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Exact Local Whittle Estimation Of Fractional Integration With Unknown Mean And Time Trend
AbstractRecently, Shimotsu and Phillips (2005, Annals of Statistics 33, 1890 1933) developed a new semiparametric estimator, the exact local Whittle (ELW) estimator, of the memory parameter (d) in fractionally integrated processes. The ELW estimator has been shown to be consistent, and it has the same asymptotic distribution for all values of d, if the optimization covers an interval of width less than 9/2 and the mean of the process is known. With the intent to provide a semiparametric estimator suitable for economic data, we extend the ELW estimator so that it accommodates an unknown mean and a polynomial time trend. We show that the two-step ELW estimator, which is based on a modified ELW objective function using a tapered local Whittle estimator in the first stage, has an asymptotic distribution for (or when the data have a polynomial trend). Our simulation study illustrates that the two-step ELW estimator inherits the desirable properties of the ELW: 501-540
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- Katsumi Shimotsu, 2002. "Exact Local Whittle Estimation of Fractional Integration with Unknown Mean and Time Trend," Economics Discussion Papers 543, University of Essex, Department of Economics.
- Katsumi Shimotsu, 2006. "Exact Local Whittle Estimation of Fractional Integration with Unknown Mean and Time Trend," Working Papers 1061, Queen's University, Department of Economics.
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- Shimotsu, Katsumi & Phillips, Peter C.B., 2006. "Local Whittle estimation of fractional integration and some of its variants," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 130(2), pages 209-233, February.
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A structural model for US aggregate job flows
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- Fabrice Collard & Patrick Fève & Fran�ois Langot & Corinne Perraudin, 2002. "A structural model of US aggregate job flows," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(3), pages 197-223.
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- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income.
- Michaelides, Alexander & Ng, Serena, 2000. "Estimating the rational expectations model of speculative storage : a Monte Carlo comparison of three simulation estimators," Open Access publications from London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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- Thomas B. King, 2005. "Labor productivity and job-market flows: trends, cycles, and correlations," Supervisory Policy Analysis Working Papers 2005-04, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- Karamé, Frédéric & Patureau, Lise & Sopraseuth, Thepthida, 2008. "Limited participation and exchange rate dynamics: Does theory meet the data?," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 1041-1087, April.
- Frédéric Karamé & Lise Patureau & Thepthida Sopraseuth, 2003. "Limited participation and exchange rate dynamics : does theory meet the data ?," Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques v04013, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1).
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Improving the SGP Through a Proper Accounting of Public Investment
AbstractThe Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) contains a serious error: the way governments are expected to account for public investment. Correcting this error and applying, as article 104.3 of the EU Treaty allows, the current rules of the Pact to a measure of the budget where the treatment of investment expenditures is done properly would, over time, drive the debt-GDP ratio to the ratio of public capital to GDP. Excluding net public investment from the definition of the budget that is relevant for the Pact would also help in the short run, by inducing countries to shift the composition of domestic demand, rather than to reduce 4220.
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- Willem H. Buiter & Clemens Grafe, 2004. "Patching up the Pact," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 12(1), pages 67-102, 03.
- Buti, M. & Eijffinger, S.C.W. & Franco, D., 2003. "Revisiting the stability and growth pact: Grand design or internal adjustment?," Open Access publications from Tilburg University urn:nbn:nl:ui:12-152958,:42.
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France: innovation system and innovation 18.
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This world belongs to us, the products used in this world are created for us to make our lives better. So as I sit here at 1236am in my room I wonder its not necessary that only Industrial Design Engineers can improve the quality of a product, you and I can do it as well. Its our responsibility to create new ideas either they are about improving the quality of life, marketing of a company/idea, improving a product etc so that it enhances our lives.
So based on these thoughts, IDEAS FROM LIFE blog is born. Here I will give my ideas on how to improve any product. Ideas will range from completely silly to very thought provoking and I hope you all join me in this process.
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Ansib Nabi, Round 1 Gladiator PowerPuff Girl Final Submission
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FINAL SUBMISSION
Well this is it. Finally over. Made some finishing touches here and there. Also see if you can spot Bubbles Favourite toy ‘octi’
This was a blast today and i had tons of fun doing something like this. Hope you all did!
Gah i hate not knowing what the timezone is for this forum! It’s Friday 8th 2am (yes in the morning lol) and if i put that in my post doesn’t show. Had to guesstimate the time to get it on lol
WIP4 (Click to view maximum size!)
Okay here’s my 4th WIP. Made a lot of changes to this one. Changed the leg armor a bit. Also changed the shoes. Improved sword. Also (most obvious one) i’ve redone the face. Unfortunately i’m struggling on the hands A LOT! just cant seem to get it right. Next update might involve a more completed character and work on the background (which i didn’t do in this wip) Thanks again for watching!
Okay i’ve somewhat got the body complete. I just hate the face so i might do that part all over again. And there are some parts on the lower legs that i’m not happy with so i will be making changes there too. Threw in a quick background and realised how i will have to change the lighting on the armor lol. Would like some critique on this and any improvements i can make. Thanks
Still working on the armor and i’m really struggling with the face. I’ve re-did the eyes and i’ve just realised that the one of the right looks completely wrong, so i would really appreciate some feedback so i can make myself a lot better as an artist. Judging from other peoples entries i got no chance of winning haha but it’s so fun just participating in this!
EDIT: Okay i’ve decided to do a full body pose, relaxed of course. I don’t usually do this so could anyone point out any issues with the anatomy, pose errors that they can find? would be much helpful! thanks guys
EDIT EDIT: Okay from the feedback, i’ve shifted the facial features more slightly to the right. Better?
im not the best with anatomy, im still learning just as you are but i think the problem with your eye is that its not on an angle her face is at 3/4 view but both eyes are front on.
ahh yeah i did try that, but it just felt that her eyes looked too far apart. I’ll keep on trying to redo it, thanks for your input =)
Faces are the one of the hardest things to get right. It took me months before I started getting the hang of it. I recommend to keep practicing the face structure. There are some good books out there, it’s just a matter of finding them. The book I started on was by Jack Hamm “Drawing the Head and Figure” and I also use Chris Hart’s “Drawing Cutting Edge Anatomy” book. Both are very very good books. I would try to find copies of those to use as reference. I still do and will have to for a long time.
Thanks Havok, i’ll definitely look into those books you’ve suggested
with where you are now if you were to remake her what would change?
umm probably everything hahah. However for this comp i will be changing the face and also adjusting the armor, will also be working more on the background i guess.
I know how you feel. I left my piece last night in a bad mood as I could not get the face right and I kept screwing it up no matter what i did! Keep it up you are getting there
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The Computer Engineering Program at UnicenP (Centro Universitario Positivo) has an annual serial structure. This paper presents the integration effort of the courses in the hardware area. The focus of this work is the following set of courses: the Computer Engineering Project course of the freshman year, Digital Systems course and Computer Architecture & Organization course, both of the sophomore year and Microprocessors course, of the junior year. This integration effort has as main objective the improvement of the multidisciplinary formation with basis in a continuous integration between theory and practice in engineering. We present the contents developments, the experimental activities and the courses final projects. The interdisciplinary relationships are described as well its contribution for a multidisciplinary formation, pointing out the influence on the increase of the learning level, a consequence of the reinforcement and the integration between theory and practice
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The problem of identifying significantly differentially expressed genes for replicated microarray experiments is accepted as significant and has been tackled by several researchers. Patterns from gene expression (PaGE) and q-values are two of the well-known approaches developed to handle this problem. This paper proposes a powerful approach to handle this problem. We first propose a method for estimating the prior probabilities used in the first version of the PaGE algorithm. This way, the problem definition of PaGE stays intact and we just estimate the needed prior probabilities. Our estimation method is similar to Storey's estimator without being its direct extension. Then, we modify the problem formulation to find significantly differentially expressed genes and present an efficient method for finding them. This formulation increases the power by directly incorporating Storey's estimator. We report the preliminary results on the BRCA data set to demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our approach
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Reliable detection of objects using the Hough transform is often possible even if just a small random poll of edge points is used for voting. This can lead to significant computational savings. To reduce the risk of errors, it is customary to preset the poll size to a value that is much larger than necessary in average conditions. An adaptive setting of the poll size in the probabilistic Hough transform is suggested. It is experimentally demonstrated that by monitoring changes in the ranks of peaks in the parameter space, sensible decisions on voting termination can be made. Adaptive stopping leads to polls that are on average smaller than the fixed poll that leads to the same error rate. In many applications the number of objects to be detected is unknown. Finding the number of appearances of an object in a noisy image is difficult, especially with partial data. The authors present an adaptive stopping rule that terminates voting as soon as any number of objects seem to be reliably detected, even though the existence of others may not be ruled out yet
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A pattern classification method is proposed for remote sensing data using neural networks. First, the authors apply the error backpropagation (BP) algorithm to classify the remote sensing data. In this case, the classification performance depends on a training data set. In order to get stable and precise classification results, the training data set is selected based on geographical information and Kohonen's self-organizing feature map. Using the training data set and the error backpropagation algorithm, a layered neural network is trained such that the training patterns are classified with a specified accuracy. After training the neural network, some pixels are deleted from the original training data set if they are incorrectly classified and a new training data set is built up. Once training is complete, a testing data set is classified by using the trained neural network. The classification results of LANDSAT TM data show that this approach produces excellent results which are more realistic and noiseless compared with a conventional Bayesian method
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Recent regulatory requirements in the United States and the growing complexity of transmission grids worldwide have prompted the need for greater substation data communications security. Southern company, one of the largest utilities in North America, required a comprehensive security solution for providing and controlling access to intelligent electronic devices within its substations. Using a combination of commercial hardware and software, in conjunction with software developed by SUBNET solutions Inc., southern company has begun a standardized rollout of the proposed solution across four of its electric utility companies. This paper explores the challenges faced by southern company and other utilities, the subsequent development of a solution, and the future benefits of that solution.
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Simple analytical models have proved very useful in understanding vibration energy harvesters driven by a sinusoidal acceleration. Corresponding analyses for broadband excitations have been absent. In this paper, we present new closed-form results on the output power, proof mass displacement, and optimal load of linear resonant energy harvesters driven by broadband vibrations. Output power dependence on signal bandwidth is also considered. The results are compared with those that are already well established for a sinusoidal acceleration. We formulate a stochastic description of more general energy-harvester models and show that the influence of elastic mechanical stoppers on the output power is dependent on the electrical load for large amplitude vibrations.
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We propose an analytical model for the performance analysis of the enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) function of the IEEE 802.11e standard. The proposed discrete-time Markov chain (DTMC) model incorporates the main quality-of-service (QoS) features of 802.11e, namely, contention window (CW), arbitration interframe space (AIFS), and transmit opportunity (TXOP) differentiation. Due to its specific design, the proposed DTMC model jointly considers the state of the medium access control (MAC) layer buffer and the MAC differentiation mechanisms which facilitates a novel performance analysis framework at an arbitrary traffic load. Analytical and simulation results are compared to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed approach for varying traffic load, EDCA parameters, and MAC layer buffer space.
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We propose and assess new algorithms for adaptive detection and tracking based on space-time data. At design stage we take into account possible spillover of target energy to adjacent range cells and assume a target kinematic model. Then, resorting to the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) we derive track-before-detect (TBD) algorithms that can operate in scan-to-scan varying scenarios and, more important, that ensure the constant false track acceptance rate (CFTAR) property with respect to the covariance matrix of the disturbance. Moreover, we also propose CFTAR versions of the maximum likelihood-probabilistic data association (ML-PDA) algorithm capable of working with data from an array of sensors. The preliminary performance assessment, conducted resorting to Monte Carlo simulation, shows that the proposed TBD structures outperform the ML-PDA implementations especially in terms of probability of track detection (and for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values).
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FPGA-based solutions have become more common in embedded systems these days. These systems need to communicate with external world. Considering high-speed and popularity of Ethernet communication, a reliable real-time Ethernet component inside FPGA is of special value. To that end, this paper presents a new solution for 100 Mb/s FPGA-based Ethernet communications with timing analysis. The solution deals with "Reduced Media-Independent Interface" in its physical layer. UDP is the network protocol which is implemented from physical to transport layer. For getting used in real-time applications, timing analysis is done in the communication system. Component based software engineering is used in the design and development processes. In order to test the components inside FPGA, two different approaches are utilized. Signal measurement in combination with introduced windows based application contributes much in testing and validation phases.
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Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), 2011 IEEE 3rd International Conference on
Date of Conference: 27-29 May 2011
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Free riding in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems means a peer utilizing other peers' network resources without contribution. Recent empirical studies have identified serious free riding problem in P2P streaming systems which will cause severe performance degradation. However, scarce existing work is focused on theoretical modeling and analysis of free riding problem. In this paper, we present a two-class fluid model to model and analyze the free riding problem in P2P streaming systems. With this model, we provide a quantitative analysis of the effect of free riding on P2P streaming systems particularly in the steady state with two scenarios: one without seeders and the other with seeders. The steady state analysis results show that (i) both honest peers and free riders have a much lower download time in the scenario with seeders than that without seeders, and thus it is essential to introduce mechanisms to incentivize the seeders to stay in the system, and (ii) free riders can benefit greatly from the streaming server and the seeders, and thus it is important to introduce differentiated service mechasisms for the server and seeders in P2P streaming systems.
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Date of Conference: 17-19 Aug. 2011
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The Influence of
Nano-Dots Decoration on Substrates on Flux Pinning Strength in
Thin Films
Nano-sized CeO2 dots were deposited on (001) LaAlO3 substrate by rf magnetron sputtering. After the processing of the artificial decoration defects on the substrate, 100-nm, 150-nm, 200-nm, and 400-nm-thick Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 (Tl-2212) thin films were grown on it, using dc magnetron sputtering and post annealing process. AFM images showed that the CeO2 nano-dots were distributed well on the substrate surface with 70 nm in diameter and 5 nm in height, and the density of nano-dots was 25±3 dots/μm2. SEM images were used to observe the variations on film surface. Transport critical current density Jc was measured both on Tl-2212 film with nano-dots decorated substrate and untreated single crystal LaAlO3 substrate. From the results, Jc values of Tl-2212 films with nano-dots decorated substrate were lifted significantly, and the pinning strength was improved on Tl-2212 films by nanostructure defects induced from nano-dots.
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We provide accurate analytical estimates of timing- and amplitude-jitter caused by nonlinear pulse interaction in systems based on highly dispersed optical pulses, both for coherent and noncoherent pulse streams. We show that the system penalties reduce monotonically with pulsewidth and with increasing fiber dispersion. We demonstrate that proper dispersion pre-compensation can result in a significant reduction of the nonlinear inpairments and provide analytical tools for obtaining the optimal pre-compensation parameters.
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A new class of neural prosthetic systems aims to assist disabled patients by translating cortical neural activity into control signals for prosthetic devices. Based on the success of proof-of-concept systems in the laboratory, there is now considerable interest in increasing system performance and creating implantable electronics for use in clinical systems. A critical question that impacts system performance and the overall architecture of these systems is whether it is possible to identify the neural source of each action potential (spike sorting) in real-time and with low power. Low power is essential both for power supply considerations and heat dissipation in the brain. In this paper we report that state-of-the-art spike sorting algorithms are not only feasible using modern complementary metal oxide semiconductor very large scale integration processes, but may represent the best option for extracting large amounts of data in implantable neural prosthetic interfaces.
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Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on (Volume:13 , Issue: 3 )
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The Pairwise Kalman Filter (PKF) [W. Pieczynski and F. Desbouvries, “Kalman Filtering Using Pairwise Gaussian Models,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Hong Kong, Apr. 2003] is an extension of the classical Kalman filter that keeps propagation equations explicit, i.e. it does not require time consuming simulations. The contribution of this note is twofold. First, new robust equations for filtering, smoothing and unsupervised off-lined parameters estimation based on QR decompositions are presented. Second, since the model is over-parametrized, we give a simple condition to uniquely characterize a filter of interest when the dimension of observations is equal to the dimension of states. Unsupervised experiments based on simulated data confirm the nice behavior of the robust PKF, even for a limited number of observations.
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Please join us for UC San Diego’s Grad Student Forum on November 14, 2012!:
International Education Week provides top international students the knowledge and awareness of the world's cultures, peoples and languages, and affirms the critical role that international education and exchange programs play in fostering world peace.
The evening will begin with two top recruiters, Erik Miller from Qualcomm, and Holly Hennessey from Newegg.com, giving their tips and insight about the recruitment process.
Following Erik and Holly's discussion, a professional panel consisting of UC San Diego international student alumni will offer tips and advice for a successful career search with a focus on challenges specific to international graduate students.
Panelist Include:
Cuifen Zhang - Petco Animal Supplies, Inc.
Shrey Prasad - Peregrine Semiconductor
Jessie Tseng - Anklesaria Group Inc.
After the panel discussion, there will be a career networking mixer. This is the opportunity to meet and mingle with peers and professions. Learn more about the companies who are participating in the event and exchange ideas about how to best approach a career transition as an international graduate student.
The following companies will be at the mixer: Qualcomm, Petco, Peregrine Semiconductor, NuVasive, EMAS Pro, Torrey Hills Technology, French American Chamber of Commerce, Gallup, Newegg.com, Akamai, Collabera , Schlumberger
Light refreshments will be served.
For further information please see the agenda.
Event Date: Wed., Nov. 14, 2012
Time: 5—7 p.m.
Venue: Rady School of Management, Beyster Auditorium, UC San Diego
Students please register here.
Corporate participants and attendees please register here.
Questions? Please contact David C. Robertson darobertson@ucsd.edu
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
An Alternative Banner
The flags in this layout is inspired by the flags and mast on the boat I photographed. I also decided to dip into my rarely used but often added to stash of laces to use for the flags. I think it is a nice alternative to the horizontal, paper version. Let's face it, with the celebrations we are having this year in the UK, I think the bunting craze is going to stay with us a while yet.
