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By now you have probably heard about the major issue involving The Olympics and Ravelympics. But in case you haven't, I wanted to do an overview explaining it at all and highlighting the fact that it's not just The Ravelympics that's been targeted in all of this, although that issue has brought the most media attention.
USOC and The Ravelympics
The Ravelympics is a Ravelry group for people who want to commit to completing a knit or crochet project during the Olympics, ideally stretching themselves to try a new technique or type of project. It's just one of those ways that crafters can encourage each other in their work. The stated "goal of the Ravelympics is to support you in expanding your knitting/crocheting horizons." And what a great time to do it since a lot of folks will be sitting in front of the TV, watching the games with hook or needles in hand. Ravelympics started with the 2008 Olympics, were active again in 2010 and are now ready for the 2012 London Olympics.
About a week or so ago it came to light that The Ravelympics had received a "cease and desist" letter from the US Olympic Committee asking them to stop using the Ravelympics name. They said that the name falsely suggested a connection between The Official Olympics and this crafty activity and that is a violation of intellectual property rights.
This seems ridiculous to me personally on many levels. I personally find it absurd that any large organizations pursue legal action against small crafters. So when an Etsy business gets pinged because they sell "Angry Birds" and aren't officially allowed to do so, I find it absurd. But I get it. I may not agree with it, but I get the intent behind intellectual property laws and the reason that a large company might not want a small business making money off of their hard work. But The Ravelympics doesn't generate any profit for anyone. It doesn't even use any sort of trademarked imagery from The Olympics. For example, it's not like the crafters are competing to see who can knit/ crochet the most Olympic rings or something. As an extra, the cease and desist letter did also ask for specific patterns using that type of imagery to be taken down, but the main target of the letter was just the Ravelympics name.
But okay, so I find it absurd that The USOC would bother with this action but that's not why The Ravelympics issue has received an outpouring of attention from crafters. The reason for that is because the USOC used wording in its cease and desist letter that really made fun of crafters. They said things like, "We believe using the name "Ravelympics" for a competition that involves an afghan marathon, scarf hockey and sweater triathlon, among others, tends to denigrate the true nature of the Olympic Games. In a sense, it is disrespectful to our country's finest athletes and fails to recognize or appreciate their hard work." Ouch. Just wrong and offensive on so many levels.
Well, there was a big response from the crafting community. (We are a huge, huge community.) The power of social media and Internet communication was leveraged and the USOC was forced to respond. They issued a statement saying that they are a non-profit organization that gets funded through donations and their sponsors pay for the right to be associated with The Olympics so they have to make sure no one else is using that name. They go on to apologize to the knitting community for insulting them (us, because of course crocheters are part of Ravelympics, too) and then say that they'd love to show their support by welcoming handmade items for their teams to travel with for the Olympics. Wow. This clearly shows that they just don't "get it" when it comes to crafting. Most of us don't want to use our time and skills to craft something for someone who clearly doesn't appreciate it, right? (As an aside, if you do want to donate to The Olympics despite all of this news, an alternative to sending them your handcrafted materials is to donate a stitch to the flags for Team USA, one of the sanctioned projects associated with The Olympics).
Moreover the phrasing of the USOC apology comes across as condescending. They don't say, "hey, we get it, clearly your crafts don't "denigrate" The Olympics and we were wrong in saying it. What they say is more like, "we didn't mean to call you out for denigrating The Olympics since you silly crafters didn't seem to know that's what you were doing". And that's where the crux of the issue is for a lot of people – the problem isn't that the USOC wanted The Ravelympics name changed but rather that they didn't want something as "silly" as crafting to be related to The Olympics. And much of the media about the issue has gone on to use stereotypes about knitters and crocheters (where crochet is even mentioned, of course) that reiterates the idea that crafting is just this silly endeavor.
Now I should say here that I tend not to get too wrapped up in "issues". I have my beliefs about these types of things (and many other things) but for the most part I have a really "live and let live" mentality. I believe that The Ravelympics have a version of this story, the USOC has a version and every blogger and journalist reporting on the issue has a version and the "truth" lies somewhere in the middle of all of that. Meaning that I'm not the type of person to send nasty letters to the USOC or even to say outright that they're 100% wrong in their handling of the issue. It's tough to run any organization and I believe most people do their best most of the time.
That said, I did want to share the story of what's going on here because it's really touched a raw nerve in the crafting community and there's a reason for that. Any time that crochet and knitting get this big in the news is a great opportunity for all of us to look at how our craft is viewed, represented and talked about so that if we disagree with that then we can use our own forums to raise awareness of the issue. In other words, if you find it offensive that many people out there think that needlecrafts are just a silly way that old women waste their time (and that knitting and crochet are the same thing, for that matter) then now is a really good time to speak up about it because the issue is right in the public eye.
It's Not Just The Ravelympics That Got Pinged
So, I've gone over The Ravelympics thing but I just wanted to take a moment to point out that The Ravelympics aren't the only handcrafter's thing that's been targeted by the Olympics this year for intellectual property right violations. And it's not just the USOC that's at fault here. In fact, I first found out about things like this happening before any of this Ravelympics stuff started when I saw a post over on the SIBOL blog about the donated Olympics blanket that was the target of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
So basically, SIBOL takes donated crochet and knit squares around certain themes and puts them together into blankets. Some blankets are donated to nursing homes. Others are sold through auction to raise money that goes to helping to raise awareness about Alzheimer's and other age-related memory loss. Last year SIBOL donors (called SIBOLETTES) came together and made a Royal Wedding Blanket that raised a nice sum of money for the cause. The Olympics are even more popular than The Royal Wedding was so it only made sense to put together an Olympics blanket. Crafters sent in their squares and it was enough to make a huge beautiful blanket of 130 squares as well as some smaller blankets for donation:
Well, a few of those squares included handmade versions of the Olympics Logo and some other words and imagery related to the Olympics. Because of that The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games contacted SIBOL and said that the blanket can not be sold because it violates intellectual property rights. Sue of SIBOL worked hard to connect with an empathetic human on the other side of the line but in the end the word came down that the blanket could not be sold for donation. Again, it's not as though someone was trying to sell this blanket for their own profit at the expense of The Olympics games (somehow). The blanket celebrates the Olympics games to raise money for a good cause.
SIBOL is just one group in a long line that have been targeted for takedown by LOCOG. Others include cushions intended for athletes and local businesses trying to add Olympics to their name or just putting together window displays with Olympics imagery. And it's the same with the USOC which has not just targeted Ravelympics but also groups like Olympets and ROBOlympics, a defunct sports museum, and even a newspaper named The Olympian.
The Lionheart Project / Sanctioned vs. Unsanctioned Art
All of this news kept bringing to mind for me the cool Lionheart project that crochetdermist Shauna Richardson has done making 3 humongous crocheted lions because that project is part of the UK Arts Councils' flagship project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It's a cool project with amazing crochet work and I don't want to take anything away from that but it just makes me think about the strange way that large organizations sanction and allow certain projects while punishing others for doing projects in the same vein. Clearly I know that the crocheted lions don't have The Olympics name attached to them and that the project was commissioned. But I just find it so odd in our society that certain things that go through the right channels are "approved" and then others aren't. It's not that I don't understand the legal issues because I do; I just don't agree with the underlying foundation behind them on a personal level.
