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Gus Logie to coach Canada again
Cricket Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Augustine "Gus" Logie as the new head coach of Canada's Men's national team.
The diminutive Trinidadian made 52 test appearances and played in 158 ODI's for a star- studded and dominant West Indies team of the 1980's as a batsmen and equally strong fielder.
This will be Logie's second tenure with Cricket Canada having previously coached the national team during the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa where Canada registered its first World Cup win with a crushing 60 run margin of victory over Bangladesh at Durban.
Since that time, Gus has held head coaching positions with the West Indies winning the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy in England, with Bermuda from 2007-2009 including an appearance in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, and since 2010 with the Jamaican Cricket Association.
Gus was appreciative of the opportunity to again coach Canada and had the following comments:
"Many thanks to Cricket Canada for giving me the opportunity to work with the many talented players within the Canadian system. Our vision is to produce in Canada a "Championship Team" with technical skill and the mental and tactical awareness to compete at the highest level by developing the mind to win, the will to succeed, and the confidence to make it happen".
Cricket Canada Vice President and High Performance Manager, Vimal Hardat was optimistic about the appointment and provided the following comments:
"Gus is a true champion, who has a habit of winning as a member of the champion West Indies team in 80s and as a coach, by leading West Indies to the 2004 Champions Trophy. We have huge confidence in Gus and his coaching capabilities. He comes in with great knowledge and we will give him time to settle in with his ideas to help us achieve the target of being a leading associate country."
Logie will assume his role for Canada's upcoming ICC Intercontinental Cup and Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Championship series versus Scotland from July 4th 11th near Glasgow and Edinburgh.


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LEWISTON, Maine – The MIT men's track and field team made the trek up to Bates College to take on the host Bobcats along with Colby College in its season opening meet on Saturday. The Engineers won seven of the 17 events outright for a total of 192 points, compared to 116 for Bates and just 45 for Colby. Kenneth Cooper had an outstanding day for the Cardinal and Gray, earning a pair of second-place finishes with impressive efforts in the shot put and weight throw.
Cooper reached the NCAA provisional qualifying mark with his 59-2.25 foot toss in the weight throw. He followed that up with an effort of 50-0 feet in the shot put, becoming just the seventh thrower in program history to reach the 50-foot mark in indoor shot put.
Logan Trimble earned a pair of individual victories, narrowly clipping teammate Logan Daum in the 800 while also leading a strong team effort in the mile. Trimble won the 800 with a time of 2:00.43 and completed the mile in 4:19.91. In the mile, Tech runners earned six of the top seven positions.
Mattias Flander led the way to a sweep of the top four positions in the triple jump with his 44-0.75 foot leap. Tech also swept the top four in the 600 meters, as David Way came through first with a time of 1:26.05. Timothy Galvin was just behind in 1:28.64.
Additional victories were earned by Tyler Singer-Clark (23.25) in the 200 meters, Matthew Falk (6-3.25 feet) in the high jump and the MIT 4x400 meter relay squad of Brian Gager, Patrick Marx, Jacob Jurewicz and Nick Leonard.
MIT will get a chance to compete with some of the top teams in New England next weekend, as the Engineers take part in the Springfield College Invitational. The meet begins Saturday, January 22 at 12:30 p.m.

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While it may not be quite the total overhaul some were hoping for, Netflix has just released a not-quite-major but definitely more convenient update to its iOS app.
The biggest change comes with a redesigned, more intuitive UI that lets you flip through what you've already started watching—and are most likely to want access to—front and center. Episode selection, audio adjustments, and subtitles are all carrying new controls, as well. Although the first is only available in the iPad version, new audio and subtitle features will be available across the iOS board.
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[Verse 1: Papoose]
I was born in a human body, I'm deadly and dangerous
The way I decrease life quality is outrageous
But you don't gotta worry, I'm not contagious
I'm genetic, I travel through your family for ages
I could live in yo daughter, I could live in yo son
If you smoke cigarettes, I could live in yo lungs
I can develop in yo stomach and be that small
But I grow to the size of a basketball
Now you can ignore me and try to pass it on
You'll be a statistic, in the casket gone
I could be a sharp pain that you feel in yo spine
I can be a brain tumor on the back of yo mind
I'll even be in yo food if you eatin that swine
Don't go to the doctor so you never catch me in time
I done cause some strong men to lose they strength
Even cause some pretty women to lose they breasts
Only God know the cure and to whom he bless
Is the chosen, he choose the best
I'm a physical enemy, here to bring miserable treachery
I can affect him, her, they, you or them and me
But one small woman gotta checkup randomly
They burn me out of her body with chemotherapy
If you come late I'll deflate your energy
Take all of your hair and erase your memory
I can shorten your life if you livin it long
Even took a black queen named Vivian Strong
If you don't go to the doctor that mean you support me
The only way to stop me is to catch me early
And gangstas who think I can't get in y'all body
I even claimed the life of mobster John Gotti
Have you had a checkup? If no is your answer
Then let me introduce myself, my name is cancer
[Hook x2: Erykah Badu]
He rides to it
Don't stress a lot
Put protection on
If he's in your home
[Verse 2: Papoose]
The prettiest woman out here blows long in the wind
Even sip when she wasn't soft as her skin
Teeth look like ivory, pleasant as a beach
Breasts like 2 watermelons, ripe like a peach
On the outside, sexy as can be
But on the inside she's infected with me
She be up in every neighborhood, dead on the street
Give you her phone number, give you head in the V
And she don't like condom, she sex it for free
So if you ever met er get tested for me
Every single day I add names to my dying list
My epidemic is strong as an iron fist
You should check your body fluids, that's where I exist
Can travel through saliva, I hope you like to kiss
You can't get rid of me, you can cry and wish
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I'm the reason the word positive means bad news
Idiotic if you don't believe in me
Even took a great rapper named Eazy-E
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Cause you could live with me, ask Magic Johnson
I enter your body with only one assumed mission
That's only to break down your immune system
Become sick easy cuz you not immune
And I can pass over through every open wound
So make sure you put a Band-Aid on your cut
Before you shake another man's hands sayin wussup
I'm physical and visible, you can't feel me
Medicine, I'm invincible, you can't kill me
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(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
[Hook x2: Erykah Badu]
[Verse 3: Papoose]
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Let's protect ourselves, we should all, really
I'm tryna live long, won't you live long with me?
Suburbs to the city, sing this song with me
[Hook x3: Erykah Badu]
Papoose first person in the view of being deadly illnesses/viruses.


