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Metro Chicago saw a 10.7 percent rise in the value of goods exported last year, to $44.9 billion, inching up one slot to place No. 6 nationwide, according to a U.S. Department of Commerce report released Tuesday.
The top five metros areas: Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Detroit. The Chicago region edged out Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, which was No. 6 in 2012.
In a separate study, the Commerce Department estimated that Illinois exports supported 339,000 jobs last year, ranking the state fourth, behind Texas, California and Washington.
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On a recent stunningly beautiful, deliciously pleasant autumn afternoon, I did something I haven't done in a long, long while — absolutely nothing.
For several hours, I sat on the deck, just observing:
· The changing light through the trees, sunlight now soft and golden, like an old master's painting, no longer harsh with summer's heat and humidity, the shadows lengthening as the days grow shorter and the sun heads for its southern hemisphere winter vacation.
· The occasional leaves drifting lazily down from the oaks, hickories, and sweetgums, presaging the millions more that will shortly cover the deck and yard (and the hours to be spent with a leaf blower and rake).
· The dozen or so astoundingly fat mud turtles, lined up head to tail on a log at the edge of the lake, basking in the sun's warmth.
· The family of red-headed woodpeckers that hang around most of the year, churring to each other (one of the most monotonous of bird calls) as they tap, tap, tap for insects in dead tree limbs.
· The lake, a sheen of blue, an expansive mirror reflecting the azure sky, the surrounding trees, and feathery horsetail grass plumes swaying gently in the breeze.
· The fat, green acorns from the white oaks and the occasional hickory nut dropping onto the ground with a soft plop, or onto the deck with a loud bang. (White oaks and hickories, to my way of thinking, are among the finest trees on the planet. Well, also, maples and sweetgums and sycamores and cypresses and … )
Mother Nature's ways are indeed wondrous, I reflect — as well as perplexing: Why do poison ivy and crabgrass grow rampantly where strawberries and tomatoes will not? Why do the dratted deer, as numerous as rabbits, consider expensive hydrangeas and hostas their personal dessert buffet and ignore other nearby natural vegetation?
If I were not so hopelessly mathematically challenged, perhaps I could calculate the enormities of scale involved in the line of ants that starts on the ground, goes 12 feet or so up the side of the house, and then down 5 feet or so of twine to finally reach the sweet stuff in the hummingbird feeder hanging from the eave.
Maybe an entomologist could explain how an ant on the ground can even know the feeder is there, let alone calculate a route for it and thousands of its fellows to get there. It's a mystery to me.
For the longest time, I was puzzled at the hickory branches that litter the deck and yard each autumn, thanks to the squirrels. The cut end of each branch looks as if it had been neatly, precisely turned on a lathe instead of by squirrel teeth.
What evolutionary neurons in a squirrel's brain compels it to do this, I wondered? To what purpose?
Then it dawned on me: It's a pruning process. The silly squirrel likely hasn't the remotest clue that its compulsion for cutting off the branch ends will cause additional branches to grow next spring, producing more sites for hickory nuts to develop.
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|Tunnel of Death (cont.)
Once you have the truck, it's time to head to your destination, which is on the Algonquin side of the Booth Tunnel. You'll see a cutscene of the guy you have to fake-spring from police custody being escorted from a nearby jail. So, begin driving to your destination on the far side of Booth Tunnel, following the route laid out for you by the GPS. Once you arrive in the tunnel, you'll realize that you need to be on the other side of the tunnel (as if you were heading with traffic back into Alderney). Follow the on-screen prompt and park your car along the two lanes there, fitting it into the arrows as shown on-screen.
Once you do that, the cops will show up in their prisoner caravan. Since your truck is blocking the road, they immediately know something's up and come out with guns drawn. You'll begin behind your truck, well-covered, so begin firing when you feel comfortable, taking out the cop in front of you and a few other stragglers before switching to your RPG. Be absolutely certain you don't target the prisoner truck, but detonate everything else, especially the cop cars. This will kill several cops and effectively eliminate their cover. Once all enemies are eliminated (the cops will show up as red dots on your HUD), jump in the prisoner truck. It's time to make our escape.
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ROCHESTER— James Foley, the local journalist who has been detained in Libya for three weeks, still hopes to make it home in time for his sister's college graduation next month.
Foley, 37, was able to call home Saturday and speak with his mother Diane for the first time since his April 5 capture, something the family views as the first positive step toward his release.
"He did say he was praying and he felt our prayers," Diane said Monday. "He seemed positive. He's in prison. He's not allowed to move. They are feeding him, and he is drinking. They are probably going to detain him for awhile, and he asked me to be patient. Just hearing his voice made me want him home today, but just hearing his voice was a gift."
James reported he has been treated well, but said the process for release seemed slow and there are a number of steps.
Diane said the State Department contact at the Libyan desk has been calling the family periodically, and made contact on Monday.
"He felt the fact we got a phone call was good news, but he had no new news regarding the release," Diane said.
A correspondent for GlobalPost, James initially planned to return in time for his sister Katie's college graduation on May 20, and after speaking with him over the weekend, Diane said it is still her son's hope.
James, along with three other journalists, was captured by pro-Gadhafi forces in Brega. Clare Gillis, an American journalist was able to contact her parents via phone on Thursday after she, James, and Spaniard Manu Brabo were transferred from a military prison to a civilian prison in Tripoli on April 19.
Visit www.freefoley.org to sign a petition supporting the release of Foley, Gillis, Manu Brabo of Spain and Anton Hammerl of South Africa. Links to Facebook pages, news updates, James' blog and a downloadable "Free Foley" poster are all accessible via the website.
The petition began with the goal of reaching 10,000 signatures. The goal has been updated to 25,000 signatures, and as of Monday had more than 28,000 signatures supporting the efforts to release the imprisoned journalists.
Diane noted the amount of signatures on the petition is much higher than she anticipated.
Detained Rochester journalist hopes to be home in time for sister's college graduation
ROCHESTER— James Foley, the local journalist who has been detained in Libya for three weeks, still hopes to make it home in time for his sister's college graduation next month.


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|"Joey" redirects here. For other uses, see Joey (GTA III) or Joey (Eris).
- "Chunky Lee Chong is pushing SPANK for some new gang from Colombia or Colorado or something. I'm not really sure. Who needs details?"
- ― Joey Leone
Joey Leone is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a main character in Grand Theft Auto III and is mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Joey is the son of Salvatore Leone, Don of the Leone Family, the most powerful family in Liberty City. Joey works as a mechanic and owns his own business, Joey's Garage.
He is voiced by Michael Rapaport, who has starred in such television programs as Prison Break and Boston Public and is also best known for voicing Troy Bradshaw in the famous sandbox game series, Saints Row.
Life up to 2001
Joey Leone was born in Liberty City and grew up around his father, who in the late 1980s became the Don of the Leone Family. He, however, had no ambitions of becoming a made man in the family, deciding to concentrate on small time crime, although he does attend important family meetings along with Caporegime Antonio Cipriani and made man Luigi Goterelli. In between 1987 and 1992 he employed Carl Johnson to steal cars for his garage, which he had established in the Trenton district of Portland, Liberty City. He eventually loses the services of Johnson who returns to Los Santos for the funeral of his mother, although he continues with his work as a mechanic. His business continues to be successful throughout the 1990s, appearing again in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, set in 1998. His father, however, does not appear to be pleased with Joey, claiming in 1998 that Joey wasn't as involved in the family, and Toni Cipriani, Capo of the Leone Family, was more like a son.
In 2001 he is introduced to Claude who drives his favourite prostitute, Misty, to his garage from Luigi's Sex Club 7. Joey then begins to employ Claude, initially having him murder Mike Forelli, a prominent member of the rival Forelli Family, and "Chunky" Lee Chong, a Triad selling the drug SPANK through a noodle stand. Joey continues to employ Claude, having him steal a Securicar, chauffeur Leone Family Capo Toni Cipriani, dispose of the body of a deceased Forelli Family mobster and act as a getaway driver in a bank heist. Joey meets Claude again when Claude drives Joey, Toni and Luigi to Salvatore Leone's mansion. Joey also has a long standing rivalry with the Forelli Family, having reportedly killed a number of the Forelli mobsters.
