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When Jesus cursed the fig tree, did it whither immediately or the next day? John Bartlett Jr., AiG–U.S., examines this alleged contradiction.
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NH Senate likely to reject marijuana decriminalization, industrial hemp also up for a vote
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � The New Hampshire Senate will vote this week on a bill to reduce the penalty for possession of up to a quarter ounce of marijuana to a fine of up to $200. The bill would also require those under 18 to attend drug rehabilitation classes or face a $1,000 fine.
The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended the Senate reject the bill, and the governor has said she would not sign it. During a recent hearing on the bill, marijuana advocates acknowledged problems with the bill's language, and said their main focus this session is a medical marijuana proposal that many believe has a better chance of becoming law.
The Senate will also vote this week on a bill that would protect industrial hemp from being tagged as an illicit drug.


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Magnum wins Best Innovation in Safety Footwear award!
It was a fantastic evening, full of amazing awards and packed with influential faces. Magnum were thrilled when Frank was announced as the winner of this spectacular award and watched proudly as he accepted.
Frank van Wezel founded Hi-Tec Sports in 1974, which grew from his success of his design and development of the first ever Squash shoe. This innovative footwear lead to the growth of a global company and the number 1 selling uniform boot in the world.
In 1982, Magnum was founded through the demand from the FBI training centre at Quantico (Virginia USA) for lightweight, athletically built black tactical boots. Over the next 20 years the demand for Magnum boots grew as the brand branched out into security personnel and public and law enforcement services. To this day we are still being approached with new requests and need for our lightweight tactical footwear. Frank first commercialised the first ever tactical boot resulting in the Hi-Tec Magnum collection, until it became apparent that Magnum was a strong stand alone brand that was in massive demand.
The Armadillo was founded from the demand for nurses' footwear. The NHS, whilst providing specific clothing instructions, gave no directive for footwear. After researching the minimum requirements from the Royal College of Nursing, Magnum decided to create a comfortable, non-slip shoe that provides equal support and durability in the workplace. The Armadillo emerged from this criteria employing all the suitable qualities and needs that nurses would need in their footwear. A lot of research and understanding went in to creating and manufacturing of this award winning shoe and Magnum couldn't be prouder of the outcome!
Frank's lifelong achievements go above and beyond the call of duty. He has a tireless dedication that has influenced his team and seen huge success of the brand. In 2013 Frank was proudly awarded an Honorary Degree of Business Administration by Anglia Ruskin, a University that celebrates the achievements of outstanding achievements in their field.
Magnum would not be where we are today if it wasn't for the dedication and passion generated from Frank van Wezel. Frank is a man whose vision has created a platform of creative, enthusiastic employees and world class footwear as well as employing endless devotion to the company.
We want to take this time to say CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FRANK!
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faculty handbook
The Board assists and advises the Director of Athletics in the exercise of institutional responsibility and control of intercollegiate athletics. The guiding concern of the Board is the growth and development of students who participate in intercollegiate athletics. The Board both advises the Director on policy issues brought to the Board's attention by the Director and also initiates discussion on issues of concern to the faculty or administration.
The Board consists of nine members:
- five elected from the full-time faculty; three from The College of Arts and Sciences and two from the professional schools
- four appointed members, chosen by the President in consultation with the faculty athletics representative, from the faculty, academic, or academic support staff.
Members are elected or appointed to stagger three-year terms. The faculty athletics representative, a full-time faculty member who is appointed by and who reports to the President, chairs the Board.


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The AAA Small Grants Program seeks to foster the development and use of curricular materials for the teaching and communication of ethics and ethical practice across the discipline of anthropology. Administered by the AAA Committee on Ethics, this small grant program encourages the awareness of and innovation in ethics curricular materials used in introductory, undergraduate, and graduate classes. Proposals for the development of curricular materials in a variety of forms are welcome, including texts, films, blogs, websites, exhibits, and other innovative media forms. The grant recipient(s) will have ten months to complete these new curricular materials, the results of which will be featured in the "Ethical Currents" column of the December issue of Anthropology News as well as on the AAA ethics blog, and highlighted at the Annual Meeting.
The deadline for proposals is November 8, 2013.
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Remember when "truthiness" wasn't a word? Or "d'oh"? Thanks to pop culture, politicians who malapropate, and, in those cases, Stephen Colbert and Homer Simpson, these words are now part of American Culture. The 2010 list of words has been released, and everything from "vuvuzela" to "grass-roots" makes an appearance.
A survey based in Texas used a mathematic method to calculate what words English-speakers uttered the most, from a pool of around a billion and a half people reports Reuters.
"Vuvuzela" refers to the bright plastic horns that became wildly popular during this summer's World Cup championship in South Africa, and "Obamania," according to Urban Dictionary, is defined as the national obsession with the current President. It's been on the list for the past two years.
Many of the words' origins are fairly obvious—words like "Spillcam" and "Chilean Coal Miners" have been plucked from the news, referring to the video stream of the BP oil spill in the Gulf this summer, and the miners in Santiago, Chile who were trapped underground for more than two months. Everyone from the fashion industry to comedy writers have acknowledged these events. The August cover of Vogue Italia, for instance, featured models coated in oil and became quite the controversy.
Sarah Palin also made a significant contribution. "Refudiate," the hybrid word cocktail of repudiate and refute, made the top ten most popular new words.
"Our top words this year come from an environmental disaster, the World Cup, political malapropisms, news sense to ancient words, a booming economic colossus and a heroic rescue that captivated the world for days on end," the president of the Global Language Monitor JJ Payack said.
Other big words included Lady Gaga, 3-D (thanks to big-budget movies like "Avatar"), and the guidos and guidettes of the Jersey Shore, the fist pumping, alarmingly tanned set that have the famous montra of "GTL -- gym, tan, laundry."
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"As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing."Elsewhere, the TSA appears to admit that "due to hardened cockpit doors and the willingness of passengers to challenge hijackers," it's unlikely that there's much value in terrorists trying to hijack a plane these days (amusingly, that statement is a clear echo of Bruce Schneier's statement criticizing the TSA's security theater -- suggesting that the TSA flat out knows that airport security is nothing more than such theatrics).
Elsewhere, in the redacted portions, the TSA is quoted as admitting that "there have been no attempted domestic hijackings of any kind in the 12 years since 9/11."
As Corbett notes in his filing, the entire basis for the nude scanners is that they were somehow necessary to stop terrorists with explosives from getting on planes. Yet, as he makes clear, the TSA knows that there's been little threat of any such attack for quite some time. He also details how the machines are not very good at tracking down explosives, and pretty much everything that has been caught with these machines (such as guns) could be easily found via traditional metal detectors. Further, as noted above, other protections that have nothing to do with the nude scanners are the main reason (which the TSA admits) that terrorists have moved on from targeting airplanes.
