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California's Yappy Purse Dog Surplus Exported to Middle America
Forlorn that her state is overrun with abandoned chihuahuas, Katharine Heigl is contributing to a mass export of the trembling, bug-eyed creatures from California animal shelters to Middle America on airplanes.
It's been a trying year for Hollywood chihuahuas; Tinkerbell Hilton had a near-death experience and beloved Taco Bell mascot Gidget passed away. And now their supply is overrunning demand, even in long-time chihuahua haven of California. The San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times started covering the harrowing story weeks ago:
[T]he Chihuahua conundrum—a shocking surplus of them flooding the state's stretched-thin shelters—has gotten out of control. ... "We call it the Paris Hilton syndrome."
And at the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo, "the number of Chihuahuas has eclipsed pit bulls as the most common breed," Senior Vice President Scott Delucchi said as he clutched Toffee, a sweater-clad, 10-year-old mix.
...and now, humanitarian Hollywood has mobilized to solve the case.
There are so many Chihuahuas in Los Angeles city shelters that the animal services agency airlifted 25 last week to Nashua, N.H., where the local Humane Society found all of them homes within a day. [LAT]
Actress Katharine Heigl's foundation recently arranged the transport of nearly 70 Chihuahuas to a New Hampshire humane society, which found new homes for each of them almost immediately. [LAT]
"I want your problem," said Gail Buchwald, senior vice president of the ASPCA in New York City. "If you want to pack up a box of Chihuahuas and ship them here, I'd be thrilled." [SFC]
A local organization plans to transport 35 Chihuahuas to new adoptive homes in Colorado this week. [LAT]
The Great Small Dog Diaspora is expected to continue in 2010.


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Paul Jackson, event coordinator, said the tournament will feature 31 registered skiers from four states. It's the first time a state water ski tournament has taken place on Lake Dardanelle.
In tournament slalom skiing, a course is set up with buoys. Competitors navigate through and around six buoys using only one ski. For a sanctioned tournament, an official driver and an approved boat is required. A skier's score is based upon the number of successful buoys cleared, the speed of the boat and the length of the rope. A higher speed or a shorter rope makes the task more difficult, and thereby worth more points.
Jackson said Pleasant View was the perfect location for the tournament.
"It's the best competition ski site on public water in the United States," Jackson said. "In some places, spectators are only 30 feet away from where the skiers are coming around the buoys at 50 miles per hour. You might even get wet from the spray. I just can't say enough about our site. It's just a gorgeous, gorgeous site.
"We have one family coming who will have five people skiing. Entries range from 6 years old to 70 years old. It's a family-oriented sport. It's a good clean sport. One of the best sports in America, in my opinion."
Not only the event coordinator, Jackson will also participate in the tournament. At 71, Jackson is the oldest competitive skier in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.
"I've been with the ski club since it was formed in 1976," Jackson said.
During the tournament, the launch area, the boat area, and the parking area will be closed off.
"We had to close it down because we spread out so big," Jackson explained. "But everyone is welcome to come out and spectate. It's a great spectators sport."
Practice runs for the event began on Thursday afternoon, but the bulk of the trial runs will be held friday starting around 1 p.m. The event kicks of Saturday morning at 8 a.m. Jackson encouraged everyone to attend and support the event.
"It's probably the last one to be held until spring," he said.

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Well...This game just reaffirms my disbelief in the integrity of the NBA. The refs are so Cetlics biased its ridiculous....And WE'RE THE HOME TEAM!
Atleast its a close game anyway....
wow knicks only down 3?? only caught last few min but we must be playin relatively well, on both sides of the ball..Nate had a sick little steal and 3 pt-er to end the half
Well, we can score 50 points in a half on the best defensive team with Q-Rich bricking 1/12
not too shabby
Knicks D seems to have been stepped up since i've started watching in the 3rd Q...Harrington seems to be out of his slump, Chandler playing pretty well as well
I'm very impressed with our defense, best of the last 2 seasons imo. If we can keep it up, it looks good for us. Wilson Chandler has put up 25 so far on the defensive player of the year. Speaking of which, KG landed on someone's foot and was limping, not that I'm happy about it...
im loving this game right now
Good overall game. Chandler made Garnett look like a twat on that dribble drive. When Pierce got hot I thought they are going to blow it again, but Lee came up big.
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
Kurt Vonnegut
sadly i missed the entire game, but we WIN 100-88? huh? is this the same team? wow, we FINALLY beat the celtics, i dont care if everything went wrong, this is a big win for us and probably a good confidence boost for the knicks.
D-LEE42FanLEE'S A BEAST!!!
Holy ****! We Won!!! Omfg... I Say We Celevrate Tonight Yall... Some1 Comeup With A Meet Up Spot!
Jared Jeffries is MVP... cant believe I just said that.......................
The best thing about this win is that we did it with defense. They proved that when we want to, we can shut people down. Besides Chandler and Harrington (who played great) we were weren't shooting well, but we still won because of our defense. Great win, hopefully this can translate into wins and better play for the rest of the season.
nice defensive effort and it payed off, hopefully this will start a defensive trend throughout the season.....Chandler is taking huge steps forward after sturggling for a while, and he's becoming our go-to-guy quickly, Harrington is back to his normal self again and they kept us in the game, Lee was huge in the final minutes and Jeffries even did some damage
im loving Chandler making Garnett look like ****.....
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
I'll take this win over a win vs. Indy, I think we can certainley build on this one right here. Defense was Great and we scored 50 in both halves, if we can D like this consistently we are on to something. Not to mention Nate and Duhon had horrible games and Tim Thomas sat. I know it's just one win and The C's havent been playing all that well, but this could be a game that gets us back to playing respectable ball again.
Dig this....The top 3 teams in the East all fall to sub .500 teams today, and The Pistons nearly lost to the Clippers
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Sony Computer Entertainment has filed a patent for a method to encourage MMO players to meet in the real world, using in-game incentives and a mobile device that identifies players by their online handles.
Read the whole story
can you replace 'meet' with 'stalk'?
I'm sure some players would be in for a surprise when they meet, "Pr1nc3ssP1nk" and it happens to be a guy.
Now there's a feature I'd pay money to never have!
I'm having a hard time being enthusiastic about Blizard's Real ID even. I can't imagine actually meeting the people IRL that I spend way too much time online with already. Games are MY time away from people & I like to hide in them sometimes. That's been increasingly difficult after adding a few people to Real ID. I can't un-friend some of those people now without seriously offending them I think. I don't think I'll add anyone else.
SpecTP wrote:
can you replace 'meet' with 'stalk'?
replace stalk with "molest."
This is not a patent. This is a published patent application. There is world of difference between the two.
One has been examined and found to not be anticipated or rendered obvious over the prior art and the other has just been filed and does not have a request for non-publication. All patent applications are published unless the inventor specifically requests that it not be published. And just because the application is published, does not mean anything as far as whether or not it may ultimately be determined to be patentable or what the actual claim limitations may wind up being.
Sutor, ne ultra crepidam.
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Funny enough, I met a great girl while playing Guild Wars a few years back.
I live in New York, and she's from Winnipeg. After a few years of getting to know each other she flew down here and stayed with me for two weeks. We connect really well, and talk on a daily basis. Without a doubt this is a relationship I'll have for many years to come, so I'm all for what Sony is trying to do here
P.S. She's not fat, and doesn't have a penis.
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Patenting a method to get people to meet at ComicCon through the use of incentives? It sounds like they want to sue people who send invites to a FarmVille social-gathering from their mobile phones.
This is unappealing. People in games should be anonymous to each other until they are comfortable revealing their identity to the people with whom they've established a connection. Sony just wants marketing demographic info so they can sell more expensive ads.
