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Computers acquire become a way of activity for humans about the world. They are acclimated to analysis appellation papers, analysis acclimate forecasts, clue aggressive progress, barter account (blogs and chat) and to accretion the cheapest bulk on items etc. It is no abruptness that as the computer age takes authority computer acceptance has increased. The bulk of websites that are getting developed on the Apple Wide Web is growing at an anytime accretion exponential amount. And because we abide in a quick-fix society, with bound time on our hands, we charge something to accomplish surfing the web a lot easier, something that will array out all this arrival of advice into a analytic order.
Hence the admiration of seek engines, which acquire adapted the acceptation of seek and has fabricated our jobs easier. This cardboard focuses on seek engine case studies about the world. Altered seek engine regions alleged for analysis in this cardboard were: American, European, Canadian, Australian and the UK.
American Seek Engines
As of January 1, 2004 the estimated animal citizenry of the Affiliated States of America was 292,287,428 and there were 164,100,000 computers (1). An estimated 90,000,000 households acquire admission to internet (2). With this abounding humans surfing the web, concern adeptness could cause one to admiration about the seek engines getting acclimated in America. Two of the a lot of accepted and able-bodied accepted seek engines in America are Google and Yahoo. Although a lot of humans acquire a alternative to one or the added seek engine it is difficult to say one is absolutely bigger than the added as the superior of seek is similar. According to some users, Google is the a lot of able seek engine in the apple (3). However, others users altercate that amid the two seek engines, "There is an ephemeral aberration in the superior and accommodation of results." (3).
History of Google
Google, www.google.com, was created by two Stanford University students. The aboriginal name was BackRub but by 1998 the name had been afflicted to Google and it became a clandestine aggregation (4). A Googol is (10100), the chat Google was created as a aberration (5). Some altercate that Google is the top seek engine in the apple and absolutely it has become so accepted that it is now accepted as a verb (5).
General Information
Google has developed from indexing 25,000,000 pages in November of 1998 to 4,285,199,774 pages in of June 2004 (6). Google is a crawler based seek engine, acceptation that the seek engine sends out crawlers which automatically appointment sites, chase links and actualize indexes which are again searchable (7). Google is currently in a acknowledged action with the cloister systems to accumulate its name out of the concordance (5). Google was the aboriginal aloft seek engine to base non-HTML web agreeable acceptance PDF files to be accessed (8). Google aswell offers casework such as "cached" links that allows a user to appearance earlier versions of pages. Added appearance cover spell check, concordance definitions, affiliation of banal quotes, artery maps, and blast numbers (4).
Google Homepage
The home page offers a user abounding acceptable features. Google has an simple to use apparatus bar that users can download assimilate their claimed computers (3). If a user wants to seek accurately for pictures the "Images" button will accord them admission to the absolute web but abandoned those after-effects absolute images will appearance up. The "Groups" button allows users to participate in discussions that are demography abode on Usenet newsgroups. The "News" button will accommodate banderole account belief and you can acquire account alerts on specific capacity beatific anon to your email.
"Froogle" is a simple, simple way for a user to seek for a arrangement or even a specific account online. The "more" hotlink provides admission to human-compiled advice from the "Directory", allows a user to get biking advice or even artlessly use a calculator. The "Advanced Search" will acquiesce a user to absolute a seek to PDFs or .edu seek results. "Preferences" allows customization of Google services. "Language Tools" will construe any website or commodity into an barefaced language. If you're analytical about Advertising, Business Solutions or about Google, bang beneath the seek box on one of the links. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button will yield a user anon to the aboriginal page aftereffect of their seek and not appearance any added pages. Google lists its sponsored links abandoned from its accepted seek results.
History of Yahoo
Yahoo, http://www.yahoo.com, was created in 1994 (4). A lot of humans are accustomed with the phrase, "Do You Yahoo?" created as a Beast bartering slogan.
General Information
In 2004 Beast is believed to be indexing about 3 billion pages (9). Beast is the oldest directory, "relying on animal editors to adapt web sites into categories" however, Beast absitively to accomplish a behemothic about-face appear crawler based listings in October of 2002 (4). Beast ahead relied on Google for seek after-effects but in February of 2004 Beast created its own seek technology (4). "It is important to agenda the new seek engine is for web after-effects only. Angel seek is still powered by Google, and Account seek is a aggregate of Yahoo's own beat and abstruse resources." (10). Beast has abounding of the aforementioned appearance Google provides such as "cashed" links, spell check, dictionary, chicken pages, and mapping programs. Beast aswell provides email casework for chargeless as continued as the user doesn't apperception administration the page with advertisements. In fact, Yahoo's adeptness and acquaintance from the email casework are believed to be attainable in accouterment Beast with a added compassionate of spam and an adeptness to accumulate it out of their web page base (10).
Yahoo Homepage
Yahoo's home page is chaotic compared to the simple architecture of Google. Beast has the archetypal avant-garde seek options and preferences acceptance for customization of features. To the appropriate of the seek box is a cull tab that allows a user to absolute their seek to the web, images, chicken pages, news, or artefact information. A user can accessory up cine times, forward beast greetings, seek for a house, or accretion biking information, just to name a few things. Yahoo's website agenda has sites organized by capacity such as, education, science, health, and government. Appear the basal of the page is a account of bounded Yahoo's. Who knew that there was a Beast Singapore let abandoned a Beast Catalan. Like Google, Beast lists its sponsored links abandoned from its accepted seek results.
European Seek Engines
There are 44 nations in the European region. These countries are home to 567,095,995 people, 9.33% of the world's citizenry (11). Anniversary of these countries has at atomic one bounded attainable seek engine. Some of them acquire several (12). Booz-Allen & Hamilton, one of the Affiliated States' earlier and added admired consulting firms conducted a abstraction which acicular out that "…22% of European households acquire admission to the Internet" and in 2004 it is accepted that, "Western Europe should acquire added than 215,000,000 users on the Internet on at atomic a annual base (13)."
The countries of Europe acquire been circuitous in a continued and circuitous action of European integration. The EU was formed 1 November 1993 and is a abutment of 25 absolute states (Appendix 1) (14). As one of its objectives; the EU has taken on the claiming of amalgam affiliate states and surrounding countries to accommodate them with abiding Internet and E-commerce development and advance (15). Alltheweb and Ezilon are two of the abounding seek engine companies that are gluttonous to capitalize on the befalling provided by the EU integration.
History of Alltheweb
Fast Seek and Alteration (Fast) ASA started business operations in 1997 in Oslo, Norway. In June 2001 they went public. Fast is an bulge of bookish analysis and development from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (16). Fast Seek and Alteration launched Alltheweb in May 1999 and gave it the cast name of "Fast" until 2001, if the website was redesigned beneath the "Alltheweb" brand. Alltheweb, http://www.alltheweb.com, again became a attainable seek engine and technology advertise for the Fast Seek Aggregation (17). In February of 2003, Overture appear they would acquirement Alltheweb from Fast. The acquisition, accompanying with their antecedent advertisement to acquirement the AltaVista Company, helped Overture to bolster their administration in bartering seek and accumbent the aggregation to actualize the a lot of absolute seek adequacy on the Internet (18). Yahoo! Corporation bought Overture on October 7, 2003 to fortify itself for an closing showdown with Google and Microsoft (19).
General Information
Alltheweb now has all of the indexing adeptness of Google. Through the accretion process, Alltheweb has added its accomplishment to become a baton in the seek engine association throughout Europe (19). Its advisers strive to advice Beast accommodate the best attainable seek engine not just in Europe, but the world.
Alltheweb Homepage
Pulling up the Alltheweb homepage (20) the user is provided with a simple and simple to cross site. Alltheweb homepage contains 5 tabs: web, news, pictures, video and audio. However, the user has to seek for a specific affair to accretion advice in these categories rather than advice getting attainable for them on the site. All "sponsored links" are beheld to the appropriate of the page area they are attainable if desired. Abandoned afterwards casual through all of the paid links does the eyewitness appear to the a lot of accordant seek returns. On achievement of a seek for a affair the user is provided with an advantage to "Refine your search" which provides added subcategories on the topic. Added appearance offered on Alltheweb are the adeptness to clarify abeyant abhorrent content, bind the bulk of after-effects per page, highlight seek terms, change argument size, and the adeptness to attainable seek after-effects in a new window. You can baddest up to 8 adopted languages from a account of 36.
History of Ezilon
Ezilon.com seek engine was founded to acquiesce individuals and companies about the apple to admission advice easily, decidedly by the EU community. (21) The Ezilon homepage states that Ezilon.com is a European Abutment All-embracing Seek Engine and Directory. (22)
General Information
Ezilon seek engine provides a searchable agenda for European websites alignment from Europe biking links, business, hotels, account and classified ads and a lot of abnormally links from the Western European countries. They aswell acquire listings for non EU websites, but they accept to acquire capacity of absorption to the EU or accepted Europe. (23)
Ezilon Homepage
Ezilon homepage has anon attainable advice on it. Unlike added websites which present "Sponsored links" Ezilon provides "Sponsored matches" above-mentioned to the seek results. Ezilon's "Sponsored matches" can be beheld to the appropriate of the page.
Ezilon specializes, through the advice of the EU, in pooling and distributing advice for the advance of a affiliated Europe. Added acceptable appearance attainable to users are: accepted links, acclimate anticipation and banderole news. Assorted categories are attainable for seek e.g., art, science, business, technology etc. Users acquire an advantage to seek the EU, UK or the World. In accession to all aloft mentioned appearance chargeless email is provided to associates of Ezilon.
Canadian Seek Engines
As of July 1, 2004 estimated citizenry of Canada is 32,247,874 with 16,19,000 internet users (24). Canada today stands at the bulk 7 position a allotment of countries with internet users (25). There are 13 ambit and territories in Canada and the acceptance of seek engines varies by these ambit and territories (26). This area will focus on abandoned two of the top 5 a lot of frequently acclimated Canadian Seek Engines: AltaVista Canada and AOL Canada (27). The afterward sections will accommodate a abrupt history, accepted advice and advice about the homepages of these two seek engines.
