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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in simple words is study of excellence. NLP is a popular form of applied psychology that has some serious scientific backing for basic concepts. NLP is also defined by some as science and art of creating change. It is simple and with its vast application field you are bound to find different people define it differently. Technically N, L and P in NLP mean:
N (Neuro) – Brain and nervous system,
L (Linguistic) – Language skills
P (Programming) – The unconscious programs that are run by us in our mind
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is also defined as a process driven outcome-oriented psychology which deals with the how of any given situation and the why (outcome) and is not concerned so much with the what (content) and the why (excuses for not doing anything) the last two have no bearing on the problem.
It describes the fundamental dynamics and connections between the mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay affects our body and behavior (programming). Neuro refers to the neurological system and is based on the idea that we only experience the world through our senses and translate this sensory information into thought processes, both conscious and unconscious. These thought processes activate the neurological system, which affects our physiology, emotions, and behavior.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is about learning how to manage our neurological system for optimum results or to put it more simply NLP is about state control – controlling the state you are in. Linguistic refers to the way human beings use language to make sense of the world, capture and conceptualize experience, and communicate that experience to others. It is the study of how words mediate and influence human experience. Much of NLP is about learning how to think and communicate more effectively with yourself and others. Not to communicate using a lot of superfluous and often misunderstood additional words.


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"The first thing I think about when I am designing a poster is WHO I am going to help"
How can I improve the problems that affect everyone and our planet?. For me it is very important and a great responsibility to communicate through a poster, the problems and situations that need to be notorious and solutions to be modified. I have two ways to raise them, first criticized and then the solution, study seriously the issues that will be developed so that my message is loud and clear, so that people grasp, do not forget their discretion and act in a appropriate.
For me, a poster has a very significant importance, is a graphical tool that besides being attractive, but its function is not decorative, makes us think and reflect on various topics, such as human rights, gender equality and ecological issues among many others, in terms of improving this world that is becoming more violent, difficult and chaotic. One of the important points is to combine the potent power of photography and design to create posters of social topics, to show so convincing of what I want to expose.
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Department of Justice
For Immediate Release
"Aiken Safe Communities": Two Men Indicted On Federal Gun Charges
COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney William N. Nettles, stated today that two Aiken men, Jesse James Quarles, 33, and Kenneth Islar, 27, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in separate indictments, charging each with felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). During arraignment hearings this last Tuesday morning in federal court in Columbia, the government requested that both men be detained. Quarles and Islar entered not guilty pleas, waived their right to a detention hearing, and remain in custody.
Mr. Nettles stated the penalty for felon in possession is a fine of $250,000 and/or imprisonment for 10 years, plus a special assessment of $100. However, should either Quarles or Islar be classified based on prior criminal history as an Armed Career Criminal, they would be subject to enhanced penalties--a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years and a maximum term of life in prison, a fine of $250,000, a five-year term of supervised release, and a special assessment fee of $100. Both cases have been assigned to United States District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs in Columbia, South Carolina.
Launched in early 2013, the Aiken Safe Communities Initiative is a unified, proactive community approach to engage, educate, and encourage recurring offenders to change their behavior and make healthy life choices. The initiative also bands together local, state, and federal law enforcement to expedite the investigation and prosecution of individuals who reoffend, despite opportunities and assistance offered by the community during public notification meetings held at Aiken City Hall to support a law abiding path. From 2012-2013, the city of Aiken experienced an 86% reduction in murders. Earlier this year, the South Carolina Community Development Association presented the city of Aiken with its 2014 Award of Excellence, recognizing community development efforts that have significantly improved the quality of life in the community. Nettles said, "I drove to Aiken and sat in the room with both of these individuals looked them in the eye and promised them that if they were ever found to have a gun I was going to prosecute them. This office is following through on the promise I made to them and to the people of South Carolina"
Both cases were investigated by the Aiken Department of Public Safety, the 2nd Circuit Solicitor's Office (Aiken, Bamberg, and Barnwell counties), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). These prosecutions as well as the United States Attorney's Office ongoing commitment to the Aiken Safe Communities Initiative are part of Operation CeaseFire. CeaseFire is a joint local, state, and federal initiative which seeks to prosecute aggressively individuals who unlawfully use, possess, or transfer firearms. Both cases are assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Lance Crick of the Greenville office.


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If you haven't heard of Mavericks, that's because it's a tiny beach on the Northern California coast. But scientists and surfers know it well, because it delivers some of the most spectacularly huge waves in the world. Find out why.
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I'm working on a project, just scoping out who might be interested...
It is basically two player pachinko, with a physics engine and the simulation runs in real time.
Each player has a corner, and starts out with one ball (that is to say, balls are "owned" by the player and the two players have different coloured balls). At some future stage they can win more balls in play by hitting certain patterns of gates.
When the ball is in the player's corner, their AI can accelerate their ball and launch it into the midfield. In midfield, a forest pins exist to bounce the ball around and gates between the pins offer scoring opportunities. When the ball gets to the bottom, it has a "drift" force that rolls it towards the appropriate player's corner (back towards its owner). Highest score wins the game after some pre-determined time limit. I'm planning that the gates will be stateful in some way so that strategic shots can build up exponentially increasing scores, but the other player has a chance of stealing such a setup if they can put the right shot through.
I have a plausible physics engine in operation (only handles balls as a point mass, does not support spin and friction but perhaps those could come later). Enough to be difficult. Traditional AI requires a search tree, but with floating point variables and physics simulation the search tree is kind of massive so alternative approaches will be required. More than that, AI programs must use their CPU efficiently in order to not lag behind the game, however while the ball is out in midfield the AI has time to plan its next shot so different code will need to be activated at different parts of the game cycle.
I'm interested in opinions on this. Will get code up on github real soon now. Currently the physics engine is in C and the comms protocol is basic line-oriented ASCII over a pipe/socket/filehandle/whatever. I'm planning to have a visualiser in Java (suitable for web applet) and maybe some sample players in C, Java, perl, etc. If you think about it, the visualiser is pretty simple (just draw some pins and balls bouncing around, with scores, maybe a background image).


