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Photo of Jackie Alemany courtesy of Gil Talbot.
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Harvard women's
basketball team won its fourth straight with a 74-53 win over
Cornell Friday night at Newman Arena. Freshman Victoria Lippert led
the Crimson (15-7, 6-2 Ivy ) in scoring for the third straight game
with 20 points.
Lippert posted her second career double-double adding 10 rebounds to her stat line. Junior Emma Markley, who celebrated her 22nd birthday on Thursday, also scored in double figures with 10 points. It was her 18th game of the season in double figures. Classmate Jackie Alemany pulled down a career-high 13 rebounds and handed a career-high five assists. She was two points away from a double-double as she poured in nine points.
It took a little over a minute for the Crimson to score its
first basket, but Harvard was able to pull ahead 13-0 as it took
seven minutes for the Big Red to score. Jackie Alemany scored six
of the first eight points for the Crimson. Halfway through the
first session, the Crimson led 17-7 and extended its lead to 22-7
on a lay-up from Miriam Rutzen and a three-pointer from Brogan
Berry. The home team managed to close the gap at 26-17 with 7:12 on
the clock. A 9-2 run for the Crimson that included six points from
Lippert and a trifecta from Caitlin Rowland put the visiting team
up 35-19, its largest lead in the first stanza. Cornell closed out
the first half scoring nine of the final 14 points of the stanza to
make it 40-28.
Lippert led the Crimson with 12 points at the half, while Berry and Rutzen had six a piece.
Harvard shot 51.4 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes of action and outrebounded the Big Red 25-17.
In the first five minutes of the second half, each team scored six points. Cornell started it off with a Allie Fedorowicz basket to cut the lead to 10 before a Christine Matera three-pointer gave the Crimson a 43-30 advantage with 18:09 to play. Alemany drained a three with 11:51 to go to give the Crimson its largest lead of the night, 55-38. The Crimson equaled that advantage twice over the next two minutes. Cornell used a 5-0 run to close the gap to 58-48 with 8:49 left on the clock. Taylor Flynn, who had 17 of Cornell's 25 first half points, made one of two attempts from the free throw line at 7:29 to cut the deficit to nine. It was the first single digit lead for the Crimson since 7:12 left in the first frame.
Harvard used a 9-0 run, which included five points from Markley to regain control of the game. During that time the Crimson defense held the Big Red scoreless for more than five minutes. Spencer Lane ended the Big Red draught with 2:43 left to play.
The Crimson shot 46.9 percent from the game and held the Big Red to just 31.0 percent shooting. Harvard won the battle on the glass, outrebounding the Big Red, 48-33.
The Crimson travels to New York City for a 7 p.m. game against Columbia.

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As the Albany County Legislature begins its deliberations on the lease agreement between the county and the Upstate Services Group for the operation of the county Nursing Home, I wanted to provide some detail on what my office is doing to bring all the facts to light when it comes to the nursing home. Over the past few years, I have spent a significant amount of time discussing the future of the nursing home with the public, legislators and the media. I have worked with legislative leaders Chairman Shawn Morse, Majority Leader Frank Commisso and Minority Leader Christine Benedict to ensure that we are protecting our seniors, our taxpayers and accepting financial responsibility as we consider this agreement with USG. I have made it clear that the lease agreement ensures that the nursing home will continue to serve the current patients and carry out existing admission policies, which means the facility will continue to serve as a safety net for our seniors. In my view moving forward with USG as the operator gives us an opportunity keep the facility open and to undertake some capital improvements that are needed. It goes without saying that the patients at the nursing are well cared for by the staff at the nursing home and that will continue with USG as the operator. However, the facility's infrastructure badly needs repair. For the last two years our budget planning has been hampered by trying to mitigate the impact of mandates, reductions in reimbursements from the state and federal government and costs that are beyond our control. Despite our best effort, the nursing home continues to negatively impact county finances, with a deficit of $7 to $9 million annually. At a time of fiscal uncertainty, this has proven to be problematic for the county and for taxpayers. For the past two years the county has been unable to craft a budget that would be under the 2 percent property tax cap. Simply said, costs are increasing too rapidly for us to keep up. We need a solution to this problem now. That is why I support moving forward with the lease agreement with USG to take over operations of the nursing home. From the beginning of the process I have been committed to working with the Legislature to ensure we protect seniors and the taxpayers and that we finally accept responsibility for the nursing home by recognizing that the economic realities of running this facility are untenable. We have explored other options and we have not been successful. It is time for us to move forward to ensure that the patients and taxpayers are protected. Our agreement with USG does that and more. In order to ensure that the process was conducted openly and with transparency, we held five open forums with county legislators. While not all of them chose to attend the sessions, I believe that it was my duty to bring the stakeholders together to discuss the nursing home. Before the first session was held, I provided a copy of the agreement to the leadership and the legislators, which is something that has not been done in the past. I did that to facilitate a thorough review of the agreement while providing an opportunity for the legislators to ask questions about the agreement. The days of putting tough decisions off until tomorrow are over. We cannot defer moving forward on this plan. Too much depends on it. We have to do what is right, for the nursing home patients, their families and for the 300,000 residents of Albany County. Daniel P. McCoy is the Albany County executive
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Monday, 21 January, 2002, 16:24 GMT
Lockerbie verdict 'politically influenced'
A United Nations observer at the trial of two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing has said the judgment appeared to be politically influenced.
Speaking at a conference on the trial at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Austrian philosophy Professor Hans Koschler said there appeared to be pressure from the USA and UK.
Prof Koschler was one of five people appointed to observe the trial held at the Scottish Court in Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the killing of 270 people in the 1988 bomb attack on Pan Am Flight 103.
Prof Koschler, who said his views were his own and not those of the United Nations, said: "The present judgment is logically inconsistent.
"You cannot come out with a verdict of guilty for one and innocent for the other when they were both being tried with the same evidence.
"In my opinion, there seemed to be considerable political influence on the judges and the verdict.
"My guess is that it came from the United States and the United Kingdom. This was my impression."
The Innsbruck University professor said he had submitted his report on the trial to UN General Secretary Kofi Annan, who had forwarded it to the Scottish authorities.
Sanctions question
The conference was expected to discuss Libyan demands for sanctions to be abolished.
Both US President George W Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair have said that sanctions will not be lifted until Libya accepts responsibility for the bombing and pays compensation.
Al Megrahi's legal team are appealing against his conviction.
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Oh yes 7 were killed , they were from both sides and some of them were shot by live ammunition ,oh yes there are live ammunition now seemed to be used from both sides. This is how the civil war starts in countries !!
Of course according to the footage , testimonies and photos , there is more violence from the MB's supporters side against the protesters.
The MB and Islamist supporters are still surrounding the presidential palace in order to protect the legitimacy of Morsi and stop any attempts to storm the Palace !!!!!!!!!!
Nevertheless after absence , the Republican guards units appeared outside Palace with tanks and armored vehicles. Here is a photo from El Korba showing the Republican guards' tanks at 10.30 AM by Sarah Ebeid.
|The tanks in Korba by Sarah Ebeid on twitter
Despite they got casualties in that night battle and people were killed from their sides , Morsi's supporters mainly from Muslim brotherhood members seem to feel that they won the war. At least this impression is enforced by that morning march at the Presidential Palace !!
This video makes you believe the claim about their trained armed militias. Already they seemed to be happy for a group that lost casualties including martyrs
Of course the MB media machine did not stop. We got wild accusation to ElBaradei, Sabbahi and Moses of heading militias that seek a coup and that ElBaradei and Sabbahi got $ 40 million from the States and Iran while Moses is receiving aid from Israel !! The MB Media is also accusing the Egyptian Church of standing behind this violence.
The MB media machine also accused Ahmed Maher , the founder of April 6 Youth Movement , who was one of the strongest supporters and allies of Morsi of heading the thugs in last night's clashes !!!
As the videos and photos emerging from the clashes show horrifying a truth. I do not know or understand what kind of brainwash the members of brotherhood is subjected to honestly based on the testimonies I heard !!
Here is Ola Shahba , a socialist activist and a member in the socialist popular alliance Party. Ola elected Morsi by the way
|Ola Shahba after she was freed in the morning
Ola and her Comrade Ramy Sabry were detained by the Muslim brotherhood for hours and have been tortured. They were accused of being thugs.
Ramy Sabry was not released for hours kept with other MB's captives at the Presidential Palace before he was handed over to the Police !!
|Sabry detained at the gate
The men were kept all day in captivity and I wish that they were treated in the way Islam ordered us to treat POWs !!
|From Al Masry Al Youm
You can Mina Philip and another poor citizen who works as a janitor in some nearby building so there is also a young boy among the detainee.Already I do not understand who is that man in a suit that orders the other MB members to search the poor man and curses Mina !!!
These citizens are in the eyes of President are convicted thugs !!
Mr. Mina Philip holds a managerial level in Orange Telecom in Egypt refused to reveal his identity for fear they would know that he is a Christian !! Here is the original video showing dragged and beaten saying "I forgot my name"
Already it seems that being a Christian in Heliopolis on that night was a reason enough for the MB members and supporters to detain people and hand them over to the police !! President Morsi tonight spoke about a nation for everybody and so in his threatening speech , these are his supporters
Back to Philip who has not returned back home yet,well in a sad coincidence Mohamed El Houssainy , the MB member who was killed in the clashes also work in
Already this is against the law , they do not have the right to detain and interrogate a person let alone to beat him like that !! And before you jump in to the wagon I refused these actions when it happened in Tahrir square too.
Currently there are 90 detainees who are facing interrogations and attempted murder charges including that young boy you saw. 49 of these detainees need to be transferred to hospital ASAP !! Already the prosecution should arrest the MB members and charge them with illegal detention and torture but what you know the new Public prosecutor is appointed directly by the president !!
Now here is a glimpse of that thuggery minority Morsi spoke about
|Mohamed Said Ramdan 37 years old
|Ex-ambassador Yahia Negm
|BY Nadim X
This video is being spread by Morsi's supporters claiming that these are the protesters shooting at the MB supporters who did not have arms or anything and were peaceful.In this point , I will copy what my friend , a resident of Heliopolis told me "After hours of being attacked by the birdshot and gunfire of Muslim brotherhood , we began to ask if someone has got a gun to protect us".
This is how the civil war starts.
Oh here is another video before the battle showing the MB supporters attacking the women´s march from Heliopolis club led by famous icon Shahenda Maklad , yes Shahenda Maklad whom Morsi´s supporter was trying to shut her up !!


