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August 19, 2009
Import Messages and Contacts from Old Accounts to Gmail
You may wonder if it's a good idea to use this service powered by TrueSwitch instead of Gmail's mail fetcher. Here are some differences between the two service:
* Mail importing saves to your Gmail account the existing messages from other accounts and continues to check for new messages only for 30 days. Gmail's mail fetcher downloads the existing messages and checks for new messages indefinitely.
* Mail importing saves to your account messages and contacts, while Gmail's mail fetcher doesn't import contacts (you can manually import contacts).
* Mail importing works for mail services that don't support POP3 (for example: the US version of Yahoo Mail), but the mail fetcher requires POP3. Mail importing supports a small number of popular mail services.
"Copying mail over usually takes a couple days, occasionally up to a week — but eventually it all arrives. And once it's done, you can forget your old account and enjoy having everything in one place," says Google, but I disagree. You'll import the old messages to your account, but after 30 days the service will no longer fetch new messages.
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I think the most important criteria for making a decision is whether the mail account you want to import from supports POP3 or not. POP3 is the best option, but if it's not available you have only one choice (and many people have Yahoo e-mail accounts which don't have POP access and they don't show any intention to add it).ReplyDelete
All I want to say is I love Gmail:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 2:25 AM
Will import come to Google Applications for your Domain?ReplyDelete
@karlerikjessen: Google said it won't - it is a feature targeted only at non-business users. However, you could setup a throwaway Gmail account for importing and retrieve the messages with POP3 into your Apps e-mail account.ReplyDelete
A quick question for someone that has tried this. Yahoo used to be my primary email provider so I have years worth of email sorted into various folders. Would this grab all of that mail,or does everything have to be in the inbox?ReplyDelete
It will fetch all your mail.
Is this really true? This seems to give another option to users that eventhough they switch on other accounts,they can recover the old message??ReplyDelete
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this is a great step,ReplyDelete
I think now all users can convert easly to gmail
gmail needs a messenger also
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Yes! A messenger for Google would be excellent. But I would rather see a Search Engine, or some Web Office. Maybe Google will create a searchengine some day... and maybe with the name Google.... that would be great :)
What about the dates of the e-mails? Gmail's mail fether let me loose the original arrival date so sorting will be chaoticReplyDelete
i need to import email@example.com to my google account. i could import email@example.com but could not import that. please help me.ReplyDelete
Thanks for helpful post
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Yes, help Alireza! Why should he go to the Google Forums. It's your job, Alex.
No, it's not job. I don't work for Google and nobody pays me for user support. If you can't import ymail.com accounts, share your feedback in Gmail's forum and hopefully someone from Google will answer your complaint.ReplyDelete
yeah. i was jacked when I found out about this feature. i have several accounts out there but i don't want everyone bombarding my main one. so it's nice to use this feature and combine it with the filtering and folders so that i know where mail was sent to and it all funnels into my main email.ReplyDelete


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CHESTERFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Pfizer Inc.'s medical research lab in St. Louis County is missing $700,000 worth of gold dust, and police are trying to determine if it was lost or stolen.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (https://bit.ly/UiPayr ) reports that Chesterfield police began an investigation this week after a Pfizer employee conducting inventory couldn't find the gold dust purchased last year for use in research.
Police Capt. Steven Lewis says no one is "sure if they just didn't account for it and it was used naturally, or if it was stolen or misplaced."
Pfizer said in a statement it is working with law enforcement and takes the matter seriously.
It wasn't clear what purpose the gold dust has in Pfizer's research.
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There are distinct topologies of computer networks. A personal topology characterises conceive or the conceive of a network. These topologies are celebrity topology, coach topology, mesh topology, celebrity topology, coach, etc. attached in a celebrity topology, each computer exactly into a mesh to a centered hub or swap, as we understand it. If all the computers in a celebrity topology is not awkward leverage on other computers on a network.
There are distinct measures and apparatus on your network. The most widespread benchmark for Ethernet LAN. key apparatus in a computer mesh is a hub, swap, router, modem and get access to issue, router, etc. These are two distinct mesh attachments, ordered and physical. All communications on the Internet is founded on the router. Hub / swap to the computers on the mesh can use.


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Robert of Geneva
Robert of Geneva, d. 1394, Genevan churchman, antipope (1378–94; see Schism, Great) with the name Clement VII. He was archbishop of Cambrai (1368) and was created (1371) a cardinal. He was subsequently papal legate in Italy, and he put down a rebellion at Cesena with great cruelty. In 1378, on the death of Gregory XI, Urban VI was elected, but the cardinals reconsidered and elected Robert instead. He went to Avignon at once, and the Great Schism had begun. He was recognized by France (his protector), Scotland (France's ally), Spain, and Naples. Several German states also recognized him. Portugal twice recognized and twice repudiated him. He was unsuccessful in trying to increase his support. He died just as the ideas that led to the conciliar theory (i.e., that councils, as opposed to the pope, have supreme authority) were being propagated from Paris. His successor at Avignon was Benedict XIII (see Luna, Pedro de).


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Is The New Apple iPhone 5c The Perfect Handset For You?
Is The New Apple iPhone 5c The Perfect Handset For You?
Apple has tried to do something a little differently this year because they've released an iPhone aimed at the cheaper end of the market. This means anyone who was scared to spend so much money in the past will now be able to own an iPhone without relying on versions already years out of date.
You obviously have the people who think it's a terrible idea, but on the whole the new iPhone 5c has been well-received. If you're thinking about getting a new phone in the future we can take a look at some of the reasons why the 5c might be the phone for you.
A sleek new design
Apple has finally reverted back to plastic with the release of the 5c and they say it's because they wanted to get the color of the new handsets just right. That would have been impossible had they stuck with metal and glass, so polycarbonate was the solution and it doesn't take anything away from the phone. There is still actually a steel frame inside the polycarbonate and it also acts as an antenna, but luckily it makes the handset feel very sturdy to hold.
Better camera software
The camera built into the iPhone 5 is unbelievable and you'll get the exact same one inside the 5c. This is great news if you're still stuck on an older version of the iPhone, but maybe not so great if you already have the last model. It sets itself apart from the iPhone 5 camera because the software built into the phone is superior. There are lots of extra features including lots of built-in filters and it also has improved face detection and video stabilization.
A speedy performance
The performance of the phone is perfect and it won't lag behind when you're using it. The only trouble will come in the future when more app developers start building 64-bit apps. It means in the future you might find it difficult to use more powerful apps. One great thing you'll find on the 5c is the multitude of wireless connectivity options at your fingertips, and the handset will support up to a whopping 13 LTE bands.
Superior battery life
There will always be the occasional time where you forget to charge your phone and with the older iPhone handsets the battery might have ran out, but the battery inside the 5c lasts longer. Even though Apple is only telling everyone there is a slight improvement in battery life it will feel much better for you on a day-to-day basis. One reason the handset doesn't draw as much power when it's sitting in standby mode is because of the latest iOS7 software.
The overall score
If you don't mind spending more money you're better buying the 5s, but the 5c is definitely a worthy adversary. We've touched on some of the great features and we've also looked at some of the reasons why it's not perfect. Now you just need to weigh up your options before you make a final decision about what handset is the best one for you.


