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It's been one of the more exciting series thus far. I actually gained respect for both Marleau and Sarich in G3. Sarich turned the tide of that game, and Marleau actually surprised me by getting up after that. Guess he's not as soft as I thought.
I've really been impressed at what Grier, Clowe and Mitchell are bringing in this series. It's nice that their meal tickets finally showed up to play yesterday.
Its all quiet around the office today. Their psyche is fragile.
I did the boldest move in pool history and took Big Joe… and Michalek and Marleau…
These guys gotta start gettin more points goddamit!
I love seeing the Shames choke. Especially here in Southern AB… EVERY newspaper has a sad, sad little Flamey on it.
It seems the ONLY way the Flames can win is to play gooner hockey. If they play any other style they seem flat. I do appreciate Iginla's leadership and ability to dominate. He is always, always hard on the puck, wherever it is. The Flames do seem to run out of gas playing that 'maim the opponent at all costs' style of hockey. This happens lots in games and it will be interesting to see if it happens in the remaining games in the series. Marlowe, Thornton & Setaguchi seemed to have given the Sharks a lift with their determined play. I wonder if it carries over.
I though they let Calgary hang in too much last night. Perhaps Big Joe's first goal will get the team going.
Other than the Sarich hit – the dejected fans sitting in the Calgary stands is my second favorite highlight of the playoffs.
Go Big Joe! Go Rosie Grier!
I like the way the Sharks play hockey. I don't like the way Calgary and Vancouver play – always expecting their goalies to bail them out.
Flames fan are hilariously predictable, especially the Saddledomers.
When the Oil lost Game 4 in SCF'06, the Northlanders started chanting "Let's Go Oilers", hoping the boys could bring it back for Game 6.
The Chokers fans simply get up and leave.
"always expecting their goalies to bail them out."
Man, oftentimes Edmonton ain't much different.
Balderdash Spin. They were running and gunning teams out of the building, allowing 4 goals down the stretch for the Oil meant nothing, the kids were going to score 5.
They did miss the playoffs mind you…
Wanye, I'm all for out-scoring the opponent. That is, in fact, how games are won. But these aren't dynasty-era oilers, where the players can just keep racking up the goals if the other team starts to catch up.
The Oil need strong defencemen who will block shots, steal pucks, check opponents, and not just let Garon or Roloson get shelled all game long.
oh man that was awesome!!!!! Now,if the sharks can do it again tonight,i will truly enjoy tomorrow!!!! Hey, does anyone know if they have the parade route planned yet? Ya know, the "we lost in the first round again but Sutter's still god and Keenan's fired and maybe Fluery gonna coach us next year" parade route!!!!!!!
i HATE the LAMES.


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This app makes it easy to display a map for given address in django templates. No API keys, manual geocoding, html/js copy-pasting or django model changes is needed.
The license is MIT.
pip install geopy pip install django-easy-maps
Then add 'easy_maps' to INSTALLED_APPS and run ./manage.py syncdb (or ./manage.py migrate easy_maps if South is in use)
If working on localhost you can run into Google Maps API lockdown. If this happens then create a EASY_MAPS_GOOGLE_KEY in your settings.py file:
EASY_MAPS_GOOGLE_KEY = "your-google-maps-api-key"
This app provides an easy_map template tag:
{% easy_map <address> [<width> <height>] [<zoom>] [using <template_name>] %}
{% load easy_maps_tags %} <!-- Default map with 300x400 dimensions --> {% easy_map "Russia, Ekaterinburg, Mira 32" 300 400 %} <!-- Variable address, custom detail level and custom template --> {% easy_map address 200 200 5 using 'map.html' %}
The coordinates for map will be obtained using google geocoder on first access. Then they'll be cached in DB. Django's template caching can be used later in order to prevent DB access on each map render:
{% load easy_maps_tags cache %} {% cache 600 my_map firm.address %} {% easy_map firm.address 300 400 %} {% endcache %}
If the default map template is not sufficient then custom map template can be used. Examples:
{% easy_map address using 'map.html' %} {% easy_map address 200 300 5 using 'map.html' %}
The template will have 'map' (it is the easy_maps.models.Address instance auto-created for passed address on first access), 'width', 'height' and 'zoom' variables. The outer template context is passed to rendered template as well.
The default template can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/kmike/django-easy-maps/src/tip/easy_maps/templates/easy_maps/map.html
You can start your own template from scratch or just override some blocks in the default template.
Please refer to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/ for detailed Google Maps JavaScript API help.
Address model
easy_maps.models.Address model has the following fields:
- address - the requested address
- computed_address - address returned by geocoder
- longitude
- latitude
- geocode_error - True if geocoder wasn't able to handle the address
Address model should be considered implementation detail. Its purpose is to avoid using geocoder for each request, that's a kind of persistent cache. It is included in readme because information about available data can be useful for custom map templates.
Admin address preview
django-easy-maps provides basic widget that displays a map under the address field. It can be used in admin for map previews. Example usage:
from django import forms from django.contrib import admin from easy_maps.widgets import AddressWithMapWidget from firms.models import Firm class FirmAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): class form(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: widgets = { 'address': AddressWithMapWidget({'class': 'vTextField'}) } admin.site.register(Firm, FirmAdmin)
'address' field should be a CharField or TextField.
If you've found a bug, implemented a feature or customized the template and think it is useful then please consider contributing. Patches, pull requests or just suggestions are welcome!
Source code: https://bitbucket.org/kmike/django-easy-maps/
Bug tracker: https://bitbucket.org/kmike/django-easy-maps/issues/new

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Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl
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Princess Una of Parumvir has come of age and will soon be married. She dreams of a handsome and charming prince, but when the first suitor arrives, she finds him stodgy and boring. Prince Aethelbald from the mysterious land of Farthestshore has traveled far to prove his love--and also to bring hushed warnings of danger. A dragon is rumoured to be approaching Parumvir. Una, smitten instead with a more dashing prince, refuses Aethelbald's offer--and ignores his warnings. Soon the Dragon King himself is in Parumvir, and Una, in giving her heart away unwisely, finds herself in grave danger. Only those courageous enough to risk everything have a hope of fighting off this advancing evil.


