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see comment from Erik down below... [Dell's Pricing Team] $774 Inspiron 1420 (Ubuntu) Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache) Ubuntu version 7.04 Anti-glare, widescreen 14.1 inch display (1280x800) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz 80GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card Integrated High Definition Audio $824 Inspiron 1420 (Vista) Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache) Genuine Windows® Vista Home Basic Edition Anti-glare, widescreen 14.1 inch display (1280x800) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz 80GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) 24X CD writer/DVD Combo Drive Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card 56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell) Integrated High Definition Audio Status Update The difference in promotion pricing was due to an error on the site, which has been fixed.
Categories: Linux,
I find myself many, many times in dark or poorly lit environments having to guess the various keys - would be fantastic to have a backlit keyboard - with backlit individual keys as the best option. I would actually pay extra for that convenience if the option was available. This could be done for desktops or notebooks. Status Update Please see bill_b's comment for further details. Thanks for posting!
Categories: Accessories (Keyboards, etc.), Desktops and Laptops, Sales Strategies,
Ok, well I know I may be chastised for bringing this up, but vista is still a young operating system with its own problems etc... I would like to see both Home and Business computers, especially notebooks have an XP Home and Pro option on top of Vista until it has at least been out for a year. For those seasoned users like me who just feel that you need to let a new OS mature before jumping right in. I am planning on buying a new notebook, and I would like to insure I wont have to format it on arrival just to have XP. Status Update Check out the Idea in Action to find out more about Dell offering XP.
Categories: Operating Systems,
Always include ALL software AND driver reinstallation discs for FREE (or at let us get the option do get the for free if we want as follows)...don't make us pay extra in case that we have a disaster and need to reinstall from scratch...! No Discs Included (Included In Price) All Discs Included (this means everything -- all software discs -- OS/Security software/etc., and all driver discs -- this means Windows or Linux drivers or both, whatever applies -- add $0) Other options (OS disc only, all software discs only, driver discs only, etc. -- add $0) For some computers, Dell does not include the reinstallation discs. Even if Dell offers them, Dell charges extra for us to get them. In fact, the only time I seen reinstallation discs being offered without charge were for Dell XPS desktops with the flashy lights -- that is, the Dell XPS 600, 700, and 710 systems, for those ware the only systems to offer operating system options like "Microsoft Windows XP Media Center WITH REINSTALLATION CD". Also, most of the time when software reinstallation discs are not included, driver reinstallation discs (such as XPS flashy lights, as well as printers and monitors) are not included either. Therefore, don't just include the software reinstallation discs -- include as well the Windows/Linux drivers for the hardware (depending on the OS purchased with the computer, if any, which in turn depends on the user's preferences). Besides, Microsoft as well as ALL software companies include the discs when you get the software seperately, so why can't Dell do the same when the software is preinstalled...? Status Update Customers no longer have to pay extra for re-installation media.
Categories: Sales Strategies, Software,
As a corporate customer I like Dell's products and my USA customer support. I have read the web about all the people that have had problems with Dell customer service and mine and others are not isolated incidences. If you want people to be loyal take a hint from the corporate sales and give Home users even a little customer support. My corporate help does not read scripts, they have the power to take ownership and fix the problem. Granted I do buy Gold support. If Dell thinks it saves money for bad support; I have personally talked 20 or 30 people out of buying a Dell.* Addition: After reading several of the comments on this topic it appears that what we really want is someone in customer support that will listen to us, and hopefully help us. Culture and language barriers just make this harder. Maybe a better way to track customer performance would be to find out if they really helped someone and not how fast they can end the call. Dell management needs to start taking ownership of this problem. Maybe Dell management needs to start calling Dell support with fake problems and see it the system they created can help them, it sure does not work for us.Status Update: Please see bill_b's comment about Dell's service choices. Thanks for the idea!
Categories: Service and Support,
Approximately 48 hours into its life, and Ideastorm is filling up with repetition and senseless comments. Since moderation cannot be exercised by the participants a moderator a la Dell Employee must put up her hand. Or his hand. We aren't picky! One: Repeating the same ideas from earlier posts is a pain to the reader and a waste of space and time. These should be removed. Two: Suggestions which are without applicability to the issues at hand should be removed: one post states that "Dell should set up Dell Pay to compete with Paypal." Sigh. Why? For what unique purpose? Dell's business is not online payments, in the same way Apple's is not selling music (they sell music at a loss to sell iPods at a gain). There is no benefit to Dell and it meets no need. Since this format is experimental and fully funded by Dell, I encourage Dell to cut the wheat from the chafe and remove as much as they see fit. For all of the "I have rights" and "freedom of speech" advocates, you don't. This is a place where the good keep going and the bad go out. The less posts the better. It provides Dell what they want: the opportunity to test strong ideas properly. Without the removal of clutter, the good ideas will by dint of the time they are posted (e.g. 3am) and the increasing volume of posts, inevitably suffer at times the forest's size despite the grandeur of the tree in question. I may be going against the grain of popular opinion, but you add your vote to this post if you believe in the goal of this site, and not the freedom it offers to utter the first inane thing which comes to mind. Status Update jackie_c is IdeaStorm's moderator. Also, for any mod updates, check out the talk with the moderator blog at the top of the page.
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The XPS and E series notebooks are great, but a move into making 12.1 and 14.1 inch tablet PC convertible notebooks would be fantastic. I can easily see the m1210 and the e1405 being ported to the tablet medium. Status Update Check out what Glenn from the tablet team has to say about the Latitude XT.
Preload Ubuntu on your 12.1 (XPS M1210) or 13.3 inch (XPS M1330) laptops. As it is now, there's only one choice for a laptop, and that choice is not a light laptop. The 12.1 inch and 13.3 inch laptops are much better to carry around than heavy 15 inch++ laptops. Status Update Check out the 13.3 details here Check out the 12.1 details here
It's discouraging to have a Tier 1 vendor (Dell) selling Linux products and yet not really tailoring to Linux. Don't get me wrong Dell, I am not trying to take away all the good you have done. Offering Linux is a step in the right direction and I would like to see more steps taken in a monthly or quarterly basis. But, it seems that the basis for your current Linux promotion is for the Open Source enthusiast like me. I use Linux at home and at work as my main operating system. I use Firefox as my browser and I'm trying to order a Dell Inspiron 1420N. However, it seems that the embedded flash script that shows the different colors choices for the Inspiron is not working under Linux. It also shows that I can't see the different images thereafter. It works with Windows running Firefox as my vmware machine verified. But that is not the type of user that will most likely purchase a Linux laptop. My request is simple. Can someone fix and verify that this page works well with Linux browser technology? So, that users can enjoy purchasing your Linux products and demonstrate that Dell really cares about their customer's operating system preference. Dell I wish you the best in this venture as your success in this territory will help the Linux Desktop become a reality to the open source community. Status Update Per jesse_l's comment, this issue has been resolved
Categories: Linux,
In the last shipment of computers I received I was shocked by the amount of plastic wrap used for items like power cords, USB cables, VGA/DVI cables. Do these items really need to be individually wrapped in a plastic bag. I can just imagine the tons of plastic used by Dell annually... Something to think about Status Update Dell Adds Renewable Bamboo to its Packaging Portfolio
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Hmm, this a good point you bring up.gregkavarnos wrote:I was wondering, whose 21/12/2012 will it end on? Like, will people living in the Pacific Ocean die first and then Asia, etc... or will it just be based on Greenwich mean time? I mean it's pretty unfair on the Pacific dwellers coz everybody else will get up to 12 hours more living to do. Will like the world end sequentially based on time zones? Like every time 21/12 dawns that piece will end or will it end second by second?