Amazingly, it appears that the government forced Corbett to redact the revelation that the TSA's own threat assessments have shown "literally zero evidence that anyone is plotting to blow up an airline leaving from a domestic airport." Corbett argues that this shows why the searches are not reasonable under the 4th Amendment. Corbett also points out that about the only thing the machines seem useful at catching are illegal drugs -- but, as he notes, that's "irrelevant to aviation security." Sure, the government may like the fact that it catches illegal drugs with these machines, but the TSA can't argue it needs the machines for "terrorism" when it knows that's not true, and then tries to keep them just because it finds some narcotics...
While it still seems unlikely that Corbett's lawsuit will actually succeed, he's right that these revelations mean that, at the very least, Congress should be investigating why the TSA insisted that it needed these machines to find terrorists that it now admits aren't actually plotting to attack airplanes.


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The event takes place at the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Stadium. It attracts 300,000 people and gives our amateur players the opportunity to experience life as a pro tennis player. The PCF tournament will be played at the stadium during the final weekend of the BNP Open and is open to all BNP attendees.
Rye, NY
The event will be played at one of the most private and exclusive country clubs in the U.S. and will be promoted to all members.
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by Tyler Peck, sports information graduate assistant
EVANS, Ga. - The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) announced its PBC All-Tournament Team on Nov. 9. The team consisted of 14 players from the eight PBC teams that made the playoffs.
Freshman Megan McAlpin (Newnan, Ga.) and junior Kara Teresi (Tampa, Fla.) of Georgia College & State University were selected to the distinguished honor. McAlpin and Teresi both scored goals in the game against Lander University Nov. 4 in the first round of the PBC Tournament. McAlpin was one of only two freshmen to receive an All-Tournament accolade.
North Georgia's Natalie Douglas, Laura Dickson of USC Aiken, Clayton State University's Bose Tanimola and Lander's Kelley Maupin also made the All-Conference Team. In addition Armstrong Atlantic State University's Kelli Bahr and Jamie Craine received honors as well. UNC Pembroke and Columbus State University both had three players make the team. Lauren Townsend, Whitney Beverly and Melanie Cobb were from UNC Pembroke. Columbus State's Stephanie Parrish, Kate Walton and Kim Gaughan also made the team.
Be sure to catch the Bobcats next contest as they play Catawba College in the NCAA Tournament First Round in Columbus, Ga. Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. You can follow all the action on 88.9 WGUR or on the internet at www.gcsuradio.com.
The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.


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I'm feeling a bit rusty says Rory as he shoots a disappointing 75 in Abu Dhabi
THE last time Rory McIlroy shot 75 he went on to win his second major title by eight strokes.
But it will be some feat if the world number one, playing competitively with his new Nike clubs for the first time, does the same at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship this weekend - if he is still around for the final two rounds, that is.
After two double bogeys on the opening day - one the result of a wild tee shot at a par three and the other a drive that struck a tree and went out of bounds - McIlroy is in a battle to survive the halfway cut.
The 23-year-old is only just inside the top 100 in the 126-strong field and eight adrift of leaders Justin Rose and Jamie Donaldson.
He has also suffered another "loss" in head-to-head combat with Tiger Woods, even with the 14-major champion hitting one of the worst shots of his professional career in his level-par 72.
Woods hit a drive barely 120 yards at the 405-yard first - his 10th hole - and had to take his second shot from short of the fairway.
There was no way McIlroy, who has outscored the American only three times in 12 clashes, was going to blame his unhappy start to 2013 on his mega-million pound equipment change, however.
"I feel like I was a little bit rusty, not playing any competitive golf for eight weeks," he said. His last tournament was in Dubai in November, when he birdied the last five holes to win the DP World Tour Championship.
"I didn't drive the ball particularly well, which you sort of need to round here because the rough is very thick.
"I actually hit my irons pretty well, but just didn't hole any putts. I'll work on that."
Asked if it was to be expected that it would take time to get used to the club switch, he replied: "Of course it does, but I'm really happy with the way the ball is in the wind - it was really stable - and the wedge play.
"I wasn't very comfortable off the tee, but just because I didn't feel like I was swinging it that well.
"I've been working leading up to Christmas and then obviously into the New Year, but it's a little bit of an experimental period and I have four weeks off after this tournament just to work on it."
Not that he has given up on the week.
"I feel like if I can just get comfortable and swing it a little better I can still play some good rounds here.
"I'm disappointed. I felt like I could have played better and shot a better score.
"I'm not overly concerned how I played. It wasn't quite what I wanted, but I felt there were a few good signs.
"I guess when you're going out with new stuff you're always going to be a little anxious."
Woods was happy enough to turn in a two-under 34, but then came his shocker off the next tee and after a bogey there he took six down the long second and later followed a birdie at the 597-yard eighth with a three-putt bogey.
On what happened at the 10th he commented: "My game plan was three-iron or five-wood and then I changed. I was not committed to the shot - I should have backed off.
"I had a strategy, I didn't keep to it and paid the price.
"But it's tough out there. Every hole is crosswind and it was a day to survive - you've really got to control your ball.
"The rough's up and it's imperative to keep the ball in the fairway."
Woods was asked after his round about an article in the United States - in the National Enquirer - that he was trying to get back with ex-wife Elin Nordegren and had even proposed to her over Christmas.
His answer? "I'm not going to comment on my private life," he said.
At least McIlroy's girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki put in a much more satisfactory day's work, reaching the third round of the Australian Open tennis with a 6-1 6-4 win over Croatian Donna Vekic in Melbourne while he was on the course battling.
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Nick Clegg is today launching his £1bn flagship scheme to get young people into work amid accusations that the Government has been complacent over youth unemployment.
The Deputy Prime Minister - who has championed the plan in the coalition - will say the start of the Youth Contract offers a route into work for young people, creating at least 410,000 new jobs over the next three years.
However Labour last night released figures showing the numbers of under 25-year-olds out of work has more than doubled since the start of last year when Mr Clegg reportedly first raised the issue in Cabinet.
According to the figures calculated by the independent House of Commons Library, the numbers of 18 to 24-year-olds out of work for more than six months have risen from 53,000 to 107,000 - a 102 per cent increase.
Those out of work for nine months or more increased from 29,000 to 40,000 - a jump of 144 per cent.
Unemployment Minister Chris Grayling denounced the figures as a "complete distortion of the truth", saying long term youth unemployment had "barely changed" for two years.
Under the Youth Contract, first announced last November, firms will be offered £2,275 "wage incentives" to take on up to 160,000 under 25s, while the scheme will also create an additional 250,000 work experience placements.
The supermarket chain Morrisons, together with E-on, Phones4U, and Barclays have agreed to invest the wage incentives they receive in charities which train up young people who lack the skills needed for the world of work.
"We're determined to tackle youth unemployment and set young people on the path to work before long-term damage is done," Mr Clegg said.
"Today is a major moment for Britain's unemployed young people. The message is clear - if you're under 25 and don't have a job, we are putting the money in to get you earning or learning through the Youth Contract. If you want to work or train, then we - together with businesses - will help you."
However Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said his claims were belied by the rising numbers of young people out of work.
"Nick Clegg likes to brag that he warned the Cabinet about the youth jobs crisis in January last year, but his words haven't got a single young person into employment," he said.