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Devils Pool (1895)/To the Reader
A la sueur de ton visaige,
Tu gagnerois ta pauvre vie.
Après long travail et usaige,
Voicy la mort qui te convie.[1]
THIS quaint old French verse, written under one of Holbein's pictures, is profoundly melancholy. The engraving represents a laborer driving his plow through the middle of a field. Beyond him stretches a vast horizon, dotted with wretched huts; the sun is sinking behind the hill. It is the end of a hard day's work. The peasant is old, bent, and clothed in rags. He is urging onward a team of four thin and exhausted horses; the plowshare sinks into a stony and ungrateful soil. One being only is active and alert in this scene of toil and sorrow. It is a fantastic creature. A skeleton armed with a whip, who acts as plowboy to the old laborer, and running along through the furrow beside the terrified horses, goads them on. This is the specter Death, whom Holbein has introduced allegorically into that series of religious and philosophic subjects, at once melancholy and grotesque, entitled "The Dance of Death."
In this collection, or rather this mighty composition, where Death, who plays his part on every page, is the connecting link and predominating thought, Holbein has called up kings, popes, lovers, gamesters, drunkards, nuns, courtesans, thieves, warriors, monks, Jews, and travelers,—all the people of his time and our own; and everywhere the specter Death is among them, taunting, threatening, and triumphing. He is absent from one picture only, where Lazarus, lying on a dunghill at the rich man's door, declares that the specter has no terrors for him; probably because he has nothing to lose, and his existence is already a life in death.
Is there comfort in this stoical thought of the half-pagan Christianity of the Renaissance, and does it satisfy religious souls? The upstart, the rogue, the tyrant, the rake, and all those haughty sinners who make an ill use of life, and whose steps are dogged by Death, will be surely punished; but can the reflection that death is no evil make amends for the long hardships of the blind man, the beggar, the madman, and the poor peasant? No! An inexorable sadness, an appalling fatality brood over the artist's work. It is like a bitter curse, hurled against the fate of humanity.
Holbein's faithful delineation of the society in which he lived is, indeed, painful satire. His attention was engrossed by crime and calamity; but what shall we, who are artists of a later date, portray? Shall we look to find the reward of the human beings of to-day in the contemplation of death, and shall we invoke it as the penalty of unrighteousness and the compensation of suffering?
No, henceforth, our business is not with death, but with life. We believe no longer in the nothingness of the grave, nor in safety bought with the price of a forced renunciation; life must be enjoyed in order to be fruitful. Lazarus must leave his dunghill, so that the poor need no longer exult in the death of the rich. All must be made happy, that the good fortune of a few may not be a crime and a curse. As the laborer sows his wheat, he must know that he is helping forward the work of life, instead of rejoicing that Death walks at his side. We may no longer consider death as the chastisement of prosperity or the consolation of distress, for God has decreed it neither as the punishment nor the compensation of life. Life has been blessed by Him, and it is no longer permissible for us to leave the grave as the only refuge for those whom we are unwilling to make happy.
There are some artists of our own day, who, after a serious survey of their surroundings, take pleasure in painting misery, the sordidness of poverty, and the dunghill of Lazarus. This may belong to the domain of art and philosophy; but by depicting poverty as so hideous, so degraded, and sometimes so vicious and criminal, do they gain their end, and is that end as salutary as they would wish? We dare not pronounce judgment. They may answer that they terrify the unjust rich man by pointing out to him the yawning pit that lies beneath the frail covering of wealth; just as in the time of the Dance of Death, they showed him his gaping grave, and Death standing ready to fold him in an impure embrace. Now, they show him the thief breaking open his doors, and the murderer stealthily watching his sleep. We confess we cannot understand how we can reconcile him to the human nature he despises, or make him sensible of the sufferings of the poor wretch whom he dreads, by showing him this wretch in the guise of the escaped convict or the nocturnal burglar. The hideous phantom Death, under the repulsive aspect in which he has been represented by Holbein and his predecessors, gnashing his teeth and playing the fiddle, has been powerless to convert the wicked and console their victims. And does not our literature employ the same means as the artists of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
The revelers of Holbein fill their glasses in a frenzy to dispel the idea of Death, who is their cup-bearer, though they do not see him. The unjust rich of our own day demand cannon and barricades to drive out the idea of an insurrection of the people which Art shows them as slowly working in the dark, getting ready to burst upon the State. The Church of the Middle Ages met the terrors of the great of the earth with the sale of indulgences. The government of to-day soothes the uneasiness of the rich by exacting from them large sums for the support of policemen, jailors, bayonets, and prisons.
Albert Dürer, Michael Angelo, Holbein, Callot, and Goya have made powerful satires on the evils of their times and countries, and their immortal works are historical documents of unquestionable value. We shall not refuse to artists the right to probe the wounds of society and lay them bare to our eyes; but is the only function of art still to threaten and appall? In the literature of the mysteries of iniquity, which talent and imagination have brought into fashion, we prefer the sweet and gentle characters, which can attempt and effect conversions, to the melodramatic villains, who inspire terror; for terror never cures selfishness, but increases it.
We believe that the mission of art is a mission of sentiment and love, that the novel of to-day should take the place of the parable and the fable of early times, and that the artist has a larger and more poetic task than that of suggesting certain prudential and conciliatory measures for the purpose of diminishing the fright caused by his pictures. His aim should be to render attractive the objects he has at heart, and, if necessary, I have no objection to his embellishing them a little. Art is not the study of positive reality, but the search for ideal truth, and the "Vicar of Wakefield" was a more useful and healthy book than the "Paysan Perverti," or the "Liaisons Dangereuses."
Forgive these reflections of mine, kind reader, and let them stand as a preface, for there will be no other to the little story I am going to relate to you. My tale is to be so short and so simple, that I felt obliged to make you my apologies for it beforehand, by telling you what I think of the literature of terror.
I have allowed myself to be drawn into this digression for the sake of a laborer; and it is the story of a laborer which I have been meaning to tell you, and which I shall now tell you at once.
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The bitter bread of poverty.
After the burden and the heat,
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The vehicle is evidently a police van used to carry SWAT teams when the player attains a 4 police head/star wanted level. The vehicle is comparatively larger and more durable, appearing in tandem with with lighter but faster police cars.
In GTA 2, the van is part of the Anywhere City Police Department vehicle fleet, appearing in the Downtown, Residential, and Industrial Districts of Anywhere City. GTA 2's Swat Van was succeeded by the Enforcer starting GTA III, but the GTA Advance rendition of the vehicle was dubbed the "SWAT Van", serving as part of the Liberty City Police Department force.
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The van tends heavier and more durable than police cars, providing the police force an advantage if the player continues to drive a lighter, weaker vehicle. Variables still exist between the GTA 2 rendition and the GTA Advance rendition; in GTA 2, the Swat Van is slow but compensates with its excellent acceleration; the SWAT Van in GTA Advance has an above average top speed and could be crushed for $5,150, but may be prone to toppling over. being a van with two front doors and two more at the back, the van will usually unload four SWAT team members.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Feb. 7, 2008) Citing a new national report on subprime mortgages, Attorney General Terry Goddard said today that the mortgage industry needs to reach out to more homeowners at risk of foreclosure if the nation's housing crisis is to be brought under control.
While mortgage servicing companies have increased outreach efforts and shown more willingness to modify home loans, Goddard said, the report shows most seriously delinquent borrowers were not undertaking any mitigation option.
The housing report was released by the State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group, a multi-state task force whose members include Goddard and 10 other state Attorneys General. The task force was formed last summer to work with subprime mortgage loan servicers to reduce the number of foreclosures by encouraging loan modifications and other sustainable solutions.
