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"Sexercise," says gentle-voiced marriage counselor Steve Carell.
Or maybe he's saying, "This exercise." It's hard to tell. I saw too many punk rock bands in the '80s and my ears still ring sometimes.
But I'm going to go with sexercise because it's what Carell might as well be telling Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones to go off and commit. Every single homework activity he gives them in this movie-length therapy session, one aimed at salvaging a lifeless 31-year-old marriage, involves rubbing, touching, stroking and other naked-time gymnastics that push the limits of PG-13. In case you had any doubt about what sort of movie you're going to experience, understand that a good chunk of it involves discovering that Jones's character has sensitive nipples and can't look his own wife in the face during sex. Then you'll learn that Streep is still bold and game enough an actor to massage Jones' crotch with the camera aimed straight between his legs, to simulate self-pleasure, and to perform an action that can only be described as The Full Alanis Morissette. That's right, ladies over 50, it's the first mainstream American movie since Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan to take your orgasm seriously. And "seriously" isn't exactly a word you'd use to describe the older-woman-on-Adam-Sandler sex depicted in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. And anyway, you didn't see You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
Does that mean that if you're not a woman of a certain age in a sexless marriage that you shouldn't bother seeing it? Yes, but only if you're one of those knuckleheads who believes that you can't learn anything from watching people unlike yourself go through their own private agonies. It also means that this isn't quite the comedy the marketers are selling. In fact, they're pretty much lying to your face on that one. This is a forward-thinking drama with comedic moments, not the other way around, the kind that's going to provoke a lot of discussion among any couple in a long-term relationship.
Carell hangs back here and, as he recedes, the movie allows Jones and Streep the space to exorcise their emotions while jump-starting their hibernating physicality. The camera stays in the therapist's office for long stretches of time as the unusually paced action focuses on the two talented, old-school actors talking it out and working off of one another in an often painful story about what happens when love breaks down late in life.
The irritations are few: Don't expect too much in the way of gloom or intensity. That's for Europe and Cassavetes. It's got the same vanilla atmosphere of films like It's Complicated, Music of the Heart and Mamma Mia!, comfy projects Streep seems to enjoy occasionally wrapping herself in so that she can then rise above them. And she occasionally lapses into that "ooohing" and "ohhhhhing" Saturday Night Live parody of herself, while Jones indulges in moments that feel one cranky complaint away from turning into a reboot of Grumpy Old Men.
Most of the time, though, this pairing works like a very sad, well-oiled machine. When her eyes well up and he sighs, lost and too proud to ask for directions, you may feel like crying yourself. When they abandon their separate bedrooms and awkwardly try to hold one another in bed, it'll push the empathy buttons in every person who ever wondered where all four arms are supposed to go so nobody's limbs fall asleep after five minutes. And when Jones plants one on Streep in their kitchen you'll wonder why the music supervisor didn't cue up an R. Kelly slow jam for the occasion. A missed opportunity, really, because the man already wrote a song about kitchen sex, full of references to innuendo-based food like tomatoes and buttered rolls.
But I guess that kind of thing is really Sandler's to run with.
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Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper believes the Second Amendment should be removed from the Bill of Rights and replaced with legislation "that makes sense for today's world, not the world that existed at the time of the drafting of the Constitution and certainly the Bill of Rights."
Mr. Stamper's comment underscores widespread ignorance of the Constitution and its philosophical underpinnings.
At the time of the Constitution's drafting, it was generally accepted that an individual had a right to protect himself, his family and property. "Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can," said Patrick Henry.
The Second Amendment was not created for that purpose or to establish a right to hunt – it was established as a bulwark against government tyranny.
"Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed — unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust people with arms," wrote James Madison.
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government," said Thomas Jefferson.
But in today's domesticated and metrosexualized world, the idea that citizens may have to protect themselves against government tyranny is almost completely lost.
Mr. Stamper's illogical argument about firearms made during an interview with AOL-Huffington Post is simply more evidence that the principles behind the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence are almost completely lost.


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A project called "An Expedition in Computing Printable Programmable Machines" at MIT is working to create a future where you can print robots as easily and efficiently as Kinko's makes copies.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is backing the project with $10 million that will hopefully last through the projected 5 year timeline and allow consumers to design, customize, and print their very own robots. So, by 2017 you'll be able to walk into a retail store and order one of MIT's paper robots to, perhaps, check out what that smell is behind the dishwasher a la Mars rover style.
Two of these origami prototypes–one which resembles a pincer and the other an insect–have already been produced in MIT's research labs. The entire process takes all of 70 minutes and $100 to build, which is a huge jump from the years and Benjamins it takes to build any other robot currently. But aside from making the device marketable to the masses, there's also the issue of building them to be durable enough in software and in hardware to withstand the test of a novice robot-operator.
The team needs to create a streamlined program that's broad enough to suit a variety of needs, while assuring that if there is a user error it doesn't cause the device to malfunction. They also need to create something that's disposable, but not flimsily constructed. Ideally, consumers would be able to visit a website in order to diagnose their household woes, select a model at a local store to help with said problem, and customize the robot.
Professor Daniela Rus, leader of the project at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), sees this project as a way to "democratize access to robots." Something that has been a niche product could very well become as easily obtainable as a mobile phone, if successful.
