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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Georgia College men's basketball will be the showcase for the next "Meet the Bobcats Night" hosted at Zaxby's on North Columbia Street Tuesday, Feb. 11; signing posters, hanging with fans and taking part in the latest installment of The Prowl GC Athletics radio hour for the first time on Country 102.3FM.
From 5 p.m.-to-8 p.m. 10 percent of all sales at Zaxby's will be donated to the men's basketball program. Kids meals will be also be free with an adult meal purchase.
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The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Battle for the Podium at 2013 Adult Nationals
ORANGE, Calif. —The 2013 K&D Graphics Adult Nationals were held this past weekend at Orange County Badminton Club and the tournament saw some of the country's best come out to display their skills. The Adult Nationals event is always one of the most anticipated tournaments each year and often is home to the best badminton in the United States and this year was no different.
87 players came out this year to participate which led to some exciting matches and some new winners. The men's singles bracket has been one of the most unpredictable draws in recent years when it comes to winners. No player has won consecutive titles since Raju Rai was able to win three in a row from 2004-2006. This year was no exception. The championship was held between number one seed and defending champion Sattawat Pongnairat and number two seed and 2010 champion Hock Lai Lee. With both of the finalists being previous champions, the championship match showed a great amount of skill and determination between the both of them. Hock Lai Lee was able to hold off Pongnairat and won the Men's Singles Championships 21-13, 21-10.
The Women's Singles event did not hold back on excitement either. The number one seed Jamie Subandhi cruised into the championship match after winning her first two matches by a combined score of 84-23. Subandhi was met in the championship match by Christine Yang who fought through many close matches to make it into the final match. Yang showed an incredible amount of perseverance as she was able to keep up with Subandhi during the championship match, but Subandhi was able to pull through for her first championship winning the match 21-12, 21-16.
The Men's Doubles draw may have been the most exciting this year. The 4th seeded team of Christian Christianto and Tony Gunawan were able to upset the number one seeded tandem of Phillip Chew and Sattawat Pongnairat in the semi-finals to advance to the championship where they met Howard Bach and Hock Lai Lee. Bach and Lee had an extremely difficult road to the championship as they upset the 3rd seed in the quarterfinals and 2nd seed in the semi-finals. It also meant that the 2012 Men's Doubles Olympic team of Bach and Gunawan would end up facing each other for the championship. Bach has had great success in this event, winning the championship eight of the past nine years. However, Christianto and Gunawan were able to win the title after an exciting match, winning by the score of 23-21, 21-19
For the Women's and Mixed Double's events, a familiar face wound up on top of the podium. Eva Lee has been a force during Adult Nationals, winning Mixed Double's six of the past nine years. She found herself leading again after she and Howard Bach were able to win their fifth title together. It didn't come easy though. After winning their semi-final match 21-6, 21-6, they were pitted against number one seed Phillip Chew and Jamie Subandhi. The match went back and forth throughout, but Bach and Lee dug deep and were able to win the championship 20-22, 21-13, 21-13.
Lee has been dominant in the Mixed Doubles side, but for some reason had not been able to win a Women's Doubles event. This was the year that changed it all. Lee was teamed with Paula Obanana and the duo was able show off how well they worked together. The cohesion between the two was evident in every match they played where they were able make it to the championship by winning their first two matches by a combined 84-31. Things were closer in the championship, but they were still able to prevail 21-17, 21-12.
After the excitement and seeing the new winners of this year's Adult Nationals, everyone is looking forward to the 2014 event. Date and location are still to be determined.

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What is Binocular Vision Dysfunction?
People suffering from Binocular Vision Dysfunction have a small amount of There are six different muscles controlled by three different cranial nerves that coordinate the movement of each eye.
In order to achieve perfect binocular vision and to avoid double vision, the brain and all twelve muscles must work together so that each eye points directly at the object being viewed.
When the eyes cannot perform this eye teaming task accurately, this is referred to as binocular vision dysfunction.vision misalignment not found on a routine eye exam. Their body corrects the misalignment by overusing and straining the eye muscles, causing the symptoms of Binocular Vision Dysfunction.
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|Willow Hill in Jasper County
Jasper County, Illinois was formed in 1831 from parts of Clay and Crawford counties. It was named for a Revolutionary War hero, Sgt William Jasper of North Carolina.[i] Jasper County, Illinois is situated in the southeasterly part of Illinois and has an area of 475 square miles. The population in 1840 was 1,472 and had more than doubled by 1850 to 3,220.[ii]
About 1848 Jeremiah Ferguson and his wife Harriett moved their family from Decatur, Indiana to Jasper County, Illinois. In the 1850 federal census Jeremiah was listed as a farmer in Newton, Jasper County, Illinois with real estate valued at $1000. In 1880 Jeremiah had moved to Willow Hill and owned 122 acres of which 38 were tilled and 44 were wetlands or forest. His total farm value was $4000.00. He also had $200 in livestock. In 1879 Jeremiah realized about $200 from the sale of farm products.[iii]
Now there are two families at the same place and time. The Sempsrott family moved to Jasper County in the early 1860s and the Ferguson family that was there prior to 1850. Jeremiah's youngest son would marry Mary E Stewart and have a son John in 1875. Frederich Sempsrott's son Charles would marry Elmira Stiffle and they would have nine children. Two of Charles Sempsrott's daughters would marry into the Ferguson family. Leila (b 1893) married David Ferguson's son Roy (b 1900) and Naomi Sempsrott (b 1903) married David Ferguson's grandson Murl Ferguson (b 1898 ). Naomi and Murl would become the parents of Wanda Bernice Ferguson.
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The pull of Willow Hill remained strong and there are still members of both families in the area even though later generations moved to cities like Chicago and Danville for work. The Mound Cemetery has the names of many generations of the Fergusons and the Sempsrotts.
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Willow Hill, Jasper County
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[ii] Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States p372
[iii] 1870 Federal Census Non-Population Schedule
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Coming off a victory over
And even though NU has injuries and and their talent level isn't on par with the Wolverines, the mere sight of a team lining up in the spread formation will send the Wolverine defense running toward the bench to curl up in the fetal postion.
RBP (Reverse Blog Psychology) Pick - Michigan - 21, Spreadwestern - 35
We-Can't-Stop-The-Spread-Michigan - 28, Northwestern - 16
Oh, riiiiight. Now I remember those first two weeks of the season. We're not that good.


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Brett Favre -- the Super Bowl-winning quarterback who spent his last four seasons playing for three different head coaches on three teams -- has another message for his fellow Mississippians, telling them in an ad to "stand with a proven and respected leader" by voting for Sen. Thad Cochran in the run-off for the Republican primary against State Sen. Chris McDaniel.
The ad is run by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of several business groups pouring money into the campaign to re-elect the 76-year-old against his tea-party-supported challenger.
One poll released last week showed the race essentially too close to call, while another had McDaniel with a nine-point lead.
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Do I need braces I am in my 20s.?
You really don't need braces concerning your upper teeth. But I haven't seen your bottom teeth.
Can you eat chips on 1st week of braces n if their is no pain n is it normal if braces have blak spot on side?
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Patients are scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for cardiac rehabilitation and Tuesdays and Thursdays for pulmonary rehabilitation. The program hours are from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Bill Callahan Denies Super Bowl Allegations ; Tim Brown Says 'I Never Said (That)'
Former Oakland Raiders head coach Bill Callahan has denied an allegation by two of his star players that he "sabotaged" the team in Super Bowl XXXVII by making a late change to the game plan. In a statement released by NFL.com, Callahan called the comments of former Raiders Tim Brown and Jerry Rice "…ludicrous and defamatory."