I did this layout for Sarah's Cards earlier this year. I've used die cuts from Pink Paislee Nantucket collection, perfect for a day at the beach. The photos are from out day trip to Aldeburgh last summer. It was warm but it is never warm enough for me to go in the sea anywhere here. But H being the hardy soul he is, did.
I was contemplating making a trip to beach yesterday and today, we ended up with the greyest day. Perhaps it is best that I don't contemplate and plan...just do it...surprise the "weather man" so he does not put a damper on my plans.
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Love the lace banner it works really well on this layout and I like the misting effect too!
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Beware the Python generators
Generators and list comprehension in Python are very closely related. After all, each gives you an iterable. However, I really wish that generators came with a “DANGER: Handle with care!” label. The problem is that while the syntax for creating a generator vs a list differs in exactly two characters, generators have side effects that are both subtle and easy to overlook. Let’s take a look at some code:
items = get_items() for x in items: print x for x in items: print x
Does that code look reasonable to you? It does, until I tell you that get_items() returns a generator. You see, generators have an internal pointer to the index and cannot be reset. Thus the sequence of items will only be printed once. This can be solved by convention. Some libraries will prefix the function’s name with an “i” converting get_items to
iget_items(). The built-in Python function
xrange(), a generator version of range(), is another example of trying to solve this problem with convention.
Let’s look at another piece of code:
try: numbers = (int(x) for x in line.split(',')) except ValueError: numbers = [] # Handle the case where the input is invalid for num in numbers: print num
That looks reasonably good, no? Well, generators are lazy, they have to be. Thus number = … line defines the generator, but not a single call to
int() is made at that point. The calls to
int() are made during the iteration, while the for loop is executing, which is outside of the try/except block. There are several solutions that exist here, ranging from using a list comprehension instead to placing the for loop inside the try/except block.
Another difference between lists/tuples/sets/other sequence types and generators is that generators have no length. Calling len(get_items()) would result in an error. This is by design: generators may be infinite, and thus it does not make sense to ask what their length is.
I love generators as much as the next guy. However, I think care must be taken when using them. My rules of thumb are:
First, if you are using a generator to optimize for speed: don’t. In casual observation they are indeed faster than lists, but lists are so flipping fast already that unless you are processing millions of items, it will make no difference. Exception to this rule is when you are in fact processing millions of items or you routinely need to create a lot of iterables in your hot loop and your profiler tells you that this is the bottleneck.
Second, if you are optimizing for memory usage, use generators only if you have a significant number of records. A list of 100 ints will make little difference. A list of ten million log entries is going to cost you some RAM.
Third, never return a generator from a library method, or any type of opaque object. Generators should mostly be used for intermediate iterables until a final result is obtained. Avoid the confusion of get_items() returning a generator.
Lastly, use generators if you must. They are the only way to create infinite iterables, and they do have small speed and large memory advantages over other iterables. If you use them, put in several safeguards: make sure to document the fact that a generator object is used in multiple places, create a convention for what these objects (and the corresponding functions) will be called and test, test, test. As I mentioned at the beginning of this post: generators should come with a warning to not surprise unsuspecting maintainers of your code.
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This paper presents results of a survey completed by 195 teachers which investigated teachers’ challenges in evaluation of English language learners (ELLs) enrolled in schools in the northern Illinois area of the United States. All participants were certified teachers in the process of completing necessary coursework to obtain additional certification to work with ELLs. Surveys were completed by individuals working as mainstream, bilingual, and/or English as a second language teachers. Specifically, the teachers reside and work in the City of Chicago or nearby suburbs. Survey questions asked the teachers (1) what types of questions they consider appropriate for ELLs, (2) how they view the contribution of accommodations in testing and evaluation, (3) if they address issues of culture bias in evaluation and, (4) if they test through traditional or non-traditional formats. Findings identify areas where teachers’ knowledge bases require additional preparation to effectively instruct and evaluate ELLs. Survey results are used to develop recommendations for curriculum for courses that prepare teachers to fairly test and evaluate linguistic minority populations of immigrants and/or heritage speakers in the process of acquiring English as a second language.
The International Journal of Learning, Volume 14, Issue 7, pp.129-136. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 549.261KB).
Assistant Professor, Department of Literacy, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
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Participants from six colleges analyzed texts using standards developed by the Text Encoding Initiative. In one model, history students produce editions of a document, transcribing and encoding primary source material.
International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp.157-164. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.065MB).
Kathryn Tomasek teaches History and Women's Studies at Wheaton College. She has been exploring uses of technology in the classroom for the past twelve years. Her historical research focuses on women's work in the nineteenth-century United States. This presentation is a result of her collaboration with College Archivist Zephorene Stickney on several projects that involve collecting and publishing women's letters and diaries.
Scott Hamlin is a faculty technology liaison in the Research and Instruction Group of the newly formed Library and Information Services (LIS). He works primarily with faculty, staff, and students in departments from the Humanities, Arts, and Education to create and sustain effective learning experiences, support the goals of the college curriculum, and increase information fluency though the use of technology.
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Cheese quiche is one of the easiest French brunch recipes. It starts with a simple cheese base and can include many ingredients and hundreds of combinations.
Today we are presenting you just one of the huge variety Cheese Quiche recipes. So if you are ready to surprise all your friends with a truly French dish please take a look at our video recipe from Chef Bernard who creates a scrumptious and satisfying Quiche Gourmandise (click to view video) at his restaurant, Bistro des Amis in Houston, Texas.
Start out by preparing the dough and putting it in a tray.
In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs and cream, add some salt and white pepper if you wish
Put the grapes cut lengthwise, chopped mint and gourmet Les Gourmandises cheese onto the tart shell equally
Pour the egg mixture into the prepared quiche pastry crust
Bake in the oven for approximately 20 to 30 minutes, until the custard has set
Slice the quiche into portions and serve with a spring mix salad dressed with light olive oil and lime vinaigrette for even more delightful meal.
Bon appétit!
Tags: Cheese Quiche recipe, Chef Bernard, Quiche Gourmandise, video recipe
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Just when you think you don’t have a blog post brewing, a big one suddenly appears out of nowhere!
I hadn’t decided if I was going to do a post for today’s Sepia Saturday when I had to nip out for milk late this afternoon and I just went to the nearest shop, the Co-Op in Ormiston. As I drove up the Main Street, the sun was shining on the familiar old market cross standing slap-bang in the middle of the street and I thought it looked better than usual in the low sunshine. I snapped it with my phone and thought no more of it – I just enjoy taking random photos that I like and phones make that a breeze.
I lived in Beech Cottage (the little white house you can just see on the left) for a couple of years in the late 90′s, and I’ve had a strong connection with the village of Ormiston throughout my life. Our local parish Church was the one in Ormiston when I was a child (not that we went very often) – and the village had our nearest swing park which was 2 1/2 miles away from the farm, so the four of us kids had Special Outings with my Porter Grandparents to give Mum peace for an hour – a rare treat for all of us! These grandparents are on Mum’s side – not the relatively carefree tree-climbing granny you already know from Dad’s side.
Back home (with milk) I thought about Sepia Saturday and went to one of my favourite websites for looking at miscellaneous old Scottish stuff – RCAHMS to see what they had on Ormiston Cross. A lot of their data can only be accessed in person, however, they do have some interesting things online (have a look if you have any Scottish connections) and I found this photo
Item SC 1164189
Caption General view from W.
Notes Scanned from a glass plate.
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This is a copy of EL 1779
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The original cobblestones have been uncovered since this photo was taken (shame it’s not dated), and if you look very closely down the at the far end of the Main Street, you can see another monument. This is dedicated to Robert Moffat (1795 – 1883), the Scottish missionary and explorer (his daughter, Mary, married “Dr Livingston, I Presume”). My Granny Porter claimed that we were the “great great great great great grandchildren” of Robert Moffat, and we paid homage at the monument on some visits to the swing park. The monument bears an image of the great man and his even greater beard.
My Granny’s paternal grandmother was a Moffat, and somehow a (dare I say “tenuous”) connection had been made between Robert and her granny, and by the time it reached us it was Law. Needless to say, in all my years as a genealogist, I have been unable to prove any connection and suspect it is highly unlikely that there is one, beyond sharing the Moffat surname.
However, we did get to have a go on the see-saw and the swings
There’s now a plaque on the East side of the railings giving more info on the Cross
I’m very pleased that I wasn’t subjected to public exposure of malefactors
It’s Sepia Saturday – check out the other contributors’ interesting old photos, and why not have a go at posting one of your own – it doesn’t have to be sepia
The swings were definitely worth it – even if there is no connection! There is so often a thread of truth to family lore that you may yet find the link – perhaps a very, very distant one.
Fascinating! I’m glad the cross still exists, it could have been easily vandalized or destroyed during all these centuries.
This is interesting information about the cross, malefactor or not.. Shame you are unable to prove the Moffat link.
Very interesting…and all because you ran out of milk! It’s nice to see the cobblestones revealed too. I couldn’t get one of the links to work Jo; it may have been just me, but the great man and his beard one took me off somehere else.Thought I’d mention it anyway.
Thanks for letting me know, Little Nell – I’ve uploaded one of my own pics of “the beard” instead
Jo
As I was viewing your “cross”, the radio in the background came up with the program, “Back to the Bible”, a message there perhaps?????
Spooky! Robert Moffat translated the Bible (it took him 30 years) into the language of the Kuruman people. Quite an achievement for a humble Scottish gardener
I like the Ormiston Cross too, but it’s the Robert Moffat memorial that caught my eye. I had a childhood friend – also named Moffat – who told me that he was a descendant of Robert. However, this I believed, and still do, since we were living in the right part of the world at the time (Rhodesia), and it was probably his great-grandfather who became Prime Minister of the country. I have a CDV of Robert Moffat which I wrote about on Photo-Sleuth a few years ago.
Hi Brett – that’s a cracking picture of Robert and his beard! I think your friend is more likely to be related than I am, given that none of Robert’s sons seemed to have returned to Scotland. I really should investigate his grandsons now
Jo
There’s a tradition that needs to be brought back: the public exposure of malefactors. Although I’m not sure the graffiti painters etc, would care. They might like it.
Yes, there’s “kudos” attached for some malefactors these days, rather than Shame. More’s the pity…
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It’s been a while since we’ve visited the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Online Special Collections, but today I’ve a special treat: a few selections from the Library’s 420 digitized images of the Tissandier Collection, which it purchased in 1930. Brothers Gaston and Albert Tissandier, 19th century French balloonists, collected balloon and other flying machine documents ranging from technical illustrations to cartoons. The Library describes the holdings:.
And on the images’ public domain status:
Publication and other forms of distribution: Permitted. There are no known restrictions on the use of images in this collection.
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Here’s an early design from 1783 for a balloon equipped with sails [Credit--Library of Congress, P&P Division, ppmsca 02314]:
Next, a 1790 design by Stoupy Bijou
for an airship navigational system project… consisting of five balloons fastened to a sixty foot mast, a rudder, two 12 foot long oars, and two polygonal vanes to control the rise and fall of the airship. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) [Credit--Library of Congress, P&P Division LC-DIG-ppmsca-02516]:
Considerable progress had been achieved by the time of the 1878 ascent from Tuilleries, France, of Henry Giffard’s balloon [Credit--Library of Congress, P&P Division LC-DIG-cph 3a14342]:
During that same era, Albert Tissandier prepared these
five technical illustrations [that] show network of ropes and apparatus for securing multi-passenger platforms on captive balloons; arrangement of ropes for netting; and an elaborate hydrogen manufacturing and pumping station for inflating balloons [Credit--Library of Congress, P&P Division ppmsca-02510]:
Albert may have also drawn this skyscape of a lunar halo and luminescent cross he observed with his brother during their balloon Zénith’s long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875. The illustration appeared in his brother Gaston’s book, Histoire de mes Ascensions(1878) [Credit--Library of Congress, P&P Division ppmsca-07435]:
Balloon aëronauts Albert Tissandier (left) and Gaston Tissandier (right) [Credit--Library of Congress, P&P Division ppmsca-02274]:
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Get the latest news on Interactive metronome training, it's application and breakthroughs as well as insights in the science behind it and the latest tips and success stories from clients and therapist using IM and IM-Home..
Where I work, we use the Jebsen Test of Hand function prior to starting IM sessions so we can clearly see a right/left difference in a measurable way. The IM program itself has an assessment which his helpful as well. This makes it very easy for my patients and their families to see progress at the end of our time together.
One of the reasons I feel that I am able to see changes in these children so quickly is that they are reaching, grabbing, hitting, boxing, pressing switches through thousands of repetitions – not just the 10-20 reaching for this and that that we do in more traditional therapy. I also like it because I can decide if we are doing exercises with either both hands or just the affected one. We are able to help the brain forge new pathways that include the use of the affected side as well as pathways that tie both sides of the body together for improved bilateral coordination.
The flexibility of the IM program is great. We are able to design exercises to include weight bearing on the affected arm, crossing midline, reaching in any direction, elbow flexion and extension, wrist movement, finger movement, you name it! Many times even during a simple motion such as clapping, I have been able to observe their affected side begin to form a more symmetrical motion, which improves overall posture.
I also see improvement in the affected lower extremity. Muscle groups can be teased and focused, through the motions that you perform with the switches. Things like theraband or weights can be added for increased strength. Using the touch pad or gait with the feet to gain lower extremity coordination and a smoother gait pattern.
Functionally, this training has led to improved bilateral skills. Things such as buttoning pants, tying shoes, holding a paper when cutting with scissors, using a knife and fork to cut food, putting in a pony tail – all these things are easier to complete when you are able to use both sides of your body together to complete the task. Using Interactive Metronome as part of your therapy protocol to treat hemiplegia seems to be very affective and certainly worth the time and effort to give it a try.
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- eMII provides the standards, protocols and systems to integrate the data and related information into a number of conformal frameworks, and provides the tools to access and utilise the data.
- For some kinds of data, eMII will provide data products as web services and web features for processing, integration and visualisation of data.
- It is possible to integrate data from sources outside IMOS into IMOS data products, and to export IMOS data to international programs.
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11/1/2011, "APNewsbreak: Panel says wild weather worsens," AP, Seth Borenstein
"This marks a change in climate science from focusing on subtle changes in daily average temperatures to concentrating on the harder-to-analyze freak events that grab headlines, cause economic damage and kill people."...
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NY Times is apparently in sync with confusing people about climate science:
4/18/12, "Who Cares What the Science Says?" Roger Pielke, Jr.
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Simply put, weather is not climate..... ...Given the degree of politicization of the climate debate, we should not be surprised that
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Update, 7/6/12: The link for the New Scientist article referenced below seems to be inactive now. Most if not all of the original article remains below as I copied it. I found a similar article which references that of New Scientist: 6/19/12, "Climate panel slammed for embracing controversial 'grey literature' ," zeenews.india.com. It was filed from London.
The UN IPCC itself is washing its hands of being the arbiter of what does or doesn't qualify as man-caused catastrophic global climate warming. They now say they gladly accept 'grey' or non peer-reviewed material and that diversity is their first priority. According to this article, the United States no longer exists for UN IPCC purposes. "North America" is listed but the US is not mentioned separately. Which makes it even funnier that the US taxpayer picks up half the bills for the UN IPCC.
6/26/12, "Climate panel adopts controversial 'grey' evidence," New Scientist, Fred Pearce
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Without the evil US taxpayer, the UN IPCC might have to stop jet setting around the globe.
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You are destined to boost your traffic, links and profit by writing great articles and posts. However, one of the most important factors that influence the success of your content, becides content quality and promotion, is the post title (headline). That's why you need to write great headlines to motivate your readers to read, talk and link about you.
Use this 'how to write titles' list to build your readership:
- How to Write a Killer "How To" Article That Gets Attention
- A great post on how to write a "How to" title and post, from the copywriting guru, Brian Clark of CopyBlogger.com.
- The Cheater's Guide to Writing Great Headlines
- Heed to advice from Brian, who suggests keeping a swipe file of the headlines that worked (like you can do from the examples below).
- 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang
- Learn five essential ways to improve your headlines. Yup, from CopyBlogger.com.
- Why Some People Almost Always Write Great Post Titles
- Learn to write successful titles like a pro. CopyBlogger.com strikes again.
- 7 Reasons Why List Posts Will Always Work
- List titles (from CopyBlogger.com) always work, because they:
- show expertise
- communicate well
- show a solution
- help identify readers with you
- are so powerful, when mixed with other types, that it is almost unfair
- are ideal to promote free content
- have large numbers of solutions that hypnotize
- Traffic Driving Blog Titles
- A concise guide on how to create titles, including tips, such as:
- fear factor
- list
- call to action
- myth
- secret
- gossip
- bonus: linkbait titles/ideas for real estate
- Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
- Write titles with small nuances of reading online to get visitors to read your titles and stories. Advice from Jacob Nielsen.
- Web Publishing Tip: Write Clear Titles
- Read a concise, more palatable, than Jacob's, description on how to write clear headlines:
- clean: use words your visitors use and plain language
- short: shorter, than 10 words - the shorter, the better
- meaningful: keep your title to the point
- How to Write eBay Auction Titles That Sell
- Understand what questions your customers have and provide a solution to their problem with the title.
- "If You Write Book Titles Like This, You'll Have a Bestseller"
- Use a couple of tips to write great book (and not only book) titles:
- grab their attention with strong words
- tap into their interest by communicating it in the title
- create anticipation by listing the number of steps, promising results
- overcome objections by making your book/post seem as a solution to all problems
- Titles that Tell a Whole Story
- Write titles that tell a story to instantly captivate the readers!
- The Cheater’s Guide to Writing Great Headlines
- Read why the swipe file is the best thing after sliced bread for headlines from Brian Clark.