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Anyone who fell for Obama's spiel has a shit factory for a brain.
Via Marc A. Thiessen at WaPo
When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration increasingly appears to have been a bottomless pit of deception.
First, Barack Obama failed to disclose to Congress the existence of secret side deals on inspections when he transmitted the nuclear accord to Capitol Hill. (They were only uncovered by chance when then-Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) learned about them during a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna.) Then, we learned that the Obama administration had secretly sent a plane to Tehran loaded with $400 million in Swiss francs, euros and other currencies on the same day Iran released four American hostages, which was followed by two more secret flights carrying another $1.3 billion in cash.
Now, in a bombshell revelation, Republicans on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), have revealed in a new report that the Obama administration secretly tried to help Iran use U.S. banks to convert $5.7 billion in Iranian assets, after promising Congress that Iran would not get access to the U.S. financial system — and then lied to Congress about what it had done. (Full disclosure: My wife works for Portman).
In July 2015, Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that, under the nuclear accord, Iran "will continue to be denied access to the [U.S.] financial and commercial market" and that "Iranian banks will not be able to clear U.S. dollars through New York, hold correspondent account relationships with U.S. financial institutions, or enter into financing arrangements with U.S. banks." A few weeks later, one of Lew's top deputies, Adam Szubin, used the exact same words in testimony to the Senate banking committee.
But Senate investigators found that on Feb. 24, 2016, the Obama Treasury Department "granted a specific license that authorized a conversion of Iranian assets worth billions of U.S. dollars using the U.S. financial system" — exactly what Lew and Szubin said would not happen — including unlimited future Iranian deposits at Bank Muscat in Oman until the license expired.
Not only that, Senate investigators found that officials from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which regulates U.S. banks' compliance with U.S. sanctions law, "encouraged two U.S. correspondent banks to convert the funds." The report says "both banks declined to complete the transaction due to compliance, reputational, and legal risks associated with doing business with Iran."
Then, after issuing the license, the Obama administration explicitly denied to Congress that it had done so. Lew and Szubin both failed to disclose the license in congressional testimony while continuing to assert that the Obama administration would not give Iran access to U.S. financial institutions — when they had just tried to do so. And in a June 2016 letter to Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Treasury officials declared "The U.S. Department of Treasury is not working on behalf of Iran to enable Iranian access to U.S. dollars elsewhere in the international financial system, nor are we assisting Iran in gaining access to dollar payment systems outside the U.S. financial system. The Administration has not been and is not planning to grant Iran access to the U.S. financial system." This was patently false.
Investigators also found internal State Department emails, in which officials admitted that the Obama administration had "exceeded our JCPOA commitments" by authorizing Iranian access to U.S. banks. Furthermore, the report reveals that the Obama administration put on more than 200 "roadshows" across the world where they encouraged foreign financial institutions to do business with Iran "as long as the rest of the world left the United States out of it." According to the report, during a roadshow in London, OFAC Director John Smith "downplayed the likelihood of any future penalties or fines," telling the audience "that 95% of the time OFAC sees an apparent violation it results in a simple warning letter or no enforcement action."
In other words, the Obama administration: (1) told Congress it would not allow Iran access to U.S. financial institutions; (2) issued a special license allowing Iran to do exactly that; (3) unsuccessfully pressured U.S. banks to help Iran; (4) lied to Congress and the American people about what it had done; (5) admitted in internal emails that these efforts "exceeded" U.S. obligations under the nuclear deal; (6) sent officials, including bank regulators, around the world to urge foreign financial institutions to do business with Iran; and (7) promised that they would get nothing more than a slap on the wrist for violating U.S. sanctions.
The criminality of Obama's Iran nuke deal involved giving payoffs to Iranian banks, paying $400 million in ransom to the Iranian thugs for hostages, and essentially giving them the green light to make bombs.
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For CES 2014, ROCCAT is announcing their "largest product line-up yet", notably 3 new products in their mice, headset, and mechanical keyboard lineups.
Two new Kave XTD gaming headsets set to debut include the Kave XTD 5.1 Analog and the Kave XTD Stereo. The Kave XTD 5.1 Analog is the successor to their original Kave 5.1, featuring classic 5.1 audio jacks plus a USB connector to power up the in-cable remote and LED lighting. The headset features Zero Noise technology thanks to the interference isolator built into its dual-mode in-cable remote. The remote can be used as either desktop or clip on. The overall comfort and build quality has been improved significantly, with weight reduced by 25%. The Kave XTD Stereo offers the same build and design but features two powerful driver units delivering intense and rich gaming sound. The detachable noise-cancelling microphone provides supremem sound quality and offers fan-favorite features like the mute LED. Also present will be the Kave XTD 5.1 Digital, their flagship version of the series.
The Kone series of mice set to debut include the Kone XTD Optical and the Kone Pure Military, the latter coming in three different versions. The Kone XTD Optical features an adjustable distance control unit to customize liftoff distance and a new 6,400 dpi optical sensor. The Kone XTD Optical offers features like Omron switches, the 4D titan wheel, Easy-Aim and ROCCAT talk. The new Kone Pure Military features a 5000 dpi optical sensor with TDCU and will be available in three different styles: Desert Strike, Naval Storm, and Camo Charge. Roccat will also make the new Kave XTD 5.1 Analog plus a mousepad available in the same design and sell the mice alone or as a bundle.
The Ryos mechanical gaming keyboard series will feature two new compact ten key less versions – one with per-key illumination and one without backlighting. The new versions are called the Ryos TKL pro and Ryos TKL. Their development is based directly on user feedback via Facebook. The TKL Pro version features a cutting-edge MCU, which supports illumination effects such as "per-key breathing" and will be available in four different switch colors.


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SRD:Book of Infinite Spells
From D&D Wiki
|This material is published under the OGL 1.0a.
Book of Infinite Spells: This work bestows upon any character of any class the ability to use the spells within its pages. However, any character not already able to use spells gains one negative level for as long as the book is in her possession or while she uses its power. A book of infinite spells contains 1d8+22 pages. The nature of each page is determined by a dice roll: 01–50, arcane spell; 51–100, divine spell.
Determine the exact spell by using the tables for determining major scroll spells.
Once a page is turned, it can never be flipped back—paging through a book of infinite spells is a one-way trip. If the book is closed, it always opens again to the page it was on before the book was closed. When the last page is turned, the book vanishes.
Once per day the owner of the book can cast the spell to which the book is opened. If that spell happens to be one that is on the character's class spell list, she can cast it up to four times per day. The pages cannot be ripped out without destroying the book. Similarly, the spells cannot be cast as scroll spells, nor can they be copied into a spellbook—their magic is bound up permanently within the book itself.
The owner of the book need not have the book on her person in order to use its power. The book can be stored in a place of safety while the owner is adventuring and still allow its owner to cast spells by means of its power.
Each time a spell is cast, there is a chance that the energy connected with its use causes the page to magically turn despite all precautions. The owner knows this and may even benefit from the turning by gaining access to a new spell. The chance of a page turning depends on the spell the page contains and what sort of spellcaster the owner is.
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Treat each spell use as if a scroll were being employed, for purposes of determining casting time, spell failure, and so on.
Strong (all schools); CL 18th;Weight 3 lb.
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I've always received messages in my meditations. Some might call them visions although that is too strong a word for me because I certainly don't consider myself any type of psychic. I do get flashes of peoples' lives when I do energy healing -- I usually don't tell them what I see but when I do it is always confirmed. But for the longest time a picture came into my head of an older me, with long gray curly hair, wearing orange robes and sitting with my eyes closed on a ghat somewhere in India. I don't know if it is a picture of the future or from the past. When I first started to receive these images I did not know what a ghat was and India was not even a thought in my mind.
After five years of going to India this was my first trip to north India, to the Ganges. When I walked onto our hotel terrace overlooking the river in Haridwar it took my breath away. I stood there amazed because I instantly knew I had been there before. I have written before about how for the past two years I knew in my bones I had to be at THIS Kumbh Mela at THIS time in my life. Nothing was going to stop me.
I stood there for a long time taking everything in and it was such a deep, visceral knowing that I could only compare it to when my feet first hit the ground in Chennai five years ago, the feeling that I had come home. Everything that was in my view I had already seen and known. There was no mistake about it, I had already been here, in this spot. It was the week of Mahashivaratri and the orange robes of the sadhus across the river looked so familiar to me on a level that was very different from seeing them in photographs.
Before the Mela we had been in Kolkata where we went to Kalighat. When I walked into that temple I received such a blast of shakti that I had to sit down before I fell down. When we were in the inner chamber itself my friend told me that my eyes were so dilated that I looked like I had dropped a hit of acid. The cockroaches crawling all over the metal grill surrounding the murthi of Kali Ma sparkled so brightly that they looked like crawling jewels. I mentioned them to my friend but she could not see what I saw.
After we made our offering and the priests thumped our foreheads we walked around and came to the area where the goats are sacrificed. The idea of an animal or a human dying for the Divine is abhorrent to me but I take many things in stride in India. If the thought of legless and deformed beggars or slum children pulling on your sleeve for a rupee is too much, then India is not the place for you.
I watched a woman butchering the meat as stray dogs gathered waiting for a morsel of goat to drop. Goat heads with blank staring eyes lined the edge of the sacrificial platform and I looked at the dogs. In my shakti induced high their panting mouths seemed to be smiling. Kalighat is next door to where Mother Theresa tended to the dying whether they were Christian, Hindu, or Muslim, and instead of feelings of revulsion about the decapitated goats, I took in the entire scene and all I felt was pure love. In the Bengali tradition, the goal of the Kali devotee is to become reconciled with death and to learn acceptance of the way that things are. The love that I felt was raw and primal and my heart space filled with the fire of bhakti. I felt as if I were on fire. I felt extraordinarily alive.
All the people who had died next door, all the goats who had given their lives for the Mother, all those dogs who were going to eat. It was my own surrealistic version of Eat Pray Love.
I was filled with joy.
On Mahashivatri we watched the procession of the naga babas to the Ganges and I knew that I had never been to such a joyful event in my life.
Our hotel in Haridwar had its own ghat and after the naga babas took their bath on Mahashivaratri I walked down the steps into the Ganges and dunked myself three times. We had already been in Haridwar for five days but I wanted to wait until the day that Shiva married Parvati to really feel the river. I had immediately felt the energy of the river just standing on the terrace on the first day so I knew it would be even more energized after the holy men bathed.
I was right. During my third dunk I stayed underwater a bit longer and I felt electric. I came out and sat on the steps with my feet in the water. Bathing in the river is thought to wash away one's sins, a death, so to speak ("you will die in India....") The waters of the Ganges are called amrita, the "nectar of immortality". Hindus believe that there is nothing as cleansing as the living waters of Ganga Ma. I wanted to sit there all day with the water on my skin. Something was coursing through me and once again all I felt was joy. Our true nature.
As it turned out it was an auspicious day for me because that night I met a swami of the highest order, a man who is the Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of the Juna Akhara.
That morning he had thrown a rose to me from the procession -- he stopped his chariot, looked right at me, threw the flower and smiled, and then moved on. At that time I did not know that in the afternoon I would be invited to a special puja that night at his ashram, the oldest one in Haridwar. A mantra teacher friend from Mumbai sent me a text telling me he was staying at an ashram and would I like to come for a special Mahashivaratri puja. He said he would be chanting during the ceremony and maybe I would be interested. I had no idea that he was staying in the ashram of the rose throwing swami, I did not even know the swami's name. Before I left my friend said, "what if it's the swami from this morning?" I told her that would be too much of a coincidence -- but there are no coincidences, all things happen for a reason.
When the rickshaw arrived at the ashram that night and I saw the picture of the swami who threw the rose, I froze in my seat. I couldn't believe it. Once again that shakti blast pieced the coconut and all I could do was stare at the billboard with his picture. I sat there for so long that some of the devotees asked me if I was alright. I walked into the ashram grounds and eventually was taken back into the swami's compound before the start of the puja. Nothing was planned, everything just happened, merely the flow of the experience, the essence of allowing things to unfold. I was told that night that it was my good karma to be there, that I was meant to be there from the moment I caught that rose. I returned every day to the ashram before we left Haridwar.
For whatever reason, maybe it was my jump into the Ganges, but my personal practice and my yoga teaching have changed. I really can't describe it, but the energetics have changed, even my students say so. I've read that when shifts of consciousness occur it changes your DNA.
The new message I received during my recent meditations was that the day I stop teaching here will be the beginning of my Indian life. But not yet. I still have some cooking to do, it will take a few more years. I'm coming to end of my marinating and it's nice to begin to see what the feast is going to look like. Or not. That's OK, too. Kali is said to not give what is expected. It is said that perhaps it is her refusal to do so that enables her devotees to reflect on dimensions of themselves and of reality that go beyond the material world.
Everything with a grain of salt. All things happen when they are ready to happen. They always have.


