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The drought of 2012 is etching its name deeper into the history books. According to a report by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), more than 55% of the U.S. is in a state of moderate to extreme drought the largest swath of the country that's been this dry since 1956. Only 31% of the nation's corn crop is currently rated good or excellent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and that's lower than the 38% rated as poor or very poor. Fears of a shriveled harvest have helped push the price of corn to an all-time high of $8.24 a bushel on the Chicago exchange. In the words of the NCDC report, "crops, pastures and rangeland have deteriorated at a rate rarely seen in the last 18 years."
It may be mostly in the American Midwest that crops are wilting, but the effects of the drought will be felt across the country and around the world. Experts predicted that 2012 would be a bumper year for American agriculture, corn in particular, with U.S. corn farmers sowing 96.4 million acres, the most since 1937. But the USDA has already lowered its projected national average corn yield to 146 bushels per acre, down from 166 in the spring and the number seems likely to fall further if the weather remains dry. U.S. corn buyers, including the hard-hit livestock sector, have already begun to import corn from Brazil to make up for the domestic shortfall. Activists worry that a weak harvest in the U.S. by far the largest producer of corn in the world could lead to a global food crisis as prices rise for everything from beef to pork to ethanol, further stunting the struggling global economy and possibly even leading to a repeat of the food riots of 2008. "I get on my knees every day," USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters last week in a briefing on the drought. "If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it."
But while everyone from restaurateurs struggling with higher prices to the global poor paying more for their daily bread will absorb a hit from the drought, the Midwestern farmers whose crops are wilting in the fields will likely weather the weather far better than you might expect. That's because price increases from dwindling yields boost farmers' per-bushel income, perhaps significantly. The price of corn in the spring when farmers would have begun planting was close to $5 a bushel, so there's plenty of room for profit if prices remain above $8.
Of course, high prices at the market will help farmers only if they have any crop to harvest and plenty of farmers in the hardest-hit states, like Indiana and Illinois, have been all but wiped out. But that's where crop insurance comes in. This year, 85% of all planted acres in the U.S. up from 75% a decade ago are covered by some form of insurance policies that pay farmers in the event that a portion of their crops can't be harvested because of bad weather or if prices for cash crops fall precipitously between the spring and the fall. If those farmers took out insurance plans with a harvest price option, they'll be paid for the crops destroyed by drought at the price they would have fetched at the market prices that are much higher than they would otherwise have been thanks to that same drought. And because the government subsidizes the cost of crop insurance, the U.S. public could be on the hook for billions of dollars in addition to the pain of higher food prices. "Taxpayers are going to be the ones who will come to the rescue of Midwestern farmers," said Bruce Babcock, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University, at a recent media briefing. "Crop insurance companies are not going to be able to take on these loans."
Just how big that bill is going to be depends on the severity and duration of the drought of 2012. Already, insurance indemnities for all crops have reached $446 million, according to data crunched by Thomson Reuters Lanworth, compared with $230 million at this time last year a year when drought hit Texas and the Southwest and total indemnified losses to agriculture passed $10.7 billion. Given how extensive and unrelenting this summer's drought has been, $10.7 billion could be just a starting point.
The price tag for insurance will also depend on how farmers respond to the drought and the near ubiquity of subsidized crop insurance could influence that behavior in ways that actually worsen the damage. Here's how Babcock explained it in his presentation: in the spring, corn was going for about $5 a bushel. A farmer who planted corn thinking he would get 180 bushels an acre a healthy yield in a good growing season was essentially expecting to earn about $900 an acre. Let's assume that he, like most other farmers in the region, also has 80% insurance coverage on his crop. The drought wipes him out altogether, but it also raises the price of corn to $8 a bushel and that's the price at which his insurance policy reimburses him. In that case, he actually earns $1,152 an acre based only on insurance more than he would have earned if there had been no drought, even though he hasn't produced a single ear of corn.
In that scenario, it's not hard to see why a farmer armed with good insurance and faced with a faltering crop might prefer simply to plow under and cash in. He'll benefit, but less corn will end up getting to the market, further raising prices which in turn will hurt the rest of the economy. "If you want to focus attention, you should focus attention on that," said Babcock.
Of course, it's important to remember that most farmers still try to maximize their crop in a drought year even if they have insurance. American farmers rightly take great pride in feeding the country and the world and of course, if their production is low year after year, it will hurt them financially over the long term. The ubiquity of crop insurance and the fact that the government helps subsidize it will prevent this drought from obliterating the agricultural sector in the way the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s turned rural America inside out. (That the American economy is much less dependent on agriculture than it was 80 years ago also helps soften the blow.) Still, the farming industry has used the drought to call on Congress for even stronger protections. "The drought and the uncertainty it is causing farmers and ranchers and other segments of our industry underscores the importance of completing action on the 2012 farm bill," said Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, in a recent statement.
Still, given the fact that taxpayers cover an average of 60% of premiums for crop insurance even as the government reimburses private crop-insurance companies for administrative and operating costs that can range from 22% to 24% of total premiums it's worth asking how fair it is that one sector of the economy gets a bailout while everyone else just has to live with more expensive food. (Nor does it help that subsidized crop insurance can encourage farmers to plant on land that had been considered unsuitable for agriculture because they know they'll be paid back regardless.) The public cost of crop insurance keeps going up from $2 billion in 2002 to $9 billion last year and last year taxpayers took on over $1 billion in insurance losses from the Texas drought, more than twice what insurance companies themselves paid. The taxpayer bill this year will certainly be higher. It might be time to share the pain a little more fairly.


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News waits for no one. Broadcasters must work under high pressure and intense deadlines daily. But the desire to inform, advise, and enlighten the public motivates these Ithaca College alumni, who are passionate about their profession.
"We work long hours," said Matt Mulcahy '87, who anchors 5, 6, 10, and 11 p.m. broadcasts for WSTM and WSTQ in Syracuse, New York. "When other people are starting their weekends, my Friday is just getting going."
Ben Simmoneau '03, co-anchor of WNYW's Good Day Wakeup in New York City, starts his workday at 4:30 a.m. and calls it "doable." "It's my first broadcast job working Monday through Friday. It's nice to have weekends with my family."
"I look forward to 12-hour flights home from far-flung assignments," says David Muir '95, anchor and managing editor for ABC World News. "No one can reach me on email, and I can either sleep or watch a movie that everyone was talking about a year ago."
"At a network, the demands on your time are extraordinary, but I often tell myself sleep is overrated." — DAVID MUIR '95
Kyle Clark '05 recalls getting soaked to the bone during 12 hours of live flood coverage for KUSA in Denver and then returning to the studio at 1 a.m. to do another hour and a half on the anchor desk wearing a flannel shirt—his only piece of dry clothing.
Matt Wright '10, a reporter for WJW Fox 8 News in Cleveland, talks about pressure: "Deadline pressure, management pressure, pressure to be accurate when you don't have a lot of time."
