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The 12 drivers have already won 20 times, and hold the honors as the youngest winners in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series, NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, as well as youngest NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champion and highest finishing female in NASCAR K&N Pro Series history. The list also includes the 2013 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and West Sunoco Rookies of the Year.
The team was selected through an evaluation process that included input from industry executives and veteran racers. Drivers must be between the ages of 15-25, have tangible and expressed goals in eventual competition in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and possess the potential to realize that goal.
Additionally, each driver in NASCAR Next must be actively competing in a NASCAR touring or weekly series – NASCAR K&N Pro Series East or West, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour, NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1, NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series or NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitors also are eligible provided they are not slated to run a full season in their respective series.
The NASCAR Next members for 2014-15 are:
- Cole Custer (16 years old, Ladera Ranch, Calif., Twitter: @colecuster00) – A two-time winner in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East in 2013, he opened the K&N Pro Series West season this year with a victory from the pole in Phoenix.
- Rubén García Jr. (18, Naucalpan, Mexico, @rubengarcia4) – The 2012 NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series Rookie of the Year continues to improve and finished fourth in the standings last season. Earlier this season, he made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut.
- Gray Gaulding (16, Colonial Heights, Va., @graygaulding) – Holds the mark for youngest pole winner in both the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and West, and recorded his first series win at Phoenix last fall.
- Ryan Gifford (25, Winchester, Tenn., @ryangifford2) – The NASCAR Drive For Diversity driver scored the 2013 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East win at Richmond and posted an impressive top-10 finish in his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut last August in Iowa.
- Austin Hill (20, Winston, Ga., @hillbroracing) – The winner at last year's K&N East race at Dover, he has two top-five finishes in this season's four races.
- Erik Jones (17, Byron, Mich., @erik_jones) – Made his mark on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series last November in Phoenix by becoming the youngest winner in series history.
- Jesse Little (17, Sherrills Ford, N.C., @jesselittle97) – The 2013 Sunoco Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. He made his first series start just 11 days after turning 15 in 2012.
- Dylan Lupton (20, Wilton, Calif., @LuptonDylan) – The 2013 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Sunoco Rookie of the Year picked up his first series victory at Evergreen Speedway in August.
- Brandon McReynolds (23, Mooresville, N.C., @Bmcreynolds28) – With starts in four different NASCAR series, he is chasing the championship in the K&N Pro Series West, where he is second in points.
- Ryan Preece (23, Berlin, Conn., @RyanPreece16) – He became the youngest champion in the history of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour last season while balancing a 43-race schedule in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series (finished fourth in the national standings) and making his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut.
- Ben Rhodes (17, Louisville, Ky., @benrhodes) – The current points leader in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East with three poles in four races, and a win at Greenville (S.C.) Pickens Speedway. He scored an impressive top-10 finish in his NASCAR Camping World Truck series debut at Martinsville.
- Kenzie Ruston (22, El Reno, Okla., @KenzieRuston) – She finished sixth in last season's K&N Pro Series East season standings and has top 10 finishes this season at New Smyrna and Daytona. She has the highest finish – both in a race and in the championship standings – for a female driver in K&N Pro Series East history.


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Texas is getting its own navy.
Next month, the state's Department of Public Safety will deploy the first of a fleet of six gunboats on the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border between the state and Mexico, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reports.
The 34-foot-long boats, each powered by three, 300-horsepower outboard engines, will have bulletproof plating and six machine guns apiece, not unlike the river patrol boats the U.S. Navy used during the Vietnam War.
The vessels will be able to operate in as little as 2 feet of water, according to the report, and will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to combat drug smuggling coming across the Rio Grande.
"They're finding out when those people are coming across, and one of the things they need to be able to do is interdict them on the water," Texas state Rep. Paul Workman told CNN affiliate KVUE-TV when the first of the boats, the JD Davis, was christened in December.
"If you're trying to suppress organized smuggling activity, there's no substitute for putting people on the ground," Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven C. McCraw said at the December ceremony. "The way they're operating right now, you need them on the water as well."
"It sends a message: Don't mess with Texas," Jose Rodriguez, a regional commander of the Texas Department of Safety, told WFAA.