These questions have been plaguing me for some time now and I'm wondering if anybody will be able to answer them before tommorow. I'm GMT+2 so any answers will have to take the time difference into account.
PS Obviously I am not expecting answers from Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Tuvalu or Anadyr right now, unless, of course, they have daylight savings in effect.
So by that logic, as each part of the world changes to December 21st, 2012, one could fly (airplane?) to the next timezone right before it does, where it is still December 20th, 2012. Each hour, fly to the next timezone, escaping the end!
When one returns to where one started, or before making it all the way around, successfully escaping the end of the world, it would be December 22nd, 2012.
Or maybe one would have to travel at light speed...
Well, I better start working on this now...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma senator asked colleagues Tuesday to target one of the nation's worst divorce rates by allowing couples to enter into "covenant" marriages, which require counseling before the vows and restrict the grounds for divorce.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma senator asked colleagues Tuesday to target one of the nation's worst divorce rates by allowing couples to enter into "covenant" marriages, which require counseling before the vows and restrict the grounds for divorce.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the proposal by Coalgate Republican Josh Brecheen, sending it on to the Senate floor, despite concerns that people would be trapped in loveless marriages even if they both wanted out. Under Brecheen's bill, the only acceptable grounds for divorce for couples who agree to covenant marriages are spousal abuse, abandonment and other serious behaviors.
Divorce rates across the country have fallen steadily over the past two decades. Oklahoma's divorce rate — 5.2 per 1,000 residents — outpaced all but three other states in 2010, the latest data available, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
"We all know that we have a tremendous problem in our state with the divorce rate," Brecheen told the panel.
The concept behind covenant marriages is to ensure couples are ready to marry and are willing to fix any problems that arise later.
Arizona, Arkansas and Louisiana currently allow covenant marriages. Any impact they have had on divorce rates is ambiguous — for example, Arkansas still has a divorce rate even higher than Oklahoma's. Critics also say the new category is unnecessary and undervalues other marriages.
The Senate panel supported a similar bill in 2009 but the bill never became law. With this year's version, some committee members worried about its restrictions on divorce.
Sen. Brian Crain, R-Tulsa, who voted for the bill, said it would reduce the grounds for divorce from 15 to five. He asked Brecheen what would happen if a young couple naively entered into a covenant marriage then found themselves in a miserable, loveless marriage after more life experience.
"I'm worried about my two daughters, who are 19 and 17, in this," Crain said.
Sen. Tom Ivester, D-Sayre, said hypothetically that it wouldn't allow divorce for the wife of Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced Penn State assistant football coach. Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison last year for the sexual assault of 10 children.
Brecheen responded that he'd be willing to adjust some provisions but that he was convinced of the damage wreaked by divorce on families. He said the bill aims to underscore the commitment behind love and marriage.
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A Snake! (and other animals that cross my path)Posted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: American crow, Baltimore, black rat snake, Charles Village, Chincoteague, Eastern rat snake, fishing crow, Hampden, Johns Hopkins University, Laughing gull, Multnomah Falls, nare, Oregon, pacific banana slug, Portland, red-tailed hawk, Wyman Park 2 Comments
No, that crooked black line is not a crack in a tree trunk. It's a snake climbing up a tree across the street from my apartment building. I may be a mediocre photographer, but I carry a camera just about everywhere and I try to get better all the time. When I'm on a plane, I use a zoom lens to photograph other planes flying nearby, or clouds, or sunlight reflecting in river tributaries that look like a sunset-colored octopus. When I walk to the university, I carry a camera just in case one of the local hawks puts on a show. I bring my camera so I can show my friends the things I see, but also because I will always need more practice. In that way, photography and writing are similar. Both are crafts that require a lifetime of regular, attentive exercise and application, resulting each month or each year in "better" photos and sentences rather than "great" ones. But that's the idea behind a craft.
That said, I recently finished my thesis, and before I get back to practicing the craft of writing, I thought I'd give my other craft a little fresh air by sharing a few photos of creatures I've happened upon in the last few years. Minimal research. Just a few pretty things to give the mind a rest, starting with the biggest snake I've ever seen outside of a zoo.
Across from my apartment building is the lovely Wyman Park. It's 20 or 30 acres of woodland that serves as the backyard of Johns Hopkins University. The park is a narrow but lush oasis of green where people from Baltimore's Hampden and Charles Village neighborhoods run, bike, sit on rocks by the stream, and walk their dogs. Basically, Wyman Park is your typical city park — not a wilderness, but still home to some surprising creatures.
I met a member of Wyman Park's wildlife community this Tuesday around 4 p.m. That would be the snake you saw in the above photo. My car was parked along a mowed field, the doorstep to Wyman Park. I was digging through my trunk for a quart of oil or something when a lady walked up and warned me that there was a huge snake under the car parked two ahead of mine. Just in case I were to walk that direction she wanted me to be aware. A HUGE snake? Yes, in fact. It was the longest snake I've ever seen in the wild. By the time she warned me about it, the snake had already mounted the curb and was halfway hidden in the grass of the park. It reached a four-foot-diameter tree and began to climb. Steadily, the snake moved upward — a funny thing to watch since a snake has no familiar limbs, claws, tentacles, or anything visible to propel it forward, let alone straight up. Yet it climbed without slipping once. Only a few minutes passed before the snake silently slithered into a hole in the lowest branch. The hollow space must have been small because the snake ended up bunched up and folded over a few times. You can see its midsection kinked like a two-inch hose in the shadow behind its head if you click on the photo to enlarge.
