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The free flow of skilled human capital was identified as a top priority at an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) senior officials innovation meeting I led in Medan, Indonesia, this past weekend. The approval therefore by the U.S. Senate last Thursday of its version of immigration reform legislation was met with keen interest. Why is this legislation so important for the United States?
For more than a decade now, U.S. policymakers have failed to address the nation's broken immigration system. This year has seen a plethora of different groups – representing business and the technology industry, labor unions, farmworkers, educators, youth groups, religious organizations and many others from both sides of the aisle – watching closely to see if lawmakers can overcome tough party divides.
While action last week is encouraging and the White House wants anxiously to sign an immigration reform law, many analysts think it will be a hard battle in the House of Representatives. The bill includes compromises for low-wage migrant workers as well as for high-skilled immigrants. By White House estimates, the Senate Bill has the potential to cut the U.S. deficit by almost 1 trillion dollars over the next two decades by adding taxpayers and allowing immigrants to grow GDP through activities like business creation. The President points out that in 2011, immigrants started 28% of all new business while accounting for only 13% of the U.S. population.
The most polarizing part of the bill is addressing the issue of illegal immigration. The Senate bill that just passed provides a 13-year path to citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country. According to many analysts, the Republican-led House is unlikely to take up the Senate measure and is instead crafting a narrower bill that would not provide a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants in the country.
There is one issue that no party denies would be good for the economy: opening paths for high-skilled immigration. I hope it does not get lost in the debates ahead. Here's why.
The October 2012 Kauffman Foundation report, "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs – Then and Now," showed that growth in immigrant-founded businesses in the United States is stagnating. Earlier studies documented that 25% of engineering and technology companies started between 1995 and 2005 had an immigrant founder. Those companies employed 450,000 workers and generated $52 billion in revenue in 2006 alone, driving significant economic growth for the U.S. economy. In Silicon Valley specifically, in that same period, immigrants had founded 52 percent of the startups. The above-mentioned new research shows that since 2005, that percentage dropped to 44 percent. This decline should worry us all.
The impact of immigrant entrepreneurial talent cannot be understated. From jobs to productivity-enhancing innovations to life-saving new technologies, immigrant founders and investors in high-growth businesses create benefits for all. Take, patent filing statistics, for instance, to check the pulse of innovation among immigrant entrepreneurs. In 2007, an analysis of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) data showed that the number of international patent applications filed by noncitizen immigrants was 24.2% in 2006. The Kauffman Foundation and other research organizations have pointed out for years that America could lose this economic force. That year, according to entrepreneur-turned-academic Vivek Wadwha and his research team at Duke University, there were 1 million skilled immigrants waiting for permanent resident visas. The annual H1B quota for skilled overseas workers had (and continues to have) a cap of 65,000. As Wadhwa has pointed out in many articles and interviews, in the technology world entrepreneurs have to execute their ideas fast before they become stale. Therefore, in face of the backlog, many STEM graduates were understandably looking to other entrepreneurship ecosystems, including China and India, the homes of the majority of these graduates.
The presence of these issues at the APEC meetings I joined in Indonesia this past weekend should be a reminder to U.S. policymakers that the rest of the world is taking advantage of U.S. delay on addressing these issues. I spoke with many whose nations—including Canada, Australia, Chile and Singapore—have been working on their own legislation and programs not just to open their doors to job-creating entrepreneurs and early-stage investors, but to improve business conditions to increase the attractiveness of their startup ecosystems. They do not see immigrants as economic scapegoats and competitors—as some Americans do—but rather a source of economic vibrancy to recruit.
The fact that last week the House Judiciary Committee approved its own bill to offer more visas for foreign computer engineers and scientists should provide some optimism that that House of Representatives will see "smart immigration" also in terms of fixing the system for skilled workers and entrepreneurial talent. As the debate shifts there, it is worth reminding commentators and opinion leaders of the quality research available concerning how current policies affect this important economic force. One such report is the Kauffman Foundation's, "America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs – Then and Now," and Vivek Wadwha's book The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent. Vivek kindly offered PDE readers a complimentary copy. If you are interested, his ebook is available for free download to PDE readers from now through July 22.
The U.S. has an economic history based on immigration. I hope that in the upcoming House of Representatives debate, policymakers won't undermine this proven source of growth and competitiveness and instead will join other nations around the world in offering a welcome mat to talented entrepreneurs and scientists.
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when I compile the code, the program stays in the while loop; it doesn't hang because it responds to any additional input I give it, but it does not ever output " out" as I would like. Ultimately I would like this program to take an input from the keyboard like "test1 test2" and output "test1* test2* out".Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { char string1[64]; while (cin >> string1) { cout << string1 << "* "; } cin.clear(); cout << " out"; return 0; }


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There are still more than a few thoughtful souls, however, who take a look at the high price tags of plasma, LCD, and the rest of the options, then buy a big-screen tube TV for half the price and laugh all the way to the bank. Sure they may spend a lot of time fielding the question, "Why didn't you get a plasma?" But the answer's plain enough every time they switch on their sets. In video, picture quality is all about the blacks, and CRTs produce the deepest blacks of any display technology, period.
Mitsubishi's WS-55813, a 55-inch widescreen rear-projection HDTV that lists for $4,499, is no exception. The smaller of the company's two Diamond-branded sets, it comes with scads of features, including a built-in HDTV tuner for over-the-air digital broadcasts and a QAM tuner that can decode high-def programs delivered by some cable systems. It looks good, too, at least for a big box.
Mitsubishi employs lots of glossy black plastic and subtle shaping to achieve its distinctive modern look. A narrow border around the screen enhances its appearance. This TV doesn't need a stand to reach eye level - its wheeled base put the center of the screen at a comfortable viewing height when I sat on my couch.
The large remote control fit comfortably in my hand, although some people may have to stretch to reach every button. I liked both the backlit keypad and the dedicated "device" rocker switch that cycled through the numerous inputs. It can also control up to four other devices, but most folks will probably opt to use Mitsubishi's NetCommand system instead.


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At the forefront of the UK's African jazz music scene is South African born trumpeter and composer Claude Deppa. Resident in the UK for over 30 years, Deppa can turn his hand to Afro-jazz, soul, funk, Afro-Cuban and even chamber music as well as many sub-genres, and has performed with many greats including Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango and Tony Allen.
