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The most shocking image of the college football weekend occurred in the second half of Missouri-Nebraska. And it had nothing to do with the fact that Missouri hung 52 on Nebraska before the third quarter ended. It was finding out that Missouri's chubby and short quarterback who will win the Heisman Trophy is boyz with Warren Buffett, the sage of Omaha. As if that weren't enough, they posed for photos with one another. Well, of course they did. And of course the two regularly exchange email messages as well. Does Warren Buffett use emoticons? I swear to god if he does, I'm going to be crushed. You wouldn't expect anything less though after seeing them pose back-to-back with a smug, "I just bought See's Candy, bitch," look on their faces. Ten other things that stuck out this weekend: 1. Does anyone else feel like the Terrelle Pryor run with one minute left against Wisconsin was the first of many such plays that will leave opposing Big Ten fans ripping out the hair on their "bad-ass" goatees? Pryor scored at half speed. The most dangerous thing about Pryor right now? He never seems to be in a hurry. The game is already slow enough for him that he can control the pace. Witness Wisconsin's rushing defenders who have to move slower because they're worried about rushing past him and giving up a big play. Yep, he's a true freshman and he's already dictating the speed of the game. It's uncanny. There are 80,000 opposing fans screaming at him, his team has to have a touchdown on a final drive, and he trots into the end zone on a quarterback keeper without being touched. It's Vince Young-ian—before Vince Young went crazy. Also, and this is key, VY was a redshirt freshman by the time he started playing significant minutes and he didn't start outright until his redshirt sophomore season. Pryor's already there and he's a true freshman. It's enough to make Ohio State fans want to burn incense in Maurice Clarrett's honor because thanks to his getting shot down by challenging the NFL's three-year draft rule, the Buckeyes are guaranteed three years with Pryor. Hell, maybe by the time he leaves they'll have done the impossible...beaten a single SEC team.
2. Alabama doesn't walk on water. At least not when they play Kentucky. If Kentucky's quarterback doesn't drop the ball in the end zone, Alabama might lose at home to Kentucky for the first time in the history of the two football programs. Instead they managed to hang on for a 17-14 win. On the papyrus scrolls bearing images of his victories that must be lain down before He takes a single step, in the Book of Saban this win will be called, "The Immortal Conquest of the Bluegrass." 3. Penn State survived their first of four consecutive tests to determine whether Joe Pa can become the first senile BCS Champion with a workmanlike 20-6 win over Purdue. The offense wasn't as impressive as they had been but the defense was even better. Can they win on the road at Wisconsin this weekend? Joe Pa thinks so. Of course Joe Pa thinks Wisconsin is actually in Florida, so that's a bit of a geographic challenge. 4.Tennessee beat a sub-par MAC team 13-9 en route to rolling up 225 yards of total offense. What's the worst thing about this? On the drive back from the game, I found myself thinking, "We played pretty well." And we beat a MAC team by 4 at home. Awesome. 5. Virginia beats Maryland 31-0 even though Maryland was favored by 14 points. That's a 45 point swing vs. the spread. College football—making oddsmakers jump off buildings since 1895. If anyone knows of a website that lists the largest swings in outcome every year, I'd love to see it. For instance a few years ago Louisville went down to South Florida favored by 28 and lost by like 40. The difference between the spread and the result was over 60 points. This would be a superb and cautionary ad for the NCAA to put together to try and discourage people from gambling on their games. 6. FSU triumphed over Miami after almost blowing a 24 point lead and Illinois came into the Big House, went down 14-3 and then outscored Michigan 42-6 in the final three quarters. Long live the Zooker. Death to the Zooker. In somewhat related news, Chris Weinke just had sex with his 4,000,032nd Florida State undergrad.
7. USC bounced back to crush Oregon. In the process of destroying Oregon in the fourth quarter, USC ensured that they are the only Pac-10 team ranked in the top 25. Lending further credence to my suggestion that the Mountain West Conference take out newspaper ads proclaiming their eventual conference champion the Pac-10 champ as well. 8. The Big 12 demonstrated there's a severe gap between their top 4 and everyone else. Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas went on the road for conference games and won by 30, 32, 35, and 24 respectively. And these aren't deceptive margins. None of these games was ever close. 9. Chase Daniel is going to win the Heisman unless he gets injured. Go ahead and write this in stone. It's the gospel truth. Daniel looks like he's playing a video game. And, be honest, if he showed up to play in a weekly football game with your buddies, no one would pick him for at least the first ten picks. Then, you'd probably put him on the line and tell him to run five-yard outs while your accountant friend got to play quarterback. Eventually you'd give him one snap at quarterback and he'd throw a 70 yard touchdown pass without even taking a step. Then, at halftime he'd disappear for ten minutes and when he came back your accountant's girlfriend would be pregnant. 10. Vanderbilt beat Auburn for the first time since 1955 on Saturday. Auburn played their usual, choke you out football, going up 13-0 and then refusing to adopt such modern offensive plays as the "forward pass" and the "toss sweep." Instead, they were content to wait for Vanderbilt to self-destruct and give them the win. And it almost worked. Play of the game? Vanderbilt back-up quarterback Mackenzi Adams is on a second down quarterback sneak and has just broken into the open field. If he keeps going and gets the first down all Vanderbilt will have to do is take a knee. Instead, and inexplicably, he drops the football. It bounces behind him and lays tantalizingly on the field. Then, he runs back and covers it. In the past five decades, that ball would have been scooped up and returned for a touchdown. But not this year and not on Saturday. As the second best College Gameday sign said, "The Geeks shall inherit the turf." Although, to be fair, the best sign of the day (in an otherwise weak class) was, "My butler went to Auburn." Succinct, arrogant, devastating and self-mocking (I'm sure the student's butler really went to Miss. State). Well played Vandy, well played.


