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LAS VEGAS -- Dave Bolland planned for what for him is a normal summer day Tuesday by heading to the gym for a workout and then undergoing a physiotherapy session on his rehabbing left ankle.
At some point, however, Bolland would take a moment to click on a video on Youtube and relive perhaps the greatest moment of his hockey career that occurred one year ago when he scored the winning goal of the Blackhawks' 2013 Stanley Cup.
It was June 24, 2013, when the veteran center batted in a rebound of a Johnny Oduya shot just 17 seconds after Bryan Bickell had pulled the Hawks into a 2-2 tie with the Bruins in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final in Boston. Bolland's goal gave the Hawks their second Cup in four years and made a childhood dream a reality.
"Every kid scores a goal like that in their minds or out on the street playing hockey with their friends," Bolland told the Tribune via phone from London, Ontario. "They all go through that moment of wanting to score that kind of goal. It happened to me.
"Scoring that goal and having a second Stanley Cup under our belt was a big moment," Bolland added. "You look back and see what we went through, it was a long playoffs and series but it was fun."
Bolland knew the anniversary was approaching and has been "remembering the good times that we had."
The best time was when that bouncing puck found Bolland's stick just outside of the left post and he batted it past Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask.
"It came in the slot to me after Oduya shot it," Bolland reminisced. "It bounced off someone in front and came to me in front and I just had to put it in the back of the net."
The score with 58.3 seconds remaining touched off a raucous celebration on the ice and on the Hawks' bench. It included Bolland flipping both gloves into the air before teammates surrounded him.
"Throw the gloves off," Bolland said with a laugh. "I thought the game was over."
A short time later, it was and the now-28-year-old's place in Hawks lore was cemented.
Even before Bolland's name was engraved on the Cup for the second time after also playing a key role in the Hawks' run to the 2010 championship, he was sent to the Maple Leafs in a trade to alleviate salary-cap space. It was a move that Bolland understands.
"It's a business," he said. "To get that one with that tight group with (Brent) Seabrook, (Patrick) Sharp, (Jonathan) Toews, (Patrick) Kane and a few other guys that were from that first Stanley Cup run, you guys grow up together. From prospect camps and training camps and to have won two Cups with them was a huge thing. But it's a business getting traded. It's one of those things you go through in your career. You're not going to be in the same spot for a long time usually."
After a difficult 203-14 season with the Leafs during which he appeared in only 23 games because of a serious injury after a tendon in his ankle was severed by a skate blade, Bolland is an unrestricted free agent.
"My deal is up," Bolland said. "For myself coming back (last season), I don't think I was 100 percent. I wanted to get back to help my team get into the playoffs. Unfortunately, it didn't happen for us. Right now, I'm just trying to get a deal done with Toronto. I want to stay a Leaf and be a Leaf until my career is done. That's one thing I want to do. But if we can't get anything done, I'm an UFA and there are teams out there that could come after me."
Any thought of one of returning to the Hawks, who are on a perpetual hunt for center help?
"That, I don't know," Bolland said with a chuckle. "We'll have to see what happens. I'd have to think about it."
Until he does sign, Bolland is concentrating on getting his ankle and leg back to 100 percent.
"I'm still working on it," he said. "It's getting my strength back in my thigh and my calf. I lost a lot of leg strength in my calf and thigh. It was all gone and I don't have that strength to take care of that ankle. Now, the ankle is fine, it's great. When the end of summer rolls around, I'll be 100 percent."
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The C7 Corvette Stingray convertible is out and it is indeed a good-looking car. I say this from the perspective of owning a C5 coupe and having road-tested a C6 convertible. (For the Corvette initiates, C5, etc., denote generations of Corvettes. The C7 is the latest. The C1 was the first Corvette; it was introduced in 1953. The C5 bowed in 1997 and the C6 in 2005.)
Since Chevrolet did make its first Corvette a convertible, it stands to reason that we would get a C7 convertible and its price will be about $5,000 over the price of the coupe. A typical convertible, with navigation and a few other extras, runs about $63,000.
A word on Corvette style: the C7 has had rave reviews and it's clear that Chevrolet spend zillions of dollars upgrading Corvette's historically rudimentary interior. The red C7 I saw the other day (while road testing a new Acura RLX hybrid, I should add) was everything I thought it would be — very racy, big wheels. I still think the C5 is a cleaner, if more conservative design, but the C5′s manually operated convertible top is a pain in the neck (and the back) to raise and lower. Drivers of the new C7 convertible need only push a button and the top magically goes away or reappears.
More about the new C7 convertible in this Autoweek piece.

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As you may already know, a short film is going to be made of a screenplay I adapted from LEAVE, one of my short, dramatic stories about what it may have been like for the first females sailors assigned to warships back in the Nineties.
It probably isn't much of a spoiler to say that in both the story's and the film's interpretation, it is quite a challenge for those courageous women, seeing how the all-male crew of the ship they're reporting to would rather go to war than have their ship be invaded by female sailors.
So… I'll be going out to Los Angeles in April to begin work on the production, but first we have a small detail of raising the funds.
Yes, I'm looking at you…
We plan to film on the battleship USS Iowa, which is now a museum ship out in LA. Unfortunately, even though the Iowa staff are willing to significantly cut the price because I'm an old salt of a retired sailor, it still costs a pretty penny nonetheless. And there of course will be other production costs to factor in, as well.
We'll be kicking off an Indigogo campaign to raise the funds at the beginning of March but I just wanted to give you all a heads up that we now have a "Coming Soon" page where you can sign up to stay informed on project updates and be advised when the campaign is live.
Our vision for the film is to:
Create a Cinematic Work of Art that both Entertains and Promotes a Discussion for Positive Change
Needless to say, your support of our efforts, not just through donations, but also through your outreach to all your family and friends on our behalf, will be key in helping us turn our vision into a reality.
We'll be introducing our award-winning cast [it's not 100% yet but if cast assignments firm up as it looks like they will we are going to have a stellar cast] and highly accomplished crew very soon so please check it out and join our team at:
Okay, I have taken off my PT Barnum wannabe Promoter's Hat and have now put on my wannabe highly esteemed and influential Author's Hat…
First off, I would like to report that building a campaign to raise the funds to produce a short film is taking a lot of my very limited brain power.
We have decided to go with Indigogo to raise our funds instead of Kickstarter. The main reason for this decision is that you get to keep the funds you raise with Indigogo even if you do not meet your goal. With Kickstarter it's all or nothing – if you don't meet your goal, you don't get the dough. Indigogo does however/of course, charge higher percentages for their service and transfer fees.
So once our funding site was decided, one of the first challenges I had to confront was the "tag line," one of the first blocks that has to be filled out when building the pitch for the campaign.
One of the toughest things for me to do as a writer is to condense big meaning, metaphorical concepts with a lot of words into a synopsis of a paragraph or two. Having to condense down even further into a tag line that allows only 100 characters, such as Indigogo's, is close to self-inflicted murder.
Fortunately, I had already gone through the painful process of coming up with a logline, which was needed for pitching the screenplay.
