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FRISCO, Texas – In a grueling 90 minutes on a chilly Wednesday night, the New York Red Bulls played the final 10 minutes of the match with 10 men but survived to emerge 2-0 victors over FC Dallas at Pizza Hut Park.
For full match stats, visit the MLS MatchCenter.
In the first Wild Card match of the MLS Cup playoffs, Joel Lindpere scored the winner midway through the second half, guiding home a low cross from Mehdi Ballouchy to seal New York's ticket to the playoffs proper. Thierry Henry tallied the insurance goal in stoppage time to ensure the win.
Red Bulls right back Jan Gunnar Solli saw a straight red card in the 79th minute after a hard foul from behind on FCD captain Daniel Hernandez.
New York will go on to face the LA Galaxy in a home-and-home series in one of the two Western Conference semifinal matchups.
At the start, FC Dallas seemed to put to bed the notion that they were coming in with tired legs. After head coach Schellas Hyndman rested most of his first XI in the season finale, the home side came flying out of the gates, showing their speed early and pressuring New York to keep them on their heels for the first half hour of the match.
FCD got the assault going early, but it wasn't until the quarter of an hour mark that they gave the Red Bulls a scare. Winger Marvin Chávez came up on a loose ball at the top of the box after a Tim Ream deflection and unleashed a shot that curled just wide of the post.
Perhaps the best chances of the first half fell to Jackson. The FC Dallas forward had two good opportunites to put his team on top, the first of which came in the 19th minute, when Brek Shea made a run down the left flank and served a ball into the box for Jackson, who failed to beat New York 'keeper Frank Rost.
Jackson's best chance, however, came towards the end of the first half. FCD right back Zach Loyd launched an inch-perfect cross from deep on the right flank right into the heart of the box, but Jackson's ensuing header sailed wide over the crossbar.
But it wasn't all FCD in the first period. The Red Bulls, who struggled to find their footing in the early going, finally settled into the match in the final 15 minutes.
Henry, back in the line-up after serving a one-game suspension for a red card, announced New York's intent in the 32nd minute, putting a shot just high of the crossbar.
Ream followed that up with a blast of his own five minutes later. The center back controlled a weak clearance inside the box, lined up his shot, and fired toward goal only to have Kevin Hartman come up with the big stop.
The second half kicked off at a slower tempo, and again it was FCD who launched the first warning. In the 58th minute, after Red Bulls defender Stephen Keel brought down Jackson four yards outside the box, Hernandez took a free kick and curled it inches wide of the near post.
But New York answered right back, and they made sure this time it counted. After a George John giveaway in the 61st minute, Lindpere began the goal-scoring sequence by putting a hard shot on target that forced Hartman into a nice diving save. Richards collected the rebound out on the right side and got it to Ballouchy, who crossed it back into the box for the Estonian to slot it under Hartman and into the net for the lead.
FCD attempted the comeback and nearly had the equalizer in the 76th minute. Jackson dribbled towards the middle of the field and put a ball through for Shea. The big winger chipped an onrushing Rost, but his shot was cleared by Ream before it could cross the line or Maicon Santos could get to it.
The Red Bulls saw their field count go down to 10 with just about 10 minutes to go in regulation when Solli slid in hard from behind on Hernandez. Ricardo Salazar wasted no time in correctly sending off the Norwegian.
With a one-man advantage, FCD went on the offensive. Both Jackson and Santos each had a shot on goal, but neither really troubled Rost.
In stoppage time, with FC Dallas defenders completely committed into the Red Bulls' half of the field, Henry pounced on a long ball and marched towards goal. He failed to knock in his first shot but succeeded in his attempt off the rebound to ice the match.
The loss put and end to FC Dallas' long journey in 2011.
With the victory, New York will go on to face the LA Galaxy at Red Bull Arena on Sunday, Oct. 30, in the first of their two-leg aggregate goals series. The second leg is scheduled for Thurs., Nov. 3, at The Home Depot Center.
Scoring Summary:
NY -- Joel Lindpere 1 (Mehdi Ballouchy 1) 61
NY -- Thierry Henry 1 (unassisted) 98+
New York Red Bulls -- Frank Rost, Solli Jan Gunnar, Stephen Keel, Tim Ream, Roy Miller, Dax McCarty (Mehdi Ballouchy 59), Teemu Tainio, Rafael Marquez, Joel Lindpere, Dane Richards (Carloa Mendes 82), Thierry Henry.
Substitutes Not Used: Stephane Auvray, Juan Agudelo, Bouna Coundoul.
FC Dallas -- Kevin Hartman, Ugo Ihemelu, Zach Loyd, Daniel Hernandez, George John, Jair Benitez, Marvin Chavez (Maicon Santos 73), Ricardo Villar (Fabian Castillo 82), Andrew Jacobson (Danny Cruz 67), Brek Shea, Jackson.
Substitutes Not Used: Jeremy Hall, Jack Stewart, Bobby Warshaw, Chris Seitz.
Misconduct Summary:
NY -- Tim Ream (caution; Tactical Foul) 27
DAL -- Ugo Ihemelu (caution; Reckless Tackle) 31
DAL -- Daniel Hernandez (caution; Reckless Tackle) 51
NY -- Solli Jan Gunnar (ejection; Serious Foul Play) 79
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Referee's Assistants: -Craig Lowry; Peter Manikowski
4th Official: Edvin Jurisevic
Time of Game: 1:57
Weather: Clear-and-67-degrees
Attendance: 10,017


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Supporters of cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan's party raise their hands during a peace march protesting U.S. drone strikes on the outskirts of Tank, Pakistan, on Oct. 7.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The roars celebrating the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama on television give Mohammad Rehman Khan a searing headache, as years of grief and anger come rushing back.
The 28-year-old Pakistani accuses the president of robbing him of his father, three brothers and a nephew, all killed in a U.S. drone aircraft attack a month after Obama first took office.
"The same person who attacked my home has gotten re-elected," he told Reuters in the capital, Islamabad, where he fled after the attack on his village in South Waziristan, one of several ethnic Pashtun tribal areas on the Afghan border.
"Since yesterday, the pressure on my brain has increased. I remember all of the pain again."
The whole world was watching as America chose its president, and the general sentiment appeared to be a sigh of relief. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
World leaders welcome Obama's 2nd term — but many challenges loom
In his re-election campaign, Obama gave no indication he would halt or alter the drone program, which he embraced in his first term to kill al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan without risking American lives.
Drone strikes are highly unpopular among many Pakistanis, who consider them a violation of sovereignty that cause unacceptable civilian casualties.
"Whenever he has a chance, Obama will bite Muslims like a snake. Look at how many people he has killed with drone attacks," said Haji Abdul Jabar, whose 23-year-old son was killed in such a bombing.
Analysts say anger over the unmanned aircraft may have helped the Taliban gain recruits, complicating efforts to stabilize the unruly border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. That could also hinder Obama's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
A group of 32 American anti-drone activists will join a march to Pakistan's tribal areas, where U.S. strikes have killed thousands of people over the last eight years. NBC News Amna Nawaz spoke to some of them.
Americans ignore 'great risks,' travel to Pakistan to protest US drone strikes
Obama authorized nearly 300 drone strikes in Pakistan during his first four years in office, more than six times the number during the administration of George W. Bush, according to the New America Foundation policy institute.
Since 2004, a total of 337 U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 1,908 and 3,225 people.
The institute estimates about 15 percent of those killed were non-militants, although that percentage has declined sharply to about 1-2 percent this year. Washington says drone strikes are very accurate and cause minimal civilian deaths.
The Pakistani government says tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in the fight against militants. Many were civilians caught in suicide bombings. Others were killed by the Pakistani army.
