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A message from the CLC department:
To assure your experience at Chicago-Kent College of
Law is a positive one, the Center for Law and Computers
is available to assist you with your computer and
technical questions and concerns. You can reach a member
of our staff by calling (312) 906-5300 (6-5300 house
phones)or sending an email to email@example.com.
We are located in suite 540 if you would like to stop by
our offices.
Help Links
SofTest registration and download site for Summer 2006 final exams now open
SofTest registration - If you signed up to take one or more exams on computer (either a lab computer or your own laptop); you MUST read the following information
Chicago-Kent College of Law uses a special program, SofTest, for taking exams on computers. The advantage of using the SofTest program is that it increases the stability, security, and reliability of the exam taking process. Since adopting SofTest and its predecessor programs, we have experienced very few problems with lost exams or corrupted exam files.
If you are taking an exam on computer, you will write your exam using the word processing program built into SofTest. Please read the appropriate section below, depending on whether you plan to use a lab computer or your own laptop to take the exam. If you are taking the exam on your laptop, please note that you must not only download and install the SofTest program, but must also bring certain necessary hardware components to the exam.
CONTINUING FOR Summer '06: If you are taking an exam on a computer lab desktop PC, you MUST log in with the user name "labexam". SofTest will not work on Lab PC's if you log in as yourself.
Although the program is simple to use, please spend a few minutes reviewing the SofTest help file that is located on the network. The help file is located at: Z:\SummerExams\HelpFile\SofTest.hlp. Just double click the file to begin viewing. You may also use SofTest to run a practice exam from any lab computer during the exam period (go to Start, Programs, SofTest; then click on the "Practice Exam" button on the lower edge of the SofTest window). Just as on exam day, you will have to log into the Lab PC's as "labexam" in order to take the practice test. Please contact the CLC Help Desk for the password.
In order to take exams on your own laptop, you will have to download the SofTest software from the web. THE ENTIRE DOWNLOAD/INSTALLATION PROCESS MUST BE COMPLETED WHILE YOU ARE LOGGED IN TO THE CHICAGO-KENT NETWORK WITH YOUR C-K USER NAME!
· On this web page (http://www.examsoft.com/chicagokentlaw), click on the "Exam Takers" tab at the bottom of the page, and the click the "New User Signup" button. A new registration is required each semester. ExamSoft web site options for "returning users" are not applicable to Chicago-Kent.
· On the following page, fill in the required information, select "Personal Computer," and then acknowledge the license agreement.
· Click the "Download & Install" button and follow the directions. Reboot your computer as required.
· Click "Yes" if you are prompted to retake the qualification exam.
This version of SofTest is new as of June 2006. If you have a previous version already installed on your computer, you MUST uninstall the old version, and download and install the new version. Do not choose any upgrade options. See further information below.
Provided below is some important information about downloading and installing the software. The process is somewhat time-consuming, so please do not wait until the last minute. If you have any problems or questions, contact the Help Desk (Room 540; e-mail: HELPDESK; phone: 906-5300).
Please note that you MUST come to the exam with the SofTest program properly installed and configured. This includes fully completing the "registration and qualification" process on ExamSoft's web site. Additionally, you should bring the following hardware components with you:
(1) a power cord
(2) a network card
(3) a network cable
(4) a floppy disk drive (if owned, see end of message for details)
If you do not have the software properly installed, or are missing any necessary equipment, you will be required to hand write your exam.
Important Information about Downloading and Installing SofTest:
* In order to guarantee that SofTest will function properly on your computer, ExamSoft has implemented a software registration and qualification procedure as part of the SofTest download. YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ENTIRE REGISTRATION/ QUALIFICATION PROCESS OR THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT FUNCTION ON EXAM DAY! You have not completed the process until you see "Registration: Complete" under the "SofTest Status" section of the program's first screen. Please read on for details.
* You should remove any prior versions of SofTest or other ExamSoft software from your computer before trying to install the new version. To do this, click on the Windows "Start" button ->"Settings" -> "Control Panel" -> "Add/Remove Programs," find "SofTest" and then follow the directions to uninstall it. Reboot your computer after you perform this task.
* The process for obtaining and installing SofTest requires a number of steps to be performed online at ExamSoft's web site located at http://www.examsoft.com/chicagokentlaw. We recommend that you download and print out the instructions for this procedure as well as ExamSoft's list of frequently asked questions (FAQ's) at http://www.examsoft.com/faq before you begin.
* To download the program, you will be required to provide a "Student ID". In the "Student ID" field, please enter the five-digit exam number previously e-mailed to you by the Registrar's Office. This will be your Student ID number throughout the exams on computer testing process.
* YOU MUST COMPLETE THE ENTIRE DOWNLOAD/INSTALLATION PROCESS WHILE YOU ARE LOGGED IN TO THE CHICAGO-KENT NETWORK WITH YOUR C-K USER NAME! There are two reasons for this. First, your Chicago-Kent network account must have full permissions to do anything on your laptop. The easiest way to check that this is the case is to complete the entire download and installation process (including registration and qualification) while you are logged in to the Chicago-Kent network. Second, you must be able to access the file server drives on the Chicago-Kent network. If you can not properly log in to the Chicago-Kent network, you will not be able to open your exam files.
* Due to the requirement of accessing shared network drives, Windows XP Home Edition will not function for taking an exam on your laptop at Chicago-Kent.
* Due to the above mentioned permissions requirements, you can not borrow a laptop from a fellow student to take your exams.
* Chicago-Kent does NOT support any form of wireless networking for exams on computer.
* All students are encouraged to use provided floppy disks as a means of backup during exams on computer. If you will be taking an exam on your laptop, and it is not currently equipped with a floppy drive, it is up to you to decide if the additional floppy disk backup warrants the purchase of an external floppy disk drive. Any exams taken on computer lab PC's will be expected to have a floppy disk backup.
You will receive a final registration confirmation by email containing your student ID, password, institution, and registration number if you completed the SofTest registration process successfully. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please stop by room 540 or call the Help Desk (312) 906-5300 for further assistance.
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Arriving this Summer! New Print Accounting System on Kentnet
Information on New Print/Copy System
Beginning July 20, 2006 the Chicago-Kent Center for Law and Computers in cooperation with the Downtown Campus Library will be introducing a new system for managing Law School computer lab printing and Library photocopying services. There will be two significant changes to the new system:
The new system will utilize centrally stored accounts that are linked to your photo ID card. All students will have a "cash account" into which personal funds may be deposited for use with Library photocopiers or Law School computer lab printers.
Law School students will have an additional "printing account" which will be reset to the equivalent of 400 pages of printing at the start of each semester. The print release stations in the Law School computer labs will allow you to choose which account each of your print jobs is charged against.
