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OAKLAND — A day that began with reports of the Raiders showing interest in acquiring a veteran quarterback ended with Terrelle Pryor making his strongest case yet for being the team's long-term starter.
Pryor completed his first 10 passes and staked the Raiders to a huge lead that they parlayed into a 27-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday night.
The Raiders moved into a third-place tie in the AFC West with the Chargers at 2-3. The division-leading Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs improved to 5-0 earlier Sunday.
"He started the game out about as good as you can start out," Raiders coach Dennis Allen said of Pryor.
Pryor also finished strong by guiding the Raiders on a time-consuming drive that ended with Sebastian Janikowski kicking a field goal to extend the lead to 10 after the Chargers rallied from a 24-3 deficit with 14 unanswered points.
Perhaps Pryor's most impressive play came on a 20-yard strike to rookie wide receiver Brice Butler on a third-and-14 play midway through the aforementioned drive.
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Pryor's strong showing came in the wake of several national reports that linked the Raiders to former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman, who was released Thursday after a falling out with coach Greg Schiano.
The reports said the Raiders were interested in Freeman as a potential challenger to Pryor's starting job.
By night's end, Freeman reportedly was headed to Minnesota to sign with the Vikings. Pryor was on his way to cementing his status as the Raiders unquestioned starter, at least in the short term and among the quarterbacks currently on the 53-man roster.
Receiver Rod Streater said he didn't know of the Freeman report. Just the same, he added, he's firm on where he stands on the issue.
"That's who I want," Streater said of Pryor. "I trust in him. You saw how well he played (Sunday). That's what he can do, and he's only going to get better."
Pryor said he intends to keep working hard because he feels as if he has plenty of room for improvement.
Not if he plays the way he did Sunday, particularly the first quarter. He completed all 10 of his passes in the opening quarter, with the first eight coming on two drives that netted touchdowns.
"The first half, I thought they couldn't stop us," Pryor said. "We took our foot off the pedal and we took a step back in that way."
Maybe so, but the Raiders took a huge stride toward becoming a better team with, by far, their best all-around effort of the season.
The Raiders defense intercepted Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers three times and forced a fumble that safety Charles Woodson returned for a touchdown, and their special teams recovered a muffed punt, blocked a field-goal attempt and added two Janikowski field goals.
"This was a great team win," Allen said. "All three phases contributed to winning this football game."
Left offensive tackle Khalif Barnes said it's been a long time coming. Time and again, the Raiders showed glimpses of putting it all together, only to be undone by a turnover, a big play or a penalty. Not this time.
Defensive tackle Vance Walker said big things are in store for the Raiders if they play the way they did against the Chargers on a consistent basis.
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Nothing was going to stop Tony Stewart from pulling away from the field on restarts. Nothing, except a dry gas tank. And it was Brian Vickers who took advantage of Stewart's bad luck, zipping by him on the Magic Mile backstretch with one lap to go and holding on to win the Camping World RV Sales 301 - Vickers' third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory in 271 career starts.
"Hard to put into words," said Vickers - a part-time driver for Michael Waltrip Racing - who celebrated his moment sharing high-fives to fans along the frontstretch. "This is one of the most special events of my life. It feels like the first time in my career, the partners and owners and managers and crew chief are as good as it has been in my career."
Kyle Busch, Jeff Burton, Brad Keselowski and Aric Almirola round out the top-five.
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"Wake up one morning and hope to be around the next. To then I hope to race to now I am racing. To now I don't have a job then getting a call to see if I'm interested in running races," said Vickers, who reflected on his return to racing from the health scare. "The biggest thing is support from my family and friends through the difficult times, a select few folks who still believed in me and supported me along the way."
For Busch, the runner-up finish comes a day after winning the CNBC Prime's "The Profit" 200 Nationwide Series race at the Magic Mile. Busch led 53 laps on Sunday, but wasn't able to chase down Stewart.
"The car was super-fast, but anytime you got close to someone the aero-effect took over and you couldn't get any closer than five car-lengths," said Busch, who now has four top-fives in his last six Cup starts. "You have to get all you can get on those restarts and we just weren't able to get a good enough start to pull ahead and get into open air."
The third-place finish for Jeff Burton was his highest finish since taking second at Daytona on July 7 of last year. It was also Burton's best New Hampshire finish since leading all 300 laps in September of 2000.
"I like the people up here; I've been racing here for 25 years," said Burton, who has four career wins at the Magic Mile. "I just like racing here, it's a really challenging racetrack. It is fun, it is aggressive, it is hard … I just love it here."
Rounding out the top-10 were Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon. The sixth-place finish for Johnson was impressive given he was forced to start at the rear of the field because of a failed inspection following qualifying on Friday. He now sits 56 points ahead of Clint Bowyer (13th) in the Sprint Cup Series standings.
"Once you get to the top 10 that's a different game trying to pass cars and work your way to the front," said Johnson. "All in all a great day for the Lowe's team."
Vickers will start four more races this season, including the SYLVANIA 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sept. 22. And given the way Sunday finished, another run-in with Stewart - a three-time New Hampshire winner - is not only possible, but very likely.
"He was not the guy I wanted to be next to on a green-white-checkered finish," said Vickers. "I knew he wasn't going to use me up, run me off the racetrack and he wasn't going to wreck me. I thank him for racing me clean."
Clean as an empty tank.
- Kurt Busch led a race-high 102 laps before being caught in a three-car accident with Matt Kenseth (33 laps led) and Ryan Newman on lap 226.
- Stewart led 84 laps before running out of gas on lap 300.
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Tagliatelle with Prosciutto and Orange
Raw Artichoke, Celery, and Parmesan Salad
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Sometimes more really is more. The rest of Italy may excel at minimalism, transforming humble ingredients into fabulous food. But Emilia is maximalism incarnate. This region is the proverbial land of plenty, where people perch on mountains of grated Parmigiano and roll ravioli off the summit—or so claimed Giovanni Boccaccio nearly 700 years ago in The Decameron. Back then Bologna was already known as La Grassa: "plump," "prosperous," one of Italy's great eating cities. It still is. While millions visit Rome, Florence, and Venice primarily for their sights, food-loving travelers hit Bologna and the surrounding Emilia region for the greatness of the gastronomy.
The flavors of Emilian cooking are extra-large and luscious. The olive oil, fish, vegetables, and pasta so essential to the Mediterranean diet are flanked here by milk, cream, cheeses, and meats. It's the merger of Mediterranean and northern European traditions that makes this Italy's cradle of classic cooking, the home not only of tortellini and other filled pasta but also of Bolognese meat sauce, lasagna, tagliatelle, and, of course, Modena's balsamic vinegar and Parma's prosciutto crudo and Parmigiano-Reggiano—arguably Italy's best-loved ingredients.
When I was a political-science student at the University of Padua more than 30 years ago, I would regularly hop a train to Bologna, Modena, and Parma. (Shorn from its abutting administrative region of Romagna, on the Adriatic coast, the whole of Emilia could fit inside the borders of New Jersey.) Recent decades have taken me to Rome and the Italian Riviera, where I spend part of each year. But Emilia's allure has stayed with me. So it was with nostalgia and hunger in my heart that I flew from my home in Paris to Milan, where I drove my rental car southeast toward Parma and the Po River valley, the heartland of Emilia's food. I was seeking not just the enchanting places of my youth; as a food and travel writer, I wanted to experience the origins of the country's culinary treasures.
Along my way to Bologna, I would visit a half-dozen cities featuring crenellated castles and medieval towers, Romanesque cathedrals and lively piazzas surrounded by tangled alleyways built a thousand years ago. But the real milestones of Emilia since at least the Middle Ages are its iconic artisanal foods. Where else would you find museums to salami, ham, cheese, and vinegar?
In Emilia, people are as food-crazy today as they were when I first visited, identifying their historical and regional identity with their cooking. Traditions run deep. (Some say they go back to the Etruscan and Celtic swineherds who were just possibly the first makers of pasta and what's now known as Parma ham.) Rival claims to culinary supremacy are rife. Is the flavorful, firm prosciutto of Langhirano, dried in mountain air, more sumptuous than the soft, sweet culatello di Zibello of the foggy Po valley a few miles north? To find out, I stopped for my first memorable dinner on the Po at Antica Corte Pallavicina, a recently opened luxury hotel-restaurant near Parma.
"We wrangle over who made what first and whose is best," says owner Massimo Spigaroli, laughing, as he leads me from the barns, fields, and vineyards of his 500-acre family farm to the 14th-century cellars of the property. "It's the cult of la cucina that unites Emilians," he adds. The energetic farmer-winemaker-chef and his brother, Luciano, grow everything on the menu at their startlingly contemporary restaurant. Typical of the region, the Spigarolis worship traditions, and so they also continue to operate Al Cavallino Bianco—their family's strictly regional Emilian restaurant—nearby.
Each year, Massimo makes about 5,000 culatello hams from his own heirloom pork tenderloins, salting them and soaking them in white wine to keep the meat moist and give it a characteristic light color and unique tannic flavor. The hams—some made with students who come for weeklong culatello classes—hang from the cellar ceiling like meaty stalactites as we savor chunks of aged Parmesan and taste the Spigarolis' sparkling wines. Massimo slices a four-year-old ham, laying translucent strips atop rustic bread he baked that morning.
The next day, I find similar passions, disarming friendliness, and a century-plus pedigree during lunch at Trattoria La Buca, a few miles east. Here the mirthful Miriam Leonardi and her daughter, Laura Lanfredi, are the fourth and fifth generations to run this country trattoria, the kind you dream of finding. Aided by their husbands, Miriam and Laura make their own culatello and wine and grow their own produce. Every morning, the family and staff crowd the kitchen—little changed since the 1890s—to fashion the fresh egg tagliatelle, ricotta-stuffed tortelli, or irresistible little agnolini. Dressed with butter and Parmesan and the occasional slice of culatello, these pasta dishes and other classics of the Emilian repertoire are served in the trattoria's cozy dining rooms or outside under a shady pergola.
Cut to vineyards and another eggs-to-apples operation a half-hour's drive east, near Modena. Acetaia Pedroni and Osteria di Rubbiara, a vinegar works and a restaurant, have been run by the same family since 1862. Cloistered in the kitchen, shy Franca Prampolini does the cooking. Her jokester husband, Italo Pedroni, and their wiry, intense son, Giuseppe, convey family-style platters of pasta, giant frittatas, and mounds of roast chicken or beef to guests on the garden terrace. The Pedronis make quaffable wines, but their main reason for growing Lambrusco and other local grape varieties is to boil and reduce the juice into must. Aged for up to 25 years in barrels sometimes 150 years old, it matures into traditional balsamic vinegar. Every dish I taste in the osteria, including starters and desserts, is perfumed by a few precious drops of semisweet, tangy, liquorlike aceto balsamico tradizionale.
Food-loving Bolognese friends in Paris insisted that I meet the expansive local-history and -gastronomy expert Claudio Cavallieri—and I'm glad they did. A former I.T. professional, Cavallieri has collected and perfected hundreds of Emilian recipes, studying their history and evolution. He and his wife, Lorenza, have farm roots and are legendary home cooks. When I visit them in their kitchen in the small town of Calcara, we make creamy carrot soup, luscious, layered asparagus lasagna, and classic ragú. Nowadays these simple but exquisite dishes are found only in a handful of country trattorias and in certain Emilian homes, and I couldn't wait to get home to make them again myself. After lunch, Claudio and I set off to learn more about Emilia's cuisine.
In Castelfranco Emilia, Cavallieri shows me a priceless Guido Reni canvas hanging in the empty parish church. According to him, outsiders come to the town to gawk at something else. "The tortellino is sacred here," he quips. We peer into a crowded pasta fresca shop nearby on the Via Emilia. I can't help wondering aloud whether the tiny, navel-shaped filled pasta was really invented here during the Renaissance. Claudio shrugs. Apparently the 20,000 devotees of the annual Sagra del Tortellino, or tortellino festival, are believers.
Saving Bologna for last, I visit the celebrated cooking teacher and pasta maker Alessandra Spisni and tell her of my tortellino musings in Castelfranco Emilia. She shakes her head in friendly disagreement. "Tortellini are as Bolognese as mortadella," she says. "In fact, they're filled with it! You must be able to see the sanctuary of San Luca above the rooftops of Bologna through each transparently thin sheet of pasta fresca." Other Emilians joke that the Bolognese see San Luca because they've made holes in the dough by mistake. More than once I try Bologna's tortellini, served exclusively in broth, and find them as exquisite as those of Castelfranco Emilia. Everything I taste in Bologna, a handsome, lively city of almost 400,000 inhabitants, is remarkably delicious. By the time I leave, I know the old Italian adage still holds true: "It's impossible to eat badly in Bologna"—or anywhere else in Emilia, for that matter.
How to Eat Emilia
by Christine Muhlke
Antica Corte Pallavicina and Al Cavallino Bianco: The imposing farmhouse complex has a luxury restaurant and a B&B as well as a culatello ham-making facility. Al Cavallino Bianco is an upscale restaurant serving traditional food. 2 via Sborisi; acpallavicina.com
Masticabrodo: A handsome restaurant in Pilastro serving exquisite house-made specialties from the Parma area. 45 Str. Provinciale per Torrechiara; masticabrodo.com
Ristorante Cocchi: Among Parma's finest traditional restaurants. The family also operates a comfortable, recently renovated hotel in the same building. 16A via Gramsci; hoteldaniel.biz
Trattoria La Buca: An archetypal country trattoria a mile from the center of Zibello. 6 via Ghizzi; trattorialabuca.com
Acetaia Pedroni and Osteria di Rubbiara: The Pedroni family makes award-winning balsamic vinegar and runs this authentic country osteria in Rubbiara di Nonantola serving regional specialties. 4 via Risaia; acetaiapedroni.it
Albergo Ristorante Ca' Cerfogli: Acquaria claims to be the porcini capital of the Modena province. Albergo Ristorante Ca' Cerfogli is its best restaurant, serving mushroom-based specialties and other classics from Emilia's Apennine mountains year-round. Simple, comfortable lodgings upstairs. 6/8 via Montegrappa; albergocerfogli.it
Hosteria Giusti: In the heart of old Modena, a historic salumeria and a four-table restaurant in back serving regional favorites. 75 via Farini; hosteriagiusti.it
Ristorante da Cesari: This lively, upscale spot has been in the Cesari family since 1955. Classic and updated regional food. 8 via de' Carbonesi; da-cesari.it
Tamburini: One of the city's oldest and most famous specialty foods shops. 1 via Caprarie; tamburini.com
Trattoria Anna Maria: Some of the best tortellini you'll ever taste, in a classic setting. 17A via Belle Arti; trattoriannamaria.com
Trattoria da Gianni a la Vècia Bulàgna: A cult trattoria from centuries past hidden down an alley in Bologna's market district, serving irresistible traditional dishes. 18 via Clavature; 011-39-05-122-9434
How to Drink Emilia
by Andrew Knowlton
When it comes to the oh-so-precious art of pairing food and wine at home, I have little patience. But that doesn't mean I'll grab just any vino to go with any dish.
My wine rule is: If it grows together, it goes together. With the hearty food of Emilia, you'd be wise to drink the local favorite,
Lambrusco, the slightly fizzy, purplish-red wine with a crisp acidity that cuts through all those rich flavors.
For something with a bit more heft, choose a wine made from
di Romagna grapes, grown in nearby Romagna. Expect black-cherry fruit flavors and soft tannins that,when paired with this menu, will please a roomful of wine geeks.
Tagliatelle with Prosciutto and Orange
Raw Artichoke, Celery, and Parmesan Salad