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Getting accurate data on casualties and the effects of drones is extremely difficult in the dangerous, remote and often inaccessible tribal areas. The Taliban often seal off the sites of strikes.
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
While the aerial campaign has weakened al-Qaida, its ally, the Pakistani Taliban, remains a potent force despite a series of Pakistan army offensives against their strongholds in the northwest.
Seen as the biggest security threat to the U.S.-backed Pakistani government, that faction of the Taliban is blamed for many of the suicide bombings across Pakistan, and a number of high-profile attacks on military and police facilities.
For many Pakistanis, 'USA' means drones
"We are amazed that Obama has been re-elected. But for us there is no difference between Obama and Romney; both are enemies. And we will keep up our jihad and fight alongside our Afghan brothers to get the Americans out of Afghanistan," Pakistan Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said.
On Thursday, a suicide bomber rammed the gates of a military base in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, killing at least one soldier and wounding more than a dozen people.
Pakistan's 'Generation Y' battles to shape country's future
Pakistanis were largely indifferent in the run-up to Tuesday's election, expecting little change to the drone attacks regardless of whether Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney won.
"Any American, whether Obama or Mitt Romney, is cruel," Warshameen Jaan Haji, whose neighborhood was struck by a drone last week, told Reuters on the eve of the election. "I lost my wife in the drone attack and my children are injured. Whatever happens, it will be bad for Muslims."
Pakistani politician Imran Khan, a vocal critic of U.S. drone strikes, said he believed Obama stepped up the attacks in his first term so he wouldn't look weak on national security.
Despite security concerns, presidential candidate Imran khan leads an anti-drone rally, including 30 Americans, into Pakistan's badlands. Amna Nawaz reports.
"I think Obama essentially has an anti-war instinct," he told Reuters. "Without the worry of being re-elected, he will de-escalate the war, including the use of drones. This is positive."
Can social media propel 'rock star' politician Imran Khan to power?
But for Mohammad Khan, who is not related to the former cricketer, the damage is already done.
The February 2009 drone attack that destroyed his home left him as the main provider for 13 family members, forcing him to move to Islamabad and work with a real estate company.
"When the Sandy hurricane came, I thought that Allah would wipe away America," he said. "America just wants to take over the world."
More world stories from NBC News:
- World leaders welcome Obama's 2nd term - but challenges loom
- Analysis: Payback time? Israelis wonder what Obama win will mean
- China launches once-a-decade changing of the guard
- Analysis: Top 10 foreign policy issues facing Obama
- Embassy ballots give Chinese a glimpse of democracy
- Romney's English cousin sad he lost, sort of
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A few weeks ago in BusinessCast 109 — I.T. Support for Entrepreneurs — Robert and I got the "low down" on the best ways of selecting and working with a competent I.T support professional. After all, all entrepreneurs require technologies to work 24/7.
But, here's a critical technology question that many entrepreneurs have trouble answering: "Are we evaluating, purchasing and integrating our technologies in ways that ensure it is allowing us to focus on our business — rather than on our business technologies?"
So, in BusinessCast #124 — Buying Technology — Robert and I sat down with Marco Nalli from technology innovator and leader Samsung. Marco has an enviable track record as an expert who helps entrepreneurs negotiate the minefield of purchasing technology so that it effectively balances short- and long-term investments, opportunity costs and business goals.
Listen to BusinessCast #124 — Buying Technology — to hone the processes you use to evaluate, purchase and integrate your technologies. That means you'll keep your attention where it belongs…growing your business.
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085I Hearne Lake NRCAN topographic map.
Includes UTM and GPS geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). This 250k scale map is suitable for hiking, camping, and exploring, or you could frame it as a wall map.
Printed on-demand using high resolution, on heavy weight and acid free paper, or as an upgrade on a variety of synthetic materials.
Topos available on paper, Waterproof, Poly, or Tyvek. Usually shipping rolled, unless combined with other folded maps in one order.
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Editorial: Feinstein's zero tolerance for snooping should extend to NSA
The California senator who chairs the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee has been unapologetic in her support for the National Security Agency's spying on Americans. But now we find she has zero tolerance for the CIA's alleged hacking into her committee's computers and possibly removing documents pertinent to an investigation.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's request for an FBI inquiry into the CIA's conduct deserves support. It might be easier to obtain if she'd made even a token gesture to rein in the NSA's persistent overreaches.
But her proposal to reform the NSA is "a joke," says the author of the Patriot Act, Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner.
He says her idea of reform only confirms that "there is no limit - apparently, according to the NSA - on what they can collect. That has to be stopped."
It's been nine months since Americans learned that the NSA is collecting and storing information about phone calls, including whom people call and where they're calling from. The agency also has been monitoring texts and emails that originate abroad.
When veteran senators including Arizona's John McCain demanded that a special committee investigate the NSA, Feinstein blocked them. She rejected President Barack Obama's suggestion that any data collected could be held by telecommunications firms for use by the NSA if the need was shown.
Feinstein's bill would just codify the NSA's practices into law, including a green light for continued hacking through tech companies' encryption to cull data. The cost to the tech industry from NSA spying has been estimated at nearly $200 billion by 2016. European and Asian customers understandably don't want U.S. products if their security is suspect.
Yes, the CIA's shenanigans should be investigated. But Feinstein should show the same level of concern for other Americans' privacy rights as she demands for her committee's.


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VIRTUAL WORLDS "BOOMING" despite doomsters
"Twitter makes the noise while
Second Life makes the money"
-Victor Keegan, The Guardian UK
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While Facebook and Twitter are lauded to the skies, neither has found a way to make money – whereas virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft, Entropia Universe, Habbo Hotel, Club Penguin and Second Life are all profitable because their business models are based on the digital elixir of subscriptions and micropayments, according to Victor Keegan (pictured) in the UK Guardian.
It's a formula that other websites, including newspapers, would die for," he says. " Twitter makes the noise, Second Life makes the money … actually, they are booming.
In a message which will have the virtual world doomsayers frothing at the mouth Keegan quotes the UK consultancy kzero.co.uk, the world-leader in understanding the marketing dynamics relating to virtual worlds, as reporting that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39 percent in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million, although not all are active.
"If you think virtual worlds are a passing fad, look at the figures," Keegan says "Almost all of the 39 percent growth came from children. Girls used to grow up with their dolls; now they are growing up with their avatars. This goes largely unreported because the users don't read newspapers, but as Kzero reports, poptropica.com – aimed at five- to 10-year-olds – has 76 million registered users.
"If you move up to 10- to 15-year-olds, users rival the populations of countries – led by Habbo (135 million), Neopets (54 million), Star Dolls (34 million) and Club Penguin (28 million).
"It starts tailing off among 15- to 25-year-olds – apart from Poptropica (35 million) – but it underlines the likelihood that as youngsters get older they will be looking for more sophisticated outlets and for ways to link existing social networks such as Facebook or MySpace to more immersive virtual worlds. The telephone was a one-to-one experience; email linked friends and colleagues; Facebook extended this to friends of friends but virtual worlds offer – as Twitter does in a more constrained context – the opportunity to link with anyone on the planet sharing similar interests."
Keegan, noting that Second Life is consolidating as it tries to make the experience easier and less crash-prone, says it is still the creative laboratory of the genre even though it may not end up as the preferred platform as new business models take advantage of the rapidly improving technological developments elsewhere.
"In order to get a more streamlined experience, most of the new virtual worlds don't allow users to make their own content," he says. " Twinity, which has just raised €4.5m in new funding, has a virtual version of Berlin and Singapore (with London still in the pipeline): you buy existing apartments or rent shops but can't build yourself. Bluemarsonline.com – still in testing mode – promises much better graphics and more realistic avatars at the expense of not allowing members (as opposed to developers) to create their own content."