A sailor's desire to be with his sick mother is complicated by the unwanted influx of his ship's first female sailors and a looming war
But the problem is that logline is 133 characters and Indigogo's "tag line" only allows for 100 characters. So, after more painful paring, this is what I came up with:
A sailor can't be with his sick mother due to an influx of despised female sailors and a looming war
With war looming and despised females sailors arriving, a sailor strives to be with his dying mother
I'm still not 100% loving it but my head hurts after all that editing out and then having second thoughts and editing in and then having third thoughts and editing out again and on and on…
But, it'll do for now as I now have to continue on with the rest of the pitch development which, hopefully, won't hurt my head quite as much.
Stay tuned! The campaign will be kicking off at the beginning of the month.
TTFN and Write On! my friends.
Coming Soon!
For details, click here
Article updated to reflect new tag line and that cast assignments are close but not yet completely firm


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For the fourth straight year, the fiscal year in California has begun with no budget in sight. As a matter of fact, the budget is late for the ninth time in the past 10 years -- a sorry record indeed. What to do?
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come up with a plan to prod the legislature into action by reducing the salaries of 200,000 state employees to the minimum wage until the legislature does its job.
The governor swears that he's not trying to punish state employees. Rather, California needs to save money until the budget goes through, at which time the state will pay employees all the money that has been withheld.
Does this make sense? Let's do the math.
The average state worker earns $65,000 annually, while a year at minimum wage would be $15,000. That means that over the course of an entire year, the state temporarily would save $3 billion, or $250 million per month.
Given a deficit of $19 billion, even this momentary "savings" doesn't equate to much, although the discomfort for 200,000 employees will be enormous. Just because the state promises their money sooner or later doesn't mean employees can pay their bills with the same understanding from their creditors.
Moreover, it turns out that Schwarzenegger's objective of reduced salaries has much more bark than bite.
The state's antiquated payroll system won't even allow checks to be written in the redesigned format proposed by the governor.
Experts say that updating the system to permit an override in employee pay schedules will take six to nine months plus an appropriation of more than $100 million, which isn't even in the current proposed budget.
When all is said and done, the governor's effort to temporarily reduce state employee salaries seems more like a poorly executed ploy than any effort to save money. The legislature knows it and state employees know it.
The only concrete take-away will be a deterioration of the already bad relationship between the governor and California's civil servants who suffered a 14 percent pay cut over the past year because of the state's furlough program.
Meanwhile, the budget stalemate goes on without missing a beat.
Budget Stalemate Continues Without Missing a Beat
For the fourth straight year, the fiscal year in California has begun with no budget in sight. As a matter of fact, the budget is late for the ninth time in the past 10 years -- a sorry record indeed. What to do?


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Despite cruising to a pair of victories in its first two games, the Ohio Premier Under-15 girls soccer team still faced a must-win or tie situation last Monday if it hoped to advance to last Tuesday's Midwest Regional Cup semifinals.
Despite cruising to a pair of victories in its first two games, the Ohio Premier Under-15 girls soccer team still faced a must-win or tie situation last Monday if it hoped to advance to last Tuesday's Midwest Regional Cup semifinals.
O.P.'s hopes for a spot in the final four fell short with a 3-2 loss to the Kansas City F.C. Force in round-robin play last Monday at Ankeney Park in Beavercreek. With the win, KCFC advanced to the semifinals.
O.P. trailed 1-0 at the half, but tied the game at 1-all on Katie Mazurek's goal early in the second half. O.P. then fell behind 3-1 and used Emily Byorth's goal midway through the half to close within 3-2.
"This team really has character," O.P. coach Greg Miller said. "They have a unique ability to just deal with adversity over and over and over. I just think the adversity became too much. Trying to come back from a two-goal deficit, it's not a situation we're ever in. We can always come back from a goal deficit, but two goals is really unchartered waters for us."
O.P. opened play with an 8-0 win against Waunakee (Wis.) last Saturday and then handled Javanon (Ky.) 5-1 last Sunday.
�The O.P. Under-18 girls team finished 1-2 in pool play and failed to reach the semifinals. O.P. opened play last Saturday with a 1-0 loss to FC Milwaukee (Wis.), but bounced back to beat the Blue Valley S.C. (Kan.) 2-0 last Sunday. Nadja Kolliesuah scored both goals.
O.P. was eliminated following a 1-0 loss to Scott Gallagher S.C. (Mo.) last Monday.
"It was important to finish our chances and we had chances in all three games," Team Ohio coach Matt Ogden said. "FC Milwaukee had one opportunity and they put it in the back of the net. We had several and couldn't quite put it in there. (Last Monday) we had a penalty kick (Lara Ross) in the second half and couldn't score. We hit a crossbar in the first half and hit a post in the second half. We weren't beaten necessarily by a better team, but we didn't help ourselves by not putting our chances away."
�The O.P. Under-18 boys team finished 1-1-1 in pool play.
O.P. and Eastern Iowa United battled to a 2-2 tie last Saturday and O.P. edged Scott Gallagher S.C. 3-2 last Sunday.
O.P., however, saw its title hopes end following a 2-0 loss to regional semifinalist Shattuck St. Mary's (Minn.) last Monday.
"I think we did really well," O.P. coach Frank Bucci said. "This Minnesota team is an academy. They train three, four times a week. Everybody lives there. This is a good team we just played."
�The Team Ohio F.C. Under-15 boys team won its first game last Saturday - a 3-1 victory against West Des Moines (Iowa), but lost its final two games to finish 1-2. Alex Bumpus, Alex Polko and Rylee Woods scored in the lone win.
Woods scored for Team Ohio in a 2-1 loss to Carmel United Elite (Ind.) last Sunday, and Alec Binger scored in a 3-1 loss to Eclipse Select (Ill.) last Monday.
"We didn't play very well this weekend," Team Ohio coach Costa Kalorides said. "We didn't take care of business the way we should have. We had to rely on some external factors. All in all, we didn't play our best and it caught up with us this weekend."
�Playing in its first Midwest Regional Cup, the Team Ohio Under-13 boys team finished a respectable 2-1, but failed to reach the semifinals.
Team Ohio opened play with a 2-0 loss to eventual semifinalist Heartland S.C. (Iowa) last Saturday. It then bounced back to beat BVSC (Kan.) 2-0 last Sunday and blanked Dakota United (N.D.) 6-0 last Monday.
Against Dakota United, Drew Krueger scored two goals, and Ben Kinney, Robert McKelvey, Benny Swanson and Brandon Woo added one apiece.
"We performed well in our last two games, but unfortunately we came up just a little short," Team Ohio coach John Lawrence said. "This was a good experience for these kids. To get a taste of this at such a young age, no one can take it away from them and they can use this in their further careers."


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NEW YORK – There's hardly any room on the desk in David Downs' office in midtown Manhattan, and not much time to waste.
The papers are piling up here, a cluttered sign that the culmination of the bid to land the World Cup in the United States in either 2018 or 2022 is about to hit the home stretch.
The visits are done and the paperwork is in; all that's left now is the lobbying.
