Gary Player warns Rory McIlroy to put golf before love

Gary Player says Rory McIlroy has ?talent galore? to become ?the man? -- if he finds ?the right wife.?

Gary Player has become the latest in a growing line of golf's elder statesmen to tell Rory McIlroy that he?s squandering his otherworldly talents by following girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki around the world from tennis match to tennis match rather than dedicating himself to his own craft.

"I love Rory McIlroy, he?s got such talent like you can?t believe it, and I got quite perturbed [to] see him win the U.S. Open and then the next tournament he plays is one month later, the Open Championship. You can?t do that," Player, sounding the same theme that Sir Nick has expounded on incessantly, told My Sporting Life on Saturday (via Geoff Shackelford). "What he should have done was taken a week off after winning the U.S. Open to settle down and then play two tournaments in a row and then come into the Open. You?ve got to prepare properly."

McIlroy, who lost golf's top ranking to Tiger Woods in March and slipped from No. 2 to the third slot after Phil Mickelson won the British Open earlier this month, appeared to be the second coming of Eldrick Tont after lapping the fields at the 2011 U.S. Open and 2012 PGA Championship. Along the way, he picked up the 2012 PGA and European money titles and player of the year honor, which were preludes to his megabucks contract with Nike to start the 2013 season.

Nick Faldo and Johnny Miller, among others, have criticized McIlroy for ditching the Titleist gear that helped him reach the top of his game. They have also opined that the 24-year-old?s love life has distracted him from his true calling.

Player concurred, adding that the "right wife" would put the young lad back on course.

"When you?re in love as a young man, naturally golf seems to take second place for a while," said the nine-time major champion. "That?s natural. Love is still the greatest thing that ever happened in our lives. He?ll come back strong.

"Now the thing is, for a man like Rory, the talent galore, he?s got to make sure he has a woman like I?ve got, who has been married [to me] for 56 years, that has only encouraged me to do well and made all the sacrifices," Player said. "He?s got to be intelligent and find the right wife. If he finds the right wife, if he practices and if he?s dedicated, he could be the man."

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? Phil credits technology for Open win

Source: http://www.sbnation.com/golf/2013/7/29/4567410/rory-mcilroy-gary-player-golf-before-love

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The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Scott & Charlene?s Wedding, Dam-Funk

It?s Friday, which means that it?s time to look back at the best new music we?ve heard over the last few days. This has been something of a fallow week, so much so that we?re scaling our usual ten-song selection to five ? better to have five quality tracks than pad out with filler, no? And five quality tracks we do indeed have ??there?s a new song from Scott & Charlene?s Wedding, the Darren Sylvester track we premiered earlier this week, a super-secret Dam-Funk demo that?s streaming today only, plus the return of Sebadoh and Crystal Antlers. Click through to get amongst it!

Scott & Charlene?s Wedding ???Wild Heart?

Another new track from the mighty Scott & Charlene?s Wedding ? this is another preview of their new album Any Port in a Storm, which is out on August 13. This is a song for S&CW main man Craig Dermody?s old NYC roommate, and it?s as ingenously charming and heartfelt as everything else we?ve heard from the record so far.

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Dam-Funk ???Can U Feel This Funk In Me??

Even in a slow week, there?s one man you can rely on to be releasing music ??the ever-prolific Dam-Funk, who just dropped this characteristically liquid funk jam, which is apparently streaming on his Soundcloud for today only. Get cracking!

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Darren Sylvester ???Dream Or Something Like That?

As premiered here?earlier this week!

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Sebadoh ???I Will?

Hey, there?s a new Sebadoh album! It?s called Defend Yourself, and it?s out on September 17 ? it?ll be Lou Barlow?s first full-length record under this moniker since 1999, which means that its imminent arrival is pretty exciting. By the sound of this song, he?s lost none of the blearily melodic charm that characterized his previous work. Excellent.

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Crystal Antlers ???Rattlesnake?

For a moment at the start of this track, it sounds like Crystal Antlers have mellowed somewhat since we last heard them ? but then the drums kick in, the distortion pedals get stomped on, and Johnny Bell starts hollering, ?RATTLESNAKE! RATTLESNAKE!? So, OK, no, they haven?t mellowed at all. But that?s perfectly alright with me.

