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Lithuania's Ramunas Navardauskas gave the Garmin-Sharp Team a boost on Wednesday with a solo summit finish win on stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia the day after team leader Ryder Hesjedal lost all hope of repeating last year's overall success.
Navardauskas, who was part of a long-distance break of 20 through the Dolomite Mountains, shed his closest pursuer, Daniel Oss of Italy, 5km from the finish line to claim his first Grand Tour stage victory.
Italy's Stefano Pirazzi was third, while Vincenzo Nibali of Italy finished safely in the main peloton 5 minutes and 41 seconds behind Navardauskas to retain his overall lead ahead of Australian Cadel Evans and Colombia's Rigoberto Uran.
"We've not been so lucky in this race," Navardauskas, who became Lithuania's first-ever leader of the Giro last year when he headed the race for one day, told reporters. "Ryder has had some bad days and has not been so fortunate, so as a team we wanted to try and turn things around today. All of us wanted to get in a move."
"It was a long day off the front, but I got in the right break and managed to turn it round for the team. I couldn't be happier," he added.
After taking Canada's first-ever Grand Tour win last year in the Giro, Hesjedal suffered badly on Tuesday's first high mountain stage, losing nearly 20 minutes and all chance of a repeat victory.
On Wednesday's 182km mountainous stage, Hesjedal finished a further 13 minutes down on his victorious teammate and eight behind the main peloton of overall contenders.
However, when riding slowly up the final ascent of Vajont, the Garmin-Sharp leader repeatedly made a thumbs-up sign when team sports director Charly Wegelius told him Navardauskas had already won.
"It's incredible, extraordinary, he's done so much work for me and it's nice to see him get an individual reward," Hesjedal told reporters.
After his own chances of victory evaporated, Hesjedal said: "we wanted to open up the race for the guys [teammates] to take their chances and it was a perfect opportunity."
Asked about his own chances of making it to the finish line, or even trying to win a stage himself, Hesjedal added: "I really don't know. Today was a lot better than yesterday, a lot easier to ride. Today was a good day for us. I'm not really thinking about tomorrow."
Nibali described the stage — which finished in the Vajont Valley as part of its 50th anniversary commemorations for the area's 1963 dam disaster in which nearly 2,000 people died — as "straightforward for us."
"My team decided to let the break [of non-favorites] go and then keep things under control behind, but there will be harder days to come," he added.
A chest infection was the latest setback to hit Britain's pre-race favorite Bradley Wiggins.
Tour de France champion Wiggins, finished the stage in the main pack behind Navardauskas to stay fourth overall, two minutes, five seconds behind Nibali.
"I'm not feeling very good at the moment, I've had a pretty rough 24 hours," Wiggins told reporters.
"I've got a chest infection and a bog-standard head cold. Fortunately in these days, these kinds of stages, there's just a bit of fighting and you can get through them and hide a little bit, but I just want to try and fight through it and hope that a few days time I'll be all right," he said.
"Most of the team have been sick," the Sky rider said. "It seems to last for three or four days and then you get better."
Wiggins went into the three-week race as one of the favorites, but has suffered a series of mishaps including a bad downhill crash, being blocked behind another pile-up and suffering a puncture during the time trial.
On Tuesday's first full mountain stage, Wiggins lost 37 seconds to Nibali and struggled on a steep section of the final climb.
Asked if the Giro d'ltalia was a tougher race than the Tour, Olympic time trial champion Wiggins retorted: "The Tour of Picardie is a bloody hard race if you get sick. There's only so much you can do."


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New Nuclear Plant Hits Some Snags
The first newly licensed nuclear-power plant to be built in the U.S. in decades, the Vogtle project in Georgia, has run into construction problems and may be falling years behind schedule, according to an engineering expert advising the state.
The $14 billion plant is being closely watched by energy experts as a bellwether for the rebirth of the U.S. nuclear industry, because it involves a new type of nuclear reactor and a modular construction method that are supposed to reduce construction time and cost.
But a construction monitor warned in a report to the Georgia Public Service Commission this month that the plant, which will be operated by Southern Co. on behalf of several utilities, was falling behind schedule because of what he called an unsatisfactory performance by its construction team.
The expert hired to monitor the project, Bill Jacobs of engineering consultancy GDS Associates Inc., advised the regulators to brace for a potentially costly delay of two to four years. The two-reactor plant was initially scheduled to put its first reactor into service in 2016 but now expects that to happen in 2017.
Joseph "Buzz" Miller, executive vice president for Southern Nuclear, said Southern knew there were risks going into the project. "We haven't built [reactors] in 30 years," he noted.
Southern already was facing criticism from consumer groups that Georgia customers' power needs could be met more cheaply by natural-gas-fired power plants and through conservation efforts.
Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols said he wants to see the plant finished but said consumers shouldn't have to pay for the builders' "learning curve." The construction consortium includes Shaw Group Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Co.
Roger Hannah, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said scrutiny of new nuclear plants was important to ensure they meet standards and "prevent or mitigate the risk to people near the facility" when it begins operating.
For the power sector, the delay evokes unpleasant memories of cost overruns during the latest big nuclear-construction cycle, in the 1980s, which resulted in massive rate increases and utility losses.
Hoping to prevent a recurrence of those problems, the NRC streamlined the licensing process, and nuclear-design companies like Westinghouse developed modular techniques that allow the facilities to be built in smaller pieces and then assembled on site. Vogtle (pronounced VOH-gul) is the first plant in the U.S. to use new AP1000 reactors by Westinghouse, which the company says are faster to build and less expensive to operate.
But in his report on the pioneering Vogtle plant, Mr. Jacobs cited problems with module fabrication at Shaw's plant at Lake Charles, La., as well as welding issues and design revisions, all of which have slowed production.
He didn't think it would be possible to compress the construction schedule, citing "numerous examples of poor performance" by the building team, and an inability to meet milestone dates.
Shaw spokeswoman Gentry Brann declined to comment beyond a statement that said the Baton Rouge, La., industrial company's module-fabrication plant "is a world-class facility" and that "contrary to the construction monitor's opinion, the modules have not delayed construction."
Westinghouse spokesman Scott Shaw said in a statement that the partners are committed to "superior quality of construction" and that "independent oversight of these massive, complex and first-of-a-kind projects are welcomed to ensure that this occurs."
The delays and cost pressures have created friction between the construction partners and utility companies that will serve as the plant's owners, escalating into a series of lawsuits totaling more than $900 million.
Southern's Mr. Miller said he is hopeful an out-of-court settlement can resolve the disputes.
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Many islanders have spotted him at least once — you know, the man who rides that strange-looking contraption all over the islands every single day?
That man is Gary Thomas, a Sanibel resident for 10 years, and that strange contraption is called a Trikke — an upright, three-wheeled device used by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world for everything from daily exercise to extreme sports.
"I ride it because I have bad knees and the Trikke builds the muscle around my knees and eases the joint pain," Thomas said. "You don't get the pounding on your knees or the strain from other forms of exercise. Riding the Trikke is like rollerblading without the strain on your ankles."
For the past seven years, Thomas has spent two-and-a-half hours every day, rain or shine, carving up to 28 miles all over the islands.
"I go up and down West, East and Middle Gulf, I go up to the lighthouse, the Dunes, all over. It doesn't matter if it's raining — unless it's really bad. But I always want to keep going. You get a kind of high like when you're jogging and you could just keep going forever."
Thomas said he's owned at least nine Trikkes over the past seven years — which makes sense, as he puts about 8,000 miles a year on each one — and he now buys all of his new Trikkes from Southwest Florida Trikke Connections.
Don Gaiser, the owner of Southwest Florida Trikke Connections, who demonstrates and sells Trikkes from Sarasota to Marco Island and everywhere in between. Thomas now buys all of his Trikkes from Gaiser.
Like Thomas, Gaiser first became interested in the Trikke as a rehabilitative option.
"About three years ago, I fell and fractured both knees at the same time, and I was having quite a bit of trouble after they took off the walking casts," Gaiser said. "I saw a Trikke, saw that it was a no impact vehicle that I could get some exercise out of, and after three months of using the Trikke, the pain in my knees was gone, without having surgery or shots."
Three years later, Gaiser, who is 78, still rides his Trikke and has no problems with his knees.
"My oldest customer is 92 and he tries to ride everyday and has been for two years. It's a rehabilitative machine, but it also lets you exercise outside, and because it takes some energy to get it going, you're burning calories and working out your heart. And, as long as you operate it correctly — and I always recommend that people wear a helmet — it's safe."
Gaiser and Thomas both said that it takes some time and practice to get used to powering the Trikke forward — but anyone can do it.
"It's a carving vehicle and your momentum is gained by turning the front wheel at 45 degree angles, and once you get the hang of it, you start making bigger and bigger sweeps with it. It's a similar motion to rollerskating — but for the first week, don't use it more than 15 minutes a day or you'll really be sore," Gaiser said.
Thomas agreed.
Thomas said. "But once you learn how to do it it's worth it. It takes ten days of swearing — you can't get it right away — but you get the hang of it," Thomas said. "I continue riding because it's so enjoyable — it helps my knees, but I just ride for the enjoyment. Everyone thinks I'm crazy, but I love it!"
Trikke models start as low as $299.99 and come in a wide variety of colors.
To contact Don Gaiser of Southwest Florida Trikke Connection, call 239-671-9343 or 863-224-7374.
For more information about the history of the Trikke, go to www.Trikke.com.
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Sanibel resident Gary Thomas rides his Trikke every day to improve his knees. He is often spotted on the Gulf Drives and Sanibel-Captiva Road in the evenings, doing his daily 25+ mile Trikke ride.
Fact BoxAbout Trikke
Trikke's designer, Gildo Beleski, began the Trikke story in 1983, when he began designing and building prototypes of his unique three-wheeled cambering vehicle concept so he could bomb (or, ride down) the paved hills of Southern Brazil. Beleski unexpectedly discovered that if you keep carving turns, you continue to propel forward.
As he became an avid rider, many others also began mastering the fluid carving motion and learning the full-body fitness benefits of the ride.
Over the course of the last 25 years, Beleski has continued to enthusiastically ride and refine the vehicle's designs for maximum carving propulsion, ergonomics and performance.
Trikke's standing, "active riding" platform can now be enjoyed by nearly everyone for a variety of purposes: fitness and weightloss, green transportation and mobility, or pure exhilaration.
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Besler looks on as the elementary school student peers intently through the
microscope at the test plate. Besler, a junior majoring in elementary
education, helps the student adjust the lenses, and the pond water sample—complete
with microorganisms too small for the eye to see—comes into focus.
For a
moment, the child is captivated; but then, like most of the other first through
eighth grade students, she finds herself distracted by the next station over,
where another group of kids are digging for worms. Besler and her Northern
Arizona University peers observe as these 40 students from the STAR (Service to
All Relations) school spend the day on campus learning from future teachers.
teaching the students, the education majors in the ECI 306 class
are learning, too.
trying to think like kids," Besler says. "Their thinking process is so much
more broad then ours, so it's our goal to try to connect with them on that
students Besler worked with came to visit the College of Education from the
STAR School. Twenty-five miles east of Flagstaff, this school is located on the
southwestern corner of the Navajo Nation, and primarily serves Native American students
from preschool through eighth grade. The curriculum is innovative in its approach,
combining traditional Navajo values and a community-based outlook with
sustainability – for example, the school is run entirely on solar-powered
single-day event is only one component of an ongoing partnership between the
university and the STAR School. Many education majors go to STAR for their
student teaching experience, and STAR students benefit from a variety of
activities offered on campus.
On this
day, STAR students were engaging in inquiry-based activities, which involved
having them take an active role in their education. Jeffrey Bloom, a professor
in the College of Education who helped organize the trip, noted that for many of
the STAR students, the university visit itself was educational.
plants a seed," Bloom says. "There's an opportunity for them, post-high school.
These kids get to see the possibilities for themselves."
and a fellow instructor, James Manley, tried to teach the Northern Arizona
University education majors that great learning requires a guiding hand, not an
authoritative one.
"If you
really want to engage kids and see the magic of their brilliance as a teacher,
you have got to let them go, and let them have the experiences," Bloom explains.
experiences, like digging for worms and using the microscope to examine microorganisms,
were designed to be both fun and engaging. For example, Tayla Swaw, a junior
majoring in special and elementary education, took her group of students
outside to participate in an activity that might have drawn a harsh glare from
a teacher in a traditional classroom setting: the folding—and flying—of paper
make them all the time, so when they hear about paper airplanes, they get
really excited and just want to go and play with them," Swaw explains. "Sometimes
the classroom management is difficult, but it teaches you that you have to do
hands-on work for them to learn this stuff."
activities were seemingly less straightforward. One area of the classroom had
been set aside for several mind puzzles and building constructs for students to
work with. With very little prompting from their older mentors sitting amongst
them, the STAR students took initiative, teaming up and working together to
solve the puzzles – one of which involved adjusting weighted objects to get a
piece of cardboard to balance on a tennis ball.
children are really thinking and trying to figure things out for themselves,"
Bloom says.
Tomko, a junior elementary and special education major, worked with the
students. She explains the activities with the STAR School students mimic new
teaching techniques being administered in the classroom.
"In my
opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of other teachers, the U.S. is going
toward a very conformative way of teaching, where all students learn in a very
traditional, guided manner," Tomko says. "But, if you were to walk into a
classroom that was inquiry-based, there would be students all over. It will
look like chaos, but there's control in there."
other words, Tomko says, elementary students can learn the same way that many
students at Northern Arizona University are taught.
teaches them a lot of responsibility by having to learn on their own," Tomko
explains. "It's amazing to see them get motivated and start talking to their


