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- The new year can be looked at through the lens of history
- Pundits have been trying to predict 2012 election; better to take breath, look at past
- Some events made little impact at time, now loom large
Fifty years ago this new year, on March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA game.
Today, it's one of the great records of professional sports, surrounded by a warm, golden glow. Tens of thousands swear they were there, or watched it on television. The game pitted Chamberlain's Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, and so people remember it as having happened at New York's Madison Square Garden. And it surely dominated every sports page and news broadcast the next day, right?
Try again.
The game took place at the Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. There were 4,124 people on hand, just more than half capacity. No film or video exists; the sole live account is a tape made of the radio broadcast. And it wasn't that big of a deal at the time. Chamberlain averaged more than 50 points a game that season, so a 100-point game -- though exceptional -- wasn't a huge story. And hey, it was in small-town Pennsylvania; the New York papers didn't even send reporters. (The New York Times picked up an Associated Press story.)
What does that tell us?
As we look ahead to a new year, there may be a "100-point day" on the horizon: a seemingly trivial, poorly chronicled event that ends up looming large. More likely, we'll be faced with the opposite: a major newsmaker who turns into a footnote in the flash of an optical line.
Either way, in our hyperactive, instant-satisfaction media environment, it helps to let history speak -- or at least let it clear its voice.
Already, there are story lines of the new year the past can inform.
Take the narrative that's likely to dominate 2012: the U.S. presidential election. In 2011, the hot story in the Republican nomination battle seemed to change weekly: first Michele Bachmann, then Rick Perry, then Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Mitt Romney was a shoo-in; Mitt Romney was a loser. President Obama was going to crush the opposition, whomever it was. Then he was going to go down. All this, and the Iowa caucus hasn't even happened yet.
So let's look at the past. Forty years ago, at the beginning of 1972, Edmund Muskie was the Democratic front-runner against Richard Nixon. According to some 1971 polls, in fact, he was going to give the president a run for his money.
But in the Iowa caucuses in late January, he tied "Uncommitted" for the win. He won New Hampshire in early March, but his victory was written off because it didn't meet "expectations" -- and George McGovern, who finished a strong second, was anointed the new golden boy. Even McGovern was no guarantee, as he faced challenges from the party's right flank throughout the campaign.
That year was also shaken by an assassination attempt, as Alabama Gov. George Wallace -- a 1968 presidential nominee who won several primaries in 1972 -- was shot in May.
By the end of the year, with the hapless McGovern -- now the Democratic nominee -- having dumped a running mate and Nixon not yet touched by the growing Watergate scandal, the president won in a landslide.
Walmart, from small store to big influence
Other past events may have seemed minor at the time, but cast a long shadow into 2012.
On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton -- who'd previously operated a Ben Franklin variety store and his own Walton's Five and Dime -- opened the first Walmart (then "Wal-Mart") in Rogers, Arkansas. Within 10 years his department store was a regional powerhouse; today it's the largest company in America.
It also has become a symbol of our present cultural divide, its shoppers derided on websites, its big-box stores accused of having killed small-town Main Streets, its efficiency and pricing studied by academics.
Its success has made the Walton family extremely wealthy -- money the clan has, in the time-honored fashion of millionaires throughout history, pumped into charity and culture. Most notably, Sam's daughter Alice Walton, whose estimated $20.9 billion places her 10th on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, spearheaded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The Bentonville, Arkansas, museum, which opened in November, has already become a major and controversial player in the acquisition of American art. Could it also change the Walmart image?
One of the primary entertainment trends of recent years -- and one with legs into the future -- can also be traced back 50 years.
In August 1962, Marvel Comics introduced a new kind of superhero. Peter Parker was a neurotic teenager whose angst was only amplified by his superpowers, which were triggered when he was bitten by a radioactive spider. As Spider-Man, Parker still didn't have it together, questioning himself even while dispatching such criminals as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus.
Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.
The development of comic-book characters into franchises has occurred alongside the growing appreciation of the comic-book genre as art. Director Sam Raimi's 2002 "Spider-Man" earned both bundles of money and high marks from critics, helping make the Marvel brand -- now owned by Disney -- one of the most prized in Hollywood.
Spider-Man still has web-slinging to do. In 2012, he'll appear in a reboot of the movie series. The film, "The Amazing Spider-Man," is scheduled to open in July.
The 2012 Olympic Games in London may evoke memories of many previous Olympiads, but in today's terrorist-aware political climate, thoughts of the 1972 Munich games are sadly inescapable. Those Olympics may be celebrated for Mark Spitz's seven swimming gold medals (a record broken in the 2008 Beijing games by Michael Phelps, who won eight) and recalled for the controversial U.S.-USSR men's basketball final, but its lasting image may be that of a masked gunman on the balcony of the Olympic Village.
On the morning of September 5, 1972, eight members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Israeli team's apartments in the Olympic Village and took the 11 Israeli athletes hostage, killing two immediately. The next day, during an unsuccessful rescue at a NATO airbase, the other nine were killed. "They're all gone," ABC anchor Jim McKay solemnly said in announcing the news.
The incident has influenced security for each succeeding Olympics, an impact that's only been heightened by terrorist attacks of the 21st century.
The end of something
And then there are the endings, those events that indicated an old world was receding, though observers didn't know it at the time.
Fifty years ago, the CBS radio series "Suspense" went off the air. The show had run for 20 years, featured a who's-who of performers and even lent its tag line -- "Tales well-calculated to keep you in 'Suspense!' " -- to parody from Mad magazine (which claimed it offered "Tales calculated to drive you Mad!"). Its demise is considered to have brought an end to the "Golden Age of Radio."
Today, the same might be said for television watching. No, the concept of TV isn't going anywhere -- but in 2011, for the first time, overall TV ownership declined, according to Nielsen. Moreover, the percentage of homes without a television, 3%, is at its highest level since 1975. As more people gravitate to tablets, phones and other technological gadgetry, the financial model of TV itself will evolve.
Forty years ago December 7, Apollo 17 launched with astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans aboard. At the time, few would have believed that manned space exploration was over, but we haven't sent a manned mission to the moon since. With 2011 marking the end of the space shuttle program, NASA is searching for a new plan. The next year may decide how soon humans leave low-Earth orbit again.
Now that 2011 is over and done with, we can only imagine what will linger. The effects of the Japan tsunami and nuclear accident, surely; the death of Osama bin Laden, probably. But will any observers 50 years hence, or even 10 years from now,- know what a "Kardashian" is, or care about the fate of Casey Anthony? Will anybody admit to remembering Tebowing?
It's anybody's guess. Indeed, given that it's hard enough to look back, looking forward can be even more of a fool's game.
So perhaps it's best to end with the words of 1962's ultimate failure, a politician whose career was obviously over. He was a man who had once aspired to the presidency but suffered a narrow loss two years earlier. Now he had just been trounced in a race for governor, and as he addressed a roomful of journalists in a tense, barely controlled fury.
"I leave you gentlemen now and you will now write it," the politician said. "You will interpret it. That's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know -- just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
Wonder what happened to that guy.


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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Bulldogs showed why they are one of the most exciting teams in college hockey this season, but seven goals were not enough to send Yale, in the highest scoring NCAA Tournament game in 50 years, to its first-ever Frozen Four. No. 2 ranked Boston College fought off a pair of Bulldog surges to hold on for 9-7 win before 6,054 at the DCU Center in the NCAA Northeast Regional final.