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And, of course, that claim that there's a "$1 million prize" is great for headlines, like the one Tom wrote, but the details always tell a different story. The real "prizes" are "up to $1 million." A few years back, we asked for proof that the BSA actually paid out a million dollar prize, and offered a similarly termed "up to $1 million" reward for anyone who could prove that the BSA paid someone $1 million. Of course, they couldn't, because these groups don't actually pay that much. In fact, in the year after we asked for proof of the $1 million prize, the BSA actually paid out a grand total of $136,000 to 42 different people -- an average of about $3,200. Putting the $1 million prize in the headline is playing into their bogus claims. It's the sort of thing that reporters shouldn't be doing. Let them put out their bogus press releases, but reporters should be debunking them.
Finally, in trying to explain why this is a good idea, Tom makes an odd and totally misapplied analogy:
I know that ZDNet for example, faces problems with its content being scraped and illegally being used on web sites that try to make money by running Google ads next to it. It's often difficult to stop that practice because it's tough to track down the owners.First off, we face the same "problem" here at Techdirt, with lots of sites scraping our content and putting it on other sites plastered with Google ads. Except, that we know it's not actually a "problem." Most of those sites get very little, if any, traffic, and search engines are smart enough these days to put the originator higher up in the results. The ad views on these sites aren't costing the original site any revenue. And, if they actually are getting any traffic, it doesn't take long for people to realize the original source and start going there instead. This isn't a "problem."
But if SIIA went after Google, because it profits from illegal use of copyrighted content, then that would go a long way to stamping out that practice.
Second, what the hell does scraping sites have to do with turning your colleagues in for using unlicensed software? The two are totally different situations and have nothing to do with each other.
Finally, if SIIA went after Google because it profits from illegal use of copyrighted content, the lawsuit would be thrown out of court as soon as Google's lawyers said "DMCA safe harbors." This is pretty basic stuff, and someone who's been a tech reporter for as long as Foremski should know better than to think that it's either legal or sensible to suggest that an organization sue a third party that profits off of the potentially infringing activity of someone else. As Dark Helmet noted with his submission:
This is 3rd party culpability, which is odd coming from a blogger and journalist. Has he ever ran a story about something illegal that was done? And did that publication have advertisements on it? So didn't he profit from the illegal activity? Shouldn't he have the FBI going after him for such illicit behavior?"Again, Tom usually does pretty good work, so I'm going to chalk this up to a rushed post without putting much thought into what he was saying.


