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There is misplaced assumption that kids today are empowered in technology; that they understand the Web is their to make.
- Me (Emma Irwin), based on conversations with youth at conferences, workshops and in my Webmaker Club in Sooke, BC
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Ian Kennedy, Padres Look For Home Sweep Of Rockies In Finale
How frustrating is it for San Diego Padres’ fans to think about what this season could’ve been? The Padres, who are playing some of the best ball in all of the big leagues, dug themselves such a deep hole in the first half, that the team’s resurgence during the second half, has raised some eyebrows all around baseball. The Friars might be 11 1/2 games back of first place Los Angeles in the NL West, they are only 6 games out with 39 games left to be played. While they’ll obviously need help along the way, the team is going what they need to on their end to get back into contention. With a win in tonight’s series finale against the visiting Colorado Rockies, they’ll not only sweep, but go 9-1 over their last ten games, including winning five in a row.
Taking the mound for the Padres, has been their hard luck loser, Ian Kennedy. Kennedy, who is 8-10, has a 3.51 ERA and was the center of several trade rumors leading up to the July 31st non-waiver trading deadline. He nor newly appointed closer Joaquin Benoit, could still be put on waivers and dealt, but it’s a hard sell to a fan base that has continued to back one of the most disappointing teams in the NL this season. In his last outing, Kennedy tossed 6 innings, allowing only 1 earned run, as the Padres’ first half bats reappeared, and Kennedy took the lone loss in the Pirates’ series. Kennedy will hope that the bats continue to hit–at least for him tonight, as he looks to inch closer to evening his record.
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For the Rockies, rookie Tyler Matzek will look to improve on a poor road campaign in 2014. In six road starts this year away from Coors Field, Matzek has an ERA of 6, and is still looking for his first big league road win. Matsek needs an injury-depleted Rockies offense to pick up some of the slack, as he’s tossed three quality starts on the road–all of which have gone to waste due to an anemic Rockies’ lineup in each of those outings. The Rockies will be without either of their stars, as Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez are scheduled to see specialists today for their assortment of injuries.
The Padres’ lineup will be shuffled somewhat, as first baseman Yonder Alonso is out with a strained forearm. It was reported earlier that he is going for an MRI at some point today. Tommy Medica will remain in left field, as catcher Yasmani Grandal will slide over to first from behind the dish, and and Rene Rivera will call today’s game. Rookie Rymer Liriano will remain in right field, as he is getting an extended audition in the Padres’ outfield. Here’s the rest of today’s starting lineup for the Padres!
Today’s Padres’ lineup-Mandatory Credit: padres.mlblogs.com
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By Aminat Umar
The suspect, Ikechukwu Friday, said he had gone to beg a pastor for money when the pastor instructed him to kill a young girl and obtain her faeces.
He said the pastor promised him N100, 000 if he was able to accomplish the task.
He said, â€œI attend a popular church around Ketu Street, Aguda, but I live with my parents in Badagry. I just finished secondary school and I have been very broke. So, I approached the pastor for money, but he told me that I should strangulate a little girl.
â€œHe explained that while strangulating the girl, she would pass out faeces in the throes of death. The pastor said I should obtain the faeces and bring it to him. He said if I could do this, he would give me N100,000.
â€œOn December 30, 2013, I approached a young girl, Bose Ogoja. Her mother sells food in Badagry and I usually patronise them; so she trusted me. I told the girl that I wanted to show her something and she should follow me. I took her to an abandoned NITEL building and locked the door.
â€œI squeezed her neck and truly, she passed out faeces. I was, however, not able to get the faeces because I was caught before I could escape.â€
The suspect, an indigene of Onitsha, Anambra State, pleaded for mercy adding that this was his first crime.
Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, said the suspect was arrested by neighbours in the area and handed over to the Badagry Police Division.
Braide said the pastor, who allegedly gave the suspect the instruction had been arrested and was already cooperating with the police.
While displaying the gruesome picture of the slain girl, Braide said, â€œHe was arrested in an uncompleted building. The security guard manning the building told the police that he saw the Friday entering the building with a 12-year-old girl.
â€œHe said a few minutes later, he heard the girl screaming and later saw the boy leaving. The security guard raised the alarm and the neighbours were alerted and they arrested the suspect. On entering the building, they discovered that the girl was dead.
â€œThe picture of the girlâ€™s corpse shows that the girl is naked and her faeces is on the floor.â€
Meanwhile, the police also arrested one 39-year-old Michael Udom for allegedly stealing a vehicle belonging to the company he worked for.
According to the police, the suspect attempted to sell the vehicle for N250,000 in the Ijora Badia area of the state, but was arrested before he could do so.
The suspect, however, denied the allegation, saying he took permission from his boss before taking the bus home with him.
He said, â€œI work with a courier company. After the close of work on December 25, 2013, I told my manager that I wanted to use the vehicle to pack things from my house and he agreed. Shortly after parking the vehicle, someone called me, saying he wanted to buy the vehicle.
â€œI told them that I could not sell the vehicle without the companyâ€™s consent. I did not know a policeman was there. He also posed as a buyer and arrested me.â€


Asus tells us the Ultrabook line is “finding our peace among the chaos” and that it “empowers user’s spirits”. It’s also “a perfect fusion between beauty and strength and harmony”.
OK – what it actually is, is an ultra-thin, sleek laptop with an aluminium chassis, as promised. An Asus spokesperson told us all of their models for the foreseeable future will sport the aluminium chassis. The ZenBook also has some pretty decent specs.
The high-end, UX31 model sports an Intel core i7-2677M Sandy Bridge processor, but an Intel spokesperson last night said the Ultrabook will really fly with Ivy Bridge and touch. For now, this model has a 13.3″ high definition, 1600 x 900 display, 4GB of DDR3 memory, SATA 3.0 128GB SSD for storage and a set of decent Bang and Olufsen speakers built in.
The dimensions for the UX31 are 3mm at the front, 11mm at the back, and the whole thing weighs 1.3kg. This machine has a USB 3.0 adaptor but no sign of Thunderbolt.
What Intel calls a revolution seems more like an evolution of a notebook range. It really does look an awful lot like a Macbook Air, as you can see below.
The sloped design is particularly reminiscent. It could be argued it looks like Intel is going after former chum Apple’s own market, encouraging swathes of manufacturers to jump in with their own sleek, sexy offerings but on Windows. Intel’s Ultrabook war chest is certainly full of cash to spend. We’re promised Ivy Bridge will make a good match with Windows 8 next year.
Most impressive was the instant-on which both Intel and Asus were keen to focus on. The machine does turn on very quickly – about two seconds to get going. Intel also claims the standby time for the UX31 in the 50W battery is two weeks, with seven hours of muscle otherwise.
It sells for £999, so under the £1000 but not the $1000. An i5 model, the UX21, goes for £849.
Whether or not the Ultrabook, or more specifically the Zenbook will be the saving grace Intel hopes for is unclear at the moment. Early impressions suggested, at least to us, that releases this year are more of a sign that the Ultrabook has arrived – and it’ll be next year, when Windows 8 comes out, before we see products which truly impress.
We can’t say for sure as our hands-on was only brief, but the Zenbook seemed like a nice little laptop, albeit a very expensive one.


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A government-commissioned report on the finances of Ontario’s universities and colleges says the province should both end its tuition freeze and increase per-student funding to those institutions.
The Progressive Conservative government introduced a 10 per cent tuition cut in 2019, as it cancelled the former Liberal government’s free tuition program for low- and middle-income students, and has frozen fees at that level since then.
That has forced post-secondary institutions to increase their dependence on international student tuition, which is considerably higher than for domestic students.
Meanwhile, the Council of Ontario Universities has said those institutions receive the lowest amount of operating grant funding per full-time student of all the provinces.
The expert panel’s report today says the province should increase direct support for both colleges and universities and the government should allow for tuition fee increases.
Colleges and Universities Minister Jill Dunlop says before agreeing to any tuition increases she needs to ensure colleges and universities are operating as efficiently as possible.
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Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López's highly anticipated companion to their #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence.
On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmother's advice: "Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just as bored you are now." And before they know it, their imaginations lift them up and out of their boredom. Then, on a day full of quarrels, it's time for a trip outside their minds again, and they are able to leave their anger behind. This precious skill, their grandmother tells them, harkens back to the days long before they were born, when their ancestors showed the world the strength and resilience of their beautiful and brilliant minds.
Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael Lopez's dazzling art celebrate the extraordinary ability to lift ourselves up and imagine a better world.
Two Black siblings use their imaginations to escape their immediate surroundings throughout the seasons in this picture book by previous collaborators Woodson and López (The Day You Begin). During “the spring when the rain seemed like it/ would never stop,” the children’s grandmother—who wears butterfly wings as earrings—encourages the bored duo to “Lift your arms,/ close your eyes,/ take a deep breath,/ and believe in a thing.” They do, “flying over the city we’d known/ our whole lives,” and from then on, nothing can keep them down—neither anger in summer, nor loneliness in autumn, nor unfriendly kids in a new neighborhood during winter. Learning to soar “from the people who came before,” the children are told both that their feelings have been experienced by others, and that “nobody can ever cuff/ your brilliant and beautiful mind,” a lesson they pass on in turn. Energetic layered multimedia illustrations accompany the poetically repeating lines, vividly depicting winged escapes over images of a slave ship and contemporary real-world high-rises. An author’s note acknowledges the work of Virginia Hamilton in this book’s origins. Ages 5–8. Author’s agent: Dorian Karchmar, William Morris Endeavor. Illustrator’s agent: Stefanie Sanchez Von Borstel and Adriana Dominguez, Full Circle Literary. (Jan.)
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With this book (simultaneously released in Spanish), Woodson and Lopez create a path that children may follow as they gain confidence and imagine a way forward no matter what challenges arise.
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Rahul Gandhi’s birthday greeting to the DMDK supremo signifies that the Congress vice president is expanding his ambit of functioning and graduating from handling just organisational affairs, reports Anita Katyal.
When Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi greeted Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam chief Vijayakanth on his 61st birthday on Sunday, the Nehru-Gandhi scion was not just pursuing the realignment of political forces in Tamil Nadu with an eye on the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The gesture was also meant to send out a clear message to the Congress rank and file that he will no longer confine himself to party organisational matters and will play a more proactive role in interacting with other political parties, a task so far handled by his mother and party president Sonia Gandhi while the follow-up work is undertaken by her political secretary Ahmed Patel.
This is the first time that Rahul Gandhi has taken the initiative in reaching out to prospective allies although he does share a personal relationship with National Conference leader and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Ever since Rahul Gandhi was inducted as party office-bearer, he has persistently maintained that his priority is to strengthen the party organisation by putting in new processes and structures, inducting new members and grooming an army of young leaders across the country.
As Congress general secretary, he focused his attention on rehauling the Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India by conducting elections in the two youth wings. He refused to join the government although Prime Minister Manmohan Singh repeatedly requested him to do so.
He remained focused on party affairs even after he was named Congress vice-president earlier this year. Rahul Gandhi has since convened a series of meetings with party office-bearers and state leaders, has begun the process of reconstituting the Pradesh Congress Committees and has taken personal interest in the functioning of the revamped communications department headed by former Union minister Ajay Maken.
Having made it abundantly clear that he is only interested in organisational matters, Rahul Gandhi’s gesture to DMDK leader Vijaykanth came as a pleasant surprise to his party colleagues who have been urging him to expand his area of activity. Describing it as a politically significant development, a senior Congress leader maintained that this is a clear indication that Rahul Gandhi will gradually take over Sonia Gandhi’s responsibilities.
“This shows that the period of transition is on in the party,” remarked Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan, adding that it is a welcome step.
A senior Congress general secretary pointed out that Rahul Gandhi’s decision to move beyond internal party matters is not totally unexpected as he has been stepping up his activities in the organisation and it is only logical that he should start engaging with other political parties.
As it happens, he is slowly tightening his grip on the party with even senior leaders reporting to him. For instance, the party’s election coordination committee, headed by him, has senior party leaders as its members while the panels on alliances and publicity, again headed by seniors like Defence Minister A K Antony and AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh, respectively, are essentially under Rahul Gandhi.
The process of delegating responsibility to the Congress vice-president has been a gradual affair to ensure there is no upheaval in the party and to carry along the old guard.
While maintaining that Rahul Gandhi will step up his engagement with other political parties in the coming months, Congress insiders said this does not mean that Sonia Gandhi will give up all her responsibilities.
She remains the party’s central figure whose credibility with the party rank and file and the electorate remains undiluted. Sonia Gandhi will be at the forefront when it comes to forging alliances with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo M Karunanidhi and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav in view of their seniority and the rapport they have already established with her.
The formation of the UPA and the joining of various political outfits including Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party along with the RJD and the DMK was made possible by Sonia Gandhi who had personally reached out to them. Her role is unlikely to change but Rahul Gandhi is expected to interact with younger leaders and new allies in the run-up to next year’s general election.
In fact, Rahul Gandhi appears to have learnt some lessons from his mother. Sonia Gandhi had driven down to Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati’s residence in Delhi with a bouquet on her birthday in the run-up to the 2004 elections when the Congress was desperately wooing her party.
That alliance did not materialise and it is still early to say if the Congress-DMDK partnership will eventually fructify. There are a number of local issues which will have to be sorted out first.
Moreover, the DMDK will also weigh its options and the anti-incumbency against the UPA government will be a factor if it accepts Congress’s hand of friendship. The Congress believes that a tie up with the DMK, DMDK and the PMK will be a formidable combination and can pose a serious challenge to Jayalalithaa-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu.

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Mid-Ohio Pediatrics and Adolescents, Inc. is excited to announce that our practice will be relocating in the Spring of 2019 from our current Copeland Mill Road offices to 465 North Cleveland Avenue here in Westerville. Our new location will enable us to have all our physicians and staff on one floor to better serve our patient families! More information will be forthcoming as our move-in date approaches!
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Our office will be closing at 12:00pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 and will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. The office will reopen at 8:30am on Thursday, July 5, 2018 for business. We wish our patient families and friends a fun and safe 4th of July holiday!
Mid-Ohio Pediatrics and Adolescents, Inc. is very excited to announce their newest colleague, Dr. Ryan Barson, MD, who will be accepting patients beginning August 6, 2018. Dr. Ryan Barson is a Delaware County Ohio native, a graduate of the Olentangy Local Schools and graduated Magna Cum Laude from The Ohio State University Honors College. Dr. Barson completed medical school at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and his post graduate training included a residency in Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
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The Knicks have reshaped their roster over the last year and change, saying goodbye to some familiar faces (some beloved, some not) in the process. We'll take a look at how some of those former Knicks are performing with their new teams as the 2019-20 NBA season is underway...
Kristaps Porzingis, Dallas Mavericks
The Mavs went 2-1 this week, but Porzingis' shooting woes have started to become a storyline. Since dropping 23 points against the Rockets last Sunday, the Latvia native has had two straight sub-par games. In a 15-point loss to the Clippers, Porzingis was just 4-of-13 from the floor, and he followed that up with an 0-for-8 performance on Friday night against the Suns. The game marked the first time this season that he was held without a field goal, as he totaled just two points in 33 minutes.
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Father’s Day, 2015
I’m sitting on my back deck in a trance-like state, exhausted.
A hectic business trip culminated in me “sleeping” inside O’Hare Airport overnight to ensure I’d be able to board a flight early enough to celebrate Father’s Day with my family.
My phone buzzes.
It’s my brother. He apologizes before delivering some devastating news.
“Metzger is gone.”
Brian had struggled with addiction for years and I don’t remember if my brother told me or if I felt the need to ask.
The news didn’t snap me out of my trance, though. If anything, I fell into it deeper.
A minute or two later, I knew I had to call Macker.
As close as I was with Brian, his relationship with Chris McDonald predated my own by at least a decade.
For the first – and last – time in my life, I prefaced what I had to say by seriously asking somebody to sit down. My stomach turned during the momentary pause before Macker soberly asked, “What?”
It was as if he was torn between wanting to know immediately and a desire to remain in this moment as long as possible, seeming to realize that whatever I was about to tell him was going to come in the form of a wrecking ball to some portion of his life.
My pain simultaneously lightened and became heavier with the realization that what I was feeling paled in comparison to what Brian’s parents and brother must have been experiencing.