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Does this mean that if you arrange to meet someone in person that you met on-line, you will have to pay Sony a license fee?
Initial thought "um... no".
However, I've heard quite a few folks meeting their significant other via online gaming. I guess you at least know you have something in common when you do. Probably better than online dating sites, too.
Web 1.5 networking is buggy, unstable and crashes often. Web 1.0 networking works, web 2.0 networking works, the two shouldn't cross automatically.
reading it sounds like a copy of nintendo streetpass.
Trollness wrote:
and doesn't have a penis.
I'm sorry, I have no idea what that meant.
killing_time wrote:
SpecTP wrote:
can you replace 'meet' with 'stalk'?
replace stalk with "molest."
Hell, while you're at it replace 'meet' with 'meat'.......
Wasn't this the plot of The Guild?
So they've essentially patented the concept of a sports bar for MMO players instead of sports fans? How is that even a patentable idea?
This smacks very much of attempting to get a patent so they can sue events later.
If the patent gets granted can they sue Blizzcon? Or any such convention?
LauRoman wrote:
If the patent gets granted can they sue Blizzcon? Or any such convention?
I should hope not, and if they even think of filing they should all be fined for misuse of the system somehow.
Well, since were on a First to File instead of First to Invent system now ...
Seems like an obvious extension of "games" like GoCrossCampus, Shadow Cities, and FourSquare.
I'm all for more socializing and co-op stuff but I don't see how this helps really... although I DO think that the best next console is going to be the one that has the best software for making connections, integrating all your games into some metagame, basically enhancing multiple parts/activities of your life seamlessly. Hopefully one of the consoles will do this rather than merely having better graphics.
I hope they team up with Home Depot. You meet your online friends in a HD parking lot, and spend the day doing menial labor like chopping wood or hunting squirrels. The incentive would be in-game wood or squirrel pelts, etc.
A patent for throwing out the idea that people that spend their lives in the games should meet offline and have a real world connection. Wow. What a concept. And that is patentable?! How does common sense become a patent?
biggerx wrote:
I'm having a hard time being enthusiastic about Blizard's Real ID even. I can't imagine actually meeting the people IRL that I spend way too much time online with already.
That's certainly fair enough. I'm not going to push anything on anybody.
However I do want to mention that sometimes it can be a good thing. I've met dozens of people from online (I used to run a fairly popular website for a singer and met large numbers of people through that). Some of them were friends for a long time; I ended up doing a summer internship with the company one of them worked for, for example, and stayed with him for the summer. I'd say one of my best friends to this day is somebody I originally met online. Plus I mean, how cool is it to have an excuse to fly to Australia and spend a couple weeks once in a while? (Quite a ding in the old wallet though, I admit.)
Now, games specifically? I've only met one person, though we're pretty good friends too. It's hard to get our schedules to mesh much (he works a strange schedule and is doing education classes on top), but we end up playing something and chatting most of the time they do to this day.
As I said, I'm not necessarily advocating it for you; maybe it's not your cup of tea. Just don't write off the whole process -- strong and valuable friendships can be made that way, and there's something to be said from elevating your relationship from "Internet friend" to just "friend." Just be careful who you choose to meet. Obviously for safety reasons, but also for obnoxiousness reasons. I've met an extremely small fraction of all the people I interact with online, even consistently, and that's just fine by me. I can't think of anybody else I would want to meet right now.
Vapur9 wrote:
... people who send invites to a FarmVille social-gathering from their mobile phones.
Wait... What? Don't tell me there are real world meet ups amongst *ville players. 0_0
Avariche wrote:
A patent for throwing out the idea that people that spend their lives in the games should meet offline and have a real world connection. Wow. What a concept. And that is patentable?! How does common sense become a patent?
Outrageous decadence. Government, laws, institutions, etc.
I'm waiting for Apple's iLife widget that will allow me to instantly recognize fellow Mac users so I can finally find the girl of my dreams - without finding out she has a PC!!!
Mobile device? a patent for the xperia play perhaps?
Well I can see how this would be a "patent" because you'd have to describe some kind of near-field communications and then link that in with your Online Gamer ID and then connect the linkage between one MMOG player and another in real life with some kind of in-game reward.
You know, treat it like an achievement - if you "connect" with 10 other people you get an achievement and then you get the Mack-o-matic mount or something.
That all said, I don't really see the need to connect with most other MMOG gamers. MMOGs now are too big, too anonymous - just because you both play the same game doesn't mean that you'll get along. Analogy? Just because two people like the same sports team doesn't mean that they'll get along either.
Isn't point of MMO really playing with people without any physical boundaries and limitations of locale?
"This can only end well"
-literally nobody
"we wouldn't be surprised if there is some sort of prior art that makes the concept unpatentable"
Sadly, being unpatentable doesn't seem to stop people from getting patents.
WiseWeasel wrote:
This is unappealing. People in games should be anonymous to each other until they are comfortable revealing their identity to the people with whom they've established a connection. Sony just wants marketing demographic info so they can sell more expensive ads.
You can CHOOSE not to go to these events that earn points. It is not like Sony is pointing a gun to your head. Whatever happened to free will?
This is gonna take griefing other players to a whole new level lol
I can't believe such a thing is approved as a patent when it is done all over the world.


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The Changing Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter is so large and relatively unchanging that it is considered rather constant in its appearance. As the planet gets struck repeatedly and continually with small space rocks, wide belts of the atmosphere are changing color, hotspots are vanishing and reappearing, and clouds are gathering over one part of Jupiter, while dissipating over another. The results were presented today by Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nevada.
The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope. he clouds are located in the tropopause and are arranged into bands of different latitudes, known as tropical regions. These are sub-divided into lighter-hued zones and darker belts. The interactions of these conflicting circulation patterns cause storms and turbulence.
"The changes we're seeing in Jupiter are global in scale," Orton said. "We've seen some of these before, but never with modern instrumentation to clue us in on what's going on. Other changes haven't been seen in decades, and some regions have never been in the state they're appearing in now. At the same time, we've never seen so many things striking Jupiter. Right now, we're trying to figure out why this is all happening."
Following the fading and return of a prominent brown-colored belt just south of the equator, called the South Equatorial Belt, from 2009 to 2011, the team studied a similar fading and darkening that occurred at a band just north of the equator, known as the North Equatorial Belt. This belt grew whiter in 2011 to an extent not seen in more than a century. In March of this year, that northern band started to darken again.
The team obtained new data from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility and the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea that matched up that activity with infrared observations. Those data showed a simultaneous thickening of the deeper cloud decks, but not necessarily the upper cloud deck, unlike the South Equatorial Belt, where both levels of clouds thickened and then cleared up. The infrared data also resolved brown, elongated features in the whitened area called "brown barges" as distinct features and revealed them to be regions clearer of clouds and probably characterized by down welling, dry air.
There are also a series of blue-gray features along the southern edge of the North Equatorial Belt. Those features appear to be the clearest and driest regions on the planet and show up as apparent hotspots in the infrared view, because they reveal the radiation emerging from a very deep layer of Jupiter's atmosphere. Those hotspots disappeared from 2010 to 2011, but had reestablished themselves by June of this year, coincident with the whitening and re-darkening of the North Equatorial Belt.
While Jupiter's own atmosphere has been churning through change, a number of objects have hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, creating fireballs visible to amateur Jupiter watchers on Earth. Three of these objects - probably less than 45 feet in diameter - have been observed since 2010. The latest of these hit Jupiter on Sept. 10, 2012, although Orton and colleagues' infrared investigations of these events showed this one did not cause lasting changes in the atmosphere, unlike those in 1994 or 2009.
