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This feature appears every week on the Baltimore Sports Blitz. It's just like "What They're Saying About the Ravens," but it includes blogger Matt Vensel saying something about what those people are saying. Got it?
--- ESPN's Jamison Hensley doesn't see the need for injured linebacker Ray Lewis to rush back to the field.
"Do the Ravens really need Lewis to rush back? The play of the Ravens' defense says no," Hensley wrote. "With Lewis, the Ravens went 5-1 and allowed 19.6 points per game. Without him, Baltimore has a 4-1 record and has given up 20.2 points per game. … [The Ravens] are leading the Steelers and Bengals by three games with five weeks remaining. The defense has found its groove in the red zone, not allowing a touchdown inside its 20-yard line in the past four games. There really is no need for Lewis to be a medical miracle."
Matt's take: Lewis didn't look like the same player we have seen for 16 years -- and understandably so -- before he got injured this season, and I'm not just talking about his weight loss. Linebackers Dannell Ellerbe and Jameel McClain have played well with Lewis rehabbing his torn triceps, though the improvement of the Ravens defense isn't solely correlated with Lewis being out. His leadership and savvy will benefit the Ravens, but he should make sure he is healthy enough to make an impact before he returns because a 37-year-old linebacker with one good arm would be a liability.
--- Jim Reineking of NFL.com says that Ray Rice's play on 4th and 29 will be one of the most memorable plays of 2012.
"The play could go down in NFL lore as 'Hey diddle diddle, Ray Rice up the middle' unless, of course, somebody comes up with a moniker more amazing. The fourth-and-29 conversion at the game's most crucial moment will go down as one of the most amazing in Ravens history and will be one of this season's signature plays," he wrote. "Down 13-10 to the San Diego Chargers at their own 37-yard line with 1:37 left to play, the Ravens got an unbelievable play in the seemingly impossible situation. Rice turned a short check-down pass into a 29-yard gain, keeping alive a drive that ultimately ended with the tying field goal attempt."
Matt's take: I've already gushed about the play plenty the past two days, and I know I'm not the only one. But there was an exception: How did ESPN have a cookie-cutter NBA dunk ahead of this on its Top 10 list? Those are a dime a dozen. Rice's play was unique.
--- Clark Judge of CBS Sports said Anquan Boldin's block on Rice's remarkable catch-and-run was Sunday's best block.
"The best block of the afternoon wasn't by an offensive lineman," he wrote. "It was by the Ravens' Anquan Boldin on San Diego safety Eric Weddle, a shot that helped spring Rice to that improbable fourth-down conversion."
Matt's take: Boldin knocked Weddle out of the game with that hit, which Ravens coach John Harbaugh said was as good a block as you will see. And he pointed out Monday that he thought it was legal. Either way, you couldn't pay me enough money to stand in there and take a hit like the one Boldin dished out Sunday.
--- Peter King of Sports Illustrated named rookie kicker Justin Tucker his special teams player of the week.
"Big deal. A 38-yard field goal. Or two. Well, I say it is a big deal. The Ravens trailed 13-10 in San Diego with four seconds left when Tucker, the rookie free agent from the University of Texas, came on and kicked a 38-yard field goal to send the game to overtime. Then, with 67 seconds left in overtime, he trotted out for another 38-yarder. Drilled the game-winner too. No doubt about either one, both straight down Broadway. The Ravens, who will be playing in January, look to have a playoff-caliber kicker they won't have to worry about in the big spots."
Matt's take: Tucker has made more 50-yarders (four) than he has missed field goals (two), but his clutch kicks Sunday once again proved that this rookie won't be rattled. If he keeps it up, he will be here for a long time.
--- John Eisenberg of BaltimoreRavens.com says the Ravens can't let up, even if they clinch on Sunday.
"While the division title is all but wrapped up, the Ravens are seeking one of the top two seeds in the AFC field, which would give them a first-round bye and second-round home game -- things that, let's face it, they could really use," he wrote. "They're currently situated one game ahead of both the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots in that race, so there's little room for error. It's funny, December isn't even here and the Ravens' fifth-straight trip to the playoffs, a sizable achievement, is already all but certain. But they can't rest."
Matt's take: Exactly. If they handle their business over the next five weeks, the Ravens can rest the first week of January as they watch the first round of the playoffs from their sofas. Sure, they have won three road games in a row, but they need to make it easier on themselves with a bye and a second-round home game. And if the Ravens can somehow host the AFC championship game, not too many people will bet against them.


text: The J. Howard Nichols collection contains forty-seven letters from Dr. David Nutting and his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Nichols) Nutting, written between 1859 and 1891 to her brother, John Howard. Most of the letters were written while the couple were missionaries in Kurdistan. Topics include information about the four children that she had while in Turkey (Annie, Nellie, Mary, and Freddie). A diary written by John Howard Nichols while visiting his sister describes the family's life and the environment in which they lived.The collection also includes twenty-one letters from David and Mattie Boynton (Nichols' other sister), written in Haverhill, Massachusetts, between 1860 and 1869. Most of the letters are from Mattie. She mainly discusses family news. She also mentions some political items related to the Civil War. She mentions Nichols giving money to their mother without the knowledge of their father, and that their mother takes in boarders to support herself. Other family letters are from Nichols's daughters, Grace and Eleanor Nichols, written in 1885-1886 and 1894. Grace wrote from in school in France, and one letter was written while she was a student at Smith College.