After scanning the Maryland Department of Natural Resources website and elsewhere, my best guess is it's an eastern rat snake (a.k.a. black rat snake). Maryland's biggest snake, the eastern rat snake often grows to six feet long (the DNR says the official record is 8 feet 5 inches). The one in my photo is probably five feet long at most.
Snakes are charming, but I'm more of a bird guy. In April 2011, I visited a Catholic high school in Baltimore County to write a story about the school's plan to provide iPads to all of their students the following school year. In the parking lot near the school's athletic field, however, I stopped to capture an aerial battle. Something small and furry was dead, innards exposed, at the edge of the grass, and a red-tailed hawk was perched atop a wooden fence post a few feet away. A couple of American crows or fish crows were also interested in the meal, but neither the hawk nor the crows could get more than a nibble of meat at a time before the other species attacked to fight for the meal.
Here the crows frantically chase the hawk:
Then one of the crows looks like it makes contact:
I don't know how the fight ended because I had to go cover the iPad thing, but a few months later I got a far richer taste of wildlife when my girlfriend and I visited friends in Portland, Oregon.
I've lived in or visited probably 20 states in the U.S., but I've never seen another place as richly green as the woodland around Portland. Florida is lovely too, but it's a different kind of green — low palms of light green, tall Australian pines with segmented needles, and lots of sand, sunshine and heat. Oregon, however, is on the opposite corner of the U.S. and is ruled by towering pines, cool damp air, and moss on everything.
Moss grows on trees, rocks, and probably even on other moss. In the thick parkland, sunlight filters through the dark green vegetation and causes the moss below to glow. The natural beauty is so intense that it looks almost handmade, as if every moss-covered tree and stone were part of a movie set, a caricature of life at its most vibrant. During our visit, we went on a couple of walks through the wet green wonderland. On one walk, one of my dear friends spotted a slug, a relatively common one for the region, but still gargantuan, and yellow. I'm pretty sure it was a Pacific banana slug. I took a few photos, of course, and here's the slug with its body contracted:
Now here's the same slug a minute later, now six or seven inches long and zooming along the forest floor at hundreds of millimeters per hour:
But, in case you're about to eat something, I'll try to supplant the image of the slug with something slime-less. Last year I was in Chincoteague, Virginia, and I took scores of photographs, but rather than overload you with all of my favorite animals from that trip, I'll offer just one. Unless I'm mistaken, this is a laughing gull:
See? It's "laughing."
My girlfriend and I found this noisy guy while sitting at an outdoor bar and restaurant on the waterfront. The laughing gull sat on a dock-post about 10 feet from our table. All while we drank and ate, he remained on the post. Whenever another gull approached the perch, our gull would call and flap and fight to keep the spot. We soon learned why.
When I failed to eat all of my dinner (I know we're not supposed to do this and I'm ashamed of myself) I decided to feed the gull. Apparently, he recognized my body language from experience with other people. After I tore a piece of bread from my plate, I turned back toward the gull. Before I knew what was happening, he had perched on the windowsill next to me, taken the bread from my hand, and returned to the dock post to eat it. He knew! He knew what I was doing before I'd done it! Animals. What the heck.
An interesting little tidbit from the laughing gull experience was something about his beak. I didn't notice until looking at my photos later, but you can see straight through his beak via his nares (nostrils).
That's all for now. Hope you enjoyed one or some of the animals. And to any other students or instructors out there, Happy End of the Semester!
If I incorrectly identified any of the animals above, please let me know. Thanks!


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Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd with a focus on
security and reliability.
Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering,
reliable syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS and RELP, writing to databases
(MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully
configurable output formats (including high-precision timestamps),
the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message, on-the-wire
message compression, and the ability to convert text files to syslog.
It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with
the same configuration file syntax. Its advanced features make it
suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay
chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the
novice user.
Tracking v6-devel
WWW: http://www.rsyslog.com/
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Dependency line: rsyslog6-rfc3195>0:sysutils/rsyslog6-rfc3195
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2013-11-25 sysutils/rsyslog6-gnutls: Use sysutils/rsyslog7
2013-11-25 sysutils/rsyslog6-rfc3195: Use sysutils/rsyslog7
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2013-11-25 sysutils/rsyslog6: Use sysutils/rsyslog7
2013-11-25 sysutils/rsyslog6-snmp: Use sysutils/rsyslog7
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Motorcyclist Helps Old Man Cross Busy Street – Faith in Humanity Restored
Random acts of kindness caught on film are just what we all need to restore our faith in humanity. In this video, a motorcyclist is cruising down a busy street as he rides up to an old man attempting to cross.
What he does next will make your day.


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Nov. 30, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT fell to Lasell College, 66-34, in non-conference women's basketball action on Tuesday. Alice Yeh led the Engineers (1-4) with 10 points coming off the bench while Kristen Whaley added six points and six rebounds. Cheryl Kwinn tallied a team-high 10 boards as Amy Marshall notched six caroms and two blocks. Jamie Simmons registered three assists and three steals for the Cardinal and Gray.
The Lasers posted six unanswered points to start the game and maintained a slight edge for a majority of the half. MIT went on an eight-point spurt that resulted in a 14-11 advantage with 4:37 on the clock. Following two ties and two lead changes, a pair of free throws and a layup during the final 30 seconds gave Lasell a 21-18 lead at the break.
The hosts carried the momentum into to the second stanza, recording a 20-2 run during the first six minutes to take control of the game. Layups by Kwinn and Marshall trimmed the deficit to 16 (41-25) midway through the frame, but hopes of a rally were thwarted as Lasell outscored the Engineers, 25-9, down the stretch.


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|2007-05-31, 04:23
|Link #181
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Asia
I would have said ouch, that makes me not want to teach English in foreign places but eh, people are killed every second of the day. I guess if I wanted to stay safe I should just stay in my country and never go anywhere. But life is too short to spend it in one place.
|2007-05-31, 04:44
|Link #182
Dansa med oss
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Near Cincinnati, OH, but actually in Kentucky
Age: 30
So, if anyone is thinking of teaching English in Japan, don't let this discourage you.
|2007-05-31, 05:35
|Link #183
Nya? ^_^
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Australia
I suppose you don't read or watch the news very often, because there's stories of people being murdered there several times a week (two reported today alone: one where a mother strangled her 11yo daughter, and the other where a 17yo boy killed his mother and cut off her arm and head.)
The world is a harsh place.
|2007-05-31, 06:20
|Link #185
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: 学園ヘヴン
Yep thats true...People get hurt or killed everyday...and because of that people don't really seem to care anymore if its just one person..only family members, co-workers or good friends. -_-
|2007-05-31, 14:10
|Link #187
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Um... yes we do read the news (I have 4 news wires devoted to Japan alone on my google page). This story is several months old.
