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Earnhardt Ganassi Racing will announce the driver that will replace Juan Pablo Montoya next season on Friday, and it appears that it will bring a new driver to the Sprint Cup Series.
EGR has scheduled a press conference for 2:35 p.m. Eastern Friday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway. EGR confirmed a few weeks ago that Montoya will not return to its No. 42 car next season.
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With Sprint Cup Series practice set for 3 p.m. Friday at Atlanta, it would be surprising if a current Sprint Cup driver would be participating in a news conference so close to the start of practice.
That could be a sign that EGR will elevate Kyle Larson from the Nationwide Series to Cup.
Larson, a 21-year-old Nationwide rookie and a standout in sprint cars, is on loan to Turner Scott Motorsports this year while under contract with EGR.
In just his second year of stock-car racing, Larson is eighth in the Nationwide Series standings with six top-five finishes, including two at Bristol, two at Iowa, one at Michigan and one at Charlotte. He also won the truck race at Rockingham earlier this year.
While the common belief in NASCAR circles is that Larson will be the new driver, team owner Chip Ganassi is known to be unconventional, as he was when he brought Montoya from Formula One to NASCAR.
That experiment never produced the results they had hoped as Montoya, the 2000 Indy 500 winner, has just two Cup wins and made the Chase for the Sprint Cup only once in six seasons. Unless he wins the next two races, Montoya will miss the Chase again in 2013. He is 21st in the Cup standings.


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2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Tuning: Part 1Posted in How To: Suspension Brakes on August 19, 2013
Our '01 Grand Cherokee Laredo with the 4.7L V-8 is without a doubt the Jp version of the Griswold family Truckster. All it lacks is fake vinyl wood on the sides. It has many jobs and gets used for everything from running to the store for milk to towing a trailer. And just for good measure, we like to toss in a little desert adventuring with a mix of high-speed assaults in dry washes and slow crawling on rocky twisty trails with the A/C blowing and the Jeep fully loaded. Add to that our general lack of maintenance and refusal to make repairs unless absolutely necessary, and the truth is that our poor Grand Cherokee lives a hard life, but somehow keeps on trucking.
So far we have modified the Jeep with a 6-inch Clayton Off Road long-arm suspension with Bilstein 5160-series shocks, a passel of JKS front end components including swaybar disconnects, a tie rod, and an adjustable track bar. We also added an NP242J out of an XJ Cherokee and later modified it with a custom driveshaft and slip-yoke eliminator. The fiberglass winch bumper with an old yet reliable Ramsey winch haven't been given any quarter. Overall, we've been pretty happy with the WJ and all the modifications we've made, but honestly, it sits a bit high for our tastes. More than one family member has complained about it being too tall when climbing in or falling out, and that's not good since it's not a single seater. We like low-lift Jeeps and are of the opinion that an overly tall suspension lift is a quick and dirty way to fit larger tires on a Jeep that could sit lower with a little bit of planned trimming and suspension tuning.
We have always wanted to run Clayton Off Road's 4.5-inch long-arm suspension on our WJ, but when we lifted the Jeep for 33s over a year ago, we were not quite ready to cut up the rear wheelwells of our still-shiny and new (to us) WJ. Running 33s and 4.5 inches of lift is possible, but you have to make some room for the tires so that they can have uptravel. Since then, we have driven the Jeep enough to knock the new off of it and have added some Arizona pinstriping and maybe even a small dent or two. This, along with the consistent commentary from our family as they hopped aboard our desert adventure vehicle, and we decided to get to cutting and lowering our WJ. We also wanted to tune the suspension by playing around with a set of Daystar Stinger bumpstops to see if we could make the WJ even smoother in the bumps. We also knew that we needed to address one fairly major problem—the front coil springs had fallen out of their perches more than once in flexy areas of the trails when the swaybar was disconnected. Follow along as we trim, tuck, and graft new parts to our Grand Cherokee for better performance on- and off-road.

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September 11, 2013. Mentor Graphics announced at the International Test Conference that Renesas Electronics is using the Tessent Hybrid TestKompress/LogicBIST solution to address safety-critical test requirements defined by the ISO 26262 standard. The hybrid technique requires significantly less test logic to provide a complete solution including both high-compression scan test for low defects per million (DPM) and built-in self-test (BIST). Mentor's hybrid test capability is suitable for high-reliability applications in the automotive and other industries.
"The combination of compressed scan test and logic BIST gives Renesas a high-quality solution for both production test and power-on self-test, which is required by the ISO 26262 standard in the automotive industry," said Toshiharu Asaka, chief professional of the Design Automation Department, System Integration Business Division at Renesas Electronics. "By adopting Mentor's integrated solution rather than separate ATPG compression and BIST implementations, Renesas further simplifies its DFT implementation flow, which reduces the die area needed for test logic, saves developer time, and accelerates time-to-market."
The Tessent Hybrid TestKompress/LogicBIST solution delivers in-the-field system self test complemented by compressed ATPG to achieve the highest test quality, even where the tester memory and interface are limited, such as during burn-in test. The solution generates LBIST logic integrated with embedded compression logic, and automatically generates targeted "top up" patterns compressed by 100X or more to complement the LBIST pseudorandom patterns. The hybrid solution can reduce production test time and cost, while delivering low DPM and an in-system test capability.
"The Tessent hybrid methodology is one of the most effective ways to reduce test cost and test time for IC products that require very thorough testing on the production line, as well as self-test capabilities after being placed into service," said Joseph Sawicki, vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon division at Mentor Graphics. "As a bonus, designers also save on the amount of logic required to implement these test functions and also enjoy a simplified implementation process."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Henry Waxman, one of Congress' fiercest negotiators and a policy expert on everything from clean air to health care, will retire at the end of the year after four decades in the House.
"It's time for someone else to have the chance to make his or her mark," the liberal California Democrat said in a statement announcing he won't seek re-election.
"I never imagined I would be in the House for 40 years and be able to advance every issue I care deeply about," he added. "It has been an extraordinary experience."
Not one, however, without a degree of disillusionment.
In his 3 ½-page statement, Waxman explicitly condemned conservative House Republicans elected in 2010. "I abhor the extremism of the Tea Party," he said, adding he's "embarrassed that the greatest legislative body in the world too often operates in a partisan intellectual vacuum, denying science, refusing to listen to experts, and ignoring facts."
But the mustachioed, bespectacled congressman made clear he's not running from the institution. He said he's not leaving out of frustration, nor because he thinks minority Democrats don't have a chance at regaining the House majority. But he stopped short of predicting they'll do it in this year's mid-term elections.
Waxman, 74, was elected during the post-Watergate class of 1974 and represents perhaps the nation's most glamorous district, including the movie star havens of Bel Air, Brentwood and Malibu.
Over the next 20 terms in Congress, he established himself as one of the House's leading liberals but one who would negotiate with other lawmakers to win passage of bills to help nursing home patients, HIV/AIDS victims and better ensure food safety. He worked with Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch to pass major legislation that opened up the market for generic drugs, and collaborated closely for decades with the Republican who occupies Waxman's former seat at the helm of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"Despite our policy differences, Henry Waxman and I have forged a friendship and respect for one another," said the panel's current chairman, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.
Few lawmakers have left a stamp on as many areas of the sprawling, complex health care system as Waxman has done. He chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee hearings that helped produce President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
Earlier in his career he chaired hearings exposing tobacco company executives as being well aware of the risks of cigarette smoking even as they crafted ad campaigns that featured characters appealing to children. That laid the foundation for closer federal regulation, which the industry at first fought, but now has grudgingly accepted.
Waxman also worked for decades to expand health insurance for low-income people, focusing his efforts on Medicaid. His work is seen as a big part of the reason that the federal-state partnership is now the largest health care program. Medicaid covers more than 1 in 5 Americans, from pregnant women and children, to severely disabled people, to elderly nursing home residents. The new health care law features a Medicaid expansion geared toward low-income adults with no children living at home, a group that previously was left out of the program in most states.
Waxman was also a champion of environmental causes. He was one of the chief architects behind a 1990 upgrade to air pollution laws, and in 2009, along with then Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, co-wrote the only bill to control global warming to have passed the House. The legislation, backed by the Obama administration, died in the Senate.
Since the GOP takeover of the House, Waxman has been a vocal counterpoint on their efforts to curtail EPA's authority and thwart the President Barack Obama's efforts to use executive powers to curb global warming.
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When hysteria and satire meet
Satire is tricky. It makes its point by exaggerating wildly with a straight face. In inflating a thing beyond all common sense or propriety, it seeks to render inconsistencies and hypocrisies glaringly apparent. Satire seeks truth in the ridiculous. For illustration, see any given episode of The Colbert Report.
What makes satire difficult is that sometimes, people don't realize they are being had. Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, for instance, had some convinced he wanted to eat babies; they didn't realize he was actually attacking people's blithe unconcern with the plight of the poor. For that matter, when All In the Family came along 2½ centuries later, some folks saw Archie as the soul of reason.
I have experience in this. Some years back, I satirized a study that said many Americans feel news media routinely get the facts wrong. In a column "defending" media accuracy, I made misstatements so grandiose -- Bob Hope was host of the Tonight Show; Quincy Jones was his bandleader -- I thought no one could miss my point.
Silly me. I got hundreds of e-mails "correcting" my supposed errors.'
So I feel the New Yorker's pain. The magazine is under fire for a cover illustration depicting Barack Obama in the Oval Office wearing a turban, bumping fists with his wife, Michelle, who wears an Afro, fatigues and has an assault rifle slung over her shoulder. Osama bin Laden watches from a portrait on the wall. An American flag burns in the fireplace.
A touch of ridiculousness
The Obama and McCain campaigns have pronounced the cover offensive. There have been calls for a boycott.
Me, I like the cover. It strikes me as an incisive comment on the fear mongering that has attended Obama's run for the presidency. Still, I understand why it is incendiary: some of us will take it seriously.
To be effective, satire needs a situation it can inflate into ridiculousness. But the hysteria surrounding Obama has nowhere to go; it is already ridiculous. In just the last few days, we've had Jesse Jackson threatening to castrate him and John McLaughlin calling him an "Oreo."
Add to that the whispers about Obama's supposed Muslim heritage (not that there's anything wrong with that), the "terrorist" implications of bumping fists, and Michelle Obama's purported use of the term "whitey" (a word no black person has uttered since The Jeffersons went off the air in 1985), and it's clear that "ridiculous" has become our default status. What once were punchlines now are headlines.
So, as absurd, as over the top, as utterly outlandish as the New Yorker image strikes the more sophisticated among us, there is a large fringe out there for whom it will represent nothing more or less than the sum of their fears.
Indeed, as I sat down to write these words, there beeped into my mailbox an e-mail with this subject line: "WOW, The New Yorker got it exactly right, for once." Said without a trace of irony.
But increasingly, that's who we are in this country: ignorant, irony-impaired and petrified. So maybe we should just cancel the campaign and ask that the last intelligent person turn off the lights when he or she leaves. And bring the last book with you. Nobody here will need it.
Somewhere between the stained blue dress and the vice president shooting a guy in the face, between swift boat lies and "war on terra" alibis, the absurd became the ordinary, facts became optional and satire became superfluous.
We are beyond satire, my friends. These days, there's nothing more ridiculous than the truth.


