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'Rare' site could be more well done
Two months ago, "Rare" — Cox Media Group's new right-leaning website — hit the conservative media scene with some big promises.
Most of those are still in the planning stages.
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Rare.us, with the slogan "Red is the center" and the declared support of Ted Nugent, launched on April 15. The outlet — which has been touted as a "conservative Huffington Post" — is a new venture from Cox Media, which primarily owns local newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and several TV and radio stations. The aim? To create a website "that would be a blend of aggregated content and original content for conservatives, a blend of news, politics and lifestyle and culture, and not be mean-spirited," said Leon Levitt, vice president of strategy for Cox Media Group.
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Two months in, a review of Rare finds it's drawn some big-name op-ed contributors and offers a heavy emphasis on social media, allowing readers to interact and connect via Facebook. But there's little original content.
Rare's early struggles show how difficult it is to break into what's become a heavily saturated field of politically oriented web sites, even with the backing of a large media company. And the particular space on the right that Rare is trying to stake out is previously occupied, to some degree or other, by sites like The Daily Caller, Red State, and Breitbart.com. If there's a niche that remains open, it seems difficult to see where.
Rare's Twitter feed shows a news outlet focused on aggregation — and not every link makes sense in the context of a social media and content hub with a conservative bent. Sometimes, it just looks like click bait. Take last Friday afternoon's tweets, for example: In between links to items about President Barack Obama's approval rating and the White House's take on his Africa trip, Rare also directed readers to a story with the headline, "Miami woman, young mother dies after botched butt injections."
"Rare is a news, political and lifestyle social content hub, and even though that's just a label, that's where we're going," Rare editor in chief Brett Decker, who was previously the editorial page editor of The Washington Times, told POLITICO. "We want to be a one-stop shop for conservatives that are looking for more than just political stuff."
There are still a number of things that need to be tweaked and developed, Decker said, including getting the tone of the site right and figuring out how to present the lifestyle and cultural content with a conservative slant. But the slick packaging and tech-heavy site is all part of the plan to make Rare the homepage for "new kinds of conservatives — younger people and others who may not be as D.C. focused," he said.
"People who are conservative or Republican or right of center need to look in the mirror and figure out what's going on, what is the problem: Is it an issue of style or substance, or both?" he said. "That's a conversation that needs to be had. Politically, what Rare wants to do is throw everything on the table and talk about it. What's the essence of this movement?"
In Cox Media's eyes, Rare — the Atlanta-based company's first national news product, which will soon move into offices in Old Town Alexandria, Va. — has the potential to be the leading online hub for conservatives to delve into everything from the state of conservatism to the latest news on Lindsay Lohan.

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This cleaning hack has been all over Pinterest:
But does this really work on very tough soap scum? A friend raved it cleaned her shower like magic. Another claimed it cleans her shower easier than anything she has ever tried.
We decided to put it to the test. A really tough test.
I recently purchased a fixer upper home that had been owned by a male who kinda generally cleaned the house before the sale, but the showers, not so much.
These were the glass blocks in the shower. Um, YUCK.
I mixed the vinegar and Dawn dish liquid (the hack specifically recommends original, blue Dawn), in a spray bottle, and sprayed on – heavily.
The first pass really didn't do much. So I reapplied, let it sit for an hour or so, and scrubbed hard. Here are the results:
Then I applied a specialty cleaner for hard water stains on other blocks, and with some time and more scrubbing, got good results—but for about $5 more.
So would I say that this hack really works for much less than buying a special bathroom product to clean hard water and soap scum? Absolutely. Give it a try.
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Finke Desert Race winner injured in US crash
The winner of last year's Finke Desert Race in the Northern Territory has suffered a serious neck injury while racing in the United States.
Toby Price was king of the desert in 2012 after winning the motorcycle division of the iconic off-road event run each year between Alice Springs and the settlement of Finke.
The Singleton, New South Wales, rider finished the gruelling 460 kilometre course in three hours and 57 minutes.
Price crashed in round four of the National Hare and Hound series in California at the weekend.
US news agencies reported he has three bone fractures in his neck and a broken thumb.
The ABC's Finke Desert Race commentator Rick Hall says Price has had surgery to pin the three breaks in his neck.
"He's hit ... a road crossing at quite considerable speed and end-for-ended the bike," he aid.
"It sounds like a high-speed crash."
Price also won the Finke Desert Race in 2010.
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A plea hearing for a former president of Massey Energy's White Buck Coal Co. has been delayed until February.
A federal judge in Beckley on Friday granted David Hughart's request to postpone next week's hearing until Feb. 28. The judge agreed to give defense attorney Michael Whitt more time to review the case after allowing former attorney Tim Carrico to withdraw over an unidentified conflict of interest.
Hughart is set to enter a plea to two federal conspiracy charges. He's accused of working with unnamed co-conspirators to ensure miners at White Buck and other Massey-owned operations got advance warning about surprise federal inspections between 2000 and March 2010.
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Suppose we have a (real, separable) Banach space $V$ and a (linear) set $A\subseteq V$. I presume in general it might not be possible to write every element of the closed span of $A$ as an infinite linear combination $\sum_{i=1}^\infty\beta_i a_i$ of elements of $A$. Are there simple (non-trivial) conditions guaranteeing that the closed linear span of $A$ coincides with its infinite linear span (perhaps with unconditional/absolute convergence)?
My example of interest is the following: Let $X$ be a compact metric space and $F:X\to X$ a continuous map. My space $V$ is the space $C(X)$ of continuous (real-valued) functions on $X$, and $A$ is the subset of functions that can be written as $\varphi\circ F - \varphi$ for some $\varphi\in C(X)$.
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Swansea missed out on the chance to leapfrog rivals Cardiff into second place in the npower Championship after being held at home by Millwall.
Brendan Rodgers was looking to guide the Swans into the top two of England's second tier for the first time since the club's glory days of the early 1980s, and all was going to plan when full-back Angel Rangel rose unmarked to head home Andrea Orlandi's corner in the 18th minute.
The Spaniard had failed to find the net in over 18 months but now has two goals in four games, yet it was not enough to take all the points as Tamika Mkandawire soon drilled home a leveller for the Lions after the ball broke his way on the edge of the area following a goalmouth scramble.
It was a fair result on the overall balance of play after what was an entertaining first hour but rather low-key final 30 minutes, with Wales international Steve Morison wasting two gilt-edged chances to win it for the visitors late on.
Influential skipper Garry Monk returned to the heart of Swansea's back line having missed the last three games with a calf injury.
Millwall boss Kenny Jackett, who guided the Swans to promotion during a successful spell in charge of the club between 2004 and 2007, also made just the one switch, striker Josh McQuoid coming in for his full debut after his arrival from Bournemouth.
And it was the visitors who threatened with less than 60 seconds on the clock, forcing Dorus de Vries to get down smartly.
It signalled a busy opening 15 minutes which saw Scott Barron fire over and Scott Sinclair twice go close for the hosts at the other end, with Lions captain Paul Robinson also limping off.
It was no surprise when the deadlock was broken after 18 minutes, Rangel ensuring the breakthrough went City's way when he capitalised on some slack defending to head home unmarked from Orlandi's outswinging set-piece.
If Jackett was fuming with his side's defensive lapse then it was counterpart Rodgers' turn to feel aggrieved eight minutes later.
Swansea's rearguard repeatedly failed to clear their lines after a jinking run from Jason Puncheon, eventually allowing Mkandawire to convert.
Chances continued to open up, Nathan Dyer taking Mark Gower's superb pass into his stride before being denied by David Forde.
Swansea started to dominate proceedings as the half wore on, keeping possession within their ever-present passing style, and Dyer wasted a great chance to hand the hosts the lead in injury time when he blazed over from close range.
Much like the first half, Millwall started the second on the front foot with McQuoid failing to hit the target with a headed opportunity.
De Vries was then called upon to produce a great save to tip away McQuoid's header from James Henry's free-kick.
The second half continued to pass by in the same fashion as the first with openings coming at either end, and Rodgers introduced loan debutant Jermaine Easter in the 56th minute in the hope of taking advantage.
But the clash then lost its way over the subsequent 35 minutes, with very little to stir the 13,853 present.
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PARIS, April 20 (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal said on Saturday he regretted that the steel giant was having to permanently close two French blast furnaces but high labour and energy costs kept France at a competitive disadvantage.
Mittal, who has drawn fury in France over the closure of the decades-old furnaces, said ArcelorMittal had every intention of remaining in the country for the long term, but its export potential was limited by constraints on competitiveness.
"To increase the productivity of our sites in France, we need energy costs to come down, like in the United States and Germany," Mittal said in an interview with the weekly Journal du Dimanche.
"In France, labour costs are 20 percent higher than in Spain and labour laws are still too rigid."
A long battle by trade unions to save the furnaces, which employed 629 people, has turned Florange, the last survivor in a once vibrant steel region in northeast France, into a symbol of industrial decline.
Mittal's comments came as President Francois Hollande is close to passing a reform to loosen labour laws, a first step towards curbing industrial layoffs. But his flagship scheme of using corporate tax rebates to kick-start investment is proving slow to take off.
The furnaces at Florange, built to be near a now-defunct mining industry in the region, now make little economic sense compared to others on the north coast fed by imported steel ore.
Even using that slab for Florange's mills, demand has slumped from car makers in the region hit by flagging sales.
ArcelorMittal is investing 180 million euros ($235.47 million) in its remaining hot strip and cold-rolling operations at Florange as it develops high-end products for the auto and packaging industries. It is betting on steel demand rising 3 percent in 2014 as it recovers from a 9 percent slump in 2012.
"At this rhythm, in 2020 we will still not have got back to the levels we saw in 2007," Mittal said. "Our sites will remain in overcapacity. And the European steel industry is not competitive enough to export."
Siding, for once, with Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, he said cheap imports were hurting Europe's steel industry.
"It is a pity that Europe does not act together against the low-cost steel imports from emerging countries," he said. ($1 = 0.7644 euros)


