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After a month-long offensive in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, rebels are struggling under a fierce counter offensive by the Syrian military and the outcome is far from clear. But the future of Aleppo, the country's financial hub, is already under discussion in secret meetings on the Turkish border.
Over cups of sweat tea in a Turkish border hotel, Moeihmen Abdul Rahman, a lawyer from Aleppo, sits down for his first meeting with Abu Riad, a commander from the Al Tawheed brigade, a coalition of rebel militias leading the assault on Aleppo.
"I think we can create military groups to keep the national peace in Aleppo," says Abdul Rahman, a scheme he proposes to the rebel commander. His argument is a pragmatic one. Aleppo is a business town but many of the merchants and middle class professionals have fled to escape the punishing air and artillery attacks by the regime.
"The biggest concern is to keep in the middle class in Aleppo," he says. The merchants and business class are the financial engine of the city. "They have to start work to make jobs for the fighters so they put down their weapons and go back to their jobs." He proposes a separate unit of fighters to protect private business and government buildings after the regime falls.
It is too early to predict whether these men can work out the details, but this meeting is significant. It is a sign that Aleppo's business community, which had backed President Bashar Assad and his family for decades, is shifting. The rebels are a force on the ground and some of Aleppo's elite recognize the rebels of the Free Syrian army are likely to be a big part of Aleppo's political future.
Civilian Exodus
Thousands of civilians have fled the city, many of them to Turkey. Aleppo's poor are sheltered in camps built along the frontier by the Turkish government. The rich and the middle class drive across the legal border and find their own shelter, often in the Turkish town of Gaziantep, which was a shopping hub for Aleppo residents before the revolt.
"We have money, so we came to through the official border," says Abu Hussein, a professor from Aleppo. He left three weeks ago and has settled in an apartment complex where cars with Syrian license plates filled the parking lot.
"We escaped from bombing, from fighting, from killing, from everything," he says. "You cannot live in Aleppo for the time being because the future is very dark now."
Abu Hussein spends his evenings with friends from Aleppo, doctors, dentists, engineers, all part of the professional class. They say they support the revolution and welcomed the rebels, who are mostly from the countryside.
"Everybody wants freedom," says Abu Hussein. But he reluctantly admits that many in Aleppo's business community do not support the fighters, don't fund them or even hand out water to the fighters, because they blame them for bringing the revolution from rural Syria to the city.
The Rebel View
The rebel commander, Abu Riad, has his own take on the relationship.
A professional military officer, he defected from the army last year. He is also from the countryside and he dismisses the sensibilities of Aleppo's elite with a grin.
"People from Aleppo are different," he says. "If they don't have their bread, they feel like the world is ending. But it's not true that we were not welcome."
The rebels have worked hard to win over residents, supplying flour and fuel for bakeries, repairing power lines to keep the lights on, and creating medical brigades to ferry wounded civilians across the border to Turkish hospitals.
But government forces have relentlessly pounded rebel positions and some in the city have started to blame the rebels for their misery. Civilian casualties from the Air Force bombing raids are dramatically higher than rebel deaths.
"People are psychologically tired," says Abu Riad, after almost a month-long assault on rebel positions. "Some blame us, but a man whose son is killed by the shelling curses Bashar [Assad] and blames the government."
Countryside Versus City
But there are wider divisions. Videos of gruesome battlefield executions, reports of foreign fighters joining the brigades, have shaken Aleppo's upper class, and even activists who fully support the revolt have openly condemned some rebel groups.
"There is definitely a tension between the countryside and the cities, and that's not unusual, that is historic in Syria," says Andrew Tabler, an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Studies.
While they share the goal of bringing an end to the Assad regime, he says, "The question is how do those two forces who have traditionally been opposed to each other, the conservative countryside and the more mercantile cities, how do they work together politically in a post-Assad Syria."
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm David Greene.
The city of Aleppo is known as the financial hub of Syria. Now it is also known as a center of violence and more than 200,000 civilians have fled the city, many of them to Turkey. The poor are being housed in crowded camps along the border. The middle class and wealthier Syrians have made it farther, including to the Turkish city of Gaziantep. NPR's Deborah Amos visited some of those who have fled and she found mixed feelings about the fighting back in their country.
DEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE: The battles in Aleppo are mostly fought in the poorest neighborhoods, many of Aleppo's middle class and the rich have already left. You only have to walk around in this southern Turkish city - about a two hour drive from Aleppo - to meet them.
ABU HUSSEIN: We have money. We came to the official border.
AMOS: When did you come?
HUSSEIN: We came three weeks ago"
AMOS: Abu Hussein bypassed the refugee camps along the frontier and drove into turkey.
HUSSEIN: We escaped from bombing, from fighting, from killing, from missing from everything, you know. You cannot live in Aleppo for the time being, because the future it is very dark now.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Foreign language spoken)
AMOS: He's come to share an evening with friends from Aleppo - exiled dentists, engineers and teachers. They all say they support the revolution and welcome the rebels, who are mostly from the countryside. But Abu Hussein admits, reluctantly, that many in Aleppo's business community do not support the fighters and blame them for bringing the revolution from rural Syria to the city.
Are they giving money to the revolution?
HUSSEIN: Not yet. Not yet.
AMOS: Are they giving water to the rebels when they come to their neighborhood?
HUSSEIN: Not yet, also.
AMOS: Why do you think that?
HUSSEIN: I cannot talk about this.
AMOS: The rebels more openly acknowledge the resentments. Abu Riad is a commander with the Tawheed Brigade, the main fighting force leading the assault on Aleppo. And he jokes about the sensibilities of city people.
ABU RIAD: (Foreign language spoken)
AMOS: If they don't have their bread, they feel like the world is collapsing, he says with a grin.
Do they blame you for the shelling or do they blame the government?
RIAD: (Foreign language spoken)
AMOS: Some blame us, he admits. So the rebels have worked hard to win over residents, supplying flour and fuel for bakeries, repairing power lines to keep the lights on. But there are other fears. Some fighters have been radicalized by the revolution. Videos of gruesome battlefield executions, reports of foreign fighters joining the brigades, have shaken Aleppo's upper class, even those who support the revolt. There's a culture clash, says Syria specialist Andrew Tabler.
ANDREW TABLER: There is definitely a tension between the countryside and the cities. The question is how do those two forces who have traditionally been opposed to each other, the conservative countryside and the more mercantile cities, how do they work together politically in a post Assad Syria.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Foreign language spoken)
AMOS: Some answers may come here. It's one of the first meetings of its kind. A lawyer, part of the Aleppo elite, came to meet Commander Abu Riad on the Turkish border.
MOEMEN ABDUL RAHMAN: It's the first time I meet Abu Riad, about this project and about this idea.
AMOS: The idea, says lawyer Moemen Abdul Rahman(ph), is to create what he calls a civil protection force - a rebel brigade dedicated to protecting private business and government property after the regime falls. A senior police official is also part of the meeting. He defected in June and says he's organized 200 policemen ready to step in. They share the goal of stabilizing Aleppo, says Abdul Rahman, getting merchants and the professional class to return quickly so Aleppo can get back to work.
RAHMAN: It's the future for Syria. We want to build our country, because we have to save our factories, our markets to create jobs for our fighters.
AMOS: The meeting is a small sign that Aleppo's business community, that's backed President Assad and his family for decades, does not see a future under his rule. The rebels are a force on the ground, rooted in Syria's countryside, but are now part of Aleppo's political future.
Deborah Amos, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Any person who violates any national security export control imposed under section 4604 of title 50 or any regulation, order, or license issued under that section, may be subject to such controls on the importing of goods or technology into the United States as the President may prescribe.
(Pub. L. 87–794, title II, § 233, as added Pub. L. 99–64, title I, § 121, July 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 155; amended Pub. L. 100–418, title II, § 2447(a), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1370.)
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In this course, Introduction to Networking for Cisco CCNA 200-125/100-105, you will examine how basic human communication, like talking in person or on the phone, contains the same fundamental concepts used in moving data across a network. First, you will learn how to examine communication, and determine how to dissect it into components so it can be individually categorized and described. Next, you will learn how to break down communication into components, which will be of great benefit when understanding data networking, as there are many simple protocols which interact in complex ways. To accomplish this you will learn the TCP/IP and OSI models of networking, encapsulation, addressing, as well as what is called "chunks of information" at different points in the communication process. Finally you'll learn about the history and the birth of high speed data communications. By the end of this course, you'll know the OSI Model, TCP/IP Model, and you'll have an understanding of what encapsulation is as it relates to data networking.
Hi everyone, my name is Ross Bagurdes and welcome to my course Introduction to Networking for CCNA 200-125/100-105 exams. I am a Network Engineer, instructor at Madison College at madison college, and am proud to be a Pluralsight Author. Data Networking is a mysterious topic, full of strange language, concepts, and ideas, that are all interconnected in an unusual way....once we understand how to break down communication into it's fundamental components, it becomes easier to understand. In this course, we are going to dissect how humans communicate, and introduce an organizational system to make all future understanding of data network operation easier. Some of the major topics that we will cover include: 1. Dissect human talking into fundamental components. 2. Compare those components to similar components in data networking. 3. Examine networking models used to categorize network components. 4. Briefly examine the history and the birth of high speed data communications. By the end of this course, you'll know the OSI Model, TCP/IP Model, and have an understanding of what encapsulation is as it relates to data networking. Before beginning this course you just need a desire to learn data networking. From here, you should feel comfortable diving into Network Layer Addressing for the CCNA 200-125/100-105. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn Data Networking with the Introduction to Networking for CCNA 200-125/100-105 course, at Pluralsight.