I also realized it was my responsibility to inform our closest friends from UMass and that I’d need to do so one by one. Text messages were certainly out of the question.
For some reason, by the time I spoke with Craig, I was in an upstairs closet.
Craig, who we all call Tooch, is one of the most gentle, compassionate people I’ve ever met. He had an especially close relationship with Brian.
It crushed me to be the one to tell him and as I did, the tears burst out for the first time.
I never realized how grateful I was to my brother for bracing me and thankful I did the same for Macker until a text message lit up my phone three years later devoid of any such consideration.
The careless tone gave me momentary hope that this was a mistake, a misunderstanding or even possibly some sick joke.
I immediately called Rocky, who erased any hope of that, confirming there was no misunderstanding.
Christian Diaz had passed away.
Christian too had struggled with addiction and while I would eventually learn the details of exactly what happened, I didn’t need them at the time.
Once again, my own pain felt trivial as I thought of the pain of my friend’s family, which for Christian, meant his twin brother, Antoine, his longtime girlfriend Tania and especially, his two daughters.
Aside from the loss of a child, it’s difficult to imagine a loss as painful as that of a twin.
In 20-plus years, I can’t think of a single instance when I would use the word “relaxed” to describe Antoine and it became obvious the passion he was feeling after Christian’s passing was bringing him peace.
In the immediate aftermath, I heard countless people caution Antoine to slow down and take a break for himself. At one point, I gave him the same advice, but it didn’t take long to realize the fuel that was pushing him wasn’t going to burn out anytime soon.
This wasn’t Antoine keeping his mind occupied to avoid confronting a painful truth. No, he truly felt called to honor both Christian and Brian, who was also a dear friend.
He didn’t know what he wanted to do. He just knew he wanted to do something and he wanted to bring attention to the Forest Park neighborhood they all grew up in.
The Forest Park Project actually had a name before it had a defined purpose.
Given their personalities, it was no surprise there was a long list of people eager to help.
If you didn’t know both Brian and Christian, you might not recognize the similarities between a white kid from a family well-known in the city for generations and a Dominican kid who bounced between a crowded home with his Abuela and his adopted father.
But if you knew them both, the list of similarities is probably too long to list.
The commonality that sticks out most to me is how they seemed to know everyone. They didn’t just know who everyone was, they knew everyone.
They took active interests in getting to know anybody who crossed their paths because they were genuinely interested in everyone. It’s hard to imagine anybody who knew them considering themselves mere acquaintances of either.
And if you were one of their closest friends, you cherished that relationship.
They didn’t just make you feel comfortable opening up and being vulnerable, they proved they cared and could be trusted so much that you actually felt you were betraying the relationship if you held back.
“I know we need to do something, I just don’t know what.”
Antoine said some version of this dozens of times during the initial weeks of the Forest Park Project.
Eventually, myself and Pat Gottschlicht sat down with John Evon and Steve O’Neil of the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department for guidance.
The establishment of a sober house was one idea that’d been kicked around during meetings in the Hunter’s Room of the Munich Haus, albeit a daunting one. But after speaking with Evon and O’Neil, that vision was crystallized.
It hit home with me because I can vividly remember conversations with both Brian and Christian about how much they valued the homes they’d been in and how passionate each was about the need for more.
Evon and O’Neil also put us in touch with the Michael J. Dias Foundation. Our collaboration with this group of extraordinarily talented, compassionate and generous people from Ludlow ended up becoming a merger of sorts.
They welcomed a handful of the Forest Park Project members to their Board of Directors and together, we embarked on the mission of establishing Christian & Brian’s House.
After a great deal of fundraising and hard work, Christian & Brian’s House was officially opened in the Summer of 2020 and currently hosts more than 20 men working seriously on their recovery.
I’m inspired by all the members of the Forest Park Project and the Michael J. Dias Foundation as well as the stories of hope, achievement and gratitude from the residents of not just Christian & Brian’s House, but also Michael’s House and Sean’s Place.
Personally, I’m grateful to both Christian and Brian for being the conduits to me being surrounded by these people.
But if Christian and Brian were to ask me why I’m involved – and I gave them the honesty they deserved – I’d offer three reasons.
It makes me feel closer to each of them even though they’re gone.
It makes me feel like I’m honoring their memories by working on something they valued so dearly.
But, perhaps most importantly to me, it shows my own children just how much of an impact my two friends had and still have on my life. And how much I miss them both.
That’s My Why.
Board of Directors, Forest Park Project & Michael J. Dias Foundation

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Playco has already secured partnerships with major social media platforms Facebook, LINE Messenger, Rakuten Viber, and Snapchat
Tokyo-headquartered instant play gaming developer Playco has become a gaming unicorn on launch, according to a statement by the company yesterday.
Premiering as ‘the world’s first instant play gaming company’, Playco has secured US$100 million in a Series A round of financing at a valuation of $1 billion, the statement noted.
The round was co-led by tech entrepreneur and investor Josh Buckley and Sequoia Capital Global Equities, it added.
Participating investors include Sozo Ventures, Raymond Tonsing’s Caffeinated Capital, Keisuke Honda’s KSK Angel Fund, Taizo Son’s Mistletoe Singapore, Digital Garage, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, and Makers Fund, among others, the statement also said.
Playco facilitates multi-player instant gaming, wherein users around the world can play games directly on platforms such as social media apps without having to download the game.
Playco has already secured several partnerships in the pipeline with Facebook, LINE Messenger, Rakuten Viber, and Snapchat, the statement said. The company will be utilizing the capital towards further securing partnerships with global social and messaging companies, and towards hiring efforts, the company said.
“Our mission is to bring the world closer together through play. We think that games shouldn’t be trapped inside installed apps or downloads. Instead, we believe that playing together should be as easy as messaging or talking together,” Co-founder of Playco Michael Carter said in the statement.
“Whether it’s Parcheesi (an Americanized version of Pachisi or Ludo) or an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), we believe there is a game for everyone and that how we play together is a crucial part of how humans socialize,” Carter added.
Carter is also the Co-founder of Game Closure, a multiplayer gaming tech company that is now part of Playco. The startup’s co-founding team also includes Zynga Co-founder Justin Waldron, executive producer at DeNa Takeshi Otsuka, and senior producer at Game Closure Teddy Cross.
The company also announced a slew other appointments in the statement.
Carter’s Co-founder at Game Closure Tom Fairfield will be joining Playco as a founding board member. Further, Deyan Vitanov, Co-founder and former CEO of gaming company Chobolabs, which was acquired by Game Closure last year, will also be joining the company as its CMO.
Additionally, Everwing-creator Jimmy Griffifth will be joining Playco as Senior Producer.
Playco’s team is spread across Seoul, Tokyo, San Francisco and Los Angeles. While the company is headquartered in Tokyo, it operates out of Delaware, U.S. and functions as a ‘distributed-first company’ looking to hire globally, the statement said.
Playco’s business model is based on creating free games targeted at massive audiences, monetized by in-game purchases and opt-in advertizing.
“Connecting players instantly with their friends and family sounds simple, but it’s only possible because we’ve created the world’s most advanced web browser streaming game engine, with the backend infrastructure and analytics to handle billions of players,” Waldron noted in the statement.
Adding that Playco’s game engine allows the company to partner with all platforms that are integrated with instant play, Waldron added, “Using this technology, our small teams can build games faster, understand our players better, and iterate more rapidly than even the biggest game companies in the world like Zynga.”
This year has been significant to the gaming industry and its community of 2.7 billion gamers, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While nation-wide lockdowns and remote working have resulted in big strides for the gaming industry this year, mobile gaming is pegged to be its fastest growing segment, accounting for 48% of the global games market.
“There is a real opportunity here to remove every ounce of friction between two people playing together. We believe we can create the first game and gaming portfolio that the entire world plays,” Cross and Otsuka’s joint statement said.
“This scale has never before been undertaken—the industry’s current understanding of a “big” game is hundreds of millions of players, but we intend to be the first to create games that billions of people play together,” they added.
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Harvest data now available
With wheat area and initial yield data now available, a clear picture has emerged of the small size of the 2020 UK wheat crop.
In a series of briefings dating back to March this year, nabim has been highlighting the impact of weather on the size of the domestic wheat crop and the effect on the UK wheat market, as well as the potential effect of changes to trade policy.