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With the KUKA ready2_load package, you receive preconfigured modules for loading operations. The package consists of a mobile platform, the LBR iiwa lightweight robot and an end effector.
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Veteran Small Business Champion Receives SBA Regional Honor
MINNEAPOLIS – Army Capt. Ronald Jarvi, Jr., Resilience, Risk Reduction & Suicide Prevention Manager & Employment Support Officer at the Minnesota National Guard Deployment Cycle Support based in Cottage Grove, has been named the Minnesota Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year for the U.S. Small Business Administration's Minnesota District Office as well as the upper Midwest Region.
The Veteran Small Business Champion Award is presented annually in each state to individuals who have fulfilled a commitment to advancing small business opportunities for Veterans of the U.S. armed forces. Army Maj. Aaron Krenz, Branch Chief of Deployment Cycle Support in Cottage Grove nominated Captain Jarvi for this award.
The regional award winner is selected from among the state winners. In addition to Minnesota, SBA's upper Midwest Region includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
In 2011, the Minnesota National Guard identified a significant issue with Service members who were deployed and would be returning home to Minnesota unemployed, underemployed or looking to start their own business. Jarvi was assigned and tasked to develop a collaborative solution to this issue. No small task, considering the Minnesota National Guard would be retuning the largest number of deployed Soldiers from Kuwait and Operation New Dawn in state history during the spring and summer of 2012. Jarvi reached out to local, state and federal employment and entrepreneurial partners as well as all military service branches and focused them on synchronizing efforts to provide a clear and concise path for Service members and Veterans to follow to achieve their goals. The synergy achieved by such a diverse group of support agencies and military partners had never been attempted or attained prior to this effort.
Jarvi served as the conduit and facilitator for this newly developed Inter-Agency Employment Working Group (IEWG) which initially focused on producing a three-step process to connect Service members seeking employment support and those employers looking to hire those serving in the military. The Minnesota National Guard also realized the unmet need and value of connecting those Service members who wanted to start their own business with entrepreneurial resources.. Jarvi worked tirelessly to help identify those Service members while they were still deployed and coordinated with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide a connection and support opportunity during the required reintegration training that Service members and their families attend to help ease the transition from combat to community. This connection resulted in the SBA connecting with and supporting more Service members and Veterans in 2012 than they had connected with during the last 5 years combined.
Jarvi provided numerous engagements to military, public and private organizations, which raised awareness about the importance of employment after deployment and achieving ones goals of owning your own business. Jarvi's contributions in the areas of entrepreneurial and employment support have had cascading effects on the overall resilience of all Minnesota Service members and military families. He effectively communicated the entrepreneurial and employment support needs for today's Service members and Veterans helped provide congressional leaders the valuable input and influence the passage of state legislation in support of Veterans employment and entrepreneurial support.
The entrepreneurial and employment support efforts led by Jarvi have received national attention and have been highlighted as a "best practice" at the highest levels of the military. Through this recognition, the Michigan National Guard reached out and sent an officer to meet with Jarvi and discuss what the Minnesota National Guard and the IEWG partners he brought together were able to achieve in an effort replicate this model.
Captain Jarvi will be honored at the Minnesota Small Business Week Awards program on May 6, 2013, at the Depot Minneapolis.
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In addition, to provide consular help to those applying for visas specifically, to issue visas to Muslim pilgrims who are required to attend the annual Hajj gathering in Mecca at least once during their lives.
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Epson AcuLaser C900
Everything deprecated:
See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alc900-cups/forums/forum/423970/topic/3173254
For now use the cvs version, in future releases the open source project will support archlinux.
Finally this printer is working in Archlinux.
Epson officially provides Linux driver through their avasys.jp page. Although there's a nice Distribution chooser there are only .rpm packages. Nevertheless we need them all except for the src package (they are mirrored by the opensource project).
The epson driver seems to be GPL'ed so there's an open source project. Don't waste your time, the installscript does not work and seems to be complicated. We also need this driver. Oh AND we need the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 from there. Easy going, isn't it?
Files needed
Ok, let's start. You need:
- Cups + foomatic
- libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
- alc900-cups-1.0.i386.tar.gz
- pipsplus-0.1b-1.i386.rpm
- pipsplus-epson-laser-0.1b-1.i386.rpm
- pipsplus-epson-alc900-0.1b-1.i386.rpm
- pipsplus-gtk-0.1b-1.i386.rpm
- rpmextract from extra.
First copy libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 to /usr/lib
Put all the .rpm files in one directory and do
rpmextract.sh *.rpm
You should get a usr/ directory with some subfolders. You need these in your file System. As root:
cp -r usr /
I did not figure out how to actually print with this setup so I had to use the open source driver. Extract your alc900-cups-1.0.i386.tar.gz
Search for the file called 'Epson-AcuLaser_C900-alc900.ppd' and copy it to /etc/cups/ppd/ (not sure if this is needed but so it will be found by plugging in the printer). Because the install.sh does not work on Archlinux we need to copy the files manually into the filesystem.
At first the foomatic filters. As root:
cp -r foomatic /usr/share/
Next all the binaries. Copy all the .sh scripts and all the alc900.* files that do not end with .c plus the files usleep, pipe, alc900 to /usr/bin.
To start the pips system we have to copy pipsplus to /etc/rc.d/
cp pipsplus /etc/rc.d/
To run it on every boot you should insert pipsplus in the daemons array in /etc/rc.conf
Hopefully now it will work. Just start pipsplus
/etc/rc.d/pipsplus start
It has to say Starting AcuLaser C900 (alc900.daemon ) otherwise it will not work.
Make sure cups read all the new files by restarting it
/etc/rc.d/cups restart
(don't know whether this is needed either...)
Now plug in your printer and go to your cups config and add a new printer. If the printer is connected through usb and it does not show up just select LPT1 and change it later.
You should not choose a printer model but tell him the path to Epson-AcuLaser_C900-alc900.ppd
My device URI for my printer connected through usb is 'usb://EPSON/AL-C900' even though it is not recommended on the website of the open source driver to use this. But actually this does work for me.


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Vineyard. Le Grand Cru Richebourg. Vosne Romanee, Cote de Nuits, d'Or, Burgundy, France
Romanee Conti, Vosne-Romanee, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, stock photography samples, by Per Karlsson, BKWine.
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Romanee-Conti is one of the grand cru appellation vineyards in the commune of Vosne-Romanee in Cote de Nuits in Bourgogne. It is a monopole (fully owned) by the Domaine de la Romanee Conti, sometimes called DRC. It is planted exclusively with pinot noir grapes to make red wine. Not just any red wine, but one of the most expensive ones you can find.
The Romanee-Conti grand cru is just one of several around the village of Vosne Romanee. When standing looking at the stone cross on the edge of Romanee Conti you have La Grande Rue to the left, on the other side of a dirt road, behind you is Romanee Saint Vivant, above RC up the hill is La Romanee, and to you right (north) is Richebourg.
The total vineyard area is 1.63 hectares. Yields are low, much less than 30 hl/ha according to some, a bit over 40 hl/ha according to others, so there are not many bottles around, only some 4000-5000 bottles. But that is of course not the main reason that makes the wines from this vineyard one of the world's most expensive red wines. That is mainly du to its collectability and to the desire that well heeled people have to own a bottle that says Romanee-Conti on the label, and perhaps, perhaps even one day drink it. It is more of a collector's item than a beverage.
The vineyard is cultivated with organic farming since 1985.
But why there is a tall stone cross standing at the edge of the vineyard I do not know. It was erected in 1723, according to the inscription (which also says "Pierre Argo"), re-erected by the Gaudin de la Villaine and Leroy (at one time co-owners of the vineyard).
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MORNING MINUTES: Includes Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day, Number to Know, This Day in History, Today's Featured Birthday and Daily Quote.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: It's OK to play with your food -- weekly food rail, with utensils that make dinner time fun, an easy recipe for thousand island dressing, tips on brewing truly great coffee, and more.
YUMMY YOGURT: What's behind the buzz on Greek yogurt? -- Many fans say Greek yogurt simply tastes better. Ethnic cooks have known this for years. Greek yogurt is a staple in their fridges for recipes such as tzatziki, a Greek cucumber and yogurt sauce popular through the eastern Mediterranean. Now, everyday cooks are catching on. By Jennifer Mastroianni of The Repository.
SEEING-EYE DOCS: Pet ophthalmologists see variety of patients -- The basset hound's missing eye suggested he was a returning customer. With the dog's long ears resting on the examination table, the nurse held him still while Dr. Dennis Donohue turned off the lights. By Robert Weitzman of The Enterprise.
GERI NIKOLAI: It's time to start that vegetable garden -- It's too early to plant most flowers outdoors, but vegetable gardeners can start having fun in the dirt now.
GARDENING: Teaching children to garden has benefits that last beyond harvest -- "Kids love to play in the dirt," says Stephen Boley. "At least my children love to play in the dirt." And once spring hits, many an adult is ready to do the same. But involving children in gardening can be more of a challenge. By Sue Van Fleet of the Daily Telegram.
IPHONE PACIFIER: Cranky baby? There's an app for that -- For some parents, the iPhone and its handheld world of digital entertainment have become the new pacifier, keeping fussy children from having a meltdown. By Dan Naumovich of the State Journal-Register.
LITERACY: Expert says path to literacy starts with babies -- Jean Ciborowski Fahey isn't a woman who demurs when asked her age. "It's great to be 60 and doing what you love," she said. Ciborowski Fahey, a literacy expert, has dedicated her life to promoting reading readiness in young children and preventing the difficulties that can undermine their future academic success. By Jody Feinberg of The Patriot Ledger.
TRAVEL: Celebrate the tastes of Mexico -- Sometime over the past few years, tourism dwindled, if not disappeared from Mexico. But, finally, the destination that once was the perfect weather vacation spot is picking up the pace in tourism. The trendy place to visit is the Riviera Maya. A short ride to the walled city of Tulum offers the chance to explore Mayan ruins, including the great pyramid. By Charlene Peters.
WEIGHT INJURIES: How to avoid injuries while lifting weights - When we think about sports injuries, football, soccer and other contact sports come to mind. You might be surprised how many ER visits are due to accidents while lifting weights. Here's how to stay out of the ER. By Carol Sponagle.
COMPOSTING: Advice from a self-proclaimed 'compost whacko' - Mary Beth Mahoney, a self-proclaimed "compost whacko," likes to say her family composts everything but the decals on fresh fruit. By Pam Adams.
ASK THE VET: Pets and gardens don't always mix - We've been getting a lot of questions lately about springtime garden hazards. Here are some tips to keep your pets out of harm's way. By Dr. Ray Cahill.
MAY SUDOKU: May sudoku puzzles (Nos. 673-707) are available for download. Previous puzzles are linked to in this file as well.
MARILEE DRISCOLL: Rock 'n' roll and the currency of aging -- There are few things more magical than five band members who have been to hell and back over the years, still crankin' it out and mixin' it up. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's more about love than money at this point. After all, Aerosmith's Steve Tyler just turned 62, and J. Geil's Peter Wolf is 57.
GRANLUND CARTOON: Hubble telescope's 20th anniversary
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CHARITA GOSHAY: Hey hypocrites: What color is your elephant? -- In "The Godfather: Part II," Michael Corleone is confronted by a corrupt Nevada senator who's disgusted that "I-talians" are spoiling his "clean country." Unfazed, Corleone replies, "We're all part of the same hypocrisy, senator."
SUZETTE MARTINEZ STANDRING: Day of prayer does serve a secular function -- Prayer is not limited to Christians alone, but is practiced by all faiths, whether one worships one God, a pantheon of deities or nature itself. A National Day of Prayer is not a demand for worship, but a reminder that one of America's great liberties is religious expression.
KENT BUSH: Words - like actions - have consequences - There is a fine line between a tool and a weapon. A hammer is a very useful tool. But in a fit of rage, a hammer can be used in a gruesome attack. The First Amendment gives all Americans the right to free speech. Like a hammer, most - but certainly not all - applications of that right are beneficial.
NEW DRUG: 'New' OxyContin draws fire from some experts -- The federal government has approved a new formula for OxyContin to discourage the abuse of the drug, but those on the front lines say it may be too little, too late. By Maureen Boyle of The Enterprise.
Business / Ag
HOMEBUYER TAX CREDIT: $8,000 tax credit for homebuyers expires Friday -- With only days left before the homebuyer tax credit expires, Jean Larkin was trying not to feel the pressure of the looming April 30 deadline. Larkin, like many other potential homebuyers, was busy Sunday checking out open houses on the last weekend before the tax credit deadline. By Maribeth Conway of The Patriot Ledger.
SHOESTRING LIVING: Are big-boxes a big deal? - I love shopping at big-box stores. For a family of five, it makes perfect sense to buy oversized packages of toilet paper and paper towels and even fruits and vegetables. We're a bunch of blueberry lovers around here, and nothing makes me happier than the huge container of blueberries I purchase at Costco. By Molly Logan Anderson.
AUTO BITS: How your tires can save you money - Weekly auto rail, with a look at low rolling resistance tires, Car Q&A with Junior Damato and more.
CHECKOUT LANE: Tips to finding the perfect camera -- In general, there are two main types of cameras you can buy: the point-and-shoot and the SLR. Mike Adams, manager of Ritz Camera in Braintree, Mass., says a point-and-shoot camera, which has many automatic features, is good for beginners and novices. The single-lens reflex is the top choice of professionals. By Lana Lagomarsini of The Patriot Ledger.
MAKING CENTS: Update your estate plan -- Under the current federal estate tax laws, there is no federal death tax. Of course, no one believes that this situation will remain the same for long, but where it goes is still up for debate. The cold hard facts are that federal laws will be different on Jan. 1, 2011, or sooner, and many states are likely to have changes, too. By John P. Napolitano of The Patriot Ledger.
ON COMPUTERS: Truly useful websites -- Great websites are compelling because they provide unique services. That's a rarity in our generic Web world, where you can get the same info on 50 sites. The envelope please: My nominations for the Most Truly Useful Websites of 2010. By Jim Hillibish of The Repository.
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The United Nurses & Allied Professionals (UNAP) is a regional health care union representing approximately 6,500 nurses, technologists, therapists, support staff, and other health care workers employed in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Connecticut.
UNAP is a forceful advocate for both our members and our patients. As patient advocates, we seek to create a humane health care system that offers accessible, affordable, quality care for all. As a professional union, we are committed to improving the working conditions and economic well-being of our members. We seek an equal voice for health care professionals in the decision-making processes that affect our jobs and our patients.
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Exclusive to Sam's Club this November, Microsoft is releasing their quite literal biggest bundle to date. The box is huuuge and just bursting with a 60GB Xbox 360 Pro console, Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda and Guitar Hero III with the guitar. Priced at $US350, that's only $US50 more than the Pro unit runs alone. So yes, it's a pretty good deal that's probably worth the forest-worth of trees that each box requires to come to fruition. [Kotaku]
UPDATE: Also, it seems that Walmart and Sam's Club will be the exclusive sellers of an Xbox 360 dragon controller. More details on that as they come in.