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Natural England have confirmed that they will not consider any new scientific evidence before rubber-stamping new authorizations to cull badgers.
In response to a detailed 12-point scientific challenge from 27 veterinary professionals, which had urged Natural England to examine the science, ethics and probity of badger culling before making the decision to roll out more culls, the acting Chief Executive of Natural England, Guy Thompson, replied:
"We would like to take this opportunity to underline Natural England's role in the Government's bTB eradication strategy, which is to support it through the issuing and administering of licences to cull and vaccinate badgers. In carrying out this licensing work we have regard to guidance from Government, which is derived from its bTB and badger control policy and supplementary evidence-based advice from Defra's Chief Veterinary Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser."
He added: "Enquiries relating to the Government's policy, the efficacy of the cull and future roll- out should be directed to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs."
The first author of the letter from veterinary professionals, Dr Iain McGill, said: "Natural England are behaving like Pontius Pilate - washing their hands of their responsibilities whilst badgers are set to be crucified. NE have directed us towards Defra and the Chief Veterinary Officer for discussion of 'evidence-based' material, but we have repeatedly challenged the Chief Veterinary Officer and those vets within the profession who support badger culling, to a public debate. This offer still stands, but we quite understand the reluctance of opponents to debate with us in public, given the amount of scientific evidence now accumulating in our favour."
"I am disappointed that Natural England have not answered any of our 12 concerns, and I have replied to Guy Thompson at Natural England in respect of one of my most serious concerns, requesting sight of the Disease Risk Analysis for the pilot badger culls, which should have been completed before the project commenced, as per recommendations by the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). Our group will also contact Defra in order to further discuss our evidence-based concerns as he suggests."
Iain McGill added: "In the absence of either a formal Disease Risk Analysis or an environmental impact assessment, it is hard to see how Natural England can legally issue badger cull licences at the current time. There are so many questions hanging over this policy, not only from our veterinary group, but also from the threat of legal action by Save Me, that the Government really would be better off cutting their losses and implementing alternatives. We stand ready to assist Government or other interested parties in formulating ethical, evidence-based and efficacious dairy policy, which would protect industry, cattle, wildlife and consumers."
Caroline Lucas MP said: "It's time for the Government to end the cruel, inhumane and wasteful badger cull. There needs to be investment in evidence-based strategies to tackle bovine TB – including vaccination and improved biosecurity. But instead of exploring these alternatives, and finding humane and effective solutions, millions of pounds have been wasted and we are no further forward in helping farmers. I hope this legal challenge brings an end to the cull and marks the start of serious exploration of better alternatives. "
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1. Attached: Open Letter sent to Natural England by 27 Veterinary Professionals
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2. Attached: IOE & IUCN Guidelines on Disease Risk Analysis.
This press release issued by Vets and Vet Nurses Against the Badger Cull
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Mooneyes' 15th Annual Yokohama Hot Rod & Custom Show
You might be saying to yourself, "Why is this guy showing us this Japanese hot rod show…again?" Well, if you hadn't already taken a gander at the photos of the '06 show, Moon's overseas adventure is much, much more than simply hot rods and customs.
In the last few years alone, the custom motorcycle scene has not only begun to dominate the Hot Rod & Custom Show (HRCS), but classic and custom trucks have started to make their presence really known, too. Or maybe I just didn't pay as much attention to these particular four-wheeled participants the first few times I attended. Either way, trucks new and old are a very important facet of this annual get-together in Yokohama, Japan, each December at the city's Pacifico.
While I don't imagine CLASSIC TRUCKS promoting the show will inspire a large number of you to start making travel plans to Asia this year, I do believe it's encouraging, as well as important, to illustrate how our foreign brethren are just as enthusiastic and passionate, if not more, about this fascinating hobby we all love to death. It makes it even more interesting when you realize just what it takes to not only own, but operate a vehicle of any significant vintage in Japan.
For starters, despite its population, Japan is very small geographically, and even smaller when it comes to usable land to drive upon (which explains their advanced public transportation systems). Roadways are compact; so are their common automobiles. In other words, merging a behemoth '59 Cadillac into typical everyday traffic can be cumbersome, at best. On top of that, gasoline prices over there make ours seem insignificant. Furthermore, annual registrations are charged on the "weight" of vehicles, so that same Caddy can run in upwards of a few thousand dollars a year just to keep it on the road. Compound that with the fact that garage space in any metropolitan area is beyond a luxury, and you pose some pretty tough obstacles for anyone wanting to become an avid hobbyist.
In other words, my hat's off to any and all Japanese classic truck lovers who actually manage to own and operate a vintage "foreign" hauler year after year. And thanks once again to everyone at Mooneyes-especially Shige and Goshu-for staging such a wonderful show for these enthusiasts to gather at year after year!


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Ramble: Confusing astonishing brilliance. I grasped the overall story arc, but needed to re-read a number of pages to grasp the story. I would have revisited them anyway, as the art blew me away, even more than it always blows me away.
