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With Manchester United fans worldwide disappointed at the lack of transfer activity under David Moyes, it seems it has come to a tipping point.
Moyes has now fixed his attention on Barcelona star Cesc Fabregas, but even that seems unlikely. However, if Moyes can reassure Wayne Rooney of his future in the starting line-up either alongside or behind star striker Robin van Persie, he will have completed a great piece of transfer business as United manager. All he has to do then is find the perfect partner for midfield general Michael Carrick.
And that man could well be Alex Song.
Rooney or Shinji Kagawa can play in 'the hole' and provide the creative spark for United. Then, the box-to-box dynamism of Song can give Manchester United one of the best midfields in the league.
Having missed out on Paulinho to Tottenham and Kevin Strootman already at Roma the Red Devils now have little choice. Song would also be the perfect option.
A fringe player at Barcelona and seemingly unhappy with life in Spain, now would be the perfect time to wrap up a deal for the dynamic midfielder.
Primarily playing more defensive roles at Barcelona, with 2.2 tackles and interceptions per game, he has developed nicely. But his creative and attacking flair that he showed while at Arsenal in 2011/12 means he has Premier League experience and, most importantly, great ability.
One goal and 11 league assists in 34 games is a handsome tally for a deep midfielder. 1.3 key passes per game while at Arsenal was also incredible, coupled with his stamina and defensive acumen makes him the real deal.
If Manchester United want to be stronger in midfield next season against sides such as Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea, Song would be a huge step in the right direction for United in this transfer window.
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Apparel company PVH (NYSE:PVH) has inked a cash-and-stock deal to buy Warnaco (NYSE:WRC) for $2.9 billion, a move that gives it full control of the Calvin Klein clothing brand.
The transaction will make PVH one of the world's largest global branded lifestyle apparel companies, with a portfolio of brands led by Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Speedo, and revenue of more than $8 billion.
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The agreement calls for PVH to pay $51.75 in cash and 0.1822 of PVH stock for each share of Warnaco, representing a 34% premium over Warnaco's closing price of $68.43 on Friday.
The merger, approved by both companies' boards of directors, is expected to close in early 2013. At that time, Warnaco shareholders will own about 10% of PVH.
Warnaco CEO Helen McCluskey will join PVH's board of directors.
PVH is anticipating $100 million of annual synergies from the transaction, which will be fully realized over three years. To get there, the apparel company will take a one-time charge of about $175 million over a three-year period.
The company expects the transaction to be 35 cents a share accretive to earnings in the full year after the transaction closes, currently slated to be fiscal 2013. Once the synergies are realized, PVH expects the transaction to be accretive to earnings by a dollar a share.
"This is a unique opportunity to reunite the 'House of Calvin Klein' and reinforces our strategy to drive the global growth of Calvin Klein," PVH Chief Executive Emanuel Chirico said in a statement. "Having direct global control of the two largest apparel categories for Calvin Klein – jeans and underwear – will allow us to unlock additional growth potential of this powerful designer brand across all major product categories, geographies and distribution channels."
The closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions, including approval by Warnaco shareholders and antitrust regulators.
Commitments for $4.325 billion of financing has been received from Barclays (NYSE:BCS), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE:C).
PVH anticipates earnings per share for the fiscal quarter ended Oct. 28 and fiscal 2012 earnings to be at least at the high end of its guidance. Warnaco is expected to report third-quarter profit of about $612 million on Nov. 5 and expects non-GAAP EPS to be in line with the consensus.

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• Jazz Improv Concert: 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at Café-Bar Europa, 873 Tur-quoise St. 21 and up. www.thetur-quoise.com/wordpress
Music fans of all stripes will want to check out the Pacific Beach Library's monthly free music series. Featuring a diverse selection of musical genres, the next event takes place Dec. 12 and features violin and cello duo Susan and Ronald Robboy. Best known for their work with the San Diego Symphony, Ronald also spent time as an assistant to legendary instrument inventor Harry Partch. Fans of classical chamber music won't want to miss this concert, but anyone who enjoys the sound of strings will find much to appreciate at this intimate performance.
• Susan and Ronald Robboy perform at
7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at Pacific Beach/Taylor Branch Library, 4275 Cass St. All ages. No cost. www.pblibrary-friends.org/concert.htm
The band has appeared on "The David Letterman Show" and had its songs covered by the likes of Nada Surf, yet The Soft Pack remains one of the area's best-kept secrets. Appearing at The Griffin on Dec. 14, the quartet plays an intensely hook-filled brand of garage rock. Currently touring behind its latest album "Strapped," it doesn't matter which of its albums or singles you hear first — this is music meant to play loud, with every song sounding like a lost anthem. Hopefully, it's only a matter of time before Soft Pack move from clubland to bigger stages. If you like rock 'n' roll, this is a band well worth hearing.
• The Soft Pack performs at 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 14 at The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd. 21 and up. www.the-griffinsd.com
Lots of great musicians call San Diego home, but when you team up top-notch guitarist Peter Sprague with world-class pianist Irving Flores, you can expect the magic to be extra special. Performing at Dizzy's on Dec. 15, Flores is a Latin music hero, perhaps best known locally for his work with Gilbert Castellanos, while Sprague is simply one of the best guitarists on the planet, playing with everyone from Dianne Reeves to Chick Corea. If you are a jazz aficionado, this concert promises to be one of the month's highlights.
• Peter Sprague & Irving Flores perform at
8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15 at Dizzy's, 4275 Mission Bay Drive. 15. www.dizzysjazz.com
Best known as the frontman for his namesake hard-rock band, Don Dok-ken will be making a solo appearance at Brick by Brick on Dec. 16. The first Dokken album was released in 1983, though by this time, Dokken had already established himself in the music world. For example, his vocals can be heard on the classic Scorpions album "Blackout." Dokken will be playing music from throughout his career, including his recent album "Broken Bones," but it's safe to say the biggest cheers will be given for material from his 1980s heyday.
• Don Dokken performs at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16 at Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave. 21 and up. $25. www.brickbybrick.com
Anyone wanting to investigate rising talent will want to head to the 710 Beach Club on Dec. 12 for a performance from Los Angeles-based duo Blondfire. It's been a slow rise to the top to be sure (their first disc hit shelves in 2004), but the pair has really come into its own in recent months. Blondfire's current hit, "Where the Kids Are" has been scoring major airplay locally, so this gig at a relatively intimate venue will likely be a sell-out. Even with probable crowds, it will be well worth braving the masses to hear this indie group's pop-tinged electronica.
• Blondfire performs at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the 710 Beach Club, 710 Garnet Ave. 21 and up. www.710bc.com


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You met their sisters Edith and baby Hazel in a PFF two weeks ago.
This studio postcard was taken in the last week of June 1913, or early July, probably in Lemoore, Calif. Howard, on the right, is wearing a tie that looks to be stars and stripes, no doubt in commemoration of the 4th of July.
On the back of the card, their mother Josie (Cupp) Morris tells her sister in Kansas (my grandmother) that husband Sam's nephew Robert Earl Morris had welcomed an 8-lb son named Rex (Rex Allen Morris, born in May 1913).
Josie also relays that John KERBY (a cousin on the Cupp side) "is married now", a wedding that occurred on June 23rd.
On the back of this one, Josie tells my grandmother that "this is the house we lived in last winter", indicating the photo was taken several months before it was sent. The bicycles may've been gifts from Santa that year.
I can't help but chuckle at Owen's indifferent pose in both photos. Owen (b. 27 May 1901) was three years younger than Howard (b. 18 January 1898), so perhaps the indifference was his way of seeming "older".
Howard married Miss Mary Mae Maschmeyer in December 1918. They were married for 44 years and had two children, Bernice and Roland. Owen also married a Mary, a widow with five children, but they had no children together.
At some point both couples moved to nearby Hanford, Calif, where Owen was employed at Hanford Moving and Storage for over 25 years. All are buried at Hanford Cemetery.


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The crazy punk who killed all those children in Connecticut used guns that were purchased by his mother, legally.
The crazy punk who killed all those children in Connecticut used guns that were purchased by his mother, legally.