The six boats will be named after Texas state troopers killed in the line of duty. The first was named after Jerry Don Davis, who was shot and killed in 1980. Another, to be commissioned Thursday in Austin, will be named in honor of trooper David Irvine Rucker, who was killed in 1981, according to The Brownsville Herald.
Tell me how the family of Jose got to America;
"Don't mess with Texas," Jose Rodriguez, a regional commander of the Texas Department of Safety"
Mine came on a boat that landed on Ellis Island. I'm no better or no worse but tell Jose that I am not getting Gun Boats to block off ships coming into New York. I would call that Hypocritical as is Jose.

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My Macros helps you automate all of the repetitive tasks you face each day on computers. It records all operation of mouse and keystrokes and saves them as macros. You can also create macros manually with macro editor. Then My Macros can play back the recorded macros to automate recorded tasks any number of times. It works on any Windows applications.
Hundreds of possible hotkeys are available to run macros. And you can play back macros at schedule time
My Macros is very easy to use, it saves time and reduces the number of repetitive tasks in your day. It doesn't require any programming experience.
Key features:
- Record all events of mouse and keystrokes of any Windows applications
- Create or edit macros with easy-to-use macro editor
- Repeat playing back macros for any number of times
- Save time and reduce the number of repetitive tasks in your day
- Play back macros with hotkeys or at schedule time
- Easy to use and don't need any programming knowledge


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Top Items:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine — Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn't disclose the size of their index, although they claim …
Discussion: The Bivings Report, Ars Technica, eWeek, Digital Daily, BBC NEWS, The Outsidr, New York Times, The Social Networker, Search Engine Land, Marksonland, Wireless Week, Simon's Blog, Veronica Belmont, CyberNet, Agence France Presse, Pulse 2.0, CIO Insight, Digital Download, Maximum PC all, Industry Standard, Mashable!, louisgray.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Search Engine Roundtable, MarketingShift, PC Magazine, CrunchGear, Homotron.net, Beyond Search, bub.blicio.us, Boy Genius Report, Media Bullseye, Joe Duck, Know It All, Quick Online Tips, Search Engine Watch Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Profy.Com, p2pnet, Between the Lines and Valleywag
Todd Zeigler / The Bivings Report: Do People Really Even Want Another Search Engine?
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Ex-Googlers launch Cuil, world's "biggest search engine"
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Totall UnCuil — If your mission is to beat Google …
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS: How cool is Cuil? — Does the world need another search engine?
Miguel Helft / New York Times: Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine
Mike / Marksonland: So Far, Pretty Cool...
Rhonda Wickham / Wireless Week: Look Out Google, Here Comes Cuil?
Simon Brocklehurst / Simon's Blog: DOES CUIL NEEDS TO TAKE SEARCH ENGINE 101 CLASSES?
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: Search Engine, Cuil Just Might Be The Next Big Thing
Eric Chabrow / CIO Insight: New Google Rival Cuil Fails Ego Test
Forbes Blogger / Digital Download: Cuil Can't Compete With Google
Chris Moody / Maximum PC all: How Cool Is Cuil?
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Cuil - The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: Would-Be Google-Killer Cuil Stumbles Out Of The Gate; Long-Term Looks Grim, Too
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Is Cuil Cool Enough to Take on Google?
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: SEOs Comment On Cuil, New Google Competitor
Matt O'Hern / MarketingShift: Former Google workers unveil rival search engine
Michael Muchmore / PC Magazine: Cuil Hopes to Be a Google-Killer
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Cuil search engine: Reinventing the wheel
Jesse James / Homotron.net: Cuil Search Engine Tries To Be "Cool"
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: Cool Discussion of Cuil
Michelle Lentz / bub.blicio.us: Cuil Wants to Grow Search
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report: Cuil Search Engine Comes Out of the Gate Stumbling
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog: Cuil New Search Engine Launches
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com: Cuil Launches - Good for Discovery and Surprises, Bad for Search
Jon / p2pnet: CUIL vs Google
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Cuil trips over its Web index in early going
Paul Boutin / Valleywag: Bored journalists hype yet another Google-killer
Vince Sollitto / Cuil:
Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web — Technology Company Offers New Look at Search — Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy.