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Some of the proposed changes to Europe's data protection laws would strip citizens of their privacy rights, a coalition of international civil liberties organizations said Thursday.
The European Parliament is currently considering proposals from the European Commission for a complete overhaul of the E.U.'s data protection laws. The original laws date from 1995, the pre-Internet age, and are arguably in great need of an update.
However, the debate about how to update them has been intense. Creating one regulation to replace national data protection and privacy laws in the 27 E.U. countries obviously requires compromise, but many parliamentarians report never seeing lobbying on such a scale before. In an effort to reach some sort of consensus, more than 4,000 changes to the draft text have been proposed.
The civil liberties coalition, which includes Access, Bits of Freedom, EDRI, La Quadrature du Net and Privacy International, has set up a website, nakedcitizens.eu, to help concerned citizens contact their representatives in the Parliament.
The groups have also presented a report based on their analysis of the proposed amendments. "Among the thousands of amendments tabled are a large number that threaten to severely weaken privacy rights in the U.K.," the report said. "These damaging amendments are largely the result of an unprecedented lobbying storm by big U.S. tech companies, the U.S. government and the advertising industry.
Some of the lobbying positions were published earlier this year at LobbyPlag.eu, a website that compares amendments put forward to the text submitted by lobbyists such as Amazon, eBay and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
One suggested amendment would alter the way Web companies could define "consent" to gather data, according to the coalition. Rather than "informed, specific and explicit" consent, companies could "assume consent has been given or to include consent language in hard to understand terms and conditions" the report said.
Another contentious issue is the right to be forgotten. Much of the concern is over the role of search engines. Privacy advocates want to see the burden of proof shifted from consumers justifying why data should be deleted to businesses having to prove why it should be kept.
"Without effective privacy protection, our personal lives are laid bare, to be used and abused by business and governments," said Joe McNamee of European Digital Rights and spokesperson of the coalition.
The final committee vote in the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament is due to occur on May 29. Once the committee has given its opinion, the proposal will be voted on by Parliament. Only then can it be signed by the member states.
Ireland, which currently holds presidency of the European Union, is keen to see the new law signed before the end of its term July 1.