"At this point, we just have to make sure we get some votes," said Downs, the executive director of the United States 2018/2022 World Cup bid committee. "It's always a sobering notion to think that this isn't just a business proposal that you negotiate a yes or a no to, but actually a vote. That means it's somewhat out of your control."
Downs and his staff are nearing the end of process that started back in May, when the committee submitted a massive, five-volume Bid Book to land the world's top sporting event. FIFA inspectors followed earlier this month with a four-day tour of some facilities in consideration as the fateful Dec. 2 deadline announcement nears.
[inline_node:318080]Until that day – when FIFA announces the hosts for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups – Downs, USSF president Sunil Gulati and other US reps will crisscross the globe, meeting with members of the committee in their homes and at high-profile events in an effort to convince FIFA what Downs already knows: The US is up to the task.
"It's very important for the world's biggest and most popular sporting event to be held in a proper fashion," Downs said. "It's not, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter. We can hold it in Antarctica.' It also matters to FIFA."
While the perception is that a European country will win the 2018 bid, Downs doesn't see any reason to drop out of the process and focus on the second World Cup.
In fact, there's a chance that the US could pull an upset. If a European country were eliminated early from the 2018 selection process, their only hope of hosting a World Cup would be to throw their support behind the American 2018 bid and hold out for 2022. (FIFA has previously stated that the same continent cannot host two straight World Cups.)
Still, Downs did echo Gulati's recent statements when it comes to a scenario that the US will shoot solely for 2022.
[inline_node:318045]"If someone were to give us a real incentive to step aside rather than just because everybody thinks that's the right thing to do, than absolutely, we'd consider it," he said.
"I don't want to rule out that we would consider it as early as Oct. 15 or as late as Dec. 1, but as long as FIFA doesn't order us to – and if they did, they'd have to explain why they made us do all that [paperwork for the '18 bid] - right now we're still in."
Even if the US doesn't earn the right to host the tournament, there will be some good things to come from all the work.
"We always said when we set out to bid that if the bid did nothing else but raise awareness and enthusiasm for the sport in America that would be a positive accomplishment," Downs said.
"In almost everything we do around here, we bare that in mind. Conversely, everything good that happens in the sport reflects positively on the bid, so that's a nice symbiosis.
"I think a little bit of it early on was convincing America that Americans love the sport, but I think most astute American people, if they are sports fans or business people or politicians or municipal people of some kind, they see the trend," he added.
"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to look at the ever changing nature of the population in the United States to suspect that the sport will be ever more popular in 2050 than it is today."
But that doesn't mean Downs is resigned to losing.
"Gosh, I hope we win," he said. "I feel terrible about the trees we killed if we don't."


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Rapper Rick Ross said it was "a mistake" to tell radio hosts this week that he doesn't sign female rappers because he would end up sleeping with them.
"My entire empire's backbone is led by 2 of the strongest people I know and they happen to be women, my mother and sister," he wrote in a Facebook post. "The operations wouldn't run without them and I have the highest regard and respect for women in this industry."
U.S. & World
Ross drew backlash for an interview he did on Power 105.1's "The Breakfast Club," in which he said that, if he were to sign a female rapper to his label, Maybach Music Group, he "would end up f------" her and "f------ the business up."
"I'm so focused on my business," Ross said in the radio interview. "I just, I gotta be honest with you. You know, she looking good. I'm spending so much money on her photo shoots. I gotta f--- a couple times."
Ross' Facebook post also included a plug for the VH1 show "Signed," where he serves as a mentor to contestants who get the chance to be signed to MMG.
"I look forward to continue working with & supporting female artists," he said on Facebook.
In 2013, Ross drew fire for his lyrics on a remix of Rocko's "U.O.E.N.0.," for which he was accused of encouraging date rape.
"Put Molly all in the champagne/ She ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain't even know it," he rapped on the song.


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Sandy Haven is a wide estuarial creek entering Milford Haven Waterway on the north shore, midway between Dale and Milford Haven town. At low tide when the stream is reduced to a trickle, it can be crossed by means of the Triple Stone stepping stones on the western side to the long stretch of golden sand on the eastern shore. Further upstream is a small footbridge where the stream is narrower.
There are two access routes to Sandy Haven, one by way of the Milford Haven to Dale road crossing the estuary by Sandy Haven chapel and turning left towards the coast a short distance down to the western side, the other by turning left through Herbrandston and right just past Herbrandston Hall to the eastern shore.
To write about Sandy Haven and not to mention the famous artist Graham Sutherland would be a grave omission, for he was drawn to the place like a magnet and sketched and painted there many times.
It was the western side, where the lane leading down to the shore takes you right onto the shingly beach under the trees, that Sutherland preferred, and one can see why. There is a certain mystic atmosphere about the place, with its little cottage tucked under the low cliff right on the beach where generations of seamen and ferrymen lived by the footbridge and the ferryman's cottage.
Sutherland seemed fascinated by the gnarled scrub oaks clinging onto the cliff, their contorted roots exposed like grasping fingers, creating a dark rather sinister ambiance. He was also strongly influenced by the legacies of the sea trade, the green weed-clad ribs of a boat half buried in the estuary mud, a bleached horse's skull and cattle horns.
He called it 'an estuary of exultant strangeness," and described the quality of light there as "magical and transforming," and "as intense as it is in the South of France."
He saw the sea-eroded rocks precisely mimicking in miniature the curved form of the inland hills in the gently undulating Preselis.
All these mystic ingredients have found their way into his sketches and paintings, as have similar forms in the other two estuaries he frequented at Porth Clais, near St Davids and Picton Ferry on the Eastern Cleddau near Picton Castle, where for several years he had a unique public gallery.
Sandy Haven, which lies between Great Castle Head and South Hook Point, has changed little since Sutherland first discovered it in the thirties and forties, although the Haven Waterway has changed dramatically in the same period since it started developing as a major oilport in the late 1950s. The first refinery was built by Esso just round the corner to the east and was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1960. Now the jetty and inland site at South Hook are a terminal for Liquid Natural Gas.
Would Sutherland find any echoes of his trees and stones in the pipes, tanks and jetty trestles of modern industry?


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For the purposes of this article:
(1) "Assessment" means a diagnostic evaluation to determine whether and to what extent a person is a drug offender under this article and would benefit from its provisions. The assessment shall be conducted in accordance with the standardized risk and needs assessment and risk cut-off scores adopted by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The results of all standardized risk and needs assessments and risk cut-off scores are confidential.
(2) "Continuum of care" means a seamless and coordinated course of substance abuse education and treatment designed to meet the needs of drug offenders as they move through the criminal justice system and beyond, maximizing self-sufficiency.
(3) "Controlled substance" means a drug or other substance for which a medical prescription or other legal authorization is required for purchase or possession.
(4) "Drug" means a controlled substance, an illegal drug or other harmful substance.
(5) "Drug court" means a judicial intervention process that incorporates the Ten Key Components and may include preadjudication or post-adjudication participation.
