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Aura UI looks a lot like Windows 8 Desktop, will deploy to all Chromebooks except CR-48
Even as Microsoft Corp. (
) heads in
bold new directions
with its user interface (UI) in the Metro UI powered
Windows 8
, Google Inc. (
) is looking (unofficially, of course) to the veteran software giant for inspiration.
Google's Chrome OS project has been more or less a flop. While exact sales numbers are hard to come by, the project was
only backed by two manufacturers
-- specifically Acer Inc. (
) and Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
). Launching mid-summer in 2011, Chrome OS felt buggy and incomplete.
While it came packaged in a number of nice netbooks, the
built-around-the-browser concept
was hampered by the inability to connect properly to token-authenticated networks commonly encountered at coffeehouses. Coupled with poor publicity these issues led Acer to reportedly only sell 5,000 "Chromebooks" (Chrome OS notebooks) in 2011,
according to
But at CES 2012, Google seemed
intent not to give up
, working with Samsung to announce new models.
Now a bit more of its plans for a Chrome OS revital have come to light. Google is freshening up the mobile PC operating system with a fresh taskabar-enabled user interface, complete with a positively Windows-like right hand notification area and pinned program icons in the lower left hand span of the taskbar.
Chrome's Aura UI looks awfully similar to Windows 8 Desktop.
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Like Windows 8's desktop, the new Google UI has a taskbar, but lacks any sort of "Start Menu" so to speak. Really, Windows 8's desktop and the new Chrome OS UI, dubbed Aura UI, are spitting images of one another. The only real visual difference is the lack of a shade back to the taskbar in Google's UI. However, a Windows-like shaded backing to the taskbar is added when Browser Windows are active
Google goes Windows. [Image Source: Google]
Google brags that the new Windows-like interface offers "rich visuals, large-scale animated transitions and effects that can be produced only with the assistance of hardware acceleration" and should "provide the foundation of a flexible windowing system and shell for Chrome and ChromeOS on a variety of form factors."
The program icons are reminiscent of Android or iOS, but lack the cutting edge feel of Metro UI's LIVE Tiles. [Image Source: Google]
The update is currently in the Dev channel and should be rolled out to all Acer and Samsung Chromebooks in the wild shortly. The
early prototype CR-48 Chromebooks
, which Google handed out to promote/test the platform, will not be eligible for the UI upgrade as they lack sufficient hardware to support it. Google clarifies that, "They will continue to receive security and critical updates as necessary."
And it tells CR-48 owners to hang on, stating, "We'll bring CR-48 devices back onto the release train after this release."
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China: ARTICLE 19's Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review
|Article 19
|Publication Date
|4 March 2013
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|Article 19, China: ARTICLE 19's Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review, 4 March 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5138357f2.html [accessed 21 January 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
In this submission, ARTICLE 19 highlights the violations of the right to freedom of expression and freedom of information in China. Importantly, China has mostly failed to comply with recommendations accepted during its first UPR to strengthen and enhance protections for the cultural expression rights of ethnic minorities, and to give practical effect to the right to access government-held information on the environment. Moreover, we note that China's performance in this regard does not comply with its international human rights obligations.[1] We also note with concern that China has not yet ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
2. During the first session of the UPR in 2009, China accepted – or indicated that it was already working towards – the recommendations to:
- "Strengthen the protection of ethnic minorities' religious, civil, socio-economic and political rights" (Australia);
- "Allow ethnic minorities to fully exercise their human rights, to preserve their cultural identity and to ensure their participation in decision-making" (Austria);
- "Continue enhancing the quality of life of its people through the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights and pursuant to international standards" (Nicaragua);
- "Continue its efforts to further ensure ethnic minorities the full range of human rights including cultural rights" (Japan).
3. ARTICLE 19 observes the following trends since the first UPR:
- The constitutional and legal framework, including media laws, fail to fully protect and promote diverse cultural expression, and the right to freedom of artistic expression.
- Attacks and threats against cultural expression, particularly that which is critical of the State, and that of Tibetan, Uyghur and Inner Mongolian minorities.
4. Moreover, despite positive steps taken to implement the right of access to information, significant obstacles remain in respect of access to government-held information on the environment.
Restrictive regulatory framework on domestic and foreign cultural expression
5. While the Constitution recognises the freedom to engage in scientific research, literary and artistic creation and other cultural pursuits (Article 47), this is limited by what the States determines as 'conducive to the interests of the people'. Similarly, the promotion of the development of literature and art (Article 22) is limited to those that 'serve the people and socialism'.
6. Cultural expression is subject to extensive regulation that fails to fully protect and promote diverse cultural expression, and the right to freedom of artistic expression more broadly:
- The Regulations on Protection of Traditional Arts and Crafts[2] can be interpreted narrowly to limit its protections to only mainstream or majority Chinese culture, or cultural expression that is acceptable to the State. These regulations need to be amended to protect the artistic expression of ethnic minorities.
- The Regulations on the Administration of Audiovisual Products (RAAP)[3] includes many provisions that violate freedom of expression and information. Firstly, it requires all audio-visual activities to adhere to the objective of "serving the people and socialism", a broad and ambiguous term that the State may exploit to dictate what are legitimate productions and what are not. Secondly, it features a number of content-based prohibitions, including, inter alia: those that endanger the unity of the nation, sovereignty or territorial integrity; those that propagate cults or "superstition"; those that incite national hatred or discrimination, undermine the solidarity of nationalities, or infringe upon national customs and habits; and those that endanger public ethics or folk cultural traditions. These restrictions either do not serve legitimate aims recognised under international law or are phrased too broadly. Thirdly, it establishes a license system applicable to the publication, manufacture, reproduction, import, wholesale, retail and leasing of audiovisual products and prohibits engaging in all of these activities without permission. ARTICLE 19 observes that subjecting the entire audio-visual arts sector to a licensing regime, particularly one supplemented by extensive and vague content-based prohibitions, unjustifiably restricts the right to freedom of expression and information. The RAAP should be repealed.
- The Regulations on the Administration of Newspaper Publishing (RANP) and the Regulations on the Administration of Periodical Publishing (RAPP) both regulate printed press in China through, amongst other means, a licensing system, content-based restrictions and defamation provisions.[4] ARTICLE 19 observes that international standards do not permit such extensive regulatory systems for the printed press, as such systems restrict freedom of expression and are not necessary in a democratic society. The RANP and RAPP laws should be repealed and substituted with a system of effective self-regulation.
Attacks and threats against acts of cultural expression
7. China regularly restricts the ability of domestic and foreign artists to perform and speak freely. Critical voices are met with threats and harassment, with artists and activists often imprisoned. The Tibetan, Uyghur and Inner Mongolian ethnic minority cultures are especially endangered in China. The ongoing crackdown against artistic dissent is not only discriminatory but has a significant chilling effect on freedom of expression in the country and furthers a culture of self-censorship in society.
Critical artists
8. Ai Weiwei, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, was arrested on 3 April 2011 and kept in detention until 22 June 2011 when he was released on bail without being charged. His studio was searched and three of his colleagues were also arrested. The harassment and detention of these artists violated their human rights, in particular their right to freedom of expression, and has had a profound chilling effect on critical artistic expression in the country.
9. Poet and author Liao Yiwu spent four years in prison in the 1990s for writing critical poetry. In 2011 he was banned from leaving China to attend the Cologne Literary Festival. Yiwu received a visa for his trip and had already boarded the plane, however police officers ordered him off the plane. Yiwu managed to flee China in July 2011 and currently resides in Germany.
10. In 2009, the rock band Oasis was banned from China on the basis of their involvement in a Free Tibet concert twelve years before. The band cited that their licensing and immigration permits were reversed by the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
11. In 2010, the album Chinese Democracy by the rock band Guns 'N' Roses was banned from importation to China because it was critical of the Chinese government. Access to the album's website was also blocked.
12. In April 2011, musician Bob Dylan was unable to play his best-known songs after the Chinese government required a pre-approved list of intended songs from the counter-culture icon.