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Haye: Vitali fight has been agreed
David Haye claims he has agreed a contract with Vitali Klitschko for a future showdown, revealing the terms are not as lucrative as when he fought Klitschko's brother Wladimir.
Haye entered retirement after his lop-sided loss to Wladimir in July 2011, before stepping back into the ring to knock out Dereck Chisora a year later.
Now the Brit insists he will only fight again if a bout with Vitali is on the table, which he claims is happening after negotiations between the two camps. The Ukrainian is yet to announce his next fight after beating Manuel Charr in September, but Haye claims the pair are set to meet.
"The fight has already been agreed," Haye is quoted as saying in the Sun. "It's not a slave contract. It is not as good as it was against Vitali's brother Wladimir but I don't expect that because I'm the challenger now.
"It is fair and it gives me a chance to get the [WBC] belt back."
The heavyweight showdown became a major possibility when the WBC lifted its ban on Haye in August, and the Brit has since attempted to anger Klitschko by criticising his fights and insisting he will not fight in the Ukrainian's homeland.
With home names such as David Price and Tyson Fury becoming established forces in the division, it had been mooted that Haye could put on another all-British battle, but he insists there is no chance of that happening.
"Fury should keep on talking because he isn't really fighting anyone at the moment," Haye said. "As for me fighting him? No. I'm only getting back in the ring for a Klitschko. No one else."


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This piece was originally published on Jan. 3, 2013, as part of a 20-year commemorative edition of the Bills' 41-38 victory over the Houston Oilers in what still holds as the greatest comeback in NFL history.
Whether it was the quiet strength of Frank Reich, the passion of Darryl Talley or the fire of the fans in Rich Stadium, the Bills found a spark after falling behind by 32 points in the third quarter and rallied past the Oilers in a wild-card game victory for the ages.
Frank Reich began the greatest day of his football life in pretty mundane fashion. Reich walked to his car in the early-morning cold outside the Bills' team hotel and found that he didn't have an ice scraper.
So Reich turned on the defroster, leaned back and contemplated the challenge that lay ahead of him. In a few hours, at Rich Stadium, he would start a wild-card game against the Houston Oilers. It would be the first playoff start of his NFL career.
The Bills' quarterback popped a song into the tape deck called "In Christ Alone," which he had been listening to over and over to prepare him for the biggest game of his life.
"Something compelled me to pull out our playbook and write down the lyrics," Reich recalled. "I said, 'Win or lose today, whether I play good or bad, I need to share this song with someone today, because it gave me the strength and courage to walk out there, not knowing what would happen.' "
The lyrics were simple enough: "In every victory let it be said of me, my source of strength, my source of hope, is Christ alone."
Reich, a deeply religious man, said he wasn't asking God to help him win, but to carry himself with a spiritual dignity, to show the world that there are many ways to define victory in this life. His faith was tested soon enough.
Reich, who got the starting job when Jim Kelly hurt his knee against the same Oilers the week before, was soundly outplayed in the first half. Warren Moon, a future Hall of Famer, threw for four touchdowns as the Oilers surged to a 28-3 halftime lead.
Maybe this was the objective, for Reich to stand tall and show personal strength after the most humiliating loss of his career. In his heart, he didn't expect the Bills to come back. As they sat in a dispirited halftime locker room, many of his teammates figured the team's two-year Super Bowl run was likely coming to an end.
"I remember walking in, thinking, 'I bet my wife has left the stadium and she's packing for the offseason,' " said Mark Pike, the former special teams ace.
But these were the Bills, remember. They had come back many times before, despite injuries. Kelly was out. So was Cornelius Bennett. Thurman Thomas had started the game, but gave way to Kenneth Davis after aggravating a hip-pointer early in the second half. Bruce Smith played, but was compromised by bruised ribs.
They might have been down, but there was still an essential spark of belief in that team. That spark flared in different corners of the locker room during halftime, reminding everyone that this game wasn't over yet.
"Elijah Pitts [the late running backs coach] told me, 'They're better than you are right now,' " Davis said from Dallas, where he works as a high school athletic director. "I said, 'Coach Pitts, no, they're not better than us right now.' He said, 'Then let me see you prove it.' "
Walt Corey, the defensive coordinator, ripped into his players at halftime. Corey wasn't a vociferous leader by nature, but he was furious after their first-half no-show. He accused them of playing timid.
That was not what Darryl Talley needed to hear. Talley, as tough and emotional a leader as ever played in Buffalo, was his typically volatile self at halftime, bouncing from man to man like a madman, exhorting his teammates to keep battling.
"Everyone was sitting at their lockers, dead silence," Pike said. "Darryl was the last one in. He was ranting and raving, saying we were going to kick their ass in the second half, all this macho, gusto stuff. He was high-fiving, slapping everybody."
Pike laughed at the memory. "You could feel the guys thinking, 'Darryl, shut up. You're stupid, we're getting killed.' I remember thinking, 'We're done.' But Darryl never stopped the whole halftime. It was constant. But as it went on, guys collected themselves and said, 'Why can't we come back?' "
Talley did quiet down long enough to hear Corey's rant. When it was over, his defensive teammates asked him what they should do. He said safety Mark Kelso agreed they should go back to their base 3-4 defense. They had played six defensive backs in the first half, but Moon had shredded them.
"I said, 'Let's just line up and knock the snot out of them,' " Talley said. "I told the linebackers, 'I don't care if we win, but they'll hurt too bad to play next week.'
"Everybody looked at me. I told the defense, 'Let's just turn this into a damn street fight.' "
Gale Gilbert, the backup quarterback that day, quietly reminded Reich that he had led the greatest comeback in the history of Division 1A college football, leading Maryland out of a 31-0 hole against Miami in 1984.
"I remember it like it was yesterday," Reich said. "I was sitting at my locker and Gale said, 'I know you were part of a comeback like this in college, so you know it can be done.' "
Coach Marv Levy didn't predict any miracles. He simply told his players they had 30 minutes left in their season (he didn't anticipate overtime). "The only thing I said at halftime," Levy said, "was you're the two-time defending AFC champions. When you walk off the field, don't let anyone ever say you quit."
Reich told his teammates they simply had to go one play at a time. Then the Bills ran out for the second half. On the fourth play from scrimmage, Reich's pass went through the hands of tight end Keith McKeller to Houston's Bubba McDowell, who returned it 58 yards for a touchdown.
