that are currently missing from the Mac version.
The new software is an amazing improvement over what has previously been available for Apple's operating systems, and the integration with mobile is a advantage worth the upgrade for users still hanging onto Quicken Mac 2007. Furthermore, any version of Quicken is much more feature-rich than any other financial management software available.
Intuit's own (through acquisition) Mint has captured the interest of a new generation of financially-minded individuals and households, but Quicken holds so much more power, and as someone moved beyond basic budgeting and spending tracking to grown-up financial needs like investing for retirement or being the head of a household, Quicken is an essential upgrade over Mint.
Not surprisingly, having the Intuit team take me through a demo of the software earlier this week has piqued my interest for the latest Windows upgrade. I skipped Quicken 2014 for Windows, and I've been reading that users are still having problems with this version. I'd like to see some of the interface improvements and underlying technology fixed with the next version for Windows. It would be great to see a ground-up rewrite of the code, just like the Mac version, but with a tight yearly upgrade cycle, I doubt that will be the case any time soon for Windows users.
How to buy Quicken 2015 for Mac.
Quicken 2015 for Mac is available today for immediate download from Intuit, the Mac App store, or Amazon.com. If you prefer receiving software in a box in CD-ROM or DVD-ROM format (does anyone?), the software will be available in October in retail locations.
The price today is $74.99.
I have one free download code for Quicken 2015 for Mac to give away to a lucky reader. Instructions are at the bottom of this article.
Quicken 2015 for Mac FAQs.
Here are some of the questions I've received so far.
Can you edit investment transactions?
Yes. Unlike Quicken Essential for Mac, the investment features are implemented the same way as all other accounts, so you can add, edit, and delete transactions. The software does more than just track your investment balances.
Can you import old data?
Yes. You can import data from any previous version of Quicken for Mac or Windows into Quicken 2015 for Mac.
Give us your feedback.
Once you've downloaded the software and have had a chance to import your data (or begin from scratch), let other potential users know about your experiences. I've had a chance to look at the software from afar, and I like what I see, but I don't have a Mac to run the software for myself. Do you like the new features, and do they work as expected? Are you missing the few aspects of the program that are available on the Windows version but not yet on Mac?
Free download giveaway.
Update: The giveaway has ended, and the winner is @beskie.
Want to download Quicken 2015 for Mac for free? I have one download code to give away to a shizennougyou reader. In order to qualify, follow these instructions:
- For one point, post the following to Twitter: Read the @Quicken 2015 for Mac review by @luke_landes and win a copy! http://flexo.me/1pUASYZ #giveaway.
- Get an extra point if you have over 1,000 followers, another extra point if you have over 5,000, another extra point if you have over 10,000, another extra point if you have over 50,000, etc.
- Leave a comment below with your Twitter ID and write briefly about your experience with Quicken. If you leave a comment and don't post to Twitter, you'll still get one point.
Every point you receive gives you one entry in the giveaway. I'll choose the winner randomly on September 1.
The images in this post were provided by Intuit.
Updated October 21, 2015 and originally published August 21, 2014.


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Attorney General Scott Pruitt Tuesday joined attorneys generals from 12 other states to request that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services adopt broader religious exceptions to the HHS mandate that all businesses and non-profit organizations purchase insurance for contraception and related services. The attorneys general sent a signed letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
To implement the Affordable Care Act, HHS mandated last year that all employers and insurance companies – including those with religious and conscience-based objections – would have to provide coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptive methods and sterilization procedures, including the "morning-after pill" and the "week-after pill." Today's letter is a public comment on proposed regulations to address faith and conscience-based objections that were raised to the original mandate.
The letter identifies several problems with the proposed regulations under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which requires "strict scrutiny" of all actions of the federal government that burden the exercise of religion. The regulations give only some nonprofit religious organizations an exception to the mandate, even though there is no compelling reason to treat religious organizations differently.
Lastly, the regulations provide no exception to the mandate for for-profit business owners who object on conscience grounds.
Oklahoma and attorneys general from the following states signed the letter: Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
For a copy of the attorneys general letter, go online to www.oag.ok.gov.


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FAO top executive sees Uzbekistan food conference as key to boost agricultural production
6 June 2014, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – In his opening statement to an international conference here on the elaboration of Uzbekistan's food programme, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva highlighted the event's importance not only for the country but as part of the global agenda to address food supply challenges.
The two-day conference, under the chairmanship of President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, gathered high-level guests from more than 40 countries and 20 international organizations including EU and international financial institutions.
Key topics included increased fruit and vegetable supply, research, and acceleratapplication of international experience in breeding and seed production to the conditions of specific regions of Uzbekistan, as well as adaptation and validation of established varieties.