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New Orleanians and the world held their collective breath Monday as hurricane Gustav huffed and puffed but ultimately failed to blow this old port town down.
As a meteorological monster, hurricane Gustav was no hurricane Katrina, coming ashore as a Category 2 hurricane, compared with Katrina's Category 3 winds, and veering far enough west to do little but break tree limbs and fling a few truck-bed liners around New Orleans.
"The levees held, the levees held," New Orleans City Councilor Cynthia Willard-Lewis breathily reported. "Our spirit is unshaken."
Gustav's diminished strength and the much-ballyhooed improved cooperation among state, local, and federal officials certainly had a role in the city's survival. But the real keys were the up-armored levee system, a small task force of National Guard soldiers, heroic actions on storm-whipped levees, and, ultimately, a shift in Gulf Coast residents' view of their precarious perch on the Gulf.
"This was a good way for us to test ourselves a little bit," says healthcare worker Macon Moore, walking his dog, Rocky, in the mostly unscathed Garden District.
Even worries about Gulf oil rigs and refineries subsided, with the price of a barrel of sweet crude dropping $4 Monday. Although 1,836 people died as a result of Katrina, at time of writing seven were reported to have perished in Gustav, including a family of evacuees escaping to Atlanta.
Though it didn't turn out to the "mother of all storms" that Mayor Ray Nagin had predicted, Gustav still packed a wallop. Bayou communities on the west shore of Lake Pontchartrain were submerged nearly to rooftops, as the canal between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas to the west spread into a vast expanse of angry and storm-chopped sea.
In the bayou burg of Morgan City, La., which took the brunt of Gustav's landfall, the Atchafalaya storm gates on Front Street creaked but held back the water. "Everyone's fine," reported dispatcher Allison Ganawey. "But it's been a little busy around here."
In Lafitte, La., Mayor Tim Kerner joined volunteer crews to lay water-filled rubber levees to hold back the waters. In Slidell, La., the Palm Lake neighborhood flooded under Gustav's five-foot storm surge, and some residents were evacuated by boat. Local authorities and volunteers worked throughout the night to shore up a levee near Belle Chasse, in St. Bernard Parish.
In New Orleans, tense moments gave way to relief, as storm waters that overtopped the Industrial Canal walls – which during Katrina had betrayed the Ninth Ward neighborhood – quickly subsided.
The city's salvation this time around lay ultimately with residents themselves, nearly 2 million of whom got out of Dodge in what's been called the largest evacuation in US history.
"They scared them real bad," says Glenn Davis, who weathered the storm in a rickety auto shop near the Marigny neighborhood. "The fact is people don't like being where they can't go anywhere." Mr. Davis was among the estimated 1,000 people who stayed in the city, not quite convinced that law enforcement officials could protect piles of tires stacked outside his shop.
Mr. Moore, the healthcare worker who also stayed through the storm, said his big concern as residents return to a city that will look just about the way they left it is that, next time, "they may grow complacent" when officials issue dire warnings. The stress of evacuation, too, he says, may make residents think twice about leaving the next time. "This is one of those times when you can't win for losing," he says.
Besides the orderly (though sometimes frustrating) evacuation, those who stayed here cited several reasons why New Orleans survived Gustav: Storm tracks predicted late last week held true, whereas Katrina made late-in-the-game jogs that bedeviled officials. Levees held back what officials called a "Level 3" event – a major test for the much-criticized federal levee-builders. With the streets empty, authorities could focus on trouble spots, such as sending manpower to shore up levees that protected refineries in Arabi, La. Moreover, built-in redundancies meant that mishaps that took weeks to fix after Katrina "now took two hours," says City Councilor Willard-Lewis.
But perhaps the most critical aspect to the city's successful rejoinder to Gustav could be found, in camouflage, at the downtown Holiday Inn.
Since Katrina, the Holiday Inn has been base camp to 350 Louisiana National Guard soldiers – Task Force Gator. Made up mostly of rural police officers here to shore up the undermanned New Orleans Police Department, Task Force Gator has served to relax tensions between the city's poor and the NOPD. Regular sightings of troops in desert-colored Humvees have irked some Crescent City residents who consider their presence to be military occupation. But to others they are a reassuring sight.
The National Guard troops "are more relaxed and they seem interested in getting to know people," says Denny Prieur, an auto mechanic who stayed for the storm.
In other words, residents say, Task Force Gator helped to ease the deep class divides that Katrina revealed and, in some cases, exacerbated – a major factor in convincing nearly a quarter-million New Orleanians that their homes, cars, boats, and furniture would be there when they returned to the city this time.
A looming question during post-storm assessments will certainly revolve around the role of the National Guard. For now, Task Force Gator is scheduled to be disbanded in January.