- How to Write Eye-Popping Headlines While Exhausted
- Tired from writing your content and can't improve the headline? Use these tips to give your title a second chance:
- from Top 10 to Top 5 (note: though Top 7 work better)
- be braver
- spend more time
- use available tools
- stick to the classics
- The Best Headlines Are Not Just Written for Search Engines or Digg
- Write titles for the people and you'll create titles for anything, including the social media and the search engines.
- Writing Effective Blog Post Titles
- Some write witty titles, but it makes more sense to write descriptive titles, which suit both humans and the search engines, because they have informative words there.
- Linkbaiting a payday loan site
- Read a detailed how to guide on creating a link-worthy title. Provided by Lyndon Antcliff (Lyndoman) of CornwallSEO.com.
- Let a woman teach you the secrets of Linkbait
- Understand what drives people to click on the headlines from the womens' magazines:
- solve a problem with your title
- use a number in the headline
- target the right audience precisely
- write short and to the point titles
- read womens' magazines for more headlines (just don't get caught)
And while you are there, thank Lyndon for this great advice!
- Titles, Descriptions and Digg
- Title is the most important thing for your piece of content to share. Learn how to write them for Digg, thanks to Neil Patel of PronetAdvertising.
- How to Write the Right Title for Digg
- Learn the 25 most popular words on Digg and use them in your titles from Muhammad Saleem (of PronetAdvertising).
- Digg-a-meter (zip file)
- Measure the chances of your story appearing on the front page by feeding the title and the summary to this smart program. While not ideal (humans are better, so far), it will give you some data to start from. Thanks to PronetAdvertising for the tip.
- Writing Headlines for Regular Readers, Search Engines, and Social Media
- Use the six techniques from Muhammad Saleem to make your titles more attractive to the social media:
- Additional Information
- Simple word rearrangement
- Simple word omission
- Presentation as Fact
- Digg bait word addition
- Sensationalism
- 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work
- Excellent formulas, again, from Brian Clark.
- 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work
- Seven more eye-catching title patterns from Brian Clark.
- 5 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates You Can Use at Your Own Risk
- Five more eye-catching title patterns from Brian Clark:
- Warning: [blank]
- How [blank] Made Me [blank]
- Are You [blank]?
- [Blank] Ways to [blank]
- If You’re [blank], You Can [blank]
- 5 Sure-Fire Social Media Headline Formulas That Work
- Five headline formulas for social sites, such as Digg, from Neil Patel, of PronetAdvertising.com
- 10 headline formulas that work like magic
- 10 formulas on how to create mind-blowing headlines from Miguel Alvarez of CopyWriting.com
- Eight Examples of Profitable Headlines Every Web Professional Must Memorize Today!
- Great eight formulas for successful headlines from Andrew Nietlich
- Secret Formulas for Writing Headlines That Sell
- Great tips on writing succesful titles from Shelley Lowery, including:
- what you need to remember when writing titles
- five human needs that need to be answered (physological, safety/security, affiliation, esteem and self-actualization)
- kinds of titles to use (how to, question, command, news, testimonials)
- a list of mind-grabbing words (including Breakthrough, Incredible, Love, Ultimate, etc)
- a list of the most powerful words in the English language
I'd personally use these two lists with all the most powerful headling formulas. Write titles like a wizard!
A must read for anyone in writing, definitely.
- 8 Basic Headline Types
- Learn about eight headling formulas you can use. Quite useful to keep in mind some general patterns, on which all the headline formulas are built:
- the direct headline
- indirect headline
- news
- how to
- question
- command
- "reasons why"
- and testimonial headline
- 25 More Headline Formulas That Work
- Skellie has plenty of proven formulas to fast on, including:
- The appeal to our fear of failure
- The love it or hate it number + text combo
- The number + assertion of superiority
- Get 200 Killer Headlines
- 200 Killer headlines from the media to learn from. Lyndon scores again.
- 65 Headlines to Jump Start your Linkbait
- 65 headline examples from the newspapers: learn from the pros. Again, from Lyndon Antcliff of CornwallSEO.com.
- Examples of a headline
- Examples of catchy headlines from Lyndon Antcliff, of CornwallSEO.com
- Example Headlines for Linkbait Campaign
- Check out the terrific examples of linkbait titles about chocolate from Lyndon.
- How Marty Weintraub got me to click
- A showcase of a catchy headline ("Drive 28,402 Extra Visitors by Blogging for 48 Minutes"), explained in simple terms. Numerous tips to use when writing headlines.
- Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM
- Reread the Ultimate Linkbaiting Guide to Social Marketing and see how Andy runs through the CopyBlogger headline formulas.
- How to Quickly and Easily Use the World's Easiest & Most Effective Headline Formula
- An example of "How To" titles that work great, such as:
- How to Develop..
- How to Improve Your..
- How to Conquer..
- How to Keep Your..
- How to Enjoy..
- Headlines that work - 2 classics you can use
- Excellent headline examples (and two formulas) that may help you, when all the other variants don't help you. From Troy White.
- Writing Headlines for Regular Readers, Search Engines, and Social Media
- Use the advice from Muhammad Saleem (again) to write better titles for traffic:
- write good titles
- write good titles and subtitles
- write short titles
- use keywords in titles
- use keywords at the beginning of the title
- Do Keywords in Post Titles Really Matter?
- Learn how titles for SEO and humans work hand in hand to get you traffic from Brian Clark of CopyBlogger.com
- Best Practices for Title Tags
- Read the 9 title best practices from SEOmoz.org to get more traffic:
- brand your traffic
- limit length to 65 characters (including spaces) or less
- incorporate keyword phrases
- target longer phrases if they're relevant
- use a divider
- focus on clickthrough & conversion rates
- target searcher intent
- be consistent
- repeat in the headline
- SEO For Journalists: Headlines & Body Copy (Part 2 of 5)
- Read 10 more tips from SEOmoz to improve your titles. Especially useful for journalists and bloggers, it seems. Helps for really useful (non-linkbait) content.
- 7 Tips For Writing Optimized Title Tags
- Though basic title tips, Steve has included the tip that even Rand doesn't use: using page titles before company names in the title tag.
- Sure-Fire Headlines for SEO
- While there are plenty of posts on how to write titles for social marketing, writing titles for SEO is different.
- Titles and Search Engine Marketing
- Read about various cases of titles that help with search marketing from Shari Thurow.
How to Write Mind-Blowing Titles like CopyBlogger
How to Write Titles for Social Marketing like Lyndoman
Write Successful Titles with Headline Formulas like Brian Clark
and many more.
Learn From Headline Examples to Write Titles like Andy Hagans
How to Write Titles for Traffic like Muhammad Saleem
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Great List
Yuri this is a really great collection of links. I don't think I've ever come across a link list specifically about writing titles before.
I know I've read a few of these already and they were all good so I'm looking forward to reading the rest.
Very impressive list! Spunn,
Very impressive list! Spunn, Stumbled & Dugg ;)
Nice work!
This is a fantastic list. I've given the URL to my friend who's great a pumping out good content for our new website (not launched yet) but is still trying to learn about this kind of stuff. Thanks :)
Thanks.
Considering the title is one of the most important elements of a page (both for humans and bots), I thought it'd make a good resource to compile a list of posts to work on them.
Now if more people voted for it on their social sites :)
Holy Comprehensive!
Wow. Very comprehansive list - thank you. Spunn.
Apparently, great content
Apparently, great content and title doesn't warrant instant success. Need some community to link to it, vote on social sites and so on ;)
It's all here!
Thanks for taking the time to put together this fantastic list of resources!
Thanks
Thanks for posting this great selection of links. I see I have some reading ahead of me.
Let's Not Forget - Quality Content Is King
Let's not get lost in where only 20% of our focus should be, and only after we have created content worthy of such things...that's how we really improve the web...
To get what I'm saying, read
- Michael Erik, MBA
Quality Blog Critic
"The Best Things In Life Are Free"
Eric, I have said the same
Eric, I have said the same thing in the first sentence of this post.
However, the title is what is read about the post and that's why it needs to be attractive. This becomes absolutely obvious, once you play with social marketing some, where title [and description] is sometimes the only thing the social site members read before voting on the story.
Also, the title tag is the most important element on the page for the search engines, so at least having keywords in there will be helpful.
I Fully Agree
Yuri
I agree with you as well. I just wish I didn't have to spend so much time on things that take me away from content creation. Since I do, your article and links are definitely highly useful. Thanks for the all-in-one info on headlines and titles!
- Michael Erik, MBA
Quality Blog Critic
"The Best Things In Life Are Free"
Great Compilation!
Thanks for the mention and this terrific compilation of headline resources. I am a huge fan of Brian Clark and found many of the other references very helpful as well. You definitely introduced me to more must read copywriting blogs. Thanks.
Glad I could help, Mary.
Glad I could help, Mary.
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Canonicalization Issues
- "What?"
- "Ca-no-ni-ca-lization/canon-ica-lization/canonic-a-liz-ation issues."
It is when your website can be accessed with www and without www in front of it (such as improvetheweb.com and) and you, the visitors and the search engines are not redirected to only one version.
To the visitors, this doesn't matter a lot, unless they prefer to identify website addresses with 'www' or without (there are pros and cons of either approach).
The issue is that for the search engines, both versions are two different versions of the website, because the search engines index URLs, not websites as a whole.
Why is it a problem?
As the search engines see two websites, the number of pages with the same content doubles. As your visitors link to either of the versions randomly, both of them will have average amount of links.
Of course, the search engines will show one of the versions, but they will only count links that point to one of the versions, to which a specific page belongs to.
For example, if the page is, the search engines will count links that point to this page - most likely from the domain and sites that linked to that URL.
For the search engines to take into account all the links that point to your website (such as and), you need to redirect visitors and the search engines from one version to another.
Thus, the search engines won't be taking into account all your naturally acquired links and won't be showing your pages high in the SERPs as they rightfully deserve.
Why redirect?
By redirect the search engines to only one version of the site, we confirm their suspicion that we only have only one version of the website (not two different sites with similar content).
This way, they treat links to both www and non-www versions as links to one website and thus, which ever version you redirect to, gets a boost of incoming link value from the redirected version.
That's why you'll get more visitors from the search engines, which will lead to more customers, links and profit within a week or two (Google, others may be slower) by 10-15% (the speed relates to how fast the search engines react to the redirect and whether the version you redirect to is fully indexed).
If the version you are redirecting to is not indexed for one reason or another (except outright ban), you'll need to wait while Google and other SEs index the site and start taking all links into account.
This may take a week more or longer, depending on how large your site is. In this case, and if the version you are redirecting from is stronger (has more links), you may notice a slight drop of traffic, which will later return to normal and start increasing.
Even though the search engines tell us only to do what is right for the visitors and want us to ask ourselves "would I do it if the search engines didn't exist?", this particular improvement is designed to specifically help the search engines understand how our website works, also bringing more search engine visitors to the website.
So what to do?
Naturally, you need to only have one version by redirecting one of the site versions to another.
If you want a shorter domain and your customers will be able to memorize and identify your address with the web, then you can go without www.
However, if you want to make it clear that the address belongs to the Web, use the www version.
Opinions split on which one to use, really.
To redirect from one version to another, you either need to edit your httpd.conf file, if you use a dedicated server, or update your .htaccess file in the root of the domain.
Edit httpd.conf of Apache configuration
Ron Carnell suggests using two blocks in the httpd.conf file:
‹VirtualHost 192.xxx.xxx.xxx>
ServerName domain.com
DocumentRoot /home/domain/www
‹/VirtualHost>
‹VirtualHost 192.xxx.xxx.xxx>
ServerName
Redirect 301 /
‹/VirtualHost>
Basically, you only need to insert the correctly tweaked code in the corresponding part of your httpd.conf file (make sure you back it up first).
Please note that if you go this route, you'll need to tweak both parts, if one of the details changes.
If you are not familiar with the terminology and the whole process of fiddling with the Apache server, you'd rather designate this to your web admin.
If you read what Ron Carnell has said about this issue (you really should), you'll gain more insight why and how this is done.
Edit .htaccess in the domain root
But if you don't control the server, you can use the three lines of code:
How to redirect to www from non-www version:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) [R=301,L]
(replace yourdomain.com with your domain)
How to redirect from www version to non-www version:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^yourdomain\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) [R=301,L]
(replace yourdomain.com with your domain)
Note: using .htaccess adds overhead to the server, since it'll be processed on every request to the server. However, large websites are bound to use dedicated servers, so it is pretty smooth here.
The .htaccess file is a file named .htaccess in the root of your domain. It has various directives used to tweak server performance. You can edit it, insert the corresponding three lines of code at the top of it (change yourdomain.com to your domain) and upload it back to the server.
To test this, you'll need to refresh the page in the browser. If everything loads fine and you can go from one version to another by entering the redirected URL, it works.
If you get a 503 error, you need to make sure you have inserted the code correctly. If you can't do this after repeated attempts, remove your edition to let the server work again and contact a professional.
You can also read a mod_rewrite manual from Apache about redirecting with .htaccess.
Conclusion
Frankly, it amazes how many sites I see often that don't redirect to only one of the versions, thus leaving plenty of money on the table. The thing is, the amount of money doesn't matter, because it takes a couple of minutes of work to implement the changes by the web developer.
And the funniest thing is that depending on the site total traffic, the profit increase can be very noticeable, comparable to general marketing activities, such as increase of conversions, promotions, etc.
You know I'm surprised at
You.
Same here. It is so easy to
Same here. It is so easy to check for it (type in both versions and see if either redirects to another) and so easy to implement, it is simply amazing.
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Gabby, thanks fo the heads
Gabby, thanks fo the heads up. I guess I need to spend more time and effort checking the posts. Though, these 'to' and 'from' thing can get confusing at times ;)
I have fixed the wordings. Thanks again.
thanx a lot, i've implied
thanx a lot, i've implied this SEO on softwaredl.info , my client is happy though
You are welcome, though it
You are welcome, though it doesn't look like it works on the site you specified. Going to www .domain.info should go to .domain.info or visa versa.
.htaccess
If.
Thanks for the awesome
Thanks for the awesome addition, Ian. I guess diving further can't hurt, eh :)
You can also read about SEO and Google at Sebastian's Pamphlets.
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Indian wrestling fraternity has expressed shock and surprise at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to drop the sport from the 2020 Olympic Games. Yogeshwar Dutt, who won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's 60kg freestyle wrestling, called the decision wrong and said he was saddened by it. Meanwhile, Sushil Kumar, who won silver in London Olympics in 66 kg freestyle event, was unable to come to terms with the development. Former wrestler Kartar Singh, who won gold med
IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympic Games
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In a surprise move, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dropped Wrestling from the programme of the 2020 Games. According to reports, the IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon and remove wrestling instead. "The EB recommended that wrestling not be included on the list of core sports," the IOC said in a statement.
IPL 6 Auction: Mumbai Indians pay whopping Rs. 5.3 crore for Glenn Maxwell
Sun 3 Feb, 2013
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Sachin Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians paid a whopping Rs.5.3 crore for emerging Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell for the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that will be held later this year. Maxwell was snapped up by the Mumbai-based franchise even as he scored a duck against the West Indies in a one-day international in Perth today. The Mumbai Indians also bought former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting for his base price of Rs 2.1 crore, while the Bangalore-based Royal Challengers paid th
Women's Cricket World Cup: Pak team arrives in India
Mon 28 Jan, 2013
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Pakistan's women cricket team has arrived in Cuttack to take part in the upcoming Women's Cricket World Cup amid tight security, against a backdrop of protests for their participation in the tournament after the recent incident of ceasefire violation by Pakistan. Around 600 security personnel were deployed around the airport and a team of young girls were present at the airport to welcome the team. The team's manager Aayasa Ashaar expressed his gratitude to the people of India for according a warm welcome
Cricket fans hope for India's win in the match against England
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Scores of Cricket fans in Ranchi hope for India's victory in the third ODI match today against England. Many Cricket fans turned up at the stadium as this would be Team India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's first match in his hometown Ranchi. Apart from fans, a group of priests also performed special prayer at a local temple dedicated to the Hindu god Hanuman. Special hymns were chanted by the priests as they prayed for the victory of team India. England beat India by nine runs in closely fought contest in
Four in a row: Messi named world's best soccer player
Tue 8 Jan, 2013
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Argentina's Lionel Messi, has been named the world's best soccer player for an unprecedented fourth year running. The award, officially known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or, came after the Barcelona player scored a remarkable 91 goals in 2012, a record for a calendar year. Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo was second, and Barcelona and Spain midfielder Andres Iniesta was third. Meanwhile, people on the streets of Buenos Aires were excited about Messi's latest accomplishment. Messi was voted FIFA
Javed Miandad cancels trip to India
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Former Pakistan cricketer, Javed Miandad has called off his visit to Delhi in the wake of a raging controversy in India over giving him visa for the trip. Miandad was earlier scheduled to watch the third and final ODI between India and Pakistan in Delhi, on January 6. Ever since news came out that Miandad, whose son Junaid is married to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's daughter, a controversy broke out in India over government giving him visa for the visit. Pakistan Cricket Board however did not want the fo
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We spent the last 7 days in Tennessee on a whirlwind wedding trip that turned into a full-length vacation, thanks to car trouble. No, not our own car trouble. We were going to hurry home so as not to miss a Texas visit by my Tennessee sis and her family, but their own car trouble kept them home, so we stayed longer than planned.
This gave the girls time to hit a few thrift stores and expand their collection.
While were there, I discovered that the old lady’s still got it: I jogged 3 miles nonstop. I guess I should confess that Perry and 2 of the girls were walking beside me while I jogged, so you can adjust your admiration and/or envy levels accordingly. Nonetheless, I was thrilled. This was the very sort of jogging that made me kiss the pavement in woozy despair last year, and I was sure I had lost the ability altogether after a full year of being a quitter. Now I’m jazzed – almost – about taking up jogging again.
