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The Russell era ends in Oakland: Are you happy?
JaMarcus Russell's NFL career started as a disaster against the Broncos back in December of 2007, in a game at Oakland. Russell was pulled from his first start after completing 4-of-7 passes for 56 yards and replaced with Josh McCown, who led the Raiders to a 34-20 win against the Broncos.
Russell, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 draft, was released by the team Thursday afternoon. Perhaps that first game should have been a sign of things to come.
Yet many of the lows and highs of Russell's brief — and now officially failed — tenure in Oakland have been tied to the Broncos.
Two of Russell's best performances came against Denver at Invesco Field. In fact, if Russell could only have played as well in every other stadium as he did here in Denver, maybe he would not be considered one of the biggest busts in NFL history.
In 2008, Russell completed 10-of-11 passes for 152 yards and a touchdown in a 31-10 Raiders win at Invesco. His rating in that game was 149.1, by far his career high. In fact, in 31 games, Russell's quarterback rating topped 100 only three times — twice against the Broncos (including a 111.1 total in a loss to Denver in September 2008).
In December 2009 at Invesco, Russell came off the bench in the fourth quarter to replace Charlie Frye, who had suffered a concussion. Broncos fans should have cheered that Russell was in the game. Instead, he silenced the stadium by engineering the game-winning drive for the Raiders in 10 plays, covering 62 yards and using up all but the final 29 seconds of the fourth quarter. That drive including an 11-yard completion to a backup tight end on 4th-and-10, and then the game-winning touchdown to Chaz Schilens.
Perhaps the best thing to be said for Russell's career so far as that he was the Slayer of Broncos Playoff Hopes.
But he also played a couple of awful games against the Broncos. He was booed, loudly, by the home crowd in September 2009 in Oakland when he completed just 12-of-21 passes for 61 yards, with two interceptions and three sacks. His QB rating in that game was 22.6.
It will be interesting to see reaction from Broncos fans and from within Dove Valley now that Russell is officially no longer a Raider. Are you happy he's gone? Will you miss having Russell as a punching bag?


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Kanye West says past fashion choices make him want to kill himself
Rapper turned Kardashian baby daddy Kanye West is known for his giant ego .?.?. just ask Taylor Swift.
But an interview published by The New York Times Tuesday reveals that even West has his insecurities -- and they center around his fashion choices.
Did your mind just dart to that awful leather kilt he wore at the 12-12-12 concert for Sandy relief? Ours, too.
West does mention the kilt, saying that he wanted Jay-Z to tour beside him in part to have someone standing on stage reaffirming that he's cool "even with the kilt on."
But the outfits that he wore "five to seven years ago" are the ones really making him cringe -- and that's putting it lightly.
"Yeah, kill self. That's all I have to say. Kill self," he said of his reaction to seeing the styles of his past.
"You even see the way I dress now is so super straight," he told the Times, adding that it takes him way less time to get dressed these days.
So when he forced girlfriend Kim into a wardrobe makeover on that infamous "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" episode, was he just trying to steer her away from his own mistakes?
"That was from a place of love," he says in the interview. "It's hard when people read things in a lot of different ways. You know, the amount of backlash I got from it is when I decided to not be on the show anymore."
West also touches on being questioned about the lack of advances in his fashion career, but says he doesn't want to make luxury pieces that aren't attainable.
"I don't believe that it's luxury to go into a store and not be able to afford something," he says. "I believe luxury is to be able to go into a store and be able to afford something .?.?. If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me."
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I have used the same service provider"DU" for months. and this works perfectly on my old balckberry.
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Raul Mujica necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
KinKast is a new consumer video experience capitalizing on the desire for privacy. YouTube and Facebook are great public sites. KinKast is designed to be private and super easy.
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We have a beta version of the website at http://www.kinkast.com. We are adding an iPhone app and changing the business model. The website will be redesigned after the logo.
KinKast's target customers are parents (in their 30's or 40's with newborn to 10 year old children) and 20-something singles. They are internet savvy and have high household incomes (> $100,000).
Looking for a new logo that incorporates a sea otter mascot. (Background on sea otters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_otter)
The logo should be friendly, fun and trustworthy. It should have high production values. Should not be confused for something childish. Simple and abstract designs are preferred since it will be small. Hootsuite.com is an example of a good logo with a mascot. Love that the mascot is simple yet looks great. Their use of a few colors and no gradients in the mascot are great. The spotlight/shadow treatment on the whole logo also is excellent. The owl image is attached. Also attached is an anime sea otter. It is also very good. Though this otter is too baby-ish for KinKast, love how it's simple yet effective. Less detail can be better. The browns in this anime otter might work well with the text orange.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Railers hand Alexander his 700th win
By Jeff Benjamin
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[January 21, 2014]
JACKSONVILLE — Those in
attendance at The Bowl in Jacksonville on Monday night were witness
to history. For only the 16th time in the annals of Illinois high
school basketball, a coach garnered his 700th win. For Railer
Nation, along with the milestone, they also saw a return to form for
the Railers, and it could not have come at a better time.
Once the final buzzer
sounded, the crowd at the historic venue was given the opportunity
to show their appreciation as Alexander was recognized for his
achievement and was given the basketball from the game.
After the festivities, Alexander reflected on his place on the
list of coaches with 700 wins.
"It starts with a system, but in that system, you've got to have
a lot of things," he said. "There's no coach that wins 700 games if
they don't have good players. We're blessed this year, but there's
been many, many players that have played at Lincoln High School that
won a lot of basketball games for us and our community. I'm just
proud to be a part of the community of Lincoln."
Win 15 on the season did not start out the way the Railers and
their fans had hoped. After Gavin Block, who came into the game
averaging over 24 points in his previous three games, tied the game,
Taylorville jumped out to a 7-2 lead. Defensively, the Tornadoes
tried to throw Lincoln off by playing a triangle-and-two, with the
man-to-man assignments going against Block and Max Cook. It seemed
that Taylorville thought if they were going to have a chance to
knock off the No. 2 team in the state, then someone other than Block
and Cook would have to beat them.
A 3-pointer from Cook from behind the top of the key started an
11-0 run, with Edward Bowlby connecting for two 3s in the run.
Bowlby, who struggled over the weekend, paced the team with 13
points. Will Cook's two free throws ended the Lincoln scoring in the
first quarter, and the Railers had an early nine-point advantage at
A 3-pointer from long-range sharpshooter Kyle Wilhour, who had
four on the night, closed the gap to four. Now, if the plan was to
force the Railers (15-2, 5-1) to find other scoring options, it
certainly worked, as over much of the next Lincoln run, Block and
Max Cook combined for only four points. Of course, it was the other
Railers who did the damage.
An offensive rebound and basket from Block started a 16-3 run. It
was good to see scoring out of Adam Conrady as he hit baseline
jumpers from both sides of the lane, while Joey Olden penetrated to
the free-throw line, found himself open and knocked down the open
15-footer. Another 3-pointer from Wilhour put a hiccup in the run,
only to see Tyler Horchem hit a pair from long range around a steal
and layup from Max Cook. When Horchem's second trey went down,
Lincoln had run out to a 31-14 lead. A 3 from Block sent the Railers
to intermission up 34-16.