All students enrolled in classes which utilize IIT Downtown Campus facilities (Chicago-Kent College of Law, Stuart Graduate School of Business, Masters of Public Administration) must obtain a new photo ID card in order to utilize Library photocopying services and/or Law School computer lab printing services. The dates, times, and locations for pickup of new photo ID cards will be posted shortly.
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Print Account balances were reset on May 22nd
The Center for Law & Computers will reset printing accounts to 400 pages on May 22, 2006. For students continuing on at C-K, any print jobs on or after May 22, 2006 will count towards your 400 page limit for the Summer semester. For May graduates, printing accounts will be terminated on May 22, 2006, and your network and email accounts will remain active until July 31, 2006.
May Graduates you are required to pay your print accounting balance-in-full in order to receive your diploma and to be certified to take the Bar Exam. Your print accounting balance should be paid no later than June 30, 2006 in order for us to certify you for the July Bar.
Please contact the Center for Law & Computers at 312-906-5300 or at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.
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The Center for Law and Computers will reset printing accounts to 400 pages on May 22, 2006. For students continuing on at C-K, anything printed on or after May 22, 2006 will count towards your 400 page limit for the Summer semester.
You must settle your student printing account with the Bursar's Office before receiving your 400 pages alloted for your next semester. Students with outstanding balances will have their Kentnet accounts deactivated until the outstanding balance is paid in full.
For those of you leaving us for greater ventures, we want to wish you the best. We'd also like to share the below information regarding your email, network, and print accounts.
For May graduates, printing accounts will be terminated on May 22, 2006 (day after commencement), but email and network accounts will remain active until July 31, 2006.
On July 31, 2006 (first Monday after July bar), all May 2006 graduates network, H: drive, and email accounts will be terminated.
Graduating students with a delinquent printing balance will not receive their diplomas or be certified to take the Bar Exam until the accounts are paid in full.
For December 2005 graduates, network, H: drive, and email accounts will be terminated on July 31, 2006.
If you are at the Chicago-Kent DTC and need to print, we offer the option for newly graduated students who have special projects over the summer to extend printing privileges to labs 700, 760, and 900. Please contact the Center for Law & Computers at (312) 906-5300 or email@example.com for further information.
Best wishes to all and Good Luck to those taking the July Bar exam!
Free E-Mail available to Chicago-Kent alunmae/i at alum.iit.edu
December 2005 and May 2006 Graduates:
For those of you leaving us for greater ventures, we would like to wish you the best. We'd also like to share the below information with you regarding your email, network, and printing accounts
For May 2006 graduates, your printing account will be terminated after commencement on May 22, 2006.
We would like to take this opportunity to remind you that your kentlaw.edu user account will expire on July 31, 2006. Now that you have graduated, it is time to think about closing this portion of your law education. Please help us by removing all email messages and files from the C-K network as soon as possible so we can make room for the incoming students.
By being an alumnus of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law it is our pleasure to offer you free email service. A separate e-mail message with details on alumni e-mail will be sent to your kentlaw.edu account.
Alumnae/I Account Information
By being an alumnus of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law it is our pleasure to offer you free (kentlawalum.iit.edu) email service. Your account will be automatically created by July 1st, 2006 and will be accessible at http://alum.iit.edu. No sign up is necessary.
Since these accounts are hosted by IIT Main Campus, your e-mail address may be in a format different than what you were used to at Chicago-Kent. The address will be in the form of: [IIT Unified Name]@kentlawalum.iit.edu. For convenience, your account will also have a second e-mail address of [IIT Unified Name]@iit.edu. The password for your account is the last six digits of your IIT Campus Wide ID number. Your IIT Unified Name as well as your IIT Campus Wide ID number, can be found on the welcome page of the Chicago-Kent "Web for Students" system.
Best wishes and good luck to all!
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Summer 2006 Semester - The Cost to Print Increases on KENTNET
On Monday, May 22, 2006 the cost to print increase from 5 cents per page to 7 cents per page. As a student you will continue to receive 400 free pages each semester; however, when you exceed the 400 free pages your cost will increase to 7 cents per page.
CLC Policies - Students are required to show C-K photo ID card for loaner computer equipment
Help Desk Policy! The CLC has
implemented a procedure that requires all students to present
their Chicago-Kent ID card for service..
The CLC Help Desk does provide the service of temporarily
loaning laptops to students. This service is restricted to
those who have purchased their own laptop and the laptop has
been serviced by a technician at the CLC Help
Desk. Once the technician has
determined that the laptop needs to be sent to the
manufacturer for repairs or is inoperable a student will be
loaned a laptop. The laptop loans are for a one (1) week
period only. In addition, the CLC Help Desk does not loan power adaptors or any other laptop
accessories for laptops. In order for this service to
benefit everyone, this policy must be strictly adhered to.
Once a user returns a laptop, that same user cannot have
another laptop loaned to him/her for at least two (2)
consecutive weeks.
The Help Desk will make a photocopy of student's ID when
loaner computer equipment is requested. The procedure was implemented
to best serve the needs of all Chicago-Kent student's.
We appreciate your cooperation in adhering to this policy.
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Windows Update
It is critical to update your Windows operating system and Internet Explorer software regularly. Just as it is important to update the virus definitions of your antivirus software, it is equally important to update the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer software on your computer. Just like virus definitions, Windows and Internet Explorer should be updated weekly. Fortunately, Microsoft makes this process fast and easy with their "Windows Update" web site.
Please click on the link listed below under instructions to print out the full documentation on how to update windows.
Remove Unnecessary Files on the Network
The Center for Law and Computers provides access to the
Network for Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff in
support of the educational mission of the university. In
recent months we have noticed an increase in the amount of
personal storage space being consumed on our network. As we
continue to maintain and scan the network drives we are
noticing numerous occurrences of non-educational types of
materials (i.e., MP3, .wav, .mov, .avi). We understand that
there are occasions when storing these types of files on the
network for educational use is legitimate.
As you may well be aware, court decisions
potentially makes us liable if members of our community engage
in infringing activity. As a reminder to all students, a
portion of the IIT Computer Use Policy states, "Network users
must abide by the terms of all software licensing agreements
and copyright laws, and may not make copies of or make
available on the network copyrighted material, unless
permitted by a license. Network users must not perform acts
which are deliberately wasteful of computing resources or
which unfairly monopolize resources to the exclusion of
others..." The complete Computer User Policy can be found at:
When you save and store large music, image, video, or other
types of non-educational related material on the network it
increases the time it takes for system backups and virus
scanning; the large downloads also consume unnecessary
bandwidth. Please be considerate of
your colleagues and remove or transfer to your laptop ALL
files in violation. If files are not removed, the
Center for Law and Computers is authorized by the
administration to permanently remove them for you.
We ask that you purge all unnecessary messages and files as
often as possible from your network and email accounts to help
us preserve space on the C-K server. As a reminder, in Outlook
mail, you must delete messages from your "Deleted Messages"
folder for them to be permanently removed from the mail
server. It is also a good maintenance procedure to delete any
unneeded messages in the "Sent" folder.