History of AltaVista Canada
AltaVista, which agency "a appearance from above," was aggressive by the conception of big account from a aggregation of experts with allure for befitting clue of advice (28). During the bounce of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Analysis lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to abundance every chat of every HTML page on the internet in a fast searchable base (28). This led to AltaVista's development of the aboriginal searchable, abounding argument database on the Apple Wide Web (28). Compaq became the buyer of AltaVista afterwards it purchased Digital in 1998. AltaVista was after spun off into a clandestine company, controlled by CMGI. Overture, purchased the AltaVista in April 2003, eventually Overture became allotment of Beast which led to the buying alteration of AltaVista to Beast (29). AltaVista Canada was launched in January of 1998. Over 1,500,000 altered users visited the website and cartage to the website grew by over 300% aural the aboriginal year of its launch. AltaVista Canada was a aftereffect of an acceding amid TELUS bartering Casework and Compaq Computer Corp.'s AltaVista Seek Account (30).
General Information
AltaVista was the aboriginal to bear internet's aboriginal Web Base in 1995. It was aswell the aboriginal in alms multilingual seek capabilities on the internet and to barrage image, audio and video seek capabilities. It has been awarded 61 search-related patents, added than any added internet seek aggregation (28). AltaVista is abounding for all-embracing sites. It will accretion sites not abandoned in English on a topic, but in just about every accent imaginable. In case the user isn't bilingual, Alta Vista aswell includes a actual attainable adaptation apparatus (31).
AltaVista Canada Homepage
The homepage of AltaVista offers users assorted acceptable and simple to use features. The homepage houses Canadian web base of added than 14,000,000 pages. It allows you to seek accepted or aural Canada. For the accessibility of its users, AltaVista Canada provides a affection to baddest a accent in which to present the after-effects of its search. AltaVista provides a toolbar which is free, customizable and gives the user the analysis accoutrement to accomplish searches and translations from their own browser anywhere on the web. Popup acquaintance affection on the toolbar gets rid of annoying pop-ups. The "Web search" searches aural all AltaVista indexes, including the best angel seek on the web. The homepage aswell provides specific appearance that advice you attenuated your seek for abandoned images, music files, videos, account and agenda based on specific topic. "Advanced search" advantage provides altered appearance for seek options e.g., phrase, keywords, date, book type, area and sites per page option.
History of AOL Canada
AOL Canada Inc. is a arch alternate account aggregation focused on acceptable Canadians online user experience. The aggregation is a cardinal accord amid American Online, Inc., a wholly endemic accessory of Time Warner and RBC Royal Bank, the claimed and bartering cyberbanking analysis of RBC Financial, one of North America's arch adapted banking casework companies. This accord took abode on July, 1999. The aggregation operates three alternate online casework tailored to the Canadian marketplace, AOL English and French services, CompuServe and Netscape Online as able-bodied as several arch Internet brands including AOL.CA, AOL Canada Search, AOL Burning Agent (AIM), Netscape.ca and MapQuest (32).
General Information
Members of AOL Canada Inc. acquire an added advantage. In accession to approved Web access, audience may accept to cream central of the AOL environment, which is abandoned attainable to AOL Canada Inc. members. Central the AOL environment, associates accept a abounding accord of Canadian agreeable that has been automated to accommodated their needs. Surfing on the Apple Wide Web can sometimes be cutting and arresting due to the boundless bulk of advice available. AOL Canada Inc. has alleged the a lot of accepted channels and listed them on the Approach Menu, anniversary approach alms an abounding bulk of advice provided by AOL Canada Inc. and their ally on that accurate affair (33).
Homepage of AOL Canada
AOL Canada's homepage presents a array of appearance to accomplish seek and web surfing easier for its users. Some appearance presented on its capital page are: a assurance in for AOL burning messenger, mail, affectionate control, reminders and agenda etc. It has a area for "Shopping online" which gives its users an advantage to accept the specific account they are arcade for. "Web channels" affection gives users a adventitious to seek the web for careers, auto, entertainment, bloom news, sports etc. It aswell contains a area for chicken and white pages search. Users can seek for humans or places in this section. AOL Canada search, which is powered by Google, gives users a adventitious to seek by affair or key words. The "Advanced search" affection abandoned has options for words and phrases rather than book blazon or specific sites e.g. .edu or .org. Seek after-effects cover "Sponsored links" and analogous sites. It aswell has a "devices" tab area AOL offers Palm Organizers. Added advice included on the homepage is aggregation information, news, appraisement plans, application and acquaintance information.
Australian Seek Engine
Although the internet is globally accessible, the majority of its users abide in the added developed nations area computer acceptance is a lot of common. Australia has a top allotment of computer acceptance which resulted in added acceptance of the internet and development of seek engines. The Australian citizenry is currently 20,141,793 (34) with 10,600,000 (35) computer users. Of which 9,240,000 (24) acquire internet access.
History of Web Wombat
As computers were getting chip into Australian businesses and homes, companies, such as Web Wombat, began to advance seek engines to accomplish advice added attainable to Australians and the world. As the internet grew and added pages began to be indexed, Web Wombat angry its focus entering on Australia (36). This action accepted to be actual acknowledged as axiomatic by the actuality that today Web Wombat's spiders clamber the web for new sites to add to its already all-inclusive accumulation of 100,000,000 web sites, authoritative it Australia's arch seek engine (37).
Homepage of Web Wombat
Web Wombat indexes and food a amazing bulk of advice and the way in which they chose to present it is hardly altered than added seek engines. The lay out of Web Wombat's home page is initially bedeviled by advertisements. To the larboard of the home page there is a box blue-blooded "Premium links" which are not organized in any specific order. An archetype of this is the actuality that, of the twenty one listings aural the box, there are three abstracted links to car rental sites, two to hotels, and assorted links to things such as online dating. This advice would be added advantageous to consumers if it were categorized in some appearance aural a agenda or if it were displayed to the ancillary of a accompanying search. Beneath the "Premium links" box is the "Daily assets box" which provides links alignment from links to apple newspapers to Grumpy's humor. At the top of the page there are a bulk of headings alignment from careers and apprenticeship to auctions.
The absorbing affair is that if you bang on auctions it takes you anon to ebay.com.au. However, the careers and apprenticeship tab is far added objective. This hotlink provides a card on the larboard with a array of attainable links and again online writing with links in the centermost of the page. The "Search" acreage is displayed in the centermost of the page however; it is not actual arresting already barraged by ads, exceptional links and advertisements. The "Advanced search" has an absorbing affection which enables humans to seek by "nice to acquire words", "must acquire words", "nice to acquire phrase", and the adeptness to annihilate assertive words. This affection becomes actual acceptable if a user wishes to attenuated the after-effects to a adapted city-limits beneath "nice to acquire words". By absorption the seek in such a way, the advice delivered is fabricated added accordant after eliminating too abounding attainable matches. Another nice affection is that "Advanced search" enables humans to accurately seek all Australian pages, Australian government sites, or Australian educational pages.
UK Seek Engines
The citizenry of UK as of July 2004 is 60,270,708 with 25,000,000 internet users (24). There are about 40 top Seek engines in the UK; some of them are accustomed to the Affiliated Declared such as Google, Beast and Overture. These seek engines are custom ill-fitted to acquire alternative searches, whether bounded searches aural the UK or on the Absolute Apple Wide Web. Some seek engines aural the UK are added specialized; area you acquire to pay a cable to use that accurate seek engine, for archetype UK Plus and UK Index. And some seek engines like Abounding British Pages, abandoned seek for British websites (39). Getting a developed country, it is not hasty that the UK has a ample bulk of seek engines. The afterward area of the cardboard is focused on UK originated seek engines.
History of Excite
Excite was originally formed in 1993 by 5 Stanford university graduates who alleged their seek engine Architext. This was added developed by acceptance accessory Stanford and in 1994 Accelerate Inc. came about and was launched in 1995. Accelerate abandoned acquired a web crawler in November 1996 and over the years they added appearance and software and the advantage of seek on the Apple Wide Web. Bounded seek engines such as Accelerate UK were added to their seek engine. Accelerate has an base of 250,000,000 pages and multimedia items in 2000 and about 19,000,000 account users (40).
General Information
Using a specific UK seek engine such as Accelerate UK can be beneficial. Accelerate UK will absolute your seek geographically and the users after-effects will appear out in a abate calibration accouterment added accordant after-effects (41). If a user in the UK wants to accretion out about bounded account or analysis the banal of UK companies a bounded seek engine will accommodate added accordant information.
Excite Homepage
Features of Accelerate UK are altered compared to the accepted "dot com" American seek engines. The Accelerate UK seek engine homepage has the seek box in a arresting position at the top of the page with options amid beneath to seek the Apple Wide Web or abandoned UK sites. In this account it is a bifold seek engine (UK and Apple Wide Web) (40, 42). Accelerate UK has a Accepted User Interface (GUI) which is actual busy, acceptation that it has a lot of advice on its homepage alignment from UK account account and images, UK stocks, UK online shopping, UK stores, accepted horoscopes, bounded weather, a directory, and assorted added casework targeted for humans active in the UK (42). The Accelerate homepage is aswell customizable, in that you are able to change the blush of the homepage (skins) according to your admired blush or to the colors of your admired football team. Besides just analytic the web on Excite, you can seek application "Categories" for images, videos, mp3s, news, and people. The accelerate UK homepage aswell has a bill calculator beneath the "Tools" section. Accelerate UK displays minimum advertising. If a user clicks on the "More" button altered subcategories aural a seek can be alleged (43).
Search engines acquire become an basic allotment of internet use for the boilerplate computer user. As added advice becomes attainable on the internet, the charge for aboveboard seek engines increases. As Professor Krishnamurthy declared in class, the bulk of agreeable attainable on the internet has developed exponentially in contempo years and as it grows people's seek amount will access unless seek technology improves (38). Throughout the world, internet users are provided with assorted seek engines that action altered appearance depending on their user needs. The accomplishment of these needs aftereffect in the success of seek engines about the world.