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William Gillette had it right when he was writing his will regarding the future of his castle on the banks of the Connecticut River. He wrote his "castle in the sky" should never be in the "possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded."
The words come to mind whenever I visit Gillette's Castle State Park on top of the southernmost Seven Sisters Hills in East Haddam and Lyme. My visit usually begins through the main gate that winds its way to the castle built by Gillette, an actor, director and playwright who often portrayed Sherlock Holmes. Many come to enjoy the spendor of not only the castle, but its picturesque grounds that include a lily pond and whimsical bridge, and the trails that follow the abandoned 3-mile narrow-gauge railroad that operated around his 184-acre estate in the 1920s and 1930s.
But the best way to visit the grounds of the nearly century-old castle is by boat – the circa-1769 Chester-Hadlyme ferry that once connected the King's Highway to Norwich Road. As in get-out-of-your-car-and-hop-on-the-ferry-and-walk visit. With the U.S. flag on top of the ferry snapping in the stiff breeze, I make my way to the front for the quick five-minute ride across the river, the castle looming high above and stellar views up and down the river.
After being dropped off on the Lyme side, I take a quick side trip through a picnic area and along a sandy beach. Watch out for the wakes of big boats, as their waves crash along the shore and gobble up much of the narrow beach. The remains of Aunt Polly, a houseboat Gillette lived on during the five years it took to build his castle, can be seen at low tide.
An unmarked access trail takes visitors from the beach to the bottom of a huge rock ledge known as the Hebron Gneiss formation, upon which the castle sits. Side trails take visitors out to an overlook with sweeping views of the Connecticut River. Each time I come, I try and find an old broken trestle railroad bridge you can see from the river, but the ruggedness of the area prevents its discovery.
The southern entrance is marked by a series of rustic stone staircases and an old carriage road lined with beautiful stone walls. The steep road brings visitors to an outcropping and eventually to the castle's southern overlook and its panoramic views of the river.
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A mile walk along Route 148 will give visitors an appreciation of Whalebone Cove – a huge swath of tidal marshes and home to one of the largest stands of wild rice in the state. The bright green stalks with yellowish tops sway in the wind and blend into the horizon of twisting channels and distant forests. Although a canoe or kayak showcases the cove best, the hike along the road has splendid views of what The Nature Conservancy calls the "most undisturbed and biologically significant freshwater tidal marshes on the Connecticut River." The old 1826 Cove Cemetery is also a must-see, with neat old stones.
This time, I never saw the ghostly bones of Aunt Polly. My search for the railroad bridge ruins came up empty. Again. But I know where I was and what surrounded me. And after each visit, I discover a new appreciation for the castle in the sky.
The ferry is located at the end of Route 148 off Route 154 in Chester. There is a small parking area at the ferry landing. Visit http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/stateparks/maps/gillettecastlemap.pdf for a map of the castle.
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The Los Angeles County Coroner has classified the death of a Pico Rivera man shot by deputies as a homicide, according to a coroner's spokesperson.
The coroner's office lists 54-year-old Pico Rivera resident Frank Mendoza's cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds and classified it as a homicide, according to Ed Winter, public information officer for the coroner's office. A homicide ruling from the coroner's office does not mean the deputy will face charges.
The release comes before a 10 a.m. press conference at the sheriff's headquarters where Sheriff John Scott will discuss the shooting and the autopsy results. Winter indicated the coroner's report has yet to be finished and will not be available for several days. Sheriff's department detectives were present during the autopsy, Winter said.
Mendoza died in a shoot out between deputies and a parolee Aug. 1. The incident started during a stop of a wanted man, Cedric Ramirez, 24. Ramirez opened fire on deputies and broke into the Mendoza's home. Deputies evacuated an adult and two children before Ramirez appeared in a hallway and shot at them. Deputies retreated from the gunfire before Mendoza stepped through the front doorway, where he was shot by deputies believing he was Ramirez, according to sheriff's officials.
Mendoza was pronounced dead at the scene.
Residents and officials in Pico Rivera expressed outrage and grief Wednesday. Some called on the sheriff's department to hold the deputy who killed Mendoza accountable for the shooting.
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JINAN, China (Reuters) - China charged disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai with bribery, abuse of power and corruption on Thursday, paving the way for a potentially divisive trial that President Xi Jinping will want smoothly handled as he pushes major economic reforms.
Bo, 64, could appear in a court in the eastern city of Jinan in Shandong province within weeks, capping the country's biggest political scandal since the 1976 downfall of the Gang of Four at the end of the Cultural Revolution. He has not been seen in public for 17 months.
Xi, who formally took power in March, will be eager to put the Bo scandal behind him and have unstinted support from the Communist Party as he embarks on an ambitious rebalancing of the world's second-largest economy.
But the trial of Bo, a charismatic and well-loved leader to some and a power-hungry politician to others, could sharpen rifts.
Bo's ouster exposed deep disagreements in the party between his leftist backers, who are nostalgic for the revolutionary era of Mao Zedong, and reformers, who advocate faster political and economic reforms.
Bo committed serious crimes and will be indicted on the charges of bribery, embezzlement and power abuse, state news agency Xinhua quoted the indictment as saying. He had been informed of his legal rights and interviewed by prosecutors, it said.
Bo, as a civil servant, took advantage of his position to seek profits for others and accepted an "extremely large amount" of money and properties, Xinhua said.
"No matter who you are, whether you have a high or low position, you will be severely punished if you break the law," state media cited Friday's People's Daily as saying in an editorial.
"Bo Xilai's indictment again shows that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law ... and nobody has special rights," it said.
Bo is certain to be found guilty. His wife, Gu Kailai, and his former police chief, Wang Lijun, have both been convicted and jailed over the scandal, which stems from the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
The government in September last year accused Bo of corruption and of bending the law to hush up the murder.
China's prosecutors and courts come under Communist Party control and they are unlikely to challenge the party's previous accusations.
Still, there were no really explosive charges, like plotting a coup, indicating the party wants to move on and not let Bo distract or deeply split them, said Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at Hong Kong's City University.
"This tells us there has been a lot of lobbying behind the scenes to perhaps protect Bo from the death penalty and also limit any broader damage," Cheng said. "I think the authorities would like to keep this low profile."
State television's main evening news focused on the clean-up after an earthquake this week in remote Gansu province, in contrast to some previous announcements on the Bo case which topped the widely watched bulletin.
But the government does appear concerned about the public reaction to Bo and any fallout, and Xinhua called on people to support the Communist Party's decision.
"Often after problematic officials are rooted out, we see the media looking back wistfully at their time in office saying how they dedicated themselves to the people," the agency said in a commentary about the charges against Bo. "Success may be success, but mistakes are mistakes."
Xi, however, has shown no sign of any anxiety, appearing relaxed during a tour of central Hubei province this week, where he called for a deepening of reforms to meet economic challenges.
"The higher levels in the party will most probably already have reached a compromise about Bo Xilai so as not to harm the party's fundamental interests or allow there to be any challenges to the new leadership team," said Zhang Lifan, a Beijing-based political commentator and historian.
Many analysts say it is unlikely Bo would receive the death penalty. They expect the court to hand down a suspended death sentence, which effectively means life in prison, although the term can be reduced to 15 or 20 years.
"It would be immensely controversial if they executed him, it'll be inconsistent with Xi Jinping's efforts to move people forward and unite people and calm things down," Jerome Cohen, a law professor from New York University and an expert in Chinese law, said before the indictment.
Prosecutors in Jinan indicted Bo, Xinhua said, meaning the trial will take place there.
Bo's lawyers, Li Guifang and Wang Zhaofeng, did not respond to request for comment. Government and court officials in Jinan could not be reached.
About two dozen uniformed and plainclothes police officers hovered around the gates of the main courthouse in Jinan, but there were no signs that the trial was imminent.
Xinhua did not say when Bo's trial would start. But according to Chinese law, charges must be served to the defendant and lawyers at least 10 days before a trial begins.
A source with direct knowledge of the case said no definite time had been set for the trial.
Since becoming Communist Party boss in November, and president in March, Xi has made battling corruption a key objective of his administration, warning that the problem is so severe it could threaten the party's survival.
Analysts say how the trial will be carried out will reflect the government's willingness to promote legal reform.
"If the trial is extremely cursory and raises more questions than answers, it will be a bad signal for legal reform and the role the party intends to give to the law," said Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.
"If someone is tried in a very suspicious manner, people will draw a conclusion that this was a political fight that this person lost and was disposed of."
After his appointment as party chief of Chongqing in 2007, Bo turned it into a showcase of revolution-inspired "red" culture and his policies for egalitarian, state-led growth. He also won national attention with a crackdown on organized crime.
His brash self-promotion irked some leaders. But his populist ways and crime clean-up were welcomed by many of Chongqing's 30 million residents, as well as others who hoped that Bo could take his leftist-shaded policies nationwide.
Bo has been accused of receiving more than 20 million yuan ($3.26 million) in bribes and embezzling another 5 million yuan, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday. That is about a third of the amount the government accused former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, of accepting in bribes. Liu was given a suspended death sentence this month.
Additional reporting by Sui-Lee Wee, Hui Li, Ben Blanchard, Lucy Hornby and Reuters Television in BEIJING and Greg Torode in HONG KONG; Writing by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Robert Birsel