I guess this all just goes back to my "live and let live" attitude. If I were running the USOC/ LOCOG, I would think it was awesome to sanction projects like Lionheart. But I would also see The Ravelympics and think, "oh, that's cool that they're doing that". And I'd see the SIBOL blanket and think, "how nice that crafters put their skills together and The Olympics could help them raise some money for a cause they care about". I suppose my attitude is the reason that I work as a solopreneur and not a head of a large organization.
Article Source Credits and Resources
I read many, many news articles, blog posts and social networking posts about this issue to find out what it was all about. I gathered all of that information together here. However, there were a few really outstanding sources that summed up the issue really well so I want to credit them here and encourage you to check them out if you're interested in the topic. The first is Aberrant Crochet who has done several posts keeping readers updated on the issue. She references many related issues throughout the years, includes fun facts (like knitting was actually included as an Olympic event at one point) and in my opinion is the best resource for understanding the full issue. Another good source to check out is Crochet Liberation Front mostly for Laurie's Open Letter to the USOC which got referenced quite a bit in the news following its posting. And just to keep a balanced opinion, I think it's worth it to read Yarn Harlot's take on the whole issue because she explains pretty clearly why the USOC feels like it has to protect its trademark. Regardless of whether or not you agree with it, and knowing that the trademark is less the issue here than the way that the USOC phrased their letter, it's still good to get some perspective on that part of the issue. If that aspect of the issue interests you, the LOCOG has a FAQ page explaining why some people can use their brand and others can't. Again, not saying I agree, but it gives you a better overview of the bigger picture from another side.
I encourage you to share your thoughts on this big issue in the comments below. Please remember that this blog prefers to be a positive place. I'm not saying not to share your true views; just to share them in a calm and educated way!


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4 Years US Navy 1961 to 1965 Snipe
7 Years Army National Guard
12 Years Air National Guard
Just retired from Air Wyoming National Guard 6 years ago, now 66
4 Years US Navy 1961 to 1965 Snipe
7 Years Army National Guard
12 Years Air National Guard
Just retired from Air Wyoming National Guard 6 years ago, now 66
Served our fine country between 1987 to 1992 in the Air Force. Worked on F-15s, It's a Great Fighter platform.
Stationed at Eglin, FL. Keflavik, Iceland and Bitburg, Germany. I've seen Spain and England too.
I served in the Air Force as a Law Enforcement Specialist and Recruiter. Assignments included: Lackland AFB, Gila Bend AFAF, MacDill AFB, Luke AFB, Sondestrom AB Greenland, Tyndall AFB, Portland, Oregon, and Mather AFB.
1st BMW bike: 1991 K75
2nd BMW bike: 1998 R1100RT
3rd BMW bike and current: 2007 R1200GSA
U.S. Army active duty 1964-1967. Also 20 years law enforcement 1985-2005(retired).
USAF: 1978 - 1986... six active + two reserve before moving into Aerospace & Defense where I've been for 25 years.... and still lovin' it.
I have enjoyed reading all the posts. Glad to know we have so many patriots in the MOA family. I served 8 years in the Air Force from 1958 to 1966 as an electronics tech. Stationed in Virginia, Korea, Germany and at Norad HQ in Colorado Springs. Learned to fly in the AF Aero clubs and have been a corporate pilot since and still to this day at age 68. See you at the rally in TN.
Jim Dubick
Progress Rail Services Corp.
Albertville Alabama
Jim Dubick
Boaz, Alabama
Retired a MSGT from the aviation community. Crew chief in CH-53 A/D/Es, CH-46D,Es and UH1Ns.
My thanks to all who served!
Remeber those that still are!
U.S. Army; Republic of Vietnam; 18 months, 12 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes. Early out for combat service > 12 months.
Gee Joe, you weren't counting, were you? Thanks for your service in tough one.
Kevin Huddy
Tm Pterodactyl MT Outpost
You're a 19 year old kid, critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the La Drang Valley,
11-14-1965, LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so
intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac
helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know
you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never
see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to
see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no Medi-Vac markings on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey
down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were told not to come.He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the waiting doctors and nurses.
And he kept coming back....... 13 more times..... and took over 30 of you and your buddies out,
who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday, in Boise, Idaho, at the age of 80.
Kevin Huddy
Tm Pterodactyl MT Outpost
I wasn't there but you might have saved a friend of mine.
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)
That war brought out the worst in some of us, but it brought out the best in some of us too. Godspeed, Ed. I'm guessing that there is a special place of honor for you, although you probably won't want it.
I'm retired from the US air force after 20 years of service.
Retired in 2000.
I was a crew chief on F-4's from 1980-83
F-5's from 84-85 F-15's from 85-86
F-111's from 86-96 F-15's from 96-00
I have been stationed in florida twice
England twice and New Mexico once
I ride a 2001 F650GS
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Hi Folks, please excuse my reply to this post. I'm new on bmw moa and don't see how i am able to start a new post with some questions I have for you all. Any help?? thanks. And thanks for serving. Peace, Jason
oh, i figured it out. Thanks. Jason

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With Collison (LAC), Watson (POR) and Devin Harris (DAL) recently off the market, the Knicks continue their search for a 3rd point guard to join Felty and Prigs. Looking at the PGs which the Knicks can still scoop up:
The Brooklyn-bred 9 year vet has played for 7 different teams and posts career averages of 7.4ppg, 3.5apg, and 1.5topg. At 28 years old, he's still at the "prime" of his career and would be a safe pickup as a third string PG. Looking at the stats, Telfair doesn't seem to excel at scoring or setting up team mates. He likes to push the tempo as a ball handler though, which could potentially be useful for our Knicks team that finished at the bottom in terms of fast break points and opportunities. Oh, and he's related to Stephon "Starbury" Marbury!
Brooks played for Houston last season, only playing 7 minutes per game and posting undurstandably ****ty averages of 1.4 ppg and 0.9 ppg. Despite this, Brooks is known around the league as a combo guard who excels in scoring when given the minutes and right system as evidenced during the 09-10 season when he averaged 19ppg and almost 6 assists per game. Brooks to the Knicks would make sense due to his ability to penetrate to the rim and score in bunches, which the Knicks desperately needed against the Pacers in the 2nd round. It should be noted though that his defense is pretty awful, which seems to be the reason why McHale refused to give him meaningful minutes in Houston.
A 6 year vet who has played for Detroit since 2008, Bynum is short at 6'0 but makes up for it with his blazing speed with and without the basketball, as well as his superior athletic ability. He averaged 9.8 points and 3.6 apg last season at 18 minutes per game. He is now at 30 years old though and might see a decline in athletic ability. Again, like Brooks, he is not really a pure point guard but can get hot offensively with an ability to put the ball on the floor and penetrate. Oh, and he can do this.......
Amnestied by the Knicks after guaranteeing 14Mil of his contract 2 seasons ago, the Knicks front office might have all but destroyed any chance of signing Billups at this point. But with the Clips signing Collison recently, it seems that Billups will be forced to look for another team this season with LAC solidifying their back court rotation. Billups is old though, and coming off of multiple injuries for the last two seasons. But when healthy, proves to be a stabilizing precense at the PG position and a potent scoring punch. Plus, he was a former teammate of Melo, JR, and KMart in Denver.
Thoughts? Who should the Knicks pick up out of all of these guys? Or should they look elsewhere (undrafted guys, overseas guys, streetballers)? Discuss. Go Knicks!