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text: On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States. Obama took his place as the 44th president under a bright winter sky, painting this perilous national moment in unsparing terms and exhorting Americans to respond by taking greater responsibility for themselves, the country and the world. More than 1 million people flocked to the National Mall to take part in the event, spilling outward from the gleaming white Capitol steps toward the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial more than a mile away.


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Miami's Shane Battier Gets a Truckload of Free Beer After Mentioning His Favorite Brew
It's good to be an NBA player. Million-dollar salaries, basketball groupies and comp drinks are a pretty fantastic way to live. Shame Battier knows this. While talking about superstitions during the Miami Heat's 27-game winning streak, Battier expressed his love for Bud Light in an interview:
"Athletes are all superstitious and even if they don't admit it, there's a routine and just a cadence to our days. Especially when things go well, you can see us try to replicate it," Battier said.
"I try to drink the same beer – Bud Light – but that's about it. You never know. I don't want to chance luck and switch up brands, so I'm staying loyal to Bud Light."
A few weeks later… BOOM — a truckload of Bud Light arrived at Battier's house courtesy of AB InBev. You can see the delivery in the video above. Battier is probably upset he didn't say "hanging out with models in a hot tub while drinking Bud Light" as his superstition.
This is almost unfair. Battier can afford to buy truckloads of beer. Let's hope that he's the generous type and that he's donated his windfall to a good cause. Because, really, if LeBron, D-Wade, Bosh and Battier are all hanging around burning cash, dating models and drinking free Bud Light, we may hurt ourselves.


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Glade Creek Grist Mill
Lindley Johnson 11/8/2012 6:43:19 AMSo beautiful, Leslie! Love the dramatic foreground and gorgeous fall color. #1497182
Ann Lyssenko 11/8/2012 7:57:11 AMGlorious color in this image Leslie! I especially like the composition of thirds, foreground, falls, color. Very effective. Ann #10409676
Jill Odice 11/8/2012 9:20:31 AMRight into my favs! This is glorious, no other word came to mind :-) #10409854
Carol Flisak 11/8/2012 10:13:40 AMStunnin image, Leslie... excelent composition, terrific color and varied textures! #10409955
Carol L. Fowler 11/8/2012 6:08:30 PMLooks like you got there in the peak of the season! Beautiful!! #10410525
Connie J. Bagot 11/8/2012 6:18:42 PMLovely composition---beautiful fall colors. I love the water fall and the mill. Outstanding as always! #10410562
Terry Cervi 11/8/2012 8:42:10 PMWhat a pretty spot, Leslie!! A gorgeous shot too! #10410701
Ellen Hodges 11/9/2012 4:32:33 AMSuch a very WOW and pretty capture, Leslie!!! #10411177
Rona L. Schwarz 11/10/2012 9:46:09 PMA gorgeous capture of this Grist Mill in full autumn splendor, Leslie! I have loved all your images of WV - they have been very striking! #10413632
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Dulwich CC Alumni Reunion
Former Dulwich cricketers used the opportunity of the Australia Transplant XI playing the GB Transplant XI at Dulwich to meet together. Robyn Hookes was making her first visit to Dulwich to see where her husband David played in 1975.
Here are a few shots (courtesy of Peter Rochford and John Soldan) of the former players sharing a joke or perhaps sharing a memory of a particular game…..
Robyn Hookes takes in the David Hookes Memorial Shield match accompanied by her husband's former team and clubmates David Woods, Peter Rice and Stuart Courtney
Back Row (L. to R.): Lance Keene, Peter Rice, Francis Bowyer, John Sunter, John Smith (Pres.), Andy Ford, Colin Smith, Jeremy Gotch, Stuart Courtney
Front Row: Jim Gibson, Andy Lang, Ginger Thurlow, John Lawrence, Giles Bowyer, Peter Rochford, John Soldan, David Woods
The former players share a joke about Jimmy's career stats – (L. to R.): Giles Bowyer, John Smith, Andy Ford, Jimmy Gibson, Stewart Harmer, Colin "CC" Smith and John Lawrence who was on the phone to Frank Jackson. John Howard can just be seen in the background
The former players interrupt looking at the team photographs to check when Eddie is buying the drinks (L. to R.): Edward Robinson, John Lawrence, Tom Smith (son of CC), Colin Smith, Andy Lang, Andy Ford and Ginger Thurlow
Everyone enjoyed the day and we all thought that this has been too long and when do we meet again?


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Racing Future is determined to inspire a new generation of fans to enjoy the sport of horse racing.
Arcadia, CA, October 23, 2013 -- HRTV (R), The Network for Horse Sports, will present comprehensive live coverage leading into, and continuing through, the 30th running of the Breeders' Cup, Thoroughbred racing's most prestigious global event, which will be held on Friday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 2, at Santa Anita Park.
The Breeders' Cup consists of 14 races over the two days, with purses totaling more than $25 million.
On both days, the network will televise all of the Breeders' Cup races live (which will also be available via www.hrtv.com), with the exception of the Breeders' Cup Classic, to racing fans as the only domestic horse racing cable channel of the event.
HRTV's coverage will mirror its in-depth production of major races, including paddock updates, full post parades, up-to-date key information, and expert race-by-race analysis. It will mobilize its well-respected stable of hosts/analysts, as well as additional correspondents, to handle all angles of racing's two-day extravaganza.
In 2012, the Breeders' Cup and HRTV announced a multi-year media rights agreement that makes HRTV the official simulcast partner of the Breeders' Cup World Championships and the preferred Horse Racing Network provider of the event. HRTV will again produce and simulcast the Breeders' Cup Players' Show (formerly the simulcast show) and air all Breeders' Cup races to off-track wagering sites around the globe, and streamed live on www.hrtv.com <http://www.hrtv.com/> and breederscup.com.
In support of its live racing telecast and simulcast presentations, HRTV will also provide expansive programming leading up to the Breeders' Cup.
The network will offer the live telecast of the Breeders' Cup Post Position Draw on Monday, Oct. 28, and its "Pursuit of the Cup" show, which has chronicled the road to the Cup and is currently on a twice-weekly basis, will expand to a daily show on Saturday, Oct. 26, offering the latest, up-to-date information on Cup entrants.
Also, during Breeders' Cup week, HRTV will televise the "Westrock Coffee First Call" program daily from Clockers' Corner and will provide special Cup-related presentations of the network's weekly staples -- "The Edge," "Against The Odds," and "Across The Board." Additionally, its daily "Race Day America" show will air prominently during the week.
About HRTV
HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, is a television-based multimedia network dedicated to equine sports. HRTV's programming features horseracing from top U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a wide range of world-class English and Western horse competitions, news, original programming and award-winning documentaries covering the world of horse sports. The live stream of HRTV is available on a subscription basis to high-speed Internet users worldwide at www.hrtv.com. In the U.S., the HRTV television network is available via telco, cable and satellite in over 19 million homes.


