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Would you like to know about every incident reported to police in your neighborhood? Would you be interested in seeing reports of theft, noise complaints, break-ins, robberies, even murders, flow into your Twitter feed?
If you live in Seattle, you can. The Seattle Police Department has launched a service in which Twitter users can follow feeds for their part of the city and see most incidents reported to police.
From a New York Times story:
The project, called Tweets-by-beat, is the most ambitious effort of its kind in the nation, authorities in law enforcement and social media say, transforming the pen and ink of the old police blotter into the bits and bytes of the digital age. It allows residents — including, presumably, criminals — to know in almost real time about many of the large and small transgressions, crises, emergencies and downright weirdness in their neighborhoods.
Say you live on Olive Way east of downtown. There was an "intoxicated person" on your street at 3:31 a.m. Monday, so the neighborhood report said, as well as a "mental complaint," unspecified and mysterious, nearby at 9:30 a.m. Sunday was busy for property crime on the beat, with two burglaries and a shoplifting case, along with a grab bag of noise and disturbance complaints, accident investigations and a several reports of "suspicious vehicles."
There are some items held out, though. Sex crimes aren't pushed to Twitter, nor are domestic abuse reports. And there's a one-hour delay on reporting, to prevent people from flocking to and gawking at a crime scene.
Seattle PD has dozens of feeds organized by precinct and patrol beat, and listed on the Tweets-by-beat Web page. It's a somewhat clunky interface that requires you to click a couple of times just to get the Follow buttons to show up.
You can get a feel for what the feeds are like in the widget below.
While Seattle may be first out of the gate to pump all these reports through Twitter, it's not the first to push police incidents to the Internet. Many police departments do this, including Houston's. You can see near-real-time incident reports for Houston PD and EMS at the city's website. There's a similar page for Houston Fire Department incidents.
Of course, it's one thing to see police reports on a static Web page, and another to see them flowing into your Twitter feed along with breaking news, Instagram photos from your family and obsessive reports about what your friends think of the American Idol finalists.
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- AltCar Auto Show
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Mercedes-Benz AMG Models: LA Auto Show
- Mercedes' high-performance AMG division shows two new models in LA.
- GL63 AMG is 550 hp family hauler; SLS Black Series is a bona fide supercar.
- Mercedes also revealed Ener-G-Force concept; possible look at future G-Class.
Mercedes-Benz AMG vehicles have never exactly suffered from a lack of motivation, but Mercedes' in-house skunk works has brought more bonkers horsepower than ever to the 2012 LA Auto Show.
First up is the 2013 GL63 AMG, a souped-up version of Mercedes's 3-row crossover SUV. One could be forgiven for thinking that the regular GL550, with its 4.7-liter 429-horsepower twin-turbo V8, was already sufficiently souped-up. But no ordinary herd of Mercedes horses is sufficient for the AMG folks. So the GL63 ups the ante with a 5.5-liter twin-turbo V8 that pumps out 550 hp and 560 lb-ft of torque. Other upgrades include AMG-tuned steering and suspension settings, larger front brakes and the usual assortment of AMG badges and visual effects. Despite a curb weight in the neighborhood of three tons, the GL63 will whisk your growing family from 0-60 mph in about 5 seconds, give or take a few kids. Fuel economy was an ominous "TBD" as of this writing.
But suppose you're willing to sacrifice two of those rows of seats in return for extra style and speed? Boy, does AMG have the car for you. Based on the SLS supercar with its trademark gull wing doors, the 2014 SLS Black Series showcases AMG's phenomenal 6.2-liter naturally aspirated V8 at its very best. Output in this exclusive model is rated at 622 hp, pushing this venerable V8 past the landmark 100-hp-per-liter ratio. Very few V8s have ever reached this territory without the aid of turbos or supercharging. Expect the noise at full throttle to be even more thunderous than usual thanks to a new titanium exhaust system. Other Black Series touches include flared fenders, wider tires and a revamped suspension for track-ready handling. Various carbon-fiber elements are involved as well.
On an entirely different note, we'd be remiss not to mention Ener-G-Force concept, a futuristic go-anywhere SUV that might be a sneak preview of the long-running G-Class's eventual successor. Although it's technically just Benz's entry in LA Show's annual Design Challenge, which has a police-vehicle theme for 2012, the Ener-G-Force would likely be a big hit in Beverly Hills if given the green light. Check out the roof rack: it's actually part of a water-supply system for the zero-emissions hydrogen fuel-cell power plant. We think that part might not make it to production.
What it means to you: If it's staggering performance you're after at this year's LA show, AMG's mad speed merchants won't disappoint. That Ener-G-Force concept is pretty cool, too.
See more LA Auto Show news.
Would you buy an SUV like the Ener-G-Force if Mercedes made it? Are the GL63 AMG or SLS Black Series on your wish list? Tell us in the comments below.


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You can change viewpoint with clicking the triangle button that appear on the room.
The items which you found are added to item list, you can use them by clicking.
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Ludus Linguarum (This Is (Not) a Game)
It is a discussion that crops up from time to time: what is a game? This would be a fairly academic definition question, were it not that it finds a much larger battleground mostly outside academia, where consumers and critics of video games are the participants.
The direct catalyst for the most recent iteration of this discussion was the release two days ago of Proteus, a game developed by Ed Key and David Kanaga. This work, as I briefly explained in my piece on Noctis, is all about free exploration of an island and its flora and fauna, about building a soundtrack by moving around. It is limited in its interactivity compared to many other video games, and this has sparked the discussion on whether or not Key and Kanaga are right to refer to Proteus as a game.


