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A criticism levelled at international companies that send work offshore and claim to be Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) level 5 certified is that their claims are misleading.
The CMMI certification, which originated at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, is becoming a global standard for the software development process, much like the ISO 9000 series is for the production process.
The problem with some of these companies is that they may be CMMI 5 certified in one office but not others, yet they proudly display their CMMI 5 badge the world over.
Tata Consultancy Services, however, has been granted enterprise-wide CMMI 5 by Carnegie Mellon inspectors and is shouting it to the world. According to the managing director of its Australian office, Rick Marmur, this is a big advantage for the company when bidding for contracts.
"This has put us in good stead with organisations across the whole spectrum," he says. "Major corporations have long adhered to standards like ISO 9001. The CMMI standards are equivalent in software development and, thus, will give them confidence in us as an organisation operating across multiple locations."
This last point, says Marmur, is a troubling one for Australian-based companies that intend to take the time, trouble and expense to become CMMI 5 to win business in the government and private sector.
If they try to defray their costs by outsourcing some work to offshore locations, they could run into trouble.
"While there are CMMI 5 companies in Australia, if they outsource to low-cost places like Asia, those companies may not have accreditation in Asia," Marmur says.
We would have to agree, but would add one point.
Because there are almost no Australian outsourcing companies that are even close to being CMMI 5 certified, we doubt that the CMMI certification of their offshore partners is even an issue at this stage. It will become an issue, however, when Australian governments start insisting on CMMI certification 5 in tender specifications.
Jobs down the line
One of the most common complaints of ICT job candidates is that they can never get through to a live recruitment agent to discuss a job.
We have been assured by the boss of the exclusive recruiter for some of the prime telecommunications companies in Australia that if ICT candidates call the number and names he has supplied us, they can be assured that they will get through for a fair hearing.
Matt Lodge, the CEO of RSP Group, heads a company that has "virtually exclusive" recruitment agreements with Nokia, Hutchison Telecom, Unisys, Commander Australia, Telecom New Zealand and Australia and others.
Lodge says Sydney-based RSP Group, which he describes as a recruitment broker with a national affiliate network of about 45 small-to-medium recruitment agencies, services only about a dozen clients but has near-exclusive agreements with them all.
"We place candidates all over Australia for these clients," says Lodge. "For example, in Perth, we place 30 or so candidates a month with Unisys or Hutchison. We have also placed between 350 and 400 clients with Nokia in Melbourne in the last 12 months. In one campaign for Hutchison's 3 stores, we put 700 people in 70 stores nationally.
"We don't try to service 300 clients like many recruitment agents.
"Our arrangements with clients like Nokia or Hutchison are such that if they want to work with those companies, they have to come through us."
RSP, which Lodge founded five years ago, has 25 staff and turns over about $25 million a year. He says candidates interested in working for the companies mentioned should call 1300 557 774 and ask for Neil Mayne or Goh Hattori.
Moving heads
Dr Roger Kermode has been appointed director of innovation and technology at the Smart Internet Technology Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) - an incorporated joint venture between industry, academia and government. Dr Kermode was previously a member of the Smart Internet Research Advisory Committee and part of the team that put together the bid for the formation of the CRC.
Before Smart Internet, Dr Kermode spent six years working for Motorola in Chicago and Sydney, where he established and managed the Sydney Communications and Networks Research Laboratory at the Motorola Australian Research Centre. He has also worked for Telstra's Research Labs and Silicon Graphics. In 2000, Dr Kermode served on the Prime Minister's Science Engineering Innovation Council Working Group on ICT Research and Development and acted as an independent observer for the 2004 round of CRC bids.
Regulation and competition economics adviser Network Economics Consulting Group (NECG) has appointed Dr Paul Paterson as a principal based at its Sydney office, effective from November 15, 2004. Dr Paterson joins NECG from Telstra, where since 2001 he had been regulatory director, managing all regulatory proceedings on behalf of Telstra, and was a key industry player in establishing and implementing the current competition regulatory framework for telecommunications in Australia.
Before this, Patterson was Telstra's group manager competition, regulatory and external affairs from 1998. He is also on the board of the Australian Communications Industry Forum.
Listed speech recognition software vendor VeCommerce Limited has promoted foundation staff member Brett Feldon to the newly created position of chief technology officer.
Feldon has been involved with most of VeCommerce's speech deployments, either in a technical or review role.
He assisted with the implementation of Australia's first commercial speech product at UNiTAB (formerly TAB Queensland) and has been involved in the development and implementation of speech applications organisations such as Suncorp, AAPT, Tab Limited, Ladbrokes.
Feldon, an honours computer science graduate, oversaw the transformation of VeCommerce's engineering activities into the standards-based world of VoiceXML.
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SeaChase wrote:m0ng0 wrote:So anyone who thinks Flynn was a better play to start the year secretly hopes we lose now? Do we secretly hope for an injury also? WOW just wow !
Im a fan regardless of who's playing QB..
What a crap of back track. You said Pete should be replaced. This has nothing to do with Flynn or Wilson. You have said that the Coach that has built one of the better Seahawk teams we have had should be replaced.. probably cause he hasent done what you wanted at QB. Go ahead get all self righteous. But the post was why Flynn may not be the starter and your response was that Pete should be replaced because he hasnt started your precious Flynn.

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text: Photo Gallery: SHOT 2012 Zombies Zombies have slowly been becoming more and more prevalent in pop culture over the past few years, and for SHOT Show 2012, the Zombie takeover has arrived. Steve Bowman takes a look at the Zombie Craze taking over the SHOT Show floor. Share This Photo Gallery Prev Next Comments Galleries Winners of the 17th Annual Outdoor Sportsman Awards On the Floor at SHOT 2016 Celebrities at SHOT 2016 SHOT 2016: Industry Day at the Range 2016 Outdoor Sportsman Awards NRA 2015 Exhibits & Meetings :: Day Two NRA 2015 Exhibits & Meetings :: Day One 2015 SHOT Show Day Four 2015 SHOT Show Day Three 2015 SHOT Show Day Two 2015 SHOT Show Day One SHOT 2015: A Day at the Gun Range NRA 2014 - Outdoor Channel Personalities Women of SHOT Show SHOT Show Day Four Products Celebrity Shots at SHOT View More Photo Galleries Prev Next Photo 4 of 12 Chainsaw DoubleStar Corp., better known for making AR-15s, showed a camouflaged version of their "Zombie" gun. This one is an AK47, with a chainsaw attached to the barrel like a bayonet.


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The temperature of herbs varies from very cold to neutral to very hot. This is fairly obvious in some herbs, and the hot bite of Cayenne or the cool, slippery taste of Plantain doesn't require too much consideration. However, some herbs can confuse even the most experienced practitioner with their apparent contradictions. The simple way out is to look it up in your favorite herbal text and just go by that. Yet we've all had instances where the book, no matter how much we usually agree with it, doesn't mesh with our intuition or experience.