Last weekend, Brown suggested Callahan hated the Raiders so much when he coached the team that he threw the title game against Tampa Bay in 2003 to let his former boss, Jon Gruden, win. Rice supported Brown on Tuesday.
Callahan, who is currently the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, asked for a retraction. He partially received one on Wednesday morning when Brown recanted on the allegations while being interviewed on the 'Dan Patrick Show.'
"I have never said that he sabotaged the game," Brown said. "...The media hears 'sabotage' and 'Bill Callahan' and 'throwing the football game,' now they're saying 'Throwing the football game' and that terminology was never used. But that wasn't the intent."
Brown further explained that his comments were made in defense of Raiders center Barrett Robbins, who left the team the day before Super Bowl XXXVII and missed the game. Robbins had mental illness issues, which he continues to struggle with since leaving the game. Brown suggested Callahan's game planning triggered Robbins' incident at the Super Bowl in 2003.


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Prior to the Civil War, most of the settlement in the Nebraska Territory was located in the eastern portion of the state, primarily along the Missouri River. There were other minor settlements west of there, particularly along the trails that had been leading pioneers westward for almost well over a decade. The territory was settled primarily by people who were sympathetic to the Union case. The U.S. Census of 1860 reveals only fifteen slaves in the Nebraska territory.
When President Lincoln called for troops, Nebraska furnished 3,300 men. This is a remarkable number considering the entire population of the territory in 1860 was only about 30,000 with 9,000 of those being males of military age. Some Nebraska men went to Iowa and Kansas to enlist and some from those states came to Nebraska to enlist.
At the beginning of the Civil War, troops were withdrawn from the garrisons at Fort Kearny and further north along the Missouri River at Fort Randall. This left the area wide open for Indian attack and caused great concern. Major General John J. Thayer of the Nebraska Militia suggested volunteers be placed at the two forts. The federal government proposed that one regiment be raised within Nebraska Territory with a portion of it being used to garrison the forts and defend the frontier. Contrary to the original formation of this regiment, they were ordered to serve against the Confederates in the South and the frontier still remained unprotected.
The regiment, mustered from Omaha, became known as the First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry. They fought in the first major engagement at Fort Donelson, Tennessee in February of 1862 and were at the Battle of Shiloh. The regiment was also involved in scouting and skirmishing in Missouri and Arkansas. They were granted a furlough in June of 1864 to 13 August 1864 to return to Nebraska.
With the passage of the Homestead Act on 20 May 1862, Nebraska became populated by men (and their families) who had served in the Civil War. As they settled and remained here, camps of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) were formed. Records were created which today can be beneficial to the genealogist. One of the best places to begin online research is at the web page, Nebraskans in the Civil War.


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Clarkson University Online Graduate Business Programs Ranked in Nation's Top-12 by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report today ranked Clarkson University's online graduate business programs #12 in the nation.
Clarkson offers both a master of business administration (MBA) and a master of science in engineering management degree online.
U.S. News released its second annual rankings edition of the Best Online Education Programs, saying that the schools on its graduate business list are "the best online master's in business degree programs, based on factors such as level of accreditation, reputation for excellence among peer institutions, and academic and career support services offered to students."
Clarkson's online MBA and M.S. in engineering management reflect the high quality of its other graduate business programs. "We are gratified that our efforts to build an ultra-high quality distance program for working professionals has been recognized and rewarded," said School of Business Dean Timothy F. Sugrue. "We are confident that this will be a permanent and important component in our continuum of professional education."
The opportunity to study online is vital to students who need an MBA, but cannot attend school full-time or part-time because of their travel schedules. By leveraging information technology with online programs, Clarkson's School of Business enhances the effect of its faculty and provides an experience equal to being on campus in the classroom.
"This ranking is a reflection of our commitment to treat distance education as an opportunity to enhance and enrich the learning experience, without sacrificing the academic rigor of our curriculum," said Director of MBA Programs Professor Boris Jukic. "I am pleased that our choice to take this approach has earned us national recognition."
The online MBA programs were ranked based on ratings of their academic reputation by top academics who run online programs at peer institutions, as well as on student engagement, admissions selectivity, faculty credentials and training, and student services and technology.
Online bachelor's degree programs as well as graduate online degree programs in business, engineering, nursing, education, and computer information technology were ranked by U.S. News.
This year, U.S. News converted to the new, federal government definition of distance education programs, meaning that degree-granting programs must offer 100 percent of their courses needed for the degree online.
Read more at http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/mba .
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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SAL reveals 2012 Hall of Fame class
Riley, Murray, McKee reflect local Charleston flavor
By South Atlantic League | May 8, 2012 9:45 AM
This year's class certainly has a local Charleston flavor, and includes a politician, an owner and a former front office executive who have been involved with the South Atlantic League for many years. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. and RiverDogs' part-owner Bill Murray will be joined by Carolyn McKee, former front office executive of the Asheville Tourists.
Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. was the driving force for the city to build the $19.5 million stadium on the banks of the scenic Ashley River. The stadium, which opened in 1997, would have been impossible without his support and direction. In a fitting tribute to his leadership and vision, the city council voted unanimously to name the stadium after him, and "The Joe" has been consistently recognized as one of the best facilities in all of Minor League Baseball.
Bill Murray became a part-owner of the Charleston RiverDogs following the 1989 season, and has been involved with many facets of the club's operations, including strategic planning sessions, customer service initiatives, promotional meetings and fan relations. The multitalented and award-winning actor has combined his ability to entertain fans with his love for baseball in his role with the RiverDogs. Murray is also very involved with many local charities throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry, and is a valuable ambassador for the RiverDogs, the game of baseball and the City of Charleston.
Carolyn McKee worked for the Asheville Tourists for 26 seasons, from 1980 to 2005. Carolyn worked in almost every area of the ballpark, eventually managing the accounting operations and supervising the box office on game days. In addition, she accepted additional responsibilities in 1994 when the team became affiliated with the Colorado Rockies. Carolyn assisted the Rockies on organizational matters and oversaw the club's travel arrangements. Carolyn's contributions to the baseball industry were recognized in 2004 when she was awarded the Rawlings Woman Executive of the Year award, becoming the first woman in the South Atlantic League ever to win the national award.
Carolyn will join her husband, Ron, as the second husband-wife pair to be inducted into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame. Ron McKee was inducted into the SAL Hall of Fame in 1999. The other husband-wife team is the league's founder and long-time president John Henry Moss and his wife Elaine Moss, who were inducted in 1994 and 2004, respectively.
The Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the All-Star Luncheon is one of several events scheduled in conjunction with the 53rd SAL All-Star Game in Charleston. Gates will open at 4 p.m. at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park for the beginning of the All-Star festivities, including a Home Run Derby. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
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MONTREAL — There was birthday cake in the Williams F1 paddock at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Saturday afternoon, but the sweet treat celebrated not only another year for one man.
It marked a much more significant milestone for his son.
While Rauno Bottas was marking his 51st year, his son, Valtteri, was taking full advantage of Montreal's wet weather during three rounds of qualifying to earn the third grid position for Sunday's 44th Canadian Grand Prix.
It was a huge achievement for Bottas, a 23-year-old rookie, in just the seventh F1 race of his young career. And it was great news for the Williams team, which arrived here seeking both its first point of the season and indeed its first foray into the third qualification session, having failed to make the final cut in six previous races.
In Bottas's half-dozen F1 starts, he was no better than 14th off the grid.
Ultimately, Bottas didn't have the goods to get the job done on Sunday, serving in Turn 1 as plankton to the sharks that were Mercedes's Nico Rosberg and Red Bull's Mark Webber.