After the Lanphier and Central losses, Alexander mentioned the
need for a more balanced scoring attack. Only four players scored in
the whole game on Saturday, while Monday night saw seven different
Lincoln players in the scoring column. It also helped that the
Railers found their shooting eye by connecting for 57 percent in the
first 16 minutes, while the Tornadoes (10-7, 2-50 could only manage
29 percent.
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During the third quarter, the Railers were able to put the game out of
reach. OK, maybe it should be called the Ed Bowlby segment of our show,
as the senior scored all seven points for Lincoln, all in various ways.
Whether it was scoring on an alley-oop pass from Olden, making a strong
move underneath, getting the basket and converting the three-point play,
or grabbing an offensive rebound and putting it back in without coming
back down to the floor, Bowlby continued his solid performance on this
night. At the end of three, Lincoln was up comfortably 41-24.
Since Collinsville, there have been some games when Lincoln
builds a comfortable lead but then shifts into neutral. On
Monday night, the Railers slowly stretched the lead. The fourth
quarter started with the Cooks combining on an out-of-bounds
score as Max tossed the inbounds pass to Will, who faked one
way, spun and tossed the shot high off the glass. Five more in a
row from Block put Lincoln up 48-24. The night was done for the
starters, something that will help as the week proceeds, after
playing three games over the last four days and facing another
four games in the next five days.
Eleven players played for Lincoln and all 11 scored. As the game
wound down, Lincoln got a baby hook in the lane from Austin Krusz, a
basket from Bobby Dunovsky, and Jordan Perry's 3 from the left side
rounded out the scoring.
It was light-years ahead of the performance from Saturday night,
but again, shooting 47 percent while committing only five turnovers
and outrebounding your opponent usually spells victory. And for
Alexander, it was just another win. Something he's done 699 times
The balanced scoring attack was led by Bowlby's 13 points and
five rebounds, while Block quietly added 12 along with six rebounds.
Max Cook chipped in with seven, and Horchem scored six. Will Cook
and Conrady both scored four, with three each from Perry and
Ebelherr. The night's tally was completed with two each from Olden,
Dunovsky and Krusz.
The hectic schedule continues for the Railers on Wednesday night
as they take on Quincy Notre Dame on the second night of the Winter
Classic. Tipoff at The Bowl is slated for 6:30.
Other scores from the opening night saw Glenwood defeat Quincy
Notre Dame 58-46, and Jacksonville picked up their first conference
win by defeating Rochester 35-26.
Bowlby 5-10 1-1 13, Block 5-7 0-0 12, M.Cook 2-6 2-2 7, Horchem
2-7 0-0 6, Conrady 2-3 0-0 4, W.Cook 1-2 2-2 4, Ebelherr 1-3 0-2 3,
Perry 1-1 0-0 3, Olden 1-3 0-0 2, Krusz 1-1 0-0 2, Dunovsky 1-3 0-0
2. Team 22-46 5-7 58. 3-point field goals 9-24 (Block 2-2, Bowlby
2-5, Horchem 2-7, Perry 1-1, Ebelherr 1-2, M.Cook 1-3, Olden 0-1,
W.Cook 0-1, Dunovsky 0-2).
Wilhour 12, Sanders 11, Fulk 3, Langen 2, Dust 2, Champley 1.
Team 11-34 5-8 31. 3-point field goals 4-16 (Wilhour 4)
Lincoln 15-19-7-17 58
Taylorville 8-8-8-7 31
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Sorry, wrong number: AT&T's recycling claim doesn't add up
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Sorry, wrong number: AT&T's recycling claim doesn't add up
Sprint is not the biggest cell phone company, but it is the most environmentally-friendly by most accounts. Sprint ranked No. 3 of all U.S. companies in Newsweek's annual Green Rankings, well ahead of rivals AT&T (28) and Verizon Communications (54). It offered in-store recycling of mobile devices before AT&T or Verizon.
And when an independent research firm, Compass Intelligence, compared the recycling and reuse programs of the major carriers, Sprint came out on top. What's more, Sprint's CEO, Dan Hesse, personally has led the company's efforts, as I learned when we met a couple of years ago. (See my 2010 blog post, CEO Dan Hesse: Sprinting towards sustainability).
So I was puzzled to see a recent AT&T press release with the headline: AT&T Customers Break World Record for Recycling Wireless Devices. The release said:
By recycling 50,942 devices during a one-week period, AT&T* customers broke the world record for collecting the most wireless devices in a week as certified by Guinness World Records.
It also noted AT&T collected about three million cell phones for reuse and recycling in 2011. The release got a lot of attention, and was widely and uncritically covered: here at the Mother Nature Network, here at Treehugger and here at Environmental Leader.
There's just one problem.
This so-called world record is all but meaningless. Sprint almost surely recycles a lot more cell phones than AT&T, although direct comparisons are impossible.
Consider: AT&T says it collected 3 million cell phones for reuse and recycling in 2011. Sprint says it collected 11 million in 2011 – an average of more than 200,000 a week, easily topping AT&T's so-called record.
So what's going on here? A few things, some good, some not-so-good.
Illustration of hand holding cell phone provided by Pixel Embargo/Shutterstock
What's good is that the mobile carriers are competing around being "green." As Roman Smith, director of sustainability operations for AT&T, told me in an email:
As a way to engage with consumers around wireless recycling, we decided to work with the Guinness World Record team to break the previously-held record for cell phone recycling…. Carriers across the industry should challenge each other to break this record time and time again.
When companies — Sprint and AT&T, FedEx and UPS, Dell and HP – compete around sustainability, their performance improves.
What's not so good is the attention paid to AT&T's so-called record. Sprint understandably challenged the claim, to a blogger for Waste & Recycling News. The Guinness World Record people — who, it turns out, charge $7,000 to $15,000, plus expenses, to adjudicate and certify records — then reached out to Sprint, inviting the company to try to break the record.
"What we believe here is that part of the fun of record-breaking is that records are made to be broken!" said Amanda Mochan, business development manager for Guinness World Record North America, in an email to Sprint. Well, sure they do–that's how Guinness makes its money.
Is this any way to measure sustainability? Of course not.
Part of the confusion because AT&T's 3 million and Sprint's 11 million accounting of collected in 2011 don't measure the same thing. AT&T includes only handheld wireless devices, an industry guideline set by CTIA, the wireless trade association. Sprint's number includes tablets, hot spots and mobile broadband cards, but not enough to be meaningful–about 2 percent of everything collected, a spokesman assured me.
AT&T also doesn't include devices returned as part of its "buyer's remorse program," where customers bring back an almost-new phone for whatever reason, while Sprint does include its "Satisfaction Guarantee returns and exchanges." Still, Sprint's lead is so big that it seems fair to conclude that the smaller carrier is No. 1 when it comes to recycling–and that AT&T's record was no such thing.
Verizon, by the way, is even more vague in its reporting, and did not respond to my email seeking clarification.
What's needed here are common metrics and better transparency, as well a concept called sustainability context. Sustainability context that seeks to put corporate claims in the context of what the planet's limits are when it comes to greenhouse gas reductions, water usage and the like.