To use the dead children as props for gun legislation is wrong.
There is no doubt that weapons in the hands of criminals and terrorists are most likely illegally acquired.
Penalties for those who sell these weapons to killers should be severely imposed.
The ATF needs to enforce the gun laws that are already on the books.
As the president knows, guns in schools keep guns out of schools: His children are the best protected children in the world, and they are protected by guards with guns that include automatic weapons.
Putting guns in the schools is the right thing to do.
Making mental-health resources available to parents and caregivers can make a difference in keeping their sick children in good hands and away from guns.
We do not allow children under 18 to smoke legal cigarettes, we should not allow children to shoot guns until they are 21 years of age.
Violent crime in America is down except in cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other like cities.
Why? Drugs and the drug trade. The DEA needs to increase its efforts to curve drug trafficking on the streets of America.
Yes, there are ways to prevent the killing of children in our schools and adults on the street.
But politicizing gun sales and use of them is not the answer, and it is wrong.
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Wendy Gupta has joined Davidson County Community College as coordinator of the Learning Commons.
Wendy Gupta has joined Davidson County Community College as coordinator of the Learning Commons.
In her new position, Gupta is responsible for coordinating and scheduling support services such as note-taking, tutoring and workshops within the Learning Commons. Gupta's position will also allow students and instructors to schedule, administer and complete tests.
"I am excited to support students in new ways," Gupta says. "I am looking forward to finding opportunities to make the Learning Commons more effective than ever."
Gupta earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from North Greenville University. She previously worked as a part-time professional writing coach for DCCC.
Brinkley Walser attorney David Inabinett has been appointed to the Davidson County Senior Services Advisory Board.
Inabinett has volunteered with DCSS in the past, speaking at numerous events on topics related to elder law.
"Davidson County has an active senior services division," says Inabinett, managing member of Brinkley Walser. "Their mission is to provide support for seniors and advocate on their behalf. The programs and resources offered by senior services enable many area seniors to remain active in the community, stay healthy and retain their independence. I'm pleased to be able to join the advisory board and contribute to this worthy endeavor."
Inabinett is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and focuses his practice on estate planning, elder law, Medicaid and nursing home law.
Brinkley Walser attorney G. Thompson Miller, along with six other residents, has been appointed to serve on the Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center Board.
The board has set two primary goals this year: improve patient satisfaction and improve quality and safety.
"It's so important to have access to high-quality medical care locally," says Miller, member of Brinkley Walser. "Our goal as board members is to provide insight from both a medical and community perspective to accomplish these goals and assure continued improvements to make Lexington Medical Center a top-notch facility of which we can all be proud."
Miller had previously served on the board of the Lexington Medical Center Foundation. He focuses his legal practice on workers' compensation, personal injury, Social Security disability, employment law, estate planning and business law.


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All Things Appy: 5 Best Augmented Reality Apps for Android
Jul 17, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Two genres of augmented reality tools are prevalent on the mobile device.
The first AR genre is geolocation, which uses built-in hardware sensors and phone features like the compass and GPS chip to create a heads-up display -- think movie fighter-pilot cockpit, where the plane's instrumentation is superimposed on the windshield.
The second is a vision-based AR, which visually shows digitally created objects in context with real objects. Think visualizing a virtual new piece of furniture in an existing living room. Vision-based AR uses the same device hardware tools and sensors that geolocation uses.
In this week's All Things Appy, we take a look at the top five free Android apps to use for exploring this exciting arena.
About the Platform: Google's Android OS apps are available in its Play store.
Browse to the Play store within the mobile device's app drawer by clicking on the app drawer icon. Then perform a search for the app.
No. 1: Wikitude
Wikitude claims 1 million to 5 million installs and has an average Google Play store rating of 4.2 stars out of a possible 5 from 12,874 reviewers.
The Wikitude app is the best way to get an introduction to geo-located AR in the Android mobile environment. Start the camera and hold the phone up to immerse yourself in AR.
By choosing a category -- like Sights when traveling, for example -- the app will provide background information on the sight that you're pointing the camera at. Glance at the screen when out and about for information on over 100 million places.
No. 2: iOnRoad Augmented Driving Lite
iOnRoad Augmented Driving Lite claims 500,000 to 1 million installs and has an average Google Play store rating of 3.8 stars out of a possible 5 from 3,531 reviewers.
Here's a driving safety app that uses vision-based AR. This app uses the smartphone's camera and GPS to sense other cars in front of yours. Position the phone on a windscreen mount, drive normally and the visual AR checks for objects in real time. The app will then alert you to possible collisions -- you hope.
No. 3: Augment - 3D Augmented Reality
Augment claims 100,000 to 500,000 installs and has an average Google Play store rating of 4 stars out of a possible 5 from 811 reviewers.
This app also demonstrates vision-based AR superbly. You can create and present 3D models in actual scale and environment. It's a good app for getting the hang of the technique. Persist with it, though, because it can be a bit tricky getting your head around the concepts. Check out YouTube videos if you get stuck.
No. 4: Satellite AR
Satellite AR claims 1 million to 5 million installs and has an average Google Play store rating of 4.3 stars out of a possible 5 from 4,076 reviewers.
Point the smartphone's camera to the sky and you'll see breadcrumb-like tracking icons for satellites above you. If you've ever been star-gazing and wondered which twinkling lights were stars and which were satellites, here's the tool.
The app includes the International Space Station, out of interest, and also television, so it can be used to aim TV dishes if yours ever gets out of whack.
No. 5: Layar
Layar claims 10 million to 50 million installs and has an average Google Play store rating of 3.3 stars out of a possible 5 from 71,251 reviewers.
This has been, over time, a hugely popular geo-AR app available in the Google Play store, and there's a reason for that -- it was one of the first widely available mobile augmented travel apps, very similar to our No. 1 choice Wikitude.
However, today it's an app for activating static print pages with augmented reality through the use of QR codes.
TechNewsWorld is including it in our top five because although it lacks participating print pages, it's an interesting concept, and the website lets you make a free page to test.
It's worth exploring if you're interested in AR for marketing purposes.
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UMaine will design and build a floating system to house a modified WINDCUBE v2 offshore LIDAR remote sensor, which has been adapted to a dynamic marine environment.
The floating system, which incorporates a LIDAR system that detects wind conditions using laser technology up to 200 meters above the ocean surface, is based on buoy technology developed and tested by UMaine's Physical Oceanography Group over the past decade in the Gulf of Maine and abroad.
AWS Truepower will validate the data collected by the floating system. The buoy is scheduled for deployment in 2013 at the UMaine deepwater offshore wind test site, an offshore wind and marine hydrokinetic device test site operated by the Advanced Structures and Composites Center and located 10 miles off the coast of Maine.
The center says it is actively developing and testing innovative floating wind turbines for deployment in deep water and that its floating foundation design will be the first grid-connected floating offshore wind turbine in the U.S.


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Yeah, in this book, Stacey can't deal with all the stress of being put between her parents, coping with her schoolwork, dealing with small chilluns, and maintaining her diet…so, she slips up and starts sneaking chocolate…and she gets really sick and ends up in the hospital…I guess it's like the cover says, "Stacey just can't win."
Blah. This one's a whiny one full of Stacey being thoughtful, which she really shouldn't bother. 'Cause, with apologies to the Housemartins, she's not deep.
A few salient points:
- For many years, my hair looked very much like hers on the cover of this book.
- So, Stacey's tired all the time, and thirsty and hungry and she's not feeling well…but she doesn't tell her mom, cause her mom's been through enough in the past few months…Um, seriously, you have a DISEASE that requires constant monitoring! Talk to your mom, bitch!
- Ah, realistic time frames: Stacey moves to Stoneybrook just before 7th grade. Then, in the middle of 8th grade, they move back to NYC. A few months later, the divorce, and the move back to S-town. And that was apparently a few months before this book takes place…It seems a little…rushed, no?
- "…we are both pretty sophisticated for thirteen [gee, could Stacey be talking about herself and Claud? I think so…]. We wear really fresh clothes—leggings, cowboy boots, oversized shirts, hats (Claud wears hats more than I do), and wild jewelry." Oddly enough, I saw a whole lot of clothing matching that description while I waited for hours and hours during my layover at JFK. [BTW, Delta hates me and my luggage.]