"It does appear that Jupiter is taking an unusual beating over the last few years, but we expect that this apparent increase has more to do with an increasing cadre of skilled amateur astronomers training their telescopes on Jupiter and helping scientists keep a closer eye on our biggest planet," Orton said. "It is precisely this coordination between the amateur-astronomy community that we want to foster."
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By Mike Lake and Dan Spiess | Boston.com | April 1, 2013
It is time to change the discourse around talent retention in Greater Boston.
Last Thursday's second-ever joint city council hearing, hosted by Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson and Cambridge City Councillor Leland Cheung, in partnership with the World Class Cities Partnership (WCCP), highlighted the concern of talent loss to many in the Boston area. The discourse on this topic is not new to local leaders and the same lamentations about why young talent leaves – apartments are too expensive, the T doesn't run all night, the bar scene is boring – keep getting shared across forum discussions, newspaper editorials, and election campaigns. But these are more the complaints of the people who stay, rather than the reasons for why others leave.
Greater Boston has never had a problem attracting talent. The region's 76 colleges and universities and almost 350,000 students virtually guarantee a steady stream of knowledge-workers-in-training. Our bigger challenge is keeping this young, educated population from leaving Massachusetts once they've crossed the stage and received their diplomas. Data presented from WCCP's new Talent Magnets report show that too often we lump together all of these various reasons that push people out of the Commonwealth without regard for importance, timing, or life needs. We give each reason equal weight, which diminishes the effectiveness of our response. By breaking down talent needs into life stages, policy makers can better prioritize talent retention strategies. Read More


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Bleargh. I like to keep the VERSION numbers to myself, and specify the module version number as a whole entity in the Makefile.PL.
Me, I've got better things to do with my time.
It's not so much that, it's the idea that CVS/RCS revision id's aren't necessarily the best things to use as the version for your module (perhaps distribution would be a better term than module) as a whole anyway. I'd rather bump the version number when I want to, not when I correct a typo in the POD.
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Discussion in 'Pros' Racquets and Gear' started by athanlau, Jan 25, 2013.
What is his racket code since 2009 from his white Head racket?
Novak's racket doesn't have a code. It's a microgel radical mold but different layup
It a custom frame! You cannot buy it!
That is his racquet from the beggining of 2009.
I heard that there are a couple of his frames on the bay. Be prepared to pay four figures though.
4 or 5 figures.
$4k is the lowest one, IG PJ from Cincy
Can't find Cincy on the *Bay...
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Sea urchin is often a polarizing ingredient. Yoo Eatz encourages us to muster some courage and embrace this culinary adventure in the form of pasta.
What's so gross about sea urchin? Even some of the most adventurous eaters I know will make the most horrific faces when the topic comes up.
I asked my husband about this — he generally recoils when I suggest that we share a pair of nigiri at the sushi bar — and he offered that it's a textural thing. Some people say it resembles phlegm (or worse), and I heard one person characterize the briny bits as "little orange tongues" (although, let's face it: the truth of what uni is may actually be harder to stomach!). But a lot of these same people will tell me that the flavor doesn't bother them; in fact, they find it quite pleasant.
For more, plus a recipe, keep reading!
So when my BFF told me about a sea urchin pasta she makes for dinner parties, I found a way to sneak uni back onto the plates of the unsuspecting (just a word of caution to anyone who's invited to my house for dinner). This recipe is based upon Eric Ripert's On the Line, which means that it is insanely decadent, topping a first course-size portion of sea urchin linguine with Iranian osetra caviar. My girlfriend uses ikura (salmon roe), which also provides a nice, salty punch to the velvety sauce at a much more reasonable price (my nearby Japanese market sells it for $2 per ounce vs. $200 for osetra). I managed to find an ounce of domestic Hackleback caviar for $50, and it was plenty for four servings. And my uni-shy husband? He licked his bowl clean.
Linguine With Sea Urchin and Caviar
Adapted from On the Line by Eric Ripert
Serves 4.
- 1 2-ounce tray of sea urchin
- 8 tbsp. (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 tbsp. water
- Kosher salt
- White pepper powder
- 4 ounces dried linguine
- 1 1/2 tsp. finely chopped chives, plus more for garnish
- 1 tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 ounce American Hackleback sturgeon caviar
- For the sea urchin sauce, puree the sea urchin roe in a blender. Pass it through a fine-mesh sieve and return to the blender. Blend the puree with the softened butter.
- To finish the sauce, bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan. Gradually whisk in the sea urchin butter, about one tablespoon at a time. Do not overcook (butter will begin to separate). Season with salt and pepper and keep warm.
- When ready to serve, cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente. Drain.
- Put the chives in a medium stainless steel bowl, add the warmed sauce and Parmesan cheese, and mix well. Season with salt and white pepper, if necessary. Gently toss the pasta with the sauce.
- To serve, use a meat fork to twirl one-quarter of the pasta and mound it in the center of a small bowl. Repeat three times. Drizzle one tablespoon of the sauce remaining in the stainless steel bowl around each mound. Place 1 1/2 teaspoons of the caviar on top of each mound of pasta and garnish with additional chives, if desired. Serve immediately.
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Is it possible to just use notepad and command line to write a program that will create a photo slideshow? Without using any other programs other then the factory default programs? Can this be done?
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Is it possible to just use notepad and command line to write a program that will create a photo slideshow? Without using any other programs other then the factory default programs? Can this be done?
what do you mean by factory default programs?
Do you mean fresh install?
Sadly, there are very few default scripting/coding utilities on a fresh windows and doing
such a thing in a command line and notepad is somewhat frustrating.
I believe it is possible to use Windows Script Host to do this, but it is the only way I can think of that is "somewhat reasonable" and doesnt involve writing shellcode in command
prompt using default utilities to hardcode an executable...
If I had to do something like this, I would stick to microsoft office, or if you do not
have that installed, you can try using Dynamic HTML in notepad and run the slideshow
in a browser, as most browsers can support old-style Dynamic HTML, and internet explorer comes with any windows platform, this can be done.
Also, you can try using a batch script to open a certain image in a certain interval, and reset afterwards (dont know how), but this would be a pain as well.
The most elegant solution I would imagine would be Dynamic HTML... although it does not "particularly" use a command prompt...
Hopefully this helped :X
Almost definitely yes. But you have not been very specific about what you want.
A less-conventional solution, if you have a web site, is one of the power-point-like web presentations. Here are example presentations of two different technologies: Slidy and S5.
You mentioned notepad, so you're probably running Windows. If you install Cygwin, you can write a small bash script to run in a bash shell (a very powerful replacement for the DOS/CMD window) that would pop up a picture, wait and pop up another. I just wrote this little script that I ran just now. It's very limited, but it works.
And of course, you can write a python script with notepad.Code:
cd ~/img || exit # Change to my directory with images
for image in "${IMAGES[@]}"; do
qiv "$image" & # Display the image with the "qiv" program
sleep 2.5 # Pause 2.5 seconds
kill $(jobs -p) # Stop displaying the image


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Rave On, Raveonettes
My current favorite all-format album is the Raveonettes' Raven in the Grave (Vice), which sounds smoky-fab whether I'm listening to it via CD, MP3, or LP. I asked Raveonettes co-founder Sune Rose Wagner, 38, how the band (Wagner and co-conspirator Sharin Foo) corrals the backbeat for its 21st-century-cool Wall of Sound. Read on for his answers (and for a listen to "Forget That You're Young," a track from the new album.)
MIKE METTLER: There are some different feels on this album than previous ones; for one thing, you use more ethereal keyboards. And overall, I'd say Raven in the Grave has a Twin Peaks-meets-the Cure style to it.
