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KDE Releases Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces 4.5.0
KDE today celebrates its semi-annual release event, making available new releases of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Development Platform and a large number of applications available in their 4.5.0 versions.
In this release, the KDE team focused on stability and completeness of the Desktop experience. More than 16,000 bugs have been fixed, and many feature requests have been filled. The result for the user is a system that feels faster, takes less time to "think", and works more reliably. The large number of bug fixes goes accompanied with many parts that have got an extra portion of tender loving care. Plasma 4.5.0's new notification system is one example here. It is designed to get less in your way, yet to support your workflow as smoothly as possible. Visually, the striking monochromatic icons make for a more consistent look in the notification area. A highlight of the KDE Applications 4.5.0 is surely Marble, which can now be used for map routing as well as viewing. The Konqueror web browser can now also use the WebKit engine to render its content. The KDE Development Platform 4.5.0 offers a new generic cache for applications that need high-speed access to certain data, such as icons or other pre-rendered artwork. The new KSharedDataCache speeds up loading of many components, while the new HTTP scheduler is optimized for concurrent access to web servers, and makes loading of pages in Konqueror and other parts using the KIO HTTP mechanism faster.
Today's releases are the first in the 4.5 series and will be followed with updated versions approximately monthly that will focus on fixing bugs. The next feature releases are planned for January 2011. If you would like to test-drive 4.5.0, you can do so by installing the packages that should be made available by your operating system vendor. You can also choose to build 4.5.0 from source, the nitty-gritty of that can be found on TechBase. For the impatient, there is also a Live CD available.
It took even longer on the
It took even longer on the computer, over 40 seconds to boot the desktop. OpenSuse only took 20 seconds to reach the login screen.
By Bobby at Wed, 2010/08/11 - 6:59pm
I hope that the Activity per virtual desktop option get fixed...
I hope that the Activity per virtual desktop option get fixed for 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 ... until now it never worked without big bugs :-(
By xapi at Wed, 2010/08/11 - 8:27pm
It's fixed :)
Perhaps you are coming from plain 4.4. If it's broken for you, now you can interactively fix this going to the Activities switch board. You'll have likely four activities. Delete all of them, except one.
Then, recreate your per-desktop setup going right clicking on your Pager, and select "Pager Preferences". Select "Virtual Desktops" and untick the box that says "Different widgets for each desktop". Hit Apply. Tick it again. Hit Apply.
You'll see how your activity enlarges, and contains 4 different viewpoints. Now you can design your desktop, and you'll never have trouble with per-desktop activity setting after this. This is also much better than old "fixes" (recreating plasmarc, praying for it to not recreate a broken setup)
The side effects of this are cool. Now you can have entire SETS of activities, switchable with Meta+Tab (one set spans through all your virtual desktops, Meta is the Windows key name under Linux).
By Ernesto Manríquez at Thu, 2010/08/12 - 4:55am
Thanks Alejandro! That
Thanks Alejandro!
That solution steps isn't easy to imagine to solve the problem if nobody explain this :)
By xapi at Thu, 2010/08/12 - 10:15am
You're welcome :)
Any solution that involves praying isn't a solution. I'm happy that this is finally fixed once and for all.
By Ernesto Manríquez at Fri, 2010/08/13 - 3:31am
personal review
First, I am not a programmer, I do wish Linux OS to increase nubmer of its user.
booting: why does it takes so long?
So after I login, cd keeps loading and then I get error:
If you want to force nepomuk (btw change name or add some desription to it) down the users throat, at least
Default Theme: Cold theme? Really? That is no way to win users.
Again look on ubuntu, win7, mac os x? Are they all wrong?
Menu: It takes 3 clicks to get to the editor.
And back arrow? You have to CLICK on something to go back. Lame. And it looks ugly. Everything is on mouseover, 2 level deep max.
Why not move everything in internet in internet submenu.
Most people don't bother changing options.
What is newspaper activity? Nothing happens when I select it.
Kde need to get non-geek designer. To get rid of the attitude: look what I can do with my programming skill.
It seems people at KDE are trying hard to show they are different. In the end they'll be the only one using their software.
I am not sure it is kde or open suse, but I cannot mount windows hdd. I get error no device available, in an
desktop pager icons are too small.
Add some bookmarks of the KDE site to konqueror.
If I want to listen to some mp3 what do I use? Amarok behemonth? Are you kidding?
Alos what is kde wallet and why would I want to use it with Amarok?
What are those + and minus when I hover over file? Not tooltip info. Easy fixable.
why the restart counter? For the undecided?
This is my opionion, and if you publish software, you cant just read the good comments.
If you dont have designers, or cant hire one, post a contest, where people can send their ideas.
Editor, and completing text: nice
By dbojan at Thu, 2010/08/12 - 9:49am
the guy without a joob now :D
Hey I'm the guy you want to fire. :) it wont be easy :) as I'm a over worked volunteer, like most of KDE :).
Any way, wont say you don't have a point in many of the remark's you point out, specially on the menu I was never a fan of it (note we do offer other options).
In the splash screen... next release we will have a new one, hey this one was not that bad :D.
In the wallpapers... again next release a new one, we change them every 2 releases, the wallpaper is kinda important as we do all the branding around it, so it needs defined branding values we can reuse, look at this site as well as other kde sites you will notice how we kinda recycle the wallpaper to create a uniform brand. (but no i'ts not my proudest wallpaper yet).
The "i" notice that its if it is barely noticeable it as nothing to give you, so maybe the fact that it dims of is a good thing, wen it does have something to show it does brighten up.
The plus an minus on dolphin.... use them you will understand fastly enough :), very useful on tablets.
Not sure you ever done design, but making random questions to general public produces very bad inconsistent results, and the overhead of the process is greatly larger than simply doing it yourself.
Any way thanks for your comment's they look genuine and a good insight how some one new to KDE looks at it. I will take them into account...(remember this is the result of many sensitivities it will never be 100% like you want it to be, but with work you can push it to be better for more people)
cheers the guy without a job ;)
By pinheiro at Thu, 2010/08/12 - 11:01am
OK, sorry if that was a bit
OK, sorry if that was a bit harsh. And also, reading my text, I see kde write needs spelling checker. :)
But those icons, they've been like that since, ... 4.3? I can't believe nobody noticed.
About wallpaper, it is not badly designed, it just seems uninviting, or cold somehow. That's all.
About design, I meant more like polls, on kde site. And feedback in KDE itself. Something like firefox 4 beta has.
#Oxygen you say? Hm. Interesting.
Best regards, and thanks for replying. :)
By dbojan at Fri, 2010/08/13 - 7:51pm
On the issue of wallpapers: I just don't understand why we keep using abstract images for our default wallpapers.
In my eyes, the abstract wallpapers scream "This is for techies! This doesn't belong into your living room."
Actually, I've noticed that I have to make a conscious effort to look at the windows and widgets of a screenshot - if I don't my feelings are dominated by what I think of the wallpaper. It's a little sad, but I don't think I'm alone in this.
By onety-three at Sat, 2010/08/14 - 11:22am
abstract images? :) I gess same reason most desktops do...
By pinheiro at Sat, 2010/08/14 - 12:35pm
Thank you for your answer, Nuno.