In other news, I have proof that I am One Hot Mama. I may have slightly set fire to my bra. While wearing it. I blame the jogging, indirectly, because that caused me to be wearing a highly flammable cotton jogging bra and no nursing pads. I was using a hair blower to dry a milk spot, and got it a little too close. When I smelled smoke and saw the scorched spots, I decided it was dry enough. You never knew I was a bra burner, did you? Take that, patriarchy hating feminists!
Incidentally, Zulily has cotton nursing bras and camisoles on sale today 2/$11.99. Just in case you happen to have burned any lately and need replacements.
Recent searches that lured flies into our web on the web:
Ok, you know what? I see nothing funny. Maybe that’s because I just drove straight through the night and am now going on 2 hours of snoozing between 6-8 AM. Maybe our blog had a really boring week. This week it’s your turn. Did your blog receive any hits from interesting searches?
Good blog articles I’ve read over the past week:
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LOL! I’d been wondering about the details since you mentioned the scorched bra on FB.
The link for the wood pellets didn’t work for me. Was it user error or the link?
I think this is the correct link:
Far and away, the most searched phrase that brings people to my blog is some version of, “what the enemy meant/intended for evil god meant for good.” That brings them to this page: which, incidentally, is information I found out from YOUR blog over five years ago.
The other one this week is: “more than I can handle”:
Actually yes… yesterday I learned that my blog is the very first hit on Google for the search term: “christians-are you weary?i sure am-constant spiritual attacks oct 21-22 2011″ LOL
I am sure that will pull lots of traffic to my blog
I love the circle of Converse! Great colors…my girls have many as well….
Glad you didn’t burst into flames!
sounds like you had an….adventure?
no funny search terms on my blog this week other than “birthday tablescalps” EWWW!
i guess halloween IS coming?
Careful! I burned my bra cooking last year, and ended up in hospital. But it made people laugh, anyway…
Awesome about the unexpectedly extended vacation. I had to laugh about the bra burning – that’s a new one!
I always suspected a liberal feminist was hiding in you somewhere! LOL! Just kidding.
Thanks for the reminder on the 100 days of Christmas posts! I bookmarked it a while back then forgot it.
This post made me LOL. Thanks so much for that
And the most interesting search term on my blog is “pig by a pond” haha.
This is so funny! Sounds like something I would have done if I had those circumstances. Wow.
Thanks so much for the link! I love to be liked!
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Because the issue is so important, and because Judge Magnus-Stinson took precisely the opposite position in her presentation on Blakely at the Judicial Conference at the end of September, I 'm going to pull out the argument regarding Blakely and consecutive sentences:
Blakely also affects other aspects of Indiana's felony sentencing system. Not only does the Code unconstitutionally permit trial courts to increase the sentence for one felony based on aggravating facts found by the judge alone, section 35-50-1-2 also permits trial courts to impose consecutive sentences for multiple felonies based upon that same determination. I.C. 35-50-1-2 ("The court may consider the aggravating and mitigating circumstances in IC 35-38-1-7.1(b) and IC 35-38-1-7.1(c) in making a determination under this subsection."). In Ortiz v. State, this Court reiterated that "[i]n order to impose consecutive sentences, a trial court must find at least one aggravating circumstance." 766 N.E.2d 370, 377 (Ind. 2002) (citing Jones v. State, 705 N.E.2d 452, 455 (Ind. 1999)). Thus, the imposition of consecutive sentences in Indiana, just like an increase of a sentence for one felony, is permitted under the Code only after the trial court -- not a jury -- makes a determination of fact. Because the end result of this practice is an increase in the maximum sentence a judge "may impose without any additional findings," Blakely, 124 S. Ct. at 2537 (alteration in original), the imposition of consecutive sentences based on judicially found aggravators is equally unconstitutional.
Footnote 3 also takes an interesting position about what to do after Blakely aggravators have been set aside:
Nevertheless, defendants retain the statutory right to present and argue mitigating circumstances at sentencing. See Ind. Code § 35-38-1-7.1(c). Trial courts are required to credit any proffered mitigating circumstances that are significant and clearly supported by the record. Dowdell v. State, 720 N.E.2d 1146, 1154 (Ind. 1999). If mitigating circumstances are found and no aggravating circumstances exist, a sentence below the presumptive must be imposed. See Laughner v. State, 769 N.E.2d 1149, 1167 (Ind. Ct. App. 2002), trans. denied.The State's response is due November 4th, and I hope to be able to put it up shortly thereafter.
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NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' and 18 Other Famous Hairstyle Appropriators
The Curiosity, NASA's latest Mars rover, touched down on the Red Planet on August 6, and what was a pretty gee-whiz moment for science fans soon flared into a game of Who's That Guy?
"That Guy" was a NASA control-room knob-twiddler wearing a mohawk haircut, and since nobody knew who he was, he became "Mohawk Guy." Now, Mohawk Guy, real name Bobak Ferdowsi, is the nerd heartthrob who threatens to become a bigger story than the Curiosity.
So mainstream America has decided the mohawk is cool again. But does this hairstyle, other than its name, have anything to do with Mohawk Indians anymore? We asked Ray Cook, Mohawk, ICTMN's opinions editor, who told us the traditional warrior's hairstyle is better described as a "scalp lock." "The Mohawk is known as scalp lock because it makes it very hard for an enemy to lift one's hair for a trophy," he says. "But, on a practical note—we are a woodland people, bugs and ticks like to hide in lots of hair, a scalp-lock frustrates them too." Cook points to the paintings of Mohawk artist John Thomas as illustrations of the pre-Colonial Mohawk scalp lock.
It's significant that the subject of the painting is a lacrosse player wearing a scalp lock—Cook says the haircut is "for those who do battle. Which today means athletes." Wes Studi also wears a fairly authentic scalp lock as Magua in The Last of the Mohicans (and incidentally, in the UK, a mohawk haircut is known as a mohican):
The mohawk first gained popularity among non-Indians in modern times toward the end of World War II, when it was adopted by the "Filthy Thirteen," a unit of the 101st Airborne Division—and yes, the inspiration for the highly fictionalized 1967 film The Dirty Dozen. Sergeant Jake McNiece of Ponca City, Oklahoma, who is said to be of Native heritage, started the trend—according to a news article from 1994, he joked that it was a Native tradition, but really wore the haircut for sanitary reasons. Some of the members of the Filthy Thirteen followed suit, and a photograph of two mohawk-ed paratroopers applying face paint before a mission was published in Stars & Stripes. But the practice was not widespread.
Jazz musician Sonny Rollins went through a mohawk phase. In 2009, Rollins told NPR that "[t."
Military haircuts, though, are not far off from mohawks to begin with—particularly the high-and-tight and the extreme version of it known as a recon. Again we turn to Ray Cook, who served as a U.S. Marine in the mid-70s, who says it's another connection between the scalp lock and warrior culture. "The Marine Recon fought the scariest war of all," he says. "Behind enemy lines, undetected as much as possible. To the enemy they were a scourge, a ghost. And the enemy taking trophies of snipers and recon dead was well known, to prove the recon were merely enemy to be treated like dogs, to be proved mortal. So the Recons would do all they could to protect themselves...and to bring back their wounded, and their dead intact. Having a scalp lock might make you, or part of you, less likely to end up your enemy's trophy."
So it makes sense that an ex-Marine gearing up for a personal war might take a hairstyling cue from the recon boys—which is how the story unfolds in Taxi Driver. For Robert de Niro's Travis Bickle, the mohawk haircut is a signifier of his deluded transformation into a vigilante.
The next to take up the mohawk were punk rock musicians and their fans—Joe Strummer of The Clash grew a mohawk in the band's Combat Rock phase:
If you watched MTV during that same period you may remember two female singers who were also famous for their mohawks. One was Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics...
...and the other was Annabella Lwin, the teenaged singer of Bow Wow Wow, whose big hit was a remake of the song "I Want Candy":
The mohawk came back in the '90s; rockers recently wearing it include members of Rancid...
Adrian Young of No Doubt...
...and Travis Barker of Blink-182.
In 2010, Jamaican dancehall star and Grammy winner Sean Paul shocked his fans by doing away with his trademark cornrows in favor of a mohawk, which (for reasons unknown to us) he called a "speehawk":
The actor and wrestler Mr. T sported a mohawk that, along with copious gold jewelry, became his signature look, although he maintained that his hairstyle was inspired not by American Indians but by a photo of African Mandinka warriors in National Geographic.
The mohawk has also become popular among athletes—it's one of many hairdos David Beckham has experimented with:
Clint Mathis came out wearing a motivational mohawk for a game against South Korea in the 2002 World Cup. And perhaps it worked: He scored a goal in a 1-1 tie that proved adequate to get the American team out of the group stage.
In 2008, members of the Tampa Bay Rays wore mohawks—dubbed "Rayhawks"—as did many of their fans.
And now we have "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowsi (in case you are wondering about the name, it's Persian). Why a mohawk? Ferdowsi has explained that he gets a different, creative haircut for each mission, and this time around it happened to be a mohawk.
If it's all a bit distressing to see mohawks on so many non-Indian heads, perhaps a name change is in order. In 2003, a mummified Iron Age man, dead for some 2,300 years, was discovered in a bog near Clonycavan, Ireland. He was dubbed "Clonycavan Man," and his distinctive ridge of hair, held in place by plant oil and pine resin imported from the European mainland, has been referred to as "the world's first mohawk."
So perhaps these punks and jocks should all ditch their mohawks and instead grow clonycavans. As for a question asked earlier on this page—do Mohawks wear mohawks? Our Mohawk certainly does. "The scalp-lock is as popular today as ever," Ray Cook says. "I got mine on for the summer, and my five-year-old grandson gets his too, when I get mine."
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DNA Study Gives Insight Into Aboriginal Australian Heritage
ICTMN Staff
January 16, 2013
It has long been thought that aboriginal Australians did not mix with any other races until the 18 th -century arrival of Europeans...
DNA Evidence Provides Break in Native Student's Murder Case
Alysa Landry
January 08, 2013
DNA found at the scene of Faith Hedgepeth’s murder may help police identify her assailant...
Spider and Wasp Frozen for Eternity in Death Dance, Preserved in Amber
ICTMN Staff
October 11, 2012
It’s rare to catch a spider in the act of killing a bug—and rarer still for a drop of resin to engulf the arachnid as it's on the verge of pouncing...
Birth of 30 Genetically Modified Babies May Lead to a 'Designer' Human Race
ICTMN Staff
July 06, 2012
The recent birth of 30 genetically modified (GM) babies has sparked an ethical debate over whether fertility experiments help hopeful parents conceive or if scientists are altering...
What Came First, the Raven or the Eagle?
ICTMN Staff
June 08, 2012
Many have heard the question: What came first, the chicken or the egg? But what about the Raven or the Eagle?...
Gaming Revenue Blamed for California Tribes Disenrolling Members
ICTMN Staff
December 14, 2011
Roughly two dozen California tribes have disenrolled more than 2,500 Indians in the past decade on the basis of not having proper ancestry, according to estimates by Indian advocat...
Marty Two Bulls, 'Indian DNA'
Bitter Fight to Determine Who Is an American Indian Turns to DNA Testing
Kevin Taylor
October 13, 2011
The onset of casino gaming brought great change in Indian country, but it also created unexpected—and frequently heated—arguments over Indian identity: What makes somebody a membe...
Can DNA determine who is American Indian?
Kim Tallbear
December 03, 2003
There is talk in Indian country about how DNA can decide tribal enrollment and prove American Indian ancestry...
What DNA Can Tell You, and What It Can’t
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April 12, 2011
Genealogical DNA testing is one of the hottest topics in the field of genealogy, and many of us have seen it on TV shows such as Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of Americ
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Monday, August 22, 2011
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For next 2 days Monsoon rain will be of low intensity all over India... before a strong UAC expected over S.Madyapradesh on 25-Aug
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RT @knowsnotmuch: @weatherofindia light rain at Besant Nagar for quite some time now. (4:44pm)
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Chennai - a sharp shower is sweeping across OMR and ECR ... we need confirmation on that !
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@aditya_ug >> Very less showers forecast for entire S-W peninsula (including Goa) for next 5 days !!
RT @aditya_ug: @weatherofindia Hasn't rained today in Goa. Sun is out. What's the situation for this week? Need to know urgently.
Today, lots of circulations seen.. N.Andhra, N-W Maharastra, E. Madhyapradesh, N.Bay ...
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RT @rajugana: @weatherofindia Baroda 9.40am, After a wet weekend, Dark passing clouds with sunny intervals, no rain since morning.
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Chennai - 1:36pm, Good sea breeze now from S-E... and we have T.cell near W-S-W of Mahabalipuram.
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Chennai - a warm and humid day so far 1:34pm, Temp. max touched 34.0 C (12:41pm). Today also HEavy T.shower expected before 6pm
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I am 19 now and have been doing hip-hop since I was 14. I realize that this music is all i got its my only passion in life and i try to give it all i got when I write and record. The beats are all provided elsewhere unpaid for but the lyrics are all me 100 percent. Please listen and let me know what you think. thankyou for helping me live.
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Ryan. 21. Photography student in Cardiff, UK.
Originally from Cheltenham.
Music and photography run my world.
Camera obsessor and music blog runner.
Welcome to the planes of existence.
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Posts tagged: Kodak
Promo shoot for Jon Fazal & The Sundance Kid.
Camera - Canon A-1, 50mm f/1.4
Film - Kodak Colorplus 200.
Expressionist photograph from a project based around my interpretation of Burial’s music. Inspired by Uta Barth.
Camera: faulty Praktica MTL3
Film: Kodak Colourplus 200 (I think?)
sans titre by alistair_woods on Flickr.
World War II-Era Kodachromes
These images are stunning. Not only do they showcase a few of the millions of “Rosie the Riveters” who worked in the defense industry during this time, but they do so in such brilliant quality. Kodachrome film was first sold in 1935, but it was discontinued in 2009, though its legacy through photos like these (plus iconic images like “the Afghan Girl”) still lives.
Most of the images are from Shorpy, but they were compiled here, where many other lovely images of 1940s America can be found.
I wish Kodachrome still existed. Stunning photographs.
The Last Rays of Summer by Let There Be More Light on Flickr.
untitled by Mannequin- on Flickr.
untitled by DrewPerlmutter on Flickr.
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We are all familiar with the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But in the case of bucket-filling, a positive reinforcement program that works well in classrooms, the Golden Rule should be revised to “Do unto others as they would have you do unto them,” in other words, treat people the way that they want to be treated, or treat them in ways that are valuable to them.
You’re probably thinking, How in the world can I treat 23 students individually and personally at any given time? Hold on! Essentially, all we are asking you to do is know your students. The more you know about what makes your students tick, the better able you will be to “fill their buckets. “
Dr. Donald O. Clifton’s book How Full is Your Bucket asserts that often it is what we recognize in others that actually helps them shape their identities and future accomplishments. Constantly referring to a child as funny, or shy, or outgoing can reinforce what that child thinks of him or herself. Teachers have the access and unique power—every day— to tell a child that he is a good writer, or a capable scientist, or an excellent athlete. These often unintentional individual recognitions, for better or worse, plant the seeds that can affect decision-making down the line. So make sure the seeds you plant are always for the better. (No pressure!)
The book outlines some key questions we’ve adapted for students to find out the best ways to fill their buckets:
1.By what name do you like to be called? Nickname?
2.What are your hot buttons—hobbies or interests you like to talk about a lot?
3.What makes you feel great when you’ve achieved something special? ●Receiving a certificate with your name on it? ●A prize? ●Note from teacher? ●Note from Mom, Dad or Grandparent? ●Announcement to the whole school over the PA system from the principal? ●Pizza for the whole class?
These insights can help teachers decide the best ways to fill their students’ buckets, to make recognition individual and meaningful whenever possible. Before long, you will see positive results in your classroom and you will have fostered a much more cooperative classroom climate.
Clifton reminds us that we all face a choice every single moment of every single day. We can fill one another’s buckets, or we can dip from them. The choices we make can profoundly influence our relationships, our health and our ability to be productive in the classroom or on the job. He cites a Gallup poll that estimates there are “…more than 22 million workers in the United States alone who are extremely negative or "actively disengaged." This rampant negativity is not only disheartening, it's expensive: It costs the U.S. economy between $250 and $300 billion every year in lost productivity alone.”
Let’s do our part by starting early and modeling for our students what positive behavior looks like and even sounds like. Before long, they will understand what it feels like to be a positive, productive person, and it can make all the difference in the world to your classroom community.
Begin the New Year on a positive note! Download our Guide to Successful Bucket-Filler Techniques and let your imagination be your guide on how to best introduce this concept to your students.
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It’s very important to check periodically a condition of each eye separately. Many eye illnesses can be diagnosed at an early stage.Check up a condition of the eyes:Close one eye and look at any…
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Technology is the modern frontier. It can be applied in every field of research and work. The advancements that have been made in the field of agricultural research have been extremely helpful and insightful. There are many lab uses for technology in agriculture, but the most common application so far is using information technology to help support the farmers. Agriculture would not exist without the farmers of America, so the use of GPS moisture probes has significantly changed the face of farming.
Fontanelle, an agriculture technology company, created the Aquaview GPS moisture probe and this was a large step in modern farming. Manually read and processed moisture probes have been around since the 1980’s. However, the Aquaview does not have to be manually checked every day; it is positioned in a flat central location in the field where the probes can be plunged into the ground, where they remain. The solar panel that powers the unit has to be positioned towards the southern sky, so it can soak up the maximum amount of sunlight. This unit stands alone in the field, but is connected to another piece of technology through satellite. The Aquaview GPS moisture probe sends the information that it collects through digital waves to a computer, iPad, of any other piece of technology that the farmer would use to read the information. This update came around in 2006, which just added to the world of hands free data collection.