SUNE ROSE WAGNER: Yeah, exactly! A cinematic influence.
Feels like it's a soundtrack in the making, in a way.
That's how I look at it, for sure. I watch movies more than I listen to music, and I love soundtracks and film scoring. I think the new album was inspired a lot by Bernard Herrmann. [Herrmann is best known as a composer for Alfred Hitchcock movies like Psycho and Vertigo, as well as early Twilight Zone episodes.] His idea of coming in with something suspenseful was very inspiring to me. He's an undisputed genius, and my all-time favorite composer. And there you have it.
At 35 minutes, I think Raven in the Grave is the right length for an album.
We're old-fashioned; I still like making an album of 9 or 10 songs that sort of go together and give a listener a great experience like a soundtrack, with a beginning and an end. That's really what I prefer.
We spend a lot of time figuring out the track listing and the order for the people who still want to listen to an album from start to finish. It's an artform in itself finding the sequence for an album, so we do spend a lot of time on it.
And we try to make different albums every time. This one is the first one we recorded in our own studio in New York, and we were very happy with the results. We were inspired.
What were the specific requirements for setting up the new studio? Your personal Wall of Sound approach remains quite distinct.
We've collected a lot of gear over the years, so when it came time to set up the studio, we basically had everything we needed. And everything is set up with a patch bay, so if you want to go from one thing to the next you can do it really fast.
We tried to have everything set up and ready to go so we could go in and churn out ideas. Because we tour a lot, it's nice to have it set up for whenever we feel like it. That was the main goal with the studio. And we needed to have the kind of equipment in there to make recordings that will stand up with big-budget records.


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SOMC begins mammogram self-referral programPosted on February 7, 2013
Women are now able to receive mammograms at Southern Ohio Medical Center without a physician order, thanks to SOMC's new self-referral program.
Under the new program, women who are at least 40 years of age can schedule a screening mammogram for prevention and early detection of breast disease. However, women who detect lumps or other causes for concern can schedule their mammogram at SOMC regardless of age.
"Through this program, we're providing patients with easier access to screenings," Noel Pemberton, SOMC's administrative director of medical imaging, said. "The process to schedule self-referrals will be handled through Central Scheduling. It will be the same process patients use to schedule an appointment with a doctor's order."
The self-referral program has been approved by the Ohio Department of Health and began on February 4.
"It is our goal to detect breast cancer as early as possible," Pemberton said. "We believe this program will help us do just that."
To schedule a self-referral, contact SOMC Central Scheduling at 740-356-8128.


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Arping is an ARP level ping utility. It's good for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly.
Release Notes: This release prints "Timeout" when pings time out, fixes a bug with -w for fractions of seconds, works around a bug in libpcap on Solaris, and implements gratuitous ARP (-U).
Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. It was designed for use with Wikipedia, but is potentially suitable for all HTML content. It supports the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data. It is intended for use in schools, universities, and libraries which can't afford broadband Internet access. It features a full text search engine, bookmarks and notes, an HTTP server, PDF/HTML export, a user interface in more than 80 languages, tabbed navigation, and an integrated content manager and downloader.
Release Notes: This is a new release candidate with a lot of bugfixes and a new HTTP server feature for all systems.
XRoar is a cross-platform emulator for the Dragon 32, Dragon 64, and Tandy CoCo computers, all originally released in the early '80s. The emulator runs under Unix-like operating systems (including Mac OS X) and Windows, with older versions available for handhelds like the Nintendo DS and GP32.
Release Notes: This release adds Hitachi 6309 emulation, VDG sub-scanline rendering improvements, an optional "Becker port" in RSDOS, timing fixes, and keyboard matrix ghosting simulation.
Tpda3 is a classic desktop database application framework and runtime. It supports the Firebird, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and CUBRID RDBMS.
Release Notes: This release adds a feature to set a default application from the CLI or a dialog, important changes in the configuration files, and other small miscellaneous fixes and changes.
Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt GUI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as an everyday quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool, integrating many advanced features that Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are Eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and Eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.
Release Notes: This release adds bugfixes.
GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel locally or using remote computers. A job is typically a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. If you use xargs today you will find GNU parallel very easy to use, as GNU parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU parallel as input for other programs.
Release Notes: --shebang-wrap now makes it possible to parallelize scripts by putting "parallel" in the shebang line (the first #! line in scripts). --delay adds a delay after starting each job (useful to avoid raceconditions and thundering herd problems). --results now uses "/" as a separator instead of TAB, and thus creates subdirectories. OpenBSD CPU detection is now performed. niceload --sensor allows negative numbers to signify a lower number, meaning the limit is lower. niceload --prg suspends a named program which is already running. niceload multiple --pid suspends process ids which are already running.
AlphaLemon CMS is a content management system built on top of the Symfony2 framework. It is designed to make it as easy as possibile to manage a Web site without requiring programming or a large learning curve, while giving developers a robust and flexible framework on which to build Web applications and distributable extensions.
Release Notes: First stable release.
JStock is stock market software for 26 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, and portfolio management. Free SMS/email alerts are supported. It integrates seamlessly with Android.
Release Notes: This release added support for Israel's stock market, startNewThreadsIfNecessary, and a better way to restrict one instance of JStock. A missing column bug was fixed. Spain's stock market is no longer supported.
JASocket is a lock-free, scalable, and robust server framework with no single point of failure. Servers are run on a cluster of nodes. Servers interact with other servers using mobile agents, which reduces the number of messages and thus reduces the overall system latency. Administration is handled via ssh.
Release Notes: Server.startup calls now close on exception. A new ShipAgentEventToAll request was added. The copy resource was dropped. A server initialization bug was fixed.
JFile builds on JActor and Jid, adding file persistence and an in-memory database which has a throughput of one million transactions per second when running on an i7 with SSD.
Release Notes: A new LA32Block class was added.
librangetree is a C++ template, implementing a 2D range tree for both counting and reporting queries. It is just about the fastest way to do 2D searches.
Release Notes: First public release.
Sudokuki is a graphical SUDOKU game. It solves even the most difficult sudoku grids for you. It can generate a sudoku, play sudoku, and print a sudoku.
Release Notes: With this release, numbers can now be shown in Arabic, Chinese, or as standard digits. Centering of digits inside cells has been improved. Many warnings in the Java source code have been fixed.
With MetaModel, you use a type-safe SQL-like API for querying any datastore. It is a data access framework providing a common interface for exploration and querying of different types of datastores. It isn't a data mapping framework. Instead, it emphasizes abstraction of metadata and the ability to add data sources at runtime, making MetaModel great for generic data processing applications, but less so for applications modeled around a particular domain.
Release Notes: Many query parser improvements, including parsing column names with dots, mixed case clause declarations, select DISTINCT queries, select item aliases, and selecting everything from multiple from items. It also fixes two bugs: an issue with interpreting CHAR types as strings, and inclusion of function names (if available) in TableModel header names.
samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
Release Notes: Some build errors have been fixed, as well as the 'probe' command for the server (clients could be erroneously omitted under certain conditions). An option has been added to the Windows registry check to ignore changes if only the timestamp has changed, and full scans requested by the inotify module will now only run at times configured for regular full scans.
Erebus is a 2D real-time role-playing game with three quests and random dungeons. It is a classic point-n-click style RPG, with dungeons to explore, enemies to fight, NPCs to talk to, sub-quests to complete, scenery to interact with, weapons, treasure, and other items to find.
Release Notes: Improvements were made to the graphics. New Rogue-like keyboard controls were added. There is a new gameplay element "Terror".