Mark Arcobello had three goals and three assists, Brian O'Neill had two goals and two assists and Andrew Miller dished out four helpers on a bad night to be a goalie. These offensive efforts helped the Bulldogs finish with 10 goals in the two regional games and earn the program's first NCAA win in the modern era.
The Elis, who finish the season at 21-10-3, were successful on three of seven power plays, while holding the Eagles (27-10-3), who advance to Detroit, scoreless on five advantages. That's the kind of numbers that Yale would gladly have taken heading into their first regional final.
However, the Yale defense was not successful enough at even strength, and three goalies saw the end result too close-up. Ryan Rondeau, fresh off his 34 save win, got the start and finished with 18 saves in 30 minutes. He gave up five tallies before giving way to two others who allowed a pair each.
"I would like to congratulate Boston College, Jerry York and his staff. They are a great team and they did a great job," said Keith Allain '80 Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "I can't tell you how proud I am of my guys. There were numerous occasions during the course of the game where they could have thrown in the towel, but didn't. That's what I've come to expect from this program and that's what I've seen from this group."
Cam Atkinson, the tournament's MVP, also had three goals to lead the Eagles' charge. The two teams each had 39 shots on target and BC goalie Dan Muse endured all 60 minutes to gather 32 saves.
The game's first goal set the tone last night in Yale's win over No. 5 North Dakota. But that goal didn't come off equipment failure. Ryan Donald's stick broke as he took a slap shot from the point and it immediately turned into a two-on-one because the Yale blueliner was without his stick. Atkinson saw Ryan Gibbons heading up ice and flipped a lead pass that allowed his linemate to be open on the left side with a path to the net. Gibbons, who notched his 16th of the season, fired a low wrister that went five-hole.
The Bulldogs put a flurry of shots on the Boston College net in one stretch, taking advantage of mistakes and Yale speed. That led to an Eli tally. Miller sent a long crossing, lead pass from the Yale end ahead to O'Neill just before the BC blueline. O'Neill crossed over and left it for Arcobello's blast from the top of the left circle. Muse made the save but the rebound came out to O'Neill (15th goal) and the sophomore forward held it, waited for Muse to commit and then tucked it inside the right post at 13:32 to make it 1-1.
Yale fought through some tough penalty calls with great penalty-kills to finally get its first advantage late in the opening frame. And that turned into a goalie's nightmare… for the Bulldogs. Carl Sneep's clearing blast from his own end took a wicked hop (one similar to the Brown shot that hit the net from center ice in game one of the ECACs) past Rondeau at 16:34. It was Sneep's 11th goal this year.
Two bad breaks turned into two goals for the Eagles, who outshot Yale 13-12. That was the prelude for a wild, seven-goal middle period.
BC made it 3-1 at 2:23 of the middle frame by jumping all over a juicy rebound. Pat Mullane's pass from behind the goal line was on Joe Whitney's stick with room to shoot. Rondeau made the save and stopped the next rebound attempt from Whitney, but the third was just too much.
Miller's great passing ability got the Blue back in the game again. This time, on the man-advantage, he fed Arcobello from behind the net and the senior forward snapped off a shot on the ice from the high slot that went between Muse's legs at 4:46 to make it a one-goal game for the moment.
Atkinson picked off a Yale pass at the top of the right circle and took three strides before wristing a low shot under Rondeau's pad
The Yale goalie had some great moments. He thwarted a pretty one-time attempt on the doorstep with just over 11 minutes left in the frame, but couldn't hold off the hot Eagles. Less than two minutes later, another pass from behind the net was one-timed to the back of the net by Atkinson to make it 5-2. That tally sent the Yale junior to the bench for senior Billy Blase (8 saves).
The new Yale netminder made a nice save on the first shot he saw but couldn't get a piece of a Whitney shot at 14:46 from the left circle that sailed inside the near post to up the lead to 6-2. But the Bulldogs weren't done yet.
Yale cut it to 6-3 off a draw in the BC end. Yale blueliner Kevin Peel got the puck to the point for Arcobello (13th), who sent a high shot over Muse's shoulder.
Then the Blue jumped all over a power play to bring it back to a two-goal deficit. A clearing attempt was picked off by Jimmy Martin at the point. The junior defenseman fired a shot toward traffic in the slot and Denny Kearney (12th), who had two goals last night, re-directed it by a flick of his blade into the back of the cage with 1:33 left in the second.
The Bulldogs had plenty of chances to creep closer to the favored Eagles and came close a few times early in the third before another bad break gave BC a breakaway. A shot from the point was blocked by the Eagles and the puck squirted slowly to the other end. The only Eli who could get to the puck before Atkinson was Blase, but he decide to stay in the crease. Atkinson picked it up between the slot and the blueline and flicked a shot over the goalie's shoulder at 4:16 to put BC up 7-4. Freshman Jeff Malcolm (4 saves) then replaced Blase.
Things did not improve in the Yale end, and Boston College winger Jimmy Hayes put the game away in 23 seconds. He banged one home on a rebound from the side of the net and then blasted a slap shot from the left circle, all on the same shift.
"I don't think we were very good as a team defensively. The goaltenders were part of that, but they certainly weren't the only part of that," said Allain.
Once again, the Bulldogs fired back despite the five-goal deficit. Arcobello took a great feed from O'Neill, deked and then went top shelf at 13:32 on a power play to make it 9-5. Shortly after, O'Neill re-directed a point pass from Arcobello with 4:05 left and it was 9-6.
"If only I played as well on defense as on offense, I could have prevented a couple of goals," said Arcobello, when asked if there was any consolation in having the big offensive night during his late game for Yale.
Allain pulled Malcolm with about three minutes left, and there was still a little magic left. Arcobello gathered in a puck at the point, saving it from being cleared, and flung it toward the net. Broc Little happened to be cruising through the crease and got his blade on the shot just as Muse was going to glove it. Little tipped it home with 1:22 left for his 27th of the year.
"I thought Yale was as fine an offensive team as we have had a chance to play in the last few years. Their stick skills and ability to score goals gave us all kinds of problems," said BC head coach Jerry York. "Keith (Allain) has done an amazing job. The game was never over because of their skill factor and skill set. We were looking at a pretty good lead and then all of a sudden we're back protecting down the stretch."
Arcobello and senior defenseman Tom Dignard made the Northeast Regional All-Tournament Team… Yale sophomore Kevin Peel, who replaced junior Mike Matczak on defense tonight, was back after an injury that knocked him out of the last two periods of game three of the ECAC quarterfinals. That was the only change in the lineup from Saturday… This was the first game Yale lost (now 12-1) when tallying at least two PPG… The nine goals allowed are the most since losing 9-1 to Minnesota-Duluth on Nov. 25, 2005… Mark Arcobello's six points are tied for second all-time in an NCAA Tournament game and the most by a Bulldog in 19 years… Yale set the record for most goals scored by a losing team in an NCAA regional game… Yale tied the mark for most goals scored by a losing team in an NCAA Tournament game.
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Warner Bros International Television executive Malcolm Dudley-Smith will return to his native Australia as the company's svp and general manager, Asia Pacific.
Based in Sydney, Dudley-Smith will manage the strategic direction of distribution operations throughout Asia in all television media, including free, basic, pay as well as the digital ad-supported and SVoD business.