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I'm using Xfce 4.8, and the analog and LCD clocks are both black, which cannot be changed. (I know there is a workaround for the digital clock.)
This is really annoying when displaying an analog or LCD clock on a dark panel (I prefer a flat black panel).
Will this option be made available in a later version of Xfce ?
I don't use the clock plugin and I know it isn't the same thing but I use the date/time plugin and the font colour for it is set by the GTK theme.
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Everspin Technologies today announced what it is calling the industry's first Spin-Torque Magnetoresistive RAM (ST-MRAM) chip, which offers a non-volatile alternative to DRAM.
The new memory type has about 500 times the speed of NAND flash but the endurance of DRAM. ST-MRAM is seen by industry analysts as complementary technology to NAND flash memory, which is used to make solid-state drives (SSDs).
Everspin sees its ST-MRAM being used as buffer memory in SSDs, for I/O and network cache and as an ultra-fast tier of storage, as some DRAM manufacturers use their products today.
"Everspin is first out with this as far as I know, and we see lots of interest in ST-MRAM to be used in conjunction with NAND in data center storage applications," said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president at Gartner.
The 64Mbit chip is the first in Everspin's ST-MRAM roadmap. The company said it plans to scale to gigabit density memories with faster speeds. Everspin is shipping to system manufacturers samples of its first chip, the EMD3D064M 64Mb DDR3 ST-MRAM.
Everspin's ST-MRAM memory on a dual in-line memory module
Jeff Janukowicz, research director for solid-state storage at IDC, said memory technologies face significant challenges to deliver the right balance of performance, power consumption, and reliability as they scale to smaller process forms.
Due to lower market demand, DRAM prices have taken a hard tumble. Prices for the predominant 2Gb (gigabit) DDR3 DRAM die hit the $1 mark during the first quarter of 2012 and today it is selling for 82 cents.
Everspin's 64Mb ST-MRAM chip is functionally compatible with the industry standard JEDEC specification for the DDR3 interface, which delivers up to 1.6 billion transfers per second per I/O, translating to memory bandwidth of up to 3.2 GB/sec with nanosecond-class latency. The product is offered in an industry standard Window Ball Grid Array (WBGA) package-- the same as the DDR3 standard.
A 1Gbit MRAM chip would use 400 milliwatts of power, compared to a 64Gbit NAND flash chip, which uses 80 milliwatts of power, according to Everspin.
While suggested pricing for the new ST-MRAM chips was not released, Everspin said it is about 50 times more expensive than NAND flash, meaning it's not viable as a mass storage device. However, in terms of performance, ST-MRAM can produce 400,000 random write I/Os per second (IOPS) using 4K blocks compared to NAND flash with 800 random IOPS.
The EMD3D064 64Mb DDR3 ST-MRAM chip
ST-MRAM joins Phase Change Memory and Memristor as new low-latency, non-volatile memories on the horizon.
Everspin said its 64Mb density MRAM chip provides an "ideal entry point for non-volatile buffer and cache memory in solid state and RAID storage systems as well as storage appliances." The 64Mb device will complement existing low-cost memory technologies, reducing overall system cost and complexity, it said.
"The commercialization of this technology is an important industry milestone that should continue to drive SSD proliferation in data center and in-memory computing architectures," Unsworth said.
One example of potential use for the new ST-MRAM chip is in cloud storage, where faster data access is required as more companies leverage service providers for big data stores.
Everspin's proprietary Spin-Torque technology uses a spin-polarized current for switching. Data is stored as a magnetic state versus an electronic charge, providing a non-volatile memory bit that does not suffer wear-out or data retention issues associated with NAND flash technology.
"We are collaborating with select customers to allow them to evaluate and take advantage of Spin-Torque MRAM technology sooner and to gather feedback that will help us finalize our 64Mb DDR3 ST-MRAM for production," Phil LoPresti, CEO of Everspin Technologies, said in a statement.
Everspin is manufacturing ST-MRAM on its 200 millimeter production line in Chandler, Ariz., and is collaborating with other manufacturers to establish 300mm MRAM tools and additional fab facilities.
The ST- MRAM chip will be generally available to system manufacturers in 2013. In addition, Everspin is offering ST-MRAM non-volatile random access memory modules in industry standard configurations. PCIe FPGA platforms are also available, allowing customers to start designs.
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Mordechai Tzvi Rappaport (ben R' Yossi) – Toronto, Canada to Shterna Elberg – Crown Heights
L'Chaim: Tonight (Weds.) at Lubavitch Yeshiva
Zalman Denburg – Coral Springs, FL to Chanie Gorkin – Crown Heights
L'Chaim: Tonight (Tuesday) at FREE
Levi Milworn – Crown Heights to Faigy Donin – Crown Heights. L'Chaim: Tonight (Thursday) Oholei Torah Hall
Moshe Coleman – Crown Heights/London to Simcha Davoudpour – Beverly Hills, CA
Baby boy to Raffy and Chana Filler (nee Stein) – Crown Heights
Sholom Ber Liberow (Ben R' Zalman) – Flatbush, NY to Chaya Braun (Bas Harav Yosef Yeshaya) – Crown Heights
Mendel Fayershteyn – Crown Heights to Gitty Lipszyc – Ft. Lauderdale, FL L'Chaim: Monday Night at the Oholei Torah Hall
Ari Bronstein (Ben R' Peretz) – Crown Heights to Mashi Junik (Bas R' Berel) – Crown Heights L'Chaim: 1336 Carroll St.
With great sadness, we regret to inform you of the passing of Rabbi Herschel Feigelstock, OB"M, a Shliach and one of the original principals of Tomchei Temimim in Montreal. He passed away on Wednesday, Tes Kislev. He was 98-years-old • Full Story
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Emperor Selig Confirms He'll Decide Theo Compensation Issue and Other Bullets
I really wish I liked basketball more than I do (which is to say I don't). This time of year can really be the dregs for sports viewing…
- Commissioner/Emperor Bud confirmed to reporters yesterday at the White Sox's version of CubsCon (aw, man, we didn't get Selig?) that the Theo Epstein compensation issue has indeed landed on his desk, and is now his matter to decide. "The clubs tried to settle it themselves," Selig said. "I have a lot of patience because everything controversial generally winds up on my desk. In this case, I did give the clubs more latitude and hoped they could come to some conclusion. But they didn't and now it's my case." As for a timeline, Selig would say only that he'd like to decide the matter "as expeditiously as possible."
- The Cubs have re-signed utility player Bobby Scales to a minor league deal and invited him to Spring Training. Scales, 34, has been a fan favorite for a few years now as a guy who kept trying, and trying, and trying, until he finally made his Major League debut at age 31 in 2009. He got another taste of the bigs in 2010 before heading to Japan in 2011 to make a little scratch. He's back, and he'll serve as a positive influence in Iowa, as well as depth that prevents the Cubs from having to rush youngsters if they'd prefer not to. There's also the off chance that he could fill a utility role on the big club at some point.
- Selig also said yesterday that he expects the additional Wild Card in each league to be implemented this year. "Clubs really want it. I don't think I've ever seen an issue that the clubs want more than to have the extra wild card." The reasons should be obvious. For now, it looks like that Wild Card round of the playoffs will be just one game, which is the only crummy part in my eyes (baseball is not a "one game" kind of sport).
- Roy Oswalt is on the verge of signing with the Cardinals according to Gordon Edes. That kind of sucks, because the Cardinals will also be getting back Adam Wainwright, but Oswalt is getting old and has regular back problems. Also, we get to keep cheering against him. So there's that.
- Speaking of the Cardinals, former GM, and current Reds' GM Walt Jocketty, says the Cardinals are the favorite in the NL Central. It's either them or the Reds, it is now easy to concede, with the Brewers a fairly clear third. The Cubs … don't come in for a mention.
- Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the trade that brought Ryne Sandberg to Chicago.
- The Cubs need to bring their mascot back. Clearly, in 1908, it worked.
- Dude. If you break into Wrigley so that you can sit on the field, and a guard, rather than immediately calling the police, asks you to leave – do it. You got what you came for. Otherwise, he will call the police, and you'll get more than you came for – namely, an arrest, and an embarrassing news article like this one.
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Rod Taylor, owner of Woodbury Ski Area, former Olympic skier, dies
WOODBURY >> Summer activities have come to a halt at Woodbury Ski Area.
Normally, the park is a center of activity on Route 47 with zip lining, summer tubing and an extreme mud race planned for this weekend. But after owner Rod Taylor died Saturday, two days shy of his 71st birthday, the focus is to clean up, close up and wait.
"Then we're going to try to pick up the pieces and continue where the legend left off," manager Scott Damato said Tuesday.
Taylor, who shaped the ski area into his dream over the past 40 years, was born in Hartford on July 7, 1943. A former U.S. Olympic Ski Team member from 1967 to 1971, he was still actively involved with both skiing, racing and playing tennis, Damato said. In 1970, he was named national downhill champion after winning the Roch Cup in Aspen, according to his obituary.
"He created this place out of nothing – the trails, the lifts," said Damato, who considered Taylor a mentor, friend and father figure. "He was always out there, always on the hill, always grooming… You couldn't get him away from here."
Damato said Taylor would never give up. If called about a problem – like a broken lift or snowmaker – Taylor's only response would be "We have to get this running," Damato said.
Taylor was very proud of always being the first ski area in Connecticut to open for the season, frequently having at least a small snow patch available as early as October.
"You don't need a big area to learn how to ski or snowboard," Taylor told us in an interview last year.
Damato said that for Taylor, it wasn't about making money – it was just about being open and giving the kids a place to get started.
"It was a matter of putting snow on the hill," Damato said. "He was a good guy. The kids loved him."
And he loved the kids, especially teaching them how to snowboard and giving them something different to do, Damato said.
"He was a big-hearted guy. He enjoyed the people… the kids… he loved his life," Damato said. "I don't think a lot of people realized what a big part of their lives he was."
Damato said he started hanging out at "Rod's place" when he was a teenager and basically grew up at the ski area.
"It was a hangout for the kids. It was a safe haven," he said. "Every year… new kids would come."
Each winter, Taylor would try to build bigger jumps on the hill – always testing them out himself first.
"They were all for him," Damato said, smiling at the memory.
On Tuesday afternoon, people were stopping by, offering their condolences to staff. Damato said messages were coming in from all over the world – via phone and social media – from people who have worked with and for Taylor over the years.
"A lot of people shared his dream," Damato said. "I learned a lot from Rod. A lot of people are where they are because of Rod."
Damato said while sometimes tough to work for, Taylor always taught people how to chase their dreams.
After work hours, Taylor would take runs down the slopes with his employees.
"He was a fun guy to do things with outside the business," Damato said. "If you wanted to get a laugh, you would stop by and sit down and talk to Rod."
In the past couple of years, Taylor made safety improvements to the ski area's tubing trails, adding fencing and replacing lights after several lawsuits were filed claiming defective premises. Taylor would never directly comment on the lawsuits, but he frequently spoke out against people not following directions or safety guidelines. It is unclear at this time what will happen to any pending suits.
Damato, however, has inherited Taylor's passion for skiing and vows to keep going. He's hoping to be able to open the ski area again as soon as possible – with or without snow.
"We're gonna be ready to go in one way or another," he said. "That's what Rod would want."