"With technology moving so fast and a whole generation growing up for whom having an avatar is second nature, virtual worlds have nowhere to go but up.
"Only they won't be virtual worlds – just a part of normal life," he concludes.
For the full kzero reports go here and here and here
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For over twenty years, I've longed to get my hands on a Whitmee coffee roaster
For over twenty years, I've longed to get my hands on a Whitmee coffee roaster. Due to their extreme scarcity and cost – whenever one did come onto the market in the UK, it carried a price beyond my means – the dream eluded me. I contented myself instead by diligently researching and collecting heavy-duty 'Monitor' roasters built here in the U.S. and amazing open-drum and open-flame 'Uno' roasters manufactured in England.
Why Whitmee? I fell in love with their design – especially their gothic "Bishop's Hat" profile, and their über-cool cast iron combination charge/discharge chute that projects out and downward from their face plate like a ski-jump – many years ago after seeing my first photograph of a Whitmee coffee roaster. Taken somewhere in Britain, and first published in 1922 in William H. Ukers's seminal book "All About Coffee", the photo shows one of the larger Whitmee Simplex roasters (their 168 lb batch machine) in action.
I love the roaster chap standing proudly next to his belt-driven Whitmee machine, with his working-class 'scally' cap perched squarely on his head and his white shirt and tie protected by a long shop coat – sleeves rolled up and ready for action. (You have to respect a man wearing a hat and tie whilst roasting coffee – very proper and professional, and very British.) What I wouldn't give to be able to chat with him for a few hours about roasting coffee with his Whitmee – ideally over a pint or two of ale at his favorite pub!
I discovered my Whitmee last winter, while searching on-line in the UK for interesting roasters. The fellow that was selling it had a couple of roasters for sale; an older, mid-sized Probat that wound up being acquired by a roaster in Canada, and the smaller Whitmee shop roaster that I eventually acquired. I contacted the owner, and grew quite excited when I saw the pictures he e-mailed me. I learned the roaster wasn't currently operational because of a fire, but otherwise he claimed it was in pretty good shape, relatively speaking (aside from someone painting it a vibrant – and completely inauthentic – shade of blue at some point in its past). He believed the roaster to be from the 1960s, but I suspected upon seeing the photos that it was much older, as its splay-legged style and Gothic-arched design resembled the post-WWI Simplex-class Whitmee roasters I had seen in old photos, not the Romanesque-arched Whitmee roasters I'd seen from the post-WWII era through the 1960s, after which the business appears to have folded.
There was one other clue about the age of the roaster in the photos that the English fellow sent me, which I'm not sure many other people would have discerned. His photos showed that his Whitmee's drum was not driven by a V-belt connecting a pulley on the drum to a smaller pulley on the shaft of an electric motor, as I would have expected in a machine from the 1960s. Instead, it was powered by a complex off-set chain-drive system, with a huge circular sprocket on the back of the drum that struck me by its resemblance to the chain-drive systems once common on pre-WWII motorcycles, such as the American-built Indian or the British-built BSA and Norton bikes. But what was this chain-drive – common on early motorcycles – doing on this coffee roaster?
The answer I arrived at actually gave additional support of my supposition regarding the early post-WWI vintage of this roaster. In my research into Whitmee (or, more properly, 'The Whitmee Engineering Co., Ltd.', located at the 'Alecto Works, Grove Road, Balham, London'), I learned something very interesting. I'd discovered that the Whitmee company in the 1920s and 1930s – in addition to manufacturing coffee roasters and tea equipment – also manufactured a line of touring and sporting motorcycles that were sold under the brand-name 'Alecto'! How crazy was that?! 'Today, lads, we're assembling coffee roasters, but tomorrow come ready to build motorcycles!' But with some further investigation, it turned out that it wasn't such an unusual idea after all. I uncovered the fact that in that era there were literally dozens of brands of motorcycles produced by many different manufacturing companies in Britain – all rivals for a strong domestic market for 'cycles, plus a lucrative export market that existed at that time throughout the British Empire for inexpensive transportation. So perhaps designing and building coffee roasters and motorcycles with the same team of engineers and fabricators under the same roof wasn't as crazy as it sounds, being instead simply a prudent diversification of manufacturing resources in uncertain times – while incidentally creating another puzzle for a steampunk roaster enthusiast to try and solve someday.


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Penn State New Kensington, in cooperation with the Pittsburgh Foundation, is participating in a regional philanthropy initiative that begins at midnight Wednesday, Oct. 3.
The fourth annual "Pittsburgh Gives Day of Giving 2012" is a 24-hour period during which online donations to the campus from Allegheny and Westmoreland county residents are partially matched by the Pittsburgh Foundation. Only credit card donations made through the pittsburghgives.org website are eligible to be matched. This is the first year that the New Kensington campus has participated in the program.
"The day of giving is a great and easy way to support Penn State New Kensington students," said Donna Speer, director of development at the campus. "Donations can be made from the convenience of offices or homes, and a portion of the gift receives a match."
Pittsburghgives.org is the website that was launched in 2009 by the foundation to serve as a vehicle for online donations. Nonprofit organizations in the community use the website to showcase their charitable missions and to increase the level of knowledge about nonprofits in our region.
Alumni and friends are encouraged to support the campus through pittsburghgives.org so that the donations can be leveraged through the Pittsburgh Foundation. Gifts to Penn State New Kensington benefit the Future Fund at the campus. The Future Fund holds unrestricted gifts that are essential to the continued success of the campus. Chancellor Kevin Snider depends on these flexible resources to address the New Kensington campus' most pressing needs and to create opportunities. These funds are applied to areas with the greatest need, like student aid and academic initiatives.
The minimum matching gift is $25 and the maximum is $10,000. The matching program ends at 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 3. All donations are 100 percent tax deductible and count towards the University-wide, $2 billion fundraising effort, "For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students."
"This new opportunity to give is especially important during a period when other funding sources have diminished or disappeared altogether," said Speer, who oversees the campus' $3 million campaign goal. "We hope our supporters will take advantage of this new initiative."
Established in 1945, the Pittsburgh Foundation is one of the nation's oldest community foundations and is the 14th largest of more than 700 community foundations across the United States. Its resources comprise endowment funds established by individuals, businesses and organizations. To give online, visit www.pittsburghgives.org.
For more on the Pittsburgh Foundation, visit http://pittsburghfoundation.org/ online.


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The month of May moves us to strike a new chord of inspiration and ambition in our lives. If you have been waiting for the green light to appear for your next venture, a sparkling emerald of enthusiasm is now shining its light your way. "Go for it!" is the mantra of the moment, and there is a greater element of protection at play in this monthly cycle.
After the major emotional upheaval many people experienced last month, it is important to "shake it off," and get a new rhythm going in your daily life. The number 5 of May represents the physical body, and we need to get physically active in order to be fully present and engaged in the moment. Five is additionally the Earth Element, making outdoor activities such as walking, sports games, hiking, and lying on the beach very important activities. Creating a connection with the Earth is essential, as our plans need to be balanced and grounded. A "not too much, not too little," approach is a good rule of thumb for this present time.
If you have read last month's forecast, you might recall that I mentioned the potential for an element of magic being available in May. This is ever so true at this time, and if you have been a faithful practitioner of your spiritual practice, you now have a reserve of grace, with which you can leverage this magical quality. (Yes, you can "leverage" magic, it's really all about diagonal energy and your frequency of projection.) Even if you have been a slouch in your personal practice you've still got a chance, and I'll tell you why. The Heart number for May is a 9, and 9 is the domain of the magical, mysterious, and instant manifestation. Through your own purity of heart and prayer (projective psyche) you can shift the external elements to your favor. Of course the default mantra is "Be careful what you pray for, you just may get it." However, having said that I think we all deserve a little expansion and experience of new possibilities.