text: Your hidden content engine Published on March 12, 2012. I recently checked my channel on SlideShare.net, a site where people swap PowerPoints and webinars to reap bonus visibility years after a presentation has ended. I found that my 58 slide decks have collectively been viewed more than 95,000 times and logged more than 5,000 downloads. One presentation from three years ago to an audience of about 100 people has been viewed nearly 10,000 times. Total cost to me: zero. I tell you this because of an objection I often hear from b-to-b marketers. They want to join the content marketing craze but they don't have any content to market. I submit that the problem isn't content but culture. Most organizations produce far more content than they think. Sales reps prepare presentations; engineers craft papers for industry conferences; customer support reps answer the same questions every day; the accounting department builds spreadsheet templates; and the marketing department distributes a list of media coverage of your industry. In most companies, this content is never seen by more than a few people. Documents and emails are discarded or archived. But today this content can find new life and audiences using simple online tools. Customer testimonials, instructional videos and webinars can be posted to YouTube. Spreadsheet templates, RFPs and catalogs can live on Scribd.com. Frequently asked questions can become short blog entries. An engineer can be debriefed about a conference in an audio interview that becomes a podcast. Properly titled, tagged and branded, this content can become the bait that lures passers-by who would never otherwise have heard of you. And most of these services are free. Why don't more organizations take advantage of these channels? Fear of disclosing trade secrets is a common concern, but I suggest much of the content most companies create would be of more value if disclosed than kept secret. The bigger reason we don't share is that we either aren't aware of the options or we assume others wouldn't be interested in what we have. Marketers can address the first concern by familiarizing themselves and their colleagues with the many sites that permit almost any kind of digital content to be shared. As far as who's interested, let the crowd decide. One of the joys of sharing content is the surprise of discovering what others find valuable. Last year, Corning Inc. prepared a 5½ minute video called "A Day Made of Glass." Originally intended as a conversation starter for a few design and R&D organizations, the video went viral on YouTube, where it has racked up almost 18 million views. Corning, which fights the same name recognition battles as any other large OEM, is reaping visibility and lead-generation benefits from the video's surprising success. That's leverage. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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and Change Your Game on the Water
Whether it's blasting powerfully out of the hole, unleashing a strong midrange punch or screaming across thewater at top speed, anglers who change the game of fishing find themselves at the top of the leader boards.
This spring and summer, learn how you can improve your on-the-water performance when you demo the powerful and reliable Yamaha 4.2L and 2.8L outboards that are changing the game in the boating marketplace. Make your plan now for your own high-performance demo ride that will make you a believer in the benefits of Yamaha's line of V MAX SHO and V6 Offshore outboards.
From April through November, Yamaha's 2014 Demo Tour will appear at boat shows and fishing tournaments at selected sites from Texas to New York.
Tournament after tournament, Yamaha's V MAX SHO and V6 Offshore outboards offer game-changing performance with the same clean, quiet and smooth demeanor that have made Yamaha four-strokes famous. These engines are lighter and — whether at idle, part or wide-open throttle — burn less fuel and take you farther between fill ups. That could mean the difference between getting to the fish or not.
"Customers need to feel the difference. For those who like their four stroke lighter, faster and fiercer, we invite them to come out to do just that in a demo ride," said Dale Barnes, Yamaha Marine Group Division Manager, Marketing. "These energetic outboards provide an impressive hole shot, competitive top speeds and incredible mid-range punch. They match four-stroke efficiency with virtual two-stroke performance. There is nothing short of a winning combination when you rig your boat with the V MAX SHO or V6 Offshore outboards."
Yamaha's 2014 Demo Tour kicked off in March at the 1st Bass Elite tournament at Lake Seminole, GA. The tour continues with demo rides available at every B.A.S.S. Elite tournament site through September, as well as the Charleston In-Water Boat Show, April 25-27, and many more fishing tournaments this season in Alabama, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Maine. For a complete list of the 2014 Demo Tour sites, visit the online Yamaha Events Calendar.
Take a ride, learn about Yamaha's V MAX SHO and V6 Offshore 4.2L Demo Tours, and walk away with a limited-time special promotion. Participants every day who take advantage of the demo ride will receive a voucher good for a one-year Yamaha Extended Warranty Protection — with an MSRP value of up to $1,500 — on the purchase of an eligible new outboard. Some restrictions apply. Additional terms and conditions apply.


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By Gerda MenzelOn Nov 22, 2017 Ideas
Vertical blinds use a generally wider slat and one can pull a cord to stack the slats together, to one side, or to separate them in the centre and stack them on each end. The slats can be rotated via a rotating shaft in the upper head rail housing, which runs through independent geared carriers that convert the twisting of a tilt rail to a rotation of each individual slat in synchrony. The original vertical blinds were invented in Kansas City, Missouri by Edward Bopp and Fredrick Bopp, who held the original patent. The company name at the time was Sun Vertical. In the 1960s, the patent and company were sold.
Horizontal blinds use a thin woven corded ladder system to suspend the slats and enable them to be closed or opened via a rotating drum to which each upper end of the woven ladder is wrapped and attached. A lift cord allows the blind to be pulled up and stack tightly to top of the window when desired.
Some types of blinds, such as Holland blinds and woven-wood blinds, have small spaces between the slats. Others, such as pleated shades, have no spaces, because the slats are sewn inside fabric. Window blinds reduce the heat from sunlight. Ancient Egyptian pharaohs had blinds made of reeds. The most inexpensive blinds in the 19th century were home-made roller blinds, made of cloth.
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Shop Now: BBC's 'Bee Line' 2013 Spring Collection
Billionaire Boys Club's new Bee Line imprint has been keeping those trying to cop the new 2013 Spring collection on their toes for a minute now, but now the wait is over.
With help from one of our favorite fashion craftsmen, designer Mark McNairy, Bee Line offers up some interesting patterns and color blends that enforce the entire BBC family's influence on high-quality streetwear. With Bee Line's SS'13 steez, you'll find polka dot print varsity jackets (done right), mesh-lined windbreakers, and decked out camo print designs (seen above) just to name a few.
Head over to the BBC flagship store to shop the entire collection, or hit up their webstore by clicking [HERE].


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Apollo Punches Ticket To State Tourney With Upset Win [AUDIO]
St. Cloud Apollo is going to the MSHSL Boys Hockey State Tournament for the first time since 1984 after upsetting Little Falls Thursday night.
The St. Cloud Apollo Eagles upset #1 seed Little Falls 6-3 Thursday night at the MAC in front of a jam-packed house. The Eagles will play March 6 at the Xcel Energy Center with time to be determined.
