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June 3, 2016

Fiction by Muhammad Nasrullah Khan: "The Last Storyteller"

"Muhammad Nasrullah Khan is from Pakistan currently living in Saudi Arabia, where he is Lecturer in English at Taif University. Writing is his passion and teaching his profession. His 15 years of experience in the field of writing has honed his capacity to compose basic fascinating stories about the human experience. Enlivened by the stories of great English and Russian writers, he has taken a pinch of fact and a cup of fiction to weave an embroidered creative work of adoration, trust, and agony in his stories. His work has appeared in Indiana Voice Journal,Newtopia Magazine, Gowanus Books,Offcourse literary Journal University at Albany, The Raven Chronicles, and many others. He exists on twitter as @nasar_peace ,at nasar_peace@hotmail.com, nasar_peace@yahoo.com, and https://www.facebook.com/nasar.peace "

The Last Storyteller

In my home I have three windows, each named according to the time of day when they illuminate my life: Sunrise, Sunset and Twilight. Sunset spreads transparency over most of the wall, filling the room with an endless palette of colors, until the sun dips below the edge of my world, gone for another day.  When the light of Sunset fades to dusk, I close the shades and turn away, unable to face it for another moment.  When I turn to the smaller Twilight, I see a more subtle opening above; stars and the moon fill my world.  I peer into Twilight until sleep overtakes me.  On the morrow, my eyes turn to my favorite, Sunrise.
Sunrise opens into my walled garden, where I keep company with the many birds seeking sanctuary. They split their days between luxuriating in the fountain and indulging in the buffet of seeds suspended in feeders or formed into cakes of suet. The timbre of their tunes echo gratitude from willowy trees and bounce against the high stonewalls that surround us as the affection of the Sunrise rests upon our faces.  I cannot imagine a day without the company of birds, especially the blue sparrow whose presence I have come to relish in my garden. Each day, I find her poised on a nearby branch, eyeing the lofty top of a tree near the feeder favored by the sparrows or spying a resting place where she may to join in with the other birds. Deliberately, she makes her way towards them hopping to one branch, alighting briefly on another. Once the other sparrows note her approach, she is driven back by forceful beaks, buffeting wings and sharp talons. She ends up sitting alone.
The day I first saw her, perched atop the garden wall, she recused herself from the host of drab gray sparrows. Her rare beauty threatened them and they punished her for it.
The writer in me struggles to find the story, the origin of the Blue Sparrow.  How had she come to me?  What drew her to this walled-in paradise?  Perhaps, her host left her and she rests here, stranded. I wonder at her lack of confidence -- she should rule the garden as a monarch resplendent in her elegant plumage.  But she lingers, unsure of her true place among the sparrows, as if she tests the waters of her new liberation, having escaped the confines of an iron cage.
This morning as I gaze through Sunrise, she ruffles her feathers and stretches out her wings to bask beneath stray rays through the leafy canopy.  She unfolds like the petals of a morning glory outstretches under golden rays; her wings are reminiscent of the clear sky curtained by royal blue wingtips.
The blue sparrow inspires an obsession within me.  Somewhere between the pale blue of her face to the vibrant cobalt stripes of her wings and tail, I forget my need to write her story. I long to catch her, to possess her beauty. Stronger than my desire to cage her is my fear of seizing her. As each day draws to a close, the fear of her permanent departure returns. In doubt I flee from her, from her story yet to be written, I retreat from her bright presence.  Every day, lost in my own fear, I depart Sunrise and its promise of stories yet to be written.
My day comes to an end and the sun reposes on the horizon. I want to frolic with the stripes of oranges and purple swinging through the air. My Singing blue sparrow fades out her songs. Sunset, the most flamboyant of the three, beckons to me.  I lose myself in the majestic colors which pour through Sunset.  Each color, magnified by the rays of the setting sun, sprawls onto the canvas of my walls trailing brilliant reds, giving way to wisps of pinks, and undulating purples.  The majesty of life, of all conflict and of the entire world, pours through the flimsy lens of a window pane and draws me away from tales unwritten.  I lose myself in memories and ideas as I stare through this bombastic fenestella.
Sunset casts me out on a playground where I watch young boys, full of boundless energy and strength, shriek and scream in the midst of their wild games. They continue blissfully unaware of the gaze from one who fondly remembers his carefree membership of their number. I remember long summer days I spent as a boy, running without pause; where I had no time for exhaustion or concern for injury.
The boys on the playground frolic and laugh while bowling and batting with their homespun swords.  Their stories are written by their action, their parts play out on this vast stage of life.  Among them I find company in the freedom of their hearts. Their play extends into eternity, propelled by youthful stamina. There they are caught up in this frozen moment, where time has no charge.  The game of life, plays out with a cricket bat or a wooden sword, envelopes and caresses them and they embellish their roles with zeal.
In a single moment, a brilliant flash breaks the spell as the last golden beam of the setting sun dwindles and turns the world into a gentle mixture of burnished gold and opulent pinks. Sunset kisses the boys’ faces as the last piece of the scintillating yellow disc slips below the horizon. Soft hues wash over the playground, the shadows lengthen and the air chills.
The departing light leaves the boys shadowed in the caress of the evening, adorned with the intensifying glow of celestial bodies caught deep within its arms. In the corner of my window I see the crescent of a new moon barely visible above the horizon and recite aloud an old poem from school -- a poem that I never fully understood as a child, but finally find its meaning within the departing boys:
“Till the little ones weary
No more can be merry;
The sun does descend,
And our sports have an end.”
I force myself to look to the stars or the moon, but instead my eyes wander inexplicably to the old graveyard astride the playground. My gaze trails among the misshapen marble, forlorn in stark contrast to the playground at its heart.  Once again, I am reminded that stories must end and stories unwritten lay forever beneath the virginal clay of an idea.
The gravestones are oversized and haphazardly scattered: some large, a few are small, while others stick out at crooked angles.  With the boys gone and all possible stories shredded by their absence, I am reminded of the inevitable.  This graveyard will spill onto the playground with the constant creeping of the fingers of death, a monster that comes for everyone. Even now it searches for the absent boys. One day, I will face the devoured playground, the loss of the stalwart youth, and Sunset will become the final resting spot of those who lose their struggle.
With an exhale that mingles resignation and composure, I close the curtains over Sunset, shut away the lost light and the lost stories in equal measure.
I turn to my final hideaway, my Twilight window.  Here I repose, my gaze fixed on the aperture of forever.  The iridescent shine of the moon unravels into Twilight. In subtle beauty, the cool shades of indigo usher stars into their full elegance, where they illuminate my world in ways the sun never could.  In this place my hope and ideas combine unbidden into incredible tales I never quite hold on to in any other window, in any other corner of my mind, or sparkling slice of my soul.
The glimmering romance of newborn moonbeams spread their smooth shades over everything. Within the depths of shadows the presence of a muse is summoned, she mingles delicately within the reciprocation of glow and gloom. Here, in their company, I spend as much time as they will allow. Sitting beneath this lunette, I have waited for many years to write one story.  The muse seduces me with her splendor, her soft kiss fills me with hope and desire.  Her caress saturates my senses and gives me an urgency I lack even when faced with all of the possibilities of the corybantic youths.  Her tender ministrations elate me with an invigorating passion which even surpasses the desire I feel when I gaze upon the perfection of the blue sparrow.
Before I greet Twilight, each day is filled with hopeful, fresh empty pages, offering sanctuary to the Story that lingers at the tip of my pen.  A story so fresh, so alive, it refuses to resign itself to capture on the page. But at the end of the day in the company of the silvery muse, I am reminded of my failure as iridescent shades of Twilight illuminates blank pages as my beacon of defeat.
Like my blue sparrow, I long to encase the characters of this story, with whom I share my life. Roaming without boundaries they dwell in my head, all threads of the singular, elusive Story. Exposed by the muse, caught in the silvery-gray and indigo infinity of this final translucent pane, the shadow of each character taunts me, flitters just out of my reach and mocks my attempts to contain it with pen and ink.
The Story takes pleasure in outwitting me.  Day after day, it eludes my grasp.  No chains contain the ethereal story, not even my muse can seduce a single sentence or take hold of a cardboard character which might allow me to entice a protagonist or ensnare a villain.
“You can’t catch me,” The Story reminds me in my futile pursuit, and in the stark echoes of gleaming blank pages, I hear a taunting laugh.
As I rest in the glow of Twilight, aware of the familiar oblivion that peers over my shoulder, derided and mocked by failure, success lingers just beyond my reach. Sleepless, my mind fumbles for the Story in darkness; urged by the characters that would have once graced these empty pages but fall, defeated. The self-satisfied growl of the predator -- who consumes each scene, devours conflict and resolution, destroys antagonist and hero -- vibrates in my head and resonates in my bones until I cannot think. Yet my mind will not allow them to lose the war.
Within the deepening dark, Story turns to me: “How many times must I tell you, you cannot constrain me?” And then once more Story leaves me in utter darkness, and my thoughts trail behind it.  As a broken-down hunter, I follow each trace and track it into the unknown.
Twilight lets in an errant breeze which flutters over me, blows the blank papers from my desk, and demands my attention. I move to the window, caress the frame as if it is a lover.  So much lost, I ache in my heart, but with that touch I feel its quiet wisdom. I look at the panes fondly, remembering what this window has revealed to me over the years.