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The New Jersey Democrats campaigning for U.S. Senate stood shoulder to shoulder at a press conference to aid a Newark woman whose home is in foreclosure. All support gay marriage, and, as of a few days ago, all are active on Twitter. They even shared a table for a breakfast meeting bringing the fractious party together before the fall elections.
How, then, do the four Senate hopefuls distinguish themselves by the Aug. 13 special election primary?
"We share many core principles governmentally, but we've all walked different journeys," says Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, who lags the field in a recent poll. "Mayor (Cory) Booker looks through the lens of being a municipal government leader, I look through the lens of being a state government leader, and congressmen (Rush) Holt and (Frank) Pallone look through the lens of serving on Capitol Hill. The issues are the same, but our perspectives may be slightly different."
The campaign to fill a one-year term began after Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the country's oldest senator, died June 3 at age 89. Republican Gov. Chris Christie set a special election for Oct 16, the soonest legally allowable date, with party primaries on Aug. 13. That gives candidates just nine weeks over the summer to raise money and campaign. The Democratic primary has added significance because New Jersey hasn't sent a Republican to the Senate in more than 40 years. But in this election, as few as 200,000 voters may decide the outcome.
An election for a full six-year term will be held next year.
If Oliver is right, the abbreviated campaign will come down to biographies.
Oliver, 61, has staked out her position as the person who best understands issues of concern to women and who could give New Jersey's all-male congressional delegation its first female senator.
Holt, 64, a onetime astrophysicist, is emphasizing his knowledge of math and science to demonstrate a command of environmental and fiscal issues. Pallone, 61, the more senior member of Congress, is running on his Washington knowhow, long ties to organized labor and co-sponsorship of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Pallone was endorsed by Lautenberg's family, who included this zinger, presumably aimed at Booker: "Frank Pallone knows that gimmicks and celebrity status won't get you very far in the real battles that Democrats face in the future."
Booker, the 44-year-old mayor of Newark, ruffled feathers by publicly eyeing the seat before Lautenberg announced plans to retire in 2015. He's Ivy League educated, has 1.3 million Twitter followers and is the only one of the four with statewide name recognition and a national following. As a result, he's been dominating the race.
"You've got four great Democrats, all working hard," says Booker, who vowed not to say a negative word about his opponents during the campaign. "Voters have a great crisis of riches here to find out who the best candidate is for them and their vision of what we can do to change Washington."
Booker has been running as a Washington outsider and big-city executive who has brought hundreds of millions in construction contracts and investments to Newark. But it's his numerous national TV appearances, speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention and friendships with the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that are more likely to make the difference in this race.
"It's hard to build a political identity in New Jersey," said Quinnipiac University pollster Maurice Carroll. "People who are not known in early July are going to have an awful, awful task becoming known by mid-August."
Carroll says Pallone and Holt aren't well-known outside their districts and neither is Oliver, despite her position as leader of the state's General Assembly. The poll released Tuesday found 63 percent or more of surveyed voters said they didn't know enough about the three to form an opinion. Only 27 percent said they didn't know enough about Booker to form an opinion.
Pallone has called for more debates, other than the two Booker agreed to, to give the candidates additional opportunities to distinguish themselves, but it's unlikely to happen with so little time until the election.
As for the chance for the other three to build name recognition and mount a viable challenge to Booker?
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The new report published by WWF Belgium calculates that every Belgian consumes 7400 lt (about 90 bathtubs) of water every day. By means of this report WWF wishes to draw attention to this resource which is so often taken for granted. Water is a precious natural resource that is used on a massive scale in agriculture, and in the production of our food, of animal feed and of textile fibres, not to mention biofuel.
WWF-Belgium encourages public actors and businesses to take account of water footprints and the sustainable management of water in their management practices and their policies. The concrete examples that we give here may serve as sources of inspiration for action.


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Affordable Lift for the Jeep Grand Cherokee ZJPosted in How To: Suspension Brakes on July 1, 2012
As used SUVs go, few are more affordable, competent, and easily buildable than the '93-'98 Jeep Grand Cherokee ZJ. The relatively lightweight unibody wheeler can seat four comfortably, has front and rear solid axles, and was even available with a V-8! Over the years these once luxurious Jeeps have dropped substantially in value and consumer demand. Fortunately not all of the ZJs met their fate at the hands of the Cash for Clunkers 4x4 annihilation.
Take our buddy's '98 ZJ for example. For just over 1,500 bucks he picked one up that was fitted with a 4.0L engine with less than 150K on the clock. Though he did get stuck with the less-than-desirable Dana 35 rear axle, there are plans in the works for an 8.8-inch Explorer rear axle swap.
Getting the Jeep for a great deal allowed funds for a few upgrades. Since the original suspension was pretty worn, that was the first area to receive attention.
To give the ailing suspension a bit of new spring, he opted for a 4-inch Performance series lift from Zone Offroad Products. The Zone 4-inch kit is one of the best-bang-for-the-buck kits on the market. It fits you with new lower control arms, shocks, springs, and all necessary brackets to pump in off-road prowess, without removing a lot of dough from your wallet.
To complete the upgrade, a set of 33x12.50 TSL Radials was squeezed on with a little trimming. And while 33s aren't huge by any stretch, it was just the extra bit of meat that converted this old grocery getter into a capable trail toy.
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Tires can make or break the look and performance of a vehicle. Since this Grand off-roads mostly in the muddy backwoods of the Southeast, it was fitted with a set of terra-chucking 33x12.50 Interco Tire TSL Radials wrapped onto a set of low-buck 15x8 steel wheels. We were extremely pleased and impressed with the performance and look of the tire and wheel package. And while the TSL Radials do have a noticeable highway hum, they rolled surprisingly smooth on the street and lived up to the Super Swamper name in the soggy dirt.


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SocialPivot necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Social Pivot http://www.socialpivot.com
Social Pivot is a social analytics company specializing in deep analysis of a user's audience in multiple social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. We provide tools to enable a user to both expand audience/add new followers as well as improve engagement for the existing audience. Focus initially will be Twitter and add new followers.
The primary audience consists of businesses that are using Twitter and Facebook to promote their business or have a business based on Twitter or Facebook content distrubtion (i.e., Facebook games or a Twitter feed). The site will be public, so we expect any user of a social network to be able to view the site and some may take advantage of our tools. These users are looking for something that is flashy, slick, and intuitively easy to use.
* The basic elements from the screen shots and page details section need to be the same, but need re-design. We are REALLY looking for some creativities, not just tweak of our existing pages. In fact, we prefer the looks different from our current pages!
* The preference is to have a clean, uncluttered, simple and slick design
* It is better to hide complex things in a rollover popup rather than in plain sight
* The site is currently 800px wide. There is no need to keep it that way, please feel free to be creative with all the space available.
* The graph (seen profile page screen shot) is one of our core features, so it needs to be the primary focus.
* It is essential that work is original - any stock images must be declared
* No flash
Deliverables: psd file and png for the complete design, and a vectored file for any resizable design elements (i.e., svg).
We need 2 pages.
Page 1 is Home page:
* logo /title
* login area - shows login button if not logged in and personal info if already logged in (i.e., picture, personal links, logout, etc...)
* primary navigation area - i.e., home, top1000, survey - variable, but less than 8 navigation buttons/links
* Also have links to "like", "tweet", "check-in", etc...
* short message area - to show upcoming things to be aware of
* We currently have a counting number of the number of connections we are tracking, and we probably want to have that or something similar on the new page as well
* Main / large content area that will rotate between different types of content
* 1-3 other smaller content areas that may or may not rotate
* links / navigation
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* graph area - this is the primary content area for the page - it will have pop-ups similar in style to the rest of the page with deeper content. please be sure to include pop-ups. screen shot of pop-up attached in the files section
* time chart showing times of greatest activity (activity hot zones)
* tag chart (i.e., bar graph, tag cloud, anything showing the tags)
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Again, we look for creative designs, not tweaks of our pages.
http://www.socialpivot.com The existing site is closed to public, so we prefer you use screen shots we provided here.
We are big fans of Apple design, so http://apple.com and apple products are good examples of things we think are very good.
This page http://www.michaeljfox.org/ does a good job of having a primary content area that tells the user immediately what the page is about, but also has 3 other smaller content areas too.
These two are examples of a very clean design that doesn't sacrifice on the content to do it: http://www.ribbit.com/ and http://www.vonin.com.br/
http://new.orb.com/ has extremely clean design, but also doesn't put a lot of content, we want to have a bit more content.
http://friendsaround.com/ uses the complete space available, while keeping the focus on the primary content.
We like the slider on http://www.hulu.com/ and http://neutroncreations.com/
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The Kirksville Police Department recently launched a bicycle safety program. A lot of people have asked me, "Did you have anything to do with this?" Yes, I did!
Several months ago our City Manager asked Chief Hughes to do something about the bicyclists on the sidewalks on the square. Chief Hughes thought I might have some useful input. I'm all for encouraging bicyclists to use the street. Bicyclists use the sidewalk because they think it is safer from cars, but sidewalks put cyclists at a greater risk of a car-bike collision. That is because sidewalks cross driveways, parking lot entrances, alleys, and streets. Backing-out collisions are a common type of bike-car collision.
My main concern was that the proposed "No bikes" signs discourage bicycling. According to my bike advocacy network, neither positive nor negative approaches get bicyclists off the sidewalks. Promoting bicycling in appropriate places does get more people bicycling on the street, but the ones biking on the sidewalks don't change. "No bikes" signs aren't effective either.
But to give it a more positive spin, we changed the wording from "No bikes" to "Dismount".
Sadly, the decision didn't make it through all the levels of bureaucracy, and our downtown sidewalks are now stamped with "NO BIKES" and a crossed-out bicycle. "Seems like a pretty unfriendly move," one person told me. "It makes it look like 'No bikes downtown whatsoever.'"
While my input didn't change the signs, what is more important is that we have expanded the scope of the effort from getting bicyclists off the sidewalks to encouraging safe bicycling. We want to promote lights at night and stopping at stop signs and lights for bicyclists. We want to promote safe passing distance for motorists and discourage motorist harassment of bicyclists. I'm working with Officer Nick Panos on a brochure and a grant.
With programs like this, campaigns from nonprofit health organizations to promote bicycling and walking, and improved infrastructure like bike lanes and FLATS, Kirksville could be Missouri's sixth Bicycle Friendly Community. Columbia is Missouri's only silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community, with Kansas City, Springfield, St. Louis, and Lee's Summit at bronze-level.