- Oh, yeah, Claud and Stacey like action! Since when, I'm not sure…but I do know that Mary Poppins is all about the action!
- Okay, professional soapbox time: now, y'all know I'm a librarian [RNL, I'm totally blaming you for the addition of y'all to my vocabulary, and it's your job to shoot me if I ever actually use "yinz" seriously.], and I'm not usually "oh, librarian stereotypes are bad, m'kay," mainly cause I look like your standard hipster librarian, and my hip-kid librarian posse all fall into the same category…we look fairly bookish with an indie-ish bent, and we swear more than you'd suspect, but whatever…However, I really, really hate how ANM is always "Claud's mom disapproves of Nancy Drew cause she's a librarian…" Shut up, bitch! Claud is what we [well, not me, cause I'm a cataloger, but teen and youth librarians and the like] call a "reluctant reader," and librarians don't care what they're reading, as long as they're reading! Aside from which, Nancy Drew is hardly the type of book that anyone should really strongly object to! [Sorry, for the bad grammar, but I'm ranting here!] Okay, I can see Claud hiding V.C. Andrews books or Harlequins or whatever, but Nancy Drew is clean and wholesome, and actually kind of falls into the "classics" category, if you're looking at the ones written in the 1930s. Phew. Sorry, sometimes I get going on the librarianing rants, I know. Now, go watch Party Girl!
- I'm so sick of the whole "Mal feels ugly!" thing. Yes, she's at an awkward age, but so is every other fucking girl in the BSC. I have a really hard time believing that all the "older" girls have already completely dealt with their body-image issues…Bitch, please!
- Cootie Catchers? Okay, so I think these are yr basic fortune teller thing, but Mal & Jessy were totally doing it wrong…it's not eenie meenie miney moe…It's far more complicated, with colors and numbers, right? I made one, just now [I still remember how, because when I was in college a few years back, my friends and I used to make them all the time. And play MASH. While chainsmoking. And including professions like "fluffer" and "jizz mopper" and PATransit bus driver. Cause maturity has always been one of my strong points. Oooh, and we used to put fortunes like "You will be a teen-pop-superstar!" Or, "You will make out with Dean Wareham Boy!" Or, "You will get in touch with your inner Richard Marx!"{Probably better not to ask.}] But I can't remember whether the numbers go on the outside, or the colors…
- Heh, Stacey's dad calls her "Boontsie."
- Wow, Stacey knows her clichés! Observe: "And I was wondering what would happen if one day I said to my father, 'Mom's out with someone. A man He's taking her to dinner. He's really handsome, he has a very important job, and he's never been married. He's saving himself for the perfect woman, and that perfect woman is Mom.' Or what would happen if I said to my mother some Sunday night when she was grilling me about my weekend in New York with Dad, 'Mom, you should see who Dad's dating. She's this sophisticated, beautiful, younger woman. She's terribly wealthy, she has a penthouse apartment in the city and a horse farm in the country. And she can cook and handle a jigsaw." When did Stacey start ghostwriting for Danielle Steel? Is she producing Lifetime movies? Also, she's going to be a little disappointed when she wonders into the world of adult relationships with those expectations.
- The cover illustrates an actual event in the book! Again! Martian fudge makers! Stupid! The real cover should have looked like the picture of the one twin from America's Next Top Model eating the food on the toilet…What with the sneaking chocolate…you know where I'm going with this, right?
- Oh, yeah, Charlotte gets all hypochondriac when Stacey goes in the hospital. Cause those two are waaaaay too attached.
- Oh, the big SMS gossip: Cokie got a nose job.
- Stacey sits her parents down and tells them to quit putting her in the middle. And, because we have entered a fairy-tale-utopia, it works. The end.
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There are so many wonderful things about this festive time of year. There are special foods, time with family, parties, and events galore. It's all fun and games ... until someone gets sick. And boy do kids get sick this time of year.
From sniffles and sneezes to the flu and other not-so-fun ailments, the season of sick is also upon us. Sometimes it feels like between now and spring, it's just one big long string of illness passed from one child to the next and back again ... and again.
But there are some things you can do to help break the sick cycle and actually keep your kids healthy. They're not foolproof, of course, but they certainly up your odds for a merrier and healthier season. Here are 10 tips to keep your kids healthy that you may not have considered:
1. Use paper towels in the bathroom. Instead of sharing one hand towel where germs can be passed, use disposal, one-use paper towels.
2. Serve up the good foods. The vitamins and nutrients in fruits and vegetables can play a major role in boosting your child's immune system.
3. Yogurt is more than just yummy. Some studies have found that eating 3/4 cup of yogurt a day can reduce one's chance of getting a cold by 25 percent.
4. Make exercise a priority. Keeping their bodies in tip-top shape will boost immunity and help them be in fighting form when it comes to germs.
5. For younger kids -- don't let pacifiers be a problem. Because they're put directly in their mouth, it's important to frequently wash pacifiers ... or try to get your baby to ditch them altogether. For older kids -- encourage/remind them to keep their fingers, pencils, etc. out of their mouth.
6. Make sure they drink plenty of water. According to WebMD, water can flush out the body's toxins. To determine if your kid is getting enough, check their urine. It should be close to clear. Dark yellow means they need more hydration.
7. Keep hand sanitizer in your car. Right after you strap on your seat belts, give everyone a squirt. No matter where you have been -- the school, the park, the library, or the grocery store -- there are germs lurking.
8. When one person in the family gets sick, go into prevention mode to try and protect the rest of you. Wipe down the surfaces of counters, doorknobs, toilets, and other often-touched areas with a disinfectant frequently. Germs can live for hours if you don't kill them.
9. Make sleep a priority. Sure, there's lots to do, but a lack of sleep can make one more susceptible to illness.
10. Encourage frequent hand-washing. Okay, you've probably thought of this one before, but a reminder never hurts.
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K-Fed and his new girlfriend, Victoria Prince, took Sean Preston and Jayden James out for lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Fresno this weekend -- where Prince played the role of interim mom.
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As the nation's top defense officials signed a memo Thursday lifting the ban on women in combat, more details have begun to emerge about the Pentagon's plan to officially put female troops on the front lines – from how quickly it could happen to what the physical requirements might be.
On Thursday, some of the answers became clearer.
Could women officially be serving in the infantry, for example, before the war in Afghanistan ends? The answer is a measured, "yes."
"I don't think we can exclude this possibility," says a senior Defense official who could only speak to the media on condition of anonymity.
At a press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta offered his rationale for opening combat roles to women. "Women have shown great courage and sacrifice on and off the battlefield, contributed in unprecedented ways to the military's mission, and proven their ability to serve in an expanding number of roles," he said.
"Our nation was built on the premise of the citizen soldier. In our democracy, I believe it is the responsibility of every citizen to protect the nation," he added. "And every citizen who can meet the qualifications for service should have that opportunity."
During the past decade of war, more than 280,000 women have deployed in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 152 women have died. But the process of getting women into the roughly 237,000 jobs that have previously been closed to them will be a gradual progression, officials say.
In the months to come, there will be some hard and fast deadlines that the services must meet.
The first will be a report to the secretary of Defense, due by mid-May, that will explain how the services plan to implement the lifting of the ban on women in combat.
They will then be expected to "move ahead expeditiously," says a Pentagon official, who also could speak only on condition of anonymity.
By January 2016, the services must give the Pentagon leadership notice if they believe that there are particular fields into which women should not be integrated. These might include Special Operations Force fields like the Navy SEALs.
Yet the expectation is that the services will develop a plan to include women in specialties that range from infantry to artillery, known in military parlance as the combat arms professions.
"We would expect that the services would provide a combination of 'This is what we think we can do sooner,' and 'This is how we intend to execute,' " says the Pentagon official.
The issue of physical requirements is one with which the services continue to grapple. Though senior military officials acknowledge that they might, in some cases, have to develop gender-neutral standards, they stress that standards will not fall.