Dudley-Smith will report to Warner Bros International Television's (WBITD) svp, sales, Canada, Asia Pacific and Latin America, Jim Brehm.
Additionally, he will help drive local production strategies throughout the region and oversee the ongoing roll out of WarnerTV Asia, WBITD's linear branded service in the region.
"With Malcolm taking this position, we are able to align our traditional linear licensing, our channels business and our new non-linear licensing business under one experienced senior executive," said WBITD president Jeffrey R Schlesinger.
Dudley-Smith is a 19-year veteran of the studio who has served as evp of business management, branded services since 2007.


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Google's Chromebooks Winning Over Some Businesses
By Shira Ovide and Rolfe Winkler
Personal-computer software king Microsoft has a new online video bashing Google's bare-bones Chromebook laptops, which barely register in PC sales rankings. Why is Microsoft bothering?
Beyond its ongoing rivalry with Google, Microsoft's effort may reflect pockets of popularity for Chromebooks at some schools and companies. Businesses are Microsoft's strength and its biggest source of profits. Educational-testing company Kaplan has said it uses Chromebooks for its call centers, and healthcare chain Mollen said it put Chromebooks in more than 4,000 clinics.
The anti-Chromebook effort spotlights how Microsoft is grappling with competition in areas where for years it held a virtual monopoly.
Some corporate-technology officials and analysts say Chromebooks are catching on for some road-warrior workers, retail-sales employees and other business users that can make do with limited computing features.
"Windows PCs aren't going anywhere," said Forrester Research analyst J.P. Gownder. "But for some use cases at some companies, Chromebooks fill a legitimate niche."
Erwin Visser, general manager of Microsoft's Windows commercial business, said, "Compared to any other device, Windows delivers the best value at the best price today." He cited Windows PC customers such as Delta Air Lines, Sheraton Hotels and Seton Hall University.
Ocean State Job Lot, a discount retailer with more than 100 stores, bought Chromebooks to replace about half of the 60 Windows laptops used by district managers, recruiters and other employees who spend most of their time traveling.
The North Kingstown, R.I., company also installed about 40 desktop Chrome computers-- called Chromeboxes -- in stores whose workers use them for just a handful of tasks, such as punching time clocks, printing paycheck stubs and checking employee benefits.
Jeff Mehrmanesh, infrastructure and technology manager for Ocean State, said the Samsung-made Chromebooks cost about $250, roughly one-third the cost of Windows laptops. For an additional $150 per machine, Ocean State buys a control panel that limits employees to visiting only company-approved websites. That limits the number of viruses the computers pick up, he said, giving him more peace of mind. "That's something you can't replicate," Mehrmanesh said.
Mehrmanesh said the company's road warriors also like the Chromebooks because they're lighter than their old Windows laptops and have longer battery life.
To be sure, Chromebooks are hardly taking over corporate computing. Demand for the devices "has not been overwhelming," said David Hoff, chief technology officer for Cloud Sherpas, which sells Google software and services to businesses. Hoff said many business users hesitate because the Chromebook cannot seamlessly use PC-teleconference services such as GoToMeeting and WebEx.
"We're always listening to what our customers may need, and Chromebooks are always gaining new features based on that feedback," a Google spokeswoman said.
Several corporate-tech buyers said Chromebooks are more appealing to businesses that already use Google Apps, a software package that resembles Microsoft Office.
After School of Rock, a chain of 130 music-instruction schools, rolled out Google Apps for its employees, the company also bought about 40 Chromebooks to keep track of student schedules, billing and efforts to find new customers.
Evan Trent, senior vice president for School of Rock, said there are a "goofy limitations," of Google Apps and Chromebooks. People at the school sometimes have to borrow computers from visiting instructors to burn a music CD, for example, because the Samsung-made devices don't have CD slots. Printing files from the Chromebooks also can be tricky, Trent said.
But overall he said the Google rollout has gone well. "You can pretty much do anything with a Chromebook," Trent said.
The Google spokeswoman pointed to a recent blog post in which Google said it made changes to ease printing from Google computers and Google services.
Note: This post has been updated to include Mr. Visser's comment.


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Given the popularity of yoga, most clubs are now offering yoga as part of their group exercise program. Few clubs, though, are realizing the extraordinary potential for creating new profit centers from yoga. Here are four great ways to get you started:
1. Go retail. Sell basic supplies: yoga mats, blocks, straps, blankets. Many people want their own props and will gladly pay for them. You also can sell additional yoga-related items that support your students' practice, including yoga DVDs, CDs, books, bolsters, towels, mat bags, massage oils, essential oils, etc.
Many of the above items can be private labeled and branded with your club's logo or message.
A yoga studio owner whose facility offered 100 yoga classes per week once told me that her studio made more money from retail sales than the actual classes.
2. Workshops, intensives and class series. Aside from regular yoga classes, you can offer workshops that focus on a specific aspect of yoga and offer students a deeper yoga experience than they normally get in classes. You can charge anywhere from $10 to $50 or more per person, per workshop, depending on the subject and length of the workshop. You can also promote yoga workshops to nonmembers as a way of bringing more people to your club.
Some popular topics include yoga philosophy and history, meditation, pranayama (breathing practices) inversions, backbends, restorative yoga, yoga for men only, prenatal and postnatal yoga, yoga for flexibility, yoga for back care, yoga for tight shoulders and partner yoga. The list goes on and on. You can ask your teachers for ideas, too. They most likely will have many ideas and be excited to help.
Intensives are like workshops, only longer—for a day, weekend or week. The subject matter and focus can be the same as for workshops or you can combine various subjects for a theme, such as wellness, flexibility, strength, weight loss, deepening your practice, etc. Obviously, you would charge more for intensives than for workshops because of the longer class times and instruction.
Class series also can have a special theme and focus, such as strength, abdominal work, balance, meditation, inversions, etc. These classes can be scheduled over a period of weeks and can command a special fee, as they are separate from regular classes.
To find out what workshops, intensives or class series your members would be most interested in attending, create a simple interest form that you can post on bulletin boards, leave at your front desk or have teachers run by students.
3. Retreats. Yoga retreats have become quite popular as they give students an opportunity to deepen their practice of yoga while enjoying the benefit of traveling to someplace beautiful and desirable. They usually combine intensive yoga practice with plenty of downtime to enjoy the venue. Think of a retreat as a yoga vacation. Retreats can be for a day, a weekend, a week or longer. They can be quite profitable, and students who attend them will love them.
4. Teacher trainings. Once you have a following of dedicated yoga practitioners, consider offering a yoga teacher training. These trainings can have three significant outcomes for your club. First, students who wanted to go deeper into their practice will be able to do so. Second, you will have a pool of yoga teachers from which to draw when students finish the program. And, finally, you will have an opportunity to gain fantastic profits.
Consider that the fee for an average teacher training program can range anywhere from $2,500 to $7,500 per student. If you have 20 students in a program that has a fee of $4,000 per student, that is $80,000 in revenue. Be sure to have highly experienced teachers running these programs. If you don't have them on staff, you'll want to bring them in from the outside.
Interestingly, once you start offering the above services, not only will you see new revenue from your yoga program, but you also will help your members connect to and deepen their experience of yoga.
Howard Allan VanEs is a yoga teacher, author and consultant located in San Francisco. VanEs has taught yoga for more than 14 years, is the author of five books and numerous CDs, and has an extensive background in marketing and advertising. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com, at 415-309-1290 or through his website at www.letsdoyoga.com.