"The report found a very large gap between the number of homeowners needing assistance and the number who are getting any," Goddard. "The report shows that home delinquencies have been growing at a faster rate than loss mitigation efforts. I'm particularly concerned about getting help to homeowners who are doing all they can to avoid foreclosure. "
The report summarizes mortgage data from October 2007. Key findings include:
- Seven out of 10 seriously delinquent borrowers are not on track for any loss mitigation option. The lack of interaction between mortgage servicers and homeowners remains a major problem. Data suggests that loan delinquencies are outpacing the increase in loss mitigation efforts.
- Servicers have increased their use of loan modifications and other home retention options. For those delinquent homeowners in contact with servicers, almost half (45%) are working toward a loan modification. Servicers are increasing their use of longer-term changes to the mortgage loan versus their earlier reliance on short-term repayment or forbearance agreements.
- Payment resets on hybrid adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) have not yet been a driving force in foreclosures. A significant percentage of subprime adjustable rate loans are delinquent before they experience payment shock from their first adjustment, reflecting weak underwriting or fraud in the origination of the loan. With so many homeowners struggling to stay afloat prior to rate resets, we need to act quickly to address these hybrid ARM loans before the payment shock due to the rate reset triggers further foreclosures.
- Homeowners are helping themselves. Most delinquent loans resolved in October 2007 occurred due to the homeowner catching up on back payments. As of October, actions by homeowners, not servicers, have prevented the most foreclosures. This, however, may be a temporary development.
- The refinance option has nearly evaporated. Historically, serial refinancing was the primary way that the mortgage industry and homeowners managed delinquencies in subprime loans. Despite recent interest rate cuts, the mortgage industry will not be able to refinance its way out of this crisis absent dramatic changes in available loan products or a reversal in home price declines.
"The information in this report is invaluable," Goddard said. "As the residential mortgage crisis has worsened, state and federal officials have been frustrated by the lack of reliable data on loss mitigation efforts by mortgage servicers. This report offers our first glimpse of reliable data on what is actually being done by servicers to provide relief to homeowners facing foreclosure."
The task force collaborated with industry and federal regulators to develop a uniform data reporting format to collect comparative data to measure the extent of the foreclosure problem and the servicers' response to it. Thirteen of the nation's 20 largest servicers provided the requested data for the month of October 2007. These servicers represent approximately 58 percent of the total subprime servicing market. Reporting companies serviced 5,110,678 subprime and Alt-A loans.
Overall, over 150,000 delinquent loans were in the process of receiving a loan modification or other home retention accommodation at the end of October.
The State Working Group anticipates future reporting on the data collected from servicers. The Group will continue to collect monthly data from reporting servicers to provide public information on trends. A preliminary review of the November 2007 data suggests that subprime delinquency rates continued to rise in that month.
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I keynoted at the Media140 conference three weeks ago (26 Apr 2012) wearing my ABC Exec Producer TV Multi Platform hat. Now responsible for non-kids ABC TV online & mobile offerings & TV mobile and social strategy my 20 minute talk was rather focused on the high level challenges for broadcasters trying to truly integrate fiction, factual and entertainment with social, mobile and 2nd screen (or synch services). The transcript, slideshare and more ore detail follow but first…
Absent note
…apologies to regular readers for my long absence from post on this blog. I started an ABC role back in October which overlapped with me running the Screen Australia StoryLabs weeks and as well as tidying up and finishing a range of commercial projects meant actually talking/blogging about all the stuff I have been doing in long form, has been tricky – plus there are confidentialities to take into account. The adage certainly holds true those who can, do, those who can't, write long blog posts or podcasts on the topic 🙂 Might get flamed on that one, but I think having an hour or two to sit and post is a luxury. In other full time roles I still manage to provide a commentary into the cloud but the ABC is particularly under resourced in multi platform areas with many folk working beyond the call of duty. I am also taking advantage of my partner Laurel Papworthaway, spending a few weeks on a pilgrimage across the Camino in Spain, and doing very well with it.
Talk intro – the challenge, the hybrid and the prototyping
Also like most big media organisations the ABC is a mirror of the external larger world itself. There are silo's, politics, technical differences across the divisions, resource scarcity, diluted budgets and linear controllers / commissioners who all need to be sold on the importance of Multi Platform and the potential of different types of services. But that means a good part of my role inside the ABC is very similar to my BBC Senior Dev Producer role, to evangelise but also implement new services. That means I am exposed to the key challenges in terms of merging or hybridising broadcast and on-demand TV with some of the key driving forces outside a broadcasters world. Without drilling down into the detail (or breaking any confidentiality!) the top level challenges for all traditionally one-way media organisations is:
- Sorry too busy to talk – We don't have enough people resources, social media staff, to engage in widespread, authentic, editorial conversation with our audience/users
- Bolt on effect – Our massive internal technical infrastructure/s can't be glued to always new, transient, multiple external services/APIs
- That's they way it is done – We have decades old editorial & commissioning processes in place and until any big multi-platform 'story-telling' breakthroughs we will need convincing of a reason for changing that
- Multi platform and social media is really about marketing isn't it and therefore warrants those types of relatively small budgets
- Sure everyone is shifting attention to mobile & social but until there is zero people watching our main channels we have a job to do!
- Rights are not set up for multi platform, period. Expensively produced linear video leads, the rest follows, still.
- and the list goes on and on
Ok I am being a little provocative and at the ABC, I and many others are very aware of the challenges and getting on with the changes required. Alongside managing producers and resources I am able to run group workshops internally with the key show creatives and together (vs telling what we should be doing!) to slowly move forward. I also have a great role in developing working prototypes (and final services) of synchronous 2nd screen and social mobile services. Being several months into these, I also refer to at the end of my talk of the key differences between vanilla social TV, content owner social TV, content owner driven 2nd screen storytelling and the hybrid of all of them. When someone is engaged with a great synch story experience of say tablet against TV it makes absolute sense to include social elements, for them to invite and share that experience.
I also mentioned in the talk and interviews around it about the need for content owners and broadcasters to be driving the 2nd screen experience – these have to be truly integrated story experience and although there is value in trying to layer or bolt on these synchronous services. Although voting, polling, surveying type services can work, ideally with presenter driven call to actions, many well written pieces of video do not have much 'space' for the interaction (or parallel narratives to ideally slot in). There are two arguments to that. Firstly formulaic storytelling combined with the distractions our already existing 2nd screen habit means we are constantly snacking on our 2nd screen anyway and 'missing' the important bits of the show. Secondly, in a world where on-demand, when you want it, watching is so ubiquitous, I am devising several formats where the linear video is simple paused and the interactive component has its own space to breathe in this time frozen moments. I am suggesting in all my meetings with show creatives that if possible, the best approach is to design from the ground up. But that then moves into eons old 'commissioning' processes and for now I won't go there, perhaps later…OK onto the talk
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It was great to be in Perth again with a very enthusiastic crowd, which speaking to the folks there, encompassed most of the digital fraternity it seemed. There were many folk live blogging the event and my talk (e.g.: Sarah Tierney and Matthew Allen), I did a few small interviews (e.g.: Western Australian / Yahoo) and at least 60% of the audience tweeting. Media140 is the brainchild of Andrew Gregson and the event was very well organised, technically and management wise. The slides below were presented on my new iPad (3) so hopefully the formatting came across OK. Transcription follows the slides