CLC Monthly Network
Maintenance Schedule
The Center for Law and Computers will conduct regular
monthly maintenance windows on the first Tuesday of every
month (5a.m. - 7a.m. in the morning) for "Patch and\or Update"
management on systems that need to be rebooted.
Remember too that there may be "emergency" times when
manufacturers release "critical" update patches that need to
be installed immediately. The CLC will make every attempt to
send out an announcement in advance when the "critical"
updates need to be installed and systems rebooted (however, we
cannot always guarantee advance notice since certain
patches/updates need to be applied ASAP before a breach is
All network services including Internet access, email,
webmail, network drives, and network printing will be down
during the above scheduled time.
Maintenance will be conducted on the following
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Chicago-Kent's Internet Service Provider (Illinois
Century Network) backbone maintenance window is on Fridays from 2:00am - 7:00am. During this maintenance window it is possible that the Downtown Campus building may
experience intrmittent Internet connectivity.
Latest McAfee DAT file as of
7/03/2006 is sdat4795
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CLC Contact Information and Office Hours
Technical Support Help Desk Hours of
Operation - Office 540
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 a.m. - 6:00
p.m.Friday: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (312) 906-5300
Fax: (312) 906-5165
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Our Meetings bring together scientists and clinicians, at any stage in their career, to share the latest ideas and cutting-edge knowledge. Investing in these meetings offers your company the opportunity to raise your profile, talk one-to-one with users of their products, and build relationships with potential clients.
- Physiology, our main annual meeting
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*Physiology offers the perfect opportunity for you to meet leading investigators studying how cells, organs and muscles interact in order to better inform our understanding of how the human body works.
*Over 1000 participants from more than 35 countries.
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For information on our next Main Meeting, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
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*Research presentations on a specific topic bringing together physiologists from all research Themes.
*Topic Meetings offer an opportunity for you to meet leading investigators working directly in the topic.
*Up to 500 participants from across the globe.
*Talk directly to influential scientists who are engaged in cutting-edge research and use the latest technologies and tools in their work.
H3 Symposia
Our H3 Symposia are one/two day focused meetings.
They attract up to 70 attending from around the UK and Europe.
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text: June's 2% Increase in Milk Production Is the Year's Highest July 18, 2014 11:39 AM Tweet Last month's per-cow production was the highest for the month of June since USDA's 23-state series began keeping records in 2003. © Catherine Merlo, Dairy Today TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Catherine Merlo Farm Journal's Milk Western and Online Editor Email USDA reports significant increase in the U.S. dairy herd and highest per-cow production for June since 2003. Dairies in the 23 major milk-producing states last month increased their output by 2% over June 2013's total, USDA reported today. Last month's U.S. milk production reached a hefty 16.2 billion pounds, which analysts called "bearish" for milk prices. In the same report, USDA also revised its May production number, raising it by 1.6% from May 2013's output, to 16.9 million pounds. The increase pushes May 2014's production to 7 billion pounds over last month's output. That doesn't surprise AgDairy's Robin Schmahl, who says June's milk production drop from May was seasonal and expected. Still, June's 2% increase over year-earlier levels "is the highest percentage growth we've seen this year," said Schmahl, a Wisconsin-based dairy market analyst and commodity trader. "It's been going up each month, and that's going to continue through the end of the year unless adverse weather or some event takes place." Schmahl was surprised, however, by a number elsewhere in USDA's report. "I estimated USDA would increase the number of milk cows by 6,000 head, but instead it almost doubled it," he said. "That's pretty significant." USDA pegged the size of the dairy herd in the 23 states at 8.57 million head, 11,000 more than in May 2014. Since December 2013, the U.S. dairy herd has increased 64,000 head, Dairy Farmers of America noted today in its "Daily Market Update" e-newsletter. Total U.S. milk production in all 50 states reached 17,265 billion pounds, up 1.9% from June 2013. USDA has projected record-high milk production in the U.S. this year. Its latest forecast, released July 11 in the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, calls for 205.9 billion pounds of milk in 2014. Per-cow production in the 23 major dairy states averaged 1,888 lb. for June 2014. That's the highest production per cow for the month of June since the 23-state series began in 2003, USDA said in today's report. All 23 states except Ohio tallied milk production gains last month. Colorado led the percentage increases with a 9.7% jump over year-earlier levels, to 306 billion for June 2014. Milk output rose by 8.3% in Texas and 7.4% in Kansas. Ohio's output slipped by 1.5% from year-earlier numbers to 451 million pounds. "The overall growth in U.S. milk output reflects the higher milk prices as well as declining feed prices, which are making it a profitable year for dairies," Schmahl said. "New-crop corn prices closed today at $3.78 per bu., nearly half of what they were last year." Read the report here. Back to news


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The 20th Annual Juried Rio Brazos Art Exhibition opens at 3 p.m. on April 9th, 2017 at the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center Concert Hall in Granbury, Texas.
The exhibition is sponsored by Tarleton State University, the Granbury Arts Alliance, the City of Granbury and supported by numerous local and regional businesses. The coordinators of this event plan to create an atmosphere that will inspire, educate and entertain as well as attract quality art and discriminating buyers.
Accepted artwork will be selected at the discretion of the juror. Works are grouped according to the type of media received. Over $5,000 in cash and merchandise awards are anticipated.
Prospectus: http://www.tarleton.edu/langdoncenter/documents/riorrazosrrospectus2017.pdf
All media will be considered. This could include, but not be limited to, water media, oil, acrylic, pastel, mixed-media, photography, printmaking, graphics, collage, 3-dimensional, fabric, etc.
March 1 Deadline to receive slides or digital images.
March 10 Notifications of acceptance to be mailed.
April 1 Accepted artwork to be hand-delivered must be received from noon-3 p.m. at the Historic A.P.
Gordon House, 308 E. Pearl St., Granbury, TX 76048
April 9 Juror Gallery Talk regarding RBAE artwork from2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Opening of show and presentation of awards atLangdon Center Concert Hall 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
April 30 Show closes. Hand-delivered works to be retrieved between 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. only.
SHOW HOURS: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays, Noon to 4 p.m.
The Dora Lee Langdon Cultural and Educational Center is nestled one block off Granbury's historic square in the Brazos River Valley and serves as a focal point for the fine arts in the Lake Granbury area. The Langdon Center serves as the cultural and educational hub of the downtown area in cooperation with the City of Granbury and Tarleton State University.