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KAider is a computer-aided translation system that focuses on productivity and performance (nojava!). Translator does only creative work (of delivering message in his/her mother language in laconic and easy to understand form). KAider implies parapgraph-by-paragrah translation approach (when translating documentation) and message-by-message approach (when translating GUI). See KAider/Introduction
Already has:
After you set kde env up (compiling kdelibs is enough):
cd trunk svn up playground/devtools/kaider su kde-devel mkdir playground/devtools/kaider/build cd playground/devtools/kaider/build cmakekde ..
as a root, run sshd and then from the usual shell:
ssh -XC kde-devel@localhost kaider
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It's always good practice when developing web pages to test them in browsers with default settings as it is most likely that your users will have default settings when using their browsers. One thing that we've seen catch a couple of people out with IE is that the default settings can be a little different depending on the security zone the page is running in.
Many of you will be familiar with the different security zones in Internet Explorer with the internet and intranet zones being two that you may see on a regular basis in the status bar of IE. By default the security settings for content running in the internet zone are a little more restrictive than those for content running in the intranet zone. One example is that in IE7 under default security settings a web page running in the internet zone may not write text to the IE status bar using the window.status method call, whereas the call is allowed in the intranet zone. This restriction was introduced in IE7 as part of the security work to reduce spoofing and ensure that content on the internet cannot directly influence the area of the browser outside the HTML rendering area.
During development of web pages content is often supplied by a local server and as a result runs in the intranet zone. Later when the pages are deployed and accessed from the internet the same content runs in the internet zone. As a result a call to set window.status that worked during development no longer functions.
To avoid these differences and have content run in the internet zone despite it originating on the intranet you can add the Mark Of The Web (MOTW) to pages. The MOTW is a comment that should be placed at the start of the HTML page to show that the content is from the internet in the form <!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->. Including the MOTW in pages and checking that you have default security settings during development can help ensure that you are experiencing the same settings as users of IE on the internet will have when your pages are deployed.
On a separate topic I'd like to note that this will be my last post here. After eleven great years at Microsoft it is time for me to move on to new adventures. I know that the IE team will continue to work on future versions of IE, supplying a great and secure browsing experience for Windows. I am looking forward to seeing the next releases of the product.
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The cristal baschet is one of the most beautiful musical instruments you will ever see, made of vibrating, tuned steel, fiberglass amplification cones and wire "whiskers" that shimmy when fingers rub the glass-rod keyboard. Film composer Cliff Martinez's version, which resides in the living room of his Topanga Canyon home, is about the size of an upright piano and is as much sculpture as instrument.
Martinez, whose scores support three films this year, bought his expensive cristal when he was scoring Steven Soderbergh's surreal 2002 space fantasy "Solaris" but had pined for one as far back as their first collaboration, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" in 1989. Standing before it, Martinez says nearly every director who sees the instrument falls in love with it — until they hear it beneath a scene. "Then it sounds like either the mothership is landing, or someone's going to get killed." In his score to Nicolas Winding Refn's recently released L.A. noir picture "Drive," it's the latter.
To play it, Martinez moistens his fingers in a dish of water, places his hands on the keyboard and starts caressing the glass rods. What emerges is an ethereal moan that suggests a combination of cello and choir of angels. Those who have seen "Drive," the haunting, sparse ode to Los Angeles' darker avenues, will immediately recognize its sound and be sent back to a specific scene in an elevator: As Ryan Gosling's unnamed character defends himself and his girl from a would-be killer, the cristal baschet's wail, played by Martinez, tempers Gosling's bloody stomps.
This hum that simmers through "Drive" is a central sonic character in the film and, along with five memorable songs that anchor key scenes and create an analog-disco feel, it helps define the tone of the movie. Though the two other films Martinez worked on this year — "The Lincoln Lawyer" and Soderbergh's "Contagion" — have each sold about twice as many tickets as "Drive," it is the soundtrack to "Drive" that has struck a chord with the public. One of the most discussed releases of the year, it is the top-selling soundtrack in America right now and holds the No. 1 spot on iTunes' soundtrack charts all over the world.
Its success is surprising because the soundtrack is such a curious, quiet and intense collection, one that mixes ice-cold synthesizers with laconic drones that flow into pulsing thumps and eerie tones inspired in part by "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." A far cry from the action scores that accompany the typical car movie, the vibe of "Drive" is of early European techno, Brian Eno's ambient music and longtime David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti's wooziness.
After seeing "Drive," a cruise through downtown Los Angeles — or anywhere, actually — feels different, darker, more sinister. And if the stereo is booming the cristal baschet, or the minimal dance floor thump of Chromatics' "Tick of the Clock," which opens the film, or College's "A Real Hero," or the ambient swoosh that takes Gosling's character down Highland past the Hollywood Bowl, an otherwise law-abiding driver will experience the world through the tint of Refn and Martinez's dark collaboration.
Martinez, 57, is perhaps best known to the public for his early gig as the drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers (and, earlier, drummer in the final version of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band) and nearly two dozen films. Refn, born in Denmark and raised in New York, is a director of outsider genre films including the so-called Pusher trilogy, about a group of Scandinavian drug dealers, the 2008 British gangster biopic "Bronson" and 2009's "Valhalla Rising," about a Nordic warrior during the Crusades.
Martinez came on late to "Drive," after the film had been locked with the five songs, a little over a month before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and with only a temporary score as a reference. He'd been working on "Contagion" but the process had stalled, which opened time in his schedule. He loved what he saw.
"I remember they had the credits and everything. It says, 'Music by Angelo Badalamenti.' There was an awkward moment, and then I said, 'You spelled my name wrong,'" recalls Martinez, laughing. The music in the version he saw was a mix of Eno's ambient work, "and a very minimalist temp score that was even starker than what I ended up doing — much starker. I said, 'You came to the right place, because that's my style.'" (Martinez later said that, to his knowledge, Badalamenti was never tied to the project and that the credit was merely a place holder.)
The first thing Refn asked him was what he thought about the songs. Martinez usually doesn't like that question. "That's not my department, and I usually don't even like to stick my neck out — it's just not my job, and it's not my place to even say."
"I wouldn't say I fell in love with them at first," he continues, calling the songs on first impression "peculiar." "I knew that they were striking, and distinctive, and unique, and not a commercial direction to go in. But I also recognized he was making a strong statement about the film. The pink font was in there, and with that ['Tick of the Clock'] opening, I knew he built the whole thing around this."
Martinez's diplomatic response: "I said, 'This is your style. This is an integral part of the film. Don't change a note.'"
For "Drive," Refn said his "core inspirational source" was influential German electronic pop pioneers Kraftwerk. Once he made this choice, "I can feel the movie. I feel the movie through the music while I'm making it."
"I don't use drugs anymore," added Refn on the phone from Bangkok, Thailand, where he's filming his follow-up to "Drive." "And because I'm a fetish filmmaker, I use music to enhance emotions, to come up with images of what I would like to see. But I always have to figure out what the music is. For example, on 'Bronson,' I wanted to make an opera, so I listened to a lot of Pet Shop Boys — even though it was designed as an opera. 'Valhalla Rising' was very Eistürzende Neubauten — that was the music I was listening to while I was making it."
You can hear Kraftwerk's analog synthetic feel throughout "Drive," even if the group's music isn't explicitly used. The stark contrast between shimmering synths, Martinez's bowed cymbals, odd sound effects, throbbing heartbeat rhythms that pepper the score's 14 tracks, and the American muscle cars that Gosling roars through downtown's industrial districts makes for a strange kind of tension. So does the fact that, unlike in most films featuring stunt drivers, Mafia connections and general brutality, the absence of music in the climactic chase scene is as striking as its presence is elsewhere.
"I wanted the sound of the machinery of the engines to be what this chase is about," explained Refn. "Also, it was a place where you would conventionally use music, and that was interesting where you actually take music away where you expect to hear it. Because the sound itself becomes music, and then you put in music when you don't expect to hear it, and that becomes sound."
The biggest mystery at this point for Martinez, though, is how the soundtrack broke through to become a chart-topper. "The only thing I can think of is, one, you kind of had to go with your first take, your first impulse. I certainly was creating music from my subconscious more."