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Higher Edge seeks to get New London students to college and graduate
New London - Since the College Access Program launched in 2011, 98 percent of its students - all New London residents - have enrolled in college, and 86 percent have persisted into their second year of higher education.
"These are all low-income, first-generation students," Chris Soto, the program's founder, said. "Statistics like that are unheard of."
But now the organization has changed its name to Higher Edge and has taken on a larger mission: guiding its students from senior year of high school through senior year of college. College completion, not just access, is the goal, Soto said.
The nonprofit, based at the First Hispanic Baptist Church on Redden Avenue, will host a rebranding celebration at 5:30 tonight in the Garde Arts Center gallery to highlight its evolution.
"When we started the CAP program, it was kind of a pilot program. We had to see what the success was going to be like and what the funding landscape was going to look like," said Soto, who serves as executive director. "It was very successful. Obviously, there was a big need in this community for community-based college access programming."
Higher Edge, as did CAP before it, works with high school juniors and seniors from low-income households, and those who will be the first in their families to attend college, and helps guide them through the process of choosing a college, applying for admission and securing financial aid, all free of charge to the student. The program serves students who attend New London High School and New London residents who attend Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School.
"One quote that I think sometimes encapsulates it is, 'Did you grow up in a household where college was a given or a dream?'" Soto said. "For a lot of our students, college is a dream, and so we encourage that it should be a given."
Stephanie Reymundi, a senior at New London High, applied to be part of Higher Edge after Soto spoke to her junior class. The thought of navigating the college application process on her own was daunting, she said.
"I would be the first one in my family to go to college, so I needed to find a way to get the help that I needed to be able to do what I want to do," Reymundi, 17, said.
During the fall semester of their senior year, high school students - six the first year, 22 the next and 36 this year - meet with a Higher Edge adviser once a week to work on applications, essays and interview preparation. During the spring semester, the focus shifts to financial aid and scholarships.
So far, Reymundi has applied to a half-dozen colleges and hopes to pursue a career in nursing. Reymundi said her older sister, who did not go to college, is now inspired to continue her own education.
"Seeing me do it makes her want to do it," she said. "If I can do something to help my brothers and sisters to do something, then I will. If I have to be the first one to do it, I will."
With the name change, the program will now be a resource for its students from their first application through college graduation. Students will begin in the college access program then move into a success program once enrolled.
"We know that we are getting kids to college, but the more important piece in my mind is how we are serving them once they are in college," Soto said.
Advisers from Higher Edge check in with students after their first month or so, send encouraging care packages around final exams and help students navigate whatever issues they encounter.
Higher Edge used to use the church's nonprofit status but it is now independent and employs four full-time advisors through an AmeriCorps VISTA grant and other grants. The organization's new nonprofit status allows it to raise its own funds.
Soto, who graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2003 and later worked in the academy's diversity office, said he first saw the need for the program after interning at the nonprofit College Visions in Providence while working on a master's degree in public administration from Brown University.
Soto said the organization hopes eventually to be able to serve "all the students that need to be served in New London."
"It's been a challenge, but it's been a good challenge," Soto said, "and we know what we are doing is working. We know that for a fact."
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Switched the Stokemonkey setting to high-mode today on Bettie and flew up Admiral Way for a morning coffee run to Metropolitan Market. The high setting was like having an extra leg, Armstrong's leg in fact, when you consider the Stokemonkey is putting out 430 watts at a cadence of 80!
I grabbed the coffee, more groceries, loaded Bettie's FreeLoaders, and headed back home by way of Schooner Exact, where I tasted their latest pale ale. To make sure I condition the battery properly (as Todd told us), I flipped the switch back to low mode and cruised up the hills back home.


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In a blow to two incumbent congressmen -- and the Florida House which has spent taxpayer money siding with them -- a federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to Florida's Amendment 6, added to the state constitution by voters to curb so-called gerrymandering of congressional districts.
From the Associated Press: The three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rebuffed claims by U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican, and Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, that the power to change congressional redistricting rules resides solely with the Legislature and not the voters through a referendum.
"The lawmaking power in Florida expressly includes the power of the people to amend their constitution, and that is exactly what the people did here in passing Amendment 6," wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus in the 32-page opinion, which affirmed a September ruling by a Miami federal judge. Full story here.


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Nathan Myhrvold: It's Ok To Kill Innovation If You're Also Killing Mosquitoes
from the that's-not-how-it-works dept
That said, Jeff Roberts, over at GigaOm, properly called out Intellectual Ventures for its hypocrisy in calling for "Global Good" when the company's entire business is focused on screwing over innovators by charging them an often substantial tax by bundling together tens of thousands of broad patents. Roberts notes that anyone taking the job is signing up for a "Faustian bargain."
The future "VP of Global Good" will be hard-pressed then to carry out enough good works to offset the colossal harm of his or her employer. Unless, of course, they choose to close the company and reform the patent system.The ever-thin-skinned Myhrvold took exception to that and mocked GigaOm -- a company that actually produces something, unlike Myhrvold's company -- because Malaria!
I think we do a whole lot more good for the world than GigaOm does. How big is their malaria research project? How much effort do they put into polio? I'm quite curious! What on Earth have they done that is —This is disingenuous to the point of being sickening. IV is very much a "for-profit venture" as well. In fact, if the leaks from the incredibly secretive company, concerning how much they charge companies are accurate, it's a massively profitable venture. And, if we're talking about "tools or toys for the rich," there's no better example of who Myhrvold is describing... than Myhrvold himself. Remember this is the guy who is selling a $600 cookbook about how to use modern technology to prepare your food.
You know, I was at a conference recently where someone said, "Well, do you feel good about what you're doing?" I turned to this person who is an entrepreneur at a prominent social networking website, and I said, "OK, fine. You're about people sending little messages to each other and having fun on a social network. How big is your malaria project?"
It turns out it's very easy if you have a technology-centric mindset to think, Ah yes, Zynga, they're doing — I don't mean to call Zynga out in a negative way, but is Zynga doing God's work? Is Facebook doing God's work? Even setting aside what God's work means, I think it's pretty easy to say, those companies are doing wonderful things, but they are for-profit ventures. It's either tools or toys for the rich. There really is a role in taking great technological ideas and trying to harness them for the poorest people on Earth.
But this claim -- that if you're not doing anything about malaria, you can't comment on how harmful Intellectual Ventures is for innovation, the economy and for society -- is ridiculous. Roberts, thankfully, hits back hard in a piece entitled, Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold. Here's a snippet:
And, of course, for all the talk of stopping malaria, the bug zapping demo is just that. It's a demo. He hasn't done anything to stop malaria either. He's produced a fancy demo that the slobbering press loves, so that he can pretend to be doing good for the world, while being the single largest force against innovation in our economy today. The companies Myhrvold is shaking down and suing are producing real products in the real world, not just demanding people pay them or get sued.
Well, the sentiment is certainly a noble one. The problem, though, is that Myhrvold is utterly unfit to espouse it. As we've stated before, no amount of philanthropy can undo the incredible ruin his company has unleashed on innovation through unfettered patent trolling. Lest you doubt, consider the following:
New research shows that Intellectual Ventures is tied to at least 1,300 shell companies whose sole purpose is to coerce real companies into buying patent license that they don't want or need. Those who resist the "patent trolls" are dragged into nightmarish lawsuits.
Think what this means in practice. It means thousands of entrepreneurs must divert revenue from development and technology to pay Mr. Myhrvold's licensing tax or else brace for millions in legal fees. Worse, Intellectual Ventures is targeting some of the most promising young start-ups in the country like hand-craft site Etsy. Now, instead of hiring workers and bolstering the economy, Etsy and others must put aside money to pay for Mr. Myhrvold instead.
Myhrvold is proving himself not to just be a completely obnoxious patent troll with his efforts, but now one who hides behind ridiculous moral relativism to hit back at critics with very real gripes. It's sickening.