Input hardware is involved in the functions of this moisture probe. The in-ground probes collect the data and send it up to the transmitter in the Aquaview unit. The information collected is sent up 3 conductor wires digitally. The input hardware in this course is the probe itself, it is considered to be a source data entry device which takes readable information (which is the moisture in centimeters or millimeters) and translates it into information that the computer can receive and understand. A computer processes information digitally but using 0’s and 1’s to portray the information that it needs to. Output hardware would be the actual monitor of a computer that displays the information in words for humans to comprehend.
The transmitter sends the data collected digitally to a computer that is set up to receive the information. The GPS is the server, where all of the information is sorted and redistributed according to location, the personal computer of the farmer is the client in this network. No matter where the farmer is, his data is delivered and updated every half hour. The nice thing about this set up is the farmer can be 400 miles away from his field and know whether his crops have enough water to sustain them in the heat or whatever the current circumstances are. At this point, the output hardware has been used to translate the 0’s and 1’s into humanized information.
My family began to use two of the Aquaview moisture probe units our land this past summer. The results were extremely impressive. The units are extremely accurate, and the freedom that it brought was very nice. We were able to pay more attention to the other fields that we had that did not have the Aquaview in them. It notifies your device of choice, in our case a laptop, and it alerts it when the field needs more water. It even can tell you how much water would be the best amount to apply. It was very nice to be able to track the moisture levels without having to walk out to the field yourself every day. When you have hundreds of acres the little break is appreciated where ever you can get it. All of the field that were monitored had a great yield and the Aquaview proved itself to be a great product for other farmers to put to use.
It is amazing how technology can be applied in every occupational field in the world. The furthering of science with technology is a great move in American agriculture. This not only helps to support the crops, but also the farmers. With the Aquaview, the monitoring of the water that the crops get will be much easier and less time consuming without the worry of having to check it frequently by actually walking out to the field. It also will hopefully teach good watering habits to young farmers that are learning about agriculture and the techniques to raising a good yield. In the future, there is potential for the Aquaview unit to be able to control when the irrigation comes on without the farmer having to do that himself. This could give more freedom to farmers, and maybe even the ability to farm more land. From the research aspect, it would be great to track the amounts of moisture the field needs for new hybrid plants to perform well.
This is the actual unit and how it would be positioned in a field of growing crops.
Works Cited
Aqua view by Fontanelle-performance results. (2011). Retrieved from
Aqua view by Fontanelle-systems approach. (2011). Retrieved from
Gps ecustomized digital enabled soil moisture meter. (2012). Retrieved from
Personal Research/References
Ammons, S. (2012, October 26). Interview by Megan James [Personal Interview]. Gps moisture probe: Its uses and functions.
Skip is a specialist with agriculture technology and worked with these probes for the past summer. He has a lot of experience with the probes and was able to explain the uses from first hand experience.
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We caught some new work from Inhabitat favorite Jason D’Aquino. In addition to his famed matchbook miniatures, his signature black and white drawings were combined with vintage newspaper collages. Moira Fain’s modern collages fit somewhere in between D’Aquino and McClusky’s, using both vintage and contemporary paper as sources, in addition to fabrics, found notes, and old photographs.
Ellen Greene uses the feminine tradition of wearing white gloves with the masculine tattoo art. Combining purity, formality and rebellion, she decorates gloves with her own version of traditional flash art, creating a piece that brings high and low culture together.
A self proclaimed junk sculptor, Leo Sewell’s fascination in trash was inspired by the garbage he would see being hauled to the dump near his childhood home. His sculptures are composed of recognizable objects like cast-off metal, plastic and wood, which are fused together. Two animal sculptures, a favorite subject of his, were exhibited at the art fair.
Some historic collage was represented with C.T. McClusky’s circus-themed works, which combine original crayon drawing with clippings from popular magazines of the 1950s. Carlos DeMedeiros’ former life as a monk in Bolivia is evident in the Brazilian artist’s work. The mini confessionals are made from found materials which are assembled in colorful tableaus.
What could at first resemble a day at the shooting range, Racine Polycarpe’s sculptures are a carefully organized collection of tin cans. Punctured with holes of different sizes, they are arranged in a grid and encased in a rustic frame of found wood. Their perfect organization transforms the used cans into a work of art.
The Outsider Art Fair celebrates artists on the fringes of the art world, showing that artistic talent is not always something that can be taught with formal education.
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-‘ story that we have reported on, so what makes this technology so different? According to the scientific journal Chemistry of Materials, do. The company RavenBrick has developed what could be considered a bit of a game changer in window technology — a glass that automatically changes tint according to its temperature. The idea is simple [...]
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” Brad Green Media Interview ”
Brad Green CEO/Founder of BradGreenMedia was born and raised in Bronx,NY. In high school he realized he enjoyed recording videos when he taped & edited basketball games for practice. After high school he lost interest temporarily. He resumed his craft again in August of 2011 when he made a pilgrimage to California with his new Canon Rebel and never put it down…
Q: When did your career start?
A: Well it depends on which career. Photography/Videos, I would have to say about four months ago. I have been making beats since 2004; started with a MPC 2000 now I use Reason and Recycle. I try to be creative all day everyday. I like to entertain and have a message as well. I feel as if my art speaks for itself.
Q: Describe your fantasy photograph + production:
A: My ideal fantasy photograph would be me on one of those hang gliders, some where like the Grand Canyon, gliding, snapping everything I see. Then when I get home, make a beat & create a video out of the photos.
Q: In your opinion, what makes photography an art?
A: What makes photography an art to me is that it is a forever captured moment of what you see; all the techniques, effects; its a form of expression.
Q: If there was an opportunity to shoot one person nude. Who would it be & why?
A: One person I would love to shoot nude would have to be Teyana Taylor. Check her out.
Q: Who are 3 people that you would like to work with in the near future?
A: Three people that I would like to work with would have to be, Kanye West, Cee Lo Green and Swizz Beatz.
Q: To sum it up. What can we expect from you this yr + where can the viewers find work from you ?
A: To sum it up, this year I will be focusing more on perfecting my “Art in Motion” craft, along with more instrumentals and pictures. I don’t do much talking.
Below you will find a few sites where you can reach out to BGM:
Twitter.com/BradGreenMedia
Facebook.com/BradGreenMedia
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Has anyone else out there in INNOPAC land ever experienced intermittant
dropping of telnet sessions? Actually, in our case it is not exactly
intermittant, it is every Saturday morning between 8 AM and approximately 1
PM ; random times on Sundays; and though it has not ever failed on a
Monday before, yesterday (Labor Day) it did.
Our server is in the largest of 10 connected consortium libraries.
The other libraries are connected to it via Frame-Relay T-1
Each library is on it's own subnet.
The carrier for the T-1s stress tested one of the circuits at the
time it was failing and found no abnormalities.
This problem does not affect the library where the server is located. (same
subnet)
Traffic to the OPAC/WebOPAC is not affected.
We have a caching DNS server to which INNOPAC points. The problem was there
before this server was installed, and didn't go away after it was installed.
It SEEMS like the problem should be in the common connection between the
server and the 'remote' locations, but all other services pass through normally
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Cubmaster: Tonight we have an important occasion, the recognition of (names of boys graduating) who are continuing along the Scouting trail. Will (names) and their parents please come forward.When you joined our pack you stood in front here and with the other members, repeated the Cub Scout Promise and agreed to live up to it. In memory of that occasion, let all of us assembled here repeat that promise as a group. (Everyone stands and repeats the Cub Scout Promise).By repeating that promise, you agreed to do your best as a Cub Scout and agreed to follow the Law of the Pack. A lot has happened to you since that night. You have grown, you have helped the pack go you have followed Akela, you have given good will. You entered Cub Scouting as a child, so to speak. You have learned a lot, had a lot of fun, and have grown into a fine young man. You first became a Bobcat, then a Wolf Cub Scout, a Bear and earlier this year a Webelos Scout. Now you are nearly 11 and are ready to enter Scouting.Just as you continued to grow and move through the Cubbing program into Webelos, so you are now continuing into Scouting. Our charge to you is that you continue to learn, to grow, and to enjoy the challenge of Scouting that you may prepare yourself to enter manhood and become the kind of citizen our country needs. Scouting and your parents and friends will continue to help you along the way.To show that you accept our charge, will you join the members of your new troop and give the Scout sign that you learned as a Webelos Scout and repeat with them the Scout Oath?(Scouts step forward, give the Boy Scout signal and repeat the Oath.)
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Lots of interesting gossip and rumors floating around these days about Linux Networx and something big in the air for them this week.
I’ve been pumping my friends and irritating those I don’t know very well for the past 24 hours trying to find a quorum opinion on exactly what, and so far I don’t have one.
What I have found is reflected in a comment on this post left by an insideHPC reader on the web site today:
This week, they are going through some BIG changes, sell off/Merger or even a Complete shutdown [capitalization courtesy of the commenter]
I hear the same things. On the sale I hear that possible buyers include one of the “smaller” HPC companies, outfits like Rackable or Penguin.
I feel obligated to remind you at this point in the post that I have a terrible record with rumors. But then, so does everyone else.
LNXI Doors closed and locked at 5pm, entry badges disabled, Wednesday 13th.
Thursday Morning, 14th 2008, All Employees entered through the Main door, either given last paychecks and asked to leave with their belongings or ‘sgi’ is offering some key staff positions with them along with any assets that ‘sgi’ have purchased (does that include their debt?).
Well, hopefully the ass-wipe exec team will be shown the door. A few good people remain, but the brain-drain over the last year was deadly.
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NCAA Playoff Preview Maryland and Cornell enter May looking to win their first NCAA title since the 70's.
Towson University
On the Scene: First Round in Washington D.C. and College Park
Virginia dominated possession in the second half to come away with a 12-6 win over Penn to advance to the NCAA second round against Georgetown. Stellar defense led Stony Brook to its first-ever NCAA Tournament win as the Seawolves beat Towson 8-6..
Defense Leads Stony Brook to 8-6 Win Over Towson
In-Game Blog.
Halley's Weekend Watch: NCAA First and Second Round
The bracket is set and the Division I Women's Lacrosse NCAA Tournament is going to to kick off this afternoon. The field has expanded to 26 teams, as 16 games will be played this weekend. Here's a breakdown of what to watch and where to catch the action.
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First Round Staff Debate: Must-Watch Games, Potential Upsets
The first round of the NCAA Tournament features some fantastic matchups. The ILWomen staff debates where some of the biggest upsets could come and the best matchups to watch.
Halley's Takeaways: Conference Championships
From Syracuse's first Big East title since 2008 to Penn and Northwestern winning their respective conference championships, here's what to take away from the final weekend of conference championships.
CAA: Towson Captures.
CAA: Hofstra Tops James Madison, 6-4
TOWSON, Md. — Hofstra outscored James Madison 4-1 in the second half en route to a 6-4 win in the Colonial Athletic Association Women's Lacrosse Tournament semifinals on Friday afternoon.
CAA: Towson Battles to 8-7 Win Over Drexel.
Brine Inbox: Postseason Awards, Playoffs.
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IL's prep files continues with McDonogh midfielder Samantha Burgess, who committed to Florida for the class of 2013.
Position: Midfield/Attack
High School: McDonogh
Class: 2013
Commitment: University of Florida
Summer '11: Skywalkers 2013 Blue, Under Armour, Baltimore Metro
Height: 5’3
Stats/Honors: IAAM Championship 2010-2011
Other Sports: Tennis and Soccer
Other Schools Considered: Northwestern, Maryland, Loyola
How was your recruiting process?
It was stressful, but also fun at the same time. I was able to meet a lot of great coaches with wonderful programs, so it was a really great experience all together.
What were the reasons behind your verbal commitment?
I have always wanted to be a Gator, even since before they had a lacrosse team. I couldn’t turn it down. I am so excited to be a part of the Gator Nation.
How would you describe your style of lacrosse and what do you believe your strengths are?
I play an aggressive style of lacrosse. I have good speed as well as field awareness. I try to create a lot of opportunities for myself as well as all of my teammates.
What aspects of your game would you like to work on throughout your college career?
I would love to continue learning how to be an even bigger force on offence. I also would like to become a stronger defender.
What goals do you have for the rest of your high school career?
I have a ton, but two of my most important goals are to continue improving, and to keep the dynasty going at McDonogh.
Your Favorite...
Food: pasta
Magazine: Inside Lacrosse
TV Show: 90210
Band or Artist: Trey Songz & Lil Wayne
Movie: Love and Basketball
Pro Team: Ravens
Clothing Line: Nike
Vacation Destination: Key West
School Subject: Science
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CHAPEL HILL - Third-ranked North Carolina got four goals from Kara Cannizzaro and three from Abbey Friend on its way to an 11-9 win over fourth-ranked Florida on Saturday afternoon at Fetzer Field in the season opener for both teams. The Tar Heels improve to 1-0 with the victory and won their first game of the season for the seventh year in a row. Florida falls to 0-1 with the defeat.
In addition to the scoring output of Cannizzaro and Friend, Carolina also got a goal and an assist from All-America Laura Zimmerman and single goals from Emily Garrity, Taylor George and Brittney Coppa. Becky Lynch had an assist.
For the Gators, Kitty Cullen scored three goals and dished out an assist. Ashley Bruns scored three times and Brittany Dashiell had a goal and an assist. Florida also got goals from Gabi Wiegand and Caroline Chesterman.
Lauren Maksym played well in the cage for Carolina, recording 10 saves in picking up her first win of the year. Mikey Meagher started in goal for Florida and gave up seven first-half goals before giving way to Cara Canington in the second half.
Florida grabbed a 2-0 lead in the opening few minutes on a pair of free position goals in the opening 2:02 of the game. Carolina rallied to score three consecutive goals to take a 3-2 lead and force a Gator timeout. Friend had two of the three Tar Heel goals during the run. Florida responded with a goal on an extra man opportunity to tie it back up at three apiece with 17:07 left in the first half.
The Tar Heels closed the first half with a 4-0 run to take command 7-3 at the break. Cannizzaro scored the last two of those goals, the second of which came with under one second left on the first half clock.
Garrity scored coming out of the lockerroom for an 8-3 Tar Heel lead, their biggest of the game. The teams traded mini-scoring rallies the rest of the way with Florida getting as close two goals at 10-8 with 9:14 to go.
Cannizzaro scored an unassisted insurance goal for UNC with 6:28 to go that made it 11-8. Bruns eventually scored her third goal with 2:49 to go to make it an 11-9 final.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The second-seeded and 12th-ranked Loyola University Maryland women’s lacrosse team rallied to knock off third-seeded and sixth-ranked Notre Dame, 11-9, Thursday evening in the semifinals of the 2012 BIG EAST Championships at the Carrier Dome.
The Greyhounds (12-5, 7-1 BIG EAST) scored six of the game’s nine second-half goals to erase a one-goal halftime deficit en route to the victory.
"I’m extremely impressed by the fight that we had today after going into halftime down one," head coach Jen Adams said. "Notre Dame is a phenomenal team and you have to give them a whole lot of credit. They made our job very tough today. I’m very proud of our girls to be able to gut it out and stick it out against a very tough and athletic Notre Dame side. We were able to find the right opportunities in the second half and limit them and their high-powered offense. I think we showed some true character and I’m very proud of the effort we put in today."
Sophomore Marlee Paton led the way with a game-high six points on four goals and two assists, while junior Joanna Dalton tied a career-high four goals. Junior Kathleen Barranco, in addition to freshmen Kara Burke and Hannah Schmitt, also tacked on goal each for Loyola.
For Notre Dame (13-4, 6-2), Jenny Granger had two goals and two assists, while Maggie Tamasitis added two goals and one assist. Five other Irish had one goal each.
The Greyhounds traded goals with the Fighting Irish throughout the first half, with Notre Dame getting on the board first at the 29-minute mark. Paton quickly knotted the score though, firing a shot into the back of the net just 19 seconds later.
Notre Dame regained the lead with a goal at 25:35, but Dalton had an answer for the Greyhounds, scoring on an assist from Paton at 24:10. It wouldn’t be enough to quiet the Irish though, as they tallied back-to-back goals to take a 4-2 lead with 12:33 on the clock.
Dalton ripped a shot from about 10 yards out to bring Loyola within one at 8:48 and the Greyhounds had an opportunity to it at four when senior Kellye Gallagher forced a turnover and sent it ahead to a wide-open Annie Thomas, but a turnover sent the ball back to Notre Dame’s end, where Granger scored her second of the day to give the Irish a 5-3 lead.
Schmitt scored the game’s next goal, dodging her way through the defense and sticking a shot into the top right corner at 4:14, but Notre Dame notched its sixth goal with 3:08 to play.
The Fighting Irish looked to extend its lead to three right before the half, but senior goalkeeper Kerry Stoothoff saved their shot and Annie Thomas found Barranco open in front of the goal with five ticks left to bring the Greyhounds within one, 6-5, at the break.
Burke scored her sixth goal of the season at 26:43 to tie the game at six, before Paton gave Loyola its first lead of the day at 22:14, scoring a man-up goal, assisted by Sydney Thomas.
Notre Dame marked its first goal of the second half at 21:36 to tie the game for a fourth time, before Paton and Sydney Thomas connected for Loyola’s second-straight goal at 19:32.
The Irish found its equalizer 30 seconds later, before the Greyhounds scattered three goals within the next 11 minutes to earn an 11-8 advantage at the 7:45 mark. Dalton started the streak with a free position goal, before ripping a shot on a feed from Schmitt at 14:15. Paton then took a pass from Schmitt and spun around a defender before finding the back of the net at 7:45.
Notre Dame halted the streak at 4:42 when the Irish caused a turnover in transition and scored on an unsettled possession. The Fighting Irish looked to add a second goal, but Stoothoff turned back two shots to keep Notre Dame off the board.
Stoothoff then came up with another huge save in the final minute of the game to finish with eight saves and preserve the 11-9 victory for the Greyhounds.
Defensively, senior Ana Heneberry, Gallagher and Paton all had three caused turnovers, while Stoothoff had a game-high six ground balls and Heneberry scooped up three.