These briefings, which are published publicly, help members to manage customer expectations in years where homegrown wheat availability is limited and there are technical challenges for millers and bakers to overcome.
Please see here for a copy of the latest wheat briefing

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By Richie Venton
On the day that the new Tory-LibDem coalition government announced its first £6billion tranche of public sector cuts, the Scottish Socialist Party Red Shirt protesters took to the streets of Glasgow in a public warning of the resistance Scotland will mount to these cuts.
Early Monday morning, as workers travelled to work, a team of SSY members mounted a giant banner on a city centre multi-storey car park, gaining supportive horn-blowing for the message “Scotland didn’t vote Tory – resist the cuts”.
At noon, the SSP Red Shirts marched into the offices of Glasgow LibDem MSP Robert Brown to conduct a polite, peaceful dialogue with him, putting him on the spot about the treacherous role of the LibDems in propping up the vicious Tory government.
He was feeble in his claims that it was better to go into government and restrain the Tories in their worst excesses. He visibly squirmed over the LibDem’s sell-out on Trident renewal.
We challenged him to justify why the LibDems claim to favour progressive taxation but are instrumental in a Coalition that plans to cut taxes on Corporations and the rich, whilst assaulting the incomes of the sick, elderly and those on benefits.
He tried to argue that the SSP’s policies to tackle the public sector deficit would force millionaires to leave the country!
We challenged him to either publicly endorse the decision of Clegg et al to be at best the mudguards of a dirty Tory government of cuts, or at worst the willing accomplices in their carnage – or to publicly criticise the impact this will have on the people of Glasgow who elected him.
We suggested honesty in politics is an all too rare commodity, so he should be honest, choose which option he agrees with, and go public on it – instead of the vote-seeking under false pretences conducted by the LibDems in the recent election.
The SSP Red Shirts were dignified but determined in exposing the LibDems’ part in plans to slaughter communities and workers, explaining to both Robert Brown and the media that this was just the opening shot in the resistance we will be a vital part of in the months and years to come.
As we put it in our Press Release announcing the Red Shirts protest:
“In faraway Thailand an unelected dictator, educated at Eton school for the very rich and privileged, is facing determined opposition from the urban and rural poor, organised as the Red Shirts movement.
Meanwhile, an Eton-educated Tory Prime Minister who was rejected by 85% of Scottish voters is out to rule and ruin Scotland without a mandate.
Cameron plans to commit carnage against public sector jobs, workers’ pay and pensions, and the vital local public services they provide.
He is only able to launch this Tory butchery because of LibDem treachery.
The LibDems posed as an anti-cuts party during the general election and conned a minority in Scotland into voting for them; now they have formed the Twin Tory government that will cut taxes on the rich and big Corporations, whilst slashing up to 100,000 Scottish jobs.
The Scottish Socialist Party is determined to unite workers and communities to resist, defy and defeat these cuts.
As an opening shot in our resistance, we will mount a demonstration of Red Shirts at a government building. Our message is clear – the Twin Tories have no right to rule and ruin Scotland – we will help to defeat their cuts plans – and we will redouble our campaign for an independent socialist Scotland.”
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In his new book, Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate and the CIA, Shane O’Sullivan lays bare a scandalously under-covered story: the role of CIA personnel in the Watergate scandal and its aftermath.
In an excerpt for the Washington Post, O’Sullivan tells an intriguing tale about Watergate burglar Rolando Martinez, the CIA operative who was pardoned by President Reagan in 1984. Antonio Veciana, the CIA operative who says he saw Lee Harvey Oswald with David Phillips two months before JFK was killed, has an interesting role in the story.
O’Sullivan’s story doesn’t directly bear on the JFK story but it does show that Veciana was a trusted agency operative through the 1970s.
With Veciana’s help, Rodrigues helped mount an operation against Cuba to deflect Fidel Castro’s allegations that the CIA was involved in JFK’s assassination.
Only those closest to Martínez in intelligence circles knew the role his secret mission to Cuba had played in Reagan’s decision to grant clemency. And Martínez’s mission had an intriguing subplot that threatened the CIA’s very existence at the time. The agency initially suspected that the Cuban pitch to Martínez was part of a broader propaganda campaign to implicate the CIA in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and further damage its morale and reputation after a series of scandals.
O’Sullivan’s book is well worth reading because it illuminates the milieu in which both JFK’s assassination and the Watergate burglary took place, the milieu of CIA covert operations.


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In November 2012, voters approved a bond that was titled “Local Parks and Recreation.” The primary part of that bond package was $50 million to complete funding for a new south Arlington swimming center which had a total price tag estimated at $75 million.
As it turns out, that still may not be enough. County Manager Barbara Donnellan had to halt forward progress on the new facility when bids came in well over the already-generous cost estimates. This was on top of the recent announcement that annual taxpayer subsidies for the ongoing operational costs of the project were ballooning dramatically over the original cost estimates. The new estimate is that the aquatics center will operate at a deficit of $4 million per year.
In 2012, the voters did give the “parks and recreation” bond 10 percent less of the vote than the community infrastructure bond, and 17 percent less than the schools and Metro bonds. It seems a larger percentage of voters than usual had concerns about the swimming facility than they usually do over local infrastructure spending. However, it is still tough to defeat a ballot measure that sounds as benign as “Local Parks and Recreation.”
As I was standing in line to vote 15 months ago, I recall hearing a mom explaining the bond votes to her elementary school-aged daughter. “We need good parks,” she said in explaining why she was voting for the bond. Maybe she knew the aquatics center was included and just wanted to simplify it for her daughter, or maybe she did not.
Either way, this is a perfect case in point for the need to have large bond issues stand on their own for votes. If the County Board is proposing a bond for more than $10 million on a single project, why not let us vote it up or down as a standalone measure?
The answer is quite simple. If the bond description had been “$50 million to complete a $75 million community swimming facility,” the County Board may have lost the vote. And, it is the same rationale by which Board members have resisted allowing even a token straight up or down vote on the Columbia Pike trolley.
Mark Kelly is a former Arlington GOP Chairman and two-time Republican candidate for Arlington County Board.
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Depth estimation is an important step to generate 3D structure. The number of algorithm has explored to estimate depth based on Binocular cues (using tw o or more images). But very less work has done to estimate depth from monocular cue (using single image. This paper uses monocular cue as defocus to estimate depth. Also we compare different edge detection algorithms used for depth estimation using monocular defocus cue from single image. The edge detection is an important step in an image processing. The various edge detectors used are Roberts Kernel, Prewitt Kernel, Sobel Kernel, Canny edge detector. The experimental results show that canny edge detector is superior as compared to other and shows better depth for given image.


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BASTILLE DAY AMIDST THE STORM
As a host of Canadian sites from Niagara Falls to Montreal’s Ferris Wheel came alight in the bleu, blanc et rouge of France yesterday (July 14), the European nation celebrated Bastille Day in modest fashion, though still better than last year when national holiday events were curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic.
This year, thousands of troops marched in a Paris parade, warplanes roared overhead, and traditional parties took place around the country, though some towns scaled down fireworks gatherings, and the number of onlookers at the parade in the capital was limited. Each person attending had to show a special pass proving they had been fully vaccinated, had recently recovered from the virus, or had had a negative virus test. Similar restrictions were in place for those watching an elaborate firework show at the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday evening.
Nevertheless, spectators converged on Paris from around France, glad to be able to see the parade in person even if frustrated with the restrictions and long lines for virus security checks.
“It’s nice to be able to get out a little bit and finally get some fresh air and think that all the people are here, and that we are getting back to normal a little bit,” said Gaelle Henry from Normandy.
Masks were ubiquitous among spectators, and de rigueur for the dignitaries watching the parade under a red-white-and-blue awning emulating the French flag.
The clatter of hundreds of horseshoes accompanied military music as uniformed guards on horseback escorted President Emmanuel Macron. Some cheers rose up from civilian onlookers as Macron rode past restaurants, luxury boutiques, and movie theatres that had been shuttered for much of the past year and a half.
Organizers of this year’s parade dubbed it an “optimistic Bastille Day” aimed at “winning the future” and “celebrating a France standing together behind the tricolour (French flag) to emerge from the pandemic.”
