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As the Mipcom sales mart wrapped on Thursday, it turned out that it was Harvey Weinstein's keynote speech that best captured the mood of the market, confirming that despite a mixed economic picture, the global TV biz continues to motor quickly ahead.
"TV is such an exciting area at the moment and movies are shrinking to some extent. So it's the right time for us to get into TV in a big way," the Weinstein Co. co-chair emphasized on Tuesday.
Thomas Dey, CEO of U.K. investment bank About Corporate Finance, called the market "one of the most exciting I've ever seen. The growth of U.S. cable is triggering a culture of growth, which was evident at Mipcom.
"TV used to be the poor cousin of film. That is no longer the case."
U.S. majors struck a high profile at Mipcom. Newly promoted CBS Studios Intl. topper Armando Nunez? said, "I don't want to sound like an obnoxious studio executive, but there are two kinds of clients: one that has deals with CBS and one that wants to have deals with CBS."
Hubris of this kind may ultimately lead to a sea change in the eco-system of the global TV biz, where digital players like YouTube and Netflix are emerging as serious content partners and rivals to the incumbent giants.
Organizers Reed Midem claimed 500 digital buyers were among the 12,000 or so industryites at the confab.
As former CW head Dawn Ostroff, now prexy of entertainment at Conde Nast, warned Mipcom- goers, "Cable forced the broadcast networks to raise their game. Now digital is upping the ante further."
Mipcom's line-up of speakers, talent and screenings impressed mart attendees.
Kevin Spacey, hyping the first batch of Netflix's 26-part remake of Brit TV drama "House of Cards," and Jane Campion, promoting her first TV skein "Top of the Lake," commissioned by the BBC and Sundance, were among industry players joining Weinstein in Cannes.
They all agreed on one thing — that high-end TV's creativity is every bit the equal of what the film biz offers.
Studiocanal international sales topper Harold Van Lier, said, "Even though we are ambitiously growing our slate of films, the theatrical world has shrunk and is very tough.
"In comparison, there is so much going on here and above all there is that invigorating sense of a dynamic and growing market full of quality content."
Other high-profile dramas at the mart included FX's 1980s Cold War skein "The Americans" and Sundance's "Rectify," distributed by ITV Studios. Period pieces remain in the fore. "Everyone would love another 'Downton Abbey,'" Wright said.
Aside from Weinstein's ambitious take on "Marco Polo," pirate dramas were also sailing the high seas of Mipcom. Among the titles were Starz's "Black Sails" and NBC's "Crossbones."
But even the biggest distributors know they are still struggling to make headway in challenged economies like Spain and Greece.
Said one Hollywood major, "It doesn't matter if you're big or small, many of the Eurozone markets remain very tough."
Despite that, U.K. satcaster BSkyB's controller of acquisitions, Sarah Wright, detected an upbeat mood at the Palais.
She said, "It's been a buoyant market. It feels like the recession is lifting a little."


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(Reuters) - Pepco, a unit of Pepco Holdings Inc, has restored service to about 50,000 Washington, D.C. homes and businesses that lost power earlier on Friday after a tree hit a transmission line, according to the power company's website.
With the return of the Pepco customers, utilities in the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic said there were only about 10,000 customers out from New England to the Carolinas due to the massive blizzard pummeling the area.
About half of the current outages - estimated at 4,700 - are on Long Island, New York, where the state-owned Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) is the electric utility company.
Weather forecasters say the storm could drop up to three feet (nearly one meter) of snow in parts of New England over the next couple of days.
Earlier on Friday, Pepco spokesman Bob Hainey told Reuters a tree fell on a major transmission line, affecting four substations and knocking out power to some 50,000 customers.
"It's not clear if it was related to the storm," Hainey said.
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino and David Sheppard in New York; editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid, Gunna Dickson, Dale Hudson, G Crosse)

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Kendall-Whittier Library will be closed Sep. 24 - Oct. 7 for library improvements
You can find lists of such places on the library's Research page, using the subject guide titled 'Tulsa Food'. This guide provides a lot of great information for people who want to make some changes in their diet. If you want to work on your skills in the kitchen, there are lists of ethnic, organic and specialty groceries, as well as dates, times and locations of seasonal farmers' markets. If you prefer to have someone else do the cooking for you, the page includes several vegetarian and local food restaurants, plus a number of eateries that have a special historic or iconic status in Tulsa. You can also find a list of various festivals around town that offer plenty of tasty treats.
The Tulsa Food page also provides information for those in need of food assistance in the form of charitable food pantries, government aid, and organizations provided prepared meals.