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MORRIS – The special education population at Morris Community High School is shrinking.
During the past four years, District 101 experienced about a 39 percent decline in special education enrollment, said Pat Halloran, District 101 superintendent.
As a result, staffing changes are being made to save the district money and account for the decreasing population of learning-disabled students.
Among those changes is the addition of a dean of special populations and a special education social worker starting next school year.
District 101 currently outsources those positions to the Grundy County Special Education Cooperative, paying the co-op for those employees. By moving the positions in-house, it eliminates the need to pay the cooperative. Halloran said the district will be saving about $30,000.
The cooperative provides special education employees and services for all school districts in Grundy County, but Halloran said it makes sense fiscally for District 101 to absorb those positions.
"We used to use teachers who were actually employees of the co-op but were placed in our building," Halloran said. "It made sense to bring those in-house."
Shelia Neuhalfen was one such MCHS worker supplied by the co-op. She will now work full time at the high school as the new special education social worker.
"She will have more time to work with the students and work with more groups," Halloran said.
Neuhalfen has worked for the co-op for 16 years, but was assigned to MCHS for the past 14 years. She said she spends the majority of her current work day at MCHS anyway, so the new position will not be much of an adjustment for her.
"I do look forward to being in one building full time," Neuhalfen said. "But I will miss the people I work with at the co-op. They have been really good to me."
Lori Dite, currently the head of the special education department at MCHS, will absorb new administrative duties to become the school's dean of special populations. Dite will split her school day between teaching in the classroom and coordinating various student services.
"Supervisors from the co-op have been very supportive," Dite said. "They have worked with me to make sure I have the tools that I need."
Dite has worked at MCHS for 10 years, and said she already had performed some of the administrative duties as the department chair.
"It's a lot of paperwork and making sure everything is legal," Dite said. "I've been doing a lot of that anyway over the years, but now I will have a little more time set aside just to do that, which will be nice."
Earlier this week, the District 101 Board of Education approved a resolution to let go of Sarah Pichon, full-time special education teacher at MCHS for the past three years, and Patti Tesdal, full-time art teacher at Morris Community High School for the past 21 years.
The two staff reductions and the incorporation of the co-op positions will save the district about $167,0000, Halloran said.
"We currently have seven special education teachers and starting next year, we will have six," Halloran said. "But that's deceiving because in reality, part of Lori Dite's day will be spent teaching classes."
MCHS also is meeting the state-mandated class size limitations, which stipulate the number of special education teachers a district must employ based on the size of its learning disabled population.
"Based on current projections [for next school year] we should meet those standards," Halloran said.


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Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index posting the biggest weekly drop in seven months, as Cyprus struggled to prevent a financial collapse, stoking concern Europe's debt crisis is intensifying.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 1.7 percent to 134.31 this week, the biggest weekly decline since the period ended Aug. 31, amid concern that an unprecedented levy on bank deposits in Cyprus may be a sign of deepening crisis in Europe.
"Nobody knows what's going to happen next," said Grace Tam, Hong Kong-based global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management. "Cyprus can damp market sentiment in the short term, but it's something we've already seen happening in Europe, so we are not fairly concerned."
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has rallied 3.8 percent this year, as improving economic data from the US and speculation that Japan will deploy more stimulus countered concern China will move to cool its property market.
Asia's benchmark trades at 14.9 times average estimated earnings, compared with 14.1 for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and 12.7 for the STOXX Europe 600 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Taiwan's TAIEX slid 1.66 percent to 7,796.22 points this week, following Wall Street's lead amid concern over developments in Cyprus. While the broader market trended lower, select high-tech stocks such as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), a major supplier to Apple Inc, remained resilient on hopes that the US electronics giant would launch new iPhone and iPad models in June, dealers said.
"The Cyprus issue came back to haunt investors at home and abroad," Hua Nan Securities (華南永昌證券) analyst Henry Miao (苗台生) said on Friday.
"Investors here preferred to stay on the sidelines as they feared that Wall Street would suffer a major correction sometime soon, after its recent strong showing, due to uncertainty over the eurozone," Miao said.
"Even if the market stages a technical rebound, it will not be easy for the index to overcome the stiff technical resistance ahead of 7,900 points. I expect the local bourse will continue to move in a narrow range over the next few sessions," Miao said.
The TOPIX, Japan's broadest share gauge, fell 1.2 percent this week even after reaching the highest close since October 2008 on Thursday.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index dropped 3 percent this week, the biggest weekly drop since May. Singapore's Straits Times Index slid 0.8 percent. South Korea's KOSPI declined 1.9 percent.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 1.9 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the bigger of China's stock exchanges, rose 2.2 percent as a private survey on Thursday showed Chinese manufacturing may expand faster than estimated.
India's S&P BSE Sensex fell 3.6 percent amid concern the withdrawal of the government's biggest partner from the ruling alliance may jeopardize economic reforms.
Japanese shares fell after new Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday failed to outline any immediate increase to stimulus in his first press conference.
He restated that he would do whatever it takes to achieve a 2 percent inflation target and that he might bring forward open-ended asset purchases, though he made no concrete commitments.
In other markets on Friday:
Manila closed 0.71 percent higher from Thursday, adding 45.73 points to 6,518.71.
Wellington was virtually unchanged at 4,342.89.
Mumbai fell 0.30 percent, or 57.27 points, to 18,735.6 points.