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Kurds clash with extremists in northern Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Sunday between an extremist group and Kurdish gunmen in northern Syria, activists said, adding that jihadis have captured a dozen fighters.
Kurdish fighters and jihadis have been fighting each other since last year and clashes between the two sides intensified earlier this month after jihadis started using weapons recently captured from government forces in neighboring Iraq.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Turkey-based Kurdish activist Mustafa Osso said the clashes concentrated in the region of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab.
The Observatory said 12 Kurdish fighters have been missing since Saturday during battles with the Islamic State group. Osso confirmed jihadis captured "a number of fighters."
Barzan Isso, a Kurdish journalist in Kobani, said officials have received photographs of eight dead Kurdish fighters. He said it is not clear if they were captured alive and killed later.
The clashes come after the Islamic State group seized territories straddling Syria and neighboring Iraq and declared a self-styled Islamic caliphate. Most of the land was seized in June during a push across Iraq. They captured large amounts of weapons left behind by Iraqi troops including U.S.-made armored personnel carriers, Humvees and artillery.
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, making up more than 10 percent of the country's prewar population of 23 million. They are centered in the impoverished northeastern province of Hassakeh, wedged between the borders of Turkey and Iraq.
Syria's conflict that began in March 2011 has killed more than 170,000 people, activists say.
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Republican candidate for governor Meg Whitman has been blanketing the television airwaves with ads for months as she spends her personal wealth on her campaign.
Now her opponent Jerry Brown is getting in on the ad buy as we come to the finish line of the campaign which is just two weeks away.
Brown's television message of the day Tuesday was attempt to tie Whitman to the very unpopular Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It shows Whitman making the same type of claims about her business experience, independence and leadership style as Schwarzenegger did when he was running for governor.
Having seen the ad for herself, Whitman had an answer to it during an appearance in Oakland Tuesday. She said some of the comparisons were true, but only to a point. She quickly added that Schwarzenegger "missed a lot of key things" because he was primarily an actor and investor.
There is no love lost between Schwarzenegger and Whitman. Although he is a Republican, he has not endorsed Whitman. Whitman has been critical of his handling of the budget in most campaign stump speeches.


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Time to put speakers on routers. I bet they sound like really fast dial-up modems or something. The blinky-blinky of the fiber light probably sounds like Morse code.
If you can afford a car, you can pretty much avoid being subjected to 'random' searches.
I wonder if they got HOMEFRONT!
I guess this means that Amazon is also performing anti-trust scraping when they show products offered by other sites or online stores on their pages.
This will go unnoticed. The Government, including the CIA, are too busy having wet daydreams about affairs than caring about terrorist attacks and platter served intel.
Mute point. Now had this been an electronic sign capable of being updated via the internet using a touchscreen that scrolled and snapped back when you get to the end of the page, then someone's going to pay!
Who had the other 10% of the iPad market?
In order to extradite, they would have to claim copyright infringement on the manuals or something. They could however, claim infringement on another patent and sue to have all GPS devices in the UK banned for sale. Who says watching Apple and Samsung isn't a learning experience?!
Is this not similar to the Belgian Newspaper and Google delisting episode?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110508/16543114199/belgian-appeals-court-says-google- must-pay-up-linking-to-newspaper-websites.shtml
Quick shutdown the campaign website, freeze all assets, and delete the data within a week or two.
Maybe he should use the RIAA's math and sue them for lost wages. I mean, how could they debunk the numbers that they use to calculate damages for their payouts when they're used against them?!
Your post hit when your ISP ran a test run of the SOPA/PIPA internet scrubber to check for infringing content. Since yours was free of infringement, they posted it two extra times for you to reward your good behavior.
Why stop? Might as well keep the pressure on. That's what Lobbyists do. We may not have the cash floating around, but constantly making contact forces them into a whole 'squeaky wheel gets the grease' situation.
The search engines could respond by filtering all the RIAA and MPAA links in their databases. Reply to questions why it's gone...well there was this guy that said that he owned this line of code in the source of your HTML and it fell under his copyright. So, we had to remove all of your sites that had this comment in them...
I always thought it was Company, but your post made me second guess myself. So I googled "LLC". I don't know which is more credible... Wikipedia or a Government run agency, so I put both. They both say the same thing.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/sm all/article/0,,id=98277,00.html
I even googled Limited Liability Corporation and all the links were pointing to Limited Liability Company.
However, your comment pointed me to the similarities between the two, so I'm sure it could be overlooked and then treated as a Corporation anyway.
Well I did put in a URL but it's not showing underlined....
pay fees ordered by court links to:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110927/22251216119/righthaven-desperately-trying-to-avoid-pa ying-legal-fees.shtml
Good thing Righthaven is an LLC and not a Corporation. Otherwise, since the Gov thinks corporations are people, the court could issue a WARRANT for Righthaven.
Then all we have to do is wait for Righthaven to be caught speeding. Or maybe they'd use Dog Chapman for bail bond since they cannot pay fees ordered by court and we see them running scared on A&E.
Now with this statement...."No "file hosting", no "video hosting", no "lockers", but an actual host where you decide 100% what is seen when people access your files - and you pay for the hosting."
Exactly how will you be able to create either of your examples. Without hosting "FILES" you cannot have a website displayed. What if I want to allow "VIDEO HOSTING" or "STORAGE SPACE"? I get to "...decide 100% what is seen when people access [MY] files - and [I] pay for the hosting."
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In addition, a Litigation Tax equal to some percentage of the agreed settlement or award in a case regardless of outcome and paid by the owner. This tax would then have to exempted from costs that can be sued for. Sure you can get attorney fees, but paying for your tax, that's on you.