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I like Cream of Wheat. With chocolate chips…they get all melty… When I first started making Cream of Wheat for Tommy when he started eating (or maybe it was Cream of Rice, whatever!) I used to call it Cream of Concrete. It's yummy and soft when it's warm but much like polenta, when it dries it sticks to the dish/spoon/high chair tray like super adhesive.
I like egg salad. With sweet pickle relish…I like the crunch as long as it isn't an egg shell…
I like Tang and I like it the way my brother and I used to make it. More like Tang concentrate.
I like chocolate cake. I like milk. Not so strange except that I like the chocolate cake in the glass of milk. Dad called it mush. The trick is to get enough cake in the glass so that the spoon stands up in it. The cake in the milk is delicious but when you get a taste of the frosting, SCORE!
I like corned beef sandwiches with mayonnaise. Yes, that's right, mayonnaise. I was almost thrown out of Mastmann's Deli on Hertle Avenue in Buffalo when I was 8 months pregnant with Anthony for requesting that sandwich. He refused to put mayo on the sandwich until I told him it was for me. He relented but cautioned me that my baby would be born a Gentile! He was crushed when I told him I was not Jewish.
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In this tough economy, consumers are laser-focused on finding ways to stretch their budgets, and their best tool may be in their pocket.
There are a number of smartphone applications that can help you to organize your shopping, track your spending, and let you know that you're walking away with the best deal available.
"Shoppers are looking for deals before they are looking at brands," said Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, a New York City-based brand and customer loyalty research consultancy.
About 60 percent of shoppers will use online shopping and price comparison applications to hunt down the best deals, Passikoff said.
We've gathered up 10 of the best apps to help you save money this holiday season. All the apps listed here are free and widely available across multiple smartphone platforms, such as iOS and Android.
No doubt, shoppers will also want to look for apps from their favorite retailers and even daily deal sites such as Groupon, Gilt Group, and Living Social. There also are apps such as CheckPoints and ShopKick, which allow consumers to earn points while they shop.
Click ahead to see some of the best shopping apps out there to save you money.
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SMILA/Documentation/HowTo/How to access the REST API with the RestClient
SMILA provides an extensive REST API to control SMILA, check the status, import or search data, attach workers to its job control etc.
This HowTo describes how to utilize the included RestClient to access SMILA's REST API from within a Java application.
- 1 Preconditions
- 2 Basics
- 3 Using Attachments with the RestClient
- 4 Using the RestClient without the complete development environment
- 5 non-default configuration
- 6 Links
For the sake of simplicity, we assume that you check out the complete SMILA development environment, although it would be sufficient to just check out the relevant bundles to be able to access SMILA. This would be the case, to given some examples, for an asynchronous SMILA worker running in a JRE different to SMILA's JRE or a testing application accessing SMILA via the REST API etc.
- Set up your development environment, see How to set up the development environment.
- Have a look at the REST API Reference to get an overview of SMILA's REST API.
The following examples and code snippets all apply when you are running SMILA out-of-the box on localhost.
If you are running SMILA on a different host or with a different port (or an altered root context), please see non-default configuration on how to use the Rest Client in these cases.
Interfaces and default implementations
The RestClient interface encapsulates the REST access to SMILA. It provides methods for GET, POST, PUT and DELETE calls to the REST API and represents data using SMILA's Any interface and attachments using the Attachments interface. The latter allow working with binary data in SMILA.
The package org.eclipse.smila.http.client.impl provides a default implementation for the RestClient named DefaultRestClient.
There are two helper classes providing the resources as described in REST API Reference:
- ResourceHelper for all resources beginning with /smila, except for those that are marked as deprecated in the REST API Reference.
- TaskManagerClientHelper to provide workers that are not directly driven by the WorkerManager with resources for task handling (internal TaskManager REST API, i.e. the resources beginning with /taskmanager).
Accessing SMILA
To access SMILA via its REST interface, instantiate the RestClient, like:
RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient();
The following code snippet creates a job definition, sends it to the JobManager and starts it if posting was successful:
final RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient(); final ResourceHelper resourceHelper = new ResourceHelper(); final String jobName = "crawlCData"; // create job description as an AnyMap final AnyMap jobDescription = DataFactory.DEFAULT.createAnyMap(); jobDescription.put("name", jobName); jobDescription.put("workflow", "fileCrawling"); final AnyMap parameters = DataFactory.DEFAULT.createAnyMap(); parameters.put("tempStore", "temp"); parameters.put("jobToPushTo", "importJob"); parameters.put("dataSource", "file_data"); parameters.put("rootFolder", "c:/data"); jobDescription.put("parameters", parameters); // the resourcehelper provides us with the resource to the jobs API // we send the (AnyMap) job description in the POST body restClient.post(resourceHelper.getJobsResource(), jobDescription); // POST (here without a body) to start the Job, // the ResourceHelper provides the resource to the named job restClient.post(resourceHelper.getJobResource(jobName));
The following snippet checks if the job with the given name is already running, if not, it is started, and a record with an attachment is sent to it.
final RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient(); final ResourceHelper resourceHelper = new ResourceHelper(); final String jobName = "indexUpdate"; // check for a current run of this job final AnyMap currentJobRun = restClient.get(resourceHelper.getJobResource(jobName)).getMap("runs").getMap("current"); if (currentJobRun != null && !currentJobRun.isEmpty()) { // a current run exists, so we don't need to start one but it may not be running. if (!"RUNNING".equalsIgnoreCase(currentJobRun.getStringValue("state"))) { // well it's just an example... throw new IllegalStateException("Job '" + jobName + "' is not running but has status '" + currentJobRun.getStringValue("state") + "'."); } } else { // no current job run, start another one. restClient.post(resourceHelper.getJobResource(jobName)); } // create attachment with a file's content final File file = new File("c:/data/notice.html"); final Attachments attachments = new AttachmentWrapper("file", file); // put some sample metadata final AnyMap metadata = DataFactory.DEFAULT.createAnyMap(); metadata.put("_recordid", "1"); metadata.put("fileName", file.getCanonicalPath()); // now post metadata with an attachment from a file. // if we had a Record with attachments, we could POST that one... // note: we could add more than one attachment using the AttachmentWrapper. restClient.post(resourceHelper.getPushRecordToJobResource(jobName), metadata, attachments);
Using Attachments with the RestClient
As seen above, the RestClient bundle provides an Attachments interface allowing attachments to be POSTed. An attachment consists of a string key and binary data that will be POSTed as application/octet-stream in a multi-part message.
Handling attachments manually
You can use the AttachmentWrapper in order to add attachments from the following sources if you want to handle attachments manually:
- a byte[]
- a String
- a File
- an InputStream
There are convenience constructors to provide an attachment when constructing an AttachmentWrapper but you can add more than one attachment and mix the types.
final RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient(); byte[] byteAttachment = new byte[1000]; String stringAttachment = "string attachment"; File fileAttachment = new File("c:/data/notice.html"); InputStream inputStreamAttachment = new FileInputStream(fileAttachment); AttachmentWrapper attachments = new AttachmentWrapper("byte-data", byteAttachment); attachments.add("string-data", stringAttachment); attachments.add("file-data", fileAttachment); attachments.add("stream-data", inputStreamAttachment); restClient.post(resource, parameters, attachments);
Handling attachments with records
SMILA records can also include attachments, and since SMILA's target data units are records, it is natural, that the RestClient also supports records (with attachments) directly.
That means, the record's metadata will be sent with the records' attachments as parts of a multi-part message.
final byte[] data1 = ...; final byte[] data2 = ...; record.setAttachment("data1", data1); record.setAttachment("data2", data2); // POST the record with the attachments restClient.post(resourceHelper.getPushRecordToJobResource(jobName), record);
Using the RestClient without the complete development environment
This section describes the steps to follow when using the RestClient from a Java application outside SMILA's JRE.
- Build or download the SMILA distribution.
- Create a new workspace.
- Create a Java project of your gusto.
- Add the following JARs from your downloaded/built SMILA application to the Java Build Path of your new project (exact version numbers are omitted in this list and replaced with *, just use the latest version you'll find in your SMILA application):
- from the plugins directory:
- org.apache.commons.collections_*.jar
- org.apache.commons.io_*.jar
- org.apache.commons.lang_*.jar
- org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient_*.jar (>=4.1)
- org.apache.httpcomponents.httpcore_*.jar (>=4.1)
- org.apache.log4j_*.jar
- org.codehaus.jackson.core_*.jar
- org.eclipse.smila.datamodel_*.jar
- org.eclipse.smila.http.client_*.jar
- org.eclipse.smila.ipc_*.jar
- org.eclipse.smila.utils_*.jar
- from the plugins/org.apache.commons.logging_*/lib directory
- commons-logging-*.jar
- from the plugins directory:
Now you have all means to access SMILA's REST API from another Java application.
E.g. you could now write a simple program that creates and starts up a crawl job and the indexUpdate-job:
public class CrawlMyData { public static void main(String[] args) { final RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient(); final ResourceHelper resourceHelper = new ResourceHelper(); final String jobName = "crawlCData"; // create job description as an AnyMap final AnyMap jobDescription = DataFactory.DEFAULT.createAnyMap(); jobDescription.put("name", jobName); jobDescription.put("workflow", "fileCrawling"); final AnyMap parameters = DataFactory.DEFAULT.createAnyMap(); parameters.put("tempStore", "temp"); parameters.put("jobToPushTo", "indexUpdate"); parameters.put("dataSource", "file_data"); parameters.put("rootFolder", "c:/data"); jobDescription.put("parameters", parameters); try { // start the referred job "indexUpdate" that indexes our sent data. // We should check if it is still be running, etc.. restClient.post(resourceHelper.getJobResource("indexUpdate")); } catch (RestException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } try { // create (or update) the job, we chould check if it exists or is runnung, etc... restClient.post(resourceHelper.getJobsResource(), jobDescription); // POST with no body to start the Job in default mode restClient.post(resourceHelper.getJobResource(jobName)); } catch (RestException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } }
Putting it together
Now start your SMILA application and when it's up, run the application from above and watch the jobs using your preferred REST client (e.g. browser plugin, see Interactive REST tools) at http://localhost:8080/smila/jobmanager/jobs/.
You should see:
- the newly created job crawlCData,
- the job indexUpdate is RUNNING,
- the job crawlCData is FINISHING (or has already finished, depending on the amount of data in your crawl directory).
Wait some time and you can then search your crawled data at http://localhost:8080/SMILA/search.
non-default configuration
SMILA's rest client and resource helper have default constructors using the default values for the SMILA application:
- host: localhost
- port: 8080
- root context: /smila
If your bundles run under a different root context path, you have to create your ResourceHelper using the actual context path.
If your application runs on a different server or under a different port, you will have to supply this information to the constructor of the DefaultRestClient (you can omit the leading http://).
E.g. the following code snippet
final RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient("host.domain.org:80"); final ResourceHelper resourceHelper = new ResourceHelper("/context");
creates a client and a resource helper to connect to a SMILA instance that runs on http://host.domain.org:80/context.
You can also use your own connection manager or limit the number of total connections and max connections per host by using the respective constructors of DefaultRestClient
- Using the REST API describes the general usage of the REST API.