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If you're reading Inhabitots, then it's likely you're on board with a holiday that doesn't include toxic, unsafe toys. However, maybe you're not sure which toys are the most eco-friendly, non-toxic, safe and still fun. Not only is there a ton of toy greenwashing out there, but just because a toy is green, doesn't make it an appropriate toy for your particular child. There's a lot to consider. Luckily we've got some tips about you can keep this, and every holiday safe, fun and eco-friendly.
Develop Your Own Green Toy Criteria
What's green and safe to one is not so green or safe to another. For example, some green parents would never buy the Legos shown above due to plastics and non-green Lego company practices. However, some green parents do like Legos due to their reuse value. These are issues to think about. You really need to develop your own eco-toy criteria, which can help you make safe green choices all season long. For example, if you buy a stuffed animal do you want it to be made with 100% organic cotton or is recycled conventional cotton good enough? FTC certified wood may be optimal, but then again, any hard wood may be better than toxic plywood. Is lead-free important to you? How about non-toxic paints, recycled packaging and green company ethics? Will you purchase toys made only in the USA or are you okay with ethical, but out of country companies? It's best to decide up front how much all these issues matter to you. Make a short list then stick to it as you shop, so you can feel good about your purchases.
Avoid Toxic Toys
If you're not sure how to start searching for less toxic toys, then visit HealthyStuff.org. They offer test results for over 8,300 products, many of them toys. The test data reflects over 20,000 individual samples of different product components and chemical compositions, and HealthyStuff.org applies a toy safety rating to each toy depending on their findings. This is a great way to find out if that block set your child wants contains cadmium, chlorine, lead, arsenic, bromine or mercury and, if so, can help you choose safer toys. You also may want to check out the annual "10 Worst Toys" List by W.A.T.C.H.
Buy Local
Local and handmade toys are a great green choice during the holiday season. When you buy local you not only support local families and local economy but you skip shipping emissions too. Other perks of locally owned toy stores include a wider, more unique variety of toys. Plus, usually greener toys, such as organic, recycled, wooden, electronic-free and other healthy toys reign supreme at local shops. You get to see toys before you buy and you can talk directly to passionate toy store staff. Lastly, returns to local shops are much easier (and also produce fewer emissions) than returning toys to an online shop. If you do buy online, try to visit smaller, personalized green shops that offset shipping emissions.
Buy Fair Trade Toys
Giant toy manufacturers and retailers spend a lot of money trying to get you to buy their toys, yet, many of the large toy companies also pay workers in other countries much less than a living wage, in horrid working conditions, to create said toys. In many cases children from other countries are being forced to make the toys your child may play with – not a recipe for a very jolly holiday. The Toys of Misery via the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights points out some of the problems of non-Fair-Trade companies. If you want to buy sweatshop-free toys, look to the National Green Pages to locate ethical companies. You can also visit Fair Trade Finder or download the Fair Trade Finder app.
Read Labels & Register Toys
Past research shows that one of the biggest mistakes parents make is not reading toy labels, thus giving an age-inappropriate toy to a young child. Each year over 180,000 children visit the hospital or ER due to toy related injuries and too many of kids' injuries are related to children choking on toys, such as marbles, magnets and other small toys meant for older kids. Always read the label to make sure a toy is suitable for your child's age and abilities. Especially if the toy is a gift – I can't remember how many times non-parent friends of mine gave my son a toy that was way too old and inappropriate for him. Additionally, be sure to fill out every toy registration card. This may seem like a hassle, but if there's a recall, and you filled out your card, the company should contact you. Just in case, a company fails to contact you though, this is the perfect time of year to sign up for free toy recall information via email.
Buy Used Toys Carefully
Used toys, consignment shops and thrift stores are awesome because they encourage reuse and green living practices. However, you do need to shop for used toys carefully. A 2003 report showed that as many as 63% of thrift stores, at the time, were selling hazardous items, items that failed current safety standards or recalled items. It's officially against the law to sell a recalled product, toy or otherwise, but of course, some products slip through the cracks. To combat any unsafe used toys, check with CPSC or the toy manufacturer to make sure a thrift store toy hasn't been recalled before you give the toy to a child.
Plan a Less Commercial Holiday
If you want an easier time choosing toys then plan for a less commercial, less excessive holiday. First of all, excess stuff is not eco-friendly. Second of all, kids don't need piles of gifts to make the season merry. In fact, overspending on your kids may be detrimental to their well-being. In this country, we're very good at excessive holidays. In 2011, consumers spent $816 million online alone on Black Friday, not counting what folks spent in stores, making it the heaviest shopping day of the year. According to ComScore, Cyber Monday 2011 was the biggest online spending day in history, with revenues of $1.25 billion in the U.S. The National Retail Federation says that the average American spent around $700+ on holiday shopping in 2011, and these figures regard individuals, not whole families. Additionally, Consumer Reports points out that about 14.1 million adults are carrying debt from the last holiday season. This is spending madness that needs to end.
This season make it a point to celebrate family time and activity vs. gifts galore. Sure buy your child a few green gifts, but don't over-do it. It's better to choose a few very special green gifts vs. a mountain of toys, especially when you're dealing with eco-friendly toys, which often cost more than conventional toys. Research shows that many parents buy kids excess stuff to make up for time they don't spend with them. Don't do that this year. Plan fun winter activities like cookie baking and family game night to round out the season and make it special. Your kids don't need a commercial holiday to have a good time and you don't need the stress of all that debt.
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Carol Keegan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We are a sourcing company with high emphasis on converting exisitng customer product over to a more sustainable product thru the use of alternative materials and/or offsetting with "Renewable Energy Certificates."
We want to provide our customers competitively priced, high quality product, with a carbon neutral footprint.
We want a company logo which demonstrates extreme Confidence and Competence.
Partners have 35 years manufacturing and import experience.
Past customers include many Fortune 500 companies.
Professional attitudes.
Try to convey this message said by Thomas L Friedman: "When you drill inside yourself or your own company or your own community for more sustainable ways to power the future, all kinds of good things start to happen."
- Fresh
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Report Shows Fox News Is Wrong About Green Jobs
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A Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report released Tuesday finds that green jobs grew four times faster in 2011* than jobs in other sectors, continuing a trend of rapid growth in the U.S. But Fox News is still pushing the narrative that investing in clean energy is a "boondoggle."
The U.S. added more than 150,000 green jobs in 2011, including more than 100,000 construction jobs and 14,000 manufacturing jobs. In total, the green sector now employs more than 3.4 million workers in the U.S. The following chart shows that green jobs in the private sector increased in nearly every category in 2011:
This is not a new trend: the Brookings Institution previously found that the clean economy added half a million jobs between 2003 and 2010, and that clean tech jobs grew "more than twice as fast as the rest of the economy" during that period.
As the Los Angeles Times noted, the recent growth in green jobs "parallels a surge in public and private money" invested in clean energy in 2011.
Nevertheless, Fox News continues to distort the facts in an effort to portray government investments in clean energy as a waste of money. Fox News' Brit Hume claimed in 2011 that the Obama administration's green investments have "utterly failed to produce meaningful jobs." Last month, the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes claimed on Fox News that "we haven't seen many gains" from these investments. Just this week, Neil Cavuto said on his Fox Business show that Obama's green initiatives have "not had the big tangible jobs bang for the buck that you would think."
Faced with clear evidence that clean energy investments are paying off, will Fox change its tune?
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Let's Riff on Ripper – Act 3, Part 4
Witness the stunning conclusion to this chilling cyber-murder mystery! Have you figured out who the Ripper is? Find out!
Witness the stunning conclusion to this chilling cyber-murder mystery! Have you figured out who the Ripper is? Find out!
With special guest star John Rhys-Davies!
The conspiracy behind the rage monkey uprising is revealed at last! PUZZLE NOTE: The Berman puzzle requires you to find a matched set of three barcodes, not two matched pairs. My bad!
With Farley dead and evidence of the crime sprayed all over our hero, how will Quinlan convince the police that he's not the Ripper?
Quinlan discovers that the Ripper case may be much bigger than a series of simple murders, when a shocking revelation brings to light a looming threat that could spell the doom of mankind!
The plot thickens and the puzzles cheapen!
What will Quinlan and Falconetti find when they hack their computers into Catherine's brain? Who will the Ripper rip next? Will Quinlan ever hit that huge funky leather jacket with some Febreeze?
Quinlan ransacks Burgess Meredith's house for vacuum tubes, and begins the search for Joey Falconetti, the outlaw brain surgeon! Will he succeed, or will the appearance of the dreaded Cyber-Walken spell his doom?