That's when most people, including the Oilers, figured the game was over.
"Honestly," said special teams coach Bruce DeHaven, "when they ran that interception in, I remember thinking, 'I wonder what I'll do on Monday? Maybe I'll go see a movie.' "
On the sideline, Talley turned to Pike and Eddie Abramoski, the head trainer, and said, "Don't worry, I have these suckers right where I want them. I said to Cornelius, 'Don't worry, you'll play next week.' You should have seen their faces."
Reich says he has often joked that that interception turned the game around. "The more I say it," Reich said, "the more I think it's true. It was the key to the game."
Oilers backed off
The Oilers, who had blown a playoff game to the Broncos the year before, let up at that point. Maybe it was because they had beaten the Bills badly the week before. Or perhaps they took their cue from all the Bills fans who streamed out of the stadium.
Bill Polian, who was on his way out as general manager, remembers the fans leaving the stadium, some after bidding him a harsh farewell.
"I sat in a front press box in a temporary booth, an auxiliary radio booth," Polian said. "There was no glass. It was outside. Toward the end of the first half, a group of guys in front of us started saying some derogatory things. It was sort of funny, actually.
"Since I knew I was leaving at the end of the season, it would have been a bad way for my Bills career to end," he said. "John Butler [who would succeed Polian as GM] was getting upset. They were saying, 'This team stinks, we've had it, we've had enough. Let's go.' And they left."
It was about that time that the fates began to turn. Some felt there was divine intervention that day. There was a gusty wind, and a light rain later in the day. Whatever the reason, there were a number of little things that went the Bills' way.
Still, everyone involved with that team felt it was their resilient character, their strong competitive bond, that pulled them through. The Bills' indomitable character allowed them to hang in long enough to instill doubt in a Houston team that had never won a truly big game.
"Like any game like that, it was as much them shutting it off as us turning it on," said Steve Tasker. "It went in stages. We said, 'Let's keep playing. Let's keep our self-respect.' We had been to two Super Bowls. We had a lot of pride. We might go out, but we didn't want to go out like that. We said, 'Let's score 10 or 14 points and make it respectable.' "
They did a lot more than that, scoring 28 unanswered points in an astonishing third-quarter run after the McDowell interception TD. It is still hard to fathom in retrospect, that it went from 35-3 to 35-31 in just 6:52.
A fortunate gust of wind caused Houston kicker Al Del Greco to mishit the kickoff after the McDowell TD, giving the Bills possession at midfield. Reich hit tight end Pete Metzelaars with a 24-yard pass that sailed through the hands of linebacker Eddie Robinson (yes, the future Bill).
Davis, who was spectacular in relief of Thomas, picked up a crucial first down on fourth and 2. Davis scored the first TD on a sweep around left end. That made it 35-10. The fans began to stir. The Oilers were a bit slower. They were unprepared as the Bills recovered an onside kick.
Fans want to return
Polian had predicted the onside kick from his booth. He told Bob Ferguson, his pro personnel director, that the Bills would win if they recovered it. Ferguson told him he was crazy. It was around that time that Polian got a call from his security people. There was a rule prohibiting fans from re-entering the stadium. But people were clamoring to get back inside.
"The security people said, 'People are storming the gates, it's getting crazy out here!' " Polian recalled. "We had a little confab. We said, 'OK, open the gates. Let them back in.'
"Well, the same group of guys came running back up the aisle. Lo and behold, boom, we score. They turn around, they're high-fiving each other, saying this is the greatest team ever. Those are the two things I remember most."
After getting the onside kick, the Bills scored on a 38-yard pass from Reich to Don Beebe, who was wide open along the left sideline. Replays showed that Beebe had stepped out of bounds. Today, a booth replay would have reviewed the play and likely overturned it.
The Houston offense, which had sat through a halftime and three scores without seeing the field, went three-and-out. Greg Montgomery had his first punt of the day and shanked it into the wind. Reich was in rhythm now against a reeling and confused Oilers secondary.
Davis made a sensational run on a screen pass for 19 yards. Then Reich found Andre Reed wide open on the left for a 26-yard touchdown, making it 35-24. Reed was uncovered because of a communications breakdown between Houston cornerback Steve Jackson and safety Marcus Robertson.
"Oh, they were done," Reed said. "They were so discombobulated, they didn't know what they were doing. They were messing up easy coverages they were doing all game. They say we gave it to them? No, they were back there talking stuff to each other and messing it up."
"They were just trying to hang on," Tasker said. "I was surprised. If it had happened to our team, Darryl or Jim or Thurman would have got in guys' faces and said, 'Turn it back up.' Warren [Moon] was never vocal at all. He was not a vocal leader. He was a great quarterback, a Hall of Fame player, but not one of those guys, and the Oilers needed one of those guys."
On the next series, Moon made his worst throw of the day, a high pass from deep in his own territory that deflected off the left hand of Webster Slaughter and was intercepted by Henry Jones. Jones, who led the NFL in picks that season, ran it back to the Oilers' 23.
Four plays later, the Bills faced fourth and 5. There was 2:05 left in the third quarter. They were down by only 11. But Levy knew the Bills would be going into the wind in the fourth quarter. A field goal would cut the deficit to only eight. There was no two-point conversion in those days.
Levy takes gamble
Levy wanted to go. Reich called timeout with the play clock running down. He wanted to be sure. "Marv had made the decision to go, but now there was a discussion about it," Reich said. "Believe me, Marv was the man all the way."
"Frank said, 'I think I know the play,'" Levy said. "I took a deep breath and said, 'Go for it, Frank.'"
"I knew exactly what play to run," Reich said. "It was Bull 65. We were going to run four receivers on four vertical routes. If they play Cover 2, I have a chance to get Andre down the middle."
Reich hit Reed down the middle for the TD. "Probably the biggest gamble in Marv's career," Reed said. "It gives me chills just thinking about it. I remember in the huddle, we didn't say, 'We have to make this or else.' It was, 'Let's make this and go get the ball back.'"
The Oilers regrouped somewhat in the fourth quarter. Moon led a drive deep into Bills territory. But the Bills' defense, using their bigger players in the 3-4, played tougher in the second half. Jeff Wright and Phil Hansen made big plays on that drive and the Oilers stalled at the 14.
That's when fate intruded again. Rain began to fall at about that time. The wind was blowing. The Oilers lined up for a routine, 31-yard field goal and the snap sailed through the hands of Montgomery, the holder.