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Swine flu - the BBC does all it can to calm the situation
As the EU 'warns against swine flu panic', the BBC is doing its bit for Queen and Country by regularly updating its terror inducer, and showing advertisements like that above.
The state broadcaster is a mine of pig flu information, with helpful tabs for the latest news, Q&A, an Outbreak Map, a breakdown by country, the UK situation, and calming, non-panicky pictures.
No-one in the UK died today of pig flu.
But eight people died in road traffic accidents.
Man's life's as cheap as beasts.


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East, central Delhi areas face blackout risk
As state-run NTPC today rejected Delhi Government's plea not to stop electricity supply to BSES Yamuna Power Ltd for defaulting on payments
New Delhi: Areas in east and central Delhiface a blackout risk from tomorrow as state-run NTPC today rejected Delhi Government's plea not to stop electricity supply to BSES Yamuna Power Ltd for defaulting on payments, intensifying the standoff.
Sources said Delhi government had requested NTPC to extend the time limit for making the payments but the power generating company decided not to do so.
The NTPC told the government that it will snap power supply to the BYPL if the company does not pay the dues by this evening.
The decision by NTPC was conveyed hours after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused BSES discoms of trying to "blackmail" the government by threatening power cuts upto 10 hours a day.
Kejriwal even warned them of strict action including possible cancellation of licenses.
Reliance Infra-backed BYPL owes around Rs 120 crore to NTPC for supply of power for the month of December.
BYPL has already informed Delhi Government that areas under its jurisdiction may face eight to 10 hours of power cuts from Saturday as the company was facing serious fund crunch to buy electricity.
In a letter to Delhi's Power Secretary Puneet Goel, BYPL sought immediate financial assistance from the government to deal with the "difficult" situation as it was not being able to make payments to various state-run power generators including NTPC and NHPC.
The discom said banks have "withdrawn new funding support" owing to accumulated revenue arrears of Rs 6,200 crore and it was finding it difficult to arrange power for the city.
BYPL had sought immediate intervention of Delhi Government in helping it overcome the situation and urged it to take up the issue urgently with NTPC, NHPC, Ministry of Power and Ministry of Finance.
The company said banks are "alarmed" by Delhi Government's "subsidy-led" approach to tariffs, regardless of actual cost of power.
The BSES Yamuna Power Ltd and BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, which supply power in 70 per cent areas in Delhi, owe around Rs 4,000 crore to Delhi Government-run power generation and transmission companies.
Both BRPL and BYPL have been maintaining that they are going through difficult financial condition. They have been demanding significant hike in tariff, citing rise in power purchase cost.


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Last night, in a win against the Cubs, Mike Pelfrey let up zero runs, three hits and walked three batters.
He is 3–0 with a 0.86 ERA this season, and he has not allowed a run in his last 19 innings pitched.
Following the game, Pelfrey told reporters he owes Dan Warthen a lot of credit for his split-finger fastball, 'which is making all the difference in the world, it's been huge,' adding:
"I feel like I am a different being able to throw the secondary stuff for strikes… I think it got the point where, in the seventh inning, I didn't throw any fastballs, I threw all off-speed pitches, and that's something I would never have done."
…the thing about it is, the pitching coach-pitcher relationship is not a one-size-fits-all thing… the guy who is good for pelfrey, might not be good for John Maine… Rick Peterson might have been good for maine, but not for pelfrey… then there's the catcher… and just maturing in general… and health… and about a million other things that all must come together… from what i see, pelfrey is just maturing, he's the right age to turn the corner, he's growing confident, he has new pitches to add wind in his sails, he's learning to make adjustments, he's mentally in a good place, physically fit, and he clearly has a good thing going with blanco…
"This game is tough, and he makes it easy," Pelfrey said about Blanco, who has been his catcher the last two games. "He frames the ball so well."
…oh, by the way, since they spent so much ink and radio time goofing on mike's brain, i'm really looking forward to those Mike Pelfrey is Mentally Strong articles and on-air rants from people in boxes, print and on radio… man, those are gonna be great…
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Men's Tennis Bests No. 9 Florida on Senior Day
BATON ROUGE -- The 27th-ranked LSU men's tennis team (13-9, 4-6 SEC) pulled off their biggest upset since 2008, Sunday, claiming a 4-2 thriller over the No. 9 Florida Gators on Senior Day at W.T. 'Dub' Robinson Stadium.
Senior Tom Knights clinched the match for the Tigers with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Florida's Billy Federhofer.
"It meant a lot to me that I was able to get the clinch in my last match at the Dub," Knights said. "It was a great feeling to know the guys were all waiting for me when I finished."
All three seniors, Knights, Neal Skupski and David Roberts, played a huge role in the Tigers' upset.
In doubles, Skupski partnered with Chris Simpson to pull off a huge 8-2 upset over the 10th-ranked Gator duo of Federhofer and Nassim Slilam that helped give the Tigers the momentum they needed to eventually capture the doubles point and a quick 1-0 lead over Florida.
In singles, both 55th-ranked Olivier Borsos and No. 73 Skupski knocked off ranked opponents, No. 41 Bob van Overbeek and No. 49 Frank Carleton, respectively, to increase the Tigers' lead to 3-0.
On court three, Simpson fell in straight sets to Spencer Newman, allowing Florida to get on the board.
Up 3-1, Stefan Szacinski battled hard, but eventually met defeat at the hands of Florent Diep, 7-6, 2-6, 6-0, pulling Florida within one.
With the match on the line, the Tigers called upon underdog, Roberts, to step up to the plate and take on UF's Michael Alford in what would be only Roberts' fourth dual match of the season.
After dropping the first set, Roberts fought back from a 5-2 deficit to win the second set 7-6 (3) and keep the Tigers' hopes alive.
By sending his match into a third set, Roberts gave Knights the time and comfort he needed to finish off Federhofer, and ultimately clinch the match in the Tigers' favor.
After Knights clinched, it was decided by both teams to suspend Roberts' match, finalizing the overall score at 4-2 and solidifying the biggest win for the Tigers since their 4-3 victory over then-No. 9 Florida in 2008.
"Senior Day in itself has a lot to it," head coach Jeff Brown said. "You are celebrating careers of some great players. Dave has put so much into the team and has never been rewarded with the playing time, but was still able to step in today and win his match if need be. For Tom to clinch on Senior Day was huge and a great confidence booster, and Neal played a big role in the win as well. It was a great team effort and makes it so special to beat a team that is so talented and comes in well prepared. It was a hard-earned win for our team, and I am very proud of the guys."
With this match, LSU will conclude home play and finish with a 10-3 record at W.T. Dub Robinson Stadium.
The Tigers will now turn their sights to their final match of the regular season versus the 41st-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks. The match is set to begin at 1 p.m. CT on Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.
Be sure to follow LSU on Twitter at @lsutennis and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lsutennis for the latest information on the Tigers.
Florida vs LSU
Apr 08, 2012 at Baton Rouge, La.
W.T. Dub Robinson Stadium
#27 LSU 4, #9 Florida 2
1. #55 Olivier Borsos (LSU) def. #41 Bob van Overbeek (UF) 6-3, 6-3
2. #73 Neal Skupski (LSU) def. #49 Frank Carleton (UF) 6-3, 7-5
3. Spencer Newman (UF) def. #98 Chris Simpson (LSU) 6-3, 7-5
4. Tom Knights (LSU) def. Billy Federhofer (UF) 5-7, 6-4, 6-1
5. Florent Diep (UF) def. Stefan Szacinski (LSU) 7-6 (7-0), 2-6, 6-0
6. David Roberts (LSU) vs. Michael Alford (UF) 2-6, 7-6 (7-3), 2-0, unfinished
1. Neal Skupski/Chris Simpson (LSU) def. #10 Nassim Slillam/Billy Federhofer (UF) 8-2 2. Bob van Overbeek/Spencer Newman (UF) def. Olivier Borsos/Roger Anderson (LSU) 8-6
3. Tom Knights/Stefan Szacinski (LSU) def. Frank Carleton/Andrew Butz (UF) 8-4
Match Notes:
Florida 13-8; National ranking #9
LSU 13-9; National ranking #27
Order of finish: Doubles (1,3,2); Singles (1,2,3,5,4,6)