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How to Find a Injection Molding Companies in Maria Stein ?
Whether the fabricator's store is large or small, the Ironworker is the backbone. The Ironworker isn't a single machine; it is five machines united into an engineering wonder. It has much more versatility than most people would imagine. The five working sections that are involved in the make-up of this machine are a punch, a section shear, a bar shear, a plate shear, and a coper-notcher.
A number of the cheaper ironworkers are constructed to employ a fulcrum where the ram shakes back and forth, making the punch go into the die at a small angle. This normally leads to the eroding of the punch and die on the front rims. The higher quality machines integrate a ram which moves in a direct vertical line and employs modifiable gibs and guidebooks to ensure a constant traveling path.
When you look for a End of Arm Tooling (EOAT) that develop a Injection Molding Companies in Maria Stein, looks for experience and not only pricing.
That devotes more life to the tooling, and allows the punch to penetrate the succumb right in the middle in order to capitalize on the machine's total tonnage.
When looking for a design house that designs a Injection Molding Companies in Maria Stein don't look just in Ohio , other States also have great providers.
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Sprinklers may get bent or broken by accident. Most of them are made from hard materials that do not get damaged easily but accidents do happen. Broken Arm Spring can be repaired by, pulling the fulcrum pin with a diagonal or side cutting pilers. You should press the pin in the body and it should come out when pulled.
Please go on performing as we suggest, hold the arm in your hand such that the cup part of the spoon facing you and spoon end of arm pointed to your right, now feed end of spring into the hole which is on your right then on through the hole on the left from the back side. Now look end of spring pointing towards you. Let's bend over end near about half with the help pf needle needle node pilers.
The length of spring is normally more than required. Hold arm with spoon end pointing toward you looking down on top of arm. Now cut off the tag end of the spring at the center line of the arm. Now install arm in the body. With the help of hammer drive fulcrum pin into lower hole. Pull arm around as far as it will go, away from nozzle and feed upper end of spring into the hole that is at a distance from the nozzle. Now feed through the other hole so it extends about "1/8" and bend this extended spring end over sharply to clinch. Rain Bird distributors and dealers provide Arm weights for some sprinklers model in order to maintain proper spring tension.
Today, we're announcing Dart 2, a reboot of the language to embrace our vision of Dart: as a language uniquely optimized for client-side development for web and mobile.
With Dart 2, we've dramatically strengthened and streamlined the type system, cleaned up the syntax, and rebuilt much of the developer tool chain from the ground up to make mobile and web development more enjoyable and productive. Dart 2 also incorporates lessons learned from early adopters of the language including Flutter, AdWords, and AdSense, as well as thousands of improvements big and small in response to customer feedback.
Dart's Core Tenets
Before we talk more about the advances in Dart 2, it's worth identifying why we believe Dart is well positioned for the needs of client-side developers.
In addition to the attributes necessary for a modern, general purpose language, client-side development benefits from a language that is:
- Productive. Syntax must be clear and concise, tooling simple, and dev cycles near-instant and on-device.
- Fast. Runtime performance and startup must be great and predictable even on small mobile devices.
- Portable. Client developers have to think about three platforms today: iOS, Android, and Web. The language needs to work well on all of them.
- Approachable. The language can't stray too far from the familiar if it wishes to be relevant for millions of developers.
- Reactive. A reactive style of programming should be supported by the language.
Dart has been used to ship many high-quality, mission-critical applications on the web, iOS, and Android at Google and elsewhere and is a great fit for mobile and web development:
- Dart increases developer velocity because it has a clear, succinct syntax and is able to run on a VM with a JIT compiler. The latter allows for stateful hot reload during mobile development, resulting in super fast dev cycles, where you can edit code, compile and replace in the running app on the device.
- With its ability to efficiently compile to native code ahead of time, Dart provides predictable, high performance and fast startup on mobile devices.
- Dart supports compilation to native code (ARM, x86, etc.) for fast mobile performance as well as transpilation to efficient JavaScript for the web.
- Dart is approachable to many existing developers, thanks to its unsurprising object-oriented aspects and syntax that — according to our users— allows any C++, C#, Objective-C, or Java developer to be productive in a matter of days.
- Dart works well for reactive programming with its battle-hardened core libraries, including streams and futures; it also has great support for managing short-lived objects through its fast generational garbage collector.
Dart 2: Better Client-Side Development
In Dart 2, we've taken further steps to solidify Dart as a great language for client-side development. In particular, we've added several new features including strong typing and improving how UI is defined as code.
Strong, Sound Typing
The teams behind AdWords and AdSense have built some of Google's largest and most advanced web apps with Dart to manage the ads that are bringing in a large share of Google's revenue. From working closely with these teams, we identified a big opportunity to strengthen Dart's type system. This helps Dart developers catch bugs earlier in the development process, better scale to apps built by large teams, and increase overall code quality.
This isn't unique, of course. In the broader web ecosystem, there's also a growing trend towards adding type annotations to JavaScript. For example, TypeScript and Flow both extend JavaScript with type annotations and inference to improve the ability to analyze code.
In the small example below, Dart 2's type inference helps uncover a somewhat subtle error and as result, helps improve overall code quality.
What does this code do? You could reasonably expect that it would print '27'. But without Dart 2's sound type system enabled it prints '10000', because that happens to be the least element in the list of strings when ordered lexicographically. With Dart 2, however, this code will give a type error.
UI as Code
When creating UI, having to switch between a separate UI markup language and the programming language that you're writing your app in often leads to frustration. We're striving to make the definition of UI as code a delightful experience to dramatically reduce the need for this context switching. Dart 2 introduces optional new and const. This much-requested feature is very valuable on its own, and also sets the direction for other things to come. For example, with optional new and const we can clean up the definition of a UI widget so that it doesn't use a single keyword.
Client-Side Uses of Dart
One of the most significant uses of Dart is for Flutter, Google's new mobile UI framework to craft high-quality native interfaces for iOS and Android. The official app for the hugely popular show Hamilton: The Musical is an example of what Flutter is enabling developers to build in record time. Flutter uses a reactive programming style and controls the entire UI pixel by pixel. For Flutter, Dart fits the bill in terms of ease of learning, reactive programming, great developer velocity, and a high-performance runtime system with a fast garbage collector.
Dart is a proven platform for mission-critical web applications. It has web-specific libraries like dart:html along with a full Dart-based web framework. Teams using Dart for web development have been thrilled with the improvements in developer velocity. As Manish Gupta, VP of Engineering for Google AdWords, explains:The AdWords front-end is large and complex, and is critical to the majority of Google's revenue.We picked Dart because of the great combination of perf and predictability, ease of learning, a sound type system, and web and mobile support.Our engineers are two to three times more productive than before, and we're delighted we switched.
Moving Forward
With Flutter and Dart, developers finally have the opportunity to write production-quality apps for Android, iOS, and the web with no compromises, using a shared codebase. As a result, team members can fluidly move between platforms and help each other with, e.g., code reviews. So far, we have seen teams like AdWords Express and AppTree share between 50% and 70% of their code across mobile and web.
Dart is an open source project and an open ECMA standard. We welcome contributions to both the Dart core project and the ever growing ecosystem of packages for Dart.
You can try out Dart 2 in Flutter and the Dart SDK from the command line. For the Dart SDK, get the latest Dart 2 pre-release from the dev channel and make sure to run your code with the --preview-dart-2 flag. We also invite you to join our community on gitter.
With the improvements announced today, Dart 2 is a productive, clean, battle-tested language that addresses the challenges of modern app development. It's already loved by some of the most demanding developers on the planet, and we hope you'll love it too.
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\"There is a tragic end to all living things,\" says Pimco\'s Bill Gross in his latest investment outlook.
No, the fixed-income money manager is not talking about the bond market. He is referring to his cat, whose feminine grace earned her the name \"Bob\" in the Gross household. And it sounds like the kitty\'s daddy has good reason to be upset: Bob was a prized stock picker.
Gross remembers fondly: \"I often asked her about her recommendations for pet food stocks, and she frequently responded – one meow for \'no,\' two meows for a \'you bet.\' She was less certain about interest rates, but then it never hurt to ask.\"
In the absence of his trusty companion, Gross appears to be trudging on, and he\'s untangling the complexities of today\'s bond market without Bob\'s help.
The topic of the month is asset pricing and volatility. Gross notes that the yield investors receive on their securities per unit of duration is very low at the moment. That means investors have to either extend their duration, a measure of sensitivity to interest rates, to get more yield, or lower their duration even further. So what does he suggest investors buy?
\"PIMCO recommends overweighting credit and to a lesser extent volatility and curve. Underweight duration. Although credit spreads are tight, they are not as compressed as interest rates, which are now in the process of normalization. While PIMCO agrees with Janet Yellen that such normalization will be a long time coming (the 12th of Never?), probabilities suggest that as the Fed completes its Taper, the 5–30 year bonds that it has been buying will have to be sold at higher yields to entice the private sector back in.\"
Whether that\'s enough to outperform his competitors remains to be seen. Gross\'s flagship Pimco Total Return Fund underperformed 95% of peers in March, and continued to bleed assets. Investors pulled $3.1 billion from the fund last month, in the 11th consecutive month of outflows. The firm has been in the center of controversy following reports that tensions between Gross and former CEO Mohamed El-Erian led to his resignation in January.
But perhaps Bob will help turn things around in her remaining eight lives. Says Gross: \"She was always more certain about pet food stocks, but then maybe kitty heaven has given her some additional insight. I shall have to ask her in my dreams. Sometimes dreams come true you know.\"
Some readers were less than optimistic on Twitter:
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SoFla craft breweries: Hops, barley and tropical fruits
Craft breweries slowly bring the beer revolution to South Florida. As of this summer, 922 craft breweries were operating in the United States, according to the Brewers Association. South Florida is home to three of them. Due South, Tequesta and Schnebly breweries are the only companies in the area to produce and distribute their craft beer, unlike brewpubs, which just serve their frothy concoctions in-house. The three differ in brewing style and atmosphere, and though they all have tasting rooms set up for guests, their products are available at bars and brewpubs throughout the tricounty area. Click on SunSentinel.com/breweries for video tours of the breweries. -- Maria Murriel Follow @mariamurriel on Twitter, Instagram and Untappd.
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After one of the most amazing finishes of the NASCAR year on Saturday the Sprint Cup drivers took to the track. The race started on time, but the drivers had to avoid the big one and rain that was forecasted to fall sometime in the afternoon.
The race started off with cars getting three wide right out of the gates. Then at lap 3 it was two wide racing up front. Martin Truex Jr. started out leading the race and then Matt Kenseth got up front to the race lead. At lap 7 it was single wide racing up front. At lap 20 it was unscheduled pit stop time for Dale Earnhardt Jr. as he wound up with some damage from a hit with Travis Kvapil. The first caution though came out at lap 22 as Trevor Bayne and his car was smoking big time.
Most of the leaders pitted and Denny Hamlin made a change in drivers over to Brian Vickers. Nine cars though stayed out at least a lap before pitting. The race restarted with Matt Kenseth in the race lead. After a small bunch of laps it was major wreck time as Kyle Busch helps Kasey Kahne spins out. Then they both help take out the Denny Hamlin car, Casey Mears, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle, Marcos Ambrose, Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, David Reutimann, Jeff Burton, and more.
"I'm all right", said Kyle Busch. He also stated he wanted to go on the outside, but before he could do it he wound up wrecking him(Kasey Kahne).
"I'm fine," said Kasey Kahne.
As the cars pitted a bunch of cars took four tires just to be safe.
The race restarted again with Matt Kenseth leading the race. Ryan Newman though got hot and took over the race lead. Than at lap 59 Matt Kenseth was back to the race lead as the race started to move to long single line of cars up front. At lap 88 the first round of green flag pit stop stops started. At lap 90 the cars in the top five pitted. After the pit stops were over Matt Kenseth was back to leading the race.
Rain at this time was close to the track as the pit stops were occurring.
As the green flag racing continued it was one long single line of cars with Matt just logging laps as the leader. With around 72 laps left the cars up front started to go two wide and Jimmie Johnson took over the race lead. After a few more laps Ricky Stenhouse Jr. with a couple of more Ford cars too over the race lead. Then Carl Edwards took over the race lead as the caution came out for rain. At the time of the caution it was close to a second round of green flag pit stops.
At lap 125 the cars stopped on pit road and tarps got to be put on tops of the cars as we went to a red flag condition around 3:18 PM. The rain delay even with the new Titan drying system took over 3 hours and 30 minutes before they could get back to racing. The Juan Pablo Montoya car though had trouble restarting and went behind the wall to get it started again.
When the pit road finally opened cars came down for service with Joey Logano winning the race off pit road. Kurt Busch and a few other cars stayed out, but over the next few laps some of them start pitting.
With 58 laps left the race finally restarted and Bobby Labonte was leading the race while it was three wide in the back. After a few laps Matt Kenseth got the lead back. Then the high line with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at the front of it started to get hot.
With 45 laps left the car Joey Logano was driving went south and then it got single file up front. A second group of cars a few seconds back started to go to the low side in the corners and caught the lead pack with 30 laps left. With 22 laps left Matt Kenseth a bunch of other cars pit. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Martin Truex Jr. both picked up a penalty for entering pit road too fast on pit road. After the pit stops were over Jimmie Johnson was the race leader. The caution finally came out with 15 laps left as Michael McDowell smacked the wall.
This caution brought only a few cars down pit road for service. The race restarted with 10 laps left with Jimmie Johnson leading the race. With 8 laps left Regan Smith made it three wide with a monster move to pass a bunch a bunch of cars to take the race lead. Then with six laps left the second big one occurred that was wilder than the first. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. tries to go four wide, but J.J Yeley got hit and then took out Kurt Busch who went in the air and landed on the car on Ryan Newman. Bobby Labonte, Martin Truex Jr., Jamie McMurray, Danica Patrick, and more got damage from this wreck.
"I was trying to win the race," said J.J. Yeley. "Got hit in the right rear corner."
"That is no way to tend the race," said Ryan Newman.
This brought out the green-white-checkered finish and the only one NASCAR is going to use. Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards started out leading the final two laps. Then on the final lap David Ragan with help from his teammate David Gilliland got hooked up for the push of their careers to take the race lead. They were so fast they both wound up passing Carl and Matt. They both survived to finish one-two to give Front Row Racing its first win ever in NASCAR.
"This is a true David vs. Goliath moment here," said David Ragan.
"What a great day for Front Row Motorsports," said David Gilliland. His second place finish is the best of his career.
"Disappointing ending to the day," said Matt Kenseth who finished eighth.