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The MAR Report | August 10, 2012
In this late July(…early August?) edition of our "Five Questions With…Podcast", we speak to Northeastern University Economist Dr. Barry Bluestone about the Massachusetts real estate market, the economy and more.
Dr. Barry Bluestone Bio:
Barry Bluestone is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, the founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy (CURP), and the founding Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. The Center is a "think and do tank" devoted to research and policy in the areas of housing, workforce development, local economic development, manufacturing, and transportation. The new public policy school has been designed to more closely link Northeastern with the broader community, focusing on many of the critical challenges facing the city, the region, and the nation. Through its World Class Cities Partnership, the School is working with cities and universities throughout the world to better understand and meet the challenges faced by urban regions operating in a global economy.
Each year, the Dukakis Center publishes The Greater Boston Housing Report Card and staffs the Commonwealth Housing Task Force (CHTF) whose members include leaders from the business community, banking, housing developers, Community Development Corporations, and housing advocates. As part of his work with the CHTF, Bluestone was one of the three designers of Massachusetts' Smart Growth Housing Law (Chapter 40R and Chapter 40S).
Bluestone is author of hundreds of articles and monographs and co-author of eleven books. These include, among others, The Deindustrialization of America (1982), The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America (1988), Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business (1992), Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century (2000) and The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (2000). In 2008, he co-authored The Urban Experience: Economics, Society, and Public Policy, a multidisciplinary textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in the social sciences.
Before coming to Northeastern in 1999, Bluestone taught political economy for more than twenty-five years at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Boston. While on leave from UMass in 1995, he was Special Policy Advisor to House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt working on such issues as raising the national minimum wage, increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit, labor law reform, and fair trade. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. He is a founding board member of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Center for Social Studies based in Rome, Italy.
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Beware, a Big Headache Is Coming
Spotting Often-Overlooked Clues Like Nausea, Fatigue, Even Yawns May Help Patients Stave Off Attack
A migraine is among the most debilitating conditions in medicine—a blinding, throbbing pain that typically lasts between four and 72 hours. There is no cure.
Yet, a few hours or days before the dreaded headache sets in, subtle symptoms emerge: Some people feel unusually fatigued, cranky or anxious. Some have yawning jags. Others have food cravings or excessive thirst.
If migraine sufferers can learn to identify their particular warning signs, they may be able to head off the headache pain with medication or lifestyle changes before it begins, experts say.
"The holy grail of migraine treatment would be to have something you could take tonight to ward off an attack tomorrow," says neurologist Peter Goadsby, director of the headache program at the University of California-San Francisco. At a conference of the American Headache Society last week, he and other experts said these early symptoms may hold clues to what causes migraines in the first place.
Scientists have long known about this so-called premonitory phase, which occurs well before the better-known aura, the flashing lights and wavy lines that about 30% of migraine sufferers see shortly before the headache begins. Yet there have been only a handful of clinical trials treating patients in the premonitory stage—in part because the symptoms are so vague. Still, once patients know what to look for, many can identify some early warning signs.
The Four Phases of a Migraine
1) Premonitory, or prodrome. About two-thirds of migraine sufferers experience vague physical or emotional changes two to 48 hours before the headache starts. Symptoms can include fatigue, yawning, appetite changes, altered mood, muscle stiffness, digestive changes.
2) Aura. About one-third of patients see flashing lights, wavy lines and other visual disturbances for a few minutes to an hour before the headache begins. Some also have temporary trouble speaking or feel tingling or numbness on one side.
3) Pain. Virtually all migraine sufferers have moderate to severe throbbing head pain, usually on one side, lasting from four to 72 hours. Many also report nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to sound, light, smells and movement. Sufferers may be unable to work, play or socialize during this acute phase.
4) Postdrome. Feelings of exhaustion, depression, malaise and difficulty thinking can persist for days, along with residual soreness in forehead or neck. In rare cases, sufferers may feel euphoric instead.
Source: WSJ reporting
"If you ask the average migraine sufferer, 'Do you have any symptoms a few hours before the headache starts?' about 30% will say yes," says Werner Becker, professor of neuroscience at the University of Calgary in Alberta. But given a list of 20 common signs, from changes in mood, appetite or energy to urinating frequently or yawning excessively, about 80% of patients will say, "Oh yes, I've noticed that," he says.
Dr. Becker says one of his patients frequently feels dizzy and loses her appetite about 6 p.m. and knows that an attack is imminent. She finds that taking the migraine drug rizatriptan—usually taken only after the headache starts—can ward it off. "If she doesn't take it, then the next morning, she wakes up with a full-blown migraine," Dr. Becker says.
Sheena Selvey, a 28-year old special-education teacher in Northbrook, Ill., says she knows a migraine is coming when co-workers say her neck muscles have tightened up. She rubs her neck with an essential peppermint oil until she can inject herself with Imitrex, another medication usually used to stop rather than prevent headache pain. She says such steps have helped reduce attacks to two or three times a month from three or four times a week.
Ben McKeeb, a 35-year-old nursing student in Bellingham, Wash., says his wife noticed that his forehead muscles tense up in the shape of a "V" a few hours before his headaches begin. "I can almost always catch that feeling, and if I do all the right things—stay hydrated, stay out of the sun, get plenty of sleep, don't work too hard—I probably won't get one," he says.
Nationwide, about 36 million Americans suffer from migraines. Although some people use the word very loosely, migraines are far more severe than a typical headache, last longer and tend to involve nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light. Women are three times as likely as men to get migraines, and they've been diagnosed in children as young as 6 months. Migraines cost the country more than $20 billion a year in lost wages, disability payments and health-care bills, according to the American Headache Society, an organization of health-care professionals who specialize in headaches.
Warning Signs
Premonitory symptoms that can occur days before a migraine:
Mood changes
Food cravings
Loss of appetite
Increased urination
Muscle stiffness
Over 100 have been identified, among the most common:
Aged cheese
Red wine
Hormonal changes
Too much or too little sleep
Weather changes
The list keeps growing and there are no cures:
Over-the-counter pain relievers
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories
Beta blockers
Antiseizure drugs
Acupuncture, massage, biofeedback
As many as half of all sufferers don't seek treatment, in part because they think there is little doctors can do for them. In fact, treatments are proliferating, including over-the-counter pain relievers for mild cases and a class of drugs called triptans typically used to stop migraine pain. For chronic migraines, doctors also prescribe beta blockers, antiseizure medications and antidepressants, but they have significant side effects and help only about 50% of patients about 50% of the time. More drugs are in clinical trials, and non-drug treatments such as acupuncture, massage, biofeedback and transcranial-magnetic stimulation are also showing some promise at alleviating migraine pain.
Doctors used to tell patients to wait until their headache pain was severe to moderate before taking medication. But that's changing. "Now we know the closer we can get to the beginning of the attack, the better the outcome will be," says David Dodick, president of the American Headache Society and neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
Experts also think that they can learn a lot about the origin of migraines by studying how the body changes in the premonitory phase.
For example, "Many people tell us that they vomit yesterday's food," says Joel Saper, director of the Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor. That's a sign, he notes, that their digestion slowed long before they knew a migraine was coming.
Some experts are also re-examining the role of common migraine triggers such as alcohol, chocolate, red wine, aged cheese and caffeine. It could be that physiological changes in the premonitory phase trigger a sensitivity to such foods, rather than the other way around.
"For years, patients would say they got a migraine because they ate chocolate or pizza or a hot dog," says Dr. Saper. "But when you ask why they ate those things, they say, 'I had this insatiable craving....' We need to understand where that craving came from."
Functional-imaging studies of the brain have revealed another tantalizing clue: During the aura phase, a wave of electrical activity sweeps over the outer, furrowed layer of the brain known as the cortex, at a pace of 2 to 3 millimeters per minute. This wave—known as "cortical spreading depression"—activates nerve cells as it goes, and the symptoms sufferers report typically correspond to the area of the brain the wave is passing over. For example, the patient sees flashing lights and wavy lines when the wave is over the visual cortex, and tingling in the hands and feet when the wave is in the motor cortex. Once the wave passes by, the nerve cells become quiet and spent.
Dr. Goadsby and colleagues at UCSF are conducting more imaging studies to determine what brain activity occurs during the premonitory phase.
Experts say migraine sufferers can help themselves and their physicians by keeping a careful log of when their headaches occur, what they ate, drank and did several days in advance, as well as any early symptoms they experienced. They may notice patterns and find their own warning signs.
And even though there is no scientific evidence that taking medication at that early stage will stave off migraine headaches, some experts say it makes sense for patients to avoid their known triggers if a migraine seems imminent.
"If stress seems to be a trigger, cut back on your schedule, try a relaxation technique, don't plan a 12-hour day," says Dr. Becker. "You could potentially stop an attack."
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Tom Cruise is expected to win the weekend at the box office with his new sci-fi outing "Oblivion," which has garnered some notably warm reviews. The Times' Kenneth Turan, for example, described the movie as a "throwback to the days when on-screen science fiction was about speculative ideas rather than selling toys to tots."
After an early IMAX screening of the Universal film in New York this week, Cruise and "Oblivion" director Joseph Kosinski ("Tron: Legacy") talked about their on-set collaboration as one of the secrets to the movie's creative success.
"I don't know how you wouldn't collaborate with your actors," Kosinski told Hero Complex contributor Rebecca Keegan during an interactive Q&A in which people nationwide were invited to participate via Twitter. "They are telling your story for you. It's so important that the director and the actors are all on the same page."
Set in a near-future Earth that has been decimated by an alien invasion, "Oblivion" sees Cruise play Jack Harper, officially known as Technician 49, a repairman of sorts who's scheduled to be rotated off of the planet.
The actor had particularly kind words for another of the film's stars, Morgan Freeman, who portrays an insurgency leader, Beech.
"Right from the beginning, Joe and I were like, 'There's only one person who can play this character, and that's Morgan,' " he said.
To hear more of what Cruise and Kosinski had to say, watch the clip above, and check out other highlights from the discussion here and here.
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What is SoundExpert
SoundExpert (SE) is a crowdtesting service that provides audio quality ratings of sound equipment and technologies such as mp3, aac, wma ... encoders, portable players, sound cards, amplifiers ...
The ratings are based solely on results of blind listening tests when listeners don't know the particular device they test. So the values are completely unbiased and free from any marketing and advertising noise.
SoundExpert provides ratings thanks to visitors who take part in testing. The more number of participants - the more devices and technologies could be tested. The ratings are computed in real time while new grades are returned by visitors. The testing procedure is simple and short enough that anyone, including you, can participate. Just download a test file (<3Mb), listen it (<15s) and send back your judgment. Details are in test file. The more accurate grades - the more reliable ratings.
SoundExpert is independent non-commercial research project. It's in beta state because it uses new audio metrics and corresponding listening test design which are not widely adopted by audio engineers. The key feature of this new method is possibility to hear sound artifacts which are normally beyond threshold of human perception. So, please, use these ratings with caution. Detailed but still easy to understand explanation of SE internal mechanics is in the article "SoundExpert - How it works".
The main idea behind this service is consumer control over sound quality measurements of various audio equipment on the market. SE, being a distributed human project, combines tiny efforts of audio enthusiasts for carrying out this task.