Twilight never provides warmth like Sunrise nor does it gloss over the imperfections of the day with the radiant glow of Sunset.  It never distracts me from all that perplexes me. Twilight reveals to me, in cold steady truth, the things I need to see.
And tonight Twilight shows me a familiar sight, The Last Storyteller.  The ache in my heart and the thrumming in my bones fade away as I am provided the perfect view of the QISA KHWANI BAZAAR. "The Bazaar of Storytellers” was once famous for recitals.  Crowds gathered, thrived on daily folktales, as one thrives on oxygen. Huddled in close by the chilling wind, they gathered around the fire and listened to storytellers as they shared their tales of long-forgotten bravery and courage.
But as time passed, and crowds thinned, those once hungry for the journeys of the imagination now indulged in the luxuries of the ever-evolving world. Even with the disappearance of crowds, The Last Storyteller still makes his home here in the dull light of a small, yellow lamp hanging from a blackened ceiling above him.
As he has done every night, The Last Storyteller unfolds his straw mat upon the pavement and sits once more, awaiting his audience. His legs crossed, hands clasped in his lap, he prepares to share the words that have captivated audiences in years past. Wavering above his head is a sign simply stating:
“I Tell Stories”.
But tonight there is no one to listen. Sitting there, alone, he is the embodiment of a wavering candle, using his remaining light to call to those who still seek him.  The exhaustion etched into his face now tells his stories better than he ever could.
No audience materializes, not even a passing mouse or a struggling old lady laden with jugs of water.  So he begins to read to pass the time, his lamp illuminates the old book in his hands. The orange and yellow lights of the bazaar hang in the still air, as they call moths to sacrifice themselves in a deadly dance with flame.
Eventually, however, a small crowd gathers before The Last Storyteller.  The tiny congregation does not compare with the throngs he used to command, but it is enough to call him to his craft. There in front of the audience, The Last Storyteller draws himself from the shadows and a gleam returns to his eyes. By virtue of his story, he cuts through the night's darkness with threads of imagination and pathways of escape.
Here, at Twilight, I sit transfixed upon The Storyteller, forgetting that I have my own tales to tell. I continue to watch as he casts his tales out into the crowd, giving each story glimmers of life.
This night, in a rude awakening, outsiders approach the edges of The Last Story Teller’s audience; they stick out in appalling fashion. High tech reporters are easily identified by microphones, notebooks and shiny vehicles; they seek to report about him as if he was the only ridiculous creature left on this planet.  Their report about the near extinction of storytellers is headline news.
These reporters care nothing for the tales he shares but instead for the tale he could provide them. Their hungry pens hope to use him as their centerpiece human interest story. To them The Last Story Teller is an exotic spectacle of the past to add spice to the mundane world.
Intruding on his story they prod at him with questions, "Storyteller, how do you create your stories?"
He continues with his story, but their voices break once more over his tale, “Tell us, how do you imagine your characters?”
Pressing onwards he tries to regain the fading spell of his narration, but with his cadence broken, he falters as the reporters’ pestering persists. They will not allow him to go on until they are satisfied. And in the reporters’ cacophony, the listeners began to drift away.  With a shrug, the last listener reluctantly departs.
The Storyteller arises to walk away.
Still the reporters chase him, “How do you feel when you find a new story?”
“Like a hen after laying eggs,” The man whose face was etched by time let his response, like his irritation, hang in the air among them. At last he renders them speechless, and to this, he cackles.
The reporters retreat once more into the darkness, and The Story Teller stands there looking into the distance with cloudy eyes.
There he stands, lost in his thoughts, I clearly see a shadow lurking in his path, eluding his gaze and perplexing his mind. His once beaming eyes darken; the glow of his stories leaves him and his shoulders stoop from an unknown weight.
Within The Storyteller I find familiarity in the shadows of sadness etched onto his face. In his faraway gaze I know the sight he seeks. From my distance I wonder what has brought him to this point. He eventually gives into sleep, his head buried in his hands.
In his repose, his grip loosens around a paper he has clutched in his hand, and it is torn away by an errant draft where it travels to me at the edge of Twilight.
In my hands I find a letter from his son.
“Dear Father,
Much time has passed since I left home.
You never quit storytelling, regardless of the poverty we were in. Our conditions never improved. To this day I keep thinking if I were in your place, I would have done anything except for storytelling, which failed to bring us from our impoverished state.
Now I am here, far away, where I work hard every day to survive. I can remember what you said to me when I was leaving—you said to me that you weren't rich, but you could give me advice.
In the end, Father, you gave me neither money nor advice.
Even now I work from dawn until dusk, every day, but still cannot earn enough money to help myself, let alone you. You taught me many things, but never how to make money.
Father, I am sure story telling still gives you much satisfaction, but it also brings with it much uncertainty.”
A name is scrawled at the bottom, but I cannot make it out.  It could be any name, but it matters little.  That tale has been told.  Drawing myself from the contents of the letter, I look once more and see The Last Storyteller standing before me. The man I gaze upon seems entirely different than The Storyteller I feel a kinship to, through many watches from my Window. His wizened eyes delve deep into my soul and I feel the full weight of his resignation. Now in standing this close to him I no longer see the light in his eyes. I now know it is only reserved for the stories he tells.
Embarrassed, I cough, “Is this your letter?” and thrust the paper towards him.
Before turning to go, we look at each other and understanding fills the space between us.
He touches my shoulder and speaks simply. “I know you write stories, but our lives are afflicted by the stories that write us.” With that, he continues on his way, ambling towards his pitch, taking his letter with him.
I continue to watch as the bazaar becomes more barren. Every time I open Twilight, I see even less than the night before.  The bazaar is dying, slain by a changing economy, by a world which has moved on.  Eventually, I close the curtains to the Twilight Window- I cannot watch this any longer.
Months pass by until a cold wind pushes its way past my curtains under the drumming of icy rain. I cannot help but shiver as I stare at the closed and curtained windows as an arctic draft wafts through cracks, producing an echoing creak.
Night after night, I keep company with The Story I fruitlessly pursue, and hour-by-hour it evades me with layers of sleet and delicate hoarfrost on the windowpane. I can no longer bear to open the curtains on the Twilight, for I cannot bear its truth.
Days pass me until I seize my courage and whip open the curtains on Sunrise. Before me, I find the crisp chill of a bright winter morning, and relief floods my heart.  My fear was for naught. I cast my eyes over the frozen ground once covered with birds. The sparrows have flown south to warmer climes, their stories unfolding before them.
And then my eyes catch on dull blue on the hard frozen ground, cold and outstretched on the frosted grass.
Grief seizes me, where moments before I felt free.  She is dead.
I feel the familiar twinges of desire, to catch her, posses her beauty.  Where once I thought to protect her, I find my failure on all accounts.  The essence of the blue sparrow has taken wing and I own her corpse only in death. My heart aches as I put her into the ground for her final rest. As I hold her frozen body in the palm of my hands, her soft feathers sway mournfully in the cold breeze like a colorful anemone in an icy ocean current. As I place dirt over her, I know the colors I once admired at the height of the sun will now only survive in my most exquisite dreams.
The day drags on as I resign myself to a reality without Blue Sparrow.  In desperation, I turn to my gaudy Sunset Window for comfort. I draw back the curtains once more and find the playground empty. The creep of the graveyard caught up with the wild youths while I was not looking. Graves spill out into the foreground, forbidding boys from coming to play.
And finally I turn to Twilight.  A single tear wells in my eye as grief and hope battle.  I muster the courage to look deep into the indigo night, searching for the bazaar.
The Storyteller’s dim lamp is no longer there.
“Well, that’s it,” I resign myself. “The Story Teller has no listeners and no money. He has gone!”
The next morning when I wake up, I know I need more than the light of Sunrise shining into my home, so I open the curtains to all three Windows.
My eye is caught by Twilight; the marketplace is bustling in full daylight, alive with noise and sound. There are colors, laughter, spices, and smiles. The loud hum of haggling is tossed over the matters of goods and wares.
Then, just there, out of the corner of my eye, I see a familiar sight, The Storyteller’s shadow.
He is in his usual place, but above him his sign reads, “Vegetables for Sale.”
The stall in front of him is lively and packed with many customers demanding to buy from him. His face is full of life and vigor as he counts out potatoes and wraps a squash.
From my portal, I strain to summon his gaze and watch as he refuses to see me. In fact, his eyes refuse to see anyone at all. Somehow he is no longer there, his mouth is speaking, but his eyes betray the truth -- The Last Storyteller is gone.  He has gone with the blue sparrow. The Last Storyteller is dead, and The Vegetable Seller now lives in his body. I now know I reside in a world without stories, full of bodies that will never truly live.
I return to my table and take the scattered papers I have dotted with bits and pieces of the Story. I shred them into small pieces, and scatter their remains through my three Windows. Some pieces land on the ‘corpse’ of The Last Storyteller. He smirks at me, and in his smile I hear The Vegetable Seller tells me that our world does not need stories, it wants commodities.
In the last dirge of The Storyteller, he extols, “I told the stories of beauty and magic, as well as of love and loneliness and none of it matters. The world only desires tangible things - items that can be bought and owned. Life necessitates biting in order to continue fleshly existence, and to feed the soul is an abstract task.”
I peer one last time through the Twilight Window and shut it forever.