Part of the A&M System since 1917, Tarleton State University offers affordable undergraduate and graduate degrees from locations in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online. The main campus of Tarleton is located 31 miles southwest of Granbury in Stephenville. Founded in 1899 as a private, liberal arts college, Tarleton is now one of the state's fastest growing institutions with an enrollment exceeding 15,000 and serves as the educational and cultural flagship of the Cross Timbers Region. Tarleton is currently celebrating its 100 year centennial anniversary of being a part of The Texas A&M University System. For more information, please visit: www.tarleton.edu/centennial
The Granbury Arts Alliance (GAA), a non-profit fine arts organization, is a major sponsor of the Rio Brazos Art Exhibition. The goal of the GAA is to enrich and enhance the artistic environment of Granbury and make cultural activities accessible to all citizens. The GAA exists to unite all of the artistic groups of Granbury under one umbrella to share resources and experience, increase awareness of the arts and support one another.
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Former child star Leonardo DiCaprio rejected a lucrative offer to star in spooky Disney favorite "Hocus Pocus" back in 1993, because he was holding out hope for a role in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
The actor reveals he had not even auditioned for Lasse Hallstrom's drama when he was offered "more money than I ever dreamed of" to play young Max in "Hocus Pocus," alongside Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker as witches.
His daring decision paid off as he was eventually picked to star as Johnny Depp's brother, a role that landed him his first Oscar nomination.
DiCaprio tells Variety, "I don't know where the hell I got the nerve (to turn down Hocus Pocus). You live in an environment where you're influenced by people telling you to make a lot of money and strike while the iron's hot. But if there's one thing I'm very proud of, it's being a young man who was sticking to my guns."
The part of Max in "Hocus Pocus" eventually went to Omri Katz.


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Change your account settings
Change your password, connect your personal and work accounts, or switch your preferred language.
It's easy to manage your account settings from the Dropbox website. The only thing to remember is that with a Dropbox Business account, only your admin(s) can change the email address associated with your account.
Update your account settings
The Account page is the central location to manage your Dropbox account settings. You can:
- Update your personal email address.
- Administer the computers linked to your Dropbox account from the Security tab.
- View and administer the third-party apps linked to your Dropbox account via the My apps tab.
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The first time you boot-up your appliance, you will need to connect a workstation (laptop or desktop) to the Green (LAN) interface of the device.
The default IP of the appliance is 192.168.0.15, so you will need to set a static IP on your local machine within that Class C subnet (/24). So, for example, you could set your device to use the IP 192.168.0.100 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
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Will synthpop and EBM ever hit the scene in Second Life
Ever been to any of these cheezy live concerts in 2nd life? Well I for sure have been to one or two, but will this ever be something for the electro scene, I doubt it…
One might argue that 2nf life would be the ultimate goal for many of these futuristic, cyberspace, universe, galaxy dreaming synthpop bands like Sista mannen På Jorden, Spock, iSynthesist to name but a few, but I don´t think so, since, although futuristic/forward looking, it really feels like heading back to the nineties judging from poor graphics, lack of people, lousy animations and above all the artists already in there does not inspire anyone to get involved.
I have heard rumors that artists like Brian Eno and Laurie Anderzon had serious plans for 2nd life which would have been worthwhile considering there ability to work both as artists and musicians creating something unique that really makes use of the cyber reality. I sure hope to find a much healthier cyberspace music arena soooon – perhaps the japanese alter ego? If you look at whats out there today in 2nd life this little piece of information says it all.
>> "Musimmersion offers some great insights into what the future of live music in a virtual space might look like. The very stated goal of this experiment is to challenge people to see "music from a new perspective, teasing out bits of a musical arrangement onto a virtual canvas against which the live musician can work". The aspect most astonishing about concepts such as Musimmersion is the convergence of many skill sets for the purpose of developing ever more compelling interactions between a virtual 3D space and the person sitting in front of the computer. The future of live musical performances, whatever that will be, is likely to hold a mix of incredible art, scripting, and unique musical talents, which should make us take another look at McDunnough's vision, "We are in the age of a new renaissance – the emergence of a technically capable creative class."
To attend a show, simply join the group Votaries' of Grace and be on the look-out for announcements of Musimmersion. Group members typically get one hour advance notice and since this event is limited to the first 20 avatars who arrive, you will want this edge!" <<


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Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING,acrylics and texture on 100% cotton stretched wrapped canvas.
Title: When spring comes
.Size: , 30x45cm(12x18 inch)
Handpainted.Original, not print. Painting is signed in front and at the back. Dated. Impasto style.
The sides are painted, so there's no need to frame it.
I use a gloss varnish to add shine and to protect the painting from harmful UV rays and dust.
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For consumers, the Apple model is remarkably easy. Granted, the initial iTunes account set-up is somewhat of a hassle, but once completed, consumers can painlessly make purchases thereafter. Apple solved the micropayment problem years ago in creating the iTunes store for selling songs, and has carried forward that same keep-it-simple philosophy for premium content and applications on the iPhone.
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Desire is straightforward: how much do consumers want your content? Desire is a function of the degree to which your content and experience are unique and compelling.
Relationship is a measure of your brand and the extent to which you've consistently delighted a customer (or their friends) in the past.
Ease is achieved by making it effortless to pay for content.
Apple has nailed all three of these drivers, resulting in substantial and growing spend from consumers. On desire, they've made a product and a content experience coveted by loyalists and consumers en masse. On relationship, their platform has proven itself with a billion consumer delights. And in ease, Apple has set a new standard with the 5-second purchase process consisting of a just a password.
Many publishers and app developers complain about Apple's closed system (indeed, Adobe has reason to do so), but that same closed system allows a controlled – hence predictable – experience for consumers. Apple is reducing the friction to purchase by leveraging their relationship and making the purchase easy.
This leaves me to wonder however: why is Apple the only company to innovate a complete platform for content monetization? The result for publishers is that they are better served by jumping on the Apple bandwagon than by striking out on their own. But as Apple continues to amass share of eyeballs, the media industry will resist the premium that Apple charges.
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The arena would cost between $44 to $66 million and would (hopefully) be the perfect place for concerts -- real concerts -- to come to the area!
The arena will require 40 percent donor dollars in order to make it happen. A bond election would also have to be approved.
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Alpha wave
Alpha waves are neural oscillations in the frequency range of 8–13 Hz arising from synchronous and coherent (in phase or constructive) electrical activity of thalamic pacemaker cells in humans. They are also called Berger's wave in memory of the founder of EEG.
Alpha waves are one type of brain waves detected either by electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) and predominantly originate from the occipital lobe during wakeful relaxation with closed eyes. Alpha waves are reduced with open eyes, drowsiness and sleep. Historically, they were thought to represent the activity of the visual cortex in an idle state. More recent papers have argued that they inhibit areas of the cortex not in use, or alternatively that they play an active role in network coordination and communication.[1] Occipital alpha waves during periods of eyes closed are the strongest EEG brain signals.
