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NEW YORK (AP) ? An agreement to contain the European debt crisis electrified the stock market Thursday, driving the Dow Jones Industrial average up nearly 340 points and putting the Standard & Poor's 500 index on track for its best month since 1974.
Investors were relieved after European leaders crafted a deal to slash Greece's debt load and prevent the crisis there from engulfing larger countries like Italy. The package is aimed at preventing another financial disaster like the one that happened in September 2008 after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
But some analysts cautioned that Europe's problems remained unsolved.
"The market keeps on thinking that it's put Europe's problems to bed, but it's like putting a three-year old to bed: You might put it there but it won't stay there," said David Kelly, chief market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds.
Kelly said Europe's debt problems will remain an issue until the economies of struggling nations like Greece and Portugal grow again.
Commodities and Treasury yields soared as investors took on more risk. The euro rose sharply against the dollar.
Stronger U.S. economic growth and corporate earnings also contributed to the surge. The government reported that the American economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate from July through September on stronger consumer spending and business investment. That was nearly double the 1.3 percent growth in the previous quarter.
Banks agreed to take 50 percent losses on the Greek bonds they hold. Europe will also strengthen a financial rescue fund to protect the region's banks and other struggling European countries such as Italy and Portugal.
"This seems to set aside the worries that there would be a massive contagion over there that would have brought everything down with it," said Mark Lamkin, head of Lamkin Wealth Management.
The Dow Jones industrial average soared 339.51 points, or 2.9 percent, to 12,208.55. That was its largest jump since Aug. 11, when it rose 423.
All 30 stocks in the Dow rose, led by Bank of America Corp. with a 9.6 percent gain. It was the first time the Dow closed above 12,000 since Aug. 1.
Even with Thursday's gains, the Dow remains 4.7 percent below the high for the year it reached April 29. The Dow has fallen every month since then due to a combination of a slowdown in the U.S. economy, a worldwide parts shortage after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and concerns about the European debt crisis. The Dow is now at approximately the same level it traded at on July 28.
Stocks fell for much of August in the wake of a last-minute deal to prevent the U.S. government from defaulting on its debt.
But anticipations of a solution to Europe's debt problems and signs that the U.S. economy is not in another recession have lifted stocks higher throughout October.
The Dow is up 11.9 percent for the month so far. With only two full days of trading left in the month, the Dow could have its biggest monthly gain since January 1987.
The S&P 500 rose 42.59, or 3.7 percent, to 1,284.59. Those gains turned the S&P positive for the year for the first time since Aug. 3, just before the U.S. government's debt was downgraded. The index is up 13.5 percent for the month, its best performance since a 16.3 percent gain in October 1974.
The Nasdaq composite leaped up 87.96, or 3.3 percent, to 2,738.63.
Small-company stocks rose more than the broader market. That's a sign investors were more comfortable holding assets perceived as being risky but also more likely to appreciate in a strong economy. The Russell 2000 index jumped 5.3 percent.
Raw materials producers, banks and stocks in other industries that depend on a strong economy for profit growth led the way. Copper jumped 5.8 percent to $3.69 a pound and crude oil jumped 4.2 percent to $93.96 a barrel.
The euro rose sharply, to $1.42, as confidence in Europe's financial system grew. The euro was worth $1.39 late Wednesday and had been as low as $1.32 on Oct. 3. European stock indexes also soared. France's CAC-40 rose 6.3 percent and Germany's DAX jumped 6.1 percent.
Investors sold U.S. Treasury notes and bonds, an indication they were moving away from safer investments. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves in the opposite direction of its price, rose to 2.39 percent from 2.21 percent late Wednesday.
European leaders still have to finalize the details of their latest plan. French President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke with Chinese President Hu Jintao amid hopes that countries with lots of cash like China can contribute to the European rescue.
Past attempts to contain Europe's two-year debt crisis have proved insufficient. Greece has been surviving on rescue loans since May 2010. In July, creditors agreed to take some losses on their Greek bonds, but that wasn't enough to fix the problem.
Worries about Europe's debt crisis and a weak U.S. economy dragged the S&P 500 down 19.4 percent between April 29 and Oct. 3. That put it on the cusp of what's called a bear market, which is a 20 percent decline.
Since then, there have been a number of more encouraging signs on the U.S. economy. Despite the jitters over Europe, many large American companies have been reporting strong profit growth in the third quarter.
Dow Chemical rose 8.2 percent after its profit last quarter rose 59 percent on strong sales growth from Latin America. Occidental Petroleum Corp. jumped 9.7 percent after reporting a 50 percent surge in income.
Citrix Systems Inc. rose 17.3 percent. The technology company's revenue rose 20 percent last quarter, and it forecast growth of up to 13 percent for 2012. Akamai Technologies Inc., whose products help speed the delivery of online content, jumped 15.4 percent after the company reported earnings that beat analysts' expectations.
Avon Products Inc. fell 18 percent, the most in the S&P 500, after the company said the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating its contacts with financial analysts and Avon's own probe into bribery in China and other countries.
Nine stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was heavy at 6.5 billion shares.


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Positive momentum far outweighed the negative in the local logistics and distribution industry during 2012, as city officials and business leaders continued elevating Memphis's status as world logistics hub.
"A total of seven plants have geared up here in the past 12 to 18 months that all use our transportation network," said Dexter Muller, senior vice president of community development at the Greater Memphis Chamber.
Riviana Foods, the largest rice producer in the world, geared up production in South Memphis, and Kruger's KTG USA, the producer of White Cloud bathroom tissue, announced a $316 million investment in new equipment at its facility north of Downtown.
