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DETROIT -- Alex and Kristina Avila's daughter arrived in the wee hours of Sunday morning, around 3:30 a.m. ET. By game time Sunday afternoon, 9 1/2 hours later, Alex Avila was at the ballpark and getting into uniform to sit on the bench against the Yankees.
Avila wasn't in the lineup, but he wanted to be back.
"I knew they weren't going to bring somebody up [from the Minor Leagues] for one day," Avila said. "I didn't want to leave skip short-handed."
The catcher's services were not needed. Considering he had next to no sleep, that's probably a good thing.
The couple welcomed Avery Noelle Avila to the world Sunday morning at Henry Ford Hospital in West Bloomfield, Mich., weighing six pounds, 15 ounces. There were no complications, but with labor induced, the process was longer than if Kristina was simply going to the hospital during contractions.
Alex Avila reported to the hospital shortly after the final out Saturday evening.
"It took a little bit longer than she would like, than we both would like," Avila said, "but we were both so anxious."
Both mother and daughter are doing fine, the catcher said. With an off-day Monday, the entire family is hoping for some rest.
Originally, the due date was next Wednesday, the day before the Tigers embark on a three-city West Coast trip. However, the couple agreed that inducing labor might be the only way to guarantee the catcher would be around for the birth.


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Soldier From Dalton Is Killed In Afghanistan
The grief-stricken father of a Massachusetts soldier killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan described his son Friday as a man proud of his military service.
Officials at Fort Bliss, Texas, said 24-year-old Army Spc. Mitchell Kirk Daehling was among four soldiers killed in the Tuesday attack.
Daehling's father, Kirk, remembered his son as someone who "just loved life ... He always had a smile ... He was proud to serve his country."
Daehling spoke to The Associated Press shortly after returning from Dover Air Force Base, Del., where he received his son's remains along with his wife and his son's widow, whom he married last June.
U.S. Rep. Richard Neal said in a statement that Mitchell Daehling "was a brave young man who represented the best of America."
Mitchell Daehling was a 2006 graduate of Wahconah Regional High School and attended Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., where he first majored in the aviation program before changing to homeland security. He joined the military in 2010.
Wahconah Regional High School paid tribute to Daehling, saying on its website that his "strength and determination" served as a model to all students and his "bravery and service to our country was beyond measure."
Daehling is survived by his wife, of Westford, Mass., and two siblings.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Sakena Yacoobi's Courage and the Future of Afghan Women
June 13, 2012
It's good to have heroes. One of mine is Sakena Yacoobi, the founder of a terrific organization called the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) that provides education and health services to women across Afghanistan. I first met Sakena nearly a decade ago, and have followed her work closely since then. I've visited several of AIL's programs in Afghanistan and wrote about her and her work in my book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East.
Sakena was in New York last week to receive The Asia Foundation's second annual Lotus Leadership Award; en route to New York, she also received an honorary award from the World's Children's Prize Foundation, a nonprofit in Sweden. Not surprisingly, she's received tons of awards over the years for her work in Afghanistan with marginalized Afghan women.
Taught to read as a child by her local mullah in western Afghanistan, Sakena remarkably (read my book for all the details) went on to earn a master's degree in public health in the United States. In the 1990s, she started the Afghan Institute of Learning, mostly serving Afghan refugees in Pakistan, but also secretly operating girls' schools in Kabul during the Taliban years. After the Taliban were toppled in 2001, AIL quickly expanded its programs, establishing multiple women's centers across the country. Its reach today is impressive: since 1996, AIL-trained teachers have taught 4.6 million people, and more than a million Afghan women and their children have received its health services. In 2011 alone, the organization treated over 185,000 people (70 percent of them women). Over nine million Afghans – a third of the population – have been touched by AIL programs. Sakena manages all of this on a shoe-string budget of less than $2 million a year, using local resources and local salaries.
AIL's work deserves at least a bit of the credit for Afghanistan's significantly improved health and educational outcomes in recent years, particularly for women. Under the Taliban, virtually no girls were enrolled in school (except for underground schools like the ones that Sakena ran), but today about 2.7 million girls attend school. There are now also strong levels of popular support for women's education in Afghanistan. According to The Asia Foundation's 2011 Survey of the Afghan People, 85 percent of Afghans agreed with the statement that "Women should have equal opportunities like men in education." Nearly two-thirds of Afghans believe that women should be allowed to work outside of their homes. Maternal mortality has declined, albeit from medieval levels, and infant and child mortality have also come down significantly. Sakena sees the improvements in her clinics: "A decade ago, women and children came in covered in skin diseases and suffering from severe malnutrition, but today they generally look much better," she told me this week. AIL emphasizes health education and awareness of important life skills with the women it sees.
Understandably, Sakena is worried about what the future holds as the international community reduces its presence in Afghanistan. She insists that if the Taliban attempts to take over the country and reverse the progress that women have made, Afghan women will "flood into the streets in protest." She also dismisses talk that a "gentler" Taliban might emerge with a less harsh approach towards women. Last year, for example, Farook Wardak, the Afghan minister of education, stated in a BBC interview that he had been hearing "at the very upper policy level of the Taliban" that they would no longer oppose girls' education. Sakena – pointing to recent Taliban attacks on girls' schools – questions how Afghan women can ever trust the Taliban. In addition to girls' education, she worries about the fragile gains women have made politically. She speculates (as others have) that if peace talks between the Taliban and the national government go forward, gains like the quota reserving a quarter of the seats in parliament for women could be on the chopping block during negotiations. "[Women] want to keep the constitution. We are proud of it," she says.
With her usual indomitable courage, Sakena says to me: "I'm not scared to be dead, but I'm scared for the [future of] my programs." She hopes that as international troops depart Afghanistan, the international community will remain engaged with organizations like hers that are working at the grassroots level to educate the next generation and open their minds to new ways to thinking. That may be the best hope for Afghanistan in the years to come.
This article, which has been edited slightly from the original, was first published on the Council on Foreign Relations' blog, Democracy in Development.
Isobel Coleman is a senior fellow and director of the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a panelist at the second annual Lotus Leadership Awards in New York City on June 7.
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KT Tunstall has packed up her black horse and cherry tree from her East Village apartment in Manhattan after recently selling it for $1.5 million, reports the New York Observer. The Scotish singer-songwriter's former crib boasts a modest two bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, though it includes the much-sought-after outdoor private terrace, which measures an impressive 540 square feet.
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its tied down on the trailer so its not at height in the pic, no self leveling but it does have some h&r springs, i think the rears are installed but the fronts are in a box in the large pile of stuff that came with it, not sure what ratio is currently in it likely 4.10, i have a 3.91ls from the 535ia donor and a buddy while on vacation stumbled across a goldmine of e34s in a salvage yard in utah and scored me the sex change parts i needed (trans/shifter pedal box DS and a 3.46ls) as i wasn't wild about doing a m30 swap and having a EH slushbox to get working only to eventually yank and install a 5 speed, i was planning on seeing whats up with the 4l30e (thats what gm calls it) and if repairable without removing it (maybe a loose band or solenoid issue, s'posed ta be a rebuilt tranny that sounds like it might be going into limp when it shifts into OD by the description) run it as a 525 till the goodies are gathered to do a 535 right, but now that i have all but the cam and headers i want within my grasp screw the m50/4l30e, the engine runs fine but with 330k miles on the clock (a few rock chips and sagging headliner are only imperfections on whole car, even the door panels are nice) they are scrap/spare parts to be sold in parts and or with a disclaimer.