"Instead, the number of young people out of work for over a year has more than doubled whilst his government failed to produce any alternative to Labour's successful Future Jobs Fund.
"Complacent ministers have finally come up with their Youth Contract but the truth is it won't guarantee anyone a job. It's too little, too late and a million young people out of work will rightly wonder what has been going on."
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Hi all. Me again. I hope everyone is doing OK. I have a simple enough little program here, that according to my n00b mind, should be working just fine. 'Cept I keep getting this error message: "java:21: error: variable hasInsurance might not have been initialized" and I don't really know why. If anyone cares to chime in, I'd be grateful.
import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class MyMedicalProgram2 { public static void main(String[] args) { String isPatient; String hasInsurance; String isCurrent; isPatient = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Are you a current patient? Enter Yes or No."); if (isPatient != "Yes") { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please fill out our new-patient forms. All of them."); } else { hasInsurance = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Do you have insurance? Enter Yes or No"); } if (hasInsurance != "Yes") { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Well then we're going to need the money up front."); } else { isCurrent = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Is your information current? Enter Yes or No."); } if (isCurrent != "Yes") { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please fill out these forms. All of them."); } else { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please have a seat and we will be with you in our own good time."); } } }


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Hello to All,
The ZFM, as conceived by the late John Bedini and subsequently built by Peter Lindemann, is a very intriguing motor as demonstrated in the ZFM Replication thread. That thread delineates the workings of this motor and provides the basic conceptual and design information necessary for replication. The ZFM Conference Presentation video is also helpful in fleshing out certain details.
The key elements of the ZFM as executed by Lindemann and demonstrated at the 2016 and 2017 Conferences are twin opposing coils, each of about 90 degree arc with an internal four pole iron rotor with four Neo magnets in a NSNS configuration. The motor is energized and controlled by the Bedini Cole Bipolar switch via a timing rotor and reed switches.
There are a number of possible design arrangements, however this thread will use the PL(Lindemann)ZFM configuration for the explorations since one replicated ZFM unit is at hand. This motor, the YZFM, has quite a few hours of operation under its belt and is easily modified which suits the purpose of this thread.
The explorations will use the same timing parameters for the YZFM that were demonstrated at the last conference. The parameters are as follows: 1) Firing Angle (FA) of 60-65 degrees (Degrees of Arc that coil is energized), 2) Advance (Adv) of ~45 degrees (Degrees of Arc where firing is initiated as measured from the center point between the coils) and 3) an operating voltage of 36v DC. This is a less aggressive tuning for this machine, but it still demonstrates very good performance and is a stable configuration for the YZFM and the purposes of this thread.
The first step taken was to modify the motor by removing all the stainless steel fasteners (Cap screws) and retaining straps, and replacing with nylon bolts and using EPDM bungee cords for motor positioning and retention. The pillow block bearings were remounted further away from the motor body as suggested by others. The major modification involved replacing the earlier 3/4"Dx3/8"T Neo's with 1"Dx3/8"T Neo's. The timing rotor Neo's were reconfigured to a NS arrangement from the initial NN arrangement. These several simple modifications stabilized the performance of the motor and produced a consistent behavior that yields well over 10,000 RPM at 0.62Amp and 36v.
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The next post will explore varying the axial position of the Rotor Neo's with respect to the centerline of the coils. As always, questions relevant to the thread will be answered as time permits.


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The Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (VCGCB) (formally the Board of Control) is a three-member Board which provides oversight for the many programs and functions entrusted to California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. The VCGCB's diverse portfolio of responsibilities includes the following programs:
1. The Victim Compensation Program
2. Government Claims Program
3. Victim Restitution Recovery
4. Compensation for Good Samaritans
5. Missing Children Reward Program
6. Bid Protests
7. Claims of Erroneously Convicted Felons
8. Local Assistance for Victims of Crime
Summaries of each program are listed as follows:
The Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, California Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP) provides compensation for victims of violent crime who are injured or threatened with injury. CalVCP will compensate many types of services when the costs are not covered by other sources. Eligible services include medical and dental care, mental health services, income loss, funeral expenses, rehabilitation and relocation. Funding for CalVCP comes from restitution fines and orders, penalty assessments levied on persons convicted of crimes and traffic offenses, and federal matching funds.
Government Claims Program
The Government Claims Program (GCP) helps resolve claims against State agencies and employees for monetary damages. In most cases, a person who is considering suing the state is required to first seek an administrative remedy by filing a claim with the VCGCB. Typical claims involve state vehicle accidents, contract disputes, and damage to property. When a claim is received, GCP staff will investigate and make a recommendation to the Board regarding the disposition of the claim. The Board either rejects the claim or orders the responsible state agency to pay the claim. The GCP is self-funded, supported by a $25 filing fee and a surcharge paid by state agencies on approved claims.
Victim Restitution Recovery
A highly effective revenue recovery program focuses on collecting restitution payments and reimbursements from criminal offenders that in turn fund compensation for crime victims.
Compensation for Good Samaritans
The Board administers the provisions of California law that provide for compensation to Good Samaritans (excluding public-safety workers in the course and scope of their employment) who suffer injury or loss as a result of their efforts to prevent a crime, apprehend a criminal, or rescue a person in immediate danger of injury or death. The immediate family or dependents of a Good Samaritan who dies as a direct result of their meritorious actions can also seek compensation. Claims cannot exceed $10,000.
Missing Children Reward Program
The California Legislature created the Missing Children Reward Program to assist local law enforcement agencies and other parties involved in the identification and recovery of missing children in California. The program allows rewards of up to $500 for individuals providing information leading to the location of any child listed in the California Department of Justice (DOJ) Missing Persons System database. Awards are made upon the recommendation of the DOJ. As a condition to the award, an amount equal to or greater in non-state funds must first have been offered for information leading to the location of the missing child.
Bid Protests
California law provides that an unsuccessful bidder may protest the award of a state contract, if the bidder believes they were the low bidder meeting specifications or should have been selected based on the criteria in the bid request document. Protests are filed with the Department of General Services (DGS), which forwards them to the Board. Protests are assigned to a hearing officer, who prepares a proposed decision or recommendation for consideration by the Board.
Claims of Erroneously Convicted Felons
Under California law, a person erroneously convicted of a felony and incarcerated in a California state prison may file a claim against the state for pecuniary loss with the VCGCB within six months from the date he or she was acquitted, pardoned, or released from state prison. In order to be successful, the person filing the claim must prove by a preponderance of the evidence, the following three elements: (1) he or she did not commit the crime or that the crime never took place; (2) he or she did not intentionally or negligently contribute to his or her arrest or conviction; and (3) he or she suffered a monetary loss because of the incarceration. If the claim is granted, the Board will make a recommendation for a legislative appropriation in the amount of $100 for each day of incarceration served after conviction. Such payments are made from the State General Fund.