Discussion: Portfolio.com, ReadWriteWeb, David Galbraith's Blog, Tech Daily Dose, Search Engine Journal, SEO and Tech Daily and Bits
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Cuil: Good, but not Great
David Galbraith / David Galbraith's Blog: Cuil, Titanic search engine, sinks day one
Andrew Noyes / Tech Daily Dose: Ex-Googler Unveils 'Cuil' Search Engine
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Google's next big challenge is ... Google.
Saul Hansell / Bits: Cuil's New Search Engine: Cheaper Than Google, but Not Better
Mark Evans:
Everyone Loves a Google-Killer
Everyone Loves a Google-Killer
Discussion: Technologizer and Venture Chronicles
Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Ten Reasons It's So Damn Hard to Out-Google Google
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
And....Cuil Goes Offline
And....Cuil Goes Offline
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Former Google Engineers Launch Search Engine
Mitch Joel / Twist Image: MARKETING CUIL AS A "GOOGLE KILLER" IS SILLY
David Shabelman / Tech Confidential: Cuil searches for questions
Douglas A Karr / The Marketing Technology Blog: Cuil, the Cool Search Engine... Oops
Chris Dannen / Fast Company: New Search Engine Challenges Google
John Chow / John Chow dot Com: Cuil New Search Engine
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Cuil Launches, Crashes, Recovers
Andrew / Changing Way: Cuil Goes Dark, Hits Back
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine
Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine
Discussion: The Open Road, Industry Standard and TechCrunch
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Ex-Google engineers launch rival search engine Cuil
Ex-Google engineers launch rival search engine Cuil
Discussion: DailyTech, Reuters, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Shane McGlaun / DailyTech: Former Google Employee Starts Cuil Search Engine
Eric Auchard / Reuters: Former Googleers unveil Cuil, a new search engine
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Google Beats Cuil Hands Down In Size And Relevance, But That Isn't The Whole Story
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering — Mike Schroepfer, the extremely well regarded VP Engineering at Mozilla, is now Facebook's Director of Engineering. — He'll be heading up Facebook Platform and the main product front end, he said by telephone this morning …
Discussion: CNET News.com, FaceReviews, AppScout, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, All Facebook and Furrier.org
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com: Facebook hires Mozilla engineer
Rodney Rumford / FaceReviews: Facebook Snags Firefox VP
Chris Gampat / AppScout: Facebook Hires Firefox Dev Mike Schroepfer
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook Brings In Mozilla Exec To Head Engineering
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Facebook Taps Mozilla for New Director of Engineering
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: Facebook Hires New Director of Engineering
Schrep / Schrep's Blog:
New Adventures — I'm moving on from my role at Mozilla Corporation …
New Adventures — I'm moving on from my role at Mozilla Corporation …
Discussion: John's Blog and Asa Dotzler
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Steve Jobs Walks Into the Trap — What was Steve thinking? I don't pretend to understand the pressures he's under, both physically and professionally, but calling New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with an "off the record" health update was a big mistake, completely unnecessary, and serves only to fan the flames.
Discussion: ZDNet
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Secrecy cloaked 'Dark Knight' — Warner Bros. took painstaking care to thwart pirates ahead of the film's premier, and the effort paid off. — For Warner Bros., the mission was to keep "The Dark Knight" from seeing the light of day. — In an era of instantaneous digital copying …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
When the "Wisdom of Crowds" turns on itself: IMDB Edition — The concept of the wisdom of crowds is a fundamental building block of a lot of the Web 2.0 services that we see today. While not all of them are built on this core concept, major sites like Digg, Wikipedia, and Mahalo rely heavily on crowds being wise.
Discussion: /Film
Peter Sciretta / /Film: IMDb Watch: Are Dark Knight Fanboys Burying The Godfather?
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo Music Does the Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers — Last Thursday, we reported that Yahoo Music was going to shut down its store and DRM licensing servers on September 30, which was basically going to leave anybody who ever bought music from the Yahoo Music Store without a license to play their music.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com: Yahoo Music to offer refunds, what about MSN?