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Email lists from Crescent Park to Barron Park are crackling with the latest news about suspicious vehicles cruising residential streets. Last week, concerned north Palo Alto residents discussed a white van seen on their streets and gave information about it, complete with license number, to the Palo Alto police.
Neighbors' increasing vigilance might help nab thieves like the ones who on Sept. 24 pilfered UPS parcels from a Crescent Park front porch within 30 seconds of the delivery. The resident, who asked that her name and home information not be made public, has shared images from her surveillance video with her neighbors and with police, she said.
Others are following suit. Annette Glanckopf of the Midtown Residents Association said many people in her neighborhood are installing cameras.
The victim of the UPS-package theft said she initially installed the home cameras to act as a deterrent to would-be robbers.
"But these kids were very brazen, or maybe too stupid, to see the cameras pointing everywhere," she said.
Though the police were unable to apprehend the thieves in her case, she shared the data from the cameras with officers, she said.
"The surveillance helped. ... We could see what happened during every moment after the UPS truck left," she said.
She believes the installation of additional cameras in her neighborhood will be key to the crime-fighting effort.
"The residents need to do more to protect ourselves so that crooks don't think we are easy targets. And we can do that by having more surveillance at intersections that lead out of our neighborhoods. If they know we have eyes on them, they will move on," she said.
Jim Lewis, who lives near the border of Crescent Park and Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhoods, said he and other residents are working to host a community forum on home, auto and personal safety.
"With the recent spike in home burglaries, auto break-ins and personal confrontations, the meeting is timely," he said.
The group is actively discussing potential methods, such as alarm and camera systems, locking gates, dogs, enhancing lighting, including some with motion detectors, and reviving a Neighborhood Watch program. They are also developing a list of vendors who install the devices, he said.
Old Palo Alto resident Stan Hutchings has created a handout, "Who Are You, parked in front of my house," that residents can place on unfamiliar cars that appear to be loitering. The flier's purpose is to give neighbors a way to let potential criminals know that people are watching, he said.
"The appeal for people to park in their driveway and ask their guests and workers to park in front of their house, and for everyone to be alert for vehicles that don't belong, seemed like a good idea," Hutchings said. "The appeal was in response to a recent burglary a few blocks away."
Palo Alto jeweler Georgie Gleim said that while security such as cameras and surveillance is important, sharing information is the best defense. She should know.
"We host a local industry network for just this purpose, and it has helped jewelers throughout the Bay Area prevent losses," she said.
Many of the residential burglaries have involved jewelry thefts totaling tens of thousands of dollars. On a neighborhood level, prompt information-sharing can help everyone, she added.
"We all end up being each other's keepers in some ways," she said.
On Oct. 1, an alert resident called 9-1-1, an act that led to the apprehension of an alleged serial auto burglar, 30-year-old Abigail Lee of Santa Clara.
She had 50 car keys in her possession to facilitate break-ins, according to Palo Alto police. She also had items stolen during other car burglaries in San Jose and Santa Clara.
The residents' efforts come at a time of increased vigilance by the Palo Alto Police Department, which launched a "Lock it or Lost It" campaign earlier this year in response to the huge spike in burglaries. The trend seems to have eased somewhat over the past month. After a busy August in which there were 28 reported residential burglaries, the number dropped to 14 in September, according to police statistics. So far this year, police have arrested 25 suspects for residential burglaries, including four who they believe are connected to the September cases.
There have been 160 residential burglaries reported in the first nine months of 2012, compared to 108 in 2011, police reported.
The department noted in a statement that the frequency of residential burglaries, like other types of crime, "is cyclical in nature." It encourages residents to remain vigilant and to report suspicious behavior immediately.
"A partnership between alert residents and the police is one of the most effective ways to combat the burglary problem," the department's statement read.
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text: My first brand new car in my entire life, so far. No pictures because it looks like every other Silver Topaz Metallic Volt with a black leather interior and polished wheels. I found out this evening that the top speed is limited to 101 mph and that full throttle acceleration up to and including 101 mph runs the charge down quickly. The drain on the battery was 109 Kw indicated which would be 146 HP which is about what the electric motor is rated.


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The funds will funnel through Pope County, if it is approved tonight by the Quorum Court.
Pope County Judge Jim Ed Gibson told the Quorum Court Budget Committee on Tuesday night that the impetus for the purchase was the possibility of termination of rail service from Perry to Danville, according to an email Gibson received concerning the grant.
"The Little Rock Western Railway runs from Little Rock to [Wayne Farms'] property in Danville," the email reads. "The portion from Little Rock to Perry is owned by Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., and the portion from Perry to Danville is owned by Continental Grain Company, which is owned by Wayne Farms. The contract requires Genesee & Wyoming to maintain the rail the entire length. The contract was up for renewal this spring, and Genesee decided to terminate the contract and abandon rail service from Perry to Danville."
Purchasing the Pilgrim's Pride Feed Mill in Atkins will allow Wayne Farms to continue to ship grain by rail. Wayne Farms cited the high cost of shipping grain by truck in the decision. The business currently receives about 2,500 rail cars of corn and soy per year.
"The plan is to load the grain in Atkins and mill it at Danville," Gibson told the committee, "but they may decide to mill it at Atkins, too. There is a rumor that it could create a few jobs."
Wayne Farms employs about 870 people and has another 125 contract growers. The annual payroll is about $32 million. David Elam, complex manager for Wayne Farms, was not available for comment Wednesday.
The committee also discussed a request from Sheriff Aaron Duvall to use sheriff's cars as escort vehicles for a construction company that is re-striping Parkway Drive. Duvall said the company was asking for two escort vehicles to control traffic and alert drivers of the need to slow down during the re-striping. The service would be needed 10 hours a day for five days and would use off-duty sheriff's deputies.
"The blue lights would protect the workers and slow traffic," Duvall said, adding the standard rate that would be paid by the company was $14 per hour. Off-duty deputies have been used in the past for such escorts.
Justice of the Peace David Ivy commented that he requested that the county not use the deputies and county vehicles after he was contacted by constituents with concerns, and he was concerned about the county's liability should the deputy have an vehicle accident or a citizen is injured.
Justice Dusty Hampton amended a motion to approve, set forth by Justice Don Daily, to send the agreement to the county's attorney for review and work with the county judge on the decision.
"If it is something the county judge can live with, move forward," Budget Committee Chairman David Rollans said. "It doesn't have to come before the court again."
In other business, the committee approved the following requests to be considered tonight by the Quorum Court:
$20,000 grant for the Pope County Senior Activity Center for exercise equipment
$3.43 and $.10 transfers to close out two grants from 2009 and transfer interest to the Emergency 911 Fund
$1,005.12 added to the 2012 budget for the Circuit Clerk's budget as reimbursement from Medir Scanner, a company which needed an outlet installed in order for a scanner to function. The Circuit Clerk's office paid for the outlet in 2010 and received a reimbursement check in December 2011.
$830 for 911 to purchase a color plotter for map printing. The funds were left from a grant in which the items that were purchased cost less than planned. The $830 would augment the $3,407 remaining in the grant.
$8,000 and $5,000 appropriations for the Sheriff's Office to update computers and software, and equipment for new patrol cars.
$1,115.19 to add two officers to the Tactical Officers Survival Shooting/Advanced Tactics training course, which trains county and city police officers in Special Response Teams, or SWAT.
The Quorum Court will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Pope County Courthouse.