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Oracle Offers Free Trial of Innovative Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates to Red Hat CustomersAlso Makes Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates Available for Oracle's Red Hat Compatible Kernel (February 22, 2012)
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- Oracle today introduced a 30-day free trial of Oracle's Ksplice zero-downtime kernel update technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.
- Oracle is the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero-downtime updates that enable customers to apply security updates, diagnostic patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers can experience the benefit of Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for the kernels they have installed today without any system reconfiguration.
- Access the 30-day free Ksplice trial here. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.
- Oracle also announced that Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for Oracle's Red Hat Compatible Kernel are now available to Oracle Linux Premier Support customers. Zero-downtime updates for Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel have been available since September 2011.
- Additionally, Oracle extended the support lifecycle for Oracle Linux from eight to ten years, further enhancing the industry's most comprehensive and low-cost Linux support program.
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Megan Fox & Andrew Garfield: 2011 Maui Film Festival
Megan Fox and Andrew Garfield attend day one of the 2011 Maui Film Festival on Wednesday (June 15) in Wailea, Hawaii.
The 25-year-old actress and 27-year-old Social Network actor were joined by Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund who came out to support Megan as she received the Iris Award at the Celestial Cinema.
Later in the week, Andrew and Olivia, 27, will be receiving the Shining Star Award while Garrett, 26, will be picking up the Rising Star Award.
Also pictured: Kate Mara and Max Minghella.
FYI: Olivia is wearing Joie's Abrina top in Porcelain with a Ferragamo skirt and House of Lavande's bangles and necklace.
Megan wore Brian Atwood's "Maniac" pumps, while Andrew wore a pair of Joe's Wintz Short Sleeve Henley in Black.
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Monday, 22 April 2013
Bennett Street Memories
Over to David.....
"We lived at 138 Bennett Street, I've enclosed some photos of myself and my younger brother taken there in the mid 60's.
It is on the corner of Bredbury Street, it was only 25 metres from our gate to the school gate at Flowery Field !
I found a photo of the same location, taken in 2012, on Daniel Demain's Flickr site".
In the same row as 75 Bennett Street, about half way along, I remember there used to be a sweet shop, and at the far end, next to the railway bridge, was a hardware shop called Braddocks, if I remember rightly.
I've just been looking on Google maps. and it's still there. It doesn't look to have changed in the last 40 plus years !
Braddocks today
It still has the pink paraffin stickers in the window !
Many thanks to David for sharing and also to Daniel Demain for his Flickr photo. :)
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I'm totally fascinated by the canopy over the front door on the first photo. It looks enormous and very heavy. I wonder if there were others like it in the street.
Lovely photo of the little boys - thanks David.
- Monday, 22 April, 2013
- Hydonian said...
These photos brought back some great memories for me as my Nan lived at 75 Bennett Street for many years ( I was actually born there too). The sweet shop in the middle of the row just down from number 75 Bennett Street was a haven for us. The chewing gum machine on the wall outside used to give a free packet every 4 goes so me and my sister and brother always ran down to the machine in trepidation - wondering who was going to win the golden prize :)!
- Monday, 22 April, 2013
I think that Eleanor Wilde still had the sweet shop, it was once a general grocer that Eleanor took over from her father.
Dave Davies
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I think the family who originally lived in your house were called O'Reagan
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Gatwick Airport security swoops on 3-inch rifle
Contains deadly toy soldier menace
A Canadian tourist has admitted Gatwick Airport security operatives "successfully protected the free world from the threat of terrorism" after relieving him of a deadly three-inch plastic rifle.
Ken Lloyd was about to jet home packing a nine-inch tall replica of an armed British soldier in his hand luggage. The innocent £135 souvenir - bought during a visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Dorset's Blandford Camp - triggered a scanner alarm, prompting security intervention.
Lloyd explained to the Sun: "As the figurine was pulled from the box, the security search officer contacted her supervisor. The SA80 rifle 'could not pass'. My wife Julie asked the staff to take a reality check. It's a 9in painted model with a rifle that is part of the figure.
"The supervisor was confident that, according to the regulations, a firearm is a firearm and cannot pass. The rifle could not travel."
Lloyd and his missus were allowed to pack the rifle in a padded envelope for postal dispatch to his Ontario home. It arrived five days later "bent but not broken".
Lloyd concluded: "Perhaps its story has become part of Gatwick's unofficial mythology - how unthinking regulations successfully protected the free world from the threat of terrorism."
A Gatwick Airport spokeswoman offered: "Firearms and items with the appearance of firearms are prohibited. There are lots of reasons an item could be prevented from going through security."
Readers will doubtless agree that this is a top piece of work by the Gatwick Airport security services. It isn't however, in the same league as their Heathrow counterparts' 2008 effort, when they prevented an IT consultant boarding a British Airways flight to Dusseldorf wearing a t-shirt showing Optimus Prime wielding a cartoon gun.
The Sun has snaps of Mr Lloyd and the offending SA80 right here. ®