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Antiques Roadshow "Myrtle Beach, Hour One" Host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Eric Silver visit Brookgreen Gardens to discuss early 20th-century female sculptors. Appraiser Debra Force discovers a Joseph Henry Sharp oil painting valued at $400,000, leaving the guest feeling as sunny as Myrtle Beach itself. Part 1 of 3G
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Market Warriors "Antiquing In Greenwich, Ny" The pickers head up the Hudson River to the Washington County Antique Fair with more than 200 vendors and thousands of shoppers. The pickers' target assignment is to bring back a military object. Some key finds include a Victorian birdcage, a World War II water bag and a German pull toy.G
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Globe Trekker "Globe Trekker Food Hour: Brazil" Merrilees starts her journey in the Afro-influenced coastal city of Salvador.G
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Independent Lens "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights" A celebrated - and controversial - civil rights era leader, and head of the National Urban League, Whitney Young takes the fight for civil rights directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government. His tasks include calming the fears of white allies, relieving the doubts of fellow civil rights leaders and responding to attacks from the militant Black Power movement.G
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Motorola Droid X on Verizon Wireless Review - 4.3-in of Power
Introduction and Hardware Overview
To many people, the introduction of the original Motorola Droid is where the Android operating system gained major steam. It was the first phone to ship with Android 2.0, which was a major step forward in usability, and feature parity with other more mature mobile phone operating systems.
Since the original Droid, Android has gained popularity, and has become a major player in the mobile space. With Google now reporting there are 160,000 activations of Android phones a day, it is only a matter of time before Android becomes the dominant mobile operating system.
Today, we take a look at the Motorola Droid X from Verizon Wireless, the newest Android phone to hit the market.
The most striking feature of the Droid X is the large, 4.3-in display. This massive screen allows for great media playback, and the ability to display more content to the end user at once. It is one of the better looking LCDs I have seen on a mobile device, however, I personally believe that a higher quality, smaller screen with a higher resolution, such as the AMOLED display on the Droid Incredible, or the IPS LCD on the iPhone 4 allow for a better experience.
From Left to Right: Droid X, HTC Evo 4G, iPhone 4, HTC Droid Incredible
From Bottom to Top: Droid X, HTC Evo 4G, iPhone 4, HTC Droid Incredible
Another notable feature of the Droid X is the 8MP camera. As with other modern phones, the camera leans more towards a point and shoot than a camera phone on the picture quality spectrum. Comparing the camera to the 5MP camera on the iPhone 4 fared well for both devices, with the Droid X coming out on top, due to what seems to be incorrect auto white balance of the image by the iPhone.
However, like with most mobile camera sensors, the low light performance of this camera is lacking. While the phone features a Dual LED flash on the back of the phone, it does not help the low light performance very much.
The Droid X also features a 720p video recording mode. This is a step up from phones like the Droid Incredible, which featured a great camera, but did not allow for High Definition video recording. With video quality of this kind, phones like the Droid X are a more than capable replacement for devices such as the Flip Video from Cisco.
The call quality of the Droid is greatly increased by the addition of 2 microphones, used for noise canceling purposes. While it still sounds like a mobile phone to some extent, because of reasons beyond Motorola's control, it is easily one of the best sounding phones that I have used for both ends of the line.
The overall design of the Droid X takes a lot of cues from the original Motorola Droid. It still has the same rubberized feel, and physical buttons on the front, where as a lot of Android phones have moved to touch sensitive buttons. I personally prefer the touch sensitive buttons on phones such as the EVO and Incredible, but the physical buttons on the Droid X work perfectly. In order to keep the phone as thin as possible, Motorola has developed a design in which there is a raised potion of the phone which houses the camera. While this method allows the Droid X to sit on a flat surface, unlike the Incredible, it is still not very aesthetically pleasing and makes the phone look like it has a giant chin.
Another area in which the Droid X has advanced is the processor. Like the original Droid, it still uses a TI OMAP processor. This time, it is a new chip clocked at 1GHzinstead of the 600MHz found in the first Droid. In both my real world testing, and the limited benchmarks I performed, the X outperformed the HTC phones, which use a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at the same clock speed. However, it is very difficult to tell whether or not this difference is due to the skins that Motorola and HTC are running on top of Android.


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Chris Rock has settled a lawsuit brought against him years ago by Hungarian model Monika Zsibrita in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Zsibrita initially brought paternity action against the comedian more than a decade ago, but DNA tests proved that he was not the father of her daughter. Later, she filed another suit in a case called "Jane Doe v. John Doe" to keep their identity secret. According to the model, in 1998 at a Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills, Rock attacked her and attempted to force her to perform oral sex on him. A week later, the two went out on another date and he allegedly forced her to have intercourse with him.
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The December holidays are fast approaching, so we are gearing up for our annual Noel Night at the library.
The December holidays are fast approaching, so we are gearing up for our annual Noel Night at the library.
This year, we will once again provide free cookies, carols and crafts for community families. For a fun-filled evening, plan to spend Thursday, Dec. 20, with us.
This is a learning experience as well. The first 75 children will receive a holiday fun book, from which they will learn some interesting facts about the three holidays. Plan to participate in Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah crafts and games. Take part in the scavenger hunt and win a prize.
Special entertainment will include the Crestview High School elite show choir Chanticleer, led by Kevin Lusk, Crestview First United Methodist Church hand bell choir also led by Kevin Lusk, the worship music team from Emmanuel Baptist Church, led by Justin Wyatt, and a special Christmas solo by Jenna Renee Lewis, our local junior soloist.
Take a stroll through the library and enjoy the special Christmas trees decorated by Edney, Bay and Laurel Hill Headstart preschool classes, and Kids Discovery, Shoal River Learning Center and both Child Care Network preschool classes.
Bring a can or boxed food item for our donation box for �Sharing and Caring.� During December, the library will forgive fines up to $20 for food, with each food item being worth $1 in fines. All food items will go to our Crestview Sharing and Caring facility. We also have a gift box for slightly used or new children�s books for our �Give the Gift of Reading� campaign. These gift books will go to Okaloosa Headstart children.
In the spirit of giving, we hope you will purchase a Christmas ornament for our �Book Donation Tree� to help us buy new books for the library. The next time you are in the library, ask about it.
Our Friends of the Crestview Library sponsor these holiday events.
Come in and check out our collection of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa books.
�When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.� � Isaac Asimov
Jean Lewis is the director of the Crestview Public Library.


