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Jets general manager John Idzik was introduced to the New York media Thursday, and proved to be the anti-Rex Ryan. Idzik said very little and offered no specifics on the Jets' roster or his future.
So we'll leave it to Jets owner Woody Johnson to give us the best update of the day. Johnson was asked if the team is interested in trading cornerback Darrelle Revis, as multiple reports have indicated.
"I don't know where that came from," Johnson said.
It's notable Johnson wouldn't deny that there is interest. Other than that, Johnson deferred to Idzik.
"I think it's way premature to say anything specific," Idzik said. "I think it would be presumptuous to say anything on that."
That generally was the response when Idzik was asked about Revis, Mark Sanchez or any other roster-related questions. Idzik was complimentary of Ryan and said he looked forward to working together. "We over me" was a phrase that was used.
Asked if Rex had a year to prove himself under Idzik, the new boss said, "I don't look at it like that."
Ryan was on hand as well. "This man's goals are the exact same as my goals... and Mr. Johnson's," Ryan said, via the New York Daily News.
Johnson, meanwhile, said Ryan's future would be decided jointly by the owner and Idzik. Ryan reportedly doesn't want to trade Revis.
Ryan knows he has an uphill battle to win with this roster. Getting rid of the team's best player won't help him one bit.
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== HomeBrew ==
This is the fastest, most current, way of installing CouchDB from source on a Mac, along with all dependencies. It tracks releases with only a short delay. And it's [[http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/|easy to install]] too.
=== Changes in XCode ===
Apple now provides a stand-alone (command-line) build chain, which successfully builds CouchDB and required dependencies, or you can use XCode 4.2 and below directly. Users of a current XCode >= 4.3 will need to install the additional command-line tools below.
* Login to [[https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action|apple dev centre]]
* Get the [[http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/command_line_tools_for_xcode_4.4__late_march_2012/cltools_lion_latemarch12.dmg|command-line tools for xcode]]
* Some more info at http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html
* If you need gcc for other recipes, the homebrew duplicates fork has a GCC recipe available which can be installed side-by-side:
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install apple-gcc42
=== If you've brewed CouchDB before ===
It is recommended to keep your homebrew dependencies up to date with CouchDB, particularly if you are running Lion. Re-installing Erlang *will* take some time to compile, but ensures you have the most stable, fastest Erlang available. And as a bonus it producer error messages with line numbers!
brew remove --force openssl erlang couchdb icu4c spidermonkey nspr
=== Let's get brewing! ===
* Check your recipes:
brew update
brew outdated
* CouchDB 1.2.1 doesn't support Erlang/OTP R16B yet, as the version of MochiWeb that we include doesn't support it yet. A fix for this is underway but in the meantime you need to "pin" homebrew to the R15B03-1 release as follows:
brew rm --force erlang
cd /usr/local
git checkout 168742f Library/Formula/erlang.rb
* Update your recipes:
brew install erlang
brew install couchdb
* The above erlang install will use the bottled (pre-compiled) version if you are: using {{{/usr/local}}} for homebrew, and on 10.6 or 10.7. If you're not on one of these, homebrew will build from source, so consider doing {{{brew install erlang --no-docs}}} to trim down compilation time.
* If you're hacking on CouchDB, and we hope you will, you may try the current git-based master (head) branch, or the next development release using this couchdb recipe, using either {{{--head}}} or {{{--devel}}} options respectively. This will allow quick installation of the future 1.3.x branch when it becomes active. If you're not sure if you need this, then you probably don't. In both cases we assume you are comfortable identifying bugs, and handling any potential upgrades between commits to the codebase.
brew install [--devel|--head] couchdb
Note: OS X Lion might hang on the final make. See the thread at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/7024 it seems in most cases to be resolved by breaking out with CTRL-C and then repeating with brew install -v couchdb.
If you wish to have CouchDB run as a [[ https://github.com/oreilly/couchdb-guide/blob/gh-pages/editions/1/en/source.html|daemon]] then, set up the account, using the "User & Groups" preference pane:
* Create a standard user {{{ couchdb }}} with home directory {{{ /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb }}}
* Create a group called {{{ couchdb }}} and add yourself, the couchdb user, and any others you want to be able to edit config or db files directly to it. Use the {{{ advanced }}} group options to ensure the internal name is also correctly called couchdb.
Using a terminal, set permissions as follows:
sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb $RELAX/etc/couchdb $RELAX/var/lib/couchdb $RELAX/var/run/couchdb $RELAX/var/log/couchdb
sudo chmod -R 770 $RELAX/etc/couchdb $RELAX/var/lib/couchdb $RELAX/var/run/couchdb $RELAX/var/log/couchdb
sudo find -X $RELAX/etc/couchdb $RELAX/var/lib/couchdb $RELAX/var/run/couchdb $RELAX/var/log/couchdb -type f | sudo xargs chmod 660
Finally, you can setup and start/stop CouchDB daemon using these terminal aliases:
sudo cp $RELAX/Cellar/couchdb/1.2.1/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
restart_couch='/usr/bin/sudo launchctl stop org.apache.couchdb'
start_couch='/usr/bin/sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist'
stop_couch='/usr/bin/sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist'
=== Installing only the dependencies ===
Developers may wish to build CouchDB from source, rather than use the brewed version. In this case you can use homebrew to install the dependencies as follows:
brew remove --force openssl erlang couchdb icu4c spidermonkey nspr
brew install erlang --no-docs
brew install `brew deps couchdb | grep -v couch`
brew link icu4c
Now you can clone the CouchDB repo, and begin hacking - see [[#Typical_build_process_of_a_CouchDB_developer_build|a typical build process]] below.
== MacPorts ==
The CouchDB team recommends [[https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew#readme|HomeBrew]] but MacPorts works fine as well.