"The crowd was going nuts," said Wright, who had two sacks. "You saw there weren't so many empty seats anymore. It was pretty awesome."
Operating in the rain, the Bills marched to the go-ahead score in the fourth. The key play was a counter run by Davis, who rambled 35 yards and nearly went all the way. Reich said he almost failed to get the ball into Davis' stomach in time.
"I sit there and sit there," Davis said with a laugh. "I'm saying, 'Frank, the hole is going to close! I got to go, I got to go!' Then he finally got the ball in there and I was able to take off. It was great, because it gave the hole more time to develop."
The Bills scored the go-ahead TD a few plays later, when Reich threw his third TD pass, a 17-yarder to Reed. Reich was especially proud of that play. He said the Oilers played sound defense. But he looked off the safety just enough to create room for a low throw to a sliding Reed.
Bailey stops Moon
That put the Bills ahead, 38-35. The Oilers drove the ball inside the Buffalo 20 on their final possession of regulation. But Carlton Bailey stopped Moon on a scramble at the 9-yard line and Houston had to settle for a game-tying field goal by Del Greco.
Polian said he had forgotten the Oilers tied the game to force overtime. And there was a sense of inevitability. Early in OT, Nate Odomes intercepted a Moon pass and Christie kicked a 32-yard field to win it.
Davis, who truly cherished being a football player in Buffalo, felt the crowd had lifted the team to victory. Everyone involved agreed.
"They willed us to victory," Davis said. "They're the ones who gave us the energy. See, we didn't know where the energy was. We were the Energizer bunnies, but they were the batteries in us. I don't know if people realize how passionate we were about the fans, and how they could change a game."
"The hair stands up on my arm as I think about the crowd," Talley said. "It was electric, almost spellbinding."
There was a general sense of euphoria in the stands and in the locker room afterward. Reich remembers how exhilarated all the players were.
Then Scott Berchtold, the PR director at the time, told him it was time for the press conference. Reich headed toward the tunnel, then stopped in his tracks.
Reich went back to his locker and grabbed the lyrics to the song. On the walk to the interview room, he told Berchtold the media might not like what he had in mind. He had referred to his faith before in front in press conferences and heard the click of the cameras being turned off.
"Frank," Berchtold said. "You just led the greatest comeback in NFL history. You can say anything you want!"
Reich began his remarks by reading the lyrics, which were essentially a song about belief.
"I didn't hear one click," he said. "I didn't see one camera turn down. I don't want to say I was vindicated. It wasn't about me. It was about the message the song was sharing. I've been sharing that message for 20 years."


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Exposition night! Filled with cleaning, prepping, parents, friends, peers, support, nerves, and a little bit of showing off. Here's what happened:
After a day of feeling the buzz of focused kids, and an afternoon of intense cleaning and setup…
We started the night with the Flying Fish's paper airplane contest. Aidan and Ben were pilots, Clementine and Natasha were judges, Lola was announcer, Bruno was the scorekeeper, and Logan was the assistant. They began with a reading of the poem "Who Has Seen the Wind?" and continued on to demonstrating different kinds of throws and measuring each distance. They finished by having their audience throw the paper airplanes they'd passed out at the beginning of our exposition.
Next, we listened to Theo's radio play, "Da Microbe Play," with live microbe puppeteering by Theo and Audrey.
Norabelle made a speech about her comic-making work.
Since Coke and Quinn weren't able to make the open house, they made a video of their trebuchet project to explain all about their work process and the physics of the device.
Kaia showed a video of her accomplishments in learning to draw horses.
Isaac, as his character Jimithy Smithenheimer, read excerpts from his novel entitled, "On the Subject of Sports" and "Some Facts I Would Like to Disprove."
Alexander and Daniel presented their anti-gravity dominoes and explained how they had to make more than thirty identical pieces to make it work.
Henry showed his video documenting the work that Connor has done on his rigid wing glider.
Josh complemented Henry's video by explaining, in Connor's absence, the process that Connor has gone through and the iterations of his project.
We moved over to the cork floor and William presented his wood block domino pyramid.
Zada and Audrey did their aerial silk performances. Audrey's story was about a mermaid princess who gets chased by a shark but then defeats it by chasing it away. Zada's was about the very last bee in the world.
The night was a huge success!
The kids showed clear and obvious pride in their accomplishments through the Motion arc during the Exposition night. Our exposition night showed just how much the Brightworks kids can be dedicated to projects and ideas when they choose ideas that they are thrilled about. Not only that, but they showed incredible respect for their peers' work and support for each other overall.
We're so pleased with this Motion arc! We've learned so much since January and are thrilled to return to school and our next arc reinvigorated and re-energized, and ready to take the next big step in the growing and making of Brightworks.
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A year after almost losing her life in a gruesome racing accident, former Formula One test driver Maria de Villota was found dead in a hotel room in Seville, Spain, on Friday — with an autopsy showing that lingering injuries from her wreck likely caused her death. De Villota was 33.
De Villota's sister, Isabel, said an autopsy indicated that she had died in her sleep around 6 a.m. local time due to "neurological damage" from her crash in July 2012. De Villota lost an eye in the accident but had since seemingly recovered from the wreck — even driving again, writing a book about it, and recently getting married.
Spanish police said her death was from "natural causes" and that there was no indication of foul play. They said de Villota's manager alerted staff at the Hotel Sevilla Congresos after her body was found.
De Villota was seriously injured last year in a crash during testing for the Marussia F1 team in England, losing her right eye and sustaining other serious head injuries that kept her hospitalized for a month.
De Villota, a Madrid native, was the daughter of Emilio de Villota, who competed in F1 from 1976-82.
Her family used de Villota's Facebook page to say "Dear friends: Maria has left us. She had to go to heaven like all angels. I give thanks to God for the year and a half that he left her with us."
F1 officials and drivers at the Japanese Grand Prix were stunned by her death.
"My deepest condolences go to the de Villota family," said FIA president Jean Todt. "Maria was a fantastic driver, a leading light for women in motorsport and a tireless campaigner for road safety. Above all she was a friend I deeply admired."
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh said as the chairman of the Formula One Teams' Association the "whole paddock is very shocked by the news that Maria is no longer with us.
"She was an inspiration not just to women in this sport, but also to all those who suffered life-threatening injuries."
Sauber's Monisha Kaltenhorn, the first female team principal in F1, said, "If anybody represented strength and optimism, it was Maria. Her sudden death is a big loss to the motorsport world."