New York Post:
'CAPITAL' UNREST CASTS GLOOM OVER YAHOO! — Yahoo! may have made peace with activist investor Carl Icahn, but its second-largest shareholder is still furious with Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang and is considering withholding votes for them, sources told The Post.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Daily, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Tech Confidential, BoomTown and WebProNews
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Yahoo Investor Gordon Crawford Still Pissed At Jerry Yang, May Hold Out Vote (YHOO)
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls, Jerry ...
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Yang Still Needs To Make Nice With His Biggest Shareholders
David Shabelman / Tech Confidential: Yahoo! shareholder meeting still carries some suspense
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Yahoo Annual Meeting Countdown (4 Days to Go!): Who Will Be the New Board Members?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Report: Major Yahoo Investor Still Unhappy With Yang
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Calendar Adds CalDAV Support — After many months of testing, Google Calendar finally adds CalDAV support. "CalDAV is an open protocol that allows calendar access via WebDAV. CalDAV models calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format, and models calendars containing events as WebDAV collections.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun, Technology Review, Webware.com, VUG Media, CyberNet, Macworld, Lifehacker, webmonkey and Gizmodo
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Sync Google Calendar natively to your iPhone with CalDAV support
Rich Parr / Technology Review: Lost in the Clouds — MobileMe is facing problems endemic to cloud computing.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Google Calendar gets simpler sync with CalDAV
Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey: Get Google Calendar and Apple's iCal in Sync (Maybe)
PR Newswire:
Verizon Reports Double-Digit Earnings Growth, Strong Operating Cash Flows, Sales Gains in All Key Areas in 2Q — Network Investments Delivering Growth: Wireless Again Tops Industry, and FiOS Penetration and Sales of Strategic Business Services Continue to Advance
Discussion: IP Democracy, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent.org, DSLreports and Silicon Alley Insider
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Verizon Stops Reporting Video Subscriber Counts
Dianne See Morrison / paidContent.org: Earnings: Verizon Revs Miss Expectations; Broadband and Video …
Karl Bode / DSLreports: Verizon Adds 54k Broadband Users In Q2 …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Verizon Q2 In-Line, No "Significant Economic Impact" Expected In Second Half (VZ)
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Verizon counts on wireless for profits
Verizon counts on wireless for profits
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: More Bad News for Broadband Biz: Verizon's Growth Stalls
Chloe Albanesius / Gearlog: Verizon Officially Launches FiOS TV in New York City
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? — If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps.
Discussion: metarand
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
iPhone, App Store problems causing more than just headaches — It has been a couple weeks since Apple deemed iPhone OS 2.0 to be ripe enough for us to pluck from its digital tree. While third-party software (albeit from a walled garden) is indeed an appetizing treat, widespread reports …
Discussion: O'Reilly Network Blogs, Apple Gazette and The iPhone Blog
Paul Kafasis / O'Reilly Network Blogs: &*%#ing NDA — You may have seen a link to a site called, well, &*%#ing NDA.
Dieter Bohn / The iPhone Blog: How's iPhone 2.0 Treating you?
Robert M. McDowell / Washington Post:
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? — The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic "pipes" were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. — The year was 1987.
Discussion: The Iconoclast, CableTechTalk, Broadband Politics, The Precursor Blog, MarketingVOX and CNET News.com
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast: FCC probably can't police Comcast's BitTorrent throttling
Paul Rodriguez / CableTechTalk: Solving network challenges
Richard Bennett / Broadband Politics: Don't regulate, collaborate — FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell …
Scott Cleland / The Precursor Blog: Must read Op Ed by FCC Commissioner McDowell: …
Steven Musil / CNET News.com: Report: FCC expected to rule against Comcast
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity — The US Patent and Trademark Office is a convenient whipping boy for problems with the patent system. The USPTO famously approved the junk patents at the heart of the legal battle between Research in Motion and a patent-trolling firm called NTP.
Discussion: Slashdot
ScuttleMonkey / Slashdot: Software Patent Sanity on the Way?