~ Muhammad Nasrullah Khan ( Pakistan)

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Captains Steam the Kernels 10-1

Greg Folgia and Chris Kersten combined to drive in seven runs, as Matt Packer tossed seven innings of one run ball leading Lake County to a 10-1 win over Cedar Rapids.

Lake County jumped in front 1-0 in the top of first inning. Casey Frawley tripled to left centerfield to score Trent Baker who reached on an error by third baseman Michael Wing.

Cedar Rapids came right back to tie the game at one in the bottom of the first. Jean Segura singled up the middle and after a bunt single by Matt Long the Kernels had runners on the corners. Jeremy Cruz hit into a double play which allowed Segura to score.

In the fourth inning, Jason Smit reached on a four pitch walk to get aboard. Greg Folgia wasted no time, crushing a Kehrer pitch to deep left center to make it 3-1.

Roberto Perez picked up a one out single to get the seventh inning started. Smit picked up his first hit of the game with a single to right. Folgia doubled down the left field line driving in his third run of the game. Argenis Martinez and Delvi Cid went back to back with single to right each of them driving in a run. Trent Baker walked to load the bases. Chris Kersten smashed a towering shot to leftfield for a grand slam homerun. The Captains scored seven runs on six hits and lead it 10-1.

Packer (8-4) picked up the win with seven innings of work giving up just one run on seven hits, striking out four. Tyler Kehrer (3-4) suffered the loss giving up three runs, two of them earned on four hits over five innings. Antownie Hubbard pitched two shutout innings in relief giving up just a hit.

Lake County and Cedar Rapids will continue their three game series with a 3:05PM start from Memorial Veterans Stadium. RHP Brett Brach (1-5) will get the start for the Captains in game two of the series and will be matched up against LHP Stephan Locke (5-2) for the Kernels.

Tides shutout Clippers, 4-0

Columbus' high-powered offense was no match for Zach Britton and the Norfolk Tides on Saturday night, as Britton blanked the Clippers, 4-0 at Harbor Park in front of 7,553 fans.

Columbus was held to just six hits on the night, a vast difference from last night's 16 hit performance. In the previous 22 games, Columbus has pounded out at least 10 hits in 17 of those contests.

The Tides scored a single run in each of the first four innings against starter Josh Tomlin, who pitched seven innings, but gave up three home runs in his fourth loss of the season. Robert Andino hit his tenth home run of the season to begin the scoring in the bottom of the first inning and Michael Aubrey went yard twice, once in the second and again in the fourth to put Columbus away.

Britton pitched seven and a third scoreless innings, scattering only five hits on the night. He was in control the entire night and faced only one jam in the seventh, as he allowed two hits, but was later pulled.

The Clippers look for the series split against the Tides tomorrow at 6:15 p.m. at Harbor Park. David Huff (3-0, 4.15) is scheduled to start for Columbus as Zach Clark (0-4, 5.06) will take the hill for Norfolk.

The Aeros stormed back to win again Saturday night, striking for three runs in the decisive seventh inning to claim a 6-5 victory over the Erie SeaWolves. Akron

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SOCHI, Russia – As it should be.

As it had to be.

The United States and Canada, the rematch of the classic 2010 gold-medal game in Vancouver.

U.S. center David Backes was asked about it moments after the Americans' surgical 5-2 dismantling of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinal game.

A huge smile.

"I don't know if it's destiny, but it seemed like it was inevitable that at some point, we'd be meeting," he said Wednesday. "We traveled 5,000 miles to a foreign land to play each other, we share a long border with them. ... So that's the great thing about this tournament. To win it, you have to beat great competition."

This, after all, is what the high-flying Americans wanted, what the U.S. hockey establishment has wanted since Sidney Crosby beat Ryan Miller in overtime in Vancouver.

Let's just say nobody in the American locker room was hurt to see the Russians sent home, leaving the stage for the U.S. and Canada, although Sweden and Finland are not road pizza on the way to the gold medal.

"We're not upset they're out, as good as they are," Zach Parise said. "When guys like (Ilya) Kovalchuk, (Alexander) Ovechkin and (Evgeni) Malkin aren't in the tournament anymore, it's pretty nice."

So, U.S.-Canada. This had to happen. And now the Americans are playing their best hockey, improving every day and every night, playing with more pace and physicality with each passing game. They've been pushed just once this tournament, beating the Russians in the epic T.J. Oshie shootout. In the Olympics, it's all about goaltending and the ability of a team to pull together quickly. It's all happening for the Americans, with Jonathan Quick playing solidly, with the U.S. growing every game in all three zones of the ice.

Through the first three games, the line of Joe Pavelski, Phil Kessel and James Van Riemsdyk ruled the ice. Wednesday, it was Backes, Dustin Brown and Ryan Callahan who not only put the puck in the net, but matched up against the Czech Republic's best line, led by Jaromir Jagr.

"We're the Meat Line," Backes said. "I'm the beef, Brown's the pork and Callahan is the chicken."

Don't ask.

Just marvel at the way this team has grown together. They have surpassing skill, led by the magical Patrick Kane (who's been quiet so far this tournament), and they have a lot of big-bodied guys with abrasive dispositions. Throw in strong goaltending, and this is going to be a tough team to keep out of the gold-medal game.