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John R. Bolton -- Clinton's Unwise Trip to North Korea
The Obama administration characterized Bill Clinton's unexpected visit to Pyongyang to secure the release of two American reporters, held unjustifiably by North Korea for nearly five months, as a private, humanitarian mission. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has insisted that the fate of the women who strayed into the North (whether accidentally or deliberately is still not clear), should be separated from the unresolved issue of the North's nuclear weapons program.
But North Korea has seen it very differently. Former president Clinton was met at Pyongyang's airport by notables led by Kim Kye Gwan, the North's long-time chief nuclear negotiator, an unmistakable symbol of linkage. In Pyongyang's view, the two reporters are pawns in the larger game of enhancing the regime's legitimacy and gaining direct access to important U.S. figures. The reporters' arrest, show trial and subsequent imprisonment (twelve years hard labor) was hostage taking, essentially an act of state terrorism. So the Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama. Despite decades of bipartisan U.S. rhetoric about not negotiating with terrorists for the release of hostages, it seems that the Obama administration not only chose to negotiate, but to send a former president to do so.
While the United States is properly concerned whenever its citizens are abused or held hostage, efforts to protect them should not create potentially greater risks for other Americans in the future. Yet that is exactly the consequence of visits by former presidents or other dignitaries as a form of political ransom to obtain their release. Iran and other autocracies are presumably closely watching the scenario in North Korea. With three American hikers freshly in Tehran's captivity, will Clinton be packing his bags again for another act of obeisance? And, looking ahead, what American hostages will not be sufficiently important to merit the presidential treatment? What about Roxana Saberi and other Americans previously held in Tehran? What was it about them that made them unworthy of a presidential visit? These are the consequences of poorly thought-out gesture politics, however well-intentioned or compassionately motivated. Indeed, the release of the two reporters -- welcome news -- doesn't mitigate the future risks entailed.
The Clinton visit may have many other negative effects. In some ways the trip is a flashback to the unfortunate 1994 journey of former president Jimmy Carter, who disrupted the Clinton administration's nuclear negotiations with North Korea and led directly to the misbegotten "Agreed Framework." By supplying both political legitimacy and tangible economic resources to Pyongyang, the Agreed Framework provided the North and other rogue states a roadmap for maximizing the benefits of illicit nuclear programs. North Korea violated the framework almost from the outset but nonetheless enticed the Bush administration into negotiations (the six-party talks) to discuss yet again ending its nuclear program in exchange for even more political and economic benefits. This history is of the United States rewarding dangerous and unacceptable behavior, a lesson well learned by other would-be nuclear proliferators.
We cannot presently foretell whether or not Clinton's visit will lead to renewed negotiations over North Korea's nuclear program, but that appears to be the conclusion the Obama administration hopes to draw. Ironically, both Kim and Obama may well want to kick start bilateral negotiations, or, failing that, at least renew the six-party talks. Obama's "open hand" promise in his inaugural address isn't having much success around the world, and North Korea can always use new infusions of economic aid, which may well be the hidden cargo of the Clinton mission.
The point to be made on the Clinton visit is that the knee-jerk impulse for negotiations above all inevitably brings more costs than its advocates foresee. Negotiating from a position of strength, where the benefits to American interests will exceed the costs, is one thing. Negotiating merely for the sake of it, in the face of palpable recent failures, is something else indeed.
The writer, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006.