Perhaps Williams felt constrained by the linear visual/narrative structure of the last issue, because he's busting out artistic moves the likes of which I've never seen in a comic book. Crazy breathtaking art: the undersea maze, Jake and Bette's silent meditation face-off, and especially the dark exchange between Wonder Woman (small yellow retro – or traditional? - comic book font), Batwoman (white bubbles, black font), and ancient Nyx (evil bad-person grey font bringing to mind babbling letters from serial killers).
Todd Klein, who lettered this issue of Batwoman*, bears mention at this point.
Comic book fonts are subtle, powerful tools creators employ to evince a mood, an era, or the batshit nature of the evil residing in a new foe. Letterers play a crucial role in setting a character's, and a comic book's, tone. I don't think anyone outside the hard-core comic book fan universe knows letterers exist (I didn't), but in a graphics-focused universe, every serif or lack thereof matters.
Klein boasts a 35-year lettering career. Not sure how his peers found fonts, but Klein's grandfather worked as a jewelry engraver and sign painter; serif sensitivity's in the family. After a partial stint at art school, several boring jobs, and numerous art and writing submissions to fanzines and comic book companies, Klein landed at DC Comics in the late '70s and stayed for a decade before becoming an independent letterer.
Klein's lettered a number of greats, including Neil Gaiman's Sandman and this here Batwoman we're discussing today.
This is just to say NOT that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox BUT to note that every detail in these books matters. Someone has obsessed over every component, including the letters. In Batwoman #13 and so many others (Wonder Woman #0 immediately springs to mind), the letters are not only vessels, but story elements in their own right.
I wanted to make sure you all appreciated that.
And now, I'm crawling into another writing project. Thanks to a tossing daughter and 2 feline tossers, I've been up since 3 a.m. I'm cranky. I'm crabby. And my brain is full of sludge. While I should probably edit the writing, which has been sitting on the page for months, I'll probably just pull the warmest bits up over my head and go back to sleep.
* I've never written fan mail, but I wrote a fan e-mail to Todd Klein after this issue. Kind, he wrote back, to say thank you and also to give credit to Williams, who lettered Nyx's voice in the panel above.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For Main Street America, the secret to success is in the cards — credit cards, that is.
According to a recent Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) GoPayment survey, 55 percent of the nation's 27 million small businesses do not accept credit cards. Those nearly 15 million U.S. small businesses potentially miss out on $100 billion in sales annually. To help small businesses never miss a sale, GoPayment today launched a national video sweepstakes to "Get Business Growing" with chances to win up to $10,000 . The sweepstakes shows how easy it is to take credit card payments on the spot via mobile devices — anytime, anywhere.
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Accepting credit cards on the spot helps alleviate this cash flow strain. Small businesses that accept plastic make more sales and get paid quicker than those that don't. The survey found that 83 percent of businesses that accept credit cards make more sales, with 52 percent making at least $1,000 more per month and 18 percent making at least $20,000 more per month. In addition, 74 percent of those surveyed said they get paid faster and reduce bad debt by accepting credit cards.
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The Intuit GoPayment mobile credit card app and card reader enables those who sell products or services to never miss a sale, no matter where the person does business. In a separate 2012 survey of GoPayment users, more than two-thirds of GoPayment customers new to credit card processing said they scored sales they would not have gotten without GoPayment.
"GoPayment has helped our business grow by making more sales — it's been a game changer," Okimoto said. "Now that I process my clients' credit cards right on my iPad, I never have to turn down a potential client and I get paid faster and more reliably. Checkout is speedy and convenient for my clients, and they're impressed by the sleek, innovative technology."
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To help more small businesses maximize sales to grow their businesses, GoPayment today launched a nationwide video sweepstakes to show how easy it is to take credit card payments anytime, anywhere on their mobile devices. GoPayment's Get Business Growing sweepstakes features video stories from three small businesses showcasing how each uncovered opportunities to reach new customers in unexpected places and grow by accepting credit cards wherever they do business. The videos show how GoPayment helped:
Anyone can enter to win one of four $1,000 prizes by sharing any of the existing videos with their own social networks. Plus, small businesses inspired by the stories in the videos can win one of two $10,000 prizes by uploading their own ideas showing how they would grow their businesses by taking them to a new, mobile location with GoPayment. For more details or to enter the sweepstakes, please visit www.GetBusinessGrowing.com.
The Intuit Small Business Survey was compiled by Decipher Research for Intuit in November 2011, polling 1,000 American small business owners online.
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Looking for information on my grandmothers family. Her name was Nellie Frances Broadston. In some research the name was changed to Broadstone. She was born in 1888 in Fairview Township, Brown Co., Kansas. She was married to Tommy Overstreet Johnson. Her father was Leonard Broadston/Broadstone. He was born in Ohio. Her mother was Catherine Myers. She was born in Indiana. The had the following children: David A., Henry, Mary E., Cora Alice, Lona, Thomas, Audrey, Nellie Frances, Lela V. They lived most of their married lives in Bridgeport, Oklahoma. Tommy and Nellie are buried there. Any information would be most appreciated.
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The first version of Gamer was modeled after a few 1972 magazine advertisement letters, the origin of which was later identified as a common film type called Checkmate.