For Mary Bubala '91, anchor and reporter for WJZ in Baltimore, the time pressure doesn't ease once the news is gathered. "My stories have to come in at a minute and 20 seconds," she said.
"It's very difficult to choose what to include and what to leave out. I've been writing in this condensed fashion for more than two decades, so I'm used to it, but I don't have to like it."
The news bug bit Bubala in grade school. "When I was 10, my parents gave me a tape recorder for Christmas, and I drove my family crazy making them pretend to be famous people so that I could interview them," she said.
Then came IC: "The second I walked into Dillingham and saw students running the entire operation, I was hooked," she said. "Producing, directing, anchoring, reporting, and writing for a host of shows set me up perfectly to get a job in TV news, which I did [at WENY in Elmira, New York] the day after I graduated."
Wright got hooked in middle school. "Growing up in a family that always watched the news, I thought covering it would be exciting," he said. A programming stint for a local radio station during high school broadened his broadcast experience. So did reporting and anchoring for ICTV, the Ithaca College television station, where his news team won national and state awards for its coverage of a local tragedy.
"We were finishing our early broadcast when we heard about a shooting involving an Ithaca police officer and went downtown to cover it. Everyone on the crew stayed late, and we did a live broadcast when usually there'd be a re-air of our earlier show. It was a very exciting night. It let me know this was what I wanted to do."
Mulcahy was also drawn to journalism at an early age. "I remember as a freshman being impressed by how much time the upperclassmen spent at the radio and TV stations. Within a year, I was one of those people. I loved it."
Clark was 15 when he started covering news for his local radio station. When he arrived at IC, he headed right for the sign-up session at ICTV.
"Diving right in, I got a true taste of TV news. For some students, it wasn't at all how they'd imagined it. But me? I got hooked."
It was the same for Simmoneau, who as a freshman was the news director of WICB and later worked for ICTV.
"I knew right away I'd made the right choice. We covered real issues. Where else would a freshman get to do an hour-long radio show with paneled guests and moderators?"
David Muir was also in his teens when he heard broadcast news calling his name. "I was a kid growing up in Syracuse hoping one day I'd get the chance to join veteran anchor Ron Curtis — the Walter Cronkite of Syracuse — on the news desk."
Ten years later that happened for Muir. But his path went through Ithaca first. "As a freshman, I auditioned for the evening newscast. When the results were posted, my name wasn't listed under writers or producers or reporters, but then I heard someone say, 'Who's David Muir?' I'd been given one of the anchor slots. I was honored that the television-radio seniors were willing to take a chance on a fresh-faced kid who'd just arrived."
After leaving IC, Kyle Clark started working at WHAM in Rochester, New York, 25 miles from where he grew up.
"Everyone should work in his or her hometown," Clark said. "You already know your way around."
Wright's first job took him a little farther away, to WTOL in Toledo, Ohio, but only 100 miles west of his native Cleveland.
Chicago native Bubala stayed in central New York, anchoring Monday through Friday at WENY in Elmira and then driving to Rochester on the weekends to report. Later, as a reporter for WOKR in Rochester, the New York State Broadcasters Association honored her with a best series award for her reports documenting doctors working to reform health care among poverty- stricken residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
"I was working my tail off, aiming for the networks. But in Rochester, I met the man who was to become my husband," she said. "He was headed for Johns Hopkins University. I made a quick stop at a TV station in Harrisburg before landing a job in Baltimore. I'm now the mother of two with a busy, satisfying career in local TV news. I'm content where I landed."
Syracuse native David Muir landed at a network. He's the new anchor for ABC World News.
The road there started in his hometown, at WTVH in Syracuse, where he joined Ron Curtis and fellow Syracuse native Mulcahy. In 2003 Muir left Syracuse for Boston and then joined ABC three years later. Mulcahy, now managing editor, anchor, and reporter for WSTM and WSTQ , stayed in Syracuse.
"When you're a student, you think, 'If someday I'm not at a national network, I won't be successful,'" Mulcahy said. "But the network tradeoffs are extraordinary.
On any day of the week, any hour of the day, you have to be ready to go where you're sent. I've had opportunities to go to bigger places, but the time just wasn't right in relation to what else was going on in my life."
"People were stuck at home with their TVs on, and we were able to get important information to our community throughout a difficult time." — MATT MULCAHY '87
Some of Mulcahy's assignments have, in fact, taken him abroad but always with a local angle. In 2012 he traveled to the Vatican to cover the canonization of Marianne Cope, a Sister of St. Francis in Syracuse who ministered to lepers in Hawaii in the 1800s. Often, though, Mulcahy serves Syracuse best by staying in town, especially during emergencies — such as the two-day blizzard in 1993. "People were stuck at home with their TVs on, and we were able to get important information to our community throughout a difficult time."
Mulcahy's 25 years of reporting and anchoring news for central New York have garnered him an Emmy for best documentary as well as numerous awards from the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters, the New York State Broadcasters Association, and the Syracuse Press Club. In addition, Mulcahy received an Edward R. Murrow Award for best writing for a series of entries he produced from his blog for a local theater performance, the premiere of which raised thousands of dollars for people with developmental disabilities.
The sense of community service that keeps Mulcahy in Syracuse also kept Kyle Clark at the anchor desk one treacherous night in a flannel shirt.
"We got absolutely no negative feedback on the way I looked," Clark said. "The floods were a serious threat, and people wanted good information. They didn't care if it came from a guy in a suit or a flannel shirt."
Clark hadn't planned to leave Rochester, but Denver's KUSA made him an offer he couldn't refuse. "I knew they had a thoughtful approach to storytelling and journalism, so I came out here and found a second home. The Rocky Mountains are at my back door."
"People wanted good information. They didn't care if it came from a guy in a suit or a flannel shirt." — KYLE CLARK '05
In addition to garnering several regional Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award, he was named the top anchor by the editors and readers of 5280 [The Denver Magazine]. Being popular doesn't compromise his journalism, Clark said. Broadcast journalists do well when they take journalism more seriously than they take themselves.
"The trap that too many people in communications are falling into is an attempt to imitate something they've seen on TV — the Voice of God Anchor, the Live Reporter Gesticulating Wildly at the Scene behind Him — as opposed to thinking how they provide useful information to their communities. What we have to do is lower the decibel level and tell people why something happened, not simply that it happened."
For Clark, a network assignment for him would be "a hard sell." "I like to do a lot of things outside work. A network job isn't conducive to that. What I love most about my job is bringing my own vision to features and investigative stories that reflect the connection we've built with our local viewers.
"Shining a bright light on issues that are often pushed into the shadows is very satisfying."
Ties to the local community also mean a lot to Bubala. "The biggest reward of being in TV news is connecting with people from all walks of life," she said. An example is a series of stories Bubala did on sexual assaults at the U.S. Naval Academy.