An alpha-like variant called mu (μ) can be found over the motor cortex (central scalp) that is reduced with movement, or the intention to move. Alpha waves do not start to appear until three years of age.[2]
History of alpha waves[edit]
Alpha waves were discovered by German neurologist Hans Berger, most famous for his invention of the EEG. Alpha waves were among the first waves documented by Berger, along with beta waves, and he displayed an interest in "alpha blockage", the process by which alpha waves decrease and beta waves increase upon a subject opening their eyes. This distinction earned the alpha wave the alternate title of "Berger's Wave".
Berger took a cue from Russian physiologist Pravdich-Neminski, who used a string galvanometer to create a photograph of the electrical activity of a dog's brain. Using similar techniques, Berger confirmed the existence of electrical activity in the human brain. He first did this by presenting a stimulus to hospital patients with skull damage and measuring the electrical activity in their brains. Later he ceased the stimulus method and began measuring the natural rhythmic electrical cycles in the brain. The first natural rhythm he documented was what would become known as the alpha wave. Despite his brilliance, Berger was very thorough and meticulous in his data-gathering, and did not feel confident enough to publish his discoveries until at least five years after he had made them. In 1931, he published his first findings on alpha waves in the journal Archiv für Psychiatrie. He was originally met with derision for his EEG technique and his subsequent alpha and brain wave discoveries. His technique and findings did not gain widespread acceptance in the psychological community until 1937, when he gained the approval of the famous physiologist Lord Adrian, who took a particular interest in alpha waves.[3]
Alpha waves again gained recognition in the early 1960s and 1970s with the creation of a biofeedback theory relating to brain waves (see below). Such biofeedback, referred to as a kind of neurofeedback, relating to alpha waves is the conscious elicitation of alpha brainwaves by a subject. Two different researchers in the United States explored this concept through unrelated experiments. Dr. Joe Kamiya, of the University of Chicago, discovered that some individuals had the conscious ability to recognize when they were creating alpha waves, and could increase their alpha activity. These individuals were motivated through a reward system from Kamiya. The second progenitor of biofeedback is Dr. Barry Sterman, from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was working with monitoring brain waves in cats and found that, when the cats were trained to withhold motor movement, they released SMR, or mu, waves, a wave similar to alpha waves. Using a reward system, he further trained these cats to enter this state more easily. Later, he was approached by the United States Air Force to test the effects of a jet fuel that was known to cause seizures in humans. Sterman tested the effects of this fuel on the previously-trained cats, and discovered that they had a higher resistance to seizures than non-trained cats.
Alpha wave biofeedback has gained interest for having some successes in humans for seizure suppression and for treatment of depression.[4]
Types of alpha waves[edit]
Some researchers posit that there are at least three forms of alpha waves, which may all have different functions in the wake-sleep cycle.
Alpha waves are present at different stages of the wake-sleep cycle. The most widely-researched is during the relaxed mental state, where the subject is at rest with eyes closed, but is not tired or asleep. This alpha activity is centered in the occipital lobe, and is presumed to originate there, although there has been recent speculation that it instead has a thalamic origin.[5] This wave begins appearing at around four months, and is initially a frequency of 4 waves per second. The mature alpha wave, at 10 waves per second, is firmly established by age 3.[6]
The second occurrence of alpha wave activity is during REM sleep. As opposed to the awake form of alpha activity, this form is located in a frontal-central location in the brain. The purpose of alpha activity during REM sleep has yet to be fully understood. Currently, there are arguments that alpha patterns are a normal part of REM sleep, and for the notion that it indicates a semi-arousal period. It has been suggested that this alpha activity is inversely related to REM sleep pressure.
The third occurrence of alpha wave activity is the alpha-delta or slow-wave (SWS) state. This activity spreads across the brain in an anterior-posterior gradient.[7]
It has long been believed that alpha waves indicate a wakeful period during sleep. This has been attributed to studies where subjects report non-refreshing sleep and have EEG records reporting high levels of alpha intrusion into sleep. This occurrence is known as alpha wave intrusion.[8] However, it is possible that these explanations may be misleading, as they only focus on alpha waves being generated from the occipital lobe.
Alpha wave intrusion[edit]
Alpha wave intrusion occurs when alpha waves appear with non-REM sleep when delta activity is expected. It is hypothesized to be associated with fibromyalgia,[9] although the study may be inadequate due to a small sampling size.
Despite this, alpha wave intrusion has not been significantly linked to any major sleep disorder, including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and major depression. However, it is common in chronic fatigued patients, and may amplify the effects of other sleep disorders.[10]
Biofeedback training[edit]
Given the alpha wave's connection with relaxed mental states, many people have latched onto the idea of utilizing this state through a technique called biofeedback training. This technique utilizes EEG to indicate to a subject or trainer when the subject is in an alpha wave state, which the subject is then instructed to remain in.
There are several different prospects of this training that are currently being explored. Arguably, the most popular one is the use of this training in meditation. Zen-trained meditation masters produce noticeably more alpha waves during meditation. This fact has led to a popular trend of biofeedback training programs for everyday stress relief.[citation needed]
Psychologists are hoping to use this technique to help people overcome phobias, calm down hyperactive children, and help children with stuttering problems to relax enough to practice regular speech.
There are other uses of biofeedback training beyond therapy. Defense Department researchers are exploring biofeedback as a way of getting captured soldiers to create alpha waves, potentially foiling enemy lie detectors. Biofeedback training has also been receiving attention as a possible way of monitoring attention. It has been theorized that teaching machines could use biofeedback as a way of monitoring children's attention, with the appearance of alpha waves signaling a lapse of attention.[11]
Following this lapse-of-attention line of thought, a recent study indicates that alpha waves may be used to predict mistakes. In it, MEGs measured increases of up to 25% in alpha brain wave activity before mistakes occurred. This study used common sense: alpha waves indicate idleness, and mistakes are often made when a person is doing something automatically, or "on auto-pilot", and not paying attention to the task they are performing. After the mistake was noticed by the subject, there was a decrease in alpha waves as the subject began paying more attention. This study hopes to promote the use of wireless EEG technology on employees in high-risk fields, such as air traffic controlling, to monitor alpha wave activity and gauge the attention level of the employee.[12]
Alpha wave artifacts[edit]
As demonstrated by Adrian Upton, it is possible for extraneous sources to cause signals to appear on an EEG readout, causing false signals to be interpreted as healthy alpha waves while the patient's brain that is assumed to be still living is in fact, long dead. An excerpt from the article documenting this fact:
"Sometimes it's claimed Jell-O brainwaves are identical to a healthy adult's. That's clearly a stretch, but the Jell-O EEG readings do look pretty similar to a normal human alpha rhythm. Alpha waves are observed when a patient is awake and resting with eyes closed, and in some kinds of sleep and reversible coma. True, the Jell-O waves are a little slower and of much lower amplitude, barely within normal human limits, but that doesn't tell you much by itself. Hypoxia, encephalitis, and other medical conditions can cause reduced frequency and amplitude, as can drug use."[13]
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Other brain waves[edit]
- Delta wave – (0.1–4 Hz)
- Theta wave – (4–8 Hz)
- Mu wave – (8–13 Hz)
- Beta wave – (13–30 Hz)
- Gamma wave – (25–100 Hz)
- ^ Palva, S. and Palva, J.M., New vistas for a-frequency band oscillations, Trends Neurosci. (2007), doi:10.1016/j.tins.2007.02.001
- ^ Kolev V, Başar-Eroglu C, Aksu F, Başar E. (1994). EEG rhythmicities evoked by visual stimuli in three-year-old children. Int J Neurosci. 75(3-4):257-70. PMID 8050866
- ^ Karbowski K. Hans Berger (1873-194). Journal of Neurology. 249(8):1310-1311
- ^ Ulrich Kraft. Train Your Brain-Mental exercises with neurofeedback may ease symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and depression--and even boost cognition in healthy brains. Scientific American. 2006
- ^ Domino E. F., Ni L. S., et. al(2009). Tobacco smoking produces widespread dominant brainwave alpha frequency increases. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 74(3):192-198.