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WASHINGTON — A tribute concert at the Kennedy Center to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks featuring Wynton Marsalis, Emmylou Harris and Denyce Graves will be streamed live on Facebook.
ABC's Christiane Amanpour is hosting the Thursday evening concert in Washington. Readings will be offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright. The National Symphony Orchestra will perform under the direction of John Mauceri.
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Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyessays the event will be streamed live on the social networking site. He says people can share their memories of 9/11 and reflections on the anniversary on Facebook before, during and after the concert.
The New Republic magazine is co-hosting the event and will publish a commemorative edition.
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The fifth and final vignette for 3D Dot Game Heroes is even more embarrassing when you realise this is what we accepted as advertising in the late '80s.
Today's marketing and advertising teams have their fingers on the pulse of today's youth. Yesterday's marketing and advertising teams thought they did, but they were actually strangling us slowly with painful rap commercials meant to appeal to the hip hop loving youth inside all of us.
So yes, this is embarrassing, but I do love the line, "Your parents help you hook it up." Every commercial should end with this line.


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I have been a long-time student of comparative religion not as an academic game but as a personal spiritual exploration. My interest has always been in finding the Truth within each path, finding the spirituality within the religion.
I'm a Priestess and High Priestess of Wicca. I've been with the same coven for about 25 years now.
I've blissfully dipped my spiritual toes in Native Spirituality. And deeply explored, dare I admit it, Christianity.
I've also had extensive spiritual training in Vipassina Buddhist meditation and classical Radha Yoga. (I'm a certified teacher of all the Radha Yogas - including Hidden Language Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Dreams Yoga.)
Together, they gave me an experience of the meaning and purpose of spiritual exercises that none of them seemed to offer by itself.
The various trainings I've received have profoundly influenced my interpretation of Wicca. . . And in particular, the potential that Wicca Spirituality contains.
Because when I was 26, I had an explosive and mystifying experience.
In the midst of a Wiccan ritual, my Kundalini energy — Goddess Energy — was spontaneously liberated.
It was an overwhelming and terrifying experience. Overwhelming because I wasn't properly prepared. And terrifying because I had no idea what was happening.
For years I searched within Wicca for an explanation of that incident. When not even advanced teachers of Wicca could guide me, I was forced to look wider afield.
What I found was that there are possibilities in spiritual evolution that are well-documented, but which Wicca didn't address.
I was guided to uncover how these potentials could be activated within Wicca Spirituality.
Over the years a new synthesis has grown within me, of Wicca as more than ritual and spells but as a fully developed Path to self-realization.
This has liberated the full joy of Wiccan practice in me. And I wanted to share this joy and this potential with others. That's the reason I'm offering this website.
My life mission is healing the soul and spirit of life on Earth.
And the only way to do that is to unlock the spiritual potential of people, one by one.
I offer this site in hopes that it will serve the evolution of the Earth that is currently underway, through bringing blessings and higher consciousness into your life.
Wicca Spirituality can uplift, encourage, inspire, and empower you to live a life of beauty, joy, and love
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The life that is your birthright!
It's About Homecoming...
Returning To The Power Of The Heart
Wicca as Spirituality is incredibly powerful as a practice of personal and even social evolution. It is liberating, empowering, healing, and fun.
I offer these articles as guides on your journey Home — Home to the Divine, your Essential Self.
So, welcome! Come on in, explore, and discover the Earth in a whole new way . . . .


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Frankenstein crimeware registry comes online
- 23 March, 2011 08:48
A new crimeware registry including more than 4,000 entries has been compiled for use by students of the EC Council, a private firm that performs ethical hacker training.
Called Frankenstein, the encyclopedia of attack code is designed so students and penetration testers can actually download and use the attacks, giving them a perspective on how attackers think but also to measure whether networks are vulnerable, says Jay Bavisi, president of the council.
The cost of using the attack code varies depending on whether it's been produced by commercial enterprises that might license it, he says. If it's open source or an underground tool, authorized users of Frankenstein can use it for free. So far it's only available to students enrolled in EC Council's ethical hacker certification students.
The registry would be a treasure trove for criminals looking for network-attack tools, but it is kept under strict scrutiny, Bavisi says. Only ethical hacker students and professional penetration testers have access, and that is monitored, he says.
Plus, anyone with authorized use has to sign away their data-protection act rights, allowing law enforcement agencies to see logs of their activity in the registry should those agencies want to investigate a user.
Besides, the code is available via underground chat rooms and marketplaces online. "They could just go to Google," Bavisi says. "It's not as if it's not available on the Internet."


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Mr. do-it-all James Franco adds directing a 7 For All Mankind video, starring Lily Donaldson, to his long list of accomplishments, including Playboy columnist, actor, PhD student, and painter. (Mom might say he's quite a catch!)
Take a look at this behind-the-scenes film of Franco shooting Donaldson and other models as they go from a cemetery to a classic theater. The split screen shots keep the cinematography interesting, not that you'll need much help to stay enthralled with the charismatic Franco.


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MARQUETTE, Mich. – After falling in both of its games over the weekend, the Northern Michigan University men's basketball team returns to the Berry Events Center for a pair of games. The weekend will tipoff against Saginaw Valley State University on Thursday (Jan. 17) at 5:30 p.m. and will conclude against Wayne State University on Saturday (Jan. 19) at 11 a.m.
NMU enters Thursday's matchup at 4-10 overall and 3-7 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Northern was defeated at Grand Valley State University (43-41) on Thursday (Jan. 10) and at Ferris State (51-41) on Saturday (Jan. 12). Junior forward Matthew Craggs leads the way for the Green and Gold averaging 14.2 points per game, along with six rebounds.
Saginaw Valley is two spots ahead of NMU in the North Division standings in sixth place with a 4-5 conference record. The Cardinals fell to Lake Superior State University (70-60) and Wayne State (90-56) over the weekend. Chris Webb leads the scoring for SVSU averaging 16.8 points per game, while Brett Beland averages 12.6. On the boards, Rob Clark averages 8.3 a game.
Northern edges SVSU 29-27 in all-time meetings between the two schools. Last season, the 'Cats split with the Cardinals, with the Cardinals taking the 67-60 win in University Center and NMU took the 76-74 victory on its home court.
Wayne State sits at the top of the North Division with an undefeated 9-0 record in the conference. WSU is currently on a five-game winning streak after defeating Northwood 74-71 and SVSU over the weekend. Leading the way for the Warriors is Chene Phillips with a 15.8 point average per game and Mike Hollingsworth who averages 15.3 points. Cole Prophet (11.9) and Ian Larkin (10.8) also average double figures. Larkin leads the Warriors in rebounds, with a 6.5 average.
The series record between NMU and Wayne State is an even 33-33. The two teams met a season ago in Marquette with the Warriors coming out on top, 72-55.
100.3 FM "The Point", the official radio voice of the NMU Wildcats, will broadcast both games.