Local Assistance for Victims of Crime
Victim advocates throughout the state can help victims apply for compensation and learn about the criminal justice system. There are 59 Victim Witness Assistance Centers – one in each county and one in the City of Los Angeles – that work directly with the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (VCGCB) in assisting victims. In addition, the VCGCB has 21 joint powers agreements with 20 counties and the city of Los Angeles that assist in processing claims. For information regarding local Victim Witness Assistance Center locations and contact information, see the "Local Help" page in the "Victim Compensation" section of the VCGCB web site:
Any complaints or issues must be related to damage or monetary loss caused by the State of California.
Board of Control
630 K Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
(800) 955-0045 (recorded message)
Victim Compensation Program and Government Claims Program
P.O. Box 3036
Sacramento, CA 95812-3036
(800) 777-9229
(800) 735-2929 California Relay Service
Email - firstname.lastname@example.com
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Rise of Immortals is a free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game currently in open beta. The game's full release will hit this summer, and developers Petroglyph games announced today that when it does, it will have full NVIDIA 3D Vision support.
What's that? You don't like 3D gaming? Perhaps that's because you don't have the gear. Well, in that case...
To celebrate NVIDIA 3D Vision support, Petroglyph is giving away two 3D Vision prize packages, each valued at more than $650. The packages each include a 23" 3D ready monitor, a Superclocked GeForce GTX 560 GPU, and 3D Vision glasses. Anyone wishing to enter the giveaway can simply register for Rise of Immortals, login to the game, and optionally "Like" the Rise of Immortals Facebook page (www.facebook.com/riseofimmortals), or follow the Rise of Immortals Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/riseofimmortals). The giveaway begins today and will run through 11:59pm PST on September 2, 2011. Two winners will be selected by a random drawing in September.
Or maybe you just don't like 3D. That's perfectly okay. I won't judge you for visiting the giveaway site though.


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Tallahassee Fire Department Release
Tallahassee, FL - November 7, 2012 - Yesterday at around 10:00 p.m., units from the Tallahassee Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team responded to a liquid propane leak at Barrington Park Condominiums located at 2801 Chancellorsville Drive. Residents at the complex called 9-1-1 after noticing liquid bubbling from the ground and a strong odor of propane near the clubhouse pool. Firefighters ordered residents to stay inside the surrounding condominium buildings while they gained access to the leaking valve attached to a 250 gallon underground liquid propane tank. The tank is used to supply pool and hot tub heaters.
Firefighters also monitored air quality throughout the incident to ensure the safety of residents. Officials believe that three gallons of liquid propane gas leaked out of the tank prior to stopping the leak. Williams Panhandle Propane and Leon County EMS were also on the scene and assisted the Tallahassee Fire Department.
The Tallahassee Police Department assisted with crowd control and stood by to assist with evacuation if necessary. No injuries were reported at the scene and no residents were displaced as a result of the incident.


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SOA implementation gets mother of all tests
An SOA application that had just gone live came to the rescue on a dark and stormy night, when 52,000 Austin Energy customers lost power.
The first service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation for Austin Energy turned out to be a true shock test when, within 24 hours of going live, 52,000 customers of the municipal power company in Austin, Texas, temporarily lost their electric service courtesy of Mother Nature.
After months of planning, architecting, training, developing and more conventional testing, Austin Energy's first SOA implementation, a composite customer service application, went live on May 3 of this year, according to Andres Carvallo, CIO of Austin Energy. On May 4, severe thunderstorms with 70 mph winds generated small tornados that knocked down trees and power lines in Austin.
The new SOA-based customer service system, specifically designed to speed the time it takes for customer service reps to handle customers calling to report power outages, could not have come online at a more opportune time.
"The old system had a limitation of being able to process 4,000 work orders a day," he said. "The new system has been tested for up to 50,000 work orders per day."
Beyond the fact that the new SOA customer service application came through Mother Nature's stress test with flying colors, it also handled it far better than would have been the case with the legacy Cold Fusion-based application it replaced, Carvallo said.
Customers, who just two days previous would have had to wait an average of five minutes for the legacy system to process their outage report, were able to complete the process in an average of two minutes with the new system, Carvallo said.
Improving call center productivity and, consequently, customer satisfaction were the two goals Carvallo had when his team of 21 developers began planning their initial SOA implementation last fall. While the goal is to eventually replace more than 70 legacy systems with SOA applications, Carvallo followed the advice to begin incrementally with a small project. The customer service implementation is a composite application with five Web services designed to handle actions such as verifying the customer location and generating a work order to repair the outage.
Moving into the SOA world required not only a new way of thinking about application development, but also a complete updating of the programming skills for the development team. Carvallo had determined that the new SOA applications would be written in Java using IBM's WebSphere and Rational tools, but the developers at Austin Energy were experienced in working with Cold Fusion and Visual Basic. To transform his 21 developers into Java coders, Carvallo sent them to an IBM facility in Austin for 60 days of Java training.
With no previous experience designing SOA applications, the CIO brought in architects from IBM Services to do the architecture and oversee the development. However, the actual coding was done by his 21 newly minted Java programmers. The combination of outside consultants and in-house coders took only six months from concept to implementation and produced the application that rode out the storm on May 4.
This was particularly gratifying to Carvallo because it disproved the naysayers who told him it couldn't be done.
"A lot of the people at the beginning thought this could never happen," he recalled. "They said it will take forever. Obviously we proved that it can be done. It's not impossible to move to this world, do it right and deploy something that scales better, is more modular and achieves all the requirements on time and on budget."
One of the keys to success, Carvallo said, was that 30 percent of the project was focused on planning and the architecture. The 60 days of Java training leading to certification for the development team also paid off, he said.
Now that team is moving on to the next SOA application.
"The end goal is to have an integrated enterprise with SOA in the middle of it," Carvallo said. "We have been mapping out since last summer the key processes -- 70-plus processes -- that we want to bring into the SOA [environment] and help rationalize the infrastructure behind it. We will have the next five processes tackled in the next five months and go live with a set of new Web services and deployments and extensions of the SOA to tie to things like the financial system and the asset management system."
This article originally appeared on SearchSOA.com.


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NBC Anchor Brian Williams Loves Sacco Pizza
Slice'r heyandy just mentioned this on Nick's review of Sacco's, and I thought I'd highlight it here, for what it's worth:
"I live around the corner on 54th Street and have eaten many a slice of Sacco's cheese pizza. I'm a bit of a foodie and prefer an older and reheated slice myself. This is Brian Williams/NBC news anchor's fave pizza."
Which is backed up by this item in the New York Post this morning:
When he's in a rush, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams is a sucker for a New York City staple—a slice and a Coke. The newsman frequently turns up at about lunchtime at Sacco Pizza. "The best thin-crust slice around, and the walk-up window makes it even faster," says Williams, who takes his pizza without toppings. He often dines on the sidewalks of Midtown, where he can be seen savoring the slice while hustling back to NBC headquarters, about a 10-minute walk away.
"He's a customer like anybody else," says co-owner Dominic Accetta. "I've been here 20 years, and he's a nice, normal guy. Sometimes he sits in the back and eats his slice, sometimes he walks away with it, and sometimes he jumps back into a car and drives away—it all depends. He's a busy guy, and New York is a busy place."