To install CouchDB using MacPorts you have 2 package choices:
* couchdb - The latest release version (currently 1.3.1)
* couchdb-devel - updated every few weeks with the latest from the [[http://git.apache.org/couchdb.git|master]] branch
$ sudo port install couchdb
should be enough. MacPorts takes care of installing all necessary dependencies. If you have already installed some of the CouchDB dependencies via MacPorts, run this command to check and upgrade any outdated ones, after installing CouchDB:
$ sudo port upgrade couchdb
This will upgrade dependencies recursively, if there are more recent versions available. If you want to run CouchDB as a service controlled by the OS, load the launchd configuration which comes with the project, with this command:
$ sudo port load couchdb
and it should be up and accessible via Futon at http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/index.html. It should also be restarted automatically after reboot.
Updating the ports collection. The collection of port files has to be updated to reflect the latest versions of available packages. In order to do that run:
$ sudo port selfupdate
to update the port tree, and then install just as explained.
== Typical build process of a CouchDB developer build ==
$ git clone http://git.apache.org/couchdb.git
$ cd couchdb && git checkout <release-tag>
$ ./bootstrap && ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
== Installing from source on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard ==
Here is a recipe to install CouchDB from source on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with needed dependencies.
1. Install ICU
$ curl -O http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.2.1/icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz
$ tar xvzf icu4c-4_2_1-src.tgz
$ cd icu/source
$ ./runConfigureICU MacOSX --with-library-bits=64 --disable-samples --enable-static # if this fails for you try: ./configure --enable-64bit-libs
$ make
$ sudo make install
I couldn't get the above to work on 64bit Snow Leopard 10.6.3, but I did find a fix for the configure file that will make it compile in 64bit correctly.
- *-arch*ppc*|*-arch*i386*|*-arch*x86_64*) ac_cv_c_bigendian=universal;;
+ *-arch*ppc*) ac_cv_c_bigendian=yes;;
find the first line with the - in configure and replace it with the second line with the + in the ICU 4.4.1 release this line is at 8002, if Erlang is compiled with 64bit and you patch the ICU configure to compile in 64bit then CouchDB will build and run correctly on 64bit OSX 10.6.x
2. Install SpiderMonkey
We need [[http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/spidermonkey/files/patch-jsprf.c|jsprf patch]] from the MacPorts project to install SpiderMonkey.
$ curl -O http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz
$ curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/spidermonkey/files/patch-jsprf.c
$ tar xvzf js-1.7.0.tar.gz
$ cd js/src
$ patch -p0 -i ../../patch-jsprf.c
$ make -f Makefile.ref
$ sudo su
$ JS_DIST=/usr/local/spidermonkey make -f Makefile.ref export
$ exit
$ sudo ranlib /usr/local/spidermonkey/lib/libjs.a
'''NOTE:''' You may receive the following warning. You should be safe to ignore it and proceed with the instructions.
ranlib: file: /usr/local/spidermonkey/lib/libjs.a(jslock.o) has no symbols
==== Using DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ====
add to your .profile this line :
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/spidermonkey/lib
then reload your env :
$ . ~/.profile
==== Avoding DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ====
Not using DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH means that you don't need to worry about setting the environment for other users (ie, the couchdb user or root). Also, it avoids the need to tell the CouchDB ./configure script where to find spidermonkey.
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/include /usr/local/include/js
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/lib/libjs.dylib /usr/local/lib/libjs.dylib
# If you're feeling saucey, the js shell can be useful for quick syntax checking and the like.
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/spidermonkey/bin/js /usr/local/bin/js
3. Install Erlang R13B01
$ curl -O http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B01.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf otp_src_R13B01.tar.gz
$ cd otp_src_R13B01/
$ ./configure --enable-smp-support --enable-dynamic-ssl-lib --enable-kernel-poll --enable-darwin-64bit
$ make
$ sudo make install
4. Building CouchDB:
We will install it from the trunk, but installation from released source should work
$ git clone http://git.apache.org/couchdb.git
$ cd couchdb && git checkout <release-tag>
$ ./bootstrap && ./configure --with-js-include=/usr/local/spidermonkey/include --with-js-lib=/usr/local/spidermonkey/lib
$ make
If you avoided using DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH when installing spidermonkey, you won't need to use the --with-js-[include|lib] flags.
5. Running
If you want to install run `make install` . For developement use do :
$ make dev
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|2010-11-15, 06:28
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still not sure why the dragons are hiding. Are they hiding or are they in another world? What's this about leaving things to the humans? Doubt we'll have all these questions answered till the very end... which is a long way to go.
The more pressing question would be WHEN is Natsu going to resume his search for Igneel? He's just been going on missions so far.
|2010-11-15, 11:43
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Well, technically speaking, he doesn't have any clue where to look. And most of the "missions" have been things that needed to be done. He couldn't just ignore them. I get the feeling that he hopes to pick up clues while doing missions, to at least give him a place to look.
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|2010-11-15, 15:51
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In addition to having no leads to follow, people don't seem to realize that Natsu places his friends and life at Fairy Tail as pretty much equal(if not greater) in importance to Igneel.
In other words, while he wants to find his father, he's not going to let that desire consume his life.
|2010-11-15, 18:32
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Yeah obviously Natsu would love to find Igneel, but he's not going to spend all the time he has hunting down every random clue. Meeting Lucy was the rare occasion that he went out to check it out. Kind of doubt Natsu's ability to track him down alone considering he never questioned the likelihood of a dragon being in the middle of a city. Considering we don't have much clue where the dragons are he really would be wasting his time just running around.
With Natsu glad that when he has beaten major opponents it's had explanations for it. Jellal lost due to a suicidal idea of eating Etherion which had major negative side effects after. Laxus had to fight Mystogan, Erza, then a combo of Natsu and Gajeel. Also that block at the end opened up the ability to strike back. Plus losing to that Owl Guy just reminds you while he is growing the guy isn't invincible.
Very glad the series has cut back immensely on his cut-scene attacks since it really took away from his fights.
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Natsu is a nice character but he tends to annoy me quiet a lot, especially when all he thinks about are fights what usually cause a lot of trouble for others. It would be really refreshing if because of his dumbness, someone would get seriously hurt. That would teach him a lessen, instead of conveniently always winning right in time.