text: Stephen Robbins thanks Dr. King for inviting the United States National Student Association to participate in the demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. Robbins states that the organization has directed its focus to equal opportunity for all and protection for demonstrators. Robbins also invites Dr. King to address the 18th National Student Congress at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.


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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor has formally denied charges of phone hacking and bribery.
Andy Coulson entered pleas of not guilty Thursday at London's Southwark Crown Court to conspiring to intercept voice mail messages and conspiring to make illegal payments to public officials.
Britain's phone hacking scandal erupted in 2011, after it was revealed that journalists at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid routinely hacked into voicemail messages of people in the public eye.
Coulson edited the now closed newspaper between 2003 and 2007, when he became Conservative Party communications director.
On Wednesday, former News International chief Rebekah Brooks and a dozen other defendants, most former Murdoch employees, pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the scandal.
All face trial later this year.


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Lawrence Wright, the author of "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief" appeared on "The Colbert Report" Thursday night to talk about his book. But before he could get there, Stephen Colbert bgean grilling the Pulitzer Prize winner using the coded language of the Church of Scientology.
Wright's book began as an article for The New Yorker in which he followed the story of director Paul Haggis, a former Scientology enthusiast who eventually left the church over its support of anti-gay rights legislation.
The book, currently No. 2 on the L.A. Times nonfiction bestseller list, is an enthralling account of the Church of Scientology, its alleged abuses, founder L. Ron Hubbard and the ways it has courted Hollywood celebrity.
As our reviewer Evan Wright wrote, "celebrities are serious business in Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard, who founded his church in Los Angeles in 1954, recognized their value in attracting followers. Through a church publication, he urged adherents to recruit Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope and Walt Disney, advising them, 'If you want one of these celebrities as your game, write us at once so the notable will be yours to hunt without interference.'"
Maybe the book explains what Colbert is saying when he asks Wright if he believes in KSW, and demands to know if he is "upstats."
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When an enclitic such as -ne or -que is appended to a word does it alter the word's accentuation? M&F's Glossary seems to imply it doesn't ("An enclitic ... loses its own accent").
Does that mean that "optavistis" and "optavistisne?" should both be pronounced with the stress on the third syllable, rather than on what looks like the penult of each? And that "..tisne" acts as one syllable?


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Boys 11 years and up should get Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine to protect them against HPV infections, which can cause genital warts as well as oral, penile and anal cancers, the nation's largest group of pediatricians said Monday.
"What we are hoping will come out of this is that we can push this as a cancer vaccine," said Dr. Michael Brady of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). "We now have the ability to interrupt the transmission and the development of cancer."
The new statement leans on recommendations released last year by U.S. vaccine advisers and updates the previous stance of the AAP, which until now had only backed routine vaccination for girls.
HPV, or human papillomavirus, is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least half of all sexually active people will catch genital HPV at some point.
The infection usually doesn't cause any symptoms and goes away on its own. But certain types of the virus may cause genital warts and, rarely, cancer.
It's estimated that HPV types 16 and 18 are responsible for 7,000 cases of cancer in men every year in the U.S. and 15,000 cases in women, most of them cervical cancers.
Clinical studies show HPV vaccines shield boys against genital warts and anal cancer, although the protection isn't complete. Vaccinating boys is also likely to protect women indirectly by preventing them from catching the viruses in the first place, the AAP says.
Three doses of Gardasil, the recommended amount, cost about $360. U.S. health regulators have found no serious side effects apart from soreness at the injection site.
"This definitely is a very safe vaccine," agreed Brady, also of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
The vaccines are most effective from age nine through 15, but boys and men up to 21 should still be vaccinated if they missed out earlier, the AAP says.
For 11- and 12-year-old girls, the group continues to recommend three shots of Gardasil or GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix, which has not been approved for boys. Girls and women 13 through 26 who have not been vaccinated should also get the shots.
A third of U.S. teenage girls had received all three shots in 2010, but Brady told Reuters Health that is far from enough to prevent the virus from spreading.
He added that the government's move last year to expand its HPV vaccine recommendations to include boys would hopefully have an effect on uptake.
"Now that it is a routine recommendation we anticipate that coverage will be much better and that the cost barriers will disappear," Brady said.


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Life is prison doesn't necessarily mean a long time.
Just weeks ago Ariel Castro was competent for trial but now he's dead.
Castro was sent to prison to start his "life" sentence but that wouldn't even mean 60 days.
So what made Castro snap and commit suicide?
Dr. Phillip Resnick runs the Cuyahoga County Court Psych Clinic.
He tested Castro and saw no signs of suicidal thoughts before his guilty plea. He says he heard what everyone else heard in court.
"I just wanted to clear the record. I'm not a monster. I did not prey on these women," proclaimed Ariel Castro.
"Possible that he had suicidal thoughts before and just covered them. I would think it's more likely this was triggered by some stressful events," says Dr. Resnick.
Dr. Resnick wonders what happened in prison.
Did other inmates or guards taunt Castro?
Did he suddenly fully realize he was locked up for good?
Dr. Resnick says the suicide rate in prison is twice as high as it is on the streets.
19 Action News learned that an inmate killed himself last October in the same prison and under protective custody just like Castro.
He did not convey suicidally to me. So that was not for seeable to me," explains Dr. Resnick.
"I'm sick. My sexual problems been so bad on my mind," said Castro.
19 Action News Reporter Ed Gallek asked the doctor about a letter Castro wrote in 2004.
In the letter he admitted to being a sex predator and writing about killing himself yet he waited until now to take his life.
"This letter in '04 shows he was struggling to deal with it all," says Dr. Resnick.
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Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Gates Foundation has announced the winners of a competition to invent the next generation of condoms "that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use."
The competition is one of the Grand Challenges in Global Health, held across sixteen categories. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has sponsored the contraception challenge, issuing a call for the next innovation in condoms.
The foundation declared 11 winners who will get a piece of the $1 million prize to develop their ideas, with the aim of decreasing unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
Some of the ideas are unique, like the one submitted by San Diego-based Mark McGlothlin of Apex Medical Technologies who wants to develop a condom from cow tendons, which will ensure enhanced strength and sensitivity.
Many of the ideas had to do with thinner, more sensitive and stronger condoms using new and innovative materials.
Aravind Vijayaraghavan and a team from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom could make graphene condoms a reality. Once considered the strongest material until the discovery of carbyne, graphene is made up of a single layer of carbon atoms, weighs almost nothing and only lets the smallest particles through it, making it an ideal material for a strong, high-sensitivity condom.
Owing to the fact that many Africans perform sex in low light, South African Willem van Rensburg of Kimbranox Limited will test a condom applicator designed for easy, technique-free application of male condoms.
Notable inventions in other Grand Challenges categories included two vaccines, developed to fight malaria and Rift Valley fever. A low-cost tool was also developed to easily and efficiently harvest cassava, which is a major staple food in the developing world.