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Dean Kamen,
inventor of the Segway, the Luke robotic arm, and founder of the
F.I.R.S.T. robotics competition warns, "In your lifetime, my
lifetime, we will see water be a really scarce, valuable
Looking to solve this problem, Mr. Kamen and
his associates at DEKA Research in Manchester, New Hampshire have
invented a new
type of water purifier called the Slingshot, which he claims can
purify 97 percent of the world's undrinkable water.
The device
took him over 10 years to develop and can transform even sewage into
clean drinking water. The crux of the invention is the "vapor
compression distiller" which sits between the tank of dirty
liquid and the tank of clean drinking water. This device
operates at low power and boils, distills, and vaporizes liquid water
from the dirty mix, leaving behind impurities in the water. The
device requires little maintenance.
The device produces 250
gallons a day, enough to support 100 people. Mr. Kamen boasts,
"It is literally like turning lead into gold. But I
believe it's more important, because you can't drink lead or
The device has already been field tested in the
village of Lerida in Honduras in 2006. Two of the devices were
placed in the village, and everything went perfectly, without a
Next up, Mr. Kamen envisions mass deployment.
Currently, a Slingshot costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
However, Mr. Kamen is looking for partners to mass produce the
device. He hopes to reduce the cost to about $2,000 a unit, and
to enlist humanitarian groups to start buying the devices for regions
in need. He states, "The biggest challenge right now
between this being a dream and a reality is getting committed people
that really care about the state of the world's health to get
Currently about 900 million of the world's 7
billion people don't have access to clean drinking water. This
leads to over 3.5 million deaths a year from water-related diseases.


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Celebrities and their scandals never end, and sometimes that's the real entertainment for us! Amr Diab is the latest celeb in the hot seat, as a video of him holding a concert with naked women surfaced all over the internet.
The video was filmed in Greece where Diab is currently filming his latest music video. Scenes in the video angered fans, as dancing with naked women does not go with the Arab culture and traditions.
Amr arrived to the Nammos Club in Mykonos by boat at around 1am, where hundreds of millionaire adoring fans were waiting for him. Naked men and Women painted in gold and drinking out of oversized 15-liter EUR 120,000 champagne bottles were dancing the night away to Diab's most-popular hits.
The singer was largely criticized by fans as he secretly held the concert without announcing it on his official FB and Twitter pages, as he usually does.
Fans expected Diab to cancel his concert in support to his fellow Egyptian people, who are going through a very tough time during the political unsuitability that's hit the country. Many Arab singers have already cancelled planned parties and concerts for that same reason.
Do you think it was wrong of Amr to secretly go ahead with his concert and dance around with naked women?
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PC Perspective's 2006 Holiday Shopping Guide
A Good Year for Geeks
At this time of year, even if you're remotely interested in computers, you've suddenly become the "go-to" person for technology gift ideas. Sure you may have a lot of ideas, but what if the person on your list already has nearly everything? At PC Perspective we put our heads together and came up with a list of things you may have overlooked and we hope this will inspire you on getting that perfect gift.
PC Add-ons
Have you ever been in scenario? It's Christmas day, you're sitting there opening package and what do you find? Another 512MB stick of RAM. Geez! You exclaim as you toss it onto the pile of 2 dozen other sticks you got from people. Okay okay, maybe that doesn't happen that often, but needless to say we have to be a bit more imaginative when it comes to giving tech gifts. So throw away ideas of buying motherboards or RAM, let's see if we can find something a bit more special.
A PhysX PPU card would be a nice gift for a gamer who's keen on staying at the head of the technology curve. With more and more titles being released with PhysX support, the Asus or BFG PhysX add-on will definitely make a gamer happy with all the extra effects.
For the more general user, you can give a Draft-N wireless adapter and router like the Linksys which will give you 650% the wireless throughput as compared to the 54mbps on current 802.11g products. Keep in mind that Draft-N are not based on the final 802.11n specification, but rather a near-final spec, so interoperability may be an issue in the future.
If you've got a computer that connects to your TV or like using your computer to watch movies, then you should really look into getting yourself an XBOX 360 HD DVD player because it's the cheapest HD-DVD solution you can find for the PC at the moment. As Ryan discovered here on PC Perspective, this inexpensive console add-on also works perfectly on the PC!
Notebooks are really popular these days. Though they are really nice tools to have, there are a few things you can buy for the notebook owner on your Christmas list that will really make their daily activities a lot more comfortable.
The Logitech V200 Cordless Notebook Mouse is a great little mouse that I've used in the past which tracks very well, is portable, and uses standard AA batteries so you're never stranded without power. Best of all, the Bluetooth transmitter can be stashed away with the mouse itself for ease of transport.
Looking for something a little different that won't bust the bank? How about a Targus portable laptop desk? This portable device helps raise the angle of a laptop to a more ergonomic incline, while keeping the system cool by allowing air to properly circulate.
Finally, what's one thing that every notebook user needs? The answer is a bag. Sure you can go with one of those boring black shoulder bags that every suit owns, or you can stand out by owning either a sexy Crumpler bag like the Dreadful Embarrassment, or the functional RoadWired Skooba Satchel.
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A computer input device is always a cool gift to give and Logitech has this order filled quite nicely. Their G7 Gaming Mouse is a great cordless mouse that boasts some impressive opinions around the 'net. If you're looking for something functionally similar but a little cheaper, then the G5 Gaming Mouse will fit your budget. Of course you can get other top-quality gaming mice from other manufacturers like Razer.
A computer input device is always a cool gift to give and Logitech has this order filled quite nicely. Their G7 Gaming Mouse is a great cordless mouse that boasts some impressive opinions around the 'net. If you're looking for something functionally similar but a little cheaper, then the G5 Gaming Mouse will fit your budget. Of course you can get other top-quality gaming mice from other manufacturers like Razer.
To match the G5 or G7 gaming mouse, you also have the Logitech G15 keyboard which has some great gaming specific features like a flip-up LCD display to give you vital in-game stats (like ammunition and health meters), and extra programmable buttons so you can bind frequently used actions to more accessible spots.
If a full-sized keyboard isn't what you're looking for, what about a WolfKing Warrior Game Pad or a Saitek Pro Gamer Command Unit.
Any gamer will tell you that worn mice feet suck... the resistance and the drag almost makes you want to throw your mouse out the window. Well maybe not, but there are good products out there that will help remedy this. Enter Hyperglide mouse skates. They're made from untextured teflon for good durability which lasts for months of usage. They're an inexpensive geek gift which says "I love you... for standing still while reloading".
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Urine Leaking Into Your Pants Is No Reason to Feel Unsexy
Here's a thing that the genius multibillion-dollar marketing industry did, probably at a cost of millions upon millions of dollars: instead of saying "incontinence," now we say "light bladder leakage," because that term is "less stigmatizing." See how much better it sounds? "Light bladder leakage." It's not all medical-y. It's just very plain and upfront to let people know, yes, urine is leaking from my bladder, lightly, and hey, I'm still human.
And speaking of urine leaking from your bladder, ladies, how about those new Poise™ Hourglass bladder protection products from the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, eh? Can you say "sexy is back, urine or not?" I certainly can. Andrew Adam Newman reports:
"It's brilliant in the sense that when women are leaking urine from their bladders they can feel very uncomfortable, very unclean, and they certainly don't feel sexy," Ms. Muller [head of the "National Association for Continence"] said. "What Kimberly-Clark is trying to achieve here is that you can still feel feminine, you can still feel like a woman and every bit as pretty."