Little Falls earned a five minute power play early in the first period and controlled play for much of the opening frame. The Flyers had eight shots on goal in the first period but could not solve freshman goaltender Nick Althaus. The Eagles' lone shot came as time expired. Apollo coach Pete Matanich said his message in the locker room was simple.
"Just keep your poise," Matanich said. "We had to fight off a five minute major, so it was huge for us to stay calm."
The Eagles kept their composure even after Little Falls' Taylor Drager broke the stalemate at 2:55 of the second period.
Jason Omann, already with nine assists in the postseason but no goals, buried a shot past Little Falls star goaltender Michael Stumpf to tie the game at 7:28.
Omann struck again at 10:17 on a rebound for his 18th of the season to give Apollo their first lead at 2-1, and they would not trail for the remainder of the game.
The score remained 2-1 at the second intermission with the shots on goal evening up a bit at 13-9 for the period in favor of the Flyers but still 21-10 overall through two.
Apollo went up 3-1 on a Brandon Bloch goal just :17 into the third period, before Little Falls' Luke Majerle snapped the streak of three unanswered Eagle goals to cut the lead to one.
Under a minute later, Eagles senior and leading scorer Jared Christen answered to make the score 4-2.
Thomas Miller scored for Little Falls with three minutes left in the game, but Brandon Bissett answered at 15:37 to put the game out of reach. Omann scored into the empty net to complete the hat trick.
Althaus ended up winning the battle of the goaltenders, making 32 saves on 35 shots. Matanich said his goaltender was "unreal."
"Over the last seven or eight games for us he was lights out," Matanich said. "It seems like the more pressure, the better he plays."


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Sheriff's deputies are investigating two separate crashes that sent several people to the hospital.
St. Joseph County Sheriff's deputies are investigating two separate crashes that sent several people to the hospital Thursday and Friday.
Around 9:45 a.m. Friday, deputies were called to the intersection of Shimmel and Featherstone roads.
Deputies said David Bankston, 31, of Three Rivers was driving south on Shimmel Road when his vehicle was struck by a vehicle driven by Layne, Fink, 47, of Kalamazoo, who was westbound on Featherstone Road and failed to stop.
Bankston and a passenger, Stacey Schwartz, 24, of Centreville, were taken to Sturgis Hospital.
Fink refused medical treatment.
Assisting deputies were Tri-Township Fire Department and LifeCare Ambulance.
Just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday, deputies were called to the intersection of Witt Lake and Robinson roads in Burr Oak Township.
Police said a car driven by Lisa Marie Anderson, 28, of Sturgis left the road and struck a tree.
Anderson was taken to Sturgis Hospital, where she was treated and released.
In a press statement, deputies said alcohol may be a factor in the crash.
Assisting deputies were Burr Oak Fire Department and LifeCare Ambulance.


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Going global could provide the magic 'Touch' for a new TV drama starring Kiefer Sutherland
NEW YORK (AP) ' Growing up in New York City, Jake Bohm has never uttered a word and recoils from any human touch, even by his dad.
The young hero of Fox's new drama, "Touch," he's an 11-year-old sage who finds patterns in numbers linking individuals all over the world. He foresees how one life can be touched by others in unlikely ways to their mutual benefit. Series star Kiefer Sutherland plays his father, who, desperate to connect with Jake (David Mazouz), serves as his mouthpiece and connection to the outside world.
On the series premiere, Jake uncovers urgent connections between a distraught flight attendant, a son visiting New York from India to spread his father's ashes, a kid in Moscow with a magic act, plus a cancer patient and a mobster. (It airs Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, a follow-up to the pilot episode repeated last week after previewing in January.)
But the universal language of numbers and a rainbow coalition of characters aren't the only things that give "Touch" its global scope. The cosmic unity of "Touch" is also demonstrated in how it's being launched: all at once around the world.
In other words, "Touch" is a reminder that not only does one life potentially connect with every other, but, increasingly, so does every TV viewer intersect with TV audiences everywhere else. We are family, indeed.
Already, the globalization of U.S. television is becoming the norm. But a typical TV distribution pattern calls for a staggered rollout: A series airing this season on a U.S. network may not reach foreign viewers for months, even years.
Not so with "Touch," which is debuting concurrently in more than 100 countries. Within days it will be seen on Global Television in Canada, Sky 1 in the United Kingdom, ProSieben in Germany, Yes TV in Israel and Channel One in Russia. Fox International Channels will carry the series in 64 countries throughout Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Meanwhile, the consumer-products giant Unilever has signed on as global sponsor, airing its commercials on the show in markets around the world. (We are family as consumers, too.)
The goal of "Touch": to touch viewers nearly everywhere, simultaneously.
"There are 7 billion people in the world, and less than 400 million of them are in the United States," says Peter Chernin, a "Touch" executive producer. "So it's appropriate that a show about connectiveness is being released to the world in arguably the most connected way of any TV show ever."
The series has kicked off with a global promotional odyssey, a barnstorming tour by Sutherland that took him to London, Berlin, Madrid and Moscow. That was followed on Sunday by a world-premiere screening and satellite-linked shindig in New York that allowed fans from around the world, including Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Thailand and Turkey, to pose questions about "Touch" to its stars and producers via Twitter and Skype while watching the event as a webcast.
"Our show celebrates how diverse we all are, and then talks about the kind of human threads that connect us all," declared Sutherland in response to one tweeted inquiry.
"The story line travels to multiple countries in every episode, so it's only fitting that the marketing campaign should, as well," says Joe Earley, Fox Broadcasting's president of marketing and communications.
Sutherland's crush of publicity duties have been heaped on his hectic shooting schedule in L.A. (production doesn't wrap until next month), but it's paying off.
"An on-the-ground visit from the star is helping generate the kind of buzz you typically only have for a U.S. launch," says Marion Edwards, International TV president of 20th Century Fox Television Distribution.
She says Sutherland's presence on "Touch" has been crucial in selling the show internationally. Thanks to his past success on Fox's global hit "24," where he played indomitable counter-terrorist Jack Bauer, Sutherland is popular around the world.
Even so, no one thought of him initially to play devoted dad Martin Bohm.
"Kiefer's name was not on any of our lists," says "Touch" creator Tim Kring. "We assumed that coming off '24' after eight seasons, he probably wouldn't want to jump right back into that kind of grind."
But clearly he did, and his global profile dovetails nicely with the series' international thrust. And when Fox held the show for a midseason premiere, producers suddenly gained extra time to translate and dub the 13 episodes for international audiences. A full-scale global release seemed feasible without the customary lag.