If you look up Yarrow in one herb book, it'll tell you it's warm, and another will tell you it's cool. Hmm, you think, how I am ever supposed to sort this out? And then you taste a bit of Yarrow leaf and flower: acrid and lightly bitter by some tongues, and pungent and bitter by others. Next you check out the standard actions of the plant in herbal medicine:
stimulating/relaxing diaphoretic
bitter digestive tonic
circulatory stimulant
and I would also consider Yarrow to be an immune system tonic, though that's not nearly so standard.
From the first glance at the list you might assume it's cooling by the fact that it's an alterative and bitter, which fits a common pattern. And yet the circulatory stimulant aspect as well as the action upon the sinuses might cause you to reconsider. So hmmm, it can't be both, or can it?
In my opinion, some herbs have variable temperatures, meaning they can have both cooling and warming properties depending on the way they're used, the herbs they're used with and even the person they're used for. Once we accept everything doesn't have to fit into one category or another, life with energetic herbalism will be much easier. In their profound intelligence, a great many herbs wander over borders, change with circumstance and act in other surprising ways. Plants are more likely to act from a certain individual core nature than from a static list of actions, or a certain category of energetics. One benefit to working with a small number of local plants is that we are more likely to recognize that unique nature and way of being than if we were using three hundred herbs traditional to a foreign country. Depending on a very large materia medica, especially one not based in the land around us is more likely to tempt us into using charts or books to figure out what each herb does rather than depending on our own knowledge and common sense. On the other hand, working with the weeds growing right beside our doorstep is more likely lead us into an intimate relationship that teaches not only the already accepted uses of any given plant, but also the fine subtleties, rare quirks and unusual qualities of each one.
Some herbs I consider to have both warm/cool properties besides Yarrow (Achillea spp.) are Garden Sage (Salvia off.), Peppermint (Mentha pip.), and Sunset Hyssop (Agastache rupestris).
Try to be open to the possibilities and work from there. One of the very best things about North American herbalism is that there's so many possibilities, so much ingenious adaptation and so little dogma at this point. The more we can strive to avoid categorization and work towards a dynamic understanding the more vital our traditions will become.
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I've been enjoying your blogs for a while now and have commented once before. Have been thinking for some time that you, Loba, Wolf and Rhiannon might find my cousin Emily's blog, "Rickshaw Unschooling", interesting as I think you may share similar values, spiritually and otherwise. The web address is http://rickshawunschooling.blogspot.com/
Emily lives in "the Phantom Rickshaw" on Bowen Island off the BC coast. I think it's a converted bus. She is unschooling her two young children. She is very interested in wild foods and herbs and regularly takes her kids out on "wild food days" and "earth walks" as part of their education. These involve tramps around the island gathering various foodstuffs and processing them at home in different ways.
They have harvested things from yarrow, sea lettuce, burdock and slugs (green not black – apparently there is a difference) to most recently conifer needles for needle teas (Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine and Grand Fir).
Emily and her family also have a family website which is fun to read. The web address is http://phantomrickshaw.com/dragonfly/journal.php
Hi Kiva! And thank you, Tiff! What a surprise to find your post, here!
Thought I should come out of lurking and tell you that I've also been reading this blog for quite a while, since being referred here by a friend (I forget who, but it wasn't Tiffany!). What a funny small world we share. :–)
I've thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts and adventures, Kiva. I hope one day we might meet!


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Los Altos High School's Green Team continues to promote sustainability this year by encouraging fellow students to walk, bicycle, skateboard or take a bus to school.
Each month the club hosts a Carbon Free Commute Challenge that incentivizes walking to school. Green Team members distribute raffle tickets to students who bicycle, bus, skateboard or walk to school and hand out prizes later in the day.
In February, the Green Team hosted activities in the quad at lunch and featured a Safe Moves Bicycle, which had a blender attached to the back. Students used the bicycle to make smoothies to hand out to students.
Safe Moves Bicycle representative Winona Hubbard said exhibiting the pedal-powered blending bike helps groups like the Green Team spotlight alternative forms of transportation.
"Lots of kids are aware (of the Carbon-Free Commute Challenge), but biking is not a cool thing," said Maggie Kristain, Green Team member. "Biking is easier and cooler than they think."
In addition to regular outreach to highlight sustainability and green choices, students successfully lobbied to institute a zero-waste policy on campus. The group also supports efforts to ban plastic bags in Los Altos and is planning an Earth Day activity in April.
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Interview: Matt Shakman from "Cut Bank"
Director Matt Shakman has a resume full of some of the best TV shows made in the last 10 years. He has directed 37 episodes of the hit show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", and 2 episodes of this years "Fargo"; including the finale. Matt's latest project is a Montana based thriller called "Cut Bank", named after the city, that is stacked with acting talent including: Teresa Palmer, Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton, and John Malkovich. Matt took the time to talk with us at The Movie Network and told us all about this great film.
Nick Leyland from The Movie Network: Hey man, congratulations on your new film coming up, "Cut Bank."
Matt Shakman: Oh, thank you very much. I am excited about it.
TMN: Now tomorrow's the premiere, right?
Matt Shakman: Yeah. June 15th will be the first time that we show it in front of a public audience. So, we're very excited about that.
TMN: Oh, man. So, you think it's ready?
Matt Shakman: I think so, yeah. Actually, we've done it all the things we need to do to get it ready. It's mixed, and color corrected, and all that, so hopefully the story works, and everybody likes it.
TMN: Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to see the film, but it's on my top list of films for four main reasons. One, because I love thrillers; two, because the cast is amazing; three, because I'm traveling to this part of the country later in the year, to Montana; and the fourth is that I love the work you've done in the past, so I'm really excited about that. First off, I love thrillers. Can you kind of give us an idea of what the film's about?
Matt Shakman: Sure. We call it a Western gothic noir, which is our own little genre. It's part thriller, part black comedy. It's about a young guy who's trapped in a very small town that's kind of frozen in time, and he wants to get out. And he comes up with a really bad plan to make money quickly in order to get out of town with his girlfriend, and things go terribly wrong along the way, and that's pretty much the story.
TMN: Can the audience expect more of an action-style thriller, or more of a character-driven thriller?
Matt Shakman: A character-driven thriller. It certainly flirts with different tones and genres. It's part drama, it's part coming of age story, it's part black comedy; and definitely, the thriller is the thing that wraps it all together. With a group like Malkovich and Billy Bob, and Bruce Dern, Michael Stuhlbarg and Liam Hemsworth, all these guys, it's definitely a character piece, first and foremost.
TMN: Like you said you got John Malkovich, you got Billy Bob Thornton, you got Teresa Palmer, who I loved in "Warm Bodies" and you got "Nebraska's" Bruce Dern, who was fantastic in that film. Can you tell me a little bit about what these guys are bringing to the film?