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Peter Bogdanovich
Review by Evan Kindley
Posted on 19 May 2010
Source Warner Brothers DVD
Categories Seventies Screwball
Before we get into the film itself (you've got time, right?), it might be interesting to take a look at some of the vintage publicity materials for What's Up, Doc?, conveniently archived for us on Warner Brothers' DVD. A promotional featurette called "Screwball Comedies… Remember Them?" begins by laying the nostalgia on with a trowel: "Do you remember the great old days of screwball comedy? Well, they're back." Well, sort of: the screwball spirit is not so much revived as painstakingly reconstructed by the dutiful young Peter Bogdanovich, who has spent "thousands of hours" studying the models of Ernst Lubitsch, Leo McCarey, Frank Capra and Howard Hawks in order to bring us a perfect simulacrum. While Bogdanovich's cinema scholarship, then as now, is impressive, treating the screwball genre with so much academic respect sort of misses the point, and runs the risk of losing the lightness and charm that are the reason people loved these comedies in the first place.
All this to say that What's Up, Doc? is a pretty calculated movie, and while it's also a pretty funny one, it lacks the apparently effortless grace of the great 30s screwballs it borrows from. The film is often considered a tribute to Hawks' evergreen Bringing Up Baby, starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and Ryan O'Neal's distractable archaeologist Howard Bannister is indeed very close to Grant's similarly absent paleontologist. They both have business-minded, dominating wives (Virginia Walker's Miss Swallow in Baby, Madeline Kahn's Eunice in Doc) and both are anxious to get in the good graces of powerful philanthropists: Mr. Peabody in Baby, Frederick Larrabee in Doc. Finally, both are pursued by energetic, enterprising young women: Hepburn in Baby, Barbra Streisand in Doc. As in the original, Streisand - here playing a perpetual college student named Judy Maxwell - finds ways to continually put herself in Howard's path, despite his obvious annoyance.
So far so Hawksian, but Bogdanovich actually ranges pretty far afield in his search for inspirations here, evoking the Marx Brothers or Frank Tashlin at least as often as he does Hawks or McCarey or Capra. (An early gag in which a pizza chef throws dough in the air and it doesn't come down is pure Tashlin.) The mode of What's Up, Doc? is arguably more farce than screwball: the plot hinges on the coincidence of four identical plaid overnight cases (one containing diamonds, one top secret files, one igneous rocks, and one clothing) which lets Bogdanovich do some fancy Hitchcockian prestidigitation, far more intricate than anything Hawks ever did. Much depends on elaborate setups that spiral into out-and-out chaos, like a hotel room catching on fire or a hectic fight scene, complete with a couple of good old-fashioned cream pies in the face. The pièce de resistance is a crazy chase sequence on the streets of San Francisco, in which Howard and Judy somehow end up commandeering a Chinese dragon float. A lot of this is actually closer to sixties comedies like It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World than it is the comedies of remarriage that Bogdanovich values so highly.
Most important, the emotional tone of What's Up, Doc? is more determinedly anti-sentimental than its 30s predecessors. Buck Henry, David Newman and Robert Benton's script takes care to undercut any genuine romantic moment before it can get too convincing - a sly move given that Streisand was then already knee-deep in schmaltz and O'Neal was best known for starring in the decidedly goopy Love Story (whose tagline is parodied in an exchange towards the end of the film: "Love means never having to say you're sorry." "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.") Where the moments I tend to remember from Bringing Up Baby are actually quite tender ones - like Hepburn telling Grant "You are so good looking without your glasses" - the best lines in Doc are the outright silliest, as when Eunice asks Howard why he's drawn a bubble bath and he answers, "It came out of the faucet that way." The title's homage à Looney Toons casts Streisand in the Bugs Bunny part, an allusion that both desexualizes her and sets her up as more of a tormentor than a suitor, an emphasis which upsets the perfect balance of Bringing Up Baby, where Hepburn is both tormenting Grant and pursuing him, helpless to do one without doing the other. By contrast, Streisand's Judy seems perfectly in control at all times, sadistically toying with Howard like Bugs with Elmer.
If O'Neal and Streisand - who are both, by the way, distractingly tan - don't have anything like the natural chemistry of Grant and Hepburn, they're helped out by a lot of ace character actors filling in the gaps, including Kenneth Mars as a pompous Croatian musicologist, the rodent-like Austin Pendleton as Mr. Larrabee, an unbelievably young Randy Quaid as… somebody or other, and Liam Dunn as a weary, dyspeptic judge. (Also look for a brief appearance by M. Emmett Walsh as a bailiff in the courtroom scene.) The highlight, though, is Kahn, who despite having the straight woman role schools Streisand in comic timing. (I often found myself wishing their roles had been reversed.) Warming up for much brassier turns in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and High Anxiety, Kahn gives Eunice a puzzled vulnerability not really required by the film's logic, but welcome in a film where everybody else are somewhere in the vicinity of grotesque.
What does it say about the seventies that screwball comedy was briefly in fashion again? Probably not all that much, to be honest; the precocious movie brats who populated the New Hollywood retrofitted any number of old genres, after all, from the gangster film to the Western. But they usually did so in the name of high art, borrowing techniques and themes from European masters like Antonioni and Godard to justify working with these old, hackneyed forms. Bogdanovich doesn't go this route; in that featurette, the studio insists on their resident auteur's essential unpretentiousness: "Bogdanovich doesn't try for the obscure or self-conscious in his films. He lays it out neat and clean, and lets the audience have their own entertainment and fun." So maybe the neo-screwball trend reflected a nostalgia for a cinematic populism that Bogdanovich can't quite manage on his own; or, more cynically, a real bid for mass success. (It should be noted that What's Up, Doc? was an enormous hit - the biggest of Bogdanovich's career.) But the New Hollywood also prided itself on being radically different from the Old, as Peter Biskind's Easy Riders and Raging Bulls and Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese's A Decade Under the Influence have recently reminded us. In the trailer for What's Up, Doc? (also included on the DVD) we're told of the "utterly new and different atmosphere created on the Bogdanovich set. No more the crass showmanship and slapdash of the old Hollywood. Here too, none of the catch-as-catch-can, do-it-anyway attitudes of former filmmakers. Here instead is a skilled artist, sophisticated in his craft, using the camera as Heifetz uses a Stradivarius." OK, my irony alarm is going off now, you screwballs you; were Bogdanovich and Warner Brothers satirizing the revolutionary claims of the New Hollywood? Was the screwball revival a way to have the whiz-kid auteur cake and eat it (in the form of commercial profits) too? Was Bogdanovich trying to tell the New Hollywood not to take itself too seriously, albeit in a seriously studious way, by invoking no less a Film Authority than Hawks? What's Up, Doc?, for all its small pleasures, has the feel of a party joke delivered like a term paper.
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There truly is a holiday for everything. Friday was National Granola Bar Day. My kids celebrated by eating a ridiculous amount of them. I don't want to talk about it. Saturday was National Blonde Brownies Day. I made some Bourbon Pecan Blondies in honor of it, but they haven't cooperated with my photog attempts. Damn those drunken bars! And Sunday was National Pie Day–which is not to be mistaken with Pi Day, which is 3.14 (March 14th).
This was to be a celebration of pie in any way, shape, or form–but I was a little busy trying to do my homework in front of the fire at Panera Bread… and falling asleep in public. Nothing like waking up to see people staring at you with smiles on their faces. Darn that relaxing atmosphere! I hope I wasn't snoring! In any case, after that and running my errands, I didn't get home until 9:30PM–a little late to be starting a pie endeavor–especially since I still had homework to finish.
The next best thing is an easy no-bake option. Granted, these usually fall under the category of cheesecake in my book, but since this blog called theirs Peanut Butter Pie, I'm giving it a pass this time and letting it qualify. Beggars can't be choosers at the last minute.
Be careful about giving in to the temptation to save calories. Generally, light cream cheese won't set as well and you can forget about fat-free "cream cheese" (which isn't anything resembling cream cheese anyway). Light Cool Whip, however, is a substitution you can usually get away with.
You can see the full recipe on Cocoa and Cheese. And BTW, today is National Peanut Butter Day… this one was a two-fer! 😉


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Ragan.com recently asked this question: "When should you fire an employee for his tweets?"
As a management-side employment lawyer you'd think I'd tell you that private-sector employees have no privacy rights in what they post online, and that an employer has the right to fire any employee, at any time, for anything posted on a social network (with a big caveat under the National Labor Relations Act). More or less, that statement is legally correct.
But just because something is legally correct doesn't make it practically prudent. Firing an employee for what they say online ignores the risk of harm to a business if the firing goes viral.
Case in point? Consider last week's dust-up between Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel. In case you're not up on the latest gossip, Kanye gave the BBC a very (even for Kanye's standards) self-aggrandizing interview, which Jimmy Kimmel mocked by having a little kid reenact the interview on his late-night talk show. Had it stopped there, the story would have likely died. But, Kanye took the story to his nearly 10 million Twitter followers, trashing Jimmy Kimmel in a series of progressively offensive tweets, which led to Kimmel devoting an entire monologue to eviscerating Kanye. (By the way, Kanye, 1) you're not going to win a battle of wits with a stand-up comic, and 2) deleting all of your tweets does not erase them from every news outlet that's already posted screen caps.)
The lesson here? Social media has the ability to turn a forgotten event into a viral nightmare. Certainly there are instances when you will have no choice but to fire someone for something posted online—for example, racist, sexist, or other inappropriate conduct, or breaches of confidentiality.
Take a look at Twitter, however, and realize how fast a tweet can disappear from a stream. Now, consider your employee, who likely has 5 or 10 followers, or even a few hundred Facebook friends. Given this limited reach, how likely is it that something an employee posts will hurt your business? If the answer is not-very-likely, then give serious consideration to ignoring it. Instead of firing an employee over some marginally inappropriate or improper post, consider providing all of your employees some training on responsible posting and other online activities. Turn a potentially viral and destructive situation into a positive learning experience.