Construction continued on new manufacturing plants for Electrolux and Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. at Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park, and operations are expected to start at both facilities next year.
Nike recently won approval from the industrial development board to add 1.8 million square feet of industrial space to its distribution center. The expansion will take the Nike hub to a total of 3 million square feet, making it the largest distribution center in the Mid-South and possibly the entire Southern U.S.
Another highlight of 2012 was the quietly explosive growth of specialized manufacturing company Jabil, which has hired more than 1,000 new employees in the past 18 months.
Low Mississippi River water levels endangered local barge traffic due to the worst drought in decades, but it resulted in increased activity for area rail yards.
"I would say 2012 was a very significant year for railroads," Muller said. "Norfolk Southern got under way in Fayette County, and (Piperton Hills developer) William Adair has promoted the development of the major industrial park adjoining it. I think that area will really start to bear fruit in 2013."
Norfolk Southern opened its new $112 million Memphis Regional Intermodal Facility in Rossville in July. The yard is a key anchor for the railroad's 2,500-mile Crescent Corridor.
–Dexter Muller Senior VP of community development, Greater Memphis Chamber
"It's going to give us much better intermodal service from the East Coast than we've had in the past," said Clifford Lynch, principal at logistics consulting firm C. F. Lynch & Associates.
He expects to see more traffic coming to Memphis once the new, larger Panama Canal is opened in 2015. "I think we will see more traffic coming into Memphis off the East Coast, and the major railroad serving the East Coast will be Norfolk Southern. I think it is going to be a significant contribution to the logistics arena here."
With future expansion, the Rossville terminal will cover more than 400 acres, with six loading tracks and 2,200 parking spaces. Rossville is the first of four anchors Norfolk Southern is building to move freight between the Gulf Coast and Atlantic ports in New Jersey and New York.
In other rail news, Montreal-based Canadian National Railway Co. executed an option on 800 acres of land next to Pidgeon Industrial Park with intentions to develop it as a logistics park. The park would border the jointly owned CN-CSX Intermodal Gateway-Memphis in Southwest Memphis, which represents a $41 million investment by CN.
Rail wasn't the only mode that enjoyed a positive 2012.
"It was a banner year as far as road projects," said Muller, who feels the most important was the approval of $34 million for the first phase of the improvement of Lamar Avenue running from Shelby Drive to the Tennessee-Mississippi state line. "In 2012 we are hoping to see the acquisition of right-of-way property, which will total about $25 million."
Money was also budgeted during 2012 for the revamping of the under-designed I-240/Airways exchange that leads to the airport.
Work progressed on the I-269 loop around the city, which will be completed by next year, as well as at I-55 and Mallory Road, the gateway into Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park. That intersection should also be completed next year.
"Having this interchange opened up next year will make a smooth entrance to be able to really showcase Pidgeon Industrial Park," Muller said.
Unfortunately, it wasn't all good news for the region. At Memphis International Airport, airport officials dealt with the challenge of Delta continuing to slash flights here.
Delta also announced a refleeting plan that will phase out many of the 50-seat regional jets used for connecting and regional service. One local fallout from that plan was the recent elimination of Delta flights from Memphis to Birmingham, Ala.
"I think we are going to have to be content being a second-tier passenger hub from here on out, and MEM will be one of the nicest ones in the country," said Lynch, who cited the many recent first-class improvements at the airport including the upcoming opening of the new ground transportation hub early next year.
Construction has nearly wrapped up on the new ground transportation center, which is on track to open in February, and a newly renovated security checkpoint B was unveiled in November.
This year, the city hired design consultants to work on the master plan for the aerotropolis project that surrounds the airport.
"The aerotropolis really is the economic engine of our region," Muller said. "Of our $60 billion local economy, that area can be attributed with about half of the gross metro product."
Late in the year, FedEx announced a voluntary buyout program that will start next February and running through 2015. The decision was prompted by slumping numbers from FedEx Express. The company hopes the reorganization strategy will increase profitability by $1.7 billion next year and eliminate redundant systems and processes in what began as a labor-intensive sorting process in the 1970s.
Also, Pinnacle Airlines Corp. filed in federal bankruptcy court and outlined a plan for a smaller footprint coming out of that reorganization.
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John Crudele at The New York Post is out with an explosive piece titled: Census 'faked' 2012 election jobs report.
It alleges that workers conducting the Household Survey (the survey from which the Unemployment Rate is derived) fabricated phony responses at the behest of their supervisors. The article also hints in the title and in the opening paragraphs that this is connected to the jobs reports right before the 2012 election, including the infamous September jobs report, when the unemployment rate fell from 8.1% to 7.8%, prompting Jack Welch to make his well-known "Chicago Guys" comment.
The issue of data quality is an important one, and the extent to which people are fabricating survey responses is something that needs to be addressed and corrected.
But here are a few issues with the report.
1. The meat of the article doesn't actually say what the title and introduction claim it says. The alleged fakery was not a pre-2012 thing, but rather something that had been an issue for years.
In one document from the probe, Program Coordinator Joal Crosby was ask in 2010, "Why was the suspected … possible data falsification on all (underscored) other survey work for which data falsification was suspected not investigated by the region?"
2. The article also does not say that there was a conspiracy to depress the stated unemployment rate. The guy at the center of the story says there was pressure to produce responses (in order to hit the target for the number of households they surveyed) but that there was no pressure on how to report them:
But, Buckmon says, he was never told how to answer the questions about whether these nonexistent people were employed or not, looking for work, or have given up.
3. While it's true that at the time the September Jobs Report looked very weird, in retrospect that drop-off in the unemployment rate looks totally on-trend.