Ethnic minorities
13. In 2009, Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang, editor of the Tibetan language website Chomei was arrested and his website blocked. He was an important activist for the preservation of Tibetan culture, providing a platform to poets and artists.
14. In 2009, Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for producing a film, Leaving Fear Behind, which featured Tibetans' views of the Chinese government and praise for the Dalai Lama. Wangchen was arrested just after finishing the film and was allegedly tortured in prison and condemned in a secret trial.
15. Prominent ethnic Uyghur writer Ilham Tohti has been repeatedly banned from leaving the country. In April 2010, Tohti was invited to attend a conference on Turkic culture at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. He had his visa and travel documents approved but he was prevented from travelling at the last minute. In February 2013, a travel ban was imposed on Tohti ahead of his intended flight to the United States as a visiting scholar at Indiana University.
16. In 2009, Gheyret Niyaz, an Uyghur writer and administrator of the Uighurbiz website created by Ilham Tohti, was arrested. In 2010 he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on the grounds of "endangering state security.
17. China has identified 23 different kinds of illegal religious practices in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which include letting students pray and private religious instruction. In 2009, seven students were arrested in Xinjiang for participating in a religious gathering.
18. The whereabouts of prominent Inner Mongolian human rights activist and writer, Hada, and his family remain unknown since 2010. There are fears that they may be victims of enforced disappearance. Hada and his wife owned a Mongolian bookstore, where discussions on how to preserve the Mongolian lifestyle were often held. He also founded the Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance in 1992. Hada was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. After his arrest, ten other intellectuals were arrested and the bookstore was closed by the authorities. From what was to be his release in December 2010, Hada still has not been seen and he is believed to be serving extrajudicial detention in a secret prison. Furthermore, Hada's wife and son have gone missing leading up to what was supposed to be his release in December 2010.
Access to environmental information
19. Since the adoption of the national right to information regulations in 2008, China has progressed in access to government-held environmental information. A significant amount of environmental information has been disclosed by the environmental agencies both proactively and upon requests. In some cities, local environmental protection bureaus have established online mechanisms to facilitate access to environmental information and the submission of information requests by the public.
20. However, there is still a wide gap between existing practices and the legal requirements under the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Open Government Information and Measures on Open Environmental Information. In particular, information relating to pollutant emissions, waste disposal and list of illegally polluting enterprises is the hardest to obtain. Disclosed environmental information is often incomplete and outdated, and responses to information requests mostly exceed the stipulated response period of 15 working days. In addition, disclosure of environmental information by large enterprises is very limited, which is likely due to the lack of legal requirements on enterprises to publish information.
In response to these concerns, ARTICLE 19 calls on the UN Human Rights Council to make the following recommendations to the Chinese government:
- Immediately ratify the ICCPR;
- Review all laws affecting freedom of expression for compliance with the Constitution and international standards and repeal or amend those that fail to meet these standards;
- Ensure that new laws or amendments to existing laws meet international standards on freedom of expression and that the drafting process include widespread and meaningful public consultations;
- Ensure that all restrictions on freedom of expression meet international standards and be: provided by law, pursue a legitimate aim, and be necessary in a democratic society;
- Amend Articles 22 and 47 of the Constitution that restrict protections for creative expression including art and literature;
- Refrain from arresting artists, cultural workers, political activists and human rights defenders for reasons connected to the legitimate expression of their views;
- Release individuals currently in detention for the legitimate expression of their views, and conduct full and fair investigations into the disappearances of such individuals;
- Extend official invitations to the following Special Rapporteurs and facilitate the discharge of their mandates:
- Cultural rights
- Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders;
- The Ministry of Environmental Protection should establish a model mechanism for the disclosure of environmental information, enhance the capacity of environmental officers through trainings, and set standards for the disclosure of enterprise environmental information.
[1] The submission is informed by the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (Cultural Expression Convention), to which China is party, and the Constitution of the People's Republic of China (the Constitution), in particular the protections against discrimination in the enjoyment of cultural rights (Article 4), and the right to freedom of expression (Article 35).
[2] Regulations on Protection of Traditional Arts and Crafts" (Promulgated by Decree No. 217 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China on May 20, 1997).
[3] "Regulations on the Administration of Audiovisual Products" (No 341 Order of the State Council of the People's
Republic of China.
[4] "Regulations on the Administration of Newspaper Publication"
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How did you pick your screen name?
Well, it is the name of a song from my favorite band, Sea Wolf
How did you come to read Twilight and which book is your favorite?
I was sitting in my History class back in '08 when a group of girls sitting behind were talking about how excited they were about Twilight becoming a movie. They were all saying how great the book was, so, I thought I'd read it and see if I had any interest in it...surely enough, I did, haha.
My favorite book would have to Twilight. It's what started it all.
Who do you like best: Edward, Bella, or Jacob?
Hmmm. I have to go with Edward.
Who is your favorite minor character?
Emmett. I love his enthusiasm and the way he looks at different scenarios.
What are your hobbies?
I enjoy reading all the Twilight books, watching soccer and hockey, chatting with my friends, cooking, drawing, skateboarding, pretty much anything fun. (:
Where are you from (general area like Montana, not exact town!)
Oklahoma; there's absolutely nothing to do here.
How old are you? (In general, like teen, 20's, 30's, 40's etc)
17, I'll be 18 in March
Anything else you would like to share.
I am a male, just to let you know if couldn't figure by my username. I am currently a vegetarian. I love mostly Indie/Alternative music. Also, I think the Twilight books are much, much better than the movies!
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Clarkson University's Andreescu Receives $496,000 NSF CAREER Award
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Silvana Andreescu, assistant professor of chemistry and biomolecular science at Clarkson University, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Andreescu will receive $496,290 over five years from the NSF for her research on biomimetic materials and biosensing.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is an NSF-wide activity that offers the Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of their organizations' missions.
Andreescu's research focuses on the development, characterization and applications of advanced materials for next generation biomedical, biotechnological and biosensing applications. Her research could enable rational design of a new generation of bio-mimetic materials and devices with unprecedented performance in terms of stability, robustness and suitability for long-term operation in extreme environments.
Through her NSF CAREER project, Andreescu plans to investigate novel biomimetic materials with interesting catalytic and sensory functions. These materials have the ability to mimic and eventually replace traditional biological catalysts, which often suffer from limited stability, high cost and inability to function outside their natural environment. The second goal is to implement them in novel sensing platforms for a variety of biomedical applications.
"We are looking to construct devices that could be used by researchers to study biomolecular mechanisms at cell and organ levels and by physicians for the early diagnosis and treatment of disease," says Andreescu.
Andreescu has been instrumental in developing new course materials for the chemistry and biomolecular science majors at Clarkson and has been heavily involved in Clarkson's K-12 initiatives.
She has received NSF support to develop bionanotechnology laboratory experiments to revamp the chemistry curriculum by implementing new and emerging technologies in the undergraduate teaching labs. She has provided international research opportunities to several Clarkson students through NSF sponsored research and is the co-director of the NSF-Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in Environmental Science and Engineering at Clarkson.
Andreescu's NSF CAREER project will provide opportunities to integrate research and education through cross-disciplinary student training in the research lab. At Clarkson, the project will impact course development, student training, recruitment and mentoring.
"The grant will enable me to incorporate educational activities into my research, recruit talented students and provide enhanced opportunities for Clarkson undergraduates to conduct independent research," says Andreescu.
Through this program, she will develop a new upper-level course and inquiry-based laboratory modules that will enhance accessibility to modern scientific technologies. The grant will also fund educational programs on her research designed for K12 students and teachers. Together with her graduate and undergraduate students, Andreescu will develop teaching materials that are transferable to other institutions and a large number of students including local high-schools and community colleges.
Andreescu has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science since 2005. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, three patents, 10 book chapters, conference papers and reports, and delivered some 100 papers at professional and academic conferences throughout the world.
Andreescu has secured external research funding totaling about $1.3 million from the NSF, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and several other funding agencies. She is a co-founder of Neuroredox Inc, a start up company whose mission is to develop nanoparticle-based technologies for diagnosis and therapy of brain diseases.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six 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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If only you could top off your car's cheap insurance the next time you were in Arizona.