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PSV Eindhoven knocked FC Twente off top spot in the Eredivisie with a 3-0 win over their title rivals.
Georgino Wijnaldum set the hosts on their way in the 38th minute and they wrapped up the win with two late goals. Tim Matavz doubled the lead 10 minutes from time and Luciano Narsingh added a third two minutes later.
The win moved PSV two points ahead of Twente and Vitesse Arnhem, who missed the chance to go top as they went down 3-1 at struggling VVV Venlo.
The visitors went in front through Marco van Ginkel after 10 minutes, but substitute Yuki Otsu levelled in the 40th minute, just five minutes after coming on. Brian Linssen put the hosts in front 10 minutes into the second half and Robert Cullen sealed the upset 10 minutes from time.
Fifth-placed Feyenoord were left five points off top spot following a 2-2 draw at relegation-threatened NAC Breda, with both teams finishing the game with 10 men.
Graziano Pelle put the Rotterdammers ahead after five minutes, but Kees Luyckx equalised after 23 minutes and the visitors suffered another setback six minutes later when they had Darryl Janmaat sent off.
The match swung back in Feyenoord's favour when NAC had Eric Botteghin dismissed in the 73rd minute and Lex Immers put the visitors in front, but Nemanja Gudelj made it 2-2 within two minutes as the spoils were shared.
Second-bottom Roda JC came from 4-2 down with seven minutes to go to draw 4-4 at Heerenveen. Rajiv van la Parra's second goal of the game put Heerenveen two up in the 81st minute, but Sanharib Malki, with his second, made it 4-3 two minutes later and substitute Guus Hupperts equalised in the last minute.
Filip Djuricic had put Heerenveen 1-0 up only for Malki to equalise in the 36th minute. Van la Parra made it 2-1 to Heerenveen five minutes before the break and Alfred Finnbogason extended their lead nine minutes after it.
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DJI Spark Fly More Combo - Lava Red
DJI has today (Friday 27th July 2018) advised us that they are completely out of stock of the single unit DJI Spark. Some Combos are still available but we do not know for how long. We don't know if the Spark will be replaced with another model, although it is highly likely, and we do not know when it at all. We suggest that if you want a Spark that you jump all over the Spark Combo's that are currently on clearance pricing. Otherwise it might be a Mavic Air?
Update. 5pm 15th November 2017. Just received an email from DJI. They are running a promo starting immediately on the DJI SPARK Fly More Combo. We have dropped the price for you.
Plenty of DJI Spark Fly More stock around now as DJI has caught up with supply.
Will the DJI Spark be the "Dad, let's go half each" kinda drone? I reckon it will be as DJI grabs the younger market and Dads being the big kid that we all love to be (even if silently) will take the leap into the ever growing world of the Drone.
The DJI Spark Fly More Combo includes; Spark Controller, Charging Hub and hub power supply, a set of spare propellers, propeller guards, and a spare flight battery (for a total of two).
Meet Spark, a mini drone that features all of DJI's signature technologies, allowing you to seize the moment whenever you feel inspired. With intelligent flight control options, a mechanical gimbal, and a camera with incredible image quality, Spark empowers you to push your creative boundaries.
Spark is a mini drone that features all of DJI's signature technologies, allowing you to seize the moment whenever you feel inspired
With FaceAware, Spark lifts off from your hand by recognizing your face.1 It takes off and hovers in place within seconds of powering on. Take amazing aerial photos using just hand gestures, without a remote controller or mobile device
Intelligent Flight Modes and intuitive controls help you create cinematic aerial videos with just a few taps. The DJI GO 4 app features automatic editing templates and an array of filters. Quickly edit videos and share them straight to social media.
Let Spark take professional shots for you. QuickShots help you shoot amazing footage with cinematic composition.
Rocket: Ascend with the camera pointing downward.
Dronie: Fly backward and upward, with the camera locked on your subject.
Circle: Circle around your target.
Helix: Fly upward, spiraling around your subject.
In TapFly mode, just envision your shot and Spark captures it for you. Tap your phone screen and Spark, using vision technology, flies in the direction of your tap or exactly where you tapped while actively sensing obstacles. Capture shot after shot with just your fingertips.
With ActiveTrack, Spark automatically recognizes objects of different shapes and sizes then tracks them according to what they are and how fast they move. This makes tracking much easier and more reliable.
Deep learning gesture recognition allows you to take selfies with simple hand motions. With PalmControl mode, control Spark's movement by hand. If you want, leave your remote controller and phone at home.
Spark's 2-axis mechanical gimbal and UltraSmooth technology dramatically reduce shake and rolling shutter effect, keeping shots stable and detailed.
All Spark images are consistently sharp and vivid with very little color aberration and distortion. Spark's camera has an f/2.6 wide-angle lens with a 25 mm equivalent focal length. Five elements are arranged into a single group that fit into a compressed frame.
Small and compact, Spark's camera features a 1/2.3 inch CMOS sensor, allowing you to shoot stabilized video at 1080p and stills at 12 MP. Larger pixels mean Spark is acutely sensitive to light and records colors precisely.
Spark adopts all previous DJI drone shooting modes while adding two new modes: Pano and ShallowFocus.
Spark shoots horizontal or vertical panoramas by automatically adjusting its gimbal and heading.
3D vision technology helps capture photos with a shallow depth of field.
With its aerodynamic, lightweight, and slick design, Spark soars through the air with minimal wind resistance. The gimbal and camera are flush with the aircraft, significantly increasing stability. Powerful propulsion offers steady flight in strong winds at up to 50 kph in Sport Mode. And an advanced flight control system means flying Spark is fun and intuitive.
Innovative HD Wi-Fi technology allows for 720p real-time video transmission from up to 1.2 mi (2 km) away.
Even with all of Spark's intelligent features, flight time isn't compromised. Fly for up to 16 minutes with a fully-charged battery, capturing more footage.
Switch to Sport Mode and unleash Spark's speed potential. Sport Mode sets the gimbal mode to FPV by default, so the camera moves with you as you fly. For an upgraded FPV experience, pick up a pair of DJI Goggles and see a different world.
Spark's FlightAutonomy system includes the main camera, vision positioning system (VPS), 3D sensing system, dual-band GPS, high-precision inertial measurement unit, and 24 powerful computing cores. This allows Spark to hover accurately anywhere with VPS assistance at up to 30 m, sense obstacles from up to 5 m away, and land safely.
Like all recent DJI drones, Spark can return to its home point automatically with sufficient GPS signal. If the battery gets too low, connection is lost, or you hit the Return to Home (RTH) button, Spark flies back to the preset home point while sensing obstacles in its path. Spark's downward-facing camera captures images of the area surrounding the home point and references these images during RTH for a safe landing.
DJI's GEO system lets you know where drone flights may raise safety or security concerns, such as near airports or stadiums. This provides the information needed to fly Spark safely and responsibly.
Spark uses a high energy density LiPo battery for optimal performance. 12 intelligent protection functions help deliver safe flight. Additionally, Spark's battery estimates remaining flight time, letting you know when to land in real time.
The DJI Spark - Fly More Combo comes with a full DJI Australian warranty.Cameras Direct since 2003. Pop into our Gold Coast camera store & warehouse or order online. We look forward to being at your SERVICE Australia wide. We look forward to helping you take a better photo soon. Thank you
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|Raw File Capable
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|Built-in Flash
|Image Stabilisation
|Fastest Shutter Speed
|1/8000 s
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|12 Months
|Microphone Input Jack
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|Still Image Recording
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|LiPo 3S - 11.4 V - 1480 mAh
|Built-In Mic
|Built-In Light
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|1480 mAh - INTELLIGENT FLIGHT BATTERY
|Maximum Video Resolution
|Self Timer Function
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|12 megapixels
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|Video: 100-3200 | Photo: 100-1600
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|3 fps
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text: Yoga with Andrea Tuesday, February 13, 2018 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 18:00 19:00 Google Calendar ICS Join us at BDP for an energizing, vibrant, upbeat yoga class Tuesdays from 6-7 pm with Andrea Golchuk. This class will be a blend of power yoga and cardio-intensive dance. Give yourself this hour and get an all in one workout, revitalize your body and clear away any bad energy. Come and join us on this journey!