Japan is still one of the safest countries in the world. However, the newspapers like to focus on the lurid and the few crimes of violence they do have seem to be overly lurid. They also tend to repeat the same story multiple times with variation making it seem as though more is happening.
And since its a very small country packed with people all closely related that tends to amplify their anxiety when someone goes mentally haywire.
When I used to live in Houston, the number of murders per week in that city exceeded the number of murders per YEAR in the entire country of Japan (and Houston only had six million in the area as opposed to Japan's 90-something million at the time). The same was true for property crime and other 'non-violent' acts. It might be instructive to compare the rate of various crimes in California to Japan ( similiar number of people).
News headlines can be deceiving, Do some research on the actual stats. yeah people are people... but not exactly. It depends on the amount of individual investment in community.
|2007-05-31, 14:44
|Link #188
Ero~Kairin! ^-^ Yeay!
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: ~ Montreal
Age: 38
Japanese are no diffrent then others. The way they are; being generous and frendly, is some time a good way for criminals to hide their true intentions.
Anybody could've been fooled here.
But yes because of the way they are so polite and act so friendly makes it even more dangerous for someone who hasen't been submerged enough in the Japanese culture to be fooled. Since they cant easily make the diffrence.
|2007-05-31, 14:53
|Link #189
Certified Organic
Join Date: Dec 2005
that news is old.
you need to be VERY careful when you choose to work abroad. alot of companies are fraudulent, especially these quick start up english programs.
China has a REAL problem with this. be sure you work for a reputable company if you plan to teach english in a foreign country.
and MAKE sure you have some contacts in that country in case anything goes wrong or happens so someone is checking up on you.
|2007-05-31, 15:14
|Link #190
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Naivity is always dangerous.... take reasonable precautions at all times. Learn about places you are going and the cultural cues. What is considered locally normal. Don't just assume the world is like your neighborhood.
When you read up on how the poor girl got to her ending situation --- my wife smacked herself and said "duh!!!!" (she doesn't excuse the crime btw but the teacher made cultural errors that one shouldn't even make in the US or Canada).
Try using your local expectations if you're from from the USA about cultural cues in Italy, Turkey, Malaysia .... report back on the results
|2007-05-31, 15:38
|Link #191
Silent Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Netherlands
Age: 32
Never knew the crime rate in japan is low. Kinda took me by surprise. Is train molestation considered a crime? I always had the feeling it happened a lot.
I agree with Vexx's wife. She should have seen that one coming. Oh well knowing there are still naive people around is nice to know(next to the fact they get easily targeted).
|2007-05-31, 15:43
|Link #192
Μ ε r c ü r υ
Join Date: Jun 2004
In many cases (at least the ones that I have heard on the news), the victim usually acts like a child, trusts the person she (since it is usually a female, I will use she) has just met. Trust has to be built through long duration relationship, not in one or two days (always there will be exceptions, such as one day trust, or 3-years of dishonesty). And, always try to meet with the people who know a lot about the person around you. That is usually a good measure (at least in Turkey), unless they are all part of a dangerous group (then you are really unlucky, at the time you understand that either escape before it gets out of control or if not, ready your mind to become sacrifice).
|2007-05-31, 16:00
|Link #193
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Entering a man's apartment in parts of Japan alone as a single woman is a very loud cultural signal: she's willing to have sex. Subsequent refusal may end up in a loud fight at the least since she appears to have toyed with a possibly fragile ego with anger issues (which she might have known about if she'd kept all encounters in public or with other people that know both parties). Some men in Japan are rather behind the curve on this whole feminism idea.
San Francisco can be a very safe city.... if you know which apparently identical streets to stay off of. And you avoid using a car (parking is a nasty bit of combat there).
|2007-05-31, 16:52
|Link #194
Μ ε r c ü r υ
Join Date: Jun 2004
Forget about the cultural difference, it is always there as the cause of some of the problems, but it does not represent everything. Even if the cultures share similar characteristics, those people should think "how should I act if I had gone to an unknown town in my country, where the people do not know each other, making everyone a mystery".
|2007-05-31, 17:01
|Link #195
we girls arnt safe!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In the space between your walls
Age: 31
just so you guys know their is NO safe place in the world.
and thats why I have a large hunting knife on my belt and keep my walet on a chain....but that could be because thats the way I was brought up....in the middle of the nowhere where evry one carys a knife 24-7. also I know how to use it.
so have a nice day all you psycopaths out thier
|2007-05-31, 17:07
|Link #196
Μ ε r c ü r υ
Join Date: Jun 2004
|2007-05-31, 17:14
|Link #197
Munior Jember
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 常陸大宮市,日本.
|2007-05-31, 17:46
|Link #198
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
well i wouldnt say that it serves her right otherwise people wont be saying abroad then in fear of getting murdered but she really should have taken precaution with strangers...a guy and a girl alone in a room...weve seen this type of situation all to often and her being a women should have been more self concious...after all the person you are tutoring is still someone unknown...
|2007-05-31, 22:36
|Link #199
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: St. Louis MO
Crime happens everywhere. You just need to realise this and live cautiously. I am not saying you should be constantly paranoid, but you should be aware of your surroundings.
There are many simple things you can to do to avoid becoming a victim.
1. glance in the backseat of your car before getting in
2. lock your doors
3. don't go to strangers homes or invite them to your home
4. don't walk alone late at night.
I feel bad that this woman was killed, but she should have been a little more cautious...
|2007-06-01, 01:13
|Link #200
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 34
That's total bullshit, a woman die in japan that happen to not be of Japanese origins and all of a sudden Japan becomes the worst country in the world, with retarded titles such as:
Are foreign women safe in Japan?
After the "koreans are the devil! They did V-Tech!"
Now it's "Women that aren't of japanese origin should flee from japan ASAP before they get raped and killed1111!"
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Lucie Kupefer Munzer
Born: May 11, 1899
Gera, Germany
Lucie was born to Jewish parents living in Gera, a medieval German city on the banks of the Elster River in the Thuringer Forest. Gera was well known for its manufacture of Leica cameras, for its publishing houses, and for the extensive collection of Gobelin tapestries in one of its museums.
1933-39: A few weeks ago, I married Hans Munzer here, in Paris. Hans fled Germany last year because the Nazis began rounding up and imprisoning socialists, and as a district supervisor for the Social Democratic Party he was on their enemies list. I came from Berlin to join Hans and now we're living in Paris's 15th arrondissement, one of the city's outlying neighborhoods. I help him run a lending library.