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Some delectable news for all ColdFusion fans – especially, if you haven't visited the Adobe Cookbooks page lately.
The Adobe Cookbooks application now has a dedicated ColdFusion Cookbook serving ColdFusion code recipes. And in less than two months, we've already crossed over a hundred recipes.
The ColdFusion Cookbook now makes it simple as ever to browse, view, and search for ColdFusion code recipes. If you don't find a code recipe that you're looking for, you can just request for that recipe. With the combined knowledge of the ColdFusion community and experts, it shouldn't be long before the recipe you requested for is dished up.
To create or request a recipe, all you need is a valid Adobe ID. If you don't have one, please take a few moments to register. To know additional details about the new Adobe Cookbooks application, read through this post in The ADC Blog.
So, here's urging every ColdFusion developer out there to participate in this community application – be it by contributing, requesting, commenting, or rating the code recipes. As always, we greatly appreciate each and everyone's participation!
Akbarsait pointed out that there's another contest running to encourage cookbook contributions – and once a target of 200 contributions is reached, there's going to be another drawing, with yet another chance to win more prizes! Details of the contest at Akbarsait's blog: http://bit.ly/CFCBContest
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Barely a parking space could be found Tuesday night outside Pine Valley Church where the town held a benefit dinner for Dylan Redwine, the 13-year-old who has been missing since Nov. 19.
Organizers estimated more than 800 people attended the spaghetti dinner, silent auction and raffle, an impressive number made all the more remarkable considering the towns population hovers around 2,000.
I dont even have a word for it, said Denise Hess, a close friend of the Redwines who helped organize the event. Amazing. Phenomenally amazing.
A handful of organizers pulled together the event in about a week, soliciting donations of food, drinks, products and services from across the county.
Local business owners responded in full force, donating more than 200 items including gift baskets for silent auction, a $350 watch that was raffled off, meat for the spaghetti dinner and 500 pieces of bread.
One of the unofficial head cooks for the event, who didnt want to give her name, said she spent 48 hours cooking pasta. An Ignacio restaurant owner spent her only day off making 820 meatballs.
Elaine Redwine, Dylans mother, was at the dinner and Cory Redwine, Dylans 21-year-old brother, flew in from Colorado Springs.
Im flabbergasted to see all the people here; theyve blown my mind, Cory Redwine said. Sometimes its hard being in a small community, but in moments like this, its awesome.
Organizers didnt have a final tally of proceeds when the event came to a close, but Hess said all the money will go to the Find Dylan Redwine Fund. Nothing has been taken out of the fund yet, but Hess said it could be used for anything from hiring private investigators to offering a higher reward for Dylans return.
Whatever it takes to bring him home, she said.
The event was bittersweet for many of Dylans friends.
Its hard that such a good event is being held for a very sad cause, said Chris Kane, an eighth-grader at Bayfield Middle School who remembered spending summers hanging out at the river with Dylan.
Another friend, Caitlyn Phillips, had mixed emotions as well.
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Talk:How to avoid overlapping intervals with PostgreSQL
From PostgreSQL wiki
The concurrency problem here is the usual one; the code is trying to check for the presence of conflicting rows even though those rows may not yet be visible in the current session. Rhodiumtoad 01:55, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In version 9.1 or later, concurrency problems could be avoided by using the serializable transaction isolation level. (The triggers would need to check for that to be safe.) In version 9.0 or later, though, a far better way to implement this is with exclusion constraints. Kevin Grittner