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Could not find a complete post on this topic on Dear Lego so here one is.
So I am a fan of the small Lego sets from castle (OK in truth most sized castle sets, anyways). Always have been. Siege cart, king's oarsmen, knights' arsenal, duel defender, etc. some great little sets. You get some pieces and they include minifig or two. I like the minifig sets/battlepacks as well. A nice way to add some people to an army or some creation.
While I enjoy them it seems their prices keep rising. I think the knight and troll warrior were more than I paid for the mounted black knight new. It may just be the constant inflation over the years and that is fine but maybe we could drop the price a little with other methods that will not cost TLC. While many of these small sets of the old days did come out in boxes I think perhaps a useful cost cutting solution may be a return of the polybag.
So I did a brief look here to see comments on the polybag-
Seems a great deal of us would like them back. Here are some of the main comments that caught my attention.
Packaging, as has been mentioned here before, adds a great deal to these sets. Assembly of the minifigs does as well. Why not bring back the polybag. Keep the minifigs disassembled and post the directions printed on the back of the bag or something so even less as no papers for instructions needed. You could get away with simply a bag and what everyone really wants.... the Lego-goodness inside. Cut costs all round for consumer and TLC and I'd imagine less environmental impact with waste materials and energy in production and transport weight cut down.
From what I can tell the last castle polybag set was KKII. Did these sell poorly? Seems like the minifig ones were popular from what I have heard. Are there some hidden costs I am missing? Do these polybag sets end up damaged in transport more often or on the shelf?
Some ideas I had of past sets for polybags.
Small boats, siege engines (catapults, a TLC special), individual minifigs like the knight, good wizard, troll warrior etc. maybe a farmer with a cow or something, knight on horseback. What about even larger small sets in polybags, like the crossbow attack, maybe even sets as big as the dwarf mine defender or the knight's catapult defence
So what do you think? Would love to here CCers ideas and concepts on polybags pros and cons.
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Bones necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Mercurey Club (yes, it's spelled that way!)
Looking for a logo for our social club known as the Mercurey Club. The "mission" of the Mercurey Club is to provide a bi-monthly gathering of fabulous people (read: hip gents and sassy ladies) to indulge in what we deem to be the finest things of life: great wine, delicious food, and compelling conversation among friends old and new. Further, our values encompass openness, humor, inclusion, sociability, and the implicit zest for life. Snoots need not apply.
The logo is really just for our "internal" use, primarily on our club website.
While wine is a big part of the club, we DO NOT want anything specifically-related to wine in the logo (like grapes, wine glasses, etc.)
Mercurey is the name of a wine region in Bordeaux, France, which was named after the god Mercury/Hermes.
Mercury was the messenger of the gods, and is often portrayed with wings on his feet. We do like the concept of wings being subtly incorporated into the logo, but it's not necessarily a requirement.
While we'd likely be happy with the logo just featuring the name "Mercurey Club" in a cool typeface, having one or two graphic elements is also interesting to us, especially if they can help capture the feeling of our mission statement above (hip, fun, etc.)
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1.Create a new project, and then go to "Project" on the menu.
Click components or use the shortcut Ctrl+T
2.Find the component "Microsoft Internet Controls," check it and click "Apply" and then "Close."
3.Click the icon that was just added in the tools window, and draw a large sized window with it but big enough to add in a few buttons and textboxes. This is going to be where you view web pages through your browser.
4.Make a text box; this will be your URL bar where you type in the address of the website you want to see. (You may also create a heading or such)
5.Make four command buttons, these are going to be your Go, Back, Forward, and Refresh buttons, change the captions accordingly, and name each of them Cmdgo, Cmdback, CmdForward, and CmdRefresh. Place them in appropriate positions and now we code.
Firstly we will code the back button.
Private Sub cmdback_Click() WebBrowser1.GoBack End Sub
Then we will code the Forward button which has a similar code to the back button.
Private Sub Cmdforward_Click() WebBrowser1.GoForward End Sub
Now we give the code to the Go button. This will link to the text box as when we click the button, the URL within the text box will open up.
Private Sub cmdgo_Click() WebBrowser1.Navigate (Text1.Text) End Sub
This will refresh the page and reload it.
Private Sub cmdrefresh_Click() WebBrowser1.Refresh End Sub
Double click the form and type the WebBrowser part in. This is for the homepage (Google is my default)
Private Sub Form_Load() WebBrowser1.Navigate ("http://google.com") End Sub
This changes the text box's text into what URL that you're currently at, and the next line makes the caption of your form into the header of the URL.
Private Sub WebBrowser1_StatusTextChange(ByVal Text As String) Text1.Text = (WebBrowser1.LocationURL) Form1.Caption = (WebBrowser1.LocationName) End Sub
So now it should look like (or similar) like image attached.