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Bullhead City, Ariz., is the least expensive town in the U.S. to buy car insurance. A 40-year-old male with a clean driving record in a 2012 Honda Accord would pay $730 a year, a new CarInsurance.com analysis of insurance rates in every U.S. ZIP code finds. We averaged insurance rates for all ZIP codes for each town (most towns contain more than one ZIP code) to find the most and least expensive places to buy car insurance.
That same driver could:
- Move a couple of miles to Laughlin, Nev., just across the Colorado River, and watch his rates zoom 70% to $1,280 a year.
- Go to New Orleans, where moving across town could make rates rise by $872, or 33%.
- Try Manhattan, where within the 24 square miles of the island the same driver in the same car could pay as little as $1,772 or as much as $2,847.
The most expensive town to buy car insurance in the U.S. is Highland Park, Mich., where the Accord driver would pay an astounding $4,214. That's without any accidents, DUIs, speeding tickets or bad credit. Use our "Nosy Neighbor" tool to compare average rates anywhere in the country.
|10 least expensive cities to insure a car
|Avg. Rate
|1. Bullhead City, Ariz.
|On the Colorado River, opposite the casino destination of Laughlin, Nev.
|2. Chloride, Ariz.
|The oldest continuously inhabited mining town in Arizona.
|3. Oatman, Ariz.
|Clark Gable and Carole Lombard honeymooned here, on old U.S. Route 66.
|4. Pine Point, Maine
|Lighthouses, lobster pounds and beaches.
|5. West Scarborough, Maine
|Woodsy area of Scarborough, split by the Nonesuch River.
|6. Lake Havasu City, Ariz.
|Reassembled London Bridge is Arizona's second-largest tourist attraction.
|7. Cumberland Foreside, Maine
|Portland suburb. "Foreside" means it's on the beach.
|8. Amity, Maine
|Moose country. 2011 population: 186
|9. Ashland, Maine
|Crossroads of the Maine North Woods.
|10. Blaine, Maine
|Named for then-Speaker of the House James G. Blaine.
|10 most expensive cities to insure a car
|Avg. Rate
|10. Springfield Gardens, N.Y.
|Just north of J.F.K. International Airport.
|9. St. Albans, N.Y.
|Once home to Count Basie and Lena Horne.
|8. Allison, Texas
|Atop a gas field known as the world's largest producer of helium.
|7. Bronx, N.Y.
|Home of the Yankees and the Bronx Zoo.
|6. Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.
|Tony suburb just east of Detroit.
|5. Detroit
|Known as its height as the Paris of the West.
|4. Brooklyn, N.Y.
|The most populous of the five New York boroughs.
|3. Fort Hamilton, N.Y.
|In the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
|2. Hamtramck, Mich.
|Along with No. 1 Highland Park, surrounded by Detroit.
|1. Highland Park, Mich.
|Home of the first Ford assembly line.
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It's all about the insurance claims
If you live in a particular ZIP code -- whether in a mansion or a hovel -- your rate starts with that ZIP's base insurance rate.
Insurance companies group ZIP codes into different risk categories based on the number and severity of claims. "Territorial rating," as the practice is known, is used to produce a base rate that is the starting point for anyone seeking insurance coverage in most states.
A few states limit the use of territories as a primary rating factor. California, for example, requires insurance companies to calculate rates based on driving records and miles driven before considering location. But there's no getting around the impact of a high-risk address. Auto insurance rates in Los Angeles are 150% higher than those a hundred miles north in Santa Barbara.
"The differences in risk are pretty sizable," says Pete Moraga, spokesperson for the nonprofit Insurance Information Network of California. "Santa Barbara doesn't have the traffic or theft or vandalism that Los Angeles does."
Critics of territorial pricing say the poor are penalized for their addresses rather than for their driving history.
"I don't think any consumer would consider it fair that your address matters more than your driving record," says Mark Savage, staff attorney for Consumers Union, which successfully pushed California regulators to emphasize driving experience, miles driven and driving record instead.
Yet if all location-based rates were eliminated, Moraga says, those currently paying the lowest premiums would suffer. "It's a balancing act," he says. "Insurance is all about pricing risk fairly so that those with higher risk are paying what they should."
You've got to shop around
Discounts and surcharges are calculated from your base territorial rate. If your base rate is high, the consequences of any accident or violation you have are magnified.
For example, one insurance company charges $844 for basic liability coverage to residents of 98101 in Seattle, but it charges just $341 for residents in 98926 in rural Ellensburg, Wash.
Now add in a DUI surcharge, multiplying that base rate by 1.5. (Most companies would penalize even more heavily.) In Seattle, that driver with basic liability now pays $1,290. In Ellensburg, the same driver pays $510.
In most states, every part of your policy is affected by the territorial rate. That's why comparing car insurance quotes becomes all the more important, says Penny Gusner, CarInsurance.com's consumer analyst.
"These companies all have differing claims experiences in your ZIP code," Gusner says. "The quotes you get are likely to reflect that. One insurer may put your area into a high-risk bucket, and another may not."
For example, the average rate from six major insurance carriers for ZIP code 48101 in Dearborn, Mich., was $2,522 -- but that included rates as low as $1,776 and as high as $4,374. (See "Pocket $1,102 just by shopping around.")
CarInsurance.com commissioned Quadrant Information Services to provide a report of average auto insurance rates for a 2012 Honda Accord for every ZIP code in the United States. We calculated rates using data for six large carriers (Allstate, Farmers, GEICO, Nationwide, Progressive and State Farm).
Averages are based on insurance for a single 40-year-old male who commutes 12 miles to work each day, with policy limits of 100/300/50 ($100,000 for injury liability for one person, $300,000 for all injuries and $50,000 for property damage in an accident) and a $500 deductible on collision and comprehensive coverage. This hypothetical driver has a clean record and good credit. The rate includes uninsured motorist coverage. Average rates are for comparative purposes. Your own rate will depend on your personal factors and vehicle.
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:
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Core Platform Switches in Indiana, Connecticut
Credit unions in Connecticut and Indiana have announced they are switching core processing solutions.
The $230 million Scient FCU in Groton, Conn., is converting to the PhoenixEFE core system from Harland Financial Systems in Lake Mary, Fla., while the $32 million Bar-Cons FCU in Columbus, Ind., said it has committed to the Sharetec System from Bradford-Scott Data Corp.
The 15,900-member Scient FCU currently runs on the UltraData platform also from Harland Financial Services, according to the Technology Survey from Callahan & Associates, while Bar-Cons is currently an Open Solutions customer.
Bar-Cons cited the need for up-to-date technology, service reliability and training support in its decision to switch to Bradford-Scott, one of four regional owner-distributors of the Sharetec platform now in use at about 290 credit unions.
Scient cited the PhoenixEFE system's open architecture and support for business loans and deposits, as well as the ability to consolidate vendor relationships.
Harland Financial Solutions began marketing the PhoenixEFE system to the credit union market after it was piloted at three credit unions. It's now been licensed by five credit unions and more than 200 banks, the company said, while more than 270 credit unions run on the UltraData Enterprise Core solution.


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Personally, I detest controversy and I hate violence, but there comes a time in most of our lives when we have to take a stand, and this might even include being involved in a fight — if not actual fisticuffs, at least a verbal fight.
The other day a friend emailed me an article titled "How to Start A Fight" that was very humorous. I believe and I hope you will agree, in today's times most of us are so stressed out, just trying to keep our heads above water, that we welcome a little comic relief from time to time.
Some of the following short stories are a little off-color and I have cleaned them up a bit, while others I have just discarded. Hopefully as I share these you will smile a little, if not crack-up laughing. Here we go and most will end with the words, "And that's how the fight started."
No. 1: One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift. The next year I did not buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied. "Well, you still have not used the gift I bought you last year." And that's when the fight started.
No. 2: When our lawnmower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the shed, the boat, making homemade wine … always something more important to me. Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.