"We seem to have great balance," Brown said. "A lot of guys who are willing to sacrifice their bodies for the good of the team. We've got guys who are hard on the puck and are tough to play against."

Throw in a bravura performance by defenseman Ryan Suter, who had three assists, and you had a relatively one-sided affair that got out of control early.

"Ryan can control games with his passing," Parise said. "It seems so effortless, the way he skates, the plays he makes. He simplifies the game so well and makes the game easy for the forwards."

MORE KRAVITZ: Checking in

While everybody else in the tournament is struggling to score goals — the Canadians peppered the Latvian goalie and won just 2-1 in the other quarterfinal — the Americans are filling the net. That's 20 goals in four games. In this game, the Americans chased starting goalie Ondrej Pavelec, who had me looking up the Czech word for "sieve." (It's sito, or reseto, take your pick).

He was preternaturally awful, giving up four goals on 13 shots, three of them softies from impossible angles. Pavelec is notoriously awful in the second game of back-to-backs, having gone 4-17 with a 4.22 goals against average and an .866 save percentage. He didn't disappoint Wednesday ... unless you're Czech, and then he was terribly disappointing.

The U.S. won't see that kind of goaltending from Canada.

What they will see is a mirror image of themselves, a typical North American team, although one with more raw talent than the U.S.

We've waited four years for this.

"We were destined and on a crash course to face each other,'' Quick said.

It can't come soon enough.

Bob Kravitz is a columnist for the Indianapolis Star. Call him at (317) 444-8643 or email bob.kravitz@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @BKravitz.


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Born on Jan. 26, 1961, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Wayne Gretzky’s gift for hockey was evident at a young age. When he was six he skated with 10-year-olds. He gave his first newspaper interview (and was compared to NHL greats) at nine. In his final season of peewee hockey in Brantford, he scored 378 goals.

Gretzky joined the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) at 15, playing three games as an emergency call-up with the Peterborough Petes. He played for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds during his only full OHA season and finished second in scoring. In January 1978, he was the leading scorer and named top center at the World Junior Championship in Quebec City. That fall he joined the World Hockey Association’s (WHA) Indianapolis Racers. Financial problems forced the Racers sold Gretzky to the Edmonton Oilers eight games into the 1978-79 season. The Oilers signed Gretzky to a three-year, $10-million contract on his 18th birthday. Gretzky had 104 points and was named Rookie of the Year.

The WHA folded, the Oilers entered the NHL in 1979. Gretzky made an immediate impact, becoming the youngest player to score 50 goals in a season. He had 109 assists in the 1980-81 season, breaking Bobby Orr’s record. Gretzky scored a record 92 goals the following season (the previous record was 76). Gretzky’s first trip to the Stanley Cup Finals was a disappointment; the New York Islanders swept Edmonton in four games in 1983. The Oilers rebounded to win the Cup in four of the next five years. Gretzky unwittingly started a tradition by having his teammates gather at center ice for a group photo after the Oilers’ 1988 championship.

As the Oilers claimed championships, Gretzky continued to make history. He opened the 1983-84 season by scoring in a record 51 consecutive games. His 163 assists in the 1985-86 season was another record. He set a post-season record in 1985 by scoring 47 points in 18 games. Three years later, he set another post-season record by recording 31 assists in 19 games. He was the only player to score more than 200 points in a season and did so four times.

A player of Gretzky’s stature would seemingly be untouchable. That proved to not be the case. Oilers owner Peter Pocklington announced in August 1988 that Gretzky and two teammates had been traded to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for two players, three first-round draft picks and $15 million. Oilers fans were devastated, as was Gretzky, who cried at the press conference announcing his departure. He expressed fear about failing in Southern California.

He needn’t have worried. In October 1989, Gretzky replaced his childhood hero Gordie Howe as the NHL’s all-time leading scorer by scoring his 1,581st point. He surpassed Howe again four-and-a-half years later by scoring his 802nd goal. The Kings reached the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history in 1993 but lost to the Montreal Canadiens in five games.

After almost eight years in Los Angeles, Gretzky was traded to the St. Louis Blues. When the Blues declined to offer Gretzky a contract in the summer of 1996, he signed a three-year deal with the New York Rangers. Near the end of the 1998-99 season, Gretzky announced it would be his last.

In his 20-year NHL career, Gretzky had scored 2,857 points (runner-up Howe trailed him by more than 1,000 points). Gretzky’s 894 career goals were 93 more than Howe, once again the runner-up, had scored, and he had more assists (1,963) than any other player had points. He won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league’s most valuable player nine times and the Art Ross Trophy as the leading scorer 10 times. An All-Star every year he played, Gretzky became the first to be named All-Star Game Most Valuable Player with three different teams. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame immediately after his retirement. Both the Oilers and the NHL retired his number 99 during the 1999-2000 season.


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  1. Venezuela Main Page
  2. The Hugo Chavez Era Begins
  3. Chavez Survives Referendum, Consolidates Power
  4. New Referendum Fails but Chavez is Undeterred
  5. New Challenges for Chavez at Home and Abroad
  6. Chavez Experiences Electoral Setback and Battles Health Issues
  7. Major League Baseball Player Kidnapped
  8. An End to the Monroe Doctrine?
  9. Chavez Wins 2012 Presidential Election
  10. Chavez Still Battling Cancer in Late 2012
  11. Chavez's New Term Begins Without Him
  12. Chavez Dies After a Long Battle with Cancer
  13. Protests Turn Violent in 2014
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Protests Turn Violent in 2014

In the months after President Maduro assumed office, protests over increasing economic problems, such as high inflation, began in cities across Venezuela. On Feb. 12, 2014, thousands of demonstrators poured into Caracas. The protest began with a peaceful march. However, a group of government opponents showed up and called for a response to the arrest of protestors elsewhere in Venezuela. The demonstration turned violent. Three people were killed after several hundred protesters threw rocks at government buildings and police officers. Of the violence, President Maduro said, later on television, "I alert the world: we are facing a planned coup d'état."

Two days after the demonstration, government officials blamed the three deaths on opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. An organizer of recent demonstrations throughout Venezuela, Lopez spoke at the protest. Lopez denied any responsibility, but turned himself in to the authorities. He was arrested and taken to a military prison. The following week, Venezuela's government gave three American Embassy officials 48 hours to leave the country. The three officials were accused of recruiting students to take part in the antigovernment demonstrations.

Demonstrations continued to grow and spread in the days after Lopez's arrest. Throughout the rest of Feb. 2014, protestors in several cities clashed with riot police. The protests grew so intense in Táchira, a western state near the border of Colombia, President Maduro threatened to declare a form of martial law for the area. The National Guard began patrolling Caracas with tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to scare away protesters.

Violent antigovernment protests continued throughout March 2014. President Maduro invited the leaders of student protests to meet with him, promising to listen to them "with respect and affection." However, at the same time, Maduro ordered riot police officers to use pepper spray, water cannons and tear gas on thousands of student demonstrators. On March 13, three protestors were shot to death during demonstrations in Valencia. More than 20 people were killed at demonstrations between mid-Feb. and mid-March 2014.

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Lassen Volcanic National Park

Lassen Volcanic National Park, 106,372 acres (43,081 hectares), N Calif., at the southern end of the Cascade Range. Proclaimed as Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone national monuments in 1907, the two were incorporated into a new national park in 1916. The park contains volcanic peaks, lava flows, vents, and hot springs. Lassen Peak, 10,457 ft (3,187 m) high, is officially an active volcano even though the last major eruption occurred in 1914; it was intermittently active until 1921. The peak was a prominent landmark in the mid-1800s for westward travelers to California. See National Parks and Monuments (table).