Five is change itself, and we are craving a bold new energy and direction in our lives. May is an excellent time to start a business, get married, or move to a location which better suits your spirit. There is such a strong impulse for change in the psyche of the planet at this time, it can almost feel as if the earth beneath our feet is moving us forward. People will be connecting left and right to create new alliances of every nature, and May holds an extra sparkle and shine in the area of new romance. The sentiment, "Finally, you're here!" will resound in many hearts. I was having tea with one of the Archangels last week, and he told me they have just opened a new ethereal website called CosmicCupid.com. A legion of Angels is now engaged in helping people on planet Earth find each other. Lucky us!
May is the "checkpoint" month for the year 2013. We need to consciously check in with ourselves in relation to our health, family life, work, and personal consciousness. Adjustments that are made now will go a long way towards balancing our life in the second half of the year. A car needs a front end alignment from time to time, otherwise it will pull too heavily to the right or left, creating extra wear and tear on those tires. In a nutshell, find the balance in your life which will carry you the distance. Personal equilibrium is a most precious commodity these days, and it is only manufactured from within. Adjusting yourself into a higher frequency of your own Divine Alignment will serve you better than any self-help book on the market. Sneak Preview: Get your ponies lined up now, because the month of June takes off like a jet ski down an avalanche! Adjusting "on the run" is not as easy as in a softer season of time.
In May the flow of life will be dealing nearly everyone a new opportunity, and we will have the option of engaging with this new energy field. Change is the name of the game, and these changes are healthy as long as they are well thought out. The number 5 in the negative polarity can be impulsive and cavalier, so don't immediately assume that every new idea has the cosmic seal of approval on it. Think it through, talk it out with others (when appropriate), and ask yourself the question, "Am I walking towards my heart and Soul's graceful expression and experience on this new path?"
If the answer is yes, you are headed in the right direction. If you get a "maybe" then you might want to hold off till there is a stronger sense of alignment.
May is a very social month, and we can bring ourselves up to a new level of "game," by choosing to communicate with clarity and integrity. In the words of Yogi Bhajan,
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Let me start by saying that I've been an active member here for more than 10 years. I used to post a lot; I've done moderation, article reviewing and others. I've learned a lot here and I guess I helped others. I've made friends here. There was a time when my only online activity was codeguru. Simply, I love codeguru. No, I used to love codeguru. But not anymore; and I find that so sad. Let me tell you why.
Every update that was done to this site in the past two years or so had a negative impact on the site and on our experience here, whether we deliver content or just browse it. First it was the ads that messed the articles layout, then it was the forum update, then several updates to the main site, going from worse to worst. I have published tens of articles here. In fact I kept publishing only on codeguru. It was out of loyalty, because I always felt I was a small part of this site, of this community.
Ten years ago it was a community of enthusiasts committed to help each other. Nowadays it's all about unique visitors per month and clicks per ad. Cash is key, content doesn't matter and users' wishes are ignored. However, content generates traffic and traffic generates cash. Content and browsing experience should be the top priority.
Looking at the latest update I can only wonder whether the purpose is to kill codeguru or the company simply doesn't have people with enough creativity or just the ability to copy from others in order to make something simple and beautiful. Both possibilities are tragic. Codeguru used to be a top developer site. Today nobody regards codeguru as such. While competition progressed, codeguru regressed. Codeproject features great articles with a beautiful layout and stackoverflow is by far the most popular destination for finding answers to your problem. It's modern, it's simple, and it's appealing. They always end up in the top results in search engines. Where is codeguru? Really, where?
Codeguru is a dinosaur. It is an animal on the extinction list. It is a patient on life support. And it's dying. Slowly, but the outcome is inevitable. Every new update that you deliver is a fatal blow; a kick in the head with a blunt object. Can you make anything to save its life? Would a transplant work? I doubt it. Should you try it, remember you only have one shot. Make it count!
A few years from now, when codeguru will be only history I will be able to say, proudly, "I was part of that. I was a codeguru".
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The Leveson Inquiry has provided a number of examples of how lawyers and judges communicate. The report, written by Lord Justice Leveson, was praised by The Guardian yesterday for its clarity:
Longer than Harry Potter, shorter than Proust, denser than Tolstoy. Brian Leveson's report thumped into the world at just under 2,000 pages and just over a million words. What the Leveson report lacked in literary elegance, it made up for in detail and clarity.
However, the newspaper also found time to highlight chief inquiry lawyer Robert Jay QC's formidable vocabulary. From 'condign' to 'propinquity', they created video of some of the "zingers" he unleashed:
So is legalese, as demonstrated by Robert Jay QC, a good or bad way to communicate? Can clear and simple English be used to communicate even the complexities of the law?


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Google Vice President for Corporate Development David Lawee believes Apple's win against Samsung in a federal district court last month was a "wake-up call." It appears that the search giant will become more aggressive in patenting its own technologies in an effort to avoid a "thermonuclear world."
"I'm hoping that we're kinda over the hump in terms of how people value patents, and the 'thermonuclear' world is not the world we're going to live in," Lawee told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, referring to Steve Jobs' promise to go "thermonuclear" on Android over the belief that Google ripped off the iPhone. Lawee suggested that prior to the current smartphone wars raging in courts around the world, Google didn't appreciate the value of patents, and didn't build up a "sufficient" portfolio.
"We actually didn't invest in the patent ecosystem," Lawee said. "We weren't patenting things as aggressively as we should have been. We didn't really believe 'rounded corners' were patentable. We just didn't buy into that notion of protecting your IP, and it was a wake-up call."


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|Dev: Telltale Games
|Pub: Telltale Games
|Release: October 9, 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Strong Language, Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes.
There are situations that this episode puts you in that are honestly heartbreaking. You are forced to make decisions that flat-out crush other members of your party. You get to see your character and your party members come face to face with death and its consequences. The game allows you to linger on your every decision, letting you really feel the gravity of the choices you make. The end of the episode is particularly astounding, putting you in the horrific position of making a decision that is so impactful it might make you throw up in real life—not due to gross-out factor, but due to the weight of the whole situation.
That being said, I just couldn't get into Lee Everett's character as much as I did in previous episodes. Most of the people I had ties with were gone in this episode, as I was introduced to an entirely new patch of people to interact with. The animations felt a bit stiffer too, with facial expressions coming across as forced and character models frequently jittering or ice-skating across the ground. The dialogue also felt a bit more forced this time around, coming across as corny at times. Heck, there were even times when your actions were mislabeled. The game once asked me to "climb" shotgun shells.
Overall, The Walking Dead Episode 4 is still enjoyable. It can keep you occupied for four hours and manages to continue the story that episodes 1-3 started. It's worth playing just so you can see the story through to the end. However, it is nowhere near as much of a work of art as its predecessors. Hopefully, the whole thing will come together in Episode 5. Until then, I still wholeheartedly suggest playing this game, even though it's the worst episode yet, because the worst episode in one of the most artistic series on the market is still a cut above almost everything else we have available to us.
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Modern workplaces are all about collaboration and the right online collaboration tools. We meet to discuss projects, we work in groups, our offices are designed as open concept spaces that should encourage communication and teamwork. However, after the collaboration meeting adjourns, every member of the team leaves with a list of action items that he is individually responsible for. There is never an email that 2 people must write to follow up on the meeting. Even if a task is "shared" between several team members, they must find ways to collaborate on it taking turns, or reviewing each other's work, or combining separate pieces of the project they have created independently. At any point in time responsibility for a specific unit of work is with one person, not with the whole team. Understanding this makes things simple – if every member of the collaborative team completes his unit of work on time and well, chances are the team will succeed with the project.