When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again I handed her a toothbrush. I said, "When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the driveway." The doctors say I will walk again but will always have a limp.
No. 3: My wife sat down next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, "What's on TV?" I said, "Dust." And then the fight started.
No. 4: My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, "I want something that goes from 0 to 150 in about three seconds." I bought her a bathroom scale. And then the fight started.
That's all folks. Hope you have cracked a smile or two. This column reminded me of a fight that broke out in a nearby school a few weeks ago between parents at a basketball game. When I read about this, the following question came to me, "What did they learn when they were in school?"
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As summer rapidly approaches, so comes a time of the year when the mice will play: getaways to the pool and beach, places to let your hair down but not your guard!
Recently, we posted an infographic on securing information on your PC. Here is a purely hypothetical situation you could face this summer:
The focal character in our tale is Alex, a 20-something recent college graduate. She has a great job at a major law firm. She wants a quick vacation this summer; she works hard, plays hard. To that end, she and her friends decide to spend the weekend in Las Vegas.
The trip is fantastic: Hot dry desert air, frozen margaritas by the yard, beach clubs and more. They take photo after photo (some better than others). Alex comes home, exhausted from the weekend, and not entirely sure she wants everyone to see the photos from the trip. After all, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Lets see what happens after she uploads her photos through two scenarios:
Scenario 1When Alexs friends ask for copies of the photos, she transfers the folder onto USB flash drives, which she then sends to her friends:
Alex doesnt have software to protect her files. The photos sit in a folder on her desktop.
Scenario 2
Alex has ZoneAlarm File & Folder Lock on her computer. The photo folder is locked with a unique password generated by the program.
Scenario 1Later in the week, Alexs mom comes over for dinner and wants to use the computer. A curious parent, she sees the Summer in Vegas folder on the desktop and tries to open it.
Alex's friends upload the photos and then throw the USB into a random drawer or the trash, consequently leaving all the photos unprotected and visible to anyone who gets hold of it.
Scenario 2
Alex's friends cant open the photos until Alex provides them with the password to the folder. ZoneAlarm File & Folder Lock keeps the files locked, so if the USB is tossed into a random drawer or the trash, no one else will be able to access the photos unless they have the password.
Scenario 1A few years pass, and its time for Alex to get a new computer. What to do with her old Vegas memories?
Vegas does not stay in Vegas. Mom is able to rummage through the photos Alex took in Vegas, some of which are more confidential than others.
Scenario 2
Alexs mom doesnt have the password and is unable to open the folder and lets it go. She understands Alexs right to privacy.
Scenario 1And so ends the tale of Alex, whose trip to Vegas stayed in Vegas but only in Scenario 2.
Alex deletes all of the files on her computer, empties the desktop recycle bin, then brings her computer in for donation.
Unbeknownst to her, all of the files Alex thought she deleted from her computer are still on her hard drive.
Scenario 2
Alex uses ZoneAlarm File & Folder Locks Secure Delete and her files along with the Summer in Vegas folder are permanently deleted from her computer. Secure Delete is based on military-grade deletion technology, meaning there are no digital traces of any information on her hard drive.
ZoneAlarm File & Folder Lock isnt limited to just protecting photos think of all of the files on your computer and external devices that are at high risk of being stolen. Have you ever emailed your mortgage application documents to your broker? Did you misplace the USB you used to bring tax documents to your accountant? What about the computer you donated, did you really delete all of your files (and emptied the Recycle Bin) like Alex? You are at risk of your personal information being stolen by anyone savvy enough to hack into email and a hard drive, or by anyone who knows how to plug in a USB.
This summer, worry about SPF and not your files. Install ZoneAlarm File & Folder Lock on your computer, and it will take care of the latter.
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You might recognize Samantha Harris from her days as the co-host of Dancing with the Stars and a correspondent on Entertainment Tonight, but what you might not know is that back in Marc
Carmelita "The Jet" Jeter knows a lot about living life in the fast lane. As the world's fastest woman, the sprinter is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and one of the most glam girls on the track.
I mean this is in the most humble way possible, but I am constantly asked about what I use on my skin to make it look so "amazing." To be quite honest, I am always surprised by these inquiries because
My favorite part about being a beauty director is helping women feel better about themselves (playing with products is a close second).
The past few weeks, I've been training for the New York City Triathlon, which means a lot more time spent in the pool than I'm used to.
We all know Dial as a classic hand soap brand, accompanying sinks for years.
Independence day is a once-a-year opportunity to celebrate our freedom and enjoy time spent with family and friends.
Bold lip and eye looks can intimidate even us makeup junkies. How do you know if that fuchsia lipstick you saw your coworker applying in the bathroom will look as chic on you?
Anyone who knows me, knows I am a huge fan of St. Tropez self-tanning products.
I've been upfront about my love affair with full-coverage foundations and powders on the blog (see: here and here), so when the BB cream craze blew up, I really wasn't that interested.
Beauty—er, grooming—products probably aren't the first things that come to mind when hunting down the perfect gift for your dad, but since men rarely buy these goods for themselves (after all, there's
Photos Courtesy of Karina Smirnoff As a pro dancer on ABC's hit show, Dancing with the Stars, Karina Smirnoff is an expert on two of our favorite things: fitness and beauty.
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Barbeques, beach weekends and outside workouts—summer is finally here! With all of the bliss associated with the gorgeous weather, it's easy to slack on your suncare game.
Whether the mothers in your life are savvy businesswomen, amazing cooks, dedicated yogis or just awesome women who do it all, there's no doubt they deserve some extra pampering.
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I want to add a wireless network at my house.
Currently I have 1 router (Edimax BR-6204-WG) which is connected to the modem. There're 2 switches connected to that router - one for each area in the house.
Although the router is wireless, I cant use it as such as it's located in a bedroom.
Therefore I would like to add a new router or access point and connect it to the router.
As I started to check prices I noticed that access point cost twice more than routers.
So is it possible to concatenate 2 routers so the wired (6204) will be the gateway of the wireless?
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Penn Jillette of the comedy-magic duo of Penn & Teller follows up last year's "God, No!" with "Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!" filled with humorous essays that provide new perspectives on familiar life struggles. Readers will enjoy extremely funny stories from a man who loves his family and doesn't let his celebrity go to his head.
One story tells of how dressing up as a ghost to read a book at his daughter's day care center became a nightmare when Jillette realized he looked like a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
He explains how Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" is edited and describes his collision with singer Clay Aiken when they both appeared on the show. He realizes real life is harder than being a celebrity and working to please Trump.
He also tells many stories about his work with Teller, including their early years working on street corners, and how some of their tricks have gone horribly wrong. Jillette realizes just how lucky he and Teller are to have a following and that people are willing to pay to see their act.
A few of the essays are follow-ups to "God, No!" but reading the previous book isn't necessary to enjoy this one.
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May 8, 2013 By Keano26
So, I am a relatively decent golfer for a second year player. I consistently shoot in the mid 80s when I play to at least 75% of my ability (of course I don't get that every time); however, over the past two weeks, my driver has been pathetic. Any wood/hybrid I am constantly topping. I'm hitting the ground sometimes a foot behind the ball, but my weight isn't on my back foot when that happens! I went from hitting my driver the best I had ever hit it to the point where I don't even want to golf because I suddenly cannot get off the tee with any 'wood' or hybrid. I've tried so many things...Grip, ball position, weight transfer, still head, not swaying, standing closer, further away, swing paths, follow throughs, take aways... On and on...I just don't get it. It is the most frustrating and embarrassing thing ever, and this horrible habit has turned into muscle memory. Every shot I hit seems to be off the toe as well. When I do actually hit it off the sweet spot, the ball goes no higher than 2 feet off the air for about 40 yards, hooking a few yards along the way. Like I said, I went from golfing 5 days a week to not even wanting to go because I couldn't buy even an average shot off the tee. I am considering getting a lesson, because I have exhausted every other possible option. Same with anything longer than an 8 iron. My 7-4 irons absolutely suck now. Very low trajectory 20-30 yard hard draws/hooks. I can honestly say that I have only had two days out of the hundreds of rounds where I had every aspect of my game 'on'. Those two times I shot an 82. I couldn't buy a 102 right now- I am golfing worse than the first time I ever played. Literally. And I have to golf in an outing on Saturday. That oughta be a blast!