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The Hope College "Sundays at 2" recital series will feature pianist Andrew Le, violinist Jennifer Walvoord and cellist Alicia Eppinga on Sunday, April 22, at 2 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert will feature Andrew Le in an all-Ravel program that includes solo piano works and chamber music. The program will include Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte, La Valse," and the "Piano Trio in A Minor," featuring Walvoord and Eppinga.
Le is head of keyboard studies and an associate professor of piano at Hope. His playing has been described as "individualistic without a trace of contrivance or eccentricity" by critic Harris Goldsmith of the "New York Concert Review."
Walvoord is an active chamber musician and her piano quintet performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as part of the Millennium Stage Concert Series in 2007.
She and Le, who are wife and husband, are in their third year as artistic directors of the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck.
Eppinga has been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony since 1989. She was appointed assistant principal cello in 1990. She received her bachelor's in music performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of Richard Kapuscinski, and her master's in music at the Eastman School of Music with Steven Doane.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Cody Alan, host of CMT After Midnight With Cody Alan and CMT Radio Live , has been tapped to host the live stream for Clear Channel's first-ever iHeartRadio Country Festival set for Saturday (March 29) exclusively on CMT.com and the recently-launched CMT Artists App.
Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, Lady Antebellum, Jake Owen and Carrie Underwood will perform during the event at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
The live stream begins at 8:30 p.m. ET.
Additionally, CMT After Midnight With Cody Alan, CMT Radio Live and CMT All Access will broadcast from Austin, and CMT Hot 20 Countdown will also be there with behind-the-scenes access and exclusive interviews with the artists. The all-new episode of CMT Hot 20 Countdown will air April 12 at 11 a.m. ET/PT.
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ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – Democrats in Elmwood Park will have their choice of candidates to run for mayor and council this year.
Two separate teams of Democrats will face off in the June 6 primary election to earn spots on the general election ballot.
Monday was the deadline for candidates to file petitions to run for office.
The Elmwood Park Democratic Club is backing the team of mayoral candidate Frank Caramagna and council candidates Lorraine Pellegrine and Sandra Balistrieri.
Mayoral candidate Joe Drombrowski and council candidates Denise Ingui and Jeff Leider are running on the Elmwood Park Progressive Democratic Team.
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I got a 34 Lafette partial kit to restore! Yeah! Another project!
The rear end cap is sadly gone, so no markings there. However, the lower assembly is marked ECY. And, the original color was dunkelgelb. Now, if I read Bergflak's website properly, this would only be the second known ECY in dunkelgelb.
The thing has been, of course, painted multiple times, and most of any paint is gone. So it needs a restoration.
I'd prefer to blast it to raw metal, prime, and paint panzergrau. I feel negligent in destroying the little bit of original paint, and changing the color. Is this foolish or should I try to preserve some of the original paint or restore to dunkelgelb?
Anybody have a rear end cap lying around?


text: Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston go to the dogs with Marley & Me, a tale of a couple embarking on the adventure of marriage, career, family, and the world's worst dog. At least that's how writer and newlywed John comes to describe his blonde lab, Marley, when he takes the puppy home and finds that the fluff-ball has an uncanny ability to eat and/or destroy just about anything. As years go by, John and his wife, Jennifer, contemplate having babies and moving across the country, while Marley grows into 100 lbs. of funny, wild, completely untrainable canine companionship -- as well as one of the most important people in the family. Marley & Me is based on the best-selling autobiographical book by columnist John Grogan. - Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide


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U.S. Department of Transportation Declares Illinois Long-Haul Truck Driver to be an Imminent Hazard to Public Safety
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Illinois-licensed truck driver Stewart G. Snedeker to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce. Snedeker was served the federal order Oct. 4, 2013.
"Safety should be the top priority of every driver of every vehicle out on our nation's highways and roads," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "We will continue to work with our state law enforcement partners to protect the motoring public through vigorous enforcement of traffic laws and driver and motor vehicle regulations that prevent needless crashes and save lives."
On June 23, 2013, Snedeker, a commercial driver's license (CDL) holder, was operating a tractor-trailer on Interstate 75 in Campbell County, Tenn., when he struck a Tennessee Highway Patrol cruiser and a tow truck that were parked on the roadway shoulder with their emergency lights flashing. A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper was seriously injured in the crash. Snedeker fled in his truck and was later apprehended by Campbell County Sheriff Deputies approximately 10 miles from the crash scene where he was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant or drug, reckless endangerment, vehicular assault, leaving the scene of a crash with an injury, possession of drug paraphernalia, and other state violations.
A subsequent investigation by FMCSA determined that Snedeker had potentially disqualifying medical conditions and falsified his medical history to wrongfully obtain a medical examiner certificate required by federal regulations to operate commercial motor vehicles.
"It is unacceptable for a truck or bus company, or any of its drivers, to disregard the law and put travelers at risk," said FMCSA Administrator Anne S. Ferro. "We will continue our aggressive efforts to prevent unsafe commercial drivers from getting behind the wheel and endangering the public."
FMCSA's imminent hazard out-of-service order for Snedeker is based on his violation of federal safety regulations.
Since the beginning of 2013, FMCSA has declared eight commercial driver's license holders as imminent hazards, blocking them from operating in interstate commerce.
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Alumnus honored for innovation in architecture
June 17, 2014
Andrew Holder B.A. '00 is a recipient of the 2014 Architectural League Prize, awarded to a select group of young architects whose designs have demonstrated "exemplary and provocative work." Given by the Architectural League of New York, the annual award is one of North America's most prestigious honors for early-career practitioners of architecture.
Selection of each year's Architectural League Prize winners is based on a themed portfolio competition, which exclusively accepts entries from structural designers who have completed their schooling within the past 10 years. This year's competition, titled Overlay, yielded winning portfolios from six architectural practices in the United States.
Holder and Claus Benjamin Freyinger—coprincipals of the Los Angeles Design Group (LADG)—submitted a diverse array of cutting-edge projects, from the design of an illuminated manuscript exhibit at the University of Michigan to the interior of a ski boot shop in Santa Monica, California.
After earning a degree in political science from Lewis & Clark, Holder began a graduate program in architecture at the University of California at Los Angeles. Despite the apparent differences in these fields of study, Holder found that a liberal arts education greatly informed the substance of his work.
"A degree in architecture tells you how to build, but not what to build," Holder explained. "Lewis & Clark instilled in me an urge to intervene in society, to change its structure and correct tendencies that are oppressive or unequal."
The Architectural League Prize gives Holder a platform to share his projects with a wider demographic and further explore the societal impacts of architectural decisions.
"Buildings are co-occupants of limited space, and they need to be designed as such," Holder said. "The audience expansion provided by the prize is, in a sense, an enlargement of my medium that allows me to test the effects I'm trying to generate."
Work by the 2014 Architectural League Prize winners will be on display from June 24 to August 1 at Parsons The New School for Design. Holder will discuss LADG's winning designs on opening night.
Katrina Staaf '16 contributed to this story.