"Several very brave women came forward to tell their stories of abuse and to document their frustration and anger when their cases were ignored or dismissed," Bubala said.
"Shining a bright light on issues that are often pushed into the shadows is very satisfying. It keeps me coming back for more."
Simmoneau's local community may be New York City, but he sees the country's largest metropolis as a place to "set down roots" after five-year stints as an anchor and investigative reporter in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then Philadelphia. "I'd never been a fulltime anchor," he said. "I saw WNYW as a great opportunity in a great city.
Around lunchtime I get to go home and spend the afternoon with my infant daughter. My wife is home by six, so we have evenings together."
Though he may still be called for occasional weekend duty, he doesn't expect a repeat of his KYW days, when he got the call to cover the Jerry Sandusky scandal. "I drove out from Philadelphia with the clothes on my back and bought toiletries and shirts in State College. I spent 18- and 19-hour days, killing the batteries on my phone and witnessing a terrible piece of history."
Simmoneau's investigative work has won him three Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Walter Cronkite Award. Particularly memorable was the story involving a state legislator who was taking his chief of staff on trips to questionable venues, such as Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and the Super Bowl, to discuss campaign business.
"The problem was, Pennsylvania campaign finance law is so vaguely stated that he could flout the intent of those laws," he said. "They gave me a lot of airtime to show how the state law on campaign financing deserved another look. TV stations may be private companies, but they're also publicly licensed service entities. To me, that story was a true public service."
Stories that create change are the ones that stand out in Wright's mind as well. "Those are the moments that make you glad you went into the business," he said, recalling a story that garnered him a regional Emmy nomination. "When I was in Toledo, I interviewed the wife of a man who was having health issues. It took the fire department half an hour to respond, and in that time, the gentleman had passed away. In part, through our coverage, the city brought in more emergency responders during overnight hours."
Those moments may be rewarding, but their life on air is measured in seconds. It takes way longer than that to capture them.
"You hope and pray you have what you need because that's your deadline, and the deadline rules all." — MATT WRIGHT '10
"By late afternoon, you hope and pray you have what you need because that's your deadline, and the deadline rules all."
Is it still as exciting as covering that late night shooting in Ithaca?
"There's definitely an excitement that keeps bringing me back," Wright said. "I get access to people and stories I never would have otherwise." One of those meaningful stories was the ordeal of three Cleveland women held captive for nearly a decade.
The mother of one of the women was living in southwest Florida where Wright was reporting for NBC2, so the Fort Myers station dispatched Wright to Cleveland.
The story was also national news, so ABC sent David Muir.
"I'd interviewed David when I was a student, and he'd come back to campus to talk about the future of journalism. I said, 'Hey, remember me?' He did. We had a nice chat about Ithaca."
The reunion not only reminded Wright of where he'd been but also where he wanted to go. "Some people want to work for the stations they watched growing up. Some people want to work for the Today show. Someday I'd like to get to a network."
"The impact from a particular story sometimes exceeds your wildest dreams." — DAVID MUIR '95
Muir can empathize. "As a journalism major, I remember sitting in the front row, listening to visiting speakers from the various networks. I'd hang on their every word, hoping that one day I'd join their ranks."
In 2003 Muir joined ABC News as overnight news anchor and then as lead correspondent.
As the weekend anchor for World News and co-anchor of the news magazine 20/20, Muir covered stories that took him across the globe. In 2011 he was the first American journalist to report on a devastating famine in Mogadishu, taking viewers on a 100-mile trek from Somalia to refugee camps in Kenya.
He anchored the live events surrounding the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and reported on the Egyptian revolution, the earthquake in Japan, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In the process, he won numerous accolades, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting.
"At a network, the demands on your time are extraordinary," Muir says. "But I often tell myself sleep is overrated. It's rare in life to travel to Ethiopia with an American doctor performing a simple cataract surgery that gives sight back to parents who haven't seen their children in 10 years. And after our report, viewers donated more than $355,000 to pay for the lenses needed for that operation. The impact from a particular story sometimes exceeds your wildest dreams."
Though the community he serves is spread from coast to coast, Muir feels intimately attached to it, thanks in part to social media. "It's knocked down the barriers that once existed with network news. I'm getting immediate feedback, and I try to tweet back to viewers during commercial breaks."
It's also exciting, Muir added, that in light of laments over the demise of broadcast news, 25 million viewers still watch network news nightly while millions more watch news and information programs on cable and in primetime.
And, according to Bubala, local viewers are still plugged in as well. "Local TV news hasn't changed that much since my first job at WENY," she said. "The essence of bringing important information into people's homes remains constant. The best stories are still the ones that grab your heart and make you think."

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In the economic downturn you fixed it in your mind to start a business for success. You are tired of the 9 to 9s and the worrying if you'll have a job and you realized you are good at what you do so you may as well turn it into a business opportunity for yourself. Likewise you may already have a business and it is not really moving the way you thought. I always tell business owners not to give up because what you're doing is very important to the world; but you must do it in the right way. My friend asked me what keeps me going and keeps me successful and the best thing I could come up with are 3 crucial small business tips.
When I was younger my brothers would get in conversations with other kids about basketball and they would ask who your favorite basketball player is. We would respond, Scottie Pippen, or Clyde Drexler, or Ronnie Harper. Our phrase was, "after Michael Jordan," so we knew that if Clyde was your favorite, that meant your second favorite because MJ is everyone's favorite. I bring this up because the 3 crucial small business tips are assuming your have a great product or service. Your product or service has to be excellent to begin with or you must have an excellent angle to present it. Now once you have that you can now use these three crucial small business tips to amplify your businesses success.
You have to provide great customer service. If you make it a point to be exceptional in your client services you will out do competitors based on the fact that you are just plain nicer than them. I do it all the time and my friends use to laugh at me especially when my money was low; I would go to a grocery store that was more expensive because they treated me better while in there. I could easily get 50 dollars worth of groceries 50 bucks at another store; instead I go and get 40 dollars worth for 50 bucks. I spent an extra $10 dollars just to treat me better. Some people call it crazy, but I call it being around people who have nice positive energy. The point is you too can win if you just treat your clients with exceptional service. This does not mean put up with grouchy customers; but treat clients like they are extremely special.
Execution and great application is crucial small business tip number two. A lot of times we get lazy, unmotivated, unfocused and this is where things begin to separate the great businesses from the average businesses. You must have good application to be successful; you must be able to execute with preciseness and consistency. If you cannot you should hire or partner with someone who can. There are great basketball players in the NBA and around the world; the ones we hear about and know are the ones who can apply their skill the best and execute when it matters the most. And that is not a hit at Lebron James…
The last tip you need to truly understand is leverage; once you understand that you cannot do this yourself you will take off to another level. Michael Jordan is going into the basketball all-time great list because for so long he thought he could do it himself. He posted unheard of numbers; but it wasn't until you let his cohorts take much of the load off of him that he really excelled at his winning craft. You must allow yourself to do the same; you must leverage yourself. If it will take you 10 days to build a solid website, hire someone who can do it in one day. If it will take away from productive time to get your local marketing going, hire good local marketing helpers to so that you stay productive. You need to focus on doing what you do best and most efficient with your time and leverage your businesses success.