The young Finn had lost three spots by the third lap and finally would be shuffled back out of a point-scoring result, taking the checkered flag in 14th place.
"We fought hard to try to secure some points today, but ultimately we just didn't have the pace in the car," Bottas said.
"I didn't get a great start, which allowed a few cars to jump me on the first lap, and in the dry conditions we simply couldn't match the level of competitiveness we showed (Saturday)."
Make no mistake, the rain that fell with varying degrees of enthusiasm in all three Saturday qualifying sessions played a major role in Bottas's second-row effort. Everyone on the grid knew it, including himself.
"We were on the right tires at the right time, which was so important today," he said after the nervy, hour-long session. "The showers made the track very slippery but this suited us as the car handled the conditions well.
"If the conditions are dry (Sunday), then it will be difficult to stay where we are, so I will be hoping that we see some rain. The whole team has been working hard to improve our performance and we have been making steady improvements with each race."
The "steady improvements" claim is debatable, even if it was an encouraging pat on the back by Botta for those doing all they can to reverse the team's lean fortunes.
Williams came to Montreal tied with F1 bottom-feeders Marussia and Caterham at the base of the table with zero points.
Driver Pastor Maldonado, the veteran of 45 Grand Prix races, had failed to finish in three of six races and would wind up 16th here; he and Bottas, who has been running at the end of every race, each have the team-best results of 11th place.
Botta's Montreal-qualifying rank of third "means a lot," he said. "We're way further up than we could ever imagine.
"It has been so difficult for the first six races for us, and it's a nice boost for the team. We really got everything quite right here today. …
"I think the fact is that in the dry, the car does not belong in P3 at the moment," Botta admitted.
"Our team was always hoping for rain as there's always a chance if you get everything right that you can always finish higher than the car (is capable of)."
Williams is battling to find traces of the form that earned it nine constructors titles and seven drivers' championships from 1980-97, the last of both won by Jacques Villeneuve.
This weekend's Canadian Grand Prix was Williams's 611th F1 race since 1975, a span that has yielded 114 wins, 127 poles and 297 podiums. But the famous name hasn't been on a Montreal podium in a decade, when Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya finished second and third for Williams/BMW to Ferrari's Michael Schumacherin in 2003.
No matter Sunday's result, the qualifying effort of Bottas was a huge personal shot of adrenalin and confidence for the young man who is being mentored by former world champion Mika Hakkinen, a fellow Finn.
Hakkinen's pupil is a graduate of various open-wheel classes, having first got into a kart at age six and served as Williams's test driver in 2010-11. Bottas took part in 15 practice sessions for the team last year upon promotion to the role of its reserve driver.
"I haven't had any problems with pressure," he wrote last week in a rookie-diary instalment for formula1.com. "It is me who really wants to do well — to be the best one day — so the pressure comes from within me.
"Of course, it is great if other people also expect a lot from me as it shows that they have confidence in my skills. But no, pressure is not an issue — perhaps it's because I'm Finnish."
Bottas leaves Montreal without the coveted first point of his career, but with his databank further enriched. Progress in F1 racing is sometimes made with minuscule steps, and the talented Williams rookie took quite a few of those here.
What his 14th-place finish did, however, was deny what promised to be the highlight of the weekend: Bottas vowed to jump into the St. Lawrence River had he scored an unspecified strong result.
"I'm used to swimming in frozen lakes in Finland," he said, "so it's no problem."
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How To Connect Your Computer/PC Or Laptop To Your TV
Have you ever wondered If you could watch your flickr photos and youtube videos on your TV screen through you PC, if yes then this is the right place for you to find out how to connect your PC or laptop to your TV, so that you could do whole lot of things other than watching videos, your word documents, excel spreadsheets on you TV screen.
It is very easy to set up the connection between your PC to your TV and can be done very cheaply, and in some cases free. The cost only comes in with cables and adapters which are cheap. It should be possible for everyone to achieve for well under $100. This post will cover the procedures of connecting your computer to your television. We will cover lots of different scenarios so I hope by the end of this article, you'll able to achieve this goal.
- A Computer, desktops and laptops will both work. You will require a spare output from your video card(in some PC there are build-in outputs).
- A Television with some type of AUX input.
- A Stereo with some type of AUX input.
AUX stands for Auxiliary, which means an input from an external source. Most televisions have these as they are what you would use to connect your DVD to it.
1. HDMI: High Definition Multimedia Interface: In ideal situation we have an HDMI connection on both our television and video card, but most likely we don't. Many new LCD screen and Plasma displays offer this type of connections. They are also becoming a little more popular on Video cards. This will give you the highest quality signal. It offers better quality as compared to a DVI.
2. DVI: Digital Visual Interface: Many current computers will offer this connection out of the video card. You may well find that if you have a plasma or LCD television, this will be the best connection to use.
3. VGA/XGA: Video Graphics Array: This is the standard video output from your video card in your computer. Not many televisions support these inputs. It offers a good quality picture but is limited on TV to 640×480 resolution. Text is readable and movies look great. This VGA resolution is higher than most CRT screens can show.
4. S-Video: This is the most common type of input on Video cards and televisions. This format won't give you good experience in reading text on the screen, but films and games will be fine. This is the same output many DVD, Gaming consoles offer so you can expect some good quality.
How to decide which connection to use?
- If computer has HDMI and TV has HDMI – Use HDMI
- If computer has DVI and TV has DVI – Use DVI
- If computer has DVI and TV has VGA – Use VGA + Adaptor
- If computer has VGA and TV has VGA – Use VGA
- If computer has S-Video and TV has S-Video – Use S-Video
- If computer has RCA and TV has RCA – Use RCA
- If computer has S-Video and TV has RCA – Use RCA with adaptor
- If computer has RCA and TV has S-Video – Use RCA with adaptor
How To Configure Your Video Drivers:
If you have connected through HDMI, DVI or VGA your computer will recognize your TV as a standard monitor. Once you have plugged in, you can press the "Fn" key with the respective Function key. i.e. Fn+F5. The function key depends on the laptop but the key will generally resemble a picture of two monitors. With these keys you can cycle through various modes i.e external monitor only, laptop only,or both.
Configure Your Vista Or Xp:
- Go into your "Control Panel" and load up your "Display" properties
- Click the "Settings" tab and you will probably still see one monitor depending on what type of connection you used.
- Click "Advanced" and then select the tab that corresponds to your "Video Card" in my case it was Geforce 6600 GT.
Here you have all the options for your card. If you are using a Nvidia card, click on n-View Display Settings, otherwise, whichever option shows you multiple display types.
Here you can select Dual-view and Clone, enable and disable displays. Also in the Nvidia control panel, in the tools section is an option to "Force TV detection".
After these steps you'll surely be having videos both on your computer and your TV set. Now its the time for audio configuration.
How To Configure Your Audio:
The easy way to connect your computer to your stereo is to purchase a 3.5mm stereo plug to RCA pair cable. This will plug in both ends without a problem.
This procedure can also be applied when connecting PC to a Projector.
Now it's all done, we hope that you wont find any difficulties connecting, but if you are, do leave your queries in comments.


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The U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea on Sunday, angering Beijing at a time of tense ties between the world's two biggest economies.The busy waterway is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and Taiwan.China struck a more aggressive tone in its trade war with the United States on Friday. The tough talk capped a week that saw China unveil new retaliatory tariffs in response to a U.S. decision to raise its levies on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25% from 10%.The U.S. destroyer Preble carried out the operation, a U.S.