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While it may seem like a luxury, you will soon find that having power reclining furniture and its customized position capability is a necessity for your home. Customized motion means that you can stop the recliner seat and back with simultaneous movement at whatever position best suits you, whether you need to soothe back pain or sit up and eat a snack while you watch TV. Gentle, power motion is suitable for all levels of mobility, and is as easy to use as a single touch.
Use the built-in console to store remotes, chargers and other small items that could easily get lost in the depths of cushions. With this hidden storage you are able to keep your living room organized while always knowing where to find essential items.
Keep your drink within reach as you enjoy a movie, your favorite TV show or a sporting event. Having built in cup holders also helps eliminate spills and stains in your living room as you don't have to keep your beverage by your feet on the floor.
Unlike recliners that are built with a two or three-piece seat and leg rest cushion, this recliner has a single chaise cushion that extends from the seat to the feet. This style offers fuller comfort and support for your legs, and eliminates the open gap that toddlers can get fingers or toys stuck in.
This casual, family-friendly loveseat has an automotive inspired design with double needle stitching on faux leather. Two recliners on each end offer satisfying comfort for everybody. Upgrade to power recline for easy, unlimited positioning. Loveseat features our Comfor-Gel cushions with pocketed coils and cooling memory foam. Comfor-Gel provides enveloping comfort and a longer lifespan for your furniture.
The Catalina Casual Power Reclining Loveseat with Cupholder Storage Console by Catnapper at AHFA in the area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Share the love with comfy recliners for the whole family. Order a full living room set or get our sectional wedge to join the pieces into a modular sectional sofa. The soft, plush design and handsome faux leather upholstery will make this collection an instant hit.
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Skyline Creek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
AB Solutions (code name)
AB Solutions (ABS) is a start-up that offers SAAS financial services applications to start-ups and mid-sized businesses. ABS provides powerful applications that are easy to use and allow financial managers to spend their time developing insights rather than wading through data details and crunching numbers. The first application in the ABS application suite is a collaborative financial management tool called AB Product (ABP).
AB Product is best described as "Excel meets Facebook". ABP is a next generation spreadsheet that instantly provides accurate and up to date information while allowing financial managers to share and distribute the information to stakeholders in their professional network.
This contest is to design the home page, the registration page and the product information page of the ABS website. The home page is the most critical and should set the design tone for the additional pages. (Less effort should be spent on the registration and product information pages.) Since only the ABP application will be available to start, the ABS website design should focus on ABP yet be extensible as additional applications are brought online.
Follow on work may be available on design extensions.
The ABP application is B2B and our customers are CEOs of early stage start-ups, CFOs/Controllers of medium-sized businesses, investors in early stage start-ups, and attorneys who advise such companies. The website should "speak" to these people in a pleasant and professional, not stuffy, manner.
ABP offers several key benefits for our target audience, as follows. Each of these messages should be incorporated into the message banner on the home page. Further, each message should be given a single box on the home page for further explanation.
• Easy to manage: "Keep your financials accurate and up to date, at all times."
• Take control, understand, real time: "Spend your time distilling insights, not crunching data."
• Secure: "Rest assured your encrypted data cannot be hacked."
• Power of collaboration: "Securely share your financials with your network of stakeholders."
We are looking to create a site that:
• Has a clean, professional, progressive, easy-to-use and trusted look.
• Informs and enables sign-up for ABP without seeming "sale-sy".
• Can be extended as additional ABS applications come online.
• Unifies the site pages with the ABP application.
The design of the site should:
• Have a modern aesthetic that connotes a cool, urbane, clear-cut and functional experience. (By way of example, our team likes the subtle background grid, clean appearance and sparing use of color on this site: http://www.codesion.com.)
• Evoke adjectives such as "rational, intellectual, progressive, exact, lively, open, friendly and healthy".
• Echo the attached application colors (or refine them to your liking as the application colors are not yet final). Presently the colors in use are grey (#F7F7F7 to #B6B5B5), white, varying shades of yellow (#EEE7CB to #FDEDAD to #FBCB57), and sapphire blue (#BBCFEB to #779ED5). The more vivid colors should be used to call attention to key site actions.
• Appeal to our audience without feeling like a consumer site (too casual or frivolous) or an enterprise site (too stuffy). (For example, incorporating graphics rather than clip art images of smiling professionals would be our preference.)
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10th Annual Summer Concert Series: 24 Seven Band
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This free concert series features cover performances of the hits from '70s, '80s and '90s including artists Bon Jovi, Journey, Bryan Adams, AC/DC and many more. Attendees must bring their own lawn chairs and blankets. The first 100 attendees receive a complimentary fold-up tote. A wide range of food choices will be on site including California Pizza Kitchen, Jamba Juice, Corner Bakery Cafe, Starbucks, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and more.


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ECTOPIC PREGNANCY and AMITIZAPatientsVille
ECTOPIC PREGNANCY Symptoms and Causes
The uterus, or womb, is the place where a baby grows when a woman is pregnant. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg grows in the wrong place, outside the uterus, usually in the fallopian tubes. The result is usually a miscarriage.
Ectopic pregnancy can be a medical emergency if it ruptures. Signs of ectopic pregnancy include
Get medical care right away if you have these signs. Doctors use drugs or surgery to remove the ectopic tissue so it doesn't damage your organs. Many women who have had ectopic pregnancies go on to have healthy pregnancies later.
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Tips for New Collectors
by Forbes Maner, Delaware Antiques Show
Committee Member
What's the difference between a collector and a pack rat? Focus, knowledge, enthusiasm, and discipline. The chase is also half the fun. Are you a collector?
If you are new to collecting, you might consider the following rules of thumb, based on the experience of people who have been collecting antiques for many years.
1. Collect what you enjoy.
2. Make a mistake.
3. Do your homework.
4. Buy the best you can afford.
5. Don't buy an "investment."
6. Don't be shy.
7. Protect your collection.
8. Ignore the rules.
9. Have fun!


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Dez Bryant might not be in Jerry Jones' doghouse, but the Dallas Cowboys' troubled wide receiver definitely is on a very short leash.
Bryant has enjoyed an excellent training camp to date, abusing the Cowboys' secondary and generally looking like the freakish physical talent that enticed the team to draft him with its first-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft. But Jones clearly remains agitated by Bryant's arrest last month.
"I'm seeing him do what you almost expect from him," Jones said Sunday, via Tim MacMahon of ESPN.com. "What I want him to do is, and we want to do, is be able to do that all year long, all game long. That hasn't happened. He's disappeared at the end of some ballgames, and then we haven't had at him because of injury in the season."
Jones appeared to step back from earlier comments about Bryant being on shaky ground with the Cowboys -- "You know, just because I said it doesn't make is so." -- but then circled back to his earlier viewpoint.
"He's screwed around here and got his benefit of the doubt collateral down to nothing," Jones said. "And he's always very vulnerable."
Something tells us Jones isn't bluffing here. If Bryant wants to earn any more rope in the organization, he'd better have a 1,500 yard, 10-touchdown season in him.


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Farmers' market finds: Ripe figs & heirloom tomatoes
Recently I've been trying to buy our produce at the Oceanside Farmers' Market. I have a flexible work schedule and I thought I should really take advantage of this little local gem. The market is open year round and is only about a mile from my home. I've gone every week for a month now and we've tried some food we wouldn't normally buy. I figured it was time to start keeping track of what we made so here I am!
This week I got some really great mission figs and sweet heirloom cherry tomatoes. I wasn't planning on using them together but we found this recipe for Beef Tri-tip with Roasted Figs and hello, it was amazing. I didn't have any fancy little onions so I used regular sweet onions and roughly followed this recipe to gauge roasting time before adding the figs and tomatoes.
Adding a olive oil and balsamic vinegar to the figs and tomatoes before roasting yielded a sweet sauce that we used over the beef rather than making a gravy. It was perfect and what I've learned is that I need to roast figs a lot more often!