Leading the parade were members of a European force fighting extremists in Mali, while among others honoured at the parade were military medics who have shuttled vaccines to France’s overseas territories, treated virus patients, or otherwise helped fight the pandemic.
Mirage and Rafale fighter jets thundered past in formation and, just before the ceremony, a soldier proposed to his girlfriend in a picturesque moment on the backdrop of the Arc de Triomphe, earning a round of hearty applause.
Meanwhile, in Canada, half a dozen national sites honoured France’s national day, which marks the storming of the Bastille prison in eastern Paris on July 14, 1789 – commemorated as the birth of the French Revolution.
They included Niagara Falls, Toronto’s CN Tower, Montreal’s Ferris Wheel, legislatures in Halifax and Fredericton, and the French Embassy in Ottawa.
“The illumination of these monuments, and particularly Niagara Falls, illustrates the place of France in Canada,” said French ambassador to Canada, Kareen Rispal. “Even though many French and Canadians have been deprived of it in recent months due to travel restrictions, we are happy to welcome them back to France in the last few weeks”
Sophie Lagoutte, Consul General of France, added, “The illumination of the Montreal Ferris Wheel, where so many French people reside, is particularly significant for us. It is a luminous symbol of the strong and ever-renewed friendship that exists between Quebec and France.”
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There was a time, in the now dim and distant past, when Israeli Commando actions were often heralded as brave and awe inspiring. Take for instance the no nonsense approach of the Israelis when it came to the hijacking of civilian aircraft back in the 1970s. Israeli Commandoes simply stormed the Air France plane at Entebbe, Uganda , in 1976, rescuing the captives in one fail swoop. Think back earlier to successful Israeli attempts to apprehend well known and well hidden Nazi war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann, and then transporting them back to Israel for trial. Back then, much of World opinion held that Israel was a small State under permanent siege, from hostile Arab neighbours to a myriad of Palestinian terror groups, one of the most notorious being Black September.
When the Israeli Olympic team was murdered in Munich in 1972, the whole World mourned.
Despite the innumerable injustices and humiliations of the Palestininians, much of the World was prepared to indulge Israel precisely because it had so signally failed European Jewry during the rise of Hitler’s Germany. The Seven Day War, which saw Israeli forces rout the combined power of Egypt, Jordan and Syria confirmed the view that Israel was under permanent threat of attack and needed to be defended.
The Israeli commando attack on a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza in which nine civilians were killed and many others wounded has finally draw a line under a global support network for Israel which had in truth been fraying for many years. The night time attack has been condemned by the UN Security Council, and Turkey, hitherto an ally of Israel, has been even more forthright, accusing Israel of “State terrorism”. The shocking violence and death was not aimed at securing hostages, but against volunteers taking desperately needed supplies into the besieged enclave of Gaza.
Their deaths mark a new low in Israel’s standing with the rest of the World, and come hard on another commando raid that saw Israeli agents assassinating opponents while hiding under the stolen nationality of others, including a number of British and Irish passport holders who had had their identity stolen by the Israeli State. But global opinion really began its shift during the violent offensive Israel launched against Southern Lebanon and later the savage assault on Gaza itself, where notably the Israeli Defence Force used bombs and phosperous weapons in civilian areas and even managed to destroy a United Nations compound. Gaza, wracked and ruined, is now hostage to Israel. The UN claims people there are barely receiving third of what they need to survive. The Israeli authorities and their vociferous supporters in organisations such as AIPAC become apoplectic when critics dare to compare Gaza to a latter day concentration camp, but there is little doubt that Gaza is fast becoming comparable to a British style concentration camp pioneered during the Boer Wars. Prisoners may not have been systematically murdered, but they were partially starved into submission.
The Israeli Government, under the hard-line leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu may think it can carry on acting illegally and with impunity so long as the US dollars keep flowing and so long as the Obama administration continues the mealy mouthed approach adopted by successive US administrations in hoc to the Israel lobby. Perhaps it will not bother Netanyahu that he and his supporters stand accused at the Bar of international opinion of “State terrorism”. But these are hard economic times, and American taxpayers are being obliged – as are their counterparts in Europe – to dig deeper to pay for the grand larceny of the bankers. Sooner, rather than later, many of these taxpayers are going to begin to ask what they are receiving in return for the annual US bung to Israel of $3.5 Billion. Apart from deeply distressing images of civilians, Palestinians for the most part, but now foreign nationals on an aid convoy for Gods sake, who have been maimed or killed.


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This data set includes subsurface radar profiles that were recorded between core sites during the November-December seasons for 1999-2002. Data were collected using an ice-penetrating radar to survey the ice sheet. Ice thickness data are available for a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This study is part of the U.S. participation in the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE). Elevation data are available in Excel and Microsoft Access database format via FTP. Radar data in SEGY format are available by special request on DVD by contacting NSIDC User Services.
DOWNLOADING DATA VIA FTP
Data can be downloaded through a Web browser or command line via FTP. When using a Web browser, the FTP link first directs you to an Optional Registration Form that if filled out, will allow you to receive notifications about updates or processing changes related to that specific data set. After completing the Optional Registration Form, the FTP directory becomes available. For additional help downloading data through an FTP client, go to the How to access data using an FTP client support page.
US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition 400 MHz Subsurface Radar Profiles, Version 1
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|Sensor(s):||RADAR, RADAR ECHO SOUNDERS|
|Data Contributor(s):||Steven Arcone|
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As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.Arcone, S. 2005. US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition 400 MHz Subsurface Radar Profiles, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N58050J7. [Date Accessed].
Detailed Data Description
Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y (SEGY)-format files contain 400 MHz radar data.
The Excel files in the "
ITASEI_Arcone_400MHZTransects_ElevationVsDistance" FTP directory give elevations (m) along the profiles. The Microsoft Access database (MDB) files in this directory contain elevations (m), distance (km), position, and scan numbers along the profiles.
The Excel files in the "
ITASEI_Arcone_Depth-density-TimeDelay" FTP directory give density (g/cm3), dielectric constant, refractive index, middle depth (m) bottom depth (m), time delay in layer (ns), total delay to layer bottom (ns), effective dielectric constant, and meters of equivalent water depth along the profiles.
Following are summaries of each profile:
BYRD_99-2.SGY: This profile was recorded from core site 99-2 (location of Swithinbank All Weather Station) back to the Byrd Surface Camp (BSC), and is now reversed. The distance is 177 km, the profile crosses Ice Stream D (now called Bindschadler Ice Stream), and elevation drops from about 1,498 m at BSC to 935 m at 99-2. The average wind directions recorded at Byrd and 99-2 are about 30° to the southwest from the profile direction. The ice speed varies from about 11 m/yr at BSC to 40–50 m/year at Ice Stream D, all the way to 99-2. The profile contains dramatic examples of folded firn and is discussed in papers in the References below.
The original profile was recorded at 600 ns time range and 2048 samples/trace. The processed profile starts at 0 ns and extends to 580 ns, or about 56 m depth.
00-1_EW.SGY and 00_1_ELEW.SGY: These profiles are the same data; the second one is with elevation corrections. The profile is 45 km long and was recorded from east to west with the West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) site at 21 km. This is called the WAIS site because of its potential consideration for a deep core. It was recorded in early December 2000, at a time range of 1000 ns, 4096 samples/trace, and 16 bits. At the lesser sampling rate, the system recorded at 13 traces/sec using a 32 stack.
A profile from BSC to 00-1 was recorded at 700 ns, but the first 50 km are missing. The profile BSC_01-1 described below virtually covers this transect and was recorded at 1500 ns.
00-1_00-2.SGY: This profile is 72 km long and was recorded at 1000 ns and 4096 samples/trace. All subsequent files were recorded at 1500 ns.
00-2MINUS30_00-2.SGY: This profile is 30 km long and was recorded east of core site 00-2, which is nearly on an ice divide. The accumulation rate measured from the radar profiles, after following horizons from site 00-4, is about 45 cm water equivalent per year. There are no elevation corrections for this segment, because Global Positioning System (GPS) data were recorded but could not be retrieved for processing. These profiles and those from 00-2 to 00-5 constitute a near-linear profile 333 km long. Continuing in a straight line, another 47 km was recorded toward an original site 00-6 near Mt. Sidley that was abandoned.