May 8, 2013 at 11:11pm
Don't give up, i recently went through the same thing, its just rust. you can get back there. Im going through some swing tweaks right now that have helped me a lot.
I recently was fitted for a 913 and after purchasing it and taking it to the course i was fading it so hard that it just wouldn't go anywhere, or i would just flat out slice it high and right. My friend looked at me swing 1 club and told me i was picking it up too quick and try to keep it low longer on the takeaway and now I'm bombing it and loving my new 913 d3 its crazy how something small can really effect your ball flight.
So consider a lesson or have a buddy who's better than you take a look at your swing on the range. Thats my recommendation. i myself used to be much better and could hit 3 wood farther than everyone in my foursome who hit driver, but thats when i played like 2-3 times a week, so if you stopped playing 5 times a week like you said, its just rust and keep at it, put some range time in and you'll see results.
Good Luck
May 9, 2013 at 9:27am
Hitting the ball good -to- hitting the ball poor
Most common is a case of macho man.......... I'm hitting the ball good now all I have to do is hit the ball harder.........doesn't work
When playing well just keep playing the same, more distance will come, it takes time.
Something to understand
There are good times and bad times, as time goes on the good times last longer and the bad times are shorter........the good times get better and the bad times aren't as bad.......it takes time
Get your swing smooth, keep it smooth, the longer you do this the faster it will get without trying to swing faster.......it takes time
No matter what you read, there is no short cut, no magic move......it takes time
Get your lessons from an actual club pro, then stick with what he teaches you.
Coming up is the opportunity to display your skills..........thats called pressure
It takes time, but you have to get in your own head that it is nothing more than going out to the course any other day.
The more you put yourself in a pressure situation the easier it will become.
May 9, 2013 at 11:36am
Thanks for the words of encouragement, Ellen. I am a beaten dog right now! I will concentrate on staying low next time I get on the course.
May 9, 2013 at 2:12pm
25% physical - 75% mental.
I'm 62, and play fine with my wife. When I play with my 20-something threesome, I start hitting line drive pulls, hard slices, and the occassional high fade that will also end up too far to the edge.
Over-swinging. As soon as I try to muscle the club through the ball, I usally top the ball and hit towards the heel.
Relax, and let the ball get in the way of the club. Keep your speed down to less than 90% of your hardest swing. Better to hit 210 instead of 225 than to end up OOB at 140.
May 9, 2013 at 4:08pm
I know the feeling. I usually shoot in the low to mid 80's on a 6200+ yard course. Sometimes even lower. However, this year has been a struggle. In the first 3 months (I live in the South so we play all year) I played about 12 rounds and 6 of them were in the 90's. There were a couple upper 70 and low 80 rounds so I knew I could still play, but then I'd throw in a couple 92-95 adventures. I was ready to quit altogether. But I kept plugging and my last 4 rounds were 85,84,84 and yesterday a 78.
What I have been working on is a slow-ish takeaway. I'm approaching 65 yrs old and have come to the realization that I'm not going to be as long as I used to be. It seemed that the more frustrated I became, the harder I swung and the worse I did. So I just take one club more than I used to and make sure that the backswing is smooth which makes the downswing smoother also. Ellen said that she takes the club back lower and that is good advise. But I'm a feel player and focusing on how high the club is going back is too mechanical for my senile brain. So I just feel the Smooooth and that has helped. I have less thin, low shots and more height. It's not perfect, but is a whole lot better.
Keep the faith. If you shoot in the 80's then you're a good enough player to weather this slump. Take a lesson, follow what the Pro tells you, listen to the T/T nation, and keep plugging away. Good luck in your upcoming outing. Don't ever give up.
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Same old Eddy Curry, turnover prone at the finish when we need a play the most. Still cannot understand how a person of his physique cannot rebound or block shots. Also why can't the Knicks defend the 3 point line????
The team has promise but you can see how Zach has protected Eddy until last night. Condolences to your family but hurry back Zach.
They looked bad again the last 2minutes of this game, a game they should have put away, but the offense failed. They once again didn't look like a fluid unit, looking awkward and incompetnet when the game was on the line. They blew it to a stuggling Miami team, that was without star D.Wade. Hopefully it was because the Knicks were without Zach, and were able to concentrate more on curry, causeing 2 turnovers around the last 2 minutes, but I am not so sure.
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text: I just started Season 6 of DS9 and I just have to say I'm really disgusted by what Dukat did. Why bother having all of those episodes showing he "changed" when obviously he just goes back to his old self? I have to admit I love the power struggle between himself and the Dominion leader on the station, someone to take him down a peg. But, I am really upset that they bothered doing all of that character development with his daughter and him being cast out from his family, etc. only to have him go back to being his arrogant self who doesn't care about anyone. I understand it's supposed to surprise you and I guess it's one of those things where when you have nothing, you've got nothing to lose...but still. And...Jake staying on the station after it had been occupied by the Dominion...that's just ridiculous. I would have thought Sisko would have dragged Jake off of the station crying rather than let him stay there even if he is "a man". Sisko just conveniently realizes Jake isn't on the Defiant after they had already left? I would think I would want know where my son is during a Dominion invasion of the station. I don't think Jake should have been allowed to be on the station OR a Starfleet ship. He should have been sent back to Earth. But I understand there is another plan for him (writing reports about the truth about the Dominion occupation of the station) and that the station is not really dangerous as long as he stays on their good side. And I was also pretty mad that Starfleet did absolutely nothing to protect the station. I understand they had another plan...to get ships together later on and then destroy where the White was being distributed, and so on. But just allowing the station to be taken over without sending ANY backup for Sisko seemed a little unreal to me. I get they had another plan and I get that Sisko was aware of it...but still. I am sure they will go back and retake the station, but still...if I were Sisko I would have felt a little bit betrayed by Starfleet. It seems as though they never sent any reinforcements ANY time the Dominion came to the station or near the station. Not just this time, but other times as well. What about the other 150 planets that are in the Federation? None of them had any ships to spare? Seriously? I guess protecting the station would have been the wrong choice and it's better to go after the source (the White distribution that keeps the Jem'Hadar alive, etc.), but as I was watching I was just like....really? There is no one that can help? I know they all meet up later and many Federation ships get destroyed, just in the moment I felt like Sisko was a little bit betrayed.


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Q My understanding is that Caltrans permits roadside memorials for a certain length of time. There was a fatal motorcycle accident along Interstate 680 between Livorna Road and Rudgear Road in Alamo last March. Someone has been placing flowers, etc., for the past year. Now a wooden cross has been erected.
What if everyone is allowed to use the highways for personal memorials? I don't mean to sound insensitive but I think a year is long enough.
A There are many who agree — and disagree. Memorials like this are illegal in California, as safety officials say they can be distracting to drivers. But sympathetic road crews often let them stand until flowers wilt and other items turn trashy. This can be several months.
In this case, your comments prompted the state to begin removing the items in what Bob-the-Caltrans-Man says is a delicate issue:
"We are not insensitive to the grieving of friends and family members who have lost someone on a highway, and we understand their motivation to place a memorial. But the sides of highways are very dangerous places. Our crews have the best in safety equipment, and receive the best in safety training. Yet they remain at risk every time they access the highway shoulders or medians. A person with no equipment or training is placing themselves in great danger. If a person is killed or injured during the placement of a memorial, the tragedy would be compounded. We want to avoid that at all costs."
The state normally tries to contact family members before removing the memorial to explain why the removal is necessary. If the family can't be located, Caltrans will keep the memorial in a maintenance yard for a short period of time in the hopes that someone will claim it.
Q I know Interstate 880 is being widened to expand the carpool lanes in San Leandro around Marina Boulevard and Davis Street. I assume the overpass construction is also in conjunction with the new Kaiser Permanente complex on the old Lucky's distribution center 37-acre lot.