I've just written and then erased a lengthy answer. This really isn't the right place to discuss such things and I don't want to come off as too full of myself or anything like that - I really love your work. Also, there's few facts with these topics and a lot of opinions.
So I'll just say that I think that pretty pictures that feel inviting and non-technical might be even more important than branding to lure most ordinary users. The chances of somebody coming into contact with KDE more than once without actively seeking it out are still pretty slim nowadays, at least where I live. I'd be amazed if anybody went "Oh, I must know this somehow, I've seen those blue circles somewhere before". And there's quite a few Linux users we lost to other desktops who won't care about the branding, either.
To get to business desktops and similar larger enrollments the branding is useful, of course - though even there I think it's more important what the distributions do than what KDE itself does.
Probably dbojan's suggestion of changing the main color to something warmer is a good idea. Your original oxygen mockups used a lush, dark green if I remember correctly - and they looked awesome. We've started to get rid of the abundant Ks, why not do the same with all that blue? If anybody could do that it would be you :)
By onety-three at Sat, 2010/08/14 - 2:30pm
just to again say thank you for you guys comments, I fully agree with your comments, except on the count of kde not being visible, it might not be were you live but this is not an universal truth, there are several places were kde is doing incredibly well and were allot of people have seen our branding values...
By pinheiro at Sun, 2010/08/15 - 12:41pm
Any one is invited to be a part of the creation of the design experience in kde. Join us on #oxygen.
I do many little surveys, (mostly in my blog), specially on the base direction we should take, but all pools need to be taken with a grain of salt, the people that usually like to say something do not represent the average user, it represents a certain type of user that is vocal.
In the icon pools we sometimes do, we created tools to help us with that, but to do so kinda reduced the spectrum of possible answers witch might not be the best thing for all design issues, so I tend to trust my experience in judging user feedback on what they really mean wen they say I don't like this or that, because as you know perception and reality are 2 very different things.
About typos... well its my trademark ;).
Again thanks for the feedback it is valauble.
By pinheiro at Sat, 2010/08/14 - 12:47pm
Wow... fast!
Just upgraded on OpenSuse 11.3 from 4.4 to 4.5 and I must say... I'm impressed. KDE 4.5 is a lot faster!
By thomas at Sat, 2010/08/14 - 1:09pm
what do you use to activate
what do you use to activate webshortcuts? I have a space (so "gg test" googles test). Check what it is for you?!?
By Jos Poortvliet at Mon, 2010/08/23 - 8:03pm
Progress is born here and
Progress is born here and that I think is most important. That is all free and have access to it is vitally important. People can express themselves and it makes them happy.dezmembrari auto
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2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 85 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
I am looking for a logo for my company, Winterhalter Music, a music studio which offers private instruction and group classes.
Desired Color Scheme:
black and white of the piano keys and maybe one or two other colors for contrast(maybe for company name)
Desired Style:
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Winterhalter Music is the name of my newly formed private music studio company. Winterhalter Music offers private music lessons for students from about four years old to adult. We also offer children's group classes which introduce our students to the various musical instruments and instrument families. I am looking for a professional logo to use for my studio website. I would like the logo to incorporate a piano or the keyboard of a piano in some way, as the majority of our students are learning to play the piano. Music notes, rhythms, or other musical symbols may be used as well.
I've decided to add in a second prize. First prize will be for the winning logo which I will use for my website and other promotional material. Second prize will be for a business card design which uses the logo.
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CEOs and/or founders of 10 companies, chosen by their peers and vetted by judges, will have the opportunity to present onstage and give a three-minute pitch in front of some 400 business professionals, comprising of executives from startups and large companies, angel investors, VCs, and media.
Vator is holding its second Vator Splash event to find up-and-coming, early-stage startups to present at the Vator Splash event on May 13, 2010 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco.
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Vator, a leading platform for innovators and entrepreneurs to broadcast themselves, and a provider of news and information through VatorNews, is looking to recognize and film promising startups across technology, including digital media, social media, consumer Internet, software, SaaS, iPhone apps, mobile, etc.
What you win:
The top 10 companies have the opportunity to give a three-minute presentation onstage, and get a professionally-produced video of the presentation. The audience at the Vator Splash event will then cast their vote for their favorite out of the 10.
The Splash winner will...
- present again onstage in a segment called Splash Box - an American-Idol-styled segment with four investors as panelists.
- receive a magnum of Patz & Hall 2006 Chenoweth Ranch – Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.
- receive $500 of cloud computing credits from Amazon Web Services. The top nine finalists will receive $100 cloud computing credits from Amazon Web Services
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Time frame: March 2 to May 6, 2010 at 11:59 PST.
Who should apply? Entrepreneurs with seed to early-stage startups across technology. This means you can launch at the event. Or you can be a company that's received no more than an A round and is no more than three years old. Those who've already made the stage at a prior Splash event will not be allowed to present again.
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Bottom Shelf Beer: Redbridge Gluten-Free Beer from Anheuser-Busch
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Bottom Shelf research director Emily has suffered from occasional migraine headaches since early teenhood. You're probably thinking the same thing I was when she told me this on our first date: Not my problem, but you seem nice enough, so good luck with your dysfunctional head, now please stop interrupting my stories about high school, yes it is technically interrupting if I never stop talking, in fact that's kind of the definition.
But I was wrong. Her busted brain IS my problem, because years ago someone convinced her that certain foods may trigger her migraines, and of course this charlatan couldn't finger mayonnaise or taffy or oranges that are really hard to peel. No, he had to scare her off red wine and goat cheese (and maybe mushrooms; I can't remember if those are banned for medicinal or aesthetic reasons).
For some reason white wine and cow cheese are fine, as are coffee and chocolate and all sorts of other things that pop up when you Google "migraine fuel," and I can respect that. When presented with a menu of things to blame, teenage Emily reasonably decided she could do without goat cheese and red wine, because who wants eat congealed goat juice, and white wine stains are much easier to hide than red ones.
This is a minor pain in my ass, because I like goat cheese and red wine and now I rarely get to have them, because Emily insists on splitting every single thing we eat. I recently drew the line at sharing soup in restaurants, which was very big and tough and empowered of me, and I don't think I've had soup since. But for all my considerable suffering at the hands of her faulty head, I realize I could have it much worse.
Emily isn't a complainer; the only reason I can even tell she's having brain pain is that I've come to recognize the 1,000-mile smile brought on by her medication, which I assume to be heroin but hey, none of my business what's in another person's orange bottle, so let's call it Super Advil. She pops a few and melts into the couch and is all better by the morning, and I take credit for nursing her back to health because it's not as if I smear goat cheese into her face while she sleeps or anything plus I let her pick the TV shows to giggle inappropriately at. ("Honey, Lipitor ads aren't funny. Or is that a latent chuckle left over from the human trafficking scene a few minutes ago?" Her medication makes her either loopy or evil; whichever, it gets us through the night.)
So things would be worse if Emily were a whiner, and they'd be worse than that if she had any of the other newfangled conditions that cranky people don't believe in, such as gluten intolerance.
We had the pleasure of meeting a certain Serious Eating Kate at the Boston convention last month. She made an excellent first impression, but I got suspicious when I noticed that she didn't steal my Narragansett when I was in the men's room. She seemed cool and sane, yet she failed to molest an unguarded beer even though she was without a beer of her own. She could have stolen my beer with both hands, yet she ignored it. What gives, Kate?