Williams development driver Susie Wolff recalled how de Villota asked her to carry on for her and all women drivers following her accident.
"She very much said to me after it, 'It's up to you to go out there and show them that it (a woman driver in F1) is possible,'" Wolff said. "She knew that women could compete at that level and that's why, after her accident and her not being able to do that anymore, she just wanted someone to know it was possible. She had such a spirit for life. What she came through was a testament to her strength of character and her positive outlook on life."
Marussia expressed its condolences.
"It is with great sadness that we learned a short time ago of the news that Maria de Villota has passed away," Marussia said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Maria's family and friends at this very difficult time."
Fellow Spaniard Fernando Alonso said: "It's very sad news for the world of motorsport as Maria was loved by everyone. Now, all we can do is pray for her and for her family."
Brazlilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa, who is in his final season with Ferrari, tweeted a message and attached photo of de Villota from his Instagram account: "Marìa De Villota , my Heart is with her family!"
Part-time IndyCar driver Katherine Legge, who, in November 2005, became the first woman to test a Formula One car since Sarah Fisher in 2002, tweeted that de Villota was "an extremely inspirational woman."
De Villota also had driven in the world touring car championship in 2006 and 2007 plus the Superleague open-wheel series.
She was in Seville to participate in the conference "What Really Matters," whose mission is to inspire and teach young people "universal human values," in the words of the organizers.
Organizers canceled the conference on receiving news of her death and issued a statement "transmitting their care and support to the family and loved ones of Maria de Villota."
De Villota was the first Spanish woman to drive an F1 car. Sport minister Jose Wert announced that she would be posthumously awarded Spain's Gold Medal of Sporting Merit.
Other leading figures of Spanish sports also expressed their condolences.
Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta extended his sympathies to her family while top-ranked tennis player Rafael Nadal said it was "very bad news for the world of sport in general, for the Spanish sport especially."
De Villota's almost fatal accident in July 2012 occurred while she was driving an F1 car for only the fourth time — and first for Marussia — and hit a support truck during a straight-line exercise near an airfield in England. An internal team investigation concluded the car was not at fault.
She first drove an F1 car in 2011, a Renault at the Paul Ricard circuit in Marseille, France.
Her death comes when de Villota seemed to be moving past her accident.
She told Hola magazine in February she felt "free" and "back to being me" after returning to driving on normal roads.
She returned to a F1 paddock for the first time in May at the Spanish GP. There she told the AP that she felt a mix of "adrenaline and also a little bit of sadness" on again being near the sport that almost cost her her life.
In July, she married boyfriend Rodrigo Garcia. She was active in charity work and a member of the FIA's women's commission.
On Monday, she was to present a book Life is a Gift, detailing her ordeal following her driving accident.
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Electricians earn the highest wage of all the construction trades, yet many electrical contracting firms don't have a reliable method of tracking their labor hours. As a result, electricians may write down more hours than they actually work, which can undercut a firm's profitability.
To regain control of their businesses, electrical contracting firms are turning to labor management software. By recording the labor hours electronically, these companies no longer have to worry about paper time cards getting lost, torn, or trampled on a construction site. Software developers and manufacturers have developed new technology to increase a firm's productivity and profitability. Electricians can now swipe their identification badges through a time clock system, place their finger on a scanner, or type a password on a keypad. (See the Table on page C12 to learn about the different types of labor tracking systems.)
While many different types of automated payroll systems are available, this article will focus on two methods — clocking electricians in and out using electronic time clocks and tracking labor hours on handheld electronic devices.
Replacing time cards with electronic time clocks. After six years in business, Susan Vick, office manager for V&M Electric, a Bay Minette, Ala.-based commercial electrical contracting firm, grew weary of paying electricians for trumped-up overtime. Electricians would claim that they worked from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., yet many of them were showing up late or leaving early. Vick verified her employees' labor hours by reconciling gasoline receipts with the hours reported on the time cards. After discovering discrepancies, her firm invested in an electronic time clock system to track the electricians' hours more closely.
"We bought one and put it on one jobsite, and in the first week the time clock paid for itself," Vick says. "The electricians were apprehensive about using it at first, but after they got used to it, they didn't want to go back to the time cards."
Tony Pappas, president of Exaktime, the Woodland Hills, Calif.-based manufacturer of the Jobclock system, says electrical contracting firms can save thousands of dollars each month by carefully monitoring their electricians' labor hours.
"Companies call us because of a couple of triggering events like a bunch of handwritten time cards that they can't read or a worker who is reporting five hours of overtime," Pappas says.
While an electrical contracting firm may be concerned about one employee who is taking long lunch breaks, showing up a half an hour late, and cutting out of work early, they may be unaware of the other electricians who are costing the company 15 minutes a day. For example, if five workers earning $25/hr and nine workers earning $30/hr all report 15 extra minutes of work time each day, it will increase a company's payroll by at least $1,975 a month. Along with saving on actual labor hours, firms can also save on secondary costs like accrued vacation time, workman's comp, social security taxes, and federal employment taxes.
Because the system has an internal, rather than visible, time clock, the clock gets absorbed into the environment. The absence of a visible clock helps to deter clock watchers from hanging around and waiting until the clock strikes the next hour. Instead of flipping through a stack of time cards that all read 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., five days a week, office personnel will start to see hours like 7:10 a.m. to 3:52 p.m.
"It's not that the guys are dishonest, but they do get into sloppy habits," Pappas says. "If you see the guy next to you writing 4:00 and you know it's 3:45, you're going to write 4:00."
V&M Electric, which was founded in 1998 and specializes in commercial construction projects, uses the electronic time clock on four of its major construction projects. To track the electricians' labor hours, the company shackles a device, which is about the size of a hockey puck, to an area inside the jobsite trailer (Photo on page C8). Vick says in order to ensure the accuracy of the labor hours, it's essential to secure the clock somewhere on the actual jobsite. Although V&M decided to install its device on the inside of its jobsite trailers, the clocks can also be strapped to a pole, fence post, or even a Port-a-Potty because they're designed for indoor/outdoor use. Unlike fingerprinting, punch-in, or magnetic card systems, the clock is designed to withstand the adverse conditions on a jobsite. The system also doesn't require AC power, so electricians no longer need to tap into a client's power line.