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My Pie Monday: Clams Casino, Flatbread Pizza, Homemade Deep Dish and More!
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Q&A: Former TechnoServe Employee Creates a New Model of Giving
January 17, 2013
Former TechnoServe employee Nick Villele has opened a new "philanthropub" in Washington, DC. The unique business model donates all profits to charitable causes.
Former TechnoServe employee Nick Villele (right) and Raj Ratwani have opened a new "philanthropub" in Washington, DC. The unique business model donates all profits to charitable causes. Photo credit: Benjamin C. Tankersley
Q: What is your background?
Nick Vilelle: I'm an organizational psychologist and have spent the past seven years working with nonprofit organizations in Africa and the United States. Through Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and my work at TechnoServe, I have advised and aided with the launch and operation of hundreds of small businesses. Concerned about current funding sources, I identified the potential for the Cause model to improve efficiency in both charitable giving and grassroots development.
Q: How did you become involved with TechnoServe?
NV: I started with TechnoServe as an Africa Division Fellow in 2007. I then went to Swaziland as a Volunteer Consultant in 2008. In late 2008, I was hired as a Program Manager for the Entrepreneurship Program in the TNS Swaziland office. I spent over three years with TechnoServe in Swaziland and nearly four years with the organization in total. I left in June of 2011 to start Cause.
Q: What did you learn from the experience?
NV: I learned a lot during my time with TechnoServe. Through my entrepreneurship work at TechnoServe, I had the opportunity to work with many different entrepreneurs in all types of businesses. Through my advisory work, I also learned a great deal and took away many lessons that I am now applying as I develop my social enterprise. Having the opportunity to train and advise hundreds of entrepreneurs taught me practical lessons about small business and startup pitfalls. The work also refined my thoughts about sustainable development and sharpened my focus on building sustainability into everything I do. This is at the core of the Cause business model and is a lesson that I will always carry with me.
Q: How did the idea for Cause come about? What is the business model?
NV: Co-founder Raj Ratwani and I came to this idea from slightly different backgrounds, but with the same ultimate motivation. We met when we were both starting PhD programs at George Mason University, Raj in cognitive psychology and I in organizational psychology. I left after getting my master's degree and joined the Peace Corps, completing my 2 1/4 years of service in Togo, West Africa.
It was upon my return in 2006 that Raj and I first discussed the idea that eventually became Cause. Raj was still working on his PhD and had been feeling like between his school and work commitments, he had no time left to get involved in charity and projects to give back. I was coming back from West Africa, having been exposed to the extreme poverty that people are forced to live under, as well as some great grassroots organizations that were trying to assist them to improve these conditions. Living in a country where the average annual income is around $300, I had seen the huge impact that a small amount of money could have when in the hands of the right people and organizations. When we met up for a beer right after I returned, Raj told me about his idea of raising funds for charity through bar and restaurant operations and our partnership was born.
The Cause model flips the script by taking a business with good profit margins and using it to generate funds for top performing organizations while, at the same time, offering its patrons a reason to feel good about where their dollars are going. Cause donates 100 percent of profits (after covering expenses) to a rotating group of vetted charitable organizations that are selected by an Advisory Board.
Cause will be completely self-sustaining and will not require donations to achieve its mission. It is our goal to create a movement through the Cause brand that will help change the status quo associated with charitable giving.
Q: Describe your experience launching the company. What have been the greatest challenges you have faced in the business climate, and what lessons have you learned?
NV: It's a very unique model, and figuring out the best model for the business was a challenge. Raising the needed capital was also a challenge, and then finding the right people to help make it a reality.
As for lessons, the model and timing will never be perfect. If you wait for everything to fall in line, you will never do anything. Do your homework and then get started. Outside this industry, we have been fortunate to learn lessons from Newman's Own and Impact Makers. Impact Makers is a company in Richmond, VA, that does health care consulting based on the same model. Their founder and CEO, Michael Pirron, has been a mentor to Raj and me and now sits on our Advisory Board.
Q: What is your five-year vision for yourself and your venture?
NV: Cause DC is only the beginning. We think that we are onto something big and have a model that can go global. We hope to franchise the model and see Cause bars around the world, continuing to create impact in this unique manner.
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Lafler (front) and Himler (back) helped Harvard finish third at the Hoyt Trophy (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard coed sailing team finished third at the Sherman Hoyt Trophy, hosted by Brown, while the women's sailors registered a sixth-place finish at the Stu Nelson Women's regatta over the weekend.
The 18-team Hoyt Trophy was shortened to a one-day event as sailing was cancelled on Sunday due to a lack of wind. The A-division pair of Alan Palmer and Meghan Wareham finished in the top four in half of the eight races on Saturday, including a victory in the fourth race. The duo trailed only regatta winner Boston College and runner-up Roger Williams in the division.
The B-division team of Tedd Himler and Alma Lafler posted three top-four finishes in the six Saturday races, including a first-place finish in the opening race of the division. The B division was a close-knit group as Harvard with 48 points in sixth place trailed third-place Brown by only 13 points.
At the 18-team Stu Nelson Women's regatta, the Crimson finished in sixth place with 144 points, one ahead of Eckerd. Alexandra Jumper and Emily Lambert were paired together in the A division for Harvard, finishing fifth with 64 points, two behind fourth-place MIT. In yet another closely contested B division, the 80 points Harvard tallied for12th were only 12 place were only 12 more than seventh-place Brown.
In the three-division, 18-team Oberg Trophy, Harvard finished 12th. The A-division team of Brendan Kopp and William White captured first with 53 points, finishing in the top three in five of 10 races in the division.
Six freshmen competed for Harvard on Oct. 19 in the Fourth Midweek Tech regatta. Ames Lyman and Dianna Powell finished 11th for the Crimson with 67 points, tied with Wellesley's top pair. Harvard's other two groups of sailors finished 12th and 13th.
Harvard is slated to sail in three regattas this weekend: the Erwin Schell Trophy, the Women's Victorian Coffee Urn and the New England Freshman Championship.


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It is well known that in the category of all topological spaces, quotient maps aren't preserved by products (this follows from the simpler fact that $X\times (-):Top\to Top$ doesn't preserve quotients). The usual solution, if one is needed, is to change to the category of k-spaces and k-continuous maps. There are other categories where products and quotients 'get along' (e.g. $Set$, $Ab$).
Question 1: What is a large class of categories where quotient maps are preserved by products? Topoi? (Semi)abelian categories? Categories of algebras for a monad on a given category with this property?
Now one may be only interested in a certain class of quotient maps (like surjective submersions in $Diff$, the category of finite dimensional smooth manifolds). Say, regular epimorphisms, or maps admitting local sections (assuming we're in a site), or perhaps something like surjective topological submersions, where there are sections through every point in the domain. So in this case it is not a matter of putting restrictions on $X$ such that $X\times(-)$ preserves quotients, or changing the category, but narrowing the scope of the quotient maps one wants to preserve.
Question 2: Is there are large class of quotient maps (in $Top$, or in a general category - with finite products and enough colimits) that are preserved by products?


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Emergency responders from the Sacramento police and fire departments, along with zoo staff will take part in a safety exercise.
Mary Healy, the zoo's executive director, describes the scenario.
"We're pretending that a small airplane crashes into the zoo to give all these partners an opportunity to work with the zoo to practice what would happen in the case of something horrific like this happening." ~ Mary Healy, Sacramento Zoo executive director
Healy says the zoo holds several safety drills throughout the year internally with its own staff. But this will be the first time police, fire and other emergency responders will be taking part.
Healy doesn't think today's drill will upset the animals.
"Probably not, if you think about even a busy day at the zoo with 3,000 visitors, there's a lot of excitement when we have just the regular Saturday. But the animals that we are simulating as injured, we are going to have 10 plastic flamingos with injuries."
The zoo will be open Monday morning but will stop selling tickets at 12:30 p.m. The safety drill is scheduled be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The zoo will resume winter visitor hours on Tuesday.