Mr. Panetta acknowledged that not all women will meet the standards required to serve in some of the military's most physically demanding jobs.
"In life, there are no guarantees of success. Not everyone is going to be a combat soldier," he cautioned. "But everyone is entitled to the chance."


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Four different UC Santa Barbara players collected two hits on Tuesday afternoon, but it wasn't enough as Cal State Bakersfield took advantage of six hit batsmen and six walks en route to a 7-6 comeback win at wind-swept Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
Center fielder Brett Vertigan, shortstop Brandon Trinkwon, right fielder Joey Wallace and second baseman Joe Woodward each collected a pair of hits for the Gauchos. The former two had a pair of RBI while the latter each had one.
Freshman Greg Mahle, used mostly in a designated hitter role this season, received his first start on the mound for the Gauchos and overcame some early wildness to pitch 5.1 innings, allowing three hits and three earned runs. Mahle also recorded four strikeouts. He was able to escape a bases loaded first inning jam on a great defensive play by the right fielder Wallace and first baseman Marc Venning.
With one out and a Roadrunner at every base, Cael Brockmeyer hit a fly ball to Wallace in right. With Jordie Hein tagging at third base, Wallace fired a rocket to Venning who dove and taggd out D.C. Legg who had strayed too far from the bag. The out came before the run scored and the inning was over.
UCSB scored one run in the bottom half of the first and then, after Bakersfield tied it in the top of the second, scored four in the bottom half of the second to take a 5-1 lead.
A single by Woodward scored Joe Winterburn with the first run of the inning. After a passed ball, Vertigan doubled home Woodward and then was singled home by Lance Roenicke. Roenicke moved to second on a wild pitch and ultimately came home on a Trinkwon single.
The Roadrunners scored a run in the top of the third and the Gauchos responded with another of their own in the bottom half off of Roadrunner starter Austin Davis. Davis left the game after facing two batters in the third inning having allowed all six UCSB runs.
Bakersfield's James Barragan, Hayden Carter and Spenser Messmore combined for seven innings of shutout ball, allowing just four hits and two walks.
The Roadrunners scored three in the top of the sixth to creep back within 6-5. Their inning started with two walks and two hit batters to force home the first run. The final two runs scored on a bases loaded single by Andrew Letourneau off of the eventual losing pitcher Zak Edgington (0-1).
Bakersfield scored its final two runs in the eighth. Stuart Smith walked to lead off the inning and Kyle Dessimone was hit by a pitch putting two runners on with nobody out. Hein was then walked to load the bases and Jeremy Peterson was summoned from the Gauchos' bullpen to replace Edgington. Peterson induced a double play from Letourneu, but Smith trotted home with the tying run and Dessimone moved to third and then scored on a wild pitch.
UCSB couldn't get on the board against Messmore (1-0), who tossed the final three innings allowing just one hit and a walk while striking out five.
The Gauchos are now 6-6 on the year while Bakersfield improves to 7-6.
UCSB travels to Reno this weekend for a three-game series against the University of Nevada. The Gauchos will return home on Tuesday, March 13 to host Fresno State in a 3:00 p.m. game at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.


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Geekdom, get ready to rumble with excitement…or grumble with outrage. Or both. In an announcement sure to ignite a firestorm of fanboy passion and pique, DC Entertainment revealed today that DC Comics will publish a collection of miniseries that will expand upon the world of Watchmen, the influential superhero saga originally released as a 12-issue maxi-series from 1986 to 1987. Marked by bravura storytelling, provocative politics, and gritty violence, Watchmen is best known for deconstructing superhero archetypes embodied by cultural icons like Superman and Batman. (You can read our 2005 oral history about the genesis, creation, and legacy of the series here.) Why might the new comics be controversial? Because Watchmen's widely revered writer, Alan Moore, who has long been at war with DC for any number of reasons, has absolutely nothing to do with them.
Branded Before Watchmen, the long-rumored project–which has been on-again, off-again in a variety of forms for years–will comprise seven miniseries created by an all-star lineup of talent, including Amanda Conner, who drew the first look at Silk Spectre posted here. Your roll call:
Rorschach (four issues): The vicious urban vigilante with an ink-blot mask. Written by Eisner Award winner Brian Azzarello of 100 Bullets fame, with art by Lee Bermejo.
The Comedian (six issues): Jackass jokester turned amoral super-soldier. Written by Azzarello, art by J.G. Jones.
Dr. Manhattan (four issues): Blue and nude atomic-power superman, profoundly detached from humanity. Written by J. Michael Straczynski, a superstar comics scribe equally known for his TV and film work (Babylon 5, Clint Eastwood's 2009 film Changeling), with art by Adam Hughes.
Nite Owl (four issues): Maybe the most relatable of the Watchmen pantheon, a second-generation hero with high-tech weaponry. Written by Straczynski, art by Andy Kubert and his father, the legendary Joe Kubert.
Ozymandias (six issues): Super-smart, mega-wealthy, scary-ambitious. Written by another living legend (and original Watchmen editor) Len Wein, art by Jae Lee.
The Minutemen (six issues): The founding fathers of Watchmen's superhero universe. Written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke, whose recent work includes acclaimed comic adaptations Donald E. Westlake's Parker crime novels.
Silk Spectre (four issues): The daughter of a pioneering female superhero, raised to be her mother's replacement. Written by Cooke, art by Conner.
Wein will also write a two-page backup story that will run in each issue of each series called "Curse of the Crimson Corsair" with art by Watchmen's colorist, John Higgins. Once each series has completed its run, DC will wrap up the initiative with a single issue entitled Before Watchmen: Epilogue, featuring contributions of several different writers and artists. The first issue of the first miniseries will drop this summer, title and date TBD. From there, new issues will roll out each week. In a joint statement, DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee say the reason the company is launching Before Watchmen now is because "it's our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant.… After twenty-five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told." (Note: The Watchmen trade paperback remains one of the industry's best-selling "graphic novels" despite the lack of new material since the comic's original publication, and was so even before director Zack Snyder's epic movie adaptation in 2009.)
In an exclusive interview with EW, Darwyn Cooke-–whose own highly regarded superhero work includes The New Frontier–explained his vision for Silk Spectre: "One of the first things I did was go back through the original book and look at all the female characters and their position in the story and the arcs they had. What I realized is that as much as I really like Laurie, she's really only just Dr. Manhattan's girlfriend and then Nite Owl's girlfriend. We never get to see her being self-sufficient and dealing with herself and dealing with her own problems. She's there for a man. I came up with the idea of looking at the brief period of time when she becomes an adult." And so the series will take place in the mid-1960s, and track Laurie's maturation and heroic evolution in the year prior to joining a team of superheroes known as the Crimebusters. Cooke says the book will also focus on how Laurie's superhero stage mom, the original Silk Spectre, influenced her daughter's life. "Sally's very interested in the legacy that can be created from the Silk Spectre brand," says Cooke. "There's a little bit of that Toddlers and Tiaras thing going on." He adds that collaborating with Conner was essential: "The only way I could do this is if Amanda drew it. I desperately wanted this to not feel like a guy who is pushing 50 writing a teenage girl."
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Carrie Underwood Supports Gay Marriage
Country superstar Carrie Underwood has spoken up in support of gay marriage. During a lengthy interview with British newspaper the Independent, Underwood admits she and husband Mike Fisher attend a gay-friendly church in Nashville, and that she believes two people who love each other should be able to do so without scrutiny.
"As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry. I can't imagine how that must feel," Underwood says. "I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love."
"Above all, God wanted us to love others," she adds. "It's not about setting rules, or [saying] 'everyone has to be like me'. No. We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other."
Underwood and Fisher are strong Christians who pray every morning before breakfast. The 'Jesus Take the Wheel' singer grew up Baptist, but her current church is inter-denominational. Earlier this year, she admitted that Fisher is more conservative than she is. "He would love it if I just sang love songs or I started some awesome career in Christian music. He would absolutely love that," she tells Taste of Country.
Recently, Chely Wright called for a country music superstar to step up and support her decision to come out and gay marriage. "I need a country artist who is a big deal, like Jay-Z in his community — he came forward and said, 'I believe in equality for all,'" Wright told CBS's 'This Morning.'