4. Also, the article states that the problem was focused on one region.
Census currently has six regions from which surveys are conducted. The New York and Philadelphia regions, I'm told, had been coming up short of the 90 percent.
Philadelphia filled the gap with fake interviews.
One main problem with this, however, is that the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania barely dipped in September. (via Corey Bowers)
As for New York, it also saw a normal-looking decline in September.
So bottom line, there are some issues with the article itself (the meat doesn't match the explosive headline) and the data also doesn't quite line up. But we're still looking into it, and are eager to hear what the Department of Labor and the Census Department are saying.


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Those crazy cats at OK Go are tugging at our heartstrings yet again, with the release of a brand new video for the song This Too Shall Pass. It takes the Rube Goldberg machine concept to another level completely.
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
Not familiar with the Rube Goldberg machine? Oh, but you are—it's that Mousetrap-like series of chain reactions that come from just one small action. In this case, driving a toy truck into a line of dominos. But, but! Did I mention the video is embeddable? Looks like lead singer Damian Kulash's open letter to their fans (reprinted on Gizmodo here with permission) worked a charm on their record label EMI. [LA Times]


text: Leading for Organizational Impact: The Looking Glass Experience provides insight into leading within an organization. When leaders of departments and divisions see challenges and opportunities through the eyes of others, it impacts their individual expertise. A narrow focus is useful in the tactical responsibilities of a specialist, but leaders of functions must see the nuances and the whole picture of an organization's overall mission to be strategically effective. Navigating diverse global trends, unpredictable economic forces, and rapidly-changing business cycles demand a new set of skills.


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Pro-Israel Epicenter Conference to be Seen, Heard in 200 Nations
Hundreds of pro-Israel Christians will converge in Philadelphia Friday night for the start of what event planners are expecting to be the largest pro-Israel conference of the year.
While the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts has only enough seating for 2,000 people, organizers of the 2010 Epicenter Conference say more than 200 churches across North America have signed up to join in the conference's live webcast. Furthermore, over 1,000 Christian radio stations and five Christian TV networks are scheduled to broadcast the June 25-26 event in over 200 countries.
"The eyes of the world are riveted on the Middle East, the epicenter of the dramatic events that are shaking our world and shaping our future," says the host of the conference, New York Times best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg.
"Now is the time to mobilize Christians to show unconditional love and unwavering support for Israel and her neighbors in real and practical ways," he adds.
For the event, Rosenberg has assembled prominent Christian leaders including Kay Arthur, Greg Laurie, Janet Parshall, and Tony Perkins.
Also speaking will be Lt. (Ret.) William G. "Jerry" Boykin, who has played a role in almost every recent major American military operation; Hormoz Shariat, an Iranian Muslim convert who now serves as the founder and president of Iran Alive Ministries; and Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a founding leader of internationally-recognized terrorist group Hamas.
For security reasons, Yousef will not be physically present at the conference, but will address the audience by video.
The aim of the two-day conference, according to organizers, is to help Christians in the United States and worldwide understand today's global crises "in the light of Bible prophecy and give [them] practical ways to bless Israel and her neighbors in the name of Jesus."
"We are living at a very critical moment," says Rosen. "Israel is facing extinction by Iran's leaders who believe that the end of the world is at hand, that the 12th imam – the Islamic messiah is coming. And they're threatening – if they get nuclear weapons – to destroy Israel, to wipe her off the map."
Through the conference – with help from churches, radio stations, and TV networks across the nation – Rosen is looking to build a global movement of Christians who are willing "to bless Israel and her neighbors, come what may."
Radio networks carrying the live or delayed version of the Friday night portion of the conference include The Moody Broadcasting Network, the Calvary Satellite Network, Reach Network, M-88, The Faith Network, Edgewater Broadcasting and Living Proof Network.
A live television broadcast of the event, meanwhile, will be viewable Friday on the Total Living Network starting from 7 p.m. ET – when the conference is set to kick off.
Other networks airing the program at a later time include The Cornerstone Network, NRB-TV, God TV and Crossroads Television Systems in Canada.
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Four PBS Stations Named to Run Mobile DTV Emergency Alert Pilot Test
WASHINGTON: Four PBS member stations in far-flung markets will be the first to participate in a pilot test of the Mobile DTV emergency alert system.
WGBH-TV in Boston, KLVX-TV in Las Vegas, and Alabama Public Television stations WBIQ-TV in Birmingham and WAIQ-TV in Montgomery will participate in the program, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and LG Electronics. LG is a primary manufacturer of receivers that decode ATSC M/H, the transmission standard for mobile broadcast digital television.
"If we're successful, the results of the pilot will help usher in a new era of mobile alerting systems. They will be extremely valuable to federal, state and local emergency management agencies and the publics they serve and will extend the community service role of public and commercial broadcasters alike. We welcome the leadership of PBS stations to serve as the 'test bed' for these rich-media emergency transmissions," said Dr. Jong Kim, president of Zenith R&D Lab, the U.S. research and development subsidiary of LG.
PBS announced its intention to test a next-generation EAS system this year during the NAB show in April in Las Vegas. The goal is to feed EAS information to platforms of all types, from cellphones, tablet computers, laptops and netbooks to in-car navigation systems. The new Mobile Emergency Alert System will comprise video, audio, text and graphics.
The mobile system, like the fixed EAS broadcast network, will be a platform for AMBER alerts and photos of children and their alleged abductors, emergency information, including maps and escape routes, live video and other details.
"This goes way beyond just a text message on a congested cellphone network," said John McCoskey, chief technology officer at PBS. "It's harnessing the power of 'one-to-many' transmissions from a TV broadcaster to the viewing audience."