To activate the device, the electricians carry small tabs on their key ring — a green tab to clock-in and a red tab to clock-out. The electricians are issued one red and one green key tab. If they lose them, they're responsible for paying for the replacement set. If they forget to clock-in, they write their hours down on a paper time card, which is verified by their supervisor before they're paid. When they arrive at the jobsite in the morning or return from lunch, they touch the green tab to the front of the clock. When they leave the jobsite, they touch a red tab to the time clock. If they're leaving one jobsite to travel to another location, they stop the clock with their red tab and start the clock again once they arrive on the new jobsite. Companies can also give their electricians yellow tabs to indicate travel time. The colors of the key tabs can also correspond to different activities like rough-in or finish work.
At the end of the work week, rather than picking up a stack of paper time cards, V&M's owner visits the jobsite to download all the data from the time clock onto a PDA. Vick can then print out a report to verify the information, enter the electronic data into the billing software program, and print out the paychecks for the employees. The data is stored in a standard Microsoft database, but it can be imported into Microsoft Excel, a Web browser, or a PDF format. Vick estimates that the clock saves at least two hours per week in accounting and data entry. Recording the labor hours electronically also makes it more convenient for the electricians. Instead of worrying about turning in their time cards, all they have to do is clock-in and clock-out each day, and by Friday, they're issued a paycheck.
Tracking labor hours on handheld devices. Electrical contracting firms are not only using electronic time clocks, but some companies are also tracking their labor hours on handheld electronic devices. Supervisors can keep track of their employees' hours right on the jobsite with labor management software designed for Pocket PCs and Palm Pilots. Because all of the data is in an electronic format, it can be imported into the company's accounting software.
For example, Accu-Tech Systems partnered with Bosch Power Tools to develop mJobTime labor management software, which will work with QuickBooks and MasterBuilder accounting packages and help small firms manage their labor crews. A new version of the software is designed for mid-sized firms and will work with software packages like Timberline, Wennsoft, and GEAC.
Rather than typing a lot of detailed information on a tiny glass screen, project managers are only required to fill in a limited number of fields. They can also select from pop-up menus and use default settings to speed up data entry.
Mike Soniat, president of Accu-Tech, estimates that 25% to 30% of the owners of small electrical contracting firms he's worked with already own handhelds. By using the software, he says companies can improve the accuracy and efficiency of their labor tracking by 80%.
"The traditional method of tracking labor in the field is very error-prone," he says. "What's changed is that we can now record those things electronically."
By investing in labor management products, electrical contracting firms are boosting their profitability and increasing their electricians' productivity. Instead of relying on traditional methods and falling behind the times, these firms are looking ahead to the future by embracing new technology.
Sidebar: Beyond Mere Labor Management.
General contracting firms often mandate the type of software that's to be used on a project, but in the case of the $75 million renovation of Denver's historic Quigg Newton Auditorium, an electrical contracting firm took the lead. Sturgeon Electric, a Henderson, Colo.-based subsidiary of MYR Group, helped to develop a project Web site to manage the labor force on the landmark project.
"Usually a subcontractor will not be leading the parade," says Paddy Moore, senior project manager for Sturgeon Electric. "Instead we'll usually be following somewhere behind. We've been developing this software for two years, but we broke it loose on this job because it's an extremely difficult project. We felt like it needed all the electronic help that we could get."
Moore teamed up with Bob Barton, president of Colorado Springs, Colo.-based T3 Consulting, to incorporate open source and off-the-shelf software into a Web-based collaboration suite to accommodate the archival of all of the project documents, including CAD drawings, changeorders, e-mails, photos, and video clips. The construction team has archived about 800 total drawings, a year's worth of project videos, hourly project photos, and 3,300 e-mails to date. All of the files are served from a secured off-site server, which allows the project team to access the documents 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
"If the trailer gets blown over or a hurricane hits the jobsite, they still have all their records," Barton says.
The "Team Results" online portal allows the team to track the project's progress in real-time with a Web camera, up-to-the-minute labor management statistics, and interactive Web-based three-week look-ahead project calendars. Along with developing collaboration software packages, Barton and Moore partnered with such software vendors as Primavera, which offers a Web-based P3e scheduling software; E-Success, the developer of online estimating systems; and JobData, which provides handheld Pocket PC solutions. Two of the project managers are currently using the JobData system to record labor hours on Pocket PCs, but the foremen will also start using the software once the project approaches its peak construction level. The team is also checking labor productivity online with a chart titled "Total Productive Labor Hours," which illustrates the amount of straight time, overtime, and double time employees are logging on the project. By keeping a detailed record of the project documents, the crew has been able to keep the job on time and within the budget.
"If you have an archive of the past, a good schedule for the future, and you understand what's going on in real-time, then you have an opportunity to manage a construction project at its highest level," Barton says.


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This paper considers supervised multi-class image segmentation: from a labeled set of pixels in one image, we learn the segmentation and apply it to the rest of the image or to other similar images. We study approaches with p-Laplacians, (vector-valued) Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs) and combinations of both. In all approaches we construct segment membership vectors. In the p-Laplacian model the segment membership vectors have to fulfill a certain probability simplex constraint. Interestingly, we could prove that this is not really a constraint in the case p=2 but is automatically fulfilled. While the 2-Laplacian model gives a good general segmentation, the case of the 1-Laplacian tends to neglect smaller segments. The RKHS approach has the benefit of fast computation. This direction is motivated by image colorization, where a given dab of color is extended to a nearby region of similar features or to another image. The connection between colorization and multi-class segmentation is explored in this paper with an application to medical image segmentation. We further consider an improvement using a combined method. Each model is carefully considered with numerical experiments for validation, followed by medical image segmentation at the end.
Recently convex optimization models were successfully applied for solving various problems in image analysis and restoration. In this paper, we are interested in relations between convex constrained optimization problems of the form \(min\{\Phi(x)\) subject to \(\Psi(x)\le\tau\}\) and their non-constrained, penalized counterparts \(min\{\Phi(x)+\lambda\Psi(x)\}\). We start with general considerations of the topic and provide a novel proof which ensures that a solution of the constrained problem with given \(\tau\) is also a solution of the on-constrained problem for a certain \(\lambda\). Then we deal with the special setting that \(\Psi\) is a semi-norm and \(\Phi=\phi(Hx)\), where \(H\) is a linear, not necessarily invertible operator and \(\phi\) is essentially smooth and strictly convex. In this case we can prove via the dual problems that there exists a bijective function which maps \(\tau\) from a certain interval to \(\lambda\) such that the solutions of the constrained problem coincide with those of the non-constrained problem if and only if \(\tau\) and \(\lambda\) are in the graph of this function. We illustrate the relation between \(\tau\) and \(\lambda\) by various problems arising in image processing. In particular, we demonstrate the performance of the constrained model in restoration tasks of images corrupted by Poisson noise and in inpainting models with constrained nuclear norm. Such models can be useful if we have a priori knowledge on the image rather than on the noise level.