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The Official Art Deco Walking Tour by the Miami Design Preservation League
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This 1 1/2 to 2 hour walking tour provides an introduction to the Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern (MiMo) styles found within the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District. Explore hotels, restaurants, and other commercial structures with a visit to a number of interiors. All tours are $30 and the Senior, Student, Military, and Child discount only apply to the regular 10:30 AM daily tour and Thursday 6:30 PM tour. If you don't see your date listed here, you can purchase your ticket in person at the Welcome Center on the day of the tour - please arrive 15 minutes before to provide ample time for purchasing your ticket.
Tours depart from the Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, on the following schedule:
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Last year HTC released a huge amount of Android devices -- something like 387,000, if our math is right. (We kid.) Looks like that'll change in 2012. HTC UK chief Phil Roberson has told Mobile Magazine that this year the Taiwanese manufacturer plans to focus on a smaller number of device models instead of sheer quantity.
"We (HTC) have to get back to focusing on what made us great - amazing hardware and a great customer experience. We ended 2011 with far more products than we started out with. We tried to do too much. So 2012 is about giving our customers something special. We need to make sure we do not go so far down the line that we segment our products by launching lots of different SKUs."
In addition to slowing down on their device launches, HTC has said that it will not focus on tablets so that they can continue their focus on device quality. HTC has not played a large role in the tablet market so far with only a few released such as the HTC Flyer and the HTC EVO View 4G and the wildly overpriced (though that was AT&T's fault) Jetstream.
The quality over quantity is an approach that we can definitely appreciate, and Motorola's said it's going down this path as well. While we are still unsure as to how many devices HTC plans to announce and release this year -- we'll see more in a few week at Mobile World Congress -- but we like the idea of knowing that the device will not find itself obsolete in just a month or two when an upgraded model is released.
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Jonathan Derby needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
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From: Muranyi, Arpad ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 14:22:13 PDT
There is one thing that doesn't get mentioned in this discussion.
Even if your TDR head is capable of 35 ps, which corresponds to
something between 1-2 mm, the problem is that by the time this
signal from the TDR head gets to the via of interest, the rise
time will be much less due to losses and dispersion in the path
to the via. So chances are that you may not see it at all...
Another thing I would like to mention is that I am not aware of
any techniques that can give you the loss parameters from a TDR
measurement. Transmission line models can't be modeled without
the losses accurately any more.
Arpad Muranyi
Intel Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Dima Smolyansky [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:45 AM
To: si-list
Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : inductance extracted by ansoft SI3D
TDR's typical resolution is, in fact 1-2mm, assuming reflected rise time of
25-40ps. If you try and TDR your tiny package via, you probably will see a
very small blip (dip?), which you could probably correlate to some
capacitive / inductive value, but with moderate accuracy.
However, if a 35 ps TDR does not see an element, one probably needs to ask
him/herself a question: What is the rise times of the actual signals
propagating through that package, and will these signals see this tiny
discontinuity? As you know, for slower rise times, the capacitive/inductive
discontinuities become even less visible to the signals propagating through
it, and if your driver rise time is 100ps, you won't see the tiny via at
Dima Smolyansky
TDA Systems, Inc.
11140 SW Barbur Blvd., Suite 100
Portland, OR 97219
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----- Original Message -----
From: Matt <mailto:[email protected]> Kaufmann
To: si-list <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : inductance extracted by ansoft SI3D
Does TDR have enough resolution to isolate the effects of a single package
via (maybe only 0.1-0.3mm long) from other elements (traces, other vias) in
the package? My understanding is that TDR resolution is on the order of 1-2
mm (after converting time to distance).
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
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[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dima Smolyansky
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : inductance extracted by ansoft SI3D
There is always, of course, the way of the TDR.
If the via is so long compared to system rise time that it needs to be
considered a distributed elements, TDR extracts the Z and Td quite nicely.
If it is necessary to compute L and C of the via separately, extending the
JEDEC publication JEP-123 from packages to other elements, one can do it, as
long as one is able to create appropriate test structures beforehand. R is a
separate issue, but R is typically a small number, millohm one hopes, is it
not? In that case, it is best measured with a DC meter, which can provide an
accurate value.
There are also TDR techniques for computing partial or loop inductance
values, depending which is required.
Dima Smolyansky
TDA Systems, Inc.
11140 SW Barbur Blvd., Suite 100
Portland, OR 97219
(503) 246-2272
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hassan Ali <mailto:[email protected]>
To: si-list <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : inductance extracted by ansoft SI3D
> > 2.For a via through several power and ground planes, does the SI 3D
> > consider the effects of those planes when doing the extraction?
> >
> For this I believe you need a full wave solver such as their HFSS. Edge
> rate (frequency content) & geometry really are the factors. If you edge
> rate is slow compared to the geometry, then the complication of an
> additional solver MAY not be necessary. But, since we MAY not know all
> those rules of thumb & guidelines, take no chances & use a full wave
> you probably do have edge rates which are "fast". Your investment in
> understanding a refined full wave solver will be worth it.
As to the original question, AFAIK (as far as I know) Ansoft SI Q3D is NOT
capable of computing via parasitics in consideration to individual planes.
You see, SI Q3D considers the entire via structure comprising of the signal
traces connected to the via, the via barrel (the plating on the via hole),
and all the pads at different layers, as ONE conductor. ALL the ground
planes are considered connected hence they make ONE conductor. In that case,
the self L and R values computed for the via structure are for the ENTIRE
via structure as mentioned above (i.e. not just for the via barrel), and the
capacitance to ground is with reference to ALL the ground planes (i.e. you
don't get separate values for capacitance with reference to EACH individual
ground plane). That information is not very useful for critical SI analysis.
And unfortunately, I don't know of any software tool that can accurately
compute separate parasitics. Any suggestions?
To illustrate further the problem in question, suppose I want to include via
parasitics for a signal that goes from the top pcb layer to an inner signal
layer, then I need to include via parasitics of only that portion of the via
that gets into the path of my signal i.e. not the parasitics of the entire
via structure. Any body knows how to do that with the presently available
As to the capabilities of HFSS, I think many people make wrong assumptions
on how full-wave field solvers can help us (SI engineers). First of all HFSS
would NOT spit out via parasitics! Using your various signal traces as
"ports", HFSS can accurately compute scattering (S) parameter matrix for all
the ports. These S-parameters are computed for each propagation mode of
interest (e.g. TEM mode) and indeed takes into account the electromagnetic
(EM) field interactions of all the structures in the geometry of the problem
(e.g. for a via, all the conductors, power and ground planes).
That is well and good, but the problem is that you CANNOT (easily) separate
individual interactions in terms of R, L, and C parasitics. The only method
I know of is to find a lumped-element equivalent circuit (which may not be
unique) and use a microwave circuit simulator (like Touchstone, Libra, ADS,
MDS, Ensemble, SuperCompact, APLAC, etc.) to optimize the R, L, and C,
values to make the equivalent circuit have the same S-parameters as the
original 3D structure. This is a painful process and at best not accurate
and reliable. This is because, at high frequencies, all the parasitics are
distributed and therefore cannot (easily) have an accurate lumped-element
equivalent. Am I too much of a pessimist here? Any ideas of what works best?
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The Transformative Impact of Data and Communication on Governance
Brookings Institution
How do improvements in information and communication technology (ICT) effect governance? Many have studied the role of the Internet in governance by state institutions. Others have researched how technology changes the way citizens make demands on governments and corporations. A third area concerns the use of technology in countries where the government is weak or altogether missing. In this case technology can fill, if only partially, the governance vacuum created by a fragile state.
Can Facebook's Massive Courses Improve Education For Developing Nations?
Facebook is on a mission to prove that social media-empowered education can help some of the poorest nations on Earth. It recently announced a big industry and Ivy League alliance to bring experimental educational software to Rwanda, providing Internet access and world-class instructional resources to their country's eager students. However, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) aren't yet proven to work at scale even in the most well-resourced nations, let alone in a country with uneven access to technology and arguably limited educational opportunities. We took a look at what experts and evidence had to say about the prospects of Facebook's education project.
Technology changing lives for visually impaired people in developing countries
Health Canal
He was planning to be a lawyer because he didn't think visually impaired people like him could do high-tech jobs in India. But after discovering special technology that allows him to use computers, he changed his mind and now wants to be a software engineer. "I became crazy about computers. Now I want to do something with computers only," said the man, one of 176 people surveyed in India, Peru and Jordan about how their lives were changed by technology that enables blind people to use computers and other devices. The study shows that assistive technology—screen readers and other communication software—can boost the economic and social aspirations of visually impaired people, enabling them to pursue work they once thought was impossible. The technology also makes them less marginalized in low- and middle-income countries, where they are often stuck at home or limited to low-skilled jobs.
Facebook Will Use Drones and Lasers to 'Beam' Internet to the World
Facebook plans to use drones, satellites and lasers to deliver Internet to the world. After announcing Internet.org last year, an initiative to improve Internet access across the globe, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Connectivity Lab, a new team of scientists that has been working on the ambitious project. He said that the Connectivity Lab would develop "new platforms for connectivity on the ground, in the air and in orbit," according to a post on Internet.org on Thursday. "Connecting the whole world will require inventing new technology," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing the Connectivity Lab.
In Praise of the Almost-Journalists
Hope is the latest trend in journalism. Even hardened pessimists can't help noticing when serious investment money and donations flows into startups and new initiatives from traditional media companies, as the Pew Research Center's Journalism Project documented this week in its latest annual "State of the News Media" report. "At a time when print newsrooms continue to shed jobs, thousands of journalists are now working in the growing world of native digital news," says the report. … In a significant shift in the editorial ecosystem, most of these jobs have been created in the past half dozen years, and many have materialized within the last year alone." I admire the work of the folks at Pew. But they, and most others who observe the journalism ecosystem, are actually underestimating the amount of journalism we're getting. For one thing, they leave out the volunteer citizen journalism that is increasingly an essential element of what we know—somewhat reasonably, given that they're focused in this report on people who get paid for what they report.
Why We're Not Satisfied with Social Media Sites
NBC News
How much time will you spend online today — to shop, bank, stay connected with friends, get the latest news or plan a trip? More importantly, how much of that time will be pleasurable and how much will be aggravating and unproductive? According to a new American Customer Satisfaction Index survey, most of us have a positive experience when we use the Web — 78.2 points on a 100-point scale. That's almost 2 points higher than the overall satisfaction rate for all the companies and services we deal with throughout the year. It found that credit unions (86 points), shipping companies (85), banks (85) and hotels (84) had the highest scores. "These industries do an extremely good job of providing a satisfying experience because they know they must have websites that are easy to navigate and provide users with the information they're looking for," said David VanAmburg, ACSI's director. With a rating of 78, Internet retailers were just below the national average (78.2) for all websites. Wireless telephone service and Internet travel (77), health insurance and Internet news (73), subscription TV services (72) and Internet service providers (70) also rated below average. At the very bottom of the list: social media websites, with a score of 68.
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Amanda Knox is refusing to return to Italy after judges reinstated her murder conviction for the death of British student Meredith Kercher.
Knox was sentenced to 28 years and six months and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was jailed for 25 years.
He was held by Italian police at around 1am today and had his passport seized after reportedly taking a short trip to Austria.
Miss Kercher's family have called on Knox to be extradited from the US, but she insisted: "I will never go willingly back."
The victim's brother, Lyle, told a press conference in Florence that it would be "strange" if the 26-year-old was not extradited.
''If somebody is found guilty and convicted of a murder, and if an extradition law exists between those two countries, then I don't see why they wouldn't", he said.
''I imagine it would set a difficult precedent if a country such as the US didn't choose to go along with laws that they themselves uphold when extraditing convicted criminals from other countries.
''It probably leaves them in a strange position not to.''
But Knox told ABC's Good Morning America: "I will never go willingly back ... I'm going to fight this to the very end. It's not right and it's not fair."
She told the US show that she has sent a letter to her lawyer which is addressed to Miss Kercher's family.
"It's in the mail. Mainly I just want them to know that I really understand that this is incredibly difficult, that they've also been on this never-ending thing and, when the case has been messed up so much, like, a verdict is no longer consolation for them," she said.
But the victim's sister, Stephanie, said her family did not want to read the letter.
"I would say no because I don't have a need to read it at the moment," she said. "At this stage, as you know, it's not finalised, the decision, so until the end of the trial when we know exactly where we stand with who has definitely been confirmed as guilty or not guilty, it's very difficult to try and understand my own feelings as to whether I would want to read that letter or not.
"So for now I would say no."
She also revealed that her family do not want to meet Knox, telling reporters at the Florence press conference: ''It's not something that we would want to do at the moment and I can't say that we ever will."
Sollecito was found with his current girlfriend at a hotel in Venzone, near Italy's border with Slovenia and Austria, in the early hours of this morning.
He was taken to a police station in Udine where he was told he was not allowed to leave Italy and his passport was confiscated.
According to Italian news agency ANSA he explained to officers that he had been driving in Austria before coming back to Italy.
The 29-year-old told his lawyers: "I never thought of fleeing, not in the past nor now."
Miss Kercher, a 21-year-old Leeds University exchange student from Coulsdon, south London, was found with her throat slashed in the bedroom of the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, central Italy, in November 2007.
Knox and Sollecito were originally found guilty of murder in 2009.
They were cleared nearly two years later - but the appeal court ordered a fresh trial last March.
Prosecutors claimed that Miss Kercher was the victim of a drug-fuelled sex game gone wrong, but the defendants have consistently protested their innocence and claim they were not in the apartment on the night she died.
Rudy Guede, a drug dealer, is serving a 16-year sentence over the death - though the courts have said he did not act alone.
In an interview before the verdict was handed down, Knox told the BBC: ''They'll have to catch me and pull me back, kicking and screaming, into a prison I don't deserve to be in.''
Speaking outside the court, her lawyer, Luciano Ghirga, said he would launch an appeal.
"For those that, like me, are convinced that Amanda is innocent, it is a very difficult time,'' he said. "We have to respect the verdict but we will challenge them."