It's hard to know what the context should be for cell phone recycling, but Sprint has the boldest goal. It says it wants to collect nine phones for reuse and recycling for every 10 it puts into the market by 2017.
This year's collection rate is better than 40 percent, according to Fared Adib, senior vice president of product development and reverse logistics at Sprint. He said the Sprint program makes economic sense because many of the phones that come in are in excellent condition; they refurbished and resold to customers, which saves Sprint the expense of buying new phones.
Reusing an old phone is, of course, environmentally preferable to making a new one. And the ways to drive recycling are simple. Asking people to bring back their current phone – and paying for it, as all the carriers do – has "become a standard part of the sales process – just like we ask them if they want to buy accessories or insurance," Fared said. Eventually, trading in a phone should become as automatic as trading in a car when you buy a new one.
The problem isn't trivial. Last year, manufacturers produced more than 1.68 billion wireless phones worldwide. In the United States alone, it's estimated that fewer than 10 percent of discarded mobile phones will be recycled. Compass Intelligence estimates that by the end of this year there will be 324 million idle devices floating around in the U.S.–about one for every American!
I asked Compass's Kate Pearce, who follows the issue closely, for her thoughts. By email, she repled:
The carriers understand that not only is device recycling good from an environmental angle, but that extending the device lifecycle is a boost to their bottom line. Carriers can drive a paradigm shift, moving from the so-called "throw away" electronics society to one where end users (and the industry) are better e-stewards…They all should strive to change purchase decisions (i.e., whether to buy gently-used devices) and ensure that mobile device recycling is not an afterthought for the end user but the norm in the industry.
Now there's a good idea. Don't just encourage people to trade in their "old" phone. Ask them whether they really need a new one.


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My new website will be http://www.spawningisimminent.southernfriedscience.com/. It hasn't officially launched yet, but I'm launching it to you guys. I know, I know, you have to change the website in your favorites tab. Take your finger out of your nose and do it. Right now. I'll wait. Here's some music to listen to while you do your business.
"I'll wait" by Van Halen
I need something fish related. I'll keep it short. Asian carp are taking over our country. Instead of explaining, I'll show you. Watch this.
In Soviet Russia, carp catch you!
It's a huge problem, and they're making their way up to the Great Lakes. If you read this article, it explains that the White House has named our new Asian Carp Czar. His main job is keep the carp from coming further north. Good luck pal.
You and the other Czars should become the Super Friends.
They've been considered invasive since 2007, and they've made their way up the Mississippi River and are headed for Lake Erie. These fish are pretty dangerous, they'll jump out of the water and punch you right in the face. One of our attempts to lower their numbers is to market them for consumption. Mmmm....carp, yum. I don't see that working, and that's probably why we're exporting them to other countries that have a better taste for carpyness. Unfortunately, invasions tend to be irreversible...so the game becomes controlling rather than eliminating.
Asian carp, snakeheads, and lionfish everyone. Eat up.


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A collection of commercials, music videos, documentaries and short films.
A collection of commercials, music videos, documentaries and short films.
For Rik Cordero, he remembers things like borrowing his Dad's Minolta VHS camcorder and "smoking" the lens for a scene, DJing and creating mixtapes to hone his video editing skills, or dropping out of a prestigious engineering school to attend a local art college, propelling his love for all things Adobe.
After spending four years post-graduation in a windowless room as a motion graphics designer, Rik got behind the camera for a no-budget feature, which hooked him on directing for life. His big break came when he shot a viral trailer for Jay-Z's "American Gangster". Suddenly, Rik was thrown headfirst into a world filled with gold chains and smoke machines that subsequently got him nominated for a 2009 BET Award and 2013 MTV Japan VMA Award for directing. Everyone from Nas to Snoop Dog wanted a piece of his bold distinctive style that Wired Magazine proclaimed as "grime-noir". Fostering an astonishing intimacy with his subjects inside of classic, lived-in textures came to define Rik as one of the early pioneers of the digital revolution.
In 2012 Rik crossed over into commercial directing with an American Advertising Federation Award winning spot for the US Marine Corps' "Where I'm From" campaign and Nike Basketball who enlisted him to direct "The World Is Watching". The documentary caught the attention of Slam Magazine which said "The hallmark of Cordero's videos are his ability to tell personally resonant stories in which he brings the same narrative acumen to each project".
Throughout his career, Rik has focused on the important moments. The synergy in the room when everyone discovers magic at exactly the same time. The unpredictable. The stuff you can't throw mounds of cash at. The human element that comes from a heightened sense of empathy mixed with do-it-yourself filmmaking. These are the moments that are ingrained in Rik's DNA.
He currently runs digital filmmaking blog RUNPLAYBACK.COM and is signed to First Wave Entertainment for U.S. Commercial Representation.
Rik splits his time between New York City and Detroit and spends his days getting back to his roots - such as modding cameras to do things they were never meant to do and continuously searching for the intersection between new technologies and creative collaboration.


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Honda Odyssey Breaks Curfew
Honda Australia continue to promote their 7-seater Odyssey as the family car without the family car look. Following on from an earlier advertisement, the latest television in the campaign features a babysitting grandmother interrupting the parents of her grandchildren making out in their Honda Odyssey in the front driveway.
The 30 second spot opens with a shot of the grandmother sharing a couch with two sleeping twin girls. Romantic music from a television movie provides the setting for the next scene, a couple embracing in the front seat of their car. The grandmother carefully extracts herself from the couch, moves the clock from 11 pm to 11.20 pm, and walks outside with a torch. Out in the driveway the torch reveals a silver Honda Odyssey with a couple making the most of a reclining passenger seat. "Hi Grace!", she says as the couple become aware of being watched. "John I'm sorry to disturb you but you did say you'd be back by eleven. When you're ready can you take me home?" "So sorry", says Grace as she pulls the passenger seat up again. "It's OK Grace".
The voiceover, "The sexy seven-seater Honda Odyssey". "Sorry Mum", says John. "It really doesn't feel like a family car". The car drives off as the mum stands embarrassed in the driveway and the twins wave from the window. Click on the image below to play the video.
The Honda Odyssey Curfew ad was created at Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) Melbourne by creative director Scott Lambert, copywriter Eric Blakeway, art director Mikey Tucker and agency producer Karina Wright.
Filming was directed by Rey Carlson at Revolver Film with director of photography Keith Wagstaff, executive producer Michael Ritchie and producer Marge McInnes.
Filed under: Commercials, Honda
Tagged: DraftFCB, Keith Wagstaff, Revolver, Rey Carlson
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All four players in the New Orleans Saints bounty case have filed appeals with the NFL, according to sources close to the players, in advance of Friday's deadline to do so.
The appeals fall under the collective bargaining agreement process and follow NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's re-issuing of sanctions Tuesday.
The NFL later confimed they had received the players' appeals.
Goodell reduced Anthony Hargrove's suspension from eight games to seven and Scott Fujita's suspension from three games to one, while affirming the season-long suspension for Jonathan Vilma and the four-game suspension for Will Smith. Goodell allowed time served for Vilma (on the Saints' physically unable to perform (PUP) list) and Hargrove (free agent) and said Vilma could keep the game checks accumulated while on the PUP list.