Claude continues to work with the Leone Family until a paranoid Salvatore decides to try and kill Claude, resulting in Claude and Maria Latore fleeing to Staunton Island. Claude was then tasked with killing Salvatore by Asuka Kasen, co-leader of the Yakuza, who was looking to employ Claude. Claude carried out his orders, killing Joey's father.
Mission Appearances
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Drive Misty For Me
- Mike Lips Last Lunch (Boss)
- Farewell "Chunky" Lee Chong (Boss)
- Van Heist (Boss)
- Cipriani's Chauffeur (Boss)
- Dead Skunk in the Trunk (Boss)
- The Getaway (Boss)
- Salvatore's Called A Meeting
- Joey was scheduled to make a appearance in Grand Theft Auto Advance, giving five missions to Mike, but he was dropped during the development by Crawfish Interactive.
- In the final version of the game (by Digital Eclipse), a mafia goon using Joey's artwork makes a minor appearance in the mission Down The River given by Asuka Kasen to the protagonist Mike, who needs to kidnap the mafia's members and traffic them to Asia to be sold as slaves.
- Early concept art from the Rockstar North website label Joey as "Joey Sorvino", which may have been an early name for the Leone Family.
- The only time Joey and his father are seen interacting in person is the mission Salvatore's Called a Meeting, where Salvatore berates him for not yet finding a wife.
- In some PS2 versions of Salvatore's Called a Meeting, Joey wears his garage coveralls when meeting Salvatore, while in the PC and mobile version he wears a black Leone suit.
- Joey Leone (along with Salvatore Leone, Luigi Goterelli, Maria Latore, 8-Ball, and Toni Cipriani, in that order) appears on posters for the film Badfellas in GTA III, which is a reference to the film Goodfellas.
- It is possible that Joey is based on Michael Corleone from The Godfather, as neither of them are particularly interested in family business, but are forced to partake in it. One can also draw similarities between Joey and Little Carmine from The Sopranos, as both characters don't seem to have a desire to become boss of their respective crime families, are involved with their own businesses and are not regarded as son material by their own fathers (Salvatore Leone thinks that Toni Cipriani is more a son that Joey is, and Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. would rather call Tony Soprano his son).


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Danielle Dennis is a juggler. She's a mother of two toddlers and a teenager, and for seven years has been a Hardeeville firefighter. In May, she will become a college graduate.
Dennis said a friend mentioned the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Saturday Business Degree Plan program and she decided to enroll to take the necessary general education classes. She said she worked hard for two and half years
"It was difficult, but doable," she said. "I'm a very disciplined person and when the kids were napping, I studied or when I worked a shift I was reading while the guys watched TV in the game room. You need to have a good set of time management and can't procrastinate."
The USCB program is designed specifically for adults with jobs during the week and who have already partially completed a degree elsewhere. The convenience of the Saturday class schedule enables those who work full-time to take a full load of classes and complete their degree.
Peter Swift, Saturday Business Degree Plan Coordinator, is proud of Dennis for completing the program despite her daily duties as a mother and firefighter.
"I have great respect for Danielle. She had two babies during her time in the program, took some time off, and then picked it up again. Like the other Saturday students, she took advantage of our flexible schedule and made it work for her busy situation" Swift said.
Originally from Michigan, Dennis moved to the Lowcountry about 11 years ago. She began volunteering at the fire station until she was hired full-time. As an engineer, she not only drives the fire truck but also manages the station as a shift supervisor.
After being a single mom for many years, Dennis married Parker Dennis three years ago. Her 16-year-old daughter, Ashley, soon received two siblings Emily, 2, and William, 1.
While beginning a family, Dennis decided to return to college to receive her bachelor's degree.
Dennis attended classes at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, but it took five years, because of other demands on her time, for her to receive her associate's. From there, she enrolled in the USCB program.
There are two, three and a half-hour classes every Saturday which meet for eight straight weeks, making it a full day of learning. Not only was Dennis working full-time, caring for her children and attending USCB, but she also was attending EMT training in Savannah.
Now that she has completed the program and is a certified EMT, Dennis is studying for the Graduate Record Examination. She hopes to then apply to Georgia Southern University to work toward achieving a master's in public administration.
"I want to stay in government, I enjoy it. People ask if I'm going to stay in the fire service now that I have a degree in business and of course I am. Through school, I've learned so much and that municipality departments are businesses," Dennis said. "We have budgets and revenue so it's very much like a business and I want to help make the fire service better for the future."
The Saturday program started in the fall of 2008. Dennis was part of the second group to go through the program. During the previous five years, USCB has had more than 50 graduates of the program. She will walk with her classmates in May during the USCB graduation ceremony.
"The program can be completed in 22 months but most students take slightly over two years. There is no limit to the timeframe as life sometimes gets in the way. We work with the student as their advisers to keep them on track," Swift said.


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In some ways, the Boalt ding hurts most, since they supposedly look more at soft factors than other schools. Getting rejected for my LSAT score...I can deal with that. Getting rejected because I'm am just not swell enough holistically...harder to take.
But it sort of hurts the least, because I also suspect that it was yield protection, which I would similarly suspect in your case.
checked the mail today expecting a ding. found nothing. i am very confused. i live in cali so if dinged i probably should have gotten it today right? but i don't think i'll get an acceptance either because wouldn't they let everyone know by today so they can start planning and RSVP for admitted students day on April 7th (deadline march 17th). so i don't know how to feel right now. but if nothings in the mail tomorrow i will be totally stumped.


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FBI: Navy Yard gunman left note about radio waves
WASHINGTON - Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis left a note saying constant bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves "has driven me to this," the FBI said Wednesday in a disclosure that explains the phrase he etched on his shotgun: "My ELF Weapon!"
Alexis did not target particular individuals during the Sept. 16 attack in which he killed 12 people, and there is no indication the shooting stemmed from any workplace dispute, said Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI's Washington field office.
Instead, authorities said, his behavior in the weeks before the shooting and records later recovered from the hotel room where he was staying reveal a man increasingly in the throes of paranoia and delusions.
"Ultra-low frequency attack is what I've been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this," read an electronic document agents recovered after the shooting.
'Better off this way'
The attack came one month after Alexis had complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel room and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep.
He scrawled "My ELF Weapon!" - an apparent reference to extremely low-frequency waves - on the shotgun, along with "End to the Torment!" "Not what yall say" and "Better off this way."
Alexis, a 34-year-old former Navy reservist and computer technician for a defense contractor, used a valid badge to get into the Navy Yard with a sawed-off Remington shotgun he had legally purchased two days earlier.
He was killed by a U.S. Park Police officer on the building's third floor following a rampage the FBI said lasted about an hour.
The FBI said it believes he was prepared to die when he went on the murderous attack.
Surveillance video released by the FBI on Wednesday shows Alexis pulling his rental car into a garage, walking into the building with a bag and then pacing deliberately down a corridor with a shotgun, ducking and crouching around a corner and walking briskly down a flight of stairs.
Alexis had started his job as a contractor in the building just a week before.
Although there was a "routine performance-related issue addressed to him" on the Friday before the Monday morning shooting, "there is no indication that this caused any sort of reaction from him," Parlave said.
"We have not determined there to be any previous relationship between Alexis and any of the victims," she said. "There is no evidence or information at this point that indicates he targeted anyone he worked for or worked with. We do not see any one event as triggering this attack."
Security system flaws
The shooting revealed flaws in the issuing of security clearances.
Alexis was a Fort Worth-area resident who maintained his clearance despite past brushes with the law. Defense officials said he also lied about an arrest and failed to disclose thousands of dollars in debts.
At the Pentagon on Wednesday, Deputy Secretary Ash Carter said the department will complete three reviews in late December, including assessments of base safety procedures and the security clearance process.
"Bottom line is, we need to know how an employee was able to bring a weapon and ammunition onto a DoD installation, and how warning flags were either missed, ignored or not addressed in a timely manner," Carter said.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — We've heard it many times over the last four years since the Great Recession ended, but there are a few good reasons to believe that — this time — the economy really is going to strengthen.