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Times are tough all over
It's a crying shame how rich people are being treated these days. You hear a lot about their sufferings daily, especially if you read The Wall Street Journal. If black sharecroppers hadn't invented the blues down there on the Mississippi Delta a hundred years or so ago, hedge-fund managers and bank CEOs would be coming up with that genre about now. Instead of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," they'd be singing "Nobody Loves Me When I'm Up and Tax-Exempt." The blues ain't nothin' but a rich man gone sad.
Ever since this grim recession began in 2008, we've been hearing more about the oppressed rich folks than we have about any other segment of our beleaguered nation. We've learned that the wealthy are beaten down by the "class warfare" being waged against them. They put up with editorial cartoonists who depict them as swine, or as monocle-wearing clichés right out of a Monopoly board game -- a gross mischaracterization, of course, but one perpetuated by hack journalists who don't know the first thing about what it takes to be a fat cat, such as the sacrifice endured by the selfless job-creators who toil tirelessly on behalf of the ungrateful slobs for whom they provide employment.
Prejudice against the long-suffering wealthy has even spread to the Western heartland, with Occupy Wall Street protests being mounted in front of banks, courthouses and brokerage firms from Butte, Mont., to Boise, Idaho, Grand Junction and Longmont, Colo., to Taos, N.M., Phoenix, Ariz., and Tacoma, Wash.
People who once knew their place are getting uppity, forgetting entirely which side of the bread gets buttered. There was a time when rich people could count on Red State support, could rest assured they had the wholly appropriate gratitude of ranchers, loggers and miners, but now, even these people are beginning to act surly towards their superiors, showing a lack of proper respect for the Koch brothers and other selfless benefactors of the working class.
When it comes to fat cats, nobody knows the trouble they've seen. Recently, for instance, Jeff Immelt was on 60 Minutes. Immelt's the head of GE, a company that managed to eliminate thousands of jobs under his stewardship. In his interview, he expressed consternation that more Americans weren't cheering on the success of corporations like his. He honestly couldn't understand why any patriotic American wouldn't wish his company well -- even as he was telling Leslie Stahl that corporations have no civic responsibility, nor any patriotic duty. Corporations answer, he said, to a higher authority -- their stockholders -- who must reap ever-higher profits.
The happiness of stockholders is, of course, more important than the happiness of the people who make the stuff GE sells. Or who used to make that stuff before the making of that stuff was shipped offshore to places where people would make it for much less, and show a good deal more gratitude for the privilege of making it than the petulant workers back home, with their unions and their incessant demands.
And, as if the class warfare being waged against them wasn't bad enough, they also have to deal with the uncertainty created by President Obama's economic policies that keep them guessing about how much in bail out funds they'll get the next time they screw things up.
How can a hardworking CEO balance his personal checkbook for the coming fiscal year if he's not sure what his bonus is going to be? How can a guy make plans to buy that fourth vacation home in an economic environment this unpredictable? When Washington, D.C., has the power to deny the financial sector its God-given right to gouge its customers with any fees they can devise to increase their bottom line, what's a poor banker to do?
To add further insult to the injuries endured by the 1 percent, rabble have begun clogging the streets -- a bunch of smelly proles who won't take the hint provided by media disdain and mass arrests. They won't just shut up and go home, and they surely can't be bothered to go out and get jobs, or use the entrepreneurial spirit God gave real Americans to go out and start their own businesses.
Is it any wonder the wealthiest Americans have taken their various tax havens overseas, places where they can find the appreciation they can't find on these shores? At long last, my fellow Americans, I ask you, haven't the rich suffered enough?
Jaime O'Neill is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes in Magalia, a small town in the Sierra foothills of California.
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Carnival Controversy–St. Louis Claims Second-Largest Mardi Gras, Lafayette Disagrees
LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL) -- Hardly anyone will dispute that New Orleans has quite possibly the largest and most extravagant Carnival and Mardi Gras celebration in the country.
But when it comes to the title of runner-up, things become a little more foggy.
The mayor of St. Louis, Mo., Francis Slay, told reporters today that his city has, not only the second-largest Mardi Gras event in the country, but the best in the U.S. as well.
"We want people to come to the city," Slay said. "Enjoy Mardi Gras. It's the best Mardi Gras in the country. Not the largest--I think we're the second-largest in the country--but it's certainly the very best party."
But wait...Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel was recently on "Mornings With Ken and Bernie," and he boasted that the second place honor belongs to the Hub City. To make matters more murky, San Diego in California, as well as Houma just down Hwy. 90, claim to be the second-largest in the country.
What gives?
We reached out to Durel for his reaction on Slay's pronouncement.
Sure, and next thing you know, he'll be saying they have the best food! But, if it helps energize his citizens into having some fun, that's okay. Happy Mardi Gras from the city with the second-largest Mardi Gras in the country and by far, the most Family-Friendly Mardi Gras in the USA!
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I see no reason why Terri Winder should apologize (see March 5 San Juan Record). The kids today see and hear too much already. Maybe the "committee" has become immune to trash in literature. I refuse to read Stephen King due to the trash he puts in a book.
I worked in construction most of my life. I've heard a lot of trash and I've spoken a lot of trash, but it doesn't mean I want to see it when I read something. And I've never taken it into my home in front of my children.
I have grandchildren in schools in another state: some in private school and others in public schools. Private school is much better. Public schools have fences around them and a police officer on campus all day. The academic standards are lower in public schools than in private schools.
Guess that is getting to San Juan now. You can wrap garbage in Christmas paper and call it a present. But, it's still garbage. Much like the books today.
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Helen Saum, 78 - October 03, 2007
Helen Barnason Saum, 78, of North Platte, died Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, at her home in North Platte.
Services were held on Monday, Oct. 1, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Platte with the Rev. Eric Meissner of the Messiah Lutheran Church officiating. Burial was at Ft. McPherson National Cemetery.
Saum was born on April 13, 1929, at North Platte to George Glen and Clara Christine Kammerer McKain. She graduated from Farnam High School in 1946 and from Mary Lanning Memorial School of Nursing in 1949 and received her master's in education degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1985.
On July 16, 1949, she was united in marriage to Norman M. Barnason at Phillipsburg, KS. To this union, four children were born. He preceded her in death on April 1, 1993.
In 1984, she married Harry L. Saum at Wheatridge, CO. He preceded her in death on Sept. 3, 1993.
Saum worked as a registered nurse for 52 years, serving as staff nurse and night supervisor at St. Mary's Hospital for 26 years, then as a night supervisor and vice-president of nursing at Great Plains Regional Medical Center for 13 years.
She then worked for the American Red Cross Blood Services for 10 years and also worked at Sunset Haven Nursing Home at Curtis and West Central District Health Department as well as volunteering at the Health Clinic at the Lincoln Connection. Nursing was a large part of her life, according to family members.
In 1979, saum was voted "Woman of the Year" by the Junior Women's Club of North Platte, and she received the National Organization of Nurse Executive Award from District III in 1982 and 1989.
Saum was a member of the National Order of Nurse Executives, the National League of Nurses, Sarah Rebekah Lodge #10 and was a life-long member of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, serving on the Church Council and the Evangelism Committee.
?She enjoyed her children and grandchildren, traveling with her family and playing bridge with her friends, according to family members.
Saum was preceded in death by: her parents, George and Clara; stepfather, Cecil Florom; two brothers—Warren McKain and Clarke McKain; a sister, Betty Miller.
Survivors include: Terry (Coleen) Barnason of North Platte; Julia (Alec) Todd of Seneca, SC; Gena (Tracee) Barnason and Jill Barnason, all of North Platte; a stepdaughter, Pam (Randy) Koch of Cozad; eight grandchildren—Brad Welden, Heidi (Brian) Smyth, Holly Barnason, Jennifer Barnason, Alan Sullivan, Cory Sullivan, Heather (James) White and Kris Law; three step-grandchildren—Jeremy (Bailey) Koch, Jennifer Koch and Jacque Koch; six great-grandchildren—Keira and Shelby Smyth, Trayton and Neva White, Justin Welden and Carter Barnason.
In lieu of flowers, a memorials have been established and suggested to the Helen Barnason Nursing Scholarship Fund at Great Plains Regional Medical Center at North Platte, and to the Great Plains Home Health and Hospice.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. — A hard-fought Bruins practice that included some high-tempo 2-on-2 drills at Ristuccia Arena might've cost the Bruins the services of their No. 1 center.
David Krejci left the ice a little early after one drill. He seemed to be favoring his left side. After practice, head coach Claude Julien said he had no more information on Krejci and would only classify the injury as a "body" injury.
Julien said there was a chance Krejci would not travel with the team when the Bruins leave this afternoon for a two-game road trip that starts in Raleigh. Bruins president Cam Neely said this afternoon during his weekly radio appearance on 98.5 The Sports Hub that Krejci did not make the trip to Raleigh so he could be re-examined by doctors in Boston.