Fujita, a former Saint, currently is on the Cleveland Browns' roster.
Vilma's appeal comes with a twist -- he has asked that Goodell recuse himself from the appeals process. The NFL fought for the commissioner to retain power over appeals in cases of "conduct detrimental" during last year's labor negotiations, and Goodell stepping aside in such a case would be unprecedented.
The priority for the four players, according to sources, was to avoid the enforcement of the suspensions. So filing the appeals serves as a stopgap. The players and the NFL will have a hearing Oct. 22, per the guidelines set by the CBA, but the hearing could be changed upon agreement of both sides.
Vilma's request for a preliminary injunction -- which would lift the suspension while his defamation case against Goodell plays out -- remains under consideration by a federal court in Louisiana. Smith, Hargrove and Fujita all withdrew their requests for injunctions after the CBA appeals panel sent the suspensions back to Goodell in early September, but all could refile for injunctions at any time.
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My Camp, Your Camp, and Virtual Shunning
A few months ago I wrote an article that caused a bit of a firestorm among some of my writing compadres. Perhaps I gave it a provocative title, but I maintain its truth: Mark Driscoll is Not My Pastor. Amongst the backlash of that article there was also a curious phenomenon on the twitter chat: the affirmation of the virtual church.
What was being espoused by person after person was the reality that they considered their online friends their church. "Twitter is my church" and "You guys are my church and my pastors" were among some of the statements I read. The definition of virtual is "Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name."
Hear me out, one of the ministries to which God has called me is of the online variety. This blog and other publications I write for take a good amount of mental and spiritual energy. You are my ministry. But you are not my local church.
More and more I read articles lumping authors into clear and present camps. You have the Jesus feminists, the red letter Christians, the social justice-cause driven, the reformed, the story-tellers, the orthodox. There are these hard and fast lines boxing authors to a particular movement or theological framework, and once they have been flagged as such, they are blacklisted or embraced. There is little room for grace in this world because if I confess I agree with Rob Bell in this one area, that is a blight on my character to those who disagree with him. If I confess I agree with John Piper in this area, well, count me out of an entire sector of the blogosphere.
If we are in an age of the virtual church, then we are also in an age of virtual shunning.
You won't ever hear me disavow the importance of the global Church. That I can consider someone who lives thousands of miles from me one of my closest friends—that is the power of the bond we have in Christ.
But love for the global Church does not negate the biblical importance of the local church. Too often I hear great passion in my brothers and sisters for the health of the Church, without seeing evidence that they value it at its most local level. I see bloggers calling men and women to task, and shunning those who associate with them, without seeing any accountability to authority in their own lives. I see much concern for orthodoxy and discipleship and brotherly love, without seeing evidence of those things in their lives.
I am not saying those things are not happening, what I am saying is that I don't see it.
I don't see it because they are not my local church and I do not know them in the way I know the people alongside whom I walk. I don't see it because I am not privy to the conversations they have with their pastors (if they have pastors) or elders. I don't see it because I don't see them taking meals to new moms or visiting the sick or weeping with those who weep. Seeing those things is reserved for those who are not virtual, but real life, flesh and blood.
I'm writing this because too often the assumption is made that the virtual groups with whom I am associated are somehow the people to whom I am submitted. The assumption is we ascribe to the same set of theological ideals, we have discussions behind closed doors, spit-shake on how we'll handle certain situations, administer church discipline and the sacraments together. And it's simply not the truth.
I have pastors and a local church. I write for publications, enjoy friendships, but they are not my local church or my elders. Simply because a publication for which I write or a group of online acquaintances embrace a certain stance or ideal, does not mean I agree with them.
A year ago I had a conversation with one of my pastors. I met with him to discuss an opportunity put before me to participate in a publication where I would share the platform with some diametrically opposing authors. Should I do it? was my question. Yes, was his answer. Why? Because every opportunity we have to proclaim the gospel is good and we should prayerfully consider taking it. Some of the places I write, I write because I do disagree with their stance on certain issues. I write because it is my prayer that the gospel would go forth. My name doesn't matter, but Christ's does.
We proclaim Christ best by loving what He loves. What Christ loves best is the glory of His Father, and the Father is glorified when we are his disciples, when we love one another—at the most difficult, personal, beautiful level: right here, locally.
Love the Church, friends, but start by loving the church.


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Shifting focus ... Gold Coast search for Scott Prince's replacement. Source: Ribb Cox / AAP
The search for a halfback is about to begin in earnest at the Gold Coast Titans.
But they reckon they have put away the cheque book after their ill-fated swoop on Jamie Lyon.
Coach John Cartwright says the recent $3 million-plus play for Manly matchwinner Lyon showed they had the money to sign the NRL's elite.
However, coming trial matches would decide who would replace halfback Scott Prince (gone to the Broncos) and centre Beau Champion (South Sydney) after giving up on signing any more players ahead of the 2013 season.
"It (luring Lyon) was a business decision. If the right guy is on the market we are ready to talk,'' Cartwright said on Monday.
"We've got money in the bank to make an offer but it is not just going to be to anyone.
"Jamie is one of the best in the game so if he was available we would be silly not to have a go.''
Asked if the Titans had given up on him Cartwright said: "I would say so - if it was going to happen it would have been last week.
"It shows the club is deadly serious about putting the best side on the paddock but we will not go out willy nilly.''
Cartwright conceded the Titans were "a bit thin'' in the centres after both Lyon and Michael Jennings knocked back lucrative offers.
But he was confident they had the depth to cover the gaping hole left by ex-captain Prince.
He said Beau Henry, Albert Kelly and Jordan Rankin would vie for his No.7 jersey in the pre-season trials, starting against the New Zealand Warriors on February 9.
"They have worked as hard as each other at training but it's out on the field when it is competitive, that's when you get a better grasp, the trials will be very important for these guys,'' said Cartwright who is set to name his new captain this week.
"We have built a very good side around them (halves). If I was a young halfback I would love to be playing in this side.
"Now it is about someone going out there and grabbing that spot.''
Rankin believes the next Titans halfback has the chance to follow Rabbitohs sensation Adam Reynolds and become the next NRL success story.
"It's probably the elephant in the room at the moment - who is going to fill Scott Prince's spot?'' Rankin said.
"It was important that the club showed confidence in us young guys coming through and didn't shop around (for a halfback).
"The spot is now there to be taken. Adam Reynolds showed last year if you take your chance you can be anything.''
Cartwright did not believe the failure to replace Champion put added pressure on Jamal Idris to step up in the centres this season.
"We haven't kicked a ball yet,'' he said.
"But he is where we want him to be.
"He hasn't put a foot wrong. He will start fitter than he ever has.''
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I've been talking about the Negative Income Tax lately, and equating it with the idea of a Basic Income. I think most of the policies' respective advocates would deny that they're the same policy. In this post I'm going to outline why that's incorrect and I'm happy to say that they're basically the same thing. For the uninitiated, a Negative Income Tax is a form of welfare that replaces most existing welfare schemes with a single payment that supplements the income of the unemployed and low-paid. The payment is withdrawn as your earnings increase, ideally at a gradual enough rate that increasing your earnings (and hence reducing leisure time) is always worthwhile.
