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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 4, 2013) – All the news about U.S. men's volleyball players in the U.S. and around the world.
U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), a 2004, '08 and '12 Olympian, and Halkbank Ankara defeated U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) and Andreoli Latina in two matches to win the CEV Cup final. Priddy was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. In the first match in Latina, Italy on Feb. 27, Ankara defeated Latina, 25-22, 24-26, 25-21, 25-21. Priddy scored 14 points on 10 attacks, three blocks and one ace. He was credited with 14 receptions, 71 percent positive. Troy played as a substitute and scored one point on one attack. In the second match in Ankara on March 3, Priddy scored 11 points on 11 attacks. He was credited with 22 receptions, 91 percent positive. Troy did not play in the match.
U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and his Italian league team Copra Elior Piacenza have advanced to the finals of the CEV Challenge Cup after defeating Dukla Liberec of Czech Republic, which includes U.S. outside hitter Ryan Burrow (Racine, Wis.), in two matches. On Feb. 27 in Italy, Piacenza defeated Liberec, 25-14, 26-24, 25-16. Holt scored seven points on two attacks, four blocks and one ace. Burrow played as a substitute and did not score. On March 2 in Czech Republic, Piacenza defeated Liberec, 25-14, 25-20, 25-13. Holt scored 15 points on seven attacks (87.5 kill percent, .750 hitting efficiency), a match-high seven blocks and one ace. Burrow started the second and third sets and scored five points on five attacks. He was also credited with 14 receptions, 100 percent positive. Piacenza will play Russia's Ural Ufa in the finals. The dates have not been announced yet.
In the Champions League semifinal, U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), a 2012 Olympian, along with U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.), a 2008 and 2012 Olympian, will play fellow Russian Super League team Lokomotiv Novosibirsk in the semifinals, which will be played on March 16 in Omsk, Russia. Italy's Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo will play Poland's Zaksa Kedzierzyn-Kozle in the other semifinal.
Matches can be viewed live and on demand at laola1.tv.
Poland's Plus Liga is now in the playoffs and both teams with U.S. players went 3-2 in the first round to advance to the second round.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and Jastrzębski Węgiel won their third match of the best-of-five series on March 3 as they defeated Effector Kielce, 25-19, 25-22, 25-18. Holmes scored four points on two kills, one block and one ace. To view photos from the match, click here. Węgiel will play ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle in the second round, which begins on March 7.
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and his Polish league team Asseco Resovia Rzeszów won their deciding match on March 4 as they defeated PGE Skra Bełchatów, 25-23, 25-20, 21-25, 15-25, 15-12. Lotman scored 13 points on 11 attacks and two blocks. He was also credited with 32 receptions, 31 percent positive. Resovia Rzeszów will play Delecta Bydgoszcz in the next round, which will begin on March 10.
U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.), a 2008 Olympian, setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii) and the German league team the Berlin Recycling Volleys finished the regular season in first place. In the final match of the season, Berlin defeated TV Rottenburg, 25-13, 25-17, 25-12. Touzinsky played in the match after recovering from knee surgery. He started the first set and scored one point with a kill. He was credited with 10 receptions, 50 percent positive. Shoji started the first two sets and helped the team to a 60.7 kill percent and a .607 hitting efficiency. He also scored two points on a block and an ace. To view photos from the match, click here. Berlin will begin the playoffs on March 17 against a team that will be determined by the "pre playoffs."
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.), a 2012 Olympian, and the French league team Tours continue to lead the league after a 26-24, 25-22, 25-21 victory over Narbonne on March 1. Smith scored 10 points on six attacks (75.0 kill percent, .625 hitting efficiency), two blocks and two aces.
U.S. opposite Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.), libero Alfee Reft (Oxnard, Calif.) and Montpellier defeated Ajaccio, 22-25, 25-13, 21-25, 25-16, 15-8 on March 2. Clarks scored 13 points on 12 attacks and one ace. Reft was credited with 38 receptions, 63 percent positive.
Cannes, the French league team of U.S. outside hitter Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) and middle blocker Matt Rawson (Los Angeles), fell to Nantes Rezé, 25-20, 26-24, 25-18 on March 2. Rawson scored five points on three attacks and two blocks. Tarr did not play due to injury.
Toulouse, including U.S. opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) and middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.), fell to Arago Sete, 23-25, 25-22, 21-25, 25-21, 15-11. Patak scored 20 points on 17 kills and three blocks. Hein added 12 points on five attacks, a team-high six blocks and one ace.
In France's B league, AS Orange Nassau, including U.S. libero Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) and outside hitters Damien Scott (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) defeated St. Nazaire, 25-19, 25-22, 25-23 on March 2. Vance scored nine points on nine attacks (52.9 kill percent, .471 hitting efficiency). He was credited with 13 receptions, 69 percent positive. Scott scored six points on three attacks and three aces. He was credited with 28 receptions, 89 percent positive. Watten was credited with 11 receptions, 91 percent positive.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.), a 2004 Olympian, and Istanbul BBSK defeated Gümüşhane Torul Gençlik, 25-20, 25-14, 25-19 on March 2. Billings scored seven points on five attacks (62.5 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and two blocks.
U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.), a 2008 Olympian, an Arkas Spor fell to Maliye Milli Piyango, 25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 18-25, 15-12 on March 2. Hansen started the first two sets and scored two points on two aces.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania), a 2004 and '12 Olympian, and his Argentina league team Drean Bolívar defeated PSM Voley, 25-17, 25-22, 25-19 on March 2. Suxho scored four points on one kill, one block and two aces. He set Bolívar to a 67.2 kill percent and a .594 hitting efficiency.
In Italy's Serie A2 league, U.S. outside hitter Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.) and Sieco Service Ortona defeated Elettrosud Brolo, 25-20, 25-20, 21-25, 25-18 on March 3. Muagututia scored 10 points on eight kills and two blocks. He was credited with 26 receptions, 77 percent positive.
Relive the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team's 2012 season with the 2012 Yearbook. There are lots of full-color illustrations, results, statistics and biographies. To view the book, click here.


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Bluegrass Boardwalk opening delayed until 2014
The current condition of the former Kentucky Kingdom, tentatively set to become Bluegrass Boardwalk, has deteriorated so much that the opening date will have to be pushed back.
Bluegrass Boardwalk was originally set to open in 2013, but now the Koch family, which owns and operates Holiday World, and partners said that date will have to be postponed a year because the park was abandoned with no concern for it's future.
"We don't control much of that other than the ability to control some of the occupational tax, which we're committed to continue to talk to them about," said Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.
In an application for financial incentives submitted to Louisville's Metro Council this week, the Koch family of Bluegrass Boardwalk, Inc., detailed debilitating conditions inside the former Kentucky Kingdom.
"Louisville's role in it is to find some way to say to the Koch family, 'We're really excited about you guys coming. Is there anything we can do to help?'" said District 11 Councilman Kevin Kramer.
The city is planning to discuss the contracts starting this week.
The ordinance would allow the city to return up to 80 percent of local taxes generated from park employees' paychecks.
The Koch's estimated they would receive about $50,000 back each year.
"When we draw the TIF boundaries, we want to make sure the boundaries will reflect the growth that will come as a result of the Koch family and not as a result of everything else we've already been doing down there," said Kramer.
Metro Council members said they're eager for this to pass.
In the development plan submitted by the Koch family, the group says 75 percent of current attractions are inoperable.
"Its all the more reason for us to move quickly on the tax incremental financing because the shape that the property is in will be, I'm sure, discouraging from their perspective," said Kramer.
Since Six Flags abandoned the property in 2009, the Koch's said more than half the buildings are deteriorating, roofs are leaking and vegetation is overgrown, making attractions and walkways unsafe.
They also noted that anything of value was taken from the facility, including parts to rides and attractions, inner-tubes and roller coaster trains.
"It's an important source of summer jobs, especially for our youth in particular. So we want to see that move forward as fast as possible," said Fischer.
The Koch family now has until mid-August to finalize their deal with the Kentucky State Fair Board.
Bluegrass Boardwalk Inc., currently has a tentative 50-year lease agreement with the fair board.
Once the application to the Metro Council is approved, the state will make a decision on their application for tourism tax credits.

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I have too many pictures for one post so today I'll focus on the sky.
Monsoon season has arrived and that always means one thing: magical sky.
Almost every day the sky manages to take my breath away.
During the past month I've seen two of the coolest clouds I've ever seen in my life. This one appeared while I was walking the dogs and I felt like I was on another planet.
I watched this cloud form while we were at the dog park one evening. It was jaw dropping.
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LOS ANGELES — Much has been made already of the Houston Astros' impending shift to the American League next season. Their eventful 51-year NL rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers ended on Sunday, leaving plenty of memories behind for those old enough to remember and cherish the watershed games they've played against each other.
The Astros' 5-1 loss was not one of them, despite Jerry Hairston Jr. getting a career-high five hits for the Dodgers.
Houston starter J.A. Happ deserved a better fate after tying a career high with 10 strikeouts and allowing three runs over 6 1-3 innings. But the Astros managed only two hits against Chris Capuano during the left-hander's seven innings of work.
One of the runs charged to Happ was unearned due to the second of two fielding errors by third baseman Chris Johnson on routine grounders. But despite his defensive difficulties, Johnson will miss coming to Dodger Stadium on a yearly basis until their first interleague series, whenever that might be. To mark the occasion, organist Nancy Bea Hefley played "Yellow Rose of Texas" while the Astros' starting lineup was announced.
"Coming here has been fun. They have pretty good crowds and there's been a lot of history in this ballpark. So we're going to miss it. It will be different," Johnson said. "For us young guys, all we know is the National League game. So it's definitely going to be strange. But it's a game of adjustments."
Dodgers Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully has witnessed plenty of memorable games involving the Astros — several involving Fernando Valenzuela, who is in his 10th season in the adjoining booth as an analyst on the Dodgers' Spanish-language broadcasts.
Valenzuela spent his first day in the big leagues at the Astrodome after the Dodgers him from the minors in September 1980. His first big league start was against Astros on opening day 1981 at Dodger Stadium, when he filled in for the injured Jerry Reuss and pitched a five-hit shutout — the official start of "Fernandomania."
Valenzuela also became a 20-game winner for the only time in his career with a complete-game 9-2 victory at the Astrodome in 1986, the same year he tied Carl Hubbell's All-Star game record with five consecutive strikeouts — also at the 'Dome.
In 1980, when the Astros and Dodgers were both in the NL West, Houston took a three-game lead into their final series of the regular season and lost all three in Los Angeles before winning a one-game tiebreaker the following day on Joe Niekro's 7-1 win over Dave Goltz and Art Howe's four RBIs.
When Dusty Baker homered on the final day of the 1977 season to give the Dodgers the first 30-homer foursome in history, he did it against the Astros' J.R. Richard at Chavez Ravine. Then there was the no-hitter Nolan Ryan pitched against the Dodgers in Houston in 1981.
"I will miss the memories," Scully said on Sunday. "It's been a great organization, originally owned by Roy Hofheinz, who built the Astrodome and was the most imaginative man since Bill Veeck. And you couldn't possibly think of the Astros without what we used to call the 'Killer Bs' — Bagwell, Biggio and Berkman. I'm sure the older fans hate the idea of them going to the American League, and the younger fans are thinking the other way: 'Oh, great. We'll see the Yankees. We'll see the Red Sox.' So it might be a divided city."
Happ (4-4) is 0-3 with a 2.82 ERA in four career starts against the Dodgers who tied the score 1-all in the second on a two-out RBI single by Tony Gwynn Jr. and took the lead in the fourth on a leadoff homer by Matt Treanor that deflected off center fielder Justin Maxwell's glove as he made a leaping attempt in left-center.
"He was in trouble a lot," Astros manager Brad Mills said. "Out of his 10 strikeouts, nine were with runners in scoring position. That tells you right there that he was in trouble almost every inning."
Capuano (7-1) pitched two-hit ball over seven innings and struck out eight. It was the eighth time in his last nine starts that he allowed fewer than three runs. The 33-year-old left-hander improved to 5-0 at home with a 1.36 ERA.
"The guy's good, man. He's been pitching good all year and he's one of the better pitchers you're going to face," Johnson said. "His changeup's nasty. I would consider him an ace on a lot of teams."
Jose Altuve lined Capuano's first pitch of the game past a diving Gwynn in center field for a triple, and scored when shortstop Dee Gordon made a diving stop of Jed Lowrie's grounder up the middle and threw him out.
"Lowrie hits that ball up the middle and Gordon makes a nice play to stop the inning from continuing to move on. That was a huge play of the game right there," Mills said. "We had something going, and Capuano was still trying to find himself."
Altuve's fourth triple of the season was Houston's only hit until Lowrie's two-out single in the sixth. Capuano threw only 67 pitches through the first five innings, 32 fewer than teammate Chad Billingsley made through five in his no-decision on Saturday night, when the Dodgers won 6-3 on a three-run homer in the ninth by A.J. Ellis.
NOTES: The most significant trade between the Dodgers and Astros was the one that sent CF Jimmy Wynn to Los Angeles for LHP Claude Osteen on December 6, 1973, when both clubs were NL West rivals.


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Celebs Who Have Been Called Fat - and How They Slapped Back
Melissa McCarthy was called a "hippo" by a film critic -- and she's not alone.
June 15, 2013 -- intro: When Melissa McCarthy's film "The Identity Thief" hit theaters in February, a New York film critic called her "tractor-sized" and later referred to her as a "female hippo."
McCarthy, 42, didn't address the insults at the time, but in a recent interview, she admitted that her initial reaction was, "Really?" followed by, she said, "Why would someone O.K. that?"
"I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate," she told the New York Times, adding that had the situation happened when she was 20, "it may have crushed me."
But now, she added, "I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs."
Read on to see who else in Hollywood has handled similar situations.
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title: Kate Upton text: Last year, after Kate Upton, 21, appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue, a blogger slammed the model's body, saying, "Huge thighs, no waist, big fat floppy boobs, terrible body definition -- she looks like a squishy brick."
Upton was unfazed.
"I love my body," she said recently. "It's what God gave me. I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great."
quicklist: 2 title: Adele text: Designer Karl Lagerfeld has called the Grammy winner "a little too fat," and Joan Rivers once said, "She's a chubby lady who's very, very rich and she should just calm down - or lose weight."
The 24-year-old said last year that she never thinks about her appearance negatively.
"It only comes to my attention if I was to read something about it," she told "60 Minutes," adding that even the insults don't bother her. "I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like, 'I need to look like that if I want to be a success.' ... To sell more records, I don't even need to. I'm selling records."
quicklist: 3 title: Christina Aguilera text: In 2011, Kelly Osbourne slammed the "Voice" coach, calling her "fat," but Aguilera, 32, didn't respond.
"I've always been one to make it very clear, love me or hate me, take it or leave it, this is who I am," she told People magazine last year. "I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself."
quicklist: 4 title: Jessica Simpson text: For the past few years, Jessica Simpson has been the target of cruel comments about her weight, even when she was pregnant with her daughter, Maxwell, now 1.
While the 32-year-old always spoke positively about her self-image, after she gave birth she told People magazine that she did have a history of yo-yo dieting. Therefore, she became a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.
"Weight Watchers changed my relationship with food, and I feel so much more prepared to make the right choices," she said. "It feels pretty incredible."
quicklist: 5 title: Tyra Banks text: In 2007, an unflattering photo of "America's Next Top Model" host Tyra Banks in a bathing suit caused one tabloid to call her "Tyra Porkchop," while another proclaimed, "America's Next Top Waddle."
Banks, 39, discussed the issue on her talk show.
"Luckily I'm strong enough and I have a good support system... so I can overcome these kind of attacks," she said. "But if I have lower self-esteem, I would probably be starving myself right now. But that is exactly what is happening to other women all over this country. So I have something to say to all of you that have something to say about me or other woman that are built like me ... : Kiss my fat ass."
quicklist: 6 title: Christina Hendricks text: Christina Hendricks wore a strapless Christian Siriano dress to the Golden Globes in 2010, causing a New York Times fashion critic to write, "You don't put a big girl in a big dress."
The "Mad Men" star's husband, actor Geoffrey Arend, jumped her defense.
"It's so ridiculous," he told People magazine. "She looked so gorgeous."
Hendricks, 38, agreed: "I loved it. I thought I looked gorgeous."
quicklist: 7 title: Kim Kardashian text: Since Kim Kardashian announced her pregnancy last year (she's due to give birth this summer), tabloids have taken aim at the reality star, 32, even comparing her to a whale.
"I think it's a little bully-ish to call a pregnant woman fat. I mean what do you expect?" she said on "The Tonight Show" in March. "I think it's wrong. I've always been curvy and I've always embraced my curves and I love them and now there's just more to love!"


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text: High correlation across asset classes is the norm today. But in the long-run, diversification will still be the key to a winning portfolio. By Jeremy J. Siegel, Contributing Columnist December 30, 2011 The stock market today reminds me of the hit 1960s song "Nowhere to Run," by Martha and the Vandellas. When the market tanks nowadays, just about all stocks go down in unison. And that high degree of correlation isn't limited to U.S. stocks. Stock markets around the world now seem joined at the hip -- a bad day in Asia rolls over into losses in Europe and further declines in the U.S.SEE ALSO: Kiplinger's Investing Outlook for 2012 This phenomenon cuts across all asset classes. When stocks plunge, the prices of commodities -- particularly oil, and even gold -- are likely to head lower. Corporate bonds, except the very few with the highest ratings, also suffer. If it weren't for Treasury bonds and the Japanese yen, two asset classes that have reliably bucked a falling stock market lately, there truly would be "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide." Sponsored Content There are two primary causes of the increased correlation among assets. The first is globalization. Sophisticated investors today buy and sell in all the world's markets and react to instantaneous communications that everyone receives at more or less the same time. Second, since the 2008 financial crisis, we have been experiencing broad economic shocks that overwhelm company- and industry-specific developments. Advertisement Risk On, Risk Off Traders have a description for the sort of market activity that we've seen in the past year: "risk on" and "risk off" days. On risk-on days, traders feel optimistic about economic prospects and buy risky assets, such as stocks and commodities, and shun Treasury bonds and Japanese yen. The opposite happens on risk-off days. Traders sell stocks and commodities and buy Treasuries and yen. (Many international traders borrow yen at Japan's low interest rates to finance their purchases. On days when they decide to rein in risk, they buy yen to repay their loans, driving up the currency's price.) Given the increased correlation of stocks and commodities, investors may well ask whether it would be smart to hold some Treasury bonds or Japanese yen (or both) to offset the volatility of the stock market. The answer is yes if you check your portfolio frequently and get upset when stocks fall sharply. But if you do buy Treasuries or yen, be aware that current yields on these assets are extremely low and that you run a real risk of losing money if interest rates rise (bond prices move in the opposite direction of yields). The same goes for investors who seek to hedge against falling stock prices by buying exchange-traded funds that are designed to gain value when the market sinks. In the short run, inverse ETFs could insulate your portfolio against shocks. But because of the way these ETFs are constructed, their prices will fall over time (except in a severe downturn) and drag down your returns. It's also fair to ask what has become of diversification, the supposed linchpin of a sound investment strategy. The answer is that diversification is alive and well, but the principle is more important for investors seeking to maximize their long-term returns rather than their short-term results. In the short run, individual stocks will move together. But in the long run, their returns are apt to diverge. For example, technology stocks performed disastrously for most of the first decade of the 21st century. But value stocks -- those selling at low price-earnings ratios or paying good dividends -- performed much better. The inflationary 1970s were good for commodities and bad for stocks, but the disinflationary 1980s put stocks on top as commodities sagged. Advertisement Stocks reward investors who can stomach short-term swings. If you want to insulate yourself from this volatility, you'll pay a price by holding assets that over the long haul will surely deliver lower returns. Stocks everywhere are selling at attractive prices and are likely to reward long-term investors. My advice: Diversify your stock portfolio globally and don't worry so much about day-to-day fluctuations. Columnist Jeremy J. Siegel is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and the author of Stocks for the Long Run and The Future for Investors.


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onza is a new software consulting company that primarily supports businesses implementing/using the Microsoft Dynamics GP and NAV ERP systems. We are bringing new life to our industry with "green" solutions that address more than just the financial software needs of our clients. We build healthy partnerships that drive long term 'win-win' relationships with our clients, partners, and vendors. Our UNIQUE spin is that we actively INTEGRATE our client's business STRATEGY with the right technology SYSTEMS, and provide the business INTELLEGENCE to allow our clients to make the right business decisions at the right time.
onza is located in the greater Seattle area, and works mostly with small to medium sized business throughout the pacific northwest. Our client's businesses are varied, but our strength is primarily supporting distribution industries.
We market to young executives bringing new ideas to dynamic, innovative, growing businesses.
The logo will be used on business cards, websites, marketing materials, email signatures, letterhead, etc. Logo will also be embroidered on hats, jackets, t-shirts, and bags.
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In the old days, when investigators wanted to research a case, they would go to an office, open file cabinets and rifle through dozens of folders to find the documents that would help them build their case.
Not anymore. In today's digital world, that same task requires more than a knack for "creative problem solving." Today's hi-tech crimes require high-tech investigators.
Welcome to the world of digital forensics, where specialists recover and produce digital evidence for court testimony by looking into the software and hardware of computers, tablets, phones, smart televisions and just about any electronic device that stores digital records.
The Industry Outlook
Are you curious where digital forensic investigators work? How about their annual wages?
Jason Alvarado, lead faculty member for
the digital forensics program at Richland College, said every organization needs digital forensics.
"If a company doesn't have digital forensics, they're looking into how they're going to get digital forensics, or they're putting a law firm or a big consulting company on retainer to handle their digital forensics," he said. "Human resources departments have to use digital forensics just to conduct an employee investigation these days."
Alvarado said that people who have
a digital forensics associate degree can expect to make $50,000 a year in their first job out of school. He noted that digital forensics experts will max out at $160,000 to $180,000.
"Those people are going to be your in-demand expert witnesses who can testify in court for companies that aren't hiring digital forensic experts," Alvarado explained. "They're hiring an expert witness who happens to know digital forensics."
Students at Work
Paula Viall, a digital forensics student at Richland, entered the digital forensics field after the accounting job she had was shipped overseas.
"I did some research and found this is an up-and-coming field. It is wide open, it's growing here in the U.S., and it's less likely to be outsourced because you need people on the ground. I've enjoyed every minute of it," she said.
Paula said one of the first things that she learned when she studying digital forensics was not to worry about not having the IT background. In fact, sometimes an IT background can hinder students with mindset of 'this is how things are done.'"
"We're not looking necessarily for a technical person," said Professor Alvarado. "I can make them technical. I can teach them the hard skills that they need, but it's hard for me to teach somebody to problem-solve creatively."
Melissa Sokolowski graduated from Richland in 2012 and now works as a forensic examiner. She said the "phenomenal" digital forensics program at Richland helped her get a position at Xerox just two weeks after graduating.
"I like the challenge of forensics. I like to research and get to the root of the problem. It's always changing. Evidence is always different, and I learn something new every day. It's a fascinating field," she said.
Melissa recently launched an internal group for women in information security at her company. She also attends STEM Girls conferences and volunteers to educate girls about information security.
The digital forensics industry changes rapidly, but Melissa keeps up by doing a lot of reading and by following people on Twitter and LinkedIn, where members often point to relevant articles that help her maintain her skills. She added that the industry is migrating and that companies are looking for incident responders and forensic analysts — people who can detect digital breaches and find out how they happened.
A Job with Independence
Professor Alvarado said people who work in digital forensics can expect to do much self-directed work; however, on more complex cases, they work as a team.
"Companies want a person who is very regimented and focused. Complete a task and move on to the next one, but be very organized in the way they approach their day," he added.
Viall said classroom work is similar.
"One of the things that they teach us here (at Richland) is how to work on our own and come up with procedures that need to be followed. It's not like you're going to be thrown out there and then try to figure out what a company wants. They'll say, 'This is what I want from you,' and you'll say, 'OK, I have that knowledge base.'"
A Career as a P.I.
A slightly different digital forensics career path is available at Eastfield College for people who are interested in a career as a private investigator.
Patrick Patterson, coordinator for the criminal justice program at Eastfield, said the
digital forensics investigations certificate at Eastfield College focuses on the investigative side of digital forensics.
Some differences do exist between the two programs, Patterson said. "They might look at how to tap into a cell phone and break into it. We look at the legal side for prosecutions."
Patterson said students who earn the certificate and associate degree can obtain a private investigator license because the state will waive the three years of investigative experience that normally is required.
The certificate is offered at only one other school in Texas.
A huge market exists for private investigators, Patterson added, because "people are always willing to pay someone else to do the snooping for them." Banks are also constantly looking for personnel to staff their fraud departments.
Real Life Applications
Remember the case of Casey Anthony, who was charged with the murder of her child, Caylee? Professor Alvarado said this is a good example of how digital forensics helps in criminal cases.
Investigators looked at the Google searches on Anthony's computer and correlated it with the forensic trace evidence that was found in the trunk of her car. Anthony eventually was found not guilty by a jury, but it shows how computer evidence is often paired other types of physical evidence.
"The way [our professors] put the subject into context using real-life cases is amazing," explained Joseph Barsis, a first-year student in Eastfield's criminal justice program. Joseph said he decided to pursue a career in law enforcement because he has a knack for working with computers and his step- grandfather was a police officer. He hopes to one day earn a doctorate.
Standout Partnerships
The digital forensics program at Richland College has multiple articulation agreements with four-year institutions, including Texas A&M University, Oklahoma State University and Champlain College, a private school that is considered the preeminent place to go for a digital forensics education.
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About the Pacific Grove site
The NOAA Fisheries' Pacific Grove Mural: Green Seas/Blue Seas
The California Current, Climate Change and Sustainable Fisheries
NOAA Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center laboratory in Pacific Grove recognizes the long and vibrant heritage of fishing, scientific research and management in Monterey Bay and along the entire U.S. west coast, by crowning the building with a vibrant public mural. Through the telling of the 100-year legacy of the sardine fishery, the mural illustrates how fish, marine mammals, sea turtles and other marine fauna respond to changes in ocean conditions. Using different shades of color, green for high ocean productivity, and blue for low ocean productivity, visitors can see the different species that flourish in one regime over another. These alternating climate regimes are most closely identified with sudden and dramatic shifts between regional fisheries for California sardine and northern anchovy. This is illustrated in the mural by changing the composition of fish, marine mammals, and sea turtles whose presence and abundance in Monterey Bay and adjacent waters of the California Current is tied to these regimes and the sardines and anchovies on which many feed. The mural also illustrates the historic and current research ships and technologies used by fisheries scientists and the innovations in fishing vessels and gear that have occurred over the past several decades. Together, the images depict the interrelatedness of humans, marine animals and climate change as the mural follows the legendary sardine fishery which crashed off Monterey in the 1940's and then eventually returned as the system recovered through enhanced scientific knowledge, better management and changing ocean conditions.
The mural images were created by renowned artist Ray Troll and painted on 32 separate panels by public artist Roberto Salas and his team. The panels were then mounted by crane on the outside of NOAA Fisheries building to form a crowning fresco. The mural is approximately 6 feet 8 inches high and 400 feet long and is the fourth designated by the city of Pacific Grove's Historical Mural Project . The mural was funded by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center and by a grant from NOAA's Preserve America Initiative Grants (PAIG), a program to preserve and showcase NOAA's historical legacy and to make them accessible to the public through innovative programs and partnerships.
Mural imagery will soon be available through our new Pacific Grove Mural and Photo Gallery pages (which are currently underconstruction) and through the Mural website at:
For additional Mural information download the Mural flyer fact sheet: Green Sea/Blue Sea: The California Current, Climate Change, and Sustainable Fisheries [3.5MB pdf]
Also visit the Green Seas, Blue Seas Mural Exhibit at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History in Pacific Grove, California.
The full-sized color poster, "Greens Seas/Blue Seas: California Current Changing By Degrees" is based on the original artwork by Ray Troll used in the production of the Pacific Grove mural. The key below identifies each of the components (animals, people, places, science and fishing vessels, research equipment and fishing methods) found in each of the mural and poster panels.
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The Environmental Research Division facility in scenic Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California sits on four beautiful acres that was formerly used by the United States government for the neighboring Point Pinos lighthouse which dates back to the mid-1800s. The Point Pinos lighthouse is the oldest continuously-operating lighthouse on the West Coast and has been in service since 1855.
Originally formed in 1969 as the Pacific Environmental Group, and later known as the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL), the strategic location of the SWFSC Environmental Research Division on the Monterey Peninsula is based on the long-standing association with the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. This close relationship gives NMFS access to the global environmental data base, from which ERD develops and disseminates data sets and associated products and environmental indices relevant to fisheries and marine ecosystems. Fisheries scientists and resource managers use these products to characterize ocean properties and processes occurring within fishery habitats.
Over the past three and one-half decades, ERD has enjoyed an illustrious history. It is recognized nationally and internationally for excellence in research related to understanding environmental variability affecting marine fisheries over a broad range of scientific, management, and operational concerns, and for distributing environmental products and data bases that are critical to marine and climate research. ERD is also the west coast regional site for the NOAA CoastWatch program, which provides rapid dissemination of satellite observation data to governmental, academic, commercial, and public users.


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This elegant roast will grace the table of your special occasions, including the holidays.
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 1 hr
Extra Time: 5 hrs
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Yield: 6 x 4 oz roasted beef
Preheat oven to 325° F.
To prepare roast, make a lengthwise cut down the center leaving 1/2-inch of bottom attached; do not cut completely through roast. Open roast and turn over so the cut side is on the table and runs top to bottom. Make a horizontal cut to the left side and right side of center, again leaving about 1/2-inch of roast attached. Open both sides and flatten roast using meat mallet. (Or, ask your meat department to double butterfly the roast for you.)
Place roast in zipper-locking plastic bag with wine and beef broth. Close bag and marinate 4 to 6 hours in refrigerator, turning occasionally.
Sauté garlic, onions and mushrooms in butter over medium heat until onions are transparent, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add parsley and bread.
Remove meat from marinade; pat dry. Spread stuffing evenly over meat. Roll into a cylinder lengthwise and tie with butchers string.
Place on rack in roasting pan and bake, uncovered, in preheated oven for about 40 to 60 minutes or to desired doneness. Remove roast from oven and rest 10 to 15 minutes before carving.


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Badminton has its origins in ancient civilisations in Europe and Asia. The ancient game known as battledore (bat or paddle) and shuttlecock probably originated more than 2000 years ago.
In the 1600s battledore and shuttlecock was an upper class pastime in England and many European countries. Battledore and shuttlecock was simply two people hitting a shuttlecock backwards and forwards with a simple bat as many times as they could without allowing it to hit the ground.
Modern badminton can be traced to mid-19th century British India. It was created by British military officers stationed there. A net was added to the traditional English game of battledore and shuttlecock. As it was popular in the British garrison town of Poona, the game came to be known as "Poona" or "Poonai." Initially, woollen balls were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately shuttlecocks took over the role of a "ball." This game was taken by retired officers who got back to England. It was introduced as a game for the guests of the Duke of Beaufort at his stately home 'Badminton' in Gloucestershire, England where it became popular. Hence, the origin of the name "Badminton."
In March 1898, the first Open Tournament was held at Guildford and the first 'All England' Championships were held the following year.
The International Badminton Federation was formed in 1934 with nine founder members, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Holland, Canada, New Zealand and France. India joined as an affiliate in 1936.
The first major IBF tournament was the Thomas Cup (world men's team championships) in 1948. Since then, the number of world events has increased with the addition of the Uber Cup (women's team), World Championships (individual events), Sudirman Cup (mixed team), World Junior Championships and the World Grand Prix Finals.
Badminton is a relatively new Olympic sport. It was a demonstration sport at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Badminton eventually became an Olympic sport in Barcelona in 1992. Only the singles and doubles were introduced for the first time in the Olympic Games. Mixed doubles was included in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and badminton is the only sport that has mixed doubles event in the Olympics.
Only five countries have won gold medals at the Olympics since badminton was introduced in 1992 - China, Indonesia and Korea, England and Denmark.
Susi Susanti from Indonesia won the women's singles in Barcelona, becoming Indonesia's first medallist after forty years participating in the Olympics. Ironically, Susi's future husband, Alan Budi Kusama won Indonesia's second gold medal in the men's singles.


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A fireball rises after a Soviet-era Czech L-39 military training jet with the Hoppers Flight Jet Team crashed, killing the pilot during the Quad-City Airshow on Saturday.
Jeff Cook / Quad-City Times via Zuma Press
Corporal Jacob Pries of the Davenport Police Department said the accident involving the L-39 jet, developed in the former Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, occurred about 1:30 p.m. during the annual Quad-City Air Show.
The jet was flying in formation shortly before it crashed alongside the I-80 highway. It plowed into a field near the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center in northern Davenport, Fries said.
-- Reported by Reuters
A jet crashed, Saturday, at the Quad City Air Show in Iowa. NBC's Lester Holt reports.


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Leigh is in a ranty mood today, especially as it emerged that the Obama administration has publicly expressed concern about the impact of a UK referendum on its future relationship with the EU. Even Business leaders have started to urge Cameron not to 'risk' EU membership. Meanwhile, the UK government has urged MPs to back a 1% cap on annual rises in working-age benefits and some tax credits, arguing it is vital to cutting the deficit. In other news, The London Underground is celebrating its 150th anniversary and is the oldest subterranean railway in the world.
Swedish prosecutors have issued international arrest warrants for two Britons suspected of masterminding a smuggling ring involving Chinese garlic. Brazil prepares for the World Cup and Olympic games next year, free English courses are being offered and prostitutes are signing up. At least 20 prostitutes in the city of Belo Horizonte signed up for the courses and at least 300 are expected to start taking classes. A British teenager who dressed in a giant chicken suit for a protest outside a KFC restaurant said he was punched, tackled and covered in food.
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Sarasota bayfront restaurant's move is latest twist in a dispute with a former employee that goes back 14 years
Wait staff used to heat soup and cut sandwiches in a small room behind the bar at Marina Jack's outdoor dining patio.
But now federal rules have them running trays of plastic-covered plates from the full service kitchen next door.
Closing the food preparation space in November was part of an attempt by Marina Jack to comply with flood zone regulations. The company thinks that if federal officials re-evaluate the area, a review will show that Marina Jack should be allowed to expand and rebuild another kitchen on the site.
City commissioners will review a staff report updating Marina Jack's status Tuesday, the latest twist in a long-running dispute. They asked for the report on the kitchen after a former Marina Jack employee, who has dogged city officials about potential violations by the marina for 14 years, implored them to do something at a November commission meeting.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, spurred by the former employee's complaints, found violations at Marina Jack when it began reviewing the property last year to determine what it should be allowed to have under regulations for construction in flood-prone areas.
A reclassification could lower Marina Jack's insurance expenses and allow it to build a kitchen near the casual dining patio, similar to the one it uses on the other side of the building, said Bob Soran, president of Jack Graham Inc., Marina Jack's parent company.
On the other hand, violations of National Flood Insurance Program requirements could raise insurance costs for the city, which leases public land to Marina Jack, and for other property owners near the marina.
Federal flood zone rules are open to interpretation, and even FEMA representatives disagree about what Marina Jack must do to comply with the rules, the new city reports states.
Last August, a FEMA official told the city in an email that the outdoor dining area appeared to violate flood regulations. But another official from the federal agency wrote in October that as long as Marina Jack removed the prep kitchen and the glass panels used to close up the bar at night, the dining area was OK.
The FEMA review of violations stems from complaints by the former Marina Jack bartender who has been campaigning against the firm that fired him. He contends the closed kitchen is just the beginning of the marina's problems.
"Slowly the walls are closing in on these guys. It took forever," said Andrew Fraizer, who has tried for years to inform FEMA and law enforcement officials — even the FBI — about what he says are potential code violations by the company.
In 2000, Fraizer reported to the city that Marina Jack had violated Sarasota's flood ordinance by installing a gas line for a fryer and a vent hood in the food prep area. A building inspector checked out the situation and the company was forced to remove the equipment and cap the line.
But otherwise, city building officials allowed the prep kitchen to remain. They have inspected it an "egregious rate" over the years, Soran said.
The report that will be discussed Tuesday was prepared by Tim Litchet, director of Neighborhood and Development Services.
It states that the city manager, Tom Barwin, as well as the three managers before him and the city attorney, have found no wrongdoing by Marina Jack.
Litchet added that Frazier has threatened him over the years and said he had to run from Fraizer in the streets.
"All allegations by Mr. Frazier against staff were thoroughly investigated and deemed unfounded, and that further investigation is unwarranted," Litchet wrote.
Soran called Frazier "simply a disgruntled employee that was fired."
"That's it, end of story," Soran said.
Fraizer maintains he is a lone whistleblower who the city and Marina Jack have tried to discredit for more than a decade.


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The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking.
The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.
Wired, The New York Times, Backyard Poultry Magazine – they all do it. Sometimes, they screw up and get the facts wrong. In ink or in electrons, a reputable news source takes the time to say "my bad."
If you are in the news business and want to maintain your reputation for accuracy, you publish corrections. For most topics this works just fine, but what most news organizations don't realize is a correction can further push readers away from the facts if the issue at hand is close to the heart. In fact, those pithy blurbs hidden on a deep page in every newspaper point to one of the most powerful forces shaping the way you think, feel and decide – a behavior keeping you from accepting the truth.


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Q. My visiting aunt became concerned that the kids on the swingset were going too high and might swing all the way around... like she did as a kid. We don't believe her story. She insists she did a complete 360 around the top bar. Would it be possible for a kid to gain the momentum to do that? –R. L. Stevenson

A. The centripetal force would need to be at least equal to gravity to keep some tension in the chains at the top, which for chains 2 meters long would require the child to go at 4.4 meters/second at the top– not too fast, says Yale University mechanical engineering professor David LaVan. However, this would mean higher velocity at the bottom of the arc, which works out to be about 10 meters/second (22 mph)– or about the speed of an Olympic sprinter. So: conceivable but unlikely.
The real deal-breaker is that she would be subjected to quite high centripetal forces– about 6 G's if going fast enough to make it all the way around. An aircraft pilot will black out when exposed to 4-5 G's. So, unless the person relaying the story had both 1) a catapult to propel her at 10 meters/second and 2) a NASA issued anti-gravity suit to prevent blackouts, "I would conclude that it is not something that really happened."
Quite possibly she reached a dizzying height, allows LaVan, lost her grip and fell off the swing backwards, making it seem like she went all the way around.
Q. Using every number from 1-16, construct a 4-by-4 "magic square" where all rows add up to 34 horizontally, vertically and diagonally. BTW, a famous artist depicted this particular magic square in a 1514 etching. –Sudoku
A. The matrix of 16-3-2-13 (top), 5-10-11-8, 9-6-7-12, 4-15-14-1 (bottom) appears in the upper right-hand corner of Albrecht Durer's etching "Melancholia I," where a melancholy thinker sits lost in thought amid a jumble of scientific objects, says Clifford A. Pickover in Wonders of Numbers."
Fascinatingly, the two central numbers of the bottom row read 1514, the year Durer did the etching. In addition to rows and diagonals, the four corner numbers and the four central numbers sum to 34. Rounding out the marvels here, even the sum of each of the four quadrants is 34 (e.g., 16 + 3 + 5 + 10 = 34), making it a "gnomon magic square," notes Mathworld.wolfram.com.
Q. Should a risk of 1 on the Torino scale cause us Earthlings the night sweats? However you answer, you might want to jot down 2029 as one of those pay-attention dates. –Mr. Spock
A. Torino is a sort of Richter scale for cosmic collisions, quantifying the risk of our being hit by an asteroid, with 0 being completely harmless and 10 a certain collision with possible global catastrophe, says New Scientist magazine.
Which brings us to 2029 and asteroid Apophis, 300-400 meters across, enough to take out a large city. This object was spotted in 2004, with NASA giving it a scary 4 on the Torino scale (greater than 1 chance in 50 of hitting Earth). Recalculations since suggest it will be a near miss instead at about 25,000 km from Earth's surface. But this close call will likely change Apophis' course, maybe tugging it to swing back around for a possible Earth hit in 2036, rating a 1 on the Torino scale.
One problem is scientists don't know enough about asteroids. Are they mostly solid, riddled with voids, or made of loose rubble? If we try to blow one up Hollywood-style, what happens? Maybe it would be better to send a probe to spray paint it white, causing greater force from solar radiation to gently push it off course, suggests the magazine.
"The 2029 approach is the closest a moderately large asteroid is likely to come during the next century," says Harvard astronomer Brian Marsden, "and regarding the possible hit in 2036, most likely we'll know by 2013 that this one too will be a clear miss."
Q. If alcohol can turn a man into a beast, what does it do to the beasts? –J. Daniels
A. Insects feeding on wine grapes in vineyards can become intoxicated on the fermentations, reports Ronald K. Siegel in Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise.
* Bumblebees, hornets and wasps will lose their coordination and become temporarily grounded after ingesting fermented fruits.
* In earlier times, illegal stills were sometimes traced by the trail of tipsy livestock that had sniffed out the mash.
* African villagers have been known to rid themselves of rodents by leaving out bowls of milk and beer, then rounding up the woozy pests in the morning.
* Parrots are said to become more talkative after eating fermented fruits or sipping alcoholic beverages. "The birds stop talking and drinking only after they fall over," says Siegel. One dealer in rare birds overdosed his parrots on tequila to quiet them for smuggling across the Mexican border.
* Herd-feeding elephants, afraid they won't get their fair share of fermented fruit, will at times gorge themselves into swaying inebriation.
* One dog that lived near a brewery got to where it would often drink beer instead of eating.
* If an experimental "bar" is opened for monkeys on a 24-hour basis, they'll go into binge and abstinence cycles, much like addicted people.
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Dane Ortlund, Senior Editor at Crossway Books (Bible division) recently asked 25 scholars and pastors to sum up the "message of the Bible in one sentence". You can read the contributions, some of which are really quite good exemplars of the genre, on his Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology blog. I have two rather contradictory reactions to it, one essentially postmodern, the other much more "modern"—or as I would prefer to call it, "hermeneutically correct".
My first reaction is that the notion of 25 all American, all evangelical, all male ("brothers"), and all white (correct me if I'm wrong) scholars and pastors endeavouring to extract a single "message" from a massive compendium of ancient religious texts cries out for deconstruction on all sorts of levels. The contributions range from the blinkered (Leland Ryken) to the sentimental (Ray Ortlund) to the tentatively emerging (Greg Beale), but what they give us is the only slightly faceted theological lens of a narrowly constituted religious subgroup. Only Gordon Hugenberger is imaginative enough to subvert the exercise—and should be applauded for it:
The message of the Bible in one sentence is that genuine truth, unlike every human philosophy, is far too luxuriant, too enthralling, too personal, too all-encompassing, too sovereign, and too life-changing to be reducible to one sentence (or, as Einstein once put it, the challenge is to 'make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler').
My second reaction is: Hey, can I have a go too! My contribution—from a white, male, non-American, and I suppose post-evangelical perspective—is somewhat influenced by the recent series on the missio Dei and perhaps only makes sense against that background. But it reflects my deepening suspicion that evangelical theology has overlooked the massive theological and historical significance of a narrative theme that runs from the thwarting of the Babel project through the clash with Babylon to the pronouncement of judgment on "Babylon" and the proclamation of the reign of Christ and of those who suffered and were vindicated with him. So here is the core storyline in a sentence:
The one true god of an obscure and cantankerous Middle Eastern people eventually, after numerous set backs and no small amount of suffering on the part of that people, overcomes the pagan empires that conspired against him for so long—and the rest is history.
If we then want to translate that story into a "message"—or perhaps better a historically meaningful statement of "good news"—I would suggest something along these lines:
The long conflict between the one true creator God and the pagan nations, culminating in the victory of Christlike communities over Rome, has fundamentally transformed the nature and status of his "new creation" people in the world.
If anyone else wants to have a stab at summarizing the message of the Bible in one sentence, post it in a comment below. If you can do so without simply reinforcing the grip that white, male, American evangelicalism has on our understanding of the Bible, so much the better. If no one posts, I'll assume this is just a lost cause.
Submitted by John on 19 January, 2011 - 12:03 Permalink
The message of the Bible, reduced to one sentence is one of…
The eternal purpose of God: the establishment, through vocation and suffering, of a covenant community, blessed to be a blessing to all the families of the world, through being faithful to the Spirit of the Messiah of the Creator.
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1971 Little League Moose team; Trudy Pickett's Home Solutions column
Out of the Attic
The 1971 Moose Little League Team at Teacher�s Memorial School was the first-place team in the Kinston-Lenoir County Parks and Recreation League.
The team was sponsored by the Moose Lodge. Coaches were the late Elmer Hardison and Ken Parker. Assistant coach was Reid Parker
Team member Jeff Parker submitted the photo.
Home Solutions: Clothing as sun protection
Nearly 3.7 million skin cancers are diagnosed in the U.S. annually, most caused by the sun. UVR also causes up to 90 percent of the age attributed wrinkles, brown spots and sagging skin.
While clothing is the single most effective form of sun protection, not all is equal. Weave tightness, weight, fiber, color and amount of skin covered all affect the degree of protection.
The Ultraviolet Protection Factor indicates how much UV radiation the fabric can absorb. A UPR of 50 will allow only 1/50th of these rays to pass through.
Light-colored, lightweight and loosely-woven fabrics typically offer little protection. A white T-shirt only has an average UPF of 7. A long-sleeved dark denim shirt offers a UPF of about 1,700 � a complete sun block. Generally, tightly-woven fabric best protects the skin. To test, hold it up to the light. If you can see through it, then UV radiation can penetrate it and your skin.
Darker colors block out the sun better than light colors. A green cotton T-shirt UPF is 10, compared to 7 for white cotton, and a thicker dark fabric such as velvet has an estimated UPF of 50.
Unbleached cotton contains pigments that absorb UV, while high-luster polyesters and even thin, satiny silk reflect. Even a good UPF fabric is affected by your movement. Stretching and wetness can cause a loss of up to 50 percent of its UPF.
Select fabrics specially treated with chemical UV absorbers. Many manufacturers are making sun-protective clothing treated with a chemical sunblock and using weaves and colors that protect the best. The design covers as much skin as possible. Sun Guard, a laundry additive on the market, contains Tinosorb, which increases clothing UPF through 20 washings.
The Skin Cancer Foundation�s Seal of Recommendation is only given to fabrics with a minimum UPF of 30. A 30-49 rating is very good, and a 50+ is excellent.
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Wayne LaPierre: Media one of 'greatest threats'
National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said Friday that media bias is one of the gravest threats facing the country.
Kicking off his group's annual meeting in Indianapolis, LaPierre accused the media of covering up problems with Solyndra, Fast and Furious and Obamacare.
"Rather than expose government dishonesty and scandal, the media elites whitewash it all," he said. "Move on, they tell us, there's nothing to see here … One of America's greatest threats is a national news media that fails to provide a level playing field in this country for the truth."
"We will never submit or surrender to the national media, I promise you that," he added. "They still call themselves journalists. They've never been honest about the NRA. They hate us just for saying out loud and sticking up for what we believe in our hearts. They try to ridicule us into oblivion or shame us into submission. But their moral indignation should be directed right into their own makeup mirrors. The media's intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination."
LaPierre also mocked interviews that Mike Bloomberg gave this month to the New York Times and NBC's "Today" show.
"You talk about being in cahoots together," he said.


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Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha; Jordahl, Henrik (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [Econ. Edu. Rev. 24 (2005)] apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation of the instrumental variables, as well as the robustness of the results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7712
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Abstract: This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the second half of the 20th century may have partly been driven by the aim to limit the political support for overly generous income redistribution. education, time-consistency problem, voting, subsidies to education URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7684
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Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers. Consequently, to affect a firm's ethical behavior, moral consumers refuse to buy from an unethical firm. Consumers who do not care about ethical behavior may join the boycott to (falsely) signal that they do care. In the firm's choice between ethical and unethical behavior, the optimality of mixed and pure strategies depends on the cost of behaving ethically. In particular, when the cost is (relatively) low, ethical behavior arises from a prisoners' dilemma as the firm's optimal strategy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7706
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Abstract: In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Increasing wage tax progression of low-skilled workers decreases the wage rate and increases the labour demand of low-skilled workers. It decreases the welfare of lowskilled workers and increases both the welfare of high-skilled workers and the profit of firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7696
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Do Police Reduce Group Violence?Priks, Mikael; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This problem becomes relevant when the economic life of a business idea exceeds the active life of an entrepreneur. barriers to entrepreneurship, tacit knowledge, occupational choice URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7711
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Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider the effects of income redistribution when people can migrate from one country to another, and when land within each country is heterogeneous. Taxes related to income can then affect property values, and can induce migration, which further affects property values. We show that under these conditions a utilitarian government should never equalize after-tax incomes. If migration is impossible, it may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned by absentee landlords. The redistributive tax on the rich may be higher or lower when the rich can migrate than when they cannot. A Rawlsian government in the absence of mobility will equalize after-tax incomes. Under mobility, Rawlsian governments cut their taxes if and only if the relative pre-tax income of the poor is sufficiently low. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7689
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Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andres (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an allvolunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that rely on a military draft to recruit their army personnel. For OECD countries, we show that military conscription indeed has a statistically significantly negative impact on economic performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7714
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Abstract: We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree of tax progression decreases the wage rate and increases the demand of low-skilled workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7697
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The Effect on Transitional GenerationsKoethenbuerger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that rent taxation benefits current young and future generations, while we show that it also benefits the current old generation when the initially prevailing tax mix is sufficiently skewed towards wage taxation. Rent Taxes, Capitalization, Transitional Dynamics, Labor Supply, Asset Prices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7685
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Abstract: We study the welfare effects of earnings testing flat-rate old-age benefits in a quantitative overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals' expected lifetime utility, whenever other taxes are taken into account. Moreover, it also lowers the realized lifetime utilities of those at the bottom of the lifetime utility distribution. Social security; Retirement; Means-testing URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7705
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Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms a®ect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even though disutility from smoking exceeds utility from social interaction. Overall, smoking is unduly often accepted when accommodating smoking is the social norm. The introduction of smoking and non-smoking areas does not overcome this speci¯c ine±ciency. We conclude that smoking bans may represent a required (second-best) policy. smoking policy, health, social norms, guilt aversion, social interaction URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7702
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Could Prosperity Backfire?Priks, Mikael; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus the leaders face a trade-off between less crime per member in large gangs and more crime per member in small gangs. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. Violence, Crime, Gangs, Unemployment, Identity URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7692
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Friday, August 26, 2011
A neighborly suggestion for those using voice chat
I know that some of us live in less than ideal environments for gaming. You might not be able to help the fact that there are screaming kids, a really loud television, or perhaps constant machine gun fire and explosions where you are playing from. If you are in a party using voice chat, the background noise can be a little annoying and distracting to the rest of the party. However, I know that not everyone can afford living quarters with more that one room and/ or a secure bombproof bunker to game from. I'm not here to judge.
That said, if you are gaming from a room filled with screaming children, a desk near a blaring television [apparently being watched by someone legally deaf], a sidewalk near an active jackhammer, the middle of an ongoing gun-battle, the runway of a major airport, or an environment with similar constant levels of background noise....
Believe me sir, or madam, your party will thank you.
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You know that when the MMO Love In goes ranty, things have really gone down the drain.ReplyDelete
There was a time that I used voice communications in games, but I can't bother anymore. But when I did, PTT all the way. It's just rude otherwise.
I debated whether to post it or not, but I hoped a few of my readers might be able to relate and get a giggle out of it.ReplyDelete
Normal upbeat posting will resume as of my next one :-)
Sometimes you just gotta vent. We've all been there.ReplyDelete
And +1 for PTT.
Been there and done that, and not just for gaming but also work conference calls/webex sessions.ReplyDelete
Those tools has better options to handle it though, since the meeting host generally can mute a participant. Which could be something MMOs could consider for their voice chat support (or for the voice chat software being used).
I can relate. I ended up having to do PTT all the time. When frustrated with laggy clients, for example, I was too prone to call the lineage of the devs into question in a socially unacceptable manner.ReplyDelete
One of my similar pet peeves is the guys who insist on using speakers and whenever you talk you get an echo of your voice back...it's good for keeping peoples sentences short, I guess.


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Trying to catch on with the Sox as a reserve outfielder, Milledge is already impressed with the way Guillen goes about his business.
"I think he's a real, real honest guy," said Milledge, a nonroster invitee. "He's not afraid to express his feelings and he reminds me of my dad a lot. Don't take anything for granted."
Guillen has always taken pride in the way he treats every player the same, and Milledge has fallen right into line.
"It doesn't matter if you're the highest-paid player or a nonroster invitee," Milledge said. "Black, white, Latin, it doesn't matter. He treats everybody the same and what you see is what you get. Just play the game hard, respect the game and you won't have any problems."
February 26, 2011
Ozzie Guillen likes Lastings Milledge. Do we have our 4th outfielder?
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text: Hi all,I'm just looking for general information on what types of financial aid are typically available to law school students. I'm looking at starting school in the Fall of 2012. I'm 26, and I am hoping to have my car note paid off by then, a small nest egg built up - and the only expenses I would have while in law school are rent, utilities, and car insurance. I've never qualified for aid that was based on "financial need" - which I think is complete crap considering I make around $35,000 a year. My credit is in the toilet (unfortunately, that's one of the side effects of divorce), and I am wanting to know what types of aid might be available for me. Private loans are definitely out, as I am not sure I will have built up my credit sufficiently by the time I get to law school. Also - is poor credit something that should be explained in the Addendum when you apply to law school? I know sometimes the State Bar will be made nervous becauase a lack of capability with your own finances demonstrates a lack of capability with someone else's. Any suggestions you have would be much appreciated.Thanks!Morgan


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The Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) and the state's Injury Prevention Advisory Committee are releasing the most comprehensive data available on fatal and non-fatal injuries in Hawai'i since 2006.
The report, "Injuries in Hawai'i 2007-2011," includes detailed statistics by county and is being released in conjunction with the state's five-year plan to reduce and prevent the most prevalent and serious injuries occurring in Hawai'i. These highest areas of concern for Hawai'i include: drowning, falls, poisoning, suicide, traffic accidents, and violence and abuse.
The report provides an extensive analysis of the major causes, mechanisms and outcomes of injuries in the state including detailed descriptions of their impact in each of the counties. "Compiling and evaluating this data is a huge undertaking for our injury prevention staff and well worth the effort," said Health Director Loretta Fuddy. "The report is invaluable for charting the course to prevent injuries that are a major cause of death and hospitalization in Hawai'i."
Injuries take the lives of more Hawai'i residents ages 1-39 years than all other causes of death combined, including heart disease, stroke and cancer, according to the newly released data. Among residents of all ages, injuries are the third leading cause of death, with the greatest contribution coming from suicides, falls, drug poisonings, motor vehicle crashes, and ocean drownings. During an average week in Hawai'i, 12 residents die from an injury, 115 more are hospitalized, and another 1,530 are treated in emergency departments.
"The report included two new DOH data sources from the Hawai'i Emergency Medical Services Information System and the State Trauma Registry," said Dr. Linda Rosen, chief of the Emergency Medical Services and Injury Prevention System Branch. "The addition of this new data makes this year's report the most comprehensive we have ever released and takes us another step closer to understanding and preventing sometimes fatal and often serious injuries."
The report contains both good and bad news for the islands. "Hawai'i residents have lower per capita rates of fatal and nonfatal injuries compared to residents of other states," said
Daniel Galanis, DOH injury prevention epidemiologist and author of the report. "We're also glad to see that there was a significantly decreasing trend in the number of residents killed in car crashes; however, we are concerned about the increasing trends in the number of residents who died by suicide or drug poisonings."
To address injury as a critical public health concern, the DOH worked closely with the Injury Prevention Advisory Committee (IPAC) and other state, county and community partners on the "Hawai'i Injury Prevention Plan 2012-2017." IPAC is a statewide network of representatives from various fields and organizations working together since 1990 to prevent injuries. Developed with the consensus of these partners, the new prevention plan makes clear recommendations for each of the leading causes of injury in Hawai'i. Building on the accomplishment of the previous five-year plan, recommendations are based on Hawai'i-specific data and the most effective safety practices in the injury field.
"The next steps included for each of the injury areas in the plan provide a stimulus for organizations, agencies and community groups to collaborate on actions to take in preventing injuries," said Bruce McEwan, chair of the Injury Prevention Advisory Committee,
For a copy of the "Injuries in Hawai'i 2007-2011" and the "Hawai'i Injury Prevention Plan 2012-2017", visit the DOH web site at www.hawaii.gov/health.
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