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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Most people know of Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso, and maybe recently heard of American teen skiing sensation Mikaela Shiffrin.
But who are these other U.S. women finishing atop the podium on the World Cup circuit?
Downhillers Stacey Cook, Leanne Smith and Alice McKennis are each in the middle of breakout seasons. They've had so much success that for the first time in recent memory, coaches will have a tough time selecting the four starters for the downhill at next month's world championships.
Vonn leads the World Cup downhill standings, Cook is second, McKennis fourth, Smith sixth, Mancuso 11th and Laurenne Ross 21st. Of those six, only four get to start the worlds downhill Feb. 10 in Schladming, Austria.
"It's going to be very difficult," longtime speed coach Chip White said. "It's better than squabbling over someone who's 30th place. It's definitely a problem but it's a good problem."
While Vonn's five victories this season have all come in speed events, she hasn't been alone on the podium.
Cook finished second behind Vonn in the opening two downhills of the season in Lake Louise, Alberta. Smith was second in Val d'Isere, France, last month and showed it wasn't a fluke with a third-place result in Cortina last weekend. McKennis had the biggest breakthrough of all, winning the challenging downhill this month in St. Anton, Austria.
All three skiers had never before finished on the podium.
Add two podium finishes for Mancuso in super-G, that's 12 podiums overall for the speed team. In the country downhill standings, the Americans hold a massive 441-point lead over Switzerland.
Ross, one of the newest members of the team, also has podium potential, as evidenced by her fourth-place finish in a super-G in Tarvisio two seasons ago, and a fifth-place result in St. Anton when McKennis won.
It's clear that the U.S. women are the best speed team in the world. And the transformation couldn't have occurred at a better time — a year before the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Naturally, the team has been asked repeatedly how it became so successful. Smith recounted a conversation the racers had in the team van recently on the subject. It started with some jokes, then got serious.
"First we were like, `We listen to Justin Bieber together, or we all sleep in one big bed every night, or we have these rituals.' But, no," Smith said. "There's a lot of hard workers on this team. Everybody wants to help each other out and see each other do well.
"When you see a teammate come down and podium you say, `Hey, I can do that, too.' When you see that with Lindsey and Julia every day, you watch them ski and see what they do, you can emulate that. Obviously, they've had a lot of success in the past so there's a lot to be taken from them.
"It's kind of nice to be on the U.S. Ski Team right now," Smith added. "We're having fun."
According to White, it's been a gradual building process to get to this point. He's been with the team for 17 years and has worked together with head coach Alex Hoedlmoser for 16 years.
Vonn described White's dedication by recounting how the silver-haired coach kept working this season after accidentally cutting his finger off with a table saw.
"He had one hand all taped up and he was still out there carrying gates around and wrenching in gates and working just as hard as he always does even though he was in excruciating pain," said Vonn, a winner of the past five World Cup downhill titles.
While European skiers go home between races, the U.S. team goes on the road for months at a time. Consequently, a family atmosphere develops.
White was recently asked to describe each of his athletes. He did so with a wise smile for each of them.
MANCUSO: "Julia Mancuso is a free spirit. She's self-motivated, self-confident. She's an amazing natural skier, coming from Squaw Valley, she skied big mountains growing up and has had a lot of fun skiing. I think that a lot of her success is because she loves the sport so much and she loves just skiing in general — she's not just a ski racer, even though she excels at it."
ROSS: "She did get a haircut this year but she used to be referred to as the hippy. She had long dreadlocks, so she had the hippy look, ring in her nose. She's extremely intelligent, a very talented musician, everything that she touches she does very well. She does extremely well in all of her studies and taking college courses. ... She's an athlete — like all of our athletes — that you can't just pull the wool over their eyes and feed them a line on technique or tactics. Because of her intelligence, she's a real thinker and she won't just buy it if it's just giving her a line. She'll say, `OK, tell me why and make me believe that that's correct,' which is great because it keeps us honest also."
SMITH: "She's a funny character. ... She's very self-confident and very self-motivated. She comes across as really tough girl and really strong but she does have a soft side and we see that sometimes. When she first started out with us, her answer to everything was, `I got it. I got it, I got it, I got it.' She had all the answers and she didn't really listen. Unfortunately she got injured (Smith tore her ACL in Cortina in 2009) and when she came back from her injury she realized that she had some work to do and she had a different sense of urgency. ... She realized that she needed to do more than, `I got it, I got it, I got it.' And so she became a better student of the sport. She listened, she paid attention to video, she asked intelligent questions and really thought things through and it changed her whole attitude and approach and it was awesome to see. And since then her skiing has just been skyrocketing, because she is now letting herself become a better skier."
McKENNIS: "She is a great gal. She's very quiet and subdued but she's very funny in her own way. When we first saw her come to the team, to be honest I thought she had no chance. She could go straight and she could make some big, sweeping turns but technically she had a lot of work to do and we were just going, `This is not the level of this team and I just don't see it happening.' And every time I was about ready to write her off she would do something that was brilliant with her skiing and you would just say, `She understands this, she's just not doing it all the time.' She was not very athletic, either on or off the snow and we spent a lot of time on her athleticism with dry-land training and this made her become more body-aware, so she was able to move out of her own way, because she was a little clumsy, and she's getting better and better at having awareness at where every part of her body is. ... She has a race mode and a mind-set of, `I can do this and I will do this.' She showed it in St. Anton."
COOK: "She's an extremely hard worker. She's the same age as Lindsey and Julia and she's very self-motivated, very professional. As far as her work ethic goes, it's second to none. Lindsey works extremely hard and people talk about how hard she works off the snow and Stacey is exactly the same, just Lindsey gets publicity about it and Stacey doesn't. She's like a little fire hydrant — strong, stout, really sturdy. She's solid. She has been skiing so well for such a long time, but what she does is she trains really well but then on race day she tries to do something different and that usually is her demise, then she goes and blows it. ... Toward the end of last season she really started to show consistency and great skiing."
VONN: "She gets a lot of publicity in lot of different directions. I have to say all my experiences with her have been nothing but positive. She's a talented, hard-working athlete and she's also a very nice person and the people that see some other side to it don't know her. She's friendly, she's generous, she's appreciative and helpful to her teammates and supportive of her teammates. She's great with little kids and things like that and anybody that has something negative to say about her doesn't know her."


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"We have an alternative for off balance sheet financing for this route, which eliminates the need for the company to dilute its shareholders by $100 million," stated Michael Barron, president and CEO of the X Train. "As a result of this alternative financing plan, we no longer needed to retain the Union Pacific agreement which required the company to make prepaid capital improvement payments of $66 million."
The alternative financing plan would still finance the LA to Las Vegas route as planned. Further details on the plan were not available at press time.


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I have achieved the ability to highlight a <div> based on search text. You can view the JSFiddle here.
Now, I'm trying to apply the same concept to a set of mapped coordinates on an image map, and I'm having issues getting it to work.
Each set of mapped coordinates will have a text value assigned so it remains searchable.
Here's the JS I have so far...
function doSearch(text) {
$('#content div').removeClass('highlight');
$('#content div:contains(' + text + ')').addClass('highlight');


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Daylight Savings TIme has the time stamps off by an hour. Is that some sort of user setting I can fix on my end or is this a blog-wide regulated issue?
This post will self-destruct in:
You mean we're not posting from the future? Rats.
No, he is not The_Knowledge.
There shouldn't be an "s" on "Savings." It's just "Saving."
The more you know...
whoa ... if someone would've made this bet with me, I would have lost a lot of money!
We are from Michigan; it would hardly be the first extra possessive we've added.
I'm not from Michigan, so that really explains Eminem's lyrics in this song.
It doesn't work with IE either, just starts showing the Diary posts
So basically. It just doesn't work.
Unless someone here still has Netscape? Does that still exist?
It works just fine in IE9, even with "Compatibility Mode" turned on...
ctrl click to open it in a new tab
Works in IE (maybe FF, not sure), but not in Chrome v12998.0.223
just noticed it doesn't work in chrome. However you can still right click and say open in new tab and it will. (at least in whatever version of chrome i have)
Not in Firefox, either. I just go to the MGoBoard tab in the top right corner. Never really knew that existed before the JS broke.
v12998 is something you normally expect only from Windows. When I was a programmer back in the day, any given program lost me after build 450 or so.
Right click and open in new tab/window works. Not the best solution, but it's something.
Edit: I was beaten to the punch.
Why do we care about this?