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Mouse Genome Informatics Summary, 2010
Judith Blake*
Alexander Diehl*
Mary Dolan*
Harold J Drabkin*
Midori Harris*
David Hill*
Li Ni
Dmitry Sitnikov
- Funded entirely or partially by GO
Annotation Progress
We continue to put emphasis on those genes selected for the Reference Genome Project. Additional emphasis has been placed on certain genes associated with lung development.
|Annotation Type
|% Change
|Total Genes annotated (with at least one GO term of any kind):
|Total Manual Annotation
|Number of Genes
|IEA Annotation
|SwissProt to GO
|Interpro to GO
|EC to GO
|* 100% of current gene models
The large changes in manual (non-IEA) curated genes are the result of the addition of 5 efforts.
- Annotating genes with no literature annotation to one or more of the three roots. Quality control reports now alert curators for any genes annotated to one or more of the three roots when new literature is added to MGI and the literature is indexed to these genes.
- We have added a pipeline to create annotations inferred by sequence orthology (ISO) to mouse genes that have rat or human orthologs where the rat or human orthologs have been annotated by experiment.
- We have added a pipeline to load GOA annotations to mouse genes.
- We have added a pipeline to add annotations based on intra-ontology relationships.
- We have added a pipeline to add annotations by on sequence similarity (ISS)based on Panther family membership via the Reference Genome project.
Methods and strategies for annotation
Literature curation:
Literature curation continues to be the major focus of our annotation efforts. We continue to explore natural language processing tools to aid in identifying the genes in papers selected for GO.
Computational annotation strategies:
As always current strategies involve use of translation table to mine SwissProt keywords, InterPro domains, and EC numbers for IEA annotation. These are performed automatically on a nightly basis and require little human intervention.
Priorities for annotation
- Genes assigned by Reference Genome Project (everyone)
- Isoform curation (Harold, Protein Ontology project); now co-ordinating with 1 by focusing on reference genes that have isoforms.
- Genes with no GO annotation but with literature (Li and Dmitry)
- Genes with only IEA annotation but with literature (Li)
- Genes identified as being important in lung development (Dmitry)
- Genes marked as having GO annotation completed, but now having new literature (Dmitry)
Presentations and Publications
- Publications,_Talks,_Posters_2010- (for all GOC)
- Publications
Gene Ontology Consortium. The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D331-5. NAR
Hill DP, Berardini TZ, Howe DG, Van Auken KM. Representing ontogeny through ontology: a developmental biologist's guide to the gene ontology. Mol Reprod Dev 2010; 77(4):314-29.
Alterovitz G, Xiang M, Hill DP, Lomax J, Liu J, Cherkassky M, Dreyfuss J, Mungall C, Harris MA, Dolan ME, Blake JA, Ramoni MF. Ontology engineering.Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Feb;28(2):128-30.
- Tutorials and Workshops
- Posters
Drabkin HJ et al. (MGI), Title: "Proteins, Pathways, and Macromolecular Complexes"; ISMB (July 2010)
A. Ontology Development Contributions:
- 1. David Hill has worked on a team with Tanya Berardini, Chris Mungall, Midori Harris and Jane Lomax to develop cross-products within and among the three GO namespaces.
- 2. David Hill continues to work with Chris Mungall and Tanya Berardini to add inter-ontology links in GO.
- 3. David Hill has worked with Yasmin Alam-Faruque, Doug Howe, Midori Harris, Susan Tweedie, Becky Foulger and community experts to expand the kidney development portion of GO.
- 4. Alexander Diehl is project leader for the Cell Ontology (with Chris Mungall) and Terry Meehan is a full-time curator working on the Cell Ontology. Terry has finished implementing cross-products for hematopoietic cell ontology terms and is working on general improvements to the CL, and has moved on to import of FMA cell types, among others. Alex is focusing improvements to the representation of neurons in the CL, part of an ongoing collaboration with the International Neuroinformatics Framework (INCF). In May 2010 we held a very successful Cell Ontology Workshop at The Jackson Laboratory where many issues regarding the longterm development of the ontology were settled. We will hold another workshop on neurons in the first quarter of 2011. (See separate progress report for the Cell Ontology). In summer 2010 Alex mentored Morgan V. Hightshoe, a returned member of the Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program, and Wade Valleau, a local high school intern in linked projects to revise the representation of nervous system cell types in the Cells Ontology. Wade received support from INCF for his work. Alex continues to act as the GOC liaison to the Infectious Disease Ontology and Vaccine Ontology groups and to act on term requests for the GO from those groups, and is active in the GO Signaling and Virus content development groups.
- 5. David Hill and Jane Lomax oversee the biological content development of GO. In particular, all new developmental biology-related terms submitted to SourceForge are handled by David Hill.
- 6. David Hill and Harold Drabkin have been working with Tanya Berardini, Chris Mungall, Midori Harris, Jane Lomax and ChEBI curators to align GO with ChEBI. This will result in the first set of cross-products with GO and an external ontology.
- 7. David Hill and Karen Christie have been collaborating to revise and update the transcription area of GO.
Annotation Outreach and User Advocacy Efforts:
- The Protein Ontology project continues to provide a web interface (http/pir.georgetown.edu/cgi-bin/pro/race_pro) whereby functional annotation using the GO can be applied to PRO submissions. These are reviewed by Cecilia Arighi of Georgetown. At present, only the PRO curators (Georgetown and MGI) are using the tool, but it is available to anyone.
- Harold is mentoring two curators in Donna Slonim's group at Tufts, Heather Wick and Craig Fournier. They are focusing on genes involved in human fetal development.
- David Hill continues to serve on the GO-help rota.
Other Highlights:
- We are now suppling a GAF 2.0 format file to GOC with column 16 cell type and column 17 isoform data filled in. This file is also available directly from our own FTP site.
- Dmitry Sitnikov finishes up collaboration with Larry Hunter's group (Dr. Mike Bada) to establish a large, high-quality, corpora of full-text publications, expertly annotated with expressive knowledge representations, to improve the performance of a wide variety of biochemical text mining systems and to create new approaches to text mining. This involves systematically training and evaluating a broad sample of information extraction methods for key tasks, including concept and relationship identification. This effort can also be useful in synonym improvements to the GO between GO terms and certain biological concepts and terminology used in the literature. A total of 98 articles have been annotated for molecular function and process. Additionally, Dmitry is working to improve the usefulless of MGI internal GO QC reports.
- As the designated coordinator of the MGI/GO project with the GO Reference Genome project, Li Ni participates in annotations of genes assigned by the Reference Genome Project, maintain the mouse Reference Genome list on MGI GO wiki and Google spreadsheet, maintain the Reference Genome status table on GO wiki, oversees the curation of Reference Genome Genes for the mouse group.
- Mary Dolan has been involved in a collaboration with Carol Bult at MGI on aligning gene ontology annotations for mouse genes assigned to MouseCyc pathways (See http://www.informatics.jax.org/pathways.shtml) and exploring computational methods for associating functional, pathway, and phenotypic data. Mary also provides various files for the Reference Genome Project, for example, a report to assess the GO annotation status of PANTHER families and subfamilies based on annotations for all reference genome organism genes in the groups.
- Collaboration with BioGRID: We have just begun a collaboration with the BioGRID (Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets) to add protein binding annotations (IPI evidence code), as well as annotations based on genetic interactions ((G() curated for GO at MGI into BioGRID. The protein binding annotations are augmented in many cases by the use of the expanded evidence code ontology (ECO) to supply more detail as to the type of experiment used for the annotation. Harold has supplied supporting files to Rose Oughtred, Senior Scientific Curator for the Genome Databases Group at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton for initial incorporation of these annotations.


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Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Located in the Piazza della Minerva one block behind the Pantheon in the Pigna rione of Rome within the ancient district known as the Campus Martius, Santa maria sopra Minerva (English: Saint Mary above Minerva) is one of the major churches of the Roman Catholic Order of Preachers (better known as the Dominicans) at Rome, Italy.
The church's name derives from the fact that the first Christian church structure on the site was built directly over (Latin: supra) the ruins or foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, which had been erroneously ascribed to the Greco-Roman goddess Minerva.
Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican CIty, Italy
Vatican City, Italy
Parthenon, Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
Spanish Steps, Rome, Italy
Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy
Roman Forum in IR, Rome, Italy
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
Overview of Rome, Italy
Exiting the Sistine Chapel through the Vatican Museum, Italy
Bust of Athena with marble eyes, Vatican Museum, Italy
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy
"The Guardians," Rome, Italy
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The Scariest Thing about Introverts
Introverts drive extroverts crazy. Or should I say, extroverts drive introverts crazy?
"… 65% of senior corporate executives viewed introversion as a barrier to leadership…" (HBR)
The blank stare:
The scariest thing about an introvert is the blank stare that comes over their face when they're thinking. It looks like displeasure, dislike, even disdain, to an extrovert.
Extroverts are noisy thinkers. They think while they talk. Introverts get quiet.
Introverts intimidate extroverts. It seems like they're disinterested or resistant when they're just thinking.
Tips for navigating introversion and extroversion:
- Be sensitive to a tendency to over-value extrovert leaders.
- Introversion and extroversion aren't strengths and weaknesses. It's who you are.
- Expect disciplined thought from introverts.
- Leverage the listening skills of introverts. Talk less and listen more if you're an extrovert.
- Gather spontaneous ideas from extroverts.
- Give introverts time to think things over. A blank stare means they're thinking.
- Extroverts enjoy public praise. Introverts often shun the limelight.
Suggestions for introverts:
I see different numbers for the ratio of introvert to extrovert. But extroverts tend to run the show.
- Give yourself recharge-time. Schedule and protect alone-time.
- Express your need to think. "Let me think that over. I'll get back to you tomorrow."
- Stretch your collaboration muscles. Avoid dropping final answers on unsuspecting victims.
- Beware of frustration and bitterness. People may disappoint you because YOU haven't expressed what you want.
Introvert advantage:
In a dynamic, unpredictable environment, introverts are often more effective leaders – particularly when workers are proactive, offering ideas for improving the business.
Such behavior can make extroverted leaders feel threatened. In contrast, introverted leaders tend to listen more carefully and show greater receptivity to suggestions, making them more effective leaders of vocal teams. (Adam Grant, Francesca Gino, David Hoffman)
What suggestions do you have for introverted leaders? extroverted leaders?
What dangers should introverts/extroverts be aware of, when it comes to their natural tendencies?