Dalton and Sydney Thomas each won three draw controls for the Greyhounds.
Loyola will return to action on Saturday when it faces the winner of the No. 1 seed Syracuse vs. No. 4 seed Georgetown game in the title game of the BIG EAST Championships. Opening draw is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Carrier Dome.
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Inside New York has been turning newcomers into New Yorkers since 1978! With over 600 new reviews of the hottest lifestyle, dining, and nightlife venues in our new book, INY 2013 is conscious of your time and budget so you can make the most of NYC!
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Of course, in fantasy football, I'm guessing the trends don't look anything like that. Yes, you've started your season 0-1 and you think this is a "must-win" situation, but it really isn't. There's plenty of time and -- guess what? -- there is no actual momentum in fantasy! I've started 0-5 before and still made the playoffs. If your team has good players on it, trust it for another month. I'm not saying you don't make moves and tinker, but nobody should be panicking unless they really do have an awful team with Ricky Williams, Le'Ron McClain and Beanie Wells as the best choices for the starting running back slots. Hey, I got an e-mail from someone this week stating just that, and he wanted to know if he was in trouble. Yes! In that case you are in trouble. Get ready for fantasy basketball season!
Here are some of the overriding trends I see for our fine fantasy sport heading into a very interesting Week 2, and obviously I want to keep them different from the rankings issues I discussed in Wednesday's blog, so you won't see our top-projected waffling quarterback mentioned here. You know who he is.
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R.I.P. my camera, which died just after I finished taking yesterday’s pictures. I’ve got to get a new one ASAP!! I discovered today that a couple of my lantana plants are starting to send up shoots–which means, spring is really springing!!
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While driving around a couple of days ago I heard a public service announcement for either the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs or The Big Brother program, I forget which one. Anyway, guess who was delivering the PSA? Laura Bush! Which got me thinking…I’m wondering when we start hearing from Michelle Obama? I wonder what causes she will lend her services to?? Or is she too busy visiting all the governmental agencies so she can deliver hubby’s message of hope and change?
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Truth is Gold had a really excellent post up on Friday called Lest We Pay the Price Too Dear…Learn From History!
An excerpt, with permission:
I cross post today an urgent message, gleaned from three very well informed journalists who know their history well. Urgency dictates that I introduce them and furnish you with the links from which to read their messages in entirety.
The first, by Eric Margolis, reminds us of Afghanistan’s solid history of making mincemeat out of its invaders, from Alexander the Great in 327–325 BC, to the Soviets in 1989, disasters all.
In the second, Kevin Barrett reveals in OpEdNews’s “Obama: Political Messiah, or Just Another Third World Dictator?” the facts behind the most recent resident of our White House and cites Webster Tarpley’s work in detail, Tarpley being among the foremost political and historical researchers of our time. Further research has substantiated the fact that indeed, Tarpley’s work is almost faultless in terms of his list of players and the historical context in which they exist.
The third of this terrifying trilogy is Christopher Bollyn’s work on Obama’s new budget director Peter R. Orszag.
SNIP.
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Read the whole post. Read about his links to Robert E. Rubin, Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury and recently resigned head of Citigroup. It isn’t looking good…
By the way, the Central Bank of Iceland just hired an interim governor, an economist from Norway. One of the former governors of the CBI who was asked to resign has been offered a job at….the Norwegian Central Bank. And, a possible snag?
“Law professor Sigurdur Líndal told Fréttabladid that he doubts a foreign citizen can be hired to the position, explaining that the constitution states that no one can become a public official in Iceland without holding the Icelandic citizenship.”
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There’s that “citizenship thing” again…
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Here’s some more news that will cheer you up…not. Let’s catch up with some of China’s latest moves. How will this play out?
First, China is on the prowl, looking to buy foreign oil companies. From The Telegraph:
CHINA PREPARES TO BUY UP FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES
China is preparing to open a new phase in its race for the world’s resources by using its huge currency reserves to buy foreign oil and gas companies.
SNIPA conference of officials from the National Energy Administration has agreed to consider establishing a special fund for China’s state-owned companies to buy oil and gas firms overseas. The beneficiaries would be the Beijing’s three giant energy companies – Petrochina, Sinopec and CNOOC.
SNIP.
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More background on China’s increasingly bold investments abroad.
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And what’s this? SPIKING DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN??
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While visiting RBO, I happened to see this ANNOUNCEMENT about America’s new name, Barackistan.
New! Congratulations to Cinie of Cinie’s World who has found the perfect title for the leader of Barackistan — “Just Barely President, Baracus Hubris Maximus (hail Ceasar!)”. Psst! Baracus Ceasar Obamacus is good, too.
Thanks to Insight Analytical‘s Grail Guardian, America will be referred to as Barackistan and all you little former free-thinking, openly-voting Americans as Barackistanis.
RBO couldn’t think of any more fitting name for the White House/West Wing/Congress than Barackistan HQ.
Any questions?
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THE PAST WEEK
*By Kenosha Marge
Saturday Sanity: The Antidote to the Madness–the Garden Waking Up! (Pic Heavy)
Obama Energy Plan Includes Nano-Generators That Bite
Canadian Banks On the Move Buying U.S. Banks While Bailout Recipient AIG Sells Canadian Life Insurance Business to Bank of Montreal (”Picking over the Carcasses”)
A Giant White Rabbit in Britain Reminds Us How “Logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead”…. [???])
*Maudlin Mawkishness in the Age of the Gush
The Past Week: February 15-21, 2009 (”Efficiency” Experts Michelle and “3-Card Monte” Barack Obama…Michelle’s Legacy at U of Chicago Hospital Under Fire by ER Physicians; Hubby Plans to Halve the Deficit via “Efficiency” (Among Other Things…); Spring Garden Prep!
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To gank a thought from my review, it seems to me that the amount of money and effort it takes to make a big-time console game these days practically requires design by committee. Too many people are involved in every level of the process -- from the artists, to the sound guys, to the suits sweating every nickel and dime -- for one person's vision to make the leap from conception to reality. Lots of good and even great games come out every year, but most of them lack that stamp of individuality, even if the graphics are polished and the online play is stutter-free. BioShock seemed to have that singular inspiration driving it, but apparently most of the storyline only came together near the end. With No More Heroes, you really get the impression that you're playing a game that has sprung, intact, from the deepest recesses of Suda 51's mind. While it's not as polished as a lot of games, that's a point in its favor. (See Leigh's comments on this post.) Frankly, I can't believe this game got made.
Right now, Roger Ebert's review of The 400 Blows is featured on his web site. At the top is this quote from Truffaut: "I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between." No More Heroes, it could be said, expresses the joy of making games. Or maybe the agony of making games. Certainly, it revels in the joy of playing games.
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Hi Mitch. I'm glad you enjoyed my post. I'm taken by your observation that too many cooks may be spoiling the game design soup these days, and I'm wondering if the same can be said of film these days (or at least some films).
Totally rough calculation here, but I think if you took all the Oscar nominated films this year and examined the lists of people who worked on those films - and then did the same for the films nominated 5 or 10 years ago - you would discover that some of the best films today are being made by "auteurist" directors like Tamara Jenkins, Julian Schnabel, Julie Taymor, and the Coen Bros with fewer producers and studio types involved in the process.
This may be a half-baked theory, but I think there's something to it that reinforces your notion that singular inspiration is a powerful thing.
I certainly think there's something to the notion, although I'm hesitant to go too far out on the limb and start drawing broad conclusions. We tend to associate filmmakers more closely with movies than we do game developers with their games. But making movies is still a collaborative process, even for the directors you mentioned. Even somebody like Robert Rodriguez, who writes, directs, shoots, edits, and scores his own movies, still has to work with dozens of cast and crew. And yet I can tell a Robert Rodriguez movie when I see one. I can tell a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, a Wes Anderson movie, even a Michael Bay movie. Their stamps tend to be indelible.
How many game designers can you say that about? Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Miyamoto, maybe now Suda 51. The list is short, anyway.
Along those lines, I was struck by a comment Gus Mastrapa made on a post Chris Dahlen wrote about Burnout Paradise:
"I’ve always taken issue with the Burnout series’ reticence to commit to a style, position or even attitude. The worlds are always kinda bland, generic even. The radio hosts are usually suicide inducing. The crashes and racing are awesome, but the setting is so non-committal that it irks me for some reason. Who gets the opportunity to make a world and fashions something so utterly devoid of character?"
I read that and thought immediately of No More Heroes. By any measure, Burnout is the more polished and "professional" of the two games. Its open world is seamless. But the game lacks any kind of a voice or point of view. It doesn't possess an ounce of the character that Santa Destroy has. My instinct is to attribute that difference to the vision of Suda 51.
If I were to try to draw one lesson from this thought exercise, it's that sharing the creative process among a large group will tend to dilute what we'd call the artistic vision. It takes a strong, singular voice to succeed spectacularly -- and, probably, to fail spectacularly, which is why the money men are afraid to foster those voices. No doubt there are countless counterexamples, though, which is why I'm not convinced we've stumbled on to something too big here.
Hmm, this seems like it should probably become its own post, though.
Well, I did say "at least some films," [grin]
I'm not claiming any kind of seismic shift in the film industry, but I do think indie films--which have exerted far more influence on filmmaking than indie games have had on games--have created a broader acceptance in the film industry for maverick creators at this particular moment. I see some interesting parallels between American cinema in the 70s and some of what we're seeing now.
I have to disagree with you about games lacking the kind of signature style that you associate with certain filmmakers. To me, it's very easy to discern an Atlus game, a Sega game, a Capcom game, and a Grasshopper game. They each have very distinctive features and stylistic signatures. Yes, they can't necessarily be traced to a specific designer, but I think their distinctiveness is no less pronounced.
Apologies for another film analogy, but to me video games are like the cinema during the studio era in this regard. MGM films looked very different from Warner Bros. films, which looked very different from Paramount or RKO. I highly recommend a book called "The Genius of the System" which is a terrific account of how the collaborative, factory-like system of filmmaking in the 30s managed to generate such singular, artistically distinctive films.
It doesn't, in my view, always require a single genius at the helm to create a work of surpassing excellence...but if often helps!
Thanks for such a thought provoking conversation, Mitch. It's fun to think hard about this stuff.
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What for each of us. Your family may have the ability to take care of you. You might have the financial resources to pay for in-home care or the cost of a stay in a care facility. Or perhaps you know that Medicaid will need to fund any care you receive.
If your financial situation is between very wealthy and limited resources, consider long term care insurance. A long term care insurance policy pays for care if you need assistance with two "activities of daily living," which are defined as dressing, eating, toileting, bathing, transferring (moving from one place of rest to another) and continence. or are diagnosed with cognitive impairment and have a doctor certification that you will require care for at least 90 days.
Many people say they'd rather take their chances that they won't need long term assistance and that they'll be able to afford it if they do. But what does that mean in dollars and cents? According to Genworth Financial, a private room in a nursing home in Colorado Springs can cost in excess of $85,000 a year. If you are married, your care could decimate the nest egg that you and your spouse have if your nursing home stay lasts for a year or more.
Long term insurance policies are relatively new in the insurance industry and continue to evolve. Rather than a "one size fits all" solution, you can make some choices regarding features to lower the cost of the policy. For instance, most policies allow you to have care in your home, have the amount paid for care keep up with cost of living increases, share the benefit with a spouse, and have the benefit paid in cash rather than to those providing assistance. If you don't pick all of these features, the cost is less to you and reflects your preferences. In many cases, the annual premium for a policy like this can be the same as the cost of one or two months of nursing home care.
I generally recommend that folks get coverage in their 50s. But if you're over that age, it's still worth exploring. If you decide to get a policy, talk to an insurance professional who works with several companies. That agent will be able to recommend a company that will have the best value for your medical history. Discuss with the agent the quality rating of the insurance company. You don't want to pay years of premiums, then have your benefits be unavailable because your company went out of business. And don't buy a policy during your first meeting. It's a big enough financial commitment that you should be able to think it over before writing a check.
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January 22, 2013 at 8:40 pm
Casey M Addy
Great post here. I’d like to extend the commentary to ask what the author would think about interaction design for telling stories (e.g. Storytelling in video games). One of the central goals for making a fun and engrossing game, in my opinion, is creating a compelling story. The story can only be accomplished through the use of technology and the player’s progression through the many levels the design team has made for the player. But what if the interaction design of the game is so poor that the user cannot become one with the story? What if the controls completely frustrate the user to the point that even the best story becomes intolerable? I can point to many examples of this situation, but I am curious as to hear what your thoughts are. #win epic epicness – Casey
January 22, 2013 at 9:17 pm
Katie O'Donnell
Hi, Casey!!!
I totally agree with your comment and the questions you pose. Someone from telecom who took the class the same semester I did just recently posted on facebook that started her own game studio (monsterandglitch.com). Her first blog post was pretty cool. Here’s the link and text:
From what I’ve seen on her site, it seems like she trying to address some of those questions that you’ve brought up. Pretty cool to think about how this class has and is influencing the design of games, etc!
January 22, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Rayne Zhou
This makes me think about something Wong has said about this film. It’s something like this: “In my earlier films, people feel so lonely and they don’t know how to get along with this loneliness. However, in this film, people get a way to get along with this loneliness, and even make fun of it.”
So this makes me think about ubiquitous design. Currently I’m living in an apartment with only one roommate, and usually we don’t talk with each other. Although I love being alone, sometimes I need to figure out how to get along well with my solitude and my nostalgia. So every time I feel homesick or lonely, I will just cook food. How can designers design something in kitchen that will make me feel better of this? That would be very very interesting, indeed.
January 28, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Study of Film and HCI | Interaction Culture
[...] Periodically I post something on my course blog, Interaction Culture Class, that might be of broader interest than just the class. In such situations, I repost them on my personal blog. This is one such example, and its original post can be found here. [...]
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All University of Missouri students are required to have immunizations and tuberculosis screenings. Learn more about the MU immunization policy.
If you have dependent children, Missouri law also requires proper immunizations for children to enroll in or attend school. These immunizations can be obtained from your medical provider or from the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Health care in the U.S. is a private system and can be quite expensive. Medical insurance allows you to control and cover these costs. MU and U.S. government requirements related to health insurance vary by visa status. Learn more about:
To find a doctor or dentist in Columbia, ask a friend, contact the MU Student Health Center, call Community Health Services at 573-874-7355, or contact the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services. It is essential to telephone for an appointment before going to a doctor or dentist. You might have to wait a few days for an appointment unless you are sick or in need of a doctor immediately.
If you have a serious medical emergency, dial 911. Read more about emergency services.
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Run by MU Health Care, the Student Health Center is located on the MU campus at 1101 Hospital Drive in the University Physicians Medical Building. Services, including foreign-travel immunizations, are available for MU students and their spouses (for an additional fee). Dependent children are not eligible to use the health center. Find more information at the MU Student Health Center website or by calling 573-882-7481.
The Health Department Clinic is located at 1005 W. Worley St. The clinic offers several vaccinations, tests and reproductive-health services for low fees. Counseling services for MU students are free. Call 573-874-7355 to make an appointment.
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Leeds International Film Festival
This article was written by Janet Cheng, a Communications/Sociology major at UCLA who lived in Leeds, England and contributed to the Travel Guide Urban Lowdown.
Published: Thursday, August 25, 2005
Every autumn in October, the city of Leeds plays host to the Leeds International Film Festival. For ten days, the city brings together films from all over the world, including the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Korea, and Japan, just to name a few countries.
The films range from animation to dramas and comedies, all featured in various cinemas throughout the city. Buying tickets in advance can save one loads of money (such as the buy 5 tickets for the price of 4). Not only do you get to watch great films, but you also get to enjoy a bit of culture from around the world, and even get the chance to meet directors and writers! A definite must-see for those foreign film fanatics.
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Italian Fascism vs. German Naziism, with Special Attention to Cultural Policy
A public lecture by Sabrina Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Political Science
Duration: 55:51
Sabrina Petra Ramet is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, a Senior Associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, and a Research Associate of the Science and Research Centre of the Republic of Slovenia. She is the author of 12 scholarly books and editor or coeditor of 24 books. She has written more than 90 journal articles and contributed chapters to various scholarly collections. Her specialties are East European affairs, religion and politics, and applied philosophy.
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Published: Friday, March 18, 2011
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Nickel and dimed at Bowdoin College
In an attempt to convince skeptical Brunswickians that Bowdoin students have, indeed, looked up from their Solo cups long enough to realize that the economy is in the shitter, Barry Mills started a book club. It’s called “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” and…wait, hold on *shuffles notes*
It’s called “Brunswick-Bowdoin Community Read” and the book of the month is “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich, who decided to try and live on 1 minimum wage job to see if it was possible…it’s not really, though it is the harsh reality for many Americans.
Book discussions coincide with Mills’ decision to reform Bowdoin’s financial aid policies to better accommodate the needs of middle income families…wait, never mind…*shuffles notes*
The book discussions coincide with a Common Hour visit by the author herself at 12:30 p.m., Friday, January 27, in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.
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We got some very good news recently about the twenty million adults in this country who were born here and are the children of immigrants. A comprehensive report from the Pew Research Center finds that this second generation is doing significantly better than today’s first-generation immigrants in terms of education, home ownership rate, percentage living below the poverty line, and median income. Surprisingly, the second generation even matches the economic success of Americans overall, while graduating from college at higher rates than the U.S. average. (This reflects the high college-graduation rate of Asian Americans, who make up a larger proportion of second-generation immigrants than the general population).
Additionally, the Pew survey found that, compared to immigrants, second generation Americans have much higher percentages that are proficient in English (including nine-tenths of both Hispanic and Asian Americans), are more likely to have friends and marry outside the boundaries of their ancestral group, to believe that relations between their group and other Americans are good, and to consider themselves a “typical American.” (To clarify, this survey is not comparing second-generation immigrants and their own parents, but today’s entire adult population of immigrants within two generations of arriving in America.) In another interesting finding, three-quarters of first and second generation Hispanic and Asian Americans believe that hard work is enough to ensure success in most cases, compared to 58 percent of Americans overall. Both generations of both ethnic groups are also more politically liberal and less Republican-leaning than the general population, countering the myth that conservatives have a monopoly on the belief in hard work.