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We're not entirely sure it does, since it just happened not too long ago. But Natsu is pretty stereotypical of young, male, shounen heroes. Always looking for the next fight, and really enjoying it, so much so that it overrides practically every other area of his life.
|2010-11-16, 22:18
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I like Natsu's flare for life and the fight compared to most other heroes, it's got a nice balance to it.
He doesn't go questioning and asking why the bad guy is "bad" and doing these things and trying to talk him out of it. If he's bad then he will simply smack him down, no questions asked
None of that cheesy speech stuff in trying to get the person to give up or what not and when that fails then goes in to SS3 to get his point over, when they should have done that from the start
sure enough we get some little cheesy speeches here and there but these have been in good taste and thats fine.
|2010-11-16, 23:37
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Definitely against self-sacrifice as well. Goes after Erza in the Tower of Paradise and stands up to Gray when he tried it. Every member is a precious comrade and if they get themselves killed even if it is to win it's still a loss he won't accept.
Of course would be ok for him to outright lose and not come back to somehow win. It did happen against the Owl guy where Gray settled the fight, but it doesn't happen too often.
|2010-11-17, 06:45
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Gotta like Natsu the gutsy non emo fighter
Like said some said above
*not trying to make the bad guy good again,just kick his ass
*not so much emo like other main characters
*doesn't let his friends sacrifice for himself
The only thing i hope he stops doing in the future is charging head first in,in every fight without thinking tt
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I got a question about his abilities...
At the beginning of the Anime, he beats an enemy by learning how to fly with help of his flames.
Does he ever do that again? I hate it when characters forget their abilities...
|2010-11-18, 01:37
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(Some of the anime openings do show him flying, but those are just doing it wrong.)
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I think it was during the Lullaby Arc. The group were following railtracks and then fought a guy on the tracks. (They didn't have a means of transportation during the fight, though. Dunno if it was destroyed by that guy or something)
Hopefully you know what I mean... My memory is kinda hazy.
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Shares of Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) soared on Thursday after the yoga apparel retailer reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and touted its aggressive expansion plans.
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The upbeat quarter and CEO's bullish conference call statements overshadowed a bleak outlook.
The Vancouver-based yoga apparel company reported net income of $109.7 million, or 75 cents a share, up slightly from $109.4 million, or 75 cents a year ago.
That topped average analyst estimates in a Thomson Reuters poll by three pennies.
Revenue for the three-month period climbed 7% to $521 million, beating the Street's view of $515.1 million. However, same-store sales, a key growth metric of sales at stores open longer than a year, fell 2%.
"2014 is an investment year with an emphasis on strengthening our foundation, reigniting our product engine, and accelerating sustainable and controlled global expansion," Lululemon CEO Laurent Potdevin said in a statement.
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A week after announcing that he would begin offering fans the opportunity to download concerts from his upcoming 'High Hopes' tour, Bruce Springsteen has made a significant addition to the plan. The new model both reduces the price and does away with its most confusing aspect, the USB wristband.
The original plan involved purchasing a USB bracelet for $40, either online or at a concert. Plugging the wristband into your computer activates a download manager that takes you to Music One Live's website, where one show could be downloaded as an MP3. Fans who had been waiting for Springsteen to do this for years voiced their displeasure across the Internet at both the pricing model and the outdated process.
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I find myself constantly hungry. On a typical day, I eat a small breakfast (one egg plus two strips of bacon, or a bagel, or leftovers from the night before). But I am hungry by 11 a.m. Usually, I can eat a whole Chipotle burrito for lunch and be hungry by the time I go home at 4 p.m. Am I overeating? Today I had a whole 12-inch pizza to myself, regular crust with three toppings! I am a 5-foot-7 dude and I weigh 140 pounds but I don't think I am healthy. Should I eat less? (I don't drink sodas and I avoid things with high sugar/fructose corn syrup content.)
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Hi Chuck. Without knowing more about you -- particularly how active you are -- and more details about what you eat, it is hard to give you a precise answer to your question, but I will try to help. Based on your height and weight, your BMI (a ratio of your height to your weight) is 21.9 which is well within the healthy range of 18.5-24.9.
So the short answer to the question of whether you are overeating is no, since you are not overweight. As far as your issue of always being hungry, depending on how much you eat, how quickly the foods you eat are digested, and how active you are, it is not abnormal to be hungry every three to four hours. I find that most of my patients find themselves hungry between 3 and 5 p.m. and need to eat a little something to take the edge off hunger until dinner.
For optimal health, it sounds like you might be eating a bit too much saturated fat (bacon, eggs, cheese and toppings on your pizza and perhaps in your burrito), so I would limit those foods, but as long as your portions don't contribute to weight gain, they are probably the right amount for you.
To control hunger better, there are two key dietary components that you should try to incorporate into most meals.
The first is protein (lean meat, chicken, fish, eggs/egg whites, cottage cheese), which can help you feel more full by triggering the release of hormones in your gut and brain. So if you just had a bagel for breakfast without having any protein, you might be hungry sooner, especially since a bagel is made of refined carbohydrates that are digested more quickly and cause a spike in your blood sugar, which is followed by a subsequent crash, which can lead to hunger.
The second critical factor for fullness is fiber. Both soluble (dissolves in water) and insoluble (does not dissolve in water) play a role in fullness, so including fiber in most meals can help keep hunger at bay for longer. One of the best sources of fiber is whole grains so I would recommend including more whole grains (at least three servings per day) in your diet. Beans are also an excellent source of fiber so order your burrito with whole beans and lean protein to keep you fuller longer. Fruits and vegetables are also very good sources of fiber and contain valuable disease-fighting nutrients too, so I would highly recommend adding more of these to your diet as well.
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New Moto X Announced
Motorola Mobility unveiled Thursday its much-anticipated Moto X smartphone, marking the Libertyville-based company's first flagship product launch since its acquisition by Google last year.