Don't ever let anyone tell you that you are not pretty just because urine is leaking from your bladder (lightly). You know who would probably tell you that? A man. You don't need him, ladies. Real men love you for who you are: a beautiful person covered in urine, whose feminine curves resemble a Poise™ brand bladder protection pad.


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Can anyone provide an ID for this minute red spider? I found it tonight in the kitchen. I presume it is an immature spider but am not sure of the species.
Photo too small, too blury, sorry. Could be young, could be small adult, who knows? Lycosidae? Just guessing.
Better photo = better chances.
Hi Florin
Thanks for your reply and apologies for the poor photo.
The spider was very small (1mm) and moved quite fast. Could not get bit to stay still for the photo.
It was bright red in colour and just wondered if it had arrived with some grapes that I had bought that day. I think they were South American in origin.
I guess we'll never know.


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If you ain't dance, you get off the floor
This for the twerkers only
There she go (there she go)
There she go
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Perez rips walk-off double in Rafters' win
Early two-run homer by Ruf doesn't hold up for Scorpions
By David Heck / Special to MLB.com
The 20-year-old second baseman doubled home fellow Tigers prospect Dixon Machado in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Rafters overcame the Scorpions for a 3-2 walk-off win.
Signed as a non-drafted free agent in 2007, Perez hit .258 with eight homers and 69 runs scored for Class A West Michigan in 2011. He finished Thursday's game 3-for-5 and was also the first player to touch home, coming around to score on a bases-loaded groundout by Nolan Arenado (Rockies) in the first.
The Scorpions got two in the second on a two-run homer by Darin Ruf (Phillies), who slugged 17 long balls for Class A Advanced Clearwater this year. The 25-year-old first baseman wasted no time finding his old stroke, going deep on the sixth pitch he saw in his first at-bat off starter Andrew Oliver (Tigers).
Scottsdale hung on to a 2-1 lead until the eighth, when Alex Castellanos (Dodgers) tied the game with his first homer off the Phillies' Colby Shreve. Perez finished the game off in the ninth, smacking his double off Daniel Tillman (Angels).
Scorpions starter Sammy Solis (Nationals) held the Rafters to one run on two hits over three innings before manager Arnie Beyeler pieced together four shutout innings from the bullpen.
Oliver went 1 2/3 innings for Salt River, allowing two runs on four hits. Five relievers combined to shut out Scottsdale over the final 7 1/3 frames, yielding five hits and six walks while striking out four. The Dodgers' Josh Wall (1-0) earned the win after giving up a hit over the final 1 1/3 innings.
Bryce Harper, MLB.com's No. 2 prospect, went 0-for-5 with a strikeout in the cleanup spot for Scottsdale. The first overall pick in 2010 is hitless in his first seven Arizona Fall League at-bats.
David Heck is a contributor to MLB.com. Danny Wild contributed reporting to this story. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Dodgers 6-9 since trade with Red Sox
The Red Sox are 3-12 since they gave up on the season and traded Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, and Nick Punto to the Dodgers.
The Dodgers, it may comfort you to know, aren't a whole lot better.
Los Angeles is 6-9 since the deal and has fallen 2.5 games further back in the National League West. The Dodgers are 5.5 games out of first and 1.5 games out in the wild card race.
Here's a look at how the ex-Sox are faring:
Beckett: He is 1-2 with a 3.86 ERA in three starts. He has struck out 18 over 18.2 innings in the National League. His walk rate has gone up a bit, which seems strange. But three starts aren't much to judge.
Gonzalez: It's only 15 games, but Gonzalez has so far been a disappointment in Los Angeles. He is hitting a modest .242/.304/.371 — .226/.288/.321 in the last 13 games. He homered in his first game for the Dodgers and hasn't had one since. The Dodgers are averaging 3.2 runs since Gonzalez joined their lineup.
James Loney is hitting .273/.289/.364 for the Red Sox, by the way. He also has one home run.
Punto: He has pretty much been the same player he was in Boston. Punto is 2 of 13 without an RBI for the Dodgers and started two games.


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I guess I'm going to have to address this issue at some point, so here we go.
Apparently one of the more controversial decisions we made with PocketBible for the iPhone was to follow the other major eBook reader software like Kindle and eReader and present the text a page at a time rather than continuously scrolling. That is, to move through the text of a PocketBible Bible or book, you swipe right to left (or just tap on the right side of the page) to "turn the page". The new page enters from the right.
The alternative is to present Bibles and books as a long stream of continuously scrolling text and allow you to use drags and flicks to smoothly scroll the text. This method is followed (with some variations) by some other Bible software programs.
You Only Think You've Seen Continuously Scrolling Text Everywhere
People tend to point to applications like Safari, which lets you flick around on a Web page to scroll up, down, left and right, and claim that "all iPhone apps let you flick to scroll". This is true when you have a limited amount of text, but not when the text is virtually unlimited. For example, a Web page is a finite amount of text (and images and whatever). It can be rendered once into an in-memory buffer, then portions of that buffer can be moved onto the screen as needed. More importantly, the overall dimensions of the page are easily determined. The programmer can tell the iPhone "I'll be scrolling around on a 1391- by 3287- pixel image of this page." That way, the iPhone knows when you've hit the "top" or "bottom" of the page and can do that cool "bounce" animation it does when you try to go past the edges.
Even large scrolling lists — like your list of contacts or PocketBible's search results list — have bounds that are easily determined. It's easy to count your contacts or your PocketBible search results, multiply by the height of one contact or search result entry in the list, and tell the iPhone the result. So 25,000 search results times 80 pixels is 2,000,000 pixels. If you go past 2,000,000 the iPhone knows you're at the end and stops asking for more (in this case it actually stops because you're looking at the 25,000th item, but down inside the code it's animating the end-of-list behavior based on the y-coordinate being greater than or equal to 2,000,000).
The iPhone needs to know how tall your view is going to be. The problem with the text in PocketBible is that it's practically infinite in length, and the time it would take to calculate the height needed is probably measured in hours (or at least in minutes), not the milliseconds you expect when you open a book or change the font/size you're using to display text. The iPhone needs to know this height and we can't calculate it in a timely fashion.
There are ways around this, but because we can't calculate the height in advance we're violating a built-in assumption the iPhone has about scrolling views. So that means we have to code our own scrolling view or at a minimum do some nasty jury-rigging to fake the iPhone into believing it has a finite-length view when in fact it doesn't.
You've probably run into apps like Facebook which shows you 25-50 items in a list then allows you to press a button to load more. Again, you think you're seeing a long, continuous list but in reality you're seeing a short, finite-length list and you have an option to see a longer, finite-length list. You just think it's an infinitely long list.
When To Load the Text?
Because the text of the Bible or a reference book is so long, it's impractical to load the whole thing into memory at once (both to determine its size and to have it available for continuous scrolling). So we use techniques that allow us to load the text in pieces. (In our case, one paragraph at a time.) The problem, of course, is that it takes just as long to load the whole book one paragraph at a time as it does to simply load the whole book into memory. To get around this, we make use of idle moments (such as while the view is "coasting to a stop" after a flick) to load some more text. Normally the processor isn't doing anything during this time, so you don't notice that we're loading text at that time.