- ^ Niedermeyer E.(1997). Alpha rhythms as physiological and abnormal phenomena. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 26(1-3):31-49.
- ^ Pivik R. T., Harman K. (1995). A Reconceptualization of EEG alpha activity as an index of arousal during sleep: all alpha activity is not equal. Journal of Sleep Research. 4(3):131-137.
- ^ Allas Task Force (1992). ASDA report on EEG arousals: scoring rules and examples. Sleep. 15(2):173-184.
- ^ Germanowicz D, Lumertz MS, Martinez D, Margarites AF (2006). "Sleep disordered breathing concomitant with fibromyalgia syndrome". J Bras Pneumol 32 (4): 333–8. PMID 17268733.
- ^ (1994). Alpha-delta sleep in patients with a chief complaint of chronic fatigue. Southern Medical Journal. 87(4)
- ^ Time. Behavior: Alpha Wave of the Future. Jul, 1971
- ^ "Brain Wave Patterns Can Predict Blunders, New Study Finds". UC Davis News and Information. University of California, Davis campus. 23 March 2009.
- ^ http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2942/can-brainwaves-be-detected-in-lime-jell-o
Further reading[edit]
- Brazier, M. A. B. (1970), The Electrical Activity of the Nervous System, London: Pitman
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Pandora Stock Takes a Beating on Apple-Radio Rumor
Sep 8, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Pandora Media's stock dropped precipitously on news that Apple might be entering the online streaming-radio space with a competing product.
The news is not official: It has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, based on information leaked by unnamed sources. Still, the service would nicely complement Apple's existing iTunes offerings, making the rumor believable enough to send Pandora's stock plummeting by some 18 percent to as low as US$10.27 per share during trading Friday. It closed at $10.47.
The Rare Internet Success Story
If Apple is in fact preparing to roll out its own service, it could flatten one of the few Internet stock offerings of 2011 that turned out to be a success. With 54.9 million active users, Pandora has managed to best competing service providers since its inception, and its most recent earnings were better than expected.
Indeed, Pandora may wind up being a victim of its own success. At the time it went public, in June 2011, Apple noted that it was the most frequently downloaded free iPad app.
Based on the descriptions of the service Apple is apparently considering, there will be little to distinguish Pandora from the tech conglomerate's offering. Like Pandora, Apple is reportedly planning a service that would send streams of music customized to users' tastes.
An Alternative Scenario
"Certainly Apple being in the market would hurt Pandora on Apple devices, and given how widely used iTunes is could provide additional problems," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times.
There are additional factors to consider, though, he added -- factors that could mean Pandora's ability to survive if not continue to thrive.
For starters, Apple has historically been comparatively weak with cloud services. Then there are Pandora's customers, who have proven to be a loyal base, given the wealth of additional options on the market: Slacker, iHeartRadio, Spotify and Rhapsody, to name a few.
They will likely stick with Pandora, Enderle, said, if only because its service works across more devices.
Also, "folks really don't like to switch from a service they know and like," he added.
Timing Is Everything
Then there is this to consider: When, exactly, will Apple launch this service? As it happens, there have been rumors of such an offering before, noted Rob Walch, host of Today in iOS -- but never in such credible publications as the Journal and the Times.
"The way they read, it almost sounded like an Apple leak," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Otherwise, I would have read it and thought 'just another Apple rumor.'"
Still, the tone of the comments suggests that whatever Apple may be up to is still in the beginning stages, Walch observed.
"Until Tim Cook gets up on a stage and introduces the service," he added, "I am not expecting it to be in the market any time soon."
Apple had an opportunity in the past to explore such a service and rejected it, Enderle pointed out.
When Zune brought a music subscription service to the market, Jobs said the approach was stupid, he recalled.
"Now that Zune is gone, Apple is suddenly exploring subscription services -- likely because of the very real risk Amazon represents," Enderle said, adding that it was another case of Microsoft having the right idea but being unable to execute well first.
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On Monday, Taunton veterans, their families and members of the community paid tribute to those who died serving their country at a ceremony at Mayflower Hill Cemetery and during the city's annual Memorial Day parade.
TAUNTON — On Monday, Taunton veterans, their families and members of the community paid tribute to those who died serving their country at a ceremony at Mayflower Hill Cemetery and during the city's annual Memorial Day parade.
"We should read the names of the fallen from their graves and the monuments erected in honor of them, for each name represents a life, a life given for our freedom," retired Air Force Maj. David Anderson said at the ceremony. "Remember the names, such as Sgt. Shane Duffy, Cpl. Edward Andrade, Lance Cpl. Lawrence T. Andrews, Hospitalman Third Class Richard Dewert and too many others from this fine city."
Groups of veterans walking in the parade were showered with applause as they reached the Taunton Green, where crowds clapped and greeted them, before they were introduced on a grandstand.
"As I've said and some of my predecessors have said, this is one thing Taunton does right," Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. said. "We remember those who passed on and those who fought for our country. I'm so proud to be here as your mayor today."
The grand marshal selected by the parade's organizing committee this year was Roger Guillemette, a Korean War veteran and commander of the VFW Post 611 in Taunton. Guillemette, who was among eight brothers who served in four branches of the military during three wars, said the community must increase its efforts to remember those who served on Memorial Day and throughout the year.
"Everyone here has consideration for our veterans because of the fact we are a free nation," said Guillemette, who served 18 "terrible" months in Korea. "There is not enough people to honor this day for the past and surviving members of our military. It's more of a backyard picnic nowadays. The veterans are forgotten, more or less. We need to keep honoring our veterans, maybe even more."
During the morning ceremony at Mayflower Hill Cemetery, Guillemette dedicated his selection as grand marshal to his parents, Adelar and Delia, "who gave eight sons to the military." Guillemette said his French-Canadian father immigrated to Taunton, raising a family that was very proud to be American and felt obligated to serve in the military.