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1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;
what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, "Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge." 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.
2 I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good." But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 "Laughter," I said, "is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?" 3 I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[b] as well—the delights of a man's heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.
What more can the king's successor do
than what has already been done?
13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.
15 Then I said to myself,
"The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?"
I said to myself,
"This too is meaningless."
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise too must die!
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[c] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
15 Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.[d]
16 And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
17 I said to myself,
"God will bring into judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed."
18 I also said to myself, "As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[e]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. 17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool. 18 Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast. 19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! 20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face. 21 To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that!
Whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast about. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's descendants? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. 24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. 27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. 28 Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me. 33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.
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P.J. Lee (Tom Guiry), a young man of maybe twenty, is trying to find his way. His father is in jail charged with vehicular homicide. His father's house where he'd been living is going into foreclosure. He works a dead-end restaurant job that won't pay for rent or seemingly even enough to keep his truck running. There's no room at his stepfather's for him. His brother is going through his own mess with a newborn and a wife he's two-timing. P.J. has a girl that seems to care about him, but he's wary about trying to live up to a commitment. Finally, there's a bigger cloud hanging over him that only comes into clear view as the film progresses.
Despite the numerous circumstances working against P.J., Steel City is a hopeful movie about men looking to fix things. P.J.'s incarcerated father Carl Lee (John Heard) is trying in his own way to make amends for not being there for his sons when they were growing up. Carl's brother, Vic (Raymond J. Barry), a Vietnam vet with no family of his own and who's been estranged from Carl for years over a woman, tries to step in and makes amends by guiding P.J. Even P.J.'s brother Ben (Clayne Crawford) who simultaneously blames his father and repeats his father's mistakes, is struggling with trying to be something better.
The acting in Steel City is universally excellent, and the dialouge is pitch perfect. Taken together it creates the illusion that these are real men who are actually working through real problems.
Steel City was filmed in southern Illinois, principally in Jun's hometown of Alton. Director of photography Ryan Samul did an impressive job using the bleak backdrop of this rundown mill town to perfect effect in this blue-collar melodrama. Filmed in 35mm and Super 16, Steel City looks like a much more expensive film than it is. Jun and Samul choose to emphasize the blues and grays in the outdoor shots. Although this adds an artistic sheen to the film, it takes away a bit for its realism.
The score and soundtrack are also top notch, and a great coup for such an inexpensively-made film. A moody, minimalistic score by Mark Geary aptly complements Samul's cinematography. Geary also adds a song to the soundtrack, but the bulk of the soundtrack is carried by Missouri singer/songwriter Jeff Black using songs from the album Honey and Salt. Black's songs are reminiscent of the work of Bruce Springsteen.
While, for most viewers, the revelation that comes out midway through the film will not be nearly as surprising as Jun hoped for, Steel City still aptly succeeds. This is the kind of story that plays very well in short-form fiction but rarely translates to the big screen. Jun's done a marvelous job. Here's hoping that he's able to build on this impressive debut.
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Bluetooth - it doesn't work using Ubuntu 810
It appears unable to find the internal Bluetooth device.
I think something to do with the kernel or modules - beyond me!
Also pulse audio sound seems to break the build in Mic. Uninstall PulseAudio and install Alsa-Gnome. Turn digital and mic on for mic to work.


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Last week we released a report revealing the extent of which banned pesticides are finding their way in Chinese brand teas. And today, the revelations keep on coming.
Lipton, the world's best-selling tea brand, is also selling tea in China with illegal pesticides.
In March 2012, Greenpeace randomly purchased several boxes of Lipton tea bags produced and sold in China at two Beijing stores. The samples, which included green tea, oolong tea, jasmine tea and black tea, were then sent to an independent third-party lab for pesticide residue testing.
Our second report details three of the four samples contained pesticides that are banned for use on tea plants and are highly toxic. Altogether 17 diferent kinds of pesticides were found on the four samples.
"As the world's best-selling tea brand, Lipton is taking advantage of China's loose pesticide control measures at the expense of its Chinese customers," says Wang Jing, Greenpeace Food and Agriculture Campaigner.
Lipton's holding company is Unilever - one of those mega-conglomerate multinational consumer goods companies. Last year they reported a whopping €46.5 billion in turnover. Their very size equates to a responsibility to consumers and the environment, as well as the power to be game-changers in their industry.
In Unilever's last Corporate Responsibility Report they describe Lipton as their, "first foreign enterprise to enter China; it has a long-term commitment to China, and it hopes to establish a sustainable business model in the country."
While on its official Chinese website, Lipton claims that it only uses insecticides that have received formal state approval for use, and it pledges to only use "the minimum amount of chemicals to achieve the required effect."
As our testing shows, this is clearly not the case. Not that this is the first time Lipton have proven indifferent to the health and safety of the Chinese consumer. Last year excessive residues of heavy metal were found in Lipton tea.
Let's take a look at the three banned pesticides that were found in these tea samples:
For now the most important thing you can do is read out report and then spread the word.
1. Post this page on Facebook and leave comments on Lipton's Facebook page.
2. Tweet away! Use the hashtag #LiptonPesticides Tweet
3. E-mail this page to your friends using the share tool on the left-hand side of the page.
4. Buy certified organic tea and you'll not only been drinking healthy, you'll be supporting the reduction of pesticides in agriculture.
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Tania Yan
Oh my goodness! I didn't hear about this, but that's horrible! Pesticides are dangerous, and we should all learn a little more about them. I j...
Oh my goodness! I didn't hear about this, but that's horrible! Pesticides are dangerous, and we should all learn a little more about them. I just found out how harmful they could be from an article I read: http://www.ridmothsnaturally.com/moth-balls/chemicals-can-hurt-you-more-than-they-can-help-you.html
Thanks for sharing this! We should all make an effort to look for alternatives when possible. It could make a huge difference in the health of a lot of people.
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The USA leads the world in Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity and many other life threatening diseases in large part because of large corporatio...
The USA leads the world in Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity and many other life threatening diseases in large part because of large corporations such as Lipton / Unilever. It is clear that the majority of US Corporations value PROFITS more than they value human beings, the planet, and anything else !!