The problem is that it can take longer than that time to load a paragraph. And you may be furiously flicking through text, not giving us time to do any loading. In these cases, we end up using time that is normally spent to recognize your input gestures. As a result, the system seems to be slow to recognize your gestures, and the motion of the text gets jerky.
At some point, we have to draw the text to the screen, which also takes time. One option is to launch a second thread to draw text that has been loaded and decompressed. But since the iPhone has only one processor with one core, this second thread is no more efficient than the method described above (using idle time on the main thread).
Furthermore, there are limits on what kind of drawing you can do in a second thread. Because the iPhone is a relatively new OS and doesn't have the maturity of, say, Windows Mobile (which, like iPhone OS vs. Mac OS, is also a subset of its desktop counterpart), there are significant missing components for drawing text in anything but the main thread. Apple assumes you're going to do all your text rendering with its built-in Web view component. But it, too, is an immature component and doesn't have all the features we need to support everything we need to do with and to the text. So they give us one really nice why to draw text, but limit it to only being used in the main thread of the application. The text functions that can be accessed from other threads are more limited in their scope.
A Little History
Our initial implementation of PocketBible used continuous scrolling. We released an alpha version (a preliminary release that was nowhere near feature-complete) to a small group of testers in January 2009 with the goal of releasing the finished product in March. Because of all the problems described above (and more), the scrolling was a bit clunky. I actually thought it wasn't horrible once you got used to it, but the alpha testers hated it and sent us back to the drawing board.
For the next six months I tried variations on when to load text, how much text to load, what thread to load text in, when to draw, what thread to draw in, etc., eventually writing at least four complete, from the ground-up, implementations of loading, rendering, and scrolling text. Late in the process I threw it all away and started again and had a relatively good implementation. We released beta 1 and the testers weren't happy with the scrolling performance.
This was pretty disappointing. We were tempted to just go ahead with this implementation, but when we tested with the newly released OS 3.0 the performance was significantly worse. Something had changed with the new OS and would have required starting over again.
What do the Other Guys Do?
At this point I paused and did a survey of other similar software. I wanted to see what kind of performance they were getting during scrolling, and if there was anything I could divine from applying a programmer's eye to the use of their software. I opted to look at general ebook software like Kindle, eReader, and Stanza. I chose not to look at other Bible software because the general ebook readers have larger user bases and well-funded, professional development teams.
What I found was a constant use of a "paging" metaphor as opposed to "scrolling". This was interesting. If they were "getting away with this" with their enormous customer bases then potentially we could do likewise.
User Fatigue and Reading Comprehension
Within a couple days I had a paginated user interface up and running and for the most part, the beta testers liked it. Sure, there were those who really wanted to scroll. But there were others who actually preferred the paginated approach. They found it required a lot less concentration on manipulating the text and allowed them to focus on reading. Their fingers weren't in the way all the time. And when they tapped the screen they knew it was going to move exactly one page instead of flicking and having to figure out when/if to stop it from scrolling too far, then having to find their place.
This was encouraging because it gave us some very real benefits to the new approach. Paging required less interaction and less concentration on navigating, thus allowing more concentration on reading and comprehension. And the performance was adequate and the implementation simple.
At about the same time my daughter was complaining about a college class that required them to read hundreds of pages of PDF files from the professor's Web site. The school made the case that this was part of their "green" initiative, but my daughter found that in order to easily read and mark up the text it was necessary to first print it, thus negating the green argument and costing her a fortune in paper and ink. (Ironically, whereas the school could easily have printed this material on a two-sided printer, my daughter could only print on one side, thus costing TWICE as many trees as the "non-green" solution.)
This led me to do some research on online reading vs. reading in print. It seems to be a consistent conclusion that offline reading (from paper) results in better reading comprehension. One of the reasons that was cited was that the eyes can easily go from line to line and from page to page in print, but when reading from the screen the eyes have to constantly adjust for the motion caused by scrolling. The difficulty of moving the screen to the next full screen of text resulted in the eyes and brain having to continuously re-locate their position in the text. The resulting diminished comprehension negatively impacts test scores and was one more point against my daughter's school's "green" initiative.
Interestingly, the results of this research could easily be applied to what we were doing on PocketBible. When you flick the text you have to stop and figure out where you're at. When you turn a page you know right where to continue reading. If you avoid this by slowly scrolling as you read, your eyes can't move from line to line as easily as they can when those lines aren't moving. And your fingers get in the way.
So Where do we Stand?
In summary, the reason PocketBible doesn't have continuous scrolling isn't because we haven't thought of it. It's because we've tried several ways of doing it and none has resulted in acceptable performance.
While pagination started as a second-choice user interface, it turns out it's used by all the large, well-funded, popular ebook reader software for the iPhone. And it turns out it has documented benefits when it comes to user fatigue and reading comprehension.
It cannot be argued that pagination is "not the iPhone way". The large, continuously scrolling text often cited as examples of "the iPhone way" isn't actually as large as our text. And there are lots of similar applications that don't use scrolling as their user interface for books. So while it can be said that continuous scrolling is an iPhone way to interact with books, it cannot be said that it is the iPhone way.
I'm aware of the fact that other Bible software uses scrolling instead of paging. I've heard conflicting reports on whether they do this successfully or just "acceptably" in the opinion of their users. I've also heard that some do continuous scrolling within a chapter (thus avoiding the problem of having a large amount of text) but then have another gesture that means "next chapter". This is great for Bibles but doesn't solve anything for other types of reference books. And it creates a weird concept of "sometimes you flick to scroll and sometimes you have to do something else" to see the next bit of text.
I don't have any insight into the other guys' code so I can't comment on why they may get acceptable scrolling behavior when we don't. Maybe their standards aren't as high. Maybe their code isn't as feature-rich. Maybe they're better programmers than we are. In the end it's irrelevant. We are all playing the cards we were dealt. Knowing someone else at another table has a better hand than I do doesn't mean I can win at my table. To continue but convolute the metaphor, you can either stay in the game with us or you can go play with someone else. We can't control your behavior.
We have not disclosed our plans for any future features of PocketBible, other than to say we're continuously working on it, and that the features you see in other versions of PocketBible will find their way into the iPhone version in the future. We have a long list of must-have features in PocketBible and a long-list of suggestions from all of you. We consider the must-have list to be the more important one at this time. We've been implementing little things from the suggestion list as we work through big things on the must-have list, but are prioritizing useful new functionality over simply changing the way things work.
Pagination is a feature that is not broken and doesn't need to be fixed. While we may look at wasting another six months on scrolling in the future, we'll do that at a time when it won't cause other very necessary features to be delayed.
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By Nora Carr
With the advent of accountability, school districts have become awash in data. As a result, sorting the trivial from the critical has become increasingly difficult.
Bogged down by multiple -- and often conflicting -- sets of data, decision-making can sputter and stall, no matter how many pretty charts and graphs are presented.
As Mark Twain famously quipped, "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Not surprisingly, school officials want to know the data they're relying on to make critical policy and financial decisions is as balanced as possible.
That's why more are turning to data dashboards and other Web-based business tools to get a better handle on key measures. Like the fuel gauge on a car that lets drivers know their tanks are almost empty, data dashboards use visual formats like arrows, pie charts, or bar graphs to quickly let school leaders know whether critical information -- such as third-grade reading scores or on-time bus arrivals -- are trending up or down.