It turns out she's off the gluten. Oy. I tried to put a brave face on her sad condition by prattling on about all of the good ciders I'd had recently. And I wasn't lying: Have you all tried the Fox Barrel pear jobs? The rhubarb and elderberry is top notch. But it turns out that my new friend TragiKate does not care for cider. She's been making an unenthusiastic rounds of the gluten-free beer aisle, but last we spoke she hadn't come up with anything she liked, but she did tell me that Anheuser-Busch makes a mass market recipe called Redbridge.
Redbridge, like most glutenless beers, is built around sorghum. What the hell is sorghum? Some kind of grass popular with the undernourished, it appears. Yippee. But it can be fermented in a manner that makes it allegedly reminiscent of regular beer, so I'm all for increased sorghum production and experimentation if it leads to a good beer alternative for the gluten-averse. Redbridge is drinkably undisgusting, but I don't think it qualifies as an outright good alternative to anything.
The label lists the ingredients as water, sorghum, corn syrup(?!), hops, and yeast. It smells like a sweeter version of regulation budget beer, which is nicer than it sounds, because even if Budweiser smells sweeter than you'd like, the sugar covers up the wet cardboard. There are no off aromas to Redbridge, just a wave of sweet. It tastes malty and a little bit weird—metallic candy—with a short, sour finish that seems ill-matched to the smell. If I were qualified to grade beers, I'd give Redbridge a C- or so; if you're hell bent on avoiding gluten and drinking beer, this could be your stuff. But really, shouldn't you just suck it up and switch to cider?
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Three prominent Canadian doctors are hitting back against what they say is a growing "widespread misconception" that eggs yolks are harmless to arteries, warning that a single lowly yolk can pack more cholesterol than KFC's much-hyped bunless Double Down.
Writing in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, the trio says that for those at risk of heart attack and stroke, dietary cholesterol should be limited to less than 200 milligrams per day. A single large egg yolk can provide 215 to 275 mg, "more than a day's worth of cholesterol."
By contrast, KFC's Double Down sandwich — which features two chicken breasts, bacon, processed cheese and a dollop of KFC's special "Colonel's Sauce" — clocks in at 150 mg of cholesterol. (As well as 540 calories, 30 grams of fat and 1,740 milligrams of sodium.)
The authors accuse a sustained and remarkably effective "propaganda campaign" by the egg-lobby industry for promoting the idea that dietary cholesterol is benign.
"Not only in Canada, but around the world, the public, nutritionists, and even physicians are increasingly accepting of the notion that dietary cholesterol is not important," they write.
"Even the Heart and Stroke Foundation has been taken in, quoting directly from the egg marketers' propaganda in a brochure distributed to British Columbia and Ontario households in February 2010, which is Heart Month!
"In our opinion, stopping egg consumption after a myocardial infarction (heart attack) or stroke would be like quitting smoking after lung cancer is diagnosed: a necessary act, but late."
The researchers said the role diet plays in coronary risk is underestimated; many people mistakenly believe that "there is no point in worrying about diet — simply take a statin (a cholesterol-lowering drug) and it will be OK to eat anything. Nothing could be further from the truth."
The review was authored by Dr. David Spence, a University of Western Ontario stroke-prevention expert; Dr. David Jenkins, Canada research chair in nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto; and Dr. Jean Davignon, a cholesterol expert with the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal.
The group analyzed several studies, including a large analysis from Harvard University investigators that compared egg consumption and health among more than 117,000 doctors and nurses. The Harvard team concluded — after eight to 14 years of followup — that consuming up to one egg per day "is unlikely to have substantial overall impact on the risk of CHD (coronary heart disease) or stroke among healthy men and women." A second smaller study also showed no harm from egg consumption in healthy people.
"But both of those studies reported that, among people who became diabetic during followup, an egg a day doubled coronary risk — and they don't tell you that part of it," said Spence.
In order to show harm from egg yolks in healthy people, "you need to follow them a long time, and you need a lot of them," he said. "Diabetics have a high enough risk that you can show harm in a smaller number in shorter time.
"The half-truth is that eggs are OK for healthy people. The problem is there aren't all that many Canadians who aren't at risk of heart attacks and strokes; eventually, it's a matter of age."
According to Spence, we all have plaque in our carotid arteries after the age of 50.
"It goes up steeply with age," he said. "The thing that kills more Canadians than most other causes of death combined is heart attacks and strokes. And strokes disable more people than any other cause of illness."
Spence said he and his co-authors aren't saying that eggs are all bad, noting that egg whites are a good source of protein. And people at risk of cardiovascular disease could eat half an egg yolk per day, provided "you don't eat any other cholesterol all day."
Bonnie Cohen, a registered dietitian and marketing and nutrition manager at Egg Farmers of Canada, said that "every piece of research for the last three decades has said that dietary cholesterol does not impact blood-cholesterol levels," whether that be in healthy people or those with high cholesterol.
"Often times, what happens is it's the sidekicks on an egg plate that are the problem — so the bacon or the hash browns," Cohen said. "Eating eggs with a bowl of fruit or a piece of whole grain toast is very healthy."
Spence begs to differ.
He said, on average, dietary cholesterol raises blood cholesterol by 10 per cent — and, in some studies, by up to 23 per cent.
He and his co-authors say egg marketers focus on fasting cholesterol, and not "the three-quarters of the day that we are in the non-fasting state."
"Fasting cholesterol doesn't have much to do with what you ate yesterday. It's determined by how much your liver makes overnight," Spence said.
"You get up and have breakfast, then you have lunch, and then supper, and for something like 16 to 18 hours a day your arteries are being exposed to the fats and the oxidative stress and the inflammation from the diet."
Dietary cholesterol also amplifies the harmful effects of saturated fats, he said.
The last time Spence spoke out publicly against yolks in his local newspaper, his house was egged.
"I had to pay someone 150 bucks to come in on a ladder and clean up the second story. They hit the wall on the second floor and the door and the windows on the main floor."
But he remains unperturbed. He said yolks "shouldn't be regarded as an item that's suitable for human diets" for anyone at risk of vascular disease. "And you name me a Canadian that isn't."
Carol Dombrow, a registered dietitian and consultant with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, points out that Health Canada's latest guide with a nutrient breakdown of foods says that one large egg has about 183 mg of cholesterol.
Dombrow said the researchers are ignoring "the good quality of eggs, and the benefits of eggs, in terms of protein and unsaturated fat and vitamins and minerals.
"It's giving a very one-side viewpoint, I think."
Dombrow said information provided by the foundation is based on "eggs being part of Canada's food guide," as well as the science behind it.
"It's not taken directly from egg-marketing companies," she said.


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With colorful leaves embellishing the venue, the Pender County Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Association held their annual awards luncheon November 12, 2013, at Topsail Presbyterian Church.
Among the awards presented were pins recognizing volunteers for years of service donated to the organization, as well as for the number of total hours donated over their volunteer career. Twenty volunteers were recognized for achieving levels of service that included five years, 500 hours, and 1000 hours. Each year, the 70 plus volunteers who are active members of the Pender Extension Master Gardener Program donate over 3,500 hours to the county's Extension program.