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Terry Ganley
Under the guidance of head coach Terry Ganley, the University of Minnesota women's swimming and diving team has risen to the top of the Big Ten Conference and is a constant force within the national rankings. In her eight seasons at the helm of the Golden Gopher program, Ganley, along with current men's and women's head coach Kelly Kremer, has led the Gophers to four Big Ten titles (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014), three second-place Big Ten finishes and nine top-15 performances at the NCAA Championships.
In the last six years with the women's program, Minnesota finished at least 13th at the NCAA Championships including a program-best ninth-place mark in 2011. The 2011 meet was also the high-water mark in another fashion with three Gophers winning national championships. Sophomore Haley Spencer took the 200 breaststroke title while senior Jillian Tyler took the 100 breaststroke crown. Diver Kelci Bryant won her second national title in as many seasons, winning the 1-meter title as a junior after taking the 3-meter crown as a sophomore. Prior to 2010, Minnesota had won just one NCAA individual title. Overall 30 different athletes earned All-America honors in Ganley's eight seasons with the women's program. The Gophers also experienced great success in Big Ten Conference action, finishing at least second in the last five conference championships including winning the team title in both 2012 and 2008. Ganley and Kremer guided 33 event champions during their seven seasons as co-head coaches, while Ganley had five event champions in 2012. Those five event champions helped Ganley and Kremer to be named the Big Ten Swimming Coaches of the Year for the second time (2008), after guiding the women to their first Big Ten Championship since 2008. The women went on to an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The success hasn't been limited to the pool under the Ganley's watch. The Gophers have posted at least 14 Academic All-Big Ten selections in each of her eight seasons with the women's program including 23 in 2012 and 22 in both 2011 and 2005. Kaylee Jamison became the first Gopher to earn GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team honors in 2011. Jenny Shaughnessy was a a Second Team Academic All-American in 2009.
After graduating a highly-successful class of seniors, Ganley and Kremer reloaded with yet another talented group in 2009-10. At the Big Ten Championships, Minnesota captured seven conference event titles over the course of four days. The coaches guided seven individuals to first-team All-Big Ten honors and placed second at Big Tens for the second-consecutive year. In what some considered a "rebuliding" year, Ganley and Kremer's team scored 572.5 points at Big Tens and went on to qualify 13 individuals to the 2010 NCAA Championships. Kelci Bryant, who was named the Big Ten Diver of the Year, went on to earn the national title in the 3-meter at NCAAs, the program's second NCAA event winner and the first under Ganley and Kremer's regime. Minnesota placed 12th in the national standings when it recorded 102 points at NCAAs. Along with their efforts in the pool, Minnesota placed 14 on the Academic All-Big Ten list, while Kaylee Jamison held one of the athletic department's top grade point average for female athletes.
The 2008-09 season marked one of the Maroon and Gold's best national finishes. The Gophers finished 11th overall in the nation and had the school's best representation with 15 student-athletes competing. For the second-straight year, Jillian Tyler finished as the national runner-up in the 100 breaststroke and third overall in the 200 breaststroke. At the conference level, Minnesota finished second in the Big Ten standings. Jenny Shaughnessy was the Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships as the Gophers had 11 swimmers on the first-team All-Big Ten list. Minnesota captured a school-best 10 event wins at the league championships, including three relay wins. Minnesota also had 17 members on the Academic All-Big Ten team.
In 2008, Ganley and Kremer returned to the top of the Big Ten when their team won the championship title. During the course of the championship, the Gophers won five event titles and broke 14 school records. Under Ganley's and Kremer's tutelage, the Gophers had eight student athletes earn first-team All-Big Ten honors. The duo also coached Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Jillian Tyler, who won the 100 and 200 breaststrokes and helped the 400 medley relay to a conference title. Following the conference meet, Minnesota set a school record as 12 student-athletes were selected to compete at the NCAA Championships. During that time, nine earned All-America honors as the Gophers finished 13th in the nation. Following the national championship, Tyler became the second Gopher in school history to be named to an Olympic team. Tyler, a native of Calgary, Alberta, swam the 100 breaststroke with Team Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Since Ganley and Kremer took over the Gopher women's swimming and diving program, Minnesota has improved as a team every year in either the conference or at national championship level. In 2006-07, Minnesota moved up eight spots at the NCAA championships after a 21st finish from the previous year. The Gophers earned All-America honors in the 200, 400 and 800 free relays. Ganley and Kremer coached Jenny Shaughnessy and Yuen Kobayashi to individual All-America honors. Along with their accomplishments on the national scene, the team finished fourth at the Big Ten Championships and led the Gophers to three Big Ten champions in Kobayashi (1,650 free), Christine Jennings (500 free) and the 800 free relay.
After finishing sixth in the league championships in 2005, the Gophers skyrocketed to a second-place finish at the 2006 Big Ten Conference Championships. Not only did the Gophers earn over 530 points at the conference championship, Ganley and Kremer were named Co-Big Ten Coaches of the Year. The Gophers had four named to the first-team All-Big Ten Team and Kobayashi was named Freshman of the Year. Along with an outstanding conference performance, Ganley and Kremer's squad had 10 swimmers qualify for the 2006 NCAA Championships, the most for the program since 1997-98. Along with 10 competing at the national championships, nine earned All-America honorable mention status, with the team placing 21st overall.
In their first year at the helm Minnesota swimming, Ganley and Kremer's team ranked in the top 25 of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. After an impressive performance at the Georgia Invite, the Gophers entered the poll at No. 24. Minnesota was ranked as high as No. 23 following the Quad Duals against Big Ten opponents Wisconsin, Illinois and Purdue. The Gophers finished sixth at the Big Ten Championships, a higher finish then predicted. Minnesota finished the season with a 7-1 dual meet record and a 5-1 mark in Big Ten action. Not only did the Gophers improve in the pool, but also landed one of the best recruiting classes in the nation. Ganley and Kremer recruited four summer national qualifiers.
After serving as the women's swimming assistant coach for 27 years, Ganley was named the interim head coach immediately following former head coach Jean Freeman's retirement. Ganley worked closely with Freeman for nearly three decades, and their coaching philosophies, styles and skills complemented one another very well. Ganley is a well-known and highly respected member of the swimming community.
During Ganley's tenure as an assistant, Minnesota won back-to-back Big Ten Championships in 1999 and 2000, and she coached 48 student-athletes to Big Ten titles in 53 individual events and 23 relay events. Since the start of Nieszner's coaching career, the Minnesota women's swimming and diving program has had 58 swimmers earn over 200 All-America certificates and have placed in the NCAA Championships 17 of the last 18 years.
Ganley guided some of the greatest swimmers, not only in the Big Ten, but also in the nation. In her 27 years, Ganley coached six-time All-American Diane Wallner, 12-time All-American and American record holder Gretchen Hegener and 10-time All-American Terri Jashinsky. Since the start of Ganley's career, five student-athletes have earned the Big Ten Medal of Honor award, while seven were named the Women's Athletics Senior Athlete of the Year.
Minnesota also excelled in the classroom, earning two GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in Uta Herrmann and Dana Baum. The Gophers have had over 100 Academic All-Big Ten honorees, since the award was initiated in 1990.
A former Gopher swimmer, Ganley was the first woman to earn All-America honors at the University of Minnesota. As a student-athlete, Ganley was a four-time All-American (1974, twice in 1975, 1976) and a two-time Big Ten champion (1974, 1977). She was inducted into the Minnesota Aquatics Hall of Fame in 1984, the M Club Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Minnesota Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1994. She graduated in 1977 with a degree in physical education.
Ganley has two sons, Joseph (2008) and Patrick (2010), both graduates of the University of Minnesota.