"The elements came together in a way that's fairly unusual," notes Edwards. "We said, 'This is the time.'" That announcement was made at MIPCOM, the international entertainment market in France last October.
There was another good reason to tie the world together for "Touch" (and to hope this sort of release pattern can be replicated in the future for other series): The impact of "Touch" could have been drastically undercut by the Internet and a TV-watching world joined by social media.
"People are aware of everything all over the world almost instantaneously, as boundaries between countries are collapsing," says Chernin. "The traditional way of sequencing television shows is: premiere in the U.S. in the fall, then start appearing other places in the world in a sort of patchwork-quilt pattern. But I'm not sure that's relevant to the way the world consumes entertainment and information anymore."
Kring agrees. "We need to make each episode available to viewers when everybody really wants to see it ' that narrow window of heat is when you need to put it on the air, not two or three months later."
He says he got an early taste of the emerging global village of TV when he visited Paris early in 2007 for a promotional event for his previous series, "Heroes," which had premiered in the U.S. the previous September.
"We wondered if there would be any sort of a turnout," he recalls, "but there was a huge crowd of cheering fans at the theater. The shocker was, the show wasn't officially airing in France until that June.
"This idea of borders and time slots makes very little sense when it comes to fan-dom," Kring says. "The fans will find the show on their own."
But in the days ahead, few viewers in the world within sight of a TV should have to look hard to be "Touch"-ed.
EDITOR'S NOTE ' Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier


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New counseling site to support victims of sexual assault, child abuse in Eastern Niagara
The YWCA of Niagara and the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara have fulfilled a long-held vision with the dedication of a new facility to serve adult sexual assault victims and child victims of abuse. The announcement during ceremonies at the YWCA in Lockport.
The new facility, named The YWCA Counseling Suite/Child Advocacy Center Lockport Satellite, will greatly improve accessibility to important support services for victims in eastern Niagara County, spokespersons for both organizations said.
A ribbon-cutting and open house were held at the YWCA, 32 Cottage St.
"All women and children need a place they can go to feel safe and protected. Until today, many in central and eastern Niagara County, especially those who lack transportation, did not have easy access to such a place," said CEO Kathleen A. Granchelli of the YWCA of Niagara. "We're honored to partner with the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara to ensure that both women and children who are suspected victims of abuse or sexual assault can receive essential services in a safe, convenient setting."
"This effort has created a warm and supportive environment in Lockport," said Laura Kelemen, LCSW-R, executive director of the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara. "Our dedicated, highly trained and compassionate professionals from law enforcement, child protective services and the district attorney's office will use this child-friendly place to interview, counsel and prepare children for court while ensuring they will not be re-victimized by telling their tragic stories over and over again."
The YWCA Counseling Suite/Child Advocacy Center Lockport Satellite site was made possible by donations by the Radecke family and the compassionate response of individuals and service organizations.
Those interested in learning more or donating to this cause can visitwww.ywcaniagara.org or www.cacofniagara.org.
About the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara:
The Child Advocacy Center of Niagara, a service of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, was founded in 1995 as a partnership between local law enforcement agencies, the Niagara County District Attorney's Office and the Niagara County Department of Social Services. It was the third child advocacy center to be established in New York and one of the first nationally approved, hospital-affiliated centers in the Empire State. The center coordinates a multi-disciplinary team of law enforcement, child protective services, criminal justice, medical, mental health and victim assistance professionals in Niagara County to assure that every child suspected of being abused has somewhere to go and someone to listen in child-friendly environment. It is a fully accredited member of the National Children's Alliance.
To learn more, visit www.cacofniagara.org.
About the YWCA of Niagara
Since 1915, the YWCA of Niagara has actively worked to eliminate racism and empower women. Originally named the YWCA of Lockport, the agency expanded its service base in 1996 and became a county-wide provider of services to women and girls. With more than a dozen programs and services, the YWCA of Niagara provides comprehensive alternatives to domestic violence, a 24/7 staffed domestic violence hotline and shelter for women and children, transitional housing, and more.
The YWCA of Niagara oversees the county's only rape and sexual assault crisis program, ensuring that adult victims of sexual assault have access to trained and certified confidential advocates. To learn more, visit www.ywcaniagara.org.


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The mass production of flash memory to power USB drives and Apple's iPod and iPhone has made this once-costly technology a good deal less expensive. This price drop has fueled speculation that flash memory, with advantages in speed and power consumption, could displace traditional magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs) in computers. Flash memory is also known as solid-state drive technology.But will magnetic storage go extinct? Despite some predictions that within three or four years HDD will be a thing of the past, there remain doubts. It's still expensive today to replace laptop HDDs with flash--the difference could be as much as US $300 more per laptop--and HDD's demise has been predicted several times before, prematurely. One alternative route is that of coexistence--manufacturers have begun introducing hybrid drives that incorporate both flash and magnetic storage.


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Louisiana's controversial new teacher-evaluation tool could become more accessible to teachers, state education officials announced Monday.
Louisiana's controversial new teacher-evaluation tool could become more accessible to teachers, state education officials announced Monday.
The COMPASS "value-added" system, implemented this year at the behest of the Legislature, uses a mix of principal evaluations and student-test scores to measure how well a teacher is doing his or her job.
Under new laws passed last year, a teacher's COMPASS score can influence his or her pay, tenure and job security.
Many teachers have complained that they didn't understand the complex formulas that make up a COMPASS score.
State Education Superintendent John White said Monday's proposed changes are meant to help clear up that confusion.
"What we're doing is clarifying what the system means for teachers and maximizing the feedback they can get from their principals," White said.
White said the biggest change is detailing what is expected of teachers.
At the start of each school year, teachers will get a detailed report of their class, with the test score each individual student is expected to make by the end of the year.
That score is based on each student's previous scores, adjusted for factors like family income, disabilities and honors classes.
At the end of the year, teachers will get the same report, showing each student's expected score, the score they earned, and how each score affected the teacher's overall score.
Originally, the COMPASS system didn't include a starting report, and the end-of-year report was less detailed.
"We heard many teachers tell us that they wanted to see the data themselves, so they knew exactly what was expected of them," White said. "This does that for them."
White said the changes will add guidance for teachers on how to earn the best COMPASS score.
The Department of Education will provide videos over the summer breaking down each part of the COMPASS system for teachers and showing how to meet those goals.