Matt Shakman: They're all kind of amazingly connected to this tiny little town. As you said, you're going to Montana, so you probably know the real Cut Bank exists. It's up near Glacier National Park. It's a wonderful town. It's very quirky in its own way. And I sat down with John Malkovich, one of the first things he said was that he had been a volunteer fireman at Glacier National Park in the summers, during his years in college; and he helped himself through university by doing this. So, he knew Cut Bank really well, and spent some nights there. And Bruce Dern almost made a movie there in the '70s. And Billy Bob mentioned that Robert Duvall had spent a lot of time there, and they talked about it. So, it's a strange little town that most people haven't heard of, seemed to be a common link between all these actors.
So there was that, that pulled them in there, I think. And Malkovich, in particular, is playing a simple, Midwestern, sort of Montana sheriff, who is overwhelmed by the violence that he encounters. So it's a very simple, ordinary, every man kind of part that he hasn't played in a long time, not since maybe "Places in the Heart," and that kind of thing, some performances he's been known for villains and some of the more interesting, flamboyant characters that he's played over the years. This is someone he knows really well, a person he kind of grew up with, and people he was around, this kind of small town character. And he does a beautiful job with it.
TMN: Since you got John Malkovich and Billy Bob Thornton, obviously, I don't know exactly what their characters are like 'cause I haven't seen the film, but they both could play such good good guys and such good bad guys, so how could you decide that?
Matt Shakman: It was true. I do a lot of theater as well, and as I was putting together my cast, I was interested in people who had a theater background, Malkovich being certainly a big draw for me because I'm a big fan of Steppenwolf, but also, just that idea of putting together a rep company, including Bruce Dern and Stuhlbarg, I mean, these guys could just change roles with each other at the drop of a hat. So, if you like this version of "Cut Bank," come again next Sunday. We'll switch everybody up. That's a possibility, to go back and remake the movie with everybody playing each other's parts, 'cause they certainly have that range.
TMN: That actually makes me most excited to watch the film, is to see who is in what place in the film, what character, or who's playing what character.
Matt Shakman: Yeah, all these guys, they don't have a type. They're all so fluid and flexible, they can play anything. So, it was fun to see them tackle these different characters.
TMN: Did you film this in Cut Bank?
Matt Shakman: We did not film any of it there, but I did research trips there. I would have loved to, but the resources to make this kind of movie on our budget level in Montana didn't exist. Having to bring in a lot of crew, and house people in that small town, it would have been very hard. So, we went directly north of Cut Bank, up to Edmonton. So the topography is very similar and even the accents are a little similar, too. Cut Bank is right on the border of Canada. Your phone keeps switching back and forth to Rogers, the Canadian telecom company when you're there. So we went to that part to shoot something we thought it had the same spirit.
TMN: Can you tell me about the writer Roberto Patino, who is famous for his work on "Sons of Anarchy", and your initial thought of the script?
Matt Shakman: Absolutely, yeah. It seemed like it was meant to be. It was sent to me by my manager and then he was also recommended to me by one of the producers on the movie, Dan Cohen, with whom I'd worked on a movie a few years ago at Sidney Kimmel. It didn't end up getting made, but we knew each other there. So, all of these independent parties recommended this movie to me at the same time, so it sort of felt like it was meant to be. And Roberto had not yet gone into television, and he had written this screenplay and it had been listed on the black list, and it was his introduction to the town. I thought it was fantastic, a great character piece, a great thriller, unique. I hadn't read something like it before, and I thought it would be a wonderful challenge for a first movie, so I was quite excited to work with them on it, and we started that process, many years ago, I think now about four years ago, trying to get it set up and cast and put together.
Roberto's story is great. He's a graduate of Harvard, and quite a brilliant American guy, but he was born in Columbia, and his father moved the family. I'm speaking for Roberto here, but I think he was around seven or eight when he came to the States. And his father was in love with Americana, he wanted his kids to really understand what America was all about. So, at every opportunity, at every break in school, he would drag them out to battle fields, and the parks all over the country. So he took them through Cut Bank on the way to Glacier National Park, when Roberto was younger and he was struck by this town that you were greeted by a giant penguin on your way in. And he said, "This is a very strange place." It somehow had lodged in his subconscious, and then a few years later, he was in the post office and he saw a sign about a reward that you could get if you had evidence that would help the postal service track down people responsible for a crime against a postal worker.
And those came together and became the plot for "Cut Bank." It's an inside, outside story about what is America in a way, because it's written by this Columbian American, brilliant man, Roberto, who has a fully insider view, but also a bit of an outsider point of view on things. And that's what he's created, this kind of meditation on small town America.
TMN: Is there any scenes, in particular, in "Cut Bank" that you're most proud of or that you find most your style?
Matt Shakman: No, hopefully, after decades worth of working in television and my hand at a million different styles, I feel like an art student, in a way, where you go to the museum, and they tell you to sit in front of the Rembrandt and copy it, and then go sit in front and copy that one. By going from show to show, you have to do the best possible version of that show and yet make it your own. And so, I've added tools to my tool belt over the years.
So there's a lot of different things in "Cut Bank," a lot of comedy and drama and suspense, and I feel that each of those things I've done fully in other ways on television. So, I feel pretty comfortable jumping around in tone through out. But definitely, my heart is in the thriller and so some of the more exciting thriller moments of the movie are, I think, where I'm most at home, because I grew up a big Hitchcock-Polanski fan, and adventure, so getting a chance to work in that world is very exciting.
TMN: I'm a big fan of your work in the past and thought to myself, "It's a thriller by the guy that directs Sunny in Philadelphia."
Matt Shakman: Yes.
TMN:You've had such an incredible past. I'm a big fan of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". How did you make the transition?
Matt Shakman: Funny, I come originally from theater and in theater, directors aren't necessarily identified by a genre. They're identified by flexibility. If you're a big New York theater director like Daniel Sullivan, who's one of the top guys right now, he's expected to be able to do a brand new comedy, a brand new drama, a Shakespeare play, a Chekhov play, and a Noel Coward play, to be able to do all those things, because at heart, they're all making use of the same skills and talents, hopefully, which is storytelling and character development, world building.
And I've been taking that approach to television. I think I was probably a little bit naive as I began, because my first job was for "Once and Again," which was produced by Ed Zwick, who's one of the producers of "Cut Bank" actually, and he gave me my big break from theater work that he had seen. And that was a drama, a family drama, on ABC. And my next thing was for Steven Levitan, who went on to create "Modern Family," but it was a show called "Oliver Beene," which was a relatively broad comedy.
And I kind of locked into those two different sides right away and have continued to try to nurture both of those and to add to the resume, procedurals, and action shows, and medical shows, and all that, because I really enjoy being challenged by the different shows and different stories. And sometimes, whenever I felt like I might be doing a little too much of one thing, I've actively tried to reach out and do something different, and to keep it eclectic.
TMN: You directed a few episodes of this years "Fargo," right?
Matt Shakman: Yeah, I directed the finale of "Fargo," the last two, so the one that aired last week, and the one that airs this coming week.
TMN: Congratulations on that. That's a great show.
Matt Shakman: Thanks! It was a lot of fun to work on. And there's a show that combines a lot of different talents. It's, I think, very funny, but also freaky and scary, in its own way. Very smart, quick writing. So, I had a blast working on that.