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While the role of UAVs is expected to grow in future operations, one senior U.S. Army official says manned aircraft won't go away any time soon.
In fact, the Army and industry want to empower those pilots by giving them the ability to control several UAVs at once.
"It will always be a balance" of manned and unmanned assets, Lt. Gen. Bill Phillips, principal military deputy to the assistant Army secretary, told an Army Aviation Association of America conference in northern Virginia on Dec. 12. "You need situational awareness, and you need the curiosity of the human inside the cockpit."
But as budgets flatten in coming years and planners are hard pressed to find efficiencies, the temptation to field more unmanned systems, which are less expensive, might be hard to resist, Phillips admitted.
While budget cuts "may drive us toward [more unmanned systems], at the end of the day we have to get it right and ensure that there is the appropriate balance," he said. "I don't think you'll ever get the human out of the cockpit," Phillips continued. "Having someone there who can see the battlefield 360 degrees — it's so important."
The Army isn't planning to jettison its fleet of attack and reconnaissance helicopters. But as Phillips said, there are many reasons for the service to invest more in its unmanned fleet and explore more ways in which its manned and unmanned aircraft can work together.
The AH-64 Apache Block III helicopter comes equipped with software that allows it to receive data and imagery from Gray Eagle UAVs, while the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter has been pairing with Shadow UAVs. Phillips said the Army is studying the capabilities of the Block III upgrade and what it offers when evaluating future moves.
While Boeing and Lockheed Martin have been working on these capabilities with the Apache program, Bell Helicopter and AAI — operating under the Textron corporate umbrella — are also making a big push to get involved in the emerging manned-unmanned pairing.
On Dec. 4, the companies unveiled a laboratory in Huntsville, Ala., that will be used to train pilots and UAV operators in the latest tactics, techniques and procedures, while also helping the Army experiment with and evaluate new technologies, according to company officials.
The lab provides "simulation, modeling and new engineering capabilities" that bring together AAI's Shadow UAV, Bell's Kiowa Warrior helicopter and the Universal Ground Control Station while allowing users to combine live data feeds in high-fidelity simulated environments, said Bill Irby, senior vice president and general manager of AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
The simulation capabilities will be key, Irby said, since they will allow users at the lab to tie in with major Army exercises such as the Network Integration Evaluations at Fort Bliss, Texas, and at other training and evaluation events. The ability to realistically simulate events will also help the service drive down training costs, he said. The lab is capable of streaming live imagery collected from Shadow UAVs at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Ala., for use during simulations and tests.
A major component of the lab is a Bell helicopter simulator linked to multiple generations of the Shadow UAV, from older systems to more recent Tactical Common Data Link-equipped systems.
"We're able to do interoperability with all of these assets with the actual tactical software that's out there, which is unique," said Peter Blocker, vice president of Huntsville operations for AAI. He said the company is interested in exploring with the Army the ability of a single helicopter to interact with or control several UAVs at once.
"Today, the only manned/unmanned capability that's there is one unmanned asset and one helicopter. One of the ideas this lab can look at is two or three unmanned aircraft with a helicopter," Blocker said.
Ellen Lord, president and CEO of Textron Systems, said the company has made a "significant" financial investment in setting up the lab, but declined to provide any dollar amount. But given the financial realities of the moment, she said, "we are making choices about discretionary spending and capital investment, and we believe that unmanned teaming is a critical area for the military, so we are putting our money behind the concept."
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Social activity in Manhattan from The Hotlist, a mobile startup.
Advice from three startups on the digital creation process
In any project you decide to embrace, there are key ingredients that must fall into place to build a solid foundation for success. We caught up with a number of new mobile and Web app startups and a user experience design expert from the agency side to pick their brains on the key ingredients needed to make that perfect risotto. That is, to build a startup from the ground up.
After years of working with brands and startups, it amazes me how great ideas get muddled when it reaches the execution phase. When I was part of a product management team, it was a challenge to convince executive management how design needs to be an integral part of the process. $3 million down the drain later, they'll circle back and say, "Jessica can you show us those architectural sketches again?"
Here is a summary of the advice from all three startups with perspective from my personal experience in the digital creation process.
Timing is everything
When the visual search startup Search Me launched in 2005, the tech world was excited! $43.6 million later and only 1.8 million users to show for it, they had to shut down. The world was not ready for visual search at that time.
However, timing has worked very well for Tango.me, a free mobile video calling service with 6 million users available in 135 countries and on 45 different mobile devices. Uri Raz, founder and CEO, adds that "the improvement of smart phones and video was excellent timing for Tango.me. Why limit video calls on the PC when improvement in mobile technology makes it more accessible and convenient."
In the million and one ideas that you have in your "ideas" folder, look for one that the market is ripe and ready for. Observe the changes in the space that you would like to service, do your research, find the gap and improvements you can implement, then make your bet.
Find your product's focus
Most startups don't find the sweet spot of their product the first time they launch. It takes a number of prototypes, many days of testing, collaboration and iteration to get to the phase where it is finally ready for public consumption. Uri adds: "When your product is able to provide something useful to a massive group of consumers, you won't need to convince them about its usefulness — they will make sure you succeed by supporting your product."
A powerful example of this experience is when Tango.me first launched in Korea. "Korea is one of our first adopters," Uri says. "When we first launched, there was a flaw in our platform. Our system was not working with the structure of Korea's phone number system. A user discovered a way around this and posted it in his blog. The next day Tango had 120,000 downloads. We've fixed that issue, yet this memorable act of love from our users is a testament to how our product is connecting lives." Continue reading


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Tim Lincecum struck out 12 while earning his first victory of the season and the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Friday night for their fourth straight win.
The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner shut down the Diamondbacks
for the second time in less than a week, allowing one run and five hits in eight innings. Lincecum (1-1) got a no-decision last Saturday in San Francisco, striking out 13 over eight shutout innings in a 2-0 loss to Arizona.
Bengie Molina went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs in San Francisco's first road victory of the season in seven tries. Edgar Renteria also homered.
Doug Davis (1-3), the winner in last Saturday's duel, gave up five runs and nine hits in six-plus innings.
The Diamondbacks, coming off their first series win of the year, have not won consecutive games this season. The worst-hitting team in the majors going into the game (.226), Arizona only managed an RBI single from Davis.
Renteria connected in the first and Molina went deep leading off the third to give San Francisco a 2-0 lead.
Davis' two-out RBI single, after Justin Upton's double, cut it to 2-1 in the fifth. But consecutive two-out singles by Aaron Rowand, Pablo Sandoval and Rich Aurilia restored the Giants' two-run lead in the sixth. San Francisco scored twice more in the fifth when Molina's bases-loaded drive to deep right-center bounced off the tip of Chris Young's glove for a two-run double.
The Diamondbacks had runners at second and third with one out in the first but Lincecum fanned Mark Reynolds and Chad Tracy grounded out to second to end the threat.
Eric Byrnes doubled off the top of the left-field wall with two outs in the third. Manager Bob Melvin argued it was a home run, so umpires reviewed the play. The double call was upheld, and moments later the inning ended when Byrnes easily was thrown out trying to steal third.