planning a top end rebuild with a cam and am pursuing a set of stainless headers, ifi can cut a decent blade from brass plate ill bore out a throttle body and build a knock off of millers "powerfold" bulged plenum m30 intake, the dyno numbers if accurate look intriguing, for management if anybody saw my m6 build on big coupe or mye28 that frankentronic system i built the run the high compression m88/3 will eventually make it onto the m30b35 in what for the moment ive named the waggone, for those (everybody i am positive) that don't know its basically a motronic 3.3.1 red label 413 and harness from a m50tu 525 that i stuck a ostrich prom emulator into and laptop tuned, the m50 harness almost perfectly draped over the m88/3, all i had to do after building a cam sensor to take the place of the distributor .......blah blah blah long story short i had a 1985 m635 big cam high compression basket of snakes headers m88/3 running fully sequential with knock sensors and a 3.5" 540 maf and coil pacs, shouldn't take much to drape that over a m30b35 and plug right into the 525 body plugs as that is where its from then re tune.
when anything amusing takes place ill post it up with pics but the build hasn't started yet and the car is still strapped to the trailer in the side yard
all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it
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A Bimmer Nut for sure: '04 530im, '99 Z3, '06 330cicm zhp, '69 r60, Owner/Operator of www.Bimmer.info and www.BimmerNut.com
got some toys in the mail nickle for thickness comparison schmiedmann 3mm reinforced basket of snakes, not quite as naughty looking as my dearly departed m88/3 but pretty spiffy
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Wow, they both look great. And talk about thick, very nice.
A Bimmer Nut for sure: '04 530im, '99 Z3, '06 330cicm zhp, '69 r60, Owner/Operator of www.Bimmer.info and www.BimmerNut.com
Basically disappears for the entirety of the Obama Administration, and then pops back up out of nowhere. Nice. Good to see you.
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HA, well not totally disappeared, if ya ever watched the tv show "sons of guns" some of the toys were built, repaired or modified by me, even managed to not get edited out of every scene they shot with me in it and ugly up the discovery channel once in a while, well till will got convicted as being a massive pedophile, the first 3 episodes of season 6 will likely never see with light of day.
touring project is stalled awaiting parts delivery, the schrick cam that was supposed to be in stock at turner turned into will be shipped in jan along with the rockers
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So you worked full-time or part-time for them or some such? I was going to type something about giraffe-neck , but then I realized that was a different show. I watched that show in 2011, back when there was a buttload of firearms related shows on Discovery. Additionally, I thought you mentioned years (would be a decade or more ago) about a manufacturer that called themselves "red-stick;" I always got confused and thought that maybe the sons-of-guns people and you were in some way connected.
Did you make receivers for anything?
red stick and red jacket were the same company and kicked off the sons of guns show, ive built hundreds if not thousands of ak variants from demil parts kits and new parts, was always part time till i got burned out and quit red jacket, we'd already did the network pilot and i was liked so i came back when i could get away from german auto for tv stuff but because i wasn't there every day i guess the brass decided to limit my camera time as most of the time something i did/built and was filmed doing and had lines for got recast by someone else by time it aired, meh tv is a huge pain in the ass. the business is still running under a different name by joe https://www.aklysdefense.com/ as aklys defense and meaux guns https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en...jXBtEQoioIfzAK charley my buddy is still involved too, the whole thing was amusing and if i had run with it full time i would've been an original cast member and part of the industry from the contacts created, if's and but's....... got to meet a few cool people and play with some fun toys, jessie james was a cool dude (big dude too, shaking hands is like grabbing onto a catchers mitt) and a normal guy
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sneaux and lots of it, well for loserana
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Bats support Peavy's impressive victory over Twins
Dunn, Viciedo go back-to-back; Flowers delivers go-ahead RBI double
MINNEAPOLIS -- Jake Peavy has been overshadowed at times this season in the White Sox rotation by standout Chris Sale, but the veteran right-hander added another layer on Tuesday night to the argument over who is the staff ace.
Peavy held the Twins to two runs on five hits to guide the White Sox to a series-evening 4-3 victory at Target Field. Traversing through seven innings, Peavy maintained command over the Twins to record his fifth start of surrendering two or fewer runs.
Clutch hitting has been an elusive trait for the White Sox, but they received critical contributions from the bottom of the order late in the game. A two-run eighth, highlighted by an RBI double by catcher Tyler Flowers, broke a 2-2 tie and helped keep Peavy's strong performance from being spoiled.
"It was a good team win," Peavy said. "I think everybody contributed tonight against some adversity. I felt like some calls that should have gone the other way didn't go our way. When you can keep your composure, and that's not easy especially with myself, and win those games shows some character."
Peavy didn't allow a controversial call in the fifth derail his outing.
Twins designated hitter Oswaldo Arcia hit a two-out ground-ball single into right field, bringing Justin Morneau around from second for a chance to score. Fielding a well-placed throw from Alex Rios, Flowers sprawled out at home plate to seemingly make the tag on the sliding Morneau.
Despite replays that pointed to the contrary, Morneau was called safe, drawing the Twins within one run of tying the game. Peavy, Flowers and manager Robin Ventura argued profusely to no avail.
"I knew I tagged him the first time," Flowers said. "I look at the umpire and he's not doing anything, so you kind of have two choices. You can either be an idiot and sit there complain or you can tag the guy again because he's off the plate. He saw the play differently."
The White Sox offense, which has been inconsistent this season, sparked to life slightly by seeing eight batters contribute at least one hit.
Back-to-back second-inning home runs by Adam Dunn and Dayan Viciedo propelled the Sox to an early 2-0 advantage. After having a powerful shot to center field robbed at the wall by the Twins' Aaron Hicks in a 10-3 loss on Monday, Dunn got his revenge by breaking out of an 0-for-14 slump with his seventh homer of the year.
Viciedo matched Dunn by crushing a slider from Twins starter Kevin Correia into the third deck in left.
The Twins evened the scored in the seventh on an RBI single by Trevor Plouffe, but a half-inning later, the Sox were back in front to stay. Corriea, who unraveled after seven solid innings, was pulled after Flowers' double put Chicago up, 3-2.
"Correia was good. After the two in the second, he was running through them," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He left a couple balls up in the eighth and it was double, double, and there you have it and he's out of the ballgame."
Reliever Casey Fien couldn't get the Twins out of the inning. Fien gave up an RBI single to Alexi Ramirez, providing the Sox an insurance run.
Setup man Jesse Crain, who has been untouchable of late, replaced Peavy in the eighth, and eased to his 14th straight scoreless appearance. Crain (1.00 ERA) has not allowed a run in 13 1/3 innings, striking out 19 in that stretch. Closer Addison Reed overcame a two-out double by Morneau for his 12th save of the season.
The White Sox recovered well from Monday's mistake-riddled loss that prompted Ventura to call a rare workout session five hours before Tuesday's game, demanding a renewed focus on basic fielding fundamentals.
The extra work seemed to have delivered the right message as the White Sox turned out an overall sound game, despite Dunn's fluke error in the sixth. Ramirez fired a throw to Dunn at first in time to retire Brian Dozier, but the throw tore through the webbing of Dunn's glove.
"If something stupid like that is going to happen, it's going to happen to me. So pile on. Bring it on," Dunn said with a grin.


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Here is a chart that shows almost all of the possible combinations of at bats in tonight's game for Ryan Braun and Jose Reyes, and who would win the batting title in each outcome.
UPDATE: I suppose it's appropriate the the cells in this chart for Jose Reyes - who left this afternoon's game after going 1 for 1 on a bunt single - are all shaded in pink.
Braun needs 3 hits in his first 4 at bats. Then he too can leave the game for the purpose of securing the batting title.