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Texas lawmakers want to hear from experts and the public on ideas for improving school safety in the wake of last month's shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.
The Senate has scheduled a hearing Monday. Lawmakers are already considering having the state pay for special weapons training for teachers and other school personnel. The state's largest teachers group has opposed that idea.
Three Houston area lawmakers want to set up special taxing districts to pay for school security. And Attorney General Greg Abbott has called on schools to review existing security plans.
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A list of book releases compiled by Dr. Dobb's to keep you up-to-date on software development tools and techniques.
Virtualization and Forensics
by Diane Barrett and Greg Kipper
With more companies using virtual servers and environments, the ability to handle forensic data in this environment will be a necessity. This book provides forensic investigators end-to-end knowledge of examinations in server, desktop, and portable environments, including the leaders in the market: VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix.
Core JavaServer Faces, Adobe Reader, 3rd Edition
by David Geary and Cay S. Horstmann
.JSF is the standard Java EE technology for building web user interfaces. It provides a powerful framework for developing server-side applications, allowing you to cleanly separate visual presentation and application logic. JSF 2.0 is a major upgrade that not only adds many useful features but also greatly simplifies the programming model, by using annotations and "convention over configuration" for common tasks. This is the eBook version of the printed book.
Fundamentals of LTE, Rough Cuts
by Arunabha Ghosh, Jun Zhang, Jeffrey G. Andrews and Rias Muhamed
The impending deployments of LTE (Long Term Evolution), often called 4G cellular, will revolutionize the world's cellular networks by going to much larger bandwidths, data rates, and a all-IP approach. Unlike the previous generations of wireless networks, 4G networks will provide a multitude of Quality of Service levels for a wide range of applications and is poised to change the way we use cellular networks. This book provides a complete tutorial on the key building blocks of LTE -- OFDM, OFDMA, SC-FDMA, MIMO -- as well as a step-by-step breakdown of all the key aspects of the standard from the physical layer through the network stack.


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Grilling: An Affordable Luxury
Kick up the flavor, and keep down the costs with tender and juicy cuts of beef, pork, and chicken.
Great Grilling Recipes:
- Marinated London Broil
- Grilled Steaks Balsamico
- Thai Pork Chops With Caramelized Onions
- Margarita Pork Tenderloin
- Molasses-Glazed Chicken Thighs
- Strawberry-Citrus Chicken Salad
- Strawberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette
Even with today's high meat prices, grilling is an affordable luxury. If you haven't discovered the new cuts of bargain steaks, start with Grilled Steaks Balsamico. We used boneless beef chuck-eye steaks, a distant cousin of the rib-eye.
Marinated London Broil, an extra-thick cut of boneless top round steak, serves six to eight people for just under $12. Keep a close watch for buy-one-get-one-free sales, and you'll slice that price in half.
Instead of splurging on beef filets, pick up pork tenderloin. It's every bit as tender and flavorful and can be grilled whole or cut into quick-cooking medallions for a fresh presentation.
This article is from the April 2005 issue of Southern Living.


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TechCrunch says we have delivered a Bajillion emails … close … actually, we have now delivered more than 2 Billion emails!
This has all been made possible by the 8,000+ awesome companies that have used our service and by putting together a phenomenal team. In the last few months we went from a team of 5, to a team of 18 and growing (we are hiring).
Our engineering team has adopted an awesome development process to produce higher quality software, with key feedback from companies like Twilio, GetSatisfaction, Gnip, and SimpleGeo. Thanks guys! Meanwhile, our support team keeps rocking, they even help debug code on a Saturday night!
In addition to growing our team and enhancing our systems & processes, we have been expanding our feature set, mostly thanks to some great suggestions from our growing community. Friday was a particularly exciting day for us, just as we broke a milestone of achieving over 20 Million emails processed in a single day, we released the following features:
Tracking Unique Clicks and Opens
Thanks Balihoo for your gentle nudges that helped make sure we rolled this feature out this release cycle!
With this feature, you can track each unique click and open in your emails at the Statistics tab. In addition, the tracking URL's have been shortened significantly, which makes them more usable in plain text emails.
Blocked Email Addresses
You can thank Gist for staying on top of us for this feature. We appreciate you!
On the Email List tab, in addition to SPAM and bounced email data, you can also view how many emails have been blocked (email addresses that were bounced by the ISP, but not because of a bad email address). Here are a few examples of blocked email messages:
Configurable Email Alert System
Stay on top of your account automatically using the new configurable alerts system. Simply choose what you want to be alerted about, add an email, set the frequency and you're done. To get started, go to the Accounts tab, then the Alerts sub-tab. You can get further details at the Email Alerts System documentation page.
SPAM Checks on Incoming Emails
We have expanded our Parse API, which allows you to interact with your users via email (e.g. taking uploads, posting to a blog, etc…), to include the ability to check for SPAM. Thanks to a suggestion by PogoPlug, we have also added DKIM verification of emails through the Parse API.
API Enhancements
Our goal is to give you complete programatic control of all our features. We are not there just yet, but we are getting very close. Check out the API section of our documentation to discover what you can currently achieve. Recently we have added the ability to control filter settings, such as the ability to control the click, open and subscription filters.