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From embarrassing Facebook posts to controversial Tweets, why are consumers oversharing online?

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Increased use of digital communication is causing consumers to lose their inhibitions and "overshare" online, according to a new study.

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Japan to mull ability to hit enemy bases in defense review

By Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should beef up its military's ability to deter and counter missile attacks, including the possible acquisition of the ability to hit enemy bases, the Defence Ministry said, but officials denied this would be used for pre-emptive strikes.

The proposal - Japan's latest step away from the constraints of its pacifist constitution - is part of a review of defense policy by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, an interim report on which was released on Friday. The final conclusions of the review are due by the end of the year.

The hawkish Abe took office in December for a rare second term, pledging to bolster the military to cope with what Japan sees as an increasingly threatening security environment including an assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea.

Given Japan's strained ties with China over disputed isles and Japan's wartime history, Beijing could react strongly to the proposals, which come after Abe cemented his grip on power with a big win in a weekend election for parliament's upper house.

Article 9 of Japan's constitution, drafted by U.S. occupation forces after the country's defeat in World War Two, renounces the right to wage war and, if taken literally, rules out the very notion of a standing army. In reality, Japan's Self-Defense Forces are one of Asia's strongest militaries.

The Defence Ministry said in the report it was necessary to comprehensively strengthen "the ability to deter and respond to ballistic missiles". But in a sign of the sensitivity of the issue, a ministry official denied that this implied Japan would make pre-emptive strikes against enemy bases.

"Our country is building up ballistic missile defense ... but North Korea and other countries are improving their capabilities," a ministry official told reporters.

"It is necessary to consider whether we should have the option to strike an enemy's missile launch facilities," he said. "But we are not at all thinking about initiating attacks on enemy bases when we are not under attack."

The line between the ability to hit enemy targets and make pre-emptive strikes is primarily political and philosophical, and Japanese officials typically avoid the latter term. But acquiring the capability for pre-emptive strikes against enemy missile bases would be difficult and costly, experts said.

"Offensive capability can be used for pre-emptive purposes," said Narushige Michishita, a professor at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies. "In reality, we will not be able to. We are just too far away."

STRETCHING THE LIMITS

Japan has for decades chipped away at the restrictions of Article 9. It has long said it has the right to attack enemy bases overseas when the intention to attack Japan is evident, the threat is imminent and there are no other defense options.

But while previous administrations shied away from acquiring the hardware to do so, Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in June urged the government to consider acquiring that capability against missile threats.

Some experts say acquiring more substantial offensive capability would be a fundamental change for Japan's defense policies. Others see it as a more evolutionary development.

"It is part of an evolution towards having a more normal military posture," said Richard Samuels, director of the MIT-Japan Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Normal means being able to defend yourself."

Japan already has limited attack capability but being able to hit mobile missile launchers in North Korea - the most likely target - would require more attack aircraft and intelligence for which Japan would probably need to rely on its ally, the United States, experts said. Hitting missile bases in mainland China would be an even bigger stretch.

Whether Japan, with a huge public debt, can afford the bill, is another big question.

Measures to strike enemy missile facilities include attacks by aircraft or missiles and sending soldiers directly to the site, the Defence Ministry official said, but he added it was too early to discuss specific steps.

The ministry also said it would consider buying unmanned surveillance drones, create a force of Marines to protect remote islands, such as those disputed with China, and consider beefing up the ability to transport troops to far-flung isles.

Japan should also review its self-imposed ban on arms exports that has already been eased to let Japanese contractors take part in international projects and take new steps if needed, the ministry said in its report.

Clearer guidelines as to companies may sell and to whom could help Japanese defense contractors such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd seek business overseas.

Support has grown in Japan for a more robust military because of concern about China, but opposition also remains.

Japan last updated its National Defence Programme Guidelines in 2010, when the Democratic Party of Japan was in power.

Those changes shifted Japan away from a Cold War legacy of defending northern areas to a more flexible defense against incursions from the south, the site of the row with China over tiny, uninhabited islands.

(Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-mull-ability-hit-enemy-bases-defense-review-020338380.html

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Stanford University ranks No. 1 on Forbes list of America's top colleges

California schools bested East Coast universities in Forbes' annual ranking of top US colleges on Wednesday, with Stanford University and Pomona College capturing the top two spots.

Stanford, a research and teaching university in Northern California's Silicon Valley, ranked No. 1, jumping from third place last year after scoring high marks for retention rates and high graduate starting salaries. It has 19,945 students and annual costs are $58,846.

Much smaller Pomona College, with 1,586 students and an annual bill of $57,041, was in second place. The college, about 30 miles (50 km) east of Los Angeles, offers only undergraduate degrees.

"For the first time in the six years Forbes has produced this list, the top two schools are on the Pacific Coast," Forbes said in an article on Wednesday accompanying the list at www.forbes.com/top-colleges.

Princeton University in New Jersey, which was No. 1 last year, slipped to third place, followed by Yale University in Connecticut in fourth place and Columbia University in New York City at No. 5.

Costs at the top five schools ranged from $54,789 at Princeton to $61,640 at Columbia.

The Forbes ranking of 650 US colleges and universities, calculated by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, is based on student satisfaction, post-graduate success, student debt, graduation rate and national competitive awards.

Massachusetts had the most schools in the top 10 with Harvard University at No. 8, slipping from No. 6 last year; Williams College in ninth place and Massachusetts Institute of Technology at No. 10.

The University of California, Berkeley, which came in 22nd on the list, was ranked as the best state school in the country. Twenty-three public schools ranked in the top 100.

"Flagship state schools offer an excellent education for much lower tuition bills than their average private counterparts. As more students are seeking to hold down debt, public colleges and universities can and will be more selective," Forbes said.

Among top-tier Ivy League schools, New York's Cornell University rose to 19th on this year's list from No. 51 in 2012. The University of Pennsylvania ranked No. 11, Brown University in Rhode Island came in at No. 12 and Dartmouth in New Hampshire was No. 16.

Morehouse College in Atlanta made the biggest leap in the ranking, jumping 235 places to No. 285.

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iMore show live! Apple Q3 2013 earnings post-mortem!

Join me and our Mobile Nations financial guru, Chris Umiastowski as we go over the highs and lows of Apple's just-released Q3 2013 financial results and the follow up conference call.

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SBDC to Lead Small Business Marketing Series with DLBA

2013-07-22??? By? Editor?

The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) and the Long Beach Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will co-host a three-part marketing workshop series in August?specifically targeted to Downtown small businesses. The workshops will cover topics including target market identification, online marketing, developing a marketing plan, and tips on how to leverage community events in Downtown.

?Small businesses play a key role in the economic health of Downtown Long Beach,? said DLBA President and CEO Kraig Kojian. ?We are pleased to pool our resources and partner with the SBDC to better serve local business owners and stimulate the region?s economy.??

Small Business Marketing Workshops is a three-part series that takes place August 1, 8 and 15 from 9 ? 11 a.m. Participants attend all three workshops. The SBDC charges $35 for the full series. To register for the workshops, contact Tyler Kim via tylerk@dlba.org or (562) 485-1080.

The workshops will take place at the Small Business Development Center, 309 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802. Two-hour free parking is available at the CityPlace parking structure, located at 3rd Street and Pine Avenue.

For more information about the DLBA and its businesses assistance programs, please call (562) 436-4259 or visit www.downtownlongbeach.org.

Source: http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/sbdc-to-lead-small-business-marketing-series-with-dlba/

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New Israeli Ambassador a 'Conservative Ideologue'

U.S.-born Ron Dermer will assume the post of Israel's ambassador to the United States this fall ? and he faces significant challenges.

Among them is establishing healthy relations with the Obama administration and maintaining support for Israel in Congress, according to Alan Elsner, vice president for communications for J Street.

"Dermer must overcome his reputation as a conservative ideologue if he wants to forge good working relations with a Democratic administration," Elsner writes in an op-ed piece for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

"The same is true in Congress where the new ambassador will be welcomed with open arms by Republicans but may face initial suspicion from some on the Democratic side of the aisle.