Distinguished service awards were presented to four volunteers. The Golden Trowel Award, recognizing exceptional service to the Association, was presented to Bobbi Crawford. A resident of Hampstead, Bobbi has served as treasurer for the organization since 2010. Carol Noble of Burgaw was awarded the Unsung Gardener Award in recognition of her dedicated service performed behind the scenes.
The highlight of the luncheon was the presentation of the Extension Master Gardener and Intern of the Year honors. Recipients of these awards are nominated by their fellow Master Gardeners. Karen Berger, a Watha resident, was awarded the Extension Master Gardener of the Year award in recognition of her extraordinary service. Since first becoming a Master Gardener in 2011, Karen has donated over 1000 hours of service to the volunteer program. Intern of the Year was presented to Floy Hamilton of Surf City, who as a first year Extension Master Gardener Volunteer has made exceptional contributions to the organization.
Extension Master Gardener Volunteers are unpaid assistants trained by the NCSU Extension Service. To become an Extension Master Gardener, individuals must attend an extensive training course and complete a 40-hour internship. Extension Master Gardeners share their knowledge of sustainable gardening and home horticulture resources by volunteering to answer questions and teach classes at the local Extension center, farmers markets, libraries, and local schools.
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I have more than one friend or client who tells me that she starts to blush, turning beet red in the face, when she begins a speech, presentation or talk. If this has happened to you, it can be among the most mortifying of public speaking experiences.
In part, that's because you can sense there's nothing you can do about it, and you're right: Blushing is an uncontrollable physiological response to stress, a physical manifestation of fight-or-flight syndrome. It's also a social way that your body demonstrates an apology, typically for some kind of bad social behavior, and that works with the audience--it's a credible way to say, "I know I just did something wrong," as you'll see in the smart video below that summarizes the science behind blushing.
Trouble is, you shouldn't be apologizing for speaking, so take some time to think about whether that's what is prompting the red-faced reaction. Are you feeling unsure of your authority to speak? Worried about insulting a prominent member of the audience? Anticipating that your biggest critic, also sitting there, will rip apart your logic? All that might bring on the blushing, or you might just have a typical case of the public speaking nerves, perfectly normal.
While you can't stop blushing while it is happening, you can prepare better. That might mean preparation to banish your nerves and find your comfort zone before your presentation, or preparation for the tough Q-and-A that will follow your talk, perhaps by getting ready with questions for your questioners. You can think through challenges to your logic and come up with answers that respond, rather than react, to your critics (just as you might do for a tough media interview). Just the act of preparing will make you feel better when the time comes to speak.
Watch the video so you'll understand just how natural (and uniquely human blushing is. A hat tip to the wonderful Brain Pickings blog, which pointed me to this video:


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Gay & Straight Summer Love in NYC
Michelle Williams and Jason Segal went for a walk in New York on Saturday with Matilda and the nanny. Look at him. He's wearing his hair shorter. He's hot. Just like she glowed the other night from the inside - click here for a refresher - his happiness is making him prettier too. Does it have a better chance of lasting if we all want it to together? Because I feel like everyone is pulling for these two.
On the same afternoon, also in New York, Zachary Quinto and Jonathan Groff were enjoying the weather outside too. Super sexy, right? Like you want them to keep leaning, closer and closer and closer...


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Kalina Grabb and the rest of the Crimson will look to continue their winning ways this weekend (Justine Agaloos).
Scene Setter
The Harvard women's water polo team heads to Philadelphia, Pa., for four games in the CWPA/MAAC Crossover Saturday and Sunday. The Crimson takes on Wagner, Iona, Villanova and Siena in the two-day event.
Last Time Out
After going 3-0 opening weekend, Harvard split its four games at the Princeton Invitational Feb. 9-10, dropping a pair of games to top 10 teams. Harvard fell to No. 4 California, 14-5, before getting edged by No. 10 Princeton, 11-7, in Saturday's contests. Harvard closed the weekend strong, dominating NYAC, 20-9, and Villanova, 19-4, in Sunday's games to improve to 5-2 on the year. Charlotte Hendrix paced the Crimson offense with 10 goals in the final two games, including a career-high seven against NYAC.
Related Article: Offense Powers Women's Water Polo Past NYAC, Villanova at Princeton Invitational
Related Article: Women's Water Polo Falls To Pair of Ranked Foes at Princeton Invitational
About Harvard
Through the first two weekends of the season, the Crimson sits at 5-2 overall behind an explosive offense anchored by a pair of freshmen. Rookie Charlotte Hendrix tops the team in goals with 19 and ranks second in assists with 12, while fellow class of 2016 member Yoshi Andersen leads the squad in assists (15) and steals (13) and is second in goals (18). Senior co-captain Aisha Price is third on the team in goals (16) and assists (11), and her sister, Shayna, is fourth in goals (13) and is tied for second in thefts (10). On the defensive end, Ariel Dukes has made 56 saves in net.
About Wagner (Team Page)
The Seahawks bring a 5-3 record into the weekend, relying heavily on the strength of their defense. In all five of its wins, Wagner has allowed less than 10 goals, and it has only surrendered more than 10 goals twice. In its last time out, the Seahawks toppled Mercyhurst, 13-6, and Brown, 13-5, and lost to Princeton, 16-8, and Indiana, 15-11. Overall, Wagner is averaging 10 goals per game and giving up 8.25 per contest.
Series History Against The Seahawks
Harvard leads the all-time series against Wagner, 7-4, and has won the last four meetings between the two schools. In last year's meeting, the Crimson triumphed, 16-13, behind a career-high seven goals from Aisha Price.
About Iona (Team Page)
After dropping its first game of the season to Harvard, 15-13, the Gaels have rattled off six consecutive wins. Iona steamrolled through the St. Francis Invitational, defeating Cornell, 16-1, St. Francis, 23-12, and the Boston University club team, 18-2, in the one-day event. The Gaels also went 3-1 at the Harvard Home Kick Off, defeating Villanova, CAMO and the BU club team.
Series History Against The Gaels
If recent history is any indicator, the contest against the Gaels will be a close one. In the last five meetings between the universities, the score has been decided by two goals or less each time. Harvard took this year's first meeting, 15-13, while the two squads played a trio of one-goal games in 2012. Overall, the Crimson leads the all-time series, 11-3.
About Villanova (Team Page)
The Wildcats are 0-10 in 2013 due to offensive struggles in 2013. Villanova is averaging just 4.4 goals per game while allowing 14 per contest. In its two meetings with Harvard, the Wildcats have been outscored, 37-10. Last weekend, Villanova traveled to the Bucknell Invite and lost to Indiana, 12-3, Bucknell, 9-4, and George Washington, 11-6.
Series History vs. the Wildcats
Harvard has won 18 of the 20 games played between the two schools, including both of this year's matchups. The Crimson topped Villanova, 18-6, at the Harvard Home Kick Off before knocking them off again, 19-4, at the Princeton Invitational.
About Siena (Team Page)
The Saints will begin their 2013 campaign this weekend after being tabbed to finish sixth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Siena finished fourth last year, going 4-8 in conference play and 9-21 overall. The top two point scorers were lost to graduation; however, every other member of the team returns including Melanie Boehrig, who finished third on the team with 71 points on 38 goals and 33 assists, and Lea Allen, who tallied 36 goals and 31 assists for 67 points.