"In Soviet times, agriculture in Uzbekistan was targeted exclusively on cotton production so the soil was getting poorer decade by decade, poisoned with chemicals and crop rotation did not exist," said Karimov in his welcoming speech. "So the first and foremost task after achieving independence was diversification of agricultural crops, revitalization of soil and modernization of the agricultural sector – providing jobs for more than 50 percent of population."
"We have done a lot in these areas, but still much more lies ahead so we need the high-level expertise of FAO and other international organizations," the President added.
Increasing investment for further development of transportation systems, logistics, storage and distribution of products – to help reduce food losses and waste – was also a focus of discussions at the conference.
Highlighting the efforts of Uzbekistan to increase its presence in regional and global markets, Graziano da Silva said that integration is important in a globalized world. "The main reason for significant improvement of the agriculture sector of Uzbekistan is the increased production and productivity since 2000, and FAO is proud to have been part of these efforts," he added.
Demonstrating impressive growth in the agricultural sector, Uzbekistan can play an important role not only in significant diversification of diets in the country but also in expanding food supply to world markets, Graziano da Silva said. He underscored the importance of support to family farmers and small-scale production.
"Family farmers have been considered a part of the problem of hunger," he said, "but in fact they are a central part of the solution to food security."
Since 2001, FAO cooperation with Uzbekistan has been growing, with technical assistance to further develop the agricultural sector, sustainable management of natural resources and increased resilience of rural populations to climate change.
The Organization's presence in Uzbekistan will be reinforced with the opening of an FAO country office in Tashkent. The host country agreement between FAO and Government of Uzbekistan was signed yesterday, and the office officially inaugurated by Uzbekistan Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. Minister for Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade Elyor M. Ganiev, FAO Sub-Regional Representative Mustapha Sinaceur and UN Resident Coordinator in Uzbekistan Stefan Priesner attended the ceremony. FAO's office is located within the Uzbek Agrarian University in Tashkent.
In the words of President Karimov: "We highly appreciate the support, practical efforts, close interaction, new technologies and all forms of assistance in the agricultural sector provided to Uzbekistan by international organizations and foundations including FAO, which country office we opened yesterday in Tashkent to boost our cooperation."


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The Founding Grandfather
The first section of this article was written on the seventh of May. This day has produced some of the most amazing moments in my life, in the world we live in and in the history of our sport. On this day in 1927, future Wests Tigers entities Balmain and Wests had wins in the old NSWRL.
Balmain defeated University 23-5 at Birchgrove Oval, and Western Suburbs defeated North Sydney 19-5 at Pratten Park. On the same day in that year, my grandfather was born. The man who was responsible for the blossoming of my interest and eventual love for the sport of Rugby League.
William Stant, or Bill for short. He grew up witnessing the traditions of the sport. He also witnessed the growth, to the extent he could remember the first time clubs like Canterbury or Manly set the first grade field on fire. He could also remember a South Sydney premiership. Although he told me he still somehow couldn't remember a Cronulla one.
'Bill' would tell stories on occasions. My favourite was a test match he saw in the fifties. He remembered the exact amount it cost to get in, and remembered how thick the fog was that day. He would tell me about "that dirty Pommy front rower" that was sent off from the field. The fog was apparently so thick the prop tired himself out by running two laps around the field attempting to find the area of the sideline his side's bench.
Now I understand what people mean when they say players in the yesteryear worked harder.
Bill however was a proud Balmain supporter for around sixty years. A crowd member of the 1939 Grand Final, he enjoyed letting me know about witnessing a traditional Frank Hyde try. It might have taken me awhile to know who Hyde was, but the stories kept flooding.
Back in the day he let people know who he support. He loved to be a Balmain fan. The year I was born, 1989, you couldn't blame him for shedding a few tears on that horrid day. The worst possible day for a Tigers fan. Until a decade or so later anyways when the Balmain Tigers entity died.
One day though, Bill was watching a Wests Tigers game on the television against the Knights.
"Mate, did you tip your Tigs this week." "Nope." "Seriously, why not?" "With those Magpies bastards in the side we're only half a bloody team." "You still gonna support them?" "Probably."
The passion wasn't there, he didn't look interested. This concerned me.
"Did you see the Chooks win?" "Yeah, they'll probably win the comp." "Reckon Tigs will?" "Nope, hope they don't get the spoon at least." "Do you even like them these days?" "They're not the team I used to support, and I can't use the bloody Balmain catch phrases anymore." "Who will you support?" "No-one, don't mind Newcastle after that Johns kid visited the Coast a few years back."
He still loved the game but not his side, and in the years towards his death he still showed the same passion he did for the game, but not the Tigers.
In 2004, I visited him in the hospital. He was watching the ANZAC day game on the television.
"What's the score?" "11-8 I think, we're up." "Haven't seen a scoreline like that in years." "Yeah, Fittler got a killer try." "Good on him, he's a good player that bloke."