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The New York Times has an excellent article on doing business in China. The article is entitled, "New Path for Trade: Selling in China," and it is replete with good advice. Except mine.
Let me explain.
The article is on selling goods in or into China and it talks of the great opportunities there and of how to do it well. It presents the following good advice:
- Bilingual is not bicultural. Lou Hoffman of The Hoffman Agency notes something I am always saying: do not mistake language for culture. Someone can speak your language and still have no clue about how you want to conduct your business.
- Let others open the door. Ric Cabot of Cabot Hosiery Mills/Darn Tough Socks tells of how his company "edged into the Chinese market" by testing it with a Chinese distributor. "But if it gets to the point where we see we're leaving too much money on the table, we might consider doing something different."
- Don't get knocked off. Earl Kluft, owner of E.S. Kluft & Company talks of the knock-off problems his company had in its first foray into China and of how things are going better this time due to a better a better China-based partner. Kluft found its new partner "through a friend" and with that partner it has "cautiously re-established a sales channel with minimal upfront investment." The Chinese partner pays royalties and is able to buy Kluft's mattresses at "a special discount." I then chime in, advocating finding "reliable partners on the ground…. through people you know, and then pay for whatever due diligence is necessary to make sure that you have made the right choice." And to do all of that "before you start doing business with them."
- Look locally before leaping. The article talks of how some states have government-run international trade programs that offer counsel. Samar Ali, Tennessee's assistant commissioner of international affairs then discusses the sorts of issues his group raises with those seeking to do business with China. "We'll help them see if there's a need for their product in China and to think it through: Do they need to set up a WFOE? Do they need to have a presence or not? Should they go the e-commerce route? And tell them how much they should budget going forward." This assistance includes help with business-to-business matchmaking through already vetted Chinese companies.
- Set up shop as a WFOE. The article notes that "it is possible to scout opportunities with a so-called rep office and to do business in China by selling through distributors or by licensing products to a Chinese company, most American businesses that are serious about selling in China invest the time and money to establish themselves as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise, or what is known as a WFOE (pronounced WOOF-ee)." It then adds this: "We do probably 100 WFOEs for every rep office," said Dan Harris, a lawyer with the Seattle firm Harris & Bricken who writes a blog about Chinese law and business.
What I do not like about this is that I am concerned that it will be read as my saying that setting up as a WFOE is virtually always the best way to sell to China and I did not say that because I do not believe it. I was asked about what it takes to set up a company in China and what sort of entity usually makes sense. To that, I unequivocally answered with "WFOE." But what I was not asked was whether one can or should consider selling to China without any entity at all and had I been asked that, I would have unequivocally answered, "yes, that is often the best way so long as it is possible.
We are actually big believers in getting product into China via distributorship or licensing arrangements:
- Getting Your Product Into China Via Distributorship. A Legal Piece Of Cake.
- Selling Your Product To China Through A Distributor. Just The Basics.
- China Technology Licensing. Sometimes It Makes Perfect Sense.
No wonder I use words like "slog" and "excruciating" and "unending" to describe to our clients what it is going to be like as we secure their WFOE registration in China.
And think months, not weeks, to get all of the paperwork approved. "In China, you can't do anything last minute," said Savio S. Chan, president and chief executive of U.S. China Partners, which is based in Great Neck, N.Y., and which helped Vision Quest move its light fixtures out of regulatory limbo. "It can easily take up to six months to set up a WFOE."