The principal-evaluation systems are also likely to change. Instead of one "formal" review and one "informal" review for each teacher, the state is allowing principals flexibility to give high-scoring teachers one review, as long as they use that time to give additional reviews to low-scoring teachers.
Finally, the changes will allow principals some leeway to tweak scores for teachers who earn the most common "effective" score.
There are four scores a teacher can earn under Compass, from a "one" — ineffective — to a "four" — highly effective. White said the vast majority of teachers earn either a "two" or a "three," both of which are "effective."
The proposed changes will allow principals to nudge teachers' scores from a two to a three or a three to a two. For example, if a teacher's students earn scores to make a three, but a principal sees problems in the statistics, the principal can lower the score to a two and give the teacher detailed reasons why.
White said the principal can't change a teacher's overall score.
"This is just a method for principals to give teachers more feedback," White said.
Before these changes take effect, they must be approved by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Lottie Beebe, the BESE member who represents Houma-Thibodaux, said it's likely the board would pass the proposal, but she would likely vote against it.
A frequent critic of the COMPASS program, Beebe said she's pleased to see White's team listening to teachers' complaints.
"I'm glad to see them recognizing flaws in the system and listening to the teachers who are in the classroom and trying to fix things," Beebe said.
Still, Beebe said she still has concerns about the system. She's still not convinced the COMPASS system accounts for factors outside a teacher's control, like parental involvement or student discipline. She worries that principals and staff members aren't trained well enough to set the right test-score targets.
"The fact that they're going in and making these changes is almost an admission that the instrument is flawed," Beebe said. "We moved way too fast on this. These are problems that we should have worked out before we started implementing COMPASS."
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Giving to Lucas College and Graduate School of Business
For over 80 years the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University (SJSU) has played an important role in developing business leaders. It may surprise you that our College currently provides the largest percentage of business professionals to our world-class Silicon Valley business community. More than ever, we need your support to continue this legacy.
In the last two years, the budget cuts to the CSU system have resulted in a reduction of about 15% in our classes. Importantly, the State General Fund contribution to the CSU system has now declined from an average of 3.5% (1998 to 2008) to 1.8% in 2009. The portion of SJSU's operating budget from student fees has risen from 35% in 2006 to 55% in 2009 while the State contribution has declined from 65% to 45%. Thus, for the first time, students now contribute more than the State.
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Video Highlights CIU Study Tour
Study tours at Columbia International University prepare students to share God's heart for the world. These credit-bearing courses expose students to the sights, sounds and practices of other cultures as they see God at work in a variety of contexts.
Some examples of study tours include a two-week tour of Europe that is part of the Humanities program. CIU also offers an Israel study tour in partnership Jerusalem University College, where classroom instruction supplements field study in archeology and geography.
The International Student Teaching Practicum in Belize provides students with a teaching opportunity in an international setting.
The most recent trip to Belize included 20 students from the Bible Teaching program and the Master of Arts in Teaching program. But it was also an opportunity for Communication major Seth McCain to put his video skills to work.
McCain called the trip a "neat experience" as he traveled to two locations in Belize to shoot and produce a video about the trip.
"Not only did I shoot video of my colleagues teaching in their classrooms, I had an opportunity to teach," McCain said. "We prepared Bible lesson plans on the book of Esther, and taught science, English, and math as well."
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Word on a big sale in the post-production industry seems to have broken Labor Day evening that Blackmagic Design is buying da Vinci. Most everyone in post has heard of Blackmagic Design (their convertors and capture cards like the DeckLink and Intensity or the new UltraScope) but I'm often surprised how many are not familiar with da Vinci. da Vinci makes high end color grading and film restoration systems.
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More likely than not, an Art of the Cut interview with Brent White, ACE, would probably be about editing comedy. His previous work includes, Ghostbusters, Spy, Anchorman (1 and 2), Step Brothers, Knocked Up, Talladega Nights and The 40 Year old Virgin, and before that, Desperate Housewives and Freaks and Geeks. It was his time at Freaks and Geeks that connected him with the cadre of the best and brightest directors in comedy.
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Kendall Rodriguez snapped out of her funk just in time.
Kendall Rodriguez snapped out of her funk just in time.
The Pacific senior forward saw her scoreless streak extended into the second half at Saint Mary's, but then she couldn't miss from the outside, scoring 19 points in the final 9 minutes to carry the Tigers to a 75-72 win on Thursday before 440 fans at McKeon Pavilion in Moraga.
Rodriguez didn't score in a 78-43 loss Saturday at No. 1 Stanford for the first time in 89 career starts. She continued misfiring against the Gaels until she made five consecutive 3-pointers in a 4-minute, 25-second span that erased an eight-point deficit and gave Pacific (8-2) a seven-point lead it wouldn't relinquish. Rodriguez played only 3 minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, so she had some extra energy after halftime.
"I was fired up going into the second half," Rodriguez said. "Then I missed three consecutive open looks and I started getting worried, but my teammates kept looking for me. I don't think I've ever made that many 3s like that before."
Senior forward Ashley Wakefield also bounced back for Pacific after going 0 for 13 and scoring one point against the Cardinal. On Thursday, she finished with 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting.
Pacific coach Lynne Roberts said she remained positive with her team trailing 57-49 with 9:08 remaining.
"I just told them there was a ton of time and we're a good team, so let's not panic," Roberts said. "It's a really, really big win against a good team and we made really big shots to do it."
Rodriguez hit most of those big shots.
"Kendall is a competitor and I would never count her out of anything," Roberts said. "She stepped up like she has for four years, I'm so proud of her."
Junior point guard Gena Johnson finished with 10 points, five rebounds and four assists, and sophomore center Kendall Kenyon battled foul trouble and had 10 rebounds and two points in 13 minutes.
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Spreecast allows two to four people to converse at one time, while a much larger audience can watch and listen.
The medium of video chat is getting renewed attention with the advent of Google+ Hangouts, which accommodates up to 10 simultaneous participants. In September, Google introduced Hangouts on Air, which can host large numbers of viewers in addition to the 10 participants. However, Google has only supported the broadcasting of Hangouts in a limited number of cases, treating it as an experimental feature. Individual Hangout organizers who wanted to share with a larger audience have hacked the experience by capturing the video feed to one of the Hangout user accounts. With Spreecast, no special steps are necessary--your chat will be broadcast publicly on the website unless you go out of your way to make it private.