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Well, this forum doesn't get much use, but there is now an online quotes database for Lazynet - http://quotes.lazynet.org
At the moment, it's not feature complete. In the future, there will be quote browsing and searching, and the ability to associate a quote with a particular channel.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham says he believes "there's a congressional deal to be made" that could resolve the question of a legal shield for young immigrants living in the U.S. illegally while improving border security without building a wall.
Graham says in a nationally broadcast interview that lawmakers could restore a "Dream Act" for the young while also enhancing border security — without constructing the 2,200-mile wall (3540.39-kilometers) that President Donald Trump has advocated since his campaign for the White House.
But Graham also tells MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show Congress needs "to define what an acceptable 'Dream Act' would look like."
The South Carolina Republican, who is working on a bill with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says he thinks Trump should turn to White House chief of staff John Kelly, who previously headed the Department of Homeland Security, for advice on border issues.


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* Insider Marco Patuano becomes chief executive
* Franco Bernabe quits as chairman after clash with shareholders
* New management could sell Brazilian unit
* Shares rise 1.7 percent
By Danilo Masoni and Stefano Rebaudo
MILAN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia said on Thursday it had picked insider Marco Patuano as chief executive after long-standing executive chairman Franco Bernabe resigned in a strategy clash with core shareholders, paving the way for possible asset sales.
Patuano, who started his career in Telecom Italia after graduating at Milan's elite Bocconi university in 1990, is expected to draw up a new business plan that could include divestments at the debt-laden former monopoly phone company.
Telecom Italia thanked Bernabe for his contribution and agreed an exit package of 6.6 million euros ($9 million). It gave no reasons for his departure after six years at the helm.
The resignation of the urbane 65-year-old businessman follows what industry and market sources have said was a clash over strategy with the core shareholders Telefonica, Intesa, Generali and Mediobanca.
These shareholders agreed two weeks ago to gradually give Spain's Telefonica full ownership of Telco, their investment vehicle which controls Telecom Italia via a 22.4 percent stake. Bernabe had opposed the deal, a number of the sources have said.
Telecom Italia also said on Thursday it had started to look for a permanent chairman.
Patuano will face the task of cutting nearly 29 billion euros of debt at Telecom Italia, one of Italy's largest private-sector employers, as well as reversing years of sluggish growth and boosting its share price.
"The group has strong potential. I believe its current management is able to develop it," said board member Gaetano Micciche as he left the board meeting.
Analysts say a new leader increases the likelihood that Telecom Italia will put its Brazilian unit TIM Participacoes up for sale to help cut debt and fund badly-needed domestic investments.
Bernabe had opposed asset sales and had been seeking support for a share issue to raise as much as 5 billion euros to avoid a credit rating downgrade to "junk" status.
During his tenure Telecom Italia's debt was cut by 8 billion euros but almost 30 billion euros was wiped off its share market value, a 75 percent drop in the price.
Telecom Italia shares ended up 1.7 percent at 0.64 euros by the market close on Thursday, down by 7 percent so far this year and over 17 percent on a year ago.
"We are optimistic that Telecom Italia can be worth significantly more and be a better part of the Italian economy in its next phase of life," Bernstein analyst Robin Bienenstock, who rates the stock "Outperform" and has a 1 euro price target, said in a note.
The company in August warned its profit would fall faster this year than it had previously thought, as a price war for mobile phone services and the deep economic recession in Italy bite.