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Campbeltown Pupils lost out on any hope of promotion to Premier Division One with defeat in their final game of the season to this year's SAFL Div 2 Champions Alba Thistle. The Renfrewshire side showed exactly why they ended their league season undefeated with what turned out to be a convincing victory at a sun soaked Kintyre Park.
Thistle raised to a 2-0 lead in the first half and shortly after the interval made it 3-0 with another well worked move. Credit to the local side who did rally for 20 minutes and pulled two back. The first from Gregor McFadyen followed by one from sub Sorley McKinven gave the Pupils a glimer of hope as they clawed back into the game at 3-2. However, the champions were in no mood to blemish their unbeaten record this season as the stepped up a level and notched up another two towards the end of the game to make it fifteen wins and three draws for the season.
So the Pupils finish the season 4th and miss out on promotion to Premier Div One. Its a very young Pupils side who will take massive experience from their season which will stand them in better stead for another season in Premier Two. Promotion this year may have been a step too soon for this exciting young Campbeltown side who have a very bright future.
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The 28-year-old prince arrives in the U.S. Thursday, landing in Virginia
Why hello, Prince Harry!
The royal, 28, arrived at Dulles International Airport in Virginia Thursday afternoon to kick off his week-long visit to the U.S.
Harry was greeted at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., by shrieking and whooping congressional staffers and interns who lined the marble corridors with their camera phones at the ready.
In a very Senate-worthy dark gray suit and red tie, he took it all in stride. "He seemed a little – the word isn't 'embarrassed,' but he seemed to have a normal sort of sheepish reaction," said Sen. John McCain afterward, joking that he himself gets shrieking women all the time at the Capitol.
Harry also visited the White House and was expected to meet with FLOTUS Michelle Obama.
While Stateside, he also plans to visit Colorado, New Jersey, New York and his trip will end May 15 with a polo match in Greenwich, Conn., to aid his charity Sentebale.
While in the Garden State, Harry will visit areas hit by Superstorm Sandy last fall. And outspoken New Jersey resident Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, for one, hopes he'll contribute to the local economy.
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"I know you plan on visiting the Jersey Shore. Even though it's still being reconstructed from Sandy, some businesses are still up and running and they need customers," she tells PEOPLE.
On a lighter note, she adds, "If you enjoy gambling, Atlantic City is awesome – especially The Borgata. It even looks like a modern-day castle!"
•With reporting by SANDRA SOBIERAJ WESTFALL