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Grandpa Max with Grandma Rita -- married 68 years -- circa the late 1950s.
My Grandpa Max passed away this spring -- on his 93rd birthday.
According to Jewish wisdom, dying on the same day that you're born is a blessing. In fact, Moses was said to have died on his 120th birthday. The Talmud teaches us that God calculates and completes the lifespan of a righteous person.
Jewish scholars say that righteous people are charged with a mission at their birth: To live their lives to the fullest potential and finish their mission completely. The mission ends on the very same day it was begun.
So that means Grandpa passed away on the exact day he was supposed to.
My grandpa -- my dad's dad -- was a mensch who lived his life with dignity and integrity. A kind, humble, generous, and gentle soul with the driest wit.
It was the way he loved and teased my grandma for 68 years.
It was the way he would interact with people at the deli counter, Grandma's beauty parlor, or the convenience store where he bought his lottery tickets, how he'd disarm them with a joke.
It was the way he would rarely sign his paintings, because he didn't care to take credit for his work.
It was the way he served in combat during World War II on the beaches of the Philippines and in the jungles of New Guinea.
When he returned to Long Island after the war, he met my grandma, set up by their two sisters who dreamed up their shidduch (match) at a canasta game. Max worked long hours in the family school supply factory in Manhattan. He would bring home for his two sons -- and later his four granddaughters -- notebooks and pencils with our names etched on them.
He never went to college, but he read voraciously, and seemed to know just about everything. Every day, my grandma would do the crossword puzzle, and any time she didn't know an answer, she would enlist the help of her Max. Whether it was a baseball player, an obscure politician, or even the name of a 1990s boy band member -- somehow Grandpa knew the answer.
In his free time, he loved to paint, especially portraits of the people he loved; Max would capture not only their physical likeness, but their spirit too.
When I'd come to visit, we'd paint canvases with his special acrylics; I'd get frustrated when my artwork, unlike Grandpa's, looked nothing like the person I was painting. But Grandpa would always tell me they were beautiful. I knew that they weren't, but I also knew that Grandpa believed that they were because he only saw the good in his granddaughters.
In the summertime, Grandpa and I would stroll along the boardwalk near Grandma and Grandpa's home in Long Island. We'd sometimes chat about school and friends and other times just walk in silence, smelling the seaweed and ocean air, and listening to the soothing crashing of the waves. For my grandpa was a man who was comfortable with silences, and who only spoke when he had something to say.
Each one of us have our own Grandpa Max, people we miss every day, people that paved the way for us, who live on in us forever.
My other grandfather, Harry, died two weeks before my second birthday.
Even though I didn't get the chance to know Grandpa Harry, he always held this superhero status in my mind and heart. After all, my grandma, my mom, and other people who knew and loved him would constantly nourish me with stories about him, about his decency and his moral compass.
A Jewish socialist, he immigrated to the States from Russia in the early part of the 20th century. Here, he met my maternal grandma and they bought a farm in Wisconsin, where they raised cattle, corn, two sons, and a daughter. He and my Grandma loved Israel and he insisted on investing their meager savings in Israel's early days. Harry would say, "If this is worth nothing, then our lives are worth nothing."
Grandpa Harry died 36 years before Grandpa Max. These last few weeks, since Max died, I keep envisioning my two grandfathers, who had been fond of each other back when my parents were first courting, reunited with each other now. I bet that they, along with my late grandma, are enjoying each other's company and making each other laugh.
Death has this way of making us take stock of our lives. When our loved ones die, in the best of worlds, their passing makes those of us they leave behind want to live our lives with even more purpose and integrity. Like Grandpa Max and Grandpa Harry, the really great ones inspire us to live our lives to our fullest potentials, to complete our own missions.


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(a) It is unlawful for any person to erect any fence, wharf, boathouse, building or structure of any kind whatsoever to seaward of the public highway established by 37.2050 without special permission of the Governor of American Samoa, to whom there must be presented a written application with plans of the structure intended to be erected.
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Following up on a tip that drugs were being bought and sold in an Indian Orchard, Mass. parking lot, police saw a heroine deal go down in the unlikeliest of places — inside an ice cream truck with "Ding Dong Cart" printed on the side.
Sounds like a scene from a movie that was never made. The one were Cheech & Chong transition from space coke to heroine.
Springfield, Mass. police arrested Tricia Martins, 39, Joshua Gibbs, 26, and Sarah Christian, 33 after watching Martins get into the ice cream truck with Gibbs and Christian and leave with a bunch of money instead of ice cream. Martins allegedly sold a decent-sized batch of oxycontin and morphine pills to Gibbs and Christian.
The Ding Dong Cart actually had ice cream in it, so after she was arrested, police allowed Christian to call her father to come get the truck so that the ice cream wouldn't melt. She might have done better to worry about her brain melting from using opiates, but I guess people have different priorities. (Hat tip to VreeArrSix!)
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The 22-year-old, who won the Stockholm Open in October for his first title victory, claimed the first-set in a tiebreak but Anderson broke in the second game of the next and comfortably held serve to level the match at one set apiece.
Anderson carried the momentum into the third with another early break but handed back the initiative with a double fault on break point in the eighth game of the deciding set.
Dimitrov, who beat Wimbledon champion Andy Murray in the semi-finals, held on to take the decider into a tiebreak and completed the victory on his first match point to improve his head-to-head record against the South African to 4-1.
"Belief! That was the only thing that kept me (going) today. I didn't think I was gonna come back after last night's match. I felt really bad after the match," Dimitrov told reporters, referring to his semi-final win that finished after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.
"Body is holding up for now. It will be great to get some rest, maybe tomorrow."
It was a second heartbreaking loss in as many weeks for Anderson, who lost to Marin Cilic in the Delray Beach Open final last Sunday.
"Right now it's really disappointing... to come so close. It was possibly a match where I felt I was going to get it," Anderson told reporters. "I'm going to have to move on, need to take positives and take belief.
"I know it's difficult but it's not an easy sport. You have got two options - either to get down or get even more motivated."
In the women's tournament played at the same venue, top seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova battled past American Christina McHale 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-4 to win her fourth career title.
The victory will move Cibulkova a place higher to number 11 from her previous career-high world ranking when the new standings are released on Monday.
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Rich Stewart returned to Greenville College in 2008 for his third tenure as an assistant football coach. He coaches the defensive line. He previously served as a Greenville College assistant coach for seven seasons from 1987-93 under head coach Max Bowman and two seasons from 2003-04 under head coach Scotty Kessler. He returned to campus in 2008 under head coach Eric Hehman. Between his stints at Greenville College, he was head football coach at Hillsboro High School where he accumulated a 87-38 overall record in 12 seasons. He led the Hiltoppers to nine IHSA playoff appearances from 1994-02 and 2005-07. Stewart holds a bachelor of science degree in physical education from Southeast Missouri State University. He resides in Hillsboro, Ill., with his wife Margie, and they have two adult children, Jason and Jennifer.