Architectural League Prize winners Political Science


text: This holiday season will see another Star Wars film dominating the release schedule. Unlike last year's Star Wars: Episode 7 – The Force Awakens, whose fan anticipation was the highest since Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace in 1999, Rogue One has already been plagued by script rewrites and unscheduled reshoots. This was in part owing to the lack of direct relevance to any of the original series characters, but also to fan polls that suggested disappointment with earlier plot lines. Nevertheless, production has pushed on and the second trailer for the new film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was just released this week. Rogue One is based on a story by John Knoll (Star Wars: Episode 6 – Return of the Jedi, Avatar) and Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli, After Earth), which was adapted to a script by Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Golden Compass) and Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Ultimatum, House of Cards) about the Rebel Alliance's plan to steal the plans to the Death Star, laying the grounds for the epic trilogy that follows with Star Wars: Episode 4 – A New Hope (1977). Director Gareth Edwards (In the Shadow of the Moon, Godzilla) helmed the project with actors Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, The Amazing Spider-Man), Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Casino Royale), Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler, Jason Bourne), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises, The Place Beyond the Pines), Alan Tudyk (I Robot, Dodgeball), and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, Lee Daniel's The Butler). Oscar nominee James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams, The Lion King) is also returning to provide the voice of Darth Vader, whose presence in the film will likely hold the biggest intrigue for fans of the series. Check out the new trailer right here on MADE, and enjoy the weekend!


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Suspicious circumstances, loud music
9:55 a.m. – Suspicious circumstances. Incident location was 505 Fifth St. Completed.
10:18 a.m. – Threatened offense. Incident location was 500 block of Wildcat Way. Unfounded.
10:45 a.m. – Assist other departments. Hall Ambulance reported. Incident location was 309 Warren St. Assisted.
11:16 a.m. – Animal control. Incident location was 613 Sunset lane. Completed.
11:26 p.m. – Suspicious circumstances. R/P advised their was a male subject knocking on door and looking in windows. Incident location was 412 Second St. Subject was asked to leave. Completed.
11:50 p.m. – Disturbing the peace. Loud party. Incident location was 108 Center St. Warning.
1:04 a.m. – Disturbing the peace. Fight between male and female. Completed.


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This document specifies a syntax for addressing time intervals within time-based Web resources through URI queries and fragments. This scheme is particularly used for AnnodexPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Annodex exchange format for time-continuous data files, Version 3.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[1] and CMMLPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML), Version 2.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[2] Web resources, though it could be picked up by any other time-based Web resource format. Temporal addressing enables, e.g., direct access to a clip inside a video stored on a Web Server, or direct jumps to a specific event within a piece of music. The syntax is not restricted to audio or video Web resources though, but covers all kinds of Web resources that contain time-continuous information.
When a server (e.g. a Web Server) supports the URI query syntax, it is able to extract the given time subsections from the base resource and serve them as another resource of the same type. Specifying a time point or interval through a URI fragment in contrast does not deliver a subpart of the resource - instead it is up to the user agent and the resource type as to what action is invoked. Examples are a fast forward to a time point, or a zoom into a time interval.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119Bradner, S., Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirements Levels, March 1997.[3].
2. Incorporating temporal addressing into the Generic URI Scheme
3. Temporal addressing through URI queries
4. Temporal addressing through URI fragments
5. Time schemes
6. Implementation with HTTP
6.1 Identifying enabled HTTP servers
6.2 Caching URIs with temporal queries in HTTP proxy servers
6.3 Overview of added HTTP message headers
6.3.1 X-Accept-Range-Redirect
6.3.2 X-Range-Redirect
6.3.3 X-Accept-TimeURI
7. Implementation with RTP/RTSP
8. Security considerations
9. ChangeLog
10. References
§ Authors' Addresses
A. Acknowledgements
§ Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements
Many resources on the World Wide Web represent information that relate to a timeline of events. Time-sampled recordings of sound, temporally interleaved audio-visual streams, or data files containing time series data are examples. This document describes a syntax for addressing temporal offsets and time intervals in such resources. The aim is to make it simple to incorporate infrastructure into the Internet which supports the addressing and retrieval of temporal subparts of time-based Web resources, as well as the automated processing of such subparts for reuse.
The temporal URI interval specifications are to be used on resources that represent a specific timeline. An example of such resources are most resources of MIME types "audio/*" and "video/*". Files containing commands for creating time-continuous experiences (such as SMIL files for authoring interactive multimedia, or VRML files for authoring 3D worlds) cannot be addressed in this manner. However, if one particular user interaction (i.e. one experience) is recorded, the recording contains data that relates to a single timeline and can be addressed with the manner described in this specification.
The temporal URI queries and fragments specified in this document have been implemented and demonstrated to work with AnnodexPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Annodex exchange format for time-continuous data files, Version 3.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[1] and CMMLPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML), Version 2.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[2] format Web resources over HTTPFielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, June 1999.[4]. A possible implementation over RTP/RTSPSchulzrinne, H., Rao, A. and R. Lanphier, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), April 1998.[5] for Internet streaming is being specified. Usage with other protocols is possible, but has not been explored yet.
The Generic URI SchemeBerners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, January 2005.[6] defines two manners in which subparts of Web resources can be addressed: queries and fragments. Queries are given through extending the Web resource's address by a string that is separated through the special character "?". Fragments are given through extending the Web resource's address by a string that is separated through the special character "#".
RFC 3986Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, January 2005.[6] specifies that URI queries identify a resource and thus a Web server MUST process the query returning a fully defined resource. There is no generically defined structure to URI queries. However, the format of a CGI query string where name-value pairs are separated by the special character "&" is a commonly used format. The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a convention for external gateway programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers (see http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/). When defining a common manner in which temporal subparts of a Web resource can be addressed, it is important to be compatible with this common CGI format.
RFC 3986Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, January 2005.[6] also specifies that URI fragments identify a secondary resource by reference to a primary resource and that fragments are interpreted client side, i.e. the Web infrastructure consisting of Web servers and Web proxies will generally ignore the "#" extension of URIs. This basically implies that a fragment provides a particular view on a resource and the view is defined through the type of resource and through the client side application.
Both, URI query and URI fragment identifiers have traditionally been defined for specific media types or even specific services. This is especially true for URI queries where the query string may consist of name-value pairs that contain the particular fields and field entries of a particular form that resides on a particular server and is processed by a particular server extension. For the temporal addressing that is proposed in this document, it is important that every Web server that interpretes the query parameter reacts uniformly to it. The particular resources which are covered in this manner are the AnnodexPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Annodex exchange format for time-continuous data files, Version 3.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[1] and CMMLPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML), Version 2.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[2] media types. This scheme can be adopted for other media types, by including it in the media type registration for that format.
URI query strings are specified after the special character "?". A temporal query parameter defines one or more intervals of time. Time is given with respect to specific time schemes. The default time scheme is "npt" (normal play time), in which a time point is specified in seconds through a floating point number with an arbitrary temporal resolution. The available time schemes and their specifications are described further down in this document.
The BNF for a temporal URI query parameter is:
time-parameter = "t" "=" [ timescheme ":" ] time-intervalspec time-intervalspec = time-interval ["," time-intervalspec] time-interval = timespec ["/" timespec] timescheme = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / "/" / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@" ) timespec = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@" / "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")" / "*" / "+" / ";" / "=" )
All time intervals actually specify start and end times. If no end timespec is given, it defaults to "infinity", which for a file means the end of the file or for a stream the end of the stream. Overlapping time intervals MUST be interpreted by merging the intervals into one.