Another visit, this time to his house on his literal deathbed in 2005, was one of the last conversations we ever had. I can still remember every moment.
"Your old Tigers won hey." "Yeah, those Raiders had it coming though." "They're not going bad." "How are your Easts going?" "We have a bye, with our form we could lose this one."
The day of his death rang bells. I would love to be thinking about Rugby League on my deathbed. That day, fittingly, the Knights and Tigers both had games on. Unfortunately, they both lost.
This story may have had no central point, it may just be a tale of my relationship with my grandfather and our topic of conversation. I would love to pass my love of the game onto my children, and my eventual grandchildren.
The fans of Rugby League, the families who share traditions and rivalries. It was fitting that in the year of his death, a team known as the Tigers were the winners of the premiership.
R.I.P. Bill
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College Hockey: UNH wins, gets the help it needs for first-round byeBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 01. 2014 10:38PM
NO. ANDOVER, Mass. - Seven seconds.
The University of New Hampshire needed just seven ticks of the clock in the second period to turn around a game that was going the wrong way at Merrimack College.
A goal by sophomore defenseman Brett Pesce at the 12:21 mark of the period followed by one from senior forward Dalton Speelman seven seconds later spurred the Wildcats to a 5-2 win at Lawler Arena.
The win, coupled with a Boston University win at Northeastern, gives UNH the No. 4 seed in the Hockey East tournament. The Wildcats earn a first-round bye and will play a best-of-three quarterfinal series at the Whittemore Center beginning on March 14.
The Wildcats will play host to Northeastern in the quarterfinals.
UNH and the Huskies finished tied for fourth, but UNH gets the bye and home ice because it swept the season series from Northeastern.
The Wildcats found out they had earned home ice for the playoffs as they came off the ice.
"The guys are ecstatic," said senior forward Kevin Goumas who had a goal and three assists. "It's pretty exciting. We haven't had home ice since my freshman year."
UNH lost in three games in the quarterfinals last year at Providence and in three games in the quarters the year before at Boston University.
Prospects for home ice were not looking good halfway through the game.
At the midway point, Merrimack led, 1-0, and was outshooting UNH 33-7.
Less than three minutes later, UNH led 2-1.
"Obviously they were taking it to us early in the game," UNH coach Dick Umile said. "I thought the guys in the middle of the second period turned it around and started to battle back. . . . In the middle of the game I think we started to get an awful lot of confidence. We started turning the puck over and doing a good job of getting out of the zone. We were getting hemmed in in the first half."
Casey DeSmith, the junior from Rochester, was immense for UNH with 49 saves.
"He comes up with big saves all the time, every time we need him late in the game," Goumas said."
Merrimack outshot UNH, 51-21.
UNH improved to 19-16-1 overall and 11-9-0 in Hockey East.
Merrimack finished the regular season 8-21-3 and 3-15-2.
The Wildcats led 3-1 after two period and Clayton Jardine scored to cut the lead to one with 12:19 left in the third period.
Goumas answered that with a goal with 6:58 left to put UNH back on top by two. Pesce and senior defenseman Eric Knodel had assists.
Goumas collected his final assist, No. 100 for his career, on Nick Sorkin's empty net goal with 1:28 to play.
The Wildcats broke the game open with three second period goals.
Goumas was behind the net and passed out front to Pesce at the top of the right faceoff circle for the first goal at 12:21. Sorkin made a diving play to poke the puck to Goumas and put things in motion.
The ensuing faceoff went from Grayson Downing to Knodel and up to Speelman, who raced up the left side and beat Sam Marotta with a blast to the far side.
Sorkin finished off a two-on-one with Willows to give UNH a bit of a cushion at 3-1 with 39.4 seconds left in the period.
On Friday night, Merrimack took control of the game with a couple of second-period goals after a scoreless first two periods.
The Warriors opened the scoring on a Quinn Gould power play goal with 8:46 left in the first period on Saturday. Quinn was just outside the crease when he collected a pass from Chris Collins, who was behind the net, and put it behind DeSmith.
Merrimack outshot UNH 20-5 in a penalty filled first period. The Warriors had seven shots on three power plays. UNH had one shot on its two power plays. The Warriors finished with 14 shots on five power plays, UNH had three shots on four power plays.
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No. 10 Massachusetts is at No. 7 Vermont, No. 9 BU is at No. 8 Notre Dame and No. 11 Merrimack is at No. 6 Maine in single game playoffs next weekend. . . . Boston College is the No. 1 seed, UMass-Lowell the No. 2 and Providence the No. 3. The winning teams next week will be reseeded for the quarterfinals.