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Saves: 14 (2x) vs. George Washington (4/27/13)
Assists: 3 vs. NYAC (2/10/13)
Steals: 4 (2x) vs. Hartwick (4/26/13)
2013 Sophomore
Named CWPA Southern Division second team all-conference ... Played every minute in goal, recording 246 saves, 45 steals and 12 assists ... Recorded 12 saves in the first game of the season against Iona (Feb. 2) ... Saved nine shots and got her first steal of the season against Villanova (Feb. 2) ... Had five saves and one steal in a win over CAMO (Feb. 2) ... Earned CWPA Southern Division Defensive Player of the Week honors (Feb. 4) ... Made five saves (Feb. 9) against California ... Stopped seven shots against rival Princeton (Feb. 9) ... Tallied a career-high three assists, along with eight saves and one steal, against NYAC (Feb. 10) ... Made 10 saves in a 19-4 win over Villanova (Feb. 10) ... Had four saves and two steals against Wagner (Feb. 23) ... Stopped seven shots, recorded three steals and had an assist against Iona (Feb. 23) ... Saved 13 shots and dished out two assists against Villanova (Feb. 24) ... Made a career-high 14 stops versus Siena in a 20-6 victory (Feb. 24) ... Blanked Mercyhurst in the first half en route to nine saves in an 11-3 victory (March 2) ... Made 11 saves and matched her career-high with three steals versus Bucknell (March 2) ... Stopped nine shots and stole the ball once against Gannon (March 3) ... Had seven saves and two steals in a win over Santa Clara (March 17) ... Handed out an assist and denied seven shots versus Occidental (March 17) ... Recorded seven saves in a 16-6 victory over Fresno Pacific (March 18) ... Swiped the ball twice and blocked eight shots at UC Davis (March 18) ... Finished with one assist, one steal and eight saves against Pacific (March 19) ... Made six saves and one steal versus No. 10 San Jose St. (March 21) ... Turned away eight shots, stole the ball once and had a helper against No. 2 Stanford (March 22) ... Had a steal and two saves at California (March 23) ... Stopped four shots and recorded one steal against Brown (April 3) ... Credited with seven saves and one assist in a win over George Washington (April 6) ... Posted four saves, one assist and three steals versus Princeton (April 6) ... Recorded six saves in a matchup with Cal State Bakersfield (April 7) ... Saved seven shots in a contest against Arizona State (April 7) ... Made three saves in net as well as credited with an assist in a victory over Mercyhurst (April 13) … Credited with four saves and a career-high five steals against Brown (April 13) … Recorded seven saves as well as three steals in a win against George Washington (April 14) ... Stopped five shots and grabbed three steals as the Crimson overpowered Notre Dame (Ohio) (April 26) … Credited with four saves as well as four steals in a contest against Hartwick (April 26) … Tied a career-high with 14 saves and recorded one steal in a winning effort over George Washington (April 27) … Compiled five saves and one steal in a contest with Brown (April 28).
2012 (Freshman)
Had 193 saves during the season ... Finished with six assists and 14 steals ... Named CWPA Southern Division Rookie of the Week March 8 after making 32 saves in four games at the Harvard Invitational ... Named to the CWPA Southern Division Rookie and Defensive Player of the Week honor rolls after making 33 saves while starting four games during Harvard's spring break trip to California ... Awarded Southern Division Rookie and Defensive Player of the Week honors March 27 after a 13-save performance in a 7-5 win over Brown ... Earned her fourth CWPA Weekly honor by being named defensive player of the week April 3 after leading Harvard to a pair of Southern Division wins against Mercyhurst (7 saves) and George Washington (11 saves) ... Made 18 saves in three games at the CWPA Southen Division Championship to help Harvard to a third-place finish.
Before Harvard
Three-time varsity letterwinner in swimming and water polo … Started in goal for three years … Captained water polo team as a senior … Earned first-team All-Central Florida as a senior after earned second-team honors as a sophomore … An All Metro water polo team selection as a senior … Named second team NISCA All-American as a junior … Earned ODP all-region team honors in 2010 … Named Rookie of the Year as a sophomore, and defensive player of the years as a junior and senior …Class Valedictorian … National Merit and AP Scholar … Member of the National, Spanish and Math honor societies .. Named Winter Park Scholar-Athlete as a junior and received the Great Graduate Award as a senior … Volunteer at the Boy and Girls Club as a mentor and a tutor.


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A dream becomes real.
Lorraine Capparell gives forms to feelings.
There are many ways to hold onto a dream. Lorraine Capparell has cast one of hers in bronze: FIVE WOMEN has come to life.
FIVE WOMEN involves five life-size figures of archetypal female images built in clay and cast in bronze. It is meant, says Capparell, "to celebrate and enhance a strong, positive view of the feminine psyche. The figures embody five feminine attributes."
The bronze figures of FIVE WOMEN reflect the spirituality, sensuality, receptivity and creativity in women today.
Capparell's dreams figure prominently in her work, as does Buddhist and Hindu thought and female imagery. And the monumental scale of FIVE WOMEN is not unusual. Since 1981 she has been creating large-scale ceramic sculptures in her Palo Alto studio. Her work has been in both group and solo exhibitions in California and New York, and is in the collections of the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple, Apple Computer, the San Francisco Museum of Art's Theo Jung Collection.
"I make art to pay tribute to the spirit within," Capparell explains. "I use the body, born of earth (clay), as the connector to higher consciousness."
Born in 1947 in Rochester, N.Y., Capparell received her bachelor of science degree from Cornell University and then worked as a graphic designer. She moved to the Bay Area in the early '70's, and studied sculpture with Steven DeStaebler at San Francisco State. She also traveled widely in Asia, studying Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, painting and temple architecture; many of her creations evoke the life of Buddha and Buddhist symbology.
Her daily regimen, which includes meditation and tai chi, involves what she calls "One A Days" -- completing a watercolor painting on a monthly theme. Each day of the month, she paints or sometimes substitutes small clay sculptures.
But Capparell clearly enjoys working in larger proportions. "I like working the same size I am," she says. "I feel comfortable making full-scale figures."
The enormous FIVE WOMEN figures she has made will all stand near water and next to trees. The unifying element is water -- it represents the flow of life's forces. The shower is a baptism, symbol of cleansing, of becoming more fluid. And the grove of trees stands for the growth of knowledge.
FIVE WOMEN consists of five free-standing life-size bronze figures;
Figure 1 (Erato), Red, 47 x 35 x 26"
Figure 2, (Yang), Silver, 89 x 25 x 39"
Figure 3, (Tree of Life), Blue-Green, 75 x 29 x 20"
Figure 4, (Yin), Dark Brown:, 74 x 48 x 57"
Figure 5, (Observer), Gold, 79 x 36 x 24"
For more information about FIVE WOMEN, commissions and other works, contact Lorraine Capparell directly at (650) 493-2869.
FIVE WOMEN will be exhibited in March 9 - April 10, 1999 at San Jose City College and from June 29 to July 29, 1999 at the Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California.
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South Carolina defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward listened to Jadeveon Clowney complain about the slew of Arkansas players blocking him and then explained the facts of life to the defensive end.
�I told him if he�s going to wait to get some one-on-one blocking, he�s probably going to wait until he gets to the NFL,� Ward said after the Gamecocks� 38-20 victory against the Razorbacks.
In other words, dealing with No. 7 is the first priority of every South Carolina opponent. Arkansas was so cognizant of Clowney that Ward could hear members of the Razorback offensive line yell �Clowney left� when the 6-foot-6 sophomore moved inside as he had done on occasion against Tennessee.
Clowney and Devin Taylor may be the best pair of defensive ends in the country, claims South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier. LSU�s Les Miles can make an equally compelling case for his bookends, Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery. Arkansas� offensive line could cast the deciding vote Friday.
On SI.com, Mingo was No. 1 on a list of the top 50 players in a midseason look at the 2013 NFL draft. �Mingo offers more impact than any player in this draft, and has the ability to line up at a number of positions in the front seven,� the article said. Listed at 6-5, 240, Mingo ran the anchor leg of his high school�s 2009 Louisiana 5A state champion 4x100-meter relay team.
Montgomery was No. 17 on SI.com�s ranking and would have been higher except for what the author described as personality issues.