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Remember how fun it was when you were a kid — jumping up and down, swinging your hips and rolling around on the floor? It was really just stealth exercise, and it can be just as fun for adults with the help of the products reviewed below.
Whip it good
Acu Hoop: Foam-covered, multicolored hula hoop with wavy ridges that weighs 5 pounds and measures 411/2 inches across.
Likes: Nothing else melds fun and fitness like this. For a raw beginner, learning to hoop is a 15-minute laugh-fest; after that, it's core-workout bliss with a beaming smile that won't go away. Hooping hammers your waistline and glutes, and does wonders for your rhythm and coordination. The extra-heavy weight of the Acu Hoop multiplies the effect and really makes you sweat; the manufacturer recommends hooping twice a day for 10 minutes at a time. The wavy foam ridge adds nice massage action. It's a great workout for while you're watching TV. The hoop breaks down into eight sections, so it travels well too.
Dislikes: None
Price: $46. (866) 700-5668; http://www.sports-hoop.com
Perfect Situp: A unique take on working the abs, the muscles that go crazy when you laugh. The design combines an upper-ab crunch with a lower-ab leg lift.
Likes: Provides a wide variety of effective core exercises; I found the "bicycle" (opposite elbow to knee) to be an especially good workout. You lie down in a 4-foot-3 contraption of foam pads, plastic panels, a rubber headrest sling and steel spring blades that resembles a primitive robot skeleton, with handles built into the headrest and stirrups for your feet. The device forces you to engage your legs more, lifting them toward your body rather than just crunching your body toward them. The steel blades provide surprisingly strong resistance, so your abs are cooked quickly. Optional higher-resistance blades are available. Includes a chart with a dozen core exercises. Easy tool-free assembly took me 22 minutes.
Dislikes: It's big and rickety, although it comes with a hook so you can hang it up in the closet.
Price: $99. (877) 974-7733; http://www.perfectonline.com
On a roll
The Grid from Trigger Point Technologies: Hollow foam roller with channeled grid pattern that'll have you rolling around on the ground.
Likes: A good leg and back massage with some minor core work. You set various parts of your body — hamstrings, calves, quads, back — on the roller and set about balancing yourself, elongating and relaxing muscles as you challenge them. Measures 13 inches long and 51/2 inches across. The grid pattern may provide a better massage than a standard foam roller. The relatively short length also means it travels better.
Dislikes: Not really a significant improvement over the old-fashioned, low-tech foam roller, but three times the cost.
Price: $39.99. (888) 312-2557; http://www.tptherapy.com
Jump for joy
Altus 9-foot Beaded Jump Rope: For fitness-per-dollar, nothing comes close to this simple design, which stacks short pieces of plastic tubing over a thin rope.
Likes: This is serious aerobic exercise and coordination masquerading as a game. Jump ropes take you back to your youth while providing an intense, challenging and fun workout that can be varied with different styles of jumps. The heft of the beaded design helps the rope hold a great U-shape while jumping.
Dislikes: None.
Price: $5 to $13. (800) 654-9873; http://www.altusathletic.com/altus
Wallack is the author of "Run for Life: Fast Times, Fewer Injuries and a Lifetime of Spectacular Fitness." email@example.com
Remember how fun it was when you were a kid — jumping up and down, swinging your hips and rolling around on the floor? It was really just stealth exercise, and it can be just as fun for adults with the help of the products reviewed below.


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North Korea vowed Saturday to step up its atomic bomb-making program and threatened war if its ships are stopped as part of new U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the nation for its latest nuclear test.
North Korea's Foreign Ministry also acknowledged for the first time that the country has a uranium enrichment program, and insisted it will never abandon its nuclear ambitions. Uranium and plutonium can be used to make atomic bombs.
The threats, in a statement issued through the official Korean Central News Agency, came a day after the Security Council approved new sanctions aimed at depriving the North of the financing used to build its rogue nuclear program.
The resolution also authorized searches of North Korean ships suspected of transporting illicit ballistic missile and nuclear materials.
The sanctions are "yet another vile product of the U.S.-led offensive of international pressure aimed at undermining … disarming DPRK and suffocating its economy," the North Korean statement said.
Pyongyang blamed Washington for the nuclear tensions, saying it was "compelled to go nuclear in the face of the U.S. hostile policy and its nuclear threats."
Washington says it has no intention of attacking the North and said its concern is that North Korea is trying to sell its nuclear technology to other nations.
Saturday's threats made clear North Korea's refusal to back down from international calls to give up its nuclear ambitions in the wake of its April rocket launch and underground nuclear test last month.
The statement also raised concerns of a military skirmish.
"An attempted blockade of any kind by the U.S. and its followers will be regarded as an act of war and met with a decisive military response," the North said.
As a precaution, South Korea has dispatched hundreds more marines to two islands near a western maritime border with North Korea that was the scene of deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002, officials said Friday.
North Korea's acknowledgment that it has a uranium-enrichment program appears to confirm that it has a second source of bomb-making materials in addition to plutonium.
North Korea is believed to have about 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of plutonium, enough for half a dozen bombs, Yoon Deok-min, a professor at South Korea's state-run Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, said Saturday.
Reprocessing 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods stored at North Korea's Yongbyon complex could yield additional 18 to 22 pounds (8-10 kilograms) of plutonium – enough to make at least one more atomic bomb, he said.
More than a third of the spent fuel rods have been reprocessed and the rest of its plutonium will be weaponized, North Korea said Saturday.
Those moves would mark a significant step away from a disarmament pact between North Korea and five other nations in wake of its first nuclear test in 2006.
Under the deal, North Korea agreed to disable its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon north of Pyongyang in return for 1 million tons of fuel oil and other concessions. In June 2008, North Korea blew up the cooling tower there in a dramatic show of its commitment to denuclearization.
But disablement came to halt a month later as Pyongyang wrangled with Washington over how to verify its past atomic activities. The latest round of talks, in December, failed to push the process forward. The negotiations involve China, Japan, the two Koreas, Russia and the U.S.
North Korea walked away from the talks in April after the Security Council condemned its April 5 rocket launch, seen by the U.S., Japan and others as a cover for a long-range missile test.
North Korea has said it will test another long-range missile and is suspected of preparing for a third nuclear test, but there is no evidence that either plan is imminent.
Washington had anticipated a strong North Korean response to the U.N. sanctions. Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, cautioned Friday that North Korea could react to the resolution with "further provocation."
"There's reason to believe they may respond in an irresponsible fashion to this," she told reporters.
Analyst Kim Yong-hyun of Seoul's Dongguk University said North Korea was sending a stern message to Washington before President Barack Obama sits down with South Korea's Lee Myung-bak for summit talks at the White House on Tuesday.
He said North Korea is engaging in a game of "chicken" with the U.S. that he predicted would eventually end in talks.