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One of the outstanding geniuses in the history of technology, Thomas Edison earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion-picture camera. These three inventions gave rise to giant industrieselectric utilities, phonograph and record companies, and the film industrythus changing the work and leisure habits of people throughout the world. The period from 1879 to 1900, when Edison produced and perfected most of his devices, has been called the Age of Edison.
Edison was the youngest of seven children. He began to lose his hearing after having scarlet fever as a young child. As he grew older, his deafness increased until finally he was totally deaf in his left year and had only 10% hearing in his right ear. Edison did not consider this a handicap and said that it was rather an advantage as it gave him more time to think because he did not have to listen to foolish small talk.
Although Edison was an inquisitive child, his teachers considered him to be a dull student. Because of his hearing problems, he had difficulty following the lessons and his school attendance became sporadic. Nevertheless, Edison became a voracious reader and at age 10, he set up a laboratory in his basement.
When his mother could no longer stand the smell of his chemistry lab, Edison took a job as a trainboy on the railway and established a new lab in an empty freight car. He was 12 at the time. He also began printing a weekly newspaper.
While Edison was working for the railroad, something happened that changed the course of his career. Edison saved the life of a station officials child, who had fallen onto the tracks of an oncoming train. For his bravery, the boys father taught Edison how to use the telegraph. In 1868, at age 21, he developed a telegraphic vote-recording machine, the first of his inventions to be patented.
Edison slept little for he was gripped by a passion for manipulating electrical currents in new ways. In 1876, he set up a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey where he could devote his full attention to invention. He promised that he would turn out a minor invention every ten days and a big invention every six months.
In 1878, the Edison Electric Light Company, the predecessor of todays General Electric Company, was formed. Also that year, his most original invention, the phonograph, was patented. Edison took tin foil, wrapped it around a cylinder and casually said, This machine is going to talk. He recited Mary had a little lamb into the strange device and to everyones amazement (even Edisons) the machine repeated the words exactly.
In his middle years, Edison began to dislike winter weather in the north. He decided to try spending winters in Florida. He could afford it by then. He discovered Fort Myers and bought land in the small Gulf Coast community. In 1901, he began spending every winter there. The comings and goings of the famous man were the talk of what was then little more than a coastal village. Edison returned the communitys affection by bringing 2,000 royal palms from Cuba to plant along main thoroughfares in the city.
Edison traveled around the world collecting many kinds of plants and trees for his experiments. In the small laboratory in his Fort Myers home, Edison experimented with using plant and tree fibers as a filament for his electric lights. He also directed a search for a domestic plant that would produce rubber as insurance against the day when supplies of the natural product from abroad might be disrupted by war.
Today, visitors to Thomas Edison's laboratory can see where he conducted experiments. Many of his inventions, including his famous filament light bulbs, are located in the museum. There is also a tour of Edison's home. The home was shipped to Fort Myers from New England and contains the original interior.
Visitors can also see Edison's concrete swimming pool, which was one of the first to be built in Florida. Edison and his guests would enjoy this pool and the surrounding grounds, which included many of the plants and trees used in his experiments. Each February, Fort Myers celebrates Edisons legacy with the Pageant of Light.
Throughout his career, Edison directed his studies to devices that could satisfy real needs and come into popular use. Indeed, it may be said that in applying himself to technology, he was fulfilling the ideals of democracy, for he centered his attention upon projects that would increase the convenience and pleasure of mankind.
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Dubbed the SXSW of Asia, Music Matters is the only event in Asia that gathers the entire music and entertainment industry in one place. Like Midem, SXSW, and Canadian Music Week in other parts of the world, "Music Matters" plays host" to thousands of music fans, international music industry delegates, well known Speakers and industry professionals creating a global platform in the worlds most populated region. This coming May marks the first time a Portuguese band will play "Music Matters" opening doors for The StoneWolf Band and other artists to follow, not only helping them to break into the region but to play in front of hundreds of music industry delegates from all over the world, while performing 2-3 shows during the festival.
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Acharya receives Award for Paper at International Conference on Machine Learning
Cornell ECE Assistant Professor Jayadev Acharya recently received an honorable mention award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017), held in Sydney, for the paper, "A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Estimating Symmetric Properties of Discrete Distributions". His co-authors include Hirakendu Das (Yahoo!), Acharya's Ph.D. Advisor Professor Alon Orlitsky (University of California San Diego) and Ananda Theertha Suresh (Google Research).
ICML is the leading academic conference in machine learning and their paper was among four papers awarded from nearly 1700 submissions. Machine learning is the study of algorithms that can learn from data to drive various tasks such as prediction (weather), recommendation (Netflix), classification (spam or not spam), etc.