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Reviewed at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
Frederic Jardin's Sleepless Night starts with a bang and doesn't much let up for the next 90 minutes. In its tense opening sequence, Vincent (Tomer Sisley) and Manuel (Laurent Stoker) put on ski masks, crash into a car, and steal a big bag of cocaine from the occupants, leaving one for dead. But these are no everyday jackers: these men aren't crooks, but corrupt cops. Trouble is, they've been recognized, and the intended recipient of the coke nabs Vincent's son. His ransom is the coke.
The premise is simple—elegant even—and one of the pleasures of the screenplay (which Jardin wrote with Nicolas Saada) is how logically and entertainingly that simple transaction goes to pieces. Vincent obviously can't get help from the police, so he has to go it alone, carrying the bag to the massive nightclub that serves as headquarters for underworld boss Marciano (Serge Riaboukine). Other interested parties present complications, but like any good criminal, Vincent is blessed with a gift for improvisation, and a unique talent for staying a step ahead (but barely) of the criminal element.
The bulk of the action occurs over the course of the titular evening, as Vincent first tries to make the delivery, and then bluff his way through long enough to get the kid and get the hell out. A steady stream of cops (dirty and otherwise) and thugs serve as human obstructions, with the club music providing a tense, pounding heartbeat for the action. Jardin stages his scenes with a pulsing, scrappy energy and anything-goes visual sense that matches the protagonist's spur-of-the-moment style; the picture is relentless, tumbling forward with an itchy intensity, aided immeasurably by Nicholas Errera's slick, hyped-up score.
There's not much room for thespian showboating in this mind of pressure-cooker environment, but Sisley is a good, sturdy leading man, and up to the challenges of identification and sympathy presented by the script—this is s guy who lies as easily as he breathes, and has a different story for everyone, to a point where it's tough to know what the hell to believe from him. We're not inclined to root for a dirty cop, but the panic and fear for his son is a powerful sympathy factor, even when that sympathy is tested by some less than admirable scenes (I'm thinking particularly of the tussle with a female cop).
As the night grows longer and the situation grows more desperate, Jardin tightens up the pace, plays with perspective, and cranks up the intensity even higher—every gunshot rips through a wall or door with a thud, the music gets louder, the fisticuffs (like a rough and tumble kitchen brawl) get messier. This is a guy who can take a beating and push on; same thing with the film. Sleepless Night stumbles a bit at the end, with an unnecessary epilogue that ultimately just provides gratuitous ambiguity, but that's a minor complaint. Overall, this is a taut, bracing, memorable piece of action craftsmanship.