Scriptella is an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and script execution tool. Its primary focus is simplicity. It doesn't require the user to learn another complex XML-based language to use it, but allows the use of SQL or another scripting language suitable for the data source to perform required transformations.
Release Notes: JEXL 2.0 support was added. Flexible parsing/formatting rules for text/CSV drivers were added. StringIndexOutOfBoundsException has been fixed when parsing SQL statements with ternary expressions. Support for batch execution was added. Missing query.next calls are now detected in JavaScript/JEXL query elements.
Gnome Partition Editor is a graphical frontend to libparted. It supports creating, resizing, moving, and copying of partitions.
Release Notes: The big news with this release is the added ability to boot the live image on uEFI firmware computers, while maintaining boot ability on traditional PC/BIOS computers. This means that GParted Live can now boot on newer Windows 8 computers. In addition to supporting uEFI firmware, two more GNU/Linux operating system images have been released: i686-PAE (Physical Address Extension) and AMD64 (X86-64). These new images permit addressing more than 4 gigabytes of RAM and enable using multiple processor cores.
Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.
Release Notes: Resolves security issues with an access bypass in the user and upload modules as well as arbitrary PHP code execution in the file upload module.
Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.
Release Notes: Resolves a vulnerability that allows blocked users to appear in user search results, even when the search results are viewed by unprivileged users. An arbitrary PHP code execution vulnerability was also fixed in the file upload module.
OGLplus is a header-only library that implements a thin object-oriented facade over the OpenGL (version 3 and higher) C-language API. It provides wrappers that automate the resource and object management and make the use of OpenGL in C++ safer and easier.
Release Notes: The List function and ListOf template class, which can be used as a replacement for C++11 initializer lists, was added. A blender mesh loader utility was added. Some optimizations were made in the error processing subsystem. A couple of examples were added and several bugs and problems were fixed.
smake is a highly portable 'make' program that makes commands up to date based on rules in Makefiles and on the timestamps of the related files. It implements a complete superset of the features of the classical POSIX/Unix make program. It warns about typical misuse of dynamic macros that prevent portability of makefiles. Its automake features allow you to run scripts to automatically create rules for unknown platforms.
Release Notes: Support for some new platforms was added. This release correctly implements the '+' command line prefix even when it has been called with -t (touch). Better file PATH search allows smake to better find its internal .../lib/defaults.smk file that contains the default rules (see libschily/searchinpath.c).
HAproxy is a high-performance and highly-robust TCP and HTTP load balancer which provides cookie-based persistence, content-based switching, SSL off-loading, advanced traffic regulation with surge protection, automatic failover, run-time regex-based header control, Web-based reporting and management interface, advanced logging to help trouble-shooting buggy applications and/or networks, and a few other features. Its own event-driven state machine achieves 100,000 connections per second and surpasses GigaEthernet on modern hardware, even with tens of thousands of simultaneous connections.
Release Notes: The last known bugs since 1.5-dev15 have been fixed (frozen POSTs, aborted SSL sessions, and occasionally truncated early responses from servers to POST requests). Additionally, a few long-awaited features have been implemented: support for logging anything coming from a sample fetch function using %[] in the log format, as well as passing this to servers in HTTP headers (all SSL information can now be passed this way). The HTML stats page was improved with more detailed information in tips (this was broken in dev16). Users of 1.5-dev12 to 16 are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
PicoFinance is a stock quote and news reader for any Java (J2ME, MIDP 2.0) or Symbian cellphone. Supporting a configurable portfolio of stock symbols from most world exchanges, it gives users the ability to view current stock prices and other useful financials, breaking headlines and articles, and much more. It allows you to manage a portfolio of stocks, view real-time stock price changes, work with stocks from a variety of world exchanges, keyword search for adding new stocks, view financial details for a stock (P/E, Volume, etc.), see news related to managed stocks, save articles for offline viewing, and share articles using Twitter or SMS/MMS. It has support for JavaScript, images (including GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP), the ability to zoom, fullsize, save, and OCR images, compression to reduce wireless data charges, and support for Unicode and many character encodings.
Release Notes: This release adds the following new features: bookmark news headlines; share news headlines over SMS and Twitter; font size support; improved HTML5 tag support; improved JavaScript event support; performance enhancements; and numerous bugfixes.
JHyenae is an entirely overworked Java port of the low-level network packet generator Hyenae. Besides a clean and intuitive UI, it features full range protocol layer configuration and a steady growing variety of supported packet generators.
Release Notes: This release has UI enhancements, raw data injection, and a TCP generator.
libdvbpsi is a very simple and fully portable library designed for MPEG TS and DVB PSI table decoding and generation.
Release Notes: This release has been cleaned up, API's made more consistent, tables added, descriptors added, and bugs fixed. You need to update your applications when migrating from a former libdvbpsi release.


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by Sam Collins | November 5, 2012 2:25 am
On Friday, stocks opened higher following a strong non-farm payrolls report that indicated they had increased by 171,000 jobs. But the buying lasted for just 90 minutes before sellers in technology, materials and energy overcame the gains and drove the indices to a negative close.
At Friday's close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 139 points at 13,093, the S&P 500 fell 13 points to 1,414, and the Nasdaq lost 38 points at 2,982. The NYSE traded 791 million shares and the Nasdaq crossed 439 million. Decliners outpaced advancers on the Big Board by 2.3-to-1 and on the Nasdaq by 2.6-to-1.
For the week, the Dow lost 0.1%, the S&P 500 was up 0.2%, and the Nasdaq fell 0.2%.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 appeared to break the resistance line at 1,418, and the strong opening on Friday seemed to confirm the break. But the rally came to a screeching halt at the conjunction of the 20-day and 50-day moving averages at 1,434, reversed, and closed under the stubborn line of resistance at 1,418.
Immediate support is at 1,403, and then the 200-day moving average at 1,379, and finally, at the July 2011 high at 1,356. MACD is oversold, but its red fast line is turning down again, and that could delay a reversal.
Technology stocks, as represented by the iShares Dow Jones US Technology ETF (NYSE:IWY[1]), have acted poorly since failing to break the April high at $78.67. The large-cap tech stocks, chiefly Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[2]), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG[3]), and IBM (NYSE:IBM[4]), have been inflicting damage on the major indices since topping in September.
The break of the intermediate trendline can be overcome if the support at $67 holds. MACD is oversold and its fast line is hooking up, indicating that a rally may be forthcoming in the sector.
Another negative for U.S. stocks has been the strength of the U.S. dollar versus other currencies. The PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE:UUP[5]) shows the primary reason for Friday's lower close of the S&P 500 — a gap up break for the dollar through its 50-day moving average. MACD is also on a strong buy signal that could continue to put pressure on stocks and commodities. The next resistance for UUP is its 200-day moving average at $22.26.
Conclusion: Despite the uncertainties of Tuesday's national election, costly storm damage to the East Coast, and other national and international crises, the U.S. dollar, as the leading major world currency, should be traders' focus.
According to an article on CNBC.com, "With the subsequent grand scale monetary intervention from the Federal Reserve following the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 still ruling the day, STRONG DOLLAR/WEAK STOCKS remains the trade of the day [Friday] and the dominant force so far this month."
And so we are again at the mercy of the weak European nations of Greece and Portugal, and until this problem is overcome, international investors will continue to run for the buck as the safe haven. We may get a short term-bounce following the election, but it is unlikely that we will achieve new highs in the S&P 500 until Europe gets its act together.
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For a list of this week's economic reports due out, click here[7].
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(For previous posts on torture, see here.)
Let's look at the final excuse on the list put out by torture apologists.