Pianist Darius Brubeck, eldest son of jazz-legend Dave Brubeck, was born in San Francisco yet spent most of the 70's touring the world with his father and brothers as a member of Two Generations of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet until forming his own fusion band, Gathering Forces. His academic career began in 1983 when he introduced the first formal Jazz Studies degree in Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa where he remained until 2006. During this time a 1990's version of Gathering Forces recorded an album in Durban, and he established an international reputation touring with South African musicians.
The Darius Brubeck Quartet are well known for their renditions of Tshona (Pat Matshikiza), Tsakwe (Abdullah Ibrahim) and Darius' own Tugela Rail. The band will also perform Mamazala in a tribute to its composer, Zim Ngqawana, who died suddenly last month.
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December 1, 2009
Oh, Epic LOL - Where Have You Been All My Twi-Life?!
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this is literally the funniest thing ever. it's worth the like $1 to download the entire rifftrax for twilight. i was laughing through the entire thing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
omg, haha. "man, your blood would rock~"ReplyDelete
I must have watched that 30 times in a row.ReplyDelete
"Oh, I went up to Twin Peaks and killed Laura Palmer"
"lines... lines..."
Okay, have to watch it again.
Gah a disclaimer needs posted to warn people to NOT watch when everyone else in the house is or shall I say WAS sleeping...LOLReplyDelete
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"I want to chomp into your throatReplyDelete
And watch you bleed out on the floor
Then I'll bathe myself in your light essence as you die
Tear your heart out of your chest and crack the bones and suck the marrow out
Slice into your brain for sandwiches and maybe have an omlette made of…"
MST3K! I HEART THEM SOOOO MUCH! ok, no more shouty caps, sorry.ReplyDelete
That damn song, Bellas lullaby, I'll NEVER listen to it the same, ever ever again! LMAO!
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What's going right with young Alaska Native men?
Monday, Dec. 10, 2012
By Diana Campbell
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FAIRBANKS — The first Freddie Edmund saw of Washington D.C. was from the jetliner window.
It was night, and to the horizon, thousands of lights twinkled against the darkness.
Back at his Western Alaska home, any light that Edmund would see in the distance would be from a snowmachine headlight bobbing along a faraway trail.
The lit landscape made an impression on the 20-year old as he'd never been out of Alaska. Not even Anchorage has lights to the horizon.
"It was pretty," noted the young man of few words.
The trip was the result of a recently awarded $149,595 grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Center for Alaska Native Health Research and two other universities. Edmund, his mother Josie Edmund, friend Travis Isidore, all from Alakanuk, traveled to D.C., with principal investigator Stacy Rasmus and co-investigator Billy Charles, in October to meet people from four other indigenous arctic communities to talk about youth resilience. The two young men also showed a short video about what it means to be a strong teen in a Yup'ik community at the Inuit Studies Conference.
The opening of the video shows how the young men set a fish net, harvest the fish, and then cook them on an open fire riverside.
"It's the best that way," Edmund explained. "I say it tastes a lot better than in a regular oven."
Rasmus said the video also shows the teens' resilience in the face of adversity. Much has been said about the risks Alaska Native or indigenous youth face with suicide and substance abuse, but Rasmus' work, in this research project and several others at CANHR, focuses on identifying strengths and finding ways to build on them.
The D.C. trip allowed the Alakanuk young men to meet peers from Canada, Siberia, Norway and Northwest Alaska.
Isidore, 17, said the other teens weren't that different, even with the Eveny, the indigenous group from Siberia, who spoke through a translator.
"Sometimes we had to use body language, but we had fun and laughed," he said. "It was fun hanging out with them."
But finding out that others were more fluent in their own language made Isidore realize how important it is for him to continue learning Yup'ik.
Edmund and the Sami, the indigenous group from Norway, tried to learn words from each other's language.
"Theirs is a lot harder," he said. "But I could say some of the words."
Edmund and Isidore found the other arctic indigenous people also hunt, fish and live close to the land.
"It was different to hear their take on their own problems," Isidore said.
This is what Rasmus hoped would happen. Young people can learn more about themselves and their place in the world by discovering, in person, how other people in similar situations live.
"It wasn't about 'Here I am,'" Rasmus said. "It was 'Here we all are.'"
The trip only lasted a week and while the young men are involved in other CANHR resiliency research projects, they both went home to Alakanuk with changed points of view.
Now that Edmund has seen more of the world, he is more anxious to start his life. He's thinking of becoming a diesel mechanic or heavy equipment operator.
But he also knows his friends and Yup'ik culture help keep him strong.
"It's great to be a kid in Alaska, he said.
Isidore agrees. The monuments, parks, museums and federal buildings in D.C. were astounding to see, he said. He did notice that if you had to get somewhere, the way was laid out by sidewalk, rail or road.
The tundra of home is not like that.
"There is more adventure out here," he said. "Your path is not marked for you. You have to make it yourself."
Diana Campbell is CANHR's communication specialist and is a tribal member of the Native Village of Venetie. CANHR is part of UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Stacy Rasmus is a research assistant professor at CANHR and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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If nothing else, give President Bush points for consistency. Seven years ago, when a gallon of gas cost $1.46, he wanted to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now, when that same gallon costs nearly $4 — with diesel fuel approaching $5 a gallon — the former Texas oilman has announced a bold new solution: Drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!
As the price of gas sets a new record seemingly every week, I wish the president had something else to offer Americans, people like the truckers being driven out of business by the cost of diesel or the dozens of high school students forced to bike 10 miles to school and back in Eclectic, Ala.
Instead, Bush seems more concerned with boosting the record profits of oil companies. Drilling in the Arctic refuge would certainly offer corporations a windfall in the form of new access to taxpayer-owned lands, but it would save drivers only a penny a gallon — 20 years from now.
In fact, more drilling has barely put a dent in gas prices. While Republicans argue strenuously that increasing domestic production is the key to solving our national energy challenges, they ignore that drilling on federal public land has increased dramatically since 2000 — climbing some 66 percent — at the same time the cost of gas has tripled.
Furthermore, the vast majority of federal oil and gas resources located on the Outer Continental Shelf are already open for development. Nearly 80 percent of the oil and 82 percent of the natural gas believed to exist on the OCS are located in areas already open for leasing.
And the same flawed logic that tells us to drill in Alaska also tells us to gift-wrap even more public land for the oil companies, so they can build even more refineries — even though refineries were operating at the end of last month at 87 percent capacity, a 10-year low.