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Hamburg Süd christened the Polar Ecuador containership in Antwerp.The new vessel belongs to a group of four structurally identical vessels in the Polar class that have been built for Hamburg Süd by the Chinese shipyard Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding. With a total length of 230 meters and a width of 37.30 meters, the ship offers a container storage capacity of 3,800 TEU and is equipped with 1,000 reefer plugs.The Polar Ecuador is deployed in Hamburg Süd's North Europe – Mexico/Caribbean service (EMCS), which connects Antwerp and other European ports in Ireland, Great Britain and Germany with important Mexican and Caribbean ports.
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French container transportation and shipping company CMA CGM has announced the launch of a Reefer Pharma division that will focus on the temperature-controlled transportation of pharmaceutical products."For more than 40 years, preserving the integrity of shipped goods has been a top priority for the CMA CGM Group, particularly in terms of sensitive products such as medicines that directly impact public health and patients' quality of life," said a press release from the company.For organising and closely monitoring the shipping of this highly sensitive cargo, CMA CGM provides its customers with a dedicated team of experts who ensure 24/7 monitoring from the Group's head office in Marseilles
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The world's principal shipping organisation, representing around 80% of the world's merchant tonnage, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) remains confident that shipping will improve its carbon efficiency by at least 40% by 2030 compared to 2008, in line with the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This follows important decisions made by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 74) which met in London this week, said a press release from the world's national shipowner association.
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Friday agreed stricter energy efficiency targets for certain types of ships in an effort to speed up action to cut the sector's emissions.The IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee has been meeting in London this week to discuss tougher rules on sulphur emissions and other measures towards meeting a long-term goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2008 levels by 2050.The international shipping sector accounts for about 2% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.


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Nightlife is a collective term for entertainment that is available and generally more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning.It may include pubs, bars, nightclubs, parties, live music, concerts, cabarets, theatre, cinemas, shows, and some restaurants. Nightlife entertainment is often more adult-oriented than daytime entertainment. People who prefer to be active during the night-time are called night owls.
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ZombiU test: still the Dark Souls of zombie games?
ZombiU promises a return to horror's heyday of survival and scares. VG247's Dave Cook sees if Ubisoft's Wii U launch title really does deliver.
"From the moment you first leave the safe room, you are surrounded by darkness and a sense of isolation. Even with your flashlight on you can only see a few feet in front of your face, which really helps to ramp up the tension."
I once called ZombiU the 'Dark Souls of zombie games' on this site. That was at the game's early preview stage, and after playing the full, finished code for a week now, I'm absolutely standing behind that description. But that doesn't automatically mean you'll like it.
It's reminiscent of the slow, considered takes on horror that the console market used to deliver, which have now given away to gunfire, bravado and the blockbuster pressures of the almighty dollar. It's uncanny, but you can almost map the genre's decline by the increased swelling of Chris Redfield's impossible biceps.
Look now to the PC market, which – while still dependent on money to survive – doesn't feel the same pressures as the triple-a console world. There are no focus-tested committees running the show, no money men throwing wads of cash at visuals alone, and no Metacritic barometers to fear.
Instead, gameplay and atmosphere often take precedent over swagger and sheen, and that is why classic horror games like Amnesia and DayZ are allowed to exist on the PC format. If those games are so celebrated, what is it then, that the big console publishers are afraid of when approaching the survival horror genre?
One thing is clear, Ubisoft Montpellier has identified this broadening gap in the market, and through ZombiU, it has filled it well. It's not perfect, but it does deliver the essence of what makes the true survival horror genre so endearing.
The game takes place in London, some time after a zombie outbreak has turned most of the populace into mindless brain-chompers. The infection was first witnessed in the 1500's by Elizabeth I's personal consultant John Dee. The Great Fire of London stopped it from spreading back then, but here in 2012 we're not so lucky.
As a survivor of the madness, you find yourself holed up in an impenetrable safe room built by a mysterious figure known as 'The Prepper'. He contacts you by radio and helps you travel the decaying city to follow Dee's teachings and search for a cure to the infection. It's a simple premise, but it works.
From the moment you first leave the safe room, you are surrounded by darkness and a sense of isolation. Even with your flashlight on you can only see a few feet in front of your face, which really helps to ramp up the tension and forces your mind to wander whenever a zombie roars from some unknown location.
"You give every battle your full, undivided attention, because if you don't, you die. It's as simple as that. Even if you die, you still learn a valuable lesson, much like in Dark Souls."
Thankfully, your survivor also has a 'Prepper Pad' device, which has a number of in-built functions you can activate using your Wii U GamePad. You can use the device's sonar ping to highlight nearby movement, but even this is unreliable as it also tracks rats and other wildlife scurrying around in the shadows.
The sonar feature is a good analogy for ZombiU's sense of balance. Everything comes with a downside – even the cricket bat – which is your trusty default weapon. It never breaks and doesn't use up any of your ten precious inventory slots, but it does take five or six swings to topple one zombie.
It should only ever be used as a last resort, or if you are absolutely confident that you've isolated a zombie, and that none of its buddies are nearby to hear the sound once you start swinging. Sound is, after all, one of your biggest enemies in ZombiU.
Fire off a pistol or rifle, and it's open season on your survivor, as every infected within earshot descends on your position for feeding time. Even if you can behead zombies with one well-placed round, the reload time is so slow, that the zombie behind him will grab you and kill you instantly.
It makes every single enemy encounter tense, and dripping with immediacy. You give every battle your full, undivided attention, because if you don't, you die. It's as simple as that. Even if you die, you still learn a valuable lesson, much like in Dark Souls.
Everything you do furthers your understanding of the game and its rules, helping you proceed a little further each time you respawn. However, some of these unspoken rules actually do need to be spoken, and communicated in a way that doesn't feel unfair.
For example, most zombies will simply lash out at you if you get close, knocking off some of your health, while others will – without warning – lunge at your survivor, making them fall to the floor. This counts as an instant game over.
"Although the game's visuals are on par with what we currently see from PS3 and Xbox 360, Ubisoft has been smart in using darkness and other tricks to enhance certain elements of ZombiU's world."
Without being able to properly predict when, or why this happens, you aren't really able to learn anything from your defeat. Whereas every time you die in Dark Souls it really is down to your own fault and lack of caution.
It might sound like a small gripe, but whenever you die in ZombiU, you will respawn as a different survivor, and it is possible to locate your now-zombified predecessor and kill them to reclaim your inventory. Fail, and it's gone for good.
When that failure comes as a result of something that truly feels cheap and unfair, you can't help but feel like your soul has just been stamped on from a great height. It rarely happened to me admittedly, but I did lose a lot of gear when it did.
I've also seen some reviews complaining that ZombiU's combat and movment is clunky. Well, of course it is, it's the attempt at a proper survival horror experience many people have been waiting for. I don't want to feel like I'm ice skating on a floor waxed with kitchen oil. I want to feel clumsy, slow and vulnerable.
This is exactly the vibe Ubisoft has nailed, delivering a really slow approach to first-person platforming and combat that never makes you feel too powerful. The GamePad has other uses that tip the scales slightly, like scanning the environment to map items, infected and doorways, but largely you're flying blind.
Although the game's visuals are on par with what we currently see from PS3 and Xbox 360, Ubisoft has been smart in using darkness and other tricks to enhance certain elements of ZombiU's world. Typically, these tricks are used to frighten you further.
One particular scene sees your survivor navigating a tight maze of freight containers during a heavy storm. It looks brilliant, but feels restrictive and rather dull. Once you reach the end, you're confronted by a wide open area full of zombies that you can hear but – thanks to the dense storm – you can't see.
"I get why people fear using tablet-based controllers in tandem with consoles that traditionally use pads, but once you get going, it feels more intuitive."