A couple of years later, Patrick Griffin revisited the family to optimize a few minor oversights and add small caps to the speedy mechanical face. Now Gamer is truer than ever to its popular history as the defining Escape From New York movie poster and packaging face, a gun with a six-barrel engine that exudes heat, speed, strength and sharpness.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Bike Girl Hears You Honking
However Bike Girl recently encountered a driver who seemed to be convinced that turning left is a right reserved only for cars. Here's how it went down.
Bike Girl had stopped in the left turn lane of an intersection. While she stood with one foot on the pedal, hips cocked to one side, sunglasses perched smartly on her nose to hide her sidelong glance at an attractive male cyclist in the right turn lane, a car pulled into the left turn lane behind her.
The driver immediately pounded on the horn, jolting Bike Girl from the slightly naughty thoughts running through her head. She looked up at the light, but it was still red. So she turned around, to inquire as to the reason for the honk.
Bike Girl didn't have to ask, because the driver was already yelling about how bicycles are not allowed in the middle of the street. Bike Girl smiled sweetly at the misunderstanding and replied that she was actually turning left, so the driver did not need to worry.
But the driver kept sounding the horn, insisting that cyclists are not allowed to make left turns in the left turn lane. Now many cyclists know that CVC 21202 allows cyclists to move to the left to make a turn. And CVC 21200 allows cyclists all the same rights as a vehicle. She calmly quoted those two provisions to the driver. The driver insisted she was wrong and that he was absolutely sure that what she was doing was illegal.
Much to Bike Girl's pleasure, the attractive male cyclist she had been eyeing rolled over to make her case. At this point the light was still red, and the driver's progress has not yet been delayed even a moment. Adonis on Two-Wheels corroborated Bike Girl's claim to the lane, but the driver still insisted Bike Girl was behaving illegally.
At this point Bike Girl encouraged the driver to call the police and offered to wait while they came. However, before the words were fully out of her lips, the light turned green. Bike Girl proceeded through the intersection, making her legal left turn and the driver revved his engine and immediately parked at a business right on the corner. He went inside to make a purchase, showing that Bike Girl in no way threatened to make him late for any purpose. Bike Girl laughed.
This and other similar encounters show the need for increased driver education about the rules of the road.
Bike Girl owns a 4-wheeled vehicle, and until she converted to the two-wheeled side, she was never aware of any of the rules regarding road-sharing with cyclists.
A non-confrontational, zero-expense, yet seemingly effective tool would be to include a question on the California Driver's test about sharing the road with bicycles. This question, if missed, would require the potential driver to read through the part of the vehicle code that contains the answer. This would draw attention to the section. Since the tests are reprinted semi-frequently, there would be no extra expense to include that question in the next incarnation.
Until then, Bike Girl continues to smile each time she's honked at. Because as Bike Girl's ally in the world of anonymous bicycle blogging, Bike Snob NYC says, "Your beeping means you can see me, and I'm not worried about drivers who see me."
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With drivers like this I just want to lob a hand grenade in their window and ride away. I mean, WHAT was this guys PROBLEM!? Was he actually concerned for Bike Girl's safety? Of course not. He's basically a psychopath rolling around in a 3-ton tin can.
- August 30, 2008 at 8:43 AM
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Perhaps Bike Girl could have referred the errant driver to CVC 27001. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle when reasonably necessary
to insure safe operation shall give audible warning with his horn.
(b) The horn shall not otherwise be used, except as a theft alarm
system which operates as specified in Article 13 (commencing with
Section 28085) of this chapter.
- September 8, 2008 at 5:52 PM
- Scott said...
Wonderful idea to have a question on the drivers test about this. People really are mis-informed about the laws around bicycles.
- September 26, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- zaarin said...
Here in LA we have to be as worried about the drivers that can see us as we are about the drivers that can't (or choose not to (cell phones, etc)). Knowledge of the law is not the problem; voluntary assault by motorists on cyclists is a growing concern in our community, and everyone knows how the law regards assault with a deadly weapon. But that doesn't stop them. Some drivers here won't wait their turn... they will create their own space, and if a cyclist happens to be in it, so be it. Unfortunately, informing them of their folly only angers them further, so what's a cyclist to do?
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The deal is expected to be announced Monday morning and while certain details are still being worked out, the boards of both companies have signed off on a transaction under which Softbank will buy $8 billion worth of shares directly from Sprint [S 5.73 -0.03 (-0.52%) ] and tender for another $12 billion worth of the shares from existing holders.
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While a Sprint purchase of Clearwire will not be announced Monday, Sprint is working on that deal and needs to insure the governance for Clearwire is in its control prior to closing the Softbank transaction.
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The commission, which sets policy for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), will meet both days starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Columbia Room of the state Legislative Building, Sid Snyder Ave. N.W.
The new draft policy would establish a new management framework that includes a higher allocation of salmon to the sport fishery, a gradual shift of commercial gillnets to enhanced off-channel areas and development of new selective gears for commercial fisheries on the mainstem Columbia River.
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The Logan County Quorum Court is considering an ordinance that would prohibit owning or housing a "dangerous dog" by county residents and put restrictions on those who now own a "dangerous dog."