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The Captains Confront Their Commander in Cambridge
Yesterday I left Capt. Nicholasson Broughton and Capt. John Selman, the first officers to command schooners for Gen. George Washington, on their way to confront the commander-in-chief about their voyage north in the fall of 1775. They had captured seven ships, spiked the guns in the fort at Charlottetown, and brought back two royal officials from that town.
Yet Washington saw nothing but headaches in those actions. On 7 December he wrote to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress:
My fears that Broughton and Selman would not effect any good purpose were too well founded: they are returned and brought with them three of the principal inhabitants from the Island of St. John's [now Prince Edward Island]. Mr. [Philip] Callbeck is President of the Council and acted as Governour. They brought the Governour's commission, the Province seal, &c. As the captains acted without any warrant for such conduct I have thought it but justice to discharge these gentlemen, whose families were left in the utmost distress.Twelve days later the commander's secretary made a terse note of a message to Jonathan Glover, Continental Army agent for the port of Marblehead: "Ordered to deliver up the vessels sent into Marblehead by Broughton and Selman to their owners." (Jonathan Glover was brother of Col. John Glover, who commanded the regiment that the captains came from.)
Broughton and Selman felt they and their crews had served the American cause, and probably wanted to make their case to the commander-in-chief. In addition, their commissions were due to run out at the end of December, so they needed to know if they were going on other naval missions. This is how Selman remembered the discussion many years later:
This year being nearly up Commodore Broughton and myself went to Head-Quarters at Cambridge to see the General,—he met us on the steps of the door—we let his Excellency understand we had called to see him touching the cruise,Funny thing is, when a general has a difference of opinion with a captain (or even with two captains), the general gets to decide.
he appeared not pleased—he wanted not to hear anything about it and broke off abruptly to me, Sir, says he will you stand again in Col. Glover's Regiment [i.e., return to the army, with no chance of the privateering profits, or the independence of commanding your own ship]—
my answer to him was, I will not, sir.
He then accosted Commodore Broughton—You sir—have said that you would stand;
Com. Broughton said, I will not stand,
thus ended the matter relative to the cruise.
(Photo of Washington's headquarters in winter by j-fi, available through Flickr under a Creative Commons license.)


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Remote remedies: health care in Badakshan Afghanistan
May 2010
The rain pelts down as the doctor and a burka-wearing midwife cling to their horse and donkey as they trot up a slippery slope, leaving the roaring river below. They enter the isolated village of Khaspak, where many of its 800-plus inhabitants wait patiently for their one opportunity a month to meet with a qualified health worker.
Like many other poor, remote towns in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakshan province, the people of Khaspak live far from clinics and hospitals. Instead, they rely mainly on mobile medical teams to come and treat them.
In a country blighted by numerous humanitarian crises, Badakshan suffers more than most. For example, 6 500 Badakshan women die for every 100 000 live births, almost four times the national average in a country with the world's second highest maternal mortality rate.
This photo essay offers a glimpse of the challenges to bring health care to these remote villages. It highlights two initiatives to improve healthcare for the people of Badakshan: mobile clinics and training female health workers for community clinics.
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Set up Good As Gold
Set up a Good as Gold account to pay for GoDaddy products by wire transfer. For more information about Good as Gold requirements, see What is Good As Gold?
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click this icon in the upper-right corner:
- Click Account Settings.
- Click Payment Methods.
- Click Good As Gold and complete the on-screen fields.
Next step
- Now you can add money to Good as Gold (minimum of $100USD) and use it to pay for GoDaddy purchases.
- After you add money, you can check your Good as Gold balance any time.
More info
- You can also add PayPal as a payment method when you use it to purchase GoDaddy products.
- If you prefer, you can add a credit card or bank account as a payment method to your account.


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Clean Economies necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 259 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
Open Economist
The original name was crowdflow.io, but changed it to "Open Economist" as I found a better domain. To account for this, I extended the contest and added more to the prize.
The "Open Economist" will be a blog that focuses on open innovation and how companies are opening up to allow social production. For example, crowdsourcing design, engineering problems, marketing campaigns, etc. So, the blog will focus on how companies are using an open source model in areas other than just software.
I work at Acquia, a startup that is commericalizing open source Drupal.
I'm a strong believer in the power of communities and leveraging the power of the crowd to spur innovation.
I love open source based models, new technology, the MIT Media Lab, MIT Technology Review, startups, disruptive models, crowdsourcing websites, simple intuitive design, blogs, software, microfinance, kiva.org, community-based websites, Twitter
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Even Bacon felt moved by Hubbard's plea—"I felt very badly myself"— but he knew what would come next: Hubbard had to be whipped. So Bacon was astonished when Jefferson turned to him and said, "Ah, sir, we can't punish him. He has suffered enough already." Jefferson offered some counsel to Hubbard, "gave him a heap of good advice," and sent him back to the nailery, where Reuben Grady was waiting, "expecting ...to whip him."
Jefferson's magnanimity seemed to spark a conversion in Hubbard. When he got to the nailery, he told Grady he'd been seeking religion for a long time, "but I never heard anything before that sounded so, or made me feel so, as I did when master said, 'Go, and don't do so any more.' " So now he was "determined to seek religion till I find it." Bacon said, "Sure enough, he afterwards came to me for a permit to go and be baptized." But that, too, was deception. On his authorized absences from the plantation to attend church, Hubbard made arrangements for another escape.
During the holiday season in late 1810, Hubbard vanished again. Documents about Hubbard's escape reveal that Jefferson's plantations were riven with secret networks. Jefferson had at least one spy in the slave community willing to inform on fellow slaves for cash; Jefferson wrote that he "engaged a trusty negro man of my own, and promised him a reward...if he could inform us so that [Hubbard] should be taken." But the spy could not get anyone to talk. Jefferson wrote that Hubbard "has not been heard of." But that was not true: a few people had heard of Hubbard's movements.
Jefferson could not crack the wall of silence at Monticello, but an informer at Poplar Forest told the overseer that a boatman belonging to Colonel Randolph aided Hubbard's escape, clandestinely ferrying him up the James River from Poplar Forest to the area around Monticello, even though white patrollers of two or three counties were hunting the fugitive. The boatman might have been part of a network that plied the Rivanna and James rivers, smuggling goods and fugitives.
Possibly, Hubbard tried to make contact with friends around Monticello; possibly, he was planning to flee to the North again; possibly, it was all disinformation planted by Hubbard's friends. At some point Hubbard headed southwest, not north, across the Blue Ridge. He made his way to the town of Lexington, where he was able to live for over a year as a free man, being in possession of an impeccable manumission document.
His description appeared in the Richmond Enquirer: "a Nailor by trade, of 27 years of age, about six feet high, stout limbs and strong made, of daring demeanor, bold and harsh features, dark complexion, apt to drink freely and had even furnished himself with money and probably a free pass; on a former elopement he attempted to get out of the State Northwardly . . . and probably may have taken the same direction now."
A year after his escape Hubbard was spotted in Lexington. Before he could be captured, he took off again, heading farther west into the Allegheny Mountains, but Jefferson put a slave tracker on his trail. Cornered and clapped in irons, Hubbard was brought back to Monticello, where Jefferson made an example of him: "I had him severely flogged in the presence of his old companions, and committed to jail." Under the lash Hubbard revealed the details of his escape and the name of an accomplice; he had been able to elude capture by carrying genuine manumission papers he'd bought from a free black man in Albemarle County. The man who provided Hubbard with the papers spent six months in jail. Jefferson sold Hubbard to one of his overseers, and his final fate is not known.
Slaves lived as if in an occupied country. As Hubbard discovered, few could outrun the newspaper ads, slave patrols, vigilant sheriffs demanding papers and slave-catching bounty hunters with their guns and dogs. Hubbard was brave or desperate enough to try it twice, unmoved by the incentives Jefferson held out to cooperative, diligent, industrious slaves.
In 1817, Jefferson's old friend, the Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, died in Switzerland. The Polish nobleman, who had arrived from Europe in 1776 to aid the Americans, left a substantial fortune to Jefferson. Kosciuszko bequeathed funds to free Jefferson's slaves and purchase land and farming equipment for them to begin a life on their own. In the spring of 1819, Jefferson pondered what to do with the legacy. Kosciuszko had made him executor of the will, so Jefferson had a legal duty, as well as a personal obligation to his deceased friend, to carry out the terms of the document.
The terms came as no surprise to Jefferson. He had helped Kosciuszko draft the will, which states, "I hereby authorize my friend, Thomas Jefferson, to employ the whole [bequest] in purchasing Negroes from his own or any others and giving them liberty in my name." Kosciuszko's estate was nearly $20,000, the equivalent today of roughly $280,000. But Jefferson refused the gift, even though it would have reduced the debt hanging over Monticello, while also relieving him, in part at least, of what he himself had described in 1814 as the "moral reproach" of slavery.