(6) "Drug court team" shall consist of the following members who are assigned to the drug court:
(A) The drug court judge, which may include a magistrate, mental hygiene commissioner or other hearing officer;
(B) The prosecutor;
(C) The public defender or a member of the criminal defense bar;
(D) A representative from the day report center or community corrections program, if operating in the jurisdiction;
(E) A law-enforcement officer;
(F) The drug court coordinator;
(G) A representative from a circuit court probation office or the division of parole supervision or both;
(H) One or more substance abuse treatment providers; and
(I) Any other persons selected by the drug court team.
(7) "Drug offender" means an adult person charged with a drug-related offense or an offense in which substance abuse is determined from the evidence to have been a factor in the commission of the offense.
(8) "Dual diagnosis" means a substance abuse and cooccurring mental health disorder.
(9) "Local advisory committee" may consist of the following members or their designees:
(A) A drug court circuit judge, who shall serve as chair;
(B) Drug court magistrates;
(C) The prosecutor;
(D) A public defender;
(E) The drug court coordinator;
(F) A member of the criminal defense bar;
(G) The circuit clerk;
(H) A day report center director;
(I) A circuit court probation officer, parole officer or both;
(J) Law enforcement;
(K) One or more substance abuse treatment providers;
(L) A corrections representative; and
(M) Any such other person or persons the chair considers appropriate.
(10) "Illegal drug" means a drug whose manufacture, sale, use or possession is forbidden by law.
(11) "Memorandum of understanding" means a written document setting forth an agreed upon procedure.
(12) "Offender" means an adult charged with a criminal offense punishable by incarceration.
(13) "Other harmful substance" means a misused substance otherwise legal to possess, including alcohol.
(14) "Preadjudication order" means a court order requiring a drug offender to participate in drug court before charges are filed or before conviction.
(15) "Post adjudication" means a court order requiring a drug offender to participate in drug court after having entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendre or having been found guilty.
(16) "Recidivism" means any subsequent arrest for a serious offense (carrying a sentence of at least one year) resulting in the filing of a charge.
(17) "Relapse" means a return to substance use after a period of abstinence.
(18) "Split sentencing" means a sentence which includes a period of incarceration followed by a period of supervision.
(19) "Staffing" means the meeting before a drug offender's appearance in drug court in which the drug court team discusses a coordinated response to the drug offender's behavior.
(20) "Substance" means drugs or alcohol.
(21) "Substance abuse" means the illegal or improper consumption of a substance.
(22) "Substance abuse treatment" means a program designed to provide prevention, education, and therapy directed toward ending substance abuse and preventing a return to substance usage, through a continuum of care, including: Treatment of cooccurring substance abuse and mental health issues; outpatient care; intensive outpatient care; residential care; peer support; relapse prevention; and cognitive behavioral programming, based on research about effective treatment/recovery models for the offender population.
(23) "Ten Key Components" means the following benchmarks intended to describe the very best practices, designs, and operations of drug courts. These benchmarks are meant to serve as a practical, yet flexible framework for developing effective drug courts in vastly different jurisdictions and to provide a structure for conducting research and evaluation for program accountability:
(A) Drug courts integrate alcohol and other drug treatment services with justice system case processing;
(B) Using a nonadversarial approach, prosecution and defense counsel promote public safety while protecting participants' due process rights;
(C) Eligible participants are identified early and promptly placed in the drug court program;
(D) Drug courts provide access to a continuum of alcohol, drug, and other related treatment and rehabilitation services;
(E) Abstinence is monitored by frequent alcohol and other drug testing;
(F) A coordinated strategy governs drug court responses to participants' compliance;
(G) Ongoing judicial interaction with each drug court participant is essential;
(H) Monitoring and evaluation measure the achievement of program goals and gauge effectiveness;
(I) Continuing interdisciplinary education promotes effective drug court planning, implementation and operations; and
(J) Forging partnerships among drug courts, public agencies and community-based organizations generates local support and enhances drug court effectiveness.
(24) "Treatment supervision" means a program under which an eligible felony drug offender, pursuant to section six-a of this article, is ordered to undergo treatment for substance abuse by a circuit court judge as a condition of drug court, a condition of probation or as a modification of probation.


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'F-82 82/27 I: QATAR OIL' [175r] (374/730)
The record is made up of 1 volume (361 folios). It was created in 11 Sep 1925-23 Feb 1934. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers.
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
make good any damage in the event of its removing its
buildings, etc.
Article 15. In the interests of the Sheikh I think
there ought to be some provision that the question whether or
not the delay on the part of the Company is satisfactory
should be subject to the approval of e#g* the Political
Article 16. There is something to be said for
eliminating this elaborate provision for arbitration and
leaving any matter in dispute to the arbitration of the
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf Historically used by the British to refer to the sea area between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Often referred to as The Gulf or the Arabian Gulf. .
We will look at the agreement more closely, but
I think it well to send these provisional notes at once.
I am sending copies of this letter to Warner at
the Foreign Office and to King at the Admiralty.
Yours sinoei*^l]S»
J. G. Lmi I n**,
About this item
- Content
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the Shaikh of Qatar and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives, including Haji 'Abdullah Williamson, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State for Colonies in London, regarding geologic surveys of Qatar and Trucial States, the concession of an exploration license in 1926 and its renewal with an agreement between the 'Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Sheikh of Qatar, and APOC, in 1932 (folios 57-59).
The volume also contains notes of meetings and correspondence regarding the early stages of the negotiations for the oil concession in Qatar, and the 1933 draft oil concessions (folios 120-125 and 248-268), with comments.
There are documents in Arabic, mainly letters to and from the Sheikh of Qatar. Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (361 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 331-345). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
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Smartphones are the new portable gaming systems. And MP3 players, point & shoot cameras, calendars, on-the-go email machines, and social networking devices. Simply put, smartphones work hard for us. As a result, the battery drains quickly. Oftentimes too quickly.
That's why Seidio is offering up three 3,500mAh extended batteries and three desktop charging cradles for the Galaxy S III to three lucky readers.
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As stated above, we have some battery/charging cradle combos to give away. But what exactly are they?
3,500mAh Extended Battery
If you find yourself running out of juice halfway through the day, this is the battery for you. And at 3,500mAh, this baby should nearly double your battery life. Since it brings so much juice along for the ride, it's larger than the stock battery. No worries, though - it comes with the back plate to match.
The version that we have for this giveaway is the non-NFC variant. If that's something you simply must have, you can always buy one directly from Seidio with NFC built-in.
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With that all-day battery life, you'll need a proper way to charge it, right? For that, there's the Desktop Charging Cradle. This is a sleek and practical way to juice your phone up while still being able see it. Definitely convenient for those who use their device as an alarm clock. The dock is also wide enough to accommodate most cases, so you won't need to undress your phone every night before charging it.
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I set up a printer connected via USB (Canon MP630) and a network-printer (Brother HL-2030 via Fritz!Box 3270). When I try to print something the files get sent to the printers (Ubuntu says so) and the printers get activated: They wake up from standby (if so) and (Canon) show a message "start printing" resp. (Brother) sound like they would start printing. But two seconds later everything stops and nothing happens anymore. Ubuntu said everything got printed.
How can I solve the problem and print again? How to gain more information of the process? Everything worked well in Ubuntu Natty 11.04.