Williams also mentioned Sacco's in a 2007 listicle in New York magazine.
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What do you say when the backup late night host on a basic cable network buys you an aspirational Korean luxury car? Welcome to a day in the life of Ron Artest, who was given this awful "Lakers edition" Hyundai Genesis by forgotten late night host George Lopez.
This all happened back in March, before LA gave up two games to Dallas in the playoffs, but because it happened on the George Lopez Show none of us found out about it until today. Apparently Lopez said he'd buy Artest a Rolls Royce but Artest said all he needed was a "Hyundai." Lopez split the difference and gave him a tastelessly modified Hyundai Genesis sedan that looks sort of like a Bentley.
Platinum Motorsport upgraded the car with a yellow-flake paint, gold-rimmed grille, and yellow-look headlights. The interior has a Bugatti Veyron-esque fill pattern on the seats with yellow-on-purple leather inserts everywhere and Lakers floormats.
What's worse here: the fake yellow hood vents or the yellow-rimmed purple wheels?
To give credit to Artest he's been driving the car around. Of course, Artest will drive anything.
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Bethenny Frankel is about to become a "Real" mom.
According to a source close to the "Real Housewives of New York" star, Bethenny is currently in labor.
The reality star and Skinnygirl lifestyle guru is "about a month early," the source told Access Hollywood.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Bethenny married boyfriend Jason Hoppy in March. She announced her pregnancy on Twitter last October.
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Matthew Boykin is the definition of an all-purpose football player.
Matthew Boykin is the definition of an all-purpose football player.
He runs with the ball; he catches the ball; he returns kicks. He even intercepts the ball.
And then there�s the touchdowns. He likes the touchdowns most of all.
Havelock�s junior standout scored four of them � two receiving, one rushing and one on a punt return � as the Rams beat West Carteret 67-0 Oct. 25.
�I just like scoring,� he said.
That�s a good thing, because Boykin leads Havelock with 18 touchdowns on the season. He has 11 touchdown catches, four touchdown runs and three touchdowns on punt returns, including a 65-yarder against West Carteret that helped Havelock to a 40-0 halftime lead.
�I wasn�t expecting to get that good of a bounce,� he said of the ball that landed short before he picked it up. �But, it bounced my way.�
Boykin has two punt returns for touchdowns in his last two games.
�He�s an amazing athlete,� Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant said of the 5-foot-5, 145-pound Boykin. �He�s a heck of a player. He�s definitely an electrifying player with the ball in his hands. He got some great blocks on that punt return. We had some guys decleating guys on the sidelines. It was a great team punt return. He made some great moves to get to the open field, but there were some great blocks also.�
On the season, Boykin has 331 yards rushing, 491 yards receiving and 530 punt return yards. His 1,371 all-purpose yards is second on the team. He averages 11.8 yards per carry, 17.5 yards per reception and 27.9 yards per punt return.
�I�ve got to give it to my blockers,� Boykin said. �They do their assignments.�
The Rams (10-0, 5-0 Coastal) travel to West Craven on Friday in a game that will determine the Coastal 3A Conference championship. A victory would give Havelock its fifth straight league title as well as the conference�s top seed for the upcoming state playoffs.
Boykin said he feels good about the two-time defending state champions as the regular-season wraps up and the playoffs are nearing.
�We came in as a family at the beginning of the year,� Boykin said. �Coach Bryant told us to come in as one team and one family, and that�s what we�ve done. We�ve got good communication and everything, and there�s nothing wrong going on with this team.�
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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern tennis teams had their hands full with Armstrong Atlantic State University in a pair of 9-0 decisions on Saturday afternoon at the Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex. The Armstrong women are ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division II. The Armstrong men are ranked No. 2 in D-II.
The Lady Hurricanes fall to 1-2 overall, 0-1 in the Peach Belt Conference, and Armstrong improves to 2-0 overall and 2-0 in the PBC.
Juniors Carly Cangelosi and Victoria Ondo took two games off the southeast region's top doubles team of Aleksndra Filipovski and Barbora Krtickova.
Sophomore Sydnee Smith had Southwestern's best showing in singles as she won three games in the second set against the country's 16th-ranked Division II player, Marlen Hacke.
On the men's side, the Hurricanes drop to 0-3 overall and 0-1 in PBC play. It was Armstrong's first match of the spring.
The Pirates' Pedro Scocuglia and Damian Okrutny felt a push from Stephen Moore and Oliver Marshall in an 8-4 decision at No. 2 doubles.
Abel Acuna took Luca Cerin of Armstrong to a tiebreaker in the second set of their match at No. 5 singles. Cerin won 6-2, 7-6 (7-4).
Both GSW teams travel to Shorter University for 1:45 p.m. matches on Sunday.
#1 Armstrong 9, GSW Women 0
Singles competition
1. #3 Aleksndra Filipovski (ARMSTRNG) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW) 6-0, 6-1
2. #15 Barbora Krtickova (ARMSTRNG) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW) 6-0, 6-1
3. #16 Marlen Hacke (ARMSTRNG) def. Sydnee Smith (GSW) 6-0, 6-3
4. Carolina Prats-Milan (ARMSTRNG) def. Victoria Ondo (GSW) 6-1, 6-1
5. #6 Clara Perez (ARMSTRNG) def. Ginny Jones (GSW) 6-1, 6-0
6. Dora Andrejszki (ARMSTRNG) def. Anna Kate Shaw (GSW) 6-0, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Aleksndra Filipovski/Barbora Krtickova (ARMSTRNG) def. Carly Cangelosi/Victoria Ondo (GSW) 8-2
2. Marlen Hacke/Olga Kalodzitsa (ARMSTRNG) def. Ginny Jones/Sydnee Smith (GSW) 8-0
3. Clara Perez/Carolina Prats-Milan (ARMSTRNG) def. Kalie Douberly/Anna Kate Shaw (GSW) 8-1
#2 Armstrong 9, GSW Men 0
Singles competition
1. #9 Pedro Scocuglia (ARMSTRNG) def. Valentin Demande (GSW) 6-0, 6-0
2. #10 Pablo Gor (ARMSTRNG) def. Jake Koonce (GSW) 6-0, 6-3
3. #39 Jaan Kononov (ARMSTRNG) def. Stephen Moore (GSW) 6-1, 6-0
4. #20 Ignacio Hernandez (ARMSTRNG) def. Oliver Marshall (GSW) 6-1, 6-2
5. Luca Cerin (ARMSTRNG) def. Abel Acuna (GSW) 6-2, 7-6 (7-4)
6. Damian Okrutny (ARMSTRNG) def. Joel Landis (GSW) 6-0, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. Pablo Gor/Jaan Kononov (ARMSTRNG) def. Valentin Demande/Jake Koonce (GSW) 8-3
2. Pedro Scocuglia/Damian Okrutny (ARMSTRNG) def. Stephen Moore/Oliver Marshall (GSW) 8-4
3. Ignacio Hernandez/Luca Cerin (ARMSTRNG) def. Abel Acuna/Darren Kenny (GSW) 8-1


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"Here we go again." In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the goldenrod droid C-3PO, who hates space travel, resigns himself to his fate aboard the Millennium Falcon. And so it was with me, resigned to my fate to travel to Phoenix, Arizona for work in our data center. It's not that I hate space travel; having never really tried it, I couldn't honestly say. But airline travel? That's a droid of a different color.