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CLAREMONT, Calif. – Senior Chinedum Umachi (Detroit, Mich.) was the first MIT athlete to land on the All-America podium at the 2012 NCAA Division III outdoor track & field championship, earning seventh-place in the hammer throw, as the Tech men sit in a tie for 26th entering the final day of the national meet. The women, who have yet to score, will have plenty of chances on Saturday, with three individuals and one relay scheduled to compete in event finals.
Umachi had his best throw of the day in his first attempt, with a 194-05 foot effort, which put him in first place after one round. Six competitors would eventually pass Umachi but he was able to hold on to seventh to get the Engineers into the points and earn his second All-America nod.
Junior Patrick Marx (Grand Rapids, Minn.) was also in action on Friday evening, running in the prelims of the 800 meters. Marx took fifth in his heat with a time of 1:52.68, which was good for 15th overall but not fast enough to advance to Saturday's final.
On the women's side, perennial All-American senior Portia Jones (Queens, N.Y.) competed in the 100-meter hurdle prelims. After running in three events on Thursday, Jones did not have her best race of the season, finishing fifth in her heat and 16th overall with a time of 14.49 seconds.
The Division III championship will wrap up on Saturday, with finals of the track events as well as the remaining field events, beginning at 12:30 p.m. PST. Jones will close out her outstanding career in the 4x400 relay, along with fellow seniors Jamie Simmons (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Martha Gross (Short Hills, N.J.) and sophomore Jacqueline Brew (Amherst, N.H.). Simmons will also compete in the 400IH final. Junior Lauren Kuntz (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and freshman Tilly Taylor (South Deerfield, Mass.) will be in action as well, competing in the pole vault and javelin, respectively.
On the men's side, junior Nathan Peterson (Kansas City, Mo.) will take aim at All-America status in the pole vault for the third time in his career. Senior Stephen Serene (Washington, D.C.) will run in the final of the 3000-meter steeplechase while senior Benjamin Mattocks (Sharon, Mass.) will race in the 1500-meter final.


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OLYMPICS 2012: Whirlwind awaits Gabby Douglas, gymnastics' newest queen
LONDON (AP) -- Too excited to sleep and too early to wander the Olympic village, Gabby Douglas messaged her family and asked if they could have a video chat.
When her mom turned on the computer, there sat her daughter, eyes wide, hands on her cheeks, mouth agape.
"It reminded me of Macaulay Culkin in 'Home Alone,"' said Natalie Hawkins, Douglas' mother.
And this was before the 16-year-old Olympic all-around champion got her own cereal box cover, hobnobbed with Matt, Al and others at NBC's "Today" show, and had tweet-happy celebrities eager to be her new BFFs.
"It's pretty exciting," Douglas said Friday. "It really hasn't hit me yet."
Apparently not. She forgot to bring her gold medal with her for the rounds of meet and greet.
Hang on, kid, this is only the warm-up.
The Olympic all-around title is gymnastics' biggest prize, and it can turn a sprite into an international superstar overnight. The world is still on a first-name basis with Nadia and Mary Lou, and Gabby could wind up being bigger than both of them.
Adults want to hug her, and little girls shriek at the sight of her. Her smile alone is enough to dazzle Madison Avenue, and her personality gives new meaning to the word "outsized." Not only is she the first African-American gymnast to win the all-around title, she's the first to win any individual gold in gymnastics. Throw in her adorable "Flying Squirrel" nickname, and the back story of leaving home at 14 to pursue an Olympic dream and, guaranteed, her life will never be the same.
"Oh my gosh, yes," said Mary Lou Retton, whose all-around title in 1984 was the first by a U.S. woman. "She won't know until she goes home."
Those around her, though, are already getting a taste of things to come.
Seconds after Douglas beat Viktoria Komova on Thursday night, talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno had already contacted her agent, Sheryl Shade. Considering Oprah Winfrey tweeted her congratulations, it's a safe bet she wants to have a chat with Douglas, too. Kellogg's worked overtime to get her picture on the cover of a Corn Flakes box -- not just any picture, mind you, but a photo of her on the medals stand.
"It's definitely an amazing experience," Douglas said.
Especially considering she wasn't even in the conversation for the all-around title at the start of the year, and that she only turned pro in March after upstaging world champion Jordyn Wieber at the American Cup in New York.
By midmorning Friday, Shade had already received more than 750 emails, some simply congratulating Douglas, most from folks who wanted a piece of her -- businesses, talk shows, magazines. And not just in the United States, either.
"It's the whole package," said Shade, referring to Douglas' appeal. "It's her personality. It's her freshness. She's not been packaged."
Douglas is well aware her title carries weight beyond her sport -- "I'm the first African-American to win the all-around, my name's in the history books," she said Friday -- and she's eager to embrace the responsibility. She wants to be a role model, particularly for minority children, and Shade said they've already talked to Kellogg's about an outreach program. They've also been in contact with first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign, aimed at tackling childhood obesity and promoting sports.
"She's going to break barriers on so many different levels," Retton said.
While Shade said it's too early to estimate Douglas' earning power -- she has another gold from team competition -- it's safe to say it's well into the millions. Pretty heady stuff for Douglas and her family.
"I don't think you can prepare for that. I just try to lean on the morals and values that my parents taught me and the morals and values I taught them," Hawkins said, referring to Douglas and her three older siblings. "We're a very grounded family. We're very friendly, affable people. We just love to enjoy other people, and this just opens up opportunities to meet more amazing people."
There are downsides to fame, too, and Douglas quickly got a taste of it. The Internet was abuzz over criticism of her hair -- it wasn't styled to everyone's liking-- a topic she simply laughed off.
"I thought it was kind of bizarre," she said.
And forget about being able to go anywhere without being recognized.
"I'm definitely not going to escape it -- unless I wear a disguise," she said, brightening to the idea. "A mustache. A wig, maybe."
But that's a worry for another day. Now is the time to celebrate her success, and savor all the trappings.
Douglas admitted one of the first things she did when she got up was Google herself. She loved scanning all the photos. Even better was scrolling through her Twitter feeds, and noting how many celebrities sent congratulations: NFL quarterback Michael Vick; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer; rapper Timbaland; actresses Gabrielle Union and Elizabeth Banks; singer Ciara; Mr. Summer Games himself, Michael Phelps; her celebrity crush, Ian Somerhalder from "The Vampire Diaries."
She even sparked a tiny Twitter spat when Nicki Minaj thought Douglas responded to fellow rapper Lil Wayne but dissed her.
"Oh wow, I tweeted about (hashtag)Gabby earlier but she responds to (Lil Wayne) and not me? U know what? Ima fight u. I've had it!!!" Minaj tweeted.
"I tried to find her, I promise!" Douglas said with a laugh, adding that Minaj's tweet was actually one of her favorites. "She said I was a little firecracker."
As for what's next, Douglas will compete in the finals for uneven bars Monday and balance beam Tuesday, and insists she plans to compete through the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Of course, she may feel differently when she considers the avalanche of invitations sure to come for appearances, commercials and star-studded events like the Oscars and Grammys. Gymnasts Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson, who finished 1-2 in Beijing, discovered the demands of elite-level gymnastics aren't always compatible with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
"This is the time to take those opportunities and live it up. But the Olympic level of gymnastics is very short-lived," Liukin said. "It's very hard to balance."
But Douglas is only 16 -- she turns 17 on Dec. 31 -- and the prospect of becoming the first all-around champion to try to defend her title since Nadia Comaneci in 1980 might be enough to entice her to stick around.
"I don't think I'm going to retire just yet," she said. "People tell me I'm too young, I should stick with it."
Meanwhile, she's out to find Usain Bolt and Venus and Serena Williams. There's also that trip back to her hometown of Virginia Beach, Va., that she can't wait to take.
Douglas hasn't been home since moving to West Des Moines, Iowa, almost two years ago, and she's craving her favorite popcorn from Jody's -- "It's like a Willy Wonka store." She wants to see her dogs and sleep in her old bed, too.
It's all very normal for a girl whose life will now be anything but.
"You have to cherish these moments," Douglas said. "It's definitely amazing."
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William Henry Butler was born in 1790 and died in 1865. He spent his whole life in the service of his beloved Oxford holding many offices during his adult years including Mayor for the year 1836. He was buried in the little churchyard of St Martins in Carfax Oxford in the grave of his two infant daughters Caroline and Catherine Adelaide and his first wife Elizabeth (Briggs) who died in 1844.
St. Martins Church was demolished in 1896 to make way for a wider road and this meant the remains of William Henry Butler had only been in the grave for 31 years and thus it is most likely the complete grave was left intact and why his tombstone is still in situe.
It is most probable William had business dealing with, if not was a friend of John Gibbs Stone Mason and Statuary in Oxford, and it is probable that through this contact he became aware of John's daughter Elizabeth. In the third quarter of 1855 Alderman Butler, aged 65, and Elizabeth Gibbs, aged 31, were married in Shoreditch and it was in Chelsea that daughter Bessie was born the same year. The three returned to Oxfordshire and settled in Hanborough in 1857 where he and Elizabeth (Gibbs) produced a son named William Henry Gibbs Butler. William junior was baptised in All Saints in 1857.
The graveyard at Carfax is owned by Oxford City Council who lease the land to the Sofi 2 Café where refreshments are sold and consumed. When the lease was drawn up OCC did not include mention of the graves or tombstones that still occupy the site and therefore the lease, in regard to the graves is 'silent'. As a result of this over-site the café used the tombstones as supports for tables and chairs and this meant the stones were being damaged at an alarming rate. Had this damage continued then it would not have be long before the inscriptions would be unreadable.
But what does this have to do with me?
William Henry Butler was my Great Great Grandfather. So you can probably understand why I was so enraged when I learned of the fate of William Henry Butler's last resting place and in particular his tombstone.
Tombstones are historical documents and it matters not whether they were produced with a fountain pen on fine linen paper, a goose feather on parchment or by a chisel on stone, they are all documents, and tombstones are Originals, just like First Editions.
When I became aware of the desecration I immediately contacted Oxford City Council for their assistance. OCC was very quick to respond and a gentleman (not named here) confirmed what he had seen and began an investigation. Within a few weeks he emailed to say that when the lease for the land had been drawn up there was no mention of the graves and therefore, in respect of the tombstones, the lease was silent and there was nothing OCC could do.
Weeks later I began a campaign to protect the tombstone. Media interest was aroused and this produced mention in the Oxford Times, then a short time later BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Television were kind enough to give me air time. Also involved was the Oxford Mail who published the story in paper form as well as on the Internet.
Let me state here that I have no objection to anyone using graveyards for refreshment. When people do this they are amongst history as well as old dead bones, but this is our history, mine and yours, and it is a history that is very much alive. Many times I have sat down in St Phillips Catherdral graveyard (Birmingham)and joined office workers and shoppers with flasks of coffee, sandwiches etc., and have enjoyed the peace and serenity for a few moments. These places are a respite from the headaches of the office and shops. What nicer places could there be on a sunny day to recreate the mind for a few moments with a cup of tea and a bun than an old graveyard. But don't scrape tables and chairs across the tombstones and don't damage anything, that is desecration because Tombstones are a valuable source of information and should not be damaged. This has nothing to do with bereavement or trying to find a way of dealing with death, it is simple respect and common sense.
The stone was probably made by John Gibbs (stone mason and statuary mentioned above) or by one of his employees and this is probably how Elizabeth Gibbs became William Henry Butler's second Wife and my Great Great Grandmother. (John Gibbs was my Great Great Great Grandfather.) So you see, history is very much alive and kicking. William's tombstone is a valuable piece of Oxford history. Let's leave something for future generations.
Following my appearance on television and radio, BBC Oxford, the cafe owner, out of respect for the tombstone has now removed his tables and chairs for which I give him my sincere thanks, and in a recent telephone call to him he said he had placed a bunch of flowers on the stone. A nice thought but, this does NOT protect the stone. When this business moves on there is a very real danger the stone will again be abused.
Please add your voice here and help me protect William Henry Butler's Tombstone:
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December 29th
NCAA Daily Links
December 29, 2011
Welcome college basketball fans, hope you got some good action in last night, because there was a lot of it! We had a couple of teams get their first loss, while a couple more kept their records unblemished. We will start off with a game that had a large number of NBA scouts in the house to top off our NCAA Daily:
#6 Baylor Off To Best Start In School History After Beating #15 Mississippi State
(Matt Stevens/Columbus Dispatch)
December 28th
2011-12 Citta di Roma Tournament Day 1
By Alexander Kaftan
54 Virtus Roma-63 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
December 26th
NCAA Daily Links
December 27, 2011
Welcome college basketball fans, hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! I know mine was filled with a lot of NBA action, which was just incredible to have back. There were not to many college basketball games that went on in the mean time, but I still have some solid news for you in this edition of NCAA Daily:
NCAA Power 16 Rankings
December 23rd
Mock Draft Tracker
Perry Jones
Jones leapfrogged Harrison Barnes on our board, after his 28 point masterpiece against BYU last week.
Jones was all over the place, using his athleticism and size to cause massive matchup problems for the defense. He knocked down both of his three point attempts, looking more and more like viable option on the pick and pop game.
NCAA Daily Links
December 23, 2011
It has been a busy holiday season for NCAA Basketball. While most students are home for the holidays, basketball season keeps right on moving with the end of most team's non-conference schedules and a few late pre-conference tournaments. Here is the latest NCAA Daily to break down the latest news and action:
December 22nd
10 Pressing Questions for the NBA Season
By Eric Yearian / HoopsDaily.com
With a whirlwind of activity taking place over the past few weeks leading up to the Christmas day NBA season kickoff, it can be easy to lose track of even the major headlines around the association. Luckily for you, we've got you covered with ten of the biggest questions around the league and a prediction for how each storyline will conclude.
1. Where will Dwight Howard land?
December 21st
NCAA Daily Links
December 22, 2011
Welcome to another edition of NCAA Daily! A lot of solid NCAA Basketball action last night. Got to check out a number of solid NBA prospects in the Texas vs. North Carolina match-up which starts us off today:
Barnes Big Day Helps #5 Heels Top Texas
(Adam Smith/Times-News)
December 20th
NCAA Daily Links
Hello readers, hope your Channukah was happy, your holidays are jolly and your basketball is FANTASTIC! Right now, college basketball is at a point where amazing happens until we get a nice NBA gift on Christmas, so let's break down the latest on NCAA Daily:
Syracuse Stays #1, Bucks Bucknell
(Donna Ditota/The Post-Standard The Post-Standard)
December 19th
Andre the Giant
Projected No. 1 pick Andre Drummond broke out with a career night Sunday, posting 24 points, 8 rebounds and 5 blocks. Granted, the effort came against Holy Cross, which isn't exactly a basketball juggernaut.
Drummond's performance was noteworthy because he's quickly developing the confidence to be a dominant force on the college level.