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Renewable energy development is critical to climate adaptation efforts for numerous reasons, including its minimal use of increasingly scarce water resources. (Source: ClimateTechWiki).
For countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change—especially developing countries—the lack of urgency in the recently ended United Nations climate talks failed to reflect the reality back home. In many of these places, the effects of climate change are already taking their toll on social and economic development, not to mention human lives. So it's no surprise that throughout the halls and meeting rooms of the 18th Conference of the Parties in Doha, Qatar, the most vulnerable countries made it abundantly clear that—for them—adaptation, not mitigation, is the number-one priority.
The impacts of climate change are mounting. Shifting rainfall patterns are already affecting Kenya's agricultural sector, and the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events are necessitating rebuilding in numerous Caribbean countries. But unfortunately, both adaptation and energy, a critical area for development, are consistently shortchanged in climate negotiations. Of the "fast-start financing" provided by Germany in 2010 and 2011, only 28 percent was allocated for adaptation projects, while mitigation received 48 percent of the funds (the rest went to REDD+ and multipurpose activities).
Meanwhile, the energy sector's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and the emission reduction opportunities that the sector presents, hardly made it into the recent discussions. When renewable energy is brought up, it is most often in the context of mitigation, highlighting how a shift away from fossil fuel-fired power generation can reduce emissions and slow further climate change.
Yet for the most vulnerable countries, the focus is increasingly on how to continue social and economic development in the face of an already changing climate. And this is where renewable energy can contribute. Numerous synergies exist between distributed renewable energy systems and adaptation efforts, with renewable energy development providing both development benefits and adaptation services.
Recent events demonstrate the adaptation benefits of renewables. As Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc in the northeastern United States last month, it was the wind and solar power plants that weathered the storm and were back online quickly. Nuclear and fossil fuel plants, having been shut down for precautionary safety, took days or even weeks to resume operations. In countries with less-developed emergency response procedures than the United States (such as some of the Caribbean countries pounded by Sandy before she touched down in New Jersey), this rapid response time would be crucial for making sure that critical institutions like hospitals and water treatment facilities have power to continue operating.
In addition to adapting to the destructive power of hurricanes and severe storms, renewable energy can temper some of the impacts of prolonged, severe drought. In a 2009 analysis, the Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa (AFREPREN/FWD) examined the effects of ongoing drought on Kenya's electricity sector, which relies on large hydropower (typically not considered a form of sustainable energy) for more than 60 percent of generation.
The drought caused a 25 percent reduction in hydropower capacity, prompting the government to turn to expensive thermal generation to cover the resulting power deficit—at the cost of US $442 million, or nearly 1.5 percent of Kenya's GDP. AFREPREN calculated that this $442 million could have built 295 megawatts of renewable energy generation, or twice the generating capacity lost from reduced hydropower. In the face of more severe, prolonged droughts due to climate change, regions that invest in renewable energy systems today could avoid some of the more devastating economic and social effects of such catastrophes.
Renewable energy provides benefits for water-scarce regions as well. Fossil fuel generation consumes vastly more water than electricity from wind or solar photovoltaics—both in the extraction and refining processes for the fuels themselves and in the actual power plant operations. In the United States, thermoelectric power plants withdrew as much water as the entire agricultural sector in 2005. This water is needed mainly for cooling, and if it is unavailable, thermoelectric plants have little choice but to shut down. Wind and solar photovoltaic systems, in contrast, use negligible amounts of water in operation and have no fuel-extraction processes upstream.
It's true that some renewable energy sources, such as biofuels and geothermal, are also water intensive, but these technologies can be implemented when and where it makes sense. The bottom line is that, given its high water demand, fossil fuel power may be a short-lived investment. In water-scarce regions, and with the prospect of increasing water scarcity, shifting to low-water-consuming renewable energy as opposed to fossil fuel power could be the difference between frequent blackouts and reliable energy access, while continuing to ensure the availability of adequate water resources.
The benefits of providing energy access to underserved populations have been well documented. But it is critical to remind ourselves that the way in which we provide energy will affect our future as well. In the face of a changing climate, renewable energy offers the prospects of both the energy access that everyone deserves and a stronger buffer against the global effects of climate change that many are already experiencing.
For the countries already dealing with the impacts of a changing climate, adaptation and development are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Smart investment in clean energy development can provide benefits toward both goals.
Reese Rogers is a MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow at Worldwatch Institute.


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In news from University Of California, Riverside, chemists there have developed tiny, nanoscale-size rods (nanorods) of iron oxide particles in the lab that respond to an external magnetic field by aligning themselves parallel to one another like a set of tiny flashlights turned in one direction, and displaying a brilliant color.
The report notes that applications of the technology could include high-definition pattern formation, posters, pictures, energy efficient color displays, and devices like traffic signals that routinely use a set of colors. Other potential applications are in bio- and chemical sensing as well as biomedical labeling and imaging.
Check out video of the technology here.
The research paves the way for fabricating magnetically responsive photonic structures with significantly reduced dimensions so that color manipulation with higher resolution can be realized.


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Whiteladies Picture House bar and cellar to be taken over by restaurant
Plans to reopen a derelict Bristol cinema have suffered a setback with a restaurant being given permission to expand into its bar and cellar.
The Whiteladies Picture House closed in 2001 and has remained unused since.
Two campaign groups want the whole building returned to its former glory, with one supporting a private bid.
But at a meeting earlier, councillors approved plans for the neighbouring Cowshed restaurant to refurbish the picture house's bar and cellar.
A spokeswoman for the building's owner, London-based Medinbrand, said the restaurant expansion was the first step in the regeneration of the building and it would not deter other operators from investing in the property.
"We are in exciting discussions with cinema operators who want to bring the former picture house back into use.
"They are very happy to work alongside a successful restaurant that will enhance and support any future cinema on Whiteladies Road," she added.
Businessman Ian Wiper said for his plan he needed to acquire the whole of the listed building to convert it into a single-screen cinema and a multi-purpose venue, which he has claimed could be open by autumn 2014.
And rival bidder the Whiteladies Picture House group had said it wanted to turn the venue into a community cinema and arts centre.
It has recently raised more than £11,500 via Kickstarter to fund a survey of the Grade II-listed building to help understand its history and how it had been used in the past.
'Seems hasty'
Hattie Appleby, from campaign group Keep Cinema Local, said she believed there were "valid legal reasons" why councillors should have turned down the restaurant expansion proposal.
"I really can't see the justification for tampering with the boundary wall of a listed building," she said.
"It just seems hasty - how can you isolate bits of this listed building off in this way?"
But Adam Denton, the restaurant owner, said he was "overwhelmed that it's been done".
"I'd love it to be a cinema but let's not forget it's been a separated building since the 1960s and a pub and it's also been closed for the best part of two years and it's rotting," he said.


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Mr. X-Stitch is one of my all-time favorite blogs. Their Plush of the Month feature introduced an upcoming book release, "Yummy Crochet." This sweet little [veggie] burger is one of the many how-to's the book will include.
3) San Francisco illustrator Wendy McNaughton created this amazing graphic for the NYT. It's a totally awesome chart pairing famous writers up with their "snack" of choice:


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I am looking for anyone who has experience implementing or managing an application acceleration solution for their network such as Microsoft ISA Server, Juniper Networks DX or WX platform appliances, or Crescendo Networks Maestro platform.
I am writing an article regarding application acceleration and I am hoping to find some actual users or administrators to provide some unbiased feedback to offset what the vendors say about their own products.
If you have any experience with these or similar products, I am trying to find out
1) What are the issues or barriers that networks encounter without a solution like these in place?
2) What application acceleration solution do you use?
3) Why did you choose that solution over competing solutions?
4) Are there still problems or issues that future generations of application acceleration solutions need to address?
If you have information, but don't want to make it public, you can respond to me offline. Any input would be appreciated, but in particular I am looking for input from people who are willing to provide a real name and company so that I can potentially use the information as a quote within the article.


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I berated the players for their crappy rankings in the Top 100 NFL Players of 2011 and people seemed to like that. I've gotten many requests to do the same for the 2012 version, so here we are.
I really find it amazing how NFL players can screw these rankings up. Think about it - if you're in an office, you and your other co-workers can probably rank the best employees and come to a smart consensus. NFL players, however, continuously bungle things like this, probably because many of them don't watch film or pay attention to the other games. I mean, they ranked Donovan McNabb in the top 100 last year. Donovan freaking McNabb.
Predictably, there were some really dumb choices in the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012. I've highlighted them, marking the underrated players in blue and overrated players in red:
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OKLAHOMA CITY — As part of National Mentoring Month and to kick off Oklahoma's Year of Mentoring in 2013, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence and its David and Molly Boren Mentoring Initiative are sponsoring Oklahoma Mentor Day at the Capitol on Wednesday.
"The goal of Oklahoma Mentor Day is to recognize outstanding mentors from all types of youth mentoring organizations around the state and to provide fun, educational activities for the honorees and their mentees to share," said Beverly Woodrome, director of the Boren Mentoring Initiative.
Each mentoring organization registered in the Boren Mentoring Initiative's statewide network has been invited to submit its 2012 Mentor of the Year or select an outstanding mentor for recognition at an opening ceremony at 10 a.m. in the House Chambers.
Oklahoma Mentor Day will also include lunch and entertainment by African-American drummer and storyteller Jahruba Lambeth.
Mentors and Mentees will participate in a state capitol scavenger hunt and have an opportunity to meet state leaders and learn about their work at the capitol. Capping off the day will be a mentor-mentee outing to the Oklahoma Science Museum.
Oklahoma Mentor Day also marks the formal launch of Oklahoma's Year of Mentoring, a year of public relations activities and events to promote youth mentoring and the development of mentoring programs statewide. Students from the University of Oklahoma public relations' firm Lindsey +Asp are teaming up with foundation staff to develop videos, public service announcements and other promotional materials for use throughout the year.
Other events in January include Thank Your Mentor Day on Thursday, an opportunity for mentoring organizations and mentees to recognize their mentors.
On Jan. 24, Woodrome will represent the Boren Mentoring Initiative at the National Mentoring Summit in Washington, D.C., presenting a session titled "Homegrown in Oklahoma: Corporate and Community Mentoring Models and Best Practices." Joining her will be Boren Mentoring Advisory Committee member Melynda Stone, executive director of Rogers County Volunteers for Youth, who will be speak on "The 3 R's: Recruitment, Retention and Rewards."
For more information on Mentoring Month activities and a list of Oklahoma mentoring organizations, visit www.okmentors.org or contact Beverly Woodrome at (405) 236-0006.
OFE kicks off Mentor Day Wednesday
OKLAHOMA CITY — As part of National Mentoring Month and to kick off Oklahoma's Year of Mentoring in 2013, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence and its David and Molly Boren Mentoring Initiative are sponsoring Oklahoma Mentor Day at the Capitol on Wednesday.