Drill and veto: If there's anything else in the president's energy plan, I haven't been able to find it. Democrats are the only ones who are coming forward with solutions, both immediate and long-term, to bring gas prices down. As a matter of fact, we've been working on major reforms, including the following:
First, we voted to temporarily suspend the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation's emergency supply of crude oil, until the end of December. Because the reserve is already at 97 percent capacity, suspending shipments wouldn't harm us in a crisis. But experts project that a halt to government stockpiling may temporarily lower gas prices. Fortunately, President Bush — who threatened to veto such legislation — relented in the face of overwhelming bipartisan support for it and signed it into law on May 19.
Second, we passed legislation to investigate price gouging by wholesalers and retailers, who may be using the cover of high prices to unfairly inflate their rates even further.
Third, we're holding the OPEC monopoly accountable for price fixing that flouts the free market and artificially drives up the cost of crude oil. The House passed legislation 324-84 to empower the Department of Justice to take legal action against OPEC-controlled entities for participating in oil cartels that drive up prices globally and in the United States. The Bush administration has threatened to veto this measure.
Fourth, we gave the Federal Trade Commission new authority to crack down on those manipulating wholesale energy markets to keep prices high, and we spurred the FTC to investigate market manipulation.
Fifth, the Big Five oil companies, who are raking in record profits, should not continue getting billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. Just think, the biggest five oil companies had first-quarter profits totaling nearly $37 billion, with Exxon Mobil's profits climbing to $11 billion. Why is the American taxpayer subsidizing these companies? Given these facts, Democrats are working to repeal such subsidies and invest the savings in renewable and alternative energy. New technologies will reduce demand for gas, driving prices down in the long run and helping us kick our addiction to fossil fuels.
Sixth, we are preparing for a future of clean energy. The Democratic Congress passed a landmark energy bill that invests in alternative fuels and ensures that, in 12 years, the average car will get 35 miles per gallon, the first real change in fuel-efficiency standards in more than three decades. In one year alone, that will save Americans $22 billion at the pump. And as an added benefit, better fuel efficiency will also dramatically cut pollution: To achieve a comparable reduction in greenhouse gases, we'd have to take 28 million of today's cars and trucks off the road.
The farm bill, which we passed over the president's veto, will contribute as well, boosting homegrown biofuels production, largely from non-food crops. It makes a historic investment in new technologies to expand biofuels made from biomass and crop byproducts other than grain. It also reduces the ethanol tax subsidy and instead incentivizes the production of new cellulosic biofuels.
The "tax extenders" bill recently passed by the House is similarly farsighted. It funds renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects, which will save more than 100,000 jobs in the renewable energy sector and help create hundreds of thousands more. Moreover, it extends and expands tax incentives for renewable electricity, energy and fuel, plug-in hybrid cars, and energy-efficient homes, buildings and appliances. But as with so many of our positive ideas, the Bush administration is threatening a veto.
I know the clean energy gains at stake may be a few years down the line. But if we don't plan for the long run, gas price spikes like this one will happen again and again, until we get the message.
Our nation's dependence on foreign oil harms our national, economic and environmental security. Democrats have a responsible, proactive strategy to take on that dependence and the high gas prices it creates — not just this summer, but for years to come. To my mind, it beats the president's plan: Mention drilling a few more times, wait eight months, and drive back home to Crawford.
By then, I hope he can still afford to.


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Vancouver, B.C.-based forest products company Ainsworth Lumber reported a net loss of C$42.7 million (US$34.6 million) for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared to a net loss of C$37.2 million (US$30.2 million) for the same period last year.
Sales for the quarter stood at C$115.3 million (US$93.5 million), down 24 percent from C$150.8 million (US$122.2 million) in the year-ago period. According to the company, reduced shipment volumes due to production curtailments led to the decrease in sales.
Year to date, the company reported a net loss of C$165.1 million (US$133.7 million), a C$133.1 million increase in losses from the same period in 2007.
In July, Ainsworth completed a financial recapitalization, resulting in the "realignment of equity and non-equity interests, significant de-leveraging of the balance sheet and a strengthened liquidity position." Following the recapitalization, the company's management team moved to lower overhead costs with a decrease in staff, office space and administrative costs.
Third-quarter OSB shipments were 481,354 msf , down 25 percent from the same period last year, due to decreased customer demand and plant closures. The company permanently closed its Grand Rapids, Minn., OSB mill and indefinitely curtailed production at two other northern Minnesota-based OSB mills in Cook and Bemidji.


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Sometimes people write in the comments that in support of some position or another, I have quoted people who may have dubious views on other issues. This does not necessarily bother me. I don't expect people to agree with me on everything and when I read something that is persuasive, I do not check on the other views of the person writing it, unless he or she is basing the argument on something factual that requires checking. If the facts underlying it are not in dispute, the persuasiveness of an argument should stand or fall on the quality of the argument itself.
Since I tend to read writers whom I respect, most of the time I will be quoting people whom I broadly agree with, unless I am doing general searches on a topic or following some links that take me into unfamiliar territory, as sometimes happens.
But having said that, it is also comforting when, on some controversial issue, you find the usual suspects who are always wrong lined up against you. In the case of the Edward Snowden whistleblowing case, it is pleasing to note that I disagree with the vacuous pundit class of the mainstream media like David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan, Richard Cohen, Thomas Friedman, and the like, all of whom seem to worship state power in a way that is disturbing. But the real boost came when war criminal Dick Cheney condemned Snowden as a traitor. That gave me a warm glow of satisfaction.
As Snowden himself said in his Q/A with the public:
Further, it's important to bear in mind I'm being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
Why anyone takes Cheney seriously beats me. He belongs in jail for his role in initiating wars and torturing people, not being treated like some kind of statesman whose views matter. I am just in the process of reading Jeremy Scahill's gripping book Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (more on this book later) and it is already clear within the first 100 pages that he and Donald Rumsfeld are paranoid lying psychopaths whose goal was to create a secret parallel government with an unchecked executive branch that could bypass all the checks and oversight that the Constitution and laws require and use force to achieve its geopolitical goals.
As for the liberals and Democrats who are ambivalent about whether to support Snowden or not, I am not surprised. As long as you view things through the prism of what it might mean for the Democratic party's chances in the next election, you are always going to equivocate whenever something that makes the Democratic party look bad comes along, just like the Republicans did when Bush was in power. What Snowden is revealing is that president Obama has embraced and expanded and consolidated what Cheney and Rumsfeld started and this makes his supporters squirm.