GoodDay makes organizing individual tasks of the teams easy and ensures that the responsibility for every unit of work or every step of the project is clearly assigned to one member of the team at any point in time. If would be hard to effectively manage a team if 3 members were assigned to a task and it would be impossible to tell at a glance who is now holding up the project. Available 24/7 online, GoodDay eliminates the confusion by always, always putting one person in charge of a particular task at a particular point in time. This is achieved through "Action Required" feature wich.
When responsibility is clearly in the hands of a single person, no matter how small the task and no matter for how short a period of time that is the case, and when great technology is in place, team collaboration happens naturally. Coupled with forced transparency (big screens), clearly assigned responsibility forged self-regulating teams and organizations.
The purpose of assigning responsibility within the system to one person is not to put blame on someone if the project is delayed or fails. The purpose is to provide real-time information to all team members and empower them to figure it out themselves by either helping the overloaded team member who becomes a bottleneck or reassigning responsibilities to better reflect team member skills.
GoodDay colaboration tools, by visualizing personal responsibility and its effect on the team performance, forces everyone to understand their role and impact, helps find ways to improve, and motivates individuals to become better team members.
GoodDay approaches responsibility on several levels, as explained below:
Personal responsibility: Relates to the individual actions, input, tasks, sub-projects, and has immediate effect on the processed and outcomes within one's department or team.
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GoodDay's collaboration tools through Action Required, helps prevent and eliminate collaboration bottlenecks that affect performance, morale and deliverables. GoodDay tracks every action, measures its impact and derives quantitative data from all activities in the system. This helps identify team members who, for example, are consistently the slowest to respond to tasks or messages. The next step, within GoodDay framework, is not to label this team member as a poor performer, but rather to dig deeper and understand if work is distributed fairly between collaborators and if it is manageable for all team members. Slow responding team member may be overloaded and may be a real bottleneck in the project. On the other hand, he may need some additional training on particular aspects of his job where he is indeed struggling and spends too much time learning on the job vs. completing the tasks. In any case, removing bottlenecks and analyzing slow responses becomes possible when data is available across all teams and historically, to understand the underlying cause. Keeping positive attitude and promoting growth mindset is important when solving this challenge, because it will enable the manager to improve its team dynamics instead of creating negative atmosphere by blaming one team member for poor planning, training, and workload distribution.


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Sixty-four years ago, Ray Lumpp climbed aboard the London-bound S.S. America along with 240 other members of the U.S. Olympic team.
The ship departed from New York City where politicians, celebrities, and a 60-piece band provided fanfare for the largest of several sendoffs on July 14, 1948.
"Grace Kelly was on board-her husband Jack Kelly was an oarsman," recalled Lumpp, who holds the honor of being the oldest living U.S. Olympic basketball player. "She was given a lot of attention by the press."
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Lumpp, who in 1948 was a 25-year-old NYU basketball star with an Elvis grin, had said goodbye to his pregnant wife and toddler a month earlier before heading to Kentucky to train. Besides the occasional letter, they wouldn't communicate for another month when Lumpp would return home with his gold medal.
"The Olympians didn't bring their families over," said Lumpp, an NBA alumnus who recently retired as director of the New York Athletic Club after 47 years. "Not like today. They didn't make arrangements in those days."
That the Olympic Games even took place in 1948 was remarkable. The 14th Olympiad (London's second) was the first following a 12-year wartime hiatus that left much of Europe so bomb-scarred and broke that it was uncertain if organizing such a large-scale, international event would be possible.
But London - despite its on-going food and fuel shortages - managed to organize an inspirational event that paved the way for future Games. With just two years to prepare - compared with eight years leading up to London 2012 - organizers scrambled for resources, refurbished existing venues and opened the Games on time.
It was on that hastily arranged stage where some of the innovation and social progress that athletes and spectators today may take for granted, vigorously pushed ahead.
Though the civil rights movement and desegregation were well over a decade away, several concrete steps that the U.S. had taken ahead of the '48 Games made the event a sturdy platform for progress.
A year earlier, Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers, breaking baseball's racial barrier, and days before the Opening Ceremony, President Harry Truman signed an executive order that would desegregate the U.S. military.
These seeds of social progress were already growing aboard the S.S. America where Lumpp was sharing a room with Hall of Famer Don Barksdale, the only black player on the U.S. basketball team. Arthur Jackson, a white rifle shooter, shook hands with a black person for the first time in his life, according to an account in Janie Hampton's "The Austerity Olympics."
Herb Douglas, one of the eight black athletes on the 65-member track and field team, had fond memories of the Games.
"For most of us, that was a very nice experience, because a lot of us had never witnessed the way we were welcomed over there from the social standpoint."
He noted that while his homecoming to Pittsburgh, Pa. was one of the greatest moments of his life at the time, some of his other teammates returned home to states that required them to watch news coverage of their Olympic feats from the balconies of movie theaters.
Still, he credits the 1948 Games, and more emphatically, the 1936 Jesse Owens Games, with paving the way for integration in sports.
The Games were also an important step for women, who were limited to nine events (compared with 24 for men) based on the belief that overexertion could damage women's bodies.
Women like "The Flying Housewife" Fanny Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two who won gold medals in four track events, helped to chip away at the perception that women were too fragile for athletics.
The '48 Games also saw the debut of international Paralympic competition, initiated in response to the surge of wounded veterans returning from World War II, and were the first Games to use photo-finish technology.
Harrison "Bones" Dillard, a four-time Olympic gold medalist won his first at the '48 Games, thanks to a finish line snapshot. Though he says he knew he won the 100-meter race ahead of Barney Ewell, who instantly began celebrating, the photo made it official.
"Barney went into a victory dance, jumping up and down." Dillard said. "Lloyd LaBeach [the third-place winner] had a good view and I remember, prior to the official announcement, he said to Barney, 'no man, you didn't win, Bones won.'"
The historic moment was broadcast live, along with other major sporting events, and watched from television sets across the U.K.-another transformative first, on which the 2012 Olympics continue to build.
This year, every minute of competition will be livestreamed, giving anyone with an Internet connection the opportunity front-row access as the Olympics return to London to build upon the legacies of one of the most improbable Games in history.


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News of Michael Jackson's death being ruled a homicide on Monday sent shockwaves through Hollywood. But one person who apparently wasn't surprised by the announcement was the singer's sister, La Toya Jackson.
"La Toya knew it the second she heard he was dead," a source close to La Toya told Access Hollywood on Monday, following the news from the Los Angeles County Coroner. "[Michael] had been telling her for the longest [time] that they were going to kill him and she knows all the players involved."
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The Associated Press was the first to break the homicide news on Monday, citing a law enforcement official's knowledge of the coroner's ruling.
The coroner ruled a fatal combination of drugs, including the powerful anesthetic propofol, was given to Jackson hours before he died on June 25, according to the AP.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Michael Jackson Death Investigation: Who's Who?
Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, has been at the center of the investigation surrounding the King of Pop's death at the age of 50.
But as far as La Toya is concerned, the homicide ruling is only the beginning of the information that could be revealed.
"Wait until you see how everything unfolds," the source close to Jackson's sister told Access. "It's going to be the biggest conspiracy of all times."
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In addition, a spokesperson for the Jackson family issued the following statement to Access following Monday's news:
"The Jackson family has full confidence in the legal process, and commends the ongoing efforts of the L.A. County Coroner, the L.A. District Attorney and the L.A. Police Department," the statement read. "The family looks forward to the day that justice can be served."
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Three U.S. archers shooting for medals
Jeff Fabry is one of three U.S. archers who will compete for a medal Monday.
LONDON — After Sunday's quarterfinal action, two more members of Team USA have advanced to the semifinals, and are guaranteed the opportunity to compete for a Paralympic Games medal.