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Heartland College Youth Enrichment Program open now
Early bird discounts available through
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[May 15, 2014]
NORMAL - Heartland Community College's
Youth Enrichment Program registration is now open. The early bird
discount registration is available now until June 1. The program
offers more than 130 camps as well as a supervised lunch for
children needing to stay on campus in between morning and afternoon
The camps run weekly beginning June 9 and continuing through
August 1. Many of the classes have expanded to 3-hour sessions.
Camps meet from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. The
supervised lunch option is available from noon until 1 p.m.
The list of summer courses offered can be viewed at
http://www.heartland.edu/communityEd . Registration is open
online, by calling Community Education at (309) 268-8160 or in
person Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at HCC's Normal
campus in the WDC Suite 2400.
Limited financial assistance is available for the program, for more
information on the application process please visit the website or
call Community Education.
For more information about Heartland Community College, visit
www.heartland.edu .
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Come experience a memorable stay with first-class amenities and beautiful décor at one of the finest hotels in Canton, Michigan. Located off I-275 and Michigan Avenue, we're eight miles from the Detroit Metro Airport and 20 miles from downtown Detroit. We provide a name you can trust when visiting Michigan, and thanks to our reasonable rates, we're the place where you can "Stay Smart."
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Their journey across Europe was a difficult one described in [3]:-
Little Selig, then a child of four, retained to the end of his life, a vivid memory of their hiding in a hen-coop till nightfall when a kindly officer in charge of Frontier Forces signalled them out of the darkness that now was the time to cross the frontier. His baby sister started to cry at this critical time but her mother pushed her shawl into the child's mouth and so silenced her.In London Akiva and Adel could not find permanent work and so they made a living from sowing, with the children earning a little to help by packing matches into boxes. In 1894, when Selig was old enough to begin school, he attended the Jew's Free School in Whitechapel, London. From there, having won a scholarship, he went to the Central Foundation School in Cowper Street, central London, in 1900. In 1902 he came top of the list of those winning intermediate scholarships in London. Further success came when he was awarded a scholarship to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1905.
Brodetsky achieved a very fine record at Cambridge. He graduated in 1908 being placed as bracketed Senior Wrangler (first equal). This in fact made news in a rather disturbing way since [1]:-
Newspaper editorials noted that if the Aliens Act restricting immigration had been passed earlier the Brodetsky family would have been barred.In 1910 Brodetsky was awarded the Isaac Newton Scholarship which enabled him to study at Leipzig for his doctorate.
The University of Leipzig awarded Brodetsky a doctorate in 1913 for a thesis on gravitation and he returned to England in 1914 where he accepted a lectureship in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. On course World War II broke out shortly after this and, in addition to his teaching duties, Brodetsky was assigned as an advisor to a firm making optical equipment, such as periscopes for submarines, for the war. He also collaborated with G H Bryan of University College, Bangor, on mathematical aeronautics, and some of his later publications on this topic are mentioned below.
On 13 January 1919 Brodetsky married Mania Berenblum. They had two children, a son Paul born in 1924 and a daughter Adèle. In 1919 Brodetsky accepted a position as a lecturer at the University of Leeds and he was made a Reader in 1920. He was appointed as the first holder of the Chair of Applied Mathematics at Leeds in 1924.
Brodetsky's work was mainly on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. His papers include work on the stability of a parachute and fluid flow past circular and elliptic cylinders. He published The mechanical principles of the aeroplane in 1921. He also wrote the book A first course in nomography in 1920. A nomograph was widely used in engineering and in industry. It is a graphic representation that consists of several lines with scales arranged so that by using a straight edge between known values on two lines an unknown value can be read at the intersection with a third line.
The 5th International Congress for Applied Mechanics was held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1938 and Brodetsky delivered a paper on the equations of motion of an airplane. He expanded his theory further, publishing a major article The general motion of the aeroplane in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1940. We list the chapter and section headings of this paper to give an indication of the approach Brodetsky took.
Sections: Equations of motion, coefficients of statical and dynamical stability k, t; first approximation. The three standard conditions of the symmetrical aeroplane. Longitudinal stability; usual value of t in standard normal condition. Standard normal condition: k of zero order, Lanchester's phugoids; k small, extended phugoids; k negligible, neutral phugoids; second approximation, Lanchester's phugoids, the loop. Standard diving condition, diving phugoids. Elevator in rotation during motion, flattening out from a dive. Lanchester's phugoids corrected for drag.
Chapter II. Longitudinal Motion with Engines in Action.
Sections: Equations of motion, first approximation. Standard normal condition: moderate power, Lanchester's, extended and neutral phugoids, large power, power phugoids, zooming.
Chapter III. Three-dimensional Motion.
Sections: Symmetrical aeroplane: equations of motion, first approximation. Standard normal condition; k of zero order, three-dimensional phugoids, Immelmann turn; k small, extended three-dimensional phugoids; k negligible. Standard stalled conditions, the slow spin. Aeroplane with displaced controls, additional moments. Standard normal condition: k of zero order; small asymmetry, three-dimensional phugoids; large aileron displacement, the slow roll.
As a university teacher for students he could hardly be surpassed. Day in, day out, he kept them spell-bound. His subject matter, clarity of exposition, style of delivery, choice of phraseology made an indelible impression on all his listeners whether derived from the Faculties of Arts, Science or Technology. In addition to purely routine standard mathematics, he made mathematical personalities and the history of mathematics live down the centuries by his vivid presentation. ... On one occasion, he gave a lecture on Sir Isaac Newton in a room in the university constructed to seat an audience of 250, 400 turned up and were all accommodated, sitting or standing.However, it is not only for his contributions to mathematics that Brodetsky is well known. His other contributions are described in [1]:-
Already at Cambridge Brodetsky had established the pattern of dividing his time between academic work and public service, especially but by no means exclusively for the Jewish community and the Zionist movement. While at Leeds he was active in the affairs of the League of Nations Union (later the United Nations Association) and of the Association of University Teachers. In 1928 he became a member of the World Zionist Executive and head of its political department in London. In 1940 he became president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the lay head of British Jewry. His election symbolized a democratic revolution, with the communal leadership being taken over from the old-established families by the descendants of the late nineteenth-century immigration. It also demonstrated that Zionism, towards which much of the establishment had been indifferent or hostile, had now the support of the majority of the community, undoubtedly owing to the traumatic events of the Nazi era and the Second World War.W P Milne was Head of Mathematics at Leeds until he retired in 1946 when Brodetsky took on the role. In 1948 he retired from Leeds University and went to Jerusalem to become the President of the Hebrew University there. This, however, proved much more difficult than Brodetsky expected. He thought he was going to take up a position similar to that of Vice-Chancellor of an English university but many in Jerusalem saw the position as essentially an honorary one, like the Chancellor of an English university. Brodetsky was effective in reforming the Hebrew University but at considerable cost in terms of arguments and disputes. This soon had a detrimental effect on his health and after suffering a heart attack he returned to England in 1951. He resigned as President of the Hebrew University in 1952 and led a quiet life for his last couple of years in contrast to the hectic lifestyle he had led for most of his life.
He died at his home in Cromwell Road. London, and was buried in the Willesden Jewish cemetery, London, on 20 May 1954.
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Good-Bye Cadillac XTS: Production Ends After Seven Years
The luxury model was loaded with comforts and tech although it could never match its predecessors in size during the era of smaller sedans.
LOS ANGELES -- In 2016, Lincoln will have a new face, its most powerful car ever, a revived Continental and a chance to top 100,000 U.S. sales for the first time since 2008. In China, it will add a dealership every 10 days.
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The luxury model was loaded with comforts and tech although it could never match its predecessors in size during the era of smaller sedans.
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Executive Director Kimberlé Crenshaw is scheduled to speak this Friday at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York. From a press release issued by Ithaca College:
ITHACA, NY — Kimberlé Crenshaw, recognized as one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, will discuss "Intersectionality in the Age of Post-Racialism" at Ithaca College on Friday, Oct. 26. Her free public talk, which is sponsored by the Ithaca College Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, will take place at 7 p.m. in Textor 102.
Critical Race Theory is an academic discipline focused upon the application of critical theory — an examination of society and culture — to the intersection of race, law and power. Crenshaw's body of legal scholarship on race has had enormous influence, and her groundbreaking work on "intersectionality" was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution.
Crenshaw was the coeditor of "Critical Race Theory: Key Writings That Formed the Movement" and coauthor of "Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment." She authored the background paper on race and gender discrimination for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and coordinated efforts by nongovernmental organizations to ensure the inclusion of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration.
Crenshaw serves as the faculty director of the Critical Race Studies program at UCLA Law School. In 1996 she cofounded the African American Policy Forum to house a variety of projects designed to deliver research-based strategies to better advance social inclusion. She has served as a member of the National Science Foundation's committee to research violence against women and has consulted with leading foundations, social justice organizations and corporations to advance their race and gender equity initiatives.
Twice named Professor of the Year at UCLA Law School, Crenshaw has been honored with the Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award presented by the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights Under Law and the ACLU Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellowship.
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What you Need to Know About B-ball, Bracketology and The Big Dance
It's the middle of March, which signals to basketball fans everywhere, it's time for some Madness. March Madness, to be exact.
March 16 (this Sunday) signals the beginning of March Madness, the NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship. For fans of the tournament, it can mean office pools, laboring over brackets and long lunches at sports bars. For non-fans, it can be a confusing mix of undefined terms and tournament lingo.
If you fall into the latter category like me, here's a little help. I did some research to give you the lowdown on what's going to be happening over the next few weeks. Take notes, and maybe plan a party—you might not love basketball, but it's a good excuse to get friends together and whip up some delicious drinks and appetizers.
The Basics
March Madness is a 68-team tournament, one-and-done style—if you lose once, you're headed back to campus. Those 68 teams are broken up into four regions: East, West, South and Midwest.
In each of the four regions, the teams are ranked from 1 to 16, and these numbers are called "seeds." The lower the number, the higher the team is ranked. The #1 seed always plays the #16 seed to start the tourney. A #1 seed has never lost in the first round.
The Sweet Sixteen
The first four days of the tournament are only the first two rounds. At the end of the fourth day, there will be 16 teams remaining—the Sweet Sixteen. Over the next two weeks, those will be whittled down to the Elite Eight, and then the champions of the East, West, South and Midwest divisions are called the Final Four.
Terms to Know
• Bracket: A map of all the tournament match-ups, with predictions on who will win. These are what fans fill out before the tournament—and when someone says their bracket is "busted," it means they didn't predict well.
• Cinderella: A low-ranked team that wins the first round (and particularly if they continue on deep into the tournament).
• Buzzer Beater: A shot made as time on the game clock expires.
Random tidbit: A #16 seed has never won, and only a few #15 seeds have won in the entire history of the tournament. For those making predictions, a popular upset pick is the #12 seed beating a #5 seed.