No one should expect a booming 2014, but with a little luck we could grow a bit faster than the long-term trend and bring the economy one step closer to a full recovery. Instead of the 2% pace we've been suffering, growth could be closer to 3%.
Faster growth would help push the unemployment rate down, creating the tighter job market to help increase wages and end the threat of deflation. It would encourage the Federal Reserve to continue to withdraw its extraordinary support, and it would help households, businesses and the government to repair their balance sheets.
Every year since 2009, there have been a few economists who were convinced that this year would be the one when the economy would turn around. They've always been wrong.
What's different this year is that some of the forecasters who've been most realistic about how long it would take to recover are now predicting better days in 2014. We're talking about forecasters such as Goldman Sachs, IHS Global Insight, and Société Générale, who were right to be skeptical of stronger growth in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Now they think the headwinds that held back the economy over the past four years have mostly dissipated, and have turned in to tailwinds in some cases.
Their argument? The fiscal drag is easing. Households have deleveraged. The worries about contagion from a euro explosion have eased. Job growth seems solid. Consumers are buying houses and cars again. And businesses are planning to invest more to expand their productive capacity.
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Scripture: Genesis 26:32 NIV That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, "We've found water!"
Observation: The sheep must be led to where the water is, the servant should be able to "find" water, digging if necessary. The sheep are led to where the water is, the servants can bring water to where the sheep are. Sheep drink from the surface, servants can dig below the surface. Sheep drink from the water on top, servants drink water from rivers that flow much deeper.
The sheep must be maintained in circumstances where water is available. The servant has the power to change circumstances. The servant can bring water to dry places! The servant can do more than just live off his circumstances, he can change them. It takes work. One has to dig to find water. But if one is willing to do the digging, many generations to come can be blessed!
Application: One of the first scripture passages I learned was Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd…" I learned that Jesus is the Good Shepherd. As a lamb/sheep in His flock I learned to trust him. However as I grew and matured in my Christian life, I learned to be a servant. I am learning to serve Him. As a servant I am growing so He can trust me. As a servant I am to be useful.
Prayer: Lord, may I be a useful servant! Amen
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A little less optimism about profit margins means a lower price target for the stock, Apple bull Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray said Thursday on CNBC.
"What's going on is we're being more conservative," he said. "We're factoring more the negative potential outcomes in the next year and two years, and not factoring as much as the positive potentials."
Munster, considered one of the most positive analysts on Apple, adjusted his price target from $910 to $875 per share.
"Yes, the narrative reads that we've cut our price target a couple of times, but at the end of the day, it's still 70 percent upside to the current stock," he said. "We still feel very good about owning Apple in 2013."
On "Fast Money," Munster said that he was factoring in lower margins on a potential sub-$400 phone from Apple, while also excluding the potential acceleration from any increase in market share in the price segment.
Munster said that more bullish investors were turning conservative.
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"In some ways, that sets up 2013 for a good year because over the last eight years that I've been covering this, it's been uber-optimism from the buy side and the sell side, and I feel like in some ways it's a good time to own it because these huge expectations – with myself, including a lot of investors – are now in check," he said.
"So I think the set-up is actually really good because there's going to be some big, important things happening in 2013."


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Technology Netiquette
Introduction to Network Etiquette
The WABnet Guide to Network Etiquette was written in the summer of 1995 by then-Wabash student Greg Hancock '97. Its message is as relevant today as it was then.
The Internet is a relatively new medium--different from any means of communication that humankind has previously known. Some people have compared it to TV, a mass-medium, while others have noted its shared qualities with the telephone, a non-broadcast, two-way medium. Most computer users, however, conceive of the Internet as an amalgam of both these types, though it is different enough so as to not quite fit into any existing class. Even though the Internet is not yet very well defined, it is evolving at an incredible pace. At the most rudimentary level, the Internet consists of millions of computers around the globe connected together by wire, fiber-optics, and satellite. These connections allow information to be quickly and easily exchanged between people and machines anywhere in the world. The network itself, however, acts only as a medium for applications designed to utilize it. Among the more common of these are electronic mail and the World Wide Web, though the Internet can be utilized in many more sophisticated ways.
E-mail, formally known as "electronic mail", works very similarly to U.S. Postal mail, only without any paper or human labor involved. It serves as a way of sending text or other data from one person to another via the Internet. The World Wide Web, more commonly known as "The Web", is a scheme that unites the informational resources of educational institutions, public and private organizations, and businesses from around the world. While not as widely used or as commonly available as e-mail, more and more computer users are discovering this unique way of information interchange.
In structure, the Web is as amorphous as the network itself; it is really nothing but a huge mass of documents located at various institutions around the world. Because these documents are all interconnected, inter-indexed, and inter-referenced, one can easily access information from several different countries in the period of a few moments. The Web and the Internet upon which it lives exist independent of geographic and political boundaries.
Because the Internet is such a new and unique medium, people are having difficulty making rules for its use. Out of sheer necessity, the users of the Net have, over the period of time since the network was born, tended toward certain rules of network conduct. This code of network ethics has been given many names over the years--the one that has seemed to stick, however, is "netiquette", a conjunction formed from "network etiquette."
The interesting and unique thing about netiquette in contrast to a hard-and-fast system of rules is that it allows room for interpretation. From the point of view of a Wabash Man, netiquette can be seen as a corollary of the Gentleman's Rule: "A Wabash Man, while using the Internet, shall conduct himself as a Gentleman and Responsible Citizen" There is nothing to stop someone from abusing the network. As with your daily actions with those around you, you will have to face the consequences of your behavior. If years of network use have produced anything resembling a system of order, it is surely embodied in what is here explained as netiquette. Adherence to the guidelines below will make your use of the Internet infinitely more enjoyable and productive.
Netiquette Guidelines
Adapted from "Core Rules of Netiquette" by Virginia Shea (Educom Review, Sept./Oct. 1994, p. 58-62) Which was in turn excerpted from Netiquette by Virginia Shea, Albion Books, San Francisco, 1994
Assume Publicity
Whether you are composing an e-mail message or writing your own WWW document, it is wise to assume that everyone in the world will read your words. Though e-mail is sent to only one person, it is very easy to forward an e-mail message to hundreds or thousands of people. Unless you have complete trust that the recipient of your mail will keep it confidential, assume complete exposure to the rest of the world. The same rule applies to WWW documents, only to a greater degree. Anything put up on the Web is openly available for anyone in the world to see. That not only includes your professors and peers, but also the government, your future employers, students from other countries, your professors, etc. It is wise to be cautious with what you put on the Web. Since the people out in Cyberspace have only a small bit of information by which to judge you, it only makes sense to make the information as appropriate, representative, and informative as possible.
The Emotion Barrier
One of the biggest drawbacks of communicating electronically is the difficulty of communicating emotions through text. While our Wabash education has taught most of us how to convey academic or technical ideas in written form without incurring gross misinterpretation, it not necessarily prepared us for the challenge posed by the Internet's barrier to non-verbal communication. It takes a little more verbal finesse to accurately relay emotion, mood, and tone. Virginia Shea, in her article "Core Rules of Netiquette," expresses this idea: "When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don't have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to communicate your meaning; words--lonely written words--are all you've got. And that goes for your correspondent as well. (58)" Derivatives of e-mail, which include USENET newsgroups, mailing list discussion groups, and bulletin boards, are all plagued by the emotion barrier. Overcoming it can be the biggest challenge of anyone attempting electronic communication.
If someone sends you an e-mail message that strikes you as just a little too critical, or you read a message in a newsgroup that seems a little too offensive, chances are that you're misinterpreting the intent of the sender. Perhaps the message that you are taking so seriously was intended to be taken sarcastically--or perhaps you have stumbled upon a newsgroup where no-holds-barred messages are tolerated, or even expected. Either way, it does no good to pour fuel on the fire of what could potentially become a "flame war," where a few people engage in pointless verbal warfare, usually as the result of a misinterpreted message or an undiscriminating author.