In many modern applications, obtaining large amount of data is not always feasible. Scientists often look to characterize the fundamental limits of how much one can learn from a given amount of data, in particular whether we can solve problems without even observing all possibilities. For example, in genetics, there is a desire to predict how many rare genetic variants are there across a population, without ever observing most of them. In paleontology, scientists are very interested in estimating the number of dinosaur species to measure ecological diversity. In information theory, we are interested in estimating entropy and mutual information to characterize the fundamental limits of data compression and data communication. For problems like these and many others, researchers have come up with estimators suited to the task. However, each problem requires a different method.
Acharya and his research partners show in their paper that a single estimating framework can be used for a wide range of problems. Because there are no tuning parameters for their framework, one method can work for all problems. Their approach also has strong statistical underpinnings motivated by the "principle of maximum likelihood". Maximum likelihood is a staple statistical algorithm, which often suffers from over fitting. They analyze a maximum likelihood technique that avoids over fitting. The approach was first proposed by Orlitsky, Santhanam, Viswanathan, and Zhang, but it was unknown whether their method actually requires less data than the regular maximum likelihood. In their work, Acharya and his research partners show that this method is optimal since it requires the least amount of data possible and that their unified technique works for a number of problems.
Read more about their paper at http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/acharya17a/acharya17a.pdf.
Jayadev Acharya joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University in 2016 as an Assistant Professor after spending two years as a postdoc at MIT. He obtained a Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego where he worked on compression and statistical estimation, with particular emphasis on problems over large domains. His research interests are in information theory, algorithmic statistics, and machine learning. He is particularly interested in understanding the trade-offs between resources (e.g., data, memory, time, etc.) for problems in statistical learning. One of the focuses of his work is understanding and achieving the fundamental tradeoffs between resources that go into a machine-learning problem.
Learn more about Acharya and his work:
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Upaisa Brings Financial Inclusion to More Than 17,000 Customers, Enabling Them to Manage and Track Financial Activity as well as Save, Transfer and Pay in a Safer, More Convenient Environment
BARCELONA, Spain — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that U Microfinance Bank Limited (UBank) has attracted more than 17,000 registered accounts for its first mobile banking initiative, Upaisa, powered by the SAP® Mobile Inclusive Banking solution. Upaisa has enabled customers across 210 cities in Pakistan, via a network of more than 15,000 agents, to conveniently access banking services on-the-go via mobile devices, and in the six months since its launch, from July to December 2013, it processed 2.4 million transactions for a value of more than Rs. 11.1 billion, or US$106 million. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress 2014, being held February 24-27 in Barcelona, Spain.
In Pakistan, 63 percent of the population has a mobile device but only 10 percent have a bank account. This leaves people without access to basic financial services such as remittances, bill payments and savings, or forces them to use less desirable options that are expensive and inconvenient. Upaisa now enables anyone in Pakistan to safely and conveniently transfer funds, pay utility bills, deposit and withdraw cash and check account information from a mobile phone. Customers can access a large network of retail outlets and a wide range of innovative financial services, and can use the mobile platform to develop savings habits, transfer and pay for goods and services in a more convenient and reliable environment, as well as establish a banking relationship that can lead to access to credit services.
"The country's high mobile penetration rates create an opportunity to drive financial inclusion for everyone, including the lower and middle income segments of the population, so that they can gain access to financial services anytime and anywhere from basic mobile devices," said Arif Sirhindi, CEO, UBank. "We selected SAP because SAP Mobile Inclusive Banking allowed us to offer a previously inaccessible population formal financial services cost effectively, and allowed our customers to establish a banking relationship in a more convenient and reliable way."
Upaisa was launched commercially in July 2013 and won the "Best Bank-Led Mobile Money Programme" award at the Mobile Money Global Awards 2013, held in November in Dubai. SAP Mobile Inclusive Banking enables UBank to create new services collaborating with Ufone consumer products and retail enterprises. Ubank's specific configuration of the SAP Mobile Inclusive Banking solution enables the financial institution to offer cash in and cash out integration with the bank's ATM, kiosk and agent network, as well as support for USSD/SMS.
"SAP Mobile Inclusive Banking allows UBank under the brand of Upaisa to extend its financial reach to new segments of the population that were previously unbanked," said Matthew Talbot, head of Mobile, SAP APJ. "The solution has enabled UBank to offer mobile-driven financial services to customers in Pakistan through an agent network enabled by basic feature phones, smart phones and online portals. UBank is now able to manage 'low value' accounts cost-effectively and expand its B2B business portfolio by servicing mobile money solutions to mobile network operators, consumer product and retail companies."
With the launch of Upaisa, UBank partnered with Pakistani cellular service company Ufone to establish a network of more than 15,000 agents that help open new accounts, provide customer service and enable cash in and cash out functionality. Upaisa helps secure and authenticate customer transactions through use of their MPIN, and transactions can only be initiated from their registered MSISDN. Additionally, with the launch of the mobile branchless banking service, for the first time in Pakistan customers will be offered debit cards linked to their mobile accounts in partnership with China Union Pay. Customers will have the ability to access their mobile bank accounts not only through an agent network, but also at ATMs throughout Pakistan.