The new device, introduced at a press event in New York, comes with a 4.7-inch display and a feature where a simple twist of the wrist activates the camera. It's also accompanied by massive expectations for a company that's weathered many painful restructurings and predictions of its demise. While the Libertyville-based company introduced last week three new smartphones for Verizon Wireless' Droid line, the Moto X represents the "culmination of this new year for Motorola as a subsidiary of Google," Motorola Chief Executive Dennis Woodside told the Tribune in an interview.
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One of the defining characteristics of Moto X is its ability to be customized. Some of this is aesthetic, as consumers can choose from a palette of colors for the phone's back plate, front plate and other hardware parts. The company said more than 2,000 combinations are possible. Woodside said consumers like choices and pointed to fashion, such as the Nike ID program that allows people to design their own shoes, as an example.
The customization is woven throughout the Moto X's hardware and software. The device responds to voice commands without draining a lot of battery and is integrated with Google Now, a personal assistant feature that understands natural language. It can answer questions and provide recommendations. This technology is also present on the new Droid phones released for Verizon last week.
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Depending on the circles you travel in, you might be aware of the whole NoSQL "movement". If not, I'm not going try and explain it at this time (explaining it is sort of the problem), but you can get the general idea from wikipedia.
I've spent the last couple of days at nosqleast and one of the hot topics here is the name "nosql". Understandably, there are a lot of people who worry that the name is Bad, that it sends an inappropriate or inaccurate message. While I make no claims to the idea, I do have to accept some blame for what it is now being called. How's that? Johan Oskarsson was organizing the first meetup and asked the question "What's a good name?" on IRC; it was one of 3 or 4 suggestions that I spouted off in the span of like 45 seconds, without thinking.
My regret however isn't about what the name says, it's about what it doesn't. When Johan originally had the idea for the first meetup, he seemed to be thinking Big Data and linearly scalable distributed systems, but the name is so vague that it opened the door to talk submissions for literally anything that stored data, and wasn't an RDBMS.
I don't have a problem with projects like Neo4J, Redis, CouchDB, MongoDB, etc, but the whole point of seeking alternatives is that you need to solve a problem that relational databases are a bad fit for. MongoDB and Voldemort for example set out to solve two very different problems and lumping them together under a single moniker isn't very meaningful. This is why people are continually interpreting nosql to be anti-RDBMS, it's the only rational conclusion when the only thing some of these projects share in common is that they are not relational databases.
The cat is out of the bag though, and the "movement" has enough momentum that I don't think it's going anywhere. And, I'm not really advocating that, it's had the effect of bringing a lot of attention to some very interesting projects, and that's a Good Thing. Maybe Emil Eifrem has the right idea by encouraging people to overload the term with Not Only SQL.


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Police on Thursday identified the woman as 35-year-old April Haskell. The man was identified 28-year-old Christopher Ouellette. Both are from the Old Town area. They reportedly had lived in the Main Street apartment for about two months.
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said police arrived at the apartment and began negotiations with Ouellette. During those negotiations, Ouellette allowed the two children, ages 2 and 4, out of the apartment. From there, the siutuation went downhill, McCausland said.
"Things got very tense," said McCausland. The woman's body was discovered after police gained entry to the apartment.
Colonel Robert Williams, the chief of the Maine State Police, identified the trooper involved in the shooting as Barry Meserve, a 15-year veteran of the force. As is standard procedure, Meserve was placed on administrative leave with pay. The Attorney General's Office will investigate the incident.
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Lasers capable of generating picosecond and femtosecond pulses of light are now firmly established and are widely deployed for applications ranging from basic science to fiber communications to biomedical imaging. Enhanced functionalities are possible when ultrashort pulses can be programmably reshaped into user specified waveforms. This talk will begin with a brief general introduction into ultrafast optics and then specifically address the topic of shaping ultrafast laser fields. Because the time scales involved are much too fast for direct application of (opto)electronic modulator technologies, all-optical approaches are employed. In particular, a Fourier synthesis waveform generation method, in which different optical frequency components contained in an ultrashort pulse are spatially separated, manipulated in parallel using a spatial light modulator, and then recombined, has enjoyed considerable success. After discussing the basics of pulse shaping, I will survey some of the applications areas, with an emphasis on broadband photonic signal processing relevant to lightwave communications and ultrabroadband radio-frequency electromagnetics.
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USC hosts some of the nation's top high school football recruits this weekend, including defensive lineman A'Shawn Robinson of Fort Worth, Texas, who is committed to Texas and ranked the top player in the state by Rivals.com.
Robinson attended Friday's practice and is making an official visit. Also visiting is safety Max Redfield of Mission Viejo, who committed last summer but changed his mind in the fall. Redfield currently favors Notre Dame.
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Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB Review: Big Green Gets Meaner!
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Since posting my Caviar Green 2TB review, I figured we would be wrapped up on Western Digital drives for a short while. Hitting 2TB is a pretty significant milestone, and I would suspect hard drives to hang out at that capacity, since passing the 2TB barrier is a complicated proposition. Drives with greater than 2^32 sectors (4,294,967,296 for those counting) require previously unconventional means to be properly read by the operating system. Windows XP (32) is incapable of reading past the 2TB mark. RAID cards vendors have all sorts of guides for sneaking past 2TB. 32 bit XP can pull it off with a bit of trickery in the form of changing the sector size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes. This works, but it is very finicky, and breaks many of the tools meant to accesses a device at the sector level.
Luckily, a fair number of us are moving to more modern operating systems. I'd bet at least some of us are already downloading the new Windows 7 Release Candidate while reading this very article. Using larger capacity drives is a non-event under these newer systems, as they can speak the proper 48-bit LBA language required for larger devices, and GPT is already in place to support partition sizes exceeding the old MFT limit of 2TB. NTFS can hit 16 TiB with the default cluster size and 256 TiB if cluster size is increased to 64K. LBA48 can support up to 144 Petabytes (144,000,000 gigabytes for those without enough fingers and toes remaining to figure it out). That said; There are still a fair number of people out there running 32 bit XP, and I predict at least a brief pause in capacity increases while the rest of the world catches up
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PASADENA >> UCLA's road to the 100th Rose Bowl Game was simple. Win its last two games, beat the North Division representative in the Pac-12 title game and the Bruins would be home for the holidays.