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Ex-North Korean Star Recalls
'Ping Pong Diplomacy'
By Jean H. Lee
Associated Press
July 12, 2012
Pyongyang, North Korea
Her eyes well up when Li Pun Hui recalls her role in a historic example of "ping pong diplomacy."
In 1991, the North Korean table tennis star paired with her archrival, South Korea's Hyun Jung-hwa, as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the blue flag of the Korean Peninsula. With relations between the foes at a low point, the episode is not about to be repeated at the London Olympics. But Li and Hyun fondly recall how they met as enemies and parted as friends, and champions.
"For 50 days, 24 hours a day, we lived together as one, trained together, slept in the same room and ate all our meals together," Li told The Associated Press at an interview in Pyongyang. "We shared the same food and our feelings."
As separate squads, neither of the Koreas had been able to beat the team they called the "Great Wall" of table tennis: China, winner of eight consecutive women's world team titles leading up to that year's championships in Chiba, Japan. But Hyun, a 20-year-old from the southern port city of Busan, and the baby-faced 22-year-old Li teamed to help the Koreas finally break China's streak and clinch the gold medal.
The recent South Korean film "As One" reconstructs the complex bid to field a united team of players from both sides of the world's most heavily militarized border. It was just four years after North Korean agents blew up a South Korean airliner, killing all 115 people on board.
At first, the players regarded one another suspiciously. Their countries had fought against one another for three years in the 1950s, and the Korean Peninsula has remained in a state of war since a truce was signed in 1953. In the film, trash talking at a team banquet leads to a brawl.
"Did you see their faces?" one South Korean athlete says in the film. "So morbid."
In a telephone interview with AP, Hyun recalled her dismay when she learned she would be playing doubles with Li, whom she considered a notch lower in skill.
"I was too young to understand how symbolic it was," she said.
Both players were fiercely competitive. Getting past their rivalry, as well the cultural clashes, took time. The film contrasts the rigid orderliness of the North Koreans with the constant horseplay among the southerners.
Then, one day, Li missed practice, debilitated by hepatitis.
"My heart ached," Hyun said. "Aside from the rivalry between us and between our countries, I started hoping Li would get better and do well for her country."
Against all odds, friendships blossomed. The once-reluctant teammates together sang ballads that predated the peninsula's division. Their coaches bonded in a marathon drinking session. Stiff handshakes became high fives.
Li and Hyun developed a profound respect and affection for one another. They became confidantes as well as teammates, and their performances were crucial in helping the unified team win the women's title.
A 1991 photo shows the two in identical blue team suits, smiling, their hands clasped.
"We speak the same language," Li said. "We're the same people. We're Korean. We all had the same goal: To win."
But as the movie shows, they sometimes sparred teasingly with their ping pong paddles as well as with words.
Did you ever want to live in the South?" says the actress, Ha Ji-won, who portrays Hyun. "We live better than the North. The health care is better."
"Isn't life better in the U.S. than the South?" the fictional Li, played by Bae Doona, fires back. "Why don't you live there?"
In the film, Li admires Hyun's gold ring. Hyun confides that it was a gift from her father, who was hospitalized back home.
At their tearful parting, Hyun presses the ring into Li's hands.
Afterward, the two went home to their opposing sides of the Demilitarized Zone.
Restricted from writing or phoning, they saw each other only one more time, at the next world championships, when the two Koreas competed separately and Hyun won the singles titles. China resumed its dominance in the women's team event and launched another winning streak following the solitary triumph of the united Korean team.
In the years that followed, expectations were high that the two Koreas would keep using sports diplomacy to forge peace at least on the playing field. And at times, there was some traction.
In 2000, North and South Korean athletes marched together into the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics under the unified Korea flag, sparking a standing ovation. Months earlier, their leaders held a landmark summit in Pyongyang, raising hopes of reconciliation. There was talk during those "sunshine" years of suiting up as a combined team for competition again.
But with relations now at their lowest point in decades, and Pyongyang issuing regular threats against South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his allies, that won't happen in London.
Team Korea, which is sending 245 South Koreans to the London Olympics to compete in 22 sports, will keep its distance from Team PRK Korea, which is sending 51 athletes to compete in nine sports, including women's football, boxing and, of course, table tennis.
Pyongyang also will send its first delegation to the Paralympics headed by none other than Li.
At 44, she is still athletic and has devoted herself to bringing the disabled out of the shadows of North Korean society through sports. Li, whose son has cerebral palsy, now heads her country's first Paralympic committee and was interviewed at the Taedonggang Cultural Center for the Disabled in Pyongyang.
Hyun went on to become one of South Korea's most decorated players and respected coaches, an Olympic gold medalist who in 2010 was inducted into the International Table Tennis Federation's Hall of Fame. Now 42, she is a director of the Korea Table Tennis Association in Seoul.
She misses Li, and remembers nights spent huddled together over snacks, away from the watchful eye of the North Korean security detail. An attempt by the filmmakers to bring them together for a reunion in Beijing was thwarted when South Korea's Unification Ministry denied Hyun's request for permission to meet the North Korean.
Were they ever to meet again, Hyun said, she would tell Li all about her family.
Nor have the ensuing two decades diminished Li's affection for Hyun, who she describes as "a woman of few words" straightforward and ambitious.
"I miss her very much," said Li, her eyes glistening with tears. She still, 21 years later, cherishes the gold ring given to her by her old doubles partner.


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Rapper Wiz Khalifa has teamed up with Miley Cyrus and Adele in the studio.
The "Black and Yellow" hit maker will release "Blacc Hollywood" later this year and has enlisted some big names for the record, but none of the songs have been cleared yet.
He says, "I got a lot of guest appearances that I've already done, but none of them have been cleared for the album yet. I got songs with Miley (Cyrus), I got songs with Adele."
Wiz Khalifa has also revealed he wanted to collaborate with Lady Gaga, but has had a hard time linking up with the pop superstar.
He continues, "I want to do something with her really bad."