"Since Upaisa's deployment last July, UBank has created a socially responsible solution that benefits Pakistan's community and economy and has increased Upaisa's customer base, leading to more deposits and additional fee revenue, as well as establishing customer relationships that will grow in value over time," said Talbot.
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About the Gazes Cardiac Research Institute
When the heart struggles to pump blood against an increased load, cardiac muscle cells respond by growing. Unfortunately, these enlarged cells often become abnormal, resulting in a major step on the road to heart failure, a problem facing up to four million patients in the United States, resulting in an economic burden that exceeds $11 billion each year.
Understanding the subtle mechanisms that cause the cells to become abnormal has been the focus of long-running MUSC research efforts that helped attract more than $3 million in federal grants last year, making the Gazes Cardiac Research Institute one of the nation's leading centers for heart failure research. These grants also contributed to the growth of the university's overall research budget to more than $234 million, placing MUSC among the top 100 research institutions in the country.
Named in honor of Peter Gazes, M.D., the institute operates within the adult cardiology division, headed by Michael R. Gold, M.D., Ph.D. Included among its faculty are both physician investigators ( Terrence O'Brien and Michael Zile) and basic investigators (Drs. Amy Bradshaw, Dhandapani Kuppuswamy, Paul McDermott and Donald Menick).
The institute is housed in the first three floors of the Strom Thurmond/Gazes Cardiac Research Institute building. Work on the first floor is focused on the evaluation of new treatment modalities in patients with heart failure. On the upper floors, the basic research laboratories of MUSC and the Ralph Johnson Veterans Administration Medical Center concentrate on the altered cardiac properties that cause heart failure. The goal of these efforts is a tightly integrated attack on heart failure, including discovery of the critical molecular changes in the failing heart as well as the application of this knowledge in the prevention and cure of the disease.


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Vipera ursinii
|Scope: Global & Europe
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Vipera ursinii (Bonaparte, 1835)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Pelias ursinii (Bonaparte, 1835)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Crochet and Dubois (2004), reported that there are nine subspecies, and a new taxonomic revision would probably produce at least three species. They also reported that Nilson and Andrén (2001) had raised one European and several Asiatic subspecies to species status. However, Crochet and Dubois (2004) suggested that these results needed to be corroborated by complementary approaches. Joger and Stümpel (2005), recently recognized V. ursinii as being restricted to Europe, ranging as isolated populations from France in the west to Moldova in the east. They further recognized populations east of Moldova, formerly allocated to V. ursinii, as belonging to V. renardi (Christoph, 1861). Joger and Stümpel (2005), further considered the disjunct population from southwestern Turkey, to be the distinct species, V. anatolica Eiselt and Baran, 1970. The current arrangement of Joger and Stümpel (2005) is followed here as the most recent publication on this complex group. This species is within the subgenus Pelias (Nilson et al. 1999).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable B2ab(iii) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Ulrich Joger, Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Milan Vogrin, Claudia Corti, Bogoljub Sterijovski, Alexander Westerström, László Krecsák, Valentin Pérez Mellado, Paulo Sá-Sousa, Marc Cheylan, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Roberto Sindaco
|Cox, N. and Temple, H.J. (Global Reptile Assessment)
Listed as Vulnerable because its Area of Occupancy is believed to be less than 2,000 km2, its distribution is severely fragmented, and there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat. The northern and eastern lowland subspecies of V. ursinii are especially threatened and are considered to be nearly extinct.
|Range Description:
|This species has a very fragmented range in southeastern France, the central Appenines of Italy, western and central Hungary, northern and southern Croatia, central and southern Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, southern Serbia, northern Albania, northwestern Macedonia, western Greece and central and eastern Romania. It is considered extinct in Austria and Bulgaria, and is close to extinction in Hungary and Moldova. It occurs up to about 2,700m asl.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; France; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia
Possibly extinct:Moldova
Regionally extinct:Austria; Bulgaria
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|It is generally uncommon or rare, and patchily distributed. It is now presumed to be extinct in Austria, Bulgaria and possibly also in Moldova.
|Current Population Trend:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|It is primarily associated with open meadows and hillsides. Upland subspecies are generally found on well drained rocky hillsides, steppe and meadows, while the lowland forms are found in either steppe, or dry or damp meadows. The lowland subspecies are sometimes found in marshy areas. It gives birth to live young; the female has between two and 22 young.