1940-44: Hans has had a falling out with his business partner in Paris, so we've decided to move here to Nice. This city is a kind of haven for Jews in France because the Italians, who have occupied this area, leave us alone. We have three synagogues in Nice, a kosher Jewish kitchen, and many Jewish doctors. Hans and I have set up another, small lending library, and our book collection includes volumes by authors banned in Nazi Germany.
In September 1943 Germany occupied Nice. Six months later, Lucie and Hans were deported via Drancy, outside Paris, to Auschwitz, where they were immediately gassed.


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Monica Wallace, partner, McDermott Will & Emery
Monica Wallace has been promoted to partner in the Chicago office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. She focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to health care organizations such as health systems, hospitals, physician groups, integrated delivery systems, durable medical equipment prosthetics and orthotics suppliers, home health agencies, and other health care providers. Wallace's regulatory practice focuses on the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws; Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and billing; legal assessments and compliance programs; and other general regulatory matters including licensure, survey/certification, and accreditation. Her transactional practice includes mergers, acquisitions and affiliations; divestitures; hospital/physician joint ventures; and corporate reorganization. Wallace simultaneously received her J.D. and M.H.A. from the University of Iowa College of Law and College of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy, respectively. She holds a Bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) from Northern Illinois University.
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Ben Affleck's no stranger to Oscar speeches, but when he took the stage to accept the award for Best Picture for Argo, he was able to thank someone he probably didn't even know when he and Matt Damon won Best Screenplay in 1998: His wife. In a totally genuine, possibly telling moment, Ben thanked Jennifer Garner for "working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It's good ... it IS work, but it's the best kind of work ... and there's no one I'd rather work with." Awww!
While the little ditty actually got some people clucking about if this indicates the two are having trouble at home, it struck me as completely romantic ... because it was incredibly honest.
I feel like we go to serious extremes when it comes to how we see celebrity relationships ... They're either totally mismatched and ill-fated (see: most reality star couples, Taylor Swift and anyone) or so perfect and meant-to-be that we could never see them calling it quits (see: Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett until they did split ...). We'd tend to file Ben and Jen (2.0) under the latter, so Ben admitting that they "work" on their marriage shatters the idea that they're perfect, flawless. That they have so much fame and money and credibility in Hollywood, that they must obviously also have a happy, effortless marriage. But that's NUTS!
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Celebrity or not, no one has that. From what I can tell from friends who have been married four years, my parents who have been married almost 40, or my grandparents who were married over 60 years, every "good" marriage takes work. It's because of that work that you grow together, you learn, you evolve as a person and as partners. If you can commit to working together through harder, tougher times, you come out even stronger.
That said, it sounds like Ben and Jen have one of the most down-to-earth, grounded, and REAL marriages in Hollywood. And that definitely makes it aspirational.
Check out the speech here if you missed it ...
What did you think of what Ben said about his marriage? Do you agree "working on a marriage" is actually more romantic than it sounds?


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CARY – Asking for a variance from village zoning and building codes might become a little cheaper.
Currently there is a $750 fee for a variance in town, and village staff is recommending that it be reduced to $500. The Village Board is scheduled to vote on the recommendation at its meeting on Tuesday.
Director of Community and Economic Development Chris Stilling said that when a project is proposed, village staff will see whether it meets zoning and building requirements. If not, municipal staff work to adjust the project designs so they would be within code.
A variation is required when a property owner is unable to meet certain zoning requirements. Petitions for zoning variations are handled by Stilling and his department's secretary. Typically, people ask for variances on required setbacks, impervious coverage and shed heights, among other things, Stilling said.
Village staff members help prepare a variance application, public notice and a letter to be sent to surrounding property owners. They also create a list of property owners who live within 250 feet of the subject property needing the variance. Staff also has to prepare documents for the Board of Zoning, Planning and Appeals Commission and the Village Board.
Even though the cost of each request varies, all of the legwork is estimated to average about two hours for the department secretary and three hours for Stilling. The five hours of staff time is about $250 per variance petition.
ZPA members and the village clerk also are compensated for having a public hearing on the variation petition, which costs $195.
There could be some projects that require more staff time, Village Trustee Rick Dudek said.
"I agree we should charge for what we have into it, but then you have a variable fee," Dudek said. "We don't have a variable fee, we have fixed costs."
The village is considering reducing the fees after resident Jerrie Hanus asked to increase the amount of impervious coverage from 35 percent of her property to 38.3 percent. Hanus asked for the variance because of plans to install an above-ground pool.
Village Board members said they were not in favor of the $750 fee amount.
Since 2010, the village has approved nine variance requests.
Stilling said that if the village is seeing and approving a lot of the same type of variance requests, it might have to consider changing the code to make it easier for residents.
"The intent is to meet the code," Stilling said. "In most cases, we're able to achieve code compliance."
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Where: Village Hall, 655 Village Hall Drive


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Dr. Therese Zink & 'Confessions of a Sin Eater'
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 2 pm to 3 pm
Room 315 Dunbar Library
Current Students
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University of Minnesota family physician and author Dr. Therese Zink will discuss her new book, 'Confessions of a Sin Eater: A Doctor's Reflections' 2-3 pm in Room 315 Dunbar Library. Free & open to the public. Dr. Zink will also sell and sign her book.
Registration requested to help with room arrangements.
Dr. Zink's book will serve as a tool for the next generation of health professionals to learn the importance of reflection to avoid burnout. She explores the limits of treatments and medications for healing, the uncertainties of her craft, the reality that some of her actions cause pain and that her mistakes can harm and ultimately kill her patients. She also recognizes the unexpected gifts that her patients have given her, reflecting on her own wounds and how ministering to patients has brought her healing.


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He borrowed one of her rings a long time ago so that he could be sure of the size. He's researched his designs, chosen his certified 'non blood' diamond and now it sits in it's pretty leather box.
He has it all worked out. Sunday is 'date' day. They do this often, get up early, go for breakfast and spend the whole day in each others company sometimes just wondering around the city, lying on the beach, lunching or going to the movies, it's a dawn till dusk ritual.
This morning, they wondered down to Bilgola beach to watch the sun rise as they sometimes do, their little pack of chocolate chip scones and a coffee in hand. He tells her that he has something for her and returns the borrowed ring. She's a little disappointed because she thought he'd bought her a present or something sweet.
He asks her if she'd like a scone as the morning glow breaches the horizon. She says yes and he reaches into his 'Bakers Delight' bag and pulls out a diamond ring!