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Dear MPAA: Stomp Your Feet And Repeat It As Many Times As You Want, But Infringement Is Not Theft
from the must-we-do-this-again deptAh, gotta love the MPAA and their gleeful sophistry. We wrote about how MPAA comms person and former Congressional staffer (note the revolving door...) Alex Swartsel went way, way overboard in attacking GigaOm's Janko Roettger for noting, accurately, that the entertainment industry's anti-consumer behavior, combined with a potentially worsening economy, could mean that more people switch away from authorized options for watching movies to unauthorized options. This is a pretty reasonable analysis, and it's hard to see how you could disagree with it. However, in the minds of Swartsel and the MPAA, anyone who even dares to acknowledge that unauthorized file sharing exists must be condoning the practice, and Swartsel wrote one of the more intellectually dishonest pieces we've seen in a long time, going after Roettger, pretending he was telling people that it was fine to infringe on copyrights.
We responded on a bunch of points, including Ms. Swartsel's repeated incorrect use of the words "steal" and "theft" to describe infringement. Swartsel has now responded, with a post so full of sophistry, you have to wonder if the MPAA might not be better off sending her back to remedial talking points training. It seems clear that Swartsel is jumping into a debate for which she is woefully unprepared -- though, of course that explains why the MPAA, yet again, has turned off comments on its blog. The main point of the blog post appears to be to simply repeat the words "steal" and "theft" so many times that readers are driven into submission. Of course, most people aren't stupid, though the MPAA seems to presume that's the case.
By my count, the post uses a form of "steal" six times and a form of "theft" another six times. That's a dozen incorrect uses of those two words in a mere seven paragraphs. Impressive.
Even worse, nowhere does Swartsel admit that she totally and completely overreacted and irresponsibly attacked Roettger for accurately reporting what's going on in the world. Instead, she doubles down on the this claim that merely stating what's happening means we all think that it's okay:
In other words: movie and TV theft is inevitable. Why? Because it's easy to steal something that, in physical form, exists only as data, and easy to justify stealing it as a result? Because information wants to be free, no matter the cost it took to produce or its creators' judgments about how best to disseminate it? Because anything is fair game once it's on the Internet? Because if I rip a movie file off of a DVD or camcord a showing at a theater, I have created that movie with my own labor and can do whatever I want with the file, including posting it online and making money from ad sales or subscription fees? Because by stealing films and TV, or watching stolen films and TV, I'm just exercising my First Amendment rights to freedom of speech? All those are arguments we've heard before.Oh gosh. Where to start? Notice how she intermixes the fact that making a copy and sharing is easy with the idea that people need to "justify" it. Poor Ms. Swartsel. No one ever shared a DVD with you? No one ever invited you over to their house to watch a TV show together? Sometimes "sharing" is just that. It's not stealing.
And, no, no one -- not me, not Roettger, not Torrentfreak -- ever attempted to "justify" the actions that are infringement. None of us said that it is "fair game." None of us said that "information wants to be free." None of us said that it's a First Amendment issue. It seems that, rather than respond to the actual points all of us raised, Swartsel and the MPAA are simply throwing out a ton of strawmen -- every false caricature she can come up with -- to describe the "scary" people who argue that maybe, just maybe, the MPAA is going about this the wrong way.
Mike Masnick wrote that we need to "adapt and deal with reality," and actually, I think he's right – depending on which reality we're talking about. Is it the reality that the Internet and the explosion of mobile technology have opened up vast new ways for us to communicate with one another and for film and TV-makers to offer their work to people who want to watch it? Because as Julia blogged last month, there are "more options than ever before to get movies and TV shows online safely and legitimately" – we have a list on MPAA.org here, and the creative minds in our industry are working on even more as we speak.And yet... and yet, as folks like Wil Wheaton recently pointed out, those efforts are still at about the 1997 level of fan friendliness. They still treat most people as if they were criminals who need to be limited and contained. For the most part, they do not offer the same level of convenience and user-friendliness of other options that are out there, even if they are illegal. Historical evidence has shown time and time again that what Swartsel thinks of as "theft" is not in any way similar to "theft," but is merely her industry's best customers expressing how they would like to be offered content.
And sometimes, indeed, the industry does get it right -- but it's usually with a lot of kicking and screaming as they're dragged there by a much more innovative tech company. Netflix, of course, is a great example. Yet, every other online movie offering is horribly limited. Things like only being able to watch a movie within a 24 hours period, forcing people to watch previews (and the silly FBI warning for something they paid for) isn't fan friendly at all. It just drives more people to unauthorized means.
And, as for Netflix, which actually does seem to be about as consumer friendly as they come (and has done quite well because of it), well, then along comes the MPAA and the Hollywood studios with plans to kill the golden goose, by doing everything possible to strangle it. They're ratcheting up the prices, they're limiting the selection (drastically). They're trying to demand further restrictions.
Honestly, it's quite easy to show that the MPAA and its member studios have done much more to drive people to infringement than any mere reporter who simply points out the reality of the market.
Is it the reality that some people do steal content online? Unfortunately, it's clear that's true – otherwise we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. But do "many, many people" really intend to engage in theft just to watch a movie or TV show cheaply or for free? We doubt it, particularly if legitimate, better alternatives are available; if they know it's wrong; and if they understand it's not a victimless crime.Ah, my favorite bit of sophistry, which really shows that Swartsel is somewhat new to this particular debate. Look, the industry has been screaming about "education" and "victimless crimes" for decades ("home taping is killing music!"). And it's totally bogus and everyone knows it. Even bringing it up is an admission that you have no real argument. Both significant research and basic history show that this is not an "education" issue. Telling them "file sharing is bad," doesn't change anyone's mind. And these people are more than willing to pay, as is seen time and time again by study after study after study after study.
While Swartsel and the MPAA sit back and claim "but we are offering legal options!" they're totally missing the point (again). They're not offering the legal options that people want. In some cases they are, but every time they get close, they try to make those good services worse, and drive more people to alternatives. The people are willing to pay if given a reasonable option that doesn't treat them like a criminal and put ridiculous restrictions on them.
That's not "theft," that's frustration that the industry is so clueless that it can't offer a good service after all these years.
But if what Masnick means is that we need to throw up our hands and look the other way while people who had nothing to do with making a movie or a TV show steal and profit from it, that is a reality to which we do not care to adapt, period.In what world does "learning to adapt" mean looking the other way? Seriously, if you're going to make ridiculously false statements about my position, at least make them appear logically consistent. I'm not saying throw up your hands. I'm saying stop being stupid and start offering services that don't treat people like criminals and which actually compete on value with the services that people want. It's not that hard, but if you're going to go around calling your biggest fans criminals a dozen times in the course of seven short paragraphs, I guess it's little surprise that you wouldn't be able to comprehend such basic things.
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Amy Waldman Wins Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction
Susan B. Anthony Institute Award Promotes Promising New Authors
Brooklyn-based author Amy Waldman has been named the recipient of the 2012 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction, presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester. The annual award will be given for Waldman's post 9/11 novel,The Submission, which has received national acclaim from The New York TimesBook Review, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and The Washington Post.
Waldman will receive the award and $7,500 prize on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. in the Interfaith Chapel on the University's River campus. The event is free and open to the public. As part of the award ceremony, Waldman will give a reading from the novel and there will be a book signing and reception after the event.
The Submission is set in Manhattan as a jury gathers to select plans for a memorial for the victims of the September 11th terrorist attack, only to learn that the anonymous architect who created the winning design is an American Muslim. Written in 2007, three years before the controversial Park51 proposal to locate an Islamic Centre near the World Trade Center site, Waldman says the idea for the novel came from a conversation with a friend. "We were talking about the 9/11 memorial competition and some of the intense reactions to architect Maya Lin's winning designs for the Vietnam Veteran's memorial, and I thought what would be the equivalent for the 9/11 competition?" said Waldman. "Once I had the idea of a Muslim American architect, I instantly wanted to know what would happen."
Waldman's first novel was unanimously selected for the University's Kafka Prize by a panel of three reviewers from nearly 100 nominations. "Much of the work of students and faculty connected to the Susan B. Anthony Institute focuses on difficult social issues and the conflicts that arise between cultures, making The Submission a great fit for this year's winner," said Honey Meconi, Susan B. Anthony Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and director of theSusan B. Anthony Institute.
Before writing The Submission, Waldman was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years. She spent three years as co-chief of the South Asia bureau after covering Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11. She was also a national correspondent for The Atlantic. She graduated from Yale University and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin. Her fiction has appeared in the Boston Review and the Atlantic, and was anthologized in the Best American Non-Required Reading 2010.
The Submission was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN First Fiction Award; one of National Public Radio's Ten Best Novels; Esquire's Book of the Year; Entertainment Weekly's#1 Novel for the Year; a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book; and one of Amazon's Top 100 Books and top ten debut fiction.
The University's Janet Heidinger Kafka prize recognizes an American woman writer whose book-length work has been published in the previous year. Previous winners include Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Toni Morrison, all of whom won the award before becoming famous for their prose. The award honors Janet Heidinger Kafka, a young editor who was killed in an automobile accident as her career was beginning. Her friends and family created the endowment that supports the award in memory of Kafka's high literary standards and personal ideals.
This year's selection committee was led by Kathy McGowan, education and women's studies librarian at Rush Rhees Library, with Terry Platt, professor of biochemistry and biology at Rochester, and Katherine Manheimer, associate professor of English at Rochester.
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Symptoms of labyrinthitis
The most common symptoms of labyrinthitis are:
- feeling that you or your surroundings are moving or spinning (vertigo)
- feeling or being sick
- some hearing loss
These symptoms can vary in severity, with some people feeling that they cannot stand upright.
Other symptoms of labyrinthitis may include:
- mild headaches
- ringing or humming in your ear(s) (tinnitus)
- fluid or pus leaking out of your ear(s)
- ear pain
- changes in vision, such as blurred vision or double vision
The symptoms of labyrinthitis can be quite severe during the first week, but usually get better after a few weeks.
In some cases, the symptoms can last longer and have a significant impact on your quality of life and ability to carry out everyday tasks.
When to get medical help
If you have dizziness, vertigo, some hearing loss, or any other symtpoms of labyrinthitis, and they do not get better after a few days, or your symptoms are getting worse, see your GP or call NHS 111.
Symptoms of vertigo, nausea and sickness often improve gradually over a few days, although they can sometimes last for several weeks.
You may feel unsteady for a number of weeks or months. This usually improves over time and with treatment. Your hearing should return, although this may depend on the type of infection that caused the problem.
See your GP or call NHS 111 immediately if you have sudden hearing loss in one ear, with or without vertigo. It's important the cause is investigated.
Diagnosing labyrinthitis
Labyrinthitis is diagnosed based on your symptoms, medical history and a physical examination.
Your GP may ask you to move your head or body, and your ears will be checked for signs of inflammation and infection.
You may also have some hearing tests, as labyrinthitis is more likely if you have hearing loss.
Your GP will also check your eyes. If they're flickering uncontrollably, it's usually a sign that your vestibular system, the body's balancing system, isn't working properly.
Treating labyrinthitis
The symptoms of labyrinthitis usually pass within a few weeks.
Treatment involves drinking plenty of fluid to avoid becoming dehydrated, bed rest, and medication to help you cope better with the symptoms.
Labyrinthitis is usually caused by a viral infection, in which case antibiotics will not help. But you'll be offered antibiotics if your doctor thinks your infection is bacterial.
Contact your GP if your symptoms do not improve after 3 weeks. You may need to be referred to an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist.
A small number of people have symptoms that persist for several months or, in some cases, years. This requires a more intensive type of treatment called vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT), which is a specialised form of physiotherapy.
Read more about treating labyrinthitis.
What causes labyrinthitis?
Labyrinthitis is caused by an infection in the labyrinth (the innermost part of the ear).
It contains the:
- cochlea – a small spiral-shaped cavity that relays sounds to the brain and is responsible for hearing
- vestibular system – a set of fluid-filled channels that contributes to your sense of balance
Labyrinthitis usually follows a viral infection, such as a cold or flu. The infection can spread from the chest, nose, mouth and airways to the inner ear.
Infections that affect the rest of the body, such as measles, mumps or glandular fever, are a less common cause of viral labyrinthitis.
In rare cases, labyrinthitis can be caused by a bacterial infection. Bacterial labyrinthitis is more likely to affect young children and can be serious.
Bacteria can enter the labyrinth if the thin membranes separating the middle ear from the inner ear are broken. This can happen if you have a middle ear infection or an infection of the brain lining (meningitis).
People with autoimmune conditions can also get labyrinthitis. Autoimmune conditions are where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue rather than fighting off infections.
Complications of labyrinthitis
Bacterial labyrinthitis carries a higher risk of causing permanent hearing loss, particularly in children who have developed it as a complication of meningitis.
As a result of this increased risk, a hearing test is recommended after having bacterial labyrinthitis.
Severe hearing loss after bacterial labyrinthitis can sometimes be treated with a cochlear implant. This is a small hearing device fitted under the skin behind your ear during surgery.
Vestibular neuronitis
Many people diagnosed with labyrinthitis only experience the balance symptoms without hearing loss.
This is known as vestibular neuronitis rather than labyrinthitis. However, both terms are often used to describe the same diagnosis.