And it might be of interest that it is no problem to scan anything with Canon MP630, as well as I recieve status-messages.
I deleted both printers again, rebooted and installed them newly. Now it works partly:
(Brother HL-2030) I used to choose the original Brother-ppd when it didn't print. When I took the Ubuntu-recommended one I now can print, but can't configure all the options I was used to configure (i. e. Sleep-Time ...)
(Canon MP630) I can print now, but it is totally messed up: It prints 1mm-lines of colour and between each line is a blank line. So it prints only the upper part of an image and at all it looks pale and stretched.


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Welcome back to Weekend Projects, fun, mostly beginner-friendly electronics projects you can make in a weekend! Throughout the year, every other week, we'll introduce a new project for those either looking to get started learning electronics or slightly more advanced projects to build upon what you know. For example, last year, we explored circuit bending (Add Volume, Jack), AM/FM radio (Aircraft Band Receiver), and even touched on cybernetics (555 Timer Ball Whacker). Our big hit was the Light Theremin project, which dozens of users built variations of, from touch-sensitive to motor-driving theremins, using breadboards, Snap Circuits, even "Manhattan-style" circuit design.
This year, we'll begin with Game Show Buttons, a moderately involved circuit that's easy to build and understand – no soldering required, so all that's needed is to drop components in place on a 6″ modular IC breadboard. More on this circuit and a video after the jump!
Challenge your friends to rounds of geeky jeopardy with Game Show Buttons, a two-person quiz circuit built using the legendary 555 timer and a Quad 2-input OR gate IC (we recommend the 74HC32). Along with momentary push buttons and corresponding LEDs (and some resistors and capacitors thrown in for good measure), the first player who thinks they know the answer and pushes his or her button will turn the circuit on, locking out the other player.
This circuit is built using an OR logic gate, which as the name implies is true (on) if either input A or input B is true. The OR is one of seven common types of logic gates, the others being AND, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR, and NOT (or as most call it, an Inverter). Watch the video below to see the circuit being built and operated. If you build this project or a variation of it, be sure to send us an email with pictures of your build!
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We had a teacher in my department a few years ago who had the best regents results around. The reason???? Any kid failing was removed from her class. That would explain other teacher's poor results.
And thus we see the reason that merit pay will never work in the city of New York.


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text: Warcraft has an amazing soundtrack- five amazing soundtracks, really, if you count each expansion and the original- and lots of those songs are absolutely perfect for Halloween. Karazhan alone could provide a creeptacular aural backdrop to your Halloween festivities, but I took a little time to put together a full playlist of Warcraft Halloween songs. My friend Rades at Orcish Army Knife recommends adding the music of Vash'jir track, and I completely agree. If you already own all the soundtracks, it's just a matter of setting up a playlist on your iPod (or musical earphonic device of your choosing) and rounding up the Undead for an All Hallow's Eve party:


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As a filmmaker who's pushed the boundaries of imagination, Steven Spielberg loves adding new tech to his creative arsenal – but not for newness' sake.
Hosting an early screening for DreamWorks and Disney's Spielberg-produced robot boxing film "Real Steel" and anticpating tonight's debut of his sci-fi series "Terra Nova," the producer/director who made audiences believe in everything from single-minded giant sharks to UFOs to stranded aliens to revived dinosaurs tells PopcornBiz he looks carefully at each new high-tech development to tell his tales, but doesn't feel compelled to later in some trendy technique just to test it out.
"I don't try new things just because they're new, but if it'll help tell my story better I'll try anything," Spielberg says. "But I don't go out of my way to find things that are new only because they're novel. I try to do things within the parameters of the narratives that I've been given to direct."
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As a producer, Spielberg is watching his collaborators advance all kinds of new cinematic tricks – in "Real Steel," for example, director Shawn Levy had a tech team on set to make increasingly minute adjustments in the "performances" of the CGI characters to more seamlessly blend with those of the live-action actors. And "Terra Nova" expands on the realistic dinosaur effects he pioneered in the original "Jurassic Park."
"As we move deeper and deeper into the world of 'nothing's impossible,' there are boundaries we've broken almost on every movie that dares to be different," says Spielberg. "And not all the boundaries are instantly apparent to the audience. But they sometimes become deeper tools in a director and a production designer's kit. And that's what's exciting."
He look fondly back on the days when there were certain technical and practical constraints to what he could accomplish in a film and trying to innovate ways around the conventions of the day.
"In the 'Jaws' days, our imaginations were limited to the practical realities of being outdoors with a shark in salt water in the middle of the ocean," he remembers. "But today there is nothing to fetter the imagination of a filmmaker, of a writer, of a director, of a studio. I mean, it's just wonderful. That's a benefit. I mean, I can always go back to talk about the good ol' days, but nobody wants to hear it from me. All they want to know is 'Let's talk about the good ol' future.'"
As he thinks about the future as both a producer and a director, Spielberg reveals that he really doesn't have a thought-through vision for what the direction of his cinematic endeavors. For him, he says, it's a film-by-film process.
"I don't even know until something comes along," he admits. "Because the thing that DreamWorks has always been notable for is our eclecticism: that we don't come out with a certain kind of stock movie, and that's why it's been very hard for people to pigeonhole our company for all these years. And that's exciting for all of us. We're much more interested in what stimulates and inspires us, as opposed to having an agenda that we need to fulfill."
"Terra Nova" debuts tonight at 8 PM ET on Fox. "Real Steel" comes to theaters everywhere October 7th.


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You need to read the language a lot, but also learn to hear the language. So I would recommend Spiros Zohdhiates reading of NA26th with modern Greek pronunciation. If you want proficiency, which I assume you do since you are taking a class, then you need to engage the language with all your senses...
This did spark some discussion on this topic (and how Koine Greek is taught in various institutions).
My question is, how should one learn to speak and hear Biblical Hebrew (and I know there is not consensus here)? For those outside the seminaries and universities, are there recordings of the Hebrew text read aloud, analogous to the Greek reading referenced by James?


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My vets office in Drexel Hill, PA took in 3 female guinea pigs, approximately 1 1/2 years old. All three have been patients of my vet so they are in good health. One just had an abscess from her ear removed. All were surrendered for the same reason, "Bought for a young child/teenager who doesn't have the time to care for them, play with them". They may have already found a home for the 2 that are bonded but there is still a single female that needs a home. I don't have photos but if they are still there when I work at the vet on Saturday I'll add. When they get adopted I'll update this.
I would gladly take them but I have 3 males and no room for a separate cage for females.
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Jennifer Lopez will wear two hats in the upcoming NBC dance competition series "World of Dance." In addition to serving as executive producer of the show, it was just announced she will be one of the judges on the expert panel.
"World of Dance" will be a 10-episode series showcasing dancers' talents in a competition that awards the winner with a $1 million prize. Participants are divided into three groups: Junior (any size act under 16 years old), Upper (groups of 1- 4, over 16 years) and Team (groups of 5+, over 16 years).
"I identify with the struggles, passion, discipline, competition and exhilaration of dance," said Lopez. "I am excited that with this show we can skyrocket a dancer's career and help guide them to success."