An example: a £5,000 basic payment at a 50% marginal withdrawal rate (this means that for every additional pound earned, the worker will receive 50p less in NIT payments). Someone with an income of zero would receive an NIT payment of £5,000, or just under £100/week. If they took a job that paid £5,000/year, they would receive a top-up of £2,500/year; that paid £7,500, a top-up of £1,250/year. Once they reached £10,000/year, they would receive nothing in NIT.
This idea was supported by Milton Friedman, among others, and has a reasonably strong pedigree on the right. Even libertarians who object to income redistribution in principle usually concede that a Negative Income Tax is the least bad form of welfare, because it is administratively simple and perverts incentives less than most welfare schemes. It is particularly appealing to many liberals and libertarians because it is unpaternalistic.
A Basic Income, on the other hand, is usually conceived as a flat payment to everybody irrespective of circumstance. This leads to a very big problem: assuming it replaces most forms of welfare as an NIT does, a basic income high enough for unemployed workers to subsist on would simply not be affordable to pay to everyone. A policy that ideally would be designed to help the poor ends up being a very expensive subsidy to people who do not need extra money.
Advocates of the Basic Income recognize this, and their solution is typically to use the tax system to 'claw back' the payment from relatively high earners. So everyone gets the money, but it is withdrawn according to earnings.
In practice, that's more or less the same as a Negative Income Tax – the only difference is whether the withdrawal takes place at the 'front' of the payment (as with the NIT), or the 'end' (as with the Basic Income). Strange as it may seem, the policies advocated by Milton Friedman and the Green Party are the same in all but the technical detail.
But even if there is a surprising amount of agreement in terms of the kind of welfare we'd like to see, the detail may be more difficult to agree on. How much should a 'basic income' be? When should it begin to be withdrawn, and at what rate?
Questions like this are, I think, likely to be where what breaks up this (unholy?) alliance. But maybe not. Traditional policies like the minimum wage probably do more harm than good, and, rightfully, the question of how to improve the lives of the low paid does not seem to be going away. It will take compromise, but in the Negative Income Tax / Basic Income, we may have an answer.


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Sandra Hargreaves Luebking
Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA, holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has completed graduate course work in history and communications at University of Illinois at Springfield. Since 1979, Sandra has taught at Samford University's Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), at Birmingham, Alabama. In 1990, she became course I coordinator for IGHR. From 1994 to 2005, Sandra was intermediate studies coordinator for the Genealogical Institute of Mid'America, Springfield, Illinois.
Sandra has conducted research projects for the Smithsonian Institution and for an international clientele. She is a past trustee for the Association of Professional Genealogists and has been a volunteer research assistant at the National Archives'Great Lakes Region.
Sandra is editor of FORUM, the national magazine of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. With Loretto Dennis Szucs, she is the co-editor of two award-winning books, including The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. She also contributed chapters to Professional Genealogy (2001) and Printed Sources (1998).
Honors include: David S. Vogels Jr. Award (Federation of Genealogical Societies, 1992); Outstanding IGHR Alumni (Samford University, 1995); Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association (1996); Willard Heiss Memorial Lecturer (Indiana Historical Society, 1999); and Richard Slatten Lecture Series presenter (Friends of the Virginia State Archives, 2003).


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continuing a discussion of MSP430 Info Flash
Neighborly MSP430 developers, please do me a favor and email me the contents of memory from 0x1000 to 0x1100 of every MSP430F2xx device that you can. I'm trying to reverse engineer the exact distributions of the CALBC1_16MHZ and CALDCO_16MHZ values in order to build a UART library that operates without Info Flash. The GoodFET does this well enough, but I still get the occasional bug report when a device is slightly out of range. I can reduce the default to baud rate or try similar tricks to get around this, but I want to know exactly which values are safe.
If your GoodFET can be programmed by goodfet.bsl but does not respond after programming, try the info flash images available in /contrib/infos/ to see if any of them work.
air% goodfet.bsl -e -p 2618-002.txt;\
goodfet.bsl -p ../../trunk/firmware/goodfet.hex
MSP430 Bootstrap Loader Version: 1.39-goodfet-8
Mass Erase...
Transmit default password ...
Invoking BSL...
Transmit default password ...
Current bootstrap loader version: 2.13 (Device ID: f26f)
Program ...
256 bytes programmed.
MSP430 Bootstrap Loader Version: 1.39-goodfet-8
Invoking BSL...
Transmit default password ...
Current bootstrap loader version: 2.13 (Device ID: f26f)
Program ...
10596 bytes programmed.
air% goodfet.monitor peek 1000 100A
1000 55aa
1002 3fff
1004 abcd
1006 55aa
1008 1234
Previously programmed GoodFETs have info flash wiped during programming, but if yours has never been programmed, you can dump the info with
goodfet.bsl --dumpinfo >info.txt


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Geoffrey Horowitz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 221 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
The Sky's The Limit (I'm open to options)
I'm a Philadelphia based commercial and fine art photographer. Over the last 10 years I have been a photographer for hire and of the world; creating images that capture the human spirit.
I'm moving toward a more edgy, crisp and outrageous style and want something simple to showcase the work. I took down my old useless website (i never updated it because i hated it) and went with a wordpress blog so I can update the work and speak my voice.
The url is gmhphoto.
I am targeting people that want to purchase photography. Be it Fine Art or something for an Annual Report. The latter is typically someone on a budget and used to dealing with photographers. They probably have a handful of names they always go to but know enough to keep looking at what is out there. They will pay more than the tight budget if they think the outcome will be worth it and they are secure that the shooter can deliver.
The url is gmhphoto
I want something that uses my name Geoffrey Horowitz and is clearly related to photography.
It should have an elegant appeal
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Learn French and grow your confidence fast - with Quickstart French. This fun, effective and fully interactive beginners' course is the quick and easy way to build your French speaking and listening skills. Its unique, bite-size approach makes everything manageable and enjoyable so you can listen, speak, practise and learn wherever you are, whenever you want.
The app features:
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The course introduces you to the most relevant language for a trip to France – from finding somewhere to stay and eating out to shopping and sampling the nightlife. It provides an excellent and practical introduction to French from where you can take your language learning further.
'Quickstart uses the iPhone's functionality a lot better than many language apps – when playing the audio of the friends' conversations, you can choose to have subtitles of the English translation or not; another useful feature is you can record yourself speaking the phrases and play it back to compare against audio of the native speaker. The flashcard quiz is fun, and the entire app feels like good value for money.' The Bookseller
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Gov. Rick Scott and President Barack Obama's administration traded legal barbs and counteraccusations Monday as each side announced it would sue the other over Florida's controversial noncitizen voter purge.
Scott's chief elections official sued first, filing a federal lawsuit in Washington that accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of unlawfully refusing Florida access to a federal database that could help the state spot and remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.
"We can't let the federal government delay our efforts to uphold the integrity of Florida elections any longer," Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said. "We've filed a lawsuit to ensure the law is carried out and we are able to meet our obligation to keep the voter rolls accurate and current."