Clowney would be in the top five except he�s not eligible until the 2014 draft.
Praising Arkansas� opponents serves to note that Arkansas does not have anybody comparable to Clowney or Mingo or the others and to warn that quarterback Tyler Wilson is likely to take a beating in his final game as a Razorback.
Clowney and his cohorts sacked Wilson three times and received credit for a fourth when Wilson was called for intentional grounding. Last week at Mississippi State, Wilson was sacked twice and threw two interceptions. LSU is third in the Southeastern Conference in sacks behind South Carolina and Ole Miss.
Wilson�s two interceptions and three lost fumbles are part of 29 turnovers for the season � tied for 112th in the country. For those who like balance, there have been 15 interceptions and 14 fumbles.
After scoring touchdowns on their first two possessions, the Razorbacks had five punts, five turnovers, and a fourth-down failure.
Leaving Starkville, I was not surprised that Ole Miss was giving LSU fits, but I was surprised that the Rebels were piling up points, scoring three touchdowns on plays of 30 yards or more. LSU won by doing what good teams do, hanging in despite adversity and winning in the fourth quarter. For Arkansas fans hoping the Tigers would lack incentive on Friday, the victory put 9-2 LSU in position to play in the Sugar Bowl if Florida loses to once-beaten Florida State on Saturday.
The positives for Arkansas are few, but the return of wide receiver Brandon Mitchell and linebacker Terrell Williams can help.
With Mitchell held out of four games, probably because of a an NCAA compliance issue, Wilson�s downfield targets have been limited. Last week, Hamilton caught seven for 88 yards and Javontee Herndon had a season-high six. A half-dozen other receivers caught 11 for a grand total of 61 yards. A telling note is that tight end Chris Gragg is still the team�s second leading receiver with 22 catches compiled in five games.
Believing that LSU will beat up Arkansas on the line of scrimmage, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. The only question is how many people show up to appreciate Wilson, Hamilton, Dennis Johnson, and other seniors for their continuing efforts during a disastrous season.
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A suburb of Kochi, Aluva is located on the River Periyar. This place is famous for the Mahasivarathri festival which is held yearly in the Shiva Temple. Aluva is situated about 12 kms away from Kochi. The major tourist attractions of Aluva are the Shiva Temple, Seminary Church and the Marthanda Varma Bridge.
Budget Hotels in Aluva
There are good budget hotels in Aluva. Some of them are Four Seasons Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 629), Bright Heritage (Tariff – Rs.1,600), Hotel Breeze (Tariff – Rs.1000) and Alankar Tourist Home (Tariff –1200).
The official language of Aluva is Malayalam. The other languages include Hindi, English and Tamil.
Events in Aluva
The Important Festivals of Aluva is the Mahasivarathri (Feburary).
Places to See in Aluva
There are several places of tourist attraction in Aluva. Some of the places include Shiva Temple (2 kms from Aluva) Sivarathri manappuram(3 kms from Aluva) Aluva Palace (1 kms from Aluva), Aluva Masjid (7 kms from Aluva), and Pottachira Sree Krishna Temple ( 10kms from Alleppey).
How to Get There
The nearest airport is the Cochin International Airport. Cochin airport is about 15 kms away from this town.
Aluva is well connected to major cities of Kerala. There are regular trains to Cochin and Trivandrum.
KSRTC buses connects to all the major cities and districts of Kerala. Some of the best bus operators that offer good experience for passengers are Kallada Travels, Hindusthan Travels and Tippu Sultan Travels. Book bus tickets online from the confines of your home or office without any hassle.


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This software updates Lion Server v10.7, v10.7.1, v10.7.2 and v10.7.3 to version 10.7.4. It is recommended for all Lion Server users.
Read before installing
- Do not interrupt the installation process. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Support Downloads to update.
There are three ways to update to Lion Server v10.7.3:
- Use Software Update
- Install from a standalone installer
- Install on a remote server via Server Admin or the 'softwareupdate' command-line utility
Software Update installation
Choose Software Update from the Apple () menu. Because some updates are prerequisites for others, you may need to use Software Update more than once to obtain all available updates. When Software Updates states "Your software is up to date," you can be sure that all available updates have been installed.
Standalone installer
If you want to download and manually install the update, an installer is available from Apple Support Downloads. This a useful option if you need to update multiple computers but only want to download the update once. Read how to verify the authenticity of manually downloaded Apple Software Updates.
Remote installation
If you need to install the update on a remote server, you can do so using the Server Admin application or the softwareupdate command line tool.
What's included?
This update includes improvements in the areas listed below, as well as ones delivered with the Lion Server 10.7.3, 10.7.2 and 10.7.1 updates.
File Sharing
- defining custom names for file share points
- copying files and Finder information over SMB
- general reliability of SMB file services
- using WebDAV with third-party iOS clients. Note: In order to take advantage of WebDAV improvements you may have to stop and restart File Sharing, after installing the update.
- AFP service reliability, fixing the issue that was reported as "TCP Listener returned error on accept" in the AppleFileServiceError.log
Profile Manager
- enhanced payloads and management settings for iOS and OS X clients:
- Spotlight and iCloud preference panes on OS X
- Siri access at the lock screen on iOS
- mobile account sync interval on OS X
- disk access on OS X
- installing iOS applications: installing a new app no longer causes existing apps to be reinstalled
- reliability of device enrollments after changing server hostname
- configuring VPN management settings
- using profiles to join 802.1x networks
Mobile Accounts and Managed Preferences
- applying managed preferences to members of a nested Active Directory group
- home directory synchronization for Active Directory users with mobile accounts
- deleting a mobile account when it expires
Server Administration
- Server app stability
- reconfiguring DNS settings when changing hostnames
- restoring an Open Directory archive created in Snow Leopard Server
- preserving local accounts during upgrade and migration
Mail Server
- improved reliability of SMTP services
- prevent overwriting of manually configured greylisted mail servers
Web Server
- improved handling of URL redirects and alias matches
- Xsan filesystem stability
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ORLANDO — Arron Afflalo scored 21 points, Tobias Harris added 18 and the Orlando Magic ran past the Milwaukee Bucks 113-102 Friday night.
The Magic snapped a three-game losing streak and extended their home winning streak over Milwaukee to 16 games.
Orlando led by as many as 25 points and had six players reach double-figures. Nik Vucevic had 12 points and six rebounds in his second game back from a concussion.
Caron Butler scored 20 points for Milwaukee, which lost its fifth straight game. The Bucks have lost 14 of their last 15 and eight straight on the road.
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Seemingly out of the blue, a year before next year's milestone 70th race run by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), a fleet including five 100-foot super maxis, three 80-footers, 15 70-footers and 22 overseas boats has risen to the challenge for the 69th edition of the race.
They want to take line honours, overall honours and even the race record from Wild Oats XI, the six-time winner that took its second triple crown last year.