Broadcasts also are archived on the website, allowing participants to go back and review private sessions and anyone to view a replay of a public session.
[Get webcam and microphone tips for better video chat at the Spreecast website.]
"We really want to bring face-to-face interactions across the Internet to life in a more widespread way, a more public way," Spreecast CEO Jeff Fluhr said in an interview. He sees this as a perfect vehicle for a writer or performer, major or minor in celebrity, to engage with fans. It could also be a way for politicians or candidates to talk to voters online. "There are many people out there who have Twitter and Facebook pages, and they want Spreecast to be added to list tools," he said.
Fluhr previously founded the online ticket resale site StubHub.com in 2000 and served as its CEO until its acquisition by eBay in 2007.
Although the initial launch version of Spreecast is limited to four on-screen participants, the broader audience can participate by text chat, or by posting a question. It's also possible to add and drop on-screen participants, bringing in new people as the conversation progresses, Fluhr said. Google+ Hangouts "are probably most similar to what we're doing from a technology perspective," he said, but the one major difference is that the creator of a Spreecast gets producer controls that allow him to control the session. Also, Hangouts are tied to Google+, whereas Spreecast is an independent service that can be promoted through any social network, just by posting a link.
Online apparel retailer Bonobos is exploring using the tool for market research, and you can see an archived Spreecast session of Bonobos founder and CEO Andy Dunn chatting with Colin M. Evans, the founder and managing partner of Sandwith Ventures, LLC, an investor in both companies who made the introduction.
"We're launching a new product line in the month of November, so it was fun to try out a Spreecast channel and generate some enthusiasm for the product launch," Dunn said.
Now that Spreecast has had its official launch, Bonobos will put more planning into the next session and promote it more widely, he said.
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Rascal Flatts is one of the most successful country crossover acts of the past decade. The award-winning trio has released eight studio records in 10 years and sold more than 21 million albums.
So why did the group recently consider breaking up?
"We had reached a crossroads to where we needed to dig deep to see if we, in fact, had the fire and hunger that we did when we first started out — to keep trying to forge ahead and be better than we'd been and push ourselves to be creatively energized again," bass player Jay DeMarcus says.
Singer Gary LeVox, DeMarcus and guitarist Joe Don Rooney said that, after long conversations and much consideration, they decided they still had more to say. The group's new record, the aptly titled Changed, demonstrates Rascal Flatts' renewed dedication to "rekindling the fire deep down inside."
"Making this last record, it sort of felt like those early days where we were back in my little one-bedroom apartment all those years ago, making our first demo tapes," DeMarcus says.
After being billed as a pop-country act for the past few years with crossover hits like "God Bless the Broken Road" and "What Hurts the Most," Rascal Flatts' members return to their country roots on Changed.
"If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then," DeMarcus says. "The last couple of years, we've tried to be deliberate about finding things that reflected sort of where we've come from and what our early sound was."
RASCAL FLATTS: (Singing) I came up out of the water, raised my hands up to the father.
That's a new song from the country music super group, Rascal Flatts. For the last few years, the band has been heard all over - country and pop radio - with hits that include "Blessed the Broken Road" and "What Hurts the Most." Rascal Flatts has sold more than 21 million albums. They are the top-selling and most-awarded country group of the last decade.
So why did they recently consider breaking up? It's been a time of transition for Rascal Flatts, and their new CD is titled aptly enough, "Changed."
FLATTS: (Singing) I'm changed for the better, for smiles that's bitter. I'm even starting to forgive myself...
SIMON: The group's members, singer Gary LeVox, bass player Jay DeMarcus and guitarist Joe Don Rooney all joined us from our studios at NPR West.
Gentlemen, thanks so much for being with us.
GARY LEVOX: Oh, thank you for having us.
JAY DEMARCUS: Great to be here.
SIMON: We've got a third voice we haven't heard.
SIMON: Unless you're, you know, you're genuinely indifferent about this, and we can accept that and try and build from there.
ROONEY: I love it. I love it. No, we're very proud and happy to be here with you.
SIMON: Gary LeVox, you wrote this title track that we just heard a few seconds of, "Changed."
LEVOX: Mm-hmm.
SIMON: What are you trying to get across in that song?
LEVOX: You know, I think a lot of times the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself of past mistakes. The first step is admitting that you've made mistakes. It's OK to change, you know, no matter how many times you fall down you can always get back up.
SIMON: Well, help us understand what these last few years have been like for you. Because I, you know, I will warn you in advance, it's going to be hard for you to break anyone's heart, given the success you've had over the past 10 years.
DEMARCUS: This is Jay. It was just, we had reached a crossroads to where we needed to dig deep to see if we, in fact, had the fire and hunger that we did when we had first started out. After a very long day's worth of conversations it became clear to all three of us that we did have something left to say and we did have some fire deep down inside that we wanted to rekindle. And making this last record, it sort of felt like those early days to where we were back in my little one-bedroom apartment all those years ago, making our first demo tapes.
SIMON: Jay DeMarcus, could you bring us back to those days in your one-bedroom apartment? Was this in Nashville?
DEMARCUS: It was. I lived in a little one-bedroom apartment and I had an ADAT machine in there that we'd get around and sing our harmonies together. And those are some of my most favorite times because we were so hungry and so desperate to have something happen. And I quite honestly feel like the last few years we lost a little bit of that. We just sort of started phoning it in, so to speak.
SIMON: Well, you've made what, eight studio albums in 10 years?
DEMARCUS: Yes, sir.
SIMON: For a lot of people that's not even enough time to phone it in.
DEMARCUS: Wellâ¦
SIMON: That's a lot of work.
DEMARCUS: It is a lot of work. I guess what I mean by that is that when you come face-to face with something that works very well and we've been fortunate to have amazing fans, doesn't mean that it's not good. It doesn't mean that it doesn't have substance, but you can allow yourself to put it on autopilot sometimes and stop digging deeper to find different things inside of you that are creative that will inspire you.
SIMON: Let's listen to another song, "Banjo."
FLATTS: (Singing) You gotta go deep way on back. Cross a few creeks and a couple little shacks. You gotta get lost; way on out, crickets and frogs, yeah, you're gettin' close now. And you kick it into four wheel drive when you run out of road and you go, and you go and you go-go-go. Till you hear a banjo, oh, there it is.
SIMON: Is it intentional, this is your most country-sounding album in a while?