The state and county officials say they have found 141 noncitizens on the voter rolls so far, at least 47 of whom may have unlawfully cast ballots. More than 500 others have been identified as actual citizens and lawful voters.
Moments after the state filed suit, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez roared back in a sharply worded five-page letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, which ordered the state two weeks ago to stop the purge because it could violate two federal voting laws.
The state's program is too "faulty" and comes too close to election time to not endanger the voting rights of thousands of lawful U.S. citizens, Perez wrote. He said Florida has repeatedly ignored Homeland Security's warning that the department's database, known as SAVE, isn't designed for the noncitizen hunt on which Florida embarked.
"The significant problems you are encountering in administering this new program are of your own creation," Perez wrote.
"Your claim that the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security have worked in concert to deny Florida access to the SAVE Program is simply wrong," Perez added. "Please immediately cease this unlawful conduct."
Perez wrote his letter in response to a letter last week by Detzner. Detzner, in turn, was responding to a DOJ demand that Florida cease the purge. Perez said that because of Florida's "unwillingness" to comply with the law, "I have authorized the initiation of an enforcement action against Florida in federal court."
Meantime, the American Civil Liberties Union has also sued the state to stop the effort, which is largely on hold in nearly every county because elections supervisors say they're concerned with the quality of the 2,700-person list of potential noncitizens generated by the state.
That's a fraction of a list of 180,000 potential noncitizens the state initially identified. That larger list has not been released.
The fight between the state and federal government is but one battle in the war over voting rights and voting integrity in the nation's most important swing state, where the scars of voting irregularities were magnified in the 2000 elections.
Liberals accuse Scott of "voter suppression;" conservatives say the Obama administration is allowing "voter fraud."
So far, there's less evidence of suppression and more evidence of fraud.
The number of noncitizens who are on the rolls or appear to have cast unlawful ballots grows by the day. And there's no evidence yet that any lawful voter has been kicked off the rolls. Still, it's tough to prove if someone actually cast an illegal ballot.
Consider the case of Andre Fiset, a 59-year-old noncitizen from Quebec who lives in Hollywood. Records show he voted before 2006 — far back enough that no records survive to show if he actually signed in and cast a ballot at the polls. He said he didn't.
"I don't know what this is about," Fiset said. "I didn't vote. They keep sending me voter cards, but I never voted."
He was removed last week from the voter rolls. It's a state and federal felony for noncitizens to register as voters or cast ballots.
About 87 percent of those listed as potential noncitizens are minorities, a Miami Herald analysis showed. Hispanics and Haitians are Florida's largest immigrant group. So any search of noncitizens will disproportionately target them.
Minorities account for 53 percent of the confirmed noncitizens who have actually been removed from the rolls, according to a Herald analysis of the available voting information for 87 noncitizens.
Still, to liberal groups like MoveOn, the bottom-line statistics are proof that the noncitizen voter purge is "racist."
Non-Hispanic whites and Republicans are the least likely to face the prospect of being identified as noncitizens and removed from the rolls. Of those so far removed, 41 percent are Democrats, 22 percent are independents and 31 percent are Republicans — which largely mirrors the state's party registration breakdown for its more than 11.3 million active voters.
"This is not a partisan issue," Scott said Monday on the conservative FOX News show Your World with Neil Cavuto, where he announced the state lawsuit. "This is an issue that we need to have fair elections in our state."
But the Justice Department and ACLU said the process of Florida's noncitizen purge program is the problem.
The ACLU sued Florida in federal court last week to stop the purge, saying the effort violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which requires Florida to get permission for election-law changes in Hillsborough, Monroe, Collier, Hardee and Hendry counties.
The Department of Justice said two weeks ago that the Florida effort probably violated the 1965 act as well as another federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, which bans voter purges within 90 days of a federal election, meaning the state is banned from purging the rolls after May 16.
But Secretary of State Detzner last week refused to stop and told DOJ in a letter that Justice is misreading federal law.
Detzner said Florida didn't need to seek federal permission under the Voting Rights Act to embark on the purge because DOJ had already signed off on a state law that allows Florida to remove noncitizen voters. Also, he said, the 90-day ban on purging voters doesn't apply to the removal of noncitizens.
Detzner and Scott have pointed out that Florida's purge would have been conducted much sooner, but the Department of Homeland Security refused Florida the right to access the SAVE database, which details which immigrants become citizens.
Florida first asked DHS for the database last year. Federal law says the database has to be shared.
But, for the first time publicly in response to the voter-purge issue, the federal government finally explained that Florida might not be able to use the database because the SAVE Program requires "unique identifiers… found on immigration-related documents" to produce accurate checks.
Without SAVE, Florida's elections division then began comparing the voter rolls with a Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles database, which contains some citizenship information.
But that information can be out of date. And that can lead the state to mistake a lawful voter as a potential noncitizen.
Those identified as noncitizens had 30 days to respond to county elections supervisors or risk being removed from the rolls after another 30 days. Florida law allows those who were removed to get back on the rolls and, if necessary, cast a provisional ballot on Election Day.
One wrongly identified potential noncitizen — 91-year-old Brooklyn-born, World War II vet Bill Internicola — didn't just prove his citizenship. He called his congressman, held a press conference and became the face of the program's errors.
The Justice Department referred to Internicola's case in Perez's letter.
"As one would expect with a new program that has not previously been tested against real-world information," Perez wrote, "your program has critical imperfections, which lead to errors that harm and confuse eligible voters."


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Incan & Wari Archaeology in Peru by Ike Crews
My name is Ike Crews and for three months I had the opportunity to live and work in Peru. I graduated high school in 2008 and then took a gap year before attending Davidson College. I have always had a passion for history which comes alive when I am able to put the history I have learned with a building or a place. Because of this, I knew I wanted to do some archaeological work during my gap year.
There are sites all around the world, however, most have been worked on for hundreds of years and are often in volatile regions. Peru and the Incan ruins were an obvious choice for me because in some places the ruins have never been touched and the country is safe. I therefore embarked on a journey of a lifetime: Inca Project followed by a month-long teaching placement.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I arrived in Peru. Even so, the small town of Huyro nestled in the Andes was not the first picture in my head. Before I was able to see the town of Huyro where I would be spending two months, I was taken over the mountains to a town an hour outside of Cusco called Urubamba. The roads in Peru twist and turn through the mountains and for the most part are one, to one and a half lanes of gravel with few side railings. The views are fantastic, but the trip can be nerve racking at times. This scenic trip led to the El Stablo, my home in the town of Huyro.
El Stablo used to be a horse stable, but was converted into a very comfortable house. It is in the middle of the valley enclosed by banana trees, a river, and many neighbours.
A typical week consisted of various types of work. We worked in El Stablo on Mondays, while on Tuesdays and Thursdays we walked up the mountain and cleaned ruins. On Wednesdays we did community work and then the boys played football at the school in the evenings, while the girls played volleyball. Friday mornings we had to clean El Stablo and we had the afternoons off. Usually, volunteers left for either Cusco or somewhere else where we would spend the weekend. Chores were given to everyone during the week, so dishes had to be done for every meal Monday through Friday morning and every morning someone had to wake up early to feed the chickens.