Arizona State made those plans much more simple. There will be no Rose Bowl for UCLA on New Year's Day.
Taylor Kelly accounted for 324 yards and two touchdowns and the Sun Devils sacked UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley nine times to clinch the Pac-12 South title with a 38-33 victory over UCLA on Saturday at the Rose Bowl.
Arizona State, which improved to 9-2 overall and 7-1 in the Pac-12, can secure home field for the conference title game by beating Arizona at home next week.
UCLA, getting 253 yards passing and two touchdowns from Hundley, slipped to 8-3 overall and 5-3 in the Pac-12. The Bruins finish the regular season against USC at the Coliseum next week. They are alive for a variety of bowls, most likely between the Sun and the Las Vegas bowls.
UCLA, which rallied from three scores down earlier this season to win at Nebraska, nearly did it again by outscoring Arizona State, 20-3, in the second half. But instead of staying alive, the Bruins can only look back and feel frustrated after one drive ended with a failed field-goal attempt and the final possession ended 50 yards short of the go-ahead score with five seconds left.
"We got ourselves into a hole in the first half and were not able to recover," UCLA coach Jim Mora said. "They fought tooth and nail for that thing, and it was just a little bit too much to overcome. The loss is bitterly disappointing.
"We had high expectations. We were trying to get a shot at the title again, but we came up short."
The Bruins, who fell behind 35-13 at halftime, made a game of it in the third quarter by closing to within 35-20 on a 3-yard run by Myles Jack before getting a gift from Arizona State.
The Bruins forced a punt but ASU had two players wearing No. 3 on the field at the same time, which is a penalty and forced a re-kick. This time, a low snap got past punter Alex Garoutte and was recovered by Anthony Bar at the Sun Devil' 13.
Hundley, from the 15, followed with a 14-yard pass to Grayson Mazzone to the 1 before Paul Perkins scored from there to make it 35-27 with 7:57 left in the quarter.
Arizona State countered with Zane Gonzalez's 28-yard field goal, but UCLA cut the deficit to 38-33 with a 65-yard drive. The big play was on fourth and 2 from the Arizona State' 47, where Hundley threw 18 yards to Eddie Vanderdoes to the Arizona State' 29. Hundley then passed 27 yards to Shaq Evans on a crossing route and it was 38-33 with 11:25 to play. The conversion pass was intercepted.
Then UCLA, after forcing a punt, drove to the Arizona State' 12. But Hundley was sacked at the 20 and Kaim Fairbairn's 37-yard field goal was wide with 4:30 to play.
The Bruins got one last chance with 3:21 left and no timeouts. But after driving to the Arizona State' 45 with just over a minute two play, two holding penalties pushed the Bruins back to their 35. Hundley, after back-to-back incomplete passes, was sacked at the 30 before passing 16 yards to Jordan Payton at the UCLA' 46, 19 yards short of the first down with five seconds left.
"We were moving the ball," said Hundley, who at one point completed 14 consecutive passes in the second half. "Those penalties hurt, but at the end of the day you have to find a way to make it. Sometimes, it's a bit difficult to find plays, but we have to make it work, even when it's first and 30."
Arizona State rolled up 357 yards in the first half to lead 35-13.
The Sun Devils, getting 149 yards passing from Kelly, scored on three of their final four possessions of the first half, including a 1-yard run by Michael Eubank at 2:36 of the second quarter and a 19-yard pass from Kelly to Jaelen Strong with five seconds left in the half that made it 35-13.
Ishmael Adams had 234 return yards and set up two UCLA scores in the first half that allowed UCLA to stake a 10-7 lead.
But Arizona State, which had gone ahead 14-10 on a 3-yard run by D.J. Foster, got an 18-yard interception return by Carl Crawford for a 21-10 lead before two more touchdowns gave the Sun Devils a 35-13 advantage at halftime.
"We're disappointed," Mora said. "But we've got to get over it, and get the next one, which is next Saturday (against USC), a big one here in Los Angeles."


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Confession Tuesday - Self-Doubt Means that We Care & other thoughts on creating...
Dear Reader,
Many of my professor friends are getting ready to return to their teaching jobs. Many of my parent friends are seeing their kids off to school. Yes, no matter how we may try to deny it (or savor it), summer is ending.
In certain ways this can create a downness in each of us.
For me, I realize how much I didn't do this summer. I realize how much time I spent working.
I confess I was on my paddleboard the least amount I can remember than in years past. It makes me long for summer even while summer is going on.
Sometimes that happens. Sometimes life is the thing passing you by without you noticing.
I confess I've been feeling a little down lately. Maybe it's the ending of something. Maybe it's the beginning of something else. Maybe it's regret dressed as ending or just time shaking me up a bit.
Maybe it's because I am in the final proof of my manuscript, Hourglass Museum, and there's a fear and doubt that comes with that.
A friend (who isn't a writer) recently said to me, "I'm not sure why you're nervous, this is your third book? Shouldn't you be over that now?"
My first response was: Yes, I should be over it.
But then I went deeper and realized that if I wasn't nervous, then I'd be sending out something into the world where I took absolutely no risk. I'd be sending out a loaf of Wonderbread without the "wonder."
My self-doubt and nervousness means that I care about what I write.
I care about readers holding my book and connecting. I understand "not my audience," but I care about "my audience," people who expect good work from me, I want to live up to their and my expectations.
I want to create something beautiful. That is what it always comes down to.
I heard someone say--
If you're depressed, you're living too much in the past and if you're anxious, you're living too far in the future.
I confess I've never been good at understanding my own feelings or living in the present, so life can be rough sometimes. I must live in about 5 separate universes because I feel the above as well as hopeful, thankful, and happy, all at the same time.
I'm a nebula of paradoxical emotions.
Though I confess sometimes I love to be in the melancholy of autumn. Sometimes I love to be Elvis Costello's Sulky Girl in leather boots.