"It was not necessarily that we wanted to be in the military, it was a necessity," Guillemette said. "It was a duty, family pride, and my father was dedicated to this country. He was Canadian-born. When got here, he realized what this country meant to him and his family. He kind of instilled in us that what we should do is for our country."
Anderson, who is a teacher for Air Force Junior ROTC students at Taunton High School, spoke at the Mayflower Hill Cemetery ceremony, explaining the history of Memorial Day.
"Some people confuse Memorial Day with Veterans Day," Anderson said. "Veterans Day celebrates the service of all veterans. Memorial Day, however, is a day designated for remembering, remembering those who gave their lives while defending our nation."
Anderson said the origin of Memorial Day goes back to 1868, when a decree was made that Decoration Day should be commemorated on the 30th of May each year by decorating the graves of the war dead with flowers. In 1967, Congress made it into Memorial Day, and a year later it was moved to the last Monday of every May, he said.
Each Memorial Day, the flag is lowered to half-staff to honor the memory of more than 1.1 million men and women who gave their lives in service of the United States, Anderson said.
"At noon, the flag is raised, representing their memory being raised by the living," he said. "The living, who resolve not the let the sacrifice of these dead to be in vain, but to rise up in their place and continue to fight for liberty and justice for all."
State Rep. Shaunna O'Connell, R-Taunton, thanked the veterans in attendance and their families.
"Today, we gather not only to remind us as adults what this day is all about, but also so that our children know and remember that freedom isn't free, that blood has been shed for us to give us our freedom and that it is a precious gift that must be vigilantly guarded, jealously, forever," O'Connell said.
The parade, which started at Dartmouth Street, featured veterans from various eras, a group of Civil War re-enactors who fired off gunpowder, bands from Taunton schools and students from schools in the city who walked in honor of veterans in their families.
The children of Nicole Shaikh, of Taunton, walked alongside her wearing Army camouflage. Shaikh said they were walking in honor of an aunt who serves as a sergeant in the Army and is stationed in Fort Hood.
"This is a fantastic way to show support with family," said Shaikh, who got a notice from school inviting students to walk in honor of a veteran or service member in their families.
Mary Driscoll and her husband, David, an Army veteran from Taunton, said they come to the parade every year.
"We wouldn't miss it," David Driscoll said. "The bigger the better."
Mary Driscoll agreed.
"We love it," she said. "I think everyone should be here honoring those who served."


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Comic Con, which is the biggest gathering of pop/nerd culture, hits San Diego this week. Panels, guest speakers, movie trailers, comic news, cosplay, video games and other surprises are a big part of one of the year's biggest multimedia events.
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Michelle Kaufman: With David Beckham's help, Miami perfect city for MLS' next franchise
Go ahead, South Florida. Start believing.
This David Beckham thing just got a little more real.
It won't happen today. It probably won't happen before the end of the year. But sometime in 2014, expect an announcement that the world-famous soccer icon and his deep-pocketed friends are bringing Major League Soccer to Miami. By 2017, you could be sitting at a jam-packed waterfront stadium, overlooking the downtown skyline, watching pro soccer.
MLS commissioner Don Garber said very clearly in his State of the League address Tuesday that he wants a team in Miami, that Beckham and his group are the ones to do it, and they are working together to make it happen "as quickly as we can."
While he is "mindful of the challenges that have existed" in this market throughout soccer history (as is this longtime soccer reporter and every long-suffering fan who has lived through various incarnations of teams and broken promises), Garber thinks MLS can work here this time because "Miami today, demographically, socially and politically is very different from the Miami of 2002, when we folded the Fusion."
All true, as is the fact that this team would be where it was always meant to be, in the heart of Miami, smack dab in the center of the melting pot that is our city. It was, after all, called the Miami Fusion and its intended home was the Orange Bowl, overlooking the downtown skyline. If Beckham can secure a stadium site on our breathtaking and underutilized, waterfront, even better.
It seems the only thing standing in the way of a Beckham Miami deal is a viable stadium plan. The league prefers a privately-funded 25,000 to 30,000- seat soccer-specific stadium in the urban core of the city. Beckham's group has explored 30 sites in Miami, and asked the county about leasing land on the southwest corner of the port.
"We are very excited about the opportunity of David putting together the ownership group and finalizing a stadium plan in downtown Miami, so we can end up having what we hope will be our 22nd team in a city that's one of the largest in this country and has a very, very strong passionate soccer fan base," Garber said. "But there is a lot of work that still needs to happen."
He said Beckham and his business manager Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur and American Idol creator, are in discussions with city and county officials about the Port of Miami site and other potential locations.
Beckham also has been securing financial backers, including Bolivian-born billionaire Marcelo Claure, owner of Miami-based Brightstar Corp., a global wireless distributor. He approached Heat star LeBron James about getting involved. Garber has been "spending a lot of time in Miami, quietly" working behind the scenes.
"We can't go to Miami without the right stadium solution," Garber said. "David understands that. The city understands that. It's an indisputable fact. We hope they can put together a plan we can approve. We think it's a great opportunity."
MLS, which was founded 18 years ago, has 19 teams. New York City FC — co-owned by the New York Yankees and English club Manchester City — will be No. 20. Orlando City SC is No. 21, with both scheduled to begin play in 2015.
Miami and Atlanta are slated to be Nos. 22 and No. 23. Which order remains to be determined.
Garber's comments came four days before the MLS Cup championship between Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake. Salt Lake was an expansion team in 2005 and has been to the playoffs six years in a row. Kansas City has had 35 consecutive sellouts, and league-wide there were 112 sellouts this season, "proving America has truly become a soccer nation."
His vision is for MLS to be "one of the top leagues in the world" by 2022, and the key is raising quality of play, having great owners, great facilities and great brands. He believes the marriage of Beckham with Miami fits into that plan.
"We've got a great guy in David," the commissioner said. "He's a very bright guy, very focused, and a great business person. He's got a great partner in Simon Fuller. If you put that together with a great facility plan and another economic partner, you could have the formula for success."
He said he is encouraged by what Relevant Sports, which was co-founded by Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and Matt Higgins, "and the Dolphins guys have done with their international friendlies" at Sun Life Stadium, drawing crowds of 69,000 for the match between Real Madrid and Chelsea and 71,000 for Brazil against Honduras. "Frankly, they've been wildly successful, proving that this market is changing." It remains to be seen if Miami's fans, savvy and crazy about the international game, will transfer some of that passion to the domestic league. Garber believes it's worth a try.
He refused to put a timetable on the project. He said there is a Board of Governors meeting on Friday, and that Miami expansion will be "a key subject'', but that Beckham's group will not be presenting a specific proposal.
"We're not there yet, but we hope to be able to get there soon."
Start believing.