It's a genius moment that's so simple in its execution, but serves to really play on your fear. You can use the scanner if you want, but there are crows perched everywhere, so you never know which of your radar blips is an infected, or a harmless bird.
So you have to simply plod on through the storm slowly, checking all your angles and your sonar frequently to get across the area alive. Moments like this really play into our fear of the unknown, and serve to genuinely put you at unease.
I've spent a lot of time in this piece talking about ZombiU's scare factor, and while it really is a good showcase of how to craft a genuinely unsettling experience, it comes at a price. As I said, the visuals aren't anything spectacular, but it's more the dank, depressing style that impresses.
The lack of inventory space will be welcomed by fans of classic Resident Evil, but when fast travel points – which are depicted by manhole covers in ZombiU – are often spread far, it can sometimes make ferrying objects feel like a chore.
Zombie's don't respawn that often – if at all – when you die or naturally over time, so the world does start to feel under-populated as you progress, leaving it empty and unexciting. Fans of Metroid's barren worlds will like this fact however, as the eerie silence often cuts through you like a knife.
I would have liked some more melee weapons as well. The cricket bat is useful for the silent approach, but engaging zombies with it starts to feel more like a repetitive chore as you strike, take a step back, strike, take another step back, strike, and so on. Where my katana Ubisoft?
For all of the flack it gets, I really enjoyed using the Wii U's GamePad to perform sonar sweeps, shoot enemies with scoped weapons, scan the environment and even simple things like inventory management, or applying weapon upgrades.
I get why people fear using tablet-based controllers in tandem with consoles that traditionally use pads, but once you get going, it feels more intuitive. You already know how the GamePad works if you have a smartphone, so why should this feel any less natural?
That's just what I think of course, but I have to hand it to Ubisoft for using the controller in so many ways that further the experience. Whenever you're close to death and need to equip a health item, it's no longer as simple as tapping a button or calling up a radial.
"So is ZombiU really the Dark Souls of zombie games? Absolutely, but it still has much to learn about risk-reward and fairness before it can be considered in the same league."
Instead you have to run from the horde with the sliver of health you have left in search of a safe spot to set your bag down to use a health pack, or eat some food. That's not clunky at all, that's incredibly smart design that leaves you open and vulnerable to attack.
So is ZombiU really the Dark Souls of zombie games? Absolutely, but it still has much to learn about risk-reward and fairness before it can be considered in the same league. I'd like to see a sequel that improves and expands the format, because although it technically is open world, it's still a maze of corridors with one clear goal.
In some ways that is better than the open world of Dark Souls which intimidated with literally no signposting whatsoever. As such ZombiU is less of a slog, but if you do want that elusive, positively over-bearing and unnerving horror experience that the console market is too afraid to make any more, then yes, this is the game you've been waiting for.
For some, the days of purposely clunky survival experiences has come and gone now. The medium has moved on now, its patrons largely engrossed in fluidity and visual prowess to want to take a step back to the days of Silent Hill 2 or Resident Evil. They're fun games to reminisce about, but going back to them may spoil the memory.
With that in mind, you should already know if you're willing to give ZombiU the benefit of the doubt or not. Let me know what you think below.
- To assist in writing this article, Dave was sent a copy of ZombiU on Wii U. No review event was attended and no additional merchandise received.


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If you can spare ten minutes a day to read with your child you can make a huge difference to their development. You don't have to read a book, you could read a comic, magazine article or a story you have made up yourself.
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We're preparing to dig a pit in the work zone near Sixth Avenue North and Harrison Street, where our tunnel boring machine will end its journey in 2014. The following streets will remain closed until after the SR 99 tunnel opens to traffic:
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We've had great support from our tutors and the people at Crytek, it's been a blast working on this project, having the opportunity to work in a team on such an interesting subject.
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Cattle futures held near historic highs, with live cattle futures trading over 4% higher for the month as the market continued to worry about supply levels on the back of high feeding costs.
Live cattle futures on Friday were poised for a 4.4% gain on the month, which would be the strongest monthly gain since September 2011. On Friday afternoon, April live cattle fell 0.13 cents, or 0.1%, to $1.404 a pound on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Live cattle, cattle being readied for the feedlots, hit a closing high of $1.439 on Jan. 23, which is the highest level on records going back to Nov. 5, 1984, according to FactSet data, which tracks the most-active contracts. Various news reports said that was the highest since trading began on the CME in 1964.
Feeder cattle, cattle being fed for slaughter, closed at $1.704 a pound on Jan. 22, also the highest level on record going back to Nov. 5, 1984. March feeder cattle last traded at $1.69 a pound, up 0.3 cent, or 0.2%. For the month, prices are up around 1.4%.
"The extreme drought situation is driving prices for feed costs -- primarily alfalfa for ranchers -- through the roof," said Kevin Kerr, editor at Commodity Confidential.com.
Feed costs have gotten so high, the cull rate, also known as the kill rate, has climbed and that has thinned the herd, so supplies are low, he said.
Prices are very high right now but are likely to correct, said Kerr, adding that they're likely reaching a tipping point.
"Eventually consumers are going to see these higher beef prices at the market and push back," he said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is due to release its annual cattle inventory report later Friday.
"The report today is likely to show the results of the large culling that ranchers have been forced into due to higher feed costs," said Kerr.
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Forestry + genetics = a blister rust solution?
In 1926, the U.S. Forest Service first found blister rust, a deadly fungus, on high-elevation whitebark pines in Montana. Since then, the Asian invader has spread through several species of five-needled pines in the West; it was first discovered in Arizona in 2009. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is now considering whether whitebark pines, a key food source for grizzlies, birds and small mammals, should be listed as endangered.
There is hope, though. Some five-needled pines have a gene that makes them completely resistant to all but a supercharged version of the disease. Others possess a set of genes that, while not making them totally resistant, allows them to fight -- and often stave off -- even the deadliest blister rust infection.
So foresters are seeking out trees that appear resistant, collecting their seeds, and then growing resistant saplings to replant wherever they can -- usually in disturbed areas that have lost their trees to fire or the disease. It's a "very laborious and expensive process" that can take decades, says Vicky Erickson, a Forest Service geneticist in Oregon who oversees breeding projects. And there's no guarantee that the saplings possess the most versatile form of genetic resistance.
That's where UC Davis geneticist David Neale comes in. He's sequencing the genome of three evergreens: the rust-susceptible sugar pine, Douglas fir and loblolly pine, an Eastern forest staple. After completing sequencing, Neale will use samples from thousands of trees to undertake a complex matching process that maps tree DNA to specific traits, such as disease resistance, drought tolerance and cold hardiness. He hopes to begin the process next year.
Once geneticists understand which sets of genes convey resistance, they can help foresters choose just the right trees to breed and replant. This will boost efforts to fight not only blister rust but other tree diseases. It will also help tree breeders ensure they're keeping enough genetic variation among the trees they plant in places like Mount Rainier and North Cascades national parks, and in Western national forests.
Mapping genetic adaptation also has implications for everything from post-fire restoration to climate change mitigation. Until now, managers hoping to restore fire-damaged slopes have been "groping in the dark for traits," says Forest Service researcher Connie Millar. They might harvest seed from Douglas firs on a hot, dry slope with the hope that they're genetically adapted to that environment. But there might be other reasons why the trees thrive on that slope -- the presence of certain minerals in the soil, for example. With trait-mapping, "we can know where on the landscape these trees are adapted to," says Millar.
The information could also help the Forest Service designate areas to prioritize for conservation or seed banking, says Oregon's Erickson. But genetic research isn't cheap, and though costs have been going down, breeding and replanting is still labor- and time-intensive, she notes.