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A new technology-driven business venture is heading downtown.
A new technology-driven business venture is heading downtown.
Hickory, N.C.-based Katalyst Network Group has signed a lease on the former Bishop Furniture space at 172 E. Main St.
The company, which also has an office in Charlotte, N.C., provides state-of-the-art Information Technology solutions for companies, particularly in the health care sector. Katalyst's Spartanburg branch office is expected to open in mid-May.
"We love the area and we see a lot of room for growth in Spartanburg," said Shelley Rice, marketing coordinator for Katalyst. "This is an opportunity for us to be a part of that growth and to do our part in helping the community reach its full potential."
Founded in 2006 by business partners Christopher Christy and Mark Johnson, Katalyst offers a range of cutting-edge technologies and services that are tailored to meet the needs of its clients.
The company's core focus is the integration of voice, video, data, and security into a single infrastructure that drives increased productivity while reducing costs, Rice said.
"At Katalyst, we understand that organizations must now view their IT initiatives as investments that create opportunities for improving productivity, generating greater revenues, saving money, or ensuring 24/7 uptime for mission critical business systems," the company said on its Facebook page. "We are a team-oriented network infrastructure engineering firm, with expertise in delivering top quality end-to-end solutions. Our team consists of experienced industry certified consultants and best-in-class engineering expertise to provide our clients solid, well-proven technical solutions."
Rice said the move will bring at least six jobs to downtown.
The company will host an open house in the coming months to give community members a chance to view the space and see what Katalyst is all about.
"I'm very pleased to have Katalyst as a tenant," said local developer and the building's owner Andrew Babb. "I think it is a positive announcement for downtown. A lot of good things are happening."


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Built in 1920, this tiny farm house in Côte-St-Luc seems intimidated by the huge apartment buildings surrounding it.
Over the last 35 years, the owner has demolished the garage and an old chicken coup. She knows all too well that the next project will be a mini facelift of the facade and the replacement of the tired shingles. I propose a chocolate brown for the new roof. The white railing and the concrete stairs are in good shape. The elongated bricks are beige, faded rosy and rusty colours. A sandy tone for the siding in a matte exterior acrylic paint would be a harmonious choice. Let's not forget the vertical gutter pipes that should also be done in the identical colour. The two shutters could stay in the same palette in a slightly darker version. The window trims, the cornice and the horizontal gutters ought to stay white. The front door could be stained in a lighter blushing brown. If the proprietor finds the idea of refinishing the door sacrilegious, another option would be to keep it as is but use the same caramel brown of the actual old door for the shingles. It's important to respect the same intensity of shade, not brighter nor darker than the door.
A new pathway going to the street ought to be as wide as the base of the stairs. A second leaner walkway would lead to the driveway. For privacy, a new fence is added on the right. A third passage could be directed toward it. The small double spotlights are an unattractive element. It should yield to two bigger bronze, tarnished gold or brown finish lantern-style fixtures installed on each side of the door.
On the right side of the staircase, an old but vigorous Dogwood is in a recurring battle with the owner who constantly needs to trim it so it doesn't hide the window. I propose to move it to the right corner of the driveway. It could then grow out to its fullest and let its true personality blossom.
Two rectangular beds will be formed near the foundation and will extend outward to the corners of the last step of the stairs. A hedge of delicate soft pink flowered Potentilla will be used as a natural frame. Hugging the main walk, these same bushes could be planted in quarter round shapes. At the base of these, a border of silver and white leafed ground cover could reciprocate with the blooms of the Hydrangeas. In front of the large window of the porch, an overgrown Prunus Cistena bush ought to lose its two thick branches on the bottom. While giving it a more attractive tree-like shape, this operation will help recover the porch windows and also provide space for the incoming vegetation.
This shrub needs frequent but light pruning to prevent bare trunks and to encourage form and foliage density.
For balance with the owner's tall Yew evergreen on the right of the house, another Taxus is introduced on the left of the facade. A bunch of pink and white Delphiniums, a brown leaf shrub, two Hydrangeas, a variegated Weigela complete the new layout. This last one should be planted more to the front of the bed to let some sun through the basement window.
A tiny sweet house with guts will be proud of its history and new-found beauty.
Oh, I almost forgot ... the beautiful recycling bin and the gorgeous garbage pail ought to disappear behind the big evergreen near the right corner of the home. A few more steps won't help you with your cardio but will improve your curb appeal.
Vegetation (from left to right):
- Taxus X Media Hicksii (evergreen)
- Prunus X Cistena (owner's, under porch window)
- Delphinium X Hybrida (perennials, pink and white)
- Eupatorium Rugosa Choc-olate (shrub, brown)
- Hydrangea Annabella (1+1 shrubs, sides of stairs)
- Potentilla Fructicosa Pink Beauty (shrubs, hedge, pink)
- Weigela Florida (shrub, variegated, white and pink)
- Owner's Yew (evergreen)
- Lamium Maculata White Nancy (ground cover, border)
- Clematis Nelly Moser (climbing on trellis)
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In indirect discourse the pronoun "sui, sibi, se" is in use when the speaker (in 3rd person) and the person included in the speach is the same.
Melius patriae consulam.
Ille dixit se melius patriae consulturum esse.
Me bonum esse non putas.
Dixit se bonum esse illum non putare.
Ok, as far as good...
But..., if anyone has to transfer into the indirect discourse a phrase in which the 1st plural person was originally used, but the verb of dependence is in 3rd singular form, how can it be showed that the speaker in direct discourse had used the 1st plural? What pronoun can be used?
Patriae consulere bene debemus. (Alltogether, including me speaking)
Diximus nos (ipsos) patriae consulere bene debere.
Dicebant se patriae consulere bene debere.
Ille dixit... (??????)