Excuse 11: Finally, the emotional appeal that takes various forms but one of the strongest is: If your children were being held hostage by terrorists, wouldn't you want any suspects to be tortured if that would save your child?
Before I directly address this question, let me make one thing clear. My unequivocal opposition to torture is based on the principle that I will not approve of any measures against other people that I would not accept if it were done to my own loved ones. There is no circumstance under which I would EVER consent to have my own child tortured. My opposition to torture is on the same grounds as my opposition to corporal punishment of children and the death penalty, that whatever I find objectionable when applied to my loved ones is also objectionable when applied to the loved ones of other people whom I don't know personally.
Not only am I opposed to torture on principle, I also oppose it because governments and security services have no compunction about lying about what evidence they have or have obtained that justifies torture, and will try and justify their contemptible actions using such lies. Read this appalling account of how the FBI coerces confessions from the innocent and how the courts help them cover it up.
Furthermore, we should never specify in advance the conditions when things like torture, murder, and corporal punishment are acceptable because doing so inevitably leads to abuse.
To explain, let's take murder, since that case is the easiest to understand but the action itself is the most extreme. We all say that killing someone is bad but we do excuse some people who do it. The mitigating factors may be self-defense or insanity. But such a judgment is always made on a case-by-case basis AFTER the fact of the killing. We should not specify in advance the conditions under which murder will be excused by saying, for example, that you can kill with impunity someone who enters your house. To do so would be to invite people to escape a murder conviction by creating the conditions under which he/she knows it will be excused. We want the system to be such that any person who kills another is never sure if they will be found guilty of murder and will thus hesitate before taking such an extreme step. Of course, psychopaths will kill anyway, as will those who cannot control their raging impulses, and such people will not be deterred by any laws from doing damage. But what we seek to do is to deter cold-blooded killers who try to calculate what they can get away with.
The danger of specifying the conditions under which you are allowed to kill someone leads to things like the tragedy in Texas where a couple shot and killed a seven-year old child who had apparently unwittingly trespassed on their property, though even the fact of trespassing is in doubt. Apparently Texas has a so-called 'Castle Doctrine' law that provides "civil immunity for a person who lawfully uses deadly force in any of the circumstances spelled out in the bill.". The couple seemed to take delight in using that license to shoot and kill the child even though they had to know that the child was not a threat to them in any way.
The only time we issue an almost blanket advance immunity for killing is for soldiers during wars (which can be argued are a form of collective insanity). But since we know that even this license can open the door to the committing of atrocities, we have instituted conventions that regulate even war time killings, setting out limits in conventions and treaties, so that stepping over those boundaries can result in charges of war crimes, though in practice only the losers get charged with those crimes. In World War II, Germans and Japanese were tried and executed for war crimes but not the Allied forces, although the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the blanket bombing of Dresden should have been tried as war crimes too.
It is the same thing with corporal punishment. I am opposed to it under every circumstance. Under extreme circumstances some parents will do extreme things like hitting a child. We may judge that such an action was excusable under the circumstances, but only after the fact. But we should never give categories of people (whether parents or teachers or priests or school administrators) advance blanket immunity to administer such punishment or let them know in advance the conditions under which they will escape punishment, by specifying which acts are justifiable and which are not. Doing so inevitably leads to abuse as sadistic people invoke their 'rights' to viciously attack helpless children.
The revelations of the long-term and systematic severe abuse of children by Catholic institutions in Ireland is an example of what happens when people think they have the right to discipline children using force, because they are parents or clergy or teachers. Another example is where people think it is allowed to subject others to humiliation during the process of ritualized hazing, and where some take this license to resort to cruelty.
There should always be a blanket prohibition against corporal punishment and hazing, like there is against killing. People who commit such acts must always have to justify their actions after the fact, aware that they may be found guilty of abuse. Without that restraint, we let loose those sadists who will exploit the conditions.
Next: What if my own child could be saved using only torture?
POST SCRIPT: Lewis Black on politics and religion and torture
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Orchestral Instrument: Soprano-Recorder
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Aerophone: Woodwind
Note: G
Octave: 6
Concert Pitch: 415Hz
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She wrote it because she was ideologically committed to the idea that it did happen.
And in so doing she set back her own cause by a decade.
There are plenty of abuses at multi-level marketing schemes. I have seen a few.
So Bill Ackman picks on what is probably the straightest MLM and bluntly makes up stories. In the first presentation Shane Dinneen (Ackman's staff member) got up and said that there may not be a single legitimate consumer of Herbalife products anywhere on the planet.
I promise you they are really easy to find. Daily consumers.
He did this after months of "research" which can only be like Sabrina Rubin Erderly's research - research to get your pre-determined opinion confirmed. Easily falsified research.
At some stage the anti-MLM campaigners will need to distance themselves from Bill Ackman's false research.
Sooner is better.


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We have recruiting, transfers, injury updates, playbook kerfluffles and much more in Friday's edition of the lunch links. Hope you all have a great day and a great weekend.
LSU offensive lineman Fehoko Fanaika is pretty versatile off the field, with a passion for music and ability to play guitar, piano, trumpet and ukulele.
Alabama recruits coast to coast and has commitments from prospects in 10 different states in the current class. The geographic midpoint of the 2015 class so far? Northport, Alabama.
Now that the NCAA rules allow coaches some access to players in the summer, Auburn is tweaking its summer workouts.
Texas A&M scored two commitments on Thursday -- one from highly touted receiver DaMarkus Lodge and another from Lodge's high school teammate, outside linebacker Richard Moore.
Alabama coach Nick Saban denied giving Bill Belichick a copy of the New York Jets' playbook after Rex Ryan provided him with one.
Vanderbilt picked up a commitment on Thursday from Sam Dobbs, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound tight end out of Atlanta
A look at five seniors in the SEC West who must step up in 2014.
Ole Miss landed a transfer wide receiver, former Washington player Damore'ea Stringfellow, a 6-foot-3, 229-pound California product who was an ESPN 300 recruit in the 2013 recruiting class.
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said Thursday that he expects Damiere Byrd, Kane Whitehurst and Rory Anderson, who are all recovering from injuries, to be healthy and ready for the 2014 season.
LSU left tackle La'el Collins will have an insurance policy again this year, but possibly higher than the $5 million policy he had last season. Collins, who will be a senior, bypassed the NFL draft to return for his senior season with the Tigers.


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FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — New technology allowed regional forecasters to quickly confirm the large tornado that tore through Hattiesburg this week and to alert the public, possibly saving lives in the process, officials said in a news conference Friday.
The Dual-polarization Doppler technology allowed forecasters to see the shape and size of debris inside the tornado. In the past, forecasters have generally relied on visual reports of tornadoes, which are difficult to get at night. The new technology allowed them to issue warnings confirming the tornado and to give residents sufficient time to get to safety.
Dozens of injuries were reported as a result of the tornados that struck south Mississippi Feb. 10, but no fatalities.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Director Robert Latham said he believed the Dual-polarization technology was to thank for the lack of deaths.
"There is no other logical explanation as to why we didn't have fatalities in that area," Latham said.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., spoke at a news conference Friday announcing the new Doppler system. He said the conference had been organized before the tornados.
"This represents government at its best: professionals, scientists who are on the front line, getting information to us in the best way possible and the quickest way possible to protect property and save lives," Wicker said.
Wicker said he has relatives in Hattiesburg, and that they were able to get to a secure area of their house thanks to an early warning.
Alan Gerard, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Flowood, said that while forecasters could see heavy winds and rain with the old Doppler technology, they couldn't tell if those storms amounted to tornados touching down on the ground. Storm chasers were often the best sources of confirmation. The new Dual-polarization technology allows forecasters to see the debris inside of the tornado, confirming that it's touching ground and picking up objects as it plows through an area.