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Los Angeles County voters shot down two of the lower-profile measures on the countywide ballot Tuesday, rejecting efforts to extend a tax for transportation and to make the county assessor job appointed.
Two additional property tax measures localized to the Santa Monica Mountains area were approved by more than the necessary two-thirds vote. The measures will provide $1 million for land conservation.
Measure J, which would have extended a half-cent sales tax for transportation by an additional 30 years, garnered 64.72 percent of the vote – less than 2 points shy of the required two-thirds.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, one of its chief backers, said voter confusion may have led to its failure.
"We haven't analyzed it, and we will, but it may be that people didn't know it wasn't a new tax, but just an extension," Villaraigosa said.
Measure J would have continued the 30-year Measure R tax approved in 2008 until 2069.
The additional 30 years would have helped "accelerate the construction of regional traffic relieving highway and transit projects," officials said.
"While the ballot initially fell just short, we remain focused on making the improvements voters mandated four years ago," Metro spokesman Marc Littman said.
"It's tough in any event to get a two-thirds vote approval, but we still have the Measure R program, so we're focusing on that," Littman said. "You'll see in two years five major rail projects go on simultaneously, it's just not going to be accelerated like it would have if Measure J had passed. There's a lot going on still so we can't lose sight of that."
Littman added a similar measure could always be placed on a future ballot.
Measure A failed as nearly 78 percent of voters agreed to keep the system of electing the Los Angeles County tax assessor instead of allowing the county Board of Supervisors to appoint the position. The assessor sets the taxable value of properties.
The action comes as Assessor John Noguez sits in jail, facing 24 felony counts for allegedly accepting bribes from a tax consultant to have clients' property taxes lowered.
An investigation into Noguez earlier this year prompted the Board of Supervisors to draft the advisory measure seeking the appointment of county tax assessors to keep "external pressures or influence peddling" out of the powerful position.
Measures HH and MM were so low-profile that they failed to inspire any major movements in favor or against. The measures, which both passed with more than the required two-thirds margin, looked to raise about $1 million a year over a decade for land conservation in the Santa Monica Mountains.
HH earned 76 percent of the vote and MM garnered 68 percent approval.
The special tax measures aim to keep funds flowing into the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority's coffers to help fund maintenance and improvements the the designated Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Zones.
Measure HH, which asks for $24 annually for the next 10 years for an estimated $681,000, covers the needs in the hillside areas located west of Griffith Park and east of the 405 Freeway, including the Hollywood Hills.
Measure MM asks for $19 a year, generating $305,000 annually to protect the northern slope of the Santa Monica Mountains west of the 405 and the Woodland Hills, Encino and Tarzana hillside areas.
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United States soccer coach Jurgen Klinsmann has been to Colorado before. The German legend skied in Vail a couple of times and loved it. This weekend he is back, without ski poles, for something more important to him.
He is greeting his team, which arrives for Friday's World Cup qualifier at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City with home-field ramifications that dwarf anything the Broncos experience down the road. The 8 p.m. game against Costa Rica (0-0-1) is the U.S. team's chance to even its record after a 2-1 loss at Honduras on Feb. 6.
"Home-field advantage in the World Cup qualifying is huge," Klinsmann said in a phone interview. "Every home game is a must-win situation. I feel very confident that Denver will give us that edge."
How big are home games in World Cup qualifying? Consider:
• Since 1985, the U.S. has lost only one World Cup qualifier at home: to Honduras in 2001. The U.S. has qualified for all six World Cups since 1990.
• The top four teams in the Americans' CONCACAF region lost only two of 36 home games in 2010. Honduras lost to the U.S., and Costa Rica lost to Mexico.
• The U.S. is the only team in CONCACAF this year that plays three of its first four games on the road.
Friday's game is not going to determine the U.S. team's fate. It's Game 2 of 10, and the top three of the six-nation CONCACAF qualify for next year's World Cup in Brazil. The fourth-place team plays New Zealand, the Oceania winner, for another berth.
The U.S. would need a fall worse than a stock market collapse not to qualify. However, a loss to Costa Rica would send an 0-2 U.S. team March 26 to Mexico City, where it has won only once in history, and then June 7 to Jamaica, which tied Mexico in its first game.
It's an uphill climb Klinsmann last experienced on a chair lift in Vail. And it won't bode well for a deep run in Brazil for a U.S. team that has not gone past the World Cup quarterfinals since 1930.
The good news? The game at 19,000-seat Dick's Sporting Goods Park (1,776 seats have been added) sold out in an hour. Four sections will be taken up by the American Outlaws, the U.S. national team's version of ultras (dedicated fans).
"This venue gives us a feel that the crowd will be excited, very pumped up and very energetic and will push us to those three points," Klinsmann said.
Most of the U.S. team arrives Sunday (Costa Rica arrives Monday), leaving plenty of time to adjust to the altitude. That's in sharp contrast to the game at Honduras, where many players jetted in from Europe just in time to swelter in 84 degrees and 80 percent humidity.
"Players could barely move," Klinsmann said. "Adjustment wasn't possible."
He will announce his roster Monday, and that will have a bigger effect than the altitude. The U.S. will be young. Injuries to goalkeeper Tim Howard (back) and two-time World Cup participant Steve Cerundolo (knee), the ineffectiveness of captain Carlos Bocanegro (hasn't played with his 19th-place, second-division Racing Santander team in Spain since Feb. 5) and, well, the extended Ricky Williamsish hiatus of all-time scoring and assist leader Landon Donovan (self-imposed break and may not be taken to Brazil) force Klinsmann to push youth into the pressure cooker.
The biggest loss is Howard. The 34-year-old Everton regular has played in every major U.S. game the past four years and is in his 11th year in England's Premiership. He's out four to six weeks after breaking two bones in his back in an FA Cup match against Oldham on Feb. 26.
In his place comes Brad Guzan, 28, another Premiership star with Aston Villa who has played 20 games for the U.S., including five World Cup qualifiers in which he's 3-1-1.
"We have 100 percent faith in Brad," Klinsmann said. "Obviously it's a bummer for Timmy and everybody not having him, but for him the most important thing is to get healthy and get that issue out of his system. Brad is in very good form. He is very experienced already."
Team USA will work out at the University of Denver on Monday at 11 a.m. The practice is closed to the public.
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Costa Rica-U.S. at a glance
What: World Cup qualifier, Game 2 of 10 round-robin games among six CONCACAF teams
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City
Tickets: Sold out. TV: ESPN
Public appearances: Pep rally at Paramount Theater at 8 p.m. Thursday, featuring coach Jurgen Klinsmann and select players, videos, music and special presentations. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Entrance is free.
Pregame activities: Tailgate party with three Denver chefs who will serve food starting at 5:30 p.m. A limited number of tickets are still available at TicketHorse (866-461-6556, 303-53HORSE).


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Sophisticated, top-drawer vocal duo featuring peerless jazz singer Martin, and hugely gifted composer, pianist and knight of the realm, Bennett. United by their love of great songs and with just their two voices and a piano, this promises to be an intimate, charming and hugely enjoyable exploration of the Great American Songbook and beyond, as heard to great effect on their superb recent album Witchcraft.