TMN: Now, I have to ask, because I am a big fan of "Sunny... " Is there an episode, or a season that stands out as your favorite?
Matt Shakman: Yeah. I think that consistently, that show is incredibly funny, and I love those guys. They're geniuses. But there was something about season four, I think, that for me, I always look back on with special fondness and that's the year we did "The Nightman Cometh," "Gas Crisis," "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell," and a few other really classic episodes. So, I certainly have a special place in my heart for that. And then "Nightman" ended up becoming a bit of a cult classic, and we did a bunch of live shows of that. So, I do have a lot of fondness for that.
TMN: Now, for "Cut Bank," when do you think that people are gonna be able to check this out?
Matt Shakman: I'm not sure. I hope soon. We've done most of our foreign distribution deals, and then hopefully, after the LA Film Festival, we'll know where we're gonna land domestically in terms of distributor, and then it will be up to them to tell us when and how people can see it.
TMN: Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate it, and I'm really looking forward to the film.
Matt Shakman: Awesome. Well, it's a pleasure talking to you, Nick.


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I have two extra unactivated geocoins now and will have a third one soon.
Does anyone want to trade or ?
Bailey's Nippon Geocoin (Japan) - The back of the coin is actually very shiny silver but scans as black.
Georgia Appalachian Trail - my extra coin is a bronze version of this one
Serenity Geocoin - I'm expecting this extra coin soon.
I made a deal with TurdleEggs for Bailey's Nippon coin.
BTW, I have also MBGA coins if anybody want to trade or ?


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Andy Sanborn says 'crass language' sparked state Senate investigationBy KEVIN LANDRIGAN
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 09. 2017 2:49PM
CONCORD — Four-term state Sen. Andy Sanborn, a Bedford Republican, denied making a sexually inappropriate comment to a male Senate employee four years ago, calling it "crass language" that offended no one.
Sanborn, who is now running for Congress, was in a Senate office with his wife and two Senate staffers in February 2013 when he made the comment. Since then, Senate officials have refused numerous requests for information about the incident or the elected official involved, though sources told the New Hampshire Sunday News it was Sanborn.
"In early 2013, I used crass language in response to an absurd statement made by someone in my office, with my wife present," Sanborn said during a telephone interview late Friday night. "A staffer of the Senate president overheard it and brought it to the attention of Senate President Peter Bradgon. He and legal counsel fully explored it and determined it did not violate any Senate policy and no one in the room was offended by the joke. No complaint was filed. Case closed. If that's news, so be it."
In the months after the February 2013 incident, the Senate paid $4,147 to a White Plains, N.Y. law firm specializing in sexual harassment claims to look into this matter, which included interviewing the staff member, and updating the Senate's policies against all forms of discrimination.
The staff member is no longer employed in the Senate.
Sanborn insisted the comments were not sexually inappropriate or rose to any sexual harassment. He blamed his political enemies for spreading "totally false" stories about him.
"At a time when women across this land are being harassed and disrespected it is disgusting that anyone is trying to equate a crass joke to all the real challenges that women are facing today," Sanborn said.
Bragdon confirmed Sanborn's account of the story saying he spoke with the employee in private, who said he wasn't offended and denied the Senate was a hostile work environment.
"I talked to everyone who was in the room. There was concern expressed that one person would have taken offense," Bragdon said.
"I definitely checked, 'Was this something that bothered you?'" Bragdon said. "It wasn't the case at all for everyone I had talked to. ... If I recall, it was kind of a comment that was a little off color, something you hear from time to time."
After initially refusing to answer questions about the incident, Senate leaders on Friday evening responded to several Right-to-Know requests from media outlets confirming a "proactive inquiry" was conducted. They declined to name Sanborn, though they did not cite any specific law in withholding the information.
"No state funds have been expended to settle any matter involving any senator or member of the Senate staff," Senate attorney Rick Lehmann said in response to requests for documents and records.
The incident was brought to light in the last few weeks as attention to sexual harassment grew across the country. At least one former state senator, a Republican, urged the Senate to release information.
Two weeks ago, the Senate's lawyer asked the state attorney general to review how the complaint was handled.
"Attorney General (Gordon) MacDonald has confirmed that we handled the matter appropriately and in compliance with the law," according to the Senate release.
Current Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, released a strongly worded statement Friday spelling out the steps he's taken since becoming Senate leader to ensure there is a culture where no harassment is tolerated.
"I want to be perfectly clear: there is no place for harassment of any kind at the State House and we have a duty to protect all who work at and visit our state's capitol," Morse said.
Morse also said he wants anyone to freely report any behavior that makes them uncomfortable.
"In addition to maintaining a safe working environment, we have the responsibility to protect the identity of people who may come forward to express concerns about the behavior of members, staff, or other people in the State House complex. My door is always open to those who wish to do so," Morse said.
Sanborn is seeking the GOP nomination to replace retiring Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter of Rochester. The other declared Republican running is former state liquor law enforcement chief Eddie Edwards of Dover though former GOP Vice Chairman Matt Mayberry of Dover also is considering his own campaign.
There are six Democrats already running to take Shea-Porter's spot as that party's nominee in 2018.


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Does that look like a picture or a watercolour to you? If it looks familiar and you've been to Las Vegas recently, it's from The Bellagio. They're famous for having these hand-blown glass sculptures on the ceiling of their lobby. I wonder if the visitors think it's as beautiful the morning after.
My site is in it's fourth or fifth iteration now. I'm constantly changing it because the morning after I work on it, I'm always wishing it could have looked like something else. I have no such remorse this time around. Welcome to lynnchyi.com version 4 or 5.0 I hope you like it.


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Paris, 14 June 2011 – BASD 2012 Conveners and Partners met in Paris on 14 June, one year in advance of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held in Rio de Janeiro on June 4-6, 2012. This was the first full meeting of BASD 2012 Partners, and our first big step toward Rio.
The meeting was chaired by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman of BASD 2002, and a member of the BASD 2012 Steering Committee. Discussion focused on the group's expectations for Rio+20, and for the BASD coalition. Ms. Elizabeth Thompson, United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Executive Coordinator for Rio+20, provided her perspectives on the role of business, and specifically BASD, in the Rio+20 process.
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands may have announced her abdication this week, but Marianne Vos's reign as the Queen of Cycling continues, taking her fifth successive world cyclo-cross championship in Louisville, Kentucky, and the sixth of her career. It was one of three Dutch victories today, the others being in the mens junior and under-23 events, but Belgium ruled the men's elite race, with Sven Nys, whose sole previous victory came in 2008, the year before Vos won her first title, profiting from a mistake by compatriot Klaas Vantournot to win the rainbow jersey.
The four races, due to be spread over two days, were all held today due to flooding forecast for the early hours of tomorrow morning. Defences against any threat he rising waters of the Ohio River presented to the course had been put in place, but it was a blanket of snow, rather than floodwater, that covered it as racing got under way this morning under blue skies.