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"World of Dance" competition, which began as a single event on YouTube in 2008 and is now regarded as "the world's largest international urban dance competition."
"This show centers on the need to celebrate and reward the art and athleticism of the dance community and there is no one more passionate about that then Jennifer," said Meredith Ahr, President of Universal Television Alternative Studio. "Her role at the judges' table takes our joint ambitions to the next level, and we can't wait to get started."
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In the current era: Intelligence Quotient or IQ is no longer considered as a measure of Intelligence.
IQ is hereditary and an Indoctrinated high IQ individual religious devotee, can be just as hooked and Irrational as any normal to low IQ devotee.
The difference is that high IQ devotees can be more clever in creating their Apologies (Porkies) for their belief system. Thomas Aquinas is an excellent example here, very high IQ, very indoctrinated into belief in Catholic Porkies. He created some quite cleverly obfuscated Porkies.
Where Aquinas failed was on the Rationality front, his apologies were very clever, but when looked at from a logical/rational basis, they were highly Irrational. Thus Aquinas had a very low Rational Quotient (RQ).
Thus Aquinas may have had a high IQ, but he really wasn't that Intelligent, because his ability to think Rationally had been compromised by his delusional world-view. So he was of only average Intelligence, in spite of his high IQ.
On the other hand we have Islamic Fundamentalist leaders that only have an average or even below average IQ, like Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose inhuman policies, actions and comments comments and hatred of Salman Rushdie over a simple novel, made Iran appear to be a country full of fundamentalist crackpots and himself a Narcissistic Megalomaniac idiot.
Yes, he may have had a reasonable IQ, but it was completely obliterated by his extreme Fundamentalism.
Meaning that he really was not as Intelligent as your average secular or non-committal janitor, which may have even been a better choice for leading Iran.
But, religious Fundamentalists are attracted to extreme religious Fundamentalists, as they are all seek more low RQ, or Irrational spiritual goals. So it doesn't pay to be rational, because rationality to a Fundamentalist is ugly and the enemy.
Rational or scientific fundamentalists are actually the other side of the extreme, many of them have an extremely high rationality which drives them to seeking the extremes in scientific concepts and knowledge. Which is different to crackpot science fundamentalism like Michael Behe and Rupert Sheldrake with their stupid "Irreducible Complexity" and "Morphonic Resonance" concepts, which really are not rational. Such junk science fundamentalists are really no better than Religious Fundamentalists, because their pseudo-science is based on Superstition, just like religion so they are really Superstition Fundamentalists, like Sam Parnia with his "Near Death Experiences" Fundamentalism, that is equally as ridiculous as the other two's misconceptions of reality.
Hopefully the world will wake up and find some form of Rationality testing to ensure that Religious Fundamentalist crackpots (Low or No Rationality), never make leadership again.
Because even in industry, they have found that people with a low Rationality (RQ level) have a tendency to not think problems through rationally and jump to stupid irrational decisions or concepts.
Thus low RQ individuals tend to make more and bigger errors, just like the many that Khomeini made.
This is why industries are devising RQ testing to ensure only the most intelligent, less error prone workers are chosen. Those that fail, can go back to school and improve their RQ.
Unlike IQ, RQ is not inherited, it is improved through good education practices.
Improving the education for all children, will raise the average RQ of a nation.
There is absolutely no reason to allow Irrational people into Leadership.
People with deeply held Irrational concepts like Mitt Romney, are signs of an Irrational (Low RQ) individual, US is very lucky it didn't put such a person into the highest office.
All leaders should be tested for Rationality, if they are not at least 90% rational, they have no business leading a nation.
If a nation can increase the average Rationality (RQ) of it's citizens, we may eventually be able to wipe out Extreme Religious/Superstitious Fundamentalism, or at least confine them to the Lunatic Asylums where they surely belong.
They certainly don't belong in Politics or controlling a Nation.
History has proven how seriously bad it is for a nation to have such leaders.
Citizens rights suffer, citizens are divided, poverty and oppression escalates, Irrational conflicts and wars are initiated. The nation becomes as Irrational as it's leadership.
Because Superstitious Fundamentalism Destroys Intelligence!
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Here's Bill Maher, giving his account of what makes Religious Fundamentalists the Irrational and Mental people on the Planet.
LOL Spud, nice dig @ yr Ex.
Glen, I like your statement that "perhaps we should think of the theist/mechanic as being in possession of an aptitude, not of being intelligent." I've always been adverse to calling someone intelligent, if they act intelligent in some ways, but stupid in others (like my ex-wife).
Nice formula God.
Yes: Dennis, it's trauma that is the likely cause, I also know of some seemingly once extremely intelligent men who are now low RQ preachers.
The Rational structures in their brain have been outranked by the emotional (Irrational) brain functions. In both cases I know, it was severe emotional trauma that made Rationality take a back seat, permanently. One lost his daughter in an accident and blamed himself for it and for some reason he suddenly thought that devoting himself to God would somehow alleviate the damage or allow him to see his daughter again. Then he just plummeted overboard. The other had a Temporal Lobe trauma (Hallucination) that left him convinced that he received a message from God and has been working for God ever since. The old Temporal Lobe Epilepsy/Lesion will get those that don't understand how the brain functions every time.
I've devised a formula for combining IQ and RQ to give a reasonable assessment of Actual Intelligence: Intelligence = IQ - 2X(50-RQ%)
Thus for a person of average inherited complexity solving capability (IQ) say an IQ of 120, who is 100% Rational (RQ) then they would have an intelligence of 120 - 2X(50-100) or 220.
For a Religious Fundamentalist with a RQ of only 20% and an IQ of 120, they would have a resultant Actual Intelligence of 120 - 2X(50-20) or 60.
Nice: A highly Rational 120 IQ person will approach an intelligence of 220, while the religious fundamentalists Intelligence level can plummet to below 60.
Sounds pretty realistic to Moi! LOL
Dennis, that gets back to what I mentioned, the interplay between intelligence and cognitive vision is not understood. My knee jerk reaction is ...what a moron. But it is not that simple, is it? Perhaps there is a deficiency in the super theists' brain which makes them susceptible to following and blind to the shortcomings of the leader. At one time there was likely a greater survival benefit in being a blind follower.
Or perhaps we should think of the theist/mechanic as being in possession of an aptitude, not of being intelligent. Maybe intelligence is better perceived as the capacity to analyze and synthesize.
Is it possible that the theist/mechanic would have been an atheist if the cult had not gotten to him at an early age? We need scientific inquiry into these questions. The survival of our species may depend upon it.
On a lower scale than most replies here, let me tell you about a fundamentalist that I work with. He really is a smart man in a sense of learning and doing things, but his belief system is all messed up. In earlier life he was a bar owner and also made beer at one time. It's my opinion that his wife has changed him, and over the years he became a fundamentalist preacher. These days he is a "retired" preacher but active in church and always there to tell you about god and Jebus.
He once told me a story in which he knew that god had healed him of his heart problems. He knew this because they wear praying and he felt a tearing pain in his heart area. Just a short time ago I found out he was sick and I heard that he was not taking his medicines. Better today, I can assume that he started taking his meds again.