It is not valid to give several temporal URI query parameters in one URI query. They all need to be wrapped into a single specification.
A URI with a query for several intervals may be split by the user agent into several queries for a single interval each and then sent to the server in consecutive requests, which in the case of HTTP/1.1 would e.g. be pipelined. This is of particular interest to user clients that can not handle resources that consist of temporally non-consecutive data, e.g. chained Annodex bitstreams.
Examples for URIs containing temporal queries are:
URI fragment specifiers are given after the special character crosshatch ("#"). A temporal URI fragment defines a specific temporal view onto a Web resource consisting of one or more intervals of time. Again, time is given with respect to specific time schemes as defined below, "npt" being the default.
The BNF for a temporal URI fragment identifier is (reusing the time-intervalspec of the URI query section above):
temporal-fragment = time-parameter
As with temporal URI query parameters, all temporal intervals are specified through start and end times, the default end time being infinity, which may map to the end of a file or stream. Also, several temporal URI fragment identifiers are not allowed.
What a user agent does with a temporal URI fragment is up to itself. As a result of the request being sent to the server, the user agent receives the complete resource. If the user agent is a Web browser and the resource is a video, the user agent MAY play back only the specified time section(s). If the user agent is a sound editor and the resource a sound file, the user agent MAY select the disjoint time intervals in the sound file as a first step to applying some filter to them.
Examples for URIs with temporal fragment specifications are:
A time scheme is a short identifier for a type of time specification. The following general time schemes are specified in this document. Further time schemes are expected to emerge and should probably be registered through IANA.
Specification as BNF:
timescheme = npt-timescheme | smpte-timescheme | utc-timescheme | *unreserved timespec = npt-timespec | smpte-timespec | utc-timespec | *uric
These time schemes are specified as follows:
NPT time has a second or subsecond resolution. It is specified as H:M:S.h (npt-hhmmss) or S.h (npt-sec), where H=hours, M=minutes, S=second and h=fractions of a second. Negative values are not allowed.
Specification as BNF:npt-timescheme = "npt" npt-timespec = npt-sec | npt-hhmmss npt-sec = 1*DIGIT [ "." *DIGIT ] npt-hhmmss = npt-hh ":" npt-mm ":" npt-ss [ "." *DIGIT ] npt-hh = 1*DIGIT ; any positive number npt-mm = 1*2DIGIT ; 0-59 npt-ss = 1*2DIGIT ; 0-59
SMPTE time codesThe Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, SMPTE STANDARD for Television, Audio and Film - Time and Control Code, September 1999.[7] are optimized for frame level accuracy. SMPTE is specified as HH:MM:SS:FF, where HH=hours, MM=minutes, SS=second, FF=frames. The drop-frame algorithms for calculating the exact times can be found in the references SMPTE standard. Negative values are not allowed.
"smpte-24=" SMPTE time with a 24 fps basis
"smpte-24-drop=" SMPTE time with a 24/1.001 fps basis
"smpte-25=" SMPTE time with a 25 fps basis
"smpte-30=" SMPTE time with a 30 fps basis
"smpte-30-drop=" SMPTE time with a 30/1.001 fps basis
"smpte-50=" SMPTE time with a 50 fps basis
"smpte-60=" SMPTE time with a 60 fps basis
"smpte-60-drop=" SMPTE time with a 60/1.001 fps basis
Specification as BNF:smpte-timescheme = "smpte-24" | "smpte-24-drop" | "smpte-25" | "smpte-30" | "smpte-30-drop" | "smpte-50" | "smpte-60" | "smpte-60-drop" smpte-timespec = smpte-hh ":" smpte-mm ":" smpte-ss [ ":" smpte-ff ] smpte-hh = 1*2DIGIT smpte-mm = 1*2DIGIT smpte-ss = 1*2DIGIT smpte-ff = 1*2DIGIT
UTC time has a second or subsecond resolution. It is given as YYYYMMDDTHHmmss.hhZ, where Y=year, M=month, D=day, H=hour, m=minute, s=second, h=subseconds (one-hundredth of a second).
Specification as BNF:utc-timescheme = "clock" utc-timespec = utc-date "T" utc-hhmmss "Z" utc-date = 8DIGIT ; < YYYYMMDD > utc-hhmmss = 6DIGIT [ "." 1*DIGIT ] ; < HHMMSS.fraction >
Examples for time-interval URI specifications with different time schemes are:
http://example.com/audio.anx?t=smpte-25:10:07:33:06/10:07:55:00 (for a temporal interval between 36453.25s - 36475s) http://example.com/audio.anx#t=npt:10:07:33.25 (for a temporal interval between 36453.25s and the end of the file/stream) http://example.com/audio.anx?t=clock:20021107T173045.25Z (for Thu Jul 11 05:30:45 UTC 2002 and a quarter seconds)
The semantic interpretation of time specifications given with any of the schemes depends on the resource. With every resource there are two associated basetimes: a UTC basetime which may e.g. specify the creation time of the resource, and a playback basetime used for display in a user agent while presenting the resource.
The playback basetime of a resource defaults to 0 seconds unless the resource has a different basetime associated with it. A contrasting example: in professional video production, the first frame of video of a program normally refers to a SMPTE basetime of 01:00:00:00, not 00:00:00:00. This practice arose from the requirements of program production and analog videotape recording technology, and it has subsequently become a uniform, almost ironclad practice worldwide. Associating such a practice to a digital video resource requires a way to store that basetime with the resource and interpreting it correctly when addressing via temporal URIs. Annodex provides such a mapping through a field in its headers that stores the playback basetime. CMML has a tag in its stream element for it.
Examples: If a resource has an associated basetime of 3600 seconds, and the given temporal fragment offset is 4000 sec, only a seek of 400 sec into the resource is required. If the basetime is given as clock time 20001010T142211.23Z and the temporal offset specified is 20001010T145511.23Z, an offset of 33 minutes into the resource is requested.
The UTC basetime of a resource defaults to being non-specified. Associating such a UTC basetime with a resource requires a way to store that basetime with the resource. For example, for a resource that is a file on a server, it may be chosen to be the time of storage of that resource. Annodex also provides a field in its headers to store the UTC basetime, and CMML has a tag for it.
The semantic interpretation of temporal intervals is as IN and OUT times like the conventions in use for editing media content: [time_from;time_to[ . This means that the interval stops just at the end time. The reasoning is that it just works when concatenating two intervals that follow directly upon each other.
Time-continuous resources often come with high bandwidth requirements, so a HTTPFielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, June 1999.[4] server SHOULD serve out only the queried time interval of a base resource to avoid unnecessary network load. For example, a 1 hour Digital Video (DV format) requires about 25 GB (MPEG-2 reduces that to about 3 GB). This also significantly reduces the delay for the user agent for receiving relevant data.
A user agent that sends a URI that includes a temporal query to a HTTP server expects the server to return just the subparts of the base resource that it is querying for. It expects to be notified by the server if the server cannot resolve the query such that it may take appropriate action.
The HTTP protocol specifies that a server MUST return a "404 Not Found" error message on URI requests which cannot be resolved. A URI with a query component is a different URI than the same URI without a query component, so if it cannot be resolved, a "404 Not Found" is expected . However, most current implementations of HTTP servers regard the query component as a relative to the same URI without the query component and therefore support a somewhat non-conformant resolution of such a URI request: if they cannot resolve the query component, they will try to resolve the same URI without the query component. This makes it difficult for a user agent to find out whether a temporal query component was actually resolved or not.