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The Sweet Hereafter

Director/Writer: Atom Egoyan
Director of Photography:Paul Sarossy
Editor:Susan Shipton
Music:Mychael Danna
Production Designer:Philip Barker
Producers:Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg
Fine Line; NR; 110 minutes
Cast:Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian and Alberta Watson

It would be a huge injustice to say The Sweet Hereafter is simply about a town coping with its intense grief after a school-bus crash claims 14 young lives. Without a doubt, that is certainly weighty enough material for a feature film. But Egoyan's cerebral film emerges as a mystical, spiritual moral tale that leaves viewers reeling long after the closing credits. It's his understated, subtle style that makes the most impact. Egoyan's fragmented timeline reconstructs the already conflicted lives of the townspeople before, during and after the crash. Big city lawyer, Michael Stephens (Holm), arrives to the small, British Columbia town, urging the grief-stricken parents that someone must be held responsible for the tragedy. Stephens himself is no stranger to parental anguish. His drug-addicted daughter (Banks) desperately phones him at all hours. Most of the parents reluctantly embrace Stephens's call for revenge, others, most notably single father Billy Ansell (Greenwood), disregard him as a menacing outsider. Polley as a crash survivor gives a sweetly chilling performance. One of the most emotionally demanding films of the year, The Sweet Hereafter is also one of the best.


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Director:Ernest Dickerson
Writers:Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe
New Line Cinema; R; 93 minutes
Cast:Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain

The suburbs are often accused of having no history or culture of their own, merely offering an endless sprawl of polite houses and strip malls. Urban neighborhoods, on the other hand, often have too much history: decades of immigration waves, economic shifts, gentrification, and deterioration. This is important for Bones, because every good Gothic story needs a place overflowing with troubled history.

The action revolves around a spooky old building that enterprising black brothers (Khalil Kain, Merwin Mondesir) and their biracial stepsister (Katherine Isabelle) decide to purchase and turn into a nightclub. Bad idea. They should have paid attention to the maggots and the hound of hell that guards the place. Before long, even legendary playa Jimmy Bones (Snoopy Dogg) is frequenting the club. This doesn't mean it's successful, though: Bones was murdered and buried there 30 years earlier. Seventies icon Pam Grier stars as Jimmy's former girlfriend, endowed with psychic powers.

Bones is great, campy fun. Snoop Dogg is famous for his rapping abilities—a smooth, sexy drawl that intimates menace. So who better to play the consummately creepy Jimmy Bones, ghetto superghost with a killer wardrobe and a serious hunger for revenge? Bones reaches back to the legacy of Melvin Van Peebles, who kickstarted what later became known as the fiercely independent, politically confrontational blaxploitation genre. Bones offers good scares, and glancingly smart social commentary.


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Description: Also known as Planet of Horrors, this film follows a group of astronauts as they travel into space to retrieve the survivors of a spaceship crash. When they arrive on the planet, the crew runs into some hostile aliens who attempt to gorily wipe them out.~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Analyzing Business Goals and Constraints of Network Design

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This chapter covers typical network design business goals and constraints and talks about the top-down process for gathering information on goals, and the importance of using systematic methods for network design.
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This chapter serves as an introduction to the rest of the book by describing top-down network design. The first section explains how to use a systematic, top-down process when designing computer networks for your customers. Depending on your job, your customers might be other departments within your company, those to whom you are trying to sell products, or clients of your consulting business.

After describing the methodology, this chapter focuses on the first step in top-down network design: analyzing your customer's business goals. Business goals include the capability to run network applications to meet corporate business objectives, and the need to work within business constraints, such as budgets, limited networking personnel, and tight timeframes.

This chapter also covers an important business constraint that some people call the eighth layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model: workplace politics. To ensure the success of your network design project, you should gain an understanding of any corporate politics and policies at your customer's site that could affect your project.

The chapter concludes with a checklist to help you determine if you have addressed the business issues in a network design project.

Using a Top-Down Network Design Methodology

According to Albert Einstein:

The world we've made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.

To paraphrase Einstein, networking professionals have the ability to create networks that are so complex that when problems arise they can't be solved using the same sort of thinking that was used to create the networks. Add to this the fact that each upgrade, patch, and modification to a network can also be created using complex and sometimes convoluted thinking, and you realize that the result is networks that are hard to understand and troubleshoot. The networks created with this complexity often don't perform as well as expected, don't scale as the need for growth arises (as it almost always does), and don't match a customer's requirements. A solution to this problem is to use a streamlined, systematic methodology in which the network or upgrade is designed in a top-down fashion.

Many network design tools and methodologies in use today resemble the "connect-the-dots" game that some of us played as children. These tools let you place internetworking devices on a palette and connect them with local-area network (LAN) or wide-area network (WAN) media. The problem with this methodology is that it skips the steps of analyzing a customer's requirements and selecting devices and media based on those requirements.

Good network design must recognize that a customer's requirements embody many business and technical goals including requirements for availability, scalability, affordability, security, and manageability. Many customers also want to specify a required level of network performance, often called a service level. To meet these needs, difficult network design choices and tradeoffs must be made when designing the logical network before any physical devices or media are selected.

When a customer expects a quick response to a network design request, a bottom-up (connect-the-dots) network design methodology can be used, if the customer's applications and goals are well known. However, network designers often think they understand a customer's applications and requirements only to discover, after a network is installed, that they did not capture the customer's most important needs. Unexpected scalability and performance problems appear as the number of network users increases. These problems can be avoided if the network designer uses top-down methods that perform requirements analysis before technology selection.

Top-down network design is a methodology for designing networks that begins at the upper layers of the OSI reference model before moving to the lower layers. It focuses on applications, sessions, and data transport before the selection of routers, switches, and media that operate at the lower layers.

The top-down network design process includes exploring divisional and group structures to find the people for whom the network will provide services and from whom you should get valuable information to make the design succeed.

Top-down network design is also iterative. To avoid getting bogged down in details too quickly, it is important to first get an overall view of a customer's requirements. Later, more detail can be gathered on protocol behavior, scalability requirements, technology preferences, and so on. Top-down network design recognizes that the logical model and the physical design may change as more information is gathered.

Because top-down methodology is iterative, some topics are covered more than once in this book. For example, this chapter discusses network applications. Network applications are discussed again in Chapter 4, "Characterizing Network Traffic," which covers network traffic caused by application- and protocol-usage patterns. A top-down approach lets a network designer get "the big picture" first and then spiral downward into detailed technical requirements and specifications.

Using a Structured Network Design Process

Top-down network design is a discipline that grew out of the success of structured software programming and structured systems analysis. The main goal of structured systems analysis is to more accurately represent users' needs, which are unfortunately often ignored or misrepresented. Another goal is to make the project manageable by dividing it into modules that can be more easily maintained and changed.

Structured systems analysis has the following characteristics:

  • The system is designed in a top-down sequence.

  • During the design project, several techniques and models can be used to characterize the existing system, new user requirements, and a structure for the future system.

  • A focus is placed on understanding data flow, data types, and processes that access or change the data.

  • A focus is placed on understanding the location and needs of user communities that access or change data and processes.

  • A logical model is developed before the physical model. The logical model represents the basic building blocks, divided by function, and the structure of the system. The physical model represents devices and specific technologies and implementations.

With large network design projects, modularity is essential. The design should be split functionally to make the project more manageable. For example, the functions carried out in campus LANs can be analyzed separately from the functions carried out in remote-access networks, virtual private networks (VPNs), and WANs.

Cisco Systems recommends a modular approach with its three-layer hierarchical model. This model divides networks into core, distribution, and access layers. Cisco's Secure Architecture for Enterprises (SAFE) and Enterprise Composite Network Model (ECNM), which are discussed in Part II of this book, "Logical Network Design," are also modular approaches to network design.

With a structured approach to network design, each module is designed separately, yet in relation to other modules. All the modules are designed using a top-down approach that focuses on requirements, applications, and a logical structure before the selection of physical devices and products to implement the design.

Systems Development Life Cycles

Systems analysis students are familiar with the concept that typical systems are developed and continue to exist over a period of time, often called a systems development life cycle. Many systems analysis books use the acronym SDLC to refer to the life cycle, which may sound strange to networking students who know SDLC as Synchronous Data Link Control, a bit-oriented, full-duplex protocol used on synchronous serial links, often found in a legacy Systems Network Architecture (SNA) environment. Nevertheless, it's important to realize that most systems, including network systems, follow a cyclical set of phases, where the system is planned, created, tested, and optimized.