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Marketplace Morning Report for Tuesday, April 10, 2012
It's been more than four years since the giant investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed, and the banking system is still in trouble -- but bank stocks have been soaring recently. Facebook is making its biggest purchase yet, as it gears up to go public. This Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and Belfast, Northern Ireland is hoping to become the center of Titanic tourism.


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We're grateful for the support we've had, especially in that championship game against Cal. Hopefully, we'll play better and finish better this time. —David Smyth
Some call it real football.
Rugby, a clash of meat and bones, with no protection — its a game of speed and power where the smart and practiced usually rise to the top.
David Smyth believes this version of BYU rugby is more mature to attack, compete, defend and deliver a national championship this Saturday in Rio Tinto Stadium when the Cougars and Arkansas State battle for the USA Rugby collegiate title.
His guys are older, more experienced, more focused and hungry.
That's a good sign for the favored Cougars who will be making their seventh consecutive appearance in the national championship match.
Smyth noted the seniors are older and more experienced and that is important. "You sense they are more disciplined and work harder and understand more fully what it will take."
A year ago the Cougars played before more than 12,000 fans, who witnessed a BYU loss to the powerhouse University of California. The Bears dropped down from the highest level of college rugby, due in part to a squabble between the school and the governing body.
The Cougars played Cal in the previous six championship matches.
But Smyth warns that Arkansas State will be formidable, loaded up with rugby players from South Africa.
"They will be very good, and they've got a lot of skill. They are quick and big."
Arkansas State made the playoffs as the Mid-South No. 2 team behind Life University, which was the No. 1 seed and defeated Army 36-20 at West Point and St. Mary's 34-17 in Moraga, Calif.
The Cougars advanced after defeating Life University in Georgia last weekend, a feat Smyth said was formidable. "I don't know if any other team could have gone there and beat them at their place this year."
The Cougars' last national rugby title came in 2009 against Cal, a 25-22 win after being down 12-0. This year's game will be seen live on ESPN3.com and rebroadcast May 21 on ESPNU.
The Cougars have thrived on its Polynesian connections, drawing from nations with strong LDS roots such as Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand.
BYU rugby has produced more than 40 collegiate All-Americans since 2001 with 10 in 2011. Two professional rugby players have come from the Cougar ranks, Salesi Sika and Alipate Tuilevuka (2006).
The Cougars are currently 16-0 in 2012 and last lost to Cal in the 2011 title match, 21-14.
Rugby is not an NCAA sport, but BYU works within the USA Rugby Collegiate Division I-A classification, the highest competition. Division I-A is divided into four subdivisions, the Pacific, West, Mid-South and Eastern).
The Cougars have relied heavily on two players who took time out to try out for Bronco Mendenhall's football team this past winter and spring. They are center Paul Lasika, from Hamilton, New Zealand, who, as a sophomore, is BYU's leading try-scorer with 13, including two against Life last weekend. The other is prop Ray Forrester, who was injured last week and underwent an MRI on his knee on Monday.
"Lasika's two tries last week against Life were crucial to keeping us in it and allowed us to build on for that win," said Smyth. Lasika has received a scholarship offer from Mendenhall to stick with the football team as a running back.
Captain Ryan Roundy, from Holliday, was the leading try-scorer a year ago and has six in 2012.
Scrumhalf Shaun Davies, a senior from Durban, South Africa, is a three-time All-American and the Cougars' leading point scorer with 164.
Prop Mikey Su'a from West Jordan, is a guy who didn't play high school rugby but is the anchor of BYU's scrum and is a three-time All-American.
Lock/flanker Kyle Sumsion, from Highland, played for the United Rugby Club and the sophomore scored the first try of the 2009 national championship as a freshman before accepting an LDS mission call to Argentina. He has never missed a game in his BYU career but for that church service.
Tua Laei, from West Jordan, is a true freshman and USA High School All-American who played for the Lowland Rugby Club and is the third leading try-scorer for the Cougars this year with 10.
"It will take a unified effort on both defense and offense to win this match," said Smyth. "You can't have one without the other in this game."
Smyth, a native of Ireland, has a 243-25 record since 1991.
"We're grateful for the support we've had, especially in that championship game against Cal. Hopefully, we'll play better and finish better this time."
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Pestano's return is great for Cuba in Caribbean Series
After his World Baseball Classic snub, star catcher is back in the spotlight
By Phil Rogers / MLB.com
Hello, Ariel Pestano. It's good to have you back on the big stage.
One of the world's most recognizable catchers, the demonstrative Pestano will lead Cuba back to the Caribbean Series this weekend, adding flavor to a colorful event notable for its enthusiastic nationalism.
Cuba gave birth to the Caribbean Series in 1949, and won the event seven times in 12 years. But it didn't participate after 1960, with Fidel Castro isolating his country. That policy has finally changed, along with a deal that could allow Cuban players to essentially be leased to teams in Mexico and Japan this season.
For Cuba's baseball federation, the hope is that the easing of restrictions will slow the stream of defections that has cut into the talent pool for Serie Nacional, Cuba's top league, which operates in the winter. Rather than bolting for potential riches in North America, players could essentially play year round, earning money out of the country during the summer and then returning to play for Cuban teams in the winter, the way that many young players do in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
It remains to be seen how that's going to work, but you only have to look at Pestano to know how baseball stirs the passion in Cuba, and how hard it ever is to know where the road is leading.
While it was great to see a Netherlands team that combined the promise of Xander Bogaerts and the experience of Andruw Jones advance all the way to San Francisco in last year's World Baseball Classic, it was disappointing that Cuba couldn't play its way out of two Asian pools. It would have been great to see guys like Jose Abreu, Alfredo Despaigne and Erisbel Arruebarruena compete against the best from Japan, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, but the Cubans couldn't hold a 6-4, eighth-inning lead in an elimination game at the Tokyo Dome.
That Cuban World Baseball Classic team was missing something. It was missing Pestano, the 38-year-old catcher who had been a regular for national teams since the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Supposedly beyond his prime, Pestano was left off Cuba's roster last spring. It was huge news on the island, and a crushing blow for the proud Pestano, a drama king in the style of Brett Favre.
Appearing on national television, Pestano announced that he was retiring, saying that the decision of the Cuban Baseball Federation had broken his spirit. But, like Favre, he couldn't stay away from the game that consumes him. Pestano was coaxed out of retirement by Ramon More, the manager of his Villa Clara team, and added to his legend last spring.
Villa Clara finished fourth during Serie Nacional, grabbing the last spot for the playoffs. It knocked off the top team, Cienfuegos, in the semifinals, advancing to face Matanzas in the final -- a matchup made more intriguing because Matanzas was managed by Victor Mesa, the national team manager who had left Pestano off the Classic roster.
Not only did Pestano do a great job handling Villa Clara's pitchers in the championship series -- in particular Freddy Asiel Alvarez, who had a streak of 40 2/3 scoreless innings in the playoffs -- but he also blasted a grand slam in the clinching victory over Matanzas.
How great do you think Pestano will feel when he takes the field against Hermosillo, the Mexican champion, on Saturday in Venezuela?
Cuba is sending Villa Clara as its representative, helped by six players from other rosters. National team stalwarts Yulieski Gourriel and Despaigne will help the lineup, while Ismel Jimenez joins Alvarez to provide a 1-2 rotation punch that probably should make Cuba the favorite to win the Series.
With MLB teams not wanting their guys to work this deep into the offseason, pitching is often in short supply at the Caribbean Series. But Cuba has its guys ready to go, and Pestano is back to make trip after trip after trip to the mound to work with them. Can't wait to see how crazy it gets.