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Opening a Sourdough Bakery in Cambodia
Hello guys, hello gals,
It's been a long while, hasn't it? Well, I can tell you now that I've been busy. Very busy. Soon I'll be opening my own sourdough (micro) bakery in Cambodia, a country situated in Southeast Asia.
Spectacular, isn't it? Or perhaps crazy considering that I've no prior working experience in a bakery.
Last Sunday I hosted a bread taste-testing event at my house. I invited a few of my friends and a handful of strangers, keen on getting feedback on my sourdough zopf, mixed nut sourdough, and cashew nut sourdough.
Funny thing, the sourdough zopf was slightly controversial. Zopf is a popular braided sweet bread in Switzerland and highly relished by the Swiss. Zopf is rarely baked in the form of sourdough... and my attempts seemed to have offended my Swiss friends.
In total, we had 10 taste-testers excluding myself and my business partner. Prior to their arrival, I was anxious. Nearly trembling with fear, actually. Reason being, one participant was a Swiss native (the only person who's familiar with the Swiss zopf), two were retired chefs, and another was a former professional baker (he owned and managed 4 bakeries, and helped opened one of the largest sourdough bakeries in the Netherlands).
Man, oh man... The pressure!
Here she is, our baby... Suzy. She's a single deck oven, convection, no steam injector, and heats up to 400C / 750F in approx. 30 minutes. She's a beauty, despite some of her faults when it comes to bread baking.
Moreover, Suzy arrived only a week ago. I also had never operated such an oven before her arrival. Think about it: can you imagine how stressed I was before the taste-testing?
Their critiques and feedback.
The sourdough zopf was, in my eyes, a failure. Despite that the majority expressed a liking to it, our Swiss guest was disappointed. According to her, it wasn't "fluffy" enough and too bland.
Back to the drawing board.
The cashew nut and mixed nut sourdough, on the other hand, were a hit! Especially the mixed nut, which contained cashews, walnuts, and hazelnuts. With enthusiasm, the ex-pro baker informed me that the mixed nut sourdough had a "very good flavour". Immediately after, he pointed out visual defects on the bread which only a fanatic / professional could detect... Rather than feeling down or upset, I was ecstatic to finally meet somebody who knew a thing or two about bread. In this case, lots of things!
Deviating from the above topic, I'll tell you a bit about my bakery and how I'm evolving as a baker.
The name of my bakery is Bäckerei, German for "bakery". Ironically, we're not a German bakery. We offer "fusion" breads, with major influences from central Europe, combined with ingredients grown in or native to Southeast Asia. As some of you know, I like to experiment and produce non-conventional breads. But something happened... In the past few months I began to appreciate the complexity of "simplicity". Flour, water, salt. Limiting yourself to those ingredients is, in my opinion, challenging... and utterly delicious and rewarding if used correctly.
As I continue to bake more often for others, I noticed a certain neglect. Gradually, I ignored my preferences and listened to what my friends and the community wanted. They wanted nuts in their bread, so I gave it to them. They wanted a less tangy sourdough---absolutely no problem. Now they're demanding whole rye or wheat breads... Unfortunately, as much as I want to, this I cannot provide. It's practically non-existent in Cambodia, but you can bet your baker's butt that I'll do my best to get it into town.
What does it mean to be a baker? What responsibilities must I fulfill with such a profession? These are questions that I'm beginning to ask myself more and more often... And the more I understand, the more fulfillment I feel. I can tell you now with open honesty, at the taste-testing event, when I saw my friends and guests enjoying my breads, I nearly broke into tears. That's what I worked so hard for. For the dedicated baker, I think, bread is an expression of love, and to have others reciprocate with a full belly and smile is all we ever want.
Thank you for the read, TFLoafers. Until next time...
Wish you all the best and jolly bakings,
P.S. I'll be very busy during the upcoming few months. If you'd like to keep updated with my doings, please feel free to visit my bakery's Facebook page and "like" it. There, you will see my progress, including hardships and hopefully many successes.
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Syria's Shameful Stars Choose Assad over their Fans
Syrian household soap and film favorite heroes, who tackle social problems on the big screen, are letting the people down in the real world. They are rallying around the Assad regime instead of standing up for their people and fans in revolution.
With enough disappointment for the Syrian people at this time, given their President's broken promise to them for reform, and his treacherous attack on them in the streets, this is another slap in the face for Syria. It is said that Assad asked the Syrian actors and actresses to reflect Syrian society in their shows, and he assured them of his continued work and support for the reform program of change he had already embarked on. Continue reading below »
Syria like Egypt is home to a flourishing film and TV drama industry – the Hollywood of Arabia is now equally spread between Syria and Egypt, the two centres of Arabic teaching also. These actors and actresses are revered and enjoyed in the far corners of the Arab world, but are most treasured at home in Syria.
Now a revolution of hope for the people of Syria has turned into a revolution of disappointment, as the the sha-ab or 'people' looked to their celebrities, the leading light of Syrian pride, for inspiration and courage, only to to met with betrayal. Familiar household faces are now the faces of strangers, as the elite actors and actresses of the Arab film core in Syria have turned their backs on the people struggle in favor of the Regime.
In the last week, a list of Syrian Shame as it's being tagged has emerged. This list names and shames the Syrian actors and actresses who appeared on Facebook pages in their anti-revolution platforms, supporting the Regime that has let the people down. Critics of this Syrian people snub, ask the question- Have these national idols no shame? These successful figures who hold pride of place in the bosom of the Syrian family room have not yet realized that their fame and fortune came from the people- who- when it comes to celebrity- make you and can ultimately break you.
One of the most universally acclaimed Syrian dramas that has become synonymous with the Syrian drama industry, Bab El-Hara, set in a traditional old-Damascus scape and depicting the heart of the Syrian character, portrays these same actors reflecting real gritty Syrian social issues and afflictions, from revolution and heroic deeds of Syrian people to daily domestic concerns. However it seems that when it comes to real-time crisis on home soil, these actors are shown up as just that—paid professionals.
Once more, Al Bawaba shines a spotlight on the fickle nature of celebrity and where their support lies at a timewhen their fans need real-life heroes and not just fictional ones.
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- G8's big guns shoot off on Syria: Sensational snippets ahead of the Summit
- Syrian internet restored, rebels say satellites kept them connected
- Obama bombs ISIS, Assad becomes a big fan of the US
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In the areas of south Buffalo, around the old railroads and ex-stockyards, people see things. In the houses there it is common for people to see black smoke entities. The black smokelike stuff will flow along the floor like it's going somewhere. When it encounters a person, people say it will often standup equal to the person and look at them. After a few moments of that, it will just go on it's way. I haven't heard of it hurting anyone. I can pretty much pinpoint the area if ever anyone wants to check it out. My therory is that it is all the animal energy that was released over the years in the slaughterhouses. Does anyone have any ideas on this?
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Hi, you could be right; however, if those rails go to the Buffalo Station, it could be spirits traveling the rails to the station and then back and forth along the rails. Have you tried capturing EVP? If you can do that, you'll be able to tell if it's human or animal spirits. I did a little browsing and found this interesting page - it's a bit dated - but it has some interesting info on claims in the area: http://artvoice.com/.../halloween_map. There is also a South Buffalo Paranormal group on Facebook: https://www.facebook...alo-paranormal/ - you could contact them for more info.
Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings."- LOYD AUERBACH, interview
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I received this recent submission from reader Elizabeth. She and her husband went to Alabama for a wedding and encountered the following sign in a restaurant:
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The best part? This message, with this exact wording, was reprinted verbatim on placards on each table.
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Muscular strength and endurance qualities that often go hand in hand. When we are testing/evaluation clients we focus a lot on body composition and then sometime cardiovascular tests. How many people think about tests of muscular strength or muscular endurance? Is it really necessary to see how strong our clients are before we start them out?
In practice, many fitness professionals don't see the need to test muscular strength or endurance prior to establishing an exercise routine. However, personal trainers often focus on strength training during their client sessions, and group fitness instructors frequently focus on both strength and flexibility development in their classes.