Feedback from the users of the system causes the system to then be re-created or modified, tested, and optimized again. New requirements arise as the network opens the door to new uses. As people get used to the new network and take advantage of the services it offers, they soon take it for granted and expect it to do more.

In this book, network design is divided into four major phases that are carried out in a cyclical fashion:

  • Analyze requirements. In this phase, the network analyst interviews users and technical personnel to gain an understanding of the business and technical goals for a new or enhanced system. The task of characterizing the existing network, including the logical and physical topology and network performance, follows. The last step in this phase is to analyze current and future network traffic, including traffic flow and load, protocol behavior, and quality of service (QoS) requirements.

  • Develop the logical design. This phase deals with a logical topology for the new or enhanced network, network layer addressing, naming, and switching and routing protocols. Logical design also includes security planning, network management design, and the initial investigation into which service providers can meet WAN and remote access requirements.

  • Develop the physical design. During the physical design phase, specific technologies and products to realize the logical design are selected. Also, the investigation into service providers, which began during the logical design phase, must be completed during this phase.

  • Test, optimize, and document the design. The final steps in top-down network design are to write and implement a test plan, build a prototype or pilot, optimize the network design, and document your work with a network design proposal.

These major phases of network design repeat themselves as user feedback and network monitoring suggest enhancements or the need for new applications. Figure 1-1 shows the network design and implementation cycle.

Figure 1Figure 1-1 Network Design and Implementation Cycle

The Plan Design Implement Operate Optimize (PDIOO) Network Life Cycle

Cisco Systems teaches the Plan Design Implement Operate Optimize (PDIOO) set of phases for the life cycle of a network. It doesn't matter exactly which life cycle you use, as long as you realize that network design should be accomplished in a structured, planned, modular fashion, and that feedback from the users of the operational network should be fed back into new network projects to enhance or redesign the network. Learning the Cisco steps is important if you are studying for a Cisco design certification. For that reason, the steps are listed here:

  • Plan. Network requirements are identified in this phase. This phase also includes an analysis of areas where the network will be installed and an identification of users who will require network services.

  • Design. In this phase, the network designers accomplish the bulk of the logical and physical design, according to requirements gathered during the plan phase.

  • Implement. After the design has been approved, implementation begins. The network is built according to the design specifications. Implementation also serves to verify the design.

  • Operate. Operation is the final test of the effectiveness of the design. The network is monitored during this phase for performance problems and any faults, to provide input into the optimize phase of the network life cycle.

  • Optimize. The optimize phase is based on proactive network management which identifies and resolves problems before network disruptions arise. The optimize phase may lead to a network redesign if too many problems arise due to design errors or as network performance degrades over time as actual use and capabilities diverge. Redesign may also be required when requirements change significantly.

  • Retire. When the network, or a part of the network, is out-of-date, it may be taken out of production. Although Retire is not incorporated into the name of the life cycle (PDIOO), it is nonetheless an important phase.

Figure 1-2 shows a graphical representation of the Cisco PDIOO network life cycle.

Figure 2Figure 1-2 PDIOO Network Life Cycle

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Nvidia unveils Tegra 4 processor, first quad-core Cortex-A15 chip

The new chip will bring users more power in mobile devices and help Nvidia remain competitive in the smartphone and tablet markets

Nvidia has unveiled its Tegra 4 processor, a chip that will bring consumers more power in mobile devices and help Nvidia remain competitive in the fast-moving mobile market. The Tegra 4 is based on ARM's quad-core Cortex-A15 processor and also packs in 72 graphics processing unit cores.

"This thing is flooded with GPU cores," said Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.

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Those processing cores will provide consumers with faster performance, but pre-launch speculation about the chip had centered on whether portable devices really need more processing power.

Huang sought to address that issue during a demonstration on stage when he pitted a Nexus 10 tablet, which he called "the fastest tablet in the world today," against a Tegra 4-based tablet. The two tablets were set to load 25 high-traffic websites: the Tegra 4 did it in 27 seconds and the Nexus 10 tablet in 50 seconds. That works out to an average page load time of one second versus two seconds, so consumers can decide for themselves if they really need to save that second.

Huang also showed other tricks that could be done with the faster chip, such as HDR (high-dynamic range) photography. HDR combines a series of photographs taken at different exposure settings to provide a wider dynamic range and is processor intensive. The iPhone 5 takes about 2 seconds to capture an HDR image, said Huang, while the Tegra 4 can snap two shots almost simultaneously and combine them.

"It basically is a one-shot HDR," he said. "Whatever you can take with one exposure, you can now take in HDR."

The new chip is important if Nvidia is to remain competitive in the smartphone and tablet computer marketplace. Its previous chip, the Tegra 3, scored some notable successes, including in smartphones from HTC and LG, and tablets such as Google's Nexus 7, Microsoft Surface and Asus's Transformer. But the chip was produced on a 40-nanometer semiconductor production process.

Rival Qualcomm has already moved to a more advanced 28nm process for its Snapdragon S4, which competes with the Tegra.

The nanometer measurement indicates the smallest feature on the surface of the chip, and each jump in technology brings advantages for consumers. Newer production processes mean lower power consumption and smaller chips, or more performance in a chip of any given size.

So chips manufactured on a more advanced production line can be attractive to device makers. Snapdragon's growing influence in the smartphone and tablet space is one of the factors pushing Nvidia to upgrade its Tegra chip.

Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's email address is martyn_williams@idg.com.

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Solving IT's mobile app deployment dilemma

Users want iPhones, iPads, and Android devices; IT wants to control application delivery and security. New management tools give them both what they want

You may have heard the ugly, disease-evoking acronyms MEAP and MCAP, which AT&T and Verizon Wireless have been pitching for a few years in their attempts to be the applications-provisioning tollbooth between IT and mobile users. That push initially meant using their apps, then it meant provisioning apps only to users on their specific networks. Not surprisingly, MEAP/MCAP fell with a thud, and IT administrators were left with no elegant way to provision enterprise apps to mobile users in a manner they could secure, monitor, and manage.

That's changing, thanks to new mobile app management (MAM) tools such as Antenna Software's Volt and the app-provisioning features in some mobile device management (MDM) suites, including those from Good Technology, MobileIron, and Trellia. The emerging tools let IT do more than create enterprise app stores from which employees download software to their iPhones, iPads, and Android devices -- after all, you can do that with no extra tools on both iOS and Android by providing links from a secure Web page to the downloads.

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What emerging tools such as Volt let you do is create HTML5-based apps that can tap into devices' native capabilities through JavaScript API extensions from Apple, Google, and others, as well as via W3C-supported BONDI APIs. (Those extensions allow, for example, the capturing of signatures through a canvas tag or the generation of bar codes.) You develop these HTML5 apps in your IDE of choice (even a text editor), but you do have to use Antenna's APIs for the apps to work within the Volt client and be provisionable and manageable by the Antenna Mobile Platform (AMP) server.

From there, you can code installation profiles based on user policies such as roles. When a user logs into the (usually hosted) server, the apps tied to his or her profile are downloaded to the device. The server also pushes updates and gives IT a console for monitoring usage, changing application permissions, locking down data, and wiping apps when a user leaves the company or changes roles.

Other tools such as Ondeego's AppCentral offer similar capabilities. However, the combination of the Volt client and AMP hosted server appears to be more appropriate for enterprises, in terms of integration with policy servers such as LDAP, integration with MDM tools, and use of high-level encryption and authentication technologies. (AT&T uses AMP in its Workbench offering, but the Volt/AMP pairing is not limited to AT&T-connected devices, as Workbench is.) The Volt client was released this month for iPhones running iOS 4 and devices running Android OS 2.1 through 2.3; iPad-savvy, Android 3.0, and BlackBerry OS 6 versions are planned by summer.