Matt Stutzman (Fairfield, Iowa) and teammate Dugie Denton (Joliet, Mont.) shot in an inspiring and truly impressive match in the compound men's open quarterfinals with Stutzman prevailing. "He didn't make a mistake and I did. I gave it away," Denton said. "Nothing fancy - simple. It happens occasionally."
In the first set, the archers tied with 28 points and in the second end they tied again with 29 points. Denton took the third set by one point shooting a perfect 30 to Stutzman's 29, bringing the match score to 4-2.
In the fourth set Stutzman shot a 28 to Denton's 27, which tied the match at 4-4. Pushing the match to a fifth set, Denton shot 10-10-8 for 28 points but Stutzman shot a 9-10-10 for 29 points, scoring a hard-fought win and a semifinals berth.
"It's so difficult. I train with him all the time, we room together, we eat together and it's never fun, taking out your teammate," Stutzman said. "Today I was the lucky one. Last time, in Mexico (at the 2011 Parapan American Games), it was him."
At the end of the match the archers received a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience. After watching the match, President of Archery Great Britain David Harrison tweeted, "I have just been privileged to watch the most inspirational archery match in my life."
Eric Bennett (Surprise, Ariz.), competing in the recurve men's standing quarterfinals, took an early 4-0 lead over Oguzhan Polat (TUR). Polat refused to go down without a fight, tying the third set and winning the fourth. Bennett led 5-3 going into the final set. Polat shot a 9-8-8 for 25 points, but Bennett responded with an amazing 9-10-10 to clinch the match.
"On to the Semi-Finals and Medal Rounds tomorrow," Bennett commented in an update to fans. "All three [other archers] are amazing archers but I feel confident and calm. I will do all I can do and will be happy with the result no matter what happens but want that gold medal around my neck!"
Tomorrow three members of Team USA will shoot in the semifinals. In recurve men's standing, Bennett will face Timur Tuchinov of Russia. In men's compound W1 Jeff Fabry (Tulare, Calif.) will shoot against Norbert Murphy from Canada. In men's compound open, Stutzman faces Spain's Guillermo Rodriguez Gonzalez.


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Interest in military-style guns surges
School shootings, proposed bans may be responsible for sales spike
Gun owners unhappy with President Barack Obama's plan to ban military-style assault rifles and restrict high-capacity ammunition magazines plan to rally at the Missouri State Capitol this weekend.
Those types of guns are not only controversial, but KMBC 9's Micheal Mahoney said they're in high demand.
Military-style assault rifles were banned over a 10-year period starting in the mid-1990s, but the ban was allowed to expire. The guns are still very popular.
"There are so many out there, it's hard to find one at gun stores now," said gun instructor Joe Moran. "They pretty much sell out. You can't find an assault weapon anywhere."
While Mahoney said he did find a small rack of them at a local gun store, there is no doubt that there has been a spike in sales.
NBC News reported that there were one million more background checks requested last year than the year before. Some have attributed the number to Obama's re-election and some say the number spiked after the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. The interest in military-style assault guns spiked after Obama's speech this week.
"There is nothing out there. I've checked on the Internet for ammunition," said Stan Nyhart, who said he owns an AK-47. "If you find (any), the price is double what they used to be charged."
Mahoney said his spot-check of some Kansas City gun shops confirmed that the military-style weapons are in demand and hard to keep in stock.


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Reds sixth round draft pick Alex Buchholz was off to a white hot start in rookie ball with the Billings Mustangs of the Pioneer League. Buchholz, a middle infielder from the University of Delaware, has posted a stellar line of .366/.453/.610/1.062 with an 18/11 K/BB ratio.
Buchholz's bat is his calling card, while his glove lags a bit behind. Still, the former Blue Hen has been fantastic thus far and it's disappointing to see him suffer the injury. Even so, it won't hinder his development in any appreciable way.
Mike Scherting reports the following on Buchholz:
2B Alex Buchholz is out three to four weeks after getting hit in the left hand during Friday night's 14-7 win over the Ogden Raptors. Buchholz was told he fractured a bone in his hand — "a boxer's break" — he said and he'll have another evluation Monday before the Reds decide if he should stay here in Billings or go to Sarasota, Fla., for his rehab.
As for Buchholz, the 6th-round pick from the University of Delaware said this is the first time he'd received a significant injury in his playing career. "This is going to be the longest three to four weeks of my life," he said.
Buchholz was third in the Pioneer League in batting (.366) and he was tied for the team high in RBIs with Tony Brown at 20. The injury means Jose Gualdron will see more time at second base.
"Unfortunately, that's part of the business," Garcia said of the injuries. "It always seems to happen to good guys or guys having good years, and that's both case. Kyle's isn't as (serious) and hopefully he'll be back in a couple days. Alex will be gone for a while."


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Laraib a girl so innocent that she is unaware of her ravishing exquisiteness, beauty and good looks hidden behind her childish yet loving attitude, jokes and pranks aimed towards her family. Pampered by the elders and loved by her cousins, all Laraib has received is affection from her relatives, little did she knew about the challenging future awaits her.
Her life changes, she comes to know of her own good looks and beauty after seeing her portraits taken candidly by Wahaj who is a stylist by profession. The two become good friends and before late that friendship proves to be a strong foundation for a loving relation and finally marriage.
While the two were having the time of their lives there was someone else who wasn't happy for Wahaj and Laraib, who wanted Wahaj since her first breath, who loved him like no one could ever have loved anyone. Bishma, Wahaj's cousin and has been in love with him since childhood although to Wahaj it's a one side affair, and has always tried to distance himself from her. It's Bishma who will do anything in her power to make Laraib's life a living hell.
Cast: Usman Peerzada- Nasreen Qureshi- Asma Abbass- Waseem Abbass-Sajjal ali-Maya Ali- Jibran shahid- Affan Waheed, HarebFarouq, Nadia Afgan, Shaista Jabeen, Tahira Imam
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At Adobe, we've been innovating on digital documents for decades. Today, we deliver the most comprehensive eSigning portfolio, from digital signatures in Adobe Acrobat to Adobe EchoSign.
- 50 million agreements have been signed on the EchoSign platform, which is now accelerating at a rate of more than 3 million agreements per month.
- Organizations using EchoSign include more than 100 banks as well as companies like Citrix, Foursquare, Groupon, KIA Motors, Marketo, Netapp, Ricoh, Time Warner Cable, TiVo, and more.
- More than 1.8 million customers are using Adobe Acrobat digital signatures across the Federal government, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, financial services, and more.
- 30 million users are signing their personal documents with Adobe Reader, which is deployed across 800 million PCs and 300 million mobile devices worldwide.
But there's still a great deal of work to do. According to our research, less than 10 percent of all contracts in North America are signed electronically. This means important documents are being printed and signed the old fashioned way, which slows business down, creates risk and can be error prone. Whether it's a sales contract being sent from Salesforce.com, or a new employee onboarding document that's part of a Taleo workflow, we don't think companies should be printing, faxing, or "over-nighting" these critical documents. That's where eSignatures can have a huge impact.
To help our customers and partners plan their eSignature implementation initiatives, we are revealing our top-level roadmap for friction-free business with a new digital document platform. In the next 30 days, we'll deliver two key updates: EchoSign for Salesforce v14, as well as a major new EchoSign winter release. We'll provide more detail here in the next few weeks, so stay tuned. More broadly, we are delighted to share how we will innovate over the next 6 to 12 months across three key areas: advancing security, ease of use, and expanding our cloud capabilities.