I confess I've been cleaning out my bookcase, which really means, I've been moving things around and found an old Julia Cameron book Walking in the World: The Practical Art of Creativity. It's not as good as the Artist Way, I believe, but here are a few things I had underlined in the book--
Making art is quite literally a path to "our Maker."
We have answered yes when our true name was called.
There are no certain routes.
Sometimes I don't know who I am.
But we must stay focused on *what* we are doing, not *how.*
Each slight increment of mastery holds the sweet promise that the days of awkward repetition and frustrating blunders do lead somewhere after all.
Self-pity likes to make us feel the world is an adversarial place and that the odds are stacked against us.
Doubt is the signal of the creative process. It is a signal that you are doing something right--not that you are doing something wrong, crazy, or stupid.
Feel the feelings, but don't act on them. This, too, shall pass.
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Sudden problems in my life usually indicate that I need to work on my art.
All artists get discouraged. All artists have deep inner wells of self-pity into which we periodically dive. All artists are doing better than someone else and worse than someone else. All artists are doing better today than they have done in the past and worse than they will in the future. All artists specialize in self-doubt. It is how we hone the creative imagination.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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By AnnaMaria Andriotis
With mortgage rates hovering near record lows, a growing number of homeowners are racing to refinance — only to find the process riddled with obstacles.
For one, homeowners often have to wait months before they can secure a new loan at a lower rate, the Wall Street Journal reported today. But on top of that, credit requirements remain tight, so borrowers approved for mortgages before the downturn might not pass muster now. And even those who do get approved often find their homes do not appraise above the minimum threshold. "You have these big wildcards out there right now — you can't simply look at the lower rate," says Robert Lattas, a real estate attorney in Chicago.
Of course, refinancing may be worth all the hassle, say advisers. The new loans mean smaller monthly payments — a godsend for homeowners struggling to make their current payments. And the latest version of the government's refinancing program, dubbed HARP 2.0, aims to help homeowners who owe more on their home than it's currently worth.
Despite those benefits, experts say homeowners should first consider the drawbacks. Refinancing tends to extend the mortgage payment period, so a borrower who stays put in the home for the long run could be stuck with their mortgage well into retirement, says Doug Miller, executive director of Consumer Advocates in American Real Estate. Separately, homeowners who plan to sell their home a few years after refinancing might find the costs of getting the new loan outweighs the savings.
That said, for those determined to refinance, here are the five things financial advisers say to weigh first.


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A teenage girl from upstate New York who disappeared from Myrtle Beach seven years ago was abducted, gang-raped, shot to death and thrown into an alligator-infested swamp, according to an FBI agent who cited a prison inmate.
Agent Gerrick Munoz this week gave the first detailed account of what investigators think happened to 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, of Rochester, after she disappeared in 2009 while on a spring break trip. His account, contained in a federal court transcript obtained by The Post and Courier of Charleston, is based on a statement from a prison inmate who claims he was present when she was killed.
But a McClellanville woman whose husband and son have been implicated by the inmate says the story is just a bunch of "craziness" adopted by federal authorities desperate to solve the case.
In the transcript, Munoz testifies that the inmate, Taquan Brown of Walterboro, told investigators he went to a "stash house" in the McClellanville area in the days after Drexel was abducted. As he entered the house with a couple of other men, he saw Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor, then 16, "sexually abusing Brittanee Drexel," the agent said.
Munoz said Brown said he saw others also in the room with the girl and Da'Shaun Taylor, and he kept walking through the house to the backyard to give some money to Da'Shaun Taylor's father, Shaun Taylor. As the two talked, Drexel ran from the house. She was "pistol-whipped" and taken back inside.
According to Brown's account, two shots rang out and the inmate assumed Shaun Taylor shot the girl. Then the girl's body was wrapped up and taken away.
Asked what happened to the girl's body, Munoz testified that it has not been found but that "several witnesses have told us Miss Drexel's body was placed in a pit, or gator pit, to have her body disposed of. Eaten by the gators."
Munoz told the court that investigators have searched several alligator ponds to no avail. He said investigators have been told that the area has as many as 40 such ponds. Investigators also have searched the stash house, the agent testified.
The FBI agent's testimony came out during a bond hearing on an unusual charge against Da'Shaun Taylor that his attorney, David Aylor, characterized in the transcript as "clearly nothing but a squeeze-job" designed to pressure him into confessing and helping the government.
Taylor's mother, Joan Taylor, 44, of McClellanville, told The Post and Courier on Thursday that she's talking out about the accusations because she believes the government is unjustly trying to "pin something else on him" based on a bogus jailhouse confession.


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You have to be careful when you use the "I" word.
For millions of Americans held hostage by their credit card companies er, wireless carriers, it's often pang-inducing to bring up the unmentionable Apple phone. After all, this exclusive-to-AT&T device apparently walks on water and cooks you dinner. So, the tech pundits have declared the iPhone the ultimate champion, we get that now. Yet, if you still have months left on your Sprint or Verizon contract, there is no intelligent way to break free and embrace the Apple-sanctioned carrier.
What you can do, though, is upgrade to another phone with your current provider. Microsoft, more than any other company around today, knows this full well. Once the average consumer realized you can buy any phone you want, even if your spouse is stuck with an a Palm Centro until 2011, they started buying Android phones, Palm Pre phones, and just about anything without a Start icon. (By the way, if you're looking for a good deal on a Centro, there are 14 million of them for sale on eBay.)
The good news is that Microsoft has decided to do something radical: It has re-designed its phone operating system. And, anyone who follows the tech sector will perk up when Microsoft breaks from the norm. Surface tables, Bing search, Zune HD – they are all remarkable departures from a previous effort that restores all hope to mankind, or at least in Redmond, Washington. (Microsoft Word, with its new ribbon interface, is another story, however.) With Windows Phone 7, not only does the interface look much more appealing, it obfuscates all traces of the Start icon, the PC-centric dialogue boxes, the goofy syncing paradigm, and even the Windows Mobile name.