Cellphone service providers announced last May they would launch emergency text alerts in New York City by the end of this year. The Personal Localized Alerting Network works only on GPS-enabled smartphones for three types of alerts: Presidential, life-threatening and AMBER Alerts. PLAN enables service providers to push texts of 90 characters or less to specific cell towers.
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon agreed to participate, though they can opt out of all but presidential alerts since the program is voluntary for wireless carriers.
McCoskey said the goal of the M-EAS project was to develop a system that can be "easily replicated by both public and commercial broadcasters throughout the country." Since ATSC M/H incorporates Internet Protocol, it has the flexibility of streaming, data and non-real-time delivery as well as live broadcasting.
The date of the pilot program launch was not announced.
~ Deborah D. McAdams
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Joe Biden on Social Security
Vice President; previously Democratic Senator (DE)
BIDEN: We will not privatize it. If we had listened to Romney and the congressman during the Bush years, imagine where all those seniors would be now if their money had been in the market. Their ideas are old, and their ideas are bad.
A: The answer is yes. The truth is, you're either going to cut benefits or you're going to go ahead and raise taxes above the first $97,000
Q: Would you also, considering now life expectancy is 78, consider gradually raising the retirement age?
A: Well, we did that once, I supported that. That's what got it solvent to 2041. By simply raising the cap, you can solve the problem.
The best way to fight senior fraud is to prevent it from happening. Seniors should be cautious when making an investment. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. They should be careful not to give their credit card or checking account number to someone they don't know. They should never give their social security number to anyone.
Let's not let heartless criminals victimize a generation of Americans who have already given so much to preserve and protect this nation. Rather, let's put our justice system to work to keep every senior safe & secure.
The mission of the Alliance for Retired Americans is to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security. The Alliance believes that all older and retired persons have a responsibility to strive to create a society that incorporates these goals and rights and that retirement provides them with opportunities to pursue new and expanded activities with their unions, civic organizations and their communities.
The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
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Gov.Jon Huntsman(UT)
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In the workplace you'll generally meet three kinds of personalities: Type A, Type B, and Type IT. The last are a breed apart from the rest.
We're not sure what it is about technology that draws certain types of people while repelling others. Maybe it's all those electrons spinning through millions of miles of circuitry; maybe it's just the lack of sunlight and human interaction.
[ Find out which of our eight classic profiles in geekdom best suit your IT temperament by taking the InfoWorld IT personality type quiz. | Learn about IT's dirtiest jobs, or have a laugh thanks to your network's weakest link in Stupid user tricks 4: IT horror never ends ]
In any case we've identified the eight classic personality types you'll find in virtually any reasonably sized IT department. Some are suits who've been exiled to IT against their will or sharks who would happily sell ice to the Inuits once they got done selling sand to the Saudis. Others are of the more typical geek persuasion -- from scary system administrators and angry support drones to those who'd rather blend into the shadows or do their best to shoot down any project that ventures inside their crosshairs.
We bet many -- if not all -- reside in a nearby cubicle at this very moment. Consider this your field guide to the flora and fauna of your work life.
Did we miss any classic IT types in our menagerie? Add them in the comments below.
IT personality type No. 1: The Empty Suit


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President Bush's State of the Union address is scheduled for Monday, January 28, 2008 at 9pm (Eastern). It should be broadcast on all major networks and cable news/political networks.
Check back later for the transcript and video.
History of the State of the Union
"The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution
On a cold January morning, the President rode in a carriage drawn by six horses from his residence on Cherry Street in New York to Federal Hall for a joint meeting of the two bodies of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. When George Washington personally delivered the first annual message to Congress on January 8, 1790, he was aware of his constitutional duty to deliver his message and of the precedent he was setting for future presidents.
The President's focus, however, was on the very concept of union itself. Washington and his administration were concerned with the challenges of establishing a nation and maintaining a union. The experiment of American democracy was in its infancy. Aware of the need to prove the success of the "union of states," Washington included a significant detail in his speech. Instead of datelining his message with the name of the nation's capital, New York, Washington emphasized unity by writing "United States" on the speech's dateline.
Since Washington's first speech to Congress, U.S. Presidents have "from time to time" given Congress an assessment of the condition of the union. Presidents have used the opportunity to present their goals and agenda through broad ideas or specific details. The annual message or "State of the Union" message's length, frequency, and method of delivery have varied from President to President and era to era.
For example, Thomas Jefferson thought Washington's oral presentation was too kingly for the new republic. Likewise, Congress's practice of giving a courteous reply in person at the President's residence was too formal. Jefferson detailed his priorities in his first annual message in 1801 and sent copies of the written message to each house of Congress. The President's annual message, as it was then called, was not spoken by the President for the next 112 years. The message was often printed in full or as excerpts in newspapers for the American public to read.
The first President to revive Washington's spoken precedent was Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Although controversial at the time, Wilson delivered his first annual message in person to both houses of Congress and outlined his legislative priorities.
With the advent of radio and television, the President's annual message has become not only a conversation between the President and Congress but also an opportunity for the President to communicate with the American people at the same time. Calvin Coolidge's 1923 speech was the first annual message broadcast on radio. Franklin Roosevelt began using the phrase "State of the Union" in 1935, which became the common name of the President's annual message. Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, also set a precedent in 1947 when his State of the Union speech became the first to be broadcast on television.
Most annual messages outline the President's legislative agenda and national priorities in general or specific terms. James Monroe in 1823 discussed the centerpiece of his foreign policy, now-known as the Monroe Doctrine, which called on European countries to end western colonization. Lincoln famously expressed his desire for slave emancipation in 1862, and Franklin Roosevelt spoke about the now-famous four freedoms during his State of the Union message in 1941.