Series History Against the Saints
Harvard has won all six matchups in the series that dates back to 2004. The two schools last met in 2011 when the Crimson prevailed, 19-6.
Gracious Host
Blodgett Pool will serve as the host site for the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Water Polo National Championship May 10-12. It is the first time that Harvard will hold the event and only the second time it has been held on the East Coast. The last – and only other time - the event was held on the shores of the Atlantic was in 2009 when it was in Maryland.
Related Link: Harvard to Host 2013 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship at Blodgett Pool
Next Up
Harvard heads to Erie, Pa., for three games in two days against Mercyhurst, Bucknell and Gannon.


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Lorraine Chase appearing on BBC London 'Barking Blondes' Radio show, speaking about Borko, with Jo Good and Anna Webb.
In 'Borko's name, we save even more poor dogs...
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Kenneth S. Reames, partner in our Detroit office, is shown at a planning
meeting for family affairs month, a public service program sponsored by the
four fields of law, banking, insurance and certified public accounting.
Others pictured with him are: Norman B. Weston, vice president and trust
officer of the National Bank of Detroit; Nathan B. Goodnow, partner in the
law firm of Dykema, Wheat, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg; and Leon Lands-berg,
chartered life underwriter for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Our Tokyo office held their annual dinner party in March. This photograph of the staff and their wives includes:
(seated) Mrs. Murakami, Mrs. Hayashi, Mrs. Okunuki, Mrs. M. Watanabe, Yoshiwo Watanabe, and Mrs. Y. Watanabe:
(middle) Mrs. Kawai, Miss Kikue Shinada, Mrs. Nishimura, and Mrs. Yamamoto; (3rd row) Takuzo Kubota, Masao
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KineticMix needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 100 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Kinetic Mix is a web design studio offering web design services to small to medium businesses. We offer complete web design, e-commerce and SEO services.
Please read the complete brief.
Kinetic Mix
Desired Color Scheme:
none, please be creative
Desired Style:
Web 2.0
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Kinetic Mix is a web design studio offering web design services to small to medium businesses. We offer complete web design, e-commerce and SEO services.
I am in the process of developing a site where the logo will be displayed and a preview of it can be seen at http://www.kineticmix.net/sitepointcontest/
I am looking for a unique branding logo that will be used on the website and also (Business Card, Letterhead, Envelope, Folder and Listing Sheet)
The logo should include a graphic / symbol and also "Kinetic Mix" either to the side or below the graphic / symbol.
A tagline is optional, but if you can think of one then it must represent a web design studio
The colour scheme I will leave upto you, I am happy with bold colours as long as they are tastefully done, or more simple and effective colours.
The logo must be a Web 2.0 style logo.Â
The logo should be creative, innovative, meaningful and easily identifiable.
I am looking for your ideas so do get creative
Rules :
- Submissions must be submitted in Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff) AND Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
- Original work only. No composites, borrowed clip art, etc.
- You may submit as many logo designs as you like.
- Payment may also be made via Escrow once I sign up for an account, I am currently offering Paypal but if the winner wants I can offer via Escrow. TThe sooner your entries are in, the faster I can give feedback on what I want to narrow it down to.
Good Luck.
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While at the hardware store earlier this week, getting distracted with these elbow pieces, I also managed to pick up some manila rope. For some reason as soon as I saw it I thought it would work well with a Christmas light strand. The braid is easy to pull apart so I bought enough to cover the length of a long Christmas light string.
Here's what you'll need:
thick manila rope (as long as the strand you want to cover)
string of lights (preferably white)
Begin with the female end of the light strand, weave it in with the rope by twisting the rope in the opposite direction of the braid. Continue to do this for the length of the rope until almost the entire string of lights has been twisted into the rope.
You can wrap it up in a circle like I did and hang it on yesterday's DIY hook or set it on a bookshelf or even the floor. I'm sure you could even use different kinds/colors of rope but I prefer this natural fiber myself. I love this because it can definitely be used as Christmas decor or just used year round!


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Directing Fibre Channel storage traffic over Ethernet
The benefits of convergence
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has a hard act to follow. Fibre Channel storage fabrics accomplish an amazing feat, making shared storage arrays equivalent to direct-attached disk drives to the many servers accessing them.
When servers access data from directly attached disks, the data arrives fast and none is lost en route. The Fibre Channel fabric replicates these characteristics, with packets of data arriving within dependable time periods and no loss of packets.
The result is storage area networks that enable a shared pool of thousands of disk drives in many arrays to provide storage for hundreds of mission-critical servers.
By contrast, Ethernet LAN and IP WAN networking are less reliable, with variable, or "indeterminate", delivery time and packets that can get lost and must be retransmitted. Neither are acceptable substitutes for physical Fibre Channel.
It is relatively easy to encode Fibre Channel frames within Ethernet packets; the hard part is making an indeterminate Ethernet behave in the same determinate and loss-free way as Fibre Channel.
Data Centre Ethernet
That is being accomplished by devising a new form of Ethernet, Data Centre Ethernet (DCE), sometimes also called Converged Enhanced Ethernet, to carry the FCoE traffic.
There has been a concerted effort by Ethernet and Fibre Channel vendors such as Brocade, Cisco, Juniper and others, as well as the Ethernet standards bodies, to develop DCE that can be used for FCoE traffic.
Vendors have also been busy engineering FCoE functionality into their Ethernet switching, routing and edge access devices, so that FCoE traffic can traverse a multi-hop DCE network to storage arrays capable of receiving and transmitting FCoE commands and data traffic.
FCoE standards
Data Centre Bridging is the main Ethernet capability being standardised for FCoE . This transforms Ethernet into the loss-free and time-keeping paragon needed by FIbre Channel.
An IEEE 802.1 work group is busy working up this standard. An Incits (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) T11 committee is developing the FCoE protocol and the FCoE Initialisation Protocol.
The Internet Engineering Task Force is working on standards that flatten Ethernet to enable lower-level protocols do more and thus simplify the network infrastructure.
For example, it is working on a protocol called Trill (transparent interconnection of lots of links) that can enable multi-pathing and multi-hop routing at layer 2 of Ethernet.
With these standards Ethernet will be able to carry both LAN traffic and high-end storage networking traffic at the same time, providing convergence benefits such as lower costs and simplified management.
FCoE devices
From a server point of view the first thing needed is an FCoE stack. This is a piece of code that receives data or a request to be sent to an FCoE target device, such as a storage array, and wraps that up inside an Ethernet packet.
This "initiator" can be software-executed on the server's own processor, or it can be the responsibility of an adapter or converged network adapter, which adds FCoE functionality to a standard Ethernet network interface card.
Intel has released an openly available software FCoE initiator, which means that servers with spare processing power can send and receive FCoE traffic using standard Ethernet interface cards.
Where the maximum server processing resource is needed for applications or virtual machines, then a converged network adapter ensures FCoE processing is offloaded from the server's CPUs.
FCoE implementation
Initially, server host bus adapter suppliers such as Emulex, QLogic and Brocade designed converged network adapters to graft FCoE functionality on top of basic Ethernet interface cards. Storage arrays began getting FCoE interfaces, with NetApp being one of the pioneers.