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The Historic Downtown Retail committee is a joint venture between the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Sheridan Association.
A new twist this year are the downtown street festivals, which are held the 3rd Thursday of the month. Committee co-chair Julie Davidson gives us some background on the Historic Downtown Retail Committee and how they work with DSA and the Chamber.
Last month was the first of the 3rd Thursday street festivals, with the next one to take place tomorrow night from 5 to 9 on Grinnell Plaza. There will be various downtown retailer booths, along with good food and music throughout the night. There will be two more downtown street festivals following tomorrow's event: August 20th and September 17th.


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Walking up postapocalyptic Lead Avenue to the Talking Fountain, I wondered for a split second if it was worth it. My shoes filled with gravel as I MacGyvered my way between a huge bulldozer and a man-made crater. The landscape was bleak. Like many business along the Lead and Coal corridor, the gallery has seen a decline in visitors, as it's buried somewhere behind the pile of street-construction rubble.
But it was Sunday Yum Day, and I'll brave any terrain for the promise of good food, art and company all in the same place. Yum Day boasts a different theme every week—this time it was "sauce." The potluck is put together by the gallery, and guests of the free shindig are invited to prepare a dish that creatively reflects the theme. Owner/curator/artist Katie Calico chatted with me as she whipped up a curried chicken and vegetable dish. Stimulating conversations flowed between neighbors and artists, around bites of baked pears, and prosciutto pigs in puff pastry blankets.
The gallery, boutique and "artistic epicenter"—as Calico calls it—has been an asset to the art scene since it opened in the spring of 2009. Yum Day is one of several ongoing events hosted at the space. On Wednesdays there is a weekly drawing session called The Figural Fountain. At five bucks, it's cheaper than most drop-in art sessions. All the proceeds go to the model, and the evening provides the opportunity to grow socially as well as artistically.
The Talking Fountain, which has consistently shown new work monthly for the last two years, has felt the economic impact of the road upheaval. Calico says she has had a significant decrease in art shows and sales due to poor gallery attendance. The construction has lasted longer than expected and has made the main entrance difficult—though not impossible—to access. (There's also a back entrance through a secret sculpture garden.) Yet Calico and her sparse but loyal staff are trying to use the roadblock outside to their advantage.
Stimulating conversations flowed between neighbors and artists, around bites of baked pears, and prosciutto pigs in puff pastry blankets.
There is no fee to hang work in the gallery, and the artists' percentage is higher than average, making it affordable to exhibit. Acting on her vision of a symbiotic relationship, Calico has used the decreased traffic to use the space as a multimedia artistic venue, providing resources for local film, poetry, music and comedy projects. She encourages artists who are looking for a venue to come by and see if it's a good fit.
For instance, the gallery will host an intimate comedy event called Laughing Fountain on Saturday, Sept. 17. Comedian Kevin Kennedy will present his Anarkomedy variety show, which blends burlesque, music and stand-up performances. The show will also feature Sarah Kennedy and Matt Peterson.
Despite the renovation inconveniences, the gallery and its supporters are determined to put a positive spin on it. "We're handling the construction with humor," says Calico between dicing chicken and welcoming guests. She's referring to several construction-themed characters created in community craft gatherings, including a series of orange cone personalities, such as Conedeliza Rice, Gary Coneman, Conestitine and, my personal favorite, Cone-an O'Brien.
The gallery's mascot, Manet Fountain, sports a hard hat these days and can be found gazing blankly at the demolition debris, patiently waiting for it to turn back into a street. (She has her own Facebook page if you want to check her out.) Friend The Talking Fountain on Facebook for regular updates on gallery happenings. For Calico, undeterred, the cup is half full. "We're not going anywhere, damn it!"


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FIFA sets 2014 seeding parameters
ZURICH -- FIFA says the top seeds in the 2014 World Cup groups will be host Brazil and the seven best-ranked teams in the October standings.
Friday's decision by FIFA's executive committee means Belgium and Colombia -- which did not qualify for the 2010 World Cup -- are almost assured of being seeded in the Dec. 6 draw. It also means that England are set to drop out of the seeds for this tournament.
The current top seven teams are Spain, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Colombia, Belgium and Uruguay. Brazil is ranked No. 8.
The other draw pots will be determined by "geographic and sports criteria."
FIFA originally planned to agree on a seeding method just before the draw in Salvador de Bahia.
But it has opted for a simple reference to its world rankings rather than also weigh teams' performances at previous World Cups.
The next rankings are published on Oct. 17.
As for construction progress in Brazil, The stadium that will host the World Cup opener in Sao Paulo just had goalposts installed. Organizers in the city of Cuiaba are still trying to find a supplier for the seats for their venue.
With less than three months to go before the December deadline established by FIFA for the delivery of the 12 World Cup stadiums, Brazil is working to have all venues ready in time. Local organizers say they'll meet it, but some recent setbacks have prompted concern.
Of the six stadiums yet to be delivered, five were less than 90 percent completed by September, according to the most recent government numbers. The other six venues were ready before this year's Confederations Cup -- just barely.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball program and head coach Jamie Grodecki announced the signing of Frankie Walls Friday.
Walls started every game at shortstop for Lumpkin County High under head coach Shana Estes. This past season, she hit .500, stole 18 bases and posted an on-base percentage of .556. No stranger to the extra-base hit, adding a slugging percentage of .609.
"I am very excited about adding Frankie to our roster this coming fall," said Grodecki. "She is a multi-tool athlete, with speed, a good arm and a strong bat. She will help us on both sides of the ball and is a great kid that can come in a compete for a starting position as a freshman."
The daughter of Jim Walls and Lena Rider, Walls plans to major in biology.
The Bobcats had a strong finish to a sub-par season in 2011, winning three of their last four to get into the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) playoffs, then upsetting No. 3-seed Columbus State University in the first round. The 'Cats will bring back three All-PBC performers next year in Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.), Anna Parker (Columbus, Ga.) and Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.).
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Tossup in latest Florida poll
It's Florida, after all, so what would you expect?
After a constant stream of Sunshine State visits by President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, after many millions spent on TV ads and even after a Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Obama and Romney are essentially tied in America's ultimate battleground state.
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A new Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll found 48 percent of likely Florida voters backing Obama, 47 percent supporting Romney, 1 percent for Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and just 4 percent were undecided.
"It's still very much a tossup. It's a turnout game," said Brad Coker of Mason-Dixon Polling and Research.
The needle has barely budged since a Times/Herald/Bay News 9 poll in July showed Obama leading 46 percent to Romney's 45 percent, though Obama's lead with independents grew 6 percentage points while the number of undecided voters dropped 3 points.
The good news for Romney? Fifty-two percent of Florida voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction, and only 43 percent say it's on the right track.
What's more, Romney's recent spate of negative publicity, including the release of a secret recording of him suggesting that the 47 percent of voters backing Obama are dependent on government and view themselves as victims, appears to have done little or no damage to the Republican nominee in Florida.
"We've had this swirl of coverage over the last couple of weeks, and it doesn't seem to have made a real impact with average voters," said Coker, who led the poll last week just as Romney's 47 percent comment dominated the news. "The talking class and the analysts and the inside-the-Beltway-bubble people all think this stuff is big and important, and the voters don't think it's all that important."
Romney's comment about people dependent on government certainly didn't bother Lake City resident Dale Varnes, 52.
"He was preaching the truth; he knows that Obama has those people on his side; and he's going to get them automatically because he's giving them what they want," said Varnes, who is disabled.
The phone survey of 800 registered Florida voters — all likely to vote in the November election — was conducted Sept. 17-19 for the Times, Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Bay News 9 and Central Florida News 13. The poll, which included respondents using landlines and cellphones, was conducted by Mason-Dixon, a nonpartisan, Jacksonville-based company. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
The bad news for Romney? It's close to impossible for him to win the presidency without Florida's 29 electoral votes. And contrary to widespread early predictions that Florida would lean Republican by this point, the poll underscores how much work Romney still has to do there in the final six weeks while still trying to gain ground in other battleground states.
Most troubling for the former Massachusetts governor, his central argument — that he's best equipped to turn around the economy — is falling short. Florida voters are evenly divided on whether they trust Romney more to improve the economy, with independent voters giving Obama the edge.
"That probably is the one number that is the most worrisome if I were in the Romney camp," Coker said.
Mary Ann Krueger, a registered Republican and retired office supply store owner in Sebastian, Fla., said Romney's background makes her think he wouldn't do much to help small businesses like the one she used to own.
"Romney doesn't have a clue as to what it's like to struggle in life," said Krueger, 74. "He doesn't have a background in small business."
More ominous signs for Romney: He trails Obama, 49 percent to 45 percent, in Tampa Bay, the battleground region that typically decides statewide elections, and he trails Obama by 11 percentage points statewide among independent voters.