The measure was read and approved in 5-4 vote for the first time at the Monday, March 10 Quorum Court meeting held at the Logan County Courthouse in Paris. JPs present and voting to approve the ordinance were Ken Hart, Joyce Koch, Charles Pearson, Mike Schluterman and Denny Stone. Those voting no were Jeannie Andrews, Eddie Finney, Bob Kreps and Lindel Parsons. Quorum Court member Don Rogers was absent.
The Quorum Court has 10 members since JP Charlie Reames resigned, effective March 1. Reames resigned because he moved out of his district and Gov. Mike Beebe has yet to name a replacement.
A second reading is scheduled on Monday, April 14 at the Logan County Courthouse in Booneville. A third and final reading is expected in May. An ordinance has to be passed three times and signed by the County Judge before it becomes law.
Under the proposal, a dangerous dog is defined as one that "exhibits aggressive or dangerous behavior that could result in severe injury or harm to any person or domestic animal or that has bitten any person or dangerous animal. Those who own a "dangerous dog," when the ordinance is passed would not be required to get rid of the dog but would face certain requirements to continue keeping the dog.
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• If the dog is not in an enclosed facility, the dog must be kept on a secure, strong leash, be properly muzzled and handled only by those 18 and above and strong enough to "keep proper control" of the dog.
Violations of the ordinance will be a Class A misdemeanor punishable by not more than one year in jail and a fine of $1,000.
Logan County Judge Gus Young said last week that the idea for the ordinance came from the Logan County Sheriff's Department.
"Eight to 10 months ago, a deputy had issues with a dog bothering walkers," Sheriff Steve Smith said. "The dogs were pretty aggressive. Basically what we want is, if a vicious dog, regardless of breed, bites someone, we have recourse to give them a ticket. This isn't about taking someone's dog and we're not interested in having a dog pound in the county."
Young said JPs voting no on the first reading had a major concern.
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The ordinance being considered is similar to one in effect in Paris.
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YORK, PA – The York College men's soccer dropped a hard-fought 2-1 non-conference decision against the University of Scranton in York, PA on Wednesday afternoon. The game was originally scheduled to be played in Millville, PA but had to be moved to York because of the wet field conditions at Millville High School.
The Spartans fall to 3-3-3 overall while the Royals improve to 3-4-2 for the campaign.
The Green and White struck for the game's opening tally in the 11th minute. Sophomore Pablo Martinez captured a loose ball just past midfield. He dribbled the ball for a few yards before placing a beautiful pass to the foot of fellow sophomore Chris Weaver. Weaver collected the pass and beat the hard charging Scranton goalie Tomasz Marczak with a dribble before sliding a shot into the back of the net for the goal. The tally was Weaver's first of the year as York seized the early momentum.
York looked like it had another goal in the 30th minute as sophomore Taylor Brummitt had a break away. Brummitt lofted a shot over Marczak and it looked like it was ticketed for the back of the net. Unfortunately for York, Brummitt's attempt hit the crossbar and caromed back into play. The ball sat in front of the goal before it was cleared by the Royals as the guests averted a 2-0 deficit. That play proved to be huge later in the contest.
The Royals had a good chance to score late in the half as Joseph Burbella received a pass inside the box in the 43rd minute. He headed the ball toward the Spartan goal but York netminder Jesse Derksen made the right play coming out to challenge the shot, snaring the ball as York maintained their 1-0 lead heading to the break.
York had the better of the play to start the second half but the Royals slowed started to take back the momentum. Scranton notched the equalizer in the 69th minute. There was a scrum in front of the Spartan goal and Nick Glavan collected the loose sphere and drove a shot off the left post that clanked off the post and into the goal for his first tally of the year.
The Royals had a great chance to take the lead at the 75:23 mark as Derksen saved a header from Glavan, preserving the tie. Unfortunately, the game would remain tied for exactly one more minute as after the Royals regained possession, Glavan dribbled the ball down the right flank. He placed a perfectly centered pass on the head of Jimmy Pealer who knocked the ball past a diving Derksen for what proved to be the game winner.
The Spartans didn't go down without a fight as they had two good chances in the final 10 minutes of regulation. Weaver had a driving shot from just outside the right side of the box that snuck harmlessly over the crossbar with 6:57 remaining on the clock. Senior Mike Gill then had a chance to chip the goalie with 2:14 remaining but Marczak was up to the task as he snagged the attempt for the save.
York finished the game holding a 16-14 edge in total shots while the Royals had an 8-5 margin in shots on goal. Scanton had a slight 4-3 edge in corner kicks while they also recorded a 17-13 edge in fouls in the contest.
Derksen finished the contest with six saves while Marczak recorded four saves in the win.
The loss is the Spartans' first against Scranton in four matches. York had outscored the Royals 13-2 in the team's previous three meetings.
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Manufacturing output stagnates, despite a marginal rise in new orders in April: RBC PMI™ Français
May 01, 2013, 09:30 ET
TORONTO, May 1, 2013 /CNW/ - The RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index™ (RBC PMI™) suggests that the Canadian manufacturing sector stagnated in April - an improvement from the contraction observed in March. A monthly survey, conducted in association with Markit, a leading global financial information services company, and the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC), the RBC PMI offers a comprehensive and early indicator of trends in the Canadian manufacturing sector.