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Boo hoo...a Yale student had his Xbox 360 pilfered out of his luggage during a US Airways flight. That, combined with the emotional toll involved in the recovery effort should be worth $1 million right?
According to the student, his Xbox "had a specialized hard drive and components he said cost more than $1,000." Yeah right—"specialized." At any rate, the lawsuit is seeking $1700 for the loss of the system, non-economic distress of $25,000 or, better yet, the $1 million maximum allowed by law. Of course, all of this is moot considering that airline federal loss limits are capped at $3,300 per bag—and that excludes electronics.
I feel for the kid, I really do. After all, if someone at US Airways stole the unit he should be awarded reasonable damages. However, you would think that a student at Yale would be smart enough to know that you don't put expensive electronics in checked baggage. Apparently, they aren't teaching classes in common sense over there. [GamePolitics Image via Flickr]


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Well I've made it back from the New Designers Show 2011 part 2 which is being held in London's Business Design Centre, feeling shattered after two whole days of intense interviews and general press duties – but well worth it! I've come away totally inspired and have huge admiration for design students everywhere.
The level of work was exceptional, from furniture to textiles and product designs to Interiors, if I was a robot I'd definitely have a design overload!
Firstly I'd like to say CONGRATULATIONS to all the New Designers 2011 winners, they've worked so hard to gain recognition from the UK's freshest student design event and of course their peers.
Here are some of my favourites and the names of the other winners can be found on the New Designers Website.
Judges thoughts: "We admired his innovative construction and use of material. We enjoyed his overall charm, warmth and character. The low storage with woven sliding doors is a product with soul."
Judges thoughts: "Oksana's portfolio showed refreshing clarity and at times mesmerising presentation that was refined and at a professional standard."
Judges thoughts: "Northumbria have a huge variety of inspirational products on display. The graduates have made clever use of recycled materials-creating a highly polished and professional presentation."
Judges thoughts: "Brinley has got design in his bones. Passionate, inspiring and intelligent, with a wicked streak of humour. His pigeon project is 'shit' – go and find out more!"
The event was split into three floors and then sub divided into specific design sections so it was easy to make your way around. Although, it wasn't easy walking around each section without stopping to look every few steps and swooning over another fantastic design.
The One Year On section, curated by award winning designer Jethro Macey, showcased 50 specially selected designers who've set up a business in the last 12 months. In this wonderful room, I came across Imogen Heath who launched her first ever collection at the show. Her mid-century patterned wallpaper and fabrics instantly dragged me in. Imogen was just as colourful and sweet as her designs which are inspired by her love of geometric composition, art deco and contemporary art.
If you're just as head over heals in love with Imogen's designs as I am, you can bag a cushion from £48 – £55 and wallpaper for £100
As I was interviewing Imogen, just opposite us a group of talented artists and illustrators under the name of Secret Wars, were doing a live graffiti demonstration on their white stand. Their creative flair attracted the attention of lots of visitors who stared in amazement at how effortlessly they drew – I couldn't take my eyes off them!
After, finally pulling myself away from the One Year On section, I had a good gander on the first floor and came across a product which The Design Hub had already featured as a Design of the Day – the Tweetingseat. Created by Product Designer Chris McNicholl, who's recently graduated from the University of Dundee in Product Design, the Tweetingseat has caused a huge stir.
The seat takes reality and combines it with the virtual world by taking pictures of anyone sat on the seat and uploading the image to a live Twitter feed. This is done by one camera in the shape of the blue Twitter bird which can be mounted above the seat and another camera inside the seat that takes an image of anyone standing in front. So in the end you get two images uploaded to Twitter – genius!
As well as the tweeting seat causing a buzz with social media lovers, some feel this idea of sharing images on Twitter of people unaware they have been papped is unethical. When asked, Chris told me he welcomes the debate and encourages it. Listen to Chris' interview!
Innovative furniture makers
The level of talent and skill shown by the students at New Designers was breathtaking and one designer rom Plymouth University certainly took the biscuit. Michael Carroll had created a chair without using glue or nails.
Named "Tankard", this chair is held together with…. well you'll have to watch his interview to find out!
The young furniture maker also made a table using metal bars which resemble the shape of a mouse trap.
Another talented chap, Luke Diaz from Bucks New University, won the New Designers 2011 Habitat Innovation Award for his Eco cabinet that he bound together with hemp twine. Like Micheal Carroll above, he didn't use a single nail or drop of glue. I see a trend developing here!
Diaz taught himself how to weave the twine and create the doors of the cabinet, which I think make it look beautifully organic and earthly. He also designed two stools, a smaller cabinet and hanging stand to complete his sustainable furniture range.
We've all had to live in a boxy apartment or a ground floor flat that resembles a dungeon (like myself) when starting out on the career ladder. Having to cook, sleep and shower in the same room is something which the majority of yuppie's (young professionals) put up with until the day comes and a promotion lands on the table.
And if you're like me and LOVE to decorate but also rent, it's fair to say that the landlord wouldn't be too happy at the next inspection to find two walls knocked out and the living room changed into a bedroom. Renting makes it near impossible to flex those creative fingers.
Well, I met young innovative Interior Designer, Henry Parker at New Designers 2011 and he has come to the rescue with a city apartment perfect for the hard-working yuppie's, that want to make their flat into a home.
Adaptaflat is an apartment which is flexible, moveable and totally brilliant! These living spaces are the same size as a two bedroom flat but have maneuverable walls. Yes, you heard right, you can move the walls in the apartment to suit your needs, lifestyle or make space for Saturday night's party. Somebody PLEASE commission this!
How does it work? There are a series of custom made tracks on the ceiling of the apartment which the walls are connected to and this allows them to be moved in the desired place and clamped down when positioned. Want one? Then listen to Henry Parker's interview with The Design Hub and learn more about this clever design or click HERE to go to his website.Images: New Designers 2011, Imogen Heath, Kellie Hill


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Graduate Program FAQ
How long will it take to graduate?
If you take three credit hours per semester, it will take four years of year-round attendance to graduate.
Can I take more than one class per semester?
That's up to you and your work schedule, as well as other obligations. Most Marketing Communications students take one course per semester. A few take two. In recent years, the typical student averages 4.3 credit hours per semester.
FYI: Classes in the summer run for eigh weeks, two nights per week. Most Marketing Communications students find it difficult to commit the time for four nights per week.
Who will help me with my course plan?
Dr. Matt Tidwell the IMC Program Director. He will help you determine how this course of study can best accomplish your educational and professional goals. He also can provide information about course scheduling, about your thesis/project and how to put your committee together. In addition, you should seek advice from the faculty members teaching your classes and serving on your thesis/project committees.
Jammie Johnson is the Graduate Academic Advisor. She serves all graduate students as the "technical" adviser: what counts, hours left to complete, courses needed, etc. She is available by phone and email and she visits the KUEC campus several times a year for student appointments. Jammie also advises students on the admission and enrollment processes, progress toward degree, curriculum and graduation requirements, and on submitting the thesis/project.
Can I attend classes full-time?
Most students attend part-time. A full-time enrollment for graduate students is nine credit hours, which, for most working professionals, is not an option.
Tell me about the faculty.
Faculty members of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications teach all classes. This faculty is known for its dedication to teaching, for its focus on professional accomplishment and for its pioneering work in curriculum development to prepare students for multimedia workplaces.
Who is teaching which class?
The teaching schedule changes each semester. You can see faculty assignments at the time enrollment begins. The online timetable is usually posted the week of fall break in October and spring break in March. The School offers two to four classes each semester at KUEC currently. The summer schedule is posted in March
FYI: Certain graduate classes have limited enrollment. We strongly encourage you to enroll as soon as enrollment begins to secure your choice of class or section.
What do I get out of the graduate degree in Marketing Communications?
Marketing Communications serves media, corporate and non-profit professionals who plan careers in media marketing and management. It combines the specialties of mass communications, marketing and management. In addition, it offers students specific skill sets: writing, finance and technology.
Here is what a former student said about the M.S. in Marketing Communications:
"The coursework was directly applicable to the current challenges and competitive forces we face as marketers. The program opened my eyes to consider the 'big picture' and taught me the strategic skills and planning processes needed to make an impact." — Tonya Mangels, Class of 2001, Fall, Pizza Hut Inc., Marketing & Sales Leader