DEMARCUS: You know, the funny thing about us is we've always been derided as this pop/country band, but if people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then. On the last few albums you'll find some countrier things on there than you might have five or six years ago.
SIMON: What is the name mean, Rascal Flatts?
DEMARCUS: He who singeth country influence music.
DEMARCUS: You know what? We were actually in that club that we used to play in Nashville, Tennessee called the Fiddle & Steel Guitar Bar. Then one night from stage we just said, hey, if anybody's got a cool idea for a band name, you know, please let us know. And a buddy of ours said man, we used to have a band back in the '60s, he said we used to call ourselves Rascal Flatts. He said by god, that, ya'll look like Rascal Flatts to me. And we said what's it mean? And he said well, I don't know, but that's just what we called ourselves, you know, and so we went with it and it's worked, I think.
SIMON: Let's listen to another song you wrote Jay DeMarcus, "Let It Hurt."
FLATTS: (Singing) So let it hurt, let it bleed. Let it take you right down through your knees. Let it burn to the worst degree. May not be what you want, but it's what you need. Sometimes the only way around it is to let love do it's work. So go on, yeah, let it hurt.
SIMON: Gary LeVox?
LEVOX: Yes, sir.
SIMON: Early on, how did your kind of soulful vocal interpretations go over?
LEVOX: You know, I don't know. I think, you know, being a kid - I was always affected as a child by great singers and I would try to emulate them as a kid. I remember trying to sing stuff like Peabo Bryson, Keith Whitley and Ronnie Milsap, and he would do those lyrics and Merle Haggard and Conway Twitty and all the way to Steve Wonder.
You know, but when we hit the scene, our first album came out June 6th of 2000, and I think it was fresh and I think our sound was new and we were right at the tail end of the 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys kind of thing, which we certainly weren't trying to do. We just happened to be three guys that it was a timing thing. But, you know, I think as times went on our brand of country music has opened a lot of doors for the Carrie Underwoods and the Taylor Swifts. And, you know, music evolves and we've been blessed and fortunate enough to be able to evolve with it.
FLATTS: (Singing) Yeah, let it hurt. Oh, let it hurt. 7:42 in the morning, eight seconds before it all sinks in.
SIMON: You, Rascal Flatts, recently became, I guess the newest members of the Grand Ole Opry.
ROONEY: Yeah, this is Joe Don. We sure did. Last October, one of the greatest days of Rascal Flatts' life, for sure. When I step back and think about September, though, of last year when we were asked to be the next members to join, we were blown away. It's something that's been on are radar since we were kids and wanted to move to Nashville with the dream to try to make it in the business and someday play the Opry and one day be a member of the Opry. I mean those were all wild dreams, you know?
SIMON: Yeah.
ROONEY: But you have to dream big if you want to get in this dance and we always have been dreamers - all three of us.
SIMON: Give us a song to go out on, and tell us why.
DEMARCUS: This is Jay. You know, for me, I'd have to go with "A Little Home" because that song immediately touched me when I first heard the demo. You know, I've been gone - when I left for college, it's been 21 years ago now, so I've been away from home for a long time, and there were so many times that I just...
SIMON: Where's home? Forgive me for not...
DEMARCUS: Home was Columbus, Ohio. That's where I was born and raised.
SIMON: Mm-hmm.
DEMARCUS: And I left home to go to school when I was 19 and I've been gone ever since. And I remember many, many nights just needing to pick the phone up and hear my mom's voice on the other end. So that song really, really hit me hard when I heard it.
SIMON: Gentlemen, it's been wonderful talking to you. Thanks so much.
LEVOX: Thank you.
DEMARCUS: Thank you. For having us. Appreciate it.
ROONEY: Thank you so much, man.
SIMON: Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts, joining us from NPR West. Their newest album, latest album, "Changed," is out now. Let's listen to a little bit of "A Little Home."
FLATTS: (Singing) Sometimes you just need a little home. So, hey, mom and dad, what's going on? I'm just checking in. No, there ain't nothing wrong. Sometimes you just need a little home.
SIMON: You can hear more from Rascal Flatts on our website, NPR Music.org. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
FLATTS: (Singing) Sit down in the sand, shoebox in his hand, half a world away. And he smiles when he sees who it's from. He lays down his gun, no, he can't wait. The cards and letters and something sweet, he takes a bite and reads. Everybody sends their love and he tears up.
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PARIS — A registered sex offender from Maine has admitted to violating his probation by volunteering on a school-sponsored field trip.
Rodney Heath of Otisfield was charged with prohibited contact with a minor after attending a field trip organized by the Oxford Hills Technical School in Paris.
A hearing on whether his probation will be revoked was continued until Dec. 14.
The director of the school tells the Sun Journal the field trip was a weekend volunteer event, and students were invited to bring family members. Heath was a relative of one of the students and helped students in a cleanup project in Fryeburg.
Heath was convicted of charges including unlawful sexual conduct in 2007 and in 2008 pleaded no contest to a charge of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl
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Best Kids Parties: LEGO Star Wars
Star Wars and LEGO. Need I say more? Holly tells us about her son's spectacular 7th birthday: I write about sewing and crafts as part of my job with The Associated Press, so I tend to go a bit overboard with my son's birthdays in terms of making decorations and goodies. (Two years ago: 10 handmade Lowly worm dolls.)...
This year, for his LEGO Star Wars party, I made the invitations by scanning one of his LEGO instruction manuals, and using Photoshop to change the logo to "PARKER Seven Years" instead of "LEGO Star Wars." I gave each guest a personalized drawstring bag, handmade LEGO Star Wars stickers (using images from a downloadable poster on the LEGO website), a small bag of mixed LEGO pieces (bought in bulk, used, on eBay), and a box of crayons, decorated with the same image from the invitation.
We told the kids their mission was to make spaceships using all their LEGO pieces -- an activity that kept them quiet and engaged for a surprisingly long time. Then they burned off some energy with handmade light sabers (flashlights, translucent drafting film, silver duct tape)and attacking a "droid army." (helium balloons anchored to the ground).
My husband is the AP's food editor, and the cake was, as always, spectacular: a clone trooper helmet.
Thanks Holly! Readers, visit Holly at Stitch/Craft to see more of Parker's awesome party and tons of other diy/crafting/sewing inspiration.
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Alicia Keys & Son Egypt Wear Matching Jackets at 'Rio 2' Party!
Alicia Keys and her adorable son Egypt are matching in leather jackets while attending the Popsicle after party following a screening of the new film Rio 2 on Sunday (March 30) in New York City.