Phil Rogers is a columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Authorities in southwest Oregon say a helicopter carrying two state employees conducting fish counts crashed into the South Umpqua River, injuring the biologists and the pilot.
Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department spokeswoman Meghan Dugan told The Roseburg News-Review Monday that biologist Holly Huchko suffered a broken back and biologist Eric Himmelreich had a broken vertebra.
One of the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter's owners identified the pilot as 55-year-old Fred Wittlake and said the man suffered a broken arm and broken ribs.
The crash knocked down some power lines. A hazardous materials team put absorbent material across the river to contain spilled fuel.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.
The helicopter went down Monday near Days Creek, about 200 miles south of Portland.
Information from: The News-Review, http://www.nrtoday.com


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The Akai Professional EWI4000S is an electronic wind controller. This musical tool incorporates several improvements in the development of MIDI/ Synth instrument capabilities.
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The EWI4000S has many of the long sought after controls and functions that are necessary for expressive performance. These benefits have been proven by its predecessors, but the EWI offers these features at a much lower price. There are several improvements to the design as well, such as having a built-in sound module, direct MIDI IN and Out, and other updated operating functions. These functions make playing the EWI4000 easier than any other electronic wind instrument.
With the sound module and the instrument all in one product, players no longer need to be tethered to a module. By using MIDI and audio wireless transceivers, EWI4000S players can move freely on the stage as they are playing. The user can easily switch between programs on the EWI4000S directly with a dedicated Program selection button, or use the note keys to select stored patches.
The internal sounds of the EWI4000S are based on a virtual analog synth sound module that is very responsive to every nuance of the player's performance. With easily accessible controls for breath, vibrato, glide time, and bend width, users can adjust the settings of the EWI4000 to their specific playing style. Also you can send multiple MIDI messages via breath control to send expression and aftertouch control messages.
The EWI4000S also offers some new performance control features as well, such as the Octave Key. When you activate the Octave mode, you will get an automatic doubling of notes at one octave below the note you are playing. There is also a Hold Mode, which holds a note that you select enabling you to solo around that note. This is the first EWI with a sostenuto capability!
Besides being a great wind controller, you also get a first rate synthesizer. The EWI4000S has new synthesis features which were not available on previous EWIs. The internal analog modeling synth has two voltage controlled oscillators (sawtooth, triangle, square with pulse width waveforms) with individual volume control. The voltage controlled filter has a feature which allows you to change from 2 to 4 pole filters.
The EWI4000S's new noise generator and a dedicated VCF add more realism to your playing, emulating breath noise.
The EWI4000S has a new sweep function, which works more effectively than a typical envelope generator. As you change the force of your playing the sweep parameter will alter the shape of the sound. The synth contained inside has a LFO (low frequency oscillator) specifically for the voltage controller filter modulation. This LFO affects vibrato as you use the bite sensor. The EWI4000 also has built-in effects, a first for Akai EWI products, such as Reverb, Chorus and Delay to thicken or double-up your solos.
Since it would difficult to put all the knobs and buttons on the EWI-4000 that are needed to adjust the various parameters, the EWI4000S will come with a computer editor program to allow users to customize all their sounds ahead of time for live performance. This editor will come standard for Windows and Mac computers. All of your edited Programs can be stored inside the EWI4000S so you can recall your settings instantly during your performance.
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BERLIN- With the teams now set for big game, it's not too early to make plans to participate in the annual Super Bowl Scramble at Eagle's Landing in West Ocean City on February 7.
The creative tournament has become a fixture on the winter sports schedule in recent year and this year should be no different. The tournament features a traditional four-player scramble format with a coach (the team's A player), a quarterback, a wide receiver and a running back. The scoring format is unique, however, with six points for a touchdown (eagle), three points for a field goal (birdie), and one point for an extra point (par). Teams will be penalized two points for a safety (bogey).
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Shane Larkin scored 20 points and No. 9 Miami pulled away to beat Boston College 69-58 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Kenny Kadji added 15 points and Trey McKinney Jones finished with 12 for the top-seeded Hurricanes (25-6).
Miami withstood a serious scare from eighth-seeded BC (16-17), letting an early 13-point lead disappear before making all the plays down the stretch to avoid becoming the ACC's first No. 1 seed to lose its tournament opener since 1997.
Patrick Heckmann finished with 15 points for the Eagles, and his 3-pointer with 3½ minutes left tied it at 55.
Durand Scott put Miami in front to stay with two free throws with 3:01 left, and Larkin took over a few moments later.
Larkin came up with a key steal, then buried a momentum-shifting 3 off an inbounds pass to make it 60-55 with 1:49 left.
After Rion Brown swished a pretty hanging jumper with 57.6 seconds left, and Kadji added a free throw to make it 63-55, BC didn't get closer than five points the rest of the way. McKinney Jones punctuated the victory with a dunk with 17.2 seconds left.
Larkin also keyed the defensive effort on BC guard Olivier Hanlan, who a day earlier set an ACC tournament record for freshmen with 41 points in the first-round win over Georgia Tech.
Hanlan finished this one with 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting, missing 5 of his final 6 attempts after making 16 consecutive shots over two days. His streak ended when his 3-pointer over Larkin hit off the rim with just under 14 minutes left.
Ryan Anderson also had 14 points for the Eagles, who had their ACC-best four-game winning streak snapped and were denied their first semifinal appearance since 2007.
They lost twice to Miami during the regular season in vastly differing ways: The Hurricanes romped by 32 points in Coral Gables a few weeks after holding on for a one-point win at BC.
And for a while, this one looked like a repeat of that blowout - at least until BC dug itself out of a double-digit hole for the second straight day.
After rallying from 15 points down to beat the Yellow Jackets in the first round, the Eagles spotted Miami a 21-8 lead before closing the half on a 19-4 run and took its first lead when Anderson's layup with 4 seconds left made it 27-25. That coincided with a brutally cold spell for Miami, which missed 14 of its last 16 shots of the half.
BC stretched its lead to 30-25 on Heckmann's 3-pointer 20 seconds into the half. Miami eventually countered with an 11-2 run and took a 48-44 lead on Larkin's deep 3, and things remained tight until Larkin and the Hurricanes finally pulled away.
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Don't know him from a load of coal since he lives in Vietnam of all places, but he's messaged me basically saying "Hey Jeremy, here's your home address information, please confirm". I ask what's going on and what this is in regards to, and he pulls out even MORE information. Cell phone number, debit card number except for the last two digits (XX), card expiration date, card security number. When I ask him what's going on and where he got the information, he proceeds to tell me he's trying to figure out the reason my information was published online I guess, and keeps insisting I need to check my records for transaction with an online shopping website for 4/27/2011. When I say I don't really use my debit card for shopping online much, he keeps pursuing the April thing repeatedly, expanding the date parameters.
I've called and deactivated my debit card by this point, the lady on the phone did say there might be a suspicious charge attempt for Google, since I don't use that for anything finance-related. I keep pressing the guy about who he is, and why this is any of his business. He keeps pressing for wanting to know about any shopping done in my April records, which really only include some Paypal deposits into my account, and one with Fun Publications/transformersclub.com. That one was listed as charged on the 29th in my online account records, but the actual transaction could have happened on the 27th for all I know.
He still fails to tell me what's going on, or why he's so interested, so I told him thanks for the heads up on the card security issue but that we're done as far as I'm concerned. I kind of feel like I need to report this to Facebook, the authorities, or both, but I'm not sure how to go about that at all. Figured there's a pretty big experience pool here at the Allspark, so wanted to see what people think.
I've gone ahead and contacted Fun Pub about this.
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