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Probing question: How serious is the binge drinking problem on college campuses?
Probing question: How serious is the binge drinking problem on college campuses?
The wild college house party filled with students doing keg stands, playing drinking games and passing out drunk is a familiar scene in pop culture. But is this stereotypical scene of college life the exception or the rule? Is binge drinking really a problem on college campuses?
It's complex, says Jeff Hayes, Penn State professor of education and psychology and a licensed psychologist.
According to the data that Hayes and his colleagues from the Center for Collegiate Mental Health have collected from more than 100 college campuses, 56 percent of students don't engage in regular binge drinking, defined as five or more drinks in a row for men, or four or more drinks in a row for women.
"I think it is important to communicate to students that they are not alone, they are not even in the minority, if they choose not to binge drink," says Hayes. "On a large university campus, there are plenty of students who are not drinking -- not just not binge drinking, -- but not drinking at all."
Hayes believes that the key to helping students resist the college drinking culture is having attractive alternative activities and programs such as Penn State's "HUB Late Night" at the University Park campus and expanded recreational athletic activities. However, notes Hayes, the flipside of that 56 percent statistic is that 44 percent of students are binge drinking. And while that is less than half, it is still a sizable minority. For those students, there are often problems.
"Students who are binge drinking with great frequency tend to be far more suicidal than their peers who are binge drinking less frequently or not at all," says Hayes. "They also tend to have greater mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, and they often struggle academically." In addition, Hayes' research reveals that as many as 33 percent of students report being unable to remember what happened the night before, being unable to do what is expected of them or feeling guilt or remorse after a night of drinking.
The troubling statistics don't end there. A recent article by Hayes and his colleagues in the Journal of College Counseling concluded that nearly 1,900 college students nationwide die from alcohol-related injuries each year. Approximately 600,000 students are injured under the influence of alcohol annually, Hayes points out, and an additional 700,000 students are assaulted by another student who has been drinking. In fact, approximately 100,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape every year.
Many students participate in binge drinking, Hayes suggests, because it may be a reaction to what is, for many students, the first taste of freedom that they've experienced in life. "I think that there is part of a normative developmental experience of going away to college and experimenting," says Hayes. "They are pushing the boundaries for themselves."
In addition, many students do not see their drinking as a problem. "I see a number of students in my private practice," explains Hayes. "A lot of them are not seeking help for drinking problems. They are seeking help for depression or relationship problems. The alcohol problems are present, but they don't think they have a problem because they don't drink any more than their friends do."
Hayes acknowledges that it is sometimes a chicken-or-the-egg question: Is a student using alcohol to cope with problems, or is a student drinking to excess and therefore experiencing problems? "Our data don't allow us to tease apart the causality, but, in reality what I find clinically, what you get into is a cycle that feeds on itself," he notes. "And the substance abuse has to be addressed, whether it is the cause of the problem, exacerbating the problem or an outcome of the original problem."
The silver lining in Hayes' research is that when a friend, a family member, or someone else who cares about a student expresses concern about that student's excessive drinking, that message tends to raise a student's own concern. "We don't have to assume a passive role as faculty members, resident assistants, roommates, fraternity or sorority members," says Hayes. "If you are concerned about someone, expressing that concern, difficult though it may be, can put them on a path toward changing their drinking."
Jeffrey Hayes is professor of counseling psychology in the College of Education and can be reached at email@example.com.


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NIH head: Medical research at risk
From his perch at the National Institutes of Health's sprawling campus in Bethesda, Md., Director Francis Collins is eyeing the impending sequestration cuts warily.
If lawmakers don't find a way to blunt the across-the-board cuts, the government's premier medical research center will lose 6.4 percent of its budget — a cut Collins calls a "profound and devastating blow" for medical research at a time of unprecedented scientific discovery.
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That means belt-tightening for NIH's 27 institutes and centers, a drawback in the grants available for researchers across the country and ultimately, slower progress for treatments for cancer and other hot-button diseases, he says.
"There's no sort of lever you can pull and all of a sudden, everything will be fine if you lose in one fell swoop 6.4 percent of your budget — which is what will happen on March 1 if nothing is done to prevent that," Collins told POLITICO in an interview on Monday.
NIH is not alone in fretting over sequestration, of course. Virtually every domestic and national security function is facing across-the-board cuts if Congress doesn't act, and agency heads throughout the federal government are trying to figure out where to cut.
But scientists had already been fretting about the growth of funding for their medical research.
NIH swallowed a 1.5 percent cut in 2011 after nearly a decade of incremental budget increases. Its funding has expanded at a slower pace since 2004 after surging from 1998 to 2003, when Congress nearly doubled the center's budget.
At the same time, inflation has been eating away at the center's buying power, Collins says.
"We have seen in the last 10 years basically an erosion of our buying power for medical research by about 20 percent, simply because the budget has been flat and inflation has been chewing away at that," Collins said.
Collins is in his fourth year of leading NIH, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. The 6-foot, 4-inch 62-year-old steps with a brisk precision through the halls of the center's original building, which was dedicated in 1940 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and now houses Collins's office.
The NIH's funding situation, he says, is a "strange paradox."


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When it comes to new ships, the cruise industry keeps outdoing itself. Cruise lines often update existing ships to make them more stylish, comfortable and entertaining than before. They also invest in brand-new ships with truly innovative features. That's exactly what happened when Celebrity launched Solstice in 2008.
This 2,850-passenger ship features the cruise industry's first shipboard lawn. The half-acre of lush, green grass is the centerpiece of the Lawn Club on the top deck. Guests can play bocce ball or croquet at the Lawn Club, practice their putting or even enjoy a picnic under the open sky.
The Solstice, which was the first of five Celebrity ships of its type, also features staterooms enhanced by a woman's touch. To help make the new ship's staterooms both stylish and functional, Celebrity gathered insights and opinions from a panel of five women: a frequent cruiser, a travel agent, a travel writer, a hotelier and potential cruiser. That's because, according to Celebrity, women are not only the primary cruise planners, they are the most discerning guests when it comes to the stateroom. The panel of women helped Celebrity create staterooms with efficient floor plans, clear sightlines to sea views and an elegantly neutral color palette, among other features.