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Mumbai: Styling for TV actors is not fun any more, says stylist Neerusha and adds that the medium is not creatively satisfying either. Therefore, she decided to create her own collection - Womaniyaa.
"Designing for TV has become harder than what it was two years back. Earlier on, we used to design clothes and then just would have the director and the actor approve them. Now with the director completely out of the scene, the producer just seeks for the channel`s approval," said Neerusha who has been in the industry for 16 years.
She has been associated with the TV industry for many years now and has been a part of shows like "Kuch Toh Log Kahenge", "Jhansi Ki Rani", "Prithviraj Chauhan", "Veer Shivaji" and "Mahadev".
"If you hire an expert in something and then advise them what to do, it`s not right. Designing for television seems to have become very frustrating," she said.
Her collection Womaniyaa revolves around the moods of a woman.
"My collection is all about the various moods of a woman. So, you have a wild version, a sexy version, that of a housewife, and a shy version...everything," she said.
Her desire to try something on her own motivated her to design the collection.
"For TV shows, there are so many people you have to listen to for every small thing. Whereas I wanted to try something of my own here...I wanted to create something on my own," she said.
After her long stay in the TV business, she doesn`t really need TV shows to promote her clothes.
"I have been in the business for 16 years now and have even won awards. I don`t need the media to showcase my stuff," said the designer who has 12 shows on air at the moment and about four shows are in the pipeline.
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By David Aldridge, TNT
VIDEO: The Inside the NBA members discuss the Donald Sterling matter
The most likely scenario for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to discipline L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling is to use a provision of the NBA constitution that allows the Commissioner to suspend a team employee indefinitely and fine him up to $1 million. That appears, according to sources familiar with the NBA's little-seen internal rules, to be the most the NBA can do to hit an owner for something said, as opposed to something done.
There are provisions for the NBA's Board of Governors, with the votes of three-quarters of the league's owners — 24 — to terminate the ownership of an individual and remove him as owner. But those provisions do not seem to apply here under even generous interpretation of the league's rules.
Owners can be removed, under Section A 13 of the NBA's Constitution, under the heading "Termination of Ownership or Membership." An owner can be voted out, essentially, if he or she willfully violates the NBA's Constitution or Bylaws; transfers ownership of his or her team without permission or approval; fails to pay his or her debts; is found to be attempting to fix games and/or has severe gambling debts, or disbands his or her team during the season.
Sterling is under investigation for allegedly making racially outrageous remarks to a woman purported to be his girlfriend. In one section of the tape, which was acquired by the website TMZ.com last Friday, the man on the tape believed to be Sterling tells the woman he doesn't want her posting photos of her with Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson, and not to bring Johnson or other African-Americans to Clippers games.
The salient provision in the Constitution that Silver is likely to use is Section 35A (d): "Misconduct of Persons Other Than Players." As player conduct and league penalties for conduct violations are all subject to collective bargaining negotiations, the behavior of all other team and league employees, including coaches and referees, is covered under 35A (d).
This is the key phrase: the Commissioner can fine anyone up to $1 million, and suspend — either for a definite or indefinite period — anyone who makes statements deemed to be "prejudicial or detrimental to the Association," and/or detrimental to the best interests of basketball.
But it's unlikely Silver could use a violation of 35A (d) to then remove Sterling through A13.
"None of these [provisions for removal] are at issue here," said one source familiar with the league's constitution.
An open-ended suspension could give the league time to line up potential buyers for the Clippers, while trying to convince Sterling that this is the time to sell the team. The league, under former commissioner David Stern, made it clear to the Sacramento Kings' former owners, the Maloof family, that it would not allow them to sell the team last year to a Seattle group that planned to move the team there. The Maloofs ultimately sold the team to the NBA's preferred group, led by software tycoon Vivek Ranadive.
Sterling bought the then San Diego Clippers in the early '80s from Irv Levin, who'd acquired them in the infamous "team swap" with John Y. Brown, who was the owner of the Buffalo Braves when he assumed control of the Celtics from Levin in exchange for Buffalo. Levin then moved the Braves to San Diego, where they were rechristened the Clippers; Sterling moved them to Los Angeles in 1984.
Sterling's only true friend among his fellow owners was the late Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who'd encouraged him to buy the Clippers from Levin. Sterling rarely came to Board of Governors meetings, and owners don't often fraternize with each other. Almost all of the owners who could be considered contemporaries of Sterling have sold their team or passed away.
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Hey Folks,
It's been a few years since I graced this forum with my appearance.
I'm not going to get into all of the gory details of why I haven't been around. Let's just say that Covers (and their advertisers) were kind of tired of my adversarial (their word) attitude, and I was tired of them using words like "adversarial" to describe my attitude.
In the meantime, I've spent some time clearing my head – and clogging it back up again – and trying my hand at a number of different activities. Along the way, I learned a few do's-and-don'ts of travel, real estate, and online poker, among other things. I've got some good stories, and of course a lot of bad ones too.
I also realized that the American government was severely hampering my style, so I am back up here in
A while ago, the Boss called me and said that Covers was going to start putting more effort into changing the industry for the better and putting more effort into looking out for the players. Since this was something I used to holler about, he asked me if I was interested in taking over my old role again. After some thought and more negotiation than I really thought was necessary, I decided to take him up on it.
Anyways, while I have been still keeping tabs occasionally, it's not like I still have an actual rep in here anymore – and most of you are complete strangers to me. I do see that the original Posting Forum Manifesto I wrote 7 years ago is still mostly intact, which is surprising since I coughed that thing up in about 20 minutes in a hungover haze. That's talent, folks.
So here I am. Back. I've got to admit, it feels cool.
I know I've got a lot of work to do, but y'all can look for me to delve a bit into which sportsbooks and poker sites are actually honest, and which ones to avoid. Plus, since I've met a few people in my day and have the ability to make stuff happen, I'm going to try to help sort out which horror stories are valid and need to be addressed, and which stories are crap.
If you are still wondering who I am, don't worry, you will find out.
In the meantime, I'll let you know the general guideline I have for gambling… Treat it like a hobby. If you can make a few bucks from it, that's sweet. Just don't be the guy who spends his life savings remodeling his house to fit his train set.
I'll keep in touch,


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McKinley-Kaptur Bill Must Be Approved
While President Barack Obama and most members of Congress have seemed preoccupied with proposals for new limits on gun ownership since the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., not much has been said about getting to the root causes of such horror: insanity and the evil that sometimes drives it.
On April 15, Americans were reminded forcefully of the need to refocus the national debate. Bombs were exploded during the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170 others. Police said two young men, ethnic Chechnyans from Russia, committed the horrific act. Both had lived in the United States for nearly a decade.
Before the bombing, Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., and Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, introduced an important – nay, a critical – bill in the House of Representatives.
McKinley and Kaptur are calling for a comprehensive study of mental health care in the United States. "With the recent violent acts perpetrated by individuals suffering from mental illness, it is becoming ever more apparent that Americans struggling with mental illness are falling through the cracks," McKinley explained.
A clear link exists between mental illness and many mass murders. Adam Lanza, the young man who massacred children and educators in Newtown, was known to have had some mental health problems.
But what of the Boston murderers? Family members and others who knew them were at a loss to explain. Something instilled a viciousness beyond most of our imaginations in them. One of the killers was videotaped placing a bomb beside the 8-year-old child who was one of three people killed in the blasts.
What contorts a human mind to the extent such evil is possible? Can such a conversion be spotted and treated?
It may be the killers, in their own minds, thought their act was justified for religious and/or political reasons. What we call brainwashing by cults – and that is what some terrorist organizations amount to – is not uncommon. It has been studied exhaustively. And by any reasonable view, susceptibility to it is a sort of mental derangement.
Of course, those who with cold calculation drive others to terroristic acts – while doing all they can to stay out of danger themselves – are not mentally ill. They are evil.
But most acts of terrorism are not committed by leaders, but instead by followers. What is it about some people that makes them engage in brutality at the behest, either overt or perhaps only imagined, of others?
This is not a philosophical question. Again, anyone capable of doing what the Boston bombers did is mentally ill, by the yardstick nearly all of us employ.
So McKinley and Kaptur are right: We Americans need to take a hard, impartial and comprehensive look at mental illness, including how we identify it and how we treat it. Answers we may be able to find there will save more lives than new controls on firearms.
Both the House and Senate should approve the McKinley-Kaptur bill immediately.


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A signature beach community event, the show runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24 on Garnet Avenue between Mission Boulevard and Dawes Street, as well as along Bayard Street between Garnet Avenue and the alley and on Cass Street between Garnet Avenue and the alley.
Highlights of the show include the nitro-burning Wild Thang dragster that shoots flames 30 feet in the air, along with the Michael Keaton Batmobile and Christine from the movie of the same name both on display.
It's the sixth year for the car show themed "Charger Steve's Wild Rides & Classic Car Showdown."
Now in its fifth year in Pacific Beach, the event is presented by Sycuan Casino.
"There will be all different types, styles, makes and years of cars, plus many vendors in case you want to purchase some new shades or a T-shirt. We'll have a mix of everything," promised Charger Steve, who hosts and promotes the annual event.
The classic car show initially was held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds but has since found a permanent home in Pacific Beach.
"I shoot for the stars," said Charger Steve, who said putting on the annual PB event is "my first love and really quite the accomplishment."
New this year to the car show is the Keaton Batmobile, which Charger Steve described as "an amazing vehicle that is just awesome to look at."
Also on display will be the actual car used in the thriller big-screen movie "Christine," perhaps the most famous haunted-car movie of all time, inspired by the Stephen King novel.
"We'll have some really nice choppers on display," said Charger Steve, adding the "hit of the party," as usual, will be the Wild Thang dragster spectacle.
"It's a fan favorite for sure and it will be back this year," he said, adding Wild Thang's operators overcame adversity to make sure the attraction appeared again at this year's show.
There will be a variety of entertainment, including at least one performer guaranteed to knock your socks off.
"We have a really fantastic Michael Jackson impersonator who is really astonishing that we're looking forward to," said Charger Steve.
He said the bikini contest hosted annually by Hollywood Tans is always a crowd pleaser.
Steve added there will be entertainment throughout the event, including music, magic and dance. The winner of the car show will be announced at 3 p.m.
A car aficionado who has become an event promoter, Charger Steve said classic car shows are becoming increasingly popular.
He runs a similar, much smaller car exhibit in El Cajon on Wednesdays and says his once-a-year-Pacific Beach show is like having "a car show on steroids."
For more information, visit wwwchargersteve.com or www.carclubcouncilofsandiego.com.