As it exists, a substantial amount of traffic going south on 880 exits at Marina Boulevard, crosses over two lanes to use two left turn lanes onto Merced. This configuration has always been dangerous and there is lots of lane blocking at the signal, especially from the large semi trucks which turn left on the green left-turn signal while the intersection is already blocked ahead. The lights change and eastbound traffic on Marina is completely blocked, sometimes for more than one cycle.
What is the final plan to handle the increased traffic from south 880 left onto Merced once these projects are completed?
Jeanne Bishop
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A The new hospital is scheduled to open in June and the planned improvements on Marina Boulevard should open next year. New signals will be up at Marina and at the north 880 onramp, at Marina and the south 880 offramp, and at Marina and Kaiser Driveway, a new intersection between 880 and Merced.
Southbound I-880 traffic exiting the freeway heading west towards the new Kaiser hospital will use Merced to enter the facility via a two-lane left turn pocket. The new Kaiser Driveway will serve westbound Marina traffic and will have a single left-turn lane. Westbound traffic on Marina will also use the Merced entrance.
The three signals on Marina will communicate with each other via a signal interconnect system, allowing a more appropriate use of green time for all three signal locations when work is completed.
And the new Marina bridge will have four lanes (two lanes in each direction). This configuration will remain until the second half of the new bridge is constructed.
Q Driving north on Alma Street in Palo Alto the other evening, a pole-mounted warning sign began flashing in big bright red letters: "SLOW DOWN, SLOW DOWN," above which was a regulation 35-mph speed limit sign. As I got closer to the sign, it posted my actual speed — 32 mph. How much should I have slowed down? There were no other cars around me to confuse the poor little sign and it was not the first sign to do this to me.
David Russel
Mountain View
A Boy, do I get this complaint a lot. The city has several vehicle speed feedback signs around town, mainly on major streets like Alma and Embarcadero Road. The signs are supposed to flash "SLOW DOWN" for any speed within 5 mph of the posted limit (it varies between 25 and 35 along Alma. Any speed that is 16 mph over the posted speed limit, the sign blanks out to avoid encouraging people who are speeding just to see their speed on the sign.
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Freeing the Elwha!
Exciting and dramatic changes have taken place in the Elwha River in the last two years with the removal of two dams. The Glines Canyon Dam (1927) and the Elwha Dam (1910) were removed to restore the watershed's ecology unblocking passage for migratory salmon. Salmon have already begun to find their way up the newly freed river. Since the time of their building many things have changed about our understanding of river system ecology causing an ever-increasing movement to remove them. The Elwha River dam removal project is currently the largest one in history.
With the major elements of the actual dams dismantled in 2011 and 2013, focus is now being placed on the removal and movement of the sediment formerly built up and housed behind the dam structure. Hydrologists, ecologists and biologists watch with fascination. Project planning though began nearly a decade ago. Considerations included sediment removal and movement, reservoir and bank erosion, water temperatures, plant and aquatic animal repopulation, oceanic conditions and human impact.
Two reservoirs once poised behind the dams have now been drained. These reservoirs had held back waters creating a warmer freshwater climate throughout the watershed affecting the natural environment for fish and plants.
The complexion of the new river includes a newly restored sand and gravel bed with braided reaches important for salmon. Additionally, free moving water is cooler accommodating the needs of aquatic life indigenous to the area. The sand and silt has moved to the delta creating a more prominent Elwha drift cell, starved for the last century. The release of the silt and clay has caused much anticipated turbity and nearshore sedimentation.
Ongoing field studies monitor the topography as nearly a century of the sediment finds its way into new areas of the landscape. Oceanic changes are also evident at the river enters into the Puget Sound. Sediment enters the ocean as a buoyant surface plume, settles to the seabed where it is picked up in the oceanic tidal cycle.
The United States currently has about 84,000 dams. By 2020, 70 percent of them will be more than 50 years old. Decisions are currently being made as to their continued benefit and viability. Many are at risk for failure setting in motion plans to repair, remove or replace them. Additionally many of the oldest ones never were licensed because they were built before standards were established. To date more than 500 dams have been removed, with many more to go. Monitoring the progress and effects of the Elwha River restoration will benefit other systems whose future is also at stake.
Read more about the freeing of the Elwha River at the Washington Post, Yale Environment 360 and the Coastal Watershed Institute.
Jumping Salmon photo via Shutterstock.


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Dodgers Short Hops: Game 4
No margin for error after losing in ninth inning to Phillies
By David Ely / MLB.com
In < 25 words ...
Jonathan Broxton needed one more out to tie the series, but Jimmy Rollins ripped a fastball into the gap for a game-winning hit.
As soon as the ball left Rollins' bat, you knew the game was over. Rollins' hit scored two runs and there was no play at the plate. Big number
8 -- The Dodgers left eight runners on base in Game 4. Game balls
Randy Wolf
Wolf got off to a rocky start in the first inning when Ryan Howard homered to give the Phillies a 2-0 lead, but he settled down after that blast. Wolf retired 12 straight batters after Howard's home run and gave the Dodgers a chance to get back in the game. He also figured out a way to slow down Howard -- throw him a lot of breaking balls.
Matt Kemp
Kemp was the first Dodgers player to reach base when he walked in the fourth inning, and he scored their first run when James Loney singled later that inning. But Kemp's biggest accomplishment was his fifth-inning home run that not only gave the Dodgers a 3-2 lead -- it gave the club its first extra-base hit since Game 1 of the NLCS.
Casey Blake
Blake busted out of his NLCS slump with an RBI single in the sixth inning, but he couldn't provide the other big hit that would have opened up the game. Blake left the bases loaded in the fourth inning and ended the eighth with runners stranded at first and second.
Sense of October
The callback to last year's Game 4 is almost impossible to ignore. In Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS, Broxton gave up a two-run homer to Matt Stairs to break an eighth-inning tie.
James Loney
Comment: Loney drove in the first run of the game for the Dodgers with an RBI single in the fourth inning. He was also the only Dodgers player to have two hits in Game 4.
Jonathan Broxton
Comment: The 18-minute wait for Broxton during the top of the ninth might have affected his rhythm. Something definitely looked off for Broxton when he walked Stairs, hit Carlos Ruiz with one out and then gave up the game-winner to Rollins.
"One ballgame and we go home. When you're in the postseason, you certainly have been capable of winning three games in a row. Our mindset is playing one game at a time." -- Joe Torre
Next step
It will be a challenge for the Dodgers to put this one behind them, and they will have a day off on Tuesday to think about it. The Dodgers will look to avoid elimination in Game 5 on Wednesday.
David Ely is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Shore's Blog: CM Punk won Monday night, but he didn't beat The Rock
2013-01-09 17:20:58
By Chris Shore
What a difference a year makes. Last year, as we built to the John Cena vs. Rock match at WrestleMania, everyone was ready to go after the Cena and Rock promos with a fine toothed comb and declare one or the other a "clear winner" for the night. I am not claiming there were clear winners. I am merely stating that there were many who were quick to make those claims.
This year, things appear to be different. This year, many say it is foolish to try and decide who "won" the verbal exchange this past Monday between Rock and CM Punk. It is an odd switch, and one that should be rejected immediately because the truth is, CM Punk did win Monday night. It's just that he didn't beat the Rock in the process.
Before I expand on that, a quick point. For those who are using "Punk beat Rock" last night as a way of expressing your enjoyment of Punk's performance over Rock's, please understand what you are saying poorly describes your position. I enjoyed Punk more than Rock. I thought Punk was significantly better and went a long way to proving to his doubters that he should be considered on the same level as Rock. At that moment, Punk was just better than the Rock.
But that doesn't mean he "beat" Rock because they weren't in a contest. Unlike last year, when there really was a competition for the WWE audience between Rock and Cena, Rock and Punk neither went out there to (necessarily) one up the other. They went out there to sell a match, and they did. Rock and Cena needed you to buy into them personally because it was a babyface vs. babyface showdown. Rock and Punk just need you to be into the match because it's a clear babyface vs. heel story. That Punk was better, in my opinion, only means the match was made that much hotter.