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Joey Votto does not care about RBI.
uh wow.
Joey Votto does not care about RBI.
Getting back on topic, if I had to voice a complaint so far it would be that I feel they're going too fast regarding Walt's evilness. Seasons 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, there was a nice fluid transition. Walt's characterization so far in S5 just doesn't seem to flow from S4 as well as previous years.
Arise and walk, come through. A world beyond that door is calling out for you. Arise and walk, come through. It's calling out for you.
The progression seems consistent to me, but we'll see how far they go with this.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Well Gilligan and Cranston have said it's a Mr. Chips to Scarface transformation. We know where he ends and they've given three huge clues that it's going there over the last two seasons.
1. Steven Bauer playing Don Eladio.
2. Buying a M60 in the season 5 teaser scene from episode 1.
3. Watching Scarface in the last episode.
I'm sure there are more those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I think Walt's "break" toward the bad has increased this season.
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
That said, I tend to think they'll wrap up the arc with Walt pulling back at the end. I think everyone seems to expect his demise and I think Vince ultimately thrives on towing the fine line between good and evil.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
So, assuming gilligan isn't misleading us I think it's safe to conclude the ricin vial will come into play somehow again. Not really sure how it will, but I'm pretty confident it will play a significant role.
My insane conspiracy theory:
1. the ricin vial is hidden behind an outlet
2. we know it can easily be put into a cigarette if someone wants to poison someone
3. Skylar has started smoking due to stress/fear of Walt
4. Marie knows about Ted/affair and may ask Skylar about it
5. Skylar holds back and doesn't tell truth, but is beyond pissed at Walt and confronts him for being painted as the bad person
6. Walt fears she may say eff it all and confess to Marie
7. Walt ........
no he couldn't possibly do that could he?
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Joey Votto does not care about RBI.
Great season so far...
Really hoping for a Mike spin off series. Scenes I enjoyed from the last episode was the cooking scenes ( been awhile ) and the scene with Walt & Jessie about " being too close to the sun". Not clear if it was a warning to Jessie or Mike or Walt realizing how deep all this really is.....
The book at the beginning is by Walter Whitman. Its about "sense' and realizing your existence.
Question: Who do you think Walt kills first this season to make a point ?
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If there's a spin-off, personally, I want it to be Saul Goodman lol
There could be a pretty funny crime sitcom with Goodman as the main character.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
There is one really weak part that I didn't get.
How can "all of the cousins" who would exact revenge be killed?
And, why wouldn't another (or several fight for it) cartel just swoop in and take over?
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Captain Bieszard Leads a Young, Talented Squad
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's track and field team will open its indoor season this Saturday by hosting the Yale Season Opener at Coxe Cage. In the past, the event has drawn teams from across the tri-state area, including Yale's cross-town rivals Quinnipiac and the University of New Haven, who will offer this year's Elis their first taste of live competition. Head coach Marc Davis said he is looking to improve on last year's performances, and is confident that his young team is up to the challenge.
The following is an event-by-event breakdown of the Yale athletes:
After a brief but well-deserved respite, the Bulldogs are looking to carry over the momentum they built over a successful cross country season onto the track. They will be looking for big contributions from senior Samuel Lynch, who owns the 10th fastest time in Yale history in the 5000-meter run (14:35.61), and from senior Nathan Richards, an NCAA regional qualifier last spring in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Richards is currently the fourth fastest steeplechaser in Yale history (8:54.15).
Junior Kevin Lunn, who emerged as the top Yale cross country runner over the course of the season, is also expected to shine in his signature event, the 5000-meter run. Other distance men who should make an impact this season include sophomore Michael Cunetta, senior Conor Dooney, junior Sam Kirtner, sophomore Ryan Laemel, freshman Jacob Sandry, senior Julian Sheinbaum and junior Matthew Thwaites.
Middle Distance
Behind standouts Christopher Ramsey and James Shirvell, middle distance events look to be one of the strengths of the Yale team this year. In his rookie year last winter, Shirvell climbed to sixth place in the all-time Yale leaderboard in the 800-meter run (1:51.67) and fifth in the 1000-meter run (2:23.85). Ramsey's 800-meter time of 1:52.27 places him five spots behind Shirvell on that same list.
The 4x800-meter relay team that qualified for IC4As last year returns all of its members. Distance and middle distance coach Paul Harkins indicated that his top team will likely consist of junior Timothy Hillas, senior Charlie Jaeger, junior Ramsey, and sophomore Shirvell.
Sophomore John Cocco, senior Andrew Esposito and freshman Michael Grace will also compete in middle distance events, and will fight to crack the rotation in the 4x800 meter relay.
"I want to keep the guys healthy and moving forward in the right direction," said Harkins of Yale's distance and middle distance runners. "If we can do this, I think we will have an opportunity to score a decent amount of points when we get to the Ivy League championships at the end of February."
Sprints and Hurdles
Senior captain Matthew Bieszard will lead a young but talented corps of sprinters this year. 2010 saw Bieszard place third at Heps in the 200-meter dash (21.04), while last year he anchored the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams that qualified for outdoor IC4As. He is already on the Yale all-time indoor top 15 lists in the 200-meter dash (third) and 500-meter dash (ninth).
"[Bieszard] has been a great competitor since his freshman year," said coach Davis. "Matt leads by example, and I think that our younger team members have followed his example well."
Among those younger teammates under Bieszard's tutelage is sophomore Daniel Jones, who made an immediate impact in the short sprints as a walk-on in his freshman year. Also representing the Bulldogs in sprints this year will be sophomores Dana Lindberg and Clifford Van Meter and freshmen Andrew Goble, Dylan Hurley and Mario Kranjac.
In the hurdles, Yale will feature three newcomers: freshman Daniel Kemp, freshman William Rowe and sophomore Nnamdi Udeh. As novices, all will have to adjust to the increased hurdle height at the collegiate level (42'') as opposed to the high school level (39''). But coach David Shoehalter, the Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, affirmed confidently that his runners "have shown that they're ready for the higher hurdles."
Though he also runs some of the sprints, sophomore Dana Lindberg's specialty is the long jump (PR of 7.05m), in which he was a Heps finalist both indoors and outdoors last year. Shoehalter is expecting "big things" from him in that event and in the triple jump this season. Junior Tommy Winger is also poised for a breakout season in the horizontal jumps.
The high jump will be the realm of Kyle Bajtos, who, as a freshman, is something of an unknown. In high school, he jumped 6'-5''.
Sophomore Paul Chandler is Yale's lone pole vaulter. Injuries forced Chandler to miss all of last season, so he will be eager to make up for lost time.
Star junior Mike Levine returns this year hoping to add to his already impressive list of accolades. Levine, the reigning Ivy League champion in the discus (54.41m), earned All-East honors at IC4As and qualified for NCAA regionals in the discus last spring. During the indoor season, he will be focusing on the weight throw, an event in which he currently holds the seventh spot on the Yale all-time chart (59'-0'').
Sophomore Stefan Palios and junior Mark Kaczor, a former football player walking-on this year, will also compete in throws.
Overall, coach Davis was optimistic in assessing his team's prospects this season, provided that it puts in the work.
"As a team, we have to stay focused on the task at hand and we have to stay positive week by week," he said. "If we can do that, I think that success will come for the squad that we have."
Apart from the Yale Season Opener this weekend, Yale has two more home meets on the horizon for the indoor season. The Yale Invitational will be take place on Jan. 14, followed by the Giegengack Invitational on Feb. 3-4. The annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet will be next on Feb. 11 in Cambridge, Mass., and then it's on to the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on Feb. 25-26 in Ithaca, N.Y.
The Bulldogs will travel to Irvine, Calif. to kick off their outdoor season with the Anteater Invitational on Mar. 16-17. Other regular season highlights are the Sam Howell and Larry Ellis Invitationals on Apr. 7 and Apr. 20-21, respectively, the Penn Relays on Apr. 26-28 and the Yale Springtime Invitational on Apr. 29. The outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships are slated for May 5-6.
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I have the following code. The point is to test returns.
As is, I get a "missing return value" error from the compiler for the line "return ;", line 13. If I remove that statement, I get "missing return statement".
How should/could I handle this? If my method has a return type, MUST I return a value of that type? Is there a way not to do that?
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Meet Two Security Researchers Apple Hates (Video) 146
Slashdot happily accepts video submissions. Do you have one to share with other Slashdot users?
Slashdot happily accepts video submissions. Do you have one to share with other Slashdot users?
Seriously... why the inflammatory headline? other than creating link bait. Why would Apple hate them? They're doing the R&D on security for them...
Charlie and Dino sounds like some kids adventure movie. What's up with that?
well Charlie did get banned from the app store for 1 year for finding a security hole. Perhaps they dont hate him but they got pretty miffed at him.
No, he was banned because he deliberately violated the terms of the appstore by creating a tool that collected end user information instead of disclosing the issue to apple.
"Wouldnt that have been the 'right thing' to do??"
No. The right thing to do would be to follow standard full disclosure [wikipedia.org] principles. What he did is the rough equivalent of releasing an exploit into the wild.
Actually he got banned for breaking the store terms and conditions, not for discovering a security hole.
The headline is just linkbait - Apple does not hate people who discover security holes in its software, it's quite the opposite. They take time to mention and thank people who find specific bugs in their security update notes and have been doing for many years when they close that particular hole.
Isn't this anti-competitive behavior?
No. It's not. He violated the App Store ToS and got banned from the service. How exactly is that 'anti-competitive behavior'?
"Why would Apple hate them"
uh, maybe because Apple likes to keep any of its security issues quiet rather than watch these two guys publicly expose iPhone issues the way the entire open-source Android developer community does for Android Phones. What these two guys are doing is contrary to the walled-garden business model that is Apples creed.
Because there is a good portion of people who do not understand, it is not what you do but how you do it.
There is a fine line of being a companies best friend and worst enemy. It just goes on to how you approach a problem.
Funny thing is, at about 50 seconds into the video, Charlie says, "The good thing about Apple is, it's only a 1 year ban, where I'm banned from Google for... lifetime."
Huh, imagine that. I guess Google must "corporately hate these guys" even more than Apple!
Even go so far as to pay them. Finding these holes should be done before harm happens. Futher, Apple should review their coders who leave the gaps in and train (or sack) them.
Further, there is no way that the person who broke into your house is responsible. It is your fault for not h
Stop bringing facts into this!!
This just shows the article submitter's bias.
All they do is hurt Apple's good name. Apple needs to have these idiots sent to prison, something they should be doing more of during this global assault of this proud American corporation.
Sorry man, I just used up my last mod points. Otherwise I would have modded you 'Funny'. My sides are hurting!
But it turns out, most of my headaches are MY FAULT. By following bad eating habits, for example, I create sub-optimal nutritional conditions which, at times, results in discomfort. Other causes of headaches might result from other conditions within my preventative control. And it is my failure to manage those conditions which is the cause of my headaches.
Apple? Are you listening? Manage your conditions and you will have fewer headaches.
reads like it was written by a 1st year PR student.
Well, Apple sent them free copies of Lion, so the answer depends on what you thought of Lion.
That headline is pretty damned stupid. It's like the stuff I've seen before on internet scams
"Doctors hate this bodybuilder - see how he keeps growing 20 lbs of muscle per week!"
"The U.S. Government hates this guy - see how one guy never pays taxes!"
"Women hate this doctor - find out how to get any women you want by taking this new secret pill!"
The headline reminds of those cheesy ads on (as one example) snopes.com: "Find out why dermatologists hate this guy."
"Use this silly old trick to lose stubborn belly fat."
Slashdot encourages you to watch the video Apple doesn't want you to see!!!11
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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baby cribs – things every parent ought to know
When that new bundle of joy arrives, it can be pretty overwhelming. Between the physical and emotional roller coasters that your mind and body are going through and all the planning, rearranging and changing that has been and will be going on, new parents often find it hard to know just where to start. Getting [...]
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Finding A Music Therapist
Is there a website where I can find a reputable music therapist in my area?
Tony Meadows PhD MT-BC FAMI LPC is Director of Music Therapy at Immaculata University and Music Therapist at the Joan Karnell Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital , responds:
You should always look for the MT-BC designation - Board Certified Music Therapist. This means the music therapist has completed a 4 1/2 year degree program from an approved college/university. You can search for a music therapist in your area through www.cbmt.org. There is also a website for the American Music Therapy Association - www.musictherapy.org
Music therapy training can also be undertaken at the Masters and PhD level, so you should look for advanced training in the field, in addition to the MT-BC designation, when looking for someone in your area.
Learn more in Tony's article about guided imagery & music therapy!
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Rafael Morante Boyerizo is a Cuban painter, graphic designer and comics author. He was born in Madrid, Spain, but his family moved to Cuba in 1940, as a result of the Spanish Civil War. He began his professional career in 1956. Morante is one of the leading poster artists for the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC). He has also worked for the Editora Nacional de Cuba and the Cuban Books Institute.
Morante has participated in the creation of animated films, and has made illustrations for magazines like Cine Cubano and Tricontinental. He is the author of the comic story 'Alona y Los Otros', that ran in Cómicos in 1988, and was also published in Costa Rica, Mexico and Bolivia. He is also the author of the futuristic story '2031'. He has additionally worked as a drawing teacher.