Before we dive into the new interface, let's recap why Windows Mobile became the laughing stock of the mobile phone industry. For starters, no one connects their phone to a computer anymore. Maybe you do to charge the device, and it's one way to copy media over, but it is certainly a lost art form when it comes to loading apps. And, a phone actually has limited appeal if it means you always have to carry around a laptop just to add content and apps. We're in a new age where a smartphone (or, let's say app phone) can easily take the place of a laptop for basic e-mail, Web, and media.
Another dig against Windows Mobile is that it's just too difficult to use. For example, let's say you want to connect to a wireless network. Sure, there is a miniscule icon at the top of the screen on some models, but usually you have to fiddle with an arcane dialog box. Android phones, Pre, and the iPhone all make it much easier to connect. Worse, Bluetooth and 3G access are hard to manage as well; half the time, these networking protocols go haywire. Probably the worst interface "feature" though is that the typical Windows Mobile device still uses a stylus. The manufacturers insist you can use your finger, but not for any advanced features, such as clicking the OK button on a dialog box (ahem).


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Don't Just Sit There — How to Stay Healthy at Your Desk Job
You know that getting daily physical activity is great for your health. But if you spend your workday sitting in front of a computer, you could be doing your body harm in the long term, even if you stick to a regular exercise routine.
Long periods of inactivity, coupled with improper ergonomics (arranging and designing the things you use at work for their most efficient and safe use) can put stress and strain on your whole body and can lower your energy and alertness. Over time, people who sit for a long time without moving are more likely to have joint, bone and posture problems. These people also increase their risk of obesity and related conditions—heart disease, diabetes and stroke, among others.
However, not everyone can fit a lunchtime run into their day. It's important to learn what you can do realistically and stick to it. Even simple movements such as reaching, turning, stretching and fidgeting all add up to healthy activity when you're sitting for hours every day.
Work out at work
Our bodies were made to move, but your job may require you to sit at a desk for eight hours a day. To lower the harmful effects of being inactive without sacrificing productivity, try these tips:
- Take the stairs, not the elevator.
- Walk to a coworker's desk rather than calling or emailing.
- When someone comes to your desk, stand up to talk and use this chance to stretch.
- Place things you use all the time on a shelf high enough that you have to stretch or stand up to reach them.
- When you need to meet with coworkers, suggest making it a standing or walking meeting rather than sitting down.
- Think about the tasks you do while sitting and see which ones you can do while standing up.
- Take a brisk afternoon walk around your building.
- If you run errands during lunchtime, walk briskly to and from your car. Park far away from the store's entrance.
Stretch at your desk
These easy stretches can help ease tension and strain in your joints and muscles. You can do them seated or standing. Breathe easy while doing the stretches, don't force or bounce and really feel the stretch.
- Shrug your shoulders: Breath in deeply and lift your shoulders up to your ears. Hold the shrug, then breathe out and drop your shoulders. Repeat three times.
- Stretch your arms: Clench your fists and stretch your hands out in front of you. Use your fist to draw circles in the air, first in one direction, then the other, for a total of 20 seconds. Shake out your hands.
- Give yourself a bear hug: Place your hands on your opposite shoulders (or your shoulder blades if you can reach that far), hug yourself tight and breathe in and out for 15 seconds.
- Stretch your neck muscles: Tilt your chin as far forward as it can go, dropping your head. Hold for a few seconds, then gently lift your chin and tilt your head back. Drop your left ear to your left shoulder and hold for a few seconds. Repeat on the other side, then repeat on each side again.
- Do leg extensions: Hold on to the seat of your chair for balance. Extend both of your legs in front of you so they are parallel to the floor. Flex and point your toes five times. Lower your legs and repeat.


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Obama picks Pritzker, Froman
President Barack Obama rounded out his second-term Cabinet on Thursday by nominating Penny Pritzker as his new Commerce secretary and Michael Froman to be the next U.S. trade representative.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Obama called Pritzker "one of our country's most distinguished business leaders" and "an extraordinary civic leader."
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Obama said Froman is "one of the world's foremost experts on our global economy," adding that he's confident that his pick will help lead trade negotiations that ensure a level playing field in the international market for American workers.
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The president noted his personal ties to both nominees who, he said, "don't forget what matters" and "operate with integrity." He made the announcement before heading off on a three-day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica.
If confirmed, Pritzker would fill a post that's been vacant since John Bryson resigned amid health problems last June.
Pritzker, a longtime Chicago-based Obama fundraiser, is a businesswoman worth an estimated $1.85 billion and sits on the board of her family's Hyatt Hotels empire. That experience, a White House official said, makes her "one of the most accomplished and highly respected women in business today."
But the pick also draws attention to the failure of a bank partially owned by the Pritzker family and to Hyatt's turbulent relationship with labor unions, though unions — including the one that has battled the hotel company — held off criticizing Pritzker on Thursday morning.
Pritzker was previously considered for the Commerce job in late 2008, but was not ultimately nominated. There were concerns then that she was too controversial a pick in the midst of the financial crisis, especially as other Cabinet nominees were facing heightened scrutiny.
But after a lengthy vetting process this time around the White House decided to go with Pritzker, and an official said Thursday there is confidence that she will have an easy path to confirmation in the Senate.
"She has all the attributes — she knows business, she's close to the president, she has strong relationships," Bill Daley, the former Obama White House chief of staff and Clinton commerce secretary, told POLITICO.
Froman, who currently serves as an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economics, has been deeply involved in the Obama administration's trade agenda for the past four years, working from the White House on the finalization of trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, and leading the administration's preparations for major economic summits.
Mickey Kantor, a former U.S. trade representative and commerce secretary who worked with Froman during the Clinton administration, said the pick is a smart one. "He's going to be a terrific USTR. He knows the issues, he knows the people, he knows everyone in the White House, he's familiar with the challenges and the opportunities of the USTR."
Froman's nomination is also getting support from the business community, which sees him as someone with the authority to act as a strong intermediary between Obama and trade partners.