Remember the Human
One of the most common sources of intentionally offensive exchange on the Internet are those users who are unaccustomed to the anonymity the medium allows. In the Cyberworld, you are known by nothing other than your e-mail address. Many people interpret this as a free license to verbally assault anyone who rubs them the wrong way--knowing that any retaliation will be confined to the verbal realm as well.
Since the Internet is so flexible, however, those who really know how to use it can wreak "virtual havoc" upon your "virtual world." While they may not be able to hunt you down and dismember you, or even send you a letter bomb via U.S. Mail, it is not all that difficult for a hacker seeking revenge to effectively disable your link to the Net. One example? Imagine finding 10,000 new messages in your e-mailbox every day. Sound like a good time? Such a cruel form of revenge is surprisingly feasible--without all that much effort on the part of the infuriated avenger.
So what's the moral of this story? Simply stated, behave on-line as you would in person. Watch what you type and how you word potentially volatile statements. Assume that what you say will be taken in the worst possible way, and that if someone is upset enough by it, it will come back to haunt you.
Freedom of Choice
The most unique feature of the Internet is its user dependency. Since it is without shape or form, it can become whatever the user makes it--from an academic research tool to a source of digital pornography. In order to get anywhere on the Web you must choose where you wish to go. There is a plethora of information available online--way more than one person could ever read. Using available methods of searching the Internet and choosing certain pathways over others means that you are in control of what you see and hear. It is for this reason that the Internet has been allowed to exist uncensored for so long--and will remain so as long as its users understand its distinctive user-driven nature.
There has been a lot of talk among politicians as to whether of not the Internet should be censored by the government. As of the writing of this document, the government has not yet intruded. Because there is a substantial amount of questionable material available on the Net, however, it is up to the discretion of the individual as to whether or not he wants to access it. There is a simple solution to avoiding the cruder portions of the Net: don't look for them. Information is not going to just randomly pop up on your screen without you making a concerted effort to look for it.
Conversely, when posting to a discussion group or when writing anything which is intended for an unknown audience, it is expected that you will be discriminating in what you say. Profanity and pornography are by no means illegal on the Net, though they are usually considered rude and inappropriate. Again, though you won't receive a ticket from the Internet Police, you may bring upon yourself unwanted repercussions. Just imagine the Dean viewing everything that originates from your computer and judge what is appropriate in that context.
Respect Others' Time and Energy
Surprisingly, it's possible to post a well written, completely inoffensive message to a discussion group and still receive a negative response. It is very important to keep in mind that people are busy--not everyone wants to spend his time reading about your life or what is of concern to you. Other people are similarly wrapped up in their own affairs. When posting to discussion groups, or when sending e-mail to those you don't know, try to be as focused as possible. While a mindless verbal rambling may be just the thing to send to your girlfriend at DePauw, chances are it won't be received well by a newsgroup that is read by thousands of people.
Form Matters
As was mentioned earlier, you never know who will be reading what you write. The president of the college, or the President of the U.S., may decide to listen in on a newsgroup to which you post. Or perhaps someone will forward one of your e-mail messages to a potential employer. Either way, we would all like to think that we make a good impression. In the virtual world, though, an impression isn't made by a nice suit and a clean shave--you could be naked for all those out in Cyberworld care. Your writing, on the other hand, will be highly scrutinized. If you write well, you will likely come off as educated, intelligent, and respectable. If you compose hastily and sloppily, however, your audience may perceive you, perhaps inaccurately, as uneducated and unintelligent. If you want to make a good impression on those out in the Cyberworld, it's a good idea to make your writing look as professional as possible.
There are, of course, cases where careful composition is not necessary. A brief note to a friend may require only enough literacy to get your point across. In such cases, it is usually acceptable to leave out punctuation and disregard capitalization, simply so that your intended audience realizes the casual nature of the message. Beware, however, that any reader will likely take your message as seriously as you make it look. If you don't bother to make your message intelligible, chances are he won't take its contents very seriously. On the other hand, if you take a few minutes to compose thoughtfully, your reader may pay a little extra attention to what you have to say.
Be Forgiving
Finally, after all this advice on how to project yourself, here's a little on how to receive others: first and foremost, be forgiving. Just as you are trying to balance your valuable time with a desire to get your point across as respectably as possible, so are others doing the same. Sometimes it's all-too-tempting to tear someone apart for an obvious grammatical error, misspelling, or blatant display of stupidity. What we must keep in mind, though, is that what we are reading is only one small piece of the person on the other end, who is typing away just like we are. Perhaps he was uninformed--or in a hurry--or simply made a mistake. Regardless, each person is deserving of more than one chance before judgment is passed. If someone initially strikes you as inept, allow him another opportunity to confirm your judgment. And if you can't suppress a response, a kind word or two of advice in a helpful tone will leave a much better impression than a verbal barrage will. Always give the benefit of the doubt, and be kind with criticism.
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Doc Tracy Saves Arizona from attack of the CROB Blob
OK, I'm going in. I've got the Glock, the BAD (Bad Ass Doberman) AKA Princess Lucy, and Chalupa the Chihuahua as reinforcement. Also in hand are sharp scissors and a 10" bread knife. Entering the house, I use all my senses trying to detect the CROB. I'm concerned that the soupy, pancake like batter of the sourdough converted cinnamon raisin oatmeal bread (CROB) has escaped it's container in the fridge and is hiding somewhere in the empty house.
I enter the house without a sound. The dogs seem calm. So far so good. I pull open the fridge and see The CROB- Oh, my!! It's eaten the aluminum foil off it's bowl. I didn't know it could do that. In the 36 hours or so since I locked it up in the empty fridge it's risen over my giant, commercial sized stainless steel bowl and has eaten holes in the aluminum. It doubled, it tripled!! And it ate metal!!!! I knew I should have used plasticrap!
I wrestle the beast out of it's cold, dark cave and drag it into the heat of the Arizona springtime. It's not going to like this I think. Hmmm, smells really nice. I carry the hefty monster back to the RV and take a peek. Despite the grayish looking spots all over the top from dissolved aluminum foil, it looks much more bread dough-like than it did 2 days ago. I may be able to train this dragon yet.
But what to do with all those aluminum foil spots? Well, thank goodness I came armed for battle! I go at it with the bread knife and scissors and show no mercy. I hack and cut and hack and cut. Throw that dough in the compost bin where it belongs. Nasty bugger, metal eating monster! Now it looks better and I bet I have a more manageable amount of dough to work with too.
Get out those scales! Yes, the one that screwed up this dough in the first place. I weigh the dough and find that I have enough for 3 large loaves, just what I started with. Hmm, what a strange coincidence. Shaped the loaves, jelly rolled with brown sugar, cinnamon and honey. Put them in the pans. The beast has been tamed!
All that is left are 3 yummy CROB loaves cooling on the stovetop (which pretends to be a countertop in my cramped RV). Sourdough starter makes wonderful CROB.
Moral of the story- Make no more than 2 loaves of bread when playing around with a formula. CROB Blob attacks are far more lethal within the confines of the RV. Woe to the person who gets this rental RV next. There is a baby CROB culture growing in the plumbing.


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Experimental Determination of the Electron Charge to Mass Ratio
The ratio for electric charge to the mass of an electron is a fundamental concept in physics and useful for future students interested in the study of physics. From this you can conclude how the electron is hardly affected by gravity and how the electric field governs how the electron behaves. This is important to know for the reason that it is one of the most important values in quantum mechanics. We did this by means of observing the trajectory of electrons in a known constant magnetic field. From this you can find the ratio of electric charge to mass for an electron as a function of observed radii, magnetic field, and energy. This can be done with an electron gun a Helmholtz Coil and a couple of power sources. With all these things we can determine how a beam of electrons curves within a magnetic field and thus measure a radius and with some tricky manipulation figure the ratio for electric charge compared to mass for the electrons. From my experimental data we found that the ratio of e/m is 2.3+/-.23*10 coul/kg. This was one standard deviation away from the accepted value. There was still some systematic and random error that was prevalent throughout the experiment. We will discuss the reasons and sources of these errors.