Work in El Stablo involved watering plants, planting banana trees, clearing weeds, and taking the kernels off the corn cobs. Most of the time, watering the plants turned into a water fight which would sometimes lead to a mud fight. The river where we got the water from became a strategic position that had to be held at all costs, and by the end most people ended up being dunked in the river. Planting the bananas and clearing the weeds was pretty straightforward. We were working on a reforestation project on the grounds, so we had to make sure the weeds weren't preventing the plants from growing and occasionally we put more trees in to be planted.
The corn was used to feed the chickens and was grown on the property. The corn was left to dry and then we knocked the kernels off with our thumbs, another corn cob, or – a method developed by a certain volunteer – a tea spoon. The first couple of times I worked with the corn I had blisters on my thumbs. Taking the corn off the cob was an emotional rollercoaster, a term coined by a previous volunteer. This saying proved true because you never knew what kind of corn you were going to get. You could get one with hard kernels, sharp kernels, or nice soft kernels that came off nice and easy. Nevertheless, the company of the supervisor and of the other volunteers always made corn work fun.
Going up the mountain was my favourite part of my time in Huyro. We would go up the mountain and clear the ruins, map them, or look for new ruins. We never found any new ruins while I was there, but soon after I left new ruins were found. Working with the ruins was a lot of fun. Some of them hadn't been touched since the Incas' used them, and Projects Abroad is making sure to preserve them and treat them with respect. One would think that preserving Incan ruins would be a top priority for the responsible government bodies; however, this is unfortunately not always the case.
Two of the best moments for me in Peru were when we found a ceramic piece on the mountain and at another time some hieroglyphs on the Inca Trail by Inca Tambo. This shows how raw these ruins are. The supervisor was feeling around a hole where a rock used to make pottery had been found by the archaeologist, and sure enough he found five or six pieces of a ceramic pot. The hieroglyphs were found by the archaeologist on the Inca trail. We were looking for ruins above Inca Tambo when the archaeologist found carvings in a rock. It was amazing to be a part of these two finds: to see and feel the past come alive.
Community work was both fun and meaningful. During my stay, we ended up doing a lot of painting. We painted the kindergarten and the Huyro police station. We also helped make swimming lanes for a swimming competition. Working at the kindergarten was particularly fun. The kids were great and always wanted to play. Whenever I sat down to rest, waves of kids would come and tackle me until I lifted them up in the air. As I was laying down having some water, one particular kindergartener would not stop touching my arm. Then he said something in Spanish and the supervisor started laughing. Turns out the kid said I was like his dog because I was big and hairy!
One day we had all the kindergarteners over at El Stablo to play on the football field and have some snacks. It was great fun. We played football, volleyball, and had a massive tug of war battle. The parents ended up having the most fun and took over the football field and the volleyball court playing with each other and the volunteers.
I don't think I would have enjoyed Peru as much as I did if Dan, the supervisor, wasn't such a good guy. He and I got along great. I don't know how he does it, but he gets along with everyone. He's a fun guy to be around, but at the same time he's always looking out for the volunteers making sure they're alright. One day a Dutch volunteer was home feeling sick and Dan asked if she wanted some Dutch chocolate. The girl almost disregarded the comment and half-heartedly said yes. Dan came back from his room with a bag of Dutch chocolates and told the volunteer to send him some more when she got home. She had the biggest smile on her face and she ended up sending him some more chocolate.
We came up with various ways to entertain ourselves and the staff who worked with us. One night we found some clothes belonging to Raul, one of the people working at El Stablo, and made a corn cob Raul complete with a volleyball head. We carried him around the house and took funny pictures of him. Franklin, or Franklenstein, who drove our van, was always a laugh. He would always pronounce words with a "ch" at the end. So boy became boych etc. The people of Huyro were so warm and open; I just wish I could have spoken Spanish better.
An interesting Peruvian oddity I will always remember was the evolution of my name. No one in Huyro could pronounce Ike so my name turned into Iche. Everyone in Huyro called me Iche. The staff and the town's people would call me Iche. In fact, it was strange when during my subsequent teaching placement in Urubamba some of my students could pronounce my name correctly, and even stranger when I went back to Texas and no one called me Iche. The evolution of my name didn't stop there. It further evolved into Iche boych thanks to Dan and his Irish penchant for calling people by their name followed by boy and Franklenstein's inability to not pronounce words without putting a "ch" at the end. It's now a nice memory of my time in Peru.
I will cherish the time I spent in Huyro for the rest of my life. Nowhere else was I called Iche, or will be again. That was the charm of the town. Weekends were spent visiting big Incan Ruins, including Machu Pichu, Moray, Pisaq, or relaxing in Cusco with volunteers from other projects. It's easy to interact with other volunteers and I ended up hanging out mostly with the teaching volunteers on the weekends, which facilitated my transition when I started the teaching programme.
The Huyro charm isn't for everyone. The hikes up the mountain could be tough, and the internet was slow. Nevertheless, I wouldn't have changed a minute of it and the Inca Project will always remain in the heart of the grateful Iche.
Ike Crews
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The Milton Keynes Role-Playing Games Club kind of does what it says on the tin. It's a club, in Milton Keynes, where we play tabletop, face-to-face role-playing games (like Dungeons & Dragons). We play mini-campaigns of around 8 weeks followed by about three weeks of one-off and short games. There's no agenda about what games get played: people propose games they want to run and the most popular ones get played. See Current games and Games we have played for what we've been playing recently.
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The reason why produce like avocados, bananas and tomatoes seem to go rotten overnight is because they release a natural hormone called ethylene. When produce is stored together, this gas can cause everything in the bunch to spoil much quicker than normal.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas Southern University removed 10 students from its marching band and suspended them from the university for hazing, the latest college to investigate allegations of hazing among band members since last year.
The school, which did not provide details on the hazing, said on Tuesday the students will also lose their band scholarships which could be as much as $10,000 a year per student. The students may appeal the sanctions, it said in a statement.
The sanctions come at a time of heightened attention to hazing following the hazing-ritual death last year of drum major Robert Champion at Florida A&M University. Twelve band members have been charged with third-degree felony hazing, and all pleaded not guilty. The university president and the band director resigned.
Last month, North Carolina Central University in Durham said that the 36 members of its marching band drum line must attend a hazing-prevention workshop and perform community service after an investigation into hazing allegations found that members had violated the school's student code of conduct.
Texas Southern's award-winning band, Ocean of Soul, which has played in several Super Bowls, has not performed since the university last month suspended the organization while the school investigated allegations of hazing reported by a student.
The 9,500-student Houston university said the sanctions should send a message that the school has no tolerance for hazing.
The university is "taking the incident very seriously," said spokeswoman Eva Pickens, who did not describe the nature of the hazing.
The rest of the 180-member band will not be suspended but their performances will be restricted, the university statement said. A Thanksgiving Day parade performance will be canceled, as will a trip to Atlanta for a band competition. Band members will also have to perform community service and attend anti-hazing workshops.


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Hi Francine,
I know it's winter time in Boston, but I was wondering if you wanted to play tennis sometime?