Also in attendance were another matching pair – the hilarious actress Debi Mazar and her daughter Giulia. Love their matching red jackets!
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Rocco and Lori Sammartino of Saunderstown announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristen Sammartino, to Luke DiNezza, son of Richard and Mary DiNezza of North Kingstown.
The future bride is a graduate of Wheelock Collage. She is employed by Sweet Peas Village.
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This article has been updated to correct the value of the speed of light, which, as several comments point out, was listed incorrectly .
Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of Albert Einstein. He put forth almost all of his theories about how the universe works doing nothing other than working things out in his head. In his head!
There he was, working as a junior examiner in the Swiss Patent Office, scribbling down the laws that make up the universe in his free time. Amazing. He didn't have fancy scientific instruments, and yet he blazed a new trail that we've followed for more than 100 years. The level of intelligence he possessed must have been greater than that of anyone who ever lived. And, incidentally, many of his theories have been put to real-world tests, and all have stood up to modern scrutiny.
So it was with mixed feelings that we get the first inklings that one of his most important theories might be wrong.
Basically, Einstein's theory of special relativity states, among other things, that nothing can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 meters per second.
But recently, something did. At least we think it did. Although it has yet to be verified, the data looks pretty clear-cut. Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the largest physics lab in the world, shot neutrinos, which are subatomic particles, 454 miles from Switzerland into Italy. This was a race with neutrinos against light. Given that nothing can move faster than light, it was a shock when the neutrinos arrived 60 billionths of a second sooner.
The margin of error in the instruments has been calculated to 10 billionths of a second, so the speedy neutrinos handily defeated the speed of light. Nobody wants to contradict Einstein, and thus almost everything we believed about physics over the past century, so scientists are moving very slowly to verify these results, which could take six months. An American lab that can run similar tests is scheduled to be brought back online in a few years, so these tests and others might even be repeatable outside of CERN.
Personally, I think this is going to be verified. And I'm happy about it. Despite my admiration for Einstein, I never really liked the theory of special relativity. That one theory made both "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" impossible, because no real space exploration, and certainly no space empires, could ever exist without faster-than-light travel.
Take our own little backwoods solar system. The closest star to us is Proxima Centauri, at 4.2 light years away. Under Einstein's rules, that is the shortest time we could ever get there, even if we could move at the speed of light. And it's a red dwarf star, so we probably wouldn't find anything interesting there anyway.
There are currently 26 known stars within 12 light years of Earth, but it's not like they are all along a road in the same direction. We would need 26 different spacecrafts to get to them all within 12 years at the speed of light. Otherwise, there would be a lot of timely backtracking added to those numbers.
It's not like we are anywhere close to even baseline speed-of-light travel. But if this experiment is proven correct, it means that there are no laws to hold us back. The universe is our oyster, just waiting for us to develop the technology to properly explore it. So you can have your rocket-powered flying cars. I want my Millennium Falcon.
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There is a limit to the speed of matter (and antimatter. But nonmatter has a higher velocity.
It is all about gravity and polarity,
and a given amount ot time for gravity to reach its full potential.
Einstein was not aware of the shape and scope of the cosmis, therefore he was (is) wrong.
I am not allowed to give out information about myself or where i work, but our experiments concluded that matter can travel up to 7,825,000 miles per second. This is well over the thought speed of light. The matter we used arrived at the endpoint of our 1,938 Tunnel about 1/1000 of a second before we initiated the test. If our experiments are error free, we can conclude that, in theory, you can time travel. We are in the age of discovery. You don't know how much this event will change humankind.
Before 23 years, I had proved that relative velocity may be more than light velocity. CERN proved experimentally that velocity of Neutrinos may be more than light, if this news will be confirmed then that will be new beginning of science. Please read paper "What is matter & dark matter is made up of?" on my web site www.maheshkhati.com. This paper may help to find solution to problems like what is dark matter? & about true relativity. I strongly oppose special theory of relativity because I think that has some basic fundamental problems like non-existence of perfect inertial frame of reference in world etc
Even from the age of 12 I thought it was absurd that a universal speed limit could exist I mean sence energy is basically motion then the more energy you have the faster you would go and since there isn't a limit to how much energy that can exist then there isn't a limit to how much speed an object can acquire.therefor meaning that a universal speed limit is absurd.another thing noticeable is that taking out the c2 in e=mc2 (Because c2 is speed of light 2rd, which if enstien is wrong is useless in this equation) leaves us with e=m or energy=mass (In motion) which verifies that everything has mass because everything has Energy
Another mind of the same extreme greatness was a contemporary of Einstein's, worked out his ideas in his head, and drastically changed the world. Of course, it was Nicola Tesla.
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GREELEY, CO --A waitress, who was apparently upset that a customer didn't leave a tip, has been fired after she allegedly took to social media to vent her frustration earlier this month.
Megan Olson, who goes by the handle "megatron" on Twitter, is accused of tweeting, "If we had a real life purge I would kill as many Mexicans as I could in one night."
Several residents posted copies of the tweet on Texas Roadhouse - Greeley's Facebook page.
One message read: "A violent and racist employee is very bad for business. Please send her packin'."
That's exactly what management did.
"Our managing partner was actually mowing his lawn when he was alerted," said company spokesman Travis Doster. "He immediately rushed to the restaurant, met with the employee who posted this disgusting tweet and she was terminated."
KMGH reports that Doster said by phone that "this type of offensive, discriminatory language has absolutely no place at Texas Roadhouse."
Several residents applauded the restaurant for taking swift action.
"I think Texas Roadhouse did the responsible thing in letting her go," said Cristobal Garcia.
"A friend showed me the tweet," he said. "I tried to take a step back and asked, 'does Texas Roadhouse know that this is happening?'"
"I was offended by it," said Olson's neighbor, Willie Grantham. "As somebody who's worked in the restaurant industry most of my adult life, I understand getting angry about customers that don't tip. But you can't back it down to race."
Grantham said Texas Roadhouse did the right thing.
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Olson did not respond to a message seeking comment, but she did apologize via Facebook.
"I wrote hurtful, inconsiderate, insensitive and careless words and I understand the amount of people I have offended by that. There are no excuses for what I have done. I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, apologize to everyone for my momentary lack of judgment. I want you all to know that I do not actually feel this way."
Olson acknowledged that she'd been fired and said, "I can promise you that nothing like that will EVER happen again."