To address this issue, a HTTP server that is capable of resolving temporal URI requests on a specified resource MUST return an additional accept header field that indicates that it can handle the temporal URI addressing and for which time schemes it can handle it. The header field is called "X-Accept-TimeURI" and the value is a list of time schemes, e.g. "X-Accept-TimeURI: npt, smpte-24, smpte-25, smpte-30, smpte-50, smpte-60". This request header is included for all URI requests to resources on which the HTTP server can resolve a temporal URI request. A user agent SHOULD check the "X-Accept-TimeURI" field to decide whether its temporal URI request has been honoured and thus the results can be displayed accurately.
Caching HTTP/1.1Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, June 1999.[4] proxy servers allow storage of requested Web resources closer to the requesting user agent and reuse by other close-by user agents, reducing bandwidth usage and access time. The HTTP/1.1 caching mechanisms also works for time-based Web resources. However, complete time-based Web resources, such as Annodex resources, are often memory-intensive. User agents may more frequently request URIs with temporal queries than the full resource. Therefore, a larger impact on bandwidth usage is expected from caching the temporal URI queries as they are independent resources.
The defined caching mechanism in HTTP/1.1 for subranges of a resource is based on storage of byte subranges. For time-based Web resources for which it is possible to map a temporal URI query to a set of byte subranges on the base resource, URIs with time-queries can also be stored in a proxy's cache. To this end, the HTTP server MUST ensure that the core data that relates to the temporal subpart is bitwise identical to the original data - otherwise a byte range cannot be defined. This is achieved for Annodex subresources by changing only the control section but not the data section on remuxing, as described in the Annodex specifiationPfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, The Annodex exchange format for time-continuous data files, Version 3.0 (work in progress), March 2005.[1].
Mapping of temporal URI queries to byte ranges can only happen on the origin server, being the only component that holds the base resource and can thus understand the relationship between time and bytes. The caching mechanism in HTTP/1.1 for byte ranges is based on the user agent requesting a URI with a "Range" request header that specifies the byte ranges. Thus, an additional agent-driven negotiation for delivery of the byte range mapping prior to the "Range" request is introduced to enable support of temporal URI queries.
A request header of "X-Accept-Range-Redirect" is required to indicate to the server that a mapping of the temporal URI query parameters to a byte range is requested rather than delivery of the query-part of the resource straight away. As this field initiates the server to provide a different response than if this field was not available, the server MUST include into its response a message header of "Vary: X-Accept-Range-Redirect". It MAY also indicate with "Accept-Ranges: bytes" that it is able to accept byte range requests. And it MAY indicate with "X-Accept-TimeURI" that it has processed the temporal URI query request.
The server will return a list of the byte ranges that the user agent should ask for in another additional response header field: "X-Range-Redirect". It will also need to redirect the user agent to another resource, namely the base resource, which it provides in the "Location" header field. Data that is specific to the URI request with the given time-query MUST then be returned to the user agent in the message body, such as for example an adapted control section of an Annodex file. The response is a "200 OK" as the request was satisfied with this response.
After this, the user agent has all the information it requires to post another GET request, this time for the base resource only and including a "Range" request header field.
In its response, the server includes the requested one or several byte ranges. If several byte ranges are required, the response will be a multipart message as defined in the HTTP/1.1 specificationFielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, June 1999.[4]. The response message headers include the "Accept-Ranges: bytes" header, and the "Vary: Range" header, and provides the byte range(s) in the "Content-Range" header.
This is an example HTTP message exchange:
GET http://example.com/video.anx?t=npt:15.2 HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/x-annodex X-Accept-Range-Redirect: bytes
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri Feb 11 14:47:12 EST 2005 Server: Apache/2.0(Unix) Content-Type: application/x-annodex X-Range-Redirect: bytes=777- Vary: X-Accept-Range-Redirect Accept-Ranges: bytes Location: http://example.com/video.anx X-Accept-TimeURI: npt, smpte-25 Message body: control section of video.anx?t=npt:15.2
GET http://example.com/video.anx HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/x-annodex Range: bytes=777-
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri Feb 11 14:49:08 EST 2005 Server: Apache/2.0(Unix) Content-Type: application/x-annodex Content-Range: bytes 777- Vary: Range Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Accept-TimeURI: npt, smpte-25 Message body: video.anx from byte position 777 onwards
The X-Accept-Range-Redirect request header field prompts the server to reply with a byte range specification that maps the queried time ranges of a URI.
X-Accept-Range-Redirect = "X-Accept-Range-Redirect" ":" "bytes"
The X-Range-Redirect response header field provides a list of byte ranges to which the server redirects a user agent for finding the rest of the data that was requested.
X-Range-Redirect = "X-Range-Redirect" ":" ranges-specifier
An example of this field is:
X-Range-Redirect: bytes=500-600,1000-
The X-Accept-TimeURI response header field returns for a timed URI query what time schemes it can resolve and thus implicitly also whether it has resolved it.
X-Accept-TimeURI = "X-Accept-TimeURI" ":" 1#timescheme )
An example of this field is:
X-Accept-TimeURI: npt, smpte-24, smpte-25, smpte-30-drop, smpte-30
Initial discussions within the AV Transport Working Goup have started about how to use temporal URI addressing over RTP/RTSP. It doesn't seem to make sense to distinguish between fragments and queries as in the streaming scenario everything is focused on being performed on the server. Therefore the idea is not to bother with query specifications and only focus on fragment specifications.
When interpreting temporal fragment offsets in RTP/RTSP, the user agent transforms it into a Range specification in the PLAY request header field. Multiple time ranges are easily queued by several PLAY requests.
For example, a requested URI of rtsp://foo.bar/nemo#t=npt:10 will e.g. result in the following PLAY request:
PLAY rtsp://foo.bar/nemo RTSP 1.0 CSeq: 2 Session: 12345678 Range: npt=10-
An implementation of this specification has not been put forward yet.
Also note that RealNetworks is using a different syntax for querying temporal intervals of RealMedia over RTP/RTSP.
This specification does not create any new security issues beyond the ones already specified for URIs in RFC 3986Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, January 2005.[6].
|Pfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, "The Annodex exchange format for time-continuous data files, Version 3.0 (work in progress)", I-D draft-pfeiffer-annodex-02.txt, March 2005.
|Pfeiffer, S., Parker, C. and A. Pang, "The Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML), Version 2.0 (work in progress)", I-D draft-pfeiffer-cmml-02.txt, March 2005.
|Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirements Levels", RFC 2119, BCP 14, March 1997.
|Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
|Schulzrinne, H., Rao, A. and R. Lanphier, "Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)", RFC 2326, April 1998.
|Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 3986, January 2005.
|The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, "SMPTE STANDARD for Television, Audio and Film - Time and Control Code", ANSI 12M-1999, September 1999.
|ISO, TC154., "Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times", ISO 8601, 2000.
|Silvia Pfeiffer
|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO, Australia
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|Conrad D. Parker
|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO, Australia
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|Andre T. Pang
|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO, Australia
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The authors greatly acknowledge the contributions of Rob Collins, Zen Kavanagh, and Andrew Nesbit in developing this specification. We also thank Bill Miller and Oliver Morgan of the SMPTE, Dave Singer from Apple Computer Inc., and Dean Blackketter for their contributions.