At this point servers could send and receive FCoE messages and FCoE-capable storage arrays could receive and respond to FCoE requests, but the intervening Ethernet cables and switches could not transport and handle Ethernet packets containing FCoE frames.
The next step was to provide FCoE functionality in Ethernet edge switches, and these started appearing in April 2009.
For example, Brocade announced a top-of-rack Ethernet switch that could receive FCoE traffic from connected servers.
However, this was single-hop FCoE – the switches could not transmit FCoE traffic onwards. It had to progress across the network to the storage arrays using Fibre Channel cables.
Multi-hop, end-to-end FCoE became possible once Brocade and Cisco introduced core Ethernet switches that could receive and send FCoE messages in both directions: to and from servers on the one hand, via edge switches, and to and from storage arrays.
FCoE usage
We are now in a position where customers with networked storage arrays can carry both iSCSI and Fibre Channel traffic, as well as LAN traffic, over Ethernet.
But although such convergence is a real possibility, there is no rush to implement it.
Data centre admin staff may be divided between LAN and Fibre Channel administrators, and this is a problem. It will take time for each to become adept in the other's skills.
But the main reason why there is little rush to FCoE is that Fibre Channel networks just work
More efficient networking management will be a benefit but it could be a while before it trickles down to staff.
But the main reason why there is little rush to FCoE is that Fibre Channel networks just work.
There is no speed restriction. Indeed 8GBit/s Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters are here and usable. They can replace maxed-out 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters and switches and make a move to 10GbitE unnecessary on speed grounds.
Also, 16Gbit/s Fibre Channel product is under development, giving Fibre Channel users plenty of network speed headroom.
In the longer term, 40GbitE and then 100GbitE will provide speed benefits and may encourage FCoE adoption, particularly if there is a need for Fibre Channel networking faster than 16Gbit/s and 32Gbit/s is not forthcoming.
It is unlikely that iSCSI users will migrate to FCoE as they can obtain the advantages of a loss-free and deterministic Ethernet by using FCoE-capable Ethernet equipment, without having to replace iSCSI adapters, and their known iSCSI protocol skill set, with the FCoE equivalents.
It is possible that Fibre Channel users will implement an FCoE pilot project when there is a need to bring new Fibre Channel-using servers online.
Then they can compare and contrast real-world implementations of FCoE and Fibre Channel in their own data centres. They can expand FCoE use at their own pace if they see the benefit – and unless Ethernet convergence benefits have been oversold, they will. ®
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Even as the U.K. debates how to create a secure digital future for itself, and London tries to muscle in on the tech ecosystem, the week is ending on quite a downbeat note: The country's tech industry and its contribution have come out very badly in a global peer review.
The latest version of an ongoing poll by advisory firm KPMG on Global Technology Innovation, released Friday, said the country is not seen by the global community as a tech leader.
Indeed, the U.K. was named by only 1% of respondents as a future launch pad for disruptive breakthrough. It tied with Russia at number 9 on the list, well behind the leader, the U.S., named by 37% of survey respondents.
Some 24% of the sample base -- comprised of 811 technology business leaders worldwide from technology industry startups, midsize to large enterprises, venture capital firms and angel investors -- named the People's Republic of China, while 10% fingered India, followed by Korea (7%), Japan (6%) and Israel (6%).
[ Whitehall says it's saving money through better technology, but many say that's not accurate. See Critics Question U.K. Government Tech Gains. ]
Commenting on the nation's low poll rating, Tudor Aw, KMPG's European head of technology, said, "the global tech community does not see the U.K. as hotspot for future technology innovation."
That's surprising -- and possibly unfair -- he argued, as it "underestimates" the tremendous "talent, creativity and favorable conditions" the British technology scene has to offer. "Good examples of this include graphene, seen as a technology that will revolutionize the 21st century," or Britain's ARM semiconductors used in so many smartphones.
But, in what is beginning to become something of a chorus, it's not hard to see why Britain may not be playing to its strengths. The two key factors cited as necessary for driving tech innovation -- availability of talent and access to funding -- are once again seen as lacking for Her Majesty's subjects.
KPMG says only 44% of U.K. tech executives surveyed for the 2013 Index said talent is sufficiently accessible to them, compared to 75% of executives in India and 62% in China. Only 23% of U.K. respondents considered their country's education system to be successfully contributing to driving innovation -- the lowest number of any nationality. Meanwhile, only 41% of U.K. executives said they think that tech infrastructure is sufficiently accessible, compared to 67% in the U.S. and 69% in India. Also, only one in three Brit executives agreed that they have sufficient access to funding, compared to 78% in India.
For Aw, the way forward has to be for "U.K. Plc" to both "do a better job of promoting Tech U.K. as a brand overseas so people understand all the strengths we have, as well as our existing world leading capability," plus try and ensure sufficient resources are placed on the right kind of education.
That, he stressed, has to be one that will support hardcore technology innovation and development -- "not just how to utilize technology applications," a reference to the ongoing debate in the U.K. about how to get youngsters interested in building apps, not just playing with them.
This study maybe bears a comparative read against last week's similar Global Innovation Index, which ranks innovation performance among countries and encourages local innovation. In this year's report, published by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the U.K. did much better, coming in third place, with the U.S. at five and Switzerland at pole position.


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Here is my comment:
I agree with Judy, the first commenter, that it needs to be mentioned regularly - that is, as Thomas says, it is an education issue (one of many we face). Along with several other geneabloggers, I also write the "Springfield Genealogy Examiner" column for Examiner.com, usually two a week. Here are two I've written in the past:
"Reading genealogy blogs is a good way to learn about family history study,"
and, I also wrote: "Have you considered writing a Springfield genealogy blog yourself?"
How do you, my readers, reply to this question? Please respond in the comments!
Families are Forever! ;-)


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Adult services are comprised of various services for adults with disabilities and older adults. Our services include:
We also have staff who provide licensure monitoring of assisted living and adult care homes and investigate facility complaints.


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Amid Insecurity, How Should You Invest Now?