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My Saturday afternoon at the Boston Cocktail Summit started with the session Do You Speak Amari?, with the energetic Francesco Lafronconi, National Directory of Mixology and Spirits Educator for Southern Wine and Spirits of America, and an internationally renowned mixologist. Francesco took us through the wide world of Italian Amari, providing a bit of background and history, and a LOT of tastings.
The word "amaro" (plural "amari") is of course Italian for "bitter." According to Francesco, the term itself is generic with no particular legal definition. "Amaro" generally refers to a liquer flavored with bitter herbs and spices and sweetened with sugar. Amari are general around, or slightly over, 30 proof, and have less than 10% sugar content. The based spirit used to make amari is often distilled sugar beet molasses (due to it being inexpensive), but neutral grape brandy or, less commonly, wheat grain alcohol might also be used.
Amari originate from the use of bitter herbs for medicinal purposes as far back as Hippocrates in the 5th Century B.C. The amaro industry came up in the 1800s, however, spurred on in part by industrialization and Italian unification. The 1950s brought a boom in amaro advertisement in Europe, which helped make them a ubiquitous part of Italian drinking culture.
Amari are often served before dinner as an aperitivo, or after dinner to help digestion. This stems from the fact that amari are said to have the therapeutic effects of stimulating the upper digestive function and causing gastric secretion that, within about 20 minutes of consumption, stimulates the appetite (Franceso also mentioned, rather amusingly, that drinking amari helps combat flatulence, making them excellent drinks for distribution in air travel). Amari are traditionally served straight up or on the rocks, or even with seltzer, giner ale, ginger beer, or cola. Often, a citrus garnish is added. In cocktails, amari are usually a modifier, often paired with citrus in sours, used as a float, or even added to ice cream to create a tasty frappe.
After giving us our background, Franceso led us through a tasting of 15 amari, providing details and tasting notes on each. Here are a few notes I took:
- Both Zucca and Cynar are sometimes consumed by adding a splash to wine.
- My favorite amaro today for the moment is probably Cardomaro, possibly due to my affinity for Piemontese wines.
- Amaro Nonino is popular with ginger beer or champagne.
- Amaro Dell'Erboista is reputed to be the most bitter of all amari.
|Francesco leading us through a tasting
|The spread of available amari
|Our tasting layout
After filling up on amari, I headed back over to the Park Plaza for How to Order a Great Wine Every Time, with Master of Wine Sandy Block. Sandy took us through a tasting of 10 different wines, offering tips on how to pick a winner when facing an unfamiliar list. Some of his tips included:
- Look for wine on the list from a rising area, which currently include Spain, Portugal, Greece, and South Africa.
- Avoid simply asking for a recommendation or what the server likes. For one thing, palates are very different when it comes to mind, but also, a servers motives might be skewed by the fact that they have certain items they are incented to promote. Instead, ask for information about specific wines or about the difference between wines on the list.
- Look for older vintages on the wine by the glass list, as they often imply a more deliberate choice.)
After adding wine to my tasting repetoire for the day, I jumped back to the Royal Sonesta and sat in on a seminar that hit on something similar but different, the session When Apples Go Cooler than Cool; Fresh New Ideas from the North. So what was this all about? In short, apple ice wine (aka ice cider), a relatively new kind of product from Canada. Boisset Family Estates Stephane Rochefor briefed us on Boisset's product Neige Apple Ice Wine, a tasty dessert wine with a nice sweet apple taste balanced with acidity.
Neige, which was first produced in 1994, was the first commercial apple ice wine. It is produced in a similar fashion to traditional ice wine using either the technique of cryoconcentration, where pressed apple juice is kept outside in freezing winter temperatures producing a concentrated syrup that is then fermented, or cryoextraction, where actual frozen apples are pressed and fermented. Prior to Neige, people had been making ice ciders non-commercially for a few decades, but because the quality was not very high, they had gained somewhat of a bad reputation.
There are six different versions of Neige ice ciders (as they are called in Canada), three of which are available in the U.S. The different versions use different blends of apples, and some use cryoextraction rather than cryoconcentration. Neige was an interesting product, and one of the surprise dicsoveries for me from the Summit. I'm looking forward to trying some Neige with an appropriate cheese or after dinner; I think it has potential.
To wrap up the Summit, I swung by the Beam BBQ for a while, where there was a bith of BBQ, some Beam products to sample, and eventually a Prince tribute band. The event suffered some logistical issues from all appearances, and I was a little disappointed with the selection of Beam offerings that were actually available, but to be honest I was pretty taped out at that point anyway. Consequently, I called it a bit of an early night, and began resting up for next year.


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Is Ballet A Sport? You Decide. [VIDEO]
Under Armour settles the long-standing debate of whether or not ballet is an actual sport. Ballerina soloist Misty Copeland takes my breath away. Now it's your turn to decide. Look at the moves, the muscles, the agility, the strength, the dedication and form your own opinion.


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Despite the rude awakenings, the unsettling physical and emotional chaos of midlife and all of its frightful, presumed ramifications, an amazing number of women find this stage to be the most personally fulfilling and satisfying of their lives so far.
A recent Gallup survey of women aged fifty to sixty-five revealed that fifty-one percent of them feel happier now than they have ever before. This compares to only ten percent who thought the happiest times in their lives were their twenties, seventeen percent who were happiest in their thirties, and sixteen percent who liked their forties best.
Just what are we to make of this apparent feeling among so many women that we believe ourselves to be better off once we have lost possession of the very characteristics and trappings that society seems to value most in us — our sexual allure and childbearing capabilities?
We have lost our youthful looks and stamina. We have lost some vision, some hearing, some memory. We have lost the pigment in our hair and the elasticity in our skin. We are also losing our battle against gravity and the advancement of time.
We have lost the children we raised and we have lost our chance to have the children that we didn't have. We also stand to lose our parents, our old friends, our spouses. We are in danger of losing our time left on the job, our visibility and our very lives.
So how does it compute that even while we are mired in loss, we have never been happier?
Because we have discovered that we actually like who we have become!
Everything worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge. Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.
– Daphne Rose Kingma
We Queens have taken on the challenge of change, and with our eyes wide open we have engaged in the daunting process of learning who we are now and who we choose to become. It is important to us to know that our thoughts and feelings count, that our work and interests are meaningful, and that we, ourselves, matter. Our growing Self-confidence propelled us to reach for and attain our own authentic personal power.
We have come a long way and it has been quite a journey. We have dreamed the dream and done the work, and walked the long, long highway. We have struggled to discover, comfort, cosset, encourage and change our Selves. Now, finally, gloriously, joyfully, we have arrived at our destination. The station of our authentic sovereignty. And don't it feel grand?
I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.
– Mae West
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You've heard the expression "penny-wise and pound foolish." A new study released by the University of Tennessee's Agriculture Policy Analysis Center says ideas about doing away with the Conservation Reserve Program could be just that.
As Congress prepares to get down to the task of writing the next farm bill, some organizations are suggesting that it do away with or scale back the 34.7-million-acre Conservation Reserve to save federal tax dollars and make more land available for growing crops.
The APAC study says eliminating the CRP would produce initial savings of $12 billion as contracts expire over the next eight years. But taxpayers could also wind up spending $33 billion more on farm programs, assuming they remain unchanged.
"While it seems logical to assume that eliminating a government program would save money, such is not the case with the Conservation Reserve Program," says Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, associate director of APAC, speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
"However, increased production and lower prices caused by former CRP acreage returning to production causes an increase in government payments of $45 billion over the same nine-year period. The net additional cost to the government of eliminating the CRP is $33 billion."
De La Torre Ugarte is co-author of the APAC study titled, "Analysis of the Economic Impacts on the Agricultural Sector of the Elimination of the Conservation Reserve Program," which was released during a news conference held by the American Corn Growers Association.
De La Torre Ugarte and co-author Chad Hellwinckel say the study estimates that in 2015, when the last CRP contracts would expire if the program ended in 2007, corn prices would be 31 cents per bushel below USDA's current projected baseline price of $2.60.
"With additional CRP acres coming into production, wheat prices would be 63 cents per bushel below current expectations and soybean prices would suffer from a 90-cent per bushel drop," said De La Torre Ugarte. "These lower prices are the trigger that brings about the $33 billion increase in farm program spending."
The Conservation Reserve Program, which Congress authorized in the 1985 farm bill, was the first federal set-aside program specifically aimed at reducing soil loss on highly erodible lands.
Congress has changed the funding and the acreage caps on the CRP in the years since, but as of April 1, 34.7 million acres of farmland had been converted from crop production to soil, water and wildlife conservation uses under the Conservation Reserve Program.
Besides protecting highly erodible watersheds, protecting and providing new habitat, and reducing pollution, the CRP has reduced supplies of crops that would have been produced on that land if it had not been placed in the CRP. APAC simulations indicate reducing CRP acreage will have major impacts on crop prices, net market income for producers, and government payments.
"Two years ago, Larry Mitchell was attending a meeting in which someone mentioned that you could save $13 billion to $15 billion if you eliminated the CRP as the contracts came due," said Daryll E. Ray, Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy and APAC's director. (Mitchell is the CEO of the American Corn Growers Association.)
"Larry began wondering about the impact of such a change on the commodity markets, government payments and the environment. And we started putting a study together analyzing CRP contributions in those areas."
Since then, several proposals have been floated to eliminate or cap the CRP at lower levels than the current authorization of 39.2 million acres. On Sept. 13, a National Grain and Feed Association representative said Congress should consider changing the CRP "to allow the market to bid productive, non-environmentally sensitive land back into production."
"To avoid supply disruptions to other users of corn, the market needs to have the opportunity to bid more acres into corn production," said Michael Malecha, senior vice president for U.S. Bioenergy Corp.
"Regardless of the method, it is critical for the long-term viability of the U.S. grain and oilseed industry to provide sufficient flexibility in the next farm bill to bring idled, productive cropland back into production and limit future idling of productive land when market conditions warrant."
The APAC study estimates that if CRP contracts are eliminated as they expire, 37 percent of today's 34.7 million CRP acres, or 12.6 million acres, will return to crop production by 2015, according to De La Torre Ugarte. At least 71 percent of returning acres, or 9 million, will grow corn, soybeans and wheat.
"The study estimates the three major crops will lose at least $6 billion in net market returns in 2015 if CRP acres flow back into crop production," says Ray, who also spoke at the media briefing.
On the other hand, he noted, the APAC model says increasing the CRP program will have significant positive effects on net farm income and reduce government farm payments.
The analysis shows increasing the CRP to 39.2 million acres by 2015 raises net farm income by $600 million. If the CRP were increased to 45 million acres by 2015, net farm income would increase by $1.7 billion. Gross revenue and net farm income for the CRP expansion scenarios include significantly more market revenue and fewer government payments.
"These CRP expansions would result in net savings to the federal treasury over the 2006-2015 study period of $6.3 billion and $12.7 billion, respectively, in farm program spending," said De La Torre Ugarte.
The study timeframe for the elimination of the CRP was 2006-2015. The authors believe that while recent extensions and renewals would change the timeframe, the general magnitude of the results and the nature of the conclusions would remain the same if the CRP were to be eliminated at some future date.
Ray said USDA has conducted studies documenting the environmental benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program, but has never analyzed the economic impact.
"There is general agreement that the CRP has accomplished a lot of good things in the environmental area," he said. "But no one has studied the economic contributions. We're going to be working on other issues relative in the 2007 farm bill as well."
CRP allows farmers to retire highly erodible land from production and also ensure a secure income during times of low commodity pricing. As the program has grown, farmers were able to retire land to reduce degradation of other environmentally sensitive areas of their land.
Currently, USDA pays $1.6 billion in annual CRP rental payments to land owners and operators. During their five-year to 10-year contracts, CRP participants practice a number of conservation methods including grass and tree planting and wildlife cover.
Joining De La Torre Ugarte and Ray were organizations supporting and/or contributing to the study, including the ACGA, Pheasants Forever, the National Farmers Organization, the American Agriculture Movement, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and the Wildlife Management Institute.