The charge of an electron is one of the most basic concepts in the entire study of electromagnetism and atomic particles. The first person o find an electron was J.J. Thompson. He did so in a series of experiments which used cathode ray tubes to try to find electrons. He did three such different experiments and it wasn't until the third that he found the charge to mass ratio for the electron which he found in 19872. These results let him to formulate his "Plum Pudding Model" of the atom. This experiment is a lot like the one detailed here. For these experiments he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1906.
After Thompson did these experiments R.A. Millikan came around and found through experimentation the charge of the electron. His experiments which involve dropping oil droplets in a chamber that could be charged to see how the oil droplets reacted in an electric field. These experiments then lead to the charge that an electron has on it3. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for these experiments in 1923 after some controversy due to the deeds of one Felix Ehrenhaft's claim that he found a smaller charge than Millikan, but these claims turned out to be wrong and the prize was given to Millikan.
With out these fundamental experiments we could have not found the charge of the electron, and with out this fundamental constant we could not have been able to do some of the work in chemistry atomic physics and quantum mechanics. The experiment that i did was similar to the experiment that Thompson did in that I am using an electron gun to "boil" off electrons and measure how they behave in a magnetic field. I will vary the force of the electrons by mean of changing the voltage to the electron gun which is the Lorenz Force4, I will also vary the magnetic field by means of changing the current that is applied to the Helmholtz Coils5 to show how an electron responds to a changing electric field and or a changing force.
Experiment and Materials
Instrumentation and Assembly
An electron gun is housed in a bulb that has some gas in to so you can see the electron beam. There is also a Helmholtz Coil attached to this apparatus so that a uniform magnetic field can be generated. This is a manufactured piece so there is no need to worry about aligning everything properly (e/m Experimental Apparatus Model TG-13 Uchida Yoko as shown in Fig. 1). There are three different power supplies each one connects to a different part of the e/m apparatus. A connection needs to be made between the 6-9 Vdc 2A power supply (SOAR corporation DC Power Supply Model 7403, 0-36V, 3A, As shown in Fig.3)and the Helmholtz Coil with a multimeter in series (BK PRECISION Digital Multimeter Model 2831B, Fig 3). The 6.3V power supply (Hewlett-Packard DC Power Supply Model 6384A, Fig. 2)needs to be connected to the heater jacks. A power source rated at 150-300V (Gelman Instrument Company Deluxe Regulated Power Supply, Fig.3) needs to be connected to another multimeter (BK PRECISION Digital Multimeter (Model 2831B, Fig. 2) to the electron gun.
Procedure and Methods
The general procedure can be found in Professor Gold's Lab Manual1. We first turned on the power to the heater and let it warm up for approximately 2 minutes, we knew this was done when we observed the cathode glowing red. After we warmed up the heater we applied a voltage of 200V to the electron gun, we then observed the beam of electrons that was glowing green. After we observed the electron beam we then applied a current to the Helmholtz Coils, and observed the electron beam take a circular orbit. We then proceeded to take our data on the radii of electron beam, one on the right side and one on the left, in addition to the voltage on the electron gun and the current on the Helmholtz Coils. We took the data on the radii of the beam by looking at a ruler attached to the back of the e/m apparatus(Fig. 1). We noticed how the radii of the beam was effected by changing the voltage while holding the current constant and also with the opposite.
In our experiment we first started holding the current along the coils constant at 1.35A while fluctuating the voltage on the electron gun from a max value of 250V to a minimum voltage of 146V. We observed that the more voltage we applied while keeping the current constant the radius of the electron beam increased. For the next set of experiments we kept the voltage constant at 143V and had a range of current from 0.9A to 1.33A and observed that the radii increased as we decreased the current along the coils. We took data on the radii versus the current and radii versus the voltage and this can be found on my data page for this lab.
Analysis Methods
The theory predicts that there is a relation between the magnetic field and the force at which electrons travel in an electromagnetic field. From this we can use the Boit-Savart Law1 (see Equation 1) to find the magnetic field. The Lorenz Force 4(see Equation 2) can be solved for to find the ratio of e/m by means of knowing the velocity (Equation 3). So knowing this the theory will predict a linear relationship between the Radii and the velocity when current remains constant (Equation 4) with the ratio of m/e being the slope. The theory also predicts that there is also a liner relationship between the radii and the inverse current squared (Equation 5). We used the Microsoft Excel function linest, to find this slope for both the constant current and constant voltage data.
Results and Discussion
The data given in Table 1(Fig.4) shows the results that were obtained while keeping the voltage constant at 143 volts. The graph of radii vs 1/I^2, showing how the data compares to a best fit line (using Microsoft Excel,Fig. 5) showing one standard deviation most of the data fits the linear fit. The value of e/v was determined to be 2.74+/-0.38*10^11 coul/kg within 68% confidence interval, which has an error of approximately 55.76% when compared to the value from the paper "The Electronic Atomic Weight and e/m Ratio6" of 1.76*10^11 coul/kg.
From Table 1(Fig. 4) the value of e/m while holding the current constant at 1.35 amps was 1.85+/-0.12*10^11 coul/kg. Using Microsoft Excel a plot of my data radii62 vs voltage(Fig. 6) is given compared to a liner fit of the data, and as there is no obvious systematic deviation this is a good fit for the data. From my value for e/m the error is 5.27% when compared to the vale from "The Electronic Atomic Weight and e/m Ratio6" of 1.76*10^11 coul/kg.
From Table 1(Fig. 4) the value of e/m was calculated while the voltage and current were both being varied. This value was 4.091+/- 0.82*10^11 coul/kg. The liner graph showing the varying values are radii^2 vs voltage(Fig. 7) showin again that even while the voltage and current are varied a linear fit still holds. An error of 76.8% was given when compared to the value in "The Electronic Atomic Weight and e/m Ratio6" of 1.76*10^11 coul/kg. So the data is not good when the current and the voltage are not held constant and an even worse error is generated. {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet |key=0Ao8NF4FsZR3ydHFLU0NSVmdiQ1Y0dVdmclBVVzBKY2c |width=500 |height=300 }}
So from my experiment to find the ratio for e/m the best result I found was when I held the voltage constant and varied the radii I came up with a value of [math]1.85\pm.12*10^{11}\frac{coul}{kg}[/math].
So based on my calculations from the above section I obtain the best result when I take the value using constant voltage, which the error is approximately 5.11%. This is not a bad result considering that their is a significant amount of systematic and random error present in this lab. The sources of random(non-biased) error in this lab are as follows. The collisions that occur between the helium atoms in the bulb and discharged electrons from the electrons gun, some of the energy that is used to accelerate the electrons is wasted in the form of visible light due to the collisions so the energy that is measured is an over estimate. Some of the systematic errors are caused by the imprecision of the ruler and in aligning them. We tried to over come some of these by taking two reading one on the left side and one on the right and averaging the two but this can only decrease the error but not eliminate it completely. Another error is that when the voltage is raised or the current is lowered the discharge of the electron beam doesn't line up with where it impacts the electron gun so you can adjust this by means of the focus knob, this changes the radii of the electron beam so you need to adjust the focus every time you change the voltage or current if not you potentially can alter the data and throw off the results.
The experiment showed me that an electron beam when in the presence of a uniform magnetic field creates a circular form. This circle whose radii is directly related to the strength of the magnetic field and the velocity at which the electrons leave the electron gun. If I were to do this experiment again I would not imagine to obtain such a value so close to the actual value for e/m due to the large possibility for errors due to the large amount of systematic errors that can be introduced into the expernment. Summing up even when there is potentially large amounts of errors you can still find fundamental constants.
I would like to thank my lab partner Elizabeth Allen, my lab professor Dr.Steven Koch our lab TA Pranav Rathi for their assistance and support in this lab.
1.M. Gold, Physics 307L: Junior Laboratoy, UNM Physics ans Astronomy (2006),[1]
2. J. Thompson, "Cathode Rays". The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol 44, 293-316 (1897).
3.R. A. Millikan, "On the elementary electrical charge and the Avogadro constant". The Physical Review, Series II 2: 109–143 (1913).
4.Darrigol, Olivier, "Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein",Oxford University Press, ISBN =0-198-50593-0, 327 (2000)[2]
5.R. Merritt, C. Purcell, and G. Stroink. "Uniform magnetic field produced by three, four, and five square coils". Review of scientific Instruments, Volume 54, Issue 7, 879 (1983).