She goes into shock. She says "Oh my God, Oh my God" and he wonders whether she's shocked surprisedsed, turned off . . "Is that a yes?" . . "Of course" and his nerves disappear.
Yep, my little lad, the one with curly hair that used to dribble making raspberry noises on his tricycle, asked his lovely girl to marry him as the sun rose on this gorgeous winter day. I can't imagine a better man or a more lovely daughter in law.
Congratulations to you both my darlings, I couldn't be more pleased. You're perfect for each other. Just perfect.


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Pete Wentz & will.i.am: Stars & Strikes Charity Event!
Pete Wentz and will.i.am hit the red carpet at the 2013 Stars and Strikes Celebrity Bowling and Poker Tournament on Wednesday (March 6) at PINZ Bowling & Entertainment Center in Studio City, Calif.
The evening, spearheaded by Julie Pilat, benefited A Place Called Home, "a safe haven in South Central Los Angeles that supports underserved inner-city youth and empowers them to take ownership of the quality and direction of their lives through programs in education, the arts, nutrition, fitness, college preparation and college scholarships."
Akon, Hot Chelle Rae's Nash Overstreet and Ryan Follese, Jay Sean, Austin Mahone, Midnight Red, and The Wanted were also in attendance at the event, as well as Chris Brown, Becky G, Sammy Adams, Ariana Grande, T. Mills, and producers Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco, and JKash.
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Welcome to Red Bluff Cottage
When you travel to Montgomery, AL consider lodging at Red Bluff Cottage, an Alabama bed and breakfast where you'll experience the award-winning hospitality of innkeepers, Barry and Bonnie Ponstein. They invite you to share the comforts and pleasures of their Montgomery bed and breakfast inn high above the Alabama River in Montgomery's Cottage Hill District. Red Bluff Cottage is located in beautiful downtown Montgomery near the junction of Interstate 85 and 65.
Guests at Red Bluff Cottage are just a few blocks from the First White House of the Confederacy, "Old
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Harriott II Riverboat, the Riverwalk Amphitheatre, the Civil Rights Memorial, the Dexter Avenue King
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No more "stuff" on national health care politics as promised, at least not until after the election, even after Jan. 20.
For the next several weeks, I want to focus on serious administrative and management issues at hospitals and providers in Beaufort and adjacent counties, and across state lines when appropriate. I want to specifically cover the hospitals in Hilton Head (including Coastal Carolina), Beaufort and Savannah.
Further, I want to discuss our urgent-care facilities, doctors and doctor's offices, and changes in the way clinical medicine is practiced here - for you and me. Remember, we are all patients!
We have to tackle some huge financial issues, because the underlying problem in all of the above is money. It should be patient care, but I think most of the problems are related to money No surprise to anyone, I'm sure.
I need your help. I'll outline today some of the health care issues I'll be dealing with in upcoming columns. If you have had experiences, good or bad, with any of the issues I refer to in this column, please email me as soon as possible. They will be discussed in future columns - anonymously, of course.
Have you had issues with any of the area hospitals, doctors (primary and specialists), physician's assistants, nurse practitioners, emergency rooms, urgent care centers, doctor's front offices, billing issues, etc.? Let me know.
Have you had problems with doctors who are limiting services? How do you feel about physician's assistants/nurse practitioners providing medicine? What about so-called hospitalists where you see special doctors only in the institution, but never your own primary practitioner?
What about the growing "concierge" medicine concept, where you pay the doctor a retainer fee each year, plus insurance? Are you concerned about doctors hired by the hospital, who practice 40-50 hours a week, Monday through Friday, no emergencies, no weekends and no inpatient visits? Don't get sick at the wrong time!
When you read one of our newspapers, do you not wonder about the incredible competition here relative to hospitals, doctors, technical services, and even medical buildings? Page after page of advertisements as to who is best for your particular ailment. Drive down Highway 170 and check out the billboards.
Does the average patient have any idea of the amount of fraud potential there is right in our own backyard? Most offices don't give you a paper trail receipt that tells you what you had done so that you can match it to the explanation of benefits report you receive in the mail. How do you know the correct services and charges were made?
I could go on and on, and you know I will. But I have to start somewhere, and all of the above is fair game in order to educate residents in this area.
Since moving here in 2006-2007, after 51 years in administrative, academic and hospital and medical practice management, trust me - the above problems are serious.
Let me whet your appetite with these first five topics:
1. The competition between hospitals and the services they provide is like no community or city, I have ever seen. Why, they're even fighting over more and more medical buildings, to be on or near U.S. 278, S.C. 170 and the Buckwalter Parkway. They want to put in or consolidate equipment and providers.
Bluffton is one of the fastest-growing communities in the entire United States. This is bare bones politics! How many technical services and providers can this area support?
I plan to meet with all the hospital CEOs who will talk to me, get their perspectives, starting with Mark O'Neil of Hilton Head Hospital, who immediately agreed to a Q-and-A. That column will be appearing soon.
2. I am very worried about the future of primary care. Young doctors, by droves, want to go into specialty medicine, where the money is.
For those going into primary care, most don't want to work in a hospital - strictly offices where they can see more patients on their feet rather than on their backs. What about the years of training and cost incurred spent in hospital medicine?
I plan to go to Charlotte, N.C., and interview academicians and doctors who are teaching family medicine residents in a large teaching center. How do they feel about all of this?
3. Concierge medicine. I thought concierge was a term for someone who worked in a fancy hotel. Oh, no. Concierge doctors are physicians who ostensibly want to provide you more quality time and care by limiting their practices to, say, 350-400 patients.
They tell us in that they can give 24/7 services and lots of preventive medicine. But there is a catch. They have annual retainer fees ranging from $1,500 upwards. Do the arithmetic. Multiply 350 by $1500, equaling $525,000 plus your insurance.
There may be more quality, but I figure there is a lot more quantity - quantity of dollars patients have to pay. Hopefully, I'll be able to do some interviewing and get their side of the story.
4. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants in South Carolina can practice medicine without a doctor on the premises. They do need an affiliated physician, but they could be located anywhere.
I've met a few of these folks and they are very competent. Patients love them. But they are not trained physicians.
CVS, for example, will soon offer NP/PA services in its drug stores, one right here in Bluffton.
You'll get a prescription, walk outside the medical area and probably get it filled. Anybody heard of a "conflict of interest"?
5. Finally, and perhaps the most egregious, is the issue of no paperwork given to the patient after a doctor or other provider's visit. There are a few exceptions, very few.
Every time you complete an office visit you are supposed to receive a copy of the services you had done. Most of our country's physicians call this paperwork a "superbill" or routing slip. It requires a definitive coding system so as to tell the patient what the provider actually did. Each code requires certain information that must appear in the medical record. It is the law, re: Medicare and Medicaid.