How the new breed of mobile app managers work
The enterprise-created HTML5 apps provisioned through Volt are kept in their own workspaces, so their data is encrypted and separated from the device's other info. Apple's iOS natively supports such encryption and separation, but Google's Android does not. Because the enterprise HTML5 apps run within Volt, the AMP server can directly manage them, without affecting the device's other apps.

In the case of iOS, the AMP server can also manage native apps provisioned through AMP or through an MDM integrated with AMP. Likewise, an MDM tool that integrates with AMP can manage apps provisioned by AMP (HTML5 and native) or by the tool itself (native). Either way, the HTML5 apps provisioned through Volt work offline, syncing data when reconnected.

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TIC investors buy 6-acre office project

Financial, healthcare businesses anchor site
Published on Dec 13, 2006

Triple Net Properties LLC represented tenant-in-common investors in the purchase of a 115,770-square-foot office building in Columbus, Ohio. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. The property, Northwoods II, is a three-story building located at 8101 North High St. Situated on approximately six acres, the asset includes a total of 453 parking spaces. BPG Properties Ltd. sold the property, which at the time of sale was approximately 99 percent leased to 16 tenants, including Molina Healthcare Inc., WFS Financial and AIG....


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A man who evaded authorities for 23 years for illegally importing more than $10 million worth of caviar into the United States was spared jail time on Monday. Isidoro “Mario” Garbarino has been in custody since September 10, his capture south of the border.

An Italian national, Garbarino was fined $10,000 and faces deportation back to Italy. Garbarino was indicted in 1987. But while free on bail he fled to Italy in 1989. Then as a fugitive, he hid in South America until his capture in September 2012 by US marshals in Panama, says the Toronto Sun.

Garbarino, who owns Aquamar Gourmet Imports Inc., pled guilty In November to falsifying documentation in classification of imported goods and lying to authorities, and agreed on $3 million in restitution.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the claim that first-class airline passengers who thought they were eating premium beluga caviar were actually being served an economy version called sevruga.

Beluga caviar typically sells for about $300 a pound while sevruga is about half that price.

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Yahoo News states that the former caviar importer was charged with smuggling more than 100,000 pounds of foreign caviar into the United States in the 1980s, to evade tariffs. Garbarino had lied to avoid paying customs duty of up to 30 percent, and presented legal documents to back up his claim. His company supplied the product to gourmet stores in New York as well as major air and cruise lines, prosecutors said.

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As today’s general counsel are charged with increasing profits and productivity within their organizations, the most pressing issues keeping chief legal officers up at night are ethics and compliance, regulatory changes and information privacy.

According to the Chief Legal Officers (CLO) 2014 Survey from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), ethics and compliance (88 percent), regulatory or government changes (83 percent) and information privacy (79 percent) are top of mind issues for CLOs around the world. In addition, protection of intellectual property (74 percent), data breaches and protection (72 percent), technology developments (62 percent), social media management/governance (59 percent) and mergers and acquisitions (59 percent) followed close behind.

These issues not only weigh heavily on the minds of CLOs, but also boards of directors and senior management, according to Veta Richardson, president and CEO of the ACC.

“Businesses globally are recognizing how vital it is to ensure their top priority is abiding by ever more complex regulations,” Richardson said in a statement.

In addition, survey respondents indicated that staying aware of company business activities with potential legal implications, staying up-to-date on changes in law and keeping management apprised of legal developments are top priorities.

“It is not uncommon to find the CLO directly involved in decision-making regarding evaluating new business opportunities, budgeting, hiring practices, technology, process management and change management,” according to the report’s executive summary.

As such, strategic staffing and managing expenses in a global economy will also be a main priority for CLOs worldwide this year. In fact, 53 percent of CLOs altered their law departments’ total budgets and 38 percent plan to make changes to their law department spending habits in the year ahead, which is consistent with last year’s survey results.

CLOs also expect to increase their inside budgets by an average 3.1 percent and outside budgets by an average 1.3 percent, resulting in overall total budget increases of 2.3 percent — a small increase over last year’s average total budget increases of 1.9 percent.

“There is both a legal and business dimension to the equation,” added Richardson. “In order to remain effective, general counsel are triaging legal expenditures and applying more strategic approaches, leading to better overall law department management.”

Although hiring patterns are expected to remain the on par as with last year’s trends, new positions are more likely to be created in compliance, intellectual property, contracts and risk management. According to the ACC survey, more than 30 percent of CLOs are creating new positions within their law departments to focus on compliance-related work.

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is the nfl board who give out punnishments the biggest walk overs ever????

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Vlade by a large margin. Vlade was one of the smartest players to play in his day. Epitome of teammate and so very unselfish. The best passing center of his time. Skilled around the hoop and had great foot work. No knock to Brad, he has somewhat become a forgotten player in the sense he was pretty damn good in his prime. But he just doesnt have the IQ vlade had.

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So, what are the chances UCLA beats Colorado on the eve of my birthday? I’d say the chances are looking very good since the Bruins are an overwhelming favorite. So, if they win, it’s not a dedication to me, but my mind will change if they score exactly 29 points. Anyway, here’s the plan. I’m home in Pasadena where I’ll be watching the game on the Pac-12 Networks while our Jill Painter (@jillpainter) will be live from Boulder, Colo., to cover the game for the Daily News. I plan to watch the game from start to finish, so feel free to chime in once our chat room opens at 1:30 and/or tweet at me @MelendezSports.

UCLA for the third straight week faces a quarterback with tremendous ability. Last week, Oregon State quarterback Sean Mannion didn’t have enough of a body work that said as much, but he sure did prove it dissecting the Bruins secondary last week for 379 yards. Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb had that kind of game last week that made UCLA coach Jim Mora sit down and watch Colorado tape again, only this time to specifically watch Webb, who opened the season with shaky performances in losses to Colorado State, Sacramento State and Fresno State, a game in which he threw for only 85 yards and two interceptions on 5 of 13 passing. To say that Webb, a junior, bounced back nicely last week would be an understatement. Webb led the Buffaloes (1-3, 1-0) to a roaring comeback after trailing by as many as 17 midway through the fourth quarter against Washington State. He finished with 345 yards and two touchdowns on 29 of 42 passing en route to a Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week honors. Mora described why Webb is a dangerous quarterback. “He’s elusive,” Mora said. “He throws well on the run to his left, which isn’t easy to do. He’s a guy that when he gets out of the pocket he remains a passer. Like, you’ll see quarterbacks as soon as they get out of the pocket they tuck the ball. So that’s an indication to your secondary that we can come out of coverage and pursue this quarterback.”

There’s been some calls on this blog questioning cornerbacks Sheldon Price and Aaron Hester. Did they struggle last week? No question. But let’s not forget they’ve been solid for most of the season. Everyone has a bad day. We all have them, just look at the heat I took earlier this week. What makes Price and Hester who they are is their ability to withstand criticism from all angles and muscle the strength and courage to go back out and do what they know they’re capable of doing. Price leads the Pac-12 in interceptions with four. Hester can be a lock down corner. But it’s all a trickle down effect: missed tackles lead to big plays and big plays lead to points on the board. That’s exactly how it went down last week when three big plays is all the Beavers needed to burn the Bruins. Can’t let that happen again. Can’t let Colorado running back Christian Powell truck down safeties and linebackers. Can’t let Webb find the windows. Can’t be a step behind the receivers and that defensive front has to find a way to put pressure on Webb, who is only elusive behind the line of scrimmage.

Mora said the Bruins’ tackling last week wasn’t up to par, which is why they emphasized fundamentals and pursuit during practice. UCLA gave up three big plays that led to long-scoring touchdowns last week. The Bruins will have a tougher challenge without linebacker Jordan Zumwalt, who did not travel with the team as he recovers from a scooter accident. Damien Holmes could move outside to fill his role.

UCLA needs to find its rhythm on offense, the kind of rhythm that saw running back Johnathan Franklin enjoy career days in the first two games of the season. Franklin was limited to just 45 yards on 12 carries last week. The return of Jeff Baca at right guard will help eliviate pressure from the young offensive line. His uncanny ability to pick blitzes will secure that quarterback Brett Hundley won’t spend too much time on his back or being flushed out of the pocket, as was the case last week.