Digital Signature Support. In June 2012, EchoSign became the first solution provider to digitally sign and cryptographically seal documents signed through the EchoSign service. The digital seal provides persistent evidence of the authenticity of the signed document, and provides visual tamper evidence when viewed in Acrobat or Reader. We're seeing increased adoption of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) smartcards or tokens across government, healthcare, pharmaceutical, finance, and more – smartcards that can be used for digitally signing documents. So I'm delighted to announce that Adobe will introduce first class support for digital signatures in the EchoSign service, leveraging Acrobat and Reader. This means that Adobe EchoSign will be the only cloud-based service platform that delivers both digital signatures and electronic signatures, meeting global regulatory compliance and high-security requirements where digital signatures are needed.
Digital Rights Management. Documents transacted through the EchoSign platform frequently contain sensitive and confidential information – be it Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Personal Health Information (PHI), pricing and deal terms, or salary information. The information contained in these documents must be secured throughout its lifespan to ensure that it does not get into the wrong hands. So today we are taking the document security offered by the EchoSign platform to a new frontier: we are announcing digital rights protection for all your PDF documents that are signed using EchoSign. With this new protection, your organization will be able to control access to your critical business documents after the documents have been signed, no matter where they are stored. We are able to deliver this capability thanks to the wide-spread adoption of Adobe Reader, which is used on more than 800 million devices worldwide. This new capability will let companies control and audit access to PDF documents already sent or downloaded, enable advanced watermarking, digitally "shred" expired documents, and more.
EchoSign is the industry leader on ease of use. For example, EchoSign is 30 percent more efficient than the leading competitor. EchoSign has a net promoter score of 57, whereas the next-best leading competitor has a score of 53. (Source: Independent research across more than 290 active eSignature users, commission by Adobe, Sept. 2013). And, Adobe EchoSign is the No. 1 rated eSignature solution by community users on the Salesforce.com AppExchange:
We are taking this to the next level with a deep bet on mobile and HTML5 experiences. Starting with the 6.7 release next month, we're introducing a next-generation signing experience that is even easier to use. The UI will also feature new send and forms-authoring tools that support drag‐and-drop file upload, field templates, workflow templates, and redesigned document management and administrative pages. We're also making forms more adaptable. With EchoSign, you'll be able to create reusable form templates that include field definitions, locations and field properties that can be applied to any document. And, you'll be able to make form field templates to place EchoSign signature fields on the document, as well as ensure the correct number of signers is applied to the document.
We're also pushing the boundaries on mobile support. EchoSign is the only signature service to offer a widely deployed offline-signing solution for iOS. Based on customer feedback, we will be extending this unique capability to the Android platform as well as the PC and Mac OS environments through Adobe Reader. So if you're just signing a school permission slip or getting a multi-million dollar deal signed from your mobile device, EchoSign will continue to be the easiest solution out there.
Adobe EchoSign is deployed across multiple datacenters with full support for Disaster Recovery, PCI and HIPAA compliance, all housed in SSAE 16 Type 2 certified datacenters. We provide a uniquely global solution, supporting signers in more than 180 countries around the world. Today, we are announcing plans to deliver local datacenter support in both Europe and Australia in 2014, as well as our intention to enter Adobe EchoSign into the U.S. government's FedRAMP certification program. Respectively, these are critical for organizations that require data sovereignty as well as the highest levels of cloud certification. The majority of our customers are integrating EchoSign with existing business applications: Apttus, Box, eOriginal, Evernote, Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Office 365, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Xactly and more. We will be providing a deeper level of innovation across these integrations, and introducing powerful new REST API support as part of the 6.7 release for developers worldwide.
This is how eSigning should be – intuitive, ubiquitous, adaptable and secure, making business friction-free so you can close deals faster and more confidently. It should come from a vendor you trust. And it should work with your existing systems. We are excited to be investing in the future, and setting the standard for what an electronic signature platform should deliver.
Join us at DreamForce 2013, on Wednesday, November 20 at 9 a.m. to hear how our customers are currently using EchoSign to improve their business agility during our customer panel with Groupon, Electronic Arts, Conway and United Healthcare, or stop by our booth on the floor, booth N1407, Moscone Center North.
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By By Ernie Stephens, Editor-at-Large | June 9, 2014
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Quebec Provincial Police have confirmed that three prisoners used a helicopter to escape from the Orsainville detention center in Quebec City. The breakout occurred during the evening hours of June 7, launching a manhunt that covers a wide swath of eastern Canada and the United States.
"A helicopter touched down briefly in the courtyard before taking off with the three prisoners," explained Ann Mathieu, a police spokesperson. She added that the escapees are considered extremely dangerous.
As daring as the escape was, it was not the first time in recent history that a helicopter has been used to free (or attempt to free) prisoners from a correctional facility. In March 2013, a pilot was forced to hover a Robinson R44 above a prison northwest of Montreal, allowing two inmates to clamber aboard by rope and fly away. And in February 2013, police in Athens, Greece, exchanged automatic weapons fire with a group of gunmen in a helicopter as they used a grappling hook to try to pull down a security fence. When that failed, they lowered the rope to the prisoner. The escape was thwarted when sharpshooters killed the inmate and the aircraft was forced down.
Since 1971, there have been 43 well-documented attempts worldwide to free prisoners using helicopters. Approximately 31 of those were successful.
Escaped inmates: from left, Denis Lefebvre, Serge Pomerleau and Yves Denis. Photo courtesy Quebec Provincial Police.
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LOS ANGELES — A man arrested outside Kendall Jenner's Los Angeles home in a stalking case told police he has frequently waited for the model and reality television star to try to talk to her, a police report shows.
Shavaughn MacKenzie, 25, followed Jenner's car into her driveway on Sunday night, banged on her window and told her that he didn't have a gun, the report states.
Jenner remained in the car, called her manager and waited for police to arrive, the report states.
A judge on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order at Jenner's request. McKenzie, a transient from Florida, remained in custody after pleading not guilty to misdemeanor stalking and trespassing charges filed earlier this week.
Jenner, 20, told police she has seen McKenzie multiple times and he had to be escorted away from her former home. He once ran into traffic to try to get her to stop, she said.
"I fear for my life and have suffered, and will continue to suffer, emotional distress," Jenner wrote in the restraining order application.
Jenner is the daughter of Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner and appears on the family's reality series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
McKenzie acknowledged he had waited for Jenner outside her residences multiple times, the police report states.
"I just wanted to have a conversation with her, but everything just went wrong," McKenzie told police, according to the report. "If she could just see what a chill guy I am, I know she'd want to be with me."
Records show McKenzie pleaded no contest to a pair of trespassing cases in May. Neither of the cases was related to Jenner.
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I've had a serious girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon since I first watched Cruel Intentions. I fell in love with her and Ryan Phillippe in that movie and loved that they were a couple and started the perfect little family together. Reese and Ryan didn't last, but Reese continues to be one of the leading ladies of Hollywood and is well-respected in the industry. Her cute-as-a-button look and classy attitude leave her likeability extremely high. Recently re-married to Jim Toth, Reese added another bundle of joy to her family.
As for Reese's style, well, she is constantly making headlines for everything from her everyday looks to her nights on the red carpet. Truth be told, her handbag game is one of the most well-rounded and best I've seen. Sit back, relax, and drool over the many bags of Reese Witherspoon. I mean, who doesn't love her?
Do you ever wonder how many celebrities you walk by in the airport? I do. Reese is constantly traveling, and she kicks off this series with her Fendi Doctor Vitello Bag. Shop Fendi via Neiman Marcus.
I can't get enough of Reese's pooch or her Yves Saint Laurent Muse Two bag - such a great pair. Shop YSL via Net-A-Porter.
Reese has a way to make super casual look super cool. This time she was spotted shopping and carrying her 3.1 Phillip Lim Page Handbag. Shop 3.1 Phillip Lim via ShopBop.
Clearly, Reese digs the denim-on-denim look as much as I do. This time her bag of choice is the Alexander Wang Rocco. Shop Alexander Wang via ShopBop.