This is part of the reason that both the 4th ed. Personal Trainer Manual (Chapter 7 and 8) and 3rd ed. Group Fitness Instructor (Chapter 3) manuals address the topic. Understanding the importance of muscular strength and endurance is also important for the certification exam (you knew we'd come back around to that eventually).
When we talk about muscular endurance and muscular strength, things can get a little confusing. The assessment of muscular strength is frequently tested independent of muscular endurance. A 1 repetition max (1RM) test is often considered the 'benchmark' for measuring strength. It is one all out push to see how much you can lift – a measure of the greatest amount of force that muscles can produce in a single maximal effort.
It's important to remember, though, that it is not advisable to test beginners with a 1RM type test. Not so safe and not so accurate, often because they don't have a good idea of where to even start.
Muscular endurance, on the other hand, refers to the muscle's ability to exert a submaximal force repeatedly over time, such as a half sit up test or a push up test. But muscular endurance tests also measure strength to some degree.
Take the push up test for example. If you have very weak upper body muscles, you're going to have a difficult time pushing yourself up. Therefore you may only be able to do a couple pushups before everything gives out. Because your strength is so low, we're not able to get a great measure of endurance. The YMCA bench press test is another example of this. You lift a certain weight to the speed of a metronome. The test is stopped when you can't lift the bar up or when you can't keep up with the metronome. This type of test puts lighter clients at a disadvantage. If I am struggling to lift the bar to the start position because it's too heavy, I'm not going to get a lot of repetitions in. My strength impacts my endurance.
When you are looking at a muscular assessment and trying to decide if it is strength or endurance, there is one key difference. If the test is all out in one push, that is measuring strength. If the test requires the client to repeat the motion more than one time, then that is a measure of endurance.
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First, the detainee findings, then the horse race numbers, which provide a note of caution for the Liberals. Rarely to you find such one sided opinion, but when it comes to government knowledge of possible torture, it's close to unanimity:
Do you think that the government of Canada was aware at the time that there was a strong possibility that some of the prisoners being handed off would be tortured?
Even Conservatives say yes, by more than a margin of two to one. When your own supporters so thoroughly reject your spin, it means you have a sizable problem. The nonsensical argument that MacKay and company have put forth, is being taken as just that- their no knowledge or credible report defence simply doesn't pass the most basic of smell tests. Maybe more concerning, the government has effectively boxed themselves in with this argument, so they are stuck with trying to counter common sense.
In terms of government satisfaction on this file, Canadians don't approve of their handling:
To date, how satisfied are you with the federal government's level of transparency and disclosure regarding the alleged torture of prisoners that were handed off to Afghan authorities by Canadian Forces?
Dissatisfied 41.4%
Satisfied 24.1%
Neither 34.5%
Another bad number for the government. EKOS asks this question on a scale of 1-7, which explains the large neither component, representing a 4. I would categorize that subset as hardly supportive of the government position. The government strategy of obstruction and delay isn't doing them any favors, it suggests they have something to hide.
In terms of how this underlying weakness is translating to the horserace numbers, EKOS sees "trouble brewing" for the Conservatives, so it will be interesting in the usual voter lag effect comes into play. EKOS does find Conservative support falling, and it is noteworthy that all their gains after the September election showdown have disappeared:
11.3% Green
EKOS is now releasing in two week chunks, which represent a huge sample size (4000). They've broken it down on a week to week basis (2000 MOE 2.1), to show if there are any trends within the release. The Conservatives actually scored 35.9% in the first week, down to 35.3% the last, further evidence of a slight downward trend.
NDP support is up, although the last week shows 16% support, so there is no trend to speak of. Of note, still no evidence of a federal NDP surge in Ontario and British Columbia, despite the HST maelstorm. It will be interesting to see if provincial decisions spill over to the federal scene, to the NDP's benefit. I know many naturally assume it will, but I'm not so sure, given the perceptions of the messenger. Something to keep an eye on.
As for the Liberals, while there is some optimism in this poll, I would submit that our problems are mitigating the damage to the Conservatives. In other words, if we were a more attractive option at the moment, then voters would be more inclined to leave the Conservatives. As it stands now, we see a quirky dynamic, wherein Conservative support is slowly falling, without any uptick whatsoever for the Liberals. The voters that are leaving the Con fold, are going elsewhere. In the poll, the Greens score an impressive 11.8% in the last week, the Bloc up to 10.7%. I see a hesitation towards the Liberals, the Conservative missteps offset by our own issues, which is why the government numbers are still in healthy minority terrority. However, there is a real weakness developing, so this translates to opportunity, if Liberals can get some momentum.


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Once again, you won't be too far away from a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy football game. The Mariners' final home game of the season against Union College will be available on the web on the Mariner Broadcast Network on Saturday.
The network is in its eighth season of bringing the world Merchant Marine Football coverage.
Seth Cantor will handle the play-by-play and Jaden Daly will be the color analyst, for Senior Day on Saturday, when the Mariners host their Liberty League opponents.
The pre-game show is set for 12:30 p.m., followed by the opening kickoff at 1 p.m.
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The following patches are recommended for OJS 2.3.4.
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Applying Patches
Patches can be applied to the codebase using the GNU Patch Tool (available on most *NIX platforms, and as a free download for Windows-based systems).
Each entry below links to the Bugzilla record for the bug in question. Patches are linked from there. Patches against OJS should be applied with the -p1 option from within the OJS installation directory; patches against the PKP library should be applied with the -p1 option from within the lib/pkp subdirectory.
Note that security-related and other critical patches will be clearly identified as such; otherwise, patches should not be considered critical.
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Sure.IanAnd wrote:
Before I address the heart of your comments, could you please clarify what you meant regarding "observations" of yours which "seem to have [been] taken on as a criticism" by my responses? I have no idea what you are referring to, and I would prefer not to speculate. I'm sure you can understand that.
I seem to have misread your response to me, I don't see any evidence that you took my comments as criticisms. My apologies for any discomfort caused. I am not above making spectacular mistakes.
However, I still stand by the bulk of my last post directed to you regarding the challenging of those who make claims of ariya status or jhana attainment, and those who suggest that perhaps part of the tradition can be dispensed with. Just as I am also very suspicious of those who believe that the ultimate arbiter is (one's perception of) one's meditative experiences. Discussion mainly here but also at DhO and Wandering Dharma have helped me to crystalize my thinking around this important subject. As I said earlier, I believe it is the sign of a very healthy discussion board community that members challenge those making claims. And people like myself and Tilt are not 'intoxicated on the medicine' nor clinging to tradition out of blind devotion as some people have attempted to say or allude to. The Theravada is a living 2,500+ year tradition, a tradition which has product-tested the teachings through the scholastic endeavours and the virtue and meditative training of thousands, if not millions of people. If there really was something a-miss, or if there was something that could be dispensed with - there would be plenty of evidence in the commentarial tradition.
My own observation has been that those people who I believe are advanced on the path cleave more and more precisely to both the discipline and the Dhamma. As they advance further along the path, the digression between their own pov and that of the Buddhadhamma seems, to me, to become increasingly infintessimal. Furthermore, they exhibit qualities which appear all but absent from the latter day claimants (I am not talking about you here).
I am sorry if you feel like its a bit of an inquisition. But I don't think the interest and the challenging of your claims is one that you wouldn't have expected, surely?
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|2009-04-19, 17:14
|Link #41
Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
|2009-04-19, 17:54
|Link #43
Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
|2009-04-19, 18:04
|Link #44
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
well yeah but seriously an internal hard disk for a handheld console would have caused some problems ^^;
Certainly they could have added a small internal memory space for game save files, but i think it's pretty mandatory to buy a flash card to fully enjoy a PSP, so this is a "flaw" that really doesn't bother me --;; nor anyone i know until now.
I just wish i could get my hands on that 32GB flash card now...
|2009-04-19, 19:28
|Link #45
Senior Member
IT Support
8gb sounds great... especially if you wanna store a few eps on your PSP
|2009-04-19, 22:58
|Link #48
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Heheh. Looks like the price of memory cards have really dropped over the years. I remember "biting the bullet" for a 4G card back when it was something like $90. But had to since 2G cards will fit absolutely nothing.