Departing from home, I skated through the TSA's modest security checkpoint and arrived at my gate. For those who haven't traveled Southwest Airlines, they have a rather unique way of seating: you get your seat assignment when you get your boarding pass. The later you get your pass, the later you board the plane which leaves you with the most undesirable seats. I learned this lesson from my previous excursion to the data center: you can check in and print your own boarding pass online 24 hours prior to departure. This time, I fared much better in my seat selection.
|My breakfast with an 11.5oz can? How cheap is that? I want my .5 oz!
The trip had one stop where I didn't have to change planes. While on the ground, and before the next herd of passengers stampeded the aisle, we who were continuing our flight were allowed to re-seat ourselves. Score! As there were only 11 of us, we had a plethora of choices.
Unfortunately for me, once the next group boarded, I ended up next to the guy who was … well, not grossly overweight, but was broad enough to crunch me into the corner of the window seat.
For the next 4½ hours.
Touchdown in Phoenix, my co-worker picked me up and whisked me to the hotel. A quick shower, and a small dram of Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban later, I was off to meet with the rest of the team to plan our assault on the data center.
Since the servers were "live" servers, we had to wait until after 10pm local time before our work could commence. We finished around 3:30am. I had literally been up for 24 hours at this point.
We were allowed to sleep late the next day, but being from the east coast I was up early. I enjoyed breakfast at the hotel and then a company-sponsored brunch (which was essentially a second breakfast for me) and then it was back to the data center.
I don't want to bore you with the details, so I'll jump ahead to the travel part, which is really what this is all about (or aboot, for you Canadians reading this, eh?).
|Before: What a mess
|After: Much nicer!
I arrived at the Phoenix airport with just enough time to get through security (TSA got me this time – had to go through the dreaded back-scatter x-ray machine and was briefly searched along my left arm where my digital watch was concealed beneath the long sleeve of my shirt. No "body cavity" search, though, thank goodness!) and find my gate. It was fifteen minutes to boarding, which was not enough time for me to find anything to eat.
We boarded and pushed away from the gate. After sitting in the taxi-way for quite a while, my seat-mate next to the window saw some smoke from the wing. He, and the guy behind him, discussed whether or not that was normal. Then, a moment later, the captain informed us that we had lost some hydraulics and that he was unable to steer the plane while it was on the ground. A tow-car-thingy was on its way to drag us back to the terminal.
We later learned that we had lost an actuator seal in a piece of equipment that caused the A-Hydraulic pressure to drop. I was glad that it happened on the ground!
Luckily, Southwest had another plane into which they were able to migrate all of us travelers. Many of the passengers had already missed their connections, and Southwest had arranged alternative routes for them on other planes. The rest of us boarded and were away from the gate with much haste.
|Free 120z cans!
|They broke this thingy.
In all, we lost 1½ hours on the ground.
Soon, though, we were "wheels up" and on our way! Exhausted from much work, and too little sleep, I was happy to finally be heading home. In my opinion, Southwest handled the problem with much efficiency and professionalism – I was quite impressed. I got free beer on the flight (hooray, beer! That one's for you, Rick) and a quiet seat mate who only wanted to sleep.
Which, to me, sounded like a terrific idea!
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Protests over the gang rape of a young woman on Dec. 16 appear to have fizzled after weekend clashes between thousands of demonstrators and police that left 85 people injured.
On Thursday, protesters who took to the streets of downtown Delhi numbered only a couple of hundreds. On Friday, the size of the security contingent on the streets of the capital had noticeably dwindled.
Some protesters Thursday vowed to continue demonstrating for better policing and tougher penalties for rapists. Others claimed police had reacted to peaceful protests at the weekend with disproportionate force, firing tear gas and water cannons.
"The way the Delhi government and the police have reacted, it has no regard for our freedom, for our rights," said Barun Adhikary, a doctoral student from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
On Thursday, there was no violence as police and protesters remained restrained.
Delhi's local government has slammed the police for over-reacting to the protests at the weekend and has suspended two police officers. Attempts to reach the Delhi police Friday were not successful. Senior police officers have blamed elements of the crowd for sparking violence on Saturday and Sunday.
The rape victim, a physiotherapy student who has not been named, was flown Wednesday to Singapore for treatment. Doctors attending to her there say her health remains "extremely critical." Six men have been arrested for allegedly raping the woman for over an hour on a moving chartered bus before dumping her and a male companion on a Delhi highway.
The protest march Thursday started from Nizamuddin in central Delhi, and was supposed to go until India Gate, home to government offices and the nation's Parliament. But police blocked the protest from reaching its target, causing major traffic bottlenecks.
The crowd comprised mainly college students, teachers and activists. Many were shouting slogans and singing songs expressing dissatisfaction with the condition of women in the country.
The demonstrators demanded safe public spaces for women and speeding up the proceedings of pending rape cases, which they say number around 100,000. Additionally, they also want the government to convene a special session of Parliament to formulate new laws to protect women.
The government has promised action. It has appointed a commission, headed by a retired judge, to investigate the case and look for any failure of the police or other authorities in failing to stop rapes. Authorities also have pledged to look at changing laws to bring in harsher sentences for convicted rapists.
But critics say there's a lack of political will to implement laws to safeguard the interests of women.
"Women are always treated as second-class citizens," said Annie Raja, general secretary of the National Commission of Indian Women, an organization working for women's welfare, who was taking part in Thursday's protest.
Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was arrested earlier this year on charges of sedition for cartoons that poked fun at the government, also joined the protest. He criticized the police for their response to the protests. (Police later dropped charges against Mr. Trivedi and released him from jail.)
"There should not be any space for violence in a democracy," he said. "When people are trying to say something, why aren't they listening?" he added.
Binalakshmi Nepram, an activist campaigning for female rights, said: "They need to show real concern to the people which they are not showing at the moment."
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Everybody loves a parade: Sox to celebrate Saturday
Duck boats will depart Fenway Park at 10 a.m. ET, end with splash in Charles River
BOSTON -- There will be one more major event for the World Series champion Red Sox before they hibernate for winter.
The World Series parade will launch from Fenway Park at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday, as the freshly-minted champions keep in line with a recent Boston tradition and gather into duck boats for a tour around what is sure to be a joyous city. Fans can watch a live stream on redsox.com and mlb.com starting at 9 a.m.
"The ducks will start at 10am at #Fenway, bring our champions down Boylston Street, and finish with the traditional splash in the Charles," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted on Thursday.