|Major Threat(s):
|The conversion of traditionally farmed meadows to intensively cultivated and grazed land has caused significant declines in populations of this species in Central and southern Europe, most especially among lowland subspecies. Also, afforestation of alpine grasslands (because of abandonment of traditional agricultural practices) is a threat to the species in some areas. Construction of ski-runs and roads are significant threats to montane populations. Montane populations of this species may also be affected by increasing climate change, in particular the impact of temperature change on populations of important prey species (e.g.. Orthoptera) and breeding biology. In the Balkans, it relies on prey species (Orthoptera) which is highly sensitive to pollution, hence it may be used as a habitat quality indicator. In France, some well known localities in Italy, and other parts of the range it is collected for the pet trade, and like many species of snake it is persecuted.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species is listed on Annex II of the Bern Convention, and on Annex IV of the European Union Habitat and Species Directive. Populations of this species from Europe are listed on Appendix I of CITES. Its range includes several protected areas. In-country conservation measures, such as maintaining suitable areas of meadow habitat, are underway to conserve some populations (e.g.. Hungary and Romania) (CoE, 2003). Detailed recommendations for conservation action to protect this species can be found in Edgar and Bird (2006).
|Ulrich Joger, Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Milan Vogrin, Claudia Corti, Bogoljub Sterijovski, Alexander Westerström, László Krecsák, Valentin Pérez Mellado, Paulo Sá-Sousa, Marc Cheylan, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Roberto Sindaco. 2009. Vipera ursinii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T22997A9406628. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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Heavy rain, flooding closes roads
Heavy rain, flooding closes roads
BENTON COUNTY, Ark. —
Officials said the heavy rains have caused severe flooding.
Click here for the Hour by Hour Thursday forecast.
Road Closures:
- North 52nd Street and Metro Pkwy and Horsebarn and Metro Crossing are closed on the Rogers and Bentonville sides
- Rainbow Road and Northgate in the area of the low water bridge
- Bellview Road and Garrett Rd
- 5700 block of Stoney Brook Rd at the low water bridge
- Ball St.
- Main Drive (West of Cardwell St) - Johnson
- SW D St. from Pearl to 24th St.
- Hwy 264 between Cave Springs & NWA Regional Aiport
- NW D St. and 4th St.
- Memorial Park Bridge
- E Battlefield Blvd., east of Moberly Lane
- Greenhouse Road, from Hwy 101 to Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport
- 2100 Block of SW Regional Airport Road
- SE 28th Street at Medical Center Pkwy.
- SE Medical Center and Riviera
- Razorback and S Walton Blvd.
Honeysuckle and Dogwood Rd. in Lowell
High Water:
Cato Springs Road
Megan Drive
Prescott Road in Bella Vista
High water is also reported between Hwy 102 and Hwy 53 and Hwy 59 and Waldrop Road.
School Delays:
Mary Ley with Bentonville Public Schools said school buses will be delayed along some routes because of flooding and high waters.
Alan Wilbourn with Fayetteville schools said bus drivers are reporting flooding in Cato Springs and Johnson. Buses along those routes will be delayed, Wilbourn said.


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THE LAST TIME L.A. landed the Olympics, it was because nobody else wanted them.
In 1977, when bids were due to host the 1984 Summer Games, the International Olympic Committee was still waiting by its mailbox in Switzerland for an application from some city somewhere in the world besides Los Angeles. Anyone? Anywhere? When the mailman didn't stop, the IOC gave it to L.A.
Tehran had been in the running, but the shah of Iran — who could have filled a hundred Olympic swimming pools with light sweet crude — decided that the Games were too expensive. Everyone was spooked by Montreal in 1976, when the Games ran a billion dollars in the red. After that, a chastened IOC agreed to a budget Olympics — "spartan and businesslike," as Mayor Tom Bradley put it, and, as it turned out, the first Olympics to make money.
Monday is the deadline for the last two U.S. cities in the running for the 2016 Olympics to file detailed bids to the U.S. Olympic Committee: Chicago and L.A., City of the Big Shoulders versus City of the Big Breasts. The USOC will choose one to forward to the IOC.
I thought I didn't want another L.A. Olympics. I loved the no-traffic fortnight of the '84 Games; it was so pleasant, like living in L.A. after a neutron bomb blast. But I couldn't bear seeing "festive federalism" again, the 1984 Olympics' color theme that was so anxious to offend no one that it inspired no one: magenta, vermilion, aqua and the color of French's mustard when it dries on Levi's. Plus, I am still sitting on a closetful of 1984 Olympic souvenirs worth jack-all on EBay.
But now I truly do want Los Angeles to land the 2016 Games. It has nothing to do with this little spat you may have heard about between the L.A. Times and its Tribune Co. overlords in Chicago. Nothing.
Why L.A. and not Chicago? Where to start? L.A. jogs. Chicago, as the song says, merely toddles. L.A.'s BMI, at least in westerly ZIP Codes, is awesome; Chicago was Men's Fitness magazine's fattest burg of 2006. Give us the Summer Games; Chicago can have the Olympic pie-eating contest.