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Unhappy at Work? Blame Your DNA
Stressed-out workers who blame their employer for their anxiety should think again, a new study shows.
Research by Timothy Judge, a professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, found that work stress, job satisfaction and health problems due to high stress have more to do with genes than most realize.
Judge studied nearly 600 identical and fraternal twins who were raised together and reared apart. He found that being raised in the same environment had very little effect on personality, stress and health. Instead, shared genes turned out to be about four times as important as shared environment.
As an example, Judge said two employees at the same business may report different levels of stress. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that one's job is objectively more stressful.
"Our study suggests strong heritabilities to work stress and the outcomes of stress," Judge said. "This means that stress may have less to do with the objective features of the environment than to the genetic 'code' of the individual."
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The research shows those trying to lessen the stress in their life shouldn't think changing jobs is going to do the trick, unless they appreciate their own predispositions toward stress. Judge says that doesn't mean that employees shouldn't try to avoid stressful jobs.
"However, we also shouldn't assume that we're 'a blank slate' and therefore be overly optimistic about what the work environment can and can't do as far as stress is concerned," he said. "More of it has to do with what's inside of us than what we encounter outside in the work environment."
The study, "Genetic Influences on Core Self-Evaluations, Job Satisfaction, Work Stress, and Employee Health: A Behavioral Genetics Mediated Model," was recently published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
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Since when did Dave Gavitt become a paragon for all that is harmonious and decent and noble in college sports? Gavitt, who died a week ago today at the age of 73, was the founder and first commissioner of the Big East. And because Pitt and Syracuse have decided to seek higher ground by airlifting themselves to the ACC, there are those who now insist on viewing Gavitt's legacy as some kind of Little Flowers of St. Francis for athletic teenagers, while simultaneously lamenting the world he created.
From Dana O'Neil of ESPN.com:
Now, on the same weekend Gavitt died of congestive heart failure at the age of 73, Syracuse [a charter Big East member] has helped bury the league he so adored.
From Dick "Hoops" Weiss of the New York Daily News, who attended Gavitt's wake the other night in Providence, R.I.:
Wednesday was a day for this city to stop and mourn one of the true giants in amateur sports, with lines that snaked around the block at the Drabble & Sherman Funeral Home on Waterman St.
Meanwhile, the Big East, whose football side was plunged into chaos over the weekend after Pitt and Syracuse defected to the Atlantic Coast Conference, saved its dignity and preserved Gavitt's legacy as a visionary.
Oh, Gavitt was a visionary, all right. But not for the reasons Weiss, with his make-nice newspaperman's ability to regurgitate conventional wisdom, wants him to be. As Craggs wrote last year, when the Big East came pirouetting off the pole specifically to lure a school from
southeast North Texas into the champagne room, the conference "was born in 1979 as a collection of lucrative television markets along the East Coast, and as a body it dispensed entirely with the pretense that a conference was about quaint things like rivalries and traditions and regional affinities."
And the man responsible for that? Dave Gavitt. Says so right there in his New York Times obituary:
Gavitt envisioned a time when major basketball colleges in the East would draw on big-city television and marketing opportunities to create a high-profile league, bringing enhanced revenue and the recruitment of star high school players.
The Big East didn't get from its seven charter members to the unwieldy 17 schools it has today for any reasons other than those that prompted Pitt and Syracuse to leave. Is it regrettable to see storied basketball rivalries like Syracuse-Georgetown tossed aside? Sure, but no more so than it was to watch the demise of Pitt-Penn State in football, which existed for nearly 100 years as one of the biggest annual games in the East, at least until the Big East voted in 1982 not to admit Penn State because its basketball team sucked. A decade later, Penn State was among the first in line for the every-school-for-itself conference shuffle when it signed on with the Big Ten. And the season it started playing as a Big Ten member, 1993, turned out to be the last year of uninterrupted Pitt-Penn State games. The schools haven't played at all since 2000 and have recently agreed to a two-game series beginning in 2016, but they've spent the better part of the last 20 years publicly bitching over who's to blame for what happened. Consensus-building, brought to you by Dave Gavitt.
Then there's what Weiss wrote in early August:
Eight years ago, the Big East endured a mid-life crisis when the ACC raided the league, taking three of the biggest football names — Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech — from the conference.
It became the defining moment in Mike Tranghese's tenure as commissioner as he personally recruited Louisville, Cincinnati and South Florida to take their places.
Got that? The Big East keeps getting "raided" by the ACC, but it "personally recruited" the schools it added from Conference USA. That's how this works. Dave Gavitt knew where the money was. That was his genius. The rest of college sports soon followed in his footsteps. That was his legacy.


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Mango showers
Mango showers are the pre-monsoon showers in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Goa that help in the ripening of mangoes. These summer showers normally come in the second half of the month of April, though the arrival is difficult to predict. The showers prevent the mangoes from dropping prematurely from trees.
Male Greater Coucal
The Greater Coucal or Crow Pheasant (Centropus sinensis) is a large non-parasitic member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. A widespread resident in Asia, from India, east to south China and Indonesia.
Some interesting information about the bird:
1. They are weak fliers, and are often seen clambering about in vegetation or walking on the ground. They are brisk walkers.
2. They eat a wide range of insects, caterpillars and small vertebrates. They are also known to eat bird eggs, nestlings, fruits and seeds.
3. Greater Coucals are monogamous, and the courtship display involves chases on the ground and the male brings food gifts for the female. The female lowers her tail and droops her wings to signal acceptance. The nest is built mostly by the male over about three to eight days.
4. The calls are booming low coop-coop-coops, the reason why the bird is called Uppan in Kerala.
5. The bird is associated with many superstitions and beliefs. The deep calls are associated with spirits and omens.
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Today's DIY is inspired by film, animal prints, and Victorian wonders. Contemplating on what to do next with a few remnants that did not mesh seamlessly with any of the projects that I'm currently finishing I decided to go for something different. I've been obsessed with collars and wrist creations lately, well for many years, yet I'm shocked that I've not done too much with these ideas.
Thanks to blogging, I have been inspired to do more DIY and share a few creative concepts - making them a reality, but also keeping a few extra funds in my clutch... for SHOES of course! With all jokes aside here's what I have so far; I hope that you enjoy.
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Hot-glue/fabric glue
Ornate buttons or any embellishment
Black small snaps
Sewing machine
Needle & Invisible/black thread
Leather Animal:
This printed leather was initially used for a belt I made for a friend, however I wanted to create a bracelet of some sort from the excess pieces. A wrist measurement is needed. After measuring your wrist and deciding on the length of the cuff/bracelet cut the leather into any shape. I wanted an asymmetrical sharp styled cut for mine. I used rose buttons which added a unique detail by using fabric glue or hot-glue for adhering to the leather. *You may also use faux leather if you prefer. I work with alot of leather so it's close and on hand... don't judge!
Closure: If you do not want to use a button as the closure use Velcro. I attached Velcro (with adhesive) to the leather - where you'd wear it on the tightest part. Be certain before attaching that you aren't able to see the Velcro from the outside. Feel free to make a mock-up with paper if needed.
I have very small wrists so this was perfect since I wanted to make a statement without wearing a watch or actual jewellery. Start by the normal wrist measurement. This is woven so the measurement if crucial, adding 3/8" for overlapping. I created an additional piece for binding, but you may acquire binding already made at a local fabric store in various colours.
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Various myths are associated with the symbolism of the red colour and the star and crescent, but none really explains their origins. Although the star and crescent are often seen as typical Muslim symbols, in fact they have a history long predating the rise of Islam. Ancient civilizations throughout the Middle East used a crescent moon as a religious symbol, and the ancient city of Byzantium was dedicated to the moon goddess, Diana. A star, emblematic of the Virgin Mary, was added to Diana's crescent symbol when Emperor Constantine I made Christianity the official faith of the Roman Empire and renamed the city Constantinople in his own honour.
The crescent and star became associated with Islam when the Muslim Turkic peoples of Central Asia captured the Anatolian peninsula (and, eventually, Constantinople) and added the crescent and star of the latter to their own plain red flags. There were several Turkish flags throughout the centuries of the Ottoman Empire, most of them incorporating the crescent and star and the colours red or green. In June 1793 the flag now used as the Turkish national flag was established for the navy, although its star had eight points instead of the current five. The reduction in the number of star points was made about 1844. That flag design was reconfirmed as the Turkish national banner on June 5, 1936, following the revolution led by Atatürk, who had established a republic in 1923 after the collapse of the Ottoman dynasty.