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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch – August 11, 2014
There's been some action in western states this week. Wisconsin organizers have formed a new group called Wisconsin Unites for Marriage. Their goal is public education while also persuading Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen to drop his defense of the state's marriage ban. A federal judge ruled against Wisconsin's law in June, and oral argument in an appeal is scheduled for August 26th, along with a hearing on an Indiana case.
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A recent op-ed on the Guilford Elementary/Middle School vegetable garden focused on one project that didn't meet expectations ("Harvest of disappointment," Nov. 23). Yet discussions have already begun about how to incorporate the garden into the curriculum next spring, and we hope that this still can happen.
The op-ed also failed to mention the many partnerships that are helping the long-struggling school improve. At the school, there are a number of great partnerships working under the auspices of the Greater Homewood Community Corporation.
Generous Guilford neighborhood donors made possible significantly improved facilities this year, including a renovated cafeteria, entrance courtyard and improved science and art rooms that have vastly improved the learning environment with bright colors and new science lab equipment.
Loyola and Towson university education students work with children after school to improve math achievement and volunteer in classrooms during the school day. A Johns Hopkins faculty member will be providing advanced training to the faculty to improve the quality of teaching.
Ten immensely dedicated neighborhood residents volunteer weekly to tutor children in reading and math. And this year there is a full after-school program instead of just a collection of clubs and programs.
Ensuring that every child in every neighborhood has a great school is important and complex work. Guilford, like most Baltimore City schools, struggles to serve an overwhelmingly low-income student population with too few resources. Not every project will take off and soar, but it is essential that we learn from both the successes and the failures and continue to try new approaches to move our schools forward.
Karen DeCamp, Baltimore
The writer is director of neighborhood programs for the Greater Homewood Community Corporation.


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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (ā´mīətrōf´ik, sklĬrō´sĬs) or motor neuron disease, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, degenerative disease that affects motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, preventing them from sending impulses to the muscles. The muscles atrophy quickly, causing weakness, paralysis, and eventual death, usually when the muscles that control respiration fail. The intellect, eye motion, and bladder control are not affected. ALS sometimes originates in the brain, causing initial symptoms such as difficulty in swallowing or talking; in other cases it originates in the spinal cord, causing initial symptoms such as weakness in the extremities. About a tenth of ALS cases are hereditary. ALS usually develops after age 40; more men are affected than women.
There appear to be several causes of ALS, and a number of genetic mutations have been linked to about a third of all ALS cases. In 1991 a research team led by Teepu Siddique and Robert H. Brown, Jr. located a gene for familial ALS on chromosome 21. A later discovery pinpointed a mutation in the gene that codes for an enzyme, superoxide dismutase (SOD), as responsible for a percentage of familial cases. These defects do not appear to be present in the more common nonfamilial, or "sporadic," form of the disease. Since then, however, two defective proteins have been found to be associated with both inherited and sporadic ALS, one involved in regulating RNA and the other involved in clearing defective or unneeded proteins. Scientists also have studied the buildup of the chemical glutamate that occurs in ALS patients. Glutamate normally acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, with excess amounts being absorbed by the cells. In ALS patients the reabsorption process fails, and the buildup of glutamate selectively destroys motor neurons. Other possible causes of ALS include defects in the gene that makes the neurofilament proteins that support nerve cell axons, and antibodies that interfere with calcium channels in the cells and cause a toxic buildup of calcium in the neurons.
There is no cure for ALS. Devices such as wheelchairs and speech synthesizers can help patients maintain independence. Research into treatment has concentrated on neurotrophic factors (proteins that assist nerve growth and health) and glutamate blockers. Rilutek (formerly Riluzole), the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of ALS (1995), adds a few months to the life expectancy of most patients but does not relieve symptoms. Edaravone (Radicava), approved in 2017, may slow progress of ALS but also does not improve symptoms. Baseball star Lou Gehrig died of ALS in 1941, bringing it national attention.


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Woman accused of letting 7-year-old boy wander for hours at mall
SALEM, N.H. (AP) � A woman has been accused of letting her 7-year-old nephew wander around a New Hampshire mall for four hours while she went shopping.
Ana Matos of Lawrence, Mass., told police Friday she was looking for her nephew; however, she was observed carrying three shopping bags containing over $500 in clothing.
Police said the 45-year-old Matos had no answer when asked why she didn't notify mall security or the Salem Police Department when she couldn't find her nephew. The child was found wandering around a store alone for at least a couple of hours.
Matos was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.