6.R.C. Gibbs and R.C. Williams, "The Electronic Atomic Weight and e/m Ratio". The Physical Review, Volume 44, Issue 12, 1029 (1933).


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We have a long history of problems BFing with my 4 month old DS. Low weight gain, painful nipples, long feeds. low supply. We had his PTT and ULT revised at 8 weeks but haven't seen any improvement. We have done suck training, CST and around the clock pumping to get my supply up. Right now I nurse him 7 times a day and supplement 3 oz of EBM via bottle after each feed. I pump 4 times a day.
At his last visit to the IBCLC, he only transfered 2 oz at the breast. Obviously this is not enough for us to try and wean the supplement. I'm at the end of my rope and am planning to gradually wean my pumping and let my milk dry up. I don't have any hope left that his milk transfer is going to improve.
I'm so sad that things turned out this way as I wanted to do extended BFing, but I don't know what else I can do.


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I am new to posting on the forum, but I have loved reading the threads and all of the great advice on here since before my son was born. Now it's my turn – I could use some advice.
My son was born on June 26th, so he is about three-and-a-half weeks old. He was born via c-section, after 26 hours of labor during which I only dilated 5 cm, and during which I developed an infection (Chorioamnionitis) and a fever. My son was taken to the NICU right after birth, because they were worried that he had gotten the infection, and he stayed there under observation for 12 hours. I was taken to recovery for an hour before being transferred to a post-partum room, and the soonest I was able to see my son was three hours after his birth. I did attempt to breastfeed him at this point, and we had about 15 minutes of time at the breast, but he then had to return to the NICU and stay for the remainder of the 12 hours before being allowed to room-in with me.
Also, another vital piece of my history is that three years ago, I had a breast reduction. My nipples were not removed, but I developed an infection on the left side, and the nipple was damaged a bit from the infection. The right side healed normally, with no infection.
While he was in the NICU, my son received supplementation via bottles, and he has been supplemented with formula from then on. I sincerely regret this, but I recognize that with my surgery the likelihood was high that he would need supplementation of some sort. What I need help with is figuring out how to supplement while still maintaining the milk supply that I do have.
When my son was born, he weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces. When we left the hospital, he was 6 lbs 13 oz. At his first check-up after leaving the hospital, when he was five days old, he was back up to 7 lbs 3 oz, and then at his two-week checkup (he was actually 16 days at that point) he was back up to his birth weight, 7 lbs 6 oz. Today (he is 3 weeks, 2 days old) we were back at the doctor and had his weight re-checked, and he was 7 lbs 9.5 oz. I think his weight gain is okay so far, but this is with daily supplementation, not EBF'ing (I'd like to EBF but don't know if it'll be possible with my history).
As far as diapers, he normally has between 7 and 9 wet diapers a day. As far as dirty diapers, he normally has 2 VERY poopy diapers, and 3 or 4 more diapers with a very small amount of poop.
Another issue is that he falls asleep at the breast very easily – within ten minutes EVERY SINGLE TIME, and he is very hard to rouse. If I then put him in his bassinet, or if my husband takes him, he typically (though not always) wakes up and exhibits hunger cues again. I know this can be normal, but it just makes me stress about my supply even more.
Pumping is also an issue for me. The most I have ever pumped is 2 oz between both breasts, and normally it's between 1 and 1.5 oz. I also can't figure out how to pump after feeding him – since he wakes if I move him to anywhere but on me, I typically just allow him to sleep on me until he wakes naturally, leaving no time for pumping. I know pumping can be very helpful to increasing my supply, but I just don't know how to make it work.
As far as his current supplementation, he has been getting formula from a bottle an average of 2 or 3 times a day, and I normally give him 2 oz when he gets a bottle. He has taken 3 oz two different times, but normally its just 2 oz.
SO, after all that, here are my questions: what should my action plan be? Should I allow him to nurse until he falls asleep, and then put him in his bassinet, and if he awakens and is hungry, then give him a bottle? Should I allow him to nurse for a set amount of time before supplementing? Should I pump exclusively? How do I work in pumping? What do I do?
I have been so stressed and discouraged about this whole situation, because I want him to thrive and gain weight appropriately and be healthy, but I also wish that I could provide all of his nutrition myself, without any supplementation. I don't want my selfish desire to EBF to get in the way of his health and ability to thrive, however. I'm just so lost.


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Why do companies post open jobs only after a hire has been identified, or skip posting altogether? The practice is legal and ubiquitous, but frustrating for job-seekers, who don't realize they're applying for phantom positions. Leslie Kwoh has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.
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since the verdict was handed down and she struggles to imagine "life without him."
"I love him so much. He's my best friend," Rebecca Dunn tearfully said.
"If he sees no other way than to bring out his gun, that's what he's going to do," she said.
Both sides to keep fighting
After 30 hours of deliberation, a Florida jury on Saturday found Dunn guilty of three counts of
attempted murder as well as a count stemming from shooting into download music albums codes for
free itunes downloads the teens' vehicle. But jurors didn't convict him of murder for the death of 17-
year-old Jordan Davis.
State Attorney Angela Corey said prosecutors will seek a new trial in Duval County on the murder
"Justice for Jordan Davis is as important as it is for any victim," said Corey, whose office also
prosecuted Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was acquitted.
Even without a murder conviction, Dunn faces a lengthy prison term. Each attempted second-degree
murder conviction carries a minimum sentence of 20 years. There's also a possible 15-year sentence
for the conviction on shooting into the teenagers' vehicle.
"You are looking basically at life in prison," Dunn's attorney Cory Strolla said. "At 47 years old, that's
a life sentence regardless of count one."
Strolla said he would challenge the convictions and would consider asking for a change of venue.
"For the retrial, I almost think we would have to," the attorney said. "But again, I may not be the
counsel at that point. We are a long ways away from that."
Opinion: An empty verdict, a hollow victory
Analysts disagree
Criminal defense attorney Carrie Hackett, who was not involved in Dunn's case, said she thinks the
case may have been another example of overcharging.
"I think that there is an issue of overcharging because there's always a question when you bring a
charge that involves intent," she told "CNN Newsroom" on Sunday. "And in this first-degree murder
charge, it's premeditation. When a jury has to look at -- did somebody plan? Was this strategic? Did
they communicate this plan to somebody else? That's a situation where a jury could very easily get
hung up on deciding, what was the person's intention?"
But another attorney, Mo Ivory, said she didn't think Dunn or Zimmerman was overcharged.
"What I do think is that the prosecution failed to give the jurors what they needed to know about
that very intent," Ivory said.
Ten bullets over music
On November 23, 2012, Michael Dunn pulled into a gas station in Jacksonville and parked next to a
red Dodge Durango full of teenagers.
Dunn didn't like the loud music -- "rap crap," he called it -- coming from the teens' SUV. So he asked
them to turn it down.
What happened next depends on whom you believe. Dunn claimed Davis threatened him, and he
took matters into his own hands after seeing what he thought was the barrel of a gun sticking out of
the Durango.
But prosecutors said Dunn lost control, firing three volleys of shots -- 10 bullets total -- at the SUV
over music he didn't like.
The prosecution also challenged what Dunn did next: He left the gas station and drove 40 miles to a
bed and breakfast in St. Augustine. There, he walked his dog, ordered a pizza, then drank rum and
After learning almost six hours later that he had killed Davis, Dunn testified that he became "crazy
with grief," experiencing stomach problems for about four hours before taking a nap.
"My intent was to stop the attack, not necessarily end a life," he testified. "It just worked out that
Yet his fiancee, Rhonda Rouer, testified that Dunn had never mentioned any weapon to her -- be it a
shotgun, a stick, a barrel or a lead pipe.
Police found a basketball, basketball shoes, clothing, a camera tripod and cups inside the teenagers'
Durango, but no gun.
And Dunn never called police. The first contact he had with them was at his home in Satellite Beach
-- 130 miles south of St. Augustine -- as he was being apprehended.
Arguing that he wasn't in a rational state of mind, Dunn admitted, "It makes sense that I should have
(contacted authorities). We didn't. I can't tell you why."