Public-lands managers will never have the time or money to manage every forest stand based on genetic information. For cases like the whitebark pine, though, where small, high-altitude stands are rapidly succumbing to disease, the new knowledge could help foresters do their work faster and smarter. That's good for the trees -- and the animals that rely on them.


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When new Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone met the media, we were curious to get some first impressions of the man. When Andy Reid was formally introduced as the new head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday, it just felt like another Philadelphia Eagles news conference.
Reid isn't going to give much away with the media. His mood was a little lighter and more relaxed than usual, but he's never going to be described as "exuberant." Here's what we learned from the session.
1. "I've got to find the next Len Dawson, doggone it," Reid said about the quarterback position.
Yes, the Chiefs are starting from scratch at quarterback.
2. Reid insisted that Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt will hire the general manager. Reid will be in on the interviews, but Hunt will have the final say. Both Reid and the GM will answer to Hunt. It's hard to believe the GM ultimately won't be working for Reid, but that's the organizational structure. Hunt says he'll be more involved talking to the head coach on a daily basis than in the past. The GM will have final say on roster moves.
It's fair to question Reid's claim about the GM if the Chiefs hire one of his former colleagues, as expected.
3. Hunt says Reid is "down to earth" and "fun to talk with football with." Hunt said his nine-hour interview with Reid was the easiest nine hours of his life. The bromance is on.
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Reid showed up to the interview after already watching all 16 Chiefs games from 2012 -- and he still wanted the job!
4. Reid said he met with all of the current Chiefs staff. He confirmed that some members of his Eagles staff will come with him to Kansas City. He sounded open to sticking with a 3-4 defense in Kansas City even though he has only used a 4-3 defense in the past.
5. On leaving the Eagles: "I can leave Philadelphia saying I gave it my all. ... Sometimes change is good."
6. Reid on former Chiefs GM Scott Pioli: "Scott and I are great friends. That was taken care of ... without me." Right.
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Frank Bruni of the Times writes on the double standard that leads to women but not (straight) men being derogated sexually. He finds all sorts of examples from both sides of the aisle but manages to not publicize Bill Maher, the million-dollar man.
Apparently it is safer to denounce hypocrisy and double standards from a perch at the Times if Obama gets a pass. Stanley Fish tackled this yesterday, mentioning Maher but ignoring Obama's own criteria for double standards; my impression is that he is on-line only.


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Less than a year after "The Great Gatsby" was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. "Come and see it all!" beckons the trailer for the silent film. "And enjoy the entertainment thrill of your life!"
It is the only movie adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" — five in all, including the latest, from Baz Luhrmann — that was made at a time when bobbed hair was still the height of fashion.
No known copies of the original 1926 movie exist today. It's probably just as well. Fitzgerald apparently hated it. An oft-cited letter from wife Zelda left little to the imagination: "We saw 'The Great Gatsby' in the movies. It's ROTTEN and awful and terrible and we left."
Doesn't that sum up every disappointing experience watching a favorite book transmuted into something unrecognizable on screen? And yet, it can be thrilling when an adaptation really does capture something essential about an author's work. Some movies are just better than their books.
With the latest version of "Gatsby" upon us, we polled some of today's top authors — novelists and non-fiction writers alike — about Hollywood's track record with book-to-movie adaptations.
To avoid putting anyone in a potentially awkward situation, we asked that each author talk about movies based on works other than their own.
Dennis Lehane
His novels include "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island," each of which have been adapted into feature films.
Favorite: "'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' both achieve the near-impossible in that they're better than the books they're based on. 'Jaws,' in particular, is so much richer, the characters so much better drawn, and the tension so much more taut.
"The more a book is defined by the beauty of its language the harder it is to translate. 'All the Pretty Horses' is a perfect example. It's actually a very good movie, but it can't help but be a letdown because what was truly unforgettable in that book was not the tale but the teller. There's a line in the book — 'Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting' — that on paper makes you go, 'Whoa. Great line,' but if you heard an actor say it you'd probably burst out laughing."
Least favorite: "I can't stand 'Clockers,' because the book is such a masterpiece and the film is so far off the mark. It's the ham-handed work of an increasingly unsubtle filmmaker (Spike Lee) who had zero grasp of the tone and subject matter of the book he was adapting."
Audrey Niffenegger
The Chicago-based novelist and Columbia College writing instructor is the author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," which was made into a feature film.
Favorite: "My favorite adaptation ever is the BBC's 'Brideshead Revisited.' I saw it before I had read the book. I think it managed to capture the subtle contradictions in the story, and the actors were all very perfect for their characters.
"I think badly written stories with lots of interesting plot are good candidates for adaptation, because in the process of becoming films the bad writing vanishes and the interesting story can be developed more artfully. Philip K. Dick's writing is sometimes great but can also be awful, and the movies that have resulted have been very intriguing (my favorites are 'Through a Scanner Darkly' and 'Blade Runner').
Chuck Palahniuk
His novels "Fight Club" and "Choke" have been adapted into feature films. His latest novel, "Doomed," (a sequel to "Damned," about the adventures of a snarky prepubescent who literally goes to hell) comes out in October.
Favorite: "My favorite adaptation is so flawless that people forget it was a book: 'Rosemary's Baby.' It's endearing and kinetic. Roman Polanski only failed to use one small scene from the book. Originally, Rosemary Woodhouse flees to a mountain cabin, but loneliness overwhelms her and she returns to her husband. That's exactly the type of scene that doesn't translate well to film: a character alone in crisis, not speaking and doing no interesting task, and eventually reaching a decision. Polanski was smart to avoid it."
Least favorite: "Don't shoot the messenger, here. I strongly disliked the film of 'Dune.' The whispery voiceover 'thoughts' seem like a terrible device. The only redeeming quality of the film is how buff Sting looks."
Judy Blume
Winner of the 2013 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Prize, which will be presented at the upcoming Printers Row Lit Fest in June, her books include "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," "Deenie" and "Tiger Eyes," the latter of which has been made into a film that opens in theaters June 7.
Favorite: "'A Christmas Story,' adapted by Jean Shepherd from his book, 'In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash,' is wildly funny without a forced moment. Can anyone who's ever seen it forget the frozen tongue? Would it have worked without Jean Shepherd's narration? Probably not nearly as well. I watch the movie every few years, but I haven't re-read the book in ages.
"'To Kill a Mockingbird' — when I think of the story now, I think of Gregory Peck, but that's not a bad thing. I can't imagine anyone better than Horton Foote adapting Harper Lee's classic. Still, I'd go back to the book today before I'd watch the movie.
"A newer adaptation I really like is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower.' In this case I prefer the movie to the book. Go figure …"
Bret Easton Ellis
His novels "Less Than Zero," "American Psycho" and "The Rules of Attraction" have all been turned into feature films.
Favorite: "Pop novels works best, and I'm particularly thinking of the heyday of the '70s and books like 'The Godfather,' 'Jaws' and 'The Exorcist.' I think we can all agree they weren't great literature, but they supplied the medium of movies with what movies do best — which is a very strong narrative, an interesting hook and a strong story."
Least favorite: "The recent adaptation of 'Anna Karenina' was really kind of daft and not a great adaptation of that book. Unless you're going to spend 14 hours on a miniseries doing Tolstoy, I don't know where it gets you to do a two-hour movie adaptation of that story. The key thing to remember is that the better the novel, the less likely you're going to get a decent adaptation. You're drawn in by the writing, the prose, the digressions — all of which don't necessarily work in the surface-oriented world of film. And a novel that's so in tune with its narrator's voice is a very tricky problem to adapt."