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Woodchuck takes aim at coffee roaster
Hard cider company suing coffee maker
RUTLAND, Vt. —
A Vermont company that makes hard cider is suing another Vermont company that roasts coffee for trademark infringement over the use of the word "woodchuck."
Vermont Hard Cider Co. filed a complaint against Woodchuck Coffee Roasters in U.S. District Court last week.
The Middlebury company says it's spent substantial money building brand awareness for its Woodchuck Hard Cider since 1991.
It says Woodchuck Coffee Roasters' coffee logo is strikingly similar to its hard cider label, with an oval logo with a woodchuck sitting on its haunches.
A co-owner of the coffee company tells the Rutland Herald that his company's name and logo were never intended to imitate the better-known cider company.
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Anyone seen this type of activity?:
On 11/29, an internal workstation appeared to perform UDP portscans to 27 unique external IPs. All the external addresses examined were foreign (mostly Brazil and Argentina, but also included Columbia, Germany, Indonesia, China, et. al.). It appears to have scanned the same IP list twice, with a couple of the IPs only appearing once in each scan (possibly due to dropped traffic on the sensor). Scans took place at 17:56 and again at 18:10. It's unclear if there were any returns on the scans. I could find no other appearances of the inside or outside IPs setting off any other alerts in the data that I have. Most of the IP addresses I looked at appeared to be customer addys from ISPs.
On 12/3, the system's admin was contacted, who claimed to run a full-virus scan and found nothing.
On 12/4, the same system performed the same type of scan against 11 more systems. Again, all were foreign (Mostly Brazil, a couple German, and Venezuela) -- but not a single one was a duplicate from the first scan, nor were they even within the same networks.
Because of the kludgy portscan reporting of Snort, I cannot accurately tell which ports are being targeted. The sensor's been up/down over the last month (I was out of town) so there could have been more events...
Ideas? (My favorite answer so far is a worm...but none detected by Symantec -- assuming the admin *did* do a scan... ;0)


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Mom Charged With Stealing Education For Son, Jailed For Drugs
Tanya McDowell went from being a sympathetic figure to a convicted drug dealing criminal in a matter of months. In April, the homeless single mother enrolled her son in a school in the wrong district under a babysitter's address and was charged with larceny.
The Connecticut mom offered a Stamford undercover officer crack cocaine, marijuana and the use of prostitutes McDowell was pimping from her aunt's home in Bridgeport.
This is a dramatic turn of events for the mother that was trying to get the best education for her son. Now he can learn from her mistakes as officers reported three incidents where McDowell sold drugs to them. Her bond is set at $200,000.
Her lawyer, Darnell Crosland is claiming entrapment because of the public support she received including a visit from Civil Rights activist, Reverend Al Sharpton.
Norwalk Police Chief Harry Rilling said there was no retaliation or specific targeting in this case.
"[Crosland's] statement is ridiculous, irresponsible and I am offended by it," Rilling said. "No such thing happened. We handled this case like we handle any other case and the police officers were working on information provided by a variety of sources. The residents are starting to call us with information and several residents did call and report this information."
One of the reports states that McDowell tried to sell drugs to an undercover at a birthday party for her son who turned 6 on May 24th.
Are we still supposed to have sympathy and believe that Tanya McDowell was setup to take a fall? Or is this just a case of a mother doing whatever she can to survive?


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A jar of unregistered leptocephali (larval eels) specimens. A larval fish is a tiny fish that is not yet a juvenile. Often larvae are collected in a very fine meshed net towed slowly behind a boat. Important research on larvae is helping to understand many aspects fish development, biology and distributions.
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Kate: Grocery Shopping Sans Prince William!
Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, goes on a solo shopping trip for groceries at a Tesco Supermarket on Monday (August 1) in Holyhead, North Wales.
The 29-year-old wife of Prince William spent over 30 minutes at the supermarket before heading back to her car and loading them into the car herself.
The supermarket is located near the RAF base, where Will works as a search and rescue helicopter pilot.
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Over the weekend, Will and Kate attended the wedding of his cousin Zara Phillips to rugby player Mike Tindall.
FYI: Kate is wearing Skyline Ankle Peg jeans by Paige Denim.