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March 15. 2014 9:13PM
NH's representatives in Congress join opposition to painkiller Zohydro
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
New Hampshire's two U.S. representatives have added their voices to a growing chorus asking the federal Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its approval of a powerful new painkiller.
In a March 11 letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Anne Kuster expressed concern about Zohydro ER, a time-release form of hydrocodone that is about to hit the market.As previously reported in the New Hampshire Sunday News, law enforcement and medical experts here are worried the new drug will amplify an epidemic of opioid addiction exploding in New Hampshire and the nation."As Northern New England faces one of the worst public health threats of our time, we urge you to use your authority to ensure that this highly abusable form of Zohydro does not further complicate the crisis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies as a 'growing epidemic,'" the representatives' letter said.In December, New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster joined with his counterparts from 28 other states in sending a letter urging the FDA's Hamburg to reconsider its approval of Zohydro ER.
Despite an 11-2 vote by its own advisory panel a year ago against approving the drug because of its potential for addiction and abuse, the FDA approved Zohydro ER last fall.In their letter to the FDA commissioner, Shea-Porter and Kuster cited a recent report by the New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services that linked an epidemic of heroin use here and in other states to addiction to prescription opioids.They noted that unlike similar drugs, Zohydro ER is not tamper-resistant, meaning potential abusers can crush the pills and snort or inject the drug to get the maximum high.
In related developments last week:. A Zogenix competitor, Purdue Pharma, announced plans to seek FDA approval for its own extended-release formula of hydrocodone that will be tamper-resistant. The company makes OxyContin.
. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced legislation, the "Act to Ban Zohydro," that would withdraw approval of the drug and ban the FDA from approving similar medications without abuse-deterrent features. A similar bill was introduced in the House by Reps. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., and Hal Rogers, R-Ky. Shea-Porter signed on as a cosponsor.. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., questioned top officials at the Homeland Security and Defense departments in separate hearings about their efforts to curb illegal drug trafficking.
A former attorney general, Ayotte noted a "dramatic increase" in heroin deaths in New Hampshire. And she urged "better coordination" among agencies that combat drug-trafficking networks.


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Did anyone else hear what Bucky Brooks was saying about Anquan Boldin. When he was a scout with the Seahawks... they liked everything about Boldin except for one number at the combine. So, they mistakenly allowed that to influence them to the point to not draft him. Ouch.
Of course that happens a lot. But, interesting to hear anything insider like that.


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Charlottesville, VA (WWBT)- Richmond fell to Virginia Monday night in the second round of the WNIT, 68-55, at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. The Spiders end the season with a 23-9 overall record.
The first half was back-and-forth as the score was tied five times, and the lead changed hands six occasions. Virginia sprinted out to a 12-3 run to go ahead 24-15 at the 7:17 mark but Richmond countered with an 8-2 run of its own to pull to within 26-23 with 3:47 left in the first frame. Virginia took a 32-28 lead into the break.
Virginia opened the second frame with the game's hot hand, pushing its advantage to 48-34 within the first five minutes, but Richmond chipped away at the lead, getting to within eight twice but timely Cavalier shots down the stretch sealed the win.
In her final collegiate game, senior Abby Oliver ended with a team-high 16 points. Sophomore Becca Wann recorded her fifth double-double on 12 points and a team-best 11 rebounds, while classmate Kristina King finished just one point shy of her career high with 12 points off the bench.
Oliver finished as the program's seventh leading scorer (1,488 points) and the nation's best at the charity stripe (106-113, 94%). Oliver was a All Conference first team selection after leading the league in points per game (16.5). Oliver ranks fourth in three point field goals (152), second in games played (129), eighth in free throws (296) and ninth in field goals (519) in program history.
Oliver led Richmond scoring in 21 games this season, and amassed 72 career double-figure games, 28 this season. Oliver had 18 20-point or better games, and one career double-double. She is the lone senior on this year's squad.
Richmond reached the WNIT for the fourth-consecutive year and won 20 games or more for the third time in the last four seasons. The 2011-12 squad became the seventh team in program history to win 22 or more games in a season. Oliver won a remarkable 85 games in her storied four-year career. Richmond's nine losses are the program's fewest since 2004-05.
Virginia moves on to the quarterfinals and will host Appalachian State on Thursday at John Paul Jones Arena.
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WASHINGTON – President Obama's choice for Interior secretary is a lifelong outdoors enthusiast who likes to bike, ski and climb mountains.
As president and chief executive at Recreational Equipment Inc., Sally Jewell has applied her passion to her job, helping push REI to nearly $2 billion in annual revenues and a place on Fortune Magazine's list of "Best Places to Work."
Now Obama hopes to take advantage of Jewell's love for the outdoors and her business sense as she takes over at Interior, the federal department responsible for national parks and other public lands.
In announcing the nomination, Obama said Jewell has earned national recognition for her environmental stewardship at REI, which sells clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts. He also noted her experience as an engineer in oil fields and her fondness for mountain climbing.