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- Heat vs. Spurs: Series Hub
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — For Tim Duncan, the enduring image of the 2013 NBA Finals will always be the running hook he missed to tie Game 7 with about 50 seconds to play.
"Probably for me," Duncan said afterward, "Game 7 is always going to haunt me."
Yet it was Game 6, with the Spurs ahead 3-2 in the series, that will burn in the memories of most San Antonio fans. The Spurs opened the fourth quarter ahead by 10 points. They led by five points with 28.2 seconds to play, a lead they would almost certainly salt away 99 out of 100 times.
Game 6, though, was the 100th time.
"Bad, very bad," Spurs guard Manu Ginobili said. "It's a tough moment. We were a few seconds away from winning the championship and we let it go."
The improbable unraveling in those 28.2 seconds as a fifth championship was within their team's grasp — the inexplicable reversal of fortune that ultimately granted the Heat new life and, eventually, back-to-back championships — will be the moments that churn stomachs in San Antonio for years to come.
"It was by far the best game I've ever been a part of," LeBron James said of the Heat's 103-100 Game 6 overtime win. "The ups and downs, the roller coaster, the emotions, good and bad throughout the whole game. To be a part of something like this is something you would never be able to recreate once you're done playing the game … I'm happy about the way we dug down and [were] able to get a win it didn't look like we could muster up at some point in the game."
The Set Up
San Antonio was in great shape. It expanded its 50-44 halftime lead and surged ahead 71-58 with 3:50 to go in the third quarter. The Spurs couldn't bust it wide open — as each team had done in Games 2 through 5 — but they still led 75-65 heading into the fourth quarter.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich started the fourth quarter with both Tony Parker and Duncan on the bench. Miami quickly made headway, shrinking San Antonio's lead to 80-75 at the 9:32 mark; then 82-80 at 7:08; and tied it 82-82 at 6:34 left. With 6:03 left, Ray Allen's layup gave Miami an 84-82 lead.
During the next five minutes, San Antonio managed just four points and Miami, with all the momentum, led 89-86 with 1:47 to play. The Spurs called a 20-second timeout — and everything flipped again. Parker stepped back to bury a rare 3-pointer — over James, no less — to tie it at 89-89 with 1:27 to go.
Parker then picked off Mario Chalmers, maneuvered to create a shot in the lane and buried it to give the Spurs the lead, 91-89, with 58 seconds to go.
Timeout Miami.
Spurs 91, Heat 89, 58 seconds to go
James, in the midst of an amazing, 16-point fourth quarter, saw his legacy flash before his eyes. He backed down Parker but, as he rose, the ball slipped out of his hands. The Spurs were off and running the other way. Ginobili was fouled on the breakaway.
He made both free throws for a 93-89 Spurs lead with now just 37.2 seconds to go.
James again tried to make something happen. As he ducked into the lane against Kawhi Leonard, he leaned in and perhaps got caught in no-man's land. His lob sailed nowhere near the basket and wasn't close to a teammate.
Ginobili came down with it and was quickly fouled by Allen. Ginobili, having an awful time offensively, missed the first free throw and made the second.
The final 28.2
Spurs 94, Heat 89, 28.2 seconds left
Miami called its final timeout with the Spurs on an 8-0 run in the last minute. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra went to a lineup with five "smalls" that included Chalmers, Wade, Mike Miller, Allen and James. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich countered, bringing in Boris Diaw for Duncan, giving the Spurs a lineup of Parker, Danny Green, Ginobili, Leonard and Diaw.
It was a decision that would be roundly criticized after the game.
Miller inbounded in the frontcourt and got it to James, who had burst open off a screen at the 3-point arc, just left of center. He quickly fired a 3-pointer, but it was way off. It banged off the bottom of the backboard on the right side of the rim.
22.9 seconds left
Three Spurs were in the vicinity for the rebound with Leonard appearing to have the best chance to grab it. But Wade, the lone Heat player in the area, tipped the ball just before Leonard could secure it. The ball popped straight up. Leonard, Ginobili and Diaw all converged, but none could corral it. The ball bounced away toward the Heat bench where Miller flagged it down. He saw James out of the corner of his eye to his left and quickly scooped it to him behind the arc. James instantly rose up as Allen screened Parker. This time James' 3-pointer dropped and the Spurs' lead was down to 94-92.
"On an offensive rebound, it's one of the toughest things in the NBA, to pick up on people," Popovich said. "They got the rebound, they got it back to [James] and he knocked it down."
Spurs 94, Heat 92, 20.1 seconds left
James' 3-pointer forced San Antonio to call its final timeout. Duncan checked back in to inbound the ball in the frontcourt. With the five-second count bearing down, Duncan made a sharp, soccer-style pass to Leonard well above the 3-point arc. He was quickly fouled by Miller, sending the second-year forward to the free-throw line.
19.4 seconds left
The 21-year-old, usually ultra-poised Leonard watched his first attempt spin out to keep the score 94-92. Duncan substituted out again to give the Spurs the same lineup as the last defensive possession against a Heat lineup that this time included the 6-foot-11 Chris Bosh.
"We don't question those," Ginobili said, asked after the game about Popovich's decision to sit Duncan on consecutive defensive possessions. "He's got a great coaching staff. He's a great coach. And if he did those things, I'm sure he thought about it and he had many great reasons to do it … When he subbed Timmy, it was probably to switch everything. Believe me, he had many more reasons to make that sub than for any of you to question to him."
Leonard's second free-throw attempt went down and the Spurs' lead was now three, 95-92. Miami, with no timeouts, had to inbound under the Spurs' basket.
Allen inbounded to Chalmers under light pressure from Parker. Chalmers crossed midcourt and headed left toward the Heat bench. Parker and Leonard switched, with Leonard jumping on Chalmers standing on the 3-point arc near the sideline. A Bosh screen blocked Parker from sticking on James, so Chalmers directed a pass to an open James on the left side. As Parker and Diaw raced to get out to him, James fired a 3-pointer from three feet behind the arc.
Spurs 95, Heat 92, 7.9 seconds left
After setting the screen on Parker, Bosh went unguarded into the lane to follow James 3-point attempt. James' shot caromed off the right side of the rim and then off the backboard. Bosh, surrounded by three Spurs — Leonard, Green and Ginobili — came down with the ball to give the Heat another second-chance opportunity with Duncan on the bench. James, open at the top of the arc, flailed his arms calling for the ball.
5.2 seconds left
But Bosh didn't see James. Instead, after corralling the rebound, Bosh saw Allen backpedaling to the right corner and flipped the ball to him.
"If it's not me taking the shot, I have no problem with Ray taking the shot, man," James said. "He's got ice water in his veins. Ray can be 0-for-99 in a game and if he gets an open look late in the game, it's going down."
With Parker converging, Allen rose as high as he could and released a shot that had a bit more arc than normal and hit nothing but net.
"CB made some unbelievable plays tonight," James said of Bosh. "He got the offensive rebound, hit Ray and once Ray got [his] feet down, I [saw] it in the air and I was like, 'It's going in. It's got a chance. It's going in.' And he drained it. Just gave us another life."
For Allen, it was his lone 3-point basket of the game.
"It's going to be a shot that I remember for a long time," Allen said. "There [are] a lot of shots that I've made in my career, but this will go high up in the ranks because of the situation. Just the way the whole last minute-and-a-half unfolded, it wasn't looking good for us."
After a review to see if Allen was behind the arc, which the replay showed he clearly was, the Spurs had a chance to talk over a play even though they didn't have a timeout.
Heat 95, Spurs 95, 0.6 seconds left
Parker took the inbounds pass from Duncan, who checked back in after the Allen basket. Parker attempted to go coast-to-coast. With James on him, Parker dribbled left of the lane, tried to shake James, but was forced to put up an off-balance jumper from the baseline that wasn't close as time expired.
The overtime
Leonard hit the Spurs' first two shots of the five-minute period as San Antonio took a 99-97 lead. With 2:42 to go, Parker went to the free-throw line looking for a four-point lead. He missed the first — the Spurs went 21-for-28 from the free-throw line overall — and made the second to make it 100-97.
The Spurs never scored again.
The Spurs closed out the overtime by missing four consecutive shots and turning it over three times. With 31.3 seconds left and the Heat with the ball and clinging to the one-point lead, Popovich made another curious substitution. This time he sat Parker, who had been playing with a right hamstring strain throughout the series and was particularly struggling on the this night, finishing 6-for-23 from the floor.
On the Spurs' next possession, Ginobili drove wildly through the lane, thought he got slapped across the arm — traveling was also a distinct possibility — and ultimately threw it away for his eighth turnover of the game with 2.4 seconds to go.
"I don't know," Parker said when asked about Popovich's substitutions of Duncan in regulation and him in overtime. "Me personally, I trust Pop, whatever decision he makes. I was cramping a little bit at the game, so… But I'll go with whatever Pop decides."
Allen made two free throws with 1.9 seconds to go to seal the Miami victory. San Antonio still had Game 7 to win the championship, but they knew their best shot had just gone horribly awry in 28.2 seconds.
"It was a hell of a game. It was a hell of a game," Popovich said. "It's a game of mistakes and they ended up on the winning side."