The attendance throughout the baseball-crazed city of Boston will likely be in the millions. Fans going to the parade have the unique chance to be featured in an upcoming Instagram-built video project called #MyParade by tagging #MyParade in their Instagram pictures on parade day, and one lucky Instaphotographer could win an autographed Shane Victorino baseball.
Considering that the Red Sox finished in last place in 2012 and hardly anyone predicted they would win the World Series this year, fans are beaming with excitement about the accomplishments of this group.
In Wednesday's Game 6 of the World Series, the Red Sox finished off the Cardinals with a 6-1 victory, making Fenway Park the host of a World Series clincher for the first time since 1918.
It was the third World Series title for the Sox since 2004, the year they broke their 86-year championship "curse."
"Very importantly, we've reconnected with our fans," said Red Sox president/CEO Larry Lucchino. "The bloom was off the rose, shall we say, after that 13-month period, September of '11 all the way through '12. The bloom was off the rose and we had to reboot and reconnect with our fan base. I think we were successful at doing that, acknowledging the problems we had and making sure they knew how much we wanted to win and how hard we would work to win."
That became clear with each month during the regular season, and with each round during a riveting postseason run.
From World Series Most Valuable Player David Ortiz to Jon Lester to Victorino to Jonny Gomes to Mike Napoli to Dustin Pedroia to Koji Uehara and many others, different players stepped up at different times.
"That's what makes this team special," Victorino said. "All year long, we all picked each other up. It's a fun bunch of guys."
And now, there will be one big celebration to commemorate the memorable ride.


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Business news : Oil price jumps as US averts 'fiscal cliff'
The price of oil jumped by over a dollar on Wednesday, to above $93 a barrel, after U.S. lawmakers passed legislation to avoid a "fiscal cliff" that could have pushed the world's biggest economy into recession.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted near midnight to send the bill to President Barack Obama after a frantic day of political brinksmanship in Washington.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for February delivery was up $1.49 to $93.31 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.02 to finish at $91.82 per barrel in New York on Monday.
Economists had warned that if Congress did not take action a series of tax increases and spending cuts due to automatically start this year could have helped push the U.S. into recession. They feared a spike in unemployment, which would have resulted in depressed demand for energy.
Some House Republicans at first opposed the bill, which neutralizes middle class tax increases and $24 billion in spending cuts set to take effect over the next two months while raising taxes on the wealthy. They wanted more spending cuts but hours later agreed to a simple yes-or-no vote on the bill, which had already passed the Senate.
As a result of a broad increase in market sentiment, the dollar weakened as investors felt confident to invest in relatively riskier assets. A weaker dollar makes crude cheaper and a more attractive investment for traders using other currencies. On Wednesday, the euro rose to $1.3280 from $1.3213 on Monday, the previous trading session.
Brent crude, used to price various kinds of international oil, was up $1.12 to $112.23 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
In other energy futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 3.88 cents to $2.8005 a gallon.
— Heating oil added 2.62 cents to $3.058 a gallon.
— Natural gas fell 4.1 cents to $3.31 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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January 31, 2013
Final opportunity for Master Planning input
More than 200 college and community stakeholders have participated in forums during which Master Plan options for the Columbus and Delaware campuses were shared for input.
If you weren't able to attend any of those forums, please note that one more college forum will be held for this phase of the work on Monday, February 4, from 2:30-4:00 p.m., in the Conference Center Ballroom in the Center for Workforce Development (WD). NBBJ will present options for both the Columbus and Delaware campuses at this forum.
Please come and share your input if you haven't already had a chance to do so! No RSVP is required to attend.
Strategic Planning sessions next Thursday
Thanks to those of you who volunteered to participate in our Workforce Development and Civic Engagement strategic planning sessions next Thursday, February 7. The Workforce Development session will be Thursday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and the Civic Engagement session will be in the afternoon from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. If you did not submit your name earlier but would still like to participate, please let us know at www.cscc.edu/rsvp3. You will receive an agenda and meeting specifics early next week.
Season Two of The Biggest Learner wraps up!
Which team won this season's Biggest Learner competition? Watch the final episode to find out!
"First Wednesday" set to premier on Feb. 6
President Harrison invites you to participate in a new monthly town hall-style meeting on the first Wednesday of each month called First Wednesdays. The gathering will begin with the announcement of the Staff Employee of the Month award(s) and follow with college-wide announcements, presentations and briefings, opportunities for questions and a chance to visit and socialize with colleagues.
The first session will be held Wednesday, February 6, from 8:00-9:00 a.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, on the fourth floor of the Center for Workforce Development (WD). First Wednesdays will be live streamed on the Web whenever possible, and occasionally held at different locations such as the Delaware Campus.
Please join us for First Wednesday, February 6! RSVPs are not necessary.
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Introduction to the Apple iPad
This seminar will serve as the entry point for anyone who is new to using Apple's iPad. Participants will learn about using iPads in the teaching and learning environment, for personal productivity, for business related productivity, and more.
Participants must be current employees of Columbus State, and bring their own iPad.
Instructor: Paul Owens, Instructional Technologies Institute
Friday, February 8 (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM) - Register
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Bel-Ray Company, Inc. is an international, US-based specialty lubricant manufacturing company providing lubricants for the food and general manufacturing industries, the mining industry and the consumer powersports market.
Bel-Ray is proud of its workforce. We look for dynamic, energetic, risk-takers who are ready to join a fast-paced, world leader in the lubrication industry. We have many open positions throughout our global operations in Customer Service, Sales, Information Technology, Human Resources, Marketing, Research & Development and Manufacturing. We offer applicants a challenging, growth oriented career opportunity within a solid, stable, quality driven work environment. Bel-Ray is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Advance your career to the next level and apply for a position with Bel-Ray today.


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Mentions the issue of host-based security. To the end user, the web server is an untrustable black box.
Would it provide to needed transparency to make host-based security trustable if your users could read the live server-side code that runs the site?
So, for instance besides accessing
example.com/default.aspx in your browser and getting the response, what if you opened up read-only FTP access and allowed the code in
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HTC plans new tablet
Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp (宏達電) is expected to launch a new tablet computer running Microsoft's Windows software this year, according to market research and consulting firm NPD DisplaySearch.
The new HTC tablet might utilize a 10.1-inch display manufactured by South Korea-based LG Display Co with full-HD resolution of 1920 x 1080, or 218 pixels per inch, DisplaySearch said in a report released on Thursday at its annual conference in Taipei.
The new tablet might be assembled by Taiwanese contract laptop maker Pegatron Corp (和碩). Some observers even believe mass production began in the first quarter of this year, DisplaySearch said.
Both HTC and Microsoft have declined to comment.
Transglobe completes takeover
Transglobe Life Insurance Inc (全球人壽) completed its takeover of financially troubled Kuo Hua Life Insurance Co (國華人壽) on Saturday, a move that is expected to make TransGlobe Life the nation's seventh-biggest life insurer by assets.
After the takeover, Transglobe Life will have 2 million policyholders (including 1.4 million from Kuo Hua Life) and a staff of about 3,500 people. Its net worth is expected to exceed NT$10 billion (US$335.57 million) and its risk-based capital ratio will exceed 250 percent, meeting the Financial Supervisory Commission's requirements.