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Transition was also a theme I encountered this year, which is long overdue really. Our technology is changing at a rapid rate and it was refreshing to see the genealogy technologies changing as well....still somewhat slowly...but changing nonetheless. The cloud has finally made full headway into our tech field and was well represented.
I also found it amusing that one main cry among experts this year was "Read the TOS!" (Terms of Service) How many software agreements have we by-passed only to check the appropriate box that allowed the download to continue? I know I'm guilty after so many years of software changes and applications. We hastily do this out of the common assumption that only lawyers can understand it anyway - our experts would beg to differ, and reminded everyone that we have no one to blame but ourselves when it comes to tech companies over stretching their reach. One would think that this is a fairly basic message, meant for tech users from the past - but our increasing rate change dictates we pay more attention to the TOS - more now than ever!
|Another genea-buddy: Jen Baldwin of FindMyPast & #genchat!
|Mom and I just after my session on Friday!


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Just a sample of the game we are putting on at the Hammerhead show this year, its not the full display game as another 7-8 buildings are to be added, plus torpedo boats and of course more Sampan boats, should be alot of little bits also...hope people can make the show this year and by all means please approach and have a chat or a 20 minute game trying to get the colonial boat across the 12ft river under a barrage of artillery from the Imperial Army.
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In mid March, Microsoft released version 9 of its storied browser, Internet Explorer (IE). Previous releases of the browser have not had important implications for software development. In most cases, IE's biggest changes have focused on the addition of new features and baubles of primary interest to the user. But IE 9 has definite programmer implications. They center on the use of HTML5, which is the new specification of the language that defines websites.
HTML5 is widely viewed as a watershed technology. Its primary benefits are that it greatly facilitates the use of multimedia and the construction of applications that run in the browser. These benefits hinge on the widespread expectation that complex applications will increasingly be run inside the browser or the browser will function as the GUI to cloud-hosted apps. If you've used online spreadsheets or word processors, such as those offered by Google Docs or Zoho, then you have some sense of how this scenario works.
HTML5 changes this by specifying a wide range of behaviors that the browser must support. These new capabilities include video, drawing, text manipulation, as well as offline storage. Once browsers support these aspects, the applications can simply invoke them via commands, rather than sending bits of the implementation over the network to run on the client or relying on plugins. (For a more detailed introduction to HTML5, see "HTML5 Up and Running."
While interest in HTML5 has been growing steadily, one undeniable barrier to jumping in fully was Microsoft's slow adoption of the specification. Because IE is the dominant browser in the market, any HTML5 development would result in an indeterminate result if it could not be tested in the Microsoft browser. Before this release, the rendering engine in IE — known as Trident — did not fully support several standards that are essential to HTML5, including several HTML5 syntactical advances. The new release of Trident, version 5.0, can now render much of HTML5, as well as Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) 3.0, and Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG).
SVG is a means of specifying a drawing or text using XML. It relies entirely on the browser to take the data elements and render them as lines, curves, colors, and shapes. For years, IE has been the only browser without native support for SVG. This situation accounts for the long delay in adoption of SVG as a common format for specifying 2D graphics and illustrations. The possibility that Microsoft might similarly fail to adopt core elements of HTML5 was a concern that could not be entirely banned until the Redmond giant released an official browser version with these capabilities.
HTML5 and SVG should both receive a shot in the arm due to IE9. Microsoft, perhaps sensing the importance of the release to developers, added other tools that expand previous capabilities to go behind the scenes and explore the execution of a web page: both by viewing and stepping through the code and even profiling its activity.
As Web applications becomes a larger part of workers' daily lives, it appears that Microsoft's browser will be a top-tier participant — no longer only on the basis of market share, but in its standards support and the technology with which it supports developers.


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The four masted sail training barque of the University of Murmansk, Sedov, is the vessel on which the young cadets of the university train to become officers, mechanics and radio specialists.
Sedov can accommodate up to 320 people on board among which 75 are crew members, 100 to 120 cadets and in some years, as many as 45 trainees of any nationality to discover life aboard a tall ship. This training takes place during a journey of 3 to 4 months along European coasts and will take advantage of cultural and economic exchanges with the ports.
Launched in Kiel in 1921 at the shipbuilding yard Krupp, Sedov (then named Magdalene Vinnen) with an auxiliary diesel engine with some 128hp, was exclusively dedicated to the transport of goods and the crew were already partially made up of cadets.
In 1936, Magdalene Vinnen was sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen and was renamed Kommodore Johnsen. She carried out numerous circumnavigations, transporting some wheat, some coal and some cereals.
The Second World War put an end to these journeys as an ocean-going vessel, but she continued to train cadets in the Baltic where her journeys lasted from 5 to 6 weeks. During this time of scarcity of fuel, she would sail only. She came under Russian state ownership after the surrender of Germany.
The four masted barque was then renamed "Sedov" after the polar explorer Georgij Sedov who died during an investigation in the Arctic in 1914. Sedov navigated as an oceanographical vessel until 1966, she was then put in reserve to Kronstadt and she reappeared in the 1970's.
Between the 1970's and 1981 various works were carried out which cost in the region of 1 million roubles. She left the shipyard in 1981 and, with Riga as the port of registry, she embarked henceforth cadets from schools of navigation of Kalingrad and Murmansk.
The fall of the Wall in 1989 and the Proclamation of Independence of Latvia in 1991 influenced the fate of Sedov. Living in the lap of Russia, she left Riga for Murmansk, her new port of registry, and fell henceforth to the school of the navy of the city which assured her management and maintenance.
Cuauhtémoc [Mexico]
Cuauhtémoc was built in Bilbao, Spain in 1981 and originally called Celaya. She was later acquired by the Mexican Navy as a training vessel for officers, cadets, petty officers and sailors. Cuauhtemoc sailed the world for thirteen years and in 1995 underwent a major refit of the ship and rigging.
Cuauhtémoc has been the proud winner of the Tall Ships' Races on two occasions.
The Mexican Navy is a national military organization of permanent character, whose main objective is aimed at using its naval power for defense purposes and cooperating on national security issues. Some of its attributions are to:
•Organize, train, enroll, equip and direct forces under the command of the Navy for the accomplishment of its overall mission and the full exercise of its functions.
•Cooperate with the Mexican Government by safeguarding the legal framework.
•Carry out different activities in order to safeguard and protect the sovereignty of the State. Similarly, the Mexican Navy shall defend its territorial seas, both maritime and land areas, islands, cays, reefs, baseboards, and continental platforms. Furthermore, protection includes lakeside areas and rivers, where possible, and the national aerospace. Also, the Navy shall protect the rights of its sovereignty within the Exclusive Economic Zone.
•Protect maritime, lakeside and river traffic within its territorial jurisdiction as directed by the Supreme Command. In this regard, the Navy shall establish the necessary control areas that depend on the Supreme Command along with law enforcement agencies through settlements that shall include aerospace as established by law.