The coding guidelines are very strict, preventing overcharges or unneeded services. The code can only be supplied, written or checked off by the provider, not the nurse (if he or she did not provide the service), not the receptionist, billing clerk or billing service.
Patients don't know any of this. Providers themselves often have no idea about official coding and what is required in the medical record. There is a great potential for fraud here. I've been the subject of it myself.
An informed and educated patient is the best protection. That's my goal.
Columnist Mike Silver lives in Pinecrest and may be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 843-815-3894.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The nationally-ranked No. 11 MIT men's volleyball team fell to host Vassar College, (25-23, 25-22, 25-19) but defeated New Jersey City University (25-11, 28-26, 22-25, 25-18) in non-conference action on Saturday. Following their performances, the Engineers' ledger moved to 18-5 on the year.
David Thomas paced MIT with 11 kills, a .350 hitting percentage, nine digs, and two blocks against Vassar. Tim Lee compiled 30 assists and 15 digs as Matt Hohenberger posted 11 kills and four blocks. Billy Evans chipped in seven kills while Garrett Winther added six kills and three blocks. Ken Siebert rounded out the defense with six digs.
The Engineers racked up a team hitting percentage of .339 in their win over NJCU. Evans led the way with 18 kills and a .519 hitting performance in addition to notching a pair of blocks. Hohenberger, Thomas, and Patrick Vatterott each registered 11 kills. Hohenberger also contributed four blocks while Thomas tallied six digs, five blocks, and two aces. Vatterott had two blocks as Winther recorded four of his own. Siebert collected 10 digs, followed by eight from Caine Jette and seven courtesy of Daniel Sngiem. Lee amassed 54 assists, seven digs, and two aces.


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Quake causes some damage in Thailand, Myanmar
BANGKOK (AP) — A strong earthquake shook northern Thailand and Myanmar on Monday evening, and some light damage was reported.
People were evacuated from the terminal of the main airport in Chiang Rai, a northern Thai city near the epicenter of the 6.0-magnitude temblor.
Pieces of the building ceiling fell but there was no damage to the runway or flight disruptions, airport General Manager Damrong Klongakara said. No one was hurt at the airport, but Damrong said the terminal and its roof were still being checked for further damage.
Damages were being assessed in Chiang Rai's Phan district, where ceilings fell in some homes, said Wander Radchompoo, head of the district. She said no casualties have been reported.
Broken windows and cracks in building exteriors and roads were visible in the region.
The head of a Buddha statue fell at the Udomwaree Temple in Chiang Rai, according to monk Phra Pathompong. A residential building at the temple also had exterior cracks and ceiling damage, and nearby residents reported only minor damage in their homes, he said.
People ran down stairs in office buildings in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, and severe shaking also was felt in Chiang Mai, Thailand's second-largest. Window curtains briefly swayed in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was 9 kilometers (6 miles) south of Mae Lao, Thailand, and 27 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of Chiang Rai.
The quake occurred at a relatively shallow depth of 7.4 kilometers (4.6 miles). Shallow quakes are generally felt more widely.
Southeast Asia is seismically active and quakes are often felt in surrounding nations. Thailand has several fault lines, though in recent times quakes centered in the country have been less severe than those in other Southeast Asian nations such as Myanmar and Indonesia.
The 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Dec. 26, 2004, which triggered an Indian Ocean tsunami, killed more than 8,000 people in Thailand's coastal areas, among the overall death toll of 240,000.
The last quake in Thailand approaching a similar size to Monday's was one of 5.1 magnitude on Dec. 13, 2006, in the northern province of Chiang Mai.
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Harris leads Wake Forest to its biggest upset in 4 years by knocking off No. 2 Miami 80-65
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – As the final seconds ticked away and Wake Forest's students lined up to rush the court, C.J. Harris and Travis McKie exchanged a flying chest-bump.
For the Demon Deacons' elder statesmen, this was one to savor.
Harris scored 23 points and hit five 3-pointers during Wake Forest's 80-65 victory over No. 2 Miami on Saturday, giving the Hurricanes their first Atlantic Coast Conference loss while delivering the biggest win under third-year coach Jeff Bzdelik.
"There's been some tough times, so staying with it, fighting through adversity, finally coming on top of a big-time win is amazing," said Harris, a senior from Winston-Salem who was in high school the last time Wake Forest beat a team ranked this highly.
Codi Miler-McIntyre added 15 points and fellow freshman Devin Thomas added 10 for the Demon Deacons (12-14, 5-9), who shot 54 percent, led by double figures for the entire second half and reeled off 12 straight points to pull away for their second win over a nationally ranked team in little over a month.
An 86-84 upset of then-No. 18 North Carolina State on Jan. 22 was their biggest victory under Bzdelik.
Until now.
"Who would have ever thought Wake Forest beating Miami at home would have been a court-rushing scene?" Hurricanes guard Shane Larkin said.
McKie, a junior, finished with 10 rebounds and five blocked shots for the Demon Deacons, who — after two years of being one of the ACC's worst teams — have transformed themselves back into a tough out at home in the conference.
They improved to 5-2 against ACC foes at Joel Coliseum. The losses — to Duke and Georgia Tech — are by a combined six points.
"It shows hope, and if everybody has faith in us and the energy stays the way it does every game — at home, at least — that just shows a big future for Wake Forest basketball and the entire program, period," Miller-McIntyre said. "I know it hasn't been so well in the past few years, but we're all trying to put that behind us."
Durand Scott had all 17 of his points in the second half for the Hurricanes (22-4, 13-1), the last of the schools in the six BCS conferences to get its first league loss.
Larkin added 13 points, Trey McKinney Jones had 11 and Kenny Kadji finished with 10 for Miami.
"You could just see it tonight. I had a bad feeling coming into warmups with everybody going slow," Larkin said. "I was trying to get people to go fast, and I wasn't even going full speed like I should have. ... Overall, we weren't prepared before the game and they came out and punched us in the mouth."
Miami never got closer than 11 in the second half and was outrebounded 36-35 by the younger, smaller Demon Deacons as the best start to ACC play since Duke's 16-0 mark in 1998-99 came to a surprisingly lopsided end.
"You want to go undefeated, you want to win every game, but you're still in first place," Larkin said. "That's in the past and we're just going to let it stay in the past."
The Hurricanes — whose previous three wins came by a combined 12 points — looked like they had another tight finish in them when Scott capped an 18-8 run with a jumper with 14½ minutes left to make it 46-41.