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By Renita D. Young
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and relatives of victims of fatal shootings in Chicago urged President Barack Obama on Saturday to come back to his hometown and address the gun violence plaguing the city.
Before a march on the city's South Side, Jackson, a former Democratic presidential candidate, said America's third most populous city needed more help than Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police superintendent Garry McCarthy could offer.
"When the president shows up, it shows ultimate national seriousness," said Jackson, a Chicago resident. He also called for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help patrol the streets of Chicago.
Gun violence in Chicago has been in the national spotlight over the past year, with 506 murders in 2012, an increase of 17 percent from the previous year. As of Thursday, there were 42 homicides and 157 shootings so far this year, according to Chicago police.
The issue received new urgency with the killing this week of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, an honors student who performed with her high school band at Obama's inauguration on January 21.
News of her death near Obama's old home in the Kenwood neighborhood came before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on gun control on Wednesday. Obama's spokesman, Jay Carney, has said the Obamas are praying for Pendleton's family.
Anita Crittenden, who lost a nephew to gun violence last year, said Obama, by coming to Chicago, would "get the leaders to think and step up and make some changes."
A petition posted on the White House's "We the People" website calls for Obama and his family to attend Pendleton's funeral on February 9. The petition must have at least 100,000 signatures to receive an official response from the White House.
Jackson led nearly 150 people on a march from Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep High School, where Pendleton was a student, to the park where she died a few blocks away.
"My greatest fear about the gun violence in Chicago is that we're adjusting to it," he said.
Police said Pendleton was shot to death on Tuesday as she and her friends were shielding themselves from rain under a canopy in the park. Police have called it a case of mistaken identity and are offering a $40,000 award for information leading to her killer.
Emanuel announced plans on Thursday to take 200 police officers now serving in administrative positions and deploy them on the streets.
"Hadiya wanted to make a difference in the world," said Shatira Wilks, a spokeswoman for the family, and cousin of Cleopatra Cowley, Pendleton's mother. "It's unfortunate that it would be like this, but we still hope that this can make a difference."
Not everyone participating in the march agreed that Obama should come home. Matthew McGill said the president should address the violence issue, but need not single out Chicago, "because what you see in Chicago happens in other cities as well."
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Over the past year, the US government has intensified its crackdown on political dissidents opposing corporate globalization, and it is using the same intimidating and probably unconstitutional tactics against demonstrators at the presidential inauguration. With the Secret Service taking on extraordinary powers designed to combat terrorism, undercover operatives are spying on protesters' planning meetings, while police are restricting who is allowed on the parade route and are planning a massive search effort of visitors.
One activist who has had experience with how the DC police handle demonstrators is Rob Fish, a cheerful young man with the Student Environmental Action Coalition profiled in a recent Sierra magazine cover story on the new generation of environmentalists. If you were watching CNN during the protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, DC, in April, you would have seen Fish, 22, beaten, bloody and bandaged after an attack by an enraged plainclothes officer who also tried to destroy the camera with which Fish was documenting police harassment. Fish is a plaintiff in a class-action suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Lawyers Guild and the Partnership for Civil Justice against the DC police and a long list of federal agencies including the FBI. This suit–along with others in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, where the party conventions were held in August; in Detroit, which declared a civil emergency during the June Organization of American States meeting across the border in Windsor, Ontario; and in Seattle–is exposing a level of surveillance and disruption of political activities not seen on the left since the FBI deployed its dirty tricks against the Central American solidarity movement during the 1980s.
Among police agencies themselves this is something of an open secret. In the spring the US Attorney's office bestowed an award on members of the Washington, DC, police department for their "unparalleled" coordination with other police agencies during the IMF protests. "The FBI provided valuable background on the individuals who were intent on committing criminal acts and were able to impart the valuable lessons learned from Seattle," the US Attorney declared.
Civil liberties lawyers say the level of repression–in the form of unwarranted searches and surveillance, unprovoked shootings and beatings, and pre-emptive mass arrests criminalizing peaceful demonstrators–violates protesters' rights of free-speech and association. "It's political profiling," said Jim Lafferty, director of the National Lawyers Guild's Los Angeles office, which is backing lawsuits coming out of the Los Angeles protests. "They target organizers. It's a new level of crackdown on dissent."
In Washington in April and at the Republican National Convention protest in Philadelphia last summer, the police rounded up hundreds of activists in pre-emptive arrests and targeted and arrested on trumped-up charges those they had identified as leaders. Once many of those cases appeared in Philadelphia court, they were dismissed because the police could offer no reason for the arrests. In December the courts dismissed all charges against sixty-four puppet-making activists arrested at a warehouse. A month before, prosecutors had told the judge they were withdrawing all fourteen misdemeanor charges against Ruckus Society head John Sellers for lack of evidence. These were the same charges–including possession of an instrument of a crime, his cell phone–that police leveled against Sellers to argue for his imprisonment on $1 million bail this past August.


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FAO Director-General meets with Yemen's Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation
27 February 2014, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met withYemen's Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Farid Ahmed Mogawar at FAO headquarters today.
On the sidelines of the Regional Conference for the Near East, a Special Event on Yemen was organized to draw the attention of all Members to the importance of a joint coordinated approach to support Yemeni agriculture, rural development and food security.
"The problems of Yemen are of concern to the region and solutions can only come from a concerted strategy. This is why a multi-donor programme is advised and we are working on its preparation," said Graziano da Silva.
Minister Mogawar thanked the FAO Director-General "for the interest and attention given to Yemen" and underlined the strong cooperation with FAO in several areas, including controlling the desert locust outbreaks in the country with an emergency technical cooperation programme, the fight against the tuta absoluta – a species of moth, also known as a 'tomato leafminer'- as well as ways to approach the red palm weevil outbreak.
He also thanked FAO for its efforts of introducing quinoa in Yemen. "After a successful experimental phase, we are now in the feasibility study before generalizing and distributing it to farmers," the Minister explained.
The Minister commended FAO for the active approach of its representation in Yemen and highlighted the commitment shown by the newly appointed FAO Representative in the country.


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Stocks are falling on Wall Street as traders wait for corporate earnings reports to start rolling in.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 65 points at 13,318 at midday Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell seven points to 1,453. The Nasdaq composite index fell 17 to 3,081.
Aluminum maker Alcoa becomes the first company in the Dow average to report earnings after the close of trading.
Other companies that have begun reporting turned in mixed results.
Yum brands, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, dropped after reporting problems with a chicken meat supplier.
Monsanto, an agricultural products maker, soared after reporting sharply higher earnings thanks to booming sales of crop seeds in Latin America.


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What is Public Archaeology? Community Archaeology? Civic Engagement? etc.,..
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Learn about important aspects of conducting excavations on university campuses in this Inside HigherEd interview with the authors of "Beneath the Ivory Tower."
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Dried cherries and apricots highlight this impressive version of a southern classic.
- Yield
- Makes 10 to 12 servings
- Cake:
- 3 1/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup whole milk
- 8 large egg whites
- Filling:
- 3/4 cup bourbon
- 3/4 cup dried tart cherries
- 3/4 cup finely chopped dried apricots
- 8 large egg yolks
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup pecans, toasted, chopped
- 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 4 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- frosting
- 1 1/2 (3-ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons bourbon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups chilled whipping cream
- Pecan halves (optional)
- Dried apricot halves
- For cake:
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter and flour four 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch-high sides. Line pans with waxed paper. Sift first 4 ingredients into medium bowl. Beat butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar in large bowl until smooth. Beat in vanilla. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with milk in 2 additions. Using clean dry beaters, beat whites in another large bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, beating until whites are stiff but not dry. Fold 1/3 of whites into butter mixture. Fold in remaining whites in 2 additions. Divide batter among pans (batter will be about 1/2 inch deep).
- Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Turn cakes out onto racks; peel off paper. Cool completely.
- For filling:
- Mix bourbon, cherries and apricots in small bowl. Cover; let stand at room temperature until most of bourbon is absorbed and fruit softens, at least 3 hours and up to 1 day.
- Using electric mixer, beat yolks and sugar in medium bowl until mixture falls in heavy ribbon when beaters are lifted, about 5 minutes. Beat in butter. Transfer yolk mixture to heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until thermometer registers 160°F and mixture is thick, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat; mix in nuts, coconut and fruit mixture. Chill until cold, about 4 hours. Mix in chocolate. (Cake layers and filling can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap cakes; store at room temperature. Cover filling; chill.)
- Place 1 cake layer on platter. Spread with 1/3 of filling. Repeat layering of cake and filling 2 more times. Top with final cake layer, pressing slightly.
- Chill cake.
- For frosting:
- Beat cream cheese and 1/4 cup powdered sugar in medium bowl until smooth. Beat in bourbon and vanilla. Beat cream and 1/2 cup powdered sugar in large bowl until soft peaks form. Add cream cheese mixture to whipped cream; beat until stiff enough to spread.
- Spread frosting over top and sides of cake. If desired, place pecans around edge of cake. Using rolling pin, flatten apricot halves between sheets of plastic wrap. Cut out leaf shapes. Arrange on cake. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover with cake dome; chill.)
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Nutritional Info
- Calories990
- Carbohydrates116 g(39%)
- Fat51 g(78%)
- Protein12 g(23%)
- Saturated Fat28 g(140%)
- Sodium330 mg(14%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat4 g
- Fiber4 g(15%)
- Monounsaturated Fat16 g
- Cholesterol231 mg(77%)