00-2_00-3.SGY: This profile is 101 km long and contains some of the deepest reflectors seen in all of ITASE. This and the following profile are discussed in Arcone, Spikes, and Hamilton (in review). Elevation data are missing between about 47 and 57 km.
00-3_00-4.SGY: This profile is 101 km long.
00-4_00-5.SGY: This profile is 101 km long. Horizons were tracked between the core sites (cores were processed for dates) to prove they are isochrones (Spikes et al. 2002). Site 002 through 00-5 generally parallels and is very close to an ice divide, as mapped by Liu et al. (1999) from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
00-5_00-6.SGY: This profile is 72 km long and heads in a southerly direction.
00-6_00-7.SGY: This profile is 100 km long and heads in an even more southerly direction.
00-7_BYRD.SGY: This profile is 111 km long and ends up back at BSC. The 1995 Karl Kreuz core site is just beyond 110 km.
BYRD_01_1PARTA.SGY, etc: This profile comes in five parts (A–E) and is 300 km long. It goes from approximately west to east. Part A is 0 to 59 km. Part B is 59 to 118 km. Part C is 118 to 78 km. Part D is 178 to 243 km. Part E is 243 to 300 km.
01-1_01-2PARTA.SGY, etc.: This profile comes in three parts (A-C) and is 150 km long. It is the first of two legs (the next profile is the second leg) that obtained some coverage for the Thwaites drainage basin. The profile turned north from the previous one. Part A is 0 to 51 km. Part B is 51 to 103 km. Part C is 103 to 150 km.
01-2_01-3PARTA.SGY, etc.: This profile comes in three parts (A-C) and is 169 km long. It is the second of two legs (the previous profile is the first leg) that attempted to get some coverage for the Thwaites drainage basin. The profile turned south from the previous leg. Part A is 0 to 57 km. Part B is 57 to 113 km. Part C is 113 to 169 km.
01-3_01-4PARTA.SGY, etc.: This profile is 96 km long, comes in parts A and B, and is back on track heading east. It also contains very deep stratigraphy, as do profiles near site 00-2. Part A is 0 to 48 km. Part B is 48 to 96 km.
01-4_01-5PARTA.SGY, etc.: This profile is 106.3 km long and goes to the original, planned (old) core site 5; however, the stratigraphy was unacceptable here, so the investigators moved back along the line 10 km. Part A is 0 to 28 km. About 0.8 km of data are missing between parts A and B, resulting in a slight loss of continuity between the two parts. Part B is 37 km long and covers 28.8 to 65.8 km. Part C is 41 km long, but the segment from 96 to 97 km (31 to 32 km in this segment) is only 0.5 km long; therefore, Part C goes from 65.8 km to 106.3 km. In part C, the drilled core site 01-5 is at 30.1 km (from the start of Part C). The actual distance from site 01-5 to 01-4 is 95.9 km when all parts are concatenated.
OLD01-5_01-6PARTA.SGY, etc.: This profile comes in two parts (A, B) and is 99 km long. It goes from the original (old) site 01-5 (the end of the previous profile) to core site 01-6. Part A is 0 to 56 km. Part B is 56 to 99 km. The investigators encountered a four-day storm at the site, so they only retrieved about 18 m of core. The transect headed in a more northerly direction from 01-5 and is generally in the Pine Island Drainage.
BYRD_02-1.SGYPARTA, etc.: This profile comes in five parts (A-E) and is the first leg of the second (and successful) attempt to reach South Pole Station. Part A is down ice from buried Mt. Resnick, where the investigators encountered highly variable stratigraphy, despite the lack of topographic expression. Part A is from 0 to 58 km. Part B is 58 to 112 km. Part C is 112 to 162 km. Parts D and E were combined from 162 to 272 km, with excellent continuity throughout. The elevation in the file "Byrdto02-1DandE.xls" is 1 km short. The missing elevation should be taken from the next file for site 02-2.
02-1_02-2PARTA, etc.: This profile comes in three parts (A-C) and is 178 km long. Part A is 0 to 60 km, or 272 to 332 km as measured from Byrd. Part B is 332 to 393 km from Byrd with highly variable stratigraphy. Part C is 393 to 450 km from Byrd. This profile has excellent continuity.
02-2_02-3PARTA, etc.: This profile comes in three parts (A-C) and is 164 km long. Part A is 0 to 59 km. Part B is 59 to 121 km with loss of continuity. Part C is 121 to 164 km.
02-3_02-4PARTA, etc.: This profile comes in three parts (A-C) and is 166 km long. Part A is 0 to 41 km. Part B is 41 to 117 km. Part C is 117 to 166 km. This profile has excellent continuity throughout. Hercules Dome is somewhere around 97 km, but the crew never saw anything to indicate a dome.
02-4_02-5PARTA, etc.: This profile comes in three parts (A-C) and is about 163 km long. Part A is from 0 to 59 km and has excellent continuity. Part B is from 59 to 119 km with two sections (centered near 40 and 55 km). Part C is from 119 to 163 km and contains the section (125 to 137 km) where the expedition moved erratically while climbing on the plateau and where continuity is hopeless.
02-5_POLEPARTA, etc.: This profile comes in four parts (A-D) and is about 167 km long. Part A is 0 to 60 km with no continuity from 9 to 14 km. Part B is 60 to 116 km with good continuity. Part C is 116 to 175 km with good continuity. Part D is 175 to 220 km. There are two outstanding reflection horizons at about 50 to 60 m depth that can be traced for about the last 200 km to the South Pole.
Elevation (Excel) and radar (SEGY) files: names include two-digit year (00) and site number. For example, "01-4to01-5.xls" includes data from 2001 at site 4 to site 5. Some files are from Byrd or South Pole stations and include the station name.
Excel and MDB files range from 18 to 149 KB.
SEGY radar files range from 10 to 180 MB.
All SEGY radar data total about 4.5 GB.
The Excel and MDB files in the "
ITASEI_Arcone_400MHZTransects_ElevationVsDistance" and "
ITASEI_Arcone_Depth-density-TimeDelay" FTP directories total about 2.76 MB.
Data were obtained during ITASE traverses, shown in the spatial coverage map below.
Southernmost Latitude: 90° S
Northernmost Latitude: 75° S
Westernmost Longitude: 90° W
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The following descriptions are for subsurface radar profiles recorded between core sites during the November-December seasons for 1999-2002.
The profiles were all recorded with a GSSI System 10B and Model 5103 400-MHz antenna unit, which contains transmitter and receiver antennas, separated about 15 cm. Peak radiated power is less than 1.4 W. The antenna was pushed in front of a Tucker Sno-Cat in 1999 and dragged in a banana sled alongside a van during the other years.
Antenna speed in 1999 was about 7 kmph, about 12 kmph in 2000-2001, and about 10 kmph in 2002.
All recordings were made at 16 bits/sample and a running 32 stack. In 1999, investigators recorded 24 traces/sec before stacking, and in other years, 7 to 13 traces/sec before stacking.
All profiles were processed with Radan software and converted to SEGY format for archival storage. These profiles were processed with 150 to 550 MHz bandpass filtering, 300 trace window background removal (horizontal filtering), range gain removal, and range gain addition to compensate for spherical geometric spreading losses.
The pulse center frequency, as checked with the Radan Fourier spectral analysis routine, were consistently near 400 MHz with only one exception; a profile recorded from core site 01-3 to 01-1 and then 01-Byrd Surface camp in 2001. These profiles had center frequencies near 270 MHz and horizontal bands of random noise.
The files are best displayed in the standard seismic Red (positive signals)-Blue (negative signals) and white (zero intensity color scheme, with color intensity linearly proportional to signal intensity.
The profiles are presented without elevation corrections. These corrections are supplied in separate Excel files and are given per kilometer. Applying these corrections to the profiles makes it difficult to analyze or see the folding dynamics, because the corrections (0 to 50 m range) are on the order of the depth of the profiles themselves (60 to 130 m).
The profiles are presented with a vertical range in nanoseconds. This range can be converted to depth with the aid of the density profiles recorded at each site, or to meters of equivalent water depth. Excel charts show the density profiles and conversion of nanoseconds to depth (m).
Transects for all years originated at Byrd surface camp (BSC) in central West Antarctica. Severe sastrugi was never encountered.