As a corollary, it is nice to see that those whose views you deeply respect for their consistently principled stands (Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald) are defending what Snowden did.


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[h2]RELEASE DATE: JUNE 8TH 2012[/h2]
VIRAL WEBSITES: https://www.weylandindustries.com/ http://www.projectprometheus.com/ NEW ONE http://www.whatis101112.com/ <--- STILL ONGOING
UPDATE: NEW Synopsis released:
The old one:
Well that barely answers anything.
Set for release on June 8th, 2012 (USA) this film marks Ridley Scott's return to the SCIFI genre, for which he made the incredible films BLADE RUNNER and ALIEN. The film started off as a prequel to ALIEN, since then, it's become extremely unclear if it still is. Michael Fassbender, one of the main stars, claims it is very related, and there have been many unconfirmed reports of xenomorphs and space jockeys being constructed for the film.
At the moment, besides the fact no-one can make up their mind as to this film being related to Alien or not, we don't know much about it. Except for the cast, which will consist of Noomi Rapace as the film's star, playing a character named "Elizabeth Shaw". Also in the film will be Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, and Charlize Theron.
David Lindelof, one of the writers for Lost, was hired to take on writing duties for this film. He ended up throwing out most of the old script and making something much bigger. Here's a recent interview with him, explaining this film (a little):
We don't know the rating or budget, either.
Another bit of info we have is that Neville Page, the designed who worked on the aliens in Avatar, Cloverfield, and Star Trek, will also be helping with this film to design something. Here's a recent quote from him in regards to working on this film:
Ridley was just quoted as saying there's no xenomorphs in the movie.
Only space jockeys.
[h2]All the news below came about when the film was known only as a true prequel to Alien. It's status as such is currently unknown, as is if any of the below is still going to be true or not.[/h2]
I have no idea if this is gonna work or not. It has a lot working for and against it. But I really hope it works out and results in an awesome alien sequel which we haven't had in ages. For those that don't know, Ridley Scott was the director of Alien.
MTV Ridley Scott Interview posted:
In an interview awhile back, Ridley described it as a "Whole new bag of tricks" so at least he's making an effort to give us something new. There's also the news that he's getting Giger, the guy that created the Alien design, to help out:
Cinematical posted:
The one thing that has me unsure is if Ridley is gonna be able to pull this off or not. Sure he's the guy that made Blade Runner and Alien, but it's been ~24 years since he last made a scifi/fantasy movie, so hopefully he hasn't lost his touch. It's really sucks Dan O'Bannon, the guy that wrote the first, died last year. Would've been awesome to have had him on this as well. The guy that appears to be writing it I can't really make any decisions on, since this is his first film.
UPDATE: It's now confirmed to be two films, not just one. And they will be shot in 3D using updated "Avatar" cameras.
Hitflix interview with Ridley Scott posted:
SO yeah, for those that still remember this: rumors had been going about that a certain script that was getting passed along the internet was the script for the film. I hadn't been hearing very good things about it but that doesn't matter anymore, as one of the writers for Lost was hired to do rewrites. But there are still some big problems going on now. Ridley wants a HUGE budgeted ($250 million), R rated movie. Fox wants that budget cut big time and a more commercial friendly rating of PG13. So now we just have to wait and see what exactly is going to happen with that. Hopefully this will all still be worth the wait.
HR Giger is confirmed as being on board now, and the film will apparently be just ONE movie, and not the 2 parter we were expecting.


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Pardon me as being new to multi-threaded programs but I am sure it won't last long
I didn't see an answer to a question I have about the number of threads I can use. I did Google and look but I fear this is a noob question.
I have the AMD 8150 8-core cpu and I will be wanting to search a dataset to match bit-patterns.
This will be a 16GB dataset and so I will guess the more threads working on it the better.
What I am wondering is should I request 8 threads for the 8 cores or would I do something else?
I'm not there yet and this is research on the how to.
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5 Things You Missed On Instagram Last Night: Mariah And JD Goofing Around
You can only scroll through Instagram with one eye open like CBS for so long. Eventually you've gotta stop thumbing. Here's what you missed while you were catching Zzzs last night
Mariah Carey and Jermaine Dupri teasing each other in the studio
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Marketplace for August 12, 2011
The markets have been going back and forth since news of the S&P downgrade, but is U.S. credit really in bad shape?
Smart & Final President Dave Hirz discusses why his business is doing so well compared to conventional grocery stores right now and how President Obama can create jobs.
The president of NicoNat furniture company in Commerce tells us how the stock market gyrations and the overall economy is affecting his company
The downgrade and the fears of a double-dip recession are making news in Washington, but how are local governments assessing the future? The City of Commerce's city administrator offers his point of view
We take the show to the City of Commerce, to talk about how the economy is affecting us all
Reviewing the week's news on Wall Street. This week: the aftermath of the S&P downgrade decision and how it's affecting how we live


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Global firms iJET, Feu Vert dig out value with SAS® Data Management
SAS® updates transform data management, speed and simplify processes for companies worldwide
Companies worldwide know: quality data equals competitive advantage. SAS® Data Management helps many of them improve, organize, and control data – turning data silos into integrated information that allows organizations to make better decisions, faster.
Built to allow business users and IT to collaborate on ways to improve data, SAS Data Management provides access to more data sources, such as Hadoop, PostgreSQL and SAP HANA. And new in-database data quality capabilities within the Teradata platform helps users perform complex data quality tasks using the processing power of the host system. Updates to SAS Federation Server keep data at the source and create virtual business views for low latency access. Other enhancements consolidate integrated workflow and data remediation, enterprise process orchestration, and other capabilities into a fresh, intuitive interface.
Companies deriving measurable benefit from SAS Data Management include iJET International, Feu Vert and more.
Safety in quality data
iJET monitors global threats 24x7 and links these threats to the locations of its clients' travelers, expatriates, and operational assets and facilities. The company's operational risk management solutions serve more than 500 multinational corporations and government agencies to protect people and assets, and meet Duty of Care obligations.