The headline RBC PMI - a composite indicator designed to provide a single-figure snapshot of the health of the manufacturing sector - registered 50.1 in April and, posting only slightly above the 50.0 no-change mark, signalled broadly no change in overall manufacturing business conditions. However, the PMI nonetheless rose from a survey-low of 49.3 in March, which was consistent with a modest deterioration in operating conditions.
The RBC PMI found that manufacturing output levels in April were largely the same as March, despite the volume of new orders having increased, albeit only marginally. Employment was also little-changed, seeing only a slight rise in staff numbers since March. On the price front, the rates of increase for both input costs and output charges eased, with the rate of input price inflation, in particular, the slowest in nine months.
"Canada's manufacturing sector kept its head above water in April, registering some improvement over the surprising series low recorded last month," said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC. "While the overall gains made in April were tepid, we expect manufacturing output to pick-up, augmenting export activity and supporting Canada's growth prospects."
The headline RBC PMI reflects changes in output, new orders, employment, inventories, prices and supplier delivery times.
Key findings from the April survey include:
- Output levels largely unchanged in April, following a reduction in March;
- marginal rise in total new work; and
- slowest rate of input price inflation since July 2012.
Incoming new work at Canadian manufacturers increased in April, with firms generally linking this to greater demand. Although the rate of growth was only marginal and weaker than the series average, it was nonetheless in contrast with a reduction in March. Overall, the rise in total new work also reflected larger volumes of new export orders, which rose at the strongest rate in six months during April.
Despite higher new order requirements, production levels were largely the same as one month previously. The stagnant output trend in April nevertheless follows a decline in March. Meanwhile, stocks of finished goods were accumulated for the first time in 2013 to date, albeit marginally, and backlogs of work continued to fall for the seventh consecutive month.
The quantity of inputs bought by manufacturers was also broadly the same as in the previous survey period, rising only fractionally over the month. Stocks of purchases, meanwhile, were depleted for the sixth consecutive month in April, and at the joint-fastest rate since January 2012.
Suppliers' delivery times continued to lengthen in April, with approximately seven per cent of panellists reporting a deterioration in vendor performance. That said, the latest increase in lead times was the weakest since last December.
After adjusting for seasonal variation, manufacturing employment in Canada was largely unchanged in April. The corresponding index fell further from February's four-month peak and was the second-lowest since data collection began in October 2010.
In April, manufacturers reported the weakest rise in cost burdens since July 2012. The modest increase in costs nonetheless partly reflected higher prices for raw materials, packaging and transportation. Firms passed on greater costs to clients by raising their selling prices. Output charges rose at a rate in line with the series average that was also stronger than the increase in input prices.
Regional highlights include:
- Solid falls in manufacturing output were recorded for Alberta and British Columbia and Ontario.
- Following a deterioration in March, manufacturing business conditions in Quebec improved during April.
- Manufacturers in Quebec saw the strongest rise in new export work in April.
- Employment growth was recorded in two of the four regions, with the strongest increase posted in Quebec.
"Despite the RBC PMI rising from a survey low in March, it was much weaker than the series average and suggests that the Canadian manufacturing sector stagnated in April," said Cheryl Paradowski, president and chief executive officer, PMAC. "A return to growth for new orders, partly reflecting a modest rise in new export work, may lead to an increase in production over the coming months. In the meantime, manufacturers' profitability is protected to some extent by output charges rising at a faster rate than input costs."
The report is available at www.rbc.com/newsroom/pmi
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The RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI™ Report is based on data compiled from monthly replies to questionnaires sent to purchasing executives in over 400 industrial companies. The panel is stratified geographically and by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) group, based on industry contribution to Canadian GDP.
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No one ever got fired for telling clients to advertise on Facebook." That's the sarcastic mantra making its way round the digital advertising world right now. But is Facebook actually an efficient vehicle for marketers compared to the other digital ad giant, Google? A comparison of the two companies from WordStream, a search marketing management company, suggests that Facebook is a much less effective ad medium than Google. (The caveat here is that WordStream is, obviously, rather more dependent on Google than Facebook as a medium.)
Facebook has less reach, and its individual ads are less effective, than old fashioned web advertising, according to WordStream's numbers, which it delivered—naturally—in the form of an infographic.
Most alarming for Facebook: The average click-through rate for an ad on the internet generally is just 0.1 percent. At Facebook, it's even lower: 0.051 percent. Google's CTR is 0.4 percent.
Here's a summary:
Total Reach
Facebook: 51% of all internet users
Google: 90% of all internet users
Q1 Revenues
Facebook: $1.06 billion, down 6.5 percent year on year and down 32 percent sequentially.
Google: $2.9 billion, up 1 percent year on year and up 0.7 percent sequentially.
Click through rates
Facebook: 0.051%
Google: 0.4%
Average: 0.1%
Targeting Facebook:
- Education
- Workplace
- Likes
- Location
- Demographics
- Interest
- Keywords
- Remarketing
- Location
- Demographics
Facebook: standard display ad, Sponsored Stories
Google: Text ads, image ads, video text overlay ads, mobile web game ads
"So far, Facebook's advertising platform hasn't kept pace with the explosive growth of its social network, and it remains to be seen if CEO Mark Zuckerberg even wants to focus on advertising as a source of revenue. In his 2,500+ word letter to shareholders this month, he mentioned advertising just once," said Larry Kim, Founder and CTO of WordStream.