By the time of the last event, the men's elite race, the ground which had been hard early on had softened and been churned up, making conditions muddy, and that clear sky earlier had given way to snow.
Men's Elite
Nys, aged 36, has won the World Cup on six occasions, the Superprestige series 11 times and been Belgian champion eight times, making the solitary world championship he had won until today, his victory coming back in 2005, look very lonely among his palmarès.
It was one of his less fancied fellow Belgians, Klaas Vantornout, who went into the final lap head-to-head with him. Vantornout had sprung a surprise last month by winning the Belgian national championship, and it looked as though he might be able to pull off an even bigger shock by winning the rainbow jersey.
The decisive moment came halfway round the circuit when Nys took a risk as he slid into a corner but stayed upright to give himself clear daylight over his compatriot as he dismounted to take a small climb.
The gap Nys had opened up perhaps made Vantornout panic, the 30-year-old catching his pedal on the mesh fencing as he prepared to remount, and from then on he didn't look like catching his rival, who for good measure bunnyhopped a couple of fences to ensure he kept the pressure on.
The winning margin of just 2 seconds was more down to Nys sitting up to enjoy the moment than anything else, Vantornout, aware of the error that had cost him the chance to sprint for the rainbow jersey, banging his handlebars in frustration.
At one point, a Belgian clean sweep had seemed to be on the cards, but it was Lars Van der Haar of the Netherlands, winner of the under-23 world championship at Koksijde 12 months ago, who clinched bronze to cap what had been a terrific day for the Netherlands.
The early pace had been set by French rider Francis Mourey, who despite falling into the mud on the third circuit after catching his wheel in a rut, still had a lead of a quarter of a minute as he crossed the line at the end of that lap.
The Belgian charge was relentless, however, and he was caught by Kevin Pauwels with five laps to ride, with Nys and Vantournot just behind.
Two laps later, Mourey fell away and Pauwels, a former world champion at junior and under-23 level, saw his bid to add the elite title ended after his chain jammed.
That left Vantornout and Nys to fight it out as the snowfall that had started earlier began to come down more heavily.
Women's Elite
In the women's race Vos, still only aged 25, got clear on the first lap and was never going to be caught. Katie Compton of the United States rode strongly as the race progressed to catch and pass a small chasing group to finish second, with Lucie Chainel-Lefevre of France third.
Great Britain's Helen Wyman was brought down in a crash after Gabby Day came off her bike just after the very first corner, putting an end to any hopes thate the rider ranked number 2 in the world might clinch the country's first medal in the event since Louise Robinson won silver in the inaugural edition in 2000.
It's not clear why a rider of Wyman's experience was so far down the field so early in the race, but she never recovered and the top British finisher was Annie Last, who came 12th, 3 minutes 36 seconds down on Vos. Wyman was 10 seconds back in 13th.
Vos calmly and relentlessly stretched out her lead on each of the six laps, eventually finishing 1 minute 34 clear of home favourite Compton.
The American rider had lost half a minute on the first lap alone but worked her way up through the field to reach a trio of riders behing Vos, passing them and riding away to her second silver medal in the event.
There was drama in the race for third, with Chainel-Lefevre snatching the bronze medal from the Czech Republic's Katerina Nash.
The latter, who seemed to have been struggling on the last hill as she chased Chainel-Lefevre, rounded the final bend clear of the Frenchwoman but her chain appeared to jam.
As she desperately tried to freewheel her bike to the line, right foot pushing the left pedal, Chainel-Lefevre passed her to secure her place on the podium.
Junior men
The first event of the day was the junior men's race, where Mathieu Van der Poel of the Netherlands soloed his way to victory to retain his title.
His compatriot Martijn Budding came homee 57 seconds back to take silver with Adam Toupalik of the Czech Republic getting clear of Logan Owen of the United States to finish third.
British riders Jake Worseley and Jack Ravenscroft both placed in the top 20, finishing respectively 17th and 18th. Adam King was 26th of the 33 starters.
Under-23 men
On the final lap of the men's under-23 race, Mike Teunissen of the Netherlands won his country's third rainbow jersey of the day, getting clear of Belgian rider Wietse Bosmans - runner-up last year to another Dutch rider, Lars Van der Haar, who today rides the elite race.
Bosmans held on to take silver from fellow Belgian Wout Van Aert. with riders from Belgium or the Netherlands filling the first ten places, Zach McDonald of the United States leading the 'foreign' challengers home in 11th spot.
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Richard Gates
This smallish 1954 hardcover, discarded by the Hamilton School Board library department, is the sort of thing that really transports me back to Grade One. The crinkle of the plastic-wrapped dust jacket, the smell of aging glue and paper, and most importantly, Richard Gates' stylized illustrations, all remind me of when I first glimpsed, through books like this, an impossibly perfect Davey-and-Goliath world that seemed to have existed a decade before my birth.
Gates employs an interesting technique I haven't been able to entirely figure out. Is it part crayon resist? Part silk screen? Watercolour with drizzled rubber cement?
Whatever it is, he manages to achieve a lot of fantastic colour layering that needs to be seen at full size to be truly appreciated.
Of course, there's absolutely no information to be found on Richard Gates, but the back flap of the dust jacket suggests he illustrated quite few "True Book(s) of..." for Childrens Press of Chicago so with any luck, I may turn up more of his unique and wonderful work.
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im looking for info on HARRY ARTHUR CASTLEDINE and ELSIE MAY CASTLEDINE nee MEREDITH.They had two children ( Edna May and Arthur George)both are deceased.Harry and Elsie lived in Mount Hawthorn,Western Australia.Harry and Elsie both died in 1956,Harry was 71yrs and Elsie was 59yrs.
Elsie`s parents were HARRY GEORGE MEREDITH and LOUISA MEREDITH nee BERG.
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im after any information on ELLEN FRANCES DAWES nee DALEY.Ellen`s parents were Carrol and Frances Daly/Daley.She married CLARENCE (clarry) ALBERT DAWES.Ellen died in 1963 after a kerosene stove exploded,she suffered shocking burns and died a few days later in Royal Perth Hospital Western Australia (she was 57years).Ellen was residing in kalgoorlie at the time.I would really love to find a photo of her.Ellen and Clarry had three children -Joyce,kathleen and geoff,all are deceased.The family seemed to suffer a lot of tragedy.Not only did Ellen suffer a terrible fate,Joyce was run down by a car and lost a leg and also suffered brain damage.Kathleen was shot dead at her home in kalgoorlie by an ex-boyfriend (her family said it was murder????)
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May 2, 2014: May has been a month of change, and it's only just started. Peter Kirwan-Taylor, the chartered accountant who designed the original Lotus Elite died, and Mark Fields took the reins at Ford. Sergio Marchionne, on the other hand, has his own boardroom drama brewing. We take a look at what it may contain. Mercedes showed a Coupe SUV Concept Beijing Auto Show that will soon go into production. Mini showed a small pickup its apprentices and their instructors created that reinforces the need for an affordable, sporty, small pickup. Speaking of pickups, we test the Ram 2500, and ask if its deserving of all the accolades, while GM hires an Italian firm to make custom car covers for its full-size pickups. The General also updated its driving simulator to handle semi-autonomous driving system testing. Meanwhile, Harley-Davidson has launched a new school for beginning riders, and Al Vinikour keeps getting zapped by the sun.