One of the great fallacies expressed by some in the immigration debate today is that contemporary immigrants just aren’t assimilating or Americanizing in the way the “good old” immigrants did in the Ellis Island generations of the early twentieth century. Some of that, of course, reflects nostalgia for those immigrants, who are in many cases the grandparents or great-grandparents of the people expressing such a belief. The reality, as this Pew report and other similar studies make clear, is that the post-1965 immigrants are doing their part. By the second generation, they are learning English, and not just those from Asia but those from Spanish-speaking countries as well (typically, the criticism that immigrants and their children aren’t learning English and aren’t integrating is aimed at Hispanic Americans). They are identifying in large numbers not only as Americans but as “typical Americans,” and they are marrying and having friends outside their ethnic group in numbers even larger than the overall population.
There have long been, and will continue to be, anti-immigration activists who stoke fears about separatist immigrants and the Balkanization of our society, especially as our population continues to grow less and less white.. In my next post I’ll be writing some more about the issues of integration and “Americanization” and how this country approached them in the early twentieth century. But this report from Pew about second-generation immigrants truly is welcome. It confirms that even as our immigrant population has shifted from being overwhelmingly European to predominantly Asian and Hispanic in origin, we are continuing to succeed in integrating newcomers in our culture as well as our economy.
One of the most valuable things America can do is show the world that a society made up of people from every corner of the globe — where in a generation or two no race will be a majority — can be a place where people can choose to preserve their ancestral cultures even as they truly become one people as Americans. We can serve as an alternative model to societies that reject pluralism, that look to suppress dissent and diversity because their majority believes its culture or beliefs are the only acceptable ones. One report doesn’t mean the task has been accomplished. But it does mean that, on an issue of paramount importance for us and for the world, we are on our way.
Ian Reifowitz is In The Fray‘s staff blogger and the author of Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity. Twitter: @IanReifowitz
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China loves a crisis
Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2012
Benjamin A.Shobert
21st September, 2012
Wanting Chinese investment is one thing; needing it is another. As the euro-zone crisis has deepened, one of the counter-intuitive outcomes thus far has been the increased investment by Chinese companies and the central government into European assets. The Rhodium Group, a New York-based research firm that tracks outbound Chinese investment into North America and Europe, published a study this month that showed how significant this increased investment has been.
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Governor Rell’s Proposals for Retirement Costs Are a Classroom Exercise in Political Campaigningby Matt O'Connor on September 7th
Leaders of the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) today described Governor M. Jodi Rell’s announced proposals for reducing unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities as political grandstanding at its most cynical.
Said Council 4 AFSCME Executive Director Sal Luciano, who sits on the State Post-Employment Benefits Commission, “From the beginning, I had concerns that Governor Rell would mislead the public, and she’s done exactly that. By failing to differentiate between State employee pension tiers, and failing to address the OPEB liability that Executive Order 38 was supposed to address, she turned what could have been a constructive policy recommendation into a cynical political document.”
Added Luciano, “Governor Rell is not interested in helping the middle class face the real retirement crisis affecting most Connecticut workers. She has just offered up empty rhetoric before her commission has even taken a vote on final recommendations.”
Governor Rell is already on track to leave behind her a legacy of economic devastation, home foreclosures and terrible human suffering. To distract from the fact that neither she nor her hoped for successor have any realistic plan or program to solve the real problems of the middle class, she has now put forward a series of proposals which both break her binding promise to 45,000 working families, and would not create a single job or help a single community. If adopted, they would only further delay our economic recovery.
Said CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 Executive Director Robert Rinker, “Governor Rell has shown that she’d rather play politics than put forward real solutions for Connecticut middle class families. But she has also shown that she’s not interested in dealing with the state pension and retiree healthcare plans’ unfunded liabilities. If she were, the governor would have recommended using some of last year’s budget surplus to reverse recent pension fund deferrals to the unfunded liability. Instead, she called for cancelling bonding in the current year’s budget, which produces far less bang for the taxpayers’ buck.”
Added Rinker, “The governor’s representatives who negotiated a nearly $1 billion cost savings agreement last year didn’t put forward changes like she has presented here; they couldn’t with a straight face. Instead, she waited until an election year in order to offer up talking points for Tom Foley’s campaign for governor.”
The coalition’s leaders look forward to working with a new administration in an honest and concerted effort to help solve the real problems that confront the people of the state. Working together, elected leaders, business leaders of good faith, and Connecticut’s middle class both in the public and the private sectors, can help build a future where every family has a chance for a decent job, with decent benefits, and a safe and dignified retirement.
Council 4 and CSEA are two of the thirteen unions in the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), which serves to unite approximately 45,000 Connecticut State Employees to address issues of common concern. To learn more about the coalition’s campaign for a fair budget and a livable state with great public services visit.
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Written by Amanda Turner for International Gymnast Magazine
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Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique announced its 2012 women's Olympic squad Thursday following the conclusion of the selection trials in Quebec.
National champion Kristina Vaculik leads the squad along with Victoria Moors, Brittany Rogers, Dominique Pegg and Ellie Black. Jessica Savona and Madeline Gardiner are alternates.
Peng-Peng Lee, who suffered a torn ACL in May, will serve as team captain for Canada in London.
The Canadian women qualified a full team to the Olympic Games for the first time since 2004. National champion Nathan Gafuik earned the Canadian men's only berth.
External Link: Gymnastics Canada
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What happens when you combine the heavy dubstep force of Starkey with the artful creativity of Bassnectar? You get a great remix! Philadelphia native Starkey released his song “Street Rockers” back in 2011, via his EP Space Traitor, Vol. 2, and Bassnectar, or Lorin Ashton, has absolutely breathed new life into the track. But as one of the most popular artists in the EDM scene, with albums like Divergent Spectrum, Vava Voom, and more recently his Freestyle EP under his belt, Bassnectar is never one to disappoint.
Ashton starts off by revamping the beginning of the track, having it go immediately into hard-hitting dubstep, and continues changing things up towards the middle by switching the arrangement and adding in more distinct drops. Closer to the end, Ashton uses brief pauses in the song and injects tons of extra energy to distinguish his remix from the original, as well as eliminating the sticky liquid feel during the beginning and end. Listen to Bassnectar’s remix of “Street Rockers” below, and download it for free here!
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The Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio (MUTF: FSRPX) is what the name implies, a mutual fund made up of retailers, whether the companies have a significant brick and mortar presence or operate exclusively on the web. It’s likely that several of your favorite stores are included in the fund’s holdings.
Here are the specifics for the Fidelity Select Retail Fund for today’s mutual fund spotlight:
Investing Strategy: The fund invests in retail companies with a specific niche or dominance in an area. More than 99% of the fund’s assets are in stocks, with the remainder held in cash.
Expense Ratio: With its 0.93% expense ratio and no transaction fee the Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio is cheap and carries a Morningstar rating of 5 stars.
Top 5 Holdings: The top stocks in the Fidelity Select Retail Fund include media and retail conglomerate Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) at 14.14% home improvement retail giants Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) at 8.64% and Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) at 6.75%, global online travel company Priceline.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) at 5.96%, and apparel and home fashion retailer TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) at 5.89%.
Returns: The 12 month return of the Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio mutual fund underperformed the broader market’s 24% return. Its five-year return of 7% underperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 10% return, but beat the S&P 500’s 3.5% return during the same period.
Other Fund Statistics
- Total Assets: $174.5million (as of 5/25/11)
- Minimum Investment: $2,500
- Fund manager: Peter Dixon
- Manager’s Tenure: Since April 2010
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by Jeff Reeves | March 23, 2012 6:00 am
I recently wrote a column on the froth in the technology sector, highlighting 3 tech stocks to sell and 2 tech stocks to buy[1]. The winners? Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[2]) and medical software stock Cerner (NASDAQ:CERN[3]). The losers? Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN[4]), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT[5]) and Seagate (NASDAQ:STX[6]).
As usual, a number of readers dropped me a line to disagree — but one tech expert made such a strong case in favor of Seagate that I thought it was worth revisiting and giving the other side of the story.
Mark Miller[7] is a senior research analyst at Noble Financial Capital Markets and has more than a decade of experience covering the disk drive business, including companies like Seagate, Western Digital (NYSE:WDC[8]) and Veeco (NASDAQ:VECO[9]), among others. And he says popular perceptions about the move away from solid state drives to flash technology are overblown — and that disk drive stocks have been unfairly punished for flooding last year that affected operations.
I caught up with Mark to get more details on some of the reasons he is bullish on the disk drive sector generally, and the reasons that Noble Financial has a buy on STX and $35 target price:
Q: You contend that disk drives are far from a fading technology, and that there’s still a growing market. What are the most telling stats you think investors should know about these companies or this sector?
A: The demand for storage is growing at annual rate of 40%, and market research firm IDC[10] just projected a compounded annual growth rate of 9% for drive sales from 2011-16. Flash memory only comprises about 5% of total mass storage requirements this year. While the amount of flash-based storage will grow, with 40% growth in required storage, the flash manufacturers can’t add fab capacity fast enough to take significant share from hard drives.
Q: In the short term, a lot of folks seam bearish about drive stocks simply due to seasonality. You don’t buy that argument. Why?
A: Seasonality simply doesn’t apply. Typically, the June quarter is seasonally weak and investors lose interest in the stocks. Because shipments are scaling back up from recent floods in Thailand[11], the drive industry is expected to post sequentially stronger results for the June quarter. We don’t see a return to normal conditions until the September quarter. Due to the flood, we estimate by the end of this year there will be cumulative unmet demand of 135-150 million units. With drive demand averaging 170-175 million units a quarter versus an estimated industry capacity of 190-195 million units by the end of this year, it will be well into 2013 before things are finally balanced.
Q: In the longer term, many are convinced that flash memory and cloud storage will steadily supplant hard drives. Without getting too technical, what are the practical drawbacks preventing this from happening anytime soon?
A: Flash will have a place, but until costs come down it will still be niche technology. The current storage capacity in a laptop drive is 500 GB. The Intel 600 GB solid-state drive (SSD) is selling for over $1,000, which is about three times the cost of a low-end laptop PC. Market studies show that tablets, which typically contain just 64 GB or less of NAND flash storage, are only cannibalizing about 20% of potential drive sales. So for 80 million tablet shipments, that comes to 16 million lost drive sales — or about 2% of total projected drive shipments for this year. To reduce storage costs for SSDs, you need to go to multilayer-cell (MLC) NAND flash, but MLC NAND flash has far worse data reliability issues than the more expensive single-layer-cell (SLC) flash. So you either use expensive SLC NAND flash or run the risk of using MLC flash.
Q: If there’s no immediate risk of obsolescence, do you think solid state drives will eventually become obsolete in the next few decades — or will they be around until 2099?
A: Both solid-state and hard drives will coexist for the foreseeable future, with hard drives still comprising a dominant share of high-capacity storage applications. I think for mass-storage applications, the industry will move to hybrid drives, which employ flash in conjunction with a hard drive. In order to meet the $600 price point consumers expect for computers, I expect hybrid drives will be the primary storage device in ultrabooks. Due to their significantly higher input/output capabilities, which mitigates the cost disadvantage, I see the biggest opportunity for SSDs being certain enterprise storage applications.
Q: You call drive stocks the “Rodney Dangerfields” of the tech space. What are a few unsung stocks you think investors should take a closer look at for their portfolios, and why?
A: Investors are being too paranoid about the effects of the flood. They are missing the power of the recent consolidation moves in the industry, and growing worldwide demand for storage. We modeled both Seagate and Western Digital after their respective mergers — with pre-flood drive ASPs and margins — and came up with a post-recovery earnings range of $5.75 to $6.60, sans flood effects. Historically, these stocks trade in a forward P/E range of 7 to 11. Not only are they cheap, but we have them generating impressive free cash flows over the next two years — $5 to $6 billion — which can be used to buy back shares or pay a higher dividend. We also believe drive suspension supplier Hutchinson Technology (NASDAQ:HTCH[12]) is on the verge of a major turnaround.
Editor’s Note: HTCH is a microcap stock that trades on very thin volume, and a very aggressive stock. Do not consider a trade for any equity of this nature without using a limit order to protect your entry price.
Q: Even if your logic is sound on the strength of the drive industry and these individual stocks, do you have fears that, generally speaking, we are seeing a lot of overbought tech stocks? Should investors wait for a pullback, or do you think now is the time to get in despite dramatic run-ups in the last few weeks?
A: Certainly with STX trading at a P/E of 3.1 on FY13 consensus numbers and WDC at a P/E of 4.8, we don’t see either as overextended. Even with the post-flood recovery, estimates sans flood effects, the stocks are still cheap. Yes, STX is up from high single digits in October, but that low valuation was far more irrational than today’s price. We are projecting upside in the March reports for both Seagate and Western Digital. We also see several upside factors for STX longer-term, including the ramp of eight, new lower-cost products, reduced warranty costs which cut into this quarter, the internal supply of heads and media to Samsung drives which improves gross profits by $4 per drive, the hybrid drive opportunity and the improving macroeconomic picture.
Q: Any final thoughts to share that we haven’t covered?
A: Investors need to look beyond the flood and understand the long-term benefits of the recent industry consolidation moves in conjunction with the world’s ever-growing appetite for storage., Jeff did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned stocks.
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by Louis Navellier | September 4, 2012 5:44 pm
Tuesday the “Big Three” U.S. automakers released their August sales figures—and the results may surprise you. Despite the fact that consumers are still skittish about the larger economy, each of these three companies posted robust sales growth for the month of August. It has been some time since I have revisited the U.S. auto industry, so let’s dig into the details and see whether there are any profit opportunities to be had from this newfound sales growth.
First up, Ford (NYSE:F[1]) reported a 13% jump in August sales compared with a year ago; this topped analyst expectations of a 9.8% rise. In July, Ford had posted a 3.8% drop in U.S. sales. Last month’s growth was driven by a 28% surge in sport utility vehicle sales, particularly its Ford Escape and Ford Explorer models.
At the same time, Ford reported growing demand for its more fuel-efficient models in response to rising gasoline prices. As you can see on its Portfolio Grader stock report page, F is currently a D-rated sell[2], but I will keep tabs on analyst activity in the next few weeks to see if the analyst community upwardly revises its estimates for Ford’s quarterly sales and earnings. The Street view currently calls for just 0.4% sales growth and a 14.7% drop in earnings.
So I don’t recommend that you jump on the Ford bandwagon just yet—buying pressure for this stock is still quite low, making this stock more trouble than it is worth at the moment.
Ford’s largest competitor General Motors (NYSE:GM[3]) announced that its U.S. auto sales advanced 10% over August 2011, making last month the company’s best month in terms of retail. General Motors’ Chevrolet brand did particularly well, with the Equinox, Sonic and Volt fueling a 25% jump in sales.
But like Ford, General Motors is also a D-rated sell[4] due to lackluster buying pressure. And analysts are even more downbeat about General Motors’ top — and bottom — line this quarter—forecasts call for a 2.5% drop in sales and a whopping 41.7% drop in earnings!
Finally, Chrysler also announced a 14% year-over-year jump in August sales thanks to robust demand for the Fiat brand. This is the 29th consecutive month that the company has posted year-over-year sales growth.
On top of this, the company revealed that August sales of the 2013 Dodge Dart surged 300% compared with July. Chrysler is the one Big Three company that is not listed in my Portfolio Grader tool, and that’s because it is owned in part by Italian manufacturer Fiat.
There’s no doubt that August was a good month for U.S. automakers: Overall, new car sales in the U.S. are forecast to advance 20% compared with August 2011 and 12% compared with the prior month.
But I recommend that you give these companies a bit more time before making any new buys. If you’re really itching to get into the automobile industry, there is strength to be had among the recreational vehicle segment.
In particular, my Portfolio Grader tool has isolated three recreational vehicle companies that are going strong in terms of buying pressure and fundamentals.
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Several Pensacola bands are getting their chance to shine at DeLuna again this year. Let’s support them, loud and proud.
Paloma
1:30-2 p.m., Saturday, WindCreek Stage
Paloma has played DeLuna Fest for a few years now, usually at some official after-party or on a small stage when most of the festival is coming to an end and the locals are still raging. This year, they’re on the second biggest stage, right in the middle of the day, ready to please the large crowds that might not know they’re awesome, like the Pensacolaians already do.
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
3-3:45 p.m., Friday, WindCreek Stage
Pioneers! O Pioneers! is a relatively new band, new to playing big festivals on big stages. However, they are not new to playing their hearts out and sweating their faces off. A good time will be had by all at this show. In case anyone is looking for a pre-show glimpse of their sound—who hasn’t had the pleasure of hearing it within the walls of the Handlebar—pop into Revolver Records and pick up their newest CD.
Assortment of Pensacola D.J.’s
D.J.’s like Girl Talk, Skrillex, and Deadmau5 have made mash-ups, dubstep and house music crazy popular lately, and DeLuna fest is jumping on the bandwagon. Twelve different local D.J.’s will be featured throughout the weekend on the Red Bull MTX Stage, to keep festivalgoers happy and dancing in between bands. There are even some late night shows in case people are still up for a party.
Friday
Davis Pratt
4:45-5:30 p.m.
DJ Mr. Lao (performing three sets)
6:30-7:30 p.m.
8:30-9:30 p.m.
11:45 p.m.-12:45 a.m.
Saturday
Bad Penny (performing three sets)
1:30-2 p.m.
2:45-3:30 p.m.
4:15-5:15 p.m.
D-Funk (performing three sets)
6:15-7:15 p.m.
8:15-9:15 p.m.
11:30 p.m.-12:45 a.m.
Sunday
Ram-Z (performing three sets)
12:45-1:15 p.m.