The many comments on this document from the URI discussion group at the W3C (firstname.lastname@example.com), especially the comments from Larry Masinter, Al Gilman and Martin Duerst and others have strongly shaped the current format.
Many thanks also to the Audio/Video Transport working group at the IETF (email@example.com), foremost to Magnus Westerlund, for giving valuable feedback on how to improve the specification and picking up the discussion around how to use the scheme on RTP/RTSP.
Last but not least thanks go to the ISO/MPEG working group with whom harmonisation in addressing formats is still pursued - thanks to Ian Burnett, Myriam Amielh, Ernest Wan, and Gerrard Drury.
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Both Brandon and Steven like the part when William McKinley was so nice that he tried to save the man who shot him from being attacked by an angry mob. We liked the bowling alley idea so much that we hope to have one in our own houses someday. One of the disappointing things about being president is that you must wear a suit and dance every day. Lincoln couldn't dance because he didn't know how to and he had no one to dance with.
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No Charges Filed in Fatal Minnesota, 41st Street Crash
SIOUX FALLS - Police have wrapped up their investigation into a chain-reaction crash that killed one person and injured six others at the intersection of 41st Street and Minnesota Avenue.
Lieutenant Jerome Miller of the Sioux Falls Police Department says investigators believe 32-year-old Troy Hohn of Sioux Falls was driving between 49 and 60 miles per hour when his northbound SUV crashed into several other vehicles at the stoplight. Hohn was killed in the crash.
Lt. Jerome Miller, Sioux Falls Police Department:
On February 14, Hohn was driving a Chevy Blazer when he struck a Dodge Durango waiting at a traffic light, which began a chain-reaction involving several other vehicles. Hohn's vehicle flipped onto it's roof and came to a stop next to the gas pumps at Taylor's Pantry on the southeast corner of 41st & Minnesota.
A total of six people were taken to various hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, including a several children.
"Best we can determine there was no mechanical defect that occurred at the time prior to impact," said Miller. "There was no alcohol involved. There were no drugs involved."
Hohn did have a number of moving violations on his record, though no felonies. He was convicted of fleeing from an officer in Minnesota in 2003. Hohn also had three speeding tickets, and one DUI conviction in 2007.
No charges are being filed in connection with this crash.
Miller says while no medical condition, such as a heart attack, caused the crash, police tests do not cover Hohn's mental state at the time of the crash. He does say the vehicle data recorder indicates Hohn hit his brakes just before his vehicle struck the others.


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Brandon Wai defeated Columbia's Akshay Rao 6-3, 6-2 in the A flight finals of the Columbia Winter Classic, held in the Dick Savitt Tennis Center, to earn the tournament victory in the top ladder.
Wai never dropped a set on his way to victory. In the Round of 16, he defeated Leo Rodriguez of Marist 6-1, 6-1 before downing St. John's Louis Desmarteaux 6-2, 6-3. After winning against Columbia's Rajeev Emany by a 6-1, 6-4 score, he met Rao in the finals and earned the 6-3, 6-2 win.
Also competing in the A flight singles were Yale's Ryan Murphy and Milosz Gudzowski. Murphy fell 7-6(3), 6-3 in his match against St. John's David Nylen, while Gudzowski won his first round match against Manhattan's Diego Alvarado, 6-3, 6-4 before falling to Columbia's Emany in a 6-0, 6-3 match.
In the B flight, Johnny Lu and Rory Green made it to the semifinals. Lu advanced before being defeated by Columbia's Jared Drucker, 6-1, 7-6(2). Prior to that match, Lu bested St. John's Claudio Halim 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 before defeating Manhattan's David Alvarado 6-0, 4-6, 6-1. Green defeated Columbia's Ilya Shatashvili in the Round of 16 by a 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 score and then went on to defeat Marist's Ray Josephs, 6-4, 6-1, before being dispatched by Columbia's Marty Moore by a 6-1, 6-1 score.
In doubles action, Murphy and Wai made it to the tournament finals, where they were defeated 8-4 by the Ray/Robbin duo from Columbia. Wai and Murphy had defeated Marist's Boletta/Josephs 8-3 and St. John's Halim/Desmarteaux 8-3 as well as Columbia's Moore/Moore by an 8-6 score to advance to the finals.
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Long-time Dean of Students and Director of Athletics Tom Bambrey '68 was honored Thursday night at the 2011 Monon Bell Stag. The alumni of DePauw University presented Bambrey the Spirit of the Monon Bell Award.
Each year the Indianapolis alumni associations of Wabash and DePauw come together for a friendly night of old stories, good times, and laughter. Presidents Pat White and Brian Casey both spoke at the event — taking time to rib one another, but reminding all in attendance that the two rivals have much in common. Alumni, they said, are blessed to have a rivalry as old and respected as the Monon Bell rivalry.
Each year, alumni from DePauw select one Wabash alumnus to receive the Spirit of the Monon Bell Award. This year, Page Cotton, soccer coach and athletic director in a DePauw career spanning more than 40 years, presented Bambrey with the honor. The two campus leaders worked hard together to advance the Monon Bell Classic and provide a safe, festive environment for fans to cheer on their teams.
Bambrey retired in June from his post as Director of Athletics. He previously served as the College's Dean of Students.
Recently retired Head Basketball Coach Mac Petty presented DePauw alumnus Brad Stevens with the other Spirit of the Monon Bell Award. Stevens, head coach at Butler University, has guided the Bulldogs to consecutive trips to the NCAA Division I Championship game.
Nearly 300 alumni from both schools gathered for the event. And in a new tradition, alumni made donations to honor each Spirit of the Monon Bell Award winner. Bambrey selected the Montgomery County Free Clinic as his charity, while Stevens selected Gleaners Food Bank. Wabash alumni donated nearly $3,000 to the new medical clinic, which will be named in honor of Dr. Mary Ludwig.


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About G Suite Password Sync
G Suite Password Sync (GSPS) automatically keeps your users' passwords in sync with their Microsoft® Active Directory® passwords. Whenever a user's Active Directory password is changed, GSPS immediately pushes the change to their managed Google Account.
Important: GSPS never changes Active Directory passwords; it only syncs Active Directory password changes to your organization's Google Account.
GSPS is available to G Suite and Cloud Identity administrators.
Before you beginGSPS system requirements
If you have the legacy free edition of G Suite, upgrade to G Suite Basic to get this feature.
To use GSPS, you'll need:
- Microsoft Windows® Server 2008, 2012, 2016 or later
- Microsoft Active Directory DS (not AD LDS)
Note: GSPS currently doesn't support Additional LSA Protection with Secure Boot.
- GSPS must be installed on all domain controllers.
- Domain controllers need an internet connection to connect to the following sites/ports:
Purpose URL Port number Authentication https://accounts.google.com
443 API access https://www.googleapis.com 443 Certificate Revocation Lists / Online Certificate Status Protocol http://crl.geotrust.com/crls/secureca.crl
Note: The certificate authority URLs can change at any point. For the most recent list of CRL/OCSP URLs, review the certificate information of the above API and Authentication hosts.
Download GSPS
Download the correct MSI for your server's architecture:
Restart the server
Always restart the server after installing or upgrading GSPS.
See step-by-step instructions on how to Set up G Suite Password Sync.