The record-holder will have the look of a Swiss Army knife, especially sailing downwind. The Reichel/Pugh 100 sails with added appendages, a retractable foil for every occasion.
Since mid-year Wild Oats XI has carried a horizontal, retractable foil at the waterline, which runs athwartships between the mast and keel. It lifts the bow when the boat is sailing downwind in strong winds, reducing drag.
The innovation adds to Wild Oats XI's blade armoury of rudder, canting keel, two retractable daggerboards and a retractable forward foil. In addition, the boat has just been fitted with a new lightweight mast that has reduced windage.
The rivalry between Wild Oats XI and Perpetual LOYAL was evident at the official media launch. Skipper of Wild Oats XI, Mark Richards, said they had been keeping their eye on the boat ever since there were indications the newly rebadged Perpetual LOYAL may compete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart as far back as 2011.
"The two major modifications we undertaken this year is the installation of the new mast which is hopefully going be a great things for us - we've had a few glitches along the way and the second is the DSS board - it's a horizontal stability foil which has proven to be a good thing for us at high speed. We're the only super maxi to have this," Richards added
However the mast installation did have what Richards classified as "a catastrophic failure", but the team has been working on it over the past week and hopes to be back in the water at the weekend.
"It's like taking an AK47 to a water pistol fight," Richards joked about Perpetual LOYAL. The latter's owner, Anthony Bell, quickly returned, "There aren't too many water pistols coming out of New Zealand with DSS and new masts."
Bell said of his rivals, "It'll be a tough battle with Wild Oats XI - we're up against the best super maxi racing team in the world - they're like the Ferrari team of ocean racing, adding: "It would be remiss of me not to also include those other super maxis in the fleet; including the boat we won (line honours) on in 2011, now racing as Ragamuffin 100."
Bell finished, "Our boat's got a proven pedigree - it was a good target for us to acquire and we've spent lots of time getting the safety elements right; rebuilding and strengthening the keel."
Key crew from the America's Cup and other major ocean races, including Oracle Team USA's Australian strategist, Tom Slingsby, will take strategic positions on the leading challengers this year.
The other super maxi challenges will come from Syd Fischer's Ragamuffin 100 and Grant Wharington's Wild Thing. Also in contention is Gerhard Ruether's super maxi from Cyprus, Zefiro, though she needs a heavy upwind race to figure.
Perpetual LOYAL is the former Speedboat/Virgin Money/Rambler 100, said to be the northern hemisphere's fastest racing machine, but which turned turtle after snapping her keel while leading the 2011 Rolex Fastnet Race. She sails with a major refit by Bell and Tom Slingsby's tactical brain, fresh from Oracle Team USA's winning America's Cup campaign in San Francisco.
"It's a dream gig - how could I not be part of this with such a great team and boat?" Slingsby said.
"This will be my first Rolex Sydney Hobart and my first major offshore ocean race - I've haven't been sick on a yacht before - only once when I was on a fishing boat offshore, so I'm curious as to how I'll fair," he admitted.
Tongue in cheek, Mark Richards offered some not so helpful tips to Slingsby, after media described him as the 'secret weapon' on Perpetual LOYAL, "A nice warm tuna milkshake on Boxing Day morning should do the trick. That should put their secret weapon out of action."
Asked about the pressure to succeed in this race, having won Olympic gold at the 2012 London Games and then winning the America's Cup as strategist aboard Oracle Racing Team, Slingsby responded, "I don't feel any pressure when I compete.
"I've been through it all with my Olympic career - being the favourite in a couple of Olympics - not performing, then performing - that's the biggest stage where you're going to feel the pressure. Plus the America's Cup, being down eight nil.
"You've just got to go out there and do the best you can do personally and help the team. It doesn't matter what the scoreline is, I'll be putting in wherever I'm needed and doing my best."
Syd Fischer embarks on his 45th Hobart race, aboard Ragamuffin 100, which, as Anthony Bell's Investec LOYAL, beat Wild Oats XI to line honours in 2011 in a memorable twilight duel on the Derwent.
Fischer comes fresh from line honours in both the Transpac and Audi Hong Kong Vietnam races. In the Vietnam race, he used the 90-foot version of Ragamuffin to break the race record.
Wild Thing, from Queensland, has unfinished business. Already having won Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours in 2003, and lengthened for last year's race, she was rubbed out before the start for incomplete paperwork.
New boats form the second line of attack on Wild Oats XI. There is Kwok's new Beau Geste, with a phalanx of Volvo sailors aboard; Matt Allen has programmed his brand new Ichi Ban, a Carkeek 60, to join Beau Geste in the quest for the Tattersall's Cup for overall winner of the race.
"This will be the most competitive offshore race ever," says Hong Kong sailing identity Karl Kwok, who is bringing his new Botin 80 Beau Geste, built in New Zealand, to the race.
"There has never been a line-up of boats sailed at this high level in any offshore event.
"History is in the making on December 26 and we had to be part of the event," says Kwok, who won the race overall in 1997 with a previous Beau Geste, also new at the time.
Past CYCA commodore, Matt Allen, who has invested in a new state-of-the-art Ichi Ban for the race, a 60-footer built in Dubai, thinks it is the best fleet he has seen since the early 1980s.
"That quality is very deep," he said before official launching his yacht today. "This is a grand prix racing fleet."
"We only took the new Ichi Ban for a sail two days ago and so far it's performed well. This weekend we've got the full race crew on board; it'll be a full test of all the boat's systems," Allen said.
"The 60 foot yachts have previously got into Hobart in good time, so we hope to take advantage of the winds when they are reasonably fresh in the late morning and early afternoon," said Allen, "It's been 30 years since I was on the overall winner, so I'm hoping this will be the boat to correct that."
In addition, there are two highly competitive Volvo 70s (Giacomo and Black Jack) to snap at the heels of the super maxis and bid for the Cup.
Tony Kirby, a veteran of 29 Hobart races, has similar plans to Allen and Kwok with his new Patrice, a Ker 46, a light displacement yacht with a carbon hull, designed to sit up and plane downwind.
Previous overall winners in the fleet include Kim Jaggar/Travis Read's Illusion (1988), Roger Hickman's Wild Rose (1993), Rob Francis and Corinne Feldmann's The Banshee (as Terra Firma in 1995), James Cameron's Luna Sea (as AFR Midnight Rambler in 1998), Philip Child's Knee Deep (as Yendys in 1999) and John Newbold's Primitive Cool (as Secret Men's Business 3.5 in 2010).
Wild Rose has emerged as a favourite for the overall win "It's quite a challenge to sail this boat - it's slow, rolly and bouncy at times, but you also need your fair share of luck to win," Hickman said this morning at the official media launch. "In fact, looking around me at the pros, I'd say it's definitely luck with us."