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Game On! Sports Schedule for January 23, 2013
After one week out of the top spot, Duke has regained its position as the number-one ranked team in the land and will take to the court for the first time this evening to defend its ranking.
The Blue Devils will face the team bookending them in the polls when they battle ACC foe Miami, checking in at 25th in the AP poll. It'll be a big conference showdown, since the Hurricanes are the lone team without a loss in league play.
Here's a complete look at today's sports schedule. All times Eastern.
Atlanta at Charlotte 7 p.m.
Toronto at Miami 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago 8 p.m.
Los Angeles Lakers at Memphis 8 p.m.
Denver at Houston 8 p.m.
Brooklyn at Minnesota 8 p.m.
New Orleans at San Antonio 8:30 p.m.
Washington at Utah 9 p.m.
Phoenix at Sacramento 10 p.m.
Indiana at Portland 10 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Golden State 10:30 p.m.
NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25
(1) Duke at (25) Miami (FL) 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Penn State at (7) Indiana 7 p.m.
(8) Florida at Georgia 8 p.m.
(9) Butler at La SalleTickets 7 p.m.
(12) Minnesota at Northwestern 9 p.m.
Colorado State at (15) New Mexico 8 p.m.
Washington State at (16) Oregon 9:30 p.m.
(17) Creighton at Drake 8:05 p.m.
(20) Wichita State at Missouri State 8:05 p.m.
Toronto at Pittsburgh 7 p.m.
Boston at New York Rangers 7:30 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)
Calgary at Vancouver 10 p.m.
Columbus at Phoenix 10 p.m.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican leadership plan to avoid a direct threat to shut down the government is being derided by some conservatives as a "hocus-pocus" measure that falls well short of their demands for an "Obamacare" showdown.
Republican aides said the plan, which will be floated by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to party members on Tuesday, would allow for an extension of government funding for several weeks past the September 30 fiscal year-end.
If accepted, the House could vote on the plan later this week.
Conservative Republicans want to use the deadline for a stop-gap government spending measure as leverage to stall President Barack Obama's signature health care law by withholding funds from its core components, notably the October 1 launch of new, online health care exchanges.
But that approach significantly raises the risk of a government shutdown, due to certain opposition in the Democratic controlled Senate and a likely veto from Obama.
The plan would involve procedures that split the measure into two parts after passage by the majority-Republican House, allowing the Senate to send Obama a clean government funding extension, but only after it takes a vote on de-funding Obamacare.
This would subject some Democratic senators in tight re-election races to cast difficult votes in support of the controversial health reforms, but it would likely amount to yet another Republican symbolic effort against Obamacare.
Some Republican aides said it would fail to take advantage of the leverage that Republians hold over the funding deadline.
"Some conservatives are calling this the hocus-pocus bill and it's meeting resistance," one House Republican aide said.
The influential conservative group Club for Growth on Monday came out against the plan, saying it was trying to "fool" Republicans into approving funds for the program.
"I hope this proposal is nothing more than a bad joke and is quickly discarded. Republicans should simply do what they say they are for by passing a Continuing Resolution that doesn't fund Obamacare," Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in a statement.
Over the August recess, however, stopping the implementation of Obamacare was a top concern in Republican House districts, at least until the controversy over attacking Syria gained prominence. At numerous town hall forums, Republican voters implored their representatives halt the law's advance.
Some 80 House Republicans in August signed a letter urging House leadership to defund Obamacare in the spending measure, known as a "continuing resolution" or CR.
"I've been very clear. I want to vote on a CR that funds the government, keeps the government open and defunds Obamacare. That's what I want to vote on," said Representative Jackie Walorski, a Republican House Budget Committee member from Indiana.
With only nine legislative days scheduled in September by the House, there is little time for a lengthy debate over the government funding measure. The House also must stage a contentious vote on authorizing the use of military force against Syria.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, declined to provide details of the funding measure to be considered later this week.
"We are confident we can address a resolution on the use of force in Syria and still meet our other obligations in a fiscally-responsible manner," he said in a statement.
The House has voted 40 times to repeal, delay or defund the health care law since its passage by Democrats in 2010, but each time, the effort has died in the Senate.
Another fiscal deadline, and a potentially stronger leverage point for Republicans, looms in mid-October when Congress needs to pass an increase in the $16.7 trillion federal debt limit.
A significant number of Republicans also have opposed threatening a government shutdown over Obamacare funding because they say it would not accomplish much. Most of the funding for the law comes through mandatory programs such as Medicare health coverage for the poor, and the Obama administration has some discretionary authority over funding within the Department of Health and Human Services.
House Appropriations Committee chairman Harold Rogers has been advocating a simple extension of spending for agencies and discretionary programs until around mid-December at an annualized rate of $988 billion — the current fiscal 2013 level after accounting for "sequester" automatic spending cuts.
A committee aide said the plan is aimed at buying time to reach a broader budget deal that resolves automatic "sequester" spending cuts and to pass full spending bills for fiscal 2014.
But that would be above the $967 billion fiscal 2014 funding level passed by the House in a plan authored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which keeps sequester savings in place.
Reporting By David Lawder


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If you thought the Kings were wandering through a thick haze before, imagine the layers of uncertainty now that the team has been sold, sort of.
Transitions to new owners can be tricky on the basketball operations side under the best of circumstances – a pretty settled roster, a relatively quiet time on the calendar – and this is definitely not the best of circumstances. This is a losing operation desperate for traction with personnel decisions looming, varying degrees of involvement from the out-going owners depending on the day and the mood swings, and leaders in Sacramento weighing several counter-strikes, including legal action, to block the sale to a group that would move the team to Seattle.
P.S.: The trade deadline is Feb. 21, and the potential sale won't be close to untangled by then.
Normally when a franchise is in escrow, the current owners, officially in charge until the Board of Governors approves the sale, continue to handle business, but in strong consultation with the incoming owners. It's possible something would have been written into the agreement about veto power on decisions, it's possible it would have been a courtesy. But, for example, outgoing Chris Cohan was not going to do a sign-and-trade for David Lee to come to the Warriors on an $80 million deal without a nod of approval from pending boss Joe Lacob.
This time? The Maloof family has agreed to sell to a group headed by Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer. But Sacramento officials are lining up investors for a counter-bid in a last-ditch hope the Board of Governors votes down Hansen-Ballmer. Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson has been promised a chance to appear before the BoG votes in April and commissioner David Stern is meeting with potential owners who would keep the team in the California capital. There is no "normally."
The Kings have needs – defense, rebounding, shooting, playmaking – but only the future of Tyreke Evans is an issue on the clock. The former starting point guard, former starting small forward and current starting shooting guard becomes a restricted free agent July 1, making this the last chance to be in control of the possibility of getting something in return for a key player. If they have decided to match any offer sheet, which is not the case, that would be one thing. Evans would be coming back to the "Seattamento SuperKings" and there would be no pause heading toward Feb. 21. But letting free agency play out means management will have trade options greatly reduced if he signs a deal elsewhere and Sacreattle chooses not to match. The only trade can be with the team Evans has picked and there's no guarantee that signing club would have anything of value to swap.
DeMarcus Cousins, meanwhile, is not pressing. There is no indication Geoff Petrie, the president of basketball operations, has had any serious trade conversations, no matter how many bad rumors got started this time. (To the Celtics for a package headed by Jared Sullinger? Good one. Because what the Kings really want to do about six months after investing a lottery pick on Thomas Robinson and big money to re-sign Jason Thompson is move their best talent for another power forward, and one with a concerning injury history at that.)
The real updates remain on the business front. Ron Burkle, the kind of big-money guy Sacramento has been hoping to have at the top of the ticket to present to the Board of Governors, met with Stern in New York on Thursday in a definitive statement of interest by the Pittsburgh Penguins owner.
The development, while noteworthy, is little more than an emotional boost to Sacramento fans latching on to any positive. In reality, landing investors and kick-starting an arena project, now possibly at a different location than what had been in place from the brief 2012 agreement with the Maloofs, was never the biggest challenge. It was, and still is, convincing the Board of Governors not to like what appears to be an ideal bid from Seattle. The money from Sacramento interests will be there in the end. But so will the Seattle group, and if the Board approves the Hansen-Ballmer purchase, Burkle or anyone heading efforts in the current Kings home won't have a team to buy.


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New Mexico's Top Intelletes Vie for Science Olympiad Gold, Feb. 15, 2006
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., Feb. 15, 2006 – Some of the hottest wintertime rivalries outside of Torino will be played out later this month in Socorro as more than 800 student "intelletes" representing 25 middle schools and 25 high schools from throughout the state will tax their scientific knowledge — as well as their motor skills — in 45 spirited academic contests at the 20th Annual New Mexico Science Olympiad, which will be held on Saturday, February 25, on the New Mexico Tech campus.
Dreams of winning gold, silver, and bronze won't be limited to this year's XXth Winter Olympic Games, as teams of Science Olympians launch rockets propelled by compressed air and water, build Rube Goldberg contraptions, and construct efficient boomilevers, bridges, and robots in a quest for Olympic-style medals and a chance to represent their home state at the national level.
The top teams in both the middle school and high school levels, as determined by the state competition, will go on to represent New Mexico at the 2006 National Science Olympiad, which will be held on May 19-20, at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Science Olympiad is a nationwide program that uses tournament competition as a means to challenge and motivate science students in their academic pursuits. The competition requires teamwork, cooperation, planning, and months of practice, providing students with a working knowledge of facts, concepts, and processes, as well as helping them develop thinking skills through practical applications of science and engineering.