See Also:
Facebook IPO Countdown: Here's What You Don't Know About Its $1 Billion Ad Business >
WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg Proved He Can Build A Startup, But Can He Lead A Publicly Traded Company?
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An international team of scientists in China has discovered what may be the earliest known creature with a distinct face, a 419 million-year-old fish that could be a missing link in the development of vertebrates.
The fossil find in China's Xiaoxiang Reservoir, reported by the journal "Nature" on Thursday, is the most primitive vertebrate discovered with a modern jaw, including a dentary bone found in humans.
" finally solves an age-old problem about the origin of modern fishes," said John Long, a professor in palaeontology at Flinders University in Adelaide.
Scientists were surprised to find that the heavily armoured fish, Entelognathus primordialis, a previously unknown member of the now extinct placoderm family, had a complex small skull and jaw bones.
That appeared to disprove earlier theories that modern vertebrates with bony skeletons, called osteichthyes, had evolved from a shark-like creature with a frame made of cartilage.
Instead, the new find provides a missing branch on the evolutionary tree, predating that shark-like creature and showing that a bony skeleton was the prototype for both bony and cartilaginous vertebrates.
"We now know that ancient armoured placoderms gave rise to the modern fish fauna as we know it," said Long, who was not part of the team in China.
Long described the discovery as "the most exciting news in palaeontology since Archaeopteryx or Lucy", referring to two fossil discoveries that are crucial to our understanding of the evolution of birds and humans.
"Nature" did not detail when the fossil was found.
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The 34-year-old man shot by an Okaloosa County Sheriff�s deputy Wednesday during a traffic stop told lawmen he was �under the influence of numerous narcotics,� according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office news release.
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Eric Jacob Moore of 352 Billfish Ave. on Okaloosa Island was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence.
Moore was released from a Pensacola hospital early Thursday and booked into the Escambia County Jail. He was waiting to be returned to Okaloosa County.
The charges stem from a shooting at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Mary Esther Cut-Offand Anchors Street behind the Lee Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealership.
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Deputy Elisa Tino tried to pull over a reckless vehicle that had prompted numerous calls to dispatchers, according to a news release from the Sheriff�s Office.
The driver, later identified as Moore, stopped at the auto dealership and gave Tino his driver license, according to his arrest report.
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As Tino went back to her car to check the license, Moore got out of the white work van and ran away.
Tino caught up with Moore, who tried to punch her, said Sheriff�s Office spokeswoman Michele Nicholson.
Tino said she remembered Moore�s �fist touching her nose, at which time she discharged two rounds� at him, according to the report. Moore was shot in the upper body, the report said.
Nicholson would not say whether Moore was armed.
After he was shot, Moore, who is 6 feet, 2 inches and weighs 220 pounds, kept running until another deputy fired a stun gun to stop him, the report said.
Moore made a �spontaneous utterance� that he was under the influence of Xanax, Valium and possibly methamphetamine.
Tino is on paid administrative leave while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates the shooting.
FDLE officials are interviewing witnesses, checking records and looking at forensic evidence, Steve Arthur, the FDLE�s public information officer, said Thursday.
FDLE will not release any details until the investigation is finished, Arthur said. There is no time frame for its completion.
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MAKO – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today signed an accord with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to resume a full-scale HIV program including delivery of life-saving HIV treatment to tens of thousands of people in Mali.
Under the accord, the Global Fund approved funding for EUR 58 Million (US$75 million) for HIV screening, prevention and treatment in Mali over the next three years. Some 50,000 people in Mali are currently living with HIV.
"The signing of this agreement involving the Global Fund, the UN Development Programme and Mali brings hope for many of our citizens who can now say they have not been forgotten," Mali's Minister for Foreign Affairs Tiéman Coulibaly said.
The program targets key populations at higher risk and one of its priorities is to intensify efforts to reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child and support more systematic voluntary screening of pregnant women.
The Global Fund and its partners took steps to restore confidence in grant management in Mali after mismanagement of funds was discovered.
As a temporary measure, the scope of the Global Fund's grant was reduced in 2011 to funding of essential services to ensure continuity of treatment for 25,288 people in Mali who were receiving antiretroviral therapy with Global Fund support. Under the arrangement, it was also possible to start new patients on treatment and the total number on treatment has now risen to 30,000.
UNDP was asked by the Mali Country Coordinating Mechanism to take over managing the HIV program grant.
The Global Fund has since 2011 scaled up mechanisms for management and oversight of grants, while UNDP has further strengthened safeguards against fraud and expanded access by the Global Fund to UNDP internal audits of programs financed by the Global Fund.
"The new funding to expand HIV programs in Mali is a major step forward and underscores the Global Fund's commitment to support life-saving work in the country particularly at a time when the humanitarian situation requires special attention. More than 30,000 people in Mali now get regular treatment and another 20,000 people rely on quality care. We expect these numbers to increase," said Mark Edington, Head of the Global Fund's Grant Management division.
UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Mali, Aurélien A. Agbénonci, welcomed the new partnership and said it would be consistent with the country's national development strategy.