I doubt 4G cards are still around. But it seems to me that if you're not going to be using homebrew stuff, it should suffice. Even movies that are high definition(for PSP anyway) will only take 1G of space max. And space for savedata, music, and pictures are generally negligible.
|2009-04-19, 23:18
|Link #49
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 32
|2009-04-20, 00:30
|Link #50
Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
You think you guys spent a fortune on mem sticks? I first bought a 1 gig for like 120, then an 8 gig for like 300 when it first came out lol. I really was desperate for the 8 gig, since my 1 gig can't store some of the larger games, and can only store 1 at a time since RPGs are generally larger than 500 megs.
I was actually looking forward to a 32 gig, but now with the RPG releases slowing down to a crawl, I don't think I'm going for it. Maybe when they reach the theoritical limit of 2 tb lol, but then again at that point there will probably be a PSP2 already requiring the next gen mem cards.
|2009-04-20, 00:55
|Link #52
Join Date: Feb 2006
|2009-04-20, 01:57
|Link #53
Nani ?
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Emerald Forest ( yes its a real place. )
Like others have already stated, I strongly recommend making sure you get a PSP model that can be hacked. Piracy is only a small part of what CFW ( Custom firmware ) PSP's can do. Anyone who tells you that the only reason to use CFW is piracy has either never used CFW before or only got a small taste of it.
I'll break it down for you in a simpler way that others have not done yet on this thread.
Unhacked PSP-
-Ability to play UMD PSP games
-Ability to play Mp3 Music
-Ability to play Mp4 files encoded to fit PSP screen res.
-Ability to use a net browser, ( but with cell phone text style keyboard that takes -forever to type anything )
-Updates from Sony that don't do anything.
Hacked PSP
-Ability to play UMD PSP games
-Ability to play Mp3 Music
-Tons of Homebrew for Audio edits. Play other formats. Play music while browsing the net or simultaneously playing a game. ect. ect.
-Ability to play Mp4 files encoded to fit PSP screen res. OR use Homebrew media players to play others, including MKV, avi, OGM, ect. ect.
-Ability to use a net browser, ( but with cell phone text style keyboard that takes -forever to type anything )
-Homebrew browsers that use a Grid keyboard that doesn't suck. Links 2.0 ftw.
-Dark Alex is superior. Go Go M33 updater.
-Ability to install any Homebrew program
-You can edit f0. woot. ( this means custom startup themes and a bunch of other shit. )
-Most stuff is open source. woot.
-Plugin "popsloader" allows you to play PSX games. Alot of PSX games actually run better on the PSP then the original PS1. Go figure.
-Run games from EBOOT or ISO or CSO format from memory stick
-Handle file tree using filer or similar homebrew apps to browse your PSP root on the PSP instead of needing to hook up to your computer all the time.
-Rip ISO's from UMD's.
-Watch FLV enabled sites ( youtube, crunchyroll, ect. ) with PSP tube homebrew.
-Play Homebrew games. ( and there are a lot more then you would think )
-Emulators, lots of them. Play dead systems that cannot be commercially purchased anymore. woot.
-PSP writer - Homebrew word processor.
-Recalibrate PSP controls. ( VERY FRIGGIN USEFULL. A lot of PSP games, notably FPS shooters, have terrible default controls and do not let you config them. )
-Lua Programming.
-A lot more that I don't feel like typing.
To summarize what I am saying, a non CFW PSP is just a handheld gaming device from sony with some spicy extras. A CFW PSP is basically portable linux.
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|2009-04-20, 02:46
|Link #54
Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 38
It's not that I'm a righteous bastard or anything, I just hate people who doesn't feel like footing a bit of cash out for things they enjoy.
|2009-04-20, 05:27
|Link #55
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Although I agree that you need CFW to unlock the system to its true potential. Really most gamers don't really care about all that. Hence the reason why DS pwns PSP in the sales department despite being an inferior console. And why most of my friends own unhacked PSP/DS, not even knowing you can play games off the memory card. CFW make up only a small percentage of owners.
|2009-04-20, 06:10
|Link #56
Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
But yeah, I'm mostly looking into a PSP for the games, especially the JP ones, Kanon, Clannad, Macross Aces, Rockman Dash, ToLoveRu, and a ton of others I saw on Play-Asia, I just can't remember them all off the top of my head, ooh-la-la. The media stuff certainly would be nice, but the 3k model actually isn't so bad by it's specs as it can play both mp4 and avi. (and you can find just about any anime in avi despite its age) It's music playability is pretty large though, including mp3 and wav, which are really the only two types that I ever see or use. (moreso mp3 than wav)
If I see a 2k model, chances are it'll be used, which means cheaper, so I might get that just to save cash to use on other accessories and to save up for games, as it sounds like homebrew will pretty much give the 2k most of what the 3k has over it.
|2009-04-20, 06:53
|Link #57
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
|2009-04-20, 08:20
|Link #58
Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 38
If the 3K model is hacked, all the more better for my hardwares sales. But it will be bad for my software side since that's where the majority of the incomes for my department lies.
|2009-04-20, 18:57
|Link #59
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 32
(you have to put 8 images in your photo folder, plus the TIFF exploit file--with it being the image with the most recent time stamp. you then go to your photo folder on the PSP and wait for the black "options" bubble to appear and disappear, then immediately scroll down to the bottom, where the exploit should then run. It appears with the HEN that this will have to be done every time you restart your PSP, but it's not such a big deal once you've got it down)
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Ashley Tisdale: Kings Road Cafe Lunch with Mystery Guy
Ashley Tisdale cuddles close to a guy friend after lunching at Kings Road Cafe on Sunday afternoon (December 9) in Studio City, Calif.
The 27-year-old actress gave him a hug before heading on her way back home.
"Ugh feelin sick :/ hot bath and bed sounds pretty great right now," Ashley tweeted after getting home. Feel better Ashley!
And even though she's still feeling pretty sick, Ashley stopped by Planet Blue in Beverly Hills for a bit of holiday shopping on Monday morning (December 10).
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Dolphins use overtime surge to pull away from Lady Bucs
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 23, 2013) – A last second, desperation heave from three-point range pushed the game into overtime for the Lady Bucs, but the Blue and Gold couldn't respond to an offensive flurry in the extra period by Jacksonville as ETSU dropped a 90-81 decision to JU on Saturday afternoon inside Veterans Memorial Arena.
With the loss, ETSU drops to 7-16 overall and 5-11 in Atlantic Sun play, while Jacksonville improves to 9-17 overall and 5-10 in league action.
"The momentum shifted our way at the end of regulation, but Jacksonville was red-hot in overtime," ETSU head coach Karen Kemp said. "We didn't make some of our easy shots when we had some looks around the basket. It was really about how we started the game though, with turnover after turnover and you can't score if you turn the ball over. We have to do a better job defending people and I have always said Jacksonville is a lot like us, pretty athletic and they look to attack. We have no choice but to look ahead and put this one behind us. We have to regroup and get ready for North Florida on Monday."
Through the early going, the Lady Bucs struggled to hold onto the ball with four turnovers in the first two and a half minutes of the first half. When it did secure the ball, ETSU was having a field day in the paint, as well as dominating on the glass, to build its advantage up to 11-4 before the first media timeout at the 15:30 mark. Jacksonville responded with an 8-1 run to take its first lead of the game at the 10:40 mark, 13-12. Miscues continued to plague the Blue and Gold who had already committed 14 turnovers which led to 11 Dolphins' points with 7:38 remaining in the first period. Once JU took its largest lead of seven points, 25-18, with 4:59 left, ETSU fought back and went on a 17-8 run, including a made three-pointer by Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.) at the buzzer to take a 35-33 Lady Bucs' advantage into the break.