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Christie's flop
TAMPA, Fla. — There is no mistaking what a successful keynote speech for Chris Christie would have looked and sounded like. There would have been an electric reaction from the crowd in the convention hall. It would have been followed by waves of effusive media commentary about how people had just heard the future of the Republican Party.
Judged by these standards, there is also no mistaking what the New Jersey governor delivered instead: A prime-time belly-flop, one that notably failed to clear either of those two high bars.
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The reaction in the audience was mildly enthusiastic, and muted in comparison to the reception given to Ann Romney just minutes before Christie spoke. Political commentary about the 24-minute speech — while some of it has been favorable — has been dominated by discussion of whether Christie offered too many words about himself and too few about Romney or about the kind of original and provocative ideas that many were expecting on such a major occasion.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie's 10 rousing keynote quotes)
The fallout on Wednesday was the talk of Tampa and left Christie on the defensive to avoid lasting damage to his political fortunes. It also revealed tensions between the Christie and Mitt Romney camps.
Several political figures close to Mitt Romney made acerbic comments to reporters, making clear they thought Christie laid an egg while also saying they didn't much care since Ann Romney was generally perceived as performing well. Several made eye-rolling references to what they regard as signs of the New Jersey governor's considerable ego: The number of self-references in his address and an entourage of aides who they believe is too obviously trying to promote Christie fever for the future rather than help Republicans in 2012.
Sources close to Christie noted that Mitt Romney's team saw the speech text about two weeks ago and barely changed a word, and thus had no standing to second-guess now.
( Also on POLITICO: Full text of Chris Christie's speech)
In one prominent example of the poor reviews for Christie, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace noted how long it took for the speech to mention Romney and called it "the most curious keynote speech I have ever heard. … For a moment, I forgot who was the nominee of the party."
"I thought it was a tremendous disappointment," added Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, saying the speech did nothing to advance the ball against Obama, or for Romney.
"My point is that it's a nice [lesson] in the [tenets] of the Republican Party … but it didn't have any purpose that served his party and his nominee," he said. "It's almost like he wanted to prove that he wasn't just a guy who could turn tables over and speak truth to power."
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By no means was Christie's speech notably bad when taken strictly on its own terms. There were plenty of glimpses of the pugnacious style and no-nonsense governing message that have turned Christie into a rising star. Karl Rove, speaking on Fox, called the speech "very well done" and Time's Mark Halperin, speaking on MSNBC, said Christie projected leadership.
The problem is that a high-profile keynote address can never be taken strictly on its own terms. Context matters, and in this case was extremely challenging for Christie.


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- 1 pouch (5 ounces) hickory-smoked chunk light tuna (plain, water-packed tuna may also be used)
- 1 green onion, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 2 whole wheat English muffins, split and lightly toasted
- 4 large tomato slices
- Coarse-ground black pepper
- 4 slices (1/2 ounce each) part-skim mozzarella cheese
Preheat oven to 375°F. Place tuna in a bowl and flake with a fork. Add green onion and mayonnaise; stir to mix well. Top each English muffin half with a slice of tomato and one-fourth of the tuna mixture. Sprinkle lightly with pepper and top with a slice of cheese. Warm in the oven until cheese melts, about 3–4 minutes. Tuna mixture may be made in advance and refrigerated until ready to make melts.
Yield: 4 servings.
Serving size: 1 melt.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 164 calories, Carbohydrates: 16 g, Protein: 16 g, Fat: 4 g, Saturated Fat: 2 g, Sodium: 380 mg, Fiber: 2 g
Exchanges per serving: 1 starch, 2 lean meat. Carbohydrate choices: 1.
This recipe was developed by Tami Ross, a Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and Certified Diabetes Educator in Lexington, Kentucky.


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* Abe promises aggressive monetary, fiscal policies
* Yen hits 20-month low on "Abenomics" expecations
* Abe appoints lots of right-leaning allies to cabinet
By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka
TOKYO, Dec 26 (Reuters) - New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a cabinet stacked with close allies on Wednesday, kicking off a second administration committed to battling deflation and coping with the challenge of a rising China.
Abe, 58, has promised aggressive monetary easing by the Bank of Japan and big fiscal spending by the debt-laden government to slay deflation and weaken the yen to make Japanese exports more competitive.
The grandson of a former prime minister, Abe has staged a stunning comeback five years after abruptly resigning as premier in the wake of a one-year term troubled partly by scandals in his cabinet and public outrage over lost pension records.
"I want to learn from the experience of my previous administration, including the setbacks, and aim for a stable government," Abe told reporters before parliament's lower house voted him in as Japan's seventh prime minister in six years.
The vote was a formality after Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) surged back to power in this month's election, three years after a crushing defeat at the hands of the novice Democratic Party of Japan. Abe was to be confirmed by Emperor Akihito later in the day, another formality.
Abe appointed a cabinet of close allies leavened by some LDP rivals to fend off the criticism of cronyism that dogged his first administration.
Former prime minister Taro Aso, 72, was named finance minister and also received the financial services portfolio.
Ex-trade and industry minister Akira Amari becomes minister for economic revival while policy veteran Toshimitsu Motegi takes over as trade minister. Motegi is also be tasked with formulating energy policy in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year.
Loyal Abe backer Yoshihide Suga was appointed chief cabinet secretary, a key post combining the job of top government spokesman with responsibility for coordinating among ministries.
Others who share Abe's agenda to revise the pacifist constitution and rewrite Japan's wartime history with a less apologetic tone were also given posts, including conservative lawmaker Hakubun Shimomura as education minister.
"These are really LDP right-wingers and close friends of Abe," said Sophia University professor Koichi Nakano. "It really doesn't look very fresh at all."
Fiscal hawk Sadakazu Tanigaki, whom Abe replaced as LDP leader in September, becomes justice minister while two rivals who ran unsuccessfully in that party race - Yoshimasa Hayashi and Nobuteru Ishihara - got the agriculture and environment/nuclear crisis portfolios respectively.
The yen has weakened about 9.8 percent against the dollar since Abe was elected LDP leader in September. On Wednesday, it hit a 20-month low of 85.38 yen against the greenback on expectations of aggressive monetary policy easing.
Abe has threatened to revise a law guaranteeing the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) independence if it refuses to set a 2 percent inflation target.
BOJ minutes released on Wednesday showed the central bank was already pondering policy options in November, concerned about looming risks to the economy. The BOJ stood pat at its November rate review meeting but eased this month in response to intensifying pressure from Abe.
Abe also promised during the election campaign to take a tough stance in territorial rows with China and South Korea over separate chains of tiny islands, while placing priority on strengthening Japan's alliance with the United States.
Abe appointed two low-profile officials to the foreign and defence portfolios.
Itsunori Onodera, 52, who was senior vice foreign minister in Abe's first cabinet, becomes defence minister while Fumio Kishida, 55, a former state minister for issues related to Okinawa island - host to the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan - was appointed to the top diplomatic post.
Abe, who hails from a wealthy political family, made his first overseas visit to China to repair chilly ties when he took office in 2006, but has said his first trip this time will be to the United States.
He may, however, put contentious issues that could upset key trade partner China and fellow-U.S. ally South Korea on the backburner to concentrate on boosting the economy, now in its fourth recession since 2000, ahead of an election for parliament's upper house in July.
The LDP and its small ally, the New Komeito party, won a two-thirds majority in the 480-seat lower house in the Dec. 16 election. That allows the lower house to enact bills rejected by the upper house, where the LDP-led block lacks a majority.
But the process is cumbersome, so the LDP is keen to win a majority in the upper house to end the parliamentary deadlock that has plagued successive governments since 2007.
"The LDP is still under the critical eyes of the public. We need to earn their trust by getting things done one by one," Abe told party lawmakers ahead of the lower house vote.
"First on the agenda is economic recovery, beating deflation and correcting a firm yen and getting the economy back on the growth path. If we don't pursue this target, an upper house election next year will be a tough one for us."
In a sign of the "twisted parliament" Abe confronts, he was voted in with a whopping 328 votes in the powerful 480-seat lower house, but failed to win a first round vote in the upper chamber. He defeated new opposition Democratic Party chief Banri Kaieda in a run-off.