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Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew said earlier this week that it was upsetting to him that people believed he couldn't return to play football at a high level after last year's foot injury.
General Manager David Caldwell revealed no upset about questions regarding Jones-Drew's ability to return to full strength and productivity, but he shares the running back's lack of concern about his ability to regain his old form. As the Jaguars closed minicamp on Thursday, Caldwell said that he was expecting the Jones-Drew of old to join the team when training camp opens up this summer.
"That's the plan," Caldwell said, via the team's website. "We'll see where that goes, where he's at when we come back. I'm not concerned about the rust factor. He has played a lot of football in his career. I think he'll be just fine if he comes back healthy and in shape."
Jones-Drew doesn't think that wear and tear will be any kind of trouble for him this season. Mark Long of the Associated Press reports that Jones-Drew feels that he's only "23 and a half in football years" because of the time he missed last season and the timeshare with Fred Taylor early in his career.
That argument is a better fit for the contract negotiations with the Jags and others that will follow the 2013 season, but, if true, it should allow him to make a strong case for a big new contract on the field.


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Art and Archaeology in the Land of the Queen of Sheba
This exhibition on the old southern Arabic cultures in the Yemen is the first extensive attempt to document the development of the southern Arabic area from its Neolithic beginnings to the Islamic period with the help of impressive archaeological finds and incorporating the newest archaeological discoveries. Almost 600 exhibits will present to the visitor a fascinating panorama of the culture of an area which only appears to be divided from us by geography and time. This is the culture of one of the oldest countries in which Islam was decisively formed and which is still an important factor in the Arab world today.
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McHENRY – Firefighters had to adopt wilderness firefighting tactics to battle a brush fire Thursday in unincorporated McHenry.
Fire crews were dispatched to the 1000 block of Lincoln Road at 4:43 p.m. for an unattended burn pile in the area of Cuhlman and Bay roads that quickly got out of control.
The fire burned about 200 acres, Lt. David Harwood of McHenry Fire Protection District said. No structures caught fire.
"It was substantial," Harwood said. "But the crews did an awesome job. They probably ended up saving another 1,000 acres that did not burn."
Because of the rough and swampy terrain, brush trucks could not access the blaze. Firefighters had to carry hand tools and 10- to 15-gallon pump cans on foot or with all-terrain vehicles.
No injuries were reported.
Firefighters were on scene until 7:34 p.m.
It was unclear whether the unidentified homeowner with the burn pile would be cited. If the pile was outside of the county's burning ordinance, citations would come from the McHenry County Department of Health, Harwood said.
McHenry Fire Protection District activated a mutual-aid alarm to the second level, bringing crews from Antioch, Nunda, Spring Grove, Richmond, Wonder Lake and Fox Lake. Cary, Woodstock, Round Lake and Grayslake provided change of quarters.


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ARSONISTS will soon come under extra heat with the announcement of a new taskforce to crack down on those who deliberately light fires.
As police declared that yesterday's Golden Point fire was suspicious, the state government announced a new specialist group within Victoria Police that will directly tackle arsonists across Victoria.
The new Bushfire, Arson and Explosives Specialist Group was announced jointly by Premier Ted Baillieu and Police and Emergency Services Minister Peter Ryan as part of Fire Action Week.
The taskforce will include a team of 150 highly trained experts, whose main role will be to eliminate arson.
Ballarat detectives yesterday suspected that the Elsworth Street fire, which burnt out 10 hectares of land, was deliberately lit.
Mr Baillieu said the taskforce would help local police prevent arson and more capably capture and punish culprits.
"Across Victoria, these specially trained officers will strengthen arson prevention operations by providing expertise to local police, and assistance with prevention, intelligence and enforcement," Mr Baillieu said.
"Arson is a horrific crime that can devastate our environment, destroy homes and properties and cause serious injury or the tragic loss of life, and the delivery of highly specialised resources will help in averting arson attacks in the future."
In 2011 alone there were more than 3000 arson-related offences in Victoria.
Mr Ryan said the development of the taskforce was another weapon in the arsenal of police to fight the crime.
"The establishment of this group of Bushfire Arson and Explosives specialists will improve our capability around the prevention and detection of arson offences," Mr Ryan said.
Yesterday also marked the start of Operation Firesetter, an overt arson deterrent run by Victoria Police that is now in its third year.
Any witnesses or anybody with information regarding the Golden Point fire is asked to contact Ballarat Criminal Investigation Unit on
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SWEA CITY - Funeral services for Patricia Donnelly, 64, of Swea City will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at First United Methodist church in Swea City. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Henry-Olson Funeral Home in Swea City.
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CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — A tour bus carrying a college's women's lacrosse team to a game went off a freeway Saturday in central Pennsylvania and crashed into a tree, killing the driver and one passenger and sending others to hospitals, including some with serious injuries, authorities said.
Pennsylvania Turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn says 23 Seton Hill lacrosse players and three coaches were aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m. on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It's unclear what caused the crash.
Penn State Hershey Medical Center spokeswoman Danielle Ran says three people were flown by helicopter to the hospital, where one died. She did not give the condition of the other two. Eleven others were also taken to hospitals as a precaution.
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a cancer of the blood in which too many granulocytes, a type of white blood cell, build up in the bone marrow.
Normally, bone marrow cells mature into several different types of blood cells. CML affects the young blood cells (called blasts) that develop into a type of white blood cell (called granulocytes). The main function of granulocytes is to destroy bacteria. The blasts, which do not mature and become too numerous, remain in the bone marrow and blood.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia can occur over a period of months or years. A specific chromosome rearrangement is found in the cells of almost all patients with CML. Part of chromosome #9 breaks off and attaches itself to chromosome #22, so that there is an exchange of genetic material between these two chromosomes. This rearrangement changes the position and functions of certain genes, which results in uncontrolled cell growth. Other chromosome abnormalities can also be present.
CML occurs mainly in adults and is rare in children. According to the American Cancer Society, 44,790 leukemia cases are expected in 2009. CML will account for 5,050 of the cases in 2009.
The following are the most common symptoms of chronic myelogenous leukemia. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
persistent weakness
aches in bones and joints
swollen lymph nodes
enlarged spleen
The symptoms of chronic myelogenous leukemia may resemble other blood disorders or medical problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for chronic myelogenous leukemia may include:
blood tests and other evaluation procedures
bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy - a procedure that involves taking a small amount of bone marrow fluid (aspiration) and/or solid bone marrow tissue (called a core biopsy), usually from the hip bones, to be examined for the number, size, and maturity of blood cells and/or abnormal cells.
Specific treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia will be determined by your physician based on:
your age, overall health, and medical history
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your opinion or preference
Treatment may include:
kinase inhibitors (Gleevec and other medications)
biological therapy - using the body's immune system to fight cancer.
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Flawless Victory
I was searching ebay and came across a rather large selection of what is labeled as Handmade damascus. The majority of these knives come from Pakistan and India and are in the price range that I would not think a handmade item would be even if it is from Pakistan and India. Most of the knives are visually striking I am just scared of the quality since you almost always get what you pay for. Curious if any one has purchased any of these or just has thoughts on them. My first thought is to buy a clever that way I can see the quality and not be put out if it is low since a clever is not a precise instrument. Any thoughts would be apreciated.


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So I don't know if I completely understand this Identity. I am working on my homework and this identity is really bothering me and I can't figure it out:
Write the expression in terms of sine and cosine, and simplify so that no quotients appear in the final expression and all expressions are of only.
*So I know that the negative identity for cos is :
- so that will make the top become:
then using the pythagorian identity on top it becomes....
now is where I get lost.... the answer is supposed to be:
*I dont understand how I use the Negative-Angle Identity to make the bottom to be used with the Pythagorean Identities to get to the answer. Thank you in advance for your time and help.


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2003-04 Men's Basketball
Boyles Named HCAC Player of the Week
Brad Boyles named HCAC Player of the Week
By Ben Risinger, SID
February 2, 2004
Senior forward Brad Boyles ( Berne , Ind. /South Adams) was named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference player of the week in men's basketball.
Boyles was instrumental in the Beavers 75-66 win over Defiance last Wednesday and near win against the No. 5 ranked Hanover Panthers as Bluffton lost 69-67. He scored 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting, posted four rebounds and five assists in the win over Defiance . On Saturday against Hanover he threw in 19 points on 6-of-8 shooting and had four assists.
"Brad is very deserving of this recognition," head coach Guy Neal said. "I thought his effort and focus were excellent in our two games last week against two teams whose defensive game plan was designed to specifically slow him down."
Boyles currently leads Bluffton with 15.8 points per game (4th in HCAC) and is shooting 64.7 percent from the field for the season (1st in HCAC). He is currently ranked eighth in the country (Division III) in field goal percentage. The Beavers have now won three of their last four games.