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Mobile VPN for iPhone and iPad helps police and firefighters stay alert by providing secure, uninterrupted access to public safety records in remote areas.
Columbitech Inc., a leading mobile VPN security provider, announced today that it is partnering with Zco Corporation , the company behind PolicePad® and FireTab®, to provide police and firefighters with uninterrupted, secure access to public safety records. The city of Lowell, Mass., with a population of 107,000, will have the first police department to use PolicePad with built-in VPN functionality.
The PolicePad and FireTab software runs on iPads, iPhones and Android devices, providing access to 911 calls, warrants, vehicle registration, driver information, sex offenders and other persons of interest, fire hydrants, and hazardous materials mappings. It enables replacement of ruggedized notebook computers costing as much as $6,000 with mobile devices costing $800 or less. In addition, PolicePad and FireTab provide out-of-vehicle mobility, use built-in cameras, support multiparty messaging and connect to surveillance systems.
Zco used the Columbitech Application SDK to integrate mobile VPN functionality into the PolicePad and FireTab software. The Columbitech mobile VPN is FIPS 140-2-validated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and compliant with the Criminal Justice Information Services' policy for law enforcement agencies using wireless technology to connect to federal systems. It supports advanced two-factor authentication with unique client certificates, user-based public key infrastructure, one-time passwords, smartcards, biometric systems, and software and hardware tokens. Information is encrypted, using up to 256-bit AES encryption.
The VPN eliminates problems with dropped connections in remote areas. It creates a persistent connection between the mobile device and the server as police and firefighters move around and switch networks or temporarily lose coverage.
"The Lowell Police Department is looking to meet the highest-encryption, FIPS 140-2 standards for CJIS data traffic," says Kenneth Lavallee, superintendent of the Lowell Police Department. "Columbitech and Zco help us fully meet those standards."
"Columbitech enables us to deliver information in compliance with the CJIS requirements while improving the availability of the PolicePad and FireTab applications in areas with spotty coverage," says Gary Mueller, vice president of business development at Zco Corporation. "By putting information at the police officers' fingertips, crimes can be solved faster and officers can stay alert to their surroundings."
"We are proud that an industry leader such as Zco has chosen to work with Columbitech," says Tobias Englund, president of Columbitech. "By using our application SDK, the extra layer of security becomes completely transparent to the users."
PolicePad and FireTab will be demonstrated at the MCOPA 2013 Feb. 7-8.
About Columbitech
Columbitech protects the entire workforce with one FIPS-validated VPN solution. With more than two million users, customers include three of the top 10 U.S. retailers, public safety agencies, all U.S. military branches and telecom providers. Columbitech is privately held, with offices in Stockholm and New York.
About Zco Corporation
Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Zco Corporation has served firms from Fortune 20 companies to small businesses for +20 years. Zco is one of the largest custom mobile app developers in the world. Its services include 3-D animation and games, augmented reality, and custom software. In addition to work for hire, Zco has two iPad-based public safety products, PolicePad and FireTab. To learn more, visit www.zco.com.
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As a top choice among Cambridge hotels, the Boston Marriott Cambridge is situated across the Charles River from downtown Boston and is the perfect location for your next visit to the city. This Cambridge hotel is positioned in Kendall Square near popular Boston area attractions. Top universities such as MIT, Harvard, and Boston University are just minutes away, as well as Massachusetts General Hospital & the Children's Hospital. Guests of this hotel in Cambridge will enjoy the close proximity to Harvard Square, Fenway Park, TD Banknorth Garden, the North End and the Museum of Science. Enjoy casual American fare at our Cambridge, MA hotel's new restaurant, Champions. The Boston Marriott Cambridge hotel is also an ideal event and meeting facility. With ten breakout rooms and 12,000 sq ft of event space, this hotel can accommodate groups of any size. With easy access to Logan Airport, I-93 and the subway, the Boston Marriott Cambridge is the ideal lodging choice for business trips and vacations in Boston, MA.


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Firm Offers Global Reach, Human Touch
Being part of the global economy goes far beyond technology; it requires the human touch. Ebby Halliday Realtors and its sales associates are proud to belong to the global network whose name says it all — Leading Real Estate Companies of the World. Only the best of the best are part of this collection. Wherever you go, the LeadingRE logo is a symbol of the finest local real estate professionals.
"When you choose Ebby Halliday to represent your property, you'll benefit from a global — not just local — real estate company working on your behalf," says Randall Graham, vice president and director of marketing for Ebby Halliday Realtors. "In addition to the very strong local marketing for which Ebby Halliday has long been known in North Texas, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World provides global marketing and resources, allowing us to provide the very best service to you."
The result? The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World network produced more home sales volume last year than any national franchise, over $368 billion, representing over 1.1 million transactions, according to Graham.
By tapping into the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World network of 130,000 talented sales associates around the world, Ebby Halliday Associates expose homes they represent to buyers on six continents, ensuring there are more eyes on every property. In addition, Ebby Halliday receives inbound clients from other affiliates around the globe who are interested in purchasing a home in North Texas.
"At Ebby Halliday, we understand the importance of global reach — and the human touch," Graham says. "If you're considering listing your North Texas home for sale, you'll find just the right agent — with just the right connections — at the award-winning ebby.com."
With locations across North Texas, Ebby Halliday is one of the oldest and most respected full-service residential real estate firms in the country. The company and its Associates seek every day to elevate the home-buying and selling process into the wonderful life-changing experience it can be. To learn more, visit the mobile-friendly ebby.com.
PHOTO: Shown is the updated, five-bedroom home at 809 Newell (809newell.ebby.com) in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Dallas. Offered by Maureen Jackson, the residence is priced at $755,000.


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Find out if the cost of your prescription drugs are covered by the province.
If you are 65+ years old and receive the federal Old Age Security pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement payments, you could get up to $83 per month to ensure your income stays above a certain amount.
If you are 64+ years old and own a home, you could get up to $500 to help with the cost of property taxes.
Depending on your annual income, you may be able to have the ODB $100 annual deductible waived and have your co-payment reduced to $2 per prescription.
Low to moderate income households, including those requiring support services, can apply for a rent-geared-to-income subsidy to help make housing affordable.
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"Thanks for following me on Twitter! Learn how you can make $$$s from home by reading my ebook. http://www.areyoureallythatgullible.com"
If you use Twitter, you may have had the misfortune to follow someone and straight away receive a direct message back from them similar to the one above. Oh it is irritating. When you follow someone (it could be a brand or a person) you are interested in seeing interesting content, not the hard sell.
How about this one instead: "Thanks for following me on Twitter. Why not follow me on Facebook? https://www.facebook.com/youarekiddingme." The answer of course, is if I had wanted to follow you on Facebook, I would be on Facebook. Direct messages like this just imply the person sending the message doesn't really care about the medium you are using.
Similar to that are posts like 'I posted 9 photos on Facebook in the album blah blah blah'. Again the response is most likely, so what? When confronted with pages of messages that are almost identical and that fill your Twitter stream, because someone has been busy uploading pictures to Facebook, the response is more likely to be 'Aaaargh!' followed by a swift unfollow.
The reason for all of these messages is that they have been automated. It may seem like a great idea to be able to automate your social media, but really it is not. Yes it can save you time, but the irritation it causes your followers can seriously damage your online reputation. You see when you follow a person or brand on social media, there is an element of trust. You are telling that person that you trust them to post content that you want to see. If you are representing a business, your followers may also be your next customer. If you abuse that trust they put in you, then it is more than just an arbitrary number of followers that you could be losing.
There are exceptions where automation is acceptable. The exceptions are not the norm though, so use your discretion.
It really is much better if you are posting messages yourself, rather than leaving it to some faceless bot. Not only does it show followers that there is a human behind the keyboard, but it also gives you the option to respond to others. That's the social part of social media right there.
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December 20th: Sprouts
There are lots of really good things about Christmas, but then there are many parts that nobody likes at all. Namely; Sprouts! Everyone hates sprouts. Even the people who claim to like sprouts secretly hate them, seeing as everybody hates sprouts, apparently.
They sit there, on your plate, being rubbish and awful, spoiling the dinner for you with their small, green, evil, spherical presence. Why do we even have them? It's 'traditional', they say. Like having a tangerine in your stocking or having to endure the critical and racist proclamations of increasingly inebriated elderly relatives. It's the done thing, so you've got to do it.
Thing is, unlike the majority of other things on the Christmas dinner plate, sprouts are green. Why is that? Obviously, being a plant, they contain chlorophyll. You might not know chlorophyll, but it's the pigment that allows photosynthesis to happen, a process which is essential for pretty much all life on Earth. So that's nice.
Unlike all the other bone idle vegetables like potatoes, who just sit there underground, not doing anything apart from getting fat and sprouting feelers to spawn more greedy, useless offspring, sprouts are up and about, storing nutrients and also generating oxygen for us to breathe, essentially pulling double duty as both a source if vital gas and mass for us non-photosynthesising life forms.
And how do we repay them? We boil them to death, devour them en-masse, and complain about how crap they are the whole time. Is that was Christmas means to you people?
Ungrateful gits
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Chris Paul not only led the Clippers to a victory over the Golden State Warriors in their home opener on Thursday night, he did something no other NBA player has done in a game since steals were first recorded in the 1973-74 season: score 40 or more points while having at least 15 assists and five steals, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
Paul, who had 42 points to go along with 15 assists and six steals in the 126-115 win, is arguably the best point guard in the NBA. If you disagree, you better at least mention him with the likes of San Antonio's Tony Parker, Chicago's Derrick Rose, Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook, New Jersey's Deron Williams or anyone else you consider among the elite.
The only two players in the NBA in the last 20 seasons to have scored at least 40 points and have 15 assists in a game are reigning MVP LeBron James and newly retired Allen Iverson, according to ESPN.
What plateau could be next? Oscar Robertson (twice) and Nate "Tiny" Archibald are the only players to have scored at least 40 points and had at least 20 assists in a game. Paul's career highs are 43 points and 21 assists. He's had two other games with 20 assists.
Paul said that performing well Thursday on the heels of the season-opening loss to the Lakers on Tuesday is just one step in a long season.
"It was tough, coach challenged us, we watched a lot of film," he said in a TV interview after the game, talking about bouncing back from the loss. "It's a long season. Even after tonight, we can't get too high because we know [Sacramento] is resting, waiting on us to get there."
The Clippers travel to Sacramento on Friday to play the Kings at 7 p.m.