Verizon FiOS TV Delivers 100 High-Definition Channels to New Yorkers - on the Network Built for HD — FiOS TV in New York Metro Area Now Offers More HD Channels Than Time Warner or CablevisionNew Sports and Multicultural Programming in Standard Definition Also Joins FiOS TV Lineup
Discussion: Between the Lines, New York Times, Engadget HD and DSLreports
Karl Bode / DSLreports: FiOSTV Hits NYC - Along with 100HD channels
Mary Jane Irwin / Forbes:
EA Faces A Bumpy Ride — John Riccitiello hated E3 this year. The castrated annual Electronic Entertainment Expo game convention was trimmed from 80,000 attendees in 2006 to less than 5,000 in 2008. — Just as he disliked the glitz- and glam-less trade show, the Electronic Arts (nasdaq …
Discussion: Opposable Thumbs, GamesIndustry.biz, Joystiq, Kotaku and GoNintendo
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq: Analysts: EA revenues up in Q2, $100 million in losses expected
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: Analysts Expect EA Posting US$111 Million In Losses
RawmeatCowboy / GoNintendo: Analysts calling for EA $111 million loss


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Fisher Space Pen rose to prominence when founder Paul Fisher invented a retractable, pressurized pen called the Anti-Gravity 7 (#AG7) that worked flawlessly in zero gravity aboard the first manned Apollo mission in 1968. Five decades later the company continues to thrive with pens still flown aboard every manned space flight.
After Paul Fisher earned NASA as a customer for his revolutionary Space Pen, he continued to focus his efforts on developing unique, quality products. All Fisher Space Pens are handcrafted and able to write underwater, over grease, at any angle, upside down, 3-times longer than the average pen, in extreme temperatures ranging from (-30°F to +250°F), and in zero gravity.
"People find that our technology is by far the most reliable from both a shelf-life and environmental standpoint." says Cary Fisher, now co-owner and Paul's son.
One of Paul Fisher's first ideas was for the iconic Bullet Pen, named for its sleek rounded ends. This particular Space Pen is in The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection as a symbol of American industrial design. This mid-century modern pen is still available today in 16 colors and finishes and remains one of Fisher Space Pen's most popular gift items.
"The stick pen is a consumer-industrial product," Cary says. "The Space Pen is a gift item."
Fisher's varieties of pens - such as the Trekker Space Pen comes with a breakaway lanyard, making it easily attachable to a belt loop, backpack, purse or climbing gear - are manufactured and assembled in the company's 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Boulder City, Nevada.


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He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
From my travels yesterday.
REM Star 181. All work and no play.
Shine On.
REM. And in the mirror MER.
'It's the End of the World as we know it'.
REM Sleep and Dreams.
Earlier today the first image from the Event Horizon Telescope of the ring of a Black Hole was revealed. People will have their own perspective and interpretation. Mine is 'Why So Serious'.
And Every Picture Tells A Story. In my stream the pic showed what looks like a little blue box – a rostrum I think – and the Black Hole was described by the Scientist as a Ring of Fire.
Here is a screenshot.
An official photo.
From the Harvard Universe.
In Wonderland.
When you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss grins back at you.
And more giant alien Jellyfish. From a few days ago in Norway.
The official story is that it was the result of NASA launching two rockets in a mission titled Azure.
Hold Hands 👫
And a pic by Frank Olsen in Norway titled 'Beam Me Up Scotty'.
From Ripley's Space X re-entry not long ago.
Old Knight in The OA.
And Arrival movie with Amy Adams.
Full Circle.
'If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things ?'
And O Superman and Amy Adams. AA = 1:1.
It's Out of This World.
But I Feel Fine.


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May 11, 2015
Charleston, SC - May 11, 2015 - Carolina Panthers Linebacker Thomas Davis and Tight End Greg Olsen, joined U.S. Senator Tim Scott and Visa Inc. in South Carolina today to tackle head on the issue of financial literacy improvement among Palmetto State teens. They announced an expansion of the statewide effort to improve the money management skills of high school and middle school students with Financial Football, a free educational video game and classroom curriculum developed by the NFL and Visa Inc. The game is being distributed by the senator's three regional offices to 506 middle schools and high schools in South Carolina.