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OSWEGO, NY (April 29, 2013) – For the 63rd consecutive season, Oswego Speedway will open its gates for racing at the lake side facility known as the 'Steel Palace.'
The night's racing, which will feature round one of the Shea Concrete 'Steel Palace' ISMA SuperSeries as well as the Pathfinder Bank SBS division, will be presented by Gater Racing News and North Country Home Builders.
Shea Concrete 'Steel Palace' ISMA SuperSeries round #1. ISMA Supermodified 50-lap main event, plus a 35-lap Pathfinder Bank SBS main event.
Saturday May 4, at Oswego Speedway in Oswego, NY. Pit gates will open at 1pm, grandstands at 3pm, with time trials scheduled for 5pm, and racing at 6:30pm. RAIN DATE – Sunday, May 5.
Oswego Speedway is located at 300 East Albany St. in Oswego, NY
Padded reserved seats $30, general admission $25, Pit Passes $35. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling (315) 342-0646. Kids 16 and under are free with paid adult.
Oswego Speedway – www.oswegospeedway.com
Twitter - @OswegoSpeedway
Facebook – facebook.com/OswegoSpeedway
YouTube – OswegoSpeedwayOnline
Live Updates can be seen on Twitter, Facebook, as well as the Oswego Speedway website
Oswego Speedway is a semi-banked 5/8 mile paved oval. The non-wing Novelis Supermodified track record is held by Doug Didero with a time of 16.210 seconds at 138.786mph, established on September 5, 2009. The wing Supermodified track record is 15.198 seconds, set by Chris Perley in September of 2008.
Chris Perley – 7
Dave McKnight – 4
Tim Jedrzejek – 4
Dave Shullick Jr. – 3
Randy Ritskes – 2
Pat Abold – 2
Bentley Warren – 2
Russ Wood – 2
Joey Payne – 1
Gary Allbritain – 1
Scott Martel – 1
Greg Furlong – 1
Johnny Payne – 1
Bobby Santos – 1
Nokie Fonoro – 1
Trent Stephens – 1
Charlie Schultz – 1
Bob Bond – 1
Ben Seitz – 1
Mike Lichty – 1
Dave Gruel – 1
1992 – John Phelps
1993 – Russ Brown
1994 – Scott Landers*
1995 – Fred Taylor
1996 – Bob Rundell
1997 – Tom Jodway
1998 – Ray Graham*
1999 – Brian Sweeney
2000 – Shawn Muldoon
2001 – John Ketcham
2002 – Matt Wheeler
2003 – Mike Bond*
2004 – Kris Meyn
2005 – Russ Brown*
2006 – Josh LaRochelle
2007 – Larry Muroski
2008 – Mike Bond
2009 – Dave Gruel*
2010 – Steve Abt
2011 – Mike Bond*
2012 – JJ Andrews
*Went on to become Track Champion that year
6 times the opening night winner has gone on to win the track championship.
Mike Bond leads all drivers with 3 opening night wins (2003, 2008, 2011)
- Russ Brown, 2 – (1993, 2005)
Ray Graham is the only driver to win an opening night feature in both the SBS and Supermodified divisions.
Saturday, May 11th – 'Oswego Super Kick-Off!' presented by Mitchell's Speedway Press and CJ Ferlito Aggregates - Novelis Supermodified 75 and Pathfinder Bank SBS 30. Pit gates open at 1pm, Grandstand gates open at 3pm, Supermodified time trials at 5pm, racing at 6:30pm.
For more information on Oswego Speedway be sure to visit www.oswegospeedway.com. You can also LIKE the (Official) Oswego Speedway page at facebook.com/OswegoSpeedway, or FOLLOW on Twitter @OswegoSpeedway. To purchase tickets or order merchandise please call the Speedway box office at (315) 342-0646.
About Oswego Speedway: Oswego Speedway, a sports entertainment company, is a 5/8 mile semi-banked pavement racing oval located off the shores of Lake Ontario in scenic Oswego, NY. Oswego Speedway has been a continuously run weekly racing venue since August, 1951. The premier open-wheel pavement short track cars in the world, Supermodifieds, run weekly at Oswego Speedway making Oswego the only weekly Supermodified racing venue in the world. The Small Block Supermodifieds accompany the full blown Supers on a weekly Saturday night schedule which runs from May through September. Oswego Speedway is mentioned in racing circles as the "Indy of the East," as no fewer than a dozen past and present competitors have competed at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway including Mario Andretti, arguably the greatest driver of all time, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, along with former International Classic Champions Bentley Warren, Joe Gosek, and Davey Hamilton.


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Under the five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Alion will assess equipment and technology, organizational culture and behavior, policies and system performance, then provide technical assistance and recommendations to continue the FRA's record of accident reduction. The division has already reduced human factor-related accidents by more than 50 percent since 2005.
"With all the technology onboard current passenger and freight trains, as well as at control centers, people still play a critical role in preventing accidents," said Terri Spoonhour, Alion senior vice president and manager of the Distributed Simulation Group. "People can get distracted or need to make quick decisions based on the unexpected, from weather to track conditions to trespassers or cars approaching crossings. Alion's expertise in human-systems interaction will help us determine where improvements can be made, both in technology and in employee training and performance."
The multiple-award contract runs until May 14, 2017.


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The Daily Freeman (http://www.dailyfreeman.com)
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Dear Editor:
Amid the resurgence of gun control arguments and knee-jerk reactions, I don't believe unrestricted firearms ownership, responsible or otherwise, is our problem.
There are many factors that contribute to gun violence in the U.S., and they all need to be addressed. One, frequently mentioned, is violent video games, in which gamers can commit mayhem and murder without real-world consequences.
You reported (Jan. 21) a 15-year-old got somebody's gun and killed five people, a guy decapitated his friend, then took on a SWAT team with his assault rifle, columnist Bill Press wrote about "saving our kids" and the Life section featured, alongside a photo spread of our first family, one of your periodic slice-'n-dice video game reviews.
The reviewer called it a "thrill ride" and "endearing," complaining only about the "tedious soundtrack." "Endearing?" Really? Are you under contractual obligation to print these reviews? I suppose it's "free speech," but it's not news or editorial opinion. It's not even a paid advertisement.
How many people would care or even notice if you didn't happen to have available space to publish video game reviews? Might it not be one of many baby steps that lead to an overall reduction in violence?


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"SPARSE and inconsistent" is how forecaster BCI Economics views the coming three months of construction activity.
The short-term forecast for Australia's construction sector from February to April shows $16.8 billion in total construction starts, a rise of 1 per cent on the preceding three months, BCI said.
November to January's figure was $16.7 billion. But the long-term trend suggests construction starts will fall by 2 per cent compared with a year earlier.
"Whilst there are individual pockets of strength, they are the cause of large-scale individual projects commencing rather than any strong overall market trend," the forecaster said. The figures sum up the state of building construction in Australia, "minuscule or no growth in both the three-month and 12-month trends".
BCI Media Group chief operating officer Damian Eastman said with the prospect of nine months of electioneering, sentiment was unlikely to change in the immediate future.
The short-term forecast for Victoria was for $3.1 billion in construction starts, down 19 per cent from the $3.9 billion in the previous three months (November to January).
The long-term trend shows total construction starts in Victoria are down 8 per cent year-on-year. But while the education sector was slowing, commercial projects were on the increase, up long-term by 21 per cent year-on-year.
Nationally, civil construction activity was still strong, BCI said, but there were signs of decline.
This year, both activity and starts were likely to peak and would begin to fall off by the end of the year, the group said.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the seasonally adjusted estimate of total building work done fell 2.6 per cent to $19.2 billion nationally in the September quarter last year after rising 0.2 per cent from the previous quarter.
The trend estimate of the value of non-residential building work done fell 1 per cent.
Sparse outlook for construction starts
"SPARSE and inconsistent" is how forecaster BCI Economics views the coming three months of construction activity.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles announced the hiring of Bill Musgrave as their quarterbacks coach and promoted another Oregon alum, Michael Clay, from quality control to assistant defensive line coach.
Musgrave quarterbacked Oregon before Chip Kelly knew Eugene was a town in the Northwest. It's Musgrave's second stint with the Eagles, who he called plays for in the middle of the tumultuous 1998 season, the last for then head coach Ray Rhodes. With a dearth of talent and Bobby Hoying, Ty Detmer and Rodney Peete taking turns at quarterback, Musgrave and the Eagles went 2-6 and scored 82 points in that stretch en route to 3-13.
Musgrave replaces Bill Lazor, who took a job as offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins. Lazor helped mold Nick Foles into the offensive Most Valuable Player at the Pro Bowl.
Musgrave, 46, was a fourth-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys in 1991 and played six seasons as a backup with the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos ending in 1995. He's been an assistant for 15 years, the last three calling the plays as offensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings cleaned house the day after the season ending as they canned Musgrave along with head coach Leslie Frazier.
Musgrave is a student of the West Coast offense who took over the play-calling duties from then-offensive coordinator Dane Bible after joining the Eagles in 1998. The Eagles finished 3-13.
Musgrave has coached for some struggling teams, the job stops resulting in a collective 108-131-1 (.452) overall record and 2-4 in the playoffs.
From 2008-10, Musgrave helped the Atlanta Falcons go 33-15 and make two playoff appearances in three seasons. The Falcons went 13-3 and advanced to the divisional round of the playoffs after Musgrave was promoted from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator in 2010.
Musgrave choreographed the Vikings' 48-30 victory over the Eagles at the Metrodome in Week 15. The Vikings were without their top two running backs including Adrian Peterson, their best player.
Quarterback Matt Cassel threw for 382 yards and two touchdowns for the Vikings, who were greatly aided by favorable field position as the Eagles kicked off short instead of kicking the ball to Cordarrelle Patterson.