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Over on Hardcore Gaming, there's a new timeline up for reading called "A Brief History of Western Action RPGs". Brief? Are you kidding me?
Spanning over thirty years of role-playing games (mostly) free of teenagers with stupid haircuts and over-sized swords, the timeline begins with the likes of Adventure and Dungeons of Daggorath and ends with 2010's Mass Effect 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.
The highlight though, at least for me, is the halfway point when we hit what many believe the "golden age" of role-playing (with at least some kind of action) on the PC, with series like Quest for Glory and Ultima Underworldin the late 80s and early 90s.
If you're a fan of any of those games, or Diablo, or Jade Empire, or System Shock, or Elder Scrolls, you can check out the whole thing below.
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The boos rained down on Tampa Bay Bucs coach Greg Schiano as he left the field after his team fell to 0-5 on Sunday.
He said then that he really didn't hear the fans voicing their displeasure. But on Monday, he said he understands the frustration because he and his team feel it as well.
But Schiano still sees light at the end of this dark tunnel.
"I can imagine how frustrated they are," Schiano said at his Monday news conference. "Absolutely. I can guarantee you, they're not as frustrated as I am, no matter how fervent a fan they are. That doesn't make it OK. I understand we're disappointing a lot of people. This is a community, an area that is very passionate about their team. They had high expectations like I did, and it hasn't come to fruition.
"The only thing I can say to the fans, and I know how this sounds, but if they can hang in there, we're going to be good," he said. "If they can't, we're still going to be good and then they're welcome back. I'm not being smart. I think our fans are great."
The players seem to still back him. Linebacker Adam Hayward has been through this before. He was on the 2009 team that started 0-5.
While it's hard for Hayward to believe that a team as talented as this year's squad has not found a way to win, he doesn't think the locker room will dissolve and the players revolt against the coaching staff.
"We definitely shouldn't be 0-5," Hayward said. The distractions, ourselves, whatever it is, we've got to keep our guys going. Something's got to give at some point. It's just a matter of time."
This has been a crazy season for the Bucs with the off-the-field distractions of dealing with players with the MRSA staph infection and the saga of former quarterback Josh Freeman. On the field, mistakes at crucial times have cost the Bucs the most this year – whether it is turnovers or penalties that stop drives.
Schiano and the team will try to focus on the on-field solutions to prevent some of the things that have hurt the team.
In the second quarter of Sunday's 31-20 loss to Philadelphia, the Bucs were leading 10-7 when rookie running back Mike James (Ridge Community) broke off a 14-yard run to get the Bucs to the 37-yard line. But guard Ted Larsen, who was starting in the place of Carl Nicks, was called for holding, which pushed the ball back to the 13-yard line. Two incompletions later, the Bucs punted from their end zone and the Eagles got the ball at their own 46, which they turned into a touchdown.
On the team's first possession of the third quarter, leading 17-14, the Bucs faced a second-and-4 from the Eagles' 38-yard line, just on the fringe of field-goal range.
But quarterback Mike Glennon's pass to Tiquan Underwood was intercepted by Bradley Fletcher at the Eagles' 29-yard line. That led to an Eagles go-ahead touchdown.
When the Bucs tried to answer on their next possession, a hold wiped out a 9-yard gain by Doug Martin that would have put the ball on the Eagles' 40. Then, facing a second-and-14 on the same drive, another hold wiped out a 5-yard gain, putting the ball back on the Bucs' 37. The Bucs eventually punted.
Cleaning up the mistakes is the task at hand, Schiano said.
"When you can't (execute an assignment), that's a different story," Schiano said. "But when you can and you don't, that's what frustrates you, frustrates the players and frustrates the coaches.
"I tell the coaches that as frustrated as we get, I guarantee the player is not trying to do it wrong. Either we haven't communicated it clearly enough or there's something that's standing in the way (keeping him from physically doing it). ... Or is that guy across from you better and we're asking you to do something you can't do? I didn't see that (Sunday). I think that's our No. 1 job, to make sure we put players in position to make plays," he said.
"What makes you feel like you're going to win? We've had plenty of opportunities to win football games that we've played this year, and we've found ways to lose them. I'm accustomed to being on the team that finds a way to win them. I'm not doing my job, and I've done it before and need to do it again, where we expect it and we go do the little things that allow you to win."
Schiano remains confident Bucs will be good
The boos rained down on Tampa Bay Bucs coach Greg Schiano as he left the field after his team fell to 0-5 on Sunday.


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A popular tourist attraction and visitor site, the 72,000-square-foot temple was dedicated on April 30, 1993 as the 45th temple erected by the Latter-day Saints worldwide. More than 700,000 visitors have toured its scenic grounds since. Multiple weddings and baptisms are held at the temple each week.
After so much traffic, church officials have decided the building could use a spruce-up.
Renovations include cleaning the exterior, repair of the roof and towers, and re-caulking seams on the exterior white aggregate stone and stucco. The traditional golden Angel Maroni, which is featured in most LDS temples, crowns the east spire and will be removed for cleaning and refinishing.
Elder L. Whitney Clayton of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy said in a press statement that the scaffolding was necessary across the entire structure "to allow workmen to get close enough to work on various projects." Clayton supervises the church's California programs.
"We are aware that many people in the San Diego area love this beautiful structure and this maintenance project will allow it to continue to be a landmark for years to come," Clayton said.
Allen Haynie, who manages regional public affairs and who presides over the Escondido South Stake — which is comparable to a parish — said only members with certificates of good behavior may enter the temple to witness the variety of ordinances, or rites to benefit individuals and their ancestors, performed Tuesdays through Saturdays. However, the public is permitted to tour the exterior grounds. Services are held not at the temple but at chapels, a number of which are scattered throughout the area, and are open to members of the public who wish to attend. Currently, 133 temples operate worldwide, according to the LDS website, www.lds.org.
Each LDS temple is constructed in a different style, usually one that is consistent with the surrounding culture and architecture, Haynie said. The San Diego temple features a two-spire design with four smaller spires at the base of each. The building has four ordinance rooms and eight sealing rooms, which are used to perform marriage ceremonies.
"One of the doctrines central to LDS theology is that the family relationship is external," Haynie said. "When we speak of marriage, the term we use is 'sealed,' not married. The intention is to allow the husband and wife to enter a covenant and maintain a relationship that is beyond this life."
Inside the San Diego temple, a lush garden nestles within a star-shaped atrium connecting two towers, and a celestial room houses towering art glass, suspended light fixtures, and a grand staircase to the upper-level balcony. These features, Haynie said, serve a decorative rather than functional purpose.
While the renovations are under way, programs and events will continue as usual. Wedding parties can have their photographs interposed onto digital images of the temple since the scaffolding interferes with traditional photos.
Haynie estimated the renovations would be complete no later than mid-August, and added that some areas have already been finished and the scaffolding removed.
The San Diego temple serves all of San Diego County in addition to Temecula and areas of Mexico, Haynie said.
To learn more about LDS history and culture, Haynie recommends the San Diego Mormon Battalion, a historical site located in Old Town that offers free daily tours. The site offers a "top of the line" experience chronicling several hundred LDS members who were driven out of Illinois and who formed a voluntary unit to help fight during the Mexican-American War in the 1840s, he said.
For more information on the San Diego temple, call (858) 622-0991, or visit www.lds.org/temples. For information about the San Diego Mormon Battalion, call (619) 298-3317.