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Somehow, somewhere, I picked up the notion that an extended stay in the hospital is some sort of luxurious indulgence, like an all-expense-paid vacation at a particularly sterile Ramada Inn.
I mean, on the surface of it, it sounds pretty cool. First there's that comfortable bed you can swivel into all sorts of positions at the touch of a button. You get to leisurely mark your menu for your three full meals for the following day, perhaps deciding against the cream of wheat and cinnamon roll, and opting instead for the cheese omelet with sausage and sourdough toast. You get to watch all the daytime television you want without feeling guilty about it. You're surrounded by fresh flowers you could never otherwise afford. The ringing of a buzzer will send nurses rushing in to give you Pepsis or crushed ice or Vicodin; and all of your friends and family have to come visit and feel sorry for you and bring you things like crossword puzzle books, chocolate shakes and National Enquirers.
It's only when you're actually in the hospital that the illusion comes crashing down in a heap. In my case, it first happened when I was 11 years old with a ravaged throat after a tonsillectomy. With more alarming frequency, lately, it has occurred during hospitalizations for things like sepsis, pneumonia and congestive heart failure.
My first hospitalization that occurred because of HIV was about four years ago, when I had a life-threatening reaction to the last of my otherwise successful nine-month chemotherapy treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the liver. With tubes attached to every conceivable (and inconceivable) part of my body, trying to get into a comfortable enough position to sleep was always the trickiest problem. One misjudged movement, and alarms would sound, lights would flash, and irritable nurses would rush into my room to reattach the plastic ropes that bound me, immobile, to my bed.
I also discovered that it's not the pain I remember, really, but the sheer ugliness of everything and everyone around me. I remember sitting with my friend Vincent watching a videotape of an episode of the old Loretta Young TV series. She was playing some insanely devout Mexican peasant, sporting a black wig, a heavy makeup job and that all-purpose accent she used to fool everyone at the time into thinking she was a great actress. As a connoisseur of kitsch, this was something I normally would have enjoyed enormously -- but to this day I remember it as being one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen, and that includes Night of the Living Dead.
Even the solace of sleep was denied me, because as soon as I would begin to drift off, my mind would almost immediately plunge into the most gruesomely violent Wes Craven-ish nightmares I have ever experienced.
At first, I even dreaded having visitors because then I would have to gather up all my energy, sit up straight, and make a pretense of being gracious and brave and feeling ever so much better. In reality, however, I was mortified at having to be seen in such a reduced and animalistic state of disrepair, like some corrupt, deteriorated creature straight out of Edgar Allan Poe, drooling, gagging and gulping for air. Pretending to be better than you really feel during that initial process of simply trying to survive another day can be utterly exhausting.
There's always the possibility that the mask can suddenly drop, and you find yourself turning into someone unrecognizable, even to yourself. "I didn't even know you knew the 'f' word," my sweet, Midwestern mother said to me one day, after I had suffered a bout of delirium brought on by some particularly noxious medication.
Then, of course, there were the interminable lab tests. Hospital attendants would wheel me into the hospital dungeon for experiments in torture remarkably similar to those inflicted on Linda Blair in The Exorcist when they were first trying to figure out the possible medical reasons she was peeing on the carpet and masturbating with crucifixes. First the jaded and sullen white-jacketed assistants would leave me parked in my gurney in the hallway, where I would study the delightful intricacies of the cottage cheese ceilings for what seemed like small eternities. At last they would push me into some room where technicians would proceed to slowly inject me into a coffin-like tube, then ask me to do things like hold my breath until I thought my head would explode. "We'll have to start all over again," a Nurse Ratched type scolded me at one point. "You breathed."
So why is it that there remains, against every rational thought in my head, a vague remnant of nostalgia for those miserable days in the hospital? I read somewhere that our bodies can't really "remember" pain in the strictest sense -- the mind represses the actual sense memory of it as a sort of protection device. And I think all of us end up using our sense of humor to try to make past miseries, if not pleasant, then at least endurable. "One day you'll look back on this and laugh," we've all been told at one time or another. And amazingly, time after time, we do. Still, it just seems markedly unfair to me that the one time in your life that you get to be the center of attention is the one time when it's absolutely the last thing you want.
Gary Oberst, a member of AIDS Project Los Angeles' Writers Workshop, is a popular past guest at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. After a 10-year casting director stint -- one that allowed him to place Ginger Rogers, Johnny Depp and Tippi Hedren all in the same episode of "Hotel" -- he began Cards on the Table, a successful greeting card company.
This article has been reprinted at The Body with the permission of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).


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Feb 24, 1990 | ISBN 9780679729037
"A winner, a lavishly romantic lark, brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit." — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"[When Harry Met Sally …] will go down as the classic of 1989. One of the most endearing, enjoyable films ever — I couldn't recommend it more highly." — Marilyn Beck
"A comic valentine to love…" — Time
"A buoyant comedy! It contains what may be the year's single most uproarious scene." — Gene Shalit, Today, NBC-TV
"Deliciously funny … You'll love it. I dare you to resist it."
— Judith Crist


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Warcraft III 1.29 is live on the official realms: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20762137149?
We are preparing for the transition to 1.29 as well. Once the patch is ready, Eurobattle.net client will update your game automatically.
Hosting bots
ENT, RT and generally cross-patch hosting bots may not function correctly right now. As an alternative, you may want to use lagabuse public bots (limited to our realm): http://dota.eurobattle.net/la/forum/...php?topic=40.0
Obtaining Warcraft III 1.28.5
The full game of 1.28.5 version can be downloaded here: http://warden.eurobattle.net/downloads/file/49. Alternatively, check our wiki for the mirrors: http://wiki.eurobattle.net/index.php...Recommended.29
Another option (not recommended) is to use the official setup which will install the 1.29 version. You will have to downgrade it to play on Eurobattle.net. Check our wiki for instructions: http://wiki.eurobattle.net/index.php?title=Main_Page#Option_2_.28Not_recommen ded.29