He added a layup 2 minutes later to pull Miami to 50-45, and it looked as if the Hurricanes were going to find a way to keep their charmed run rolling.
But two possessions later, Harris turned a turnover into a fast-break dunk that started a 12-0 run that put the Demon Deacons on the fast track to their biggest victory since they knocked off then-No. 1 Duke four years ago when they were in the top five themselves.
They thoroughly outplayed the Hurricanes from start to finish, hitting shots from all over the court against a Miami team that at times appeared fatigued after gutting out those three tight wins but wouldn't let that excuse fly.
"Wake Forest won this game," said Miami big man Reggie Johnson, a Winston-Salem native. "We had mental lapses on the defensive and offensive end. ... I don't want to take anything away from Wake Forest."
Harris hit three 3-pointers during a 2-minute stretch of a 28-8 run that put Wake Forest up 19 on the Hurricanes — who until then hadn't trailed by more than 13 at any point in an ACC game during their run.
Arnaud William Adala Moto's fast-break layup with just over a minute before the break put the Demon Deacons up 42-23.
"Every player in the first half for them was very sharp. They were well rested," Miami coach Jim Larranaga said. "They had a whole week to prepare for us. They defended us well and we were just not as sharp as we need to be."


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Nestled on the edge of a creek west of the Catskill Mountains is this 200-year old restored retreat. Dubbed the "Floating Farmhouse," the welcoming retreat was lovingly resuscitated by Tom Givone, a self-taught designer.
The comely abode was rejuvenated with a melange of new, recycled, and found materials. One big, bright windowed side is comprised of 22-foot tall skyscraper glass. Its original cedar roof shingles are displayed on the walls in the master bedroom and the hallway of the guest bedroom. Eleven giant pine trees overwhelming the property were chopped down and milled to provide the custom woodwork, like the wainscoting, door and window trim.
And don't forget the main attraction: the 12-foot-by-50-foot inviting covered porch, which languishes atop the creek, begging you to come rest for a while. It's hard to believe before Giovane bought the place in 2002, it was a dilapidated blight. But he's turned it around, crafting it into a stunning sanctuary. [Dwell]
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Orioles recall RHP Josh Stinson from Triple-A Norfolk
The Orioles today announced that they have recalled RHP JOSH STINSON from Triple-A Norfolk.
Stinson, 25, is joining the Orioles for the third time this season (also April 24 and July 10-11). He made one start, allowing five earned runs in 5.2 innings on April 24 against Toronto. In 21 starts for the Tides this season, Stinson has gone 7-5 with a 3.75 ERA (124.2IP, 52ER).


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CRESTVIEW � Seth Thomason scored on a walk-off single by Austin Armstrong in the bottom of the 10th inning as Crestview High School beat Lexington (Ky.) Christian Academy 4-3 Friday night. "It was a fastball right down the middle, and I was looking for it," Armstrong said of his game-winning hit.
CRESTVIEW � Seth Thomason scored on a walk-off single by Austin Armstrong in the bottom of the 10th inning as Crestview High School beat Lexington (Ky.) Christian Academy 4-3 Friday night.
"It was a fastball right down the middle, and I was looking for it," Armstrong said of his game-winning hit.
Photo gallery >>>Crestview vs.Lexington Christian Academy.
As has been the case numerous times this season, the Bulldogs (17-4) fell behind early and rallied late, taking another come-from-behind win.
"We've been playing well and I'm proud of these guys," Bulldog coach Tim Gillis said. "They keep fighting and keep rallying until the end. We were down three in the fifth and we got one each inning to tie it up.
"We swung the bats well all night, but we hit some balls right at them. Early in the game, things didn't go our way, but these guys are resilient. What a win."
The Eagles scored a run in the first, third and fifth innings, taking a 3-0 lead over Crestview and Bulldog starting pitcher Davis Champion.
Champion worked 6 1/3 innings on the hill, scattering seven hits and striking out eight Eagle batters while giving up two earned runs and two walks.
Roman Donofro � who replaced Champion with one out in the top of the seventh � picked up the win for Crestview. Donofro finished the last 3 2/3 innings, striking out four and giving up three hits.
Although scoreless through four innings, the Bulldog offense had been putting the ball into play, but the hits wouldn't fall Crestview's way.
Momentum slowly started to change as the Bulldogs pecked away for a run in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, sending the game into the bonus frame.
Donofro singled, took second base on a wild pitch, moved to third on a Justin Abdo sacrifice bunt and scored on a sacrifice fly off Dakota Dean�s bat.
Thomason singled and later scored on a Tate Sweatt hit in the sixth inning.
Crestview tied the game in the bottom of the seventh, when pinch hitter Hunter Sullivan walked, moved to third on a Dean single and scored on Tyler Henderson�s sacrifice fly.
Neither offense could generate anything through the eighth and ninth innings. Things turned in Crestview's favor when Thomason was safe at second on an Eagle error to start the 10th inning. That set the stage for Armstrong's walk-off base hit to win the game.
"It seems like we just come up at the right time and get the job done. That's all that matters," Thomason said. "As the game went along, we just kept our heads in the game.
"We were just getting base runners on everywhere, and that's all we needed. We just have been coming up big when we need to. Hopefully, we will get some runs in the first few innings next time."
The Bulldogs managed just eight hits against a trio of Eagle pitchers, but they only struck out three times as they put the ball in play throughout the game.
Dean led Crestview�s attack with two hits. Six other Bulldogs had one hit each.
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I mean really spanks him and he has a horrible game for whatever reason. Remember, this will be his fourth game. Belicheck now has a body of work from which to draw from and scrutinize. No one else has had this. Hate him or love him, Bill is a master ananlizer and will come in more prepared to counteract and contain Kap than another coach whom has faced him previously. I anticipate a solid intelligent game plan from the Pats. If this happens , and Kap has a multi turnover game, will there be tide swinging back to smith?
I kind of hope so, that's the last thing anyone needs going into a big divisional deciding game, and we may have it. I guess you could argue that whoever plays will have more at stake, and is likely to play harder, but I'm kind of reaching with that one.
What do you guys think? QB Controversy possible or is Harbaugh sticking with Kap regardless of what he does in NE?


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May 16, 2014 18:03 ET
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - May 16, 2014) - Niko Resources Ltd. (TSX:NKO) announces that on May 16, 2014, it received a notice of conversion in accordance with the terms of the amended and restated 7% senior unsecured notes due July 13, 2014 (the "Notes") to convert approximately US$0.3 million of the Notes. The conversions will result in the issuance of 200,000 common shares to a holder of the Notes and the outstanding principal balance of the Notes will be approximately US$3.5 million.
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