In the first two months of this year, the two companies combined had total premium revenues exceeding NT$11.3 billion and total assets of more than NT$620 billion.
Property market growing
Taiwan's property market experienced active trading last month — enjoying a growth rate of 15 percent year on year amid a recovery in the global economy, Sinyi Realty Inc (信義房屋) said on Saturday.
Tseng Chin-der (曾敬德), from Sinyi Realty's planning and research office, said the trading of housing units has been boosted by a rise in international stock trading since the end of the global financial crisis.
Tseng said sales of housing units have been increasing since the Lunar New Year holiday in February. A pickup in sales was observed in New Taipei City (新北市), Taoyuan County, Greater Taichung and Greater Kaohsiung, he added.
Petrochemicals set for boost
About NT$100 billion will be invested in the nation's petrochemical industry this year, including NT$15 billion in high-value petrochemical sectors, the Council for Economic Planning and Development said on Saturday.
Total investment should be similar to last year, when a total of NT$99 billion was invested in 65 projects, according to government statistics.
However, investment in high-value production is expected to rise about 13 percent, from NT$13.3 billion last year, supported by a program approved by the Cabinet last year to promote high value-added petrochemical development, the council said.
PV industry to be promoted
The Bureau of Energy on Saturday said it would promote the nation's photovoltaic (PV) industry by upgrading quality and tapping into overseas markets.
The bureau said it would organize business delegations to the US and Europe in July and October respectively to promote the country's PV industry.
According to a forecast by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, the world's PV market is continuing to grow, with installed capacity expected to reach 4 billion GWp next year. It also noted that the industry's global supply chain is moving toward Asia.


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It's been widely known that mixing worm compost or "vermicompost" into soils growing flower and vegetables will reduce plant diseases and add significantly more nutrients to the soil than regular compost. Now, research at the Ohio State University Soil Ecology Laboratory suggests that vermicompost can suppress insect damage as well.
Researchers grew tomatoes, peppers, and beans in a greenhouse; some of the plants were grown in pure potting mix, while others were grown in potting mix containing either 20 or 40 percent vermicompost. All plants were exposed to aphids, spider mites, and mealybugs. The plants grown in the vermicompost pots showed significantly less insect damage than those grown in plain potting soil. Researchers speculate that the vermicompost may change the composition of the plant tissue, making it less attractive to the insects.
While more research is needed to further understand the mechanism of vermicompost's effect on plants, it's clear that adding worm compost to your containers and garden will aid your plants in many ways.
For more information, go to this article about the vermicompost research.


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Tuesday, 4 May 2010
StarCraft 2 gets release date
Better start practising to resist those Zerg rushes and Protoss Carrier Swarms right now then. The standard edition will retail for $59.99 whilst the collector's edition will clock in at $99.99 and include a making-of, a soundtrack CD, a USB flashdisk with the original two games included and more. Prices in Europe and other territories will likely be standard. Two expansions, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void, are planned for release following the initial game.
14 comments:
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
About time!
- 4 May 2010 at 10:43:00 GMT
- Adam Whitehead said...
"I know it's not in 3D!"
Oh, wait, now it is. Sort of.
- 4 May 2010 at 14:38:00 GMT
- Salt-Man Z said...
"the single most eagerly-awaited sequel in PC gaming history"
Not counting Duke Nukem Forever, right? :)
- 4 May 2010 at 15:28:00 GMT
- Adam Whitehead said...
I don't think many people gave a crap about DNF (which was cancelled a year ago, so is no longer in the running) as a game, only about the insane length for it.
DN3D was a solid, fun shooter back in 1996, but not a gaming-epoch-defining success on the sheer scale of STARCRAFT. The only other sequel that really could compete for the title was HALF-LIFE 2, but the wait for SC2 has been more than twice as long.
- 4 May 2010 at 15:49:00 GMT
I've been playing the Beta and it is quite good! For long-time players the learning curve will not be steep at all, though learning the units,buildings, proper build order, etc etc will take time - but that's why its fun!
- 4 May 2010 at 16:17:00 GMT
- N. R. Alexander said...
I'm vastly more interested in Diablo 3, to be honest. I just don't have the time to be decent at an RTS such as Starcraft.
Anyway, I'd be much more excited to play a new Lost Vikings game than any of ActiBlizzard's other IPs.
- 4 May 2010 at 16:33:00 GMT
- David Wagner said...
Never caught the Starcraft bug (or WoW, for that matter), so SC2 matters to me not at all. Wish it did, but it don't...
Gimme Diablo 3!!!!
- 5 May 2010 at 04:49:00 GMT
SC has slightly more fun storytelling than other Blizzard-titles...
- 5 May 2010 at 14:00:00 GMT
- Jebus said...
What about Diablo 3? I've been waiting on that for years, been playing Titan Quest, Nox and now Torchlight int he meantime.
I lost interest with RTS games after the Total Annihilation, C&C Red Alert and Warcraft 2 days. Nothing could ever beat those 3 games in RTS awesomeness. Hell I still remember playing the original Dune and Dune 2 games!
- 5 May 2010 at 23:59:00 GMT
Finally!I've been waiting 12 years for this.
- 6 May 2010 at 06:09:00 GMT
- Adam Whitehead said...
I found DIABLO to be a mildly entertaining but ultimately far too repetitive action game. I like narrative in my RPGs and DIABLO was just an massive, mouse button-hammering dungeon crawl. Fun and diverting, but not something I could get too excited over.
"I lost interest with RTS games after the Total Annihilation, C&C Red Alert and Warcraft 2 days. Nothing could ever beat those 3 games in RTS awesomeness."
Those are some good games, but refusing to play any RTS games past 1997 is a bit silly. Arguably the very best RTS games ever made came after that point, such as GROUND CONTROL, HOSTILE WATERS, AGE OF EMPIRES, HOMEWORLD, COMPANY OF HEROES and of course STARCRAFT itself.
- 6 May 2010 at 13:00:00 GMT
For me, the most anticipated game the last five years or so was definitely Dragon Age. It was... ok.
- 6 May 2010 at 13:15:00 GMT
- Jebus said...
Adam - I guess it was just around that time that I lost interest in gaming in general so I never really experiences other RTS games after that. I think I did try Ground Control but got bored with it.
I game very rarely these days and although I agree that DIABLO and it's ilk really are just click fests, I only play games for single player purposes and to just zone out from the real world for a while without having to think too much about what I'm doing.
Anyway, not since the days of 4 day Civilization II and War of the Lance marathons have I truly been into PC gaming though I have dabbled here and there since. Maybe my interest waned with the rise of online multiplayer and console gaming, both of which I mostly dislike, I guess I just drifted.
As always, to each their own!
- 7 May 2010 at 00:30:00 GMT
- Aleksey said...
Have you seen the latest starcraft 2 replays from Razer SC2 Domination?
- 7 May 2010 at 21:07:00 GMT