Prints of these plots on conventional printers usually show some computer noise even where the signal-to-noise ratio is high. This noise appears as short, vertical white streaks. Investigators printed some files on a professional-grade plotter and reported dramatic improvement.
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The first season of Khuda Aur Muhabbat was ended with the death of Imaan (played by Sadia Khan) and Hammad (Imran Abbas) losses his memory. In season 2, the story will be begun from where it was ended. So, watching season 2 would be very excited for those who were waiting to see that what happened next.
The drama is based on novel "Khuda Aur Muhabbat". Like the drama serial, the novel was also divided in to two parts. In this season, Hammad will be travel to abroad where he will found a girl who will fall in love with him but Hammad will not ready to forget his first love.
You will also see the story of season one this time to help those people to understand the story who have not seen the first part of this drama. There is new cast in the drama where the title song yet needs to be release.


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BREAKING: FG approves 14 days paternity leave
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The paternity leave is for men in the federal civil service.
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s weekly meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the First Lady’s Conference Room, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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Insecurity: Kaduna To Shutdown Telecom Services
Sequel to the persistent attacks, kidnapping and unwarranted killings of innocent citizens by bandits, Kaduna State government has asked residents to prepare for a shutdown of telecommunication services in some local government areas of the state, which it said might commence this Wednesday.
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The government, however, said the shutdown would not cover the entire state, but only LGAs bordering the troubled Zamfara and Katsina States where military onslaught is ongoing, will be affected.
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The state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who disclosed this during a media chat, said the security operatives were prepared to launch an offensive on bandits hibernating in some parts of the state.
N5.2 Billion Fraud: Trial moved to October 8 as ex-JAMB registrar sacks lawyer
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday adjourned the trial of the former registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Dibu Ojerinde, until October 8.
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Justice Obiora Egwuatu fixed the date following Mr Ojerinde’s decision to change his counsel.
Before his decision, Peter Olorunnisola, SAN, had been appearing for the ex-JAMB boss in the money laundering charge preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The ICPC, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/97/21, said that the former chief executive officer allegedly committed multiple frauds to the tune of N5.2 billion, while heading JAMB and the National Examination Council (NECO).
Fmr Anambra Gov, Obi expresses shock over Akunyili’s death, identifies body in morgue
Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi has expressed shock at the death of Dr Chike Akunyili, husband of the former Minister of Information, and Director Generàl of NAFDAC, Prof Dora Akunyili, who was shot dead on Tuesday evening.
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Obi who spoke to journalists said he was in Lagos on Tuesday for some functions when on Wednesday morning he got the news of the death of Akunyili on social media and immediately boarded a flight back to confirm it.
“I was lucky to get the first flight, and I landed in Owerri and moved straight to Iyienu Hospital in Onitsha, where I and his son identified him in the mortuary.
1,000 children de-wormed during Kwara medical outreach
No fewer than 1,000 children got instant de-worming during a two-day medical outreach organised in Ilorin.
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The exercise was jointly organised by the Gobir Foundation, the Joint Balogun Gambari Development Association and medical doctors in Ilorin.
The head of media and publicity of Gobir Foundation, Khadijat Eyitanwa-Lawal, said the medical outreach was organised to improve the health of the people in the state.
“Minor illnesses can keep breadwinners away from work for many days, while chronic disorders result in illnesses and deaths, some rather suddenly.
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The Small-Cap Risk Myth
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Whether you love or hate heat and humidity, it’s important to take precautions in the summer to protect yourself from heat-related illnesses.
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The Snip-Its franchise website states “With over 63 salons open in 26 states and growing, Snip-its is the fastest-growing chain of children’s hair salons in the US. Quality haircuts and unparalleled customer service set the foundation for this recession resistant franchise… Offering a simple franchise model with potential for great profits, Snip-its has developed an easy to follow, step by step guide to make your franchise experience a successful one, starting right now.”
However, our recent post 15 Worst Franchises by SBA Loan Defaults listed the franchise concepts with the highest rate of SBA loan defaults for 2008.
The Snip-Its franchise was listed as the 8th worst on the SBA loan default list. According to Katie Adams of Investopedia:
The Snip-Its children’s hair salons ranked 30th on the Franchise Times’ 2007 list of 55 fastest growing franchises, but two years later that growth has stalled. Thirty per cent of store owners with SBA financing failed to repay their loans in 2008.
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Florence Henderson died at the age of 82 on Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day. Heart failure is the cause of death according to Henderson’s manager Kayla Pressman.
Best known as Carol Brady of 1970’s classic comedy ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Henderson is survived by four children, 10 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Kayla Pressman, Henderson’s manager, revealed that the iconic actress had been hospitalized one day before and her death came as a shock to friends and family.
Former ‘The Brady Bunch’ co-stars Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick tweeted their shock and sadness about their television mom’s death.
“Deeply saddened. Florence was one of the most gracious people I have ever known, Proud to call her Mom and life long friend,” Barry Williams, who portrayed Greg Brady, wrote.
Co-star Maureen McCormick, who portrayed Marcia Brady, paid tribute to Henderson, posting a photo of the ladies at the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ taping. “You are in my heart forever Florence.” McCormick also wrote, “Florence Henderson was a dear friend for so very many years & in my heart forever. Love & hugs to her family. I’ll miss u dearly.”
Three days before her passing Henderson attended a taping of the ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ Host Tom Bergeron offered his condolences to Henderson’s family via Twitter, writing, “Heartbroken. I’ll miss you, my friend.” Henderson appeared on season 11 of ‘DWTS.’
Television husband Robert Reed [Mike Brady], died in May 1992. Henderson and Reed starred with Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb [Jan Brady], Christopher Knight [Peter Brady], Mike Lookinland [Bobby Brady], Susan Olsen [Cindy Brady] and Ann B. Davis [Alice Nelson] on the popular sitcom from 1969 until 1974.
The actress’s resume includes guest appearances on ‘The Muppet Show,’ ‘The Love Boat,’ ‘L.A. Law.’ ‘Roseanne’ and ‘The King of Queens.’ Henderson reprised her role as Carol Brady several times for ‘The Brady Brides’ and ‘A Very Brady Christmas.’
Henderson’s most recent television credits include ‘The Florence Henderson Show’ and ‘Who’s Cooking with Florence Henderson.’ Henderson was in the process of taping the talk shows at the time of her death.
We offer our sincere condolences to the iconic actress’s family and friends.
Florence Henderson was a dear friend for so very many years & in my <3 forever. Love & hugs to her family. I’ll miss u dearly #RIPFlorence
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Deeply saddened. Florence was one of the most gracious people I have ever known, Proud to call her Mom and life long friend. #RIPFlorence
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The 2011 US Masters tournament will live long in the memory of those who watched the dramatic finale unfold as half a dozen players jostled for the lead over the last nine holes. The abiding memories will be the contrasting fortunes of Charl Schwarzel and Rory McIlroy. Schwarzel displayed the steely nerve of the champion as he birdied each of the final four holes on his way to victory. McIlroy, who had led the competition for 63 of the 72 holes, tumbled out of contention, having discovered that he was unable to replicate the form of the previous three days of competition.
Club golfers throughout the world can empathise in some measure with McIlroy’s demoralising final round. The inability to play to the same level on each occasion we visit the course has long been one of the frustrations of the game; but it is also part of its appeal.
James Hood is the latest Stornoway golfer to experience that frustration. His soggy scorecard from the first summer competition shows that he was already eight over par after five holes when he decided that continuing in the atrocious weather conditions was senseless. Three days later, the contrast could hardly have been more glaring. The day was calm and relatively warm and, as the early morning fog rose from the course, James completed a solid round to take the Healthworkers Charity Trophy with an impressive nett 61. With a handicap of 23, James will look on four consecutive pars on the back nine, starting at the Ranol, as the highlight of his round.
Norman L Macdonald, newly returned from displaying his golfing banditry on the Algarve, had the nerve to continue in the same vein at home where his nett 63 was enough to earn second place. In fact, that was not quite the whole story. Norman began his round in erratic style and reached the turn in 50 blows. Instead of throwing in the towel at this stage and retiring to watch the Grand National in the comfort of the clubhouse, Norman experienced an inexplicable change in fortune that saw him complete the back nine in 38 strokes, finishing with four pars on the last six holes. The argument over whether or not he is worthy of a 25 handicap is now academic, as Norman will be playing off 23 this week.