My background: I moved from Texas recently as I graduated from undergrad May 2014 and I played D3 tennis for my university. I am a solid 4.5-5.0 level player.
I live in Watertown and willing to go places to play. I usually play at MIT or Boston Athletic Club in South Boston. If you would like to play sometime please let me know!
Hello Francine,
Just wondering if you are still looking for partners to play with. I'd love to hit if you are interested...I am free most evenings and weekends...I also work in Somerville and usually play at Tufts but can play anywhere in the area...let me know!
I have to pick my racquet up from stringing late on Wednesday, so let us plan on 7pm just to be safe. I have only played at the MIT courts before, so I am open to another location if you know of a better one. If not, want to say MIT at 7?
Does Wednesday evening at 6:30 or 7 work for you?
That is such a beautiful backhand you are hitting in that photo!
Hi Francine,
Unfortunately I am out of town this weekend. But I could do sometime next week or weekend if that works for you!
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BEIJING (AP) — The son of a well-known Chinese general was indicted Monday on charges of taking part in a gang rape in a case certain to fuel public anger at abuses by the wealthy and privileged.
Seventeen-year-old Li Tianyi and four others face trial over the incident that allegedly took place at a Beijing hotel in February, according to the website of the official People's Daily newspaper and other state media.
It appears Li is being charged as an adult, although calls to the prosecutors' office in Beijing's Haidian district rang unanswered. If convicted, he could serve from three to 10 years, although the law allows for harsher punishment if the case is considered especially serious.
The baby-faced, slightly pudgy Li is the son of Li Shuangjiang, 72, a general famed for crooning patriotic anthems for the People's Liberation Army and a star of numerous television galas.
The rape charges aren't the younger Li's first brush with the law. He was sentenced to a year in detention in 2011 as a 15-year-old for attacking a couple over a minor traffic dispute and threatening onlookers, in a case that attracted widespread condemnation online.
Li, who was allegedly illegally driving a souped-up BMW at the time, was ridiculed in the media as a spoiled brat and his father was forced to make a public apology for failing to check his son's bad behavior.
Amid anger over corruption and a widening wealth gap, many Chinese have become increasingly impatient with the antics of the "wealthy second generation" seen as using their parents' money and connections to avoid repercussions for illegal or outrageous behavior.


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iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) is the first and the longest running iPhone photography competition beginning in 2007. IPPAWARDS has been celebrating the creativity of the iPhone since the first iPhone has inspired, excited and engaged the users worldwide.Since then every year, IPPAWARDS has selected the best shots among thousands of images submitted by iPhone photographers from 38 countries around the world. Winners are selected by the jury members in several steps and The Photographer of the Year prize awarded. All winners are published online and will be part of The IPPAWARDS Interactive Annual series of books on iTunes. (IPPA.com)
Take a look at the winners' outstanding smart phone snaps.
If you would like to see winners from the past or enter next years competition go to the IPPA.com.


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See it built. See it Fall. Over 5000 KEVA planks, 10 hours of construction. Built at the National Building Museum in Washington DC. It's really quite spectacular. Three minutes.
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The ESV New Classic Reference Bible is a new edition of the first ESV Bible edition ever published in 2001--the ESV Classic Reference Bible. This practical and popular format combines the ESV text with a robust concordance and one of the most comprehensive and useful cross-reference systems available today--more than 80,000 references conveniently located in the center column on each page. This new edition adds 32 pages of full-color maps of Bible lands and illustrations of historic biblical sites, structures, and objects for ready reference and insight. The ESV New Classic Reference Bible's balance of helpful reference features and convenient size make it an ideal Bible for everyday use--at home, at church, at school, and on the road.Size: 5.5" x 8.4375"8.85-point type1,344 pagesDouble-column, paragraph formatRed letter textMore than 80,000 center-column cross-references32 full-color pages of maps and illustrationsIntroductions to each Bible bookExtensive concordanceRibbon markerPresentation pagesSmyth-sewn bindingLifetime quality guarantee on all leather and TruTone(R) editions
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With InterNations, you never stand alone. Whether you move to another city or go on a business trip somewhere — our communities are there to make you feel at home wherever you are in the world. Feel free to also check out our other vibrant InterNations Communities like the ones in Khobar (Eastern Prov.) or Jeddah.
Attend our monthly events and activities for Aberdeen expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
Get trustworthy advice and local insights from fellow members in our Aberdeen expat forums.
Aberdeen has become a huge center for expatriates in recent years due to the explosion of the oil industry, and the rapid growth in other businesses to support it. The old granite town has taken on a new lease of life, with workers from all over the world building their communities in the area and taking advantage of a city of opportunity, which has become the richest city in Scotland and boasts an even higher concentration of millionaires than London.
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A while back I started putting the remaining little bits of all my flours into a jar. Leftover freshly ground oat flour or buckwheat flour, the tablespoon or two of flour at the bottom of the bag, whatever I found in my pantry when I moved - I just mixed it all together. Then I added some xanthan gum and a bit of baking powder to make it like those multi-purpose flour blends you buy in packages. It's like a crazy quilt made of flour and stuffed in a jar, showcasing pretty much every easily-accessible flour and starch on the market.
I believe my mysterious flour mixture contains bits of all of the following...
- freshly ground buckwheat flour
- regular dark buckwheat flour
- amaranth flour
- quinoa flour
- white rice flour
- brown rice flour
- freshly ground brown rice flour
- freshly ground sweet rice flour
- chickpea flour
- coconut flour
- sorghum flour
- millet flour
- teff flour
- freshly ground oat flour
- tapioca starch
- arrowroot starch
- a bit of xanthan gum
Talk about mulit-grain, right? Ridiculous.
I have absolutely no idea what the proportion is on any of it. But I used it to make a loaf of bread a couple weeks ago, and it behaved beautifully! I made a pumpkinseed oatmeal bread with this mix as the main flour, and it was lovely, light, and had a wonderful crumb. See? So good!
But sadly, I have no way of recreating this flour mix, other than relying on the randomness of pantry cleaning, and I have no way of sharing any kind of recipe with you. Tragic! I still have half the jar left, and am excited to try using it for something like cookies or muffins.
Have any of you made similarly crazy quilt flour mixes? How have they worked for you?


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Our body language can tell the world a lot about us. People draw conclusions about how confident or insecure we may be simply through our gestures and posture. But what does our body language say to us? According to Amy Cuddy, psychologist and Harvard Business School professor, we can change our outcomes by simply adjusting the way we carry ourselves.
Through Cuddy's research she has defined what she calls 'power poses.' These poses involve making ourselves big, with outstretched arms and legs. This body language can actually change how we feel by increasing our testosterone production, a hormone that gives us energy and confidence, while decreasing our cortisol levels which is a hormone associated with elevated stress levels.
Cuddy believes that by simply striking a power pose, you can infuse yourself with the confidence and self assurance you need to achieve your goals. She suggests trying these poses before job interviews, speeches or important meetings.
No, you don't have to strut down the street with your hands in the air. But you can find a private space to strike a power pose that Cuddy suggests will inject you with the confidence boost that you need to carry yourself successfully through each day.