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Java Card Development Quick Start Guide
Contributed by Tim Boudreau, maintained by Ruth Kusterer
Java Card is an interesting platform to work with - a JVM that runs on smart cards and tiny devices that fit in the palm of your hand. As of Java Card 3.0, it comes in two flavors:
To complete this tutorial, you need the following software and resources:
Getting the Project Environment Set Up
Since a smart card does not have a user interface, you either need a smart card reader to read and write the data on your cards, or use the emulator included in the Java Card Reference Implementation (RI). This tutorial will use the emulator.
Note: the Java Card plugin works on any operating system, but the Java Card Reference Implementation emulator is only available for Windows. However, you can set it up as a Java Platform on other operating systems by pointing NetBeans to an installation of the RI on a Windows partition on a Mac or Linux system, but you won't be able to run projects using this setup.
Installing Plugins into the NetBeans IDE
Registering the Java Card Platform
If you downloaded the Java Card 3.0.2 Runtime Bundle from the Plugin Manager, the Java Card SDK is already set up as a platform for you. However if downloaded and installed the Platform from java.sun.com you can use the Tools > Java Platforms menu to add the Java Card Platform to the IDE the same way as registering any Java platform.
Once you have set up the Java Card platform it is listed in the Services tab in the IDE. If the Services tab isn't visible, choose Windows > Services from the menu.
One "platform" may have multiple "devices". You deploy a project to a specific device on a specific platform.
Understanding Java Card Project Types
Choose File > New Project from the menu, and click the Java Card category. There are several kinds of Java Card projects you can create. All of them are built with Apache Ant, just like NetBeans Java SE projects.
Classic Applet projects create a traditional Java Card applet for smaller devices, just like the applets used in Java Card 2.0 and older. Classic library projects are like Classic Applet projects, without the applet — it's some code that you expect to be on the device, that might be shared between applets.
Extended Applet and Library projects use the extended API in Java Card 3.0—so you can use java.lang.String and so forth. The boot classpath will be different for Classic and Extended projects, so, for example, code completion will not show java.lang.String in Classic projects, but will in Extended projects.
Web Application projects are probably the coolest feature of Java Card 3.0. You get a skeleton project with a Servlet implemented, and you have access to the full Servlet API. This is vastly easier to work with than either of the Applet-style application types—you don't need any special code on the client to interact with an application running on a device, just a web browser! You can test your applications locally using the Reference Implementation and your desktop web browser.
Working With a Project
For this tutorial we create a new Web Project.
In the new web project Enter "Card Web Application" as project name and set the project location to your NetBeansProjects directory. Click Finish and the project appears in the Project tab.
Right-click the project node in the Project tab and choose Properties from the context menu. In the Run section of the Project Properties window, you can change the platform and device that a project deploys to. Click Close to save your changes.
Working on a Java Card web application is just like working on any other web application that you deploy to a servlet container. Press the Run button in the toolbar to run the Hello World sample. When running a Java Card web app, a web browser window will open, showing the servlet's output: Hello from webapplication1.MyServlet.
When you run applet-type projects, the NetBeans IDE offers two useful interfaces: command-line output, and the Java Card console. Use the console to interact with the applet: You can send data in hexadecimal and read the replies.
Tip: The RI contains further sample projects that are ready to be opened and run in the NetBeans IDE.
Using Special Plugin Features
Java Card involves two bits of arcana which you don't encounter in other Java platforms:
While these two things are somewhat complicated, the NetBeans plug-ins do their best to abstract away the complexities of dealing with them, as follows:
Integrating Third-Party SDKs
Currently the tools only support the Java Card 3.0.2 Reference Implementation, but they have an extensible API for integrating vendor cards. The platform and device definitions are simply Properties files which are imported by the build script.
Deployment is done through a set of Ant tasks provided by the card vendor. This means that the projects created can be run outside the IDE, there is no lock-in. The sources for the Ant tasks that are part of the Java Card RI can be downloaded from the Java Card project portal, along with NetBeans-ready sample projects.
Are you a card vendor who has created Java Card deployment tools? Contact plugin author for details on how to integrate your card! Integration can be done at several levels, depending on how much support you wish to provide within the IDE for your card.
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IF Perth's carrotmob is able to generate $2500 over the weekend
THEN Oliver's on James Street will match it to purchase a $5000 washing machine that recycles water and uses it economically!
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Oliver's on James Street
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Perth WA 6003, Australia
Alice Ross returned from über sustainable Germany and realised that her beloved home town of Perth was seriously behind the times when it came to innovative sustainable ideas and decided to take some action.
Alice is passionate and committed to bringing the community together to raise collective awareness and promote collaborative action for a better, brighter, greener and happier future.
We targeted the restaurant industry as they are synonymous with high waste output and more than often they deal with it in an unsustainable fashion. Every facet of society has to actualize their responsibility with the waste they produce.
Check out Oliver's new water wise, energy efficient, shiny new dish washer!
Wayne has not only installed the dish washer with funds raise from Carrotmob, but has gone to town with environmental upgrades at his own expense!
He's installed new energy efficient lighting upstairs, sourced a local organic butcher, expanded his local wine selection and fixed his fridge seals!!!
What a champion!!!
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Microsoft SharePoint's Crossroads: Where Opportunities, Challenges Meet
Jun 13, 2014 5:00 AM PT
One of the most broadly deployed collaboration platforms, Microsoft SharePoint, is rapidly evolving from local network portal roots into the new cloud and mobile era.
Delivering information as an actionable asset in a widely collaborative and increasingly mobile environment has clearly become a top business priority. Business architects need the agility enabled by such unshackled information sharing and contextual collaboration to keep pace with distributed services and a boundaryless enterprise approach to their operations and commerce.
That is why IT leaders worldwide recognize that they must better manage knowledge, share information more safely, and yet rapidly and securely enable mobility among workers and their activities.
In this podcast, a group of recently selected top SharePoint influencers discuss how enterprise collaboration and document management are being transformed by new cloud and mobile requirements. They share their views on where Microsoft SharePoint is headed -- as well as newer services like Office 365 -- to help companies gauge how they can best exploit and extend such productivity services.
The panel consists of Christian Buckley, director and chief evangelist at Metalogix Software; Yaacov Cohen, cofounder and CEO of Harmon.i.e; Joel Oleson, director of marketing and technology evangelism at ViewDo Labs; and Laura Rogers, manager of SharePoint consultants at Rackspace Hosting. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Listen to the podcast (48:28 minutes).
Following are some excerpts:
Dana Gardner: SharePoint was designed quite some time ago to play a somewhat different role. Organizations need to start thinking about cloud, or even clouds -- and learn how to manage across them, to do collaboration and safely share documents. How well suited is SharePoint to take on this new role?
Laura Rogers: It's interesting, because some of the bread-and-butter of SharePoint is being able to collaborate on documents. One of the main things that people have done with SharePoint over the years is in moving from file-shares to SharePoint. So that's just getting things from file-shares to being able to collaborate with them easier.
Now, a lot of things are moving to the cloud. Everything that people do in their daily lives is based on the cloud. People are used to being able to pick up their iPhone and have a FaceTime conversation. They're used to being able to pick up their phone and check Facebook.
All these different applications are in the cloud, and it's part of people's daily life. Now, they have this expectation of being able to have all this live information and collaboration going on with what they're doing at work as well.
Microsoft is moving to Office 365 and is doing a lot with the integration between Office 365 and the Office apps, being able to take files, quickly edit them on the phone, and then quickly upload them to SharePoint. In general, people have expectations of being able to collaborate wherever they are.
That's where the pressure is coming from for enterprises to either physically move their data to the cloud and go to Office 365, or at least upgrade and keep all of their on-premises technology up-to-date, so that the end users have that seamless experience.
But that gets more and more complicated, because of all the different servers you would need to have involved -- like the latest version of SharePoint, the latest version of Exchange, the latest version of Lync. As it gets more and more involved to do those things on-premises, that's where some companies are saying, "Let's just go do it in the cloud. It might be easier."
Gardner: Christian, given the fact that we're seeing increased complexity, it's one thing to move storage to the cloud and share documents across a cloud service. It's something quite more complex to bring a process into the cloud, manage the process, and have it extended across the boundaries of the organization. Are companies yet progressing to that point?
Christian Buckley: You've hit on the complexity of what actually moves across. Look historically at intranets. I started getting involved in the intranet knowledge management space in the mid '90s, and organizations approached building out those intranets and building the complexity of their work processes into digital form. That's why automation, whether it's your dashboarding, workflows, and all those capabilities, fit into how SharePoint has been built out.
What's changed is that as all of these consumer-based technologies, which are primarily out in the cloud, have progressed, organizations want to focus less on infrastructure and focus more on actual business systems. End users on the other side of that want their corporate solutions to match more closely to their personal habits, to their personal tools. They're doing everything in the cloud, everything via a mobile phone.
As you look at those changes to the traditional intranet model, how you approach and develop those solutions, build and maintain an infrastructure, and all the complexity, the difficulty is that end users are ahead of the curve. They want to have everything in the cloud flexible, dynamic, and real time via their phone or their tablet. They're out on the road. No matter how they're accessing the information, they just want access to it.
The difficulty is that not all of the technology is yet at parity with what you have on-prem, and that's where SharePoint is at this crossroads. That's what we're starting to experience. The consumer is driving what's happening within the corporation, rather than corporate IT driving what end users have access to. That's a huge change.