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Humanities Computing is able to provide free, WordPress based blogs and websites to all Humanities Division faculty and staff in support of research, academic events, graduate workshops and other collaborative projects. On this site you will find examples of model websites built with WordPress in use throughout the division as departmental sites, for conferences and colloquia, graduate workshops, exhibitions or for event-driven online newsletters and blogs.
The individual model sites on the site are cross-listed by type and by the amount of effort and know-how that were required to build them. Almost all of the sites presented here were built by staff, faculty or students in the division with no experience at all in web design or development. The design notes accompanying each example are intended as helpful hints to others wishing to build something similar.
Please take a look around. On occasion we'll also post announcements & updates about WordPress beneath this post with reports on new features, plugins and themes. Please contact Humanities Computing if you think you would be interested in building your own WordPress site or would like us to build one for you. Further information can also be found on the Blogs FAQ.
Finally, for more collaborative and documentation oriented projects you may also want to consider using the humanities wiki.
WordPress was recently updated to version 3. We'll continue running v2.9.x for a while longer in the Division until we're sure the typical glitches associated with a new release are ironed out and all of our supported themes and plugins are compatible with the new version. For the vast majority you this upgrade will not make any visible changes in the way you manage your blog. If you wish, you can look over a list of (predominantly technical) changes and improvements introduced in v3 on the WordPress blog or watch a demo screencast.
One small but welcome addition in this upgrade is a modern, new theme called Twenty Ten which promises to make use of all the new features added to WordPress over the last few years. In the weeks ahead we'll be testing it with your blogs and our recommended plugins. Once we upgrade to WordPress v3 it's very likely that Twenty Ten will also be included in our list of supported themes.
Humanities Computing will offer a free, introductory class next week for anyone interested in making a WordPress website for their upcoming conference or graduate student workshop. You can see examples of the kind of site you'll be build after attending the class by looking over the model sites listed in the sidebar on the top right or the far longer list of similar websites underneath. This event is part of Humanities Computing's regular "TechTalk" series and will take place in Rosenwald 405 on Tuesday, Feb. 16th from 12-1:15pm. Attendance is free and open to all. No prior technical knowledge required.
If you'd like to attend but have a scheduling conflict, please send us an email. We may be able to offer the workshop again later in the quarter on a different day in the week. Please keep an eye on this blog or the Humanities Division's events calendar (filter events by sponsor "Computing") to learn of future TechTalks. We plan to offer an intermediate level course for people who already have some experience with WordPress early in the Spring Quarter.
Update: A screencast of the TechTalk is now available for viewing online.
This afternoon we upgraded all of our WordPress based sites to the current version – v.2.9.1. As usual, the upgrade consists of a mix of improvements and bug fixes. Here is an overview of the new features (copied from the official announcement) most likely to be of interest to you:
- Global undo/"trash" feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying "are you sure" messages we used to have on every delete.
- Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who's boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
- Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
Humanities Computing is still testing whether all of our supported WordPress themes will be able to take advantage of the easier method to embed videos introduced with this release. For now, it looks like not all themes will immediately be compatible. For this reason, it's best to continue to use the multimedia plugins you've employed in the past for embedding video and audio on your site (ideally in conjunction with Podcast Producer).
We'll send out an announcement soon about a special hands-on session for new WordPress users to acquainted with web publishing and for returning users to learn about new features. Until then, please take a look at the short video introducing the new features in WordPress v2.9.
5th Annual Slavic Linguistics Conference. Jointly sponsored by the Slavic Linguistics Society, the Slavic and Linguistics departments, CEERES and the Chicago Linguistics Society.
Design Notes:
Simple conference website using the MistyLook WordPress theme. The front page can continue to be used for updates, news, schedule changes, announcements etc using posts while the rest of the site content is built on pages. The site uses a Page widget on the right in the sidebar for navigation. To prevent the list of pages from appearing twice the default horizontal page menu at the top of the site was turned off in the theme options for all pages except "Home".
The Material and the Code is a two-day symposium at the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center on February 26 & 27, 2010.
Design Notes:
A very simple site with a visually striking header image whose colors match the default background color of the Traveller WordPress theme. The site repeats the default horizontal page menu underneath the menu in a vertical menu in the sidebar. A recent posts widget keeps track of additions to the site. The site also makes good use of the space set aside by the theme for a site tagline to complement the site title.
The African Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the material and sociocultural lives of people of the African continent and its discursively constituted diasporas, presently and historically.
Design Notes:
A very simple, but well-organized and effective workshop site based on the BlueSky WordPress theme. Individual events are listed as posts on the home page and tagged with one of several categories. These are then displayed using the Category widget in the sidebar allowing one to search through past events by topic.
The law stands at the center of virtually every social, political, linguistic and cultural domain. It plays a critical role in shaping our most basic concepts and categories of thought and identity and responds in turn to social and historical transformations. The goal of the graduate Law, Culture and Society workshop is to facilitate the study of law as a cultural and social institution in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Design Notes:
A very simple, but effective and visually interesting workshop site build on the BlueSky WordPress theme. Individual events are listed as posts on the home page and tagged with one of several keywords. These are then displayed using the TagCloud plugin and widget in the sidebar allowing one to get an immediate overview of the relative number of events in each topic (bigger text = more posts on this topic).
The Center for the Art of East Asia (CAEA) facilitates and supports teaching and research in the rapidly growing field of East Asian Art at the University of Chicago.
Design Notes:
The CAEA site was created using the WordPress Panorama theme. The site employs a few simple tricks to make it appear more like a regular website and less like a blog. As such, its structure is not quite as straightforward as the models listed here in the "Easy" category. Still, the changes are not complicated and can easily be put in place for another site if there is interest. First, the site's home page (where one would normally see individual posts) was re-mapped to the About page (this is because unlike e.g. a workshop, this will not be an event driven site). Second, site makes extensive use of the Panorama theme's provision for drop-down menus (the second menu item under a top level menu is called a "child" – hence parent and child pages). The site's About page for example has two child pages under it called Objectives and Sources of Support. In addition, the theme automatically creates links to these as drop down items in the site's menu under About. Third, all references to page and post comments were removed from the theme to make the site feel less "blog-like". Finally, please also note the rotating header images on the site – this is a special feature of the Panorama theme.


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Getting enough sleep and rest is important during the teen years. Teens need more sleep than younger children, because rapid physical growth and activity during the teen years can cause fatigue. Many teenagers sleep late whenever possible and often have problems getting up in the morning.
Teenagers' biological clocks change during puberty. Typically, adolescents and teens fall asleep at a later hour at night and tend to sleep later in the morning. This pattern can present problems, because school schedules often require that teens get up early for classes. Some teens may develop sleep deprivation, which can result in:
- Having problems getting up in the morning or falling asleep during the day.
- Being sleepy and irritable during the day.
Teenagers need about 10 hours of sleep each night. If your teen is showing signs of not getting enough sleep, you can:
- Talk about how your teen's body is changing, and explain the need for more sleep.
- Try to set a good sleeping pattern for your teen. Encourage your teen to finish homework on weekends or during the day. And encourage him or her to sleep in on the weekends.
- Suggest after-school naps.
- Help your teen have a quiet bedroom. Turn off the computer, TV, cell phones, and other media.
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The Fashionable Selby and Bugaboo by Diesel
The Fashionable Selby and Bugaboo by Diesel
2015-05-07 - We take a look through the lens of established photographer The Selby, as we step into the homes of fashionable New York parents Jeff Halmos and Lisa Mayock to celebrate the Bugaboo Cameleon³ by Diesel collection.
In the second instalment of The Selby for Bugaboo by Diesel, we take another sneak peek at the private home of a fashion-forward family: Jeff Halmos, Lisa Mayock, their 1-year old son Lucien, and pet pug Roscoe. The Bugaboo Cameleon³ by Diesel collection, is the first of three collaborative collections by the two brands and gives an insight into the lives of fashionable parents. Even for those parents, facing almost unbearable situations with a smile is part of everyday life. Once again, Todd Selby has managed to capture those moments, telling these small and ironic stories, and bringing them to life in a fashionable way.
Calling a brownstone in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York home, this creative couple surrounds themselves with all manner of quirky curiosities – and we mean quirky! As a row of spotless, white sneakers lines the floorboards, we walk in on Lucien and Roscoe getting into some serious trouble amongst the palms.
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Todd Selby is a photographer, director, author and illustrator. His project, The Selby, offers an insider's view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby's website became so influential — with up to 100,000 unique visitors daily—that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate.
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These vibrating feeder/conveyors simply and economically feed powders, flakes, or agglomerates without dust and degradation. The pan and tube conveyors feature two efficient externally mounted vibrators that provide a unidirectional vibratory motion along the conveyor axis in constant or variable operation. With no screws, drag chains, bearing seals, or other internal moving parts, the units require little or no maintenance and are ideal for sanitary applications. Individual units are available in lengths up to 25 ft, can be connected in series up to 100 ft, and offer capacities in both open-pan or closed-tube arrangements up to 36,000 cu ft/hr. A variety of troughs, screws, and control options are available with designs for screening, dewatering, and elevating.
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