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When he died at age 81 in 1973, the secret world of Henry Darger, a recluse who worked cleaning bedpans in a Chicago hospital and lived in a tiny attic apartment, was finally revealed. For decades, Darger had been amassing what became a 15,000 page novel, In the Realms of the Unreal, densely typed and lavishly illustrated with watercolors and magazine cutouts. The book chronicled the struggle of the seven Vivian Girls, who lead a rebellion against John Manley and the Glandelinians, practitioners of child slavery. Subsequently, other Darger works have been discovered in the mounds of refuse he left. Armed with new research on both the artist and his work, Mark Stokes' Revolutions of the Night gets past the sensationalism of the Darger story to actually assess the quality of his work and to place it in the contexts of both contemporary art and literature.
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Here's a bit about Auburn's new arena that will have a two court practice facilityhttp://auburntigers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/062907aab.html
9k seats is a joke.
But it'll have a practice facility attached, and gotdammit that's all that matters to teh recroots.Georgia's attempt:http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=301117MSU says a facility is a top priority but damn if I can find a pic.
UGA's practice facility is nicer than their actual arena. it's coming here and with that most likely other events in bwa besides basketball and wal-mart.Kansas will open their practice facility this fall, that was Bill Self's demand after winning the NC last year. It's not like basketball is sharing Allen Fieldhouse with anyone else. maybe it's a waste of money, maybe it's not. If they raised the money to build then what does it matter?
Allen Iverson wept.
If any of our coaches are using this as an excuse, we're in bigger trouble than I thought.
Honestly, I think this is exactly what is happening and their lapdogs in the media like our alledged "recruiting reporters" are yammering the company line as well to kiss up.
I know it's the latest thing, but it is beyond stupid. You get home court advantage by practicing on the home court. My children attend school where the jr. high practices in the "old" gym, but they play all their games in the "new" gym. It's like they have no home games, because the new gym is an arena and the background is completely different. Unless the new practice facility has the exact dimensions (behind the goals) as BWA, this is a tremendous waste of money. If any of our coaches are using this as an excuse, we're in bigger trouble than I thought.
ANyone hear Jimmy Dykes today mention that one reason we may not get a big time coach was because of the lack of a practice facility and that it hinders recruiting?Jesus imagine the incoming class if we had one? I imagine Rivers and Beal would be begging to come. Jimmy Dykes is a clown. /felt it was okay to revive this thread due to subject BEING IN ALL CAPS!
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Folks, we have a basketball practice facility. Somebody mentioned building something for only the men to practice in. Ever heard of Title IX?Wal Mart has their yearly weekend "brag we are the greatest" weekend, and then graduation is held there. Rest of the time the men's team shares the basketball practice facility and game facility with the women's team. No clue if this is accurate, but I'm willing to bet that most of the schools that have basketball only practice facilities do this because their gym hosts tractor pulls, concerts, whatnot. This is not an issue with our practice/game facility. Tubby says he hasn't been talking to Arkansas, but he knows that we have a completion date for a facility in 16 months? I wonder who he didn't talk to that didn't tell him that?Scratch the liar off the list. Move on. He was never and is not a target, surely.
I've never experienced anyone working at CFA being a jerk or rude but yesterday I encountered a guy in the drive thru who was not only rude but a jerk. When I finally had my order and he didn't even say my pleasure I yelled "thanks for being a jerk" and drove off.
This gets said over and over, but we have no problem building multiple practice facilities and lounges and locker rooms for the football team. It's not like the BAC and DWR are holding tractor pulls every night... they're sharing their current facilities with no one.Its the new thing, and instead of bitching and moaning about it like an old man on a porch, we just need to let our new coach to build the Damn thing to his liking before we get completely passed by. As much as we always brag on our facilities, I have no clue why everyone wants to be stagnant with BWA and basketball.
When it's over said and done, if the new coach wants a basketball only facility, I say build it. I wonder how hard it would be to make Barnhill into a basketball only practice facility and then use Bud Walton for gymnastics and vollebyall? Barnhill would make a hellacious basketball practice only facility. It beats that Hyper building looking Kansas facility in this thread.


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Zhaolin Lu and his team at RIT's Novel Material Photonics lab are exploring the integration of optical and electrical signals. "Recently, nanoplasmonics has risen from a relatively obscure science to a prominent field of research, says Lu, assistant professor of microsystems engineering. "Our lab is focused on experimental and theoretical aspects of this rapidly developing field. "The work has application in areas ranging from the semiconductor industry to development of surface plasmon-enhanced solar cells. Lu has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the American Chemical Society.
Plasmons are nanoscopic waves in the sea of free electrons inside and on the surface of metals. Surfaceplasmon-based circuits, which merge electronic and photonic circuits at the nanoscale, offer the potential to carry optical signals and electric currents through the same thin metal circuitry, effectively combining photonics and electronics on the same chip.
One of the biggest challenges with photonics is that the wavelength of a guided photon is relatively large-on the order of 100 nanometers. That's much larger than what's currently possible with electronic semiconductors, where resolution of 32 or even 26 nanometers is possible. Lu is developing techniques using plasmonics to reduce the wavelength of light to potentially 10 nanometers.
To couple light into a waveguide supporting nanoscale mode size and consequently to squeeze light into an ultra-small spot are critical to imaging quality, optical data storage, manipulation of nanostructures, and optical lithography in the semiconductor industry. The extremely high light intensity resulting from the ultra-small spot can be used to make ultra-small and ultra-fast electric-optic or all-optic modulators.
Lu has successfully squeezed a 1550 nanometer infrared beam into a 21 x 24 nanometer spot with 62 percent efficiency. The project coupled light from a dielectric waveguide into a metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguide, a technique developed by the RIT team. Lu's demonstration was covered in "Beam Shaping:Plasmonics Squeeze IR Light into Nanospot," an article published in Laser Focus World (January 2009).
"Plasmonic waveguides support nanoscale modes with acceptable propagation loss and are believed to be the technique merging photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions," Lu reported. "In this sense, nanoscale confinement of light is the initial motivation to develop surface plasmon-based circuits. A key feature of our device is that it is a planar structure and can be fabricated with standard semiconductor techniques."
Lu, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, came to RIT in 2007. He has published numerous publications, including a book, Dispersioin Engineered Photonic Crystals (2008). In 2008, he received the Texas Instruments/Douglass Harvey Faculty Development Award.
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Beware the Bowing, Humble Man: 5 Things We Learned Over 5 Days in Japan
By Elias Cepeda
I spent last week in Tokyo, Japan, to cover the Glory year-end championship kickboxing event and interview and train with luminaries of Japanese MMA. I'm only now beginning to process everything I experienced and saw but here are five immediate take aways.
1. Japanese Fans are No Longer Silent During Fights, But They are Still Hella Observant
Watching Pride events on television years ago, I used to marvel at how attentive and respectful the Japanese fans in live attendance seemed. During most of the action, it seemed as though you'd be able to hear a pin drop in even the largest of super arenas because the fans watched in almost complete silence.
Then, a fighter might make a minor adjustment towards a submission that most American fans would not be able to recognize as the offense it was, and the previously silent Japanese crowd would "ooohh," and "ahhh." In my American fight world of boorish booing, louder t-shirts and indifference to any aspect of fighting that wasn't a competitor being knocked unconscious, Japan seemed like a magical place where people watched fights live with the understanding and respect they deserved.
This past Saturday, I watched a Glory kickboxing event live inside the Ariake Coliesum in Tokyo, Japan. It wasn't MMA, but I was still excited to not only watch the great strikers on the card, but to experience a Japanese crowd in person for the first time.
Well, they are no longer silent during fights. Apparently that part of fight-viewing culture in Japan has changed in the past ten years or so.
Fans shouted throughout bouts and hooted and hollered. Still, they seemed to know what was going on much more so than American crowds I've been a part of or witnessed. Little bits of the fight were still appreciated by the crowd and they showed tremendous support to anyone who showed perseverance and heart in a fight, even if it wasn't the crowd favorite.Read More DIGG THIS