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Navy and white stripes are beautifully clean and classic. And for me, they also evoke a sweet nostalgia for some make-believe time of innocence when people spontaneously danced together in the street. Think Gene Kelly in The Young Girls of Rochefort, happy people twirling around a French seaside town looking for love. So flirty and jaunty!
I wanted to bring some of these associations to a cute little hat for spring. It's time to say adieu bulky winter wool, and bonjour to breezy silk alpaca. Perfect for 48 degrees and a spin in the street! -Whitney
- 2 skeins of Blue Sky Alpacas' Silk Alpaca (I used Ecru for "Color A" and Blueberry for "Color B".)
- A 16 inch US #4 circular needle
- A 16 inch US #5 circular needle
- A set of US #5 double pointed needles (optional)
- A tapestry needle
(The background fabric is Kokka's "Ouka" in Natural Cherry Blossom Dots)
6 1/4 stitches = 1 inch in stockinette stitch with a US #5 needle
Finished Size
Fits medium size woman's head.
With a US #4 needle and Color A, cast on 112 stitches. Join for working in the round, being careful to not twist your stitches.
Round 1: *K2, P2, repeat from * to end of round.
Repeat Round 1 until piece measures 2 inches from the beginning.
Change to US #5 needle and Color B.
Round 1: *K4, m1, repeat from * to end of round. (140 stitches)
Round 2: With Color B, knit to end of round.
Round 3: With Color A, knit to end of round.
Round 4: With Color A, knit to end of round.
Round 5: With Color B, knit to end of round.
Repeat Rounds 2-5 until piece measures 7 1/4 inches from the beginning (end with the second round of Color B).
Knitting Stripes in the Round
If you have never knit stripes, or have never been satisfied with how you have been knitting them, you might find these basic tips helpful. (By the way, this isn't a tutorial on the "Jogless Jog", which is a way of eliminating the imperfect way stripes meet at the end of the round. Maybe another time!)
When switching colors, first make sure that the last stitch knit in that color (2 rounds ago in this case) is not too loose or too tight.
Now bring the old color (blue) over to the left, keeping it above the new color (white). When you knit the first stitch with the new color, the old color will be trapped between the working yarn and the knitting.
If you're an English style knitter (you hold the working yarn in your right hand):
When you knit the first stitch of the round, bring the yarn over your left index finger (this creates a little slack in the yarn to prevent puckering).
If you're a Continental style knitter (you hold the working yarn in your left hand):
When you knit the first stitch of the round, bring the yarn over your right index finger.
Remove your finger for the next stitch…
If you are using slippery yarn, like this silk alpaca blend, knit the next two stitches normally, but on the third stitch give a gentle extra tug so that the first stitch of the round won't be loose.
Here's what carrying the yarns up the back looks like:
And here's what it looks like in the front:
Notice how the stripes don't exactly meet at the end of the round. Don't worry, that's normal. It's because knitting in the round is actually knitting a spiral. So, the end of a round is one row higher than the beginning of the same round! When you block the knitting, sometimes you can kind of tug the stripes into alignment.
Knitting the Crown
When piece measures 7 1/4 inches from the beginning, decrease for the crown while maintaining the stripe pattern:
Decrease Round: (With Color A) *K3, k2tog, repeat from * to end of round. (112 st)
Knit 1 round.
Decrease Round: *K2, k2tog, repeat from * to end of round. (84 st)
Knit 1 round.
Decrease Round: *K1, k2tog, repeat from * to end of round. (56 st)
Knit 1 round.
Decrease Round: *K2tog, repeat from * to end of round. (28 st) (You can switch to double pointed needles for this round, although I managed to awkwardly knit this round with the 16″ circular.)
Knit 1 round.
Cut Color B's tail, and thread it through the remaining 28 stitches. Pull tight and bring the tail to the inside and weave it in. Leave Color A coming out the top of the hat.
Making the Tassel
Cut Color A's tail about 2 feet long and thread it onto a tapestry needle.
Bring the yarn back and forth across the top of the hat, forming equal size loops.
When you have as many loops as you want, tightly wrap the remainder of the tail around the base of the loops a few times.
Bring the needle up through the center of the tassel.
Trim the tassel to whatever length you want.
Et voila!


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Big Sport Fishing 3D Full v1.33 Apk | 6.2 MB | Medafire
REQUIRES ANDROID:2.0.1 and up
An exciting new 3D Fishing Game only on Android. Just flick your wrist to cast. This is the full version of Big Sport Fishing. Enjoy beautiful panoramic views and stunning 3D graphics in this exciting new fishing game available only on Android!.
v1.33 update:
1. This update includes a link to the new Big Sport Fishing Expansion Pack, 'Big Night Fishing'
2. The latest version now supports new fishing modes. Choose the location you want to fish or play without a time limit! You can also now keep the money and lures you have earned after you finish the game!
As you move your phone, the games view changes so you feel like you're really there. Realistic 3D fish can be seen swimming beneath the waves when they are close and will often jump to give away their location when farther away. When you see a big one just flick your wrist to cast. Pull back on your phone to hook a fish and fight it as you reel in your catch. After you catch a fish you can take a picture to view later or share with friends!
The full version has 10 locations.
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Anderson, McCoy Named to NACDA/McLendon Hall of Fame
Director of athletics and wrestling coach inducted Wednesday
ORLANDO, Fla. – University of Maryland Director of Athletics Kevin Anderson and wrestling coach Kerry McCoy were two of seven new members inducted into the NACDA/John McLendon Minority Scholarship Foundation Hall of Fame Wednesday at the James J. Corbett Awards Luncheon at the 49th Annual NACDA Convention at the World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, Fla.
Anderson is in his fourth year as the director of athletics at Maryland and boasts more than two decades of leadership experience in collegiate athletics. He has also been recognized as a leader nationally as he currently serves on the NACDA Board of Directors and previously served as the organization's President in 2012-13 and as the chair of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Issues Committee.
Since Anderson's arrival at Maryland, the Terps have finished among the top 30 in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings in three of his first four years in College Park, including a school-record 17th-place finish during the 2010-11 season.
"I would like to thank NACDA and the John McLendon Minority Scholarship Foundation for this tremendous honor," Anderson said. "John was a pioneer who paved the way and was a major contributor to collegiate athletics. To be recognized and selected into this prestigious hall of fame is very special and meaningful to me and my family. I take a great deal of pride in working daily to instill the same values John embodied with our student-athletes at the University of Maryland."
McCoy, a former All-American and Olympic wrestler, became head wrestling coach for the University of Maryland wrestling program in 2009. He has taken the program to new heights, guiding the Terps to four top-20 finishes at the NCAA Championships, three ACC titles and coaching seven Terps to 11 All-America honors, while being named ACC Coach of the Year three times.
McCoy was instrumental in the development of two-time 184-pound All-American Jimmy Sheptock, who became Maryland's highest national placer in 45 years when he finished second at the 2014 NCAA Championships.
"It is an amazing honor," McCoy said. "I'm very excited and truly humbled for this recognition. John McLendon established a great foundation for all of us to follow in college athletics. I love what I do and just feel very fortunate."
Anderson and McCoy join Ray Anderson (NFL/Arizona State), Ian Clarke (NBA/Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment), Brisco McPherson (NAIA/ University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma), Donald Remy (NCAA), and Kenny Williams (MLB/Chicago White Sox).
About the John McLendon Minority Postgraduate Scholarship Program: The John McLendon Minority Postgraduate Scholarship Awards are presented to senior-level minority students who intend to pursue a graduate degree in athletics administration. If you have any questions regarding this program, please visit www.


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Mr. Editor:
I noticed that you wrote in one thread that "posts start sliding off the page quite quickly."
Would you please tell this computer illiterate what those words mean?
P.S. I could not ask this question in that thread, for it was closed.
Many people in forums look at the latest post and may click back a few pages, but usually not many. Other ways of navigating include searching. In search engine result, the majority don't go beyond the first page- and how many reach page 10? The What's New page changes so fast, and while sections move less swiftly they can also change daily.
A post like Old Gobbo's, which I would want to look at over a period of days so it's easier to PM me rather than have me going back trying to remember words from the text to search for.