Colorado’s total defense ranks 103rd in the nation. The Buffaloes are giving up nearly 40 points a game, which won’t bode well considering they’ll face the nation’s best freshman quarterback in Hundley. Let’s go.

WHEN: 3 p.m., Folsom Field
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… the offense can finally get back on track producing an efficient rushing attack balanced by Brett Hundley’s arial attack.

… the offensive line can give Hundley solid protection and help open lanes for Johnathan Franklin, who was held to a season-low 45 yards last week.

… the secondary can avoid getting burned again and playing solid run defense. That means wrapping up Colorado’s big man in running back Christian Powell.

Brett Hundley: 96 of 145 for 1,199 yards, 9 TD, 3 INT

Johnathan Franklin: 78 carries, 586 yards, 7.5 Avg., 3 TD
Brett Hundley: 38 carries, 151 yards, 4.0 Avg., 2 TD
Damien Thigpen: 23 carries, 147 yards, 6.4 Avg.

Steven Manfro: 17 catches, 186 yards, 10.9 Avg., 1 TD
Shaquelle Evans: 14 carries, 225 yards, 16.1 Avg., 1 TD
Joseph Fauria: 11 catches, 142 yards, 12.9 Avg., 3 TD

Linebacker Eric Kendricks (32 tackles, 1 fumble rec.)
Linebacker Anthony Barr (19 tackles, 7 TFL, 5 sacks)
Cornerback Sheldon Price (7 tackles, 4 interceptions)

Out: LB Jordan Zumwalt (head)
Doubtful: G Greg Capella (concussion)
Probable: G Jeff Baca (head)

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… quarterback Jordan Webb can string together another magnificent performance while this time facing pressure up front.

… running back Christian Powell can exploit the gaps and capitalize on assignment breakdowns.

… they can minimize penalties. The Buffaloes have been penalized 30 times this season, 17 of which came on offense.

Jordan Webb: 68 of 120, 777 yards, 8 TD, 3 INT

Christian Powell: 62 carries, 265 yards, 4.27 Avg., 3 TD
Tony Jones: 22 carries, 150 yards, 6.82 Avg., 1 TD
Josh Ford: 12 carries, 75 yards, 6.25 Avg., 1 TD

Nelson Spruce: 21 catches, 234 yards, 11.1 Avg., 2 TD
Tyler McCulloch: 12 catches, 169 yards, 14.1 Avg., 2 TD
Gerald Thomas: 9 catches, 109 yards, 12.3 Avg.

DE Chidera Uzo-Dirbe (18 tackles, 5 sacks)
LB Jon Major (35 tackles, 1 sack)
DB Terrel Smith (31 tackles)

Out: None.
Doubtful: C Brad Cotner (toe); DB Ray Polk (ankle).
Probable: LB Douglas Rippy (knee).

UCLA 38, Colorado 14

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    Wanted to ask about if encryption is employed on the Inspire 1's Lightbridge datalink?

    I've read the DJI Inspire User Manual v1.0, have been tracking this and a number of other forums and Facebook groups, but have seen no mention of this so I suspect the answer is No.

    The regular LightBridge system is suppose to have encryption as an optional feature, but I haven't seen this mentioned on the Inspire 1's Lightbridge system.

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how do i go about making one of these i have a few ideas floating around but the sound well "primative". i want to make one myself cuz for me they are too tedious to load to cheap and break easy and the ones tht are sturdy are wayyy to expansive for a weekend worrior. also the clips only hold like 15 for a handgun and we play from like 10 feet away from each other and dont need a rifle. also they just arent accurate enuff. and dont go as far. i see some ppl playing in fields like as big as football feilds and if i tried tht the ball would curve wayyyyyy off half way orrr not make it there. and the exensive ones do tht but are toooooo expansive. For me and my friends airsoft is a paintball subsistute cuz here in maryland it gets really cold and paintball supplies are only found at the nearest wal-mart. so i want a realiable semi-auto, self built gun.

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Heres a basic concept demonstration instructable to get you guys started on your homemade contraptions.
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below is a good airsoft gun and it has longer range than the other air guns on this question any ways below is the link
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dude look at the  also you do not a breakable one even if it is cheap what you want is a cheap that's no cheapstake but cheap with a cost of $13.99 total and the link is below for the ones you may want to pick from also rate and look at everyone of these links https://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-make-a-pcp-bottle-gun/
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i made an airsoft gun for under $100. It holds 2,000 bbs and shoots 50-100 bbs a second, at around 350-400 fps. powered by a paintball co2 tank and made out of pvc. should i make an instructable on this :) hahah
please make an instructable!
how did you make that.
i will start working on an instructable for you so you may make one.
its out of pvc pipe, few metal parts, paintball co2 tank, and some plastic sheeting or wood.
how many people have you shot with it?
a few of my friends and i have been shot with it it hurts like a normal airsoft gun. More co2 pressure you have on and more bbs in the magazine the higher the fps
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To get semi-auto, you could hook up a three way valve to a QEV. There are many ways for a loading mechanism, but for BB's a simple tee connection may work. There are many ways that use an air cylinder and spring to power the bolt though, and that is how you can get semi auto
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Insurance Department Warns Ohioans About Catalytic Converter Thefts

COLUMBUS —  The Ohio Department of Insurance is warning Ohioans about a recent rash of catalytic converter thefts in Columbus and is encouraging them to take steps to protect themselves from becoming victims.  According to reports, thieves have been stealing catalytic converters and then selling them for scrap metal.

“Many times, thieves can steal these converters in less than a minute,” said the Ohio Department of Insurance.  “They also do a lot of damage to the car when they do steal it.  Taking a few precautionary measures may deter thieves from attempting to steal your catalytic converter.”

The Ohio Department of Insurance offers these tips to protect your vehicle:

  • Always park in well-lit or protected public parking lots, and to park your car in your home garage if possible.
  • Ask your mechanic to weld the heads on the catalytic converter bolts or perhaps shear them off.
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  • Take part in future catalytic etching events offered by the Department and National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).

Officials have noted that catalytic converter theft is on the rise in many parts of the country, including Ohio.  The converters contain precious metals such as palladium, platinum and rhodium.  With these metals trading at record levels, converters have become a hot item for thieves, and can be sold for up to $200 per converter.

Replacing a catalytic converter is expensive.  The cost can range from $200-$900 but the costs don’t end there.  Repairing a damaged exhaust system, which is often necessary following a converter theft, can run over $2,000.  By preventing catalytic converter theft, Ohioans will not only save themselves money, but also others in the form of lower insurance premiums.

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And then there were 3 at the ECCC

Folks seeking accountability in Cambodia no doubt are hoping 3d time's a charm.
That is, the 3d time in a year that an international person's been named an investigating judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the tribunal charged with bringing to book surviving leaders of the circa-1970s Khmer Rouge reign of terror.
When last we posted 4 months ago, Laurent Kasper-Ansermet of Switzerland had just resigned the position, to which he'd been named following the October 2011 resignation of Siegfried Blunk of Germany. But Kasper-Ansermet'd been refused by the Cambodian government.
Newly appointed the International Co-Investigating Judge is Mark Harmon (right) of the United States, who recently retired from 17 years of service as a prosecutor at at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. A graduate of the University of California Hastings College of Law and a former federal prosecutor, he's profiled in this 2006 California Lawyer article. Harmon spoke about the ICTY in the daylong Year in Review Conference last March at The Hague. (As posted, yours truly also was on that panel.)
An official announcement on the ECCC website said of Harmon:
'His deployment will enable the ECCC to continue the critical task of pursuing accountability for the crimes committed during the period of the Khmer Rouge regime.'
At issue, as explained in posts available in IntLawGrrls' Khmer Rouge accountability series, is investigation of matters known as Cases 003 and 004, which implicate individuals that the Cambodian government would like to keep free of any such implication.

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