Senator Scott kicked off this financial literacy campaign at R.B. Stall High School, his alma mater, in North Charleston with help from the 2014 Walter Peyton NFL Man of The Year winner Davis, Pro Bowler Olsen and Visa. They led teams of students in a hard-fought, high energy game of Financial Football. Senator Scott's team won the game with a final score of 15-8. Earlier, Olsen, who was named All NFC in 2014 by the Pro Football Writers Association, and Davis, named Pro Football Focus All-Pro in 2013 and an Ed Block Courage Award winner in 2011 shared their personal experiences on the importance of money management with the 50 students at Stall.
"Financial literacy is an important key to accessing all the powerful opportunities our country offers. I have seen firsthand the ripple effects on families and communities when financial literacy is made a priority," said Senator Scott, co-chair of the Senate Financial Literacy Caucus. "Through Financial Football, I am pleased that we will be able to encourage more middle and high school students in South Carolina to learn about taking care of their personal finances. I believe that this exciting and interactive program will provide each student throughout the 506 schools it's being given to with a strong financial playbook they can build upon for the rest of their lives."
The centerpiece of a nationwide educational initiative with Visa, the NFL and the NFL Players Association, Financial Football helps students and adults tackle their financial futures. The game is accompanied by a classroom curriculum.
It doesn't matter whether you make minimum wage or millions," said Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis. "If you don't learn to budget, save, invest, and pay bills on time, the consequences can be devastating."
"Kids need to learn to make smart money management decisions early in life," said Carolina Panthers Tight End, Greg Olsen. "It takes the combined efforts of parents, teachers and mentors within the community to give teenagers a strong background in personal finance."
Available online at www.southcarolina.financialfootball.com, Financial Football puts students' fiscal knowledge to the test in an online simulation game environment by combining the structure and rules of the NFL with financial education questions of varying difficulty. Visa has also released the game as a free iPhone app on iTunes, along with an optimized HD iPad version.
"For over a decade, Visa has been committed to promoting financial literacy and we are proud to assist Senator Scott in his continuing efforts to strengthen financial education," said Nat Sillin, Head of U.S. financial education, Visa Inc.
This launch is part of a national educational campaign with Visa, the NFL and the NFL Players Association, now in its seventh season. Since 2006, Visa has reached agreements with forty-six states and the District of Columbia to distribute Financial Football to every high school and middle school in those states, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Financial Football is part of Practical Money Skills for Life (www.practicalmoneyskills.com) a free, award-winning financial education program that reaches millions of people around the world each year. Launched in 1995, the program is now available in ten languages in thirty countries. At Practical Money Skills for Life, educators, parents and students can access free educational resources including personal finance articles, games, lesson plans and more. Visa also runs What's My Score (www.whatsmyscore.org), a leading higher education consumer awareness program.
About Visa
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate one of the world's most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that is capable of handling more than 56,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, pay ahead of time with prepaid or pay later with credit products. For more information, visit usa.visa.com/about-visa/our_business.html, visacorporate.tumblr.com and @VisaNews.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Cisco plans to beef up its SDN [software-defined networking] technology by acquiring Embrane, a startup with an architecture for virtualized network appliances.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cisco is already an investor in Embrane, which is based in Santa Clara, California, near Cisco headquarters. The acquisition is expected to close within three months.
Embrane's Heleos platform can deploy software-based appliances such as firewalls across a pool of commodity servers, using more or less computing power as demands rise and fall. It lets cloud service providers quickly deploy new, differentiated services, the company says. With open APIs, users can integrate Embrane's technology with third-party billing and orchestration tools.
The acquisition will help Cisco enhance ACI [Application-Centric Infrastructure], its SDN architecture, and offer more choice to customers of the Nexus data center switch portfolio, Cisco said in a blog post.
Embrane is led by former Spirent Communications CEO Bill Burns but includes several former Cisco engineers in its top management team. They will join Cisco's Insieme Business Unit.


text: Many men want to know how to attract women, as if there is a need to swallow some magic pill. They tend to think of attractive women as some sort of commodity. They do not even feel like men unless they have a gorgeous woman at their beck and call. Most of these guys suffer from very low self-esteem and confidence. Their entire sense of self-worth is based entirely on dating attractive, gorgeous women, and generally they are single. Therefore, they think of themselves as nothing, or even less than nothing.