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SAN FRANCISCO – Four female military service members have filed a lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat.
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The latest demands the lifting of the military's so-called combat exclusionary policy that applies to all women.
The lawsuit alleges the ban on a single gender violates constitutional equal protection rights and unfairly blocks women from promotions and other advancements open to men in combat.
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For example, one of the things I brought up, and which resonated with others in the forum, is professional development for adjuncts, and how unfair it is to them to ask them to do this without getting compensated for it.
The other thing that made me pause was another participant located outside the US who found a resource about teaching his subject that is centered around non-Western approaches. I thought this was a really good find and I wonder if more such resources/societies exist in other fields.
On another note, I am also a big advocate for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to be rewarded as research in tenure and promotion. This seems to be one of the areas other CLTs would like to grow in the future but which is tricky.
I'm overall enjoying the course and the discussions… Feeling weird being a student in a closed space after working openly online for so long. I mean, I work in Slack teams but those are people I have relationships with that aren't bound by a few weeks. I follow them on Twitter. In this Course, I have no relationship with other participants beyond the course and I'm already sad about that. But again, many may not even be active on Twitter and I would have missed meeting them altogether if I hadn't joined this closed course. So it's a trade-off. And besides, some stuff I write in the assignments is probably best not said publicly anyway.
So it is not my favorite thing, not my favorite way to learn, but it's working for me for now, and it's always useful to keep trying new (or in this case for me, old) ways of learning so we can better support our students and our faculty (as facdev).
It reminds me of Lee skallerup Bessette and I once talking about doing facdev, the MOOC This one is that kind of meta….
I'll stop for now coz I need to sleep.
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So, I'm not American, so I may be off-track here, but I feel like some recent children's movies that are meant to tackle racism indirectly (but really quite directly, imho) are doing so with only partial success. The two I wanna talk about are Zootopia (called Zootropolis in some places) and Zombies (Disney movie).
Let me start with Zombies because I just saw it recently. The backstory is that Zombies used to eat brains, but they've been neutralized by some technology and been living in separate areas that have poor facilities and wear government issue clothes and are homeschooled… And they know that normal people dislike them, except that the hero (Zed?) believes that people who don't like zombies just haven't met him yet… While normal people live in colorful sunny places. And anyone who is "different" in any way has been snubbed (so for example the heroine of the movie has freakish white hair and has to cover it up with a blonde wig so no one knows).
To offer a reductive explanation for the data, the nature of interactions of molecular water with the linkage must be reconsidered and compared with intramolecular hydrogen bonds. In a polymer, such as cellulose, all of the side groups can interact with water, and so in each molecular conformation distinct possibilities for interactions with local water molecules will be available. Without considering loss of degrees of freedom, there is negligible energy difference between a directly intramolecular hydrogen-bonded conformation and a water-bridged conformation ( Williams and Westwell, 1988 ). Therefore, rather than using intramolecular hydrogen bonds as the causal explanation of structuring, it is proposed that geometries are preferred for the ensemble as a whole, that is for molecule and water. In this interpretation cellulose has a single conformation consistent with favorable polymer–water interaction ( Figure 5a ). This conformation implies a rigid and the fully extended molecule. Similarly, xylan has a single favorable region that involves water bridges at the linkage ( Figure 5b ). On the other hand, the β(1→4) linkage in hyaluronan is predicted to possess two competing favorable water structures ( Figure 8 ) which have differing linkage conformations. The question of structuring in these polysaccharides then reduces to understanding how these polymers interact with water, using statistical mechanics, rather than naively assuming they are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Here these arguments are made for cellulose and xylan. In cellulose the argument revolves around the hydroxymethyl group, which is common to pyranoses.
Restricting the motion of the hydroxymethyl comes with a relatively high penalty, compared to other parts of the molecular assembly. This is because the hydroxymethyl can potentially occupy a large number of conformations, as compared to, say, a hydroxyl. Similarly, water molecules in the region of O3 and O6 have many degrees of freedom. Thus the preferred dynamic state will be that which preserves the maximum degrees of freedom in the hydroxymethyl group together with the maximum freedom of movement of local water molecules in this region. In the two-fold cellulose conformation, it is the OH3 rotamer that has lost degrees of freedom ( Figure 10a ). It could occupy another rotameric state if it was not involved in the hydrogen bond to O5. However, in this dynamic scenario the hydroxymethyl occupies all rotameric states, except the tg conformation ( Figure 10b ). Now the hydrogen bonds elucidated in Figure 3 can be seen to be part of the water structure around the hydroxymethyl group. The gt and gg states are stabilized by water bridges from O6 to O3 (in two separate orientations Figure 10c and e ). More importantly, water molecules can exchange rapidly with these structures, which preserves the number of degrees of freedom available to water molecules while maintaining intramolecular hydrogen-bond networks.
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Gabe checks out another Thai film, a drama from the co-director of The Eye...
On the mean streets of Bangkok, Bank and Som do what they must to survive. Bank sells drugs, Som is a prostitute. When these two young deviants find out they live in the same apartment complex, they become fast friends, and eventually fall in love. Plagued by nightmares of failure, this would-be Bonnie and Clyde attempt to score the money they need to make a better life.
In my last review, for a film called Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis, I said that I only remembered seeing one other Thai film, Tony Jaa's Ong Bak. I've since remembered that I've also seen Bang Rajan (the R1 release of which has one of the worst transfers I've seen in a long time), and what do I find in my mailbox a few days later? Another Thai film, Oxide Pang's One Take Only.
Though I consider myself an avid horror fan, I'm unfortunately unfamiliar with the work of Oxide and his sometimes-collaborative twin brother Danny Pang. I caught about fifteen minutes of The Eye on TV one day, but opted to not watch it from the middle. Had I been more familiar with the director's work this film may've come as more of a revelation, as it's a valid attempt at adult drama, not a ghost story. I like it when filmmakers allow themselves to grow, but I'm left unsure of how much Pang grew when making this particular film, which does predate his first real hit The Eye by one year.
One Take Only is obviously a vanity project. Pang has written, directed, and edited the entire film on his own. This tells me that this was more or less exactly the film the young filmmaker set out to make. I appreciate this. Though I found the MTV visuals a little excessive, I cannot deny Pang control over the media. I'm assuming that the flick was made on the relative cheap, but it looks like a couple million bucks.
The film's Thai title translates to Bangkok for Sale, which makes a lot more sense than the rather nonsensical US title. The theme of the film is selling. Bank sells drugs to people who sell the drugs for more money. Som sells her body, an occupation her sister tries out later in the film, only to realize she isn't cut out for it. Through-out Bank and Som seem to express their love for each other by shopping and eating out, and there is an emotionally effective sub-plot involving a little girl selling necklaces at a busy intersection where Bank meets his partner.