Whatever the form, content, delivery method or broadcast medium, the President's annual address is a backdrop for national unity. The State of the Union gives the President an opportunity to reflect on the past while presenting his hopes for the future to Congress, the American people and the world.


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Back in May, the USC Trojans claimed the 2017 beach volleyball national title, marking the team's second championship in a row.
Led by head coach Anna Collier, USC defeated Pepperdine 3-2 in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Although another exciting season has passed, beach volleyball fans can already look forward to what should be another great year of action in the sand.
While we anxiously await for the upcoming season, here are some of the best photos from the 2017 season to help us reminisce:Nicole McNamara of UCLA digs the ball while playing against USC at Zuma Beach in Malibu, California back in March. Stanford's Kathryn Plummer and Jenna Gray were an impressive freshman duo throughout the 2017 season. Hawaii's Hannah Zalopany, who made the All-Tournament team at the national championship in Gulf Shores, rises to spike the ball against Pepperdine. Hawaii finished with a record of 29-7 in 2017, a program best. Florida State celebrated the program's first-ever win over Pepperdine on April 14. The win marked the Seminoles 24th straight win at home at the time. LSU's Riley Young celebrates with her partner Megan Davenport at the championship in May.
The camera caught this awesome shot of Georgia State's Haley Pa'akaula when the Panthers played UAB in April.TCU senior Sarita Mikals makes a diving play in the sand, attempting to save the ball while facing LSU at home in March. Delaney Knudsen of Pepperdine returns a serve against USC at the beach volleyball championships. USC cuts down the nets in Gulf Shores after winning back-to-back national championships. Sand art celebrating the beach volleyball championship in Gulf Shores.


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At Jerez this weekend, the Permanent Bureau (FIM & Dorna) was light on the details when it . However after the announcement, Shuhei Nakamoto, VP of HRC, revealed more information about the engine that will be used in Moto2.
According to Nakamoto, the motor, which reportedly has been under development for the past two years, is based on the cureent road going CBR600RR sports bike motor. It will have a wet clutch, and will not feature a cassette-style gearbox (a departure from the CBR and most modern sport/race bikes). Honda will provide an ECU for the engine, but it is unknown whether that ECU will have traction control capabilities as seen in MotoGP. Additionally, the shape and size of the airbox will be left for the teams to develop.
Honda will sell the motors to Dorna for €24,000, with the option to buy the motor without the gearbox for €17,000. Dorna will then pass the motors onto the teams for use. Each motor is expected to have a 2,000km service life, so teams will need around 3 motors per bike for the season. As stated in the original announcement, power will be around 150hp.
Internally, Honda Research & Development will prepare the engines, as HRC doesn't have the capacity to do so right now (we can't imagine why, since Honda has pulled out of so many racing series). But the two departments are said to be working closely with each other on the motor development. Teams can expect to get their hands on the physical motor some time in October of this year, but will be given a CAD drawing of it within the next few weeks so they can begin chassis development.
With Honda publicly admitting that the engine will be based off of the current CBR600RR, there are some breaths being held while people wait and see what the Flammini brothers and Infront Motor Sports have to say regarding this news. The Flamminis claim they have exclusive rights to production-based motorcycle racing, an agreement which the Moto2 unit could be said to violate. However, with a custom chassis, different style gearbox, and other improvements, it seems hard to make the argument this is production racing, even if the CBR is the muse for this motor.
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Canon, Ron Howard and the public, have selected 91 winning photographs from the "Project Imaginat10n," contest where five innovative celebrities – Eva Longoria (film and TV actress), Jamie Foxx (Academy Award winner), Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Georgina Chapman (designer and co-founder of Marchesa) and James Murphy (founder of LCD Soundsystem) – will direct short films based on ten of the photos.
A consumer vote helped narrow down the photographs, where one of the selected winners' photos was chosen by Ron Howard in the "Discovery" category to be a thematic tie across the celebrities' films. The directors will now each select one additional photograph from the other nine storytelling categories that personally inspire them, ultimately utilizing ten photos to represent their creativity and imagination. In addition to "Discovery," the themes include Character, Mood, Goal, Backstory, Setting, Obstacle, Relationship, The Unknown and Time. The winning photographs determined by Ron Howard and the consumer vote can be seen at Imagination USA.
Ron Howard said, "In choosing 'Unparalled' for the Discovery category, it was important that I picked an image that was tremendously imaginative, visually fantastic and thematically pliable so that it could give the filmmakers a lot of possibilities to inspire an element of mystery and suspense. Moments of discovery are often what you remember most in a film."
In 2011, Ron Howard and Canon U.S.A. partnered for a similar creative endeavor, "Project Imagin8ion." Eight photos were selected and influenced an award-winning short film, "when you find me," directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. For year two of Canon's "Long Live Imagination" campaign and the next endeavor, "Project Imaginat10n," Ron Howard will once again mentor the celebrity directors as they begin the filmmaking process to prove that "we're all creative."
"I am so passionate about the integrity and user-generated process of 'Project Imaginat10n' where our celebrity directors can be directly inspired by photographers from all across the country," said Ron Howard. "As we selected the photographs, I was blown away by the beauty, perspective and intrigue that they conveyed, and was thrilled that so many people wanted to once again take part in this exciting artistic experiment."