Between stock markets closing down, geopolitical anxiety in the Middle East, and a pivotal Fed meeting coming up, the easy market of earlier this year seems to be gone. What should investors do now? John Buckinghman, chief investment officer at AFAM Capital, joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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... ay ay ay mm mm ... markets closing down geopolitical anxiety in the Middle East a pivotal ... meeting coming up in February ... the easy market of earlier this year seems to be done what should investors do now John Buckingham chief investment officer the fam capital says don't get too caught up ... in a minute by minute the so the minutiae of the market don't ... let that get back on MoneyBeat here welcome again ... on you guys over there you are a lot you basically longs ... you're not playing the market in case I would expect using night you ignore the minute by minute ... but but why oh why should you ignore the map and ... one fortunately emotion is what gets in the way of many investors' long-term success so if you focus on you know the main issue you're always going to find a reason not to invest ... and yet historically the equity market has delivered returns of nine eleven percent over the last eight decades ... and if you can focus on value stocks as we do ... baby can do a little better ... of the most long-term returns despite all of the bad news that ... seemed to have to face a day after day one is that we are being this moment right it's the end of August ... the little guy is here in the marquee look of the next month due to the next two months ... he's seen a lot of things coming up real German elections the Fed meet with the ... big thing of the debt ceiling which I had to say right now my work on not find it this time ... um come up I that that silly stuff this gears with a wife didn't happen um not buy it but I mean ... investors have to pay attention to that stuff don't think ... well certainly have to watch those things in the short run but those kinds of things create opportunities for those who can take a long-term view of things ... so as we've seen you know stocks and various actors interest rate sensitive stocks higher yielding stocks have come down here in the summer ... that's when investors I think should be gravitating toward taking advantage of the things that got beat out ... including some of the materials industrials ... that have been hit hard here this summer ... the thing people sometimes ... you're so busy trading stocks on the stock price isn't right ... that a guy I know you're gonna be this ... good in people lose sight of the fact that they're not buying a piece of paper to buying something else ... why do you think that people inside in fact they actually have ownership in the business and you know and most of the companies that we invest and pay dividends so you have income from the gun shy ... unfortunately so many investors use ticker symbols in the eye on Mr. softie year ... or something like that and not that I'd own a piece of some of America's greatest corporations he could have a long-term view and focus on businesses yuan ... I think you can do very well and in order of the day to day ... gyrations Arik John Buckingham think you're a much appreciate the time that the coming in to thank you


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Are Translation Apps for China's Twitter So Bad?
You keep up with Twitter, but what about China's counterpart Sina Weibo, the country's main online forum for news, gossip and complaints? The WSJ's Eva Tam shows those of us without Chinese-language skills how to avoid being lost in translation.
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By JOE PASSOV, Golf Magazine Senior Editor
What do you say to a beast that's lost its bite? If you're Doral resort owner Donald Trump, that's easy: "You're fired." In the case of the legendary Blue Monster course at Doral, a better phrase might have been, "You're tired."
The Donald announced his solution at a memorable press conference in March 2013, on the eve of the WGC–Cadillac Championship. "They're saying the course is in the best shape [it's been in] in 25 years," he said. "It's a little ironic, because we blow it up on Monday."
Indeed, the Blue Monster, which opened in 1962, was due for a makeover. "Sometimes after 20, 30 years, courses need an update, and this course will benefit from it," said reigning U.S. Open champion Justin Rose. "It needs to get back to living up to its reputation as the Blue Monster."
Trump agreed, bringing aboard red-hot architect Gil Hanse and associate Jim Wagner to execute his vision. The results are instantly obvious.
Once marshmallow-soft, the par-5 opener has been stretched to nearly 600 yards and features a new pond to the right of the green. The rinky-dink par-3 15th now demands a watery carry to a peninsula green. The par-4 16th remains drivable for big bashers, but a new lake guarding the left side amplifies the risk/reward drama. Hanse wisely left the par-4 18th — one of the Tour's most dramatic, difficult closers — virtually unchanged.
In all, liquid peril looms on 14 holes, up from six. Water, water, everywhere. Why so much? To modernize and toughen up a track that dates to the JFK administration. Mission accomplished. With newly sharpened teeth, this Monster is scarier than ever. Trump National Doral Miami (Blue Monster), Miami, Fla. 7,450 yards, par 72; Green fees: $270-$500; (305) 592-2030; trumpgolfdoral.com For more news that golfers everywhere are talking about, follow @si_golf on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube video channel.


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Southington Police have charged the driver involved in a January 25 single car accident that led to the operator and three passengers being transported to the hospital with drinking and driving.
On January 25, police were called to a single car accident on Curtiss Street, involving a car that collided with the front steps of a home on the street.
According to an investigation, Corey Mitchell, 19, of Southington, was operating a Pontiac Grand Prix in a southerly direction on Curtiss Street. Mitchell failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection of Hart Street. Mitchell's vehicle continued in a southerly direction, entered the property of 79 Curtiss St. and came to rest after striking the home in the area of the front steps.
As a result of the collision, Mitchell and his three juvenile passengers were all transported to area hospitals for treatment of injuries suffered in the crash. All the parties involved in the collision were treated and released from the area hospitals.
Mitchell was charged with DWI, reckless driving, failure to obey a stop sign and possession of alcohol by a minor. Bond was set at $20,000 with a March 3 court date.


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Police release video in search for man's killer at Baltimore nightclub
Clarence Ross randomly shot, killed at bar in September
A 20-year-old man's night out in south Baltimore ended with his fatal shooting during a bar brawl. Nearly a month later, police have yet to make an arrest.
Baltimore City police released photos Friday in hopes of identifying two men who investigators said are connected to the shooting on Sept. 16.
On Friday afternoon, police released only to 11 News the surveillance video that they said shows a chaotic fight. Investigators hope the video will bring them closer to the killer.
Police were called at about 1:45 a.m. to the Crossroads Station bar and club in the 200 block of South Pulaski Street, where someone opened fire into the crowd, sending people fleeing into the street.
At one point, the video shows a bearded man pull out what looks like a gun as people around him scatter, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Sheldon Dutes reported.
The club's owner, Andre Willabus, said he remembers the evening like it was yesterday.
"We was about to close, and the shots went off," Willabus said. "I was up there. That's where the DJ both is. When the shot went off, some people ran that way and some ran that way, and the guy was laying right there."
Witnesses told police that the shooter then walked outside and randomly fired into the crowd, hitting 20-year-old Clarence Ross in the head.
"Some type of fight or disturbance occurred. People were on the second floor of the location. Our gunman, we believe, fired off at least one round striking our victim fatally in the head," Baltimore City police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
Ross was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died a week later.
Police said Ross was not the intended victim of the shooting.
Investigators said they're looking for two men who were captured on surveillance video inside the bar. Police are still trying to determine what provoked the fight inside the club.
"There are people out there who know the answers to these questions, we just need them to come forward," Guglielmi said.
Anyone with information on the identity of the men in the photos is urged to call homicide detectives at 410-396-2100. Callers can remain anonymous.


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Remote Sensing: Passive Microwave
Antarctic sea ice concentration, ranging from 0 percent (purple) to 100 percent (white) on 07 August 2004. Antarctica is shown in grey, and the unfrozen ocean is shown in dark blue. Sea ice concentration was calculated from data measured by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sensor aboard NASA's Aqua satellite.
—Image courtesy of Matt Smith, Information Technology & Systems Center, University of Alabama at Huntsville.
Arctic sea ice concentration in April 2004, calculated from data measured by the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite. The image is centered over the North Pole, with continents shown in green.
—Image courtesy of Florence Fetterer and Ken Knowles, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Objects at the earth's surface emit not only infrared radiation; they also emit microwaves at relatively low energy levels. When a sensor detects microwave radiation naturally emitted by the earth, that radiation is called passive microwave. Clouds do not emit much microwave radiation, compared to sea ice. Thus, microwaves can penetrate clouds and be used to detect sea ice during the day and night, regardless of cloud cover.
Microwave emission is not as strongly tied to the temperature of an object, compared to infrared. Instead, the object's physical properties, such as atomic composition and crystalline structure, determine the amount of microwave radiation it emits. The crystalline structure of ice typically emits more microwave energy than the liquid water in the ocean. Thus, sensors that detect passive microwave radiation can easily distinguish sea ice from ocean.