With so many people in motion, iJET creates master data records of information like employee travel overseas, expatriate employee locations and global operational facilities. The company tracks 14 million trips annually. Using SAS to provide that quality data is current and always available, iJET and its clients have the facts necessary to take action day or night, should political unrest, a natural disaster or other emergency situations arise.
iJET turned to SAS to improve data quality, create master records and enforce governance – all while reducing manual efforts and time to action.
"Data is the lifeblood of this organization. It's what makes iJET better than the competition. With SAS, we have cleaner, better data," said Rich Murnane, Director of Enterprise Data Operations & Data Architect, iJET International. "Our clients rely on an accurate picture of potential threat exposure to their travelers, expatriates and assets. In the event of a threat or emergency, having accurate data easily available is critical. Ultimately, it is used to save lives."
"Data quality is fundamental to iJET's business – it has to be right," said Falguni Sanghani, Senior Data Analyst for iJET International. "Before SAS Data Management, we could spend up to three weeks to completely clean data for just one client. Now, we can rapidly and accurately deliver data to clients who need to act based on reliable information."
Falguni was named 2012 Data Steward of the Year for her dedication to managing corporate data and transforming iJET's data management processes.
Master data management to meet customer needs
"SAS MDM helped us reduce our cost per customer contact," said Marie-Pierre Dussolliet-Berthod, CRM Manager at Feu Vert. Feu Vert is the European manufacturing leader in car accessories and services, with 400 retail outlets in Europe, including more than 300 in France alone. To improve the accuracy and quality of its customer data, Feu Vert selected the SAS Master Data Management (MDM) solution.
"Using SAS MDM, we manage critical customer data from seven sources, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and e-business platforms," Dussolliet-Berthod said. "Our new customer hub feeds the quality master data back into operational applications. SAS has improved the accuracy of customer and prospect data so we better understand individual needs. By extending marketing offers tailored to customers, we're growing both market share and revenue faster."
SAS Data Management was also recognized as a Leader in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools 1 and in the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools 2.
For more information on how a data management strategy can drive business value, please read TDWI Best Practices Report: Managing Big Data .
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Η SAS είναι ο ηγέτης στον τομέα επιχειρηματικού λογισμικού και υπηρεσιών analytics, και ο μεγαλύτερος ανεξάρτητος προμηθευτής στην του business intelligence. Μέσα από καινοτόμες λύσεις της, η SAS βοηθά τους πελάτες σε περισσότερες από 80.000 εγκαταστάσεις, να βελτιώσουν τις επιδόσεις τους και να παρέχουν αξία, λαμβάνοντας καλύτερες και ταχύτερες αποφάσεις. Από το 1976 η SAS δίνει στους πελάτες της σε όλο τον κόσμο THE POWER TO KNOW®.


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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
C'mon FJA Ambassadors at the Invitational... send us some pictures to ease the pain of absence. Please.
yeah, you guys are holding out on us ?
Nah, we're just trying to get home to review and edit them to really show you what it was like.
Been trying to post pics on this site with my iPhone but it is unfortunately not working.... I posted some on twitter under #fja12
Chris92009Been trying to post pics on this site with my iPhone but it is unfortunately not working.... I posted some on twitter under #fja12
Posting pictures to any website from an iphone is not possible without app support.
I may have dodged the cameras this year.
I have some coming soon... Will post during the Ryder Cup!
i lost most of my pictures when my iPhone crashed right after i got home. still trying to restore my phone and get it working, but my last backup was the day before i left, so i doubt my pics will be there.
Here's one with Devin, Todd Larson (ToddL), myself and Ric Ericson (19hole) - we really had a great chance to test the Footjoy slogan, "Make Every Day Playable" to the fullest extent. Todd emonstarted the DryJoy rain hat will keep your hair dry and we all proved to ourselves what we already knew - the Footjoy rain wear keeps you dry. I will add the FJ RAIN gloves work great when damp but slip a bit when soaked. When they become saturated, you can try rolling them up in a towel and wringing them out to get them to recover their performance. We got to learn a lot about the gloves from Maria Bonzagni at Footjoy - you know, there's a lot more to making a glove than many of us realize and the new things FJ offers to manage perspiration and water are amazing! Anyway, the trip was fun, informative and EVERYONE was a great. Thank all of you for making a great trip so memorable.
Collection of Camerons!
The Titleist/FJ Classic Cup!
Putting green at Country Club of New Bedford for the Titleist / FJ Classic. Oh any the Cameron Club guys were there also.At the "Box" testing the new line of Gloves!
The R&D development area with production models on the wall, coolest stuff could not take pictures of!
ID Badge from the "Box".
Thursday Nights Dinner! Great Job Chris, Devin and Team FJ, Thank you!
Spring 2013 line, no pictures of the 2014 line but very cool.
Main Lobby at the FJ, what a great place... Did we mention they opened the employee store for us!!! Made their quarter I think!
Ok here we go, from the Shoe Box to Hotel and Titleist/FJ Classic.
Wasn't nearly as many pictures taken due to the nature of the events. Just be ready for Footjoy to be on the cutting edge for the near future and many many years to come.
Fred and I at CCNB! Thank you to Adam the Pro and Titleist/ FJ for letting us crash their day!
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Clarkson University Professor & Student Earn Honor for Software Research
Clarkson University Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Daqing Hou traveled to Passau, Germany, this summer to receive an award that represents an achievement in research that goes back to his own Ph.D. topic.
Hou and his Ph.D. student Chandan R. Rupakheti earned the Best Tool Demonstration Award at the 20th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Program Comprehension. Their study involves building tools for software engineers.
"An important goal for software engineering research is to take novel research ideas and translate them into solid, developer-ready tools," says Hou. "When we ask how we should build software, we see that we need special tools as well. Tool demo is a venue where researchers run their tools before reviewers and other conference attendees."
The Clarkson duo wrote two papers -- a ten-page research paper that justifies their concept, which is accepted into the research paper track, and a three-page demo paper focusing on the software tool itself. All papers are thoroughly studied by a committee of active researchers. The tool demo paper receives four anonymous, constructive reviews.
"Our tool paper is entitled 'CriticAL: A Critic for API and Libraries,'" says Hou. " CriticAL is a software development tool designed to facilitate the use of reusable software components. CriticAL was part of Chandan Rupakheti's Ph.D. dissertation work at Clarkson."
The professor and Rupakheti began writing at the end of last year. They spent about two months writing the main research paper and submitted it to ICPC in February. They heard in March that their submission was accepted and they were invited to add a companion paper on the tool itself.