"We also place this intervention in the context of a larger vision and long-term investment in capacity-building, to encourage a national response strategy less dependent on foreign aid in the long-run and therefore more sustainable," Mr Agbénonci said.
The Global Fund, an innovative public-private partnership, has played a key role in the global response to the three pandemic diseases through a range of partnerships, including with the United Nations. It is the largest international channel of support for work on these diseases, which disproportionately affect the world's least developed countries.
UNDP acts as Principal Recipient for about one-tenth of the Global Fund's overall portfolio, mainly in uniquely challenging environments such as in countries emerging from crises.
UNDP's partnership with the Global Fund has brought treatment to more than 26 million cases of malaria and 700,000 cases of tuberculosis from Southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Liberia, Belarus, Haiti, and Tajikistan.
Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has become the main financier of programs to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, with approved funding of US$ 22.9 billion for more than 1,000 programs in 151 countries. To date, programs supported by the Global Fund are providing AIDS treatment for 3.6 million people, anti-tuberculosis treatment for 9.3 million people and 270 million insecticide-treated nets for the prevention of malaria.
The Global Fund has been funding programs in Mali since the December 2003 and has disbursed approximately US$ 90 Million, to provide ARV treatment to 30'000 patients, to detect and treat 17'000 smear positive TB patients and to distribute 720'000 LLINs to population in Mali. In the coming months, the Global Fund expects to sign one Malaria and one TB grant.
A decade ago, virtually no one living with HIV in developing countries had access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy. Now more than 8 million people do.
UNDP works with countries to understand and respond to the development dimensions of HIV and health, and promotes ownership of the response effort by the government and the people, to make it sustainable.
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Why Aren't Women Interested in Computer Science?
Growth in the share of women entering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields has slowed down, according to a report recently released by the Census Bureau.
The culprit: computer science. While women are working toward parity with men in other technical fields, the share of women pursuing computer jobs has been declining. In 2011, women made up 27% of computer occupations, but the number has dropped since 1990 when it was 34%. "We have seen an increase in women employed in STEM occupations, but they are still underrepresented in engineering and computer occupations that make up more than 80 percent of STEM employment," said Liana Christin Landivar, the reports' author, in a release.
The fault lies with the media, say Sapna Cheryan, Victoria C. Plaut, Caitlin Handron and Lauren Hudson in a paper published by Sex Roles. The researchers asked nearly 300 students from Stanford University and the University of Washington to describe computer science students. Intelligent, technology-oriented, singularly focused on computers, socially awkward, interested in science fiction and video games and physically unattractive were among the most common responses. Women who had taken a computer science class were less likely to generate a stereotypical description of a computer science student than those who had never taken a course.
In the second part of the experiment, researchers presented fake newspaper articles about research studies on computer science majors—one describing these students as stereotypically geeky and the other describing them as a varied group of people. Women who read the latter article showed more interest in majoring in computer science than the ones had been exposed to the former. Men, on the other hand, were not affected by either article.
The researchers say that media portrayals of people in computer science-related careers are similar to the stereotypes described by the students in their sample set and these depictions deter women from pursuing the field. "The stereotypes communicate to women that there's no place for them in the field—they look at it and I think, I don't really fit that image," says Ms. Cheryan, one of the paper's authors. She cites the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" as an example of a media depiction that perpetuates these stereotypes.
Ms. Cheryan says that math is taught early on, which diminishes some of the false stereotypes generated about workers in the field, while computer science isn't even part of typical high school curricula. Women made up nearly half of mathematical workers in 2011, according to the Census report.
A number of other explanations have been offered to explain the disparity between men and women in the field, such as a hostile work environment and the additional responsibilities of motherhood. And perhaps the most infamous explanation came from the economist Larry Summers who made comments in 2005 about how the lack of representation of women in high level science and engineering positions was due to biological differences between men and women—remarks which later led to a public outcry and might have contributed to his resignation from his role as Harvard University's president.
Meanwhile, a number of initiatives have sprung up in recent years to address the gender gap, such as Girls Who Code—a nonprofit that offers teaching and mentoring programs aimed at increasing the number of women in technology jobs. There's even been a computer engineering Barbie, as reported by a page-one article in the Journal. When Mattel Inc., the toy-company company behind the fashion doll, held a vote asking young girls what Barbie's new career should be, female computer engineers successfully launched a viral web campaign in 2010 to have Barbie join their ranks.


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BlueStacks Brings Android to Lenovo PCs
BlueStacks continues to make impressive headway in its quest to bring Google's Android ecosystem to the desktop PC. The virtualization startup today announced a milestone distribution deal with Lenovo that will see its BlueStacks App Player preloaded on the PC maker's "Idea" line of hardware.
The partnership is BlueStacks' largest yet, and the latest in a string of similar deals — with the likes of Asus, AMD and Qualcomm — that are positioning the company as the conduit through which some 750,000 Android apps can flow to the Windows and Mac desktop.
And that's beginning to look like a pretty good place to be. According to BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma, there's a lot of consumer interest in using Android apps on the desktop.
"2012 was an incredible year for distribution for us, and the Lenovo App Player is a great cap to it," Sharma told AllThingsD. "In 2013, we're focusing on monetizing the 150-million-plus computers we've put Android on."
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