Jami Attenberg
The Buffalo Grove native is the author of "The Middlesteins," a darkly comic novel about food addiction and family dysfunction.
Favorite: "I really enjoyed the 'Virgin Suicides' adaptation. The movie is playful, whereas the book felt more serious. Either way, they all die at the end, but the movie made me more aware that these were fun little girls.
"I like movies that have a point of view of their own beyond the original text and heighten certain nuances of a book. I don't think I'd like to ever see an entirely faithful adaptation, and it's not possible anyway. There are too many moving parts in play."
Warren Adler
His novels "The War of the Roses" and "Random Hearts" were both turned into feature films.
Favorite: "In my opinion, 'The Godfather' by Mario Puzo. Mario and I came out of the Creative Writing classes of Professor Don M. Wolfe at the New School in New York eons ago along with Bill Styron. He taught that real stories come out of fictional characters who work out their own destiny and, if done right, the characters would create their own compelling plot points. Hollywood persists in violating that credo.
"I have a certain bias about purely escapist fare which offer, at the moment, bigger box office returns but little insight into the mysteries of human relationships and the intrinsic value of great storytelling. But then, Hollywood is a business, and 'butts in the seats' and 'attracting eyeballs' trump everything."
Least favorite: "I nominate Tom Wolfe's 'The Bonfire of the Vanities,' an excellent novel butchered to death by Hollywood hacks. There are many others, but 'Bonfire' stands out as first in its class of misfires."
Kelly Oxford
Her satirical book of personal essays "Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar" centers on her childhood celebrity obsessions and growing up in Edmonton, Canada. She also sold a screenplay to Warner Bros. last year.
Favorite: "A few of my favorites are 'The Graduate,' 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,' 'Jackie Brown' (from 'Rum Punch') 'Stand By Me' and 'Fight Club.' I felt like these film adaptations were often even stronger than the books they came from, which is a testament to both the screenwriters and filmmakers. The screenplays were very tight, focusing in on the details of the plot that were the strongest. Nothing really felt lost to me, even in omission."
Least favorite: "I'll just go with the one I watched most recently, which was 'Water For Elephants.' I was so underwhelmed with the film version. Sara Gruen's novel was rich and romantic, the movie felt lazy and flat (though often beautiful, it was still more beautiful in my imagination). The romance of the novel was completely lost in the film version. How a novel I adored turned into a film about depressed people on a train, I have no idea. Perhaps stories where plot movement is based on luck rather than choice and action is too banal to watch, and the casting was certainly off with the two leads lacking chemistry."
David Grann
His non-fiction book "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" (about the early 20th century explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared while on the hunt for an ancient lost city) has been optioned by Brad Pitt's production company.
Favorite: "Perhaps my favorite adaptation of a book is 'There Will Be Blood,' which was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and which is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel 'Oil!' In contrast to many faithful adaptations, the movie is nothing like the book. And that is why it is so good.
"Sinclair's book is interesting but also didactic and episodic; it provides a fascinating window into a period of time and the world of oil and the corrupting force of greed, but it is not a great novel. In contrast, 'There Will Be Blood' is a remarkable movie. Anderson achieves this by simply ignoring the book, by using it as a source of inspiration but never being weighted down by it. Sinclair explains over and over why greed can destroy the soul; Anderson shows that through a finely rendered character portrait.
"Perhaps nothing is more revealing than the change of titles. Would you rather see a movie called 'Oil!' or 'There Will Be Blood?'"
Robin Sloan
His novel "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" centers on a Web designer-turned-bookstore clerk who teams up with a pal at Google to solve a series of book riddles.
Favorite: "I thought 'Cloud Atlas' was great, especially considering the source material. I would have classified that book as unfilmable, at least as a single coherent movie. But the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer — apparently with (author) David Mitchell's help — pulled it off; the way they braided those six stories into one continuous weave was impressive and, for me at least, quite engrossing.
"'No Country for Old Men' is about as close to a perfect movie as I've ever seen. I hadn't read the book, actually, and when I did, I was amazed at the faithfulness of the Coen brothers' adaptation. It's one of the rare cases where the script is just waiting there on the pages. Also, there's almost no music in the movie, and the effect is striking. I wish more book-to-movie adaptations had the courage to forgo all those swooping cinematic strings."
Emma Straub
Her novel "Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures" delves into the psychological tradeoffs required of a movie star in Hollywood's Golden Age of cinema.
Favorite: "My favorite adaptations fall into two categories — the costume drama (the BBC's 'Pride and Prejudice,' Emma Thompson's 'Sense and Sensibility') and the completely irreverent ones starring twenty-something actors pretending to be teenagers ('Clueless,' '10 Things I Hate About You'). The former appeal to my occasional need to weep and laugh at the same time — Jane Austen can't be beat for that, and novels/movies that end with weddings are inherently satisfying. The latter appeal to my very base desire to stay in high school forever."
Least favorite: "Any adaptation starring Keira Knightley is an automatic no-go. I cannot take that underbite. It's too bad, too, as she and I seem to have very similar taste in literature."
Jeffery Deaver
The Glen Ellyn native is the author of the long-running Lincoln Rhyme crime series, which began with "The Bone Collector" (adapted into a film) and continues with "The Kill Room," which comes out June 4.
Favorite: "I'll go with a film from the genre in which I work: 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971) directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth. For one thing, the book is naturally cinematic; it engages readers in much the same way a movie does viewers. I've often wondered why directors occasionally make it so hard on themselves, trying to adapt stories that are internal, digressive or ambiguous. Not every book, after all, has to find its way to the silver screen.
"Zinnemann's verite production value echoes the book's lean, gritty style. The film is nuanced and intelligent, two characteristics we don't see much in today's pyrotechnic and ultimately unengaging thrillers (speaking of which — if you can stand it — the 1997 remake of Forsyth's book, starring Richard Gere and Bruce Willis, 'The Jackal')."
Least favorite: "I'm picking 'Dune,' directed by David Lynch and based on the book by Frank Herbert. If you're going to tackle the adaptation of a lengthy novel or epic, there are two ways to handle it successfully: Pick a book whose core story can be told through a limited number of key scenes ('The English Patient' or 'Empire of the Sun'). Or shoot the whole damn thing ('Lord of the Rings'), however many episodes you need.
"'Dune' did neither. In a little over two hours, it attempted to recreate Hebert's sprawling fantasy novel in its entirety. Even a fine cast couldn't overcome the excessive explanation necessary to help readers make sense of the plot."
Nathaniel Rich
His books include the film guide "San Francisco Noir" and the novel "Odds Against Tomorrow," a work of speculative fiction about a University of Chicago-trained mathematician who can predict disasters.
Favorite: "Great novels tend to go inward, into the darkest recesses of the mind — a place not easily reached by film cameras. The novels most readily adapted for film are those that are written like screenplays: high-stakes premises, with lots of action, dialogue, and plot. This is why noir novels are particularly well-suited for adaptation. My favorite is 'Kiss Me Deadly,' which is much darker and stranger than the original Mickey Spillane novel. That film is actually an exception to the rule, as it's far more ruminative and eerie than the book.
"I stole the title of my new novel, 'Odds Against Tomorrow,' from a 1959 film noir, which in turn was based on a novel (by William McGivern), also with the same title. But the title suits my novel a lot better than it does the original novel and film (which is about a heist), so I don't feel too guilty about the theft."
John Green
The former Chicago-based author's YA novels include "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Looking For Alaska," which was optioned a few years ago but has not yet been made into a film.