As the next step, at the conference, authors must do a demonstration of their research to prove that it is the same as they've described. Colleagues there can ask questions, and then the committee makes the final decision on winners.
"In the computer science community and in software engineering, we predominantly publish in conferences, so the review process is much more rigorous than in other disciplines," says Hou.
The winning papers are published and archived in the IEEE digital library, with local copies at Clarkson. The Best Tool Demo wins a Kinect for Xbox 360 sponsored by Microsoft Research, which Hou is donating to the University's Software Engineering Research Laboratory for use in student projects.
While he's delighted with the award, he says, "I want to emphasize that this is part of a much longer-term research program. You build on many, many small things."
The honor came as part of a series of huge moments for Rupakheti, though. He was unable to attend the conference because he was moving to Indiana, where he's starting his new career as an assistant professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
As the new semester nears, Hou has plenty of ideas to explore and is "looking forward to meeting other students interested in pushing forward along this line of research."
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Photo caption: Clarkson University Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Daqing Hou and Ph.D. student Chandan R. Rupakheti earned the Best Tool Demonstration Award at the 20th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Program Comprehension. Above, Hou receives the award. Left to right: Abram Hindle, Tool Demo program co-chair; Hou; Chris Parnin, Tool Demo program co-chair; and Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research.


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Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47, his publicist has confirmed to the BBC.
The musician, director and Tibet activist was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer in 2009. Yauch underwent surgery and radiation therapy but said in 2011 reports he was totally cancer-free were "exaggerated".
Under the alias MCA, he formed part of the band that eventually became the Beastie Boys, selling 40 million albums worldwide with Mike D and Ad Roc. The Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore punk outfit called The Young Aborigines in 1979 but switched to hip hop in 1984. Two years later they launched their critically-acclaimed debut album Licensed To Ill, which spawned the hit singles (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) and No Sleep Till Brooklyn..
Yauch was the band's filmographer, directing several of their videos under the pseudonym Nathaniel Hornblower. He also directed the band's concert movie Awesome… I Shot That, which stitched together footage from dozens of audience-members.
The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month, but Yauch was not able to attend. On the night, The Red Hot Chili Peppers dedicated their performance to Yauch. He is survived by his wife, Dechen Wangdu, and their daughter, Tenzin Losel, as well as his parents Frances and Noel Yauch.
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"Indestructible" K-9 who changed legislation dies
He survived beatings, stabbings, and paved the way for harsher punishments for criminals who injure police K-9s in the future
By PoliceOne Staff
ROSEVILLE, Minn. — The Minnesota K-9 who survived multiple beatings and a stabbing that changed the abuse of a police K-9 to a felony was euthanized Tuesday.
Major, 11, was the best police dog a handler could ask for, according to Roseville officer John Jorgensen. He had persevered through an often-fatal condition that caused his stomach to fill with gas, had pots broken over his head, was kicked and stabbed, and had almost drowned chasing a suspect into a lake, according to Pioneer Press.
In 2010, Major was paralyzed in his hind legs after he was repeatedly stabbed by a burglar. He was forced to retire, but the incident led to Gov. Mark Dayton signing into legislation a harsher penalty for those who assault a K-9 causing substantial bodily harm.
Using a wheeled sling to preserve mobility, he lived out his retirement with Jorgensen and his family, according to the article.
Jorgenson was forced to put Major down after his health further deteriorated.
"I promised myself and I promised him that we would make that decision if his quality of life deteriorated to the point where he was too weak and he didn't have the same happiness. It was just time."
On his last day, Jorgenson took Major around to all their old patrol spots, fed him a cheeseburger and icecream for his last meal.
"I miss him terribly, but I think he is in a better spot. He is probably chasing down bad guys on four good legs now," Jorgenson said.


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New Jersey Congressman Is Smarter Than a Supercomputer
It's a promising day for humans! For one among us, New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt, has thwarted the march of the machines. That's right: Holt actually beat the IBM supercomputer Watson at Jeopardy! last night. So all that talk yesterday about how glad he was that his "humiliation" wouldn't be televised just served to lower expectations, knowing all along that he'd stomp that crappy robot. Hey IBM? It's time to throw Watson in the trash.
But what if Rush Holt is lying? Where's the video proof? You know, Kim Jong-il once told the North Korean state news agency that he shot five holes-in-one playing a round of golf. But did anyone see video proof of that? Exact same situation here. For now, though, we'll give Holt — an actual rocket scientist who won five rounds on Jeopardy! like 30 years ago — the benefit of the doubt.
All hail Rush Holt: Destroyer of machines, savior of New Jersey.
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So that isn't a good recipe? http://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/detail.php?docid=26804&_auth_token=L1MNaS4u%2ftMsChsqiUo8PFSKRu0QHyLgK6Ve%2fdhAKrs7E8KwTpFVuVYPr2Bz%2bVuhkYoJgLy6wNkG8AIIjRAYn3Ay%2bBHkBpBPfAuHlJpVzRmcQJ%2bW7pZ%2b6O7ul2VSJn7JVf2dJtShqjhGVgyRoQMRPWL4cfwxcrsz%2fiQ9SQKB4qQ%3d&persist=1
Don, my mom taught me to measure flour by scooping it up and leaving a big mound on top then taking a knife and cutting into the flour, down to the bottom and all the way across of the measuring cup a couple times, then use the back of the knife to level off the top of the cup. When I measure KABF or AP this way, I get about 155g or 5.5oz.
Wow that was quite a spirited response. Are we talking about the same recipe? I should have posted the link to the video that I was referring to: http://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/detail.php?docid=26804 From what I wrote down they call for 16.5 oz (I assume by weight?) of bread flour. Once I get back home to my kitchen (next month) I'll have access to my kitchen scale again and I'm discovering that measurements by weight is CRITICAL when making pizza dough. For now I'll have to use volume based measurements. I tried the cast iron/broiler method but I think the dough was too wet and subsequently didn't brown by the time the toppings were cooked. That being said; is it possible to make really good pizza at 500f? It seems like everybody in the pizza forums cooks them in an 800f + oven with an elaborate cooking setup (LBE, Pizzaforge etc...).
Strange it made me register but it didn't make me pay for it. I see now that they call three cups of bread flour 16.5 oz by weight. I'll giver a try and report back next week some time. Will probably use my sourdough starter and do a cold ferment. They sure make it look good in the video.