Yet Punk still won in that moment, not by defeating Rock, but by defeating his critics and doubters and naysayers. In that moment, Punk showed that he could, in fact, go one on one with the great one and not look like…well, a punk. He showed that he belonged at the top of the card. That was settled for me years ago, but I am still shocked at the number of people who thought he still wasn't on the same level as even John Cena as late as last month.
Punk proved that he deserves to be in the conversation anytime "WWE Greats" come up in the future. He proved that his "pipe bomb" in 2011 wasn't a fluke. He proved all those who said he was a flash in the pan wrong. And he did it as stale John Cena sat at the top of the hill. CM Punk Monday night, and in the process, all of us won too.
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Uniporc Ouest serves France's hog industry with SAS® data visualization
SAS® Visual Analytics provides big data analysis to all participants in nation's pork production
Uniporc Ouest, which weighs and classifies 90 percent of pigs in France, chose SAS® Visual Analytics to communicate the results of its analysis of 20 million hogs to the entire industry – almost 8,000 breeders, 75 cooperatives and 26 pork-processing facilities.
Founded in 1973 to improve ethical standards in weighing and classifying pork carcasses, Uniporc Ouest sits at the center of transactions between pork producers and breeders. It determines the weight and the muscle ratio of the parts for each hog and communicates the information – collected in complete transparency – to the industry. That's where SAS Visual Analytics helps Uniporc Ouest.
"Classifying almost 20 million animals a year creates a huge database that links each animal with its owner. This represents around €2.7 billion per year. We cannot run the risk of being wrong," said Pascal Lemee, Manager of Statistical Services and R&D at Uniporc Ouest. "We need to provide reliable results to the breeders, because they are paid based on the calculations we perform on animals they send to the slaughterhouse."
The calculations, database and reporting are the main activity of Uniporc Ouest, which provides decision support to the pork industry. With SAS Visual Analytics, the organization generates reports for breeders and the cooperatives they represent, as well as for pork-production facilities. The information is also sent to various national and European agencies, making it an international reference database.
The route to data visualization
Uniporc Ouest has long used powerful SAS statistical solutions running on UNIX servers and a real-time data warehouse, allowing it to instantly evaluate any changes in production data. SAS Visual Analytics extends this existing infrastructure, with all the work done upstream, to provide high-quality reports via a tablet or browser.
"When we discovered SAS Visual Analytics, we realized we could offer our in-house decision makers, as well as our customers, a very fluid solution for exploring information," said Lemee. "We live in a world where information is often represented in just two dimensions. SAS Visual Analytics is like the transition from photography to cinema: You become the director of the film you want to see. This is both beautiful and highly useful."
With data visualization, users no longer waste time trying to understand the data. The interface lets them move from one entity to another, choosing the desired granularity and indicators to compare. Users quickly see how results change over time, simply by touching a tablet or exploring via a web browser.
"The majority of our breeders are undertaking improvement initiatives relating to genetics, feed, etc. They need this data to optimize both their costs and the quality of the meat," said Lemee. "Allowing our end users to benefit from the power of SAS Visual Analytics is therefore important and strategic. It's the future that Uniporc Ouest wants for cooperatives and breeders in this industry."
Launched in mid-2012, SAS Visual Analytics has already been deployed by more than 1,500 companies worldwide, including almost 80 French projects.
To see how data visualization is deployed to help enterprises gain fast insight to business challenges, find direction on new product offerings or develop a better understanding of market behavior, please read "Data Visualization: Seven Considerations for Visualization Deployment."
A propos de SAS
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The University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an outreach program of the Fay Jones School, won two awards, for the Townscaping an Automobile-Oriented Fabric and Pettaway Pocket Neighborhood designs. Marlon Blackwell Architect also won an award for the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion, located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design organized this awards program, which honors new and cutting-edge design in architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.
The program has become the most significant and most comprehensive distinguished awards program in the United States, reflecting the changing state of global architecture and revealing emerging new design directions by today's foremost practitioners.
The annual program also promotes American architectural design to the public at large.
Townscaping an Automobile-Oriented Fabric is a plan focused on Farmington, a bedroom community for Fayetteville that has a five-lane highway for its main street.
The highway-to-boulevard plan looks to make the town more pedestrian-friendly, while creating and strengthening social spaces.
The Pettaway Pocket Neighborhood design pooled five adjacent parcels for housing in one of the more open areas of the Pettaway neighborhood, on property owned by their client, the Downtown Little Rock Community Development Corp. They created a pocket neighborhood, nearly doubling the density by placing nine homes around a shared space. Both of these projects received support from National Endowment for the Arts grants.
Stephen Luoni is Distinguished Professor and director of the Community Design Center, which has won two previous American Architecture Awards in 2009 and 2010.
The Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion is part of 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park, which opened in June 2010 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The 3,000-square-foot deck structure is made from ipe wood from Brazil, charred cedar wood from Indiana, steel, acrylic and glass.
The ipe wood forms extensive decks; it then folds up to form a wall and folds again to create an extensive shade canopy.
Blackwell is Distinguished Professor and head of the architecture department in the Fay Jones School. He has won one previous American Architecture Award in 2011.
The Federation of Korean Architects in Seoul organized the jury for the 2012 awards program. The competition attracted a record number of projects for new buildings, landscape architecture, and urban planning from the most important firms practicing globally.
A distinguished group of Korean architects and educators selected 87 projects for recognition.


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The Hottinger reunion will begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday at the Hottinger home place. There will be a potluck and friends and family are invited.
Basics of trail work atop Mt. Magazine
The River Valley Arkansas Master Naturalists will meet at Mount Magazine State Park visitor's center for a short meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday. They will then go out on a trail to hike and do trail maintenance as they go.
You won't have to lift a tool. On this hike you will get to enjoy natures beauty, great fellowship and meet some good people. Always bring water, sturdy shoes, a backpack helps and gloves if you want to help. You may also pack a lunch to enjoy with others at a place to be determined at a later time. There is also the restaurant at the lodge for those who want to eat there.
For more information, email Phil Wanzer at email@example.com.
Old-time jamboree to be held today
The American Legion will host the old-time jamboree, country music for all ages, at 6 p.m. today at the American Legion Hall, 215 N. Denver, Russellville.
The featured band will be Lee Mountain Boys. The jamboree will be open microphone. All singers are welcome to join the jamboree. Admission is $2.
Decoration at Phoenix Cemetery
Decoration services will begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday at the Phoenix Church on Buck Mountain Road.
The program will include special singing and a report on the cemetery fund. Terry DuVall will bring the message at 11:30.
A potluck lunch will begin at noon and will be followed with a gathering at the cemetery around 1:30 p.m.
Donations for the upkeep of the cemetery may be sent to Debbie Brown, P.O. Box 459, Russellville, AR 72811.
River Valley Poker Run on June 8
The third annual River Valley Poker Run will begin at 10 a.m. on June 8. The event is presented by 13 Rebels MC, and will benefit the Dardanelle Backpack Program.
The event will start at the Dardanelle Roadhouse at 15375 State Highway 22 in Dardanelle and will end at the VFW in New Blaine. Charge is $5 per hand and one non-perishable food item. There is a $1 charge for extra card.
For more information, call (479) 453-6713 or visit http:www.13rebelsmc.org.
Museum hosts Pioneer Day Camp
The Potts Inn Museum will sponsor a Pioneer Day Camp on June 17-21. The camp will be conducted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the cost is $75 per child. Children ages 5-15 are encouraged to attend.
Activities will focus on pioneer and Arkansas history games, crafts, music, dance, and food. Students need to bring a sack lunch each day, but drinks and snacks will be provided. In addition, students will receive a T-shirt. For more information, call the museum at 968-8369.
Registration packets are available at the museum office in Pottsville.


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On my iPad its like one out of every 10 sites adds this social plugin but forgot to learn css. stop i cant read your blog stupid!
I did not intentionally, just installed a Shoutbox and suddenly the video ads appeared - off to investigate and eliminate the cause
I Dont get it?