What makes people do this and act like this? He's not stupid and could be a main mechanic at any factory or apartment complex. Yet, he insists on being special because god and Jebus did something special for him.
Just transfer this kind of thinking into our officials and politicians and it will scare you to death!
BTW, Casper healed me just last week.
As I have stated before:
We get a lot of mileage out off ridiculing the likes of fundamentalists such as, Ken Ham.
His work has so far to us been PRICELESS!
Though I think in his case, he possibly laughs at us ridiculing his stuff as well.
Because he is only in it for the money and our ridiculing him is still advertising.
It works well both ways.
definitely deserves another LOL, from us and likely a LOL from Ken.
Fundamentalists are the sincere practitioners of insanity.Fundamentalism is the most difficult level of adherence to break away from. Props to apostates indoctrinated in fundamentalism.
The problem with the argument in favor of eradicating only fundamentalism is that the moderates spawn offshoots, sects and a resurrection of fundamentalism. Faith means anything goes. There is no rational basis to critique a creed. Faith is the enemy. Faith is always the enemy. As long as it is a force in religion, politics and belief; mankind is a glorified chimp and ethics are compromised and empathy is not the driving force it ought to be.
Yes Glen, I too was introduced to Aquinas's work while at Christian College and while Aquinas was trying to do a double apology, he tried to apologize the work of Aristotle to the church as well as trying to apologize the church's position and doctrines. It really didn't work well.
He ended up creating nothing but Irrational obfuscations of both.
Our favorite term here for Christian or Theological Apologists is "Porky Producers"
Aquinas was the biggest Porky Producer of his time.
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Francona's book airs Red Sox' laundry on eve of new post
- Indians manager Terry Francona is about to begin spring training%2C yet his book turns back to clock.
- Francona addressed his painkiller use to ESPN after excerpts of his book appeared in Sports Illustrated
- Francona led the Red Sox to World Series titles in 2007 and 2004
Terry Francona revealed his use of painkillers in a 2011 Boston Globe interview. Now the former Red Sox manager -- who is a few weeks from beginning spring training with his new team, the Cleveland Indians -- has addressed the issue again in an ESPN 360 interview with Jeremy Schaap.
Schaap: How much reliance did you have on painkillers?
Francona: Less in my last year of Boston than it was in my first year. ...I had some, I had accumulated some pain pills and that's not good but I would say…
Schaap: You were self-medicating?
Francona: Yeah and that's not good and I understand that.....
Francona, who led Boston to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007, has no one to blame but himself for the issue being revisited on the eve of spring training. Excerpts from his soon-to-be-released memoir of his Boston years, written with Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, are springing up, and, of course, only the juiciest tidbits are being shared.
Questionable pill consumption isn't the most alarming revelation. Red Sox ownership became more focused on the "sexiness" of players than on their ability to perform on the field because television viewership was down. Francona and GM Theo Epstein were dismayed by the marching orders and the entire operation became disoriented.
"They told us we didn't have any marketable players, that we needed some sizzle," Epstein told Shaughnessy. "We need some sexy guys. Talk about the tail wagging the dog. This is like an absurdist comedy. We'd become too big. It was the farthest removed from what we set out to be."
After the utter meltdown in the final weeks of the 2011 season, Francona gave way to Bobby Valentine, who was worse in nearly every regard. Francona acquitted himself well as a television analyst and his hiring was a coup for the Indians, who haven't had a winning season since 2007.
It's hard to pinpoint which oddball substances contributed more to the Red Sox' collapse in 2011: the fried chicken and beer consumed by several starting pitchers in the clubhouse, mild opiates taken by Francona or the entire team's heady brew of overconfidence. Regardless, the Sox blew up, ownership overreacted and Valentine was brought in to steady the ship.
We all know how that worked out.
Meanwhile, Francona -- like Joe Torre before him -- has burned bridges and intrigued the masses with what appears to be an eminently readable piece of nonfiction. And he's got a new team as well, albeit one in dire need of improvement.
Was the book necessary? No way. Is it a cool offseason read? Absolutely. And maybe Francona needed to unburden himself of it all, including the painkillers.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Official Image & More Speculated Specs? (Update)
Just a word of caution: what you see might not be what you get... yet. Otherwise, the above photo looks pretty official and familiar to us (the remaining text has been obscured by the flash, but what we can make out on the left is, 'the world's first (smartphone) that supports Android 4.0'.), giving us a glimpse of what to expect of the Galaxy Nexus. Alongside the photo is a list of specifications that sound extremely similar to what has been leaked by BGR:
- 5.4in x 2.7in x .35in
- 1.2GHz dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 processor
- 4.65-inch 720 x1280 HD AMOLED display
- 5-megapixel CMOS sensor with LED flash and 1080p (1920 x 1080p) recording
- 1750mAh
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Do note that these aren't official yet but do offer us a rough gauge of what to expect tomorrow - but it confirms one previously unmentioned feature: NFC. Well, all we have to say is: stay tuned tomorrow for more updates.
*9:25am, 19th October 2011: Update: Android Community reconfirms the specs but made mention that the "LED lights" on the side are electrical contacts for slipping into docks. The smartphone will come in GSM HSPA+ versions as well as CDMA and LTE versions.*
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Wilocity WiGig blows regular Wi-Fi to bits, with speeds up to 7 Gbps.
To put this into perspective, let's say your car can go 90Mph top speed.
Now imagine, you put a new chip in it, and it can go 10X faster. 900Mph.
Our everyday vanilla WiFi (802.11a/b/g/n) operates at 2.4Ghz/5Ghz frequencies, now we really ramp it up to 60Ghz, capable of transferring data up to 7 Gbps. That's more than 10 times the maximum speed previously enabled within the IEEE 802.11™ standard, acting as the foundation for tri-band networking.
To make this happen, two industry giants came together. Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., and Wilocity, a leading developer of 60GHz multi-gigabit wireless chipsets, launched the industry's first tri-band reference design that combines 802.11ac and 802.11ad wireless capabilities on a single module.
Watch the vision of WiGig here (video).
Based on Qualcomm VIVE™ 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Wilocity 802.11ad WiGig™ wireless technologies, the reference design delivers tri-band Wi-Fi, which allows consumers to connect to 60GHz-enabled devices, docks, displays and storage at multi-gigabit speeds, while maintaining enterprise-wide or whole home coverage with 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi.
The latest generation tri-band wireless networking card takes advantage of the new Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac combined with the recently ratified 802.11ad standard that enables multi-gigabit networking, data syncing, and video and audio streaming, while maintaining its wireless bus extension docking capabilities. By integrating a solution that combines whole home, gigabit-class Wi-Fi with in-room, multi-gigabit connectivity into their devices, equipment manufacturers will benefit from the ultra-high speed this newest solution offers. The latest generation tri-band wireless networking card will be available in two options: the QCA9006NFC next-generation form factor (NGFF) and the QCA9006WBD half-mini card (HMC) specification.