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ok so i've officially disappeared but i swear i have a slew of great reasons i cannot seem to remember all at once. we moved about 3 weeks ago, { pics of the new place coming up } and i've been so distracted by un-packing, decorating and like....actually owning something besides clothes and shoes. { crazy i know }. but i swear im not gone forever. as proof, here are some pics i took this weekend on a relatively warm day. { hope ya'll like my awkward smile }
fall is actually my favorite seasons because in some ways it's like a less gross, prettier version of intense summer heat. everything looks clean, bright and crisp, and you get to expand the wardrobe past dresses, skirts and shorts. i got these suede boots from DV by dolce vita. i would describe them as understated awesomeness. they are eye-catching without being over the top and very comfy to walk in {which for a flats loving girl gives them a million bonus points}
what are your favorite looks for fall? and it anyone else sad to see the blinding colors of fall fade away? { i mean honestly...how awesome is that tree? }


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In Irumugan movie Vikram plays the hero Akilan and villain Love, an effeminate middle aged person with salt and pepper look.
After his disappointing venture 10 Endrathulla, versatile actor Vikram has now joined hands with Arima Nambhi director Anand Shankar for a sci-fi thriller, Iru Mugan. The makers are keen on keeping the story of Iru Mugan under wraps. Produced by Shibu Thameens, the film has music by Harris Jayaraj.
All eyes are on Vikram's villain character who dominates the screen after his entry. The brilliant actor in Vikram excels in nuances in body language and dialogue delivery. This is definitely going to be a memorable treat for Chiyaan fans as well as general film buffs.
As in the teaser, it us the super stylish making and tamil cinema audience are talking about the movie by spreading Irumugan vikram memes.


text: Thanks to Andreas for taking an hour out to talk with Jeff Squyres and myself (Brock Palen) about the Lustre cluster filesystem on our podcast www.rce-cast.com, You can find the whole show at: http://www.rce-cast.com/index.php/Podcast/rce-14-lustre-cluster-filesystem.html Thanks again! If any of you have requests of topics you would like to hear please let me know! Brock Palen www.umich.edu/~brockp Center for Advanced Computing brockp at umich.edu (734)936-1985


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This is probably one of the most riveting and chilling books I have ever read. More of a sociological and cultural study than a "true crime" book, the author, Bernard Lefkowitz details the story of a young retarded woman ("Leslie") who was raped by "the Jocks" in the town of Glen Ridge, NJ. Many of these young men had been trouble since middle school years, but they were the golden boys, the star athletes, in a town that revered athleticism and competiti...
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In 1989, a teenaged girl with the mental capacity of an 8-year-old was raped in the expensive suburban community of Glen Ridge, New Jersey -- the hometown of Tom Cruise. She was raped with a baseball bat and a broomstick, and the perpetrators appeared to be star players on the high school football team. Lefkowitz explores how this could have happened, how the community responded to this horror, and the travesty of "justice" attempted in court. The book i...


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A Chrysler bankruptcy will more than likely be filed today, with Fiat picking carrion-bird-like at the automakers remains. That got us thinking about what a re-badged Fiat future would look like. The answer? It's grim.
You might be asking yourself why there are two re-badged Pandas in the group, but we think Fiat would send one of it's cheaper utilitarian vehicles to the Chrysler folks for some brand cross-pollination, while the nicer, sweeter-tuned Bravo would take the helm as a sub-300C Chrysler. Why the lack of a Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep branded hipster Fiat 500? Mark our words; there is no way Fiat is dumb enough to dilute the 500's image by re-badging it. If we'll ever see the little MINI-fighting Cinquecento, it'll be branded as a Fiat. And that's that.
What are some of your ideas for this proposed American-Italian love fest? Feel free to drop some ideas into the comments below. We know you're itching to do it.


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I would like to find out where could I obtain a list that shows which vegetables contains sugar and which fruits contain the highest sugar Thank You
Fruits and vegetables do contain natural sugars. Perhaps the best resource with a fairly comprehensive list would be the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The following link will take you to a publication entitled: "USDA Database for the Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods." http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/add_sug/addsug01.pdf While this list is primarily used for determining added sugar in foods, it also shows total sugars as well. Amounts are given in "grams per 100 grams", so a little math calculation will likely be necessary if you're looking for exact numbers. (100 grams = about 3.5 ounces)
In the fruits and vegetables sections, you will notice that generally total sugars are higher with dried or dehydrated product forms. This is because they are more concentrated when the water is removed. It is worth noting that compared to the other food categories listed in this resource, fruits and vegetables usually have far less added sugars. It's eye-opening to see just how much sugar is added to many common foods. Just goes to show you that fruits and veggies don't need it—they're delicious anytime and in all forms—fresh, frozen, canned, dried and 100% juice. Incorporate them all into your meals and snacks! Look for tips and suggestions right here on our website!


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This CD is a straight reissue of a Hank Mobley LP that features the "Who's Who" of late-'50s hard bop: the tenor-leader, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist Horace Silver, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Art Blakey. The quintet performs five Mobley compositions (best is the lyrical "Mobley's Musings"), songs that are generally more interesting for their chord changes than for their melodies, which is probably why none of them became standards. One's attention is constantly drawn to the inventive solos and Art Blakey's roaring "accompaniment." An above-average effort from some of the best. ~ Scott Yanow


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Vancouver police confirmed late Tuesday that the van driven by a man killed in a collision with a transit bus had been stolen near Metrotrown in Burnaby earlier in the day.
Const. Brian Montague said the 12:45 p.m. accident on East Broadway near St. Catherines happened when the minivan collided head-on with the bus.
The driver of the minivan - the only occupant - was killed and five bus passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Montague said it appears the westbound minivan, which was stolen after 11 a.m., was in the wrong lane at the time of the collision, which happened as the bus appeared to be slowing down at a stop.
He said that the deceased man has yet been identified.
Montague said there was no indication Tuesday that alcohol was a factor in the collision.
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Think first about what moving-related services you need. You'll save a lot of money by doing work yourself—particularly packing your own stuff. But keep in mind that having a company pack saves you time and improves your basis for filing a claim if damage occurs. No matter who does the packing, plan to pack and move fragile items, jewelry, framed art, and other especially valuable belongings yourself.
You'll want a moving company that provides reliable pricing and other helpful information, takes good care of your belongings, takes care of both the home you're leaving and the home you're moving into, and does the job on time. Our ratings of moving companies will steer you to an outfit that can do it.
Have several different companies send representatives to your home to give you written estimates showing the rates used to calculate the estimate. Our undercover shoppers collected prices for both local moves and long-distance moves and found dramatic company-to-company price differences. Estimates you get should detail the services to be performed and include an inventory of items to be moved; otherwise, on moving day you may get into a dispute with a mover who wants to charge extra for work you thought the estimate included.
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Exploring our World
Drawing upon the research interests and experience of the faculty, the department's core areas of geographic inquiry are nature and society interactions, population and health geographies, cultural geography and landscape, rural landscapes and sustainability, earth systems geography, and geographic information science. Review recent faculty research publications and student theses and dissertations to better appreciate the bread and depth of scholarly activities currently underway in the department.
Department Research Laboratories and Groups
K-State geographers maintain a number of dedicated research laboratories and groups with opportunities for graduate, and undergraduate, students to conduct innovative research. Visit the following websites for more information:
- Geographic Information Systems Spatial Analysis Laboratory (GISSAL)
- Paleoenvironmental Laboratory
- Remote Sensing Research Laboratory
Allied K-State Research Facilities
Faculty and students from the Department of Geography frequently collaborate with the following K-State research centers and agencies:
- Center for Hazardous Substance Research at Kansas State University
- Food Safety & Security at Kansas State University
- Kansas Center for Agriculture Resources and the Environment (KCARE)
- Kansas Center for Engagement and Community Development
- Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- Kansas Population Center
- Konza Prairie Biological Station
- K-State GIScience Virtual Collaboratory
- K-State Laboratory for Complex Network Approach to Epidemiological, Biological, and Sociological Modeling and Simulation (EPICENTER)
- K-State Urban Water Institute
- National Agricultural Biosecurity Center (NABC)