I consulted my Chicago Trib sports columnist pal Mike Downey for more analysis of our dueling cities.
Downey: President Obama could proclaim, "Let the Games begin," and Vice President Winfrey could host closing ceremonies.
Morrison: Nix. President Villaraigosa will do the honors, and Gov. Beckham will kick the first ball.
Downey: Chicago is a much safer city. When we throw an Olympic Games, our guests will be able to buy extra protection from some of our top mobsters.
Morrison: Have you ever seen the paparazzi in action? I'll put the Academy Awards security guys up against the Midwestern mob any time.
Downey: L.A.'s stadium is too old. I think Hercules threw the discus there.
Morrison: The Coliseum is only as old as Henry Kissinger, but Soldier Field? The soldier it was named after is Ulysses S. Grant. Old Soldier Fields don't die — they just get hideously made over by crashing flying saucers.
It's sweet that Chicago has been trying so hard to copy us. Like California, it banned foie gras on the grounds of animal cruelty. Chicago's mayor believes in bikes. Chicago might even ban smoking at the beach. (Beach? I guess I slept through "Baywatch: Lake Michigan.")
Flattering. But why go with a copy when you can have the real thing?
By 2016, as we all know, L.A.'s fabulous transit system will zip visitors from Riverside to Santa Monica, from San Clemente to Santa Clarita. The freshwater, free-flowing Los Angeles River will host every waterborne competition. Palmdale International Airport will welcome tourists with jet-lag aromatherapy booths. Every venue will be more or less in L.A. — unlike Chicago, which proposes preliminary soccer games at the University of Minnesota. And whatever we have to build — Frank Gehry lives here.
None of this will wind up in the actual Olympics bid, which reads like a college admission form, asking such questions as, "Describe your motivation behind the choice of location of key Olympic infrastructure."
Dump the essay questions. There is one supreme and salient reason why L.A. should welcome the world: We are not America. At least we are not the Beltway-think America that people have come to distrust and protest and fear the world over.
California has already been culled from the American herd by public figures who seize on every cultural earthquake as proof of the Left Coast's depravity. Pat Robertson wrote a novel about a meteor hitting the coast and putting L.A. a mile under water, and don't think he didn't enjoy it.
Of course they hate us. We're the high-risk, high-payoff destination where Nobel laureates and migrants, the Silicon Valley and the Central Valley, Disneyland and Hollywood arise and flourish, create and heal, connect and feed and entertain everyone else. Come to think of it, is anything more American than that?
Not even Chicago deep-dish pizza.


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The University of Florida and Shands placed second in the nation for their ability to report patient safety events aimed at reducing medical errors in hospitals.
The University of Florida and Shands placed second in the nation for their ability to report patient safety events aimed at reducing medical errors in hospitals.
The competition was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The Sebastian Ferrero Office of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety at UF&Shands won $15,000 for its second-place finish in developing an online application for hospital staff to report adverse events and medical errors.
According to Linda Allen, quality systems manager at Shands, things such as bed sores, bacterial infections and falls are reported. "We are already tracking and trending, and nationally we're doing very well in terms of low numbers of incidence," said Allen.
Another measure, the Hospital Safety Score, comprising a group of global hospital safety experts, gives Shands an "A" rating, which is basically a recommendation that patients should feel confident going to Shands. The grade is based on performance measures from organizations including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
North Florida Regional Medical Center got a "C" according to the same rating, and Florida ranked 10th in the nation for overall safety.
However, NFRMC did not participate in the HHS competition, and said that the hospital complies with a number of best practice safety standards for patients.
Pamela Rittenhouse, director of marketing at NFRMC, said that the hospital's chief nursing officer and quality director said these best practices include explaining to patients that staff wash their hands to protect patients from infection, and turning on the light before administering a medication at night to ensure that they have the correct line.
Staff also appeals to "patient values," Rittenhouse said, when they identify a patient by using two methods of identification. They tell a patient, "I'm asking you to verify your name and using bar-coding so that there's no question you are receiving the blood ordered for you. Your safety is the most important part of the care we give," Rittenhouse explained.
The goal of the HHS competition was to highlight the most effective reporting strategies of good and bad practices at hospitals throughout the nation as the government seeks to eventually roll out standardized practices. The Patient Safety Act of 2005 made it possible for health care safety organizations to share adverse events without fear of legal repercussions.
Allen said the reporting competition "gives us the opportunity to look at our systems and see what we can do to prevent things from happening," said Allen.
Shands' reporting system is "very user-friendly," said Allen. "It's effortless to enter information. You could do it from an iPad."
Randy Harmatz, the chief quality officer for UF&Shands, added, "Quality and patient safety is job one here. It's the major focus of what we do every day."
Contact Kristine Crane at 338-3119 or email@example.com.