'A little bit of closure'
The lack of a murder conviction led protesters to march outside the Jacksonville courthouse, calling
for Corey to lose her job.
But Davis' mother, Lucia McBath, didn't express any anger when she spoke to reporters Saturday.
She said her family is "so very happy to have just a little bit of closure."
The verdict came the day before what would have been Jordan Davis' 19th birthday.
"It's sad for Mr. Dunn that he will live the rest of his life in that sense of torment, and I will pray for
him," McBath said. "And I've asked my family to pray for him."
CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Greg Botelho and Sunny Hostin contributed to this report.


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The Australian residential sector accounts for approximately 10 per cent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions and offers significant opportunities for mitigation to which households are largely oblivious. These opportunities include: an energy efficient building shell that minimises the need for artificial heating and cooling, energy efficient built-in appliances, plug-in appliances and low or zero emission local energy generation. This paper focuses on energy efficiency of the building shell and built-in appliances and identifies strategies for minimising greenhouse gas emissions. Energy efficient shell and appliances are a necessary condition for transition to carbon neutral or zero carbon housing.
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This chapter discusses some of the more applicable implementations of Web Services technologies and shows you how to use PHP to start incorporating them into your Web application development strategy right now. To accomplish this goal without actually turning this chapter into a book unto itself, the discussion that follows isn't intended to offer an in-depth introduction to the general concept, and advantages, of Web Services.
Even if you have no prior experience with or knowledge of Web Services, hopefully you'll find this chapter quite easy to comprehend. The intention here is to demonstrate the utility of Web Services through numerous practical demonstrations. Specifically, the following topics are discussed:
{mospagebreak title=Why Web Services?}
Why Web Services? For the uninitiated, this section very briefly touches upon the reasons for all of the work behind Web Services and how they change the landscape of application development.
Real Simple Syndication (RSS): The originators of the World Wide Web had little idea that their accomplishments in this area would lead to what is certainly one of the greatest technological leaps in the history of humankind. However, the extraordinary popularity of the medium caused the capabilities of the original mechanisms to be stretched in ways never intended by their creators. As a result, new methods for publishing information over the Web have emerged and are starting to have as great an impact on the way we retrieve and review data as did their predecessors. One such technology is known as Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. This section introduces RSS and demonstrates how you can incorporate RSS feeds into your development acumen using a great tool called Magpie.
SimpleXML: New to PHP 5, the SimpleXML extension offers a new and highly practical methodology for parsing XML. This section introduces this new feature and offers several practical examples demonstrating its powerful and intuitive capabilities.
SOAP: SOAP plays an enormously important role in the implementation of Web Services. This section discusses its advantages and introduces PHP's SOAP extension, which was made available with the version 5 release.
Although the typical developer generally adheres to a loosely defined set of practices and tools, much as an artist generally works with a particular medium and style, he tends to create software in the way he sees most fit. As such, it doesn't come as a surprise that although many programs resemble one another in look and behavior, the similarities largely stop there. Numerous deficiencies arise as a result of this refusal to follow generally accepted programming principles, with software being developed at a cost of maintainability, scalability, extensibility, and interoperability.
This problem of interoperability has become even more pronounced over the past few years, given the incredible opportunities for cooperation that the Internet has opened up to businesses around the world. However, fully exploiting an online business partnership often, if not always, involves some level of system integration. Therein lies the problem: if the system designers never consider the possibility that they might one day need to tightly integrate their application with another, how will they ever really be able to exploit the Internet to its fullest advantage? Indeed, this has been a subject of considerable discussion almost from the onset of this new electronic age.
Web Services technology is today's most promising solution to the interoperability problem. Rather than offer up yet another interpretation of the definition of Web Services, here's an excellent interpretation provided in the W3C's "Web Services Architecture" document ( http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/ ):
A Web Service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web Service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.
Some of these terms may be alien to the newcomer; not to worry, because they're introduced later in the chapter. What is important to keep in mind is that Web Services open up endless possibilities to the enterprise, a sampling of which follows:
Software as a service: Imagine building an e-commerce application that requires a means for converting currency among various exchange rates. However, rather than take it upon yourself to devise some means for automatically scraping the Federal Reserve Bank's Web page ( http:// www.federalreserve.gov/releases/ ) for the daily released rate, you instead take advantage of its (hypothetical) Web Service for retrieving these values. The result is far more readable code, with much less chance for error from presentational changes on the Web page.
Significantly lessened Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) horrors: Developers currently are forced to devote enormous amounts of time to hacking together often complex solutions to integrate disparate applications. Contrast this with connecting two Web Service–enabled applications, in which the process is highly standardized and reusable no matter the language.
Write once, reuse everywhere: Because Web Services offer platform-agnostic interfaces to exposed application methods, they can be simultaneously used by applications running on a variety of operating systems. For example, a Web Service running on an e-commerce server might be used to keep the CEO abreast of inventory numbers via both a Windows-based client application and a Perl script running on a Linux server that generates daily e-mails that are sent to the executive team.
Ubiquitous access: Because Web Services typically travel over HTTP, firewalls can be bypassed because port 80 (and 443 for HTTPS) traffic is almost always allowed. Although debate rages as to whether this is really prudent, for the moment it is indeed an appealing solution to the often difficult affair of firewall penetration.
Such capabilities are tantalizing to the developer. Believe it or not, as is demonstrated throughout this chapter, you can actually begin taking advantage of Web Services right now.
Ultimately, only one metric will determine the success of Web Services: acceptance. Interestingly, several global companies have already made quite a stir by offering Web Services application programming interfaces (APIs) to their treasured data stores. Among the most interesting offers include those provided by the online superstore Amazon.com, Google, and Microsoft, stirring the imagination of the programming industry with their freely available standards-based Web Services. Since their respective releases, all three implementations have sparked the imaginations of programmers worldwide, who have gained valuable experience working with a well-designed Web Services architecture plugged into an enormous amount of data.
Follow these links to learn more about these popular APIs:
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Given that the entire concept of Web Services largely sprung out of the notion that XML- and HTTP-driven applications would be harnessed to power the next generation of business-to-business applications, it's rather ironic that the first widespread implementation of the Web Services technologies happened on the end-user level. RSS solves a number of problems that both Web developers and Web users have faced for years.
All of us can relate to the considerable amount of time consumed by our daily surfing ritual. Most people have a stable of Web sites that they visit on a regular basis, and in some cases, several times daily. For each site, the process is almost identical: visit the URL, weave around a sea of advertisements, navigate to the section of interest, and finally actually read the news story. Repeat this process numerous times, and the next thing you know, a fair amount of time has passed. Furthermore, given the highly tedious process, it's easy to miss something of interest. In short, leave the process to a human and something is bound to get screwed up.
Developers face an entirely different set of problems. Once upon a time, attracting users to your Web site involved spending enormous amounts of money on prime-time commercials and magazine layouts, and throwing lavish holiday galas. Then the novelty wore off (and the cash disappeared) and those in charge of the Web sites were forced to actually produce something substantial for their site visitors. Furthermore, they had to do so while working with the constraints of bandwidth limitations, the myriad of Web-enabled devices that sprung up, and an increasingly finicky (and time-pressed) user. Enter RSS.
RSS offers a formalized means for encapsulating a Web site's content within an XML-based structure, known as a feed. It's based on the premise that most site information shares a similar format, regardless of topic. For example, although sports, weather, and theater are all vastly dissimilar topics, the news items published under each would share a very similar structure, including a title, an author, a publication date, a URL, and a description. A typical RSS feed embodies all such attributes, and often much more, forcing an adherence to a presentation-agnostic format that can in turn be retrieved, parsed, and formatted in any means acceptable to the end user, without actually having to visit the syndicating Web site. With just the feed's URL, the user can store it, along with others if he likes, into a tool that is capable of retrieving and parsing the feed, allowing the user to do as he pleases with the information. Working in this fashion, you can use RSS feeds to do the following:
- Browse the rendered feeds using a standalone RSS aggregator application. Examples o f popular aggregators include RSS Bandit ( http://www.rssbandit.org/ ), Straw ( http:/ /www.gnome.org/projects/straw/ ), and SharpReader ( http://www.sharpreader.net/ ). A screenshot of RSS Bandit is shown in Figure 20-1.