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The cable company that brings hundreds of digital cable channels and high-speed Internet to neighborhoods across Queens and Brooklyn has tapped their own, locally grown workforce as models for a smoldering 2009 pin-up calendar.
An open call made by regional Time Warner leaders was answered with hundreds of photographs of employees. The competition was widely discussed among employees, but, ultimately, only a few lookers were chosen to represent the work force in the company's first New York City employee calendar.
The photos range from relatively wholesome scenes of kite-flying and fruit-picking to sexier cheese- and beef-cake shots of particularly fit Time Warner employees. Cars are washed, shirts are unbuttoned, and house calls are made, and more sensitive cable customers might have to lie down after seeing some of the more suggestive photographs.
"We wanted to showcase our employees as the hardworking, talented, and dedicated workers that they are, but we also wanted to uncover their inner model," said a Time Warner Cable representative.
Employees interested in posing for the calendar were asked to submit photos, and nearly all of them were excited about the opportunity to appear in the calendar.
"One of the technicians I work with asked me if I was going to do it," said Shibvon Melendez, a technician from Williamsburg and the calendar's Miss March. "Everybody was talking about it. I was so excited when I heard back from them."
Melendez said that the photo shoot gave her an opportunity to socialize with other Time Warner Cable employees that she has worked with but never met.
Melendez, who makes house calls, was excited about the prospect of walking into a customer's home and seeing her photo on the wall, but said, "they would have to recognize me. I probably wouldn't say anything."
Other employees were excited to show off their sunny faces and chiseled bodies. "It was the first time I've ever worn makeup," said John Varriale, a communications and training director from Flushing. Varriale can be seen as a telephone-answering pirate on the October page. "It was almost a Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean style. Customers will get this calendar, and see us in a whole different light."
When asked what his family and friends thought about his move to modeling, Varriale said, "I come from a pretty traditional Italian-American family, and they'll probably be cracking jokes about this." He admitted that he quite liked the experience of modeling for a calendar, and said that he was considering pursuing it as a secondary career. "I'm thinking about putting together a portfolio."
The 2009 calendar was unveiled on Monday at the Time Warner Cable Store on 23rd Street in Manhattan, and it was the first time that any of the models had seen their shots. "I think they look great," said Melendez.
The Cable Calendar will be available to Time Warner Cable customers by logging on here. Supplies are limited, but the company indicated that they may be putting together a similar calendar for 2010.


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DALLAS — Former NBA coach Del Harris grew up in Indiana idolizing fellow Hoosier Stater John Wooden. During Final Four weekend next month in North Texas, Harris will receive the Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" award at the Legends of Hardwood breakfast.
Harris, 76, coached for more than 50 years, starting at junior high, high school and college before guiding the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers. He spent many more years as a top assistant, including in Dallas under Don Nelson. Harris, who lives in Dallas, remains tied to the game as the vice president of the Mavericks' D-League affiliate Texas Legends in suburban Dallas. Harris is also a part-time studio analyst on New Orleans Pelicans broadcasts.
The "Keys to Life" honor is akin to a lifetime achievement award. That it is in the name of the legendary Wooden means the world to Harris, who as an ordained minister started out in life as a preacher, "and I still do that most of the time," Harris said Friday prior to the Mavs taking on the Pacers, "but it became obvious early on that what I was called to do was coach basketball, primarily."
The significance of coach Wooden's influence on Harris' life and his career is best told by Harris, a walking, talking basketball encyclopedia in his own right:
"When I was growing up in Indiana, I grew up 30 miles or so from Martinsville, where he played. When I was quite young and starting to play, the NBA hadn't started yet. So our heroes in those days in Indiana were the high school players and the college players that had established themselves. Guys like coach Wooden, he was the No. 1 as a player winning the championships in high school and then being at Purdue, the best player at that time, in our little world. Those were our heroes.
"Then in the '50s in high school, the NBA by then had started up. There were eight teams playing, nothing on TV or anything like that. John Wooden was a guy that was the epitome of basketball for me and for a lot of others when we were kids. And so when I started coaching, he was on top, obviously, and I went wherever I could to listen to his clinics. I went to New York one time just to hear him. I patterned as much as I could from his work and what I learned from him and also from Dean Smith, just a little bit later on he came into our place in 1966-67 and spent a few days in my home. Those two guys were the foundation for what I tried to do. Now, I was a poor representation of John Wooden I'm sure, but later on when I was in L.A., I was able to spend time with him, I sat in on UCLA practices and watched the team practice, I took him to lunch, I sat in his apartment for an entire afternoon and talked about basketball and life.
"My dad, when he died, I was going through his things and he always — he called coach Wooden, coach Wooten, but he also thought Iowa was Ioway, too, so — but anyway he thought he [Wooden] was the best ever and so forth. When going through his things, he had a picture, I don't know where he got it, of the Wooden family — he had a Wooden family photo among his things. And so I know that, he's been gone now since 1998 and it was a life-changing event for me when he died, I know that of all the things that might have come my way, this would be the most important thing that my dad would have appreciated."
Congratulations to Del Harris.
Also to be honored during the Final Four is another Dallas resident and basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman. She has been named the Naismith Outstanding Contributor to Women's College Basketball.
Lieberman became the first women to coach a professional men's team when she guided the D-League Legends for one season. She currently joins Harris in the franchise's front office and is a full-time studio analyst on Oklahoma City Thunder broadcasts.


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ADDISON COUNTY — Sunday's end of the muzzleloader and bow deer seasons brought no more good news for local hunters than the end of November's rifle season. The numbers of deer weighed at local reporting stations this month declined dramatically from recent years.
If anything, the drop for the combined results for October's bow season and December's muzzleloader and bow season was even steeper.


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Les Miserables
This upcoming re-imagining of the classic is sure to pull on your heart strings. Unlike most Broadway films, there is no pre-recorded soundtrack. All of the songs are performed live for amazing emotional impact. The movie stars Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and Russell Crowe. Check it out this December!