The celebrity directors are currently reviewing the winning photos to make their selections, craft their stories, develop their scripts and prepare to produce their own short films with Canon's Cinema EOS System and DSLR cameras. The films will be produced by Freestyle Picture Company, which also produced "when you find me" in 2011. All five films go into production between Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 and will premiere at a special "Project Imaginat10n" Film Festival. The "10" in "Imaginat10n," represents ten films that will ultimately be produced – five additional directors will be announced at a later date.
The 91 winners of the photo contest span in age from 16 to 67 years-old and are from across the USA.
Predator – Misty Fugate of Sale Creek, TN
Cleansing – David Pavlina of Lake Zurich, IL
Pause – Kayla Rice of Brattleboro, VT
Dry Dock – Danielle Austen of Hillsborough, NJ
Memories – J.W. Hendricks of Orlando, FL
Cornish Pigs – Beth Gardner of Peabody, MA
Tony the horse – Kamran Khan of New York, NY
Rest Easy – Grace Lankford of Hummelstown, PA
Wash Up – Susie Conley of San Francisco, CA
Fires be damned! – Melissa Wollenberg of Littleton, CO
Foggy Morning – Omalix Martinez of Orlando, FL
Nostalgic Light – Tim Braun of Heber, UT
Manhattan's Many Moons – Damon Colquhoun of New York, NY
Too Many Shows to Show – Brent Williams of Delray Beach, FL
Patch Me Through – Walter Arnold of Hendersonville, NC
Time to go our separate ways – Daniel Bajusz of Oakland, CA
Anytime…Night or Day – Kim Fitzsimmons of Holt Summit, MO
Five More Minutes, Please – Mike Alcoran of Buena Park, CA
Morning – Sandra Rouse of Colorado Springs, CO
Well Worn – Gigi Embrechts of Littleton, CO
Torn – Danielle Torres of Brooklyn, NY
Her throne was magic – Brittany Johnson of Edmond, OK
Do you know me? – Sacha Sanborn of Columbus, OH
The Bride – Michael Harris of Miami, FL
Tyrant – Brad Wagner of Missoula, MT
Moving On – Dick Pitini of Powatan, VA
Everythings Magic – Nicole Matthews of Rocky River, OH
Plague Doctor Mask Portrait – Daivd Pritchard of Austin, TX
The Collector – Mary Beth Koeth of Miami Beach, FL
Archduchess Antoinette – Michael Rosner of Burbank, CA
Whale Kite – Vonelle Swanson of Lincoln City, OR
Gone fishin – Richard Waters of Broken Arrow, OK
Sharing a Smoke – Marcellus Nealy of Cleveland, OH
Self Portrait of Henry Jekyll – Michael Bilotta of Worcester, MA
Let My Machine Talk To Me – Heather Evans Smith of Winston-Salem, NC
Twins – Nicholas Scarpinato of Stafford, VA
Fly – Rachel Procell of Natchitoches, LA
My Mom – Patricia Whited of Norcross, GA
People Making Out in Bushwick – Laura Kirsch of Brooklyn, NY
A Boy and His Dog – Robin Fryday of Novato, CA
Lost In Blue – Sammie Saxon of Columbus, GA
Come What May – Tanya Musgrave of Candler, NC
Star Lily – Susan Conner of Altaville, CA
The Treasure – MarySue Price of Buzzards Bay, MA
creep – Jennifer Wall of Chesapeake, VA
Alone – Brian Pflanz of Somersworth, NH
upon being rejected – Ruby Del Angel of Sanger, TX
Bright Eye – Ryan Waneka of Colorado Springs, CO
Angst – Emily Hunteman of Austin, TX
Little Girl and the Storm – Theresa McManus of Gilbert, AZ
Blue Ridge Mountains – Rob Woodcox of Livonia, MI
The Way home – Rory Sagner of Yelm, WA
The Long Walk – Mike Marin of Brooklyn, NY
Spinning Fire – Andy Wheeler of Elmira, NY
From Above – Adam Johnson of Lombard, IL
Escapes – Zach Isaacson of Spokane, WA
Baptismal – Ryan Weiss of Wilkes-Barre, PA
Foggy Lake Take Off – Steven Hatch of Idaho Falls, ID
Umbrellas At Night – Steven Thompson of Mt Horeb, WI
Tourist View – Dave Ballis of Pinellas Park, FL
Dedication – Ed Ziehm of Fort Myers, FL
Joy! – Michaela Calanchini of San Francisco, CA
Hallway of Haystacks – Renee Vaughter-Delaware of Cottonwood, AZ
Protect at all Cost – Amy Larson of Mendota VA
Ava Admiring Baby Chick – Tim VanBrackle of Daytona Beach, FL
Bound By the Shoe – Nicole Andrews of Springfield, MO
Determined – Sal Rodriguez of St Clair Shores, MI
Have I Missed Something? – Carl Williams of Chesapeake, VA
Don't let go! – Vincent Lee of Ijamsville, MD
Alli's Dreams – Debra Vickers of Charleston, WV
A Cry for Help – Tavis Glover of Honolulu, HI
Forgotten Tale – Phil Koch of Milwaukee, WI
Hot Embers – Reid Collins of Eau Claire, WI
Quiet Before the Storm – Nicki Aguirre of Woodbridge, VA
Space is just a memory… – Chad Kiraly of Jacksonville, FL
The Giant Chandelier – Cahill Taft of Newport, RI
The Ice Man Cometh – Wesley Wong of San Francisco, CA
The Sharing Game – Brooke Shaden of Oak Park, CA
Vigor Divided – Jesse McClear of Midland Township, MI
Wide Open – Marshal Skinner of Herndon, VA
The Unknown:
Moon Reflecting in Puddle – Steve Bartlett of Kent, WA
Salt – Claire Oring of Redondo Beach, CA
Stairwell Entity – Tom Stirling of Salem, MA
Ewwww…. – Ron Vollentine of Erie, PA
Goats In A Tree – Don Brown of Fort Lauderdale, FL
Heart – Dylan Singleton of Columbia, MD
Peek-A-Boo – Tyler Bolen of Spokane, WA
the hallway – Dylan Strickland of Los Angeles, CA
Too High – Kevin Vandivier of Austin, TX
Trouble ahead – Mike Beiriger of Los Angeles, CA
Unparalled – Jennifer Harris of New Orleans, LA
For more details please go to Project Imaginat10n.