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Oregon prison theft not a nickel-and-dime deal. Instead, it was 104,000 quarters
SALEM, Ore. – Over the course of nine years, somebody has stolen about $26,000 from the Oregon prison system — a quarter at a time. That's about 104,000 quarters.
Visitors to the medium-security Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem plunk the quarters into lockers before going through security.
No one can figure out what happened to the coins, and state corrections officials couldn't explain why the thievery went undetected for so long, The Oregonian (http://bit.ly/1bvF3lM) reported Thursday.
Auditors discovered the theft this spring as they were looking into the multimillion dollar Inmate Welfare Fund made up of vending machine receipts, inmate fines and concession contracts. It's used for such things as bus tickets for departing inmates and prison cable television.
Investigators initially suspected the theft was linked to another embezzlement case involving the fund that a grand jury is examining. But corrections officials say there's a lack of evidence to link the two cases.
Prison Superintendent Rob Persson said the amount of money involved in the locker thefts was relatively small in comparison to the fund that processed about $30 million in those years.
"It was a couple hundred dollars here and there — not a big difference in the overall scheme of things," he said.
Persson, who took over in August 2011, said there was no formal procedure for handling the coins, but a designated person at the prison was supposed to process the cash.
"There is no record of who was designated," Persson said. He also said there was lax security involving the key to the coin boxes.
The coins were supposed to be removed monthly and turned in at Corrections Department headquarters a few miles away. From October 2002 until February 2011 the money apparently never made it there.
Persson said he's instituted tighter controls on the coins.
Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com


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MG1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 50 freelance designers.
It is quite simple (for those up to the challenge) - I need a creative artist to design a script/text logo by Wednesday, August 13!
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For some logo inspiration... Think:
- Skype
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- Film (trailers, specifically)
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- Entertaining, fun
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- Interesting
- The logo itself must read "filmtrailer.com".
- Due date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008!
- I don't want something not representative of the industry (being film trailers).
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Personifying the mission." If one common quality can be embodied in each of the 2008 Marquette University Excellence in Employee Service Award recipients, it's that they exemplify what Marquette's mission is all about. That characteristic was passionately emphasized by the dozens of nominations involving Jane Casper, Lillie Fluker, Gwendolyn King and Brian Trecek, who will be formally recognized at an awards reception April 15.
"Jane contributes to the mission of the university and demonstrates her commitment to the Ignatian ideal of care for others every day as she lives her faith and encourages students in their academics and community leadership," said a nominator. "She is among the most cheerful people I know.""What I treasure most about Marquette is being part of a bigger 'whole,' part of the Jesuit tradition of education," said Casper. "The experience is stimulating and spiritual, energizing and rewarding. I am so very grateful."
"Lillie's selfless, loving and dependable service to our children exemplifies the mission of Marquette," said a nominator. "She has a deep faith in God that I believe inspires her to serve others and strive for excellence in her vocation. She is a wonderful role model for children and parents."
"I have an opportunity to nurture and observe the growth and development of the children in my care," said Fluker. "I also enjoy working with the other outstanding teachers and management of the Marquette Child Care Center."
"The work of custodians is often not held in high regard even though their direct contact with so many students and staff has a big impact on the entire campus," said a nominator. "Gwen exemplifies everything that the university mission stands for. She takes pride in ensuring that her responsibilities are not just done, but done thoroughly."
"I am proud to tell people that I work for Marquette," said King. "The greatest reward is working closely with the students. We get to know each other per-sonally, and that makes all of our efforts worthwhile."
"He does not want to make his job easier," said a nominator. "He wants to do it better for the sake of the students, faculty, staff and school. He cares for each applicant as a person and wants each to succeed both as a professional and a human. Brian just awes me with his hard work, determination, effectiveness and caring heart."
"My work as an admissions officer here has been and continues to be an incredibly rewarding experience," said Trecek. "I have had the distinct honor of in-troducing this place I love to thousands of people from all over the country for a very long time."


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Three neighborhood groups have thrown down the gauntlet over trash. The friendly rivalry pits the Barron Park, College Terrace and Midtown Green Teams in a "mini-can challenge," to get at least 50 percent of their residents to use the city's smaller 20-gallon trash receptacle.
The challenge was inspired by a recent map published by the City of Palo Alto's Zero Waste program, which showed mini-can usage by neighborhood, Midtown Green Team member Debbie Mytels said. The city challenged the community to achieve a rate of 50 percent mini-cans.
Grassroots environmental teams work on projects that reduce people's carbon footprint, so a campaign that would help reduce methane and carbon dioxide from garbage seemed a perfect fit. When she learned the Palo Verde neighborhood just to the south of Midtown came in first at 37 percent, Mytels' competitive spirit was fired up.
"Midtown can do better than that!" she said.
Mytels and Lisa Altieri, Palo Alto Green Teams organizer, came up with the mini-can challenge, which launched on Earth Day, April 22, she said.
"We came up with the idea that it would be cool to challenge our neighborhoods to see which one could get to the 50 percent mini-can usage first. Our motivation? Just basic neighborhood pride -- and a desire to get more people into using mini-cans," said Mytels, who is the program developer for local nonprofit group Acterra.
Palo Alto has considerable garbage that could be recycled. According to the city's Zero Waste website, approximately 43 percent of city garbage is recyclable. Paper alone comprises 14 percent, or 11, 200 tons.
Switching to mini-cans saves a household $203.52 annually, according to Palo Alto Neighborhood (PAN) Green Team organizers. Mini-can garbage service costs $15.90 per month; regular 32-gallon can service costs $32.86 per month.
Mytels said her household has used the mini-can for about three years. The can is actually a regular 32-gallon receptacle with an insert that lowers the capacity to 20 gallons.
"We've been happy and saving money ever since," she said.
Switching to a mini-can potentially has an added environmental benefit. Some residents use the savings to sign up for PaloAltoGreen, the city's renewable-energy program that supplies power from 100 percent wind and solar sources.
Anne Schmitt of College Terrace said her neighborhood green team's meeting Wednesday highlighted the challenge. Group members were doing a trial canvassing of the neighborhood, she said.
Last month, the group arranged a tour of the transfer center for the city garbage company, GreenWaste. Residents saw first hand en masse what Palo Altans put in the trash.
"The amount of plastic bags people throw away -- the ones we get when we buy broccoli -- that were on the GreenWaste conveyer belt was huge," she said.
At the College Terrace Residents' Association annual picnic, a neighbor's worm bin was the biggest hit, she said. At the end of the picnic, the worms got the ends of hamburger buns and other scraps.
College Terrace resident Ute Engelke regularly feeds her 5,000 head of worm "livestock" everything from table scraps to old blue jeans. All of her household trash has fit in a 1-gallon bucket for years, she said. Years before the city offered a mini-can and recycling, Engelke said she wrote "mini-can" on the lid of her covered bucket so trash collectors would pick it up.
She's since switched to the city's 20-gallon can, but it takes at least a month before she has enough trash to put it curbside, she said.
Engelke said she adds the blue jeans without cutting them up. The worms devour them with gusto.
"It takes maybe three months to eat up. Only the zippers stay behind and the seams made with polyester," she said.
Barron Park has a good chance of winning the competition, Altieri said. Barron Park's team "just grabbed onto this. They are going gangbusters, canvassing the neighborhood, dropping off fliers to everyone with 32-gallon cans, holding house visits to help people learn how to reduce their waste," she said.
The Green Team created a survey about the mini-can service that went out to residents in April. Altieri said she is talking to Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa about a possible recognition award from the city for the winning neighborhood -- something beyond the bragging rights.
Mark Georgia, Barron Park Green Team committee member, said he is ready for the challenge.
"Our Barron Park Green Team is throwing down the gauntlet and invites all neighborhoods in Palo Alto to accept the challenge," he said.
Georgia said the Barron Park group counted how many residents use mini-cans. They leave information about the fiscal and environmental savings under the doormats of residents who use larger bins, he said.
Reducing the level of trash isn't difficult, once one becomes mindful of recycling and making good purchases based on less packaging, he said.
"For years, we have had a mini-can. It's gotten so that most weeks we don't even have half a can of garbage," Georgia, an avid gardener who composts kitchen scraps, said.
"If you have a garden, there's all that packaging that won't go in the garbage."
Mytels agreed.
"I've been a recycler since the days of burlap bags -- and a backyard composter since the '70s, too. Even when there were five of us in the house, we never needed more than one 32-gallon can. So much more can be recycled now than it could when my kids were growing up. If people follow the recycling guidelines, even if they have a larger family, many can get by with using a mini can," she said.
Residents who want to switch to the mini-can service can call GreenWaste at 650-493-4894 or email email@example.com. A backlog could mean waiting for a month or more, Mytels said.
The mini-can progress report is updated quarterly and is available at www.cityofpaloalto.org.