ETSU was able to keep Jacksonville at bay to begin the second half by answering its showings early. The Dolphins were able to tie the game though, 45-45, with 13:56 remaining and eventually took a 47-45 advantage on a pair of made free-throws with 13:12 left. The bulk of the games' nine ties and 11 lead changes occurred over the next seven minutes with each team answering the other. Jacksonville held onto a three-point lead before it turned the ball over on the inbounds which gave ETSU the possession with 7.2 seconds remaining. With the clock winding down, Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) drained a desperation three-pointer to tie the game with a second left to push the game into overtime. It appeared as though the Lady Bucs entered the extra period with the momentum, but the Dolphins quickly squashed any ETSU momentum by scoring the first nine points of the session in the opening two minutes. This flurry continued for the duration of overtime as JU outscored the Blue and Gold 20-11 en route to a 90-81 Lady Bucs defeat.
JU was paced by a game-high 25 points from Tracie Sneed, who also drained 13-of-18 free throws. Sneed was joined in double-figures by Queen Alford, who added 17 points, as well as eight rebounds and four steals. Meanwhile, the Lady Bucs were led by a career-high 17 points, along with eight rebounds, from Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.), as well as 17 points from Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.). ETSU also had two additional double-digit scorers in Serena Clark (Tucker, Ga.), who posted a double-double of 15 points and 11 rebounds, as well as 13 points by Cara Bowling (Elizabethton, Tenn.)
The Dolphins shot a season-high for an ETSU opponent 47 free throws, making 38 of these tries. The opportunity to cash in from the charity stripe greatly aided JU as they shot a sub-par 36 percent from the field and from behind the arc. Jacksonville was also able to capitalize on ETSU's 24 turnovers with 24 points off these miscues. The Dolphins also got out on the break a bit, streaking to eight fast break points compared to four for the Lady Bucs.
Meanwhile, ETSU got to the free throw line only 12 times and made eight of its attempts. The Lady Bucs shot an improved 40 percent from the floor, but again struggled from downtown, making only 33 percent of its tries. Sticking to where it has dominated over the course of the season, ETSU overwhelmed JU with a season-high 54 points in the paint and turned 26 offensive rebounds into 22 second chance points. With the 55-49 overall advantage on the boards, the Lady Bucs outrebounded its opponent for the 18th time this season and exceeded 50 rebounds for the second time in their last four games.
The Lady Bucs end the road swing with their final regular season road contest of the year when they take on the North Florida Ospreys on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. inside UNF Arena.
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#include <gtk/gtk.h> GtkArrow; GtkWidget* gtk_arrow_new (GtkArrowType arrow_type, GtkShadowType shadow_type); void gtk_arrow_set (GtkArrow *arrow, GtkArrowType arrow_type, GtkShadowType shadow_type);
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GtkArrow implements AtkImplementorIface and GtkBuildable.
"arrow-type" GtkArrowType : Read / Write "shadow-type" GtkShadowType : Read / Write
"arrow-scaling" gfloat : Read "maemo-aspect-ratio" gfloat : Read "maemo-min-size" gint : Read
GtkArrow should be used to draw simple arrows that need to point in one of the four cardinal directions (up, down, left, or right). The style of the arrow can be one of shadow in, shadow out, etched in, or etched out. Note that these directions and style types may be ammended in versions of Gtk to come.
GtkArrow will fill any space alloted to it, but since it is inherited from GtkMisc, it can be padded and/or aligned, to fill exactly the space the programmer desires.
Arrows are created with a call to
gtk_arrow_new(). The direction or
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typedef struct _GtkArrow GtkArrow;
The GtkArrow struct containes the following fields. (These fields should be considered read-only. They should never be set by an application.)
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Sets the direction and style of the GtkArrow,
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shadow_type :
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"arrow-type" GtkArrowType : Read / Write
The direction the arrow should point.
Default value: GTK_ARROW_RIGHT
"shadow-type" property
"shadow-type" GtkShadowType : Read / Write
Appearance of the shadow surrounding the arrow.
Default value: GTK_SHADOW_OUT
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"arrow-scaling" gfloat : Read
Amount of space used up by arrow.
Allowed values: [0,1]
Default value: 0.7
"maemo-aspect-ratio" style property
"maemo-aspect-ratio" gfloat : Read
Aspect ratio of the arrow widget.
Default value: 1
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Minimum size of the arrow widget.
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THE MAN IN THE CELLAR: A psychiatrist dismisses a child's tale of a man hiding in his cellar until he discovers a deranged killer has escaped from an asylum. Starring Charles Boyer.
THE GIRL ON THE BRIDGE: A famous painter is haunted by the memory of a beautiful woman he sketched on a bridge years ago. Starring Dick Powell.
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Fairfield Prep skates past ND-Fairfield 5-2
BRIDGEPORT --This wasn't the kind of Fairfield Prep 5-2 win over Notre Dame-Fairfield where the victors were home and happy Thursday night before the opposing coach was done talking to his players.
Notre Dame's Steve Hetherman was done with his team, with Webster Bank Arena staff and with reporters before the Jesuits' Matt Sather left their room. Well, what'd Sather like from his team?
"Not much," he said, summing up a night when the Jesuits scored three goals in the second and an empty-netter in the third. "The penalty kill."
The No. 3 Jesuits (4-2-1) sent co-captain Matt Wikman to the box 41 seconds into the game for a hit from behind. They had to kill his five-minute penalty -- Sather said he couldn't recall the Jesuits' last major, thinking eight-10 years ago -- and Wikman also had to serve a 10-minute misconduct.
"The kid turned; I couldn't hold up. I went to finish my check," Wikman said. "It was from behind. It was the right call. I shouldn't have done it. We just kept rolling ... and we got it done."
The Jesuits killed the major but gave up two goals later in the first period. Once Wikman got out in the second, he scored the game-winner on a puck that bounced to him in front of the Lancers' net.
"We got a couple of lucky bounces," Sather said of a team that's inexperienced at the varsity level, "but I didn't really think we played to our potential. We were pretty sloppy, all in all. We need to get a lot better."
The No. 7 Lancers (3-3) mustered eight shots in the second and only five in the third.
"It's a loss in January, right? Not March, where you've got to go home and get out of the locker room, where there's no tomorrow," Hetherman said.
As Hetherman said, a five-minute power play that early in a game can go either way. And in a way, it did.
The Jesuits killed it crisply, and then Dean Lockery scored a power-play goal.
"I thought we played well for five minutes," Sather said. "It was a tough spot to be in, especially without our best penalty killer (Wikman)."
The Lancers didn't score but got their legs going. Christian LaCroix's and Garrett Gintoli's goals gave them a 2-1 lead.
They had some chances early in the second and a few others on odd-man rushes, but they didn't match the Jesuits' intensity in the middle period. Ryan Deering, Wikman and Mike Ventricelli scored goals.
Both goalies made big saves, Notre Dame's Justin Krochko at times throughout, Gutierrez particularly at the end of the first to keep it a one-goal game.
"(Gutierrez) had 10 days off," Sather said. "He had a little rough start, but after that, he was excellent.
"He controlled rebounds. There were a lot of bouncing pucks in front of the net."
A bigger arena like this, a little warm Thursday, isn't like the Wonderland of Ice, Sather said, with hard ice and fewer bounces.
The Lancers girls beat Lauralton Hall 7-0 earlier on the same ice. Gabby Vitelli had four points.
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Records: Fairfield Prep 4-2-1; Notre Dame-Fairfield 3-3. Goals: FP--Dean Lockery, Kenny Kochiss, Ryan Deering, Matt Wikman, Mike Ventricelli; ND--Christian LaCroix, Garrett Gintoli; Assists: FP--Kochiss 2, Justin Blanchette, Deering, Wikman, Brandon Powell; ND--Tyler Henchcliffe, Justin Dupuis, Cooper Demchak; Goalies: FP--Chris Gutierrez (22 saves); ND--Justin Krochko (29); Shots: FP--34; ND--24
Girls hockey
Goals: ND--Jess LeMere 2, Ally D'Aurio, Becky Stefanatos, Sarah Dewley, Gabby Vitelli, Jasmine Gaudreau; Assists: ND--Vitelli 3, Emily Rowland 2, Stefanatos 2, D'Aurio, Lauren Berard, Sierra Chavez, Mallory Mancini; Goalies: LH--Michaela O'Donnell (35 saves); ND--Brooke Bonetti (14); Shots: LH--14; ND--42