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Penguins-Bruins schedule for Eastern Conference finals is set
Pittsburgh hosts Boston in Game 1 on Saturday night at Consol Energy Center
The NHL's Eastern Conference finals between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Boston Bruins will begin on Saturday night at Consol Energy Center.
Game 1 of the best-of-seven series is set for 8 p.m., followed by Game 2 on Monday night at the same time. Then, the series moves to the TD Garden in Boston for Games 3 and 4.
Here is the schedule:
Game 1: Boston at Pittsburgh, Saturday, 8 p.m.
Game 2: Boston at Pittsburgh, Monday, 8 p.m.
Game 3: Pittsburgh at Boston, 8 p.m., June 5
Game 4: Pittsburgh at Boston, 8 p.m., June 7
* Game 5: Boston at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m., June 9
* Game 6: Pittsburgh at Boston, TBD, June 11
* Game 7: Boston at Pittsburgh, TBD, June 12
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Pittsburgh and Boston played three times in the regular season. The Pens won all three games, each of them by one goal.
"We'll look at our games and things that we did well, things that we need to be better at," Bruins coach Claude Julien said Monday during a news conference in Boston. "But we also look at the playoff games. We look at everything.
"There's not much that doesn't get looked at. That's the way hockey is today. But the regular season is one thing, playoffs is another. So we're certainly not hanging our hats on the fact that our record wasn't good against them this year. There's only three goals difference at the end of the day. So I don't think in three games that's a big thing to worry about."
In 1990, Jaromir Jagr helped the Pens beat Boston in the conference finals as an 18-year-old rookie. Now, at age 41, he's on the other side as a member of the Bruins.
"I don't really remember the last time I was in this position," Jagr said after practice Tuesday. "It doesn't happen very often and the players should realize that. It's not automatic to make the playoffs or automatic to be in the last four teams to play for the Cup."


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For The Record: As part of last Saturday's Slumgullion, I incorrectly described Re-Evolution, the new various artists Hollies tribute on the Fruits de Mer label as a CD and two 45 singles. It's actually a 12" vinyl LP and two 45 singles. I was confused because the advance copy I received is a disc, and because the 16 psychedelic interpretations altered my mind.
With Breakout, veteran singer-guitarist Kevin Lee once again travels along the harder edges of power pop. The emphasis throughout this latest effort with his band The Kings is on energetic songs about broken relationships, but Lee also takes some interesting side trips along the way. Whatever the approach, he and producer Todd Jones give each track the highly polished arrangement of a potential hit single.
The restless "Burn It Down" and "Breakout" are rock-solid declarations of defiance that still showcase Lee's knack for alluring melodies. "Can't Believe You're Gone" has a lighter, funkier vibe, while the ballad, "Outside Looking In" depicts the anguish of watching your dream girl marrying another man. Still, Breakout works best when it's muscular and melodic, like on "Tell Me Why" and the rollicking closer, "Too Little Too Late," which features a guitar-driven instrumental passage.
Kevin Lee And The Kings have a CD release show for Breakout coming up on April 26th at the Elbo Room in Chicago.


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AppleCare technicians may soon be able to glean troubleshooting information from your iPhone, saving you a trip to the Apple Store. The company is reportedly set to deploy a Web-based tool to collect various bits of diagnostic information from an iOS device in order to transmit it directly to Apple's servers for analysis.
According to a source speaking to HardMac, Apple has internally announced that it has created a Web-based version of diagnostic tools that AppleCare technicians are already using. The tool allows a technician to send an e-mail (or presumably an SMS) with a specially crafted URL. When a user clicks the URL, it connects to Apple's servers and collects various bits of data about the device's state, the health of the battery, and the version of iOS running.
HardMac's source did not say if the tool will be able to collect any logs, such as app crash logs or the baseband radio log. The site also noted that there so far isn't any indication that jail breaking can be detected, though we note Apple certainly has methods to do so.
Of course, the remote troubleshooting step won't be helpful for a device that simply does not function or has no network access. But if the device is functioning enough to run Mobile Safari, the tool could be a useful first step in getting assistance if an Apple Store or authorized service center isn't conveniently located nearby.


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ASU's season ends with NIT loss to Baylor
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Pierre Jackson had 26 points and had 16 assists to lead Baylor to an 89-86 win over Arizona State on Friday night in the second round of the NIT.
Cory Jefferson added 21 points, Brady Heslip had 14 and Isaiah Austin 13 for Baylor (20-14).
Carrick Felix scored 23 points to lead Arizona State (22-13). Jahii Carson -- the top-scoring freshman in the country -- had 20 points, Chris Colvin scored 15 and Evan Gordon 14.
"Going in, we knew how good Arizona State was. And we knew what a great game it was going to be," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "And they shot 46 percent from 3. And normally when you shoot 46 percent from 3, you're going to win a lot of games."
Baylor was up 84-78 with 44 seconds left before Arizona State cut it to 85-83 with 26 seconds to play. Jefferson hit one free throw to put Baylor back up by three, but Carson turned the ball over under the Sun Devils' basket. The teams then combined to shoot 10 free throws in the final 24 seconds.
Jackson, who was 17 of 21 at the line, made six of eight free throws in the final 55 seconds.
"How many I miss? I should have had 30 points. Those are free points," he said.
Jefferson scored six early points to help Baylor jump out to a 12-4 lead. Heslip, on a pass from Walton, hit a wide-open 3-pointer, prompting Arizona State coach Herb Sendek to call a timeout just 3:45 into the game.
With Baylor holding a 20-11 lead, the Sun Devils tied it with three consecutive 3s. Chris Colvin hit the tying shot with 5:47 left in the first half.
After a Baylor turnover, Jonathan Gilling hit another 3 and gave the Sun Devils their first lead, 23-30, with 4:03 remaining.
Arizona State eventually took a 29-22 lead with 1:47 to play, but Jackson converted a three-point play to cut it to four. After an easy layup by Carson, Jackson drove for another layup, and Gary Franklin stole an inbound pass and fed Jackson for a short jumper to cut the Sun Devils' lead to 31-29 with 26 seconds left. Arizona State wasn't able to get a shot off before the end of the half.
"Well, I don't ever feel like we pulled away, but we certainly felt like we got ourselves back in the game," Sendek said. "We started very slowly, on the offensive end especially."
With 16:50 left in the game, Baylor guard A.J. Walton picked up his fourth foul and was then called for a technical. Gordon hit both free throws to give ASU a 38-37 lead. From there, Baylor went on a 7-0 run -- led by Jefferson's three-point play and dunk -- and went ahead 44-38 with 15:19 remaining.
Gilling later picked up his fourth foul and fouled out on a technical, with Jackson hitting all four free throws to give Baylor a 53-49 lead. Gordon's three-point play pulled Arizona State to 64-63 with 5:48 remaining before Baylor went on an 8-0 run to take a 72-63 lead with 4:01 to play.