2-2:30 p.m.
3:15-4 p.m.
Tony C (performing two sets)
5-6 p.m.
7-8 p.m.
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STIFLING THE REGULATORS Al Armendariz, a top Environmental Protection Agency official for his Region 6, which includes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, has resigned over a YouTube video of a speech in which he declared that the agency should hit polluters with its full powers.
Shouldn’t that be the expectation of an EPA regulator? Well, yes, but there is a problem. Armendariz hypothesized in the speech that crucifixion might be the effective deterrent.
Nailing BP’s Tony Hayward to a cross might be a little extreme for even the most radical tree-hugger, but you have to admit it might make BP think twice about taking any more risks while drilling…might.
The YouTube video is of Armendariz speaking in 2010 to local businesses and government leaders. He focused on enforcement regulations on fracking—hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas extraction—which has become the new hot issue for the oil and gas industry.
“It is kind of like how the Romans used to conquer villages in the Mediterranean — they’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere and they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them,” Armendariz said. “Then that little town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”
To further explain his point, Armendariz said, .”
Damn right, it would have a deterrent effect. However, Big Oil isn’t going to sit still, not when there are billions to be made.
For Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the video was what he needed to add more fuel to his campaign against EPA regulation. He used it as a club to hamper efforts by the Obama Administration to regulate fracking, and, of course, the resignation was not enough for Inhofe.
“After his revelation that E.P.A.’s ‘general philosophy’ is to ‘crucify’ oil and gas companies, it was only right for Administrator Armendariz,” Sen. Inhofe said in a statement, “but his resignation in no way solves the problem of President Obama and his E.P.A.’s crucifixion philosophy.”
The one who got “crucified” was Armendariz. Time will tell how effective the deterrent is to others trying to regulate fracking.
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The fall TV season is just around the corner, bringing us aliens, visions of the future and slutty witches. Here's a complete rundown of new and returning shows, with launchdates and clips, so you won't miss any of the shininess.
Mondays:
Heroes
The conflicted heroes and struggling villains move on with their lives this season. Clarie goes to college, Parkman gets another chance at love, Sylar gets into politics — sort of — and maybe, just maybe we give it one more chance to be a good show again.
It's Back: Sept. 21 on NBC at 8 PM.
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Tuesdays:
V
Aliens have landed on Earth, but it's okay: They're gorgeous and welcoming, and they only want to help us. This will only lead to tears. The reimagined V series starts all over, with a new crop of visitors, lead by the gorgeous Morena Baccarin. How will the world deal with their new guests, and are the alien visitors friendly? (Are they ever?)
Premiere Date: Nov. 3rd on ABC at 8 PM.
V Promo:
Wednesdays:
MythBusters
Your favorite fact-finders are back... and getting a little wet? I'm hoping this clip from the new season shows them testing out the "who would win in a fight, human or dolphin?" myth.
It's Back: Oct. 7th on Discovery at 9 PM
Destination Truth
Josh Gates takes us across the globe again looking to explain the world's mysteries, like living dinos and merpeople. But really the best part of this program really is watching Josh work with the indigenous population of whatever country he finds himself in, who almost always get the better of our guide, I mean wouldn't you mess with the guy on a hunt for a living dinosaur?
It's Back: Sept. 9 on Syfy at 10 PM.
Clip:
Eastwick
The ladies of the tiny town of Eastwick are sex-starved and mousey — so they need to harness their inner sexiness, so they can use their sexitude to sex up their lives, with Satan. Sex sells, people! Based loosely on the John Updike novel, this new series shows what happens when a charming devil shows up in town, to unleash the witchcraft in three lucky ladies. Lindsay Price, Jaime Ray Newman and Rebecca Romijn play the witches, and Paul Gross will play Darryl, the devil with the magical penis.
Premiere Date: Sept. 23 on ABC at 10 PM
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Eastwick Promo: "We're Horny Ladies"
Thursdays:
FlashForward
Possibly the most highly anticipated new series of the fall, FlashForward picks up after everyone in the world blacks out for two minutes and 17 seconds. During the black-out everyone catches a glimpse into their future, about six months ahead. Now the rest of the world has to deal with what they saw, be it the fact that they are married to another person, in the middle of an addiction relapse... or just ominous nothingness.
Premiere Date: Sept. 24 on ABC at 8 PM.
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Vampire Diaries
Vampires in High School? Why, that's crazy talk. Who would watch a show about 28-year-old actors playing vampires who enroll back into High School to win the attention of a young girl? Me, that's who — bring on the brooding and bite marks. Vampire Diaries looks like it was made out of hair product and nacho cheese, it's so dramatically over-the-top. Based on the novel series of the same name, CW's latest supernatural teen drama is really reaching for that Twi-market, let's hope it doesn't disappoint. Roll on another layer of that lip gloss boys — mama needs a new vamp fetish.
Premiere Date: on CW @ 8 PM Begins Sept. 10
Vampire Diaries Promo
Vampire Smack Talk
Vampire Gliding
Bite Marks
Actual Vampires Writing IN THEIR VAMPIE DIARIES
Supernatural
Finally, the spring's most agonizing cliffhanger is resolved — the Winchester boys are back, and they've unleashed Lucifer, played by none other than Mark Pellegrino — that's Jacob from Lost. But the brothers have a huge handicap in fighting Hell on Earth, since they're still pretty pissed at each other. This could very well be the final season of Supernatural, which means this could be the season where the big Dean-versus-Sam apocalyptic throw down takes place.
It's Back: Sept. 10 on the CW at 9 PM.
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Fringe
Alternate worlds collided last season. Olivia finally met THE William Bell, played by none other than Geek God Leonard Nimoy (who should be back in at least a couple of episodes). Walter led us to a suspicious head-stone which made us all scratch our heads and say "wait a minute how can that be Peter Bishop, if he's Peter Bishop? Ohhhh." From the looks of the preview, Olivia thinks she has to save the world, but knowing her usual "shoot first, ask questions later" tactics, she's going to need a lot more bullets. But let's hope this season first answers some questions, like what's different in the alternate world, besides the fact that the World Trade Center is still standing and Agent Charlie Francis' sexy face scar — and Charlie, of course, is about to be replaced anyways by another sexy woman FBI Agent.
It's Back: Sept. 17 on FOX at 9 PM
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Friday:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars –
The evilest of evil bounty hunters, gets a giant, epic premiere on the new season of Clone Wars, where we see him killing and torturing at will. Bring on the CG alien bloodshed!
It's Back: October 2 on the Cartoon Network at 8 PM.
Ghost Whisperer-
Jennifer Love Hewitt continues whispering to the spirit people, solving crimes and making "love me" eyes into the camera.
It's Back: Sept. 25 on CBS at 8 PM
Smallville -
Zod is front and center this season, and will hopefully bring more of a battle than that lackluster Doomsday finale. Plus the Kryptonite-hearted villain Metallo shows up (played by Brian Austin Green). Will Chloe be able to heal her wounded heart in time to meddle in everyones lives again, thus almost destroying the world over and over? My guess is yes.
It's Back: Sept. 25 on CW at 8 PM
Smallville Promo:
Dollhouse
Now that Paul's inside the house, how will be spend his days? Also did Alpha's final imprint onto Echo leave her forever scarred? And what's this we're hearing about the Dollhouse bringing about the end of the world? One thing we can promise you is loads of sexy role-playing ideas will be coming your way, via Eliza Dushku and her doll friends.
It's Back: Sept. 25 on FOX @ 9 PM Begins
Stargate Universe
The darkest of the Gates tries out new characters, a new ship and a shaky-cam technique. The new Gate crew gets marooned aboard an ancient ship, doomed to spend their days traveling the universe, and never able to return back to Earth in their "real" bodies.
Premiere Date: on Syfy @ 9 PM Begins Oct. 2, with two-hour premiere
SGU Promo:
Sanctuary
Gather ye monster hunters, the supernatural detectives headed by Amanda Tapping are back, and ready to solve your odd greenscreen crimes.
It's Back: on Syfy @ 10 PM Begins Oct. 9
Sunday:
Storm Chasers -
Before Helen Hunt made it oh-so-romantic, storm chasing used to dangerous, and the folks over at Storm Chasers want to show you just how dangerous the inside of a storm can be.
It's Back: Oct. 11th on Discovery at 10 PM
Venture Brothers
Brock is gone, and Hank and Dean are actually going to mature and grow up? Say it isn't so! But at least the latest promo for the new season for Venture looks like classic Venture insanity-humor.
It's Back: November on Adult Swim
Venture Brothers Promo:
Sadly you'll have to wait until the new year for Day One, Past Life, Caprica, Human Target and the new seasons of Chuck, Lost and Better off Ted.
Additional reporting by Caitlin Petrakovitz.
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Results of an autodial poll released July 13 show Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann with a wide lead over her competitors I the Iowa precinct caucuses.
The poll, conducted for Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, showed Bachmann winning the support of 29 percent of likely 2012 Iowa Republican caucus-goers.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is in second place with 16 percent support followed by Tim Pawlenty and Herman Cain at 8 percent, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich at 5 percent and Rick Santorum at 3 percent. Nearly a quarter, 24 percent, was undecided.
Bachmann had broad support across all voting subgroups including fiscal and social conservatives. The Waterloo native won the support of 33 percent of the 44 percent of respondents who self-identified as member of the Tea Party movement.
For complete results, go to.
2012, campaign, candidate, candidates, caucus, GOP, GOP field, Herman Cain, Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, precinct caucuses, president, presidential, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty
Tea party, right wing version of Dixiecrats, Bachman’s wheel is going round but the Hampster is dead.
Thomas – I agree. I cannot see the attraction.
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Sticky Stuff – 11/17
UPDATE: PRO TIP -
On any post, click HOME under the post title. This will load the entire month’s posts for browsing.
Some readers may have noticed that we’ve limited the post count on our front page. So we are adapting a bit of a new format. In addition to our regular content we’re going to have a sticky post which will have nothing but our pithy titles that link to important, interesting, shexy or disgusting stories. This post will grow during the day (so check back.)
A new list will appear every day.
-You may now duck and cover with the bride – Wedding Guests Watch As Israel’s Missile Defense System Blasts Rockets Out of the Sky
- Nick DiPaolo, conservative comedian with a NSFAnyplace tongue. Politically Incorrect at its worst/best-
- Separated in the Wood Shop – creepy
- Street Justice Over a Stolen Bike – Via iHateTheMedia
-Song About Benghazi - LISTEN HERE
- Ten of Obama’s Worst Lies
- This Photo-Op Makes Sense: Obama’s Presidency About as Great as McKayla Maroney’s Blown Olympics Vault
- Where 16 of the goofiest business names come from
Col. Angus
November 17th, 2012
I’ve always been curious, do the radio clowns have a professional guffawer, or do they have a guffaw track?
Mountain Dog
November 17th, 2012
I thought I got to the bottom of the page awful fast. Due to lay offs?
BigFurHat
November 17th, 2012
Yes, the Obama economy has forced us to cut 10 stories off the front page.
Brian
November 17th, 2012
“we’ve limited the post count on our front page”
Are there other pages? If so, how do we access them?
It’s always best to navigate this site by going to the sidebar and clicking archives and choosing the current month.
Or, click home on any post any it will load all the posts of the month. – bfh
Callmelennie
November 17th, 2012
I suppose now Arabs will complain about how Israel’s missile shield lowers their self esteem .. seeing as how their greatest achievement is indiscriminately firing missiles that they don’t know how to make in the general direction of Israeli cities
Or maybe they’ll parade some child who they say was wounded by the falling debris from one of these explosions and claim Israel is guilty of “disproportionate self defense”
Geoff C. The Saltine
November 17th, 2012
Brian go to the archives on the side bar. its all there.
Brian in BC
November 17th, 2012
The street justice story reminds me of a great story from the local bike couriers from a few years back. One of the couriers had his bike stolen and managed to catch the guy. He performed a citizen’s arrest and used a U-lock to secure the individual to a parking meter while waiting for the police…he also radio’d all of the other city couriers his location. Apparently the rule was that no one was to physically touch the perp, but hey, sometimes the need to relieve yourself comes suddenly…and the police made sure they took their good sweet time attending. Sometimes a good old fashioned shaming goes a long ways.
Eat your damn darts!
November 17th, 2012
Is this new format because of the election?
Where are we supposed to post comments on these stories?
And if we can’t, what is the point?
Stirrin the B.S.
November 17th, 2012
Fur, I don’t know the inside story about what is driving this format change, but the compliment to your parody, satire, ridicule, enlightenment, and entertainment content is the reader comments. They create a community and a draw for more viewers and participants.
This new sticky post format that just links to stories, makes you another aggregator and changes the characteristic of this site that makes it so appealing.
If I’m uninformed and way off base, I apologize – this is just my initial reaction. My thought is that I would rather see one comment allowed post in the space where you’re posting multiple links.
Tom Mannis
November 17th, 2012
Will you please make these instructions available as a downloadable PDF? I hope you’ll also do a video tutorial about this. Thanks!
Kathy Shaidle
November 17th, 2012
Thanks for the link. Normally I despise dagos, but Nick is god.
Right after 9/11 he was quoted in the NYT as saying “Every mosque in American should be on fire right now.”
FreeMan & Sarah Intend to Defend
November 17th, 2012
Can it take us back a year so we can feel good again?
Back to a time when there was still hope that things would change.
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To what extent can a defendant in intellectual property infringement proceedings resist an IP owner's action on the ground that the IP owner is transgressing competition rules, either by abusing his monopoly (EC Treaty, Art.82) or by ganging up with others in order to pervert or distort competition (EC Treaty, Art.81)?
Right: IP owners are entitled to ward off infringers, but can they do so if they also keep out lawful competition?
IPKat co-bloggie Jeremy is currently putting the finishing touches to a talk he's giving in a fortnight's time on this topic and it occurred to him that, though there are lots of British cases in which so-called "Euro-defences" are raised, he has never thought of looking for any cases in which these defences have been discussed or allowed in other national jurisdictions in the European Union. Nor does he recall any instance in which the principle of the availability of competition law defences to IP infringement actions has been reviewed by the European Court of Justice - even though the impact on trade is potentially far-reaching if some countries allow Euro-defences while others say, "sorry we can't help you if you're infringing an IP right - if you've got a grievance against an IP owner you have to go through the relevant competition policy enforcement procedures".
If anyone has any observations on this topic, an email to Jeremy here will be greatly appreciated. All useful contributions will be duly acknowledged in the conference paper.
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Automated: 1958
"This 25 foot tall octagonal wood tower stands on a 50 foot cliff on the southeast corner of the island, which was once known as Goat Island. A fog signal building sits just below the tower and the two-story keeper's residence stands above, about 80 yards away. Today, the keeper's dwelling is the home of the Coast Guard Admiral in charge of all Pacific operations. Not far from the site is the Bay area's lighthouse depot.".
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Over 136 m/- have been spent by the Tanzania Olympics Committee (TOC) in preparation expenses of the Olympic-bound athletes ahead of boarding the London Heathrow flight on July 8.
TOC secretary general Filbert Bayi said the colossal amount has been used for accommodation, allowances and logistics for the athletes and their coaches since opening the camp in March.
The Olympic hopefuls that include runners and boxers have been camping at the Filbert Bayi Secondary Schools in Kibaha, an institution owned by Bayi himself.
According to him, judo attended TOC organised camp in Zanzibar to prepare for the Olympic qualification series staged in Morocco
He said TOC started the athletes camp early ahead of the Olympic Games qualifying series, and the camp was still open after some athletes attained the qualifying time.
He also faulted some sections of people who are accusing TOC for not preparing the London-bound athletes well. He said it is not the mandate of his committee to prepare athletes; instead it’s the duty of sports disciplines.
Bayi said TOC is the overseer of all 22 sports associations in the country and its main objective is to put strategic plans.
Organizing training courses for sports coaches, administrators and providing marketing expertise to leaders of sports associations are among other things the TOC is responsible for.
He said since coming into TOC leadership, more than 500 coaches who works with their respectable associations are beneficiaries of coaching programmes.
However, he said the TOC trained coaches can not function if the Government is not showing serious interest to develop sports in the country.
“It’s the duty of sports disciplines to prepare their teams for qualification of the Games and TOC just come in charge of the selected athletes,” said Bayi.
Deplored comments made by some people who calls for pulling out of the Games based on inadequate preparations, he said the spirit is unsportsmanship as not all Olympians win medals.
He said those who are advocating for the withdraw should know that athletes who attained qualifying games had to sweat to win the berth.
According to Bayi, withdrawing from the Games will hinder sports growth of the athletes as some of them are very young and are travelling to London not only to compete for medals but also to learn.
“Sometimes we must put aside our emotions and look at the brighter side of everything. It’s unsportsmanship to pull out the Olympic team from the Games.
The athletes will gain some experience which can be used in the future,” he said.
He also revealed that TOC technical committee agreed to camp the London- bound team at Kibaha as the weather is reminiscent to that of London during the Games, albeit the area is good for runners due to low population density.
However, Bayi said some Athletics Tanzania (AT) officials were reluctant to have a camp at Kibaha and had suggested Mbulu.
He said TOC technical committee did not object to this idea but AT officials have not followed to re-camp the team at their preferred area. Due to the delay TOC agreed the athletes’ camp should remain at Kibaha.
“Kibaha is ideal place to prepare the team as I practiced there on different occasions from 1976 to 1979 on my way to break the 1,500 metres world record in Jamaica. The place has good weather similar to that of London and other American countries,” he concluded.
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More than half of us, 56%, prefer planning for tomorrow instead of living for today. In the Age of Social Media, those planning ahead may not only be thinking about finances or retirement. Rather, they may be planning for a future where they will not want a professor, a potential employer or future friends to know what they’ve been up to via a medium that is almost impossible to “clean up.” Posts have a way of catching up with you. Once they’re out in the universe, they’re there to stay!
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