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If you haven't heard about listing syndicator site Zillow acquiring competitor site Trulia for $3.5 Billion in stock, I feel for you…especially if you're in real estate. Since this announcement, I've received a couple emails, seen a few comments, read a few newsletters, and thought I'd try to spark a dialogue here on the site.
For what it's worth, I'm definitely not thrilled about these two companies continually capitalizing off of our data. I certainly feel they would be nothing without the brokerage community, and firmly believe real estate brokers and agents got it all wrong (especially bowing down and "claiming" our own listings on these sites…for a fee!), but who am I to judge. I want to hear what you have to say. To start the conversation, have a look at what a reader said recently in a past post we had done about how worthless Zestimates are: "Zillow Zetimates Rubbing You Wrong Too? Vent":
Why hasn't anyone considered starting an "Agent Owned" National CMLS Internet advertising company by which we all become coop owners and share in the ad revenues and use the service at moderately low cost. We could put a stop to all the internet companies using OUR LISTINGS to make BILLIONS and use those revenues as retirement supplements to all the coop members of the National CMLS internet company. I am sick and tired of Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, and other sites using our listings to milk the real estate agents for money that belongs to us. These are our listings not theirs. If anyone should make money on our listings it should be us. We can put a stop to this and no longer allow these sites to use our listings. In the very least, they should be paying us for our listings. Wake up Real Estate Agents………….
Then, have a look at what a local brokerage had to say in their newsletter about making sure their listings are accurate on these sites (ever think about just killing the feed?):
This is big news in the real estate community. We know these sites are very popular with the public, and that's why for years [brokerage] has fed its listings to both sites. This has been done to try to minimize the kind of factual errors often found on these sites. Despite their popularity, Zillow and Trulia are not getting their content from our local MLS, and so listing details can be wrong. Dramatically wrong at times.
As a matter of fact, Zillow itself gives the accuracy of its popular "Zestimates" only two out of four stars in San Francisco, admitting that these estimates have a median error of nearly 12% – that's a big number. Still these sites are popular, and while [brokerage] believes it has enhanced the user property search experience on its own website, the company will continue to keep an eye on Zillow and Trulia, and leverage these platforms as much as possible.
Finally, have a look at this email I received on the matter:
Realtors are guilty for not keeping up with the times and being completely opposed and scared of technology, as we know well. PocketListings.net being the ultimate example. I still don't understand how hard it was to make anyone understand the concept of creating their [Realtors'] own listing network that they control. Doing anything to really help agents is ultimately a dead end because they are all stupid – few exceptions like you :) The successful businesses don't give a shit about agents. Zillow, Trulia…as you stated, mining all the data agents worked hard to create. Redfin, basically wants to cut the agent out of the equation. The solution is simple: kill the feeds and those companies perish, but the industry never will. It's run by idiots.
Share your thoughts in the comments below…(Remember, you can be anonymous if you choose).


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Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Rings False
- Christian Hamaker Contributing Film and Culture Writer
- 2012 13 Dec
DVD Release Date: March 19, 2013
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2012
Rating: PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence and frightening images
Genre: Adventure
Run Time: 169 min.
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Richard Armitage, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis, Christopher Lee
In the early 2000s, director Peter Jackson brought the sweeping, epic story of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to meticulous life on the big screen. It was a large undertaking, based on an immense three-volume book. With so much story to tell, New Line Cinema staked its future on Tolkien's tale, turning it into a trilogy of films. The result? Hundreds of millions of dollars in box-office grosses, capped off by a Best Picture Oscar win for the concluding film, The Return of the King.
When New Line and Jackson decided to team again to adapt Tolkien's Rings prequel, The Hobbit (the film's first director, Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), dropped out but is one of four writers credited with its screenplay), there must have been a great temptation to expand what is a relatively slender single volume into multiple installments. However, the fact that The Hobbit, unlike The Lord of the Rings, is a story for children, presented certain pitfalls.
Nonetheless, the filmmakers gave in to temptation. Jackson and New Line decided to break The Hobbit, or There and Back Again into a three-part epic. The first installment, An Unexpected Journey, runs 169 minutes. If your gut tells you that such an approach to Tolkien's slim children's tale might not work, then rest assured: your instincts are correct. Although The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey finally takes hold in its final hour—when Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and Gollum (Andy Serkis) square off—the film is a long slog to reach that point.
Sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is living contentedly in his hobbit-hole when Gandalf (Ian McKellen) pays him a visit to recruit him for a journey. He'll join a group of dwarves on a mission to reclaim their homeland of Erebor, from which the dwarves have been chased by the dragon Smaug. Although initially reluctant to be part of the quest, Bilbo acquiesces and decides to help.
Less persuaded of Bilbo's presence within the group's ranks is dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), who, through encounters with elves and battles with trolls and orcs, remains unconvinced that the hobbit is more of an asset than a hindrance to the mission. But Gandalf, who has encouraged Bilbo's inclusion, holds contrary beliefs.