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Late Night host Jimmy Fallon takes Marc through his amazing experiences with the Rolling Stones, who he loved, Woody Allen, who he freaked out, and Jerry Seinfeld, who he impersonated. Plus, live performances by Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen… kinda. This episode is sponsored by the new season of Childrens Hospital on Adult Swim, with new episodes every Thursday night.
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sending text input to a detached screen
With reference to the answered question: Sending input to a screen session from outside
I am trying to write a script that will create a
screen and then
stuff input (in my case, UNIX commands) into the shell that I want it to execute.
Here's what I have till now:
$ screen -dmS new_screen bash
$ screen -S new_screen -X stuff "cd /some/path/
" <--This new line is required to execute the above command.
$ # Note: See comments. We could insert the newline character instead of 'hard-coding' a newline string literal.
For some reason, the screen gets created fine and enters the
bash shell. But the
cd and
some_script_file.sh commands don't get stuffed to the screen's bash shell.
Now the really strange part is.. After I detach from the screen, re-execute the stuff command as below..
$ screen -S new_screen -X stuff "cd /some/path/
and then attach back into new_screen. Now I see that the commands were correctly stuffed and executed in the bash shell inside screen.
Not sure where I am going wrong here, there seems to be any issue stuff-ing commands into a not as yet attached screen.


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Dorothy Starr and The Music Stand
Dorothy Starr during her singing daysBorn on May 21, 1908, Dorothy Starr pursued a career in New York as an operatic and popular singer until, at the age of 51, she relocated to San Francisco and opened The Music Stand at 381-A Hayes Street to fill a niche and sell used sheet music.
Front cover of California Sunset MusicDorothy Starr died on January 31, 1990 at the age of 81. In February 1991, Starr's estate agreed to sell her remaining inventory to the Library. In a complicated set of moves, the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library advanced the funds to the Friends of Dorothy Starr, an organization composed of a number of her most devoted friends and customers. To raise funds to purchase the collection, the Friends of Dorothy Starr held a number of events, most memorably a performance at Club Fugazi on June 10, 1991 and a benefit performance by pianist Michael Feinstein at the Plush Room on January 16, 1993. The Friends of Dorothy Starr then donated the collection to the Library.
The Dorothy Starr Collection at the San Francisco Public Library
I Want to Meet You Some Day in California DancerStarr's motto for her store -- Used and new music - all kinds -- also neatly describes the Dorothy Starr Collection at the San Francisco Public Library. Starr was drawn to all music, whether rare or commonplace, pristine or in tatters, originals or photocopies.
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It's been a good week for college football teams not named "Alabama" because they've been able to bask in the notion, however mistaken, that the gap Alabama between themselves and Alabama is closing. A loss to Texas A&M dropped the Crimson Tide to a previously unthinkable 9-1, and now the team finds itself fourth—fourth!—in the BCS standings behind the unbeatens: Oregon, Kansas State and Notre Dame. They may not even play in the championship game—in fact, the championship game may be played by teams from the Big 12 and Pac-12. The state of Alabama would be holding its nose, if it got up this early. Yep, it looks like from here on out, there will be a new age of parity in the—wait, what's that noise?
Oh, it's four-star (maybe five, depending on who you ask) Alabama recruit, 6-3, 240 pound Derrick Henry shattering the all-time high school rushing record, which stood for 59 years until last night. Henry blew by the old record, set by Ken Hall (for whom the Hall Trophy, awarded to the nation's most outstanding high school player, is named) in the process of helping Yulee high school, of Florida, advance in the playoffs. Hall's old record was 11,232 yards; the new one—for now, Yulee still has more games to play—is 11,612 yards, to go with 148 touchdowns. Henry has never failed to top 100 yards in a game. From FlaVarsity.com:
Henry carried the ball 58 times, scored six times and racked up 482 yards - shattering the career mark formerly held by Sugarland (Tex.) High School's Ken Hall
"This is our team's record," Henry said in the post-game gathering. "We worked all summer long for this. We did it - not me - we."
Taylor County might disagree with the 'not me' part. It seemed the Bulldogs found tackling Henry akin to grabbing a greased pig. A very big greased pig.
Yee haw! Henry says he's helping Nick Saban recruit Laremy Tunsil, the highest-rated offensive lineman in the country, to Alabama as well. So...yeah. 'Bama fans: cheer up, you might end up being pretty good next year. Other fans: uh, remember when A&M beat Alabama? That was neat.
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Southern Utah Night Life
Cedar Breaks National Park, just under two hours away from the Best Western Coral Hills, has spectacular views, both in the day and nighttime.
Due to its high elevation and remote location, Cedar Breaks has one of the darkest night skies in the country. However, this often overlooked natural resource is in danger of being completely lost as increased light pollution from nearby cities obscures the stars. Instead of a deep black expanse punctuated by the brilliant pinpoints of stars and the iridescent glow of the Milky Way, light pollution reduces the night sky to a faintly orange haze.
Light pollution has become so prevalent in urban areas that it's becoming difficult to remember what the night sky is supposed to look like. For example, after a 1994 earthquake knocked the power out in Los Angeles, emergency centers received numerous calls from anxious residents regarding a strange, silvery cloud in the sky. They didn't realize they were looking at their own galaxy. National Parks and Monuments are one of the few remaining places where the wonders of the night sky can still be seen. In fact, two-thirds of the people in the United States will never see the Milky Way unless they travel to remote places like National Parks.


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WINCHESTER, Va. — - Visiting Catholic University continued
its run of Sprint Field at Shentel Stadium magic Saturday night in
a 16-13 non-league football victory over host Shenandoah.
The Cardinals (1-0) ruined the evening for the capacity crowd by winning for the third straight time at the Hornets (0-1) home facility.
In 2008, CUA converted a fake field goal in overtime to secure the win, but used more conventional means this season.
With the score tied at 13-13 following a Daniel Wright to Rico Wallace touchdown pass for Shenandoah at the 14:01 mark of the third, Catholic got a break that the end of that same period that proved fatal for the Hornets.
Linebacker Christian Pavik forced a Kevin Roberts fumble at the SU 15, and Kevin Ross recovered for the Cards to put them in position for the go-ahead score.
Shenandoah held CUA to just two yards, but Connor Maloney nailed his 29-yard field goal to put Catholic in front for good.
The FG was one of three he had on the evening. He also hit from 22 and 21 yards.
Shenandoah had once last drive in itself, getting to the CUA 30 with 4.9 seconds remaining. Unfortunately for the 2236 fans in attendance, Andrew Lloyd was just short on his 48-yard field goal attempt as time expired.
The two teams were virtually even in yardage, with Catholic gaining 337 yards to the Hornets 336. For the first time in recent memory, the majority of the SU yardage came through the air.
Wright was 17 for 35 for 250 yards and one touchdown in his first career start.
Wallace, a junior, eight catches for 168 yards. He is now the career receptions leader at SU.
The Cardinals, which possessed the ball for 33:16, got 109 yards rushing from Michael Pitzenberger and a 15 of 34 passing performance from Greg Cordivari.