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The Executive Compensation Revolution Shows Some Timid Results
The quiet 'executive compensation' revolution which recently came to be known as the 'Shareholders' Spring' is starting to show some timid results.
JP Morgan and Citigroup are two of the latest banks that are now re-thinking their top executives' pay practices, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.
JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, who has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the last few months, could (and should) take a personal hit, given his bank's $7 billion trading snafu.
After all, the bank's boss should ultimately be held responsible for his employees' errors, particularly if they are as protracted as the London Whale's massive bets and lax risk management practices, right?
Well, not so fast. According to the Journal, JP Morgan's directors are "considering" lower 2012 bonuses for Dimon and other top executives at the bank. Rather disappointingly, they also are grappling with the question of how to do that without drastically reducing the executives' take-home pay," the paper quoted sources as saying.
Of course, it is not just the multibillion dollar trading mistake that is causing JP Morgan to take another look at executive pay. Weaker financial industry performance, sluggish economic growth and broad cost-cutting are also affecting revenue.
Recently, Deutsche Bank's co-CEO Anshu Jain said the bank was looking to change its ethics policy and compensation practices to meet the stricter expectations of regulators, government and the public. He noted that the bank would "make sure that the tone at the top is crystal clear."
This year, UBS also reduced its bonus pool for 2011 by 40 percent to $2.8 billion, due to sliding profits. The total bonus handed out to its investment bankers was 60 percent lower than for 2010, according to reports.
Meanwhile, earlier this year, in what has been named the 'Shareholders' Spring', 37% of shareholder votes at UBS were cast against the Swiss bank's pay proposals, while 54% voted against life insurer Aviva's compensation policies.
In April, Citigroup shareholders rejected a board-approved compensation package for chief executive Vikram S. Pandit which boosted his pay to $14.9 million from $1 the previous year. Some 55 percent of votes went against the package.
While shareholders would like to see the bonuses of Wall Street executives be more commensurate with banks' results, a high-profile trading disaster like the one that befell JP Morgan is even more reason to reduce bonuses in the eyes of most investors.
However, JP Morgan doesn't want to rock the boat too much. The Times notes that some inside the bank "don't want to be seen as overreacting to what the company views as a one-time event."
From the WSJ:
Some executives argued that a series of management changes made in late July should have been delayed so that the moves wouldn't be perceived as a reaction to the trading losses, said people close to the bank. But Mr. Dimon said the announcement should be made as planned, these people added.
Ultimately, if a $7 billion trading mistake isn't enough to humble a chief executive into taking a pay cut, it is hard to see how executive compensation practices will change in the near future. At the very least, it looks like it will take a wider sweeping 'Shareholder Spring' - or more swiveling of the regulatory hammer.
Melanie Rodier has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for over 10 years, covering business and finance, general news, and film trade news. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology in April 2007, Melanie lived in Paris, where she worked for the International Herald ... View Full Bio


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The Secret Beyond Matter
Stories for Thinking Children 1
Kareem and Grandpa Hassan
Kareem was looking out of the window, impatiently waiting for his grandfather. It was good fun spending time with Grandpa Hassan. Finally, his grandfather arrived. Kareem ran excitedly to the door and gave him a hug. Just as he had expected, his grandfather had brought him a gift—his favorite toy and some picture books. Grandpa Hassan liked seeing his grandson so happy. He said: "Today, I have something to do out of town, would you like to come with me? We can enjoy an outing together."
Kareem gladly accepted and off they went. They eventually left the city, and Kareem was really enjoying this surprise trip.
"The air is so wonderful," he breathed deeply. "Today we will fill our lungs with this fresh air. I wish the air was always like this in the city."
"That would be a little difficult, Kareem," replied his grandfather, "because car exhaust, the smoke from chimneys, especially in winter, and the scarcity of trees and plants prevent the air in the city from being clean."
Kareem pondered a little: "I understand the smoke, but I don't quite understand what plants have to do with it. Trees are meant to bear fruit and make the city beautiful, aren't they?"
"Yes," answered Grandpa Hassan, "trees do all that; but probably more importantly, they also clean the air. Plants breathe in just the opposite way to other living things. Human beings and animals take oxygen from the air, and after using it in their bodies, they breathe out the used air as carbon dioxide. But plants do the opposite: they take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, which is how they clean the air. There are other wondrous qualities that plants have, Kareem, and it is Allah, the All-Wise, Who has created all of them. If you would like, I will tell you what I know about plants."
"Yes, please, Grandpa; I'm all ears!" shouted Kareem excitedly.
Grandpa Hassan took a deep breath and began, "Plants breathe in a process called photosynthesis."
"What is photosynthesis?" Kareem interrupted.
"I'll try to explain it to you," said his grandfather, "but it won't be easy because it's very difficult and complicated. Even scientists are still trying to completely understand the process."
Kareem thought for a moment: "So, plants survive by a process that scientists are still trying to understand. When you say the word 'process' I think of mathematical operations and formulas. Even we find math hard to learn sometimes, but plants, that have no mind or body like we have, can do it. It's a miracle!"
Grandpa Hassan smiled: "Yes, it is definitely a miracle. From the day they were created, plants have been performing this chemical process without a problem. Wherever green plants are, it means that there is a factory producing sugar from carbon dioxide and water by using the Sun's energy. Even though they lack our awareness, the spinach we eat, the lettuce in our salads and the ivy in our houses are always in constant production for us. This is a result of the mercy that Almighty Allah, with His supreme knowledge, has on human beings. He has created plants for the benefit of human beings and all animals. This flawless process that modern human technology cannot even fully understand has been used by leaves for millions of years. In the Qur'an, Allah tells us that a human being cannot even create even a single tree from nothing: 'He Who created the heavens and the Earth and sends down water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant gardens grow—you could never make their trees grow ...' (Surat an-Naml: 60)"
Kareem was amazed that plants could breathe by this special chemical process called photosynthesis. "So, how did this process take place?," he wondered. While he was thinking about this, his grandfather continued his story: "Using the soil, water, air and the Sun, unconscious plant cells take a certain amount of minerals and water from the soil and produce food for human beings. With the energy they take from the Sun, they break down these materials and later bring them back together to produce food. This is just an outline of the process, but at every stage you can see that there is a conscious and intelligent plan. It is clear that the purpose of this amazing system operating in plants is to provide a source of life created for the benefit of human beings."
"So, what do leaves do?" enquired Kareem.
Grandpa Hassan went on: "You know the microscopes you have in the school laboratory to examine things? … well, if we were to examine a leaf closely under a very advanced microscope, we would once again see the splendor of Allah's creative artistry. There is a perfect production system in each and every leaf. In order to understand this system better, we can compare what goes on in a leaf to appliances we use in our everyday life. When we magnify the elements in a leaf, we see a constantly operating automatic food factory with pipes that work continually, rooms built for special processes, valves that work like giant pressure cookers and countless buttons controlling thousands of processes. And if we look more carefully, we see timers, thermostats, humidifiers, heat control mechanisms and feedback systems located at particular points."
Kareem thought for a moment: "It is wonderful that all these things come together in a single little leaf and work with no problem."
"It is our Lord Allah, Kareem, Who has created this marvelous system," Grandpa Hassan reminded his grandson. "With Allah's permission, every leaf in the world has come into being having this marvelous system. Be sure not to forget that."
While he was listening to Grandpa Hassan, Kareem saw a very large tree, and a problem occurred to him. He began to wonder how a tree could survive without solving that problem. He immediately asked his grandfather: "Grandpa, trees are very tall. How do they draw up water and food from the soil? Look at that tree! It is so tall, but the leaves at the top are still very green."
Grandpa Hassan nodded: "Do you remember? A little while ago I compared leaves to a factory; let's make the same comparison again. Think of a pipeline with a web-like covering all over it; it makes sure that the raw material reaches the production units and that the product obtained from these units is distributed in the syrupy liquid produced in the leaves to other areas so that the whole tree can be nourished. These channels serve not only to transport this vital fluid; they also make up the skeletal system of the trees and their leaves. In a building constructed by human beings, the elements that hold the building up (studs and beams) and the water system are built separately. It is a case of marvelous design that, in the case of plants, these two things happen at one and the same time."
Kareem was thinking: "This is really a wonderful system. I wonder … it's as if there was a calendar or a clock hidden inside a plant that lets it do the same things all the time without getting confused. For example, every spring the flowers bloom and every fall the leaves drop off the trees. How does that happen, Grandpa?"
"Scientists call this a biological clock," his grandfather explained. "The clocks that make time adjustments for plants calculate how long sunlight falls on the leaves for. These biological clocks calculate this length of time differently for every plant. For example, as a result of experiments done on soy beans, we know that these plants bloom every year at the same time, no matter when they are planted. It is certainly Almighty Allah Who makes these time adjustments in plants."
Grandpa Hassan and his grandson stopped by an orchard next to the road. After receiving permission from the owner, they picked some plums, washed them carefully and began to eat them. They were really delicious. Grandpa Hassan said, "Did you know, Kareem, that the energy plants give us actually comes from the Sun?"
Kareem was surprised: "How do you mean?' he asked, "When we eat these plums, are we really eating the Sun?"
Grandpa Hassan smiled: "Actually we are eating the Sun, but indirectly. We all know that the main source of energy on Earth is the Sun. But human beings and animals do not use this energy directly, because we don't have the right systems. Do you know how we use it? Human beings and animals can only get usable energy from the nutrients produced in plants. The energy we use is really the Sun's energy given to us by plants. For example, when we sip tea we are actually sipping energy from the Sun; when we chew a piece of bread, there is actually a piece of the Sun's energy between our teeth. The strength in our muscles is really an altered state of the Sun's energy. Because of this energy, you can run and play. So, how do plants manage this? Plants perform some complicated operations in order to store the Sun's energy for us. What allows plants to produce their own food and separates them from other living things is that their cells are different from the cells of human beings and animals; they have structures in their cells that allow them to use the Sun's energy directly. With the help of these structures, they transform the Sun's energy into a form that human beings and animals can use for food, and they store this energy in food using a special hidden formula."
"That's wonderful!" exclaimed Kareem, delighted. "Allah has created everything for the good of human beings!"
Grandpa Hassan agreed: "So, we have to think about all this and thank our Lord that He has given us so many blessings. Allah tells us in the Qur'an that we should give Him thanks: 'So they may eat its fruits—they did not do it themselves. So will they not be thankful?' (Surah Ya Sin: 35)"
Kareem's favorite subject was science. Suddenly, an experiment they did in school came to his mind. He turned to his grandfather and said: "Grandpa, we did an experiment in school one day. Our teacher gave us some homework to do. We put a bean inside a piece of cotton, put it in a sunny place and watered it for a few days. Guess what happened!"
Grandpa Hassan smiled again: "The beans sprouted, didn't they? Let's think about that. It shows you a very basic natural occurrence; which is actually a miracle. You've seen a rabbit being pulled out of an empty hat in magic shows haven't you?; well, that is rather similar to a plant sprouting in a piece of cotton or under the ground. In a magic show, however, our eyes are deceived, but a plant coming out of a tiny seed doesn't deceive anyone. With miracles such as this, our Lord, the All-Knowing, makes plants from tiny seeds and shows us clearly that no living thing exists by chance. Those who say that living things have come into existence by chance are just deceiving themselves, aren't they, Kareem?"
"Yes, Grandpa," Kareem agreed happily.
Grandpa Hassan went on: "Part of the plant that sprouts from a tiny seed goes under the ground and part of it grows upward. The ground is quite hard and tightly packed and it is very difficult to grow in both directions. These little sprouts don't have intelligence and consciousness like we have, so it is a real miracle how they manage it."
"Just think of what would happen if we put a seed in the ground and it didn't sprout," cried Kareem. "Then we would all have huge problems finding food to eat. And if human beings and animals couldn't find anything to eat, they would slowly die."
Grandpa Hassan nodded his head: "Allah warns us in the Qur'an, Kareem: 'Have you thought about what you cultivate? Is it you who make it germinate or are We the Germinator? If We wished We could have made it broken stubble. You would then be left devoid of crops, distraught.' (Surat al-Waqia'a: 63-65)"
As they walked, Kareem began to consider what his grandfather had told him. He told his grandfather what he was thinking: "Plants are so important for our survival, Grandpa. They clean the air we breathe, they feed us and give us energy, they provide delicious fruits and vegetables for us and make everywhere look beautiful. Just look. See how many different trees, flowers, fruits and grain there are!"
"There is another blessing that you have forgotten about," said his grandfather. "It comes from plants, and Allah tells us about it in the Qur'an: 'He Who produces fire for you from green trees so that you use them to light your fires.' (Surah Ya Sin: 80)"
"Yes, how could I forget that?" asked Kareem. "We burn wood from trees to keep warm. The raw material for books, notebooks, newspaper and all kinds of paper comes from trees; as well as matches to light fires with, armchairs we sit on, our desks, doors, windows…"
Grandpa Hassan entirely agreed: "Apart from the usefulness of plants, they also have another characteristic. A vine that grows in Central and South America attracts and provides ideal food for black and green caterpillars and red butterflies. These insects lay their eggs on this vine so that, when they hatch, they will have this delicious food to eat. But the important point is this: before laying their eggs on the vine, the butterflies check the leaves. If another insect has laid its eggs there, they realize that it would be difficult for two families to feed themselves from the leaves of the same plant, so they decide to leave that plant and look for another whose leaves are available.
This vine forms green bumps on the top surface of its leaves. And some varieties produce spots that resemble butterfly eggs under their leaves at the point where they join the branch. When the caterpillars and butterflies see these, they think that another insect has laid its eggs on these leaves first. They then don't lay their eggs on that plant, but go away in search of another."
"What a great defense system!" said Kareem, impressed.
"Yes, Kareem," concluded Grandpa Hassan: "It is Allah with His supreme knowledge Who has taught this plant how to protect itself. Never forget that, OK?"