Favorite: "I'm tempted to say 'Die Hard,' adapted from Roderick Thorp's novel 'Nothing Lasts Forever,' because I do feel that 'Die Hard' has been critically underappreciated, but I think the best book-to-film adaptation remains 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' It captures the guts of the story while sacrificing very little of the story. Some of the adaptation's brilliance goes down to the book, of course: It's a short, visually evocative novel with a three-act structure. But the performances in the movie are also extraordinary.
Least favorite: "When I was in college I saw an old animated adaptation of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' that features a happy ending — the farm animals overthrow their communist oppressors. That was pretty awful. Most adaptations fail because it's so difficult to capture the voice of a story visually (if you've ever seen the movie version of 'Running with Scissors,' you'll know what I'm talking about), but in the case of 'Animal Farm,' it was just kind of an hours-long insult to Orwell himself."
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Her novel "Admission" was recently made into a feature film. Her forthcoming novel "You Should Have Known" comes out next year.
Favorite: "Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping,' a book of almost unbearably beautiful prose, was especially fortunate in its Scottish director and screenplay writer, Bill Forsyth, whose visual choices were every bit as lovely as Robinson's written imagery.
"My other pick features a different Forsyth — Frederick Forsyth, author of my absolute favorite thriller, 'The Odessa File.' I saw the 1974 adaptation before I read the book, but I have spent the last 40 years bouncing back and forth between the wonderfulness of each. Jon Voight was so perfect in the role of Peter Miller, a German journalist, that for years I refused to believe that the actor himself was not German."
Least favorite: "Even without having seen every film adaptation of every novel that's ever been made I can definitely state that the worst one of all is 'Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York,' the excruciating 1975 adaptation of Gail Parent's 1972 novel of the same name. Why? Because the novel is — to this day — the funniest book I have ever read. The film adaptation threw out Parent's characters and plot, replaced them with entirely different people doing totally unrelated things, and then sucked every ounce of humor out of the endeavor, leaving a grim, flabby non-story. The final humiliation was that the film retained the novel's title. This dreadful miscalculation was directed by someone named Sidney J. Furie, who went on to direct many action movies and episodes of 'Pensacola: Wings of Gold.' I would say more, but I'm still too upset about the whole thing."
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Professor Emeritus Gets Top Industry AwardSOCORRO, N.M. May 8, 2012 -- Dr. Cathy Aimone-Martin has dedicated her career to explosions. The retired Tech professor spent 25 years educating mineral engineers in the finer points of explosives, rock blasting and vibration monitoring.
This article is featured in the current issue of Gold Pan, the alumni magazine published at Tech.
|Dr. Cathy Aimone-Martin
Professor Emerita and winner of the ISEE Distinguished Service Award
"This award is way past due," said Dr. Navid Mojtabai, chairman of the Mineral Engineering Department. "She's done so much for the Society and for the field. She's done a lot in the areas of instrumentation and blasting vibration. When there's a high-profile job, she's the first to get the call."
Aimone-Martin was performing underwater pressure measurements for blasting on the Columbia River in 2008 when she got one of those calls. The Fire Department of New York was overseeing blasting for the reconstruction of the subway station adjacent to Ground Zero at the site of the World Trade Center.
"The Chief Inspector of Explosives Jimmie Lauer called me and my associate, a PhD graduate from New Mexico Tech, and said, 'I want you to get this project going. I need you'," Aimone-Martin said. "That work came natural to us. We were blasting right next to tall buildings at the south end of Manhattan and we got the rock excavation completed on time."
For four months in the dead of winter, Aimone-Martin oversaw seven or eight blasts every day, six days a week. She helped the blasters apply explosive products, set up instrumentation, and used vibration monitoring as a guide to blast designs.
"New York presents many challengers," she said. "Manhattan schist is the hardest rock I've worked with. We were blasting next to subways and high-rises. Some of the job sites were near iconic building such as Carnegie Hall, the Russian Tea Room, and Tiffany's. We have to be extremely careful using explosives close-in to structures while everyone is watching. In addition, we must deal with the complexities of construction management and regulatory agencies."
Aimone-Martin Associates is a company that specializes in blasting and vibration control.
"We are not a blasting company but rather we help blasters be the best they can," Aimone-Martin said. "That's my vision. We help blasters perform their work safely and in a cost-effective manner."
|Dr. Cathy Aimone-Martin oversees blasting project at the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
|Dr. Cathy Aimone-Martin said the World Trade Center project was one of the most challenging of her career -- and helped take her business into a new realm.
Photos courtesy of Cathy Aimone-Martin
Over the years, Aimone-Martin has assisted blasters in the application of many innovations to the explosives industry, including new explosives, detonators, initiation systems and developed new data-gathering instruments.
"We use data as a tool," Aimone-Martin said. "We use special analyses of measured ground and structure motions to modify the blasting process in an effort to protect structures". Keeping nearby structures safe during rock blasting is part of the public relations needed to be successful.
Her successes at the World Trade Center site led to several other high-profile jobs in Manhattan and necessitated the opening of an office in nearby New Jersey.
"The World Trade Center job was our breakthrough," Aimone-Martin said. "That launched our career and took it to a new level. It has been a privilege to work there and on other projects."
Around the same time, Aimone-Martin fielded an email from Anthony Simonitis, the special effects guru working on the Terminator: Salvation movie.
"I got an email from someone asking to purchase seismographs," Aimone-Martin said. "I am always skeptical when people I do not know the person wanting to purchase equipment. I searched the internet and he turned out to be the top special effects person in Hollywood. So, I thought I'd better call him."
Aimone-Martin helped monitor fireball-type "explosions" that later appeared in the movie.
Later this year, Aimone-Martin will work on a large New Mexico project – constructing in-take structures at the Ute Reservoir in Logan.
"I enjoy working on New Mexico projects, close to home" she said.
Aimone-Martin Associates first became incorporated in 2000 when she landed a large contract from the federal Office of Surface Mining. New Mexico Tech, as a public institution, could not administer the contract, so she started a shell company to run the grant. That grant supported five graduate students who conducted research on coal mine blasting. Upon her retirement, Aimone-Martin Associates continued consulting work with offices in Socorro and in Hawaii. Since then, she has worked all over the country.
She stays connected to New Mexico Tech in several ways. She teaches the Drilling and Blasting course and often hires Tech master's students to work in the field.
"I love hiring Tech's grad students," Aimone-Martin said. "New Mexico Tech educates exceptional students in the explosives engineering programs. I have one mechanical engineering student now and I plan to hire one more."
She fell in love with Socorro and New Mexico Tech almost instantly when she interviewed for a faculty position.
"I came to New Mexico in 1980 after earning a doctorate at Northwestern University and Socorro won my heart," she said. "The people here are genuine and very dedicated".
She served as department chair, advised dozens of graduate students, taught classes, conducted research and raised her two daughters. She used the mines of New Mexico as field laboratories.
"I was very lucky," she said. "The administration was very supportive of independent ideas and helped the faculty to succeed"
Aimone-Martin always stayed in close contact with leaders in private industry – to find research projects and to better define the Mineral Engineering Department's curriculum.
"I asked the mining industry what they needed in an engineer," she said. "They wanted graduates that knew how to solve problems and how to communicate. So we revamped the curriculum based on that."
The company is a family affair. Her daughter Jennifer runs the Socorro office and is the heir apparent to take over New Mexico operations. Her daughter Sara lives in Utah and recently completed her first engineering job for Aimone-Martin Associates.
Jennifer was the secret keeper and co-conspirator to surprise Cathy with the award at the annual ISEE banquet.
"It was a total surprise and I feel extremely honored," she said. "I could not have achieved my successes without the support of my peers and colleagues. The blasting industry represents some of the most dedicated people in the field of engineering and I am proud to have joined the ranks"
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech