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REAL NAME: Kevin Nash
6' 11", 317 pounds
BORN:July 9, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan
NICKNAMES:Master Blaster Steel, Oz, Diesel, Big Daddy Cool, Big Sexy
In 1994, as the WWE began its "New Generation", Kevin Nash became its World Heavyweight Champion. When WCW introduced the New World Order, Nash was there to lead the way, and become a multi-time World Champion with that organization. Lately, however, injuries and even medical scares have limited Nash's time in the wrestling limelight.
As a young man, Kevin Nash believed his future lay on the hardwood of the NBA. He played for three years at the University of Tennessee, helping the Volunteers to the NCAA Sweet 16. Nash travelled to Germany and played pro basketball there, until a knee injury curtailed his hoop dreams. Nash remained in Germany, however, enlisting in the U.S. Army. It was during his stint in the Army that Nash met Dusty Rhodes, who pointed the big man towards pro wrestling.
Nash graduated from the WCW Power Plant and debuted in World Championship Wrestling in 1990, initially as Woman's bodyguard. Later, he was known as Steel, one-half of the Master Blasters with Al Greene. The Master Blasters did not last long, and Nash returned as Oz in 1991, defeating Tim Parker at Super Brawl 1.
By 1992, Nash had morphed from Oz to Vinnie Vegas, a Las Vegas gambler gimmick that saw him aligned with Diamond Dallas Page and Scotty Flamingo (Raven).
Vegas and Page teamed up for a short run as the Vegas Connection but a year later, Nash, renamed Diesel, was in WWE, acting as the bodyguard of Shawn Michaels. Although at first Diesel was simply the silent muscle in Michaels' corner, he soon became active in the ring, defeating Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) for the Intercontinental Championship on April 13, 1994. Diesel became a double champion (for one day) when he and Shawn Michaels defeated the Headshrinkers to win the tag team titles on August 28, 1994. The next day, at SummerSlam '94, Ramon regained the Intercontinental championship.
The team of Michaels and Diesel ended when HBK left Diesel at the Survivor Series, and Diesel turned face. The break from Michaels paid immediate dividends three days later, when Diesel defeated Bob Backlund to win the WWE Championship at Madison Square Gardens in a match that lasted 8 seconds.
Diesel successfully defended the WWE title against Bret Hart at the Royal Rumble when the match ended in a draw due to massive outside interference from Backlund, Michaels, Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett and the Roadie (BG James). At Wrestlemania XI, Diesel retained the title against former tag partner, Shawn Michaels, but came to HBK's aid when Sycho Sid attacked him.
Teaming with Michaels (including an unofficial reign as tag champs), Diesel remained WWE Champion until the 1995 Survivor Series when he lost the title to Bret Hart and began to turn heel. Even as he attempted to regain the title from Hart, Diesel began feuding with the Undertaker, who defeated Nash at Wrestlemania XII.
When Michaels defeated Hart for the title on the same card, Diesel took aim at his former best friend and the World title he held. Approximately a month after Michaels defeated Diesel in a pay-per-view defence of the WWE title, the two men, along with Razor Ramon (Scott Hall), Triple H and X-Pac (Sean Waltman) embraced in the middle of the ring at Madison Square Garden. Days later, Diesel left WWE for the greener pastures of World Championship Wrestling.
Hall and Nash, wrestling under their real names, arrived in WCW in the spring of 1996. Known as the Outsiders, they represented an "invasion" of WCW, shocking the world when they joined with Hulk Hogan to form the New World Order, or NWO, at Bash at the Beach.
The NWO took on the best WCW had to offer, injuring opponents as often as they got WCW talent to join their ranks. On October 27, 1996, Hall and Nash teamed to defeat Harlem Heat to win the WCW Tag Team titles. With Eric Bischoff enlisted by the NWO, the Outsiders managed to retain the titles even when teams like the Steiners seemed to have defeated them for the belts. It was only after Nash was sidelined with a knee injury that Hall and Syxx (Waltman) lost the titles to the Steiners.
When Nash returned in January 1998, it wasn't long before he re-teamed with Hall and regained the tag titles, a championship they would retain until May when Sting and the Giant (Paul Wight, now Big Show) won the belts.
As the spring of 1998 progressed, the NWO began to split apart, with Hogan and his NWO Hollywood on one side, and Nash and the Wolfpac (including Randy Savage, Sting, Lex Luger and Konnan) on the other.
Nash was soon one-half of the WCW Tag Team Champions again, when Sting chose him to be his partner after gaining control of the titles. After battling the members of NWO Hollywood for much of 1998, Nash was given a World title shot against the undefeated Bill Goldberg at Starrcade '98. Thanks to the seemingly unwanted interference of Scott Hall, Nash won the WCW World title. (Note, Nash was one of the bookers of WCW at the time.) Soon it was revealed to be a complete hoax, as Nash dropped the title to Hollywood Hogan after the infamous "fingerpoke of doom" on the January 4, 1999 episode of Nitro. Hogan, Nash, Hall, Scott Steiner, Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger reunited and reformed the NWO.
After helping the NWO feud with the Horsemen, and feuding with Rey Mysterio, Jr, Nash defeated Diamond Dallas Page to regain the WCW World title. By mid-1999 however, with the World title gone, the NWO soon began to disintegrate again, with Nash losing a "retirement" match to Hollywood Hogan at Road Wild. The retirement lasted only until November, when Nash returned and on December 16, 1999, he and Hall regained the WCW Tag Team titles again only to be stripped of the titles when Hall went down injured.
At Souled Out 2000, Nash defeated Terry Funk to become the new commissioner of WCW, a position he used in his feud with Sid Vicious over the vacant WCW title, although Sid still managed to win the championship. After the "reset" of WCW, Nash joined Hogan and Sting, among others, as part of the Millionaire's Club, battling the New Blood like Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio, Jr. He also crossed paths with Jeff Jarrett in his quest for the WCW World Championship.
But it would be Booker T who Nash defeated on August 28, 2000 to regain the WCW Championship yet again, only to have Booker T regain the belt in a cage match at Fall Brawl. Nash would then serve as a mentor to the Natural Born Thrillers who eventually turned on him in the fall of 2000. Nash formed "the Insiders" with Diamond Dallas Page to feud with the Thrillers and Page/Nash enjoyed two reigns as WCW Tag Champs.
Nash lost another "retirement match", this time to Scott Steiner at Super Brawl and left WCW shortly before the company went under. Rather than head to WWE when WCW folded, Nash sat out the remainder of his contract, only to re-sign with WWE in January 2002. Reteamed with Scott Hall and Hollywood Hogan, the NWO reformed in WWE. After Hogan lost to the Rock at Wrestlemania X-8, the NWO turfed him, but their numbers were quickly increased by the addition of X-Pac, Big Show and Shawn Michaels. On July 8, 2002, however, Nash went down with a torn quad at the conclusion of a 10-man tag match on Raw, and would be out until April 2003.
Upon his return, he took aim at a former friend, Triple H and the World Heavyweight title. Triple H and Nash would feud for the title until meeting at a Hell in a Cell match at Bad Blood. With Mick Foley as the referee, Triple H beat Nash, and even then Nash and HHH would meet again in the Elimination Chamber at SummerSlam.
Nash would leave WWE shortly after to have neck surgery and appear in the movie The Punisher. Save for a couple of tag matches with Hall in Japan, it would be over a year before he returned to wrestling.
Nash's return would not come in WWE, but in NWA-TNA, when he and Hall joined forced with Jeff Jarrett at Victory Road. Calling themselves the Kings of Wrestling, Hall, Nash and Jarrett attempted, with varying degrees of success, to run roughshod over TNA. The union of those three stars was not long, and Nash eventually began challenging Jarrett for the NWA World title. At Against All Odds, Jarrett retained the title against Nash when the New Age Outlaw (Kip James) and Syxx Pac (Sean Waltman) interfered. Nash would remain in TNA for several more months, only to disappear and then reappear on the first edition of TNA Impact on Spike TV.
Nash was set to challenge Jarrett again for the NWA title at Bound for Glory only to be rushed to the hospital on the night before the pay-per-view.


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This is how it's supposed to be done:
This is how it's more often done:
This is what happened to the team from Russia:
They did, eventually, push the buggy out of the obstacle, and pushed on to the next one before giving up.
I was amused by the fact that when they hit the obstacle and got stuck, the guy on the team launched into a flurry of Russian I didn't understand, punctuated with a couple of words starting with F— and S— that I and the other bystanders did.
I guess English is truly the new Lingua Franca when it's the language used when we have to pardon your French.
I thought it was really cool that Russia joined the participants this year, but I'll admit that I still had enough nationalism to find it amusing that they struggled. I'll admit having a passing thought along the lines of, no wonder we beat them to the moon.
These are some pictures I took:
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It turns out that the video of a wolf wandering the hallways at Sochi was an elaborate prank by Jimmy Kimmel.
Olympic luger Kate Hansen, who is known for her Beyonce-inspired warmups, created a stir when she uploaded to her Twitter account a video that showed a "wolf" wandering around in her Sochi hallway.
However, the late night talk show host revealed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Thursday night that the wolf was an American wolf -- and the video wasn't even shot in Russia.
Kimmel said Hansen sent him photos of her Sochi hallway and the late night host's team made an exact replica of the building in his L.A. studio, which they showed on the episode.
An extended version of the much-discussed clip was revealed, showing Kimmel dressed in a fake Olympic skiing outfit chasing after the wolf.
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The wolf they hired, a Timberwolf mix named Rugby, also made an appearance on Thursday's show.
Hansen talked to Kimmel on Skype during the episode, explaining that Sochi security was also fooled by the video.
"I started to hear people talk around the building and security started freaking out because they thought it was a breach," Hansen said.
"U.S. stands for the United States and we have a little something here called freedom of expression here so if they give you any trouble just point them to the Constitution," Kimmel said.


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The College has dedicated and passionate staff who work in cooperation with families to support the development of each student in all facets of their schooling. We are committed to providing an inclusive educational provision with a particular emphasis on multiculturalism and for individuals, be they gifted or of special needs. Linking all our religious, scholastic, social, cultural and sporting pursuits is a strong faith in the Risen Jesus and a spirit of trust in His Mother, our patron.
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One of Chris Wondolowski's most endearing qualities is his humility.
It's allowed him to connect with so much more than simply the target with shots on goal.
He's bonded with teammates, from MLS All-Stars to the last man on the bench; savvy coaches; discerning fans; team administrators; youth players, and anyone else who has crossed his path.
Everybody loves a humble superstar.
"The big thing for me is, Wondo, from day one, when he first came to the team and he wasn't even playing regularly, until now, he hasn't changed one bit," coach Mark Watson says of the East Bay native. "He's still the same guy. He's still very humble. I think that's a true credit to his character."
Watson marvels at how Wondolowski, who will turn 31 on Jan. 28, maintains a blue-collar approach even as the accolades stack up for the 2012 Volkswagon MLS MVP, who had 11 goals and three assists last season.
Wondolowski's teammates feel the same way about him.
Defender Jason Hernandez has had a unique perspective of Wondolowski, having roomed with him on the road for the last three seasons. Both Hernandez and Wondolowski were supplemental draft picks in 2005 as relative unknowns. They squared off in a couple of reserve games as well. Now they're the best of friends.
"I got to see him transform from a guy who was fighting for time and wasn't a consistent starter in the league to really seizing an opportunity and kind of just taking off," Hernandez said. "I think it's been really fun to watch him grow and learn and excel, week in and week out. For me, it has a lot to do with his personality, being a very, very competitive guy in training; being a guy who takes his craft very seriously, and spends a lot of time after training working on what he does. He's a perfectionist, and I think those qualities, mixed with seizing the opportunity he was given, turned out to be one of the greater stories MLS will ever see. I don't think they'll ever see a guy sign a development contract and then become a DP (Designated Player) for another team, ever."
"He's very down to earth," Quakes goalkeeper Jon Busch says. "This is blue collar, hard-working team. Wondo fits right into that mentality. He's a hard-working, blue-collar boy. That's never going to change, no matter his success on the field."
Though his scoring was a bit down in 2013 after three spectacular seasons, Wondolowski had eight game-winners and become the 11th player in MLS history to reach double-digit-scoring for four consecutive seasons. He also made his 100th career start with the club, and scored the winner against CD Heredia-Guatemala in Champions league play to send the Earthquakes to the quarterfinals.
During a breakout run from 2010-12, Wondolowski had 61 goals combined, and woke up the soccer world to his brilliance as a versatile player and an ambassador for the sport. He has also vaulted onto the international stage, amassing five goals in the 2013 Gold Cup, sharing the Golden Boot award with Landon Donovan and Panamian Gabriel Torres. He had a hat trick against Belize and two goals against Cuba in group stage matches.
Currently, Wondolowski is with the U.S. National Team on a World Cup dry run in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He scored in Team USA's 2-1 loss against Sao Paolo in a closed-door scrimmage on Jan. 17.
"It's been great," he said of the experience. "You hear a little bit of stories about security, but to be honest it's been amazing. The people, since we've been here, have been very warm and cordial – very open to us, especially the staff at the hotel."
Through all the back-and-forth from MLS to international duties, Wondolowski has comported himself like a willing soccer student who draws as much joy from the fans as they extract from him. When the games begin, the student becomes the teacher.
His success stems from dedication in practice and drive. He has a knack for finding seams in opposing defenses, freeing himself from his markers and punishing mistakes.
"The one thing that has remained a constant is his work ethic and his competitiveness," Watson says. "He comes in every day ready to work and compete and win, and that, to me, explains the success he'd had."
Watson said being humble and putting the Earthquakes' family first is a team trademark.
"It's really important to us. We don't always have the big-name guys here, where other teams are spending big money," Watson says. "We don't do that. We want good quality players, which we have, but we want good characters. That can take a group to the next level, if everyone's on the same page. We've got a real good locker room, and it's a big part of any success that we'll have."
Few could have predicted Wondolowski's rise to stardom early in his pro career. The dead-eye finisher who matched Roy Lassister's single-season scoring record with 27 goals in 2012 played for Division II Chico State after starring at De La Salle High in Concord.
He was the Earthquakes' fourth-round selection in the 2005 Supplemental Draft, and left with the team to Houston at the end of that season. He rejoined the Quakes in 2009 via a trade with Houston, in which San Jose dealt Cam Weaver and a second-round pick in 2010.
Consider the deal the Soccer Steal of the Century.
Scoring aside, people root a little harder for guys like Wondo because he roots for them, in actions and good deeds.
"That's the great thing about Wondo," Busch says. "He's just one of the boys. He's one of the fans. I think any player that's like that is easily accepted by the fans, and it makes the fans feel like the player's part of them, and vice versa. It's kind of one family. That's a huge part of this club."
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After captaining the Canisius College hockey team to its first Atlantic Hockey Championship in 2013, forward Preston Shupe (Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is set to continue his career with the Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL.
"Preston is coming off a big year in college last season, was a captain for his team, and came highly recommended from his college coach Dave Smith," said Condors head coach Troy Mann. "We're looking forward to seeing what he can do this season."
A two-year captain at Canisius, Shupe appeared in 142 career games with 86 points, 38 goals and 48 assists. The Weyburn, Saskatchewan native finished his collegiate tenure ranked 12th in the program's Division I history with his 86 career points and ninth with his 38 career goals.
Shupe enjoyed his most successful season as a senior, helping the Griffs to their first conference championship. He ranked second on the team and set career highs with 29 points and 16 goals during the 2012-13 campaign and was also a key member of the team's school-record penalty kill unit. The captain matched a program record with three short-handed tallies, while anchoring the unit that posted the 11th-best rate in NCAA history at 90.1 percent.
Shupe totaled five points during the Griffs' Atlantic Hockey Championship run, recording three goals and two assists. He matched a career high with two tallies in a 4-0 win over Bentley, while recording a season-best two assists in the title game against Mercyhurst. Overall, Shupe recorded 12 points (six goals and six assists) in 13 career postseason games with the Griffs.
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Eerie coincidence or coded Wall Street tribute?
Aaron Dykes
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
FDR famously said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Whether or not that mantra extends to business, everyday life or the 'free' market is up for debate, and perhaps subject to one's personal convictions.
At any rate, the stock market, at the center of today's economic crisis, closed on the eighth anniversary of 9/11 at nearly the exact same level the Dow Jones industrial average was at the day of that tragedy. Was this an eerie coincidence or some kind of coded Wall Street tribute?
As the AP [2], Forbes [3] and others reported, Friday's market closed within a tenth of a point of the closing figure on September 10, 2001:
"The Dow Jones industrial average is down 22 at 9,605.41. That is nearly identical to the Dow's finish of 9,605.51 eight years ago, the day before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks."
As CNN Money [5] points out, the market never opened on 9/11, or for the next four trading days, so that figure was technically in place on that fateful and tragic day:
"Financial markets never opened on Sept. 11, 2001, and remained closed for the next four trading sessions. When stocks began trading again on Sept. 17, the results were predictably gloomy. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 684.71 points, its biggest one-day point loss in history."
It may also be interesting to note that the one year anniversary of Lehman Brother's collapse [6], signpost of the financial meltdown, also occurs this weekend.
Not being one for cosmic coincidences or Jungian synchronicities, I'd sooner hedge my bets on backroom, manmade manipulation (though I could hardly say for sure).
After all, this kind of thing is possible: With the arrest of Sergei Aleynikov came the revelations that Goldman Sachs possessed software whose complex algorithm is capable of massive, real time market manipulation. As The Agonist [7] reported:
"A case of financial espionage raises questions about Wall Street's proprietary trading practices and exactly what role they play in the market. The perpetrator of the espionage, Sergei Aleynikov, is a former computer programmer and equity specialist at Goldman Sachs. He is alleged to have downloaded secret software at Goldman that is used to direct large volume, rapid-fire trades to exchanges and commodity markets, often just before the close of regular trading."
Besides, these kind of eerie coincidences are nothing new.
Two extremely strange and unlikely events occurred right around 9/11's first anniversary. One day before September 11, 2002, The S&P 500 futures contract closed at 911.00 [8]. The very next day, on 9/11/02, defying all odds, the New York lotto drew 9-1-1 as the winning numbers.
"It was bizarre, it was strange, but it wasn't manufactured," said Richard Canlione, vice president of institutional financial futures at Salomon Smith Barney, the AP reported [8] about the uncanny S&P closing.
The AP also reported [8], "The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols," said lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. "It's just the way the numbers came up."
Attribute it to numerology or whatever else you like, but these occurrences are certainly unusual.


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After months of contentious debates over gun control, immigration and political scandals, President Barack Obama is finally turning his attention to another hot topic that isn't cooling off any time soon: climate change.
In a video released over the weekend, Obama said he will deliver a speech on Tuesday to outline a "national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it."
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Obama said there is no silver bullet to solve the effects of climate change, which couldn't be more true considering the complexity of the issue. Here are some of the most debated aspects of climate change:
Global Warming - Is It Real?
NASA, the United Nations and the Environmental Protection Agency cite a large body of evidence to prove that the earth's temperature is indeed rising, and so are sea levels and the ocean's surface temperature.
"The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years," according to NASA's website.
A Pew survey says 69 percent of Americans, meanwhile, believe the earth is getting warmer.
Still, a group of sixteen prominent scientists jumped in the fray when they signed a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece in 2012 in support of the belief that global warming is a farce.
"The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause," reads the article.
Economists and politicians opposed to tackling climate change say it will costs jobs and hinder GDP growth.
So the Earth is Getting Warmer, But Why?
Of the 69 percent of Americans in the Pew survey who say they global warming is real, opinions are split on what is causing the earth's temperature to rise. Four in 10 blame it on human activity like burning fossil fuels, while 27 percent say it's due to natural variations in climate pattern. Another 27 percent say there is no evidence of any warming.
What are the Outcomes of Global Warming?
Scientists already know the earth's rising temperature is changing the weather and climate. This means more rainfall, floods, droughts and heat waves. But is it also the cause of the recent spate of tornadoes and unpredictable jet streams?
"Global warming may well end up making [tornadoes] more frequent or intense, as our intuition would tell us," wrote Robert Kunzig for National Geographic. "But it might also actually suppress them—the science just isn't clear yet."
There is no evidence that tornadoes are happening more frequently and data shows that the increase is only in the weakest category of twisters, Kunzig said.
As for those "wobbly" jet streams hovering over the earth and wreaking havoc on the weather, some experts say it's a possible effect of climate change, while others disagree.
"It's been just a crazy fall and winter and spring all along, following a very abnormal sea ice condition in the Arctic,'' Rutgers University climate expert Jennifer Francis told The Associated Press. ''It's possible what we're seeing in this unusual weather is all connected.''
Reducing Carbon Emissions - A Smorgasbord of Options
The most economically efficient way to curb greenhouse gas is by taxing the pollutant. But trying to get Congress to agree to a tax hike is a nonstarter.
"Obama can't count on Congress to institute any such tax in the near term," said climate policy expert Nathan Hultman in a Brookings Institute blog post. "As such, he has been looking for other ways to improve, through regulation, the efficiency of parts of the U.S. economy and to expand low-emission sources of energy supply."
Some of those regulations, which Obama will unveil on Tuesday, include implementing stricter standards to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, regulating high greenhouse-effect gases, reduce methane emissions, development of renewable energy technologies, creating energy efficient appliances and investing in new technologies.
The Politics of Climate Change
Lawmakers have been focused on the economy, job creation, immigration and other issues that have forced climate change into the back burner. But in the wake of the recent spate of natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy and the Oklahoma tornadoes, climate change has been thrust back into the limelight, forcing Obama to make due on a promise he made in his second inaugural speech when he vowed to "respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."
The Clean Air Act gives the president the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollutants. New power plants will be easier to regulate, but this executive authority will be much more controversial for existing power plants, according to Steven Cohen, executive director at Columbia University's Earth Institute. Power plants produce more than 40 percent of the country's carbon emissions.
Obama wasn't kidding when he called this a fight. Not only do scientists have to grapple with the earth's warming temperature, the president himself has an uphill battle ahead with a government mired in partisan politics.
"Mr. Obama's decision to use his executive authority to regulate utilities reflects a determination that he has no prospect of passing such sweeping policies through Congress," according to Peter Baker of The New York Times. But the move "may draw lawsuits and other challenges from industry and Republicans citing the economic costs," he wrote.


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Baja California (peninsula, Mexico)
Baja California (Span.: bä´hä kälēfōr´nyä) or Lower California, peninsula, c.760 mi (1,220 km) long and from 30 to 150 mi (48–241 km) wide, NW Mexico, separating the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula is divided at lat. 28° N into the state of Baja California in the north, and the state of Baja California Sur in the south. Except for two large coastal plains on the Pacific side, the peninsula consists largely of rugged mountain ranges averaging 5,000 ft (1,524 m), with one peak, San Pedro Martir, more than 10,000 ft (3,048 m) high. The land is generally desolate and arid. The only naturally cultivable areas are isolated mountain valleys. However, irrigation systems on the Colorado River have made possible the development of a rich farming area around Mexicali, and the region is a leading national producer of cotton and wheat as well as wine. There are fisheries and fish canneries at Ensenada, which is also developing as a resort. Wealthy Mexicans, who have bought large estates and established resort ranches on the scenic coasts, have done much to stir tourist interest in regions other than the border towns and to open up hitherto inaccessible areas. Hunting and deep-sea fishing are favorite sports. Baja California Sur is not economically prosperous, although tourism is developing rapidly, particularly around Los Cabos. The peninsula and surrounding waters are a paradise also for naturalists and archaeologists, offering unparalleled opportunities for the study of marine life, plants and animals, and archaeological artifacts. Since 1962 remarkable mural paintings have been discovered in many caves there. Perhaps the most important development for the northern state is the growth of U.S.- and foreign-owned factories (maquiladoras) in the border areas. A large, rapidly expanding population and low labor costs have led to the opening of many maquiladoras in Baja California.
The coasts were first explored by Francisco de Ulloa and other Spaniards in the 1530s. Attempts to colonize the interior were largely unsuccessful. U.S. forces occupied (1847–48) Baja California during the Mexican War, and William Walker attempted (1853–54) to wrest it from Mexico in his first disastrous filibustering expedition. In 1911 the area was the scene of an abortive uprising against Porfirio Díaz—the so-called desert revolution led by Ricardo Flores Magón, a liberal anarchist, who was a precursor of Francisco Madero and Emiliano Zapata.
See J. Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951); H. Crosby, Last of the Californias (1981); D. Polk, The Island of California (1991).


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After many years of anticipation, and not a little hype, 2019 promises to be the year when 5G finally arrives.
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Ex-vice presidential candidate and notorious former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will chow down with one lucky donor next week as part of a charity auction hosted on eBay, where the opening bid is set at a mere $25,000.
The winner will still have to foot his or her travel bills to meet up with Palin, likely in Alaska -- but perhaps a jaunt to Russia isn't out of the question.
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Palin is one of several politicians who'll offer up a meal as part of the Ride 2 Recovery program, which supports wounded veterans through cycling organizations.
Craving lunch with a slightly harder-edge pol? Lunch with Karl Rove is also on the menu.
The auction will start at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
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Although the global consumption and installed capacity of hydropower and geothermal technologieshave increased steadily since 2003, both types of energy saw slower growth in 2011, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service.
"Despite the recent slowdown in growth, the overall market for hydropower and geothermal power is increasing in part because these two sources are not subject to the variability in generation that plagues other renewable energy sources such as wind and solar," said Musolino, a research associate with the Worldwatch's Climate and Energy Program. "The greater reliability of hydro and geothermal can thus be harnessed to provide reliable baseload power."
Hydroelectricity accounted for almost 6 percent of primary energy consumption among members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It played a more important role in other countries----at a little over 7 percent of usage----and these non-OECD nations accounted for 60 percent of worldwide hydroelectricity consumption. On a regional basis, South America and Central America are most dependent on hydroelectricity relative to total energy use.
Although hydropower plays the least important role in the Middle East, the region experienced the greatest growth in hydroelectricity consumption in 2011, at almost 22 percent. North America was next, with an increase slightly under 14 percent. In contrast, usage fell by almost 9 percent in Europe and Eurasia and by 0.6 percent in the Asia Pacific region.
Although some 150 countries produce hydropower, half of the global capacity was concentrated in just five nations at the end of 2011. China remains the leader, with 212 GW installed, followed by Brazil (82.2 GW), the United States (79 GW), Canada (76.4 GW), and Russia (46 GW).
Despite the potential for inexpensive, low-emission electricity from hydropower, large projects can bring significant negative consequences. The damming of rivers to create the reservoirs needed for large-scale power generation is severely disruptive to ecosystems and can harm both animal and human populations. And building hydropower plants has its own significant emissions impacts, including from the creation of reservoirs and the large amounts of concrete needed for construction. In many cases, hydropower projects have led to the displacement of local populations and the adverse altering of downstream conditions.
But hydropower continues to be one of the most cost-effective renewable energy generation sources. Typical costs are in the range of 2-13 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour for existing grid-connected hydropower plants and 5-10 cents per kilowatt-hour for new plants. Micro-hydropower installations (0.1 kilowatt to 1 megawatt), which are typically used in rural communities not connected to the national grid, generate at 5-40 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Like hydropower, geothermal resources are highly location-specific. Many countries with strong hydropower potential, including much of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, have equally impressive geothermal potential. These resources have been exploited for power generation for over a century, with significant capacity being developed since the mid-1900s.
The costs associated with geothermal power also closely mirror those of hydropower. Varying by geothermal technology, generation costs are in the range of 5.7-10.7 cents per kilowatt-hour. High capital costs, associated primarily with the cost of drilling geothermal wells and the long lead time for project development, continue to challenge project developers.
Further highlights from the report:
- Global consumption of hydropower continued to increase in 2011, reaching 3,498 terawatt-hours. - A total of 25 GW of new hydropower capacity was added in 2011, less than in previous years, with China, Vietnam, Brazil, India, and Canada responsible for 75 percent of the added capacity. - Some 136 MW of new geothermal power capacity was installed in 2011, the vast majority of which came from two major projects: a 90 MW facility in Iceland and a 42 MW plant in Costa Rica. - The United States continues to be a leader in geothermal capacity, with 3.1 GW, and is followed by the Philippines (1.9 GW), Indonesia (1.2 GW), Mexico (1 GW), and Italy (0.8 GW).
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Where is it written that only moderates can win national elections, while Democrats are free to embrace their leftist fringe candidates?
The Republican Party lost the 2012 election while the conservatives watched from the sidelines. Republican moderates losing elections has become an all too common occurrence even though conservatives are the base of the Republican Party. It is not too early for the conservatives to start work to take back the Party and the country. The Republican establishment elite do not learn from its mistakes, and conservatives can no longer wait for Republicans to wake up. The formation of the TEA Party movement should have been that wake-up call, but the establishment elite chose to ignore it. Unless conservatives re-assert a leadership role in the GOP, the Republican Party will begin to wither and die as conservatives and TEA Party members abandon this anachronism of a Party.


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Vast Majority Of Software Patents In Lawsuits Lose
from the as-you-suspected,-they're-really-bad deptWell, this is interesting (and quite surprising). A new study by John Allison, Mark Lemley, Joshua Walker looked at highly litigated patents to see how well they did in court, and came up with some really unexpected findings. The summary of the findings are as follows:
We designed this study to explore the effects of repeat play on litigation behavior, contributing to a literature on the economics of civil procedure as well as the substance of patent law. But what we found was dramatic and unexpected: The patents and patentees that occupy the most time and attention in court and in public policy debates -- the very patents that economists consider the most valuable -- are astonishingly weak. Non-practicing entities and software patentees almost never win their cases. That may be a good thing, if you believe that most software patents are bad or that NPEs are bad for society. But it certainly means that the patent system is wasting more of its time than expected dealing with weak patents. And it also suggests that both our measures of patent value and our theories of litigation behavior need some serious reconsideration.Digging deeper into the report, it looks at and tests a variety of different concepts around patents and litigation. In theory, if a patent is used in multiple patent cases, you tend to think that it must be a pretty solid patent, and one that has been vetted plenty of times. And yet, when the researchers looked at the 106 patents that have been involved in eight or more lawsuits since 2000, they found that the patent holder wins such cases only 10.7% of the time. For patents that have only been brought to litigation once, the patent holder wins 47.3% of the time -- an astounding difference.
My first thought on hearing such numbers is that the data could be misleading in that many companies may be a lot more willing to settle when sued by a serial patent litigator. However, the researchers tested that and while they did find that a higher percentage of those sued will settle in cases involving a "most-litigated" patent as compared to a "once-litigated" patent, the higher settlement rates don't offset the huge difference in win rates.
The study also looked at the differences in entities doing the suing as well as the types of patents involved in the lawsuits. And, once again, there are some interesting finding. Patents that initially came from big companies "represent only 22.4% of the assertions in the most-litigated group." I don't find this all that surprising. Big companies tend not to be serial patent litigators over the same patent. There certainly are some exceptions, but in general, it does seem like big companies tend to view proactively suing for patent infringement as a "last resort." However, patent hoarders and non-practicing entities who base their entire business model on demanding money from patents are probably a lot more likely to sue. But where it gets interesting, is the fact that they're also a lot more likely to lose their patent infringement lawsuits: only 12.3% of "small entity plaintiffs" win their lawsuits (excluding default judgments).
Of course, size doesn't necessarily indicate whether or not the company is a "product" company or a non-practicing entity (commonly called a patent troll). In the "most-litigated" patent group, not surprisingly only 16.7% of the assertions came from actual product companies -- meaning a whopping 83.3% of the assertions in the most-litigated group came from patent trolls. So how do the trolls do? Not so well. If they fail to settle, patent trolls win just 8% of their lawsuits (9.2% if you include default judgments). For comparison's sake, companies that actually make stuff, win 40% of their cases and 50% if you include defaults. It certainly sounds like juries are a lot more sympathetic to companies that actually make stuff.
Of course, it's important to point out that patent lawsuits almost always settle. The settlement rates tend to hover near 90%, because the cost of litigation is often so high that it's cheaper to settle. But, if anything, this data suggests that patent trolls probably are better off not pursuing the lawsuit if they can't get the companies they sue to settle (and, correspondingly, it may make more sense for those sued to actually fight back).
The final part of the study breaks down the different patents by type -- and provides some interesting info for those who dislike software patents. Once again, litigating frequently over a software patent tends to be a loser's game -- even though software patents were 93.7% of the most-litigated assertions. And yet... software patent litigants in the most-litigated group only win 12.9% (with or without default judgments) of the time. Non-software patents, however, win at much higher rates: 37.1% without defaults and 51.10% if you include defaults. In other words, the feeling most people have is probably true: the software patents that we see in various lawsuits tend to be of dreadful quality, and the results of the lawsuits support that view.
The authors do try to analyze the data -- and one key missing data set in all this are licensing deals outside of settlements. Oftentimes, lawsuits won't even be filed if companies realize it's cheaper to pay up on the threat of litigation. From there, the authors note that once a patent has a few licensing agreements, the patent holder will probably be a lot less interested in suing anyone else, because if the patent gets invalidated, that patent holder will likely lose the licensing revenue stream.
As for what this means for the overall patent system, the authors note two possible (contradicting) interpretations, and then split the difference:
On the one hand, it should give substantial ammunition to those who argue against software patents and who want to restrain patent trolls. If software and NPE patents are overwhelmingly bad -- either invalid or overclaimed -- the social benefit of allowing them may well be outweighed by the harm they cause. At the same time, however, one could read this evidence as proof that the system is working -- that the bad patents are being weeded out of the system and are not stifling innovation.I'd argue that when you include license agreements based on threats of legal action along with all the settlements it helps to dilute the value of the data even more, to suggest the idea that the "system is working" is false. The number of companies who pay up without a legal ruling is many, many, many times the number who actually go through to the end of a lawsuit. And, while the authors hope that exposing this data might convince more companies to push back against weak patents, I'm not convinced that will actually happen. It's still going to be cheaper for many companies to just take out a license or to settle than to fight. And, finally, as the authors point out later in the report, when you see the massive size of a few patent awards, the patent holders may view them as lottery tickets. Quoting the paper:
The truth probably lies somewhere in between. The latter claim -- that the widespread invalidation of software and NPE-owned patents shows that the system is working -- seems altogether too facile. After all, roughly 90% of those cases settled without judgment. While those settlements are confidential, we expect that the vast majority involved some sort of payment to the patent plaintiff -- a payment that the outcomes data suggests might represent not the acquisition of real legal rights but a nuisance settlement over a likely-invalid patent. At the same time, the fact that these patents are so weak should -- at least once exposed -- limit the value of those settlements, and quiet concerns that software or troll patentees will actually shut down very many innovative products.
If the payoff for victory at the end of the day is $1 billion, a 10% chance of success doesn't sound so bad.On the whole, the results certainly seem to suggest that patent trolls with software patents do very much view the system as a lottery ticket, and they're willing to use really weak patents to try to win that prize. That is not at all what the patent system is designed to do, but it's how the incentives have been structured -- and that seems like a pretty big problem that isn't solved just by showing how many of these lawsuits fail. The amount of time and resources wasted on those lawsuits, as well as the number of companies who pay up without completing a lawsuit, suggest that there is still a major problem to be dealt with.


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Angels down Red Sox
Anaheim, CA – Zack Greinke had seven strikeouts over seven innings and Albert Pujols delivered a two-run double in the opening frame, as the Los Angeles Angels swept the Boston Red Sox, 5-2, Thursday night.
Torii Hunter had three hits and scored twice for the Angels, who beat Boston for the eighth straight time. Prior to win streak, the Halos were 2-17 in their last 19 versus the Red Sox.
Greinke (3-2) allowed five hits and two runs, one on a homer by James Loney, his first in a Boston uniform.
"I had better location tonight," Greinke said. "They popped up my fastball a lot, but they were in the park and the outfielders were able to run them down."
The Angels, winners in seven of their last nine games, also got an RBI from Mark Trumbo and Alberto Callaspo.
Loney had three hits for the Red Sox, who went 0-6 against the Angels this season. This marks the first time ever in a season series against any opponent of at least six games that the Red Sox were swept. They've lost eight of 11 overall.
Jon Lester (8-11) allowed nine hits and went the distance for his third complete game of the season and ninth of his career, but his three-start winning streak was broken.
The finale of this three-game series started out with a bang for the Angels as Mike Trout walked and Hunter singled to begin the opening frame. Pujols then laced a double past the outstretched glove of a diving Pedro Ciriaco at third base.
Loney scored on Mike Aviles' bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the second, but Ciriaco then fanned to end the inning.
Loney left a runner at third in the next inning, and the Angels added to their lead on run-scoring singles from Trumbo and Callaspo, who entered as a pinch- hitter when Howie Kendrick had to leave the game due to a sore right knee.
"When I started to put pressure on it, it didn't want to hold up," Kendrick said. "It's kind of strange. It's just a pain inside my knee. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll get on it and we'll see how it feels."
Vernon Wells scored on Trout's double-play groundout in the fourth inning before Loney homered tight to the line in right field in the sixth.
With runners on first and second in the top of the eighth, Kevin Jepsen worked out of trouble by retiring Cody Ross on a line drive to left and Jarrod Saltalamacchia on a fly ball to center field.
"We hit the balls hard, but the outfielders were in the right spot," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said. "James Loney did well. We just didn't follow him up tonight."
Ernesto Frieri stranded a runner at third in the ninth to pick up his 16th save of the year.
Game Notes
Greinke is 2-4 lifetime against the Red Sox. He's allowed a home run in six straight starts, tying a career-high ... The Red Sox recalled pitcher Daniel Bard from Triple-A Pawtucket on Thursday and also optioned pitcher Zach Stewart to Pawtucket ... Kendrick's 15-game hitting streak came to an end ... The Angels have outscored the Red Sox 63-32 during the streak. The Angels' record for consecutive wins versus Boston is nine, April 23, 2008 - April 10, 2009.


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styxman wrote:I gotta know what happened in that Vesey question to elicit that many negs. Post the text, please?
I have no idea what drew 46 negs on this tossup. I'd expect some rate of minus-fives on this topic just from teams that figure out it's a slave rebellion but only know Nat Turner, but there are lots of clues here that exclude Turner (eg, "Gullah" points to the South Carolina low country... and still no one powered this.)2010 HSNCT round 6 wrote:An account of this man was written by James Hamilton, though Hamilton may have simply wanted to embarrass Governor Thomas Bennett. He worked with Monday Gell and Gullah Jack but was foiled after the betrayal of George Wilson. His best-known plan was scheduled for Bastille Day and involved a ship to transport participants to (*) Haiti. For 10 points--name this freed slave who in 1822 tried to lead a rebellion in Charleston.


text: For the first time in its 16-year existence, the Maryland Film Festival won't be housed in the Charles Theatre. It's not the choice of festival organizers, says MFF director Jed Dietz, but when the Charles' operators, James "Buzz" Cusack and daughter Kathleen Cusack Lyon, declined to rent the theater this year, the MFF staff were forced to reach out to the community to arrange for more screens—spreading the festival out over buildings in Station North, Bolton Hill, and Mount Vernon, hosted in space provided by MICA, the University of Baltimore, the Windup Space, and the Walters Art Museum. Dietz notes that the multi-venue setup, while not as convenient perhaps, isn't unusual. "Most of [Sundance's] venues are single-screen, made-up venues," he says. "They have a theater in a basketball court. I remember being in motel rooms and having a hard time looking at films." The switch in location moves the festival's tent village and box office to North Avenue, in the parking lot between Joe Squared and MICA's Lazarus graduate studio center. The transition, Dietz says, might help prepare fest-goers for the eventual opening of the Parkway Theater, tenatively slated for fall 2016. "[We'll] get people up and around North Avenue and move them around there and get them to have coffee at Red Emma's and a beer at Liam's, and walk past Bottega," he says. A shuttle service will run loops throughout the weekend. Check out the festival's new map and a full schedule for the four-day event, in addition to our coverage on some of this year's most notable films, including Hampden filmmakerChris LaMartina's MFF debut, Maryland native Michael Tully's summer comedy, and UMBC graduate Andrew T. Betzer's first feature, Young Bodies Heal Quickly .


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When I'm tired, the last thing I want to do is exercise. But my wife says that exercising will actually boost my energy. Is she right?
Listen to your wife. It may sound strange, but in order to get more energy, you have to do the very thing you don't feel you have enough energy to do: exercise.
There are at least four ways that regular exercise makes you feel more energetic.
For starters, when you exercise, more energy-producing mitochondria form in your muscle cells. Mitochrondria are the cellular powerhouses that convert glucose, fat and oxygen into the substance that cells use for energy. So while exercise burns energy, it also enables muscle cells to produce more energy.
Any type of regular exercise also creates more tiny blood vessels. Those vessels bring more oxygen (and glucose and fat) to every one of your cells. Aerobic exercise, which makes you breathe deeply and increases your heart rate, gets the most oxygen circulating.
Exercise also affects levels of hormones and chemical messengers. When you work out, your body releases epinephrine and norepinephrine. In large amounts, these stress hormones cause the energy-draining fight-or-flight response. But in the modest amounts induced by exercise, they make you feel energized. Exercise also boosts levels of compounds called endorphins. These are the "feel-good" chemicals that lift your mood. An elevated mood in itself can be an energy booster.
Finally, regular aerobic exercise almost guarantees that you will sleep more soundly — and good sleep is essential for feeling refreshed. Exercise is the only proven way to increase the amount of time you spend in deep sleep, the type that particularly restores energy. The more deep sleep you get, the less likely you are to awaken in the middle of the night, and the more rested you'll feel the next day.
So it does sound paradoxical, but it's true: Regular exercise can improve your energy even if you don't feel you have the energy to exercise. But be smart about it.
I'm an early riser. I feel a lot more like exercising when I wake up than I do at the end of the day. For many of my friends and patients, it's just the opposite. They're late risers who have to be at work by 9 a.m., but don't feel they're really awake until later in the morning. (They don't mention this observation to their boss.) They exercise at the end of the day.
But I hope you won't think of exercise as a tedious routine. Instead, look at exercise as a surefire energy enhancer you can tap into at will.
You've heard repeatedly in this column (and elsewhere) that regular exercise is good for your health. It lowers your risk of many serious diseases. But, frankly, most of us find it easier to take action to achieve some benefit now, not 30 years from now. Regular exercise will make you feel better now.


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Almost half of all students said they worried that personal photos and updates on Facebook could have an impact on their fledgling careers.
About 42 percent of students reported fears about being judged by employers for their photos and status updates, according to research from the United Kingdom's Information Commissioners Office, the Telegraph reported.
They should be afraid. In our past posts on Press: Here employers have fired employees for Facebook updates, recruiters archive Facebook pages to show potential employers and even lawyers are using Facebook t oscreen potential jurors. Apparently if the information is out there, someone will archive it and show it to someone else -- unfortunately that could be a potential employer, your current employer or the police.
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While it may seem unfair, being smart means Facebook users have to only post things online that they would also say offline. Save the more unsavory stuff for direct messages or tweets only.


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|Steve Beamish, VP Corp Marketing/Bus. Dev., hosting a customer case study
|CTO Jim Davies revealing the UC360 Collaboration Point
|Jon Brinton, GM, Network Solutions
"Panasonic adds UC features to traditional telephones", TechTarget, May 24, 2016
"ETS16: Open Mic - What's the Next Greatest Challenge in Energy?", Zpryme Research, video of session I hosted at ETS16 in Austin, May 3, 2016
"Slack Season: Time to Jump In?", Channel Pro Network, April 27, 2016
"Flexible Working - Adapting to New Challenges", JAA article, UC Expo Preview Magazine, pp. 20-21, April 18, 2016
"LatAm Spotlight - VoIP Group CEO Talks Business Necessity of VoIP", My Q&A with VoIP Group's CEO, TMCnet, April 5, 2016
"Are You Communicating or Collaborating?", David F. Carr, Forbes.com, February 2, 2016
"6 Tips for Shaping the Customer Experience in 2016", Article to complement my earlier podcast interview, Enterprise Management 360, Q1 2016 edition
"Phone.com and Sansay Collaborate to Implement Network Enhancements and WebRTC Real-Time Services", Phone.com press release, January 26, 2016
"6 Tips for Shaping the Customer Experience in 2016", Podcast interview, Enterprise Management 360, January 22, 2016
"UC Experts Share Their 2016 Predictions for the UCaaS Market", Collab9 Blog, January 22, 2016
"Top Analysts Covering the Contact Center Industry for 2016", Fonolo Blog, January 19, 2016
"It Was the Worst of Times, It Is the Best of Times", SCTC Perspective by Dennis Goodhart, No Jitter, January 13, 2016
"State of UC and Collaboration", Jon Arnold interviewed by TMCnet, posted to Shaping Influence portal, December 11, 2015 issue
Trends in communications technology, JAA video interview conducted by Chris Henry of the FOX Group at the Telecom 2015 conference, October 27, 2015
"5 Trends Driving UC in 2016", JAA authored article, Info Telecom, December 2015 issue
"How do I make my video conferencing system easy to use?", Search Unified Communications, October 23, 2015
"Understanding the Small Business VoIP Transition", Search Unified Communications, October 16, 2015
"Four Ways UC Benefits Productivity", authored feature, TechTarget SearchUnifiedCommunications, October 6, 2015
"Six Quick Tips: Make Your Network Telecommuter and Mobile Friendly", CyberTrend, October 1, 2015
"Bridging the Gap: How the Knowledge of the Working Generation will be a Springboard to the Future for Millennials", Podcast, posted July 28 - am interviewed by Chris Gorog on Logic Centrol Online, see my August 21, 2015 blog post for details
"What you need to consider before you buy VoIP", authored feature, TechTarget SearchUnifiedCommunications, August 17, 2015
"Three use cases that highlight the benefits of VoIP", authored feature, TechTarget SearchUnifiedCommunications, August 4, 2015
"Analyzing VoIP basics reveals telephony's evolution", authored feature, TechTarget SearchUnifiedCommunications, July 29, 2015
"Office 365 an emerging threat to Cisco UCM", TechTarget SearchUC, July 22, 2015
"State of the UC Industry 2015", GetVoIP.com, July 7, 2015
"Solve Common VoIP Issues", CyberTrend, June 25, 2015
"Streamline The Efficiency of Voice & Data Services", pp. 20-21, Processor Magazine, May 2015 issue
My article: "Three Ways SIP Phones Add Value to Hosted VoIP", Internet Telephony Magazine, March 4, 2015
"Collaboration Insights - Getting Work Done", Guest post, Cisco Canada Blog March 5, 2015
My article: "Five Considerations for Buying SIP Phones, CIO Review Magazine, February 2015
JAA interviewed by TMC: "The Tech Road Ahead", TMCnet - UC portal, December 31, 2014
My outlook for UC Trends, Backbone Magazine, 2015 Technology Resource Guide, November 2014
"Bring your own 'danger'", Toronto Star, October 20, 2014
"Security and UC - a Primer", Toolbox.com, June 20, 2014
"Microsoft Lync opens up UC market", ComputerWeekly.com, June 19, 2014
"The Rise and Fall of Nortel", Toolbox.com (Ziff Davis B2B)- my content, their graphics, June3, 2014
"Simplicity and Intelligence - Can You Have Both? How Can You Not Have Both?", by Jon Arnold, feature essay in show guide for the 10th Metaswitch Forum, May 12-15, 2014
"5 Trends in the UC Marketplace - an Interview with Jon Arnold", TollFreeForwarding.com, April 23, 2014
"VoIP Security: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You", JAA authored feature article: Enterprise Management 360 Magazine, Q1 2014 edition
"VoIP in 2014: Experts Weigh In", Get VoIP, February 10, 2014
"Cyberattack surge may be the new normal", Toronto Star, February 3, 2014
"Cyber-attack on Bell supplier highlights rising hacker threat", Globe and Mail, February 3, 2014
Article/new column: "Now You Want Me to Collaborate? Leave Me Alone!", Internet Telephony Magazine, July 2013
Video highlights/state of UC market: "Know Your Alternatives 2013 conference, Toronto", Know Your Alternatives, March18, 2013
Article/new column: "Social networking for business - is it just social?", Internet Telephony Magazine, March 2013
"Backbone200 - the best of Canadian tech" (see VoIP topic), Backbone Magazine, March 2013 issue
"Benefits and Challenges of SIP Trunking Migration", Fierce Enterprise Communications eBook, January 2013 (am cited several times - link is for registration form - can send soft copy upon request)
"2013 Call Center Trends - Google Hangouts Analyst Roundtable", hosted by Shai Berger, Fonolo, January 9, 2013
Jon Arnold's MyAlltop Blogs Portal
Mark Goldberg - Telecom Trends
Mitch Joel - Six Pixels of Separation
Luca Filigheddu - Tech Genial blog
Protecode blog - open source licensing
The Directive - Kat Shoa's blog
David Byrne (yes, nee Talking Heads)


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I'm impressed too Giba!
I didn't understand much of what you and Ameet were talking about!
productionLet Jamiroquai take you on a White Knuckle Ride. Come here to talk about anything related to the new album...
Re: production
I'm impressed too Giba!
I didn't understand much of what you and Ameet were talking about!
Re: production
I was so lost I was in outerspace
Re: production
But thanks girls.
I called again this evening. I think he just likes me calling! I have to call again tomorrow.
Re: production
oops just read this!! No you weren't in outerspace Kirstie! I was!
I responded too quickly.
I think my definitions sound technical because they were from the book!!
but we understand synchronization is aligning the tracks so they aren't off.
My class was only a fun intro. I learned enough to start something!
Ameet completed the foundation and diploma. Assuming he is a producer now!?
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jlouis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
IDeX labs
IDeX labs is an upcoming Open Innovation company connecting Innovation seekers (companies) and Innovation providers (universities, start-up, individuals,..) in high tech environments. It aims to create a market place for high tech innovation and research, in particular through a Web2.0 platform.
We primarily focus on business-to-business opportunities. Medium and large size corporate seeking an innovation market place to solve complex technology problems.
The logo needs to look clean, professional and innovative. Please feel free to use colors (we have a preference for blue), but make sure it looks good in B&W and that it looks good large or small. Uses include website and print (e.g. business cards).
The IDeX name is coming from ID (idea) eX (exchange). "labs" adds a research / innovation connotation.
We do not have a treatment preference for how the words should be arranged in the logo design. We also do not have a preference for uppercase, lowercase, or any other combination although our initial assumption is IDeX labs (for example "IDeX Labs," "idex labs," "ideXlabs," etc.) This may change as we receive entries and we will update the brief/post comments as necessary.
The logo should not use any sort of clip art or photo images.
The final logo design needs to be provided in a vector format such as eps or AI. Winning designer will also need to provide the font name(s) used.
Cool ideas in our mind include:
- Suggest access to nearly infinite brain power / resources to solve problems
- Democratisation of Open Innovation
Please no pre-generated or unoriginal text or images. We will do our best to review logos as quickly as possible to help further the progress of the project.
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