Actually, It's most likely a fine recipe. My complaint remains the same. They do not explain to Happy Homemaker how to make one cup equal 5.5 ounces. If Happy Homemaker gets the water right but not 5.5 ouces of flour right then they could be lacking three or more ounces of needed flour to make a workable dough for Happy Homemakers. That's all I'm trying to point out. Don
Just to answer your question re temperature: you can certainly make pizza in a 500-degree oven. Even without a stone, you can get something you can eat. But with a stone, and some work to achieve higher temperatures, you can make pizza that will blow your mind. 800+ is for Neapolitan style pizza. There's many other kinds. What you prefer is a matter of what appeals to you. Initially, you could look up the varieties of Sicilian style, for example New England Bar style, pan pizza, etc. They are well-suited for 500.
Actually one of my favorite every day pizzas is Papa Johns. Do you know of a recipe that might get close to that? I actually like the chewy/leathery crust.
siouxerbrewer,See http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6758.0.html and the related thread at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6633.0.html.Peter


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DISH — A windsock waving in the wind above an airplane hangar was the only thing left untouched by an early-morning fire Monday in Dish that left the hangar and its contents burned.
The hangar at Clark Airfield Airport was scorched, but still standing, and the smell of smoke lingered into the afternoon.
The hanger belonged to former Mayor L.E. Clark, who founded the town formerly known as Clark. He served as its first mayor and got enough names on a petition for an election to be held to incorporate.
"It was a big fire and very hot," he said. "I had a lot of fuel in the hangar and it just kept exploding over and over."
Clark, an antique car collector, lost two of his prized cars in the fire, a 1926 Model T sedan and a 1929 Model A.
"The fire was so hot it melted them to the ground — a big loss. It burned everything to the ground," he said. "I even won first place out of 120 cars in a competition not too long ago with the 1929 model."
The fire was so hot the vehicles' headlights melted, resembling icicles hanging from the cars.
Clark didn't have a damage estimate, but said the cost was "very high."
"This won't stop me from collecting and rebuilding," he said. "Of course, I'm going to keep doing my work and rebuilding. But first, I'll start rebuilding my shop."
Clark, who lives next door to the hangar, called 911 and reported the fire at approximately 4 a.m.
Justin, Ponder, Krum and Denton fire departments responded to the blaze at the airport.
The fire also extended to an adjacent hangar, causing minimal damage, according to county officials.
The hangars contained antique cars, tools and miscellaneous equipment.
Clark said the only thing that survived was his jeep, which had minor damage.
Denton County Emergency Services officials said the fire was extinguished but reported that one building and most of it contents were lost.
A 100-gallon gasoline storage container located near the hangar was not involved in the fire.
County authorities said the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but they don't suspect foul play.
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Q. I saw Live 2012 in the movies yesterday and I'm totally blown away. It's so well shot and edited, a must-have for any coldplay fan!!
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The thing that is not clear is is this just probabtion, do they have to give back sholarships or are their postseason bans. None of that is mentioned.
Updated: March 10, 2006, 11:10 AM ET
OSU receives three years' probation for violationsAssociated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State was placed on three years' probation by the NCAA on Friday for violations by its men's basketball program.
The school also has been ordered to pay back basketball tournament revenue.
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Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy faces a three-month lay-off with thigh injury
Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy faces being out for up to three months because of a thigh injury, the club has revealed.
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The England international was forced off the pitch in the closing stages at Goodison Park on Saturday shortly before his team's last-gasp equaliser in the 1-1 draw with Everton.
A post on Norwich's official Twitter account said: "City can confirm 'keeper @Johnruddy86 has a thigh injury which is being assessed, but he could be out for approximately 3 months."
Mark Bunn was Ruddy's replacement having already featured twice for the Canaries this season in their Capital One Cup wins over Doncaster Rovers and Tottenham.
Ruddy tweeted: "Just to update everyone on my injury, unfortunately I have torn my thigh will be having surgery on saturday and out for up to 3 months, :("
It is a huge blow for the 26-year-old who has shone for Norwich in their rise to the top flight and has become a regular in Roy Hodgson's England squad.
He arrived at Carrow Road from Motherwell in July 2010 having been on loan with a number of clubs, including Crewe, Stockport, Bristol City, Wrexham and Walsall.
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I got into cycling in the mid 80s in Texas at about the same time and same locations that Lance Armstrong dropped out of football and began tearing things up in road races in north central Texas.
I commuted -- by bike -- 20 miles every day from the north side of Fort Worth to my job in Irving, crossing through North Richland Hills, across the Mid Cities of Hurst/Bedford/Euless, through DFW Airport and to my job on Valley View Lane in Irving.
Texas residents know that Texas can get and stay hot through the summer time. I'd arrive home covered with white salt -- the leavings of my evaporated sweat. But I didn't have a hard time with the heat because I was acclimated to the heat.
I live near Santa Cruz, California now, inland from the beach about five miles and 600 feet higher. I am
heat acclimated now. Because of my past experience, however, I didn't think riding around in the heat would bother me. It did.
I cycled downhill the Santa Cruz, went west a ways to Capitola and Aptos, circled back to Santa Cruz, then took Graham Hill Road up straight up to Felton. Up in elevation and in temperature.
Foolish me, I only had one water bottle with me. I kept it full by stopping at gas stations for water and gatorade. It's only six miles to Felton while I climbed to an elevation of over 700 feet before dropping back down into Felton. In the meantime, the temperature soared from 87 degrees to 110 degrees in Felton. I ran out of water at three miles but I was still feeling good, pushing myself at 15 mph on the uphill grade. At four miles I started feeling a little weak and slowed down to 11 mph. When I finally reached Felton I was dying, coasting on the downhills and barely staying a 7 to 11 mph on the uphills segments. I stopped at Safeway and bought a liter of water and a liter of PowerAde and sucked about half of it down right away.
I still had another five miles of mostly uphill to go for home. After a short rest I thought I felt better, but as soon as I hit the hot sun the weakness set in again, along with some nausea. I removed the foam insulation from my head and pressed on the mostly uphill ride home at 5 to 7 mph.
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Heat bonk truly sucks! It's been either raining or 95 with 90% humidity here in Indiana all week, and I only got 90 miles in this week! I got sick and heat cramps twice this week!
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Is rudy ... passing???
Yes. I wanna see the Raptors crush someone.