When asked if there was a magic elixir that makes Wild Rose so good, Hickman added, "The crew and the team around you are essential - the women are extremely valuable and they have a great power to weight ratio. My father-in-law used to say that 90% of ocean racing is about housekeeping - so you really need people across the board that are good at housekeeping."
Asked to pinpoint the race that stands out for him most, Hickman said, "Every Rolex Sydney Hobart is special; I could never pick one from another."
International entries come from New Zealand, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Caledonia, Germany, as well as Cyprus. Twelve of them are competitors in the Clipper Round the World Race fleet, identical 70ft yachts, plus two Clipper 68s, one of them with Clipper Race founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston aboard.
Spirit of Mateship, a Volvo 60 earlier named Southern Excellence, will be crewed by 10 'sailing wounded', past and present Australian Defence Force personnel, known as 'Brave Mates', who raise money for their Mates4Mates charity.
"It's going to be a good challenge for us - none of us knew each other before embarking on this journey. Psychologically, this is a big event for us - it's been cathartic so far," Australian Defence Force veteran Craig McCarthy said.
"We're all use to working together as a unit and the camaraderie you build as a unit - it's been great to come together on this project as individuals (after leaving the Defence Force) and build that camaraderie again - and the Mates4Mates support has been great," he added.
"The calibre of this year's fleet shows that Australian sailing is back and back with a vengeance," CYCA commodore Howard Piggott said.
"Australian yachtsmen and women enjoyed huge success at the 2012 Olympics and Australians figured prominently in the dramatic climax of the America's Cup.
"The fantastic response to compete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is symptomatic of renewed competitiveness in sailing here," Commodore Piggott said.
Starting at 13:00 AEDT Boxing Day December 26 on Sydney Harbour, the fleet will set sail from two start lines off Nielsen Park, Vaucluse. The largest yachts will start from the front line before the fleet converges outside the Harbour to round a mark one nautical mile east of the Heads before heading to Tasmania, where the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania will finish the race.
The start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will be broadcast live on the Seven Network throughout Australia, the Australia Network throughout the Asia Pacific Region and webcast live to a global audience on Yahoo!7.
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Raphael appeared on Sesame Street participating in the celebrity version of A New Way to Walk, and in a cameo on the Aliens in the Family episode "Dissected and Neglected".
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A couple of years ago, I wrote about the increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula and mentioned that as a young soldier, I had fought in the Korean War.
I concluded that it was important for Taiwan to come down on the side of its friends and allies: South Korea, Japan and the US.
At present, the situation is heating up again, with North Korea threatening strikes against the South, Japan and the US. While the government in Beijing is professing deep concern about the situation, its own bellicose behavior is part of the reason why North Korea is acting in this way.
China's recent belligerent and provocative behavior against the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia in the South China Sea, and against Japan in the East China Sea has given North Korea the impression that it is acceptable for it to throw its weight around and bully its neighbors.
While some in China are apparently willing to soften their support for North Korea, the leadership still seems to want to prop up its fellow communist regime, perhaps to act as a buffer between itself and South Korea and Japan.
Several US observers have said that they have detected "a shift" in China's attitudes and that Beijing can be convinced to lean on Pyongyang to step back. I believe it would be naive to think that China would significantly change its position toward its old friends and communist allies in North Korea.
China may give the appearance of shifting back and forth a bit, but after that, much will remain the same.
The now well-known statement made on April 6 by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at the Boao Forum for Asia that "no one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains," falls into the smoke and mirrors category.
This can also be evidence in the developments surrounding a commentary published on Feb. 27 in the Financial Times, in which Deng Yuwen (鄧聿文), a deputy editor at the Chinese Communist Party newspaper the Study Times, called for China to abandon North Korea as an ally. Citing an array of strategic arguments, Deng urged Chinese leaders to press for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula rather than propping up the North. A few days after the commentary was printed, Deng was suspended indefinitely from his position.
So, where does Taiwan stand on all this? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that it is "monitoring" the situation, and has urged North Korea "to exert self-restraint and to seek dialogue to resolve the issues about which Pyongyang is concerned."
The Presidential Office announced that it is "paying close attention to the situation on the Korean Peninsula," and that President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) "has instructed the National Security Council to be fully prepared for any outcome."
Still, Taiwan could do more: It could say that it is in favor of a transition to democracy in North Korea. The present "status quo" — in both North Korea and Taiwan — are outdated relics of the Cold War. If there is to be real long-term stability in the region, then the people of these two countries need to be allowed to make their own decision on their future.
This would require China to allow the processes of self-determination to run their full course and not interfere or threaten interference if these processes go in a different direction than the one it wants. What is needed is a Chinese Mikhail Gorbachev who respects the rights of all of China's neighbors to chart their own destiny, which would also be in Beijing's best interest.


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Vets take center stage at Red, White and Tahoe Blue parade
There was no shortage of patriotism at Red, White and Tahoe Blue's Fourth of July parade Saturday morning.
Hundreds of locals and visitors lined Highway 28 in Incline Village, waving the American flag and wearing the nation's colors while children, vehicles and parade floats rolled down the road.
Kicking off the parade were the children of Incline Village and Crystal Bay, riding their decked-out bikes, scooters and wagons as spectators cheered and clapped.
A procession of vintage cars, local emergency vehicles and parade floats followed soon after.
"I love the parade," said Rachel Barth, an Incline Village resident, who attends every year. "… It's a gathering of all the community members, and I think it showcases how quaint and small Incline Village is."
This year's parade theme was "Tahoe Salutes our Heroes." Several local veterans participated in the event, including Air Force veteran and this year's parade grand marshal Geno Menchetti.
"I think it's nice that they chose a theme that kind of reminds everybody what the Fourth of July (means)," Barth said.
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Seager showing signs of turning it around
MIAMI -- Baseball is a game of constant adjustments, a truth to which Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager can attest.
Through the first 15 games of the season, Seager has struggled at the plate, going hitless in eight of his appearances for a team-low .170 batting average.
Of late, the 26-year-old and his coaches have tinkered with the position of his hands on the bat, working on consistently getting the same move and angle.
"We're just trying to get his hands in a better position, get him in a better hitting position so he can get that feel and where he needs to be before he attacks," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said.
Seager's results during the current roadtrip indicate progress. He collected his second multi-hit game of the trip -- and season -- on Friday. After beginning the year 4-for-33 (.121), he is batting .250 (5-for-20) over his last five games.
"It's felt better the last couple of days. Last night it felt good," said Seager, who went 2-for-4 with a double and a strikeout. "Keep building off there, feel what works and doesn't work and base it off that."
Though Seager failed to collect a hit in two of the four games in Texas, his at-bats looked and felt more comfortable.
"Everybody puts such an emphasis on the hits; obviously that's the result you're going for, but you can take a good swing and get out and take a bad swing and get a hit," Seager said. "It doesn't always work that way. Anytime you put a good swing on a ball and it falls for you, it's always a big confidence-booster."


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