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — THE CHANGE: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently dramatically lowered its estimates of how much of a potent greenhouse gas leaks during gas drilling operations, from 214 million metric tons for 2010 to 144 million metric tons, a change of more than 30 percent.
THE DISPUTE: There's a split between leading environmental groups over whether the boom in natural gas drilling, or fracking, will help or hurt efforts to fight climate change. That's because while natural gas is a far cleaner burning fuel than coal, the methane in the gas is also a potent greenhouse gas. If too much methane leaks into the atmosphere, that negates the benefits over coal.
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Federal Reserve policy makers plan to soon change their guidance for the path of interest rates as unemployment declines toward a threshold for considering an increase in borrowing costs, minutes of their January meeting showed.
"Participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6.5 percent, it would soon be appropriate for the Committee to change its forward guidance in order to provide information about its decisions regarding the federal funds rate after that threshold was crossed," according to the record of the meeting, the final one led by Ben S. Bernanke before the end of his term as central bank chairman.
"Several" Fed policy makers also said that in "the absence of an appreciable change in the economic outlook, there should be a clear presumption in favor of continuing to reduce the pace" of the Fed's bond purchases $10 billion at each meeting.
Central bankers are seeking to provide clarity on their plans for continuing to support the economy, both with low interest rates and dwindling bond purchases, after unemployment dropped last month to 6.6 percent, the lowest in more than five years.
"It seems pretty safe to say that they are close to doing away formally with the 6.5 percent threshold, and given their concerns about inflation, rate hikes are unlikely any time soon," said Dan Greenhaus, chief strategist for BTIG LLC in New York.
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Stocks remained lower after the report, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index declining 0.3 percent to 1,836.20 at 3 p.m. in New York. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 2.74 percent.
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting show Fed officials divided on how to clarify their guidance.
"Some participants favored quantitative guidance along the lines of the existing thresholds, while others preferred a qualitative approach that would provide additional information regarding the factors that would guide the Committee's policy decision," the minutes said.
Several participants said that risks to financial stability should be included in their statement, and others argued the guidance should "give greater emphasis" to keeping rates low if inflation remains "persistently" below 2 percent.
While the minutes showed a unanimous vote on the committee's policy statement, policy makers disagree on the timing of the first interest-rate increase.
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"A few" officials "raised the possibility that it might be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate relatively soon," according to the minutes.
In its previous round of forecasts in December, two policy makers favored raising interest rates in 2014. Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser told reporters last week in Newark, Delaware that he's "worried" the Fed may wait too long to increase rates.
The committee showed more consensus over how to proceed with reducing bond purchases. Since succeeding Bernanke on Feb. 3, Janet Yellen has pledged to maintain his plan for "measured" cuts in purchases, even amid weaker-than-forecast payroll growth and signs harsh winter weather has slowed retailing, manufacturing and home construction.
"It all just points to the Fed tapering in March absent some proof that the economy has weakened substantially," said Drew Matus, an economist at UBS Securities LLC in New York. "Nothing in the minutes suggests that they are not going to."
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The Paleozoic Era
The Paleozoic took up over half approximately 300 million years (542 mya to 251 mya)* of the Phanerozoic. During the Paleozoic there were six major continental land masses; each of these consisted of different parts of the modern continents. For instance, at the beginning of the Paleozoic, today's western coast of North America ran east-west along the equator, while Africa was at the South Pole. These Paleozoic continents experienced tremendous mountain building along their margins, and numerous incursions and retreats of shallow seas across their interiors. Large limestone outcrops, like the one pictured here, are evidence of these periodic incursions of continental seas. The Paleozoic Era is bracketed by the times of global super-continents. The era opened with the breakup of the world-continent Pannotia and closed with the formation of Pangea, as the Earth's continents came together once again.
Many Paleozoic rocks are economically important. For example, much of the limestone quarried for building and industrial purposes, as well as the coal deposits of western Europe and the eastern United States, were formed during the Paleozoic.
The Paleozoic is divided into six periods: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous (in the U.S., this is divided into the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Periods), and Permian. Most of these names derive from locations where rocks of these ages were first studied. Cambria was the Latin name for Wales, and the Ordovices and Silures were two Welsh Celtic tribes. The Devonian is named for Devonshire, England. The Mississippian is named for the upper Mississippi River valley, not the state of Mississippi, which has very few rocks of this age; however, the Pennsylvanian is named for the state of Pennsylvania. The Permian was described from rocks in the region of Perm, a town in the Ural Mountains of Russia. The exception to this naming convention is the Carboniferous; its name means "coal-bearing," and this is a time when extensive coal beds were formed around the world.
Two great animal faunas dominated the seas during the Paleozoic. The "Cambrian fauna" typified the Cambrian oceans; although members of most phyla were present during the Cambrian, the seas were dominated by trilobites, inarticulate brachiopods, monoplacophoran molluscs, hyolithids, "small shelly fossils" of uncertain systematic position, and archaeocyathids. Although all of these except the archaeocyathids survived past the Cambrian, their diversity declined after the Ordovician. Later Paleozoic seas were dominated by crinoid and blastoid echinoderms, articulate brachiopods, graptolites, and tabulate and rugose corals.
By the end of the Ordovician, life was no longer confined to the seas. Plants had begun to colonize the land, closely followed in the Silurian by invertebrates, and in the Upper Devonian by vertebrates. The early tetrapods of this time were amphibian-like animals that eventually gave rise to the reptiles and synapsids by the end of the Paleozoic. One of the earliest terrestrial tetrapod faunas known in the world is from Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Land plants evolved rapidly into the vacant niches afforded them on land. By the end of the Devonian, forests of progymnosperms, such as Archaeopteris dominated the landscape. By the end of the Paleozoic, cycads, glossopterids, primitive conifers, and ferns were spreading across the landscape.
The Permian extinction, 251.4 million years ago, devastated the marine biota: tabulate and rugose corals, blastoid echinoderms, graptolites, the trilobites, and most crinoids died out. One lineage of crinoids survived, but never again would they dominate the marine environment.
Paleozoic fossil localities
* Dates from the International Commission on Stratigraphy's International Stratigraphic Chart, 2008.
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