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Yes, you read correctly.
According to Wired.co.uk, the billionaire author is forsaking her print publishers and releasing her novels on her own.
A few years ago, I was critical of Rowling's decision not to release ebooks of the Potter series. Piracy became the only way to get her ebooks, and those bootleg copies thrived. I wouldn't be surprised if she was the most pirated author ever, simply because fans had no other choice if they wanted to read her on their ereaders. That means she missed out on a lot of money.
Looks like she found a way to get that money back.
Naturally, I think she's brilliant for making this self-pubbing move. She'll be the first superstar to do so, and others will no doubt follow suit.
This comes on the heels of Amazon's Thomas & Mercer imprint acquiring the rights to more than forty titles in Ed McBain's backlist. McBain died in 2005, and has sold more than 100 million books. I love the 87th Precinct novels, and they were one of the main reasons I chose to write police procedurals. It will be great to see them in ebook form, and in print once again, even if the Seattle Mystery Bookshop won't carry them.
They also won't carry Barry Eisler, who turned down half a million dollars from St. Martins in order to self-pub. (For those with Kindles, our entire three-part 35,000 word conversation is now nicely formatted and available for 99 cents. Ditto Nook, and free on Smashwords.)
And, of course, let's not forget that John Locke is the first indie author to sell a million ebooks.
Borders recently got a one month extension to find a buyer before they're forced to liquidate.
Barnes and Noble is hanging in there, and sales are up 20% over last year. But this is mostly due to increased BN.com sales, many of which were ebooks.
So what does all of this mean?
More than a year ago I predicted that ebooks won't destroy the Big 6 because readers will abandon print (even though they're doing just that--ebook sales up 157% in March, print books down 22%-40%), but rather it is authors who will render the Big 6 obsolete. The more authors who choose the self-pub route over legacy, the harder it will be for legacy publishers to stay afloat.
Some bookstores will survive if they learn how to adapt. But it'll be tough, and I think everyone agrees that the heyday of bookstores is over. From now on there will be more stores closing than opening.
As I've said before, this is a death spiral.
What happens next is obvious. After more bookstores close, publishers will follow suit. They'll keep ebook prices high to make up for their print losses, but won't be able to sustain their overhead. Since ebooks now outsell print, very few authors are going to sign new legacy deals for 14.9% ebook royalties, so publishers will have to offer more or lose them.
It's only a matter of time before the house of cards collapses.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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When "hacktivist" Jeremy Hammond stood in a Chicago federal courtroom seven years ago and explained that his cybercrimes were altruistic acts of civil disobedience, he was cut a break by a judge who chalked it up to youthful folly.
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A New York federal judge on Friday sentenced Hammond, 28, to the maximum 10 years in prison for a 2011 hacking spree that exposed confidential and sometimes personal information about law enforcement officers, private intelligence firms and U.S. government contractors and cost millions of dollars in damages. He had pleaded guilty in May.
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That's a hellava lot of things to accomplish this year Mike.I think the most challenging will be to complete The Silmarillion!
Get the Infraction vinyl series in full swingImprove the house, sell the house, & get another that comfortably fits my wife and I and our little 8 mo. old girlStart running againTake an overdue vacation outside of Ohio. 3 years of anesthesia school with little time off, has made me extremely dull. That's a fact.Get caught up on the backlog of things to listen to.I think that's it for now - seems semi-achievable.
I've been moving my studio into a nice bright big room ... slowed everything down for me, but is now looking super functional.
Get a job. The rest I will think about once I can pay the bills.
Quote from: LNerell on January 09, 2008, 11:15:41 AMGet a job. The rest I will think about once I can pay the bills. Goal number one for 2008 has been achieved I am happy to say. I was officially hired today by my old alma mater. I am now a "recording technician" for the music department at UCLA. What that means is I am one of two guys who records all the concerts and recitals that occur in the music building. Its only part-time but I found out that I might be able to make up extra hours by doing audio work for other departments, and their is the possibility that it might become full-time in the future. Another very rare bonus these days is it comes with full benefits. Thanks to everyone who wished me well, and also to those who helped me out last December by taking some of my gear off my hands when I really needed the help. Now, I think the next step is to start losing some weight.


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I've been wanting to tramshoe over to Marion Mt. and the Rockpile -- finally had the opportunity last Sunday. We went the traditional winter route to the base of Miller Saddle, then headed up through the forest and took Jean's gully to the ridge.
From Jean, Sally and I had scouted out a route over to Shirley on a recent snowcamp. After traversing around Shirley it was a simple matter to head over the little ridge past Joyce peak We traversed next to Marion and stopped for lunch at the flat area between Marion and the Rockpile (aka Mt. Ellen).
Normally it's a class three scramble to the top, but with all the snow, we walked up quickly.
Team K2 joined us (Kevin left and Kirk right).
So did Lorette (left) and Marilyn (middle).
We saved Marion for another day. The amount of snow up there is staggering.
On the way back, we tried traversing around the other side of Shirley over to Wellman's divide rather going up and down the ridge. The snow was too soft and I'm a klutz, so I kept sliding out of the track and developed temporary Tourette's . Finally got to Wellman''s and went XC down to Round Valley, then took the trail back.
The next time, I'll retrace the route back to Jean, head over to San Jacinto and down the usual winter route.
Miles of smiles,


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The number of Linux users and installations is impossible to determine. But there are several different statistical information available which can be used to at least get a rough idea of the number of Linux installations world wide.
Merging different statistical data into one number is a tricky exercise and the result is questionable at best. Keep that in mind when you read the following information. The idea is not to get exact numbers but to get a rough idea of the dimension, nothing else.
Source #1: Fedora
One of the best statistical sources regarding Linux usage are the Fedora statistics. There the number of downloaded images as well as the number of unique IPs getting software updates is counted.
The data are difficult to interpret: no one knows if a downloaded image was only used to test the new system or to bun it onto a CD and distribute it to thousands of magazine readers or thousands of company computers. The second number is problematic because one new IP can mean a big NAT network or just a dial-in user who re-connected. So flaws everywhere, but it is a interesting coincidence that the IP numbers and the downloads are rather close.
There are also the smolt data. It tracks the users who opted in to a tracking system. Currently the smolt web server seems to be lacking behind. But there are current data available for older Fedora releases: these informations say that every month Fedora still gets more than 10k new Fedora 7 users – although there are already Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 available.
So the question is how to read all the data. One way was recently suggested by Paul Frields, Fedora's project leader: he sums up the data to be around 11.5 million. Together with currently 2.5 million Red Hat subscriptions this would result in 13 million users. Focussing on Fedora alone and leaving the Fedora 6 users Fedora would still have a user base of 9.5 million users.
Source #2: relative statistics
There are hardly any other trustfully data from other Linux distributions available. Therefore, the Fedora number does say a lot about Fedora, but not that much about Linux in general. However, there are other statistics which measure the relative acceptance of Linux distributions.
One such source is the 2007 Linux Desktop Survey done by DesktopLinux.com. There the relative importance of Fedora/Red Hat is measured with 9%. Unfortunately there is no more recent survey available. I wonder why no one has picked up such a survey in 2008. Maybe I should start one on my own? 🙂
The result
Given that Fedora/Red Hat has roughly 10% and also roughly 10 million users together (which in fact seems like a at least slightly realistic data base, given the facts), the total number of Linux users world wide would sum up to 100 million Linux users. Nice.
That would leave Mac OS far behind, which is however not that surprising: Mac OS is hardly used in Offices or the government outside the US, and it is far easier to give Linux a try and keep it as a dual boot option besides a Windows installation. Also, the EU governments are pushing Linux quite a lot, and many companies and governments indeed switch to Linux right now or already switched over in the client space for some of the day-to-day workstations.
Still, last year I played the "numbers game" already (unfortunately with the same relativity source, btw.) and the result said something about 20 to 30 million users. I doubt that the number of Linux users spiked that much in the last year, but think that we can safely say the number of Linux users world wide is somewhere in the middle two digit million area, somewhere around 50 million installations worldwide.
Keep in mind that this counts mainly workstations – not traffic lights, shop information terminals or any other specialized hardware. Including all these devices would result in much, much larger numbers.
The problem: discrepancy
Most numbers available guessing the number of Linux users world wide say that there are not that many Linux installations out there, not at all. Most often it is said that, in percentage, Apple has a low one-digit number, while Linux has a dot before its first non-zero number.
The statistical backup for such numbers is most often created by browser strings aggregated from Web pages. This procedure has the flaw that these strings are often faked to make it easier to access specific pages. Also, the monitored pages are only a subset of the entire web, and surprisingly often focus on the US only which is not representative for the world at any rate.
Still, I do often wonder why such numbers and my estimates are different in the order of magnitudes. I welcome any comment on that issue!