All this underlining socio-political commentary is unfortunately lost among Pang's visual razzle dazzle, which itself is very reminiscent of two better films about disaffected, listless, and drug addled youth— Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream. The style similarities, as visually and thematically the same, do great damage to the film as a whole. Similar stories have also been tackled ad-nausium by East Asian filmmakers like Takashi Miike and Toshiaki Toyoda.
There are some original and moving moments throughout, specifically a major characters death and the little girl sub-plot, but despite the best efforts of these talent young actors, there isn't an honestly likeable lead character to be found in the entire film. Films like Trainspotting work beyond their flashy style and moralistic stories because the criminals portrayed are charming and engaging. In the end, it was my apathy towards these characters that caused me to not particularly enjoy the film.
One Take Only is very stylized, but utilizes mostly clean film stock, so the evaluation of the DVD's video output was pretty simple. When needed, colours are vibrant without too much blooming, specifically during Bank's monochromatic dream sequences. Pang has not sugar coated or over stylized most of Bangkok's reality, and sometimes-darker scenes can be grainy, but compression and low-level noise are minimal. The prints only real detractor is the slight presence of edge-enhancement.
The film's hipper than hip music sounds great on both the DTS and Dolby Digital tracks. Bass throbs without buzzing, and the surround channels jump into the mix regularly. During dialogue sequences, audio often sounds damaged, inducing distortion. This may be due to the use of location sound recording, especially with-in the echoing halls of Bank and Som's apartment complex. Had the music numbers not sounded so great, I may not have noticed this distortion, or the general flatness of non-musical sequences. It appears that the stereo and surround channels are only utilized when bumping techno music is involved.
So far as extras pertaining to One Take Only, this disc is bare bones, with the exception of a trailer. Fans of the director who already own Tartan's release of follow up his solo effort, Ab-Normal Beauty, should be pleased as the disc contains a decent 'Making-of' that film. Unfortunately, those who haven't yet seen Ab-Normal Beauty (like myself) will have no real context when watching the behind the scenes material. I'm happy that Tartan hasn't jumped on the double-dip bandwagon just yet, but including additional material for a different film already on release is weird. I'm not even sure that this isn't the featurette already included on the Ab-Normal Beauty release.
Unsympathetic characters, unflattering comparisons to other films, and a bit too much flashy editing make One Take Only a bit low on my recommendations list. It's not an awful film, more of a missed opportunity. Fans of director Oxide Pang will definitely want to give this DVD a rent, at least. Thumbs up to Tartan USA for another fine video transfer, and a big shrug for the inclusion of a behind the scenes featurette concerning a different film.
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That first screen cap looks like the Thai Clerks
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Whoa, I thought the exact same thing.
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Same here.
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hahahha. Thai Clerks?! smirk.
I tried to watch this months ago, but I gave up after 7 minutes.
I tried to watch this months ago, but I gave up after 7 minutes.
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What did you think of "Abnormal Beauty?"
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I haven't Abnormal Beauty yet, but this year is my first introduction to Tartan.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 29th August 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.77:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 Thai, Dolby Digital 5.1 Thai
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: The Making of Ab-Normal Beauty, Trailer, Tartan Asia Extreme Trialers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Oxide Pang Chun
Cast: Pawarith Monkolpisit, Wanatchada Siwapornchai, Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Chalermporn Paprach
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 minutes
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A valuable Scarampella violin is at the center a brewing legal dispute involving a musician with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Filip Fenrych, a Polish-born violinist with the orchestra, claims that he doesn't owe $43,000 to a woman who authenticated a Scarampella violin after she sold it to him, without authentication, for a reduced price. The case was reported by Courthouse News.
Fenrych is arguing that Tara Moore of Mesquite, Texas, asked for $90,000 for the violin that bore a Scarampella label, but wasn't authenticated. He eventually agreed to pay a reduced price of $47,000 for the unauthenticated instrument.
Later, Moore allegedly claimed she had found documentation authenticating the violin, and demanded the difference of $43,000. The musician has refused to pay the additional amount.
Violins made by Stefano Scarampella are highly valued in the music world. His instruments, of which he is believed to have made several hundreds, can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. The Italian instrument maker worked during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Moore has reportedly asked for either the additional money or a return of the instrument. Fenrych has refused, saying that the violin is the only one he owns and that he has been playing on it for close to a year.
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Violinist Joshua Bell's hotel room in Spain is burglarized
Osvaldo Golijov misses yet another deadline for violin concerto
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 gameplay looks CryEngine 3-gorgeous
Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 has received a new gameplay trailer from City Interactive, following a spate of silence on the project. It's 'soon to be released' according to the developer's official YouTube channel. If you're a fan of lush visuals and CryEngine 3 horse power, then you'd do well to check out the clip below.


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Rated 5 out of 5 by Cris13 from Wonderful fashion accessory! I LOVE this oversized snood, especially because it came in natural leopard color!! Never owned a snood and now it's my favorite accessory!!
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Popular Woodworking would like to say thank you to the many woodworkers out there who entered the 2014 December to Remember Sweepstakes. See our winners list below and don't forget to try your luck next year!
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Joseph Bertrand scores 20 points as Illinois easily beats Jacksonville St. 86-62
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Senior guard Joseph Bertrand scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Illinois over Jacksonville State 86-62 Sunday at State Farm Center.
The Illini (2-0) never trailed, jumping out to a 12-1 lead in the first five minutes of the game and leading 40-27 at the half. Junior guards Rayvon Rice and Tracy Abrams each scored 13 points.
Rice scored a team-high 22 points on Friday night in his Illini debut against Alabama State, equaling the most points in an Illini debut since Brandon Paul in 2009.
Nnanna Egwu and Jaylon Tate each added 10 points for Illinois. Egwu also blocked five shots, tying his career high. The Illini blocked 11 shots in the game, the most under second-year coach John Groce.
The Gamecocks (0-2) were led by senior guard Brian Williams, who scored 12. Senior forward D. J. Felder grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Jacksonville State. Sunday's game was only the third game Jacksonville State had played against a Big Ten opponent in school history, losing to Michigan State in 2002 and Nebraska last year.
Felder and junior guard Darion Rackley each scored 10 points for Jacksonville State.
Illinois started the second half 0 for 6 from the field, including a missed dunk by 6-11 center Nnanna Egwu, before settling down. The Illini didn't commit a turnover in the second half, and played all 11 available players throughout the game, often substituting three and four at a time.
Jacksonville pulled to within 40-33 at 16:34 of the second half on two three-pointers by Williams, who ended up 2-5 from beyond the stripe.
Illinois shot 52 percent from the field (32-61) while Jacksonville shot only 33 percent (23-70). The Illini also outscored the Gamecocks 40-28 in the paint, led by Egwu's 5 of 8 shooting and some aggressive play inside by Illinois' big men.