One of the best bags Bottega Veneta makes is the Cabat and Reese is a major fan. This version was very hard to find, but of course Reese has it. Shop Bottega Veneta via Net-A-Porter.
Reese's style exudes class, which can be seen with her Celine Mini Shoulder Bag in classic black. Shop Celine via Kirna Zabete.
Reese is a family woman, and in many of these photos, she can be seen with her adorable kids. Her daughter Ava channels her mom's style in this photo, and Reese tops off her look with the Marc Jacobs Klein Quilted Frame Bag. Shop Marc Jacobs via Net-A-Porter.
Staying fashion forward, Reese also loves carrying a bag from the designer everyone is pining for now: Givenchy. Her choice is the Givenchy Pandora Billy Messenger Bag. Shop Givenchy bags via Barneys.
Clearly Reese loves her Givenchy bag, she has been spotted carrying it often. Shop Givenchy bags via Barneys.
Always with a smile on her face and always with a great bag, this time it's the Lanvin Happy Sac Partage Shoulder Bag. Shop Lanvin bags via Net-A-Porter.
Talk about arm candy - this Chanel bag is stunning!
Reese is a fan of Lanvin, and for a smaller day bag Reese opts for the Lanvin Amalia. Shop Lanvin bags via Net-A-Porter.
Reese carries Chloe constantly. Her bag of choice for this outfit was the Chloe Marcie. Shop Chloe bags via Net-A-Porter.
Chic and classic, Reese loves her Bottega Veneta Veneta Hobo. Shop Bottega Veneta via Net-A-Porter.
It's not one of the most famous Chloe bags, but the Chloe Elsie Lame Shoulder Bag is a beautiful piece. Shop Chloe via Net-A-Porter.
Perfectly on trend, Reese loves carrying her Celine Luggage Tote - and I love this bag on her too! Shop Celine via Kirna Zabete.
How cute is Reese? Here she is in Ray-Bans with her Hermes Garden Tote, a simple bag that's great for everyday use.
Another Givenchy bag and another perfectly put-together look. Reese looks great with her Givenchy Nightingale. Shop Givenchy bags via Barneys.
Looks like Reese is quite the Chloe fangirl. Her bag of choice on this day, a python Chloe Paraty. Shop Chloe bags via Net-A-Porter.
Have we seen Reese without sunglasses on yet? She loves sunnies and she loves designer bags. I totally see why Reese loves Lanvin and her Lanvin JL Bag works well with her style. Shop Lanvin bags via Net-A-Porter.
I'm so happy to see her with a Valentino Rockstud Tote, I feel like her collection wouldn't be complete without it. Shop Valentino via Net-A-Porter.
A little black bag and a huge smile, this picture is one of my favorites of Reese!
Her family photos melt my heart, and so does her Loewe Amazona Bag, I continue wanting one.
Reese still carries some old bags, like this Lanvin Kansas Bag, which is from years back. Shop Lanvin bags via Net-A-Porter.
Not too long ago, Reese gave birth to her third child (her first with new hubby Jim Toth). She looks just as great pregnant, and with her Fendi 2Jours Elite bag. Shop Fendi bags via Neiman Marcus.
This is one of my favorite looks on Reese, demure and refined. She carries her The Row Day Luxe Bag extremely well. Shop The Row via Net-A-Porter.
And again Reese was spotted with her The Row bag. Tres chic.
The always-doting mom is constantly snapped at her kids activities, and she keeps her accessory game strong. At her son's soccer game, Reese opted for her bi-color Celine Cabas Tote. Shop Celine via Kirna Zabete.
Not only does she attend her kids games, but she also volunteers as snack mom. In one arm she carries a bag of orange slices and the other her custom Louis Vuitton Monogram Neverfull.
Crap, this image sucks, but the point is that Reese loves Bottega Veneta Cabats. Shop Bottega Veneta via Net-A-Porter.


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Across Portugal, just under 740 MW of wind is now under construction, according to Porto University's Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial (table). On average, the cost per megawatt installed is EUR 1.18 million, reports the government's Directorate General of Energy and Geology (DGEG). Among turbine suppliers, Germany's Enercon has the largest market share of 44.9%, followed by Denmark's Vestas with 18.3% and Spain's Gamesa with 12.9% (table).
Portugal offers a range of incentives to wind developers, chief among them mandated purchase prices and a requirement that all power output be bought by the electricity company. Wind plant supplying regions of high electricity demand receive a rate of EUR 0.073/kWh, while those with low demand get a higher rate of EUR 0.074/kWh -- a policy designed to encourage development outside urban centres. Both rates are linked to the inflation index and run for 15 years for each new project, after which electricity is sold on the open market together with associated green certificates, for going market rates.
Small projects also receive one-off capital grants, available through 2013, covering 35% of project investment up to EUR 250,000 a project, as well as government loans of up to EUR 75,000 with five-year interest payment holidays, and a reduced sales tax rate on wind turbines of 12%, compared to the normal rate of 20%.
Alongside the market incentives, the Portuguese government has also awarded a series of wind power development concessions in a major competitive tendering process started in 2005, split into three stages. The aims of the complex program have largely been achieved: a wind turbine manufacturing industry has been kick-started in Portugal along with large-scale wind farm construction. Concessions have been awarded for 1800 MW of wind development using turbines made in Portugal, with the last 200 MW awarded to a series of small projects late last year (Windpower Monthly, January 2009). Large winners in the tender receive the mandated purchase prices, while several successful bidders in the third and last stage also benefit from the incentives for small and mid-sized businesses.
A leading source of new wind power capacity is the ENEOP-Eólicas de Portugal consortium, which won the first stage of the government tender and is developing 1.2 GW in 48 wind farms across the country through 2011 at a cost of EUR 1.5 billion. The combined capacity is forecast to annually produce 2.7 TWh, representing 25% of Portuguese wind power next year.
Another consortium, Ventinveste, led by Galp Energia, which won stage two of the concession process, is developing 480 MW of wind, with construction work beginning in 2009 and ending in 2013. The third and final stage of the wind auction awarded 200 MW in 13 lots, with the biggest, 50 MW, going to Unión Fenosa and Enel partnership Eufer. The companies will invest about EUR 70 million in two wind farms in the area of Torre de Moncorvo and commissioning is expected by the end of 2010.
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Outside the government concession program, several companies are pursuing major projects. Spanish utility Iberdrola is spending EUR 250 million to expand its portfolio of installed wind power capacity in Portugal to 200 MW. Its Catefica and Alto Monção wind farms, with a combined capacity of 56 MW, are in operation and construction of three further projects is expected to wrap up by the end of the year. At the same time, domestic wind power firm Martifer is developing 18 MW, 12.6 MW of it at the Santa Cruz wind farm slated for completion this month. Iberwind, formerly known as Enersis and until recently owned by Australian asset manager Babcock & Brown, is building 156 MW. And Endesa Portugal, a unit of Spanish utility Endesa, is building more than 880 MW of wind power plant across Portugal due to begin operation by 2012.
Iberwind is currently the lead wind plant owner in Portugal, operating 19.8% of existing wind power capacity, followed by Enernova, a subsidiary of Portuguese national utility EDP with 17.2%; Portuguese renewable energy company Generg with 15.4%; the Empreendimentos Eolicos do Vale do Minho consortium with 9.7%; and EDF EN Portugal, a subsidiary of France's EDF Energies Nouvelles, with 5.8% (table).
The Portuguese districts with the most installed wind power are Viseu, with 653.3 MW, Castelo Branco, with 386.5 MW and Viana do Castelo at 308.8 MW (map). According to DGEG, wind energy production in 2008 was up 42% on the previous year. Small wind plant play a big role in Portugal, with 39% of the installed capacity located in wind farms of 25 MW or less, reports DGEG.