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Intel Corporation announced their 4Q results on Thursday with earnings jumping a surprising 48%. Revenue jumped 8.4% to $11.46 billion. Analysts are picking up pieces of their shattered forecasts wondering what happened to their decidedly downcast "view" for the company.
Tablet Expectations & Reality
The market, mesmerized with the mobile computing phenomenon, has caused the analyst community to lose their bearings when it comes to what constitutes margin and how it?s accumulated on the bottom line. The ramp-up in sales of tablet computers has caused concern about the company?s prospects as it has been slow in reacting to it were put to rest with Intel?s profit margin coming in at a hefty 67.5% up from 64.7% year-on-year.
PC sales have been weakening throughout 2010 with 4Q sales only 3% above forecast. Markets occasionally behave strangely and occasionally reflect the folly of expectations. While tablet computing has a high growth expectation it will nevertheless experience the usual "reality check" over the next several quarters before finally settling into a valid "margin generator". Only Apple has an ongoing business in this segment while the newer introductions have yet to establish a standard measure of return.
What cannot be ignored is the recent exponential expansion of digital traffic on 4G networks. Service providers have simply failed to adequately invest in the equipment base necessary to support the needs of their subscriber base. Rumors are rife that they?ve just begun a mad scramble to meet these needs.
The trend toward virtualization has also combined to slow server sales a condition now reversed with Intel experiencing a tremendous demand for server processors garnering better than expected margins for the company.
Sandy Bridge
A persistent "buzz" is that a PC market stall exists in anticipation of Intel?s Sandy Bridge processor availability. That release is just now entering the market and is fueling Intel?s future forecast – the fact that they have more than 500 design wins for it is in itself impressive and surprising. It?s expected that both notebook and desktop sales will be revived by the processor?s availability.
On the Mobile Front
Intel, accused of missing the onset of mobile computing, has now decided to boost investments on new plants and equipment by 73% to keep pace with chip demand and product capabilities. This is good news for the overall semiconductor segment and especially for equipment manufacturers. What is left unsaid is their plan of attack for the mobile space beyond the power hungry Sandy Bridge line.
Intel has yet to show their hand regarding next generation product for the mobile computing. There is some signs that the rollout of their mobile space processor series will be generically similar to the Sandy Bridge processor but with a change in the basic transistor type accompanied by additional power saving functionality. Expect these to roll out at or before the next Intel Developer Forum in September.
Intel is seen as a bellwether for the entire world semiconductor business. Remember that no matter how you feel about the company if they do badly, the entire industry will also do badly. It?s reassuring to see Intel so bullish on 2011?


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The grizzly bear's historic range covered much of North America from the plains westward to California and from central Mexico north through Canada and Alaska. Today, the grizzly is found in only about 2% of its original range in the lower 48 states. It was listed as threatened south of Canada in July of 1975.
Currently, south of Canada, there are five grizzly bear subpopulations in Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Grizzlies are difficult to survey, yet it is generally agreed there are more than 500 in the northwest Montana Rockies, about 600 in and around Yellowstone National Park, about 50 in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and northeastern Washington, and 30 to 40 in the Cabinet-Yaak area of northern Idaho and western Montana. Probably less than a dozen grizzlies survive in the North Cascades. There are about 22,000 grizzlies in Canada and more than 30,000 in Alaska.
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Since 1983, grizzly mortality has declined and productivity has increased in this ecosystem, prompting the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to issue a revised Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan in 1993 that changed the criteria for delisting. Following a legal challenge by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in 1995, a federal court upheld much of the plan but asked for further detail on recovery criteria, population viability, habitat concerns, females-with-cubs survey criteria, and livestock-related mortality. In October of 1995 the USFWS asked the court to reconsider its ruling. The court rejected this appeal, citing uncertainty about the way the quality and quantity of habitat is monitored and the way the grizzly population is measured. This decision has effectively taken delisting off the table for now.
Because it is completely isolated, the Yellowstone subpopulation is vulnerable to genetic problems, and the recovery plan talks about augmentation to maintain genetic health. Research on this issue is being sponsored by the Yellowstone Grizzly Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1986.
In 1995, 17 grizzly mortalities were documented in the Yellowstone ecosystem: six resulted from management actions, four from illegal kills, three from humans acting in self-defense, three from accidental electrocutions, and one unexplained. Fifty-two grizzly/human conflicts were reported from the Montana portion of this ecosystem in 1995, resulting in 10 captures and five relocations. Wyoming reported 123 incidents, including 32 livestock losses and 12 relocations. Yellowstone National Park had no human injuries, but three property damage incidents were reported.
Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem
In 1995 the USFWS helped negotiate two landmark agreements that partially resolved long-standing logging and grizzly issues in the Swan Valley. One involved 296,000 acres of public and corporate lands administered by Plum Creek Timber Company, US Forest Service (USFS), and the State of Montana. In a separate but related agreement, Swan Valley residents developed land management recommendations for private landowners on issues involving sanitation, subdivision, road construction, and real estate disclosures. These agreements will facilitate grizzly movement between the Mission Mountains and the more secure Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, and help reduce human pressure on grizzlies during the critical spring feeding period.
Other developments in 1995 included: (1) new USFS food handling regulations for wilderness areas; (2) standardized methods for reporting grizzly mortalities and incidents; (3) an information campaign to explain roading issues; and (4) development of a "draft conservation strategy" that describes how the grizzly and its habitat will be managed following delisting.
In 1995 the Northern Continental Divide population suffered 17 known mortalities: seven from management actions, three from illegal kills, two from train kills, three from natural causes, and two from unknown causes.
Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem
In the 1980s, only a few grizzlies remained in this area. In a first-time experiment with augmentation, the USFWS radio-collared and released four subadult female grizzlies from British Columbia between 1990 and 1994. None of these bears has caused problems and the initial effort has been judged a success. The ultimate success of this project will depend on whether these female bears survive, find mates, and reproduce.
Between 1986 and 1995, only 13 individual grizzlies were documented in this ecosystem. The USFWS plans to continue monitoring this small population.
Bitterroot-Selway Ecosystem
This six million acres of unoccupied habitat is the largest unbroken expanse of roadless area left in the lower 48 states. The heart of it is in Idaho, but about 250,000 acres extend eastward into Montana. It is historic grizzly country, but the last known grizzly there was killed in 1956. The USFWS is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) that will assess the possibility of reintroducing grizzlies to this area; a draft is scheduled for completion in 1996. Reintroduction could begin as early as the summer of 1998.
Because this grizzly reintroduction proposal is controversial, a new, collaborative approach is being tried. 4 organizations -- Defenders of Wildlife, the National Wildlife Federation, the Intermountain Forest Industry Association, and Idaho's Resource Organization on Timber Supply -- are working together in an unprecedented way to foster grizzly recovery while maintaining the health of local economies. This coalition has developed an alternative for the EIS that would assign "experimental" status to reintroduced grizzlies and authorize a Citizens Management Committee (with minority agency representation) to guide overall management of the Bitterroot Grizzly Recovery Program.