Enough is Enough !! Be suspicious of their products, check them as was done with the Lipton Tea........when pesticides and undesirable chemicals are found BAN them from selling their products..........anything to do with money will get their attention !!!!!!!
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This is outrageous!
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Lipton can also be bad for you if you have diabetes haha, I haven´t drunk any of it for years.
I read a lot about diabetes, it would be nic...
Lipton can also be bad for you if you have diabetes haha, I haven´t drunk any of it for years.
I read a lot about diabetes, it would be nice if you wrote something about what it does to diabetic people.
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Taylor Hall admits a little extra recovery time provided by a brief lockout wouldn't be the worst thing that happened to his surgically repaired shoulder, but if the weeks turn to months he'll have his sights set on Europe.
While he's currently skating at Perry Pearn's conditioning camp in anticipation of a Sept. 15 training camp, the Oilers winger says a two- or three-week delay before the start of the season might be just what the surgeon ordered.
Anything much longer than that, however, and he'll be looking to slip on a sweater somewhere.
"With my shoulder situation it's going to take me a little more time to figure out what I want to do," said Hall, adding the shoulder is solid and on schedule, but there's never anything wrong with a longer recovery period. "A three-week delay in the season isn't going to hurt me as much as it hurts other guys, so I'll probably be one of the last guys to pick where I want to play.
"But if it lasts long I'm going to have to get into a lineup and get playing hockey, because when the season does start you want to be ready for it."
A player of Hall's marquee status can just about play anywhere he wants, with the exception of a few European leagues that don't want to be used as training camps. So if it looks like the NHL doors will remain locked well into winter, he'll he sending his resumes overseas.
"I'd want to go to Europe," he said Tuesday. "I saw that Sweden is not letting players come for a short amount of time, but there are leagues that are going to accept NHL players."
Like the KHL. A year before being drafted by the Oilers, Hall was drafted 89th overall by Ak Bars Kazan in the KHL draft. He believes he's still their property, but he says he has no plans whatsoever to seek work in Russia.
"They never said a word to me or my agent, so I'm not really sure why they picked me but I don't think I'd want to go to Russia, to be honest. I'd probably stay away from there if I had a preference."
The Alps have a nice ring to them, though. And it's hard to imagine his buddy Jordan Eberle not being on the same flight.
"If I had my preference it would probably be Switzerland or something like that, but that's a long way away. As players, we want to start the season on time, we want to play in the NHL at the start of October."
Last time there was a lockout the league lost the whole season and the time before (1994-95) it lost 36 games, so expecting a quick and painless resolution might be expecting a little too much.
"Hopefully it doesn't come down to that," said Hall. "I guess it would be a good experience to play in Europe, but I want to play for the Edmonton Oilers on opening day."
He wants that badly, and says the timing of this work stoppage hurts Edmonton fans and players more than most.
"This is finally the year where everyone is expecting us to make the next step and be fighting for a playoff spot right off the bat," he said, adding it would be a tragedy if the season didn't happen. "Everyone is excited about the season."
Three or four weeks, on the other hand, he can deal with.
"It's hard to say if a 60-game season would hinder us or not, but come whatever day is opening day, we're going to be ready for it."
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
One Man's Opinion
By Lony Olec
Let's get one thing straight: I don't hate Brett Favre. He took us to the big show twice, won it once, and came within spitting distance plenty of times. He allowed me to hold my head up high as a Packer backer, which is difficult when you are a fan of America's greatest sports institution in a city as barbaric as Chicago, where holding your head up high for the Green Bay Packers, the finest collection of humanitarians and athletes ever assembled, is considered a cue for the Molesters of the Midway to throw bottles at your face. So when I finally quite my job as an engineer in the nineties and moved to De Pere to be closer to my team, I was glad that I traded in a $87,000-a-year position to start as a new guy in the electricians' union at $9 an hour, a tradition of football excellence that any human whose heart still pumps blood could be proud of, AND a winning season. So I don't hate Brett Favre. I just want him to rue the day he took the fans and the people of Green Bay for granted.
I want him to be injured early in either the NFC Championship game or Super Bowl XLIV – not much, maybe a low spinal or both of his femurs broken – and then, while he watches from his hospital bed, I want his team, the 'greatest team he ever played on', to collapse. I want the opposing team to crush the Vikings, the way a 400-lb. lineman crushed Brett's pelvis – the way that Mississippi drama queen crushed our hearts.
That's all. I am not a vengeful guy. I just want Brett to realize that he should have quit when he said he would. I want him to realize that he would never have found a greater family than the Packer family, and that he should have just appreciated that he was able to play, and play well, for the greatest football city in the world, rather than head to some minor league dump like New York or Minneapolis and try to be a big fish in a little pond. You always were a big fish, Brett! You were always the biggest fish!
And when Brett hobbles around his home after he finally retires for good, requiring a walker because of his shattered knees, or has to have ramps installed because he is paralyzed from the waist down, I want him to consider the blob of tapioca pudding staining his t-shirt, dribbled from his mouth when his nursing assistant fed him, and say to himself, "Man, I had a good thing in Green Bay."
I just want justice.
The views of Lony Olec do not necessarily reflect those of the Packer Ranter.
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Lony, you've got a pretty sweet 'stache.ReplyDelete
Concur, Franklin. Reminds me of Dan Dierdorf.ReplyDelete
Mr Olec,ReplyDelete
Your pinkie ring exudes class, and your mustache screams confidence. You are clearly a wise man who only wants what every red blooded American wants ... justice. Even though you suffer from a clear case of Schmidt poisoning (More hair on forearms than head) you have a clear vision of a perfect America. As a man and as a Packer fan, I salute you!
The Dragon
You seem to have captured Lony's essence brilliantly. He's good Packer people and a patriot. I hope to down a few High Life's with him next time I'm in DePere.
- PashawwJanuary 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM
What if (and believe me this is so hypothetical), Brett lost his voice while arguing with Childress about who was more important? Unable to call plays; he would be forced to watch his Purple-Power-Rangers from the sidelines in full uniform with a perfectly functioning body. No dope to take his mind off his impotance.ReplyDelete
The risk of actually injuring Brett is that he might get re-hooked on those sweet, sweet, pain-killers and play in the CFL for 20 more years unable to feel anything below his eyeballs. Mmmm Pharmies' . . . Nobody wants to see Brett in an "Orange Crush" T-shirt.