The IEEE 802.11ad specification adds a "fast session transfer" feature, which enables wireless devices to seamlessly transition between the 60 GHz frequency band and the legacy 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The ability to imperceptively move between the bands ensures that computing devices are always "best connected," enabling them to operate with optimal performance and range criteria. Through the vast improvements in spectral reuse at 60 GHz, and an efficient beam forming technology, IEEE 802.11ad enables great improvements in capacity. Many users in a dense deployment can all maintain top-speed performance, without interfering with each other, or having to share bandwidth as with the legacy frequency bands.
So what does all this mean for you?
In the immediate future (few years), not that much, as manufacturers start implementing this new technology into their devices, but you will definitely want to keep this on your radar.
Operating at 60Ghz, this allows the signals to be lightning fast, but extremely prone to obstacles, such as cubicle walls, blocking the signal. To help counteract this phenomenon, WiGig has beam forming technology, which helps direct the 60Ghz waves. It can reflect off the walls to find the right way. This is why, in a worst case scenario, the 802.11ad "fast session transfer" feature comes in to play, enabling wireless devices to seamlessly transition between the 60 GHz frequency band and the legacy 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands if the 60Ghz connection gets broken.
As our need to transfer more data, faster, in more quantities keeps rising, luckily, WiFi will still be able to keep up.
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Ugh, El Salvador. Always on their period, right!?!? I can't tell you the number of times El Salvador has woken me up in the middle of the night because they just watched an ASPCA commercial and need to come over and eat some Ben & Jerry's. But then Russia—have you ever seen that dude upset? It's like, bro, sometimes you just need to let it out and have a good cry. Come here. Snugz.
A new Gallup survey asked people in every country on earth a series of questions (such as "Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?") intended to determine how "emotional" they are—the Washington Post has a color-coded map so you can compare your emotional stability with your neighbors'. In this case, "emotional" refers to extreme positive and negative feelings—so it's not just uncontrollable weeping, it's also pee-pants laughing (the two aren't differentiated in the survey, so you won't be finding out which countries are the happiest or saddest).
First of all, this survey is difficult to write about in a non-awkward way. I spend so much of my time trying NOT to generalize about "what people are like" based on what they look like and where they come from—I basically have no idea how to speculate about this without uncomfortably undermining a couple of my core principles. But I SHALL TRY. For instance, I have learned that it is fun to anthropomorphize entire nations and pretend like they're your bros (Bahrain! Let's party!). Progress!
And second of all, the survey does offer some interesting, if not wholly surprising, insights into why we feel what we feel. So let's take a look.
Now, in my experience, humans of earth are a bunch of sourpusses who occasionally acquire enough money to buy pleasantness, enough alcohol to trick themselves into feeling it, or enough perspective to somehow cultivate their own. Is that unfair? It's not that I'm unhappy all the time, but life is hard, even when it's relatively easy. Life is fun, but it's a struggle. And if this map is any indication, emotional volatility is a bit of a luxury item.
Much of the map seems to correspond with gradients of economic prosperity. Europe gets more emotional as you move west; the Americas are described as "exuberant," which I assume means PUMPED; most African and post-Soviet nations are uniformly stoic and grim. Again, this isn't a survey of happiness or sadness, it's emotionality. So, just to anthropomorphize again for a sec, Sudan and Russia aren't your friends who are constantly moaning and creating drama—they're the ones who don't want to talk about it. Never a great sign. I imagine, for certain people in certain places, too much emotional vulnerability would be a hindrance to ever getting anything done.
But some significant exceptions indicate that cultural factors are at work as well.
Singapore, for instance, though a relatively prosperous nation, comes in dead last—the least emotional country on earth. And, according to the Post, they're well aware of it:
Singapore is the least emotional country in the world. "Singaporeans recognize they have a problem," Bloomberg Businessweek writes of the country's "emotional deficit," citing a culture in which schools "discourage students from thinking of themselves as individuals." They also point to low work satisfaction, competitiveness, and the urban experience: "Staying emotionally neutral could be a way of coping with the stress of urban life in a place where 82 percent of the population lives in government-built housing."
The Philippines, on the other hand, no stranger to poverty and strife, came in first by a landslide (for reasons left unexplored beyond "Catholicism"):
The Philippines is the world's most emotional country. It's not even close; the heavily Catholic, Southeast Asian nation, a former colony of Spain and the U.S., scores well above second-ranked El Salvador.
On the other hand, all the cultural tropes I'm familiar with—Britain's "stiff upper lip," Parisians just being generally OVER IT—don't seem to apply. So, there obviously aren't any concrete conclusions here about why we express our feelings the way we do. But as an occasionally overemotional basketcase, it's nice to see emotionality portrayed in a neutral—if not a positive—light, for once. Oh, you're SO EMOTIONAL...just like scenic Italy!!! Score.
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Ariana Grande and Mac Miller can't seem to break free from those romance rumors.
Days after photos surfaced of the "Dangerous Woman" singer and rapper kissing during a sushi date, fans can't help but wonder if these two are officially a pair.
Before fans may want to slow down before proclaiming these two an official couple.
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"Ariana and Mac are hanging out," a source shared with E! News. "They like each other, but Ariana just got out of a relationship so no titles are being thrown around yet between the two."
Our insider added, "They are just seeing where things go now and getting to know each other."
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Grande is also playing coy when it comes to the speculation as she celebrated the launch of her new MAC cosmetics Viva Glam lipstick campaign.
"He's the best. It's always dope making music with him," Grande said.
Just last month, it was confirmed Grande and her boyfriend Ricky Alvarez called it quits after a year of dating. At the time, a source shared that the "Break Free" singer was "happy to be single and do her for a little while."
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Farmingdale State - 7, Keene State - 2
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State baseball team picked up their third win of the season with a 7-2 victory in the home opener against Keene State (0-1) today in the St. Joseph's Tournament held in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams improved to 3-4 overall with the win, after finishing 2-4 on their Spring trip to Florida last week.
Keene State pushed across a run in the top of the fourth. Junior Greg Bates (Salem, N.H.) reached on an error, moved to third on Burgio's hit-and-run single, and scored on a double play.
In the fifth, Farmingdale State jumped ahead 2-1 on a 2 RBI single to left field by freshman shortstop Anthony Alvino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.), scoring senior third baseman Ryan McAllister (Miller Place, N.Y.) from third and junior outfielder David Zilnicki (Riverhead, N.Y.) from first.
The Rams scored five runs over the next three innings on eight hits, holding the Owls to just two hits over the final four innings.
Alvino finished 1-for-5 with one run scored and three RBI's. Zilnicki, junior outfielder Terrence Bohonan (Patchogue, N.Y.), freshman first baseman Ryan Levine (West Babylon, N.Y.) and senior catcher Frank Scarlato (Holbrook, N.Y.) all had two hits.
Junior pitcher Anthony Eilers (Bay Shore, N.Y.) pitched seven innings for the win, striking out 10 while allowing just two hits and walking one.
The Rams will now face Western New England on Saturday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m.


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I decided to take a break from posting transcriptions. My summer project is a new companion blog featuring family photos related to the Wykles and their kin. You can check it out here.
Eventually I will be moving the few photos I have posted at this site over to the new one. I've never been happy with the mix of text and images in this blog.