- Subscribe to any of the numerous Web-based RSS aggregators and view the feeds via a Web browser. Examples of popular online aggregators include Google Reader ( http:/ / www.google.com/reader/ ), NewsIsFree ( http://www.newsisfree.com/ ), and Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com/ ) .
- Retrieve and republish the syndicated feed as part of a third-party Web application or service. Later in this section, you'll learn how this is accomplished using the Magpie RSS class library.
Figure 20-1. The RSS Bandit interface
Believe it or not, RSS has actually officially been around since early 1999, and in previous incarnations since 1996. However, like many emerging technologies, it remained a niche tool of the "techie" community, at least until recently. The emergence and growing popularity of news aggregation sites and tools has prompted an explosion in terms of the creation and publication of RSS feeds around the Web. These days, you can find RSS feeds just about everywhere, including within these prominent organizations:
- Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/rss/
- The Christan Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/
- CNET News.com: http://www.news.com/
- Wired.com: http://feeds.wired.com/wired/topheadlines
Given the adoption of RSS in such circles, it isn't really a surprise that we're hearing so much about this great technology these days.
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If you're not familiar with the general syntax of an RSS feed, Listing 20-1 offers an example that will be used as input for the scripts that follow. Although a discussion of RSS syntax specifics is beyond the scope of this book, you'll nonetheless find the structure and tags to be quite intuitive (after all, that's why they call it Real Simple Syndication).
Listing 20-1. A Sample RSS Feed (blog.xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<title>Inside Open Source</title>
<link>http://opensource.apress.com/ </link>
<title>Killer Firefox Tip #294</title>
<link>http://opensource.apress.com/ article/190/</link>
<author>W. Jason Gilmore</author>
<description>Like most of you, I spend bunches of time downloading large
files from the Web, typically podcasts and PDF documents…</description>
<title>Beginning Ubuntu Linux wins Linux Journal Award!</title>
<link>http://opensource.apress.com/ article/189/</link>
<author>Keir Thomas</author>
<description>Woo hoo! My book, Beginning Ubuntu Linux, has won an award
in the Linux Journal Editor's Choice 2006 awards!
More precisely…</description>
<title>Forms Validation with CakePHP</title>
<link>http://opensource.apress.com/ article/188/</link>
<author>W. Jason Gilmore</author>
<description>Neglecting to validate user input is akin to foregoing
any defensive
gameplan for containing the NFL's leading rusher. Chances are
sooner or later…</description>
This example doesn't take advantage of all available RSS elements. For instance, other feeds might contain elements describing the feed's update interval, language, and creator. However, for the purposes of the examples found in this chapter, it makes sense to remove those components that have little bearing on instruction.
Now that you're a bit more familiar with the purpose and advantages of RSS, you'll next learn how to use PHP to incorporate RSS into your own development strategy. Although there are numerous RSS tools written for the PHP language, one in particular offers an amazingly effective solution for retrieving, parsing, and displaying feeds: MagpieRSS.
Please check back next week for the continuation of this article.


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DailyDirt: Who Needs Dinosaurs Anyway?
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- An impact event that left a 110-mile-wide crater off the Yucatan coast of Mexico is most likely the cause of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. That impact happened 66 million years ago, and it took a couple of million years for the ocean biosphere to recover its diversity afterwards. [url]
- A mass extinction occurring over 200 million years ago might have had a few contributing factors -- perhaps bacteria (aka methanosarcina) produced a world-changing amount of methane? Volcanoes might have also been a contributing factor, too, but we may never really be certain what actually happened that many millions of years ago. [url]
- We're headed for another mass extinction event, and the 'Sixth Great Extinction' is probably already underway. Species are dying off at a rate that's over 100 times higher than 'normal' -- are we only concerned when the next 'great extinction' also includes humans? [url]


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The WLC approach towards business management – An unbiased review
The buzz among business enthusiasts is that every professional educational program will combine basics of business management in near future. That means; one must have clear conception on commercial orientation of things to succeed in any chosen field like in management, engineering, computer science, film making or others. Moreover, several companies are likely to employ group of specialist business managers (instead of all rounder managers) to handle specific issues in a business. All these are clear indications of the fact that study of business is not only growing in importance, but also requires a different approach in learning. It needs a careful tracking on international or cross-border business and incorporation of fresh contents and activities in business courses keeping in tune with those changing scenario. The WLC College, which is counted as one of the top b schools India, follows a unique approach towards management education with frequent up-gradations of curriculum and others. Let's check out some key features of its business courses.
Although it's a well-known fact that business is a practical subject, yet there are very few management colleges which can properly implement practical training facilities for their students. In business management, you have to make plans and implement things in reality. It is not all about making plans only. Even great business plans can fail considerably due to improper implementations. Unless you get the chance to practice your managerial skills, you can't help them to grow. The WLC College leads by examples here. It offers traineeship programs with all its courses. That means; students get the opportunity to experience real ambience of the industry from the very beginning of a course. You can tally the happenings of professional field with the theoretical knowledge that you gained from text books. Every problem has a unique solution in business. So, you need to develop proper analytical skills, analyze each problem individually, and find proper innovative solutions to it. Here state of the art infrastructure of WLC College and proper mentoring from industry-experienced teachers can pay dividends for students of business management.
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Phil has extensive experience in pay per click advertising, search engine optimization, sales conversion optimization, and lead generation for both B2B and B2C markets. Over the years, Phil has created and managed hundreds of successful direct-response online advertising campaigns using proven analytics and landing page optimization techniques.
Prior to working with Growthink, Phil managed a one million dollar Pay Per Click advertising budget for an affiliate marketing business. He tracked ROI down to the exact keyword level across multiple ad outlets like Google, Yahoo, and MSN/Bing, which allowed him to maintain a 30% overall profit margin. In addition to detailed tracking, Phil also continually optimized the ad campaigns by split testing ad text and landing page design/layout.
Phil's first Growthink project was to re-design the website in order to streamline the lead generation and Search Engine Optimization efforts. Once the website was live, he then developed a custom marketing automation and lead nurturing system for Growthink's sales team and centralized project management to a single platform.
Currently, Phil helps clients (and Growthink itself) with their online advertising. In the past year he has profitably scaled Growthink Publishing's advertising budget by 1,300% and this business unit is now on pace to generate more than one million per year in profit from his advertising campaigns alone.
When Phil is not working, he enjoys running "barefoot" (he wears minimalistic shoes since his wife no longer lets him run totally barefoot) in Central Park in New York City. He also is a member of the Determination running team where he raises money for the American Cancer Society by running road races in NYC.
Phil earned his Master of Engineering Management degree from Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business and his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Engineering degrees from Dartmouth College.


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Hey guys,
I have been playing tennis for a while now on and off. I maintain a pretty solid 3.5 but play better once i get in the groove with someone that is better. Currently i play with my dad a few times a week but its just good for a workout : D
I enjoy tennis and it's a great workout. So if you want to play once or twice a week hit me up. I live in Maitland and have a court in my complex at Visconti. I am open to play in other areas too, I work downtown Orlando so lets make this happen.
I get off work around 7pm during the week and can play anytime on the weekends. Let's make this happen!
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Hey I live close to UCF and would love to hit. Can you hit tonight or tomorrow? im available any time. 815-540-6256. im about 4.5-5.0 looking for consistent people to hit with and work on a few things.
Hey Jordan- Sorry for the delayed response man. I did not get an email notification for a response to my discussion,
You seem like you are actually really good. You mention you are going to play in a few opens and what not. Don't think I have played with anyone at your level. When I lived in Los Angeles i played with a few people off this site but never a 5.0. I guess it could be worth a shot right? ha
Whats your schedule like the rest of this weekend? You are over the UCF area and i am in Maitland. Is there a place in between us that we could play at?
Hey Rick,
Do you know of any courts in between lake nona and maitland? I am right off the 4 on the maitland exit. Let me know if you know of a place to play at. I am sure there are plenty of free courts around. I live in a complex that has a court if you are interested.
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