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|September 19th, 2008
Topic: Military Issues Drive Vote In N.C.
September 19, 2008
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State's economy gets boost from its five bases
By Jordan Schrader, USA Today
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. Living near the Marine Corps' largest base and watching new houses and schools going up to hold military families, Roger Denoncourt doesn't feel much of the economic pressure that is defining the 2008 presidential election.
The retired Marine says his vote will go to candidates he sees as supportive of the military.
Voters across the USA will go to the polls Nov. 4. They will consider the military debate that has divided the nation as they choose between Democrat Barack Obama, who has opposed the Iraq war from the start, and Republican John McCain, who backed it, favored sending more troops and argues for keeping them in Iraq for the long haul.
In North Carolina, home to five military bases, the question has added significance.
Leaving Iraq would risk thwarting gains in security, says Denoncourt, 57, after shopping at a Kmart near Camp Lejeune.
"I think that would be the biggest mistake America's ever made, to pull out. We're the world leader and we need to be the leader and we went over there to help the world, not just America."
One hundred miles up N.C. Highway 24, a former soldier buying gloves at a pawn shop near Fort Bragg expressed doubt.
"It's a lot of people getting killed over there," says Clarence Smith, a veteran of the 1989 Panama invasion, "and you tend to wonder: How far do we go?"
The Iraq war's toll weighs on North Carolina. Camp Lejeune has lost 288 troops in Iraq and Fayetteville's Fort Bragg has lost 186, according to the website iCasualties.org. At least 11 others who died came from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and Seymour Johnson and Pope Air Force bases.
News of deployments and casualties "certainly elevates military affairs high into the consciousness of North Carolina voters," says Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Long tours of duty have put stress on families and fostered doubts about the war, even in a place with a conservative, patriotic bent, Guillory says.
"My sense of it is support for the war, support for the president has tanked in this state, but not as much as it's tanked nationally," Guillory says.
An average of state polls taken Sept. 6-14 by the website RealClearPolitics puts McCain up 51% to 42% over Obama.
President Bush carried North Carolina twice he received 56% of the votes in both 2000 and 2004 but now scores approval ratings only about 5-7 percentage points higher than the national polls, says Hunter Bacot, director of the Elon University Poll. Bush's national approval rating was 33% in the most recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
Cassandra Hansen, a 20-year-old Army wife, is among Bush's supporters, saying Bush had good intentions even if some turned out poorly. She'll cast her first presidential vote for McCain.
So will Noelle St. John, 19, who says McCain's military experience is a "huge" factor.
"I would not feel safe" with Democratic nominee Obama, says St. John, whose husband, Kyle, is stationed at Fort Bragg.
Bacot says most voters in North Carolina, as elsewhere, care more about the economy than the war or any other issue.
Economic troubles can come back to feelings about the war.
Paul Freeman, 47, a former Marine and Obama supporter in Fayetteville, says it's time to get out of Iraq and save billions to help the ailing economy.
Because it has five bases, the military is always intertwined with the state's economy.
East Carolina University's 2004 "North Carolina Statewide Military Impact Study" estimates military spending adds $18 billion to the state's economy, 6% of its gross state product.
Candidates in state elections are positioning themselves to be seen as supportive of the military and its economic benefits.
Two of them claim credit for persuading the federal base-closing commission to look elsewhere for savings in 2005: Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat seeking promotion to the open governor's office, and Republican Elizabeth Dole, a freshman U.S. senator in a re-election fight.
Construction company owner Steve Bradshaw, who supported the war at its outset and is wary of pulling out troops too fast, is pretty sure he'll choose Obama.
The economy and gas prices are on Bradshaw's mind. McCain and Bush "seem to be out for the oil industry," says Bradshaw, who spends $200 to $250 a week on gas even after downsizing from a Dodge Ram 1500 to a Ford Ranger.
"Maybe it's time we have a change," he says.
Schrader reports for the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times.


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Padres pound four homers to take finale from Giants
Display of power backs solid one-run outing by left-hander Stults
SAN DIEGO -- A tough stretch of baseball in the weeks leading up to the All-Star break didn't leave the Padres gasping for air on the precipice of their four-day respite.
If anything, it looked as though the team's second-half reclamation project got rolling a few days early, as the Padres finished a difficult first half with a rare burst of offense and optimism in a 10-1 win on Sunday at Petco Park.
"The way we swung it today … I'd rather play tomorrow," said manager Bud Black, although he was probably only half-joking.
The Padres hit four home runs -- three in the first two innings -- to break out of an offensive funk.
Chris Denorfia, Nick Hundley, Will Venable and Carlos Quentin went deep, the Padres had 12 hits and starter Eric Stults allowed one run over six innings, ending a tough first half of the season on a high note.
Despite the victory, the Padres enter the break having lost 18 of their last 22 games. In many of those losses, they weren't able to pair good hitting with good pitching.
"We've got to combine those," Black said. "The rest of the year, that's our challenge. It's a pretty simple formula. We haven't been doing that."
A day after being no-hit by the Giants' Tim Lincecum, the Padres (42-54) made sure there would be no repeat, quickly jumping on Barry Zito in the first inning.
"Quickly" as in a leadoff single by Everth Cabrera and then -- after Cabrera was picked off -- a home run by Denorfia, which was just the beginning for a team that had struggled to score runs.
Put it this way: The Padres had eight runs by the fourth inning on Sunday. In their previous five games, four of which were losses, they scored nine total runs.
And the Padres didn't stop there, scoring twice in the second inning and then adding runs in the third to essentially put away the game.
In that third inning, the Padres sent 10 batters to the plate, chasing Zito. Quentin hit an RBI double to left field, and Jesus Guzman, Hundley and Venable also drove in runs.
"I thought guys were patient early and able to wait for the ball in the zone, and when it was, they hit it and took Zito out early," Quentin said.
Zito (4-7) was gone after walking Cabrera to start the third inning. He allowed four runs on four hits with two walks in two-plus innings.
"My concentration wasn't what it should have been. I threw too many pitches down the middle of the plate," Zito said. "The three home runs were an indication of that. When I'm at my best, I'm [going] pitch to pitch. Sometimes, when I scuffle, I'm getting out of the moment a little bit."
Stults (8-7) wobbled early, allowing a leadoff triple to Andres Torres and an RBI single to Marco Scutaro, but then he settled down.
"I felt a little rough as the game started. I was able to kind of find that tempo, and offensively, it was just a great game for us. Just to get that cushion definitely helped me," Stults said. "I was missing with some fastballs up, and [it's] not the way I wanted to start a game, with a leadoff triple. But I was able to limit that damage."
Stults allowed one run on five hits in six innings with two walks and five strikeouts. He finished the first half with a 3.40 ERA.
"I thought he threw the ball better his last 50 pitches than his first 50 pitches," Black said.
From here the Padres scatter to places far and near to get a midseason breather before they head to St. Louis to open the second half on Friday with the first game of a 10-game road trip. They'll do so with the intent of pitching and hitting better than they did in the first half.
"We've got a lot of work to do," said Hundley, who had three hits on Sunday. "We haven't played well on the road. We've got to continue to battle. We need every game. Every game we play is going to be important. It's time to go."


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