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at Uber
Design is different here. We come to work each day inspired by the future and eager to be a part of it.
Every project at Uber begins in an effort to improve both cities and the lives of people who live in them.
Technology moves quickly. So do we. We design with the long view in mind: what does this mean in five years? In ten? By focusing on the future, we open up exciting opportunities.
With every project, we learn more about what works. We test our assumptions constantly to make sure not only that our designs work, but that they continue to improve.
Our designs are used by millions around the world every day. We try hard to simplify and improve our customers' lives.
Every experience should be magic. When people use our apps, we want them to wonder how they ever lived without them.
Product Design Manager
"We're designing experiences that don't exist yet. Because of that, we're constantly innovating and improving what we're making. It's an amazing challenge, and it's also incredibly rewarding."
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"As designers at Uber we work with different personalities on a day-to-day basis. Working with these different people causes you to consider your approach. How can I work best with this kind of product manager, engineer or designer? People have different ways of working and communicating."
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"UX writing at Uber is a close-knit team comprised of the best short-form writers you'll meet. There's always someone willing to review copy, jam on what makes a tone conversational, or talk grammar over ice cream sandwiches. "
Head of UX Research
"Our mission is to create insights about people and the world, and use those insights to impact both near term product development and innovation for the future."
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"My work and life are best connected when I am both learning and having fun—this job allows me to do both of these constantly. I get paid to learn, travel and find out about people's lives and their interactions with technology."
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"Uber enables every single employee to be part of the success of our company, by ensuring that our partners and customers are central to every decision we make. I feel immensely proud when I tell my daughters what Uber does and how I get to play a role in this."
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"I'm mindful–and grateful–that no research project I've undertaken has ever left me unchanged."
Our team creates the architecture behind Uber's global identity. We launch campaigns and design standards that give Uber a cohesive look and feel. Our team includes designers, producers, copywriters, illustrators, and videographers.
Our team of marketing professionals creates emails, social posts, websites, and digital ads to benefit our rider and driver communities. We use data to inform and iterate on our designs, and we're proud of our industry-leading response rates.
We're constantly inventing, iterating, and increasing transportation opportunities. As a diverse team of researchers, program managers, designers, writers, and design engineers, we're focused on improving current features and imagining new futures for our technology through magical user experiences.
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The draft plan for the proposed South Shore Blueway Trail was presented for public comment at a meeting November 14 at Village Hall in Freeport.
The Blueway Trail is a proposal for a 40-mile loop for non-motorized boats throughout the bays and inlets of Nassau County, connecting boat ramps and other places suitable for boats as well as stopover points along the circuit.
Kyle Rabin, the chair of the advisory committee, introduced Barbara La Rocco, president of Going Costal, a consulting firm ("Connecting People and Coastal Resources") who prepared the plan with the assistance and input of the New York Department of State, volunteers and the advisory committee, a group of persons from governmental, community and environmental organizations joined by other stakeholders.
The road to the draft report
The plan began with money in the 2006 Nassau County Environmental Bond act dedicated to creating a water trail, combined with matching funds from Nassau County and the village of Freeport
Why have a water trail? The draft plan lists the many advantages that the trail would provide:
• Showcase one of Nassau's greatest assets, its waterfront.
• Encourage recreation and healthy lifestyles.
• Increase environmental awareness and a connection with Long Island history.
• Teach boater awareness.
• Create a vehicle to encourage ecotourism and economic development. Ms La Rocco said that there are 1.8 million paddlers (kayak and stand-up paddlers) in New York state – a large potential market. Thus the trail could improve the local quality of life.
As presented in the draft plan, the loop would include the following sites, connected by a trail (although Ms. La Rocca noted that the accompanying map "should not be used for navigational purposes"):
• Woodmere
• Hewlett
• Bay Park
• Bay Park boat ramp
• Harbor Isle
• Long Beach Boat Ramp
• Oceanside Park
• Marine Nature Station Area (stopover)
• Baldwin Park
• Milburn Creek
• Waterfront Park, Freeport
• Seabreeze Park, Freeport (stopover)
• Cow Meadow Park, Freeport
• Albany Avenue, Freeport
• Levy Park
• Newbridge Road Park
• Wantagh Park
• Cedar Creek Park
• Seamans Neck Park
• Alhambra Road
• Burns Park
• Tobay Beach (stopover)
• Zachs Bay (stopover)
• Green Isle (stopover)
• Jones Beach Field 10
• Jones Beach West
• Point Lookout
• Town Marina, Point Lookout
The draft plan identifies 18 sites as ready for use, and eight sites as top priority for needed infrastructure – the plan includes drawings for the eight sites of pathways from parking to the dock lines with rubber matting and docks that will enable boats to get from the parking to the water:
Alhambra Park in Massappequa; Baldwin Park, Bay Park in East Rockaway, Cedar Creek Park, Newbridge Road Park, Oceanside Park, Seamans Neck Park and Waterfront Park.
Ms. La Rocca says the plan estimates a cost of $2 million, for which grant money will need to be raised, for the site improvement. Signage will also be needed, and the plan also foresees the need for other amenities such as concessions and boat storage facilities (there is no plan in place as yet for camping and lodging facilities).
In addition, a logo has already been designed as part of the "branding" of the trail – plan are included for brochures and maps – even T-shirts! And all sorts of possibilities exist for events to promote the trail – competitions, local history lessons and paddlers day events.
Where to go from here
Ms. La Rocco stated that it was hoped that the trail could be launched in the spring of 2014. But many things need to be done before that can happen:
• The draft plan must be finalized, and the advisory committee is seeking public comment. To view the draft plan in full, and to offer comment, you can go to the website at www.southshoreblueway.com
• construction analysis regarding the eight priority sites.
• The permitting process. Since at least six governmental bodies will need to be consulted in the process of obtaining permits needed to implement the plan – including New York State, Nassau County, the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay and the Village of Freeport – A wide variety of rules and regulations will need to be adhered to.
• Phased development of the trail, with various parts of the plan being completed as funding becomes available.
Ms. La Rocco then answered questions regarding the details of the plan, which were mostly positive – with the exception of one attendee who wanted to know why the plan ignored the needs of sailboats. Ms. La Rocco noted that success of the plan was a gradual process, with attention needing to be given to the most basic parts of the plan – "the low lying fruit," as she put it.
She then charged the attendees – many of whom are with organizations involved in the planning and eventual implementation of the plan – to provide support through volunteerism, letter writing and forming "Friends of the Blueway" organizations. "Funding will only come if the individual communities want access," she said.


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The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt houses Europe's largest public jazz archive. In the Institut's collection you will find books, periodicals, recordings, photos … and much more information about the history and current developments of jazz all over the world. Founded in October 1990, the Jazzinstitut is housed in a baroque hunting chalet called the Bessunger Kavaliershaus (built between 1709 and 1725) since 1997. The historical vaulted cellar underneath the Jazzinstitut has become a performance space for intimate concerts, among them the concert series "JazzTalk".
The institute bridges scholarly and practical demands, regional and multi-cultural activities, as well as transnational scholarly discourses in order to support the music and the many people who keep it alive. It has also earned a reputation in the jazz world for its reliable services answering inquiries of any kind.
The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt is a cultural institution of the City of Sciences Darmstadt.


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President Barack Obama has sent official notification to Congress of his order for last week's airstrikes and humanitarian aid drops to help Iraqis threatened by Islamic State militants.
The White House on Monday released a letter formally letting Congress' leaders know that Obama approved the mission that repelled Sunni fighters in the northern Shiite town of Amirli and dropped food, water and medical supplies for civilians.
Such notifications are required by law and are considered a formality.
The Islamic State group has control of vast swaths of Syria and Iraq, has killed civilians from that region and beheaded American journalist James Foley.
The United States has conducted airstrikes in northern Iraq to halt the advance of Islamic State fighters. It is also considering extending its air campaign into Syria.


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Please don't take it personally. I am trying to facilitate as many responses as possible by throwing more information. I asppreciate all the answers I get and consider all the factors. Obviously, I get different opinions from many, iincluding totally opposite opinions. One more thing, though - I am not "she", I am "him". It is funny that I came across as "she", I wonder why:).Anyway, times are very tough now, nothing is guaranteed, but nothing was guaranteed previously either. I spent several years in law firms myself, starting as a legal assistant-paper filer with solo practitioner to a paralegal in a corp law firm (small-to-midsize). I just hope that it will give me a better shot at employment upon graduation. On the other hand, if economy sucks so bad that all that is irrelevant - then nothing else pretty much matters.