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LAKEWOOD – People who forget to move their cars on street sweeping day may need some extra cash – Lakewood has increased the fines for a parking ticket. A street sweeping ticket was $33, but at Tuesday's meeting, the City Council increased the amount to $40.
The council approved the increase to generate revenue that will help pay costs of the parking control program, said Diane Perkin, director of administration services.
Lakewood's fine is still lower than several neighboring cities. Bellflower charges $57.50, Compton is $60, Long Beach is $50, and Norwalk charges $45, according to a staff report.
But a few cities have lower fines. Artesia is at $33, Cerritos charges $25, and Hawaiian Gardens is $35, the report says.
In other business, the council approved the city's $66.2million budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, which begins July 1. A projected boost in sales and property tax revenue will help the city balance its budget without layoffs.
At the same time, the city plans to continue more than $10 million in street repairs, park upgrades and water system improvements.
Street repaving projects will include Woodruff Avenue and repairs to Candlewood Street. Park improvements will include a new tot lot playground for Bloomfield Park, renovations to Mayfair Park pool and repairs to Bolivar and San Martin parks.
Water system upgrades will include enlarging two miles of residential water mains and rehabilitating the 60-year-old water pumping and storage plant on Palo Verde Avenue.
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Now that your Christmas gifts are stored away (or returned), the Christmas tree ornaments are tucked away (or broken), and the Christmas tree needles are successfully vacuumed from your carpet (or not—in my family we're still discovering in our shag, recreation-room carpet the needles from a notorious needle-shedding tree from 20 years past), it's time to start thinking about Christmas 2002.
I hope next Christmas is a lot different from this one. Not that it wasn't enjoyable, mind you. Rather, this was the year in which the Christmas commercialism wave (tsunami is more like it) seemed to crest. Perhaps what made it more noticeable were the post-Sept. 11 predictions about how we were going to see a far different Christmas, with less commercialism and more emphasis on the spirit of the season. This turned out to have been one of the more wrongheaded predictions of 2001.
If anything, the holiday commercialism was more intense, and the commercials more intrusive. For example, how many TV commercials for the Gap did you see? You know, the ones with various singers singing "Give a Little," when they really meant "Buy a Lot"? And how many times did you see that annoying Jaguar commercial in which the wife gives her husband a little toy car, which prompts the husband to pout sullenly, until he sees in the window behind him...a new Jaguar? Hooray, Christmas wasn't a waste after all! It reminded me of those odious Longines watch ads from years past where the woman opens a gift box and says, "I was hoping for a Longines." I used to think: if she doesn't clam up, next Christmas she's not getting anything.
But what really dampened my holiday spirits were the increasing numbers of friends who normally rejoice during Yuletide, but who expressed variations of "I don't like Christmas anymore." Apparently, the increasing pressure to find the perfect gift, (e.g., a Jaguar), the increasing numbers of people on their card lists and the increasing numbers of holiday office parties now make Christmas, at least for some people, something to be dreaded.
In other words, a fair number of level-headed Christians dislike Christmas.
Along around the middle of December, I started to think that perhaps Easter offers us a better model for celebration. You never, for example, hear people saying, "Easter gets worse every year!" Or, "If I have to go to one more Easter party, I'll throw up!"
For most Catholics, the focus of Easter is not gift-giving, card-sending, e-shopping or partygoing, but the liturgical events of Holy Week. I know many Catholics who spend a good deal of time considering what churches they will attend for each service: a real effort is made to find liturgies that will speak to them spiritually. And the more elaborate and time-consuming their plans, the more touching I find it. "Okay," a particularly ambitious friend told me last year, "I'm going to St. Ignatius for the Holy Thursday Mass, to St. Francis Xavier for the Good Friday service, to the cathedral for the vigil, and on Sunday morning back to St. Ignatius." He sounded like Eisenhower planning D-Day. In any event, liturgy, not shopping, still seems to lie at the center of Easter for most Catholics.
When I proposed this idea to a few people—that Christmas should be more like Easter—I noticed that the closer Dec. 25 drew, the more people were in favor of it.
On the other hand, I mentioned this to my mother, who quickly brought me down to earth. In our home neighborhood, she said, people have started to hang multicolored plastic eggs on their trees during Lent, and even put up pastel-colored "Easter lights" on their homes. Aghast, I mentioned this to a Jesuit friend.
"Oh, that's nothing," he said. "The Easter Bunny makes visits to the mall near my parents' house and hands out toys."
Anyway, so much for my revolutionary proposal. Now, if you'll excuse me I have a lot of Easter cards to address. And it's never to early to start shopping for Pentecost.


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Where's the TV bit
It's a shame none of these boxes seem to offer telly. We have TVs in rooms without sockets that are just used for DVDs. The house is old and it would be impractical to run cables around. Given that these boxes have everything they need to do so it is a shame they don't actually allow you to watch telly. A simple TVCatchup feed would be fine. IPTV even better.
Then again, last time a checked there was bugger all on the 80-odd channels anyway.


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The car pulls to a slow stop by the sidewalk, headlights dipped down the vague street. The atmosphere is inky, black, save the flickering golden light of a lantern, beckoning me. I tip the driver, he nods and the car slides away.
Mesmerised, I move towards the light. My shadow weaves and wanes, following me like a damned private investigator. The click of my shoes, echoing on the paving slabs, slips into time with fragments of jazz, fractured beats drifting out into the damp night air.
The muffled clink of glasses and laughter becomes distinct as I draw closer. I push the bell, stub out my cigarette on the pavement. The door swings open, that warm glow illuminating the street for a moment, then swishes shut behind me. I'm in.


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Several student-athletes who have played softball at San Diego City College under Head Coach LeeAnn Taylor have moved on to 4-year universities.
Lisa Pena made All-PCAC Honorable Mention in 2012 and made the All-PCAC First Team in 2013. She will attend Aurora University in Chicago on an athletic scholarship.
Kollstrom played for SDCC in 2012 and 2013. She accepted a scholarship to play at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Jazmine played the 2013 season with the Knights and accepted an athletic scholarship to play at San Diego Christian College.
Alex Ross transferred to San Diego State after playing the 2013 season with SDCC.
Alexa Darosa played for the Knights in 2012 and moved on to play at the University of Mobile in Alabama.
Paige played for the Knights in 2012 and transferred to Cal State Fullerton.
Shaakirah Ransom played for the Knights from 2010-11 and transferred to Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wis.
Nicole Samida played for City in 2009 and 2011 then moved on to play at Mayville State Univerisity in Mayville, N.D.
Alyssa Ortega went on to play at Cardinal Stritch University after playing the 2010-11 seasons at SDCC.
Leona Reyna transferred to the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut after playing for the Knights in 2009 & 2010.
After playing with the Knights in 2009, Jenna Kirksey went on to play at Dickinson State University in North Dakota.
Courtney Gahan was with the Knights in 2009 & 2010 and then made the move to the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
The 2008 Pacific Coast Conference Player of the Year, Erika Rangel, transferred to the University of Mobile (Alabama). While at SDCC, Rangel made the All-State Team in 2008 as well as the All-PCC in 2007 and 2008.
After playing the 2008 season with the Knights, Veronica Ollier moved on to be a shortstop/center fielder at Lees-McRae College in North Carolina. Ollier is striving to become a veterinarian.
Amanda Wilson moved on to Cal State San Marcos after playing the 2007 and 2008 seasons at SDCC.
In 2007 Sarah Burns was named PCC Most Valuable Pitcher and was also named to both the All-State and All-PCC Teams. Burns transferred to Belhaven College in Jackson, Miss.
Alicia Penner, who played for SDCC in 2006, went on to play first base at Minot State University in Minot, ND.
Gomez played for the Knights in 2005 and transferred to the University of Mobile (Alabama) on a scholarship


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Today's gaming highlights: A brand-new way to trap your enemies in Dark Souls 2, some fantastic sniping in Titanfall, and more!
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lovingbusiness necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
I need to take my "alright" design and make it an A+ site in terms of design. I think there are lots of small improvements that can be made and I'm sure this is the place with the talent to produce something great.
Hello. I need to have a redesign for my website ( http://tinyurl.com/3mmjy5 ).
I am not looking for anything drastic. Color schemes will stay the
same. Main page layout will stay very similar (with some
modifications). I need attention paid to the small details so that the
site looks amazing..not just ok or good. It needs to be excellent. So I
need a designer who has the patience to go through everything and focus
on the small details. The interior (non-logged in) pages need some
work. What I need is to take my design to the next level. I think right
now it is a C+, that is not acceptable. I am looking for a A on design.
I am sending some feedback points now.
1. The part on the bottom. The bottom perimeter border. I don't
like that. I want to delete the background border and just show the
text. I''m talking about the part with the copyright and then company,
terms of uses, and policy, etc. It just need to look cleaner.
2. The 12/13 tab structure up top has to go. It''s too ""busy"" up top
with contextual, marketplace, intext, video, etc. I need something a
bit simpler like Advertisers, Publishers, Ad Network, Solutions,
Services, Support. Take a look at the attachment here that shows how I got rid of the tabs. I don't necessarily need it to look the same of this link..but you should get the idea
Take these two into consideration.
I like the very clean look of adify. The three tabs up on the top right hand side make it easy to navigate.
I like how Akamai has set up the top section of the page. The links up top and the tabs. They are just very clearly defined.
I also like how clean pubmatic.com has their main page
4. For the interior pages, I like the clean and vibrant layout for
doubleclick. http://www.doubleclick.com/solution…index.aspx
Mine now just looks too bland and not very crisp
So I will need the
1. main page improved
2. interior page improved
One more point. The "news" and "next step" sections don't necessarily need to stay or stay in the same positions..
- Item 1...add a tagline under my logo
- original design
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