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by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research,
Have you ever before heard of the Haqqanis? I didn't think so. Like Al Qaeda, about which no one had ever heard prior to 9/11, the "Haqqani Network" has popped up in time of need to justify America's next war–Pakistan.
President Obama's claim that he had Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden exterminated deflated the threat from that long-serving bogyman. A terror organization that left its leader, unarmed and undefended, a sitting duck for assassination no longer seemed formidable. Time for a new, more threatening, bogyman, the pursuit of which will keep the "war on terror" going.
Now America's "worst enemy" is the Haqqanis. Moreover, unlike Al Qaeda, which was never tied to a country, the Haqqani Network, according to Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a "veritable arm" of the Pakistani government's intelligence service, ISI. Washington claims that the ISI ordered its Haqqani Network to attack the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 13 along with the US military base in Wadak province.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Armed Services committee and one of the main Republican warmongers, declared that "all options are on the table" and gave the Pentagon his assurance that in Congress there was broad bipartisan support for a US military attack on Pakistan.
As Washington has been killing large numbers of Pakistani civilians with drones and has forced the Pakistani army to hunt for Al Qaeda throughout most of Pakistan, producing tens of thousands or more of dislocated Pakistanis in the process, Sen. Graham must have something larger in mind.
The Pakistani government thinks so, too. The Pakistani prime minister,Yousuf Raza Gilani, called his foreign minister home from talks in Washington and ordered an emergency meeting of the government to assess the prospect of an American invasion.
Washington has been trying to bully Pakistan into launching a military operation against its own people in North Waziristan. Pakistan has good reasons for resisting this demand. Washington's use of the new "Haqqani threat" as an invasion excuse could be Washington's way of overcoming Pakistan's resistance to attacking its North Waziristan province, or it could be, as some Pakistani political leaders say, and the Pakistani government fears, a "drama" created by Washington to justify a military assault on yet another Muslim country.
Over the years of its servitude as an American puppet, the Pakistan government has brought this on itself. Pakistanis let the US purchase the Pakistan government, train and equip its military, and establish CIA interface with Pakistani intelligence. A government so dependent on Washington could say little when Washington began violating its sovereignty, sending in drones and special forces teams to kill alleged Al Qaeda, but usually women, children, and farmers. Unable to subdue after a decade a small number of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, Washington has placed the blame for its military failure on Pakistan, just as Washington blamed the long drawn-out war on the Iraqi people on Iran's alleged support for the Iraqi resistance to American occupation.
Some knowledgeable analysts' about whom you will never hear in the "mainstream media," say that the US military/security complex and their neoconservative whores are orchestrating World War III before Russia and China can get prepared. As a result of the communist oppression, a signifiant percentage of the Russian population is in the American orbit. These Russians trust Washington more than they trust Putin. The Chinese are too occupied dealing with the perils of rapid economic growth to prepare for war and are far behind the threat.
War, however, is the lifeblood of the profits of the military/security complex, and war is the chosen method of the neoconservatives for achieving their goal of American hegemony.
Pakistan borders China and former constituent parts of the Soviet Union in which the US now has military bases on Russia's borders. US war upon and occupation of Pakistan is likely to awaken the somnolent Russians and Chinese. As both possess nuclear ICBMs, the outcome of the military/security complex's greed for profits and the neoconservatives' greed for empire could be the extinction of life on earth.
The patriots and super-patriots who fall in with the agendas of the military-security complex and the flag-waving neoconservatives are furthering the "end-times" outcome so fervently desired by the rapture evangelicals, who will waft up to heaven while the rest of us die on earth.
This is not President Reagan's hoped for outcome from ending the cold war.
Source: Pakalert Press
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Management at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has canceled all concerts through Feb. 8.
The orchestra's musicians and managers have spent months battling over contract concessions. The old contract expired Sept. 30 and management locked out the musicians Oct. 21, canceling concerts through Dec. 31.
In a statement Monday SPCO President Dobson West says management wants a counter-proposal from musicians. With no indication when the counteroffer might come, and with no further negotiations scheduled, he says the additional cancellations could not be delayed.
Last week, the SPCO announced a deficit of $895,080 for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
The Minnesota Orchestra has not played any concerts this season because of its own lock-out. The orchestra is expected to announce next week whether it will cancel concerts for January.
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37.2051 Highway-Construction and repair-Interference.
(a) It shall be lawful for those employed by the government to enter upon the lands within the boundaries stated in 37.2050 and build or repair the highway thereon as from time to time directed, remove all rocks, trees or other obstructions and complete the formation or repair of the highway.
(b) Any person who obstructs or who in anyway aids or abets in the obstruction of, the building or repair of the highway established by 37.2050 shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $50, or imprisoned with or without hard labor, in the discretion of the court, for a term not exceeding 3 months, for each offense.History: 1949 Code § 1291 (2), (3).


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TAUB Jonathan Philip, 60, of Wallkill, NY died Friday, November 16, 2012 at home. A Celebration of Life takes place on Monday, November 26 at 2pm at Millspaugh Funeral Home, 22 Bank St., Walden, NY. www.millspaughfuneralhome.com
BUDD, Janet V., formerly of Goshen, NY, died November 16, 2012. VISITATION: 4-8pm Sun, Nov. 25 at the Donovan Funeral Home, Goshen. SERVICE: 10:30am Monday, Nov. 26 at Goshen United Methodist Church, Goshen. www.donovanfunerals.com
SULLIVAN Aina L., 90, of Cornwall-on-Hudson died on Wednesday, November 21, 2012. SERVICES: A Memorial Service will be held in the spring. ARRANGEMENTS: James F. Lulves Funeral Home 845-534-2550 or www.lulvesfuneralhome.com
CRACCHIOLO Salvatore Sr., 69, of Newburgh, NY died Thur, Nov 22, 2012. VISITATION: 2-6pm, Sun, Nov 25 at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave., Newburgh. MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL: 10:30am, Mon, Nov 26, St. Mary's Church, Newburgh. BURIAL: follows in Calvary Cemetery, New Windsor, NY. BrooksFH.com or call 845-561-8300.
ACKERLEY Jack, 61, of Roscoe died Wed. Nov. 21, 2012. MEMORIAL SERVICE: Thurs, Nov. 29, 7-9pm at Herbert C. Bryant Funeral Home. Colonial Bryant Funeral Homes & Cremation Services. 845-439-4333, www.colonialbryantfuneralhome.com
REINEKE Barbara, of Middletown died Thurs, Nov 22. VISITATION: 2-4 & 7-9pm, Fri. Nov. 30, Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., 130 Highland Ave, Middletown, NY. MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL: 10:30am, Sat, Dec. 1, Holy Cross Church, So. Centerville. www.applebee-mcphillips.com
HAYES David W., 66, of Woodbourne, NY died Fri, Nov. 23, 2012 at Harris, NY. GRAVESIDE SERVICES: 2:30pm, Thurs, Nov. 29, Rural Valley Cemetery, Cuddebackville, NY. Knight-Auchmoody Funeral Home, Inc., 154 E. Main St., Port Jervis, NY.


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Confidence rides high as Tigers eye big second half
Defending AL champions aim to pad division lead with all-around team effort
DETROIT -- The reigning American League Most Valuable Player is enjoying the kind of season the Tigers haven't seen from a hitter since Hank Greenberg was in his prime.
The pitcher Tigers fans hoped could vault himself alongside Justin Verlander among the nastiest pitchers in the game put up the best start to a season by a Major League starter since Roger Clemens 27 years ago.
The team, meanwhile, is hanging in there.
Detroit fans have gotten used to the concept of individual dominance not always translating directly to the team. As the Tigers prepare to emerge from of the All-Star break and begin their season's second half against the Royals on Friday, however, that sense is a little stronger.
Compared with last season, when they entered the break in third place in the AL Central, they'll take the 1 1/2-game lead they carried into the intermission this year. Compared with what some forecasted from them in this division, though, it's nowhere near reality.
The seasons they're getting from Miguel Cabrera and Max Scherzer do not temper those expectations.
"I think we've done pretty good," manager Jim Leyland said last Saturday. "We probably haven't lived up to the unrealistic expectations of some people, because I think some people think we're supposed to walk away with the Central and be in the playoffs and go to the World Series. It just doesn't work like that."
That's pretty much the sense coming out of the clubhouse. They're not playing as well as they'd like as a whole, but they're in a better spot than they've been.
"I don't think we've showed our potential yet," Verlander said. "I think we've been a little bit inconsistent, but hey, you can't be too upset. We're in first place and that's where we want to be."
Cabrera's first half has earned him comparisons to the best years Greenberg put together, including his AL record 183 RBIs during the 1937 season. Cabrera was the first Major Leaguer ever to top 30 home runs and 90 RBIs before the All-Star break, though Chris Davis joined him a few days later.
First-half awards
|MVP: Miguel Cabrera
When your first half is mentioned in the same sentence with Greenberg, you're off to a good start.
|Cy Young: Max Scherzer
Even if you believe the record is fluky, the pitching stats behind all those wins are not.
|Rookie: Avisail Garcia
Not many choices here, but at least Garcia helped fill the void when Austin Jackson went on the DL.
|Top reliever: Drew Smyly
Joaquin Benoit deserves high mention, too, but Smyly has filled so many roles.
Cabrera goes into the second half with a real chance to become the first player ever to win back-to-back batting Triple Crowns. No matter what happens with the Tigers as a team over the final two months, Cabrera is a storyline worth following as the season unfolds.
So, too, is Scherzer, even after his perfect record ended at 13-0. He could split wins and losses over his starts in the second half and still likely become Detroit's second 20-game winner in three years. If he maintains his current strikeout rate, he could well keep the AL strikeout crown with the Tigers for a third consecutive year.
Individually, the Tigers have dominant seasons going. As a team, it doesn't work that way, in large part for what has gone around those stellar performances.
"I certainly didn't expect to run away with anything," Leyland said. "I think we've done pretty good. We've had our issues. You can look at a lot of them. Some of them, you can start with me managing good enough. Some of them you can start with we didn't score runs late. Some of them have been bullpen issues. So we've had our issues."
They're different issues than those that followed them into the break in years past. The rotation, which has received a boost at the previous two Trade Deadlines, is pretty well set. Despite a recent spate of injuries and inconsistencies, and the lingering question of Verlander's pitching prowess, Detroit's rotation still leads the AL in wins, winning percentage, ERA, innings pitched, home run rate and lowest on-base and slugging percentages.
They can get leads to the late innings fairly easy. Finishing them off has been a work in progress all year, and it probably isn't done progressing yet. If the Tigers make a move at this year's Trade Deadline, it'll almost surely be for a relief arm -- maybe two, and not necessarily a closer -- to help put their bullpen in some semblance of order,
Their list of reliable relief arms comes down to setup man turned closer Joaquin Benoit and former starter turned long reliever turned setup man Drew Smyly. It's the same short list they had near the end of April. While consistency in the bullpen is desirable, they can't survive consistently short on big outs.
Players to watch in second half
|Victor Martinez
All those hard-hit outs finally began falling a couple weeks ago.
|Justin Verlander
Tigers have to get him going if they're going to make another postseason run.
|Miguel Cabrera
Get ready for another Triple Crown run.
They also can't acquire enough relievers to fill the other holes. At some point, somebody else among their current group will have to emerge.
"It would be real significant," Leyland said, "if we could get one guy that we have as we speak, in-house, today, to be doing a little bit better on a more consistent basis. They've all shown signs for the most part, but it's got to be more consistent."
Consistency was a serious problem for the Tigers offense until the last couple weeks, despite a league-best .281 batting average and second-best totals of 477 runs scored and a .785 OPS. Their .225 average, .632 OPS and 97 runs scored from the seventh inning on remain last in the AL, compared with league-best totals in all three categories for the first six innings.
They have largely the same nine hitters for all of the innings. This is not a team that pinch-hits a lot, nor does it really need to. The expectation is that the totals will even out.
Just as big for confidence has been the team's recent history. After several years of torrid first-half paces and late fades, the Tigers have spent the last two years as a late-season team. They don't have nearly as much to come back from this year, bringing to question the urgency, but they have the confidence.
"I think it's typical with the guys we have there and the veterans we've got, we've been a second-half team," Verlander said, "because we know what it takes to prepare yourself to play 162 and not just the first half."


text: The Country Music Association Foundation has donated $250,000 to help build the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inside the new Music City Center. This will be the first time the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame has had a physical location. The actual Hall of Fame inside the Music City Center will feature displays, artifacts and a state-of-the-art interactive digital exhibit. Outside the Music City Center's Hall of Fame lobby will be a "Songwriters Square" complex, consisting of an exterior plaza and stair-step walkway that will be engraved with the names of Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame members, the year they were inducted and the title of their most well-known composition. The project will be unveiled when the Music City Center officially opens this summer.


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Tuesday, 06 May 2014 03:49 PM
A federal appeals court in New York rejected appeals by UBS AG shareholders seeking to hold the Swiss bank liable for their losses for having concealed its exposure to risky mortgage-backed securities and helping clients evade U.S. taxes.
Tuesday's decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest ruling to limit the reach of U.S. civil securities fraud laws, under a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court precedent that imposed a presumption against applying U.S. law to conduct outside the country.
Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge José Cabranes said that precedent, Morrison v. National Australia Bank, bars investors who buy foreign issuers' securities on foreign exchanges from pursuing U.S. fraud claims against those issuers, even if their securities are cross-listed on U.S. exchanges.
Gregory Castaldo, a Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check partner representing the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Robert Giuffra, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell representing UBS, said in an e-mail: "We're pleased with today's decision, which ends this litigation once and for all."
UBS from 2007 to 2009 took more than $48 billion of writedowns on residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations, and in 2009 reached a $780 million settlement with regulators to end a criminal tax probe.
The plaintiffs claimed that their UBS shares lost value because the bank concealed risks that led to these costs.
In September 2011, U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan dismissed claims by foreign and domestic plaintiffs who bought UBS shares on foreign exchanges, and a year later dismissed all remaining claims.
Upholding these rulings, Cabranes said Morrison meant that four of the plaintiffs, three foreign and one domestic, could not invoke a key U.S. securities law, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, to pursue their fraud claims.
"The focus of the Exchange Act is upon purchases and sales of securities in the United States," he wrote. "This evinces a concern with the location of the securities transaction and not the location of an exchange where the security may be dually listed."
He said the U.S. plaintiff, the Oregon Public Employees Board, could not get around this by having placed a "buy order" for its Switzerland-listed UBS shares in the United States.
As to UBS' disclosures of its mortgage-related exposures, Cabranes said the plaintiffs failed to show the bank materially misled them about its risk management, saying "we do not recognize allegations of 'fraud by hindsight.' "
He also said UBS properly revealed its involvement in multiple tax probes and the threat of money damages and criminal penalties. "Disclosure is not a rite of confession," he wrote.
Cabranes also wrote an August 2013 decision involving convicted money manager Alberto Vilar, which extended Morrison by finding that U.S. criminal laws addressing securities fraud also don't extend outside the country.
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Tonight Lara's family and my family hung out together. It's TrAdiTioN. We've been doing this on October 31st ever since we met back in 2009.
I'm not into Halloween, but I really am into ThanKsgiVinG AnD ChriStmAs!! In fact, tomorrow is the first official day of the HoLiDaYs (according to me). I actually saw my first Christmas commerical today! Tomorrow I will break out the Christmas tunes and maybe even start hanging up the Christmas WrEaThS in the windows. So, on that note, I want to leave you with this Christmas tune.
HoLiDaY ChEeRs!!


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Life at Hamleys
William Hamley dreamed of opening The Finest Toy Shop in the World and in 1760 he did exactly that.
Hamleys Today
Today, with over 257 years of experience in bringing smiles and laughter to children, Hamleys is known and trusted all over the world.
We are proud to have created an environment where life at work is enjoyable, fun and rewarding and we welcome passionate, energetic people to be part of the Hamleys family!
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We've stood the test of time because we love what we do and have the same passion today that Hamleys founder, William Hamley, had all those years ago. Read all about the rich and exciting History of Hamleys.Find out more
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Toys, the magical reaction that toys create and the world of imagination that toys promote, are at the centre of all that we do. We are trusted that our toys work as expected, are safe for use and will bring enjoyment to children all year round, year after year. It sounds easy but in reality we put a lot of thought and hard work into getting it right.Find out more
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CAST Workbench is a SQL Server development tool from CAST Software. CAST Workbench is oriented to database and SQL code development, not database administration. It's the only comprehensive SQL Server development product that I'm aware of and contains several advanced features that might cause Visual Studio users to salivate. Even if you're comfortable with your current SQL Server development tools, you need to see this product to understand what you're missing.
CAST Workbench includes both server and client components. It builds a repository (a data dictionary) database on SQL Server, adds several stored procedures to the master database, and then uses graphical tools to administer the repository and analyze other databases. In addition to tools for SQL Server analysis, CAST Workbench includes tools to analyze C++, PowerBuilder, and VB code for database references. The product is available for SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server, and Oracle.
This review will focus on only the server-side components of the SQL Server version. I reviewed version 3.71, which works with only SQL Server 6.5. (See "CAST Workbench and SQL Server 7.0" for more information about the new 3.72 version.)
When you install CAST Workbench, it creates a database called CAST Workbench Meta-Model (CWMM) on your selected server. This database holds the CAST Workbench in a custom, relatively open format. Most of the other CAST Workbench tools use the repository to store data about the objects you choose from other databases on that server.
The CAST Workbench package contains five main tools. You can use the Repository Manager to inspect the repository database and to resynchronize it with target databases. You can use DB-Builder, the CAST Workbench database application designer tool, to reverse engineer a physical diagram of the database. You can then use DB-Analyzer to analyze the model, do an impact analysis of a schema change, or automatically generate documentation. SQL-Builder is a Transact-SQL (T-SQL) coding tool, consisting of a color-syntax editor, query window, debugger, and query maker. Finally, Release Builder lets you script the database in dependency order, compare databases or database objects, and manage bulk copy program (bcp) graphically. (A sixth tool, Object Designer, is an object-oriented design tool that CAST does not support in the United States.)
Impact Analysis
CAST Workbench shines in database diagramming and impact analysis. Many reverse engineering database tools are on the market, but CAST Workbench is the only one I know that scans trigger, view, and stored procedure code for dependencies, showing them all (including indexes) on an entity relationship (ER) database diagram. Screen 1, page 48, shows some of the objects associated with a table (I removed some objects to simplify the screen shot). Note that the main table, p_Prop, appears as an ER table/entity, with a referencing (foreign key) table called p_BusOp at its left. Going clockwise around the diagram, you can see selected triggers (with a triangle in the background), another referenced table, and then a view (rounded corner rectangle) associated with that table and the main table. Finally, you can see indexes (with a bow-tie in the background), and stored procedures (small circles in the background). For each T-SQL object, the arrows identify the direction and nature of the SQL calls: S for SELECT, U for UPDATE, etc.
After you've made a model, you can use DB-Analyzer to do an impact analysis of a potential change to the database. DB-Analyzer will collect all the objects that the change affects and report them back in the same diagramming format. I changed a column name from status to stat, and the DB-Analyzer returned a diagram showing all the objects (views, stored procedures, triggers) that I needed to change. Double-clicking a trigger invokes the SQL-Builder editor, which highlights the trigger's rows that need to be changed. If you can't make all the changes at once, you can rerun the impact analysis at any time.
The ability to automatically assess the impact of even minor changes on a complex database is unique to CAST Workbench, as far as I know. Also, CAST Workbench can assist coverage and test planning for quality assurance and testing.
Killer Features
CAST Workbench includes several interesting features. Most of the product's utilities contain a child window that scrolls current error and other messages. This capability is in welcome contrast to the dumbed-down Windows interface style of other products in which you see only an occasional dialog box with an OK button.
The T-SQL editor, SQL-Builder, has features that outshine SQL Server 7.0's or Visual Studio's parallel utilities. For example, you can edit T-SQL in box mode, which lets you edit multiple lines at a time. In other words, you can use a CREATE TABLE statement and (if you've lined up the columns) add the keyword DEFAULT to several lines at once. Also, the editor can cycle through a list of possible T-SQL commands that you can use to automatically complete a keyword. SQL-Builder not only checks syntax, but also analyzes the query's semantics and recommends improvements to SQL commands.
Another SQL-Builder feature: If you're debugging a stored procedure, you can save the procedure's parameter values to a file and restore them later without having to retype them. SQL-Builder even has a graphical query builder that guides you through building a T-SQL cursor and the usual SQL queries. Also, CAST Workbench embeds an Interactive SQL (ISQL) session in the same connection as the debugger, so you can change the values of stored procedure variables on the fly while debugging.
The Release Builder scripting tool performs the same function as SQL Server's Enterprise Manager object scripting, but unlike Enterprise Manager, the Release Builder produces CREATE TABLE statements without the annoying default-value constraint names. It also provides a configurable database comparison tool, which you can use to generate delta scripts between a model and a database.
CAST Workbench installation software inspects your server and generates an initial key. Then you call CAST with the key information, which a CAST technician uses to generate your CAST Workbench installation key. Each installation key is tied to a particular server. After I installed CAST Workbench 3.71, I was intrigued to see that it uses DB-Library exclusively. The longest part of installation was installing CAST stored procedures. You'll need 3MB free space in your SQL Server 6.5 master database for stored procedures. The database I analyzed had 39 tables, and about the same number of stored procedures and indexes. Performance on a 350MHz Pentium II was snappy.
The main technical limitation I see with the product is that you must use the CAST Workbench tools to modify database objects in order to keep the repository up to date. You can use the Repository Manager to correct this, or you can schedule periodic updating. But it will always be a potential problem, especially with the wide availability of the data tools in Visual Studio and SQL 7.0's Enterprise Manager. In other words, if you make changes to the database structure using the Microsoft tools, those changes will not appear in your CAST model until you resync it.
The main practical limitation is the $15,000 starting price for one developer license. In addition, CAST charges a 20 percent annual maintenance fee. At the time of this review, CAST offers a $7650 starter pack, which helps soften the blow.
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After Chris Anderson's departure as Editor-in-Chief of WIRED after a 10 year run, rumors were swirling about who might be next to take the helm. Now, it's been announced that the next man for the job is former WIRED creative director Scott Dadich.
In addtion to a stint as WIRED's creative director from 2006 to 2010, Dadich was also Vice President of editorial platforms and design, and was a major proponent of tablet based magazines, first for WIRED and later for other Condé Nast titles as well. Now he's coming back to step into the Editor-in-Chief shoes. In an official statement from Condé Nast, Dadich had this to say about the new position:
I'm excited to return to Wired, which has had such a tremendous impact on my life and my career. I'm honored to have the chance to build on the legacy of innovation that Louis and Jane started some 20 years ago. And I am grateful to my friend and colleague Chris and the incredible Wired staff. I look forward to finding new opportunities to delight and surprise the Wired community, both with the stories we tell and in the ways in which we tell them.
Godspeed, Scott! Can't wait to see where you take one of our favorite mags.
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Cherries. Not Just Another Berry. The New Antioxidant "Super Fruit"
October 4, 2009 in Analgesic, Anemia, Anthocyanins, Anti-aging, Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, Arthritis, Asthma, Auto-immune Ailments, Belly Fat, Beta Carotene, Blood Cholesterol, Blood Glyceride, Blood Pressure, Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Cholesterol, Colds, Connective Tissue Ailments, Cramps, Diabetes, Digestion, Digestive Juices, Energy, Fat Loss, Fiber, Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Folate, Free Radicals, Gout, Heart, High Blood Pressure, Intestinal Worms, Iron, Jet Lag, Kidney, Kidney Cleanser, Kidney Tonic, Liver Detoxifier, Magnesium, Melatonin, Memory, Memory Loss, Metabolism, Minerals, Nuero-degenerative Ailments, Obesity, Potassium, Runny Nose, Sleep, Urine Secretion, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamins, Weight Loss | Tags: Cherries. Not Just Another Berry. The New Antioxidant "Super Fruit" | 1 comment
The Cherry Research Committee is seeking proposals for new cherry research studies. Submit your proposal and learn more at www.cherryresearch.com.
Cherries are not only good for you, but they're also on trend as a homegrown "Super Fruit." According to recent data, more than 9 out of 10 Americans want to know where their food comes from, nearly 80 percent say they're purchasing "locally produced" products, and the majority is defining "local" as grown in America.1,2 And cherries deliver.
A growing body of science reveals tart cherries, enjoyed as either dried, frozen cherries or cherry juice, have among the highest levels of disease-fighting antioxidants, when compared to other fruits. They also contain other important nutrients such as beta carotene (19 times more than blueberries or strawberries) vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, iron, fiber and folate.
Emerging evidence links cherries to many important health benefits – from helping to ease the pain of arthritis and gout, to reducing risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers. Cherries also contain melatonin, which has been found to help regulate the body's natural sleep patterns, aid with jet lag, prevent memory loss and delay the aging process.
A recent study from the University of Michigan reveals new evidence linking cherries to heart health benefits. The study found that a cherry-enriched diet lowered total weight, body fat (especially the important "belly" fat), inflammation and cholesterol-all risk factors associated with heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, being overweight or obese, in particular when the weight is concentrated in the middle, is a major risk factor for heart disease. As nearly two out of three Americans are overweight, emerging studies like this are important in examining the role diet may play in disease management and prevention.
Click on Cardiovascular/Heart Health for more information on the role cherries may play in reducing inflammation and risk factors associated with heart disease.
While there's no established guideline yet on how many cherries it takes to reap the benefits, experts suggest that 1-2 servings of cherries daily can help provide some of the health benefits identified in the research. Single serving size examples include:
• 1/2 cup dried
• 1 cup frozen
• 1 cup juice
• 1 ounce (or 2 Tbsp) juice concentrate
For additional information on serving sizes and tips to meet daily requirements for fruits and vegetables, visit: www.5aday.gov/what/index.html
1: Survey conducted by IRI Data, 2008
2: Survey conducted by The Hartman Group, 2008
Health Benefits of Cherries :
a. Cherries red pigment is called anthocyanins, this pigment has been shown to reduce pain and inflammation.
b. Cherry Anthocyanins are also a powerful antioxidant.
c. Cherries help stimulate the secretion of digestive juices and of the urine and are effective cleansers of the liver and kidneys.
d. Eating large quantities of cherries, from one half pound and up daily, has been found to bring relief to patients with gout, a disease that is characterized by an excess of uric acid in the blood and attacks of arthritis.
e. Cherry also contain a high level of melatonin, is a substance that is important in the immune system function. Study shown that people who experience heart attack have low melatonin levels.
f. May help prevent cancer in organs and glands with epithelial tissue due to its high Vitamin A content.
g. Cherries is also helpful in the following cases ; Anemia, Colds (runny nose), Obesity, Cramps, Intestinal worm, High blood Pressure, Rheumatism, Asthma
Nutritive Values : Per 100 gm.
- Vitamin A : 620 I.U.
- Vitamin B : Thiamine .05 mg.;
- Riboflavin : .06 mg.;
- Niacin : .4 mg.
- Vitamin C : 8 mg.
- Calcium : 18 mg.
- Iron : .4 mg.
- Phosphorus : 20 mg.
- Fat : .5 gm.
- Carbohydrates : 14.8 gm.
- Protein : .5 gm.
- Calories : 61
Health benefits of Cherries:
There are a number of health benefits associated with the cherry fruit. Among the many wellness promoting attributes of the fruit, the main ones include:
- Cherry is being researched upon extensively in the human battle against cancer. Research, so far, reveals that consumption of the fruit is especially beneficial in fighting organ cancers.
- The anti-oxidants in cherries clean up free radicals, or the unstable molecules responsible for cell damage in the human body. This is believed to slow down the aging process.
- Research reveals that the anthocyanin red pigment in cherries helps to reduce inflammation and pain.
- The cherry fruit is also credited with reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes, on consumption. Research reveals that people who include the fruit as it is or in supplement form in the daily diet display lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides.
- A daily cupful has the ability to address and relieve the discomfort associated with arthritis, and gout.
- The cherry fruit is low in fat and high in water content. Regular consumption helps to boost energy levels and modify metabolism for effective weight loss. It is also being used as a natural cure for Fibromyalgia Syndrome and certain physiological problems.
- High potassium content in cherries controls water retention and aids in the treatment of autoimmune neuro-degenerative ailments and connective tissue diseases.
- Cherries are easily available fresh, juiced and canned. Rich servings of the fruit ensures a daily intake of essential iron, potassium, magnesium, iron, fiber and folate.
- Probably the most important and benefiting attribute of the fruit is its newly discovered ability to help in the weight loss process. The cherry fruit is low in fat and high in water content. Regular consumption helps to boost energy levels and modify metabolism for effective weight loss. The fruit is being tapped for potential fat burn and blood pressure regulation.
By Gaynor Borade
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MMA Pro to Gay Kids -- Got a Bully? Let Me at 'Em!
Undefeated MMA badass Daniel Puder is laying the blueprints for a nationwide gay-bullying crackdown -- here's how it works: 1) send the dude an email, 2) dude flies to your school, 3) no more bully.
The issue of bullying has clearly made an impact on the former WWE star ... who recently blogged, "There is an issue with our society when gay young kids are getting bullied to the point they are killing themselves."
But after scarfing down a burger at Stout in L.A. last night -- protein-style, obviously -- Puder hatched a new plan ... telling us, "Anybody that's getting bullied in the whole U.S. can shoot me an email at email@example.com."
He adds,"You email me, I'll go fly to your school ... and we'll go talk to the bullies for you."
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The Google Reader Apocalypse is Upon Us. Here's How to Migrate.
Despite much weeping and gnashing of teeth in the online world, Google is unceremoniously killing what many consider to be the best RSS reader on the planet. If you are one of the 300,000+ readers who access Strobist through Google Reader, here are three good choices to keep the party rolling.
You have about one week to figure out how to exist in a post-Google Reader world. As of next weekend, the lights go out for good. If you depend on Google Reader (as I long have) here are three ways you can get your RSS fix with relatively little pain.
Import Your Feeds to a New Reader
The current best choice for many has been Feedly. Lots of people have already migrated (including yours truly) and they make importing your existing Google Reader feeds very easy.
They have a good app, available in iOS and Android, which I actually prefer to the web interface of Google Reader. But the desktop web interface, while slick, is not as intuitive and lightning fast as is the soon-to-be-dead gold standard Google version.
Working like hell to launch before next weekend (talk about a real deadline) is the new reader from Digg. Just squeaking under the wire, they plan to launch on Wednesday. (Thanks for all the eval time, guys...) But the beta folks who have gotten to test drive Digg's reader early are singing it's praises. So there's hope it'll be great.
Here's my suggestion for a migration strategy: Migrate your feeds to both Feedly and the Digg reader. Install both apps (presuming Digg will have an app here, too) onto your phone.
Use both, and your subconscious will select one for you. You'll just find yourself using the one you like better, automatically. But whichever you choose, it is important to migrate to both by next weekend while you still have access to your data on Google. Maybe wait until Thursday to do Digg, as I am sure they'll be hammered on Weds. But do it, lest you lose all.
Use Twitter or Google Plus as Your Reader
Most blogs echo new posts to Twitter and or G+, and following on your most-used social media site is a painless way to keep an eye out for new material.
I say painless, but that is not always true. If you follow any of the photo-aggregator blogs, you'll quickly see that they often post half a dozen times a day. It can get to be a bit much.
With a focus primarily on original content, Strobist publishes 1.5x-2x/week. So following on Twitter or G+ is not overly burdensome to your stream and that won't change. Post-Google Reader, I will make sure to echo new posts to Twitter and G+, so that will be a surefire way to keep up.
Both Strobist's Twitter and Google Plus streams include other content as they are not merely new-post announcement vehicles. Also, I am not so formal and rigid (or clothed, for that matter) as on the main site. All bets are kinda off. If this is a drag, you should choose another method.
The disadvantage with Twitter is you basically only get a headline or a tease rather than the full RSS text-before-jump. That said, I endeavor to keep the overhyped headlines to an absolute minimum.
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Given that Strobist is not a hyper-frequent blog, many choose to subscribe by email. At one-to-two posts per week, it is minimally intrusive. Plus, you get the lead photo and the entire pre-jump text.
Subscribing is super easy. Just click here, and enter your email address. You'll get a verification email. Follow that link and you are in like Flynn.
And it should go without saying that I don't spam readers and I don't sell your info. Because, duh.
I'll be honest. Losing Google Reader next weekend is gonna suck. But losing you as a reader would suck even more.
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This is the fourth year, of the past five, that I've eaten only what I've grown on the Fridays in Lent. I call these days Homegrown Fridays. I find that it deepens my understanding of what it takes to feed ourselves when I limit myself to only what I've grown. By this time of year stored food supplies are diminished and the garden is not quite awake. Our garden and food preservation program has evolved to depend on staple crops that can be stored, rather than canned or frozen. Although I did do a little canning this year, most of the things that couldn't be stored properly to keep were dried in our solar food dryers.
In the photo you will see one of our Homegrown Friday dinners. It consisted of cowpeas, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and collards fresh from the garden. I often try new things on these days and that day I boiled peanuts. We (my husband and I) decided that eating them raw or roasted was our preference. I depended a lot on peanuts at lunchtime this year. Maybe it was because I seemed to be extra busy on these days. I'd grab some peanuts while sweet potatoes were cooking for lunch. My peanut harvest had picked up in 2012 when I planted some after Austrian winter peas in the rotation. The previous year I had peanuts in a bed following onions and garlic. At harvest time there was a definite difference in the yield in the onion half of the bed compared to the garlic half. Winter peas were the winter cover crop preceding the onion sets that had been planted in the spring. I was pretty sure that the increased peanut yield was due to the winter pea cover crop and not the onions. In 2012 I planted one bed of peanuts after winter peas and one in a bed that had had garlic, onions, and kale. The onions were multipliers and had been there with the garlic and kale since the previous fall. The yield following the Austrian winter peas was three times the one following the alliums and kale.
I had a great carrot harvest this winter. You can read about it in my post on Winter Carrots. I also had beets in the garden through the winter. The black walnuts yielded in 2012 so I shelled some and made some oil to put on the carrots and beets when I roasted them. Shelling the walnuts and pressing oil took a long time. I wouldn't want to depend on that for my cooking oil. Frying locally grown bacon and saving the fat for cooking is a lot easier, but that wasn't an option for these Fridays, since I hadn't raised the pig. The roasted carrots and beets were delicious.
Soup made from dried ingredients is always on the menu during this time. One soup I made had no dried ingredients. It was made from carrots, butternut squash, and garlic. I cut them up and roasted them—no oil that day. Then I added water and simmered the cut up, roasted vegetables for about 20 minutes. It all went in the blender and resulted in what you see in this third picture. It was good, but a little bit of dairy added—sour cream, yogurt, or milk—would have been nice. Onions would have been a good addition, but I was down to my dried onions and they were in short supply.
Dried onions went into bean burgers using the same recipe as I did in 2012. Our staples for these meals from stored crops were sweet potatoes, peanuts, cowpeas, garlic, sorghum (for flour) and corn (for cornmeal). Fresh from the garden came collards, kale, carrots, and beets. I ground Bloody Butcher corn to make cornmeal mush for breakfast. We have chickens, so we have eggs. I use an egg or two occasionally on Homegrown Fridays, but not much because I don't grow all the feed for the chickens. Since some of their nutrition comes from our property, an occasional egg is included. Dried tomatoes were important for sauce and other dried vegetables and herbs provided variety in our meals. I've already written about our new tea ingredient—Red Thai Roselle Hibiscus. With such a great honey harvest last year we could sweeten our cornmeal mush. Unfortunately, our two beehives didn't make it through the winter, so I'll be looking for new bees this year. We had mead made from our honey and grapes, and popcorn cooked without oil.
Observing Homegrown Fridays at this time of year makes me more determined to work out my vole problem with the potatoes to make sure I have enough to last through the winter. I'm also acutely aware that I need to up my wheat harvest. I had an interesting conversation with Eli Rogosa of the Heritage Wheat Conservancy in January while I was preparing an article for Mother Earth News that will appear in the June/July 2013 issue. Eli filled me in on heritage wheat and how to grow it. A chart with her recommended varieties for each region of the U.S. will appear in the article. A chart with crops I've mentioned here and varieties recommended for each region will also be included in the article. You will be interested in that article if you want to grow staple crops for your meals.
If you have done any of this, even in a small way, I welcome your comments. It is in sharing, both information and food, that we will move forward on this journey.


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Scientists Discover More Genetic Clues to Testicular Cancer
Disease risk is strongly tied to family history
SUNDAY, May 12, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Twelve new genetic regions associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer have been identified by researchers in two studies.
One study identified four regions and the other identified eight regions, bringing to 17 the total number of genetic regions associated with testicular cancer. The studies were published online May 12 in the journal Nature Genetics.
Testicular cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in young American men.
The findings could eventually help scientists better understand which men are at high risk and enable early detection or possibly even prevention of the disease, the researchers said.
The team, including Peter Kanetsky, an associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, identified four of the 12 new genetic regions after analyzing the genomes of more than 13,000 men.
None of the four regions has been linked to other cancers. They pose a higher risk than other regions identified for some common cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer, according to a school news release.
Testicular cancer is highly inheritable. A man whose father or son has testicular cancer has a four to six times higher risk of developing the disease than a man with no family history. The risk is up to 10 times higher if the man also has a brother with testicular cancer.
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The American Cancer Society has more about testicular cancer.


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John Isner, Sam Querrey, Bryans face Serbia in Davis Cup
As expected, Sam Querrey, John Isner and the Bryan brothers are on the U.S. roster for the Davis Cup quarterfinal against Serbia and top-ranked Novak Djokovic.
The roster was announced Tuesday by U.S. captain Jim Courier. The event will be held on an indoor hard court April 5-7 in Boise, Idaho.
He already indicated his plan was to use those four players, who were on the team that beat Brazil in February. Querrey is ranked 20th, and Isner is 23rd. Mike and Bob Bryan have won 13 Grand Slam doubles titles.
The winner will face Italy or Canada in the semifinals in September.
Djokovic, a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, will be joined on Serbia's team by Viktor Troicki, Ilija Bozoljac and Nenad Zimonjic.


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Andrew Millington and Chris Crawshay, Exclaimer's founders, ran a bespoke software development organization in 2000 and were asked by a number of their clients to provide an email signature software solution as Exchange did not possess the ability to manually add a legal disclaimer to an email.
Researching the market at the time, they discovered that no such solution existed to allow organizations to centrally manage the deployment of email signatures. Seeing a gap within the market, they recruited Gary Levell as head developer to build what would be the first email signature software on the market.
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