The movie takes a full hour to set up the journey, and it's an hour that feels sorely padded. By the time Bilbo says, shortly after setting out on his journey, "Wait! I forgot my handkerchief!" and turns back toward home, you may have to restrain yourself from shouting at the screen, "No! Please, keep going!" The film at this point is already suffering from a lack of momentum.
Unfortunately, Jackson and his co-screenwriters (Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boyens, and del Toro) add so much Rings-style violence to Tolkien's tale that The Hobbit earns a PG-13 rating—making the film inappropriate for younger audience members who otherwise might have enjoyed the storyline. At one point, Gandalf raises his own concerns about the story's characters by declaring, "Save me from the stubbornness of dwarves. Your pride will be your downfall." That line could also apply to those who came up with the Hobbit-as-trilogy idea. Their insistence on expanding and bloodying-up The Hobbit could undo the goodwill built up by the extraordinary Lord of the Rings films.
The best part of The Hobbit—the battle of wills between Bilbo and Gollum—remains intact in this telling, and although it doesn't arrive until the film's final hour, it's enough to inspire hope for the upcoming two films. Bilbo encounters Gollum, a pathetic creature preoccupied with a golden ring he calls "Precious," following a fit of self-doubt that causes him to separate himself from the larger group. The payoff is compelling. The Ring, as anyone who has seen or read The Lord of the Rings knows, has great power, and will end up with Bilbo—but not until a captivating dialogue between the two characters settles the issue of the ring's owner.
Filmed at 48 frames per second—twice the standard frames-per-second rate—The Hobbit has a hyper-real quality that works against expectations in a bad way. Rather than looking like something we've never seen before and giving the proceedings a greater sense of cinematic wonder, the higher frame rate accentuates a sense of artificiality about the film's imagery. It's closer to the look of a British TV production or even a soap opera at times, yet we're supposed to embrace this new look as a great advance, a thing to be desired for all future films. If 48 frames per second has potential to redefine the viewing experience, The Hobbit doesn't point to obvious gains. It's simply another element that raises basic questions about the filmmakers' approach to the material.
The missteps of this first film do not bode well for the upcoming two segments of The Hobbit, but if Jackson and his cohorts can find a way to tone down the violence and kindle a gentler spirit in the subsequent chapters, they may yet salvage their adaptation. This movie is likely to leave Tolkien fans hesitant and uncertain about the upcoming films, while those new to The Hobbit will wonder why the story is so beloved. That's a long way from audience reaction to The Fellowship of the Ring, which left viewers eagerly anticipating what was to come.
- Language/Profanity: "bal-s;" Dwarf scum;" "elvish filth"
- Alcohol/Smoking/Drugs: Pipe smoking; drinking
- Sex/Nudity: None
- Violence/Crime: A fire-breathing dragon; a head-butt greeting; an orc holds a human head, throws it; trolls steal horses and try to roast dwarves and hobbits over an open fire; trolls are killed; battles with orcs; an orc is thrown to his death, and others fall to their deaths; Gollum menaces Bilbo; a goblin cleaver; an explosion; Gandalf slays a goblin; kick to Gollum's head
- Religion: Fate cited as the reason for Bilbo's journey; a character is said to have never forgiven, or forgotten, a wrong; a character says, "Fate is with you;" a belief that only great power can hold evil in check is contrasted with another view about how acts of love and everyday things can overcome darkness
Questions? Comments? Contact the writer at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Publication date: December 13, 2012
Editor's Note: For a different perspective on The Hobbit, watch the video below, in which we name the film Crosswalk.com's Movie of the Year for 2012:
CrosswalkMovies.com: Top 10 Movies of 2012 from crosswalkmovies on GodTube.


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Carlos Santos Roque was one of the few Portuguese artists whose work was published in the Franco-Belgian market, being lay-out man and artist for Spirou magazine during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Lisbon, Roque took courses in drawing, engraving and lithography from the Antonio Arrio School. He debuted in 1950 as as advertising artist for several agencies. He was the artist and lay-out man for magazines like O Secolo, O Secolo Illustrado, Modas & Bordados and Vida Mundial. He began contributing drawings to O Mosquito and O Mundo de Aventuras in 1951, and a little later on, he also worked for Joaninha.
He made his actual comics debut in the second series of Camarada magazine. For this paper, he created the character 'Malaquias', various short stories, painting-books and a long story: 'O Cruzeiro do Caranguejo', which has also been published in book format.
Roque and his wife Monique fled the Salazar dictatorship and settled in Belgium in 1964. There, he started out working for the advertising department of Tintin magazine. He also did art on some stories scripted by Yves Duval. He additionally worked for the Lombard departments Publiart and Publiart-Jeunesse, designing advertisements for Chocosweet and Viking beer. In November 1965, he was employed by the publishing house Dupuis, working as artist and lay-out man alongside Serge Gennaux.
From 1968-69 until the early 1980s, he also made the irregular appearing gag strips 'Angélique' and 'Wladimyr', often in cooperation with his wife Monique or Raoul Cauvin. 'Wladimyr' won him the Prix Saint Michel in 1976. He also illustrated for editorial sections like 'L'Apache qui Rit' and 'Qui veut jouer au blabladoigt'. In 1979, Roque's 'O Cruzeiro do Caranguejo' was reprinted in Spirou.
In Portugal, he contributed to Selecçoes BD from 1968. The magazines Pim-Pam-Pum and O Seculo also published 'Angélique', and Roque also participated in the Almanaque O Mosquito. He eventually returned to Portugal when his job with Spirou ended in the early 1980s. He was responsible for the supplement TV Guia Junior in 1996 and 1997. Carlos Roque passed away on 27 July 2006.