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Syracuse ex-ball boys appeal slander suit ruling
Attorneys for Bobby Davis and Mike Lang filed a 54-page brief with the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester in March.
State Supreme Court Justice Brian DeJoseph threw out their lawsuit in May, ruling that comments made by Boeheim after assistant coach Bernie Fine was fired were not statements of fact but were opinions that are protected from defamation lawsuits.
Davis and Lang say Boeheim slandered them in November 2011 when he publicly called them liars only out for money when they accused Fine of molesting them as children. Their claims could not be investigated criminally because they did not fall within the statute of limitations.
Fine has denied the allegations and a federal investigation into a third man's claim did not find enough evidence to warrant criminal charges. Fine has served notice that he plans to sue ESPN for airing claims made by Davis and Lang.
After the allegations of sexual abuse surfaced, Boeheim vehemently supported Fine, a friend for more than 40 years and his assistant for 35-plus seasons. Boeheim told ESPN that Davis was telling "a bunch of a thousand lies" and called him an opportunist looking to cash in on the publicity surrounding the then-emerging Penn State sex-abuse scandal.
"The content, tone and purpose of Boeheim's statements would clearly signal to the reasonable reader that what was being said in the articles published in the days after the initial ESPN report were likely to be an opinion - a biased, passionate, and defensive point of view of a basketball coach - rather than objective fact," DeJoseph wrote in his 30-page decision.
The lawyer for Davis and Lang, Mariann Meier Wang, wrote in the brief filed March 13 that DeJoseph should have allowed the case to go to a jury.
"The lower court's opinion should be reversed," Wang wrote. "A reasonable person reading Boeheim's statements readily could conclude that he was asserting specific and damning facts, not merely blowing off steam and voicing an opinion about an old friend."
Lawyers for Boeheim and the university filed their response last week, arguing that Boeheim's comments were opinions and thus protected by free speech.


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When Rick Santorum rebuked John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religion, he was repeating a common conservative view that the address did more harm than good.
In an interview Sunday with ABC's "This Week," Santorum, a Roman Catholic Republican, said he "almost threw up" when he read the remarks by Kennedy, who told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association: "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute."
Santorum, competing for conservative votes in a close GOP presidential contest with Mitt Romney, argued that more religion was needed in American public life.
"The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country," Santorum said.
Kennedy gave the speech to the mostly Baptist Texas pastors at a time when Protestants openly wondered whether a Catholic U.S. president would take orders from the pope. In what would become a model for generations of American Catholic politicians, Kennedy insisted his policies would be based on his conscience, not church teaching.
"I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office," Kennedy said, just weeks before the general election. "I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me."
The address was widely considered an eloquent repudiation of bias and a landmark of American rhetoric. Kennedy went on to become the first Catholic U.S. president.
Yet, as years passed, the church and society underwent changes that led many Catholics and conservative Christians to conclude they were being pushed from public life. For them, the speech took on new meaning.
The U.S. Supreme Court ended sectarian prayer in public schools and legalized abortion. As a result, many Catholics and other Christians saw themselves ! surround ed by a hostile culture. At the same time, the global church was opening up to the modern world through the Second Vatican Council, prompting an internal Catholic split over whether the council's reforms were going too far. American Catholics - better educated and more integrated into American life - fractured along religious and political lines. Once a solid bloc of mostly Democratic voters, Catholics became swing voters, and Catholic Republicans, a rarity in Kennedy's day, gained influence.
Catholic politicians who supported abortion rights came under more intense criticism from church leaders. American bishops called a vote for legalized abortion cooperation with evil.
On the defensive, these Catholic lawmakers paraphrased Kennedy. They said Kennedy was arguing that even if faith shapes policy, the outcome still had to be acceptable to the wider public. Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a Democrat, in a much-quoted 1984 speech on abortion at the University of Notre Dame spoke of "the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others." Democrat John Kerry, the party's 2004 presidential nominee said: "I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."
For conservative Catholics and other conservative Christians these comments were infuriating. Religion should be the source of an unchanging morality that guides all aspects of life, including governing, they argued. Archbishop Charles Chaput, then head of the Denver archdiocese, in a 2010 speech at Houston Baptist University, called Kennedy's address, "sincere, compelling, articulate and wrong."
"His Houston remarks profoundly undermined the place not just of Catholics, but of all religious believers, in America's public life and political conversation," said Chaput, now head of the Philadelphia archdiocese. "Today, half a century later, we're paying for the damage."
Matthew Schmalz, professor of religion at Holy Cross College in Worcester, said Santorum, who would be the second Catholic U.S. president if elected in November, is among those who believe the church has surrendered too much to the broader culture and has lost its distinct moral voice.
"When Santorum talks about the Kennedy speech that way, he's obviously making a political point about religion and politics, but he's also making a point about Catholic identity," Schmalz said. "Santorum is part of a very vocal constituency among Catholics, but I would say he's still in the minority."


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Friday, April 18, 2008
Keeping this in mind, I tiptoed quietly to the family room, turned on the TV and watched for news of the sleep-shattering event. Everyone agrees that it could have been worse. What if it had been worse? Are we prepared? No, not the food supply; most of us have enough food to keep us from starvation for days. I'm talking about all of the research we have done - our files, CDs, charts, and computer programs. Will they be safe until all systems are restored? If you haven't done so yet, make copies of your computer programs and files. Store them in safe places - in a bank safety deposit box or with a friend or relative out of town. Scan those charts and documents onto CDs and place them in a safe place too. Think about it. Will your material that took years to gather be wiped out in a brief moment?
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- GStaples said...
I have been following your blog for a few weeks, and really enjoy the reading. I do my own family history and keep hoping for family names to appear. It is wonderful what is now available to us through computers.
I appreciate what you said about being prepared, as a friend of our lost their home to a fire. It was sad to see all possessions gone and all her hard work on her scrapbooks. The one thing I am starting to slowly do is to put my pictures on fashdrives. They are easier to carry around and only cost about $20 or less, they hold lots and lots of information. I have one for pictures, one for family history and one for extra things I want to save. Even though this was written almost a year ago, I just wanted to say thanks for the reminder!
- February 17, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome said...
Thank you for your comments. You are right - flash drives are a wonderful way to keep our pictures and information portable I thought I would miss floppies, but do not - they are a thing of the past.
- February 17, 2009 at 6:31 PM


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Anthony W. DeSena, 76, of Tobyhanna, passed away peacefully on March 27, 2013, at Golden Living Care Center in East Stroudsburg.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to the late William and Mary (Petrone) DeSena, he moved to Old Bridge, N.J., where he lived for 40 years before moving to the Poconos. He graduated from P.S. 104 in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1948. He then attended Brooklyn Technical High School, where he graduated in June 1954.
He was married to his beloved wife, Anita (Anderson) DeSena, on Oct. 11, 1958, at St. Luke's Church in Staten Island, N.Y. He was a U.S. Army Reservist, enlisting in 1957 at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, N.Y. He retired from AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., after 38 years. Anthony was a proud volunteer for Old Bridge Little League for 38 years.
Anthony was predeceased by his sisters, Angelina Silverri-Todaro and Corinne Connolly.
He leaves behind his wife, Anita (Anderson) DeSena; his daughter, Alicia Roxane DeSena of Union, N.J.; and his son, Russell Anthony DeSena of Raleigh, N.C.
Visiting hours will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, April 1, at Waitt Funeral Home, 501 Highway 79, Morganville N.J.
A funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, at the funeral home, followed by burial at Forest Green Park Cemetery in Morganville, N.J.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Old Bridge Little League or Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Waitt Funeral Home
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Anthony W. DeSena
Anthony W. DeSena, 76, of Tobyhanna, passed away peacefully on March 27, 2013, at Golden Living Care Center in East Stroudsburg.


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Texas A&M is built on tradition, but a few traditions have changed in recent years.
Bonfire is no longer a university sanctioned event and the A&M-UT rivalry is no more.
Now an A&M student wants to change the tradition of all male yell leaders leading the 12th Man.
News 3 spoke to Samantha Ketcham to find out why she wants to be the first female yell leader.
It's one of the most famous organizations at Texas A&M and junior Samantha Ketcham wants to be a part of it; the yell leaders.
"Well I'm a third generation Aggie so I was more or less raised to bleed maroon and love all the traditions at A&M," said Ketcham.
Ketcham has launched a Facebook page and website and says she's getting lots of support. But not everyone is cheering for her.
"A lot of people of course that think I'm destroying the tradition or don't like the idea of having a woman run for yell leader so there's been a lot of support but there's also been a lot of hatred," she said.
While this wouldn't be the first time a woman ran for yell leader many people we spoke with wonder if students are even ready for a change.
Students like Brent Osborne were unaware she was even running.
"I have no problem with having a woman as a yell leader but it would change tradition and be a little different. I guess we are going through a change as a school though going to the SEC and everything," said Osborne, a finance sophomore.
"I think it would take a while to have the student body warm up to the fact having a female out there just cause we're so used to seeing the guys," said Elyse Turley, a Texas A&M junior.
Yell leaders are typically made up of corps members. So we asked sophomore Daniel Barnes and some other corps members about whether she has a shot.
He doesn't expect the current tradition to change.
"We're one of the only universities that has someone going out and going nuts with the unified yells instead of cheerleaders," said Barnes a chemical engineering sophomore.
"I'm not gonna change anything. If I was a cheerleader I'd join the dance team here. I want to be a yell leader," said Samantha Ketcham.
Students will decide who'll be their next yell leaders in two weeks time.
Several women have run for yell leader at A&M including last year and all the way back to 1981.


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