I installed a Shoutbox script and an video advertiser used the script to install their own links which are outside of the Shoutbox and screw up the layout.
Shoutbox is now disabled all except for a single page to demonstrate the intrusive video ads:
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The above link shows in the left-hand column the following notification "Shoutbox removed because of abuse"..
The red notification appears on all pages except the following where the Shoutbox is enabled:
I still don't get it. Is that your site or something I referenced in the OP?
What exactly are you warning us against? You showed a screen shot of what looks like a total mess, but you didn't say what is the particular thing is that we shouldn't do on our own sites. If you have some specific advice, it would be useful to hear it.
What exactly are you warning us against? You showed a screen shot of what looks like a total mess, but you didn't say what is the particular thing is that we shouldn't do on our own sites. If you have some specific advice, it would be useful to hear it.
I thought it was pretty obvious. But I was referring to the position fixed social plugin. Depending on the users screen size (aka my ipad) the plugin follows me down on the left and sits over the text. Happens all the time.
Thanks, Eric. It wan't obvious to me because I saw the whole page as a total mess, and didn't look at the detail. But I see now what you are getting at.
Ya it was more of a "just venting" post than anything.
Hi Eric,
I am not associated with the site that you referenced in your original post.
I tried the site you mentioned in your original post on my my desktop and tablet, desktop worked fine until the browser was shrunk and then the page became similar to your original post:
Screen size greater than 800px
Screen size less than 800px
To try and clarify the confusion - recently I introduced a Shoutbox on a site that works for smartphones, tablets and desktops. Unfortunately a third-party advertiser abused the Shoutbox with their advert script using position:fixed . Their adverts completely screwed the CSS Responsive Design layout
The links I posted showed a screen dump of the offending third-party adverts.
I think this thread should be moved to the CSS Forum.
Who ever it was who implemented that version of the display in the plugin obviously didn't think things through properly. Fortunately the WordPress plugin that can produce that mess can be reconfigured to display small icons across the bottom of the post actually in the page instead of in front of it (which was the only way they were displayed prior to the "new" messy in your face version being introduced).
I don't see what CSS has to do with configuration settings for a WordPress plugin.
I've seen this so often, people just install the plugin and thats it. I usually give up and don't go back to the blog/site again. So it's a good idea not to do this and upset your readers.
Lool wow thats pretty stupid! any of the social bottoms that move with the user I think is really annoying, it frustrates me why dont you just leave them in one place.
The plugin used to just display the icons as a row under each post. Then the plugin was updated to display them as a fixed bar in front of the content as shown in the first post. Everyone who kept the plugin up to date had their icons converted to that mess. Most people do not know enough about the settings available for the plugin to be able to change it back to the way they had it before the plugin was updated. I came close to uninstalling the plugin before I realised that the options were still there to revert back to having a small row of icons under each post. A lot of people using the plugin probably think that because the default was changed that the way it was changed to is the best way to display the icons (where in fact it is the worst).


text: Loved the finale. The Dallas return has really surprised me. I was a fan of the old one when i was a kid. I didnt watch every episode of course. It was on late and there was always school. But had fond memories of all the talk it generated among my parents and other family members. So i was not going to miss this show. So I was excited for this but skeptical. The last scenes of the finale along with Johnny Cashs, God's Gonna Cut You Down were excellent. Favorite scene was the pull away of JR and John Ross. Cant get better than that. January should be here before we know it. Oh did anyone watch the tnt roundup afterwards? Larry Hagman has regained some weight now. He looked great. I hope he is able to stay with the show for some time. Its great seeing him on a weekly show again.


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Respiratory Tract Abnormalities and Racehorse Performance
Abnormalities in the throats of yearling racehorses will negatively impact the horses' athletic potential, making careful evaluation of these structures an important part of the prepurchase examination.
"Veterinarians routinely evaluate the throats of potential racehorses via external visual assessment and an internal endoscopic evaluation. The larynx and pharynx are highly scrutinized as abnormalities are known to adversely affect airflow and therefore athletic performance," explained Katherine S. Garrett, DVM, from Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky.
To better determine the association between the endoscopy results and racing performance, Garrett and colleagues retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 2,954 yearling Thoroughbreds examined between 1998 and 2001. Arytenoid function (AF) was assessed using a modified Havemeyer scale (grade I, II.1, II.2, III, or IV) and the epiglottic structure (ES) was assessed using a scale from 0 to IV. The also subjectively analyzed the length of the epiglottis. The yearlings' racing performance was obtained using an online database.
For both AF and ES, the higher the scores, the more abnormal the function or structure were.
Key findings of the study were:
- Horses with grade II.2 AF had significantly less earnings as 4-year-olds compared with horses with less than grade II.2 (grades I and II.1)
- Grade III AF was associated with fewer starts and less earnings in horses at both 3 and 4 years of age, and
- An ES grade more than II (grades III-IV) and a short epiglottis were associated with fewer earnings at 3 and 4 years of age.
"These data suggest that yearlings with grade I or II.1 AF, or grade 0 to II ES, have a similar athletic potential to one another," concluded Garrett.
"The definition of "abnormality" is somewhat amorphous, since resting endoscopy is not necessarily an accurate predictor of what happens during exercise," she noted.
The study, "Endoscopic evaluation of arytenoid function and epiglottic structure in Thoroughbred yearlings and association with racing performance at two to four years of age: 2,954 cases (1998-2001)," was published in the March 15, 2010 edition of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The abstract is available on PubMed.
About the Author
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
Stacey Oke, MSc, DVM, is a practicing veterinarian and freelance medical writer and editor. She is interested in both large and small animals, as well as complementary and alternative medicine. Since 2005, she's worked as a research consultant for nutritional supplement companies, assisted physicians and veterinarians in publishing research articles and textbooks, and written for a number of educational magazines and websites.
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In addition to speaking with a counselor, you also can use the links in this section to assist you in the college planning process. You will find details on the different types of scholarships, grants and loans available from the LIU Pharmacy, New York State, and the federal government as well as information on procedures, payment plans, tuition/fees, and application deadlines.
You can refer to our handy glossary to gain a better understanding of commonly used financial aid terms.
Financial aid is available for students pursuing bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Click on How to Apply in the left-hand navigation to access the FAFSA or TAP forms required to apply for all forms of financial aid.
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I have an info-card that needs to be populated with an address, date, and time. This should happen when user selects an address from the options drop down menu. As it is now, I am using PHP 5.4 to grab records from MySql, and display address as values for select options. I have the date and time showing up as content in info-window (Google map), however I also need address, date, and time to show up (one at a time, based on user selection) in info-card area (please see webstie–yardsalendipity.com
I've given a small snippet here to give an idea of how I have things set up. I can give more on request if that's ok.Code samples:Select options
<select id="end" onchange="calcRoute();" class="form-control">
<option value="select" id="option-style">please select destination </option>
<?php foreach($data as $full_address) { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $full_address['full_address']; ?>"><?php echo $full_address['full_address']; ?></option>
<?php } ?>
(function(i, marker)
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function()
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
content : coords[i].full_address + '
' + coords[i].start_date + " " + "THRU" + " " + coords[i].end_date + "
" + coords[i].start_time + " " + "TO" + " " + coords[i].end_time
infowindow.open(map, marker);
})(i, marker);
Really appreciate any time given to look at this,Thanks
I can't see what you mean. Got a zip code that will show an example?
BTW, yard salse ?
Typo corrected, Thanks!
Thanks It looks like that info is good to me.
You mean something else, or maybe a browser issue?
Yes, something else. After entering the zipcode, a directions list pops up under the zipcode field. When a user picks an address from there (select destination), that is where I'd like the corresponding date and time to show up (only one). As it is now, the date and time does show up in the info window (marker), but a user may not realize they need to click on the marker to see a date and time. Therefore, I need the date and time to show up when and address is chosen.
I see start_date, end_date, start_time and end_time in the coords array.Are they also in the $data array?
If not, how is it that full_address is in both?
Sorry, not really sure about that.