Two other competitors also returned nett 63, edged out of runner up spot by Norman’s inspired inward half. Coincidentally, both golfers were continuing their excellent form from the Winter League. Gordon Kennedy took third place with a round where – like many other rounds on the day – the disappointment of the opening nine holes was redeemed by an inward half that made nonsense of handicaps.
As had been the case in the latter stages of the Winter League, Richard Galloway had another steady round of eleven pars and seven bogeys. Most of us would gladly play every round like Richard and return a card without birdies if it meant that the dispiriting double and triple bogeys were also absent.
Thirteen of the weekend field of around seventy broke par, a statistic that was in stark contrast to the midweek competition that opened the summer season. Incessant rain restricted the numbers completing the Caledonian Medal competition intact to single figures. Of those, one display stood out from all others. Neil Morrison somehow splashed his way around a sodden course to post a score of nett 67, the only return below par. He reached the halfway stage in only two over par, having played in the worst of the monsoon conditions. Once the weather eased slightly, Neil found it more difficult to adapt but his eventual score was astonishing in the circumstances. Incidentally, Neil was unable to repeat his performance in the calm conditions of the weekend. Neil is clearly more comfortable playing in wild and wet weather and so can look forward to a continuing reduction in handicap this summer.
Runner up in the midweek competition was Martyn Macleod, who followed up his nett 70 with an even more impressive nett 65 last Saturday.
The Ladies competitions commenced last weekend with the Cancer Relief stableford event. Mary Joyce won the competition by one point from Liz Carmichael. The Juniors also began their summer season with Adam Longdon winning their first medal competition.
There have been excellent numbers entering the matchplay competitions that will be contested throughout the summer. Draws for these competitions have now been made and the dates set for the completion of each round. To ensure that the competition runs smoothly, it is important that ties are played within the specified timescale. Pat Aird, one of the match and handicap officials with the unenviable responsibility for enforcing competition rules, has been spotted recently wandering around the clubhouse with a hammer. Fortunately, that has more to do with renovation work than the enthusiastic use of his powers, but it would be advisable not to try his patience.


Researchers at MIT have developed a computer model which they say can rev up the effectiveness of an antibody-based therapy. And it's not just a theory. They say that they have used the model to design a new form of cetuximab (Erbitux)--a therapy for colorectal cancer--that is 10 times better at binding to its target than the original molecule. The model reviews potential amino-acid substitutions, looking for ways to build a structure with greater binding properties. The scientists say that better protein modeling can also reduce the cost of developing the drugs.
"New and better methods for improving antibody development represent critical technologies for medicine and biotechnology," says MIT Professor Dane Wittrup.
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Over 100,000 FLIR cores have been or are being used in automotive applications as a nighttime driving aid. The environmental requirements imposed by automobile manufacturers are generally far more stringent than for military systems.
In addition, tens of thousands of FLIR cores are used as
imaging payloads in small unmanned vehicles (aka drones or remotely
piloted aircraft) used by the military, which sometimes crash-land.
Some customers have reported that their FLIR OEM cameras experience
forces of many hundreds and in some cases thousands of g’s, yet in most
cases keep on working well beyond the product design specifications.
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A Rolling Stone story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia has, in the eyes of many in the media, gone from bombshell reporting to journalistic malpractice in the bat of an eye.
The piece achieves its power with a difficult-to-read opening about the protagonist of the story, Jackie, arriving with a date at a fraternity party where a trap has been set by frat brothers to take turns brutally raping her for hours.
The details of this crime are practically unspeakable. The shock of it led many people to recoil in horror and ask, "How could this have happened at such a respectable school?"
Upon further reflection, people began to ask, "Could this really have happened?"
First, there's the scale of the crime. No one doubts the existence of sociopaths on campus, but nine of them conspiring together at one fraternity in an act so depraved it could be something out of a West African civil war?
Then there are the details. If the gang rape was premeditated, why did the fraternity brothers leave a glass table in the room, which Jackie was smashed through in the initial attack, with the subsequent assaults taking place on the shards?
Would Jackie's friends, seeing her bruised, cut and traumatized, really have stood around debating how it would affect their social status if she dared report the crime?
Perhaps all of this happened (life is full of evil and improbabilities), but it is impossible to know one way or another from reading the story, which marshals little evidence beyond Jackie's own testimony. Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely didn't talk to the accused students, and she wouldn't tell The Washington Post whether she even knew their names.
Almost as shocking as the original incident is the fact that Jackie never reported it to the police. If Rolling Stone is to be believed, the UVA administration didn't really encourage her to do so, and even as she was talking to the magazine for a report that would make national waves, she still hadn't reported her tormentors to law enforcement.
Even considering her trauma and fragile psychological state, this is an extraordinary lapse. By her account, Phi Kappa Psi isn't a fraternity so much as a criminal gang committed to sexual violence. If this is true, Phi Kappa Psi doesn't merely deserve to have its operations suspended; it should be razed, and its brothers should rot in jail.
Bizarrely, prosecution of rapists isn't particularly high on the list of priorities of many of the same feminists who reflexively credit the UVA story. The feminist agenda on campus aims to define ambiguous sexual encounters as rape at the same time it seeks to empower college administrations, instead of the criminal-justice system, to handle sexual-assault allegations.
Jed Rubenfeld of Yale Law School has explained why both ends of this equation are wrong. The new standard for sexual consent — spelled out in elaborate campus rules governing every step of a sexual encounter — "encourages people to think of themselves as sexual assault victims when there was no assault." Meanwhile, campus trials lack the rigor (and procedural protections for defendants) of the criminal-justice system, and result in relatively minor punishments like counseling and suspensions.
Schools should be encouraging victims to go to the police, as befits any other crime. No one would ever think to handle an armed robbery with a campus hearing and a disciplinary slap on the wrist.
The other campus imperative should be better controlling the alcohol-fueled party scene that has become an entitlement of young adulthood in America. Much of what feminists call rape culture is what Heather Mac Donald, in a characteristically brilliant essay for The Weekly Standard, deems "a squalid hook-up scene, the result of jettisoning all normative checks on promiscuous behavior."
At UVA, the priority should be getting to the truth of Jackie's story, and either holding accountable the guilty parties or debunking a calumny.
Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review and author of the best-seller “Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream — and How We Can Do It Again.” He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and a variety of other publications. Read more reports from Rich Lowry — Click Here Now.

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More bad meat
July 8, 2008
The USDA’s monthly Livestock Slaughter report shows May was another record-setting month for meat production. U.S. commercial meat production totaled 4.22 billion pounds in May, up 4 percent from the 4.08 billion pounds produced in 2007.
Pork production totaled 1.82 billion pounds, up 3 percent from the previous year. Hog slaughter totaled 9.06 million head, up 3 percent from May 2007. The average live weight was down 1 pound from the previous year, at 268 pounds. Beef production, at 2.38 billion pounds, was 4 percent higher than last year. Cattle slaughter totaled 3.14 million head, up 3 percent from May 2007.
From January to May, commercial meat production was 21.0 billion pounds, up 7 percent from 2007. Accumulated pork production was up 11 percent, and beef production was up 4 percent.
Cows, pigs and chickens aren’t raised in pretty green meadows. They’re raised in crowded, unfavorable conditions and, especially in the case with dairy cows, are injected with growth hormones. The feed they’re given is even more alarming. Cattle are made to eat grass, which their stomachs turn into cud they gracefully regurgitate and chew for hours. But that’s not how the meat industry likes it. Instead, industrialized slaughterhouse-bound livestock are fed cheap high-calorie grain, which often times contains other dead animals to fatten the cattle even more. That gives the meat corporation more bang for their buck.
What does that give you, the consumer? You get dark, firm and dry meat (DFD). Crowded feed areas cause stress in the animals and lowers lactic acid in their muscles, causing discoloration, a shorter shelf life and unusually high pH levels. DFD meat is known to carry E. coli and bacteria, which cause food poisoning in people.
Reports indicate that 14,000 Americans die every year from drug-resistant infections (caused by that bacteria in DFD meat). And those growth hormones found in your dairy? They put people at greater risk of colon, prostate and breast cancers.
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