"Israel needs all the supporters it can get from both parties ? so leaning one way or the other, or even appearing to lean, is not only inappropriate but a recipe for disaster."

J Street describes itself as a pro-Israel advocacy group whose stated aim is to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.

Dermer must also nurture the crucial relationship between Israel and the Jewish community in America, Elsner posits.

He writes: "Any Israeli ambassador must accept the American Jewish community as it is: predominantly progressive on economic and social issues and dovish on foreign policy."

Dermer was born and raised in Miami Beach, Fla., where his father served as mayor in the late 1960s. He moved to Israel in 1996, and in 2005 became economic envoy at the Israeli embassy in Washington, which required him to give up his U.S. citizenship.

He went on to become a close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and on July 9 it was announced that he would become the new Israeli ambassador, replacing Michael Oren.

Elsner adds: "American Jews do care about Israel, but an overwhelming majority believes that reaching peace with the Palestinians based on a two-state solution is vital if Israel is to remain democratic and a homeland for the Jewish people.

"We look forward to a fruitful and constructive relationship with Ambassador Dermer."

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12th Annual China International Silver Conference

Washington, D.C, July 19, 2013 (ABN Newswire) - The Silver Institute is pleased to announce registration is now open for the 12th Annual China International Silver Conference (CISC), to be held in Kumming, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, from September 4-6, 2013.

The CISC is the most highly recognized international silver conference in t he world and offers attendees an excellent opportunity to learn more about key aspects of the silver industry as well as the role China plays in the global silver market. Conference attendees will include manufacturers, refiners, leading global silver mining companies, investors, silver traders and futures brokers, government officials, silver industry organizations and media.

Some of the topics to be addressed at the 12th CISC are:

- China's Silver Reserves
- Global Silver Mining Activities
- Advanced Technologies in the Production of Good Delivery Silver Bars
- New Developments in Electrical Contact Material Technology
- An Examination of Silver Industrial Demand
- Recovery Technologies for Byproduct Gold and Silver
- Analysis of the Global Silver Market
- New Applications for Silver Powders and Pastes
- The Chinese Silver Futures Market
- Commodities Market Analysis: How to Win in a Bear Market
- China Silver Market Analysis

The CISC is hosted by the China Chamber of Commerce of Metal, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, the China General Chamber of Commerce, the Gems & Jewelry Trade Association if China, and the Silver Institutes. The Conference is being organized by the Beijing Antaike Information Development Co. A welcome dinner will take place on September 4th and the speakers' program will cover a full day on the 5th and a half-day on the 6th.

For move information on the CISC and to register for the event please visit the conference and website at:

http://silver2013.metalchina.com/en3.html

Source: http://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/75552/

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A Lame Duck Is Walking Again Thanks to a 3D Printed Foot

Buttercup the duck was born with his left foot turned backwards, making it nearly impossible and extremely painful to walk. But now he's waddling again with a 3D-printed foot.

Buttercup was born in a high school biology lab in November. Because of his bum foot he was given to Feathered Angels Waterfowl Sanctuary in Arlington, Tennessee. The organization's Mike Garey, a software engineer, adopted Buttercup, and began searching out solutions to get Buttercup walking again. He landed on 3D modeling company, NovaCopy, which 3D printed Buttercup a brand new webbed foot, based on photos of Buttercup's sister Minnie's left foot.

NovaCopy knew that traditional plastic used in a lot of 3D printers wouldn't work because the material is too stiff. Instead, it created a mould that was used to cast a more malleable silicone foot for Buttercup. The cast is attached to Buttercup's leg with a sheath, sort of like a flexible silicone sock. And last night, Buttercup's adopted dad finally finished attaching the prosthetic, and Buttercup is waddling like a happy, normal duck. You can see a first look of the new foot in action in this video Garey shot last night:

Every time you think of a stupid, dinky 3D-printed toy you don't give a crap about, just remember that there is an adorable duck out there walking thanks to the very same process. [Feathered Angels, Buttercup the Duck via CNET via TreeHugger]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-lame-duck-is-walking-again-thanks-to-a-3d-printed-foo-633393552

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