Claire Martin
Acclaimed as the best ever British jazz singer in America's leading jazz publication Jazz Times Martin was born to sing. Growing up in a house full of music in Wimbledon, South London, she'd learned all of Judy Garland's songs by the time she was 12. But it was hearing Ella Fitzgerald's legendary "Song Books" that changed her life inspiring her to go to Stage School and then to study singing in London and New York. A further seminal moment came at 18 when she saw the great improvising singer Betty Carter at Ronnie Scott's. It confirmed what she already felt - she had to be a jazz singer. Like many singers Martin paid her dues and learnt her craft by embarking on the QE2, singing in the Theatre Bar for two years.
Back on dry land and just 21, Martin formed her first quartet (featuring guitar-great Jim Mullen). Her break came when renowned Scottish jazz label Linn signed her in 1991, the start of a creative relationship that is still going strong today. Martin's 1992 debut "The Waiting Game" (Linn AKD 018) scored rave reviews and was chosen as a Times Album of the Year. Martin achieved one of her ambitions later that year, opening for Tony Bennett at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. By the mid-nineties Martin had received the Rising Star and Best Vocalist awards at the British Jazz Awards while receiving rave reviews on her American debut with four sell-out shows in Washington DC. Another ambition was fulfilled with the recording of a live album at Ronnie Scott's in 1995, an album that moved the New York Times to comment "In an era when young jazz singers tend to sound far too much like their idols, there is no mistaking the voice of Claire Martin who combines a cool, burnished tone with the ear of a born musician".
Increasingly popular across the pond, Martin recorded her fifth album "Make This City Ours" (Linn AKD 066) in New York reaching number 1 in the prestigious Gavin Charts and staying there for two weeks - the only European singer to achieve this. Future albums saw Martin collaborate with guitarist/producer Paul Stacey and she even had Noel Gallagher join her on a rendition of the Beatles classic "Help". Later that year she met Paul McCartney and delivered the re-working by hand. Her second album with Stacey featured a duet with the late great cult singer/songwriter John Martyn.
Martin continued to gather awards, winning the Best Vocalist category for the fourth time at the 2002 British Jazz Awards and going onto win Best Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2003 (when she performed a duet with a certain Mr Cullum, who won the Rising Star Award that year).
Richard Rodney Bennett
A musician of great versatility, the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett studied in London with Lennox Berkeley and Howard Ferguson, and subsequently with Pierre Boulez. In addition to his very varied work as a composer, he is also known as a pianist, not least in jazz performances.
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Bennett's operas date from the 1960s and include the powerful The Mines of Sulphur, with Victory, based on Conrad, the last of the five. His ballet score Isadora was written in 1980. His film music includes scores for Far from the Madding Crowd, Murder on the Orient Express and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
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Bennett has written concertos for a number of different instruments, including two piano concertos and concertos for violin, viola, oboe, saxophone, double bass, horn, and bassoon. There is a similarly wide range of scoring in his chamber music, which includes a guitar concerto and a sonatina for the same instrument.
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+ support tonight: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars with Special Guest vocalists Emma Smith (Mon) and Natalie Williams (Tues)
Monday's band line up: Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Ed Richardson (drums).
Tuesday's band line up: is Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Chris Higginbottom
The Ronnie Scott's All Stars are comprised of some of the greatest talents on the U.K scene, including some of our most regular performers James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Pedro Segundo (drums)
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Musical Director at Ronnie Scott's and the owner of a ferocious piano technique coupled with a sense of musicality rarely heard, James Pearson is one of the most exciting musicians to have emerged from the U.K in the last 25 years. After working with him, the late jazz legend Sir John Dankworth declared: "James Pearson is an exceptionally gifted artist. His masterful playing makes him head and shoulders above the rest of his contemporaries. He shows signs of true greatness".
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Double Bass Despite only being in his early 30's, already Sam is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene. As well as appearing on numerous film soundtracks such as 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and 'Hannibal'. Sam's thumping, pounding, relentlessly driving bass lines have been heard accompanying the likes of Bob James, Billy Kilson, Gary Novak, Joe Lock, Dave Kekowski, Guy Barker, Dave O'Higgins, Pete King, Gareth Williams, Claire Martin, Jim Mullen, Alan Barnes, Tim Whitehead, John Horler, Gwyneth Herbert, John Dankworth, The BBC Big Band and Robbie Williams.
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At 22 years old Pedro Segundo, Portuguese drummer joins the James Pearson Trio at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
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Pedroia named July's AL Player of the Month
By Jon Star / MLB.com
Pedroia received the award after hitting .411 (46-for-112) with eight home runs, 22 RBIs, 27 runs scored, nine doubles and one triple in July. It is the first Player of the Month Award of Pedroia's career, and the second straight presented to a Red Sox player. Adrian Gonzalez was June's recipient of the award.
Among all eligible players (minimum 84 plate appearances), the 2008 Most Valuable Player and three-time All-Star ended the month tops in batting average, hits, slugging pecentage (.465), and was second in home runs and sixth in RBIs.
Pedroia's July also put him in distinguished company within the Red Sox's record books. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, his 46 hits were the most by a Red Sox player in July since 1939, when Bobby Doerr, Ted Williams and Jimmy Foxx collected 52, 48 and 47 hits respectively. Pedroia's eight home runs were the most hit by a Red Sox player in July since Felix Mantilla hit 10 long balls in 1964. The second baseman punctuated his month on July 26, when he tallied a season-high four hits, including a double, triple, three runs scored and an RBI.
Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury was among the foursome who also received votes. Ellsbury hit .382 with eight home runs and 22 RBIs. Rangers infielder Michael Young (.390, 20 RBIs, 11 doubles, 20 runs), Twins outfielder Michael Cuddyer (.336, 6 home runs, 25 RBIs, .545 slugging) and A's designated hitter Hideki Matsui (.369, 3 home runs, 22 RBI, .449 slugging) were also nominated.
Jon Star is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Wednesday December 21, 2011
Jamie Oliver has beaten his rivals to take the number one spot in the Christmas book chart for the second consecutive year.
Jamie's Great Britain has sold 59,156 copies in the week ending December 17, according to Nielsen BookScan data.
The new book accompanies Jamie's most recent TV programme where the chef travelled around the UK in search of the finest recipes the country has to offer.
In both the book and the TV series, he focuses on the importance of immigration to the country in creating fantastic new dishes and recipes, some of which have become staple British dishes.
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Rep. Ron Paul said GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's convention speech left him "very skeptical" that the country's economic policies will change.
"The speech is what I would expect," the Texas Republican said Friday on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." "I remain very, very skeptical of hearing anything that will change the course of history. We have a debt problem. We have a spending problem, but how many things did he list to cut?"
Not enough, he said. The former GOP presidential candidate said the "most disturbing" part of America's fiscal problems is the Federal Reserve, which Romney did not focus on during his speech.
"There was no talk of the Federal Reserve," said Paul, advocating the elimination of both the Fed and fixed interest rates. "As long as we have the concept," he later added, "we will linger a long time because debt is a problem and no one is willing to face up to it and I certainly didn't hear that (Thursday) night."
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Lake Ashinoko (Lake Ashi) is one of the most beautiful sightseeing spot near Tokyo. The surface of the lake is about 800 m above sea level, so it is a bit cool than in Tokyo even in summer season. This lake was made by the eruption of old Hakone volcano about 3000 years before. You can see a sightseeing ship, which was modeled on the Swedish warship Vasa, on the lake. The brown-colored buidings seen in the north-east is one of the water-gates of the lake. Mt. Kami-yama (1437 m) can be seen in the ESE direction.
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.


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