"What other countries always look for when they talk is some sense if the guy they are talking to can deliver," said Bill Reinsch, the president of the National Foreign Trade Council. "Is he really speaking for the government? If he makes a deal, can it stick? With Mike, there is a high level of confidence that he would be able to do that."


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If it's easy to curse Quentin Tarantino for all the bad-to-awful imitations he's inspired, then it's only fair to grant him a degree of absolution for the occasional good-to-brilliant imitation. Case in point: Martin McDonagh's hilarious new "Seven Psychopaths," opening this week.
It may be unfair to reduce McDonagh to the status of imitator. Before he came to film, the Anglo-Irish McDonagh had already established himself as the most acclaimed new playwright of our young millennium. He began his cinema career with "Six Shooter," which won the 2006 Oscar for Live-Action Short. And his first feature, "In Bruges," was arguably the best movie of 2008. While its comically squabbling hit men certainly invoked "Pulp Fiction," it displayed a slightly different sense of timing and an even more different visual style.
The first scene of "Seven Psychopaths" may be a bit of misdirection or conscious self-mockery. Two hit men (Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg) are making small talk while waiting around for their target. It almost feels like "In Bruges 2"; but, within three minutes, the two vanish from the movie and we meet the actual protagonist: a Hollywood screenwriter named Martin (Colin Farrell), who is way behind schedule on a script called "Seven Psychopaths." Way, way behind, like, by roughly 119 pages and six psychopaths. (Was the first scene real or the scene he was writing?) Billy (Sam Rockwell), his slightly thick best friend, tries to be helpful by advertising for psychos in the L.A. Weekly.
Billy is also partners with Hans (Christopher Walken) in a dog-snatching grift — grab a shih tzu from a wealthy neighborhood and then innocently return it for a reward. Unfortunately, their latest acquisition is Bonny (Bonny), the very cherished companion of scary-crazy crime boss Charlie (Woody Harrelson), who orders all his goons to retrieve Bonny and give her kidnappers exactly the reward he thinks they deserve. Soon, Martin, Billy, Hans and Bonny are on the run. As you might expect, high jinks ensue — high jinks featuring a lot of heavy violence.
The tone and the degree of reality in "Seven Psychopaths" are very similar to "In Bruges." Perhaps the central difference is that McDonagh cranks up the self-reflexiveness: The character list of "In Bruges" includes a movie crew, whose fantasy melts into reality briefly but crucially by the end. The new film has Farrell as an Irish screenwriter with the same name as its Irish writer/director, who appears to be working on the script of the movie we're watching ... or maybe not.
It's the same sort of structured confusion that reached its penultimate degree in "Adaptation," Spike Jonze's film of Charlie Kaufman's multi-Mobius strip of a screenplay. (Kaufman's directorial debut, "Synecdoche, New York" subsequently achieved the ultimate degree.) Both were brilliant but so mind-scrambling they could cause headaches and vertigo. If you were intrigued but irritated by Kaufman's infinite regressions, you're far likelier to enjoy "Seven Psychopaths": Consider it to be "Adaptation" Lite.
The cast is uniformly good, but Walken leaves the strongest impression in a role that no one else could play — something that's obvious if you've seen the ads or trailers. In maybe five seconds they give us a quick taste of Walken distilled to his purest.
NOTE: "Seven Psychopaths" has a significant coda in the middle of the closing credits, so don't rush for the doors as soon as they start.
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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Celebrate Fruits & Veggies—More Matters Month with Small Improvements
Have you wanted to make a change? Maybe drop a few pounds or add more exercise to your schedule? September is Fruits & Veggies–More Matters Month and there's never a better time to start than right now!
Many of us often think of January as the ideal time to begin a new routine, but September also marks new beginnings–a new season and a new school year. As summer fades into autumn it provides an opportunity to either start something new or re-energize your existing commitment to a healthy lifestyle. Fruits & Veggies–More Matters has plenty of resources to help you reach your goals, whether they are adding more fruits and vegetables to your day, reaching or maintaining a healthy weight or becoming more active. Here are a few topics you may find interesting:
- Healthy Menus and Shopping Lists
- Quick Guide to Getting More Fruits and Vegetables
- Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition
- Healthy Weight Management
- The Importance of Physical Activity in Healthy Weight Management
- Healthy Cooking with Your Kids
- Fruit & Vegetable Recipe Search
It doesn't have to be a major undertaking, just do something different (healthy!) to celebrate Fruits & Veggies–More Matters' favorite month. It could be as simple as trying a new fruit or vegetable each week. My plan is to aim for three meatless meals each week–I'll report back in a future blog and let you know how this is going!


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There will be two former Newport Harbor High volleyball standouts in the London Olympics.
April Ross, who starred at Newport Harbor, and Jennifer Kessy have qualified for their first Olympics. They will join Misty May-Treanor, also of Newport Harbor, and Kerri Walsh, the two-time gold medalists, in the Olympic beach volleyball tournament.
Ross and Kessy were the No. 3 team at the Beijing Olympics, but the duo clinched the second of two American women's berths after finishing fifth in the Beijing Grand Slam this past weekend.
Beach volleyball teams qualify for the Olympics by compiling points on the international pro tour. A country can have a maximum of two men's teams and two women's teams.
Matt Fuerbringer, an Estancia alumnus, is in contention to qualify for the Olympics for the men. Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena are tied in the standings with Sean Rosenthal and Jake Gibb for the second men's spot.
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser, the defending men's gold medalists, have already locked up the other U.S. men's berth.
After a one-week break, the 2012 FIVB SWATCH World Tour will continue on May 22-27 in the Czech Republic with the men's Prague Open. There will be two more Olympic qualifying events after Prague: the Moscow Grand Slam on June 7-12 and the Rome Grand Slam on June 13-17.
Ross said Tuesday that making the Olympics was a dream she had, but never thought it could come true.
"I always watched the Olympics. I always found it super entertaining. But I never thought I would get there," she said at the U.S. Olympic Committee media summit on Tuesday. "It was a dream, but an unattainable dream. Everybody wants to go to the Olympics."
— From staff reports