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First Minister sends Paralympic good luck message
Thirty three Scots to compete in Rio for ParalympicsGB.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and sportscotland's high performance chief Mike Whittingham have sent good luck messages to the Scots and other athletes who will be competing for ParalympicsGB.
With 33 Scots on the team competing in 12 sports, two targets have already been achieved ahead of the Games: to have the highest number of Scots selected this century across the most sports this century.
The Scottish Government's national agency for sport, sportscotland, set out to achieve a series of best performances at the Rio Paralympics since 1998, when an institute of sport was first established in Scotland and National Lottery investment helped strengthen the system.
sportscotland predicts that Scottish athletes can surpass the highest number of Scottish medallists so far this century, and across the highest number of sports in Rio. The current best in the 21st Century is 15 Scottish medallists in Sydney 2000 and medallists in five sports at London 2012.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "Para-sport is growing in strength in Scotland and I'm delighted to see that Scots are so well represented in ParalympicsGB.
"I wish Scotland's Paralympians, and all of ParalympicsGB, the very best of luck over the next two weeks.
"The dedication of these men and women is truly inspiring and I hope it will motivate others to take up sport and enjoy all the benefits it can bring."
Mike Whittingham, Performance Director at the sportscotland institute of sport, said:
"Congratulations to the 33 Scots who have been selected for ParalympicsGB. It's a fantastic achievement and I hope that they and all their teammates have a great experience at the Rio Games. It is especially encouraging to see that a significant number of the para-athletes will be competing in their first Paralympics and there are Scots selected in 12 sports, as this demonstrates the strength in depth of the para-sport system that now exists across Scotland.
"Within the Scots on ParalymicsGB are some serious medal contenders, including Boccia World Champion Stephen McGuire and major Games veterans Neil Fachie and Libby Clegg, and it's always exciting to see which new athletes will step up and make their mark on the world stage.
"We already have the most Scots across the highest number of sports this century in ParalympicsGB, and we believe that we can achieve the highest number of Scottish medallists across the highest number of sports this century as well.
"Thanks to sustained investment from the Scottish Government and National Lottery, coupled with the collaboration between sportscotland, the sports and Scottish Disability Sport, athletes can focus fully on their training and competition goals supported by world-class facilities, coaches and sports specialists. All the hard work into the preparation has been done and now it is their chance to shine on the world stage."
Gavin MacLeod, CEO of Scottish Disability Sport said:
"We are thrilled to see so many Scots selected for the ParalympicsGB team for the Rio de Janeiro Summer Paralympic Games. We are seeing the highest number of Scots at a Paralympic Games since 1996 and we wish all 33 athletes and players, along with their coaches and support staff, every success in Rio. This level of representation would not be possible without the hard work and inclusive approach of SDS's key partners across Scotland and we would like to thank Scotland's governing bodies of sport in particular for all they have done to make this happen.
"SDS is committed to supporting the full inclusion of children, athletes and players within Scottish sport and supporting those with potential to progress in their chosen sport. We would urge anyone who has been inspired by the success of Scottish athletes and players during the Rio Games to contact us to find out how we can help them find their sport and possibly join the next generation of Scottish sporting champions."
There are currently 164 Scottish athletes on UK Sport/ sportscotland Podium and Podium Potential World-Class Programmes -including 28 para-athletes - with 92 of them based in Scotland.
List of Scots on ParalympicsGB:
Nathan Macqueen - Archery
Derek Rae - Athletics
Elizabeth Clegg - Athletics
Stefanie Reid - Athletics
Joanna Butterfield - Athletics
Maria Lyle - Athletics
Samantha Kinghorn - Athletics
Stephen McGuire - Boccia
Scott McCowan - Boccia
Joshua Rowe - Boccia
Jamie McCowan - Boccia
Gary McCowan - Boccia - competition partner
Linda McCowan - Boccia - competition partner
Kieran Steer - Boccia
Patrick Wilson - Boccia
Neil Fachie - Cycling
Karen Darke - Cycling
Hannah Dines - Cycling
Craig Mclean - Cycling - pilot
Martin Hickman - Football
David Porcher - Football
Jonathan Paterson - Football
Samuel Ingram - Judo - Visually Impaired
Michael Yule - Powerlifting
Andrew Mullen - Swimming
Scott Quin - Swimming
Abby Kane - Swimming
Stephen Clegg - Swimming
Alison Patrick - Triathlon
Hazel Smith - Triathlon - guide
Robyn Love - Wheelchair Basketball
Michael Kerr - Wheelchair Rugby
Gordon Reid - Wheelchair tennis
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