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Resolution has no expiration date, but city says it could rethink stance if country improves human-rights record.
SANTA ANA – With ceremony and a promise of solidarity with the Vietnamese American community, the City Council adopted a resolution seeking to discourage official visits from communist Vietnam.
"What this resolution is intended to do is to send a message to those who are adverse to freedom," said Councilman Vincent F. Sarmiento, noting, as the resolution does, that Little Saigon has its roots in Santa Ana. "We want to stand against countries that violate human rights of their citizens."
Mayor Miguel Pulido invited council members, following a 6-0 vote on Tuesday, to gather in front of their chamber to sign the resolution, which went into effect with their signatures.
As they did so, representatives of the Vietnamese community, ranging from youth to the elderly, gathered around to witness the event.
"This resolution really shows that Santa Ana stands behind promoting social justice," said Councilwoman Angelica Amezcua.
Under terms of the measure, the city is on record in discouraging official government visits from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Santa Ana.
Vietnamese officials will be required to alert the chief of police at least 14 days before a visit. The city asserted its right to charge any entity that initiates official visits for any costs that Santa Ana might incur. It has no expiration date, but said that Santa Ana would discourage official visits until the State Department or international organizations find that the country has improved its human rights record.
Both Westminster and Garden Grove in 2004 adopted resolutions seeking to discourage official visits from Vietnam, but both measures expired in 2009.
After hearing concerns from the Vietnamese community, the Santa Ana City Council in November directed staff to prepare a resolution modeled on Westminster's 2004 measure, seeking notice of official visits to allow time for police to prepare.
Soon after, the city councils of Garden Grove and Westminster approved new resolutions seeking to discourage official visits. Garden Grove's mandates a 14-day notice from visiting delegations, while Westminster seeks a 10-day notification from the State Department. Like Santa Ana's, the Garden Grove and Westminster resolutions have no set expiration date.
The cities approved the resolutions to diminish any risk to the public of an official visit. Mass demonstrations erupted in Little Saigon in 1999 when a video store owner displayed a flag of communist Vietnam and a picture of Ho Chi Minh.
The consul general of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in San Francisco has said that such resolutions have no impact on Vietnamese delegations and are not enforceable. The two countries resumed diplomatic relations in 1995 and visits are coordinated with the State Department, not local agencies, said Consul General Hung Ba Nguyen.
Absent from the meeting was Councilman Sal Tinajero.
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TMZ has obtained photos of Ashton Kutcher partying his face off on his 6th wedding anniversary last weekend -- problem is ... Demi Moore was 3,000 miles away.
Sources tell us, Ashton -- who married Demi on September 24th, 2005 -- was burning the midnight oil at FLUXX nightclub in San Diego early Saturday morning ... while Demi promoted her new Lifetime movie in New York.
But they're Ashton and Demi -- plenty of couples spend their anniversaries apart ... partying ... with strangers ... right?
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Though I'm no longer a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), I have been in years gone by. I have a number of family and friends who are members. It's not at all unusual for me to engage in conversation with them about the NRA and any and all things gun-related. I've read or perused nearly every issue of one of the NRA's chief publications (American Rifleman) over the course of the past forty years. I have read reams of other literature the NRA has published. I visit their website. I take careful note of anything said about them when I notice their appearance in the news.
I say all of that to say this: I know and understand something of the mind of the NRA and I know and understand something of its membership. And I also know that not every NRA member sees things as the NRA's current president, Wayne LaPierre, sees things. What the NRA declares as gospel, by no means would all of its members subscribe to in faith and practice. That is, while the NRA may say one thing, some of its members would do another. In many of those cases I would say, "That's a good thing."
And that's one of the reasons it really bothers me when I hear or see sweeping assumptions and generalizing statements made about the NRA. "NRA people think …" "I've heard it said that if you're a member of the NRA you do [or don't] …" "Only _____ are members of the NRA." Such remarks don't merely bother me, but also, and especially, members of the NRA who don't subscribe to everything the NRA publishes.
Would it not then be much more accurate and respectful to say otherwise, perhaps something like the following: "I understand some members of the NRA think …" "I've heard it said that if you're a member of the NRA you might do [or don't] …" "Some members of the NRA appear to be …"
To some this might seem like a small or subtle difference, an even trivial or unimportant difference in wording, but I beg to differ. I perceive it to be huge and obvious, vital and crucial. And for one reason, if nothing else: no one should be misunderstood or falsely accused.
I am a Christian. I've been a member of Churches of Christ for the past thirty-six years. I've preached virtually every week within Churches of Christ for the past thirty-three years. I hold a graduate degree from a university associated with Churches of Christ (Abilene Christian University). I have written for half-a-dozen of publications within Churches of Christ. When I notice a Church of Christ appearing in the national news (as one did last week in the New York Times), I take note of it.
I say that to say this: I know and understand something of the mind of Christ, Christians, and Churches of Christ. And so I know that not all members of Churches of Christ believe or practice their faith the same way. By no means "all; as in, "not even close." And sometimes – often – that's a very good thing indeed.
And so, I cringe a bit whenever I hear someone say: "You Church of Christ people believe …" "Church of Christ people all think …" People who belong to Churches of Christ are …" And why do I cringe? Because I know we don't all see everything alike and to pretend everything on the canvas is all one color is to miss the painting entirely.
Consequently, whenever I hear or see someone make statements like those, I know they're likely being made by someone who either doesn't have much personal knowledge of Churches of Christ and/or they're just not thinking about what they're saying at the moment. Either of which only perpetuates mass ignorance and feeds misunderstanding from misrepresentation, neither of which I care to be a part of at all.
And so I say, let's each make an extra effort to not label or pigeon-hole people whenever we speak of groups of people. We best respect groups of people when we respect the individuals who compose those groups. After all, our salvation is not of the NRA, Churches of Christ, or any other group of people. Rather, we all stand or fall before the one God and Father of us all, through the one Savior and Lord he has provided for each of us, Jesus Christ.


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Many federal agencies are struggling to convert their existing buildings to meet green standards, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Of 20 agencies graded by the OMB on their compliance with green mandates, only seven met the 2010 mandate that requires at least 5% of their buildings meet energy-efficient and sustainable standards. Agencies need to have 15% of their buildings meet these green guidelines by 2015--and it doesn't seem like that goal will be met.
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Rapper Game Apologizes for Prank That Jammed LA Sheriff's Station 911 System
It was the social media prank that was heard 'round the world — well, at least if you worked at the Los Angeles Sheriff's Compton station.
Thanks to the rapper Game, the Compton Sheriff department received a flash mob of telephone calls last Friday, which in turn jammed the phone lines and reportedly delayed emergency calls to the station. Since then, the rapper has confessed and apologized for his part in the prank.
Game allegedly tweeted the Compton Sheriff station's phone number in response to an internship, leading to a large amount of phone calls which lasted for two hours. In addition, authorities believe help was delayed to those in need, including a missing person, a spousal assault, two robberies and a stolen car.
Game has recently apologized for his actions and told CNN, "It was a simple mishap. I was doing a photo shoot, and it was downtown Los Angeles, and one of my boys picked up my phone and started tweeting random numbers."
It was a joke gone wrong, according to Game, and the phone number was confused with a previous tweet about a label internship with the rapper. "The tweet about the internship was earlier in that day," he said. "[My friend] never sent out a tweet that said these numbers are for the internship. He tweeted a bunch of numbers jokingly. We always play pranks on each other."
Sheriff's Department Capt. Mike Parker said Game could've been charged with at leaset three misdemeanors, each carrying a maximum sentence of a year in jail. "In the age of new media that began just a few short years ago, musicians, celebrities and notable persons have a large number of followers on social media," Parker said. "They have an obligation to be responsible and to care about the community and their fans, which includes not doing the social media equivalent of yelling 'fire' in a crowded movie theater."
Game need not worry, though. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department will not pursue criminal prosecution because of lack of evidence. "Based upon our investigation, as well as consultation with the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, the LASD considers the criminal investigation into this matter closed," Parker said in a statement.


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San Francisco has cancer patients, cancer victims, and cancer hospitals and it's always important to choose that right one. Cancer doctors and hospitals are available in the San Francisco area! Thousands die of cancer every year, so let's search for the cure! San Francisco as well as other cities need to find that cure!
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Ok San Francisco! Thousands are dying in San Francisco from Cancer and why? In a society like ours, how can we not have a cure for cancer. With our technology, I strongly believe San Francisco as well as other cities in this world are being left out from the cure. I strongly believe they do have a cure for cancer, but there's too much money to be lost if the cure does exist. Hospitals, doctors, treatments, and more will not be needed with a cure. San Francisco has thousands of victims from this plague and it's ridiculous. Why can't they unleash the cure. Loved ones and friends are dying from this plague of cancer and someone has to let the world know that they do have a cure! Hospitals in San Francisco, Doctors in San Francisco, Clinics in San Francisco, and more will be in trouble if the cure is released.
With cancer on the loose, medications and treatments are going through the roof. This is good for the medical industry, but taking lives just to satisfy the industry is absurd! Here's an example. Imagine San Francisco, Bill Gates or someone close to him gets cancer! I guarantee that the cure is unleashed to help him or his loved one continue to live. Of course, no one will ever know! If the cure for cancer is released, money will be lost for the economy, at least the medical economy. Insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, and more would lose if the cure for cancer is released. How many lives will be taken just to cover up this nonsense and make the rich richer? Not only in San Francisco, but all of our cities in this great Nation as well as other countries are losing this battle. Similar to gas, another alternative is there, just not released. The cancer industry is big bucks and the cure will never be unleashed. The only cure for cancer to ever be released would be behind closed doors!
Imagine how many hospitals, clinics, doctors, and other medical resources would lose money as well as not be needed if the cure did exist! If we don't push for the cure, thousands of lives will continue to be lost! Cancer is bullshit! Are you telling me that our world doesn't have an answer! Come on, the answer is there, just isn't allowed to come out! How many more lives will be taken from San Francisco and other Cities. We need to fight for San Francisco and other cities to unleash the cure!