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Ys la Legende
Dejan Nenadov was born in Novi Sad. He graduated from the department of painting from the Academy of Arts and began drawing comics from his father's scripts in the early 1980s. He is best known for his series of short comics about 'El Azaru', which were collected in an album published by Jakim Puskas. Nenadov published his work in publications like Stripoteca, Spunk, Omladinske Novine and Yu Strip.
Na Poljima Djavolje Trave (Yu Strip #83-84, January 1986)
Nenadov has been working for French publishers since 2008. He succeeded Bojan Kovacevic as the artist of the 'Arcanes' series and drew five new books for Delcourt from scripts by Jean-Pierre Pécau until 2012. Since 2011, he is the artist of the series 'Ys la légende' for Jean-Luc Istin's Soleil Celtic label. He lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.


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Despite the show's emphasis on music, art, and fun, serious business apps are also making an appearance at Macworld | iWorld.
For starters, Ntractive has announced Elements CRM for iPad. Elements CRM (customer relationship management) is a cloud-based service that lets businesses keep track of their customer contacts, sales, billing, and more. The company already has Mac app; now that same customer data will be available from the iPad. Any changes you make using the iPad app when you're out in the field will automatically and instantaneously update the data in the cloud.
The app itself is free; the service costs $25 per user per month for small businesses (one to five) employees, $44 per user per month for bigger companies; there's also a $99 set up fee, and the iPad app requires a Mobile add-on service that adds $10 per month per user to the cost.
Meanwhile, Mindwrap is introducing its new FiledRight document management system for OS X at the show. Designed for small business users, FiledRight aims to make your office paperless. It starts with the scanning and batch-processing of documents from any Mac with a scanner. (You have to install a special Mindwrap scanner driver first.) Those documents are then indexed so they're searchable. The server admin tools let you assign permissions to scanned documents as well as manage the document database.
Pricing starts at $2000 and is available in bundles for 5, 10, and 25 users. For the money, you get the company's FiledRight server software, workstation clients, some built-in indexing and query screens, admin tools, and the Mac scanner driver. Pricing starts at $2000; you can also purchase yearly tech support.
Finally, Stellar Data Recovery has announced Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery v5, which aims to help you recover lost, missing, or accidentally deleted files—even if you've emptied your trash, formatted the drive, or otherwise done something that should make your data completely disappear. Stellar says this latest version is 30 percent faster than the last one and will even recover the names of lost files as well as their data.
Stellar is introducing the software at Macworld | iWorld at the special price of $20; it'll be available more widely starting February 1 for $99.


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This according to a young gentleman in New York City, who says that a Verizon support guy sent to fix his phone ended up fixing his face, with fists. In corporate speak, I believe that's called "thinking outside the box."
Our young supportsman (not a word) hasn't yet been convicted of a crime, and deserves the benefit of the doubt, but the alleged victim's account of the scenario is pretty spectacular (that's him above, with the shiner):
"The guy essentially snapped. He cold-cocked me, hit me two or three solid shots to the head while my hands were down," said Isakson, a limo driver.
But surely Mr, Isakson was being a dick, or something, right? Right? Well, if you count asking an angry-seeming man for his ID before you let him into your house in Queens as being a dick, then yes. Back to the violence:
But things got uglier, Isakson said, when Benjamin squeezed him around the neck and pressed him up against the wall.
"He's prepared to kill me," Isakson said. "That's all I could think of."
Isakson said he broke free and ran down the stairs — fracturing his ankle along the way — to get help in his building's lobby.
For what it's worth, Verizon did eventually fix the problem, though they apparently didn't need to send anyone into Isakson's home in the first place. Service!
Also, it looks like all those "Verizon face punch" keyword ad buys have finally paid off for Sprint:


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Artists think they're so clever
Actually, Untitled isn't really hanging in a gallery; it's a digital mock-up by David from the Ironic Sans blog. He writes, "If I had the time, the means, and the resources, I'd make a series of large paintings of those little cards that describe paintings in museums. They would be paintings of the cards that describe themselves." We think this image is just as good, and we didn't have to pony up no "suggested donation" to see it. Kudos!