Forum a little light tonight. Looks like people are giving up.
I got work to do but I'm still watching. Really liking what telfair is bringing on the floor right now (if you can't tell fro my past 3 posts already)
Telfair playing for a job. Good game to get Ross back into things.
Really want Telfair to TRY to fill Jose's shoes. Pass first, take smart shots.
Two fouls on Ross in roughly 10 seconds...
Twitter - @thekid_it
Ross got caught running at Dudley. Needs to learn how to close out under control...
Another avoidable foul by Ross. Come on. At least some shots are going in finally
Telfair!! Love it!
Does casey know how to manage rotations?
Wow leading scorers are all bench right now
Hey guys check it out. I made the post game broadcast in the last game in Oakland.
Check out my notes from the game in the Raptors vs Warriors thread
Need more PT for JV - seven minutes in the first half is criminally negligent for his development...
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Oprah Winfrey has been a part of the Weight Watchers company for six months, and she finally hit a big milestone in her endeavor with them: attending her first in-person meeting.
Yes, the media mogul surprised a group of women when she attended a meeting in New York City on Tuesday with her best friend, Gayle King, who has also joined Weight Watchers.
The duo captured the whole thing on a Facebook video, during which Winfrey explained, "We're going to sit in on my coach's class. ...The coach knows I'm coming, the rest of the people don't know. This is the first meeting I've actually been to because I do it online."
As Winfrey enters the room the attendees begin cheering and clapping right away. A few ladies even yelled, "Are you kidding me?!"
Winfrey tells the group, "We're live on Facebook right now, and if that's not OK, you told your husband you were somewhere else," to which the group erupted in laughter.
Both King and Winfrey received "bravo stamps" for attending their first meeting.
King took to Instagram to share a few photos from the experience. She wrote, "@Oprah surprising @weightwatchers meeting ! She's a good student too paying attention to the teacher."
She also added, "Notice the poster in the background nice... Right? So fun!!"
Winfrey began her endeavor with Weight Watchers in October, becoming a part owner of the company while also taking part in the program.
She and King have shared their experiences while losing weight with the points system.
"Weight Watchers has given me the tools to begin to make the lasting shift that I and so many of us who are struggling with weight have longed for," Winfrey said in a statement at the time. "I believe in the program so much I decided to invest in the company and partner in its evolution."
She purchased 6.4 million shares in Weight Watchers for a total of $43.2 million, becoming a part owner of the company. The stock ended up spiking 105 percent the day she revealed the news, and she ended up making about $45 million back in the stock.
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Bedfordshire at Langford, a village and civil parish alongside the River Ivel. With multiple listings of the same village throughout England ( Bedfordshire, Essex, Nottinghamshire and as Langford Budville in Somerset), it is difficult to give a precise local for the surname's origin. However, of all of them, the village in Bedfordshire has traditionally had the highest population over the years. Some are listed in the Domesday Book as follows: Langeford, Bedfordshire; Langheforda, Essex; and Landeforde, Nottinghamshire. The place name literally means "long ford" from the Old English lang + ford. But the Nottinghamshire village could have been derived from "ford of a man called Landa" from the Old English personal name + ford. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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A man convicted of killing a Chicago couple in 1991 in Seaside will remain in prison. The state Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision ruled Tuesday that Andrew Metz is not likely to be rehabilitated.
The ruling prevents Metz from seeking early parole from his 60-year sentence. Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis says the ruling is a victory for the family of Duncan and Ellen McKinnon who were stabbed to death in their hotel room.The McKinnons had been visiting their daughter, Thomasina McKinnon, 27, in Gresham, a suburb of Portland, when they decided to visit the Oregon coast. After visiting Astoria, they headed down the coast, stopping for the night in Seaside, a coastal tourist town.
Late on the night of Sept. 8, Metz climbed from a walkway through an open window, possibly to burglarize the room, and stabbed the McKinnons to death, prosecutors said.
Metz was linked to the murders by a bloody fingerprint found in the McKinnons' motel room, by tests that showed the blood on his clothing matched that of the McKinnons, by jewelry taken from the victims that was found in his pockets and by numerous witnesses at the scene.
The defense claimed the witnesses were unreliable because most had been drinking the night of the slayings and police never used a lineup for identification. Defense attorneys also argued the blood tests were not precise enough to provide absolute identification, and the jewelry was not kept in police custody the entire time.
But prosecutors produced a tape-recording of an hourlong, late-night interrogation session in the Seaside Police Department, during which Metz admitted the killings.
In the interrogation the night of the stabbings, Metz at first denied that he was involved in the murders or that he knew anything about them. But 40 minutes into the interview,, Metz broke down and began to sob, "It was old people, wasn't it?"
He said he didn't think he was in the motel, but that he could picture the scene and must have been there. Later, he said he still didn't remember much, but that his memories and the evidence indicated he must have killed the couple. "I know I killed them, and I don't remember," he said.
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Verizon Debuts Managed Wireless ATM Solution
First it came to consumers. Now it is coming to ATMs. Wireless connectivity for ATMs, says Verizon Enterprise Solutions, clearly is the future and the company accordingly has announced the debut of a managed wireless solution for ATM owners.
Included is a fleet of services, said Raj Dhinsa, managing principal, Financial Services, with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, who said Verizon would be providing wireless transport, wireless router, installation and maintenance.
Not on the list is the ATM itself. "We are agnostic about the ATM, we will work with any manufacturer," said Dhinsa in an interview.
He indicated that the primary market – which he said is upwards of 200,000 ATMs – consists of ATMs that are not inside branches.
He pointed to ATMs in malls and retail stores as prime candidates and, he indicated, Verizon is targeting the ATM solution both to newly purchased ATMs but also as a retrofit to existing units.
"Historically, ATMs have been difficult to deploy to specific or temporary locations and have
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As for costs, Dhinsa said "the cost of wireless transport generally will be lower than wired."
Dhinsa said that in building out the wireless solution, security had been a significant concern and Verizon, he added, is very confident in the security it is building into its offering. "The data is encrypted from the ATM to the financial institution's data center."
Financial institutions, added Dhinsa, "are looking for new, agile technology. They want flexibility. And they want good economics."
Wireless managed ATMs, he suggested, provide all of that.
"Customers are looking for future proof technology," he added – and as the countdown to the end of days for copper line telephony gets louder, wireless is that "future proof" solution, he said.