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Murray budget: $1T in new revenue
Sen. Patty Murray's new budget plan calls for raising tax revenues by nearly $1 trillion while cutting spending by roughly the same amount over the next decade, according to people familiar with the proposal.
The Budget Committee chairwoman briefed fellow Democratic senators over the new proposal in a closed-door lunch Tuesday that President Barack Obama also attended. Committee deliberations will begin Wednesday, and the panel expects to vote on the plan Thursday before floor debate next week.
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The plan is a non-binding blueprint that does not carry the force of the law, but it allows each party to lay out its vision and priorities for the coming fiscal year.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama budget coming in April)
Murray's plan calls for $1.85 trillion in additional deficit reduction over the next decade, Democrats said Tuesday. It calls for $975 billion in spending cuts and an additional $975 billion would be raised through an overhaul of the Tax Code by eliminating certain tax deductions, including ones typically claimed by high earners and corporations.
And Murray will include fast-track provisions calling on congressional tax writers to draft filibuster-proof legislation that would raise new revenue. The so-called reconciliation provisions have drawn strong objections by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) who argued that the budget parameters would limit his ability to push a full-blown rewrite of the Tax Code.
Taken with the $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction already taking effect, Democrats argue the Murray approach would produce $4.25 trillion in additional savings over the next decade, a goal called for by budget experts in both parties.
But critics are certain to jump on what they believe are gimmicks in the Democratic budget plan. For instance, it counts $242 billion that would be saved in reduced interest payments under the proposal.
In addition, Democrats are also expected to cut $240 billion in defense spending, officials said Tuesday. They say the proposal would slash $493 billion from domestic programs, including $275 billion in health care spending, but they would not go nearly as far as Republican calls to dramatically overhaul Medicare.
( Also on POLITICO: Paul Ryan unveils budget plan)
The proposal calls for the automatic spending cuts — known as sequestration — to be replaced with a mix of different spending cuts and tax increases. The proposal also would call for $100 billion in new spending in infrastructure development and job training programs, which Democrats said would be paid for by eliminating certain tax deductions.


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