Sunday's win marks the 14th straight season the Illini have started the season with at least two straight wins. Illinois has also won 24 straight home games against non-conference opponents, dating back to the NIT tournament in 2010.
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Mitt Romney: Sochi Olympics will be safe
NEW YORK (AP) — Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney believes the 2014 Sochi Olympics should be safe, despite threats of terrorism in Russia.
"Well there's no such thing as 100 percent security anywhere in the world," Romney told The Associated Press on Saturday. "At the Sochi fields of play there will be very adequate security."
Romney, chief executive of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, said that the security for the 2014 games is far more intense. He said that Sochi has 40,000 security personnel, which is about 10 times the security at the Salt Lake City games.
But he said that the presence of security only goes so far.
"Ultimately it's the intelligence work that goes into protecting the venues and games, or the sporting event that has the most impact," he said.
Romney made the comments on the red carpet for the NFL Honors, where he praised the event that includes seven AP sports awards.
"I think it's terrific that athletes are recognized, not just on the field, but recognized off the field for some of their heroics," Romney said. "These guys make a hug sacrifice to reach this level of performance, so I think that people that watch this with a great deal of interest."
As for losing the 2012 election to President Barrack Obama, Romney said life was definitely easier outside the campaign trail, but added: "I sure wish I would have won with all being said."
"I think you want to be able to make the difference that you ran for office to accomplish," he said. "I'm happy to have had the opportunity to run, and we'll wish the best to the president and those that are now leading the country."
Before going into Radio City Music Hall, he expressed what he thought of Obama's State of the Union address earlier this week.
"Ah, good parts and bad," he said, as he and wife Ann glided toward the entrance.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Despite frost on Monday and rain on Tuesday, the Samford Intercollegiate was played to its fulfillment with freshmen Adam Cunningham and Bryce Kendrick leading the Tennessee Tech men's golf team on the week.
Cunningham carded a 74-74-77 = 225 to go along with Kendrick's 80-73-72 = 225 as the Golden Eagles finished 12th in the 18-team tournament. Cunningham, the Cookeville native, carded 12 birdies over the three rounds, the fourth most out of the field of 94 golfers.
Coach Polk Brown's squad finished better than Ohio Valley Conference rivals Murray State and UT Martin, and just one stroke back of Eastern Kentucky.
The Golden Eagles head to Jackson, Tenn. next weekend to play in the Grover Page Classic, hosted by UT Martin. Updates will be posted on TTUSports.com.


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The first viral video from the London Olympics isn't a heartwarming success story or an amazing photo finish. It's a hilarious cheering reaction from US gymnast Aly Raisman's mom and dad.
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Being the parent of an Olympian is never a relaxing job, but this couple took sideline stress to the next level. They bobbed and weaved watching their daughter on the uneven bars--at one point it seemed like her mom was trying to do the routine from the stands!
PLUS: Parenting Advice from Olympic Parents
Surprisingly, the pair was trying to rein it in Sunday night, according to the Daily Mail. If the flinching, jerking, vocal outbursts, and fist pumps were all part of their attempt to stay quiet, we'd love to see them with no holds barred.
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Raisman beat her US teammate Jordyn Wieber for a spot in the individual all-around competition, ensuring we'll see her over-the-top cheering section again. We can't wait.
Watch the full video below, and be sure to check out the rest of Parenting's Olympic coverage here.


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This article reports the results of an ongoing experimental research on the behavior and performance of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. Our purpose is to evaluate the behavior and performance of the 3 most important characteristics of any dynamic object oriented system: class instantiation, slot access and dynamic dispatch. This paper describes the results of our experiments on instantiation. We evaluate the efficiency of the instantiation process in both C++ and Lisp under a combination of parameters such as slot types or classes hierarchy. We show that in a non-optimized configuration where safety is given priority on speed, the behavior of C++ and Lisp instantiation can be quite different, which is also the case amongst different Lisp compilers. On the other hand, we demonstrate that when compilation is tuned for speed, instantiation in Lisp can become faster than in C++.
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MACON, Ga. (Feb. 18, 2013) – Leading the ETSU softball team to three wins by hitting .647 at the College of Charleston Classic, including a game-winning home run against the Cougars, junior Jackie Baird (Ooltewah, Tenn.) was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week, as announced by the league office on Monday.
Baird began her outstanding weekend by hitting 3-for-4 with an RBI to help the Bucs to their first win of the season, 6-0, against Towson. The junior slugger's biggest at-bat came on Saturday with ETSU trailing CofC, 9-8, in the seventh. After Katie Wolff (LaGrange, Texas) reached on a single, Baird stepped up and drove out what proved to be the game-winning home run and her first long ball of the season.
When the weekend was all said and done, Baird was 11-for-17 at the plate with three runs, four RBIs, four doubles and the homer. The junior is now hitting .577 on the year to rank No. 2 in the conference and has reached base in all nine games. Baird also leads the Bucs with an .846 slugging percentage and .633 on-base percentage.
The A-Sun Softball Player of the Week award is ETSU's first since Annie Martin was given the honors the week of May 4, 2009.
The ETSU softball team opens the home season this weekend, welcoming Siena College for a three-game series at Betty Basler Field.Baird Notes- Hit .647 (11-17) with three runs, four RBIs and a game-winning home run at the CofC Classic- Slugged 1.059 with an OBP of .667- Ranks No. 2 in the conference with a season batting average of .577- Leads the Bucs in batting average, slugging percentage (.846) and on-base percentage (.633)- Leads ETSU in runs (4), hits (15) and doubles (4)
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Costume designer: Charmaine Simmons Could a TV show that mocked fashion with story lines about a puffy shirt, a "manssiere" or a woman who seems to wear only one dress be associated with clothing trends? Sure, says Jones. Simmons' knack for putting Michael Richard's Kramer in retro-striped sweaters and bowling shirts was on trend with the late-'90s thrift store revival. And three years ago a New York Times article reported that Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Elaine Benes was the inspiration for a run of "Upper West Side grunge."
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Beneath a glitzy skyline, wooden boats ply Dubai Creek, the historic heart of a city that was transformed in little more than a generation from a tiny pearling and fishing port to a global trading hub.
From early morning to late evening the creek is abuzz with daily commuters and tourists riding in abras, the wooden boats that have been used for more than a century and are still built by hand nearby. The 25-cent passage from one bank to the other is one of the only bargains left in a city where much of the population is expatriates lured to the Gulf emirate by job opportunities.
Unlike the rest of the city, the Dubai Creek area has until now been left relatively untouched by developers, offering a glimpse into the modest beginnings of a city that is now a byword for wealth, excess and overnight development.
"The creek is very much the heart of the city, physically and metaphorically," says Yasser Elsheshtawy, associate professor of architecture at the United Arab Emirates University. "You know, that's really where everything started."
The city is awaiting the results of a bid for Dubai Creek to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a $544 million creek-side project has been approved by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE vice president and prime minister and ruler of Dubai, that aims to transform the area into a cultural and artistic hub for the city.
Here are images from Associated Press photographer Kamran Jebreili of Dubai Creek.
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