A major drawback to measuring passive microwave radiation is that the energy level is quite low. As a result, the radiation must be collected over a larger region. Details of the sea ice, such as leads, are not easily detected.
Because of their ability to detect sea ice through clouds during the day and night, passive microwave sensors provide nearly complete images of all sea ice-covered regions every day. These sensors have provided the most complete, long-term observations of sea ice, allowing scientists to detect notable changes in Arctic sea ice.
Sea ice observations from passive microwave sensors began in 1972 with the Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR) aboard NOAA's Nimbus-5 satellite. In 1978, NASA's Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) provided detailed, reliable information about sea ice. In 1987, a series of DMSP Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) sensors continued the time series, or long-term record, of sea ice data through present. In 2002, NASA launched the Aqua satellite, which carried the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sensor. The system's improved technology complemented the time series of sea ice data. ESMR, SMMR, SSM/I, and AMSR-E sea ice data are available from NSIDC.


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By Joe Sugarman
Are we overrun with musical prodigies? Everywhere you look these days — from the pint-sized pianists on "America's Got Talent" to violin virtuosos on YouTube to guitar phenoms on "Ellen" (Ellen is a sucker for a cute kid with an instrument, isn't she?), it seems we've been living in a culture of overachieving children. But, we wonder, who among the YouTube sensations of today will go onto become the Yo-Yo Mas of tomorrow? Who will be successful young adults like Hilary Hahn or fizzle out like Gayle Webster? Gayle who? Exactly.
Here are six young musicians who we think could still be performing long after they earn their driver's licenses.
Emily Bear
Age: 12
Gee whiz factor: Began studying piano at the Music Institute of Chicago as a toddler. Started composing at age three and penned more than 350 compositions by age eight. Performed at the White House for George W. Bush at age six and made Carnegie Hall debut at nine.
Why she'll succeed: Her mentor is Quincy Jones, who produced her first album — a collection of original jazz compositions — last year. The record peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz album charts. Enough said.
Malik Kofi
Age: 12
Gee whiz factor: This talented cellist learned to read music by age four and by 11 years old was already the subject of a documentary, Little Music Manchild.
Why he'll succeed: The kid's got a great back story: grew up in working class Birmingham, Ala., and was homeschooled by his grandmother. Everyone gushes about his charisma, work ethic and talent, including his mentor Udi Bar-David, cellist for the Philadelphia Orchestra. "He's an extremely talented cellist," says Bar-David, "very creative, mature, has stage presence, is open to learning and has strong ideas of his own."
Marrisa Liu
Age: Eight
Gee whiz: Liu didn't start taking piano lessons until the ripe old age of four, but has won just about every significant piano competition she's entered since age six. By age seven, she had played Carnegie Hall — three times.
Why she'll succeed: Apparently, she's a born winner.
Amira Willighagen
Age: 10
Gee whiz factor: Often cited as the Dutch Jackie Evancho — who could also be on this list — Willighagen, at age nine, wowed audiences on "Holland's Got Talent" with her performance of Puccini's O mio babbino caro from the opera Gianni Schicchi. Says she learned how to sing by watching opera videos on YouTube. As she told the show's judges: "My brother Vincent plays violin, and I also wanted to do something. So I thought, 'I'm going to sing'… and then I heard opera songs, which I found very beautiful and that's when I started singing."
Why she'll succeed: Her debut album, set to come out this month, is from the record label owned by Simon Cowell, who is supposedly a huge fan.
Ethan Bortnik
Age: 14
Gee whiz factor: Started composing at five and performed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at seven. At age nine, he became the youngest artist to have his own national PBS concert special, and at age 10 became the youngest musician to headline his own national tour and the youngest to headline a Las Vegas show. Oh, and he also recently scored — and starred — in a feature film, Anything Is Possible.
Why he'll succeed: Huh? He's already a success!
Tsung Tsung
Age: Seven
Gee whiz factor: A video of then five-year-old Tsung playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" with miraculous speed went viral in 2012.
He dispelled critics who thought the video had been doctored on "Ellen," when he performed the same piece live.
Why he'll succeed: We'll give him a 50-50 chance. He's got blazingly fast hands, but he won't be as adorable in 20 years.


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Dear Humanitarian,
Coral World Ocean Park is an aquarium on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, that has displayed fish and other sea life for many years. Coral World now wants to display dolphins and sell "swim-with-the-dolphin" encounters to tourists. It has proposed building a new sea pen facility in Water Bay next to the current Coral World complex. This new "dolphinarium" is where Coral World plans to house the dolphins it intends to acquire—most likely from abroad—for public entertainment. This sea pen would be located in sea turtle habitat consisting of coral reefs and sea grasses. All species of sea turtles and several species of corals inhabiting the area are listed or proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the agency responsible for permitting the construction of this sea pen. Coral World has admitted it would need to transplant some corals (including the listed species)—always a risky action—and would damage some of the sea grass habitat, but insists there is no danger to the habitat overall. It dismisses entirely the risk posed by confining a number of dolphins in a sea pen, which may result in a decline in local water quality and long-term harm to corals and sea grasses from the inevitable effluent.
The USACE has published the permit application submitted by Coral World and has opened a public comment period of 20 days for the purpose of soliciting comments on the potential effects of the project on threatened or endangered species or their habitat. The current due date for comments is November 30. This is an insufficient amount of time for the public and other interested parties to review the application and consider the possible long-term harm this project poses to Water Bay. It also does not take into account the increasingly controversial nature of dolphin exhibits. The USACE should extend the comment period by a minimum of 15 days (resulting in a due date for comments of December 15) and should also schedule a public hearing, to allow the public ample opportunity to have its views heard.
What You Can Do:
Please write a letter (no emails accepted), post-marked NO LATER THAN November 30, to the following address, stating that you oppose the construction of the dolphinarium because it will harm the dolphins' welfare. Please say also that you consider this project controversial and that both a hearing and an extension of the comment period are warranted.
District Engineer
Antilles Permits Section
400 Fernandez Juncos Avenue
San Juan, PR 00901
Re: Permit Application No. SAJ-1976-89037 (SP-EWG)
The public notice is available by clicking here.
To assist you, a sample letter is provided below. You may copy our sample, but putting it in your own words will help give your comment more weight.
Sample Letter:
District Engineer
Antilles Permits Section
400 Fernandez Juncos Avenue
San Juan, PR 00901
Re: Permit Application No. SAJ-1976-89037 (SP-EWG)
Dear District Engineer,
I am writing to comment on the permit application submitted by Coral World Ocean Park, on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Thomas, for a new sea pen to hold dolphins. I oppose this application because holding dolphins captive is harmful to their welfare and because of the likely adverse environmental impact to corals, sea grasses, sea turtles, other aquatic species, and to ecosystem health. In addition, this particular proposal is controversial on St. Thomas and both a hearing and an extension of the comment period are warranted. Please consider scheduling a public hearing on St. Thomas on this permit application and extending the comment period by at least 15 days, giving a new comment deadline of December 15.
Thank you for considering my views on this matter.
Please share our "Dear Humanitarian" eAlert with family, friends and co-workers, and encourage them to send a message also.
As always, thank you very much for your help!
Naomi Rose, Ph.D.
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