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Global $L$-Packets for $\GSp(2)$ and Theta Lifts
Let $F$ be a totally real number field. We define global $L$-packets for $\GSp(2)$ over $F$ which should correspond to the elliptic tempered admissible homomorphisms from the conjectural Langlands group of $F$ to the $L$-group of $\GSp(2)$ which are reducible, or irreducible and induced from a totally real quadratic extension of $F$. We prove that the elements of these global $L$-packets occur in the space of cusp forms on $\GSp(2)$ over $F$ as predicted by Arthur's conjecture. This can be regarded as the $\GSp(2)$ analogue of the dihedral case of the Langlands-Tunnell theorem. To obtain these results we prove a nonvanishing theorem for global theta lifts from the similitude group of a general four dimensional quadratic space over $F$ to $\GSp(2)$ over $F$.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 11F70; Secondary 11F27, 11R39.
Keywords and Phrases: $L$-packets, Arthur's conjecture, $\GSp(2)$, theta lifts
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The Tigers took an early 4-0 lead after baskets by Fulton and senior Colin Beatty. With the Tigers leading 6-4, CP used an 8-2 run to take a 12-8 lead with 11:37 to play. A jumper by junior Ross Rivera and a pair of free throws by junior Tony Gill evened it up at 12-12. The teams traded baskets until it was 18-18, when senior Rodrigo De Souza hit one of two free throws to give the Tigers a 19-18 lead with 2:59 to play. The Mustangs got a basket from Dylan Royer to go up 20-19, before Fulton hit a jumped to make it 21-20 Pacific with 1:33 left. Chris Eversley scored and added a free throw to give CP a 23-21 lead that it would take to the break. The lead changed hands five times and was tied six times, as neither team led by more than four points in the first half.
Cal Poly pushed its lead to four with a basket to start the second half, but the Tigers evened up at 25-25 after a pair of layups from Gill and senior Lorenzo McCloud. The Mustangs pushed ahead again 33-30, but four straight points from Rivera gave the lead back to the Tigers at 34-33 with 11:39 to play. A layup by Chris O'Brien gave the lead back to the Mustangs (35-34), but the Tigers countered with a 7-2 stretch capped by a three-pointer from Gill to make it a 41-37 lead with 7:55 to go. Cal Poly then scored five straight, on another jumper from O'Brien and a three-pointer from Dylan Royer. Fulton hit one of two free throws to even it for the 11th time at 45-45 with 3:43 to play. The Tigers countered four points on the next two Cal Poly possessions with a pair of big three-pointers from Gill to lead 51-49 with just 2:00 remaining. Everseley knocked down a corner jumper and O'Brien hit a pair of free throws to give CP a 53-51 lead with 1:00 left, but McCloud scored on a layup to even it up at 53-53 for the 14th and final time with :50 seconds to play. After a CP miss, the Tigers held for the final shot. McCloud drove to the right baseline, pulling up for a fade-away jumper with under three seconds to go. The shot bounced into the middle of the key, where Fulton jumped, caught the ball out of mid-air and put back the miss to give the Tigers the victory. A three-quarters court heave by Drake U'u was well short as time expired. Fulton's put-back accounted for the 18th lead change in the game.
Gill led the Tigers with a career-high 20 points, while Fulton added 12 points. Eversley led Cal Poly with 12 points.
The Tigers shot 44.2% from the field, but an outstanding 55.0% (11-20) in the second half. Pacific was out-rebounded 29-23, with the Mustangs out-scoring Pacific 9-2 in second chance points from eight offensive rebounds. The Tigers' only second chance points ended up being the most important.
The Tigers will face UC Irvine on Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN2 in the championship game.


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|Changes in Annual Energy Review 2011
Annual Energy Review 2011 Release: September 27, 2012
1. Energy Consumption, Expenditures, and Emissions Indicators Estimates (Table 1.5) has been modified to include columns for Gross Output and Energy Expenditures as Share of Gross Output and remove Greenhouse Gas Emissions per Real Dollar of Gross Domestic Product.
2. Sales of Fossil Fuels Produced on Federal and American Indian Lands (Table 1.14) was previously titled "Fossil Fuel Production on Federally Administered Lands." It has been redesigned and now provides data on sales of fossil fuels from Federal and American Indian lands for fiscal years 2003 through 2011.
3. Non-Combustion Use of Fossil Fuels (Table 1.15) was previously titled "Fossil Fuel Consumption for Nonfuel Use Estimates."
4. Industrial Sector Energy Consumption Estimates (Table 2.1d), Renewable Energy Consumption: Industrial and Transportation Sectors (Table 10.2b), Electricity Net Generation: Commercial and Industrial Sectors, (Table 8.2d), and Consumption for Electricity Generation by Energy Source: Commercial and Industrial Sectors (Table 8.4c) have been modified to include industrial wind consumption.
5. Household Energy Consumption and Expenditures by End Use and Energy Source (Table 2.5) has been modified to remove columns showing total consumption and expenditures by energy source.
6. Motor Vehicle Mileage, Fuel Consumption, and Fuel Economy (Table 2.8) has been modified to incorporate the Federal Highway Administration's revised vehicle classifications. Data are now provided for Light-Duty Vehicles, Short Wheelbase; Light-Duty Vehicles, Long Wheelbase; and Heavy-Duty Trucks.
7. Information related to the major U.S. energy companies' activities (previously Tables 3.10-3.13 and 4.10) has been removed. EIA is currently considering revisions to its Financial Reporting System database.
8. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Cumulative Production, and Proved Reserves (Table 4.2) has been modified to remove columns on estimated ultimate recovery.
9. Uranium Reserves (Table 4.10) has been modified to remove data on potential resources.
10. Petroleum and Other Liquids Overview (Table 5.1a), Petroleum Overview (Table 5.1b), and Crude Oil Production and Crude Oil Well Productivity (Table 5.2) have been modified to incorporate revisions to crude oil production, total field production, and adjustments in coordination with the Petroleum Supply Monthly (PSM). For more details on the new revision policy, see Appendix B of the PSM at http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/.
11. Crude Oil Production and Crude Oil Well Productivity (Table 5.2) has been modified to include data on Federal and State offshore crude oil production.
12. Electric Noncoincident Peak Load and Capacity Margin: Summer Peak Period (Table 8.12a) and Electric Noncoincident Peak Load and Capacity Margin: Winter Peak Period (Table 8.12b) are new tables derived from the data previously captured in "Electric Noncoincident Peak Load and Capacity Margin" (previously Table 8.12).
13. Biodiesel Overview (Table 10.4) now incorporates annual biodiesel production data for 2009 forward from Form EIA-22M, "Monthly Biodiesel Production Survey."
14. Photovoltaic Cell and Module Shipments by Type, Trade, and Prices (Table 10.8) has been modified to include data on both "cells and modules" and "modules only" for shipments and trade.
15. Photovoltaic Cell and Module Shipments by Sector and End Use (Table 10.9) has been modified to show shipments by the Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Electric Power, and Other Sectors; and by Grid-Connected and Off-Grid end uses. In addition, beginning in 2010, data are for U.S. shipments of photovoltaic modules only.
16. Approximate Heat Rates for Electricity, and Heat Content of Electricity (Table A6) has been reconfigured to display columns for "Coal," "Petroleum," "Natural Gas," and "Noncombustible Renewable Energy" and to delete the "Geothermal" column.
The following tables are deleted:
"Major U.S. Energy Companies' Domestic Production and Refining" (previously Table 3.10)
"Major U.S. Energy Companies' Net Income" (previously Table 3.11)
"Major U.S. Energy Companies' Profitability" (previously Table 3.12)
"U.S. Energy Activities by Foreign Affiliated Companies" (previously Table 3.13)
"Costs of Crude Oil and Natural Gas Wells Drilled" (previously Table 4.8)
"Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Gross Additions to Proved Reserves, and Exploration and Development Expenditures" (previously Table 4.9)
"Major U.S. Energy Companies' Expenditures for Crude Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Development by Region" (previously Table 4.10)
"Emissions of Greenhouse Gases" (previously Table 11.1)
The following tables are renumbered:
|Changes in Annual Energy Review 2010
Annual Energy Review 2010 Release: October 19, 2011
Energy Perspectives:
Primary Energy Consumption by Source (Table 1.3):
Heat Content of Petroleum Products Supplied (Table 5.12):
Consumption for Electricity Generation by Energy Source: Electric Power Sector (Table 8.4b):
International Energy (Section 11):
— "Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Energy Consumption: End-Use Sectors" (previously Table 12.3): Reconfigured into five new tables that include estimates of emissions from biomass energy consumption:
Appendix F:
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The following table is deleted:
"Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Consumption of Energy for All Purposes in the Manufacturing Sector, 2002" (previously Table 12.4).
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|Changes in Annual Energy Review 2009
Annual Energy Review 2009 Release: August 19, 2010
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Annual Energy Review 2008 Release: June 26, 2009
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Annual Energy Review 2007 Release: June 23, 2008
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|Changes in Annual Energy Review 2006
Annual Energy Review 2006 Release: June 27, 2007
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Annual Energy Review 2005 Release: July 27, 2006
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|Changes in Annual Energy Review 2004
Annual Energy Review 2004 Release: August 19, 2005
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Annual Energy Review 2003 Release: September 13, 2004
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|Changes in Annual Energy Review 2002
Annual Energy Review 2002 Release: October 24, 2003
Table 1.3, "Energy Consumption by Source, 1949-2002" and Table 2.1f "Electric Power Sector Energy Consumption, 1949-2002" have been modified by combining electricity net imports derived from fossil fuels and renewable sources into one category with their sources unspecified. EIA previously estimated the proportions of traded electricity from fossil fuels and hydropower (and applied the fossil-fuel steam-electric-plant heat rate to convert from kilowatthours to Btu) and from geothermal (and applied the heat rate for geothermal energy plants). EIA no longer has adequate data to estimate the proportions by source and is now applying an overall rate of 3,412 Btu per kilowatthour to all traded electricity.
Table 1.5, "Energy Consumption, Expenditures, and Emissions Indicators, 1949- 2002" has been modified by the addition of emissions indicators.
Table 10.2b "Renewable Energy Consumption: Electric Power Sector and Total, 1949-2002" has been modified by taking electricity net imports that are derived from hydroelectric power and geothermal energy out of the renewable energy consumption total. Those quantities continue to be included in total U.S. energy consumption as components of electricity net imports, with fuel sources unspecified. The change results in a 0.0-to-0.5 quadrillion Btu drop in total renewable energy consumption from 1949 forward.
These tables have been added this year:
Table 8.3a, "Consumption of Combustible Fuels for Electricity Generation and Useful Thermal Output at Electricity-Only and Combined-Heat-and-Power Plants: Total (All Sectors), 1989-2002."
Table 12.7, "Emissions From Energy Consumption for Electricity and Useful Thermal Output at Electricity-Only and Combined-Heat-and-Power Plants, 1989-2001."
These AER 2001 tables are reordered in the AER 2002:


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text: London - Manchester United moved three points clear at the English Premier League summit after beating Reading 4-3 in a remarkable game on Saturday, which was to prove a day of despair for Chelsea and Arsenal.All the goals came before half-time at the Madejski Stadium, equalling the Premier League record for first-half goals, as United overcame their defensive frailties to draw away from Manchester City - held 1-1 by Everton - ahead of next weekend's Manchester derby.Chelsea are now 10 points off the pace in third place after seeing their run without victory stretch to seven games in a 3-1 defeat at West Ham United, while Arsenal tumbled to 10th after a 2-0 loss at home to Swansea City.A Wayne Rooney penalty put United 2-1 up in the 16th minute at Reading after Anderson had cancelled out Hal Robson-Kanu's eighth-minute opener for the hosts, only for headers from Adam Le Fondre and Sean Morrison to restore the home side's lead.However, Rooney tucked away Patrice Evra's cross to equalise in the 30th minute before Robin van Persie put Alex Ferguson's men back in front moments later by finishing from Rooney's flick.Van Persie had a goal ruled out before half-time despite the ball appearing to cross the line and then blazed wide of an open goal in the second half after an error from Reading goalkeeper Adam Federici, but 4-3 proved enough.Chelsea's match at West Ham was another game of two halves.The visitors led 1-0 at half-time, only for the hosts' rousing second-half fightback to condemn the European champions to their longest sequence of top-flight games without victory since 1995.Juan Mata scored the first goal of the Rafael Benitez era to put Chelsea ahead at Upton Park but a revitalised West Ham roared back to prevail through goals from Carlton Cole and substitutes Mohamed Diame and Modibo Maiga."At this level, you have to take your chances, and we had many clear chances to finish the game," said interim coach Benitez, who has picked up two points from a possible nine since replacing the sacked Roberto Di Matteo.Michu was Arsenal's scourge at the Emirates Stadium, the £2m signing from Rayo Vallecano claiming a late brace for Swansea to leave Arsene Wenger's side five points below the top four."We were not good and Swansea deserved to win," said Wenger, whose side have made their worst start to a league season since he arrived in 1996."Our fans cannot be happy when we do not win games and what we produced today is not enough to keep our fans happy."Marouane Fellaini put Everton ahead in the 33rd minute at City, following in after Joe Hart parried his header, but the Belgian's foul on Edin Dzeko allowed Carlos Tevez to bring the champions level from the spot before half-time."It was a hard game," City manager Roberto Mancini told the BBC."We tried to break them down but this week we have played three games in six days so we are tired. We also have players injured."A 75th-minute goal by Dean Whitehead gave Stoke City a 1-0 win at West Bromwich Albion, and Tottenham Hotspur capitalised on the Baggies' setback to move into fourth place with a 3-0 win at Fulham.Brazilian holding midfielder Sandro set Spurs on their way with a wickedly swerving 30-yard effort in the 55th minute, before a quick-fire Jermain Defoe brace took the game away from Martin Jol's side.Spurs lost both Michael Dawson and the in-form Gareth Bale to injury, but coach Andre Villas-Boas said: "They are not very serious (injuries) and hopefully we will have them both back soon."Harry Redknapp's home debut as Queens Park Rangers manager ended in stalemate after the top flight's bottom club were held 1-1 by Aston Villa at Loftus Road.Brett Holman put Villa ahead in the eighth minute but Jamie Mackie's fine 18th-minute header levelled the scores for QPR, who had Stephane Mbia taken to hospital following a collision with Gabriel Agbonlahor.Liverpool climbed one place to 11th after Daniel Agger's 43rd-minute header secured a 1-0 success at home to Southampton that gave Brendan Rodgers' side only their third home win of the campaign.


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USDA Deputy Secretary to Announce Hunger Grant Program
BROOKINGS - The deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is traveling to South Dakota to announce $75 million in USDA research grants to combat U.S. and global hunger.
Kathleen Merrigan will visit South Dakota State University in Brookings on Wednesday morning.
The grants also aim to promote rural business development and highlight the economic importance of local and regional food systems.
Merrigan also plans to discuss USDA's 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food' initiative and efforts to create new opportunities for farmers, ranchers, and communities by building local and regional food systems.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Could seven be the final chapter in the story of Netpulse Media Networks, the company formed from the merger of Netpulse, E-Zone and Xystos? At press time, it seemed that way. Although some efforts were being made to salvage the company, it's possible that, by the time you read this, chapter 7 bankruptcy has ended Netpulse Media Networks.
What went wrong?
People have opinions, but few are willing to go on the record. Some anonymous sources blame E-Zone, saying that the management-heavy company had a spendthrift mentality that drained the funds available to Netpulse Media Networks.
Others argue that Netpulse doomed everybody by being the first company to offer its equipment for free. One anonymous source even said that Netpulse was carrying too much debt at the time of the merger, adding that a lawsuit from Bally (which never received the Netpulse systems it had been promised) forced the merged company into chapter 7. (For its part, Bally denied that it has filed a lawsuit against Netpulse.)
In the hopes of uncovering the real story, Club Industry tried contacting members of the E-Zone camp, including Robert McKenzie (the former CEO of E-Zone who became co-executive chairman after the merger). Our calls were not returned.
We had better luck reaching former Netpulse CEO Tom Proulx, who shared the title of co-executive chairman with Mc-Kenzie. He told Club Industry that the company declared chapter 7 because the merger took too long, the capital ran out, and the market dried up.
Joe Cirulli, the owner of the Gainesville Health and Fitness Center and president of IHRSA, called the bankruptcy a "shame," saying that both companies offered great products. He is hopeful that they will come up with a support mechanism for the systems that are already in place (such as those installed at Gainesville).
"Obviously, the biggest concern is what happens when the system goes down, and I'm not quite sure the answer to that," Cirulli said.
This is a good point: Who is responsible for the installed Netpulse/E-Zone systems? Better yet: Who owns them? As one source pointed out, clubs never purchased the systems — even the ones installed before the free offer. Clubs leased the systems.
Does that mean the systems will be left to gather dust? Or will somebody show up one day to remove the equipment as part of a plan to satisfy creditors?
If Proulx has his way, none of that will happen. At press time, Proulx was optimistic that he could raise enough capital to buy back all (or at least part) of the company. His intention is to keep the merged company together, and he claimed that the people from E-Zone are working with him.
"The best outcome for the clubs as well as the new company going forward is to keep it all together," Proulx said. "The merged company did make sense. There were complementary product lines, there were synergies, and for all those reasons, it still makes sense going forward."
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