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Mathematics has always been a powerful tool for studying, measuring and calculating the movements of the planets, and this article gives several examples.
Design and test a paper helicopter. What is the best design?
Making a scale model of the solar system
This article for teachers recounts the history of measurement, encouraging it to be used as a spring board for cross-curricular activity.
Derive a formula for finding the area of any kite.
Measure problems for inquiring primary learners.
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
At the time of writing the hour and minute hands of my clock are at right angles. How long will it be before they are at right angles again?
My recipe is for 12 cakes - how do I change it if I want to make a different number of cakes?
Measure problems for primary learners to work on with others.
Measure problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Not everybody agreed that the Third Millennium actually began on January 1st 2000. Find out why by reading this brief article.
My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.
Here's a chance to work with large numbers...
Measure problems at primary level that may require resilience.
A circle with the radius of 2.2 centimetres is drawn touching the sides of a square. What area of the square is NOT covered by the circle?


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Happy Thanksgiving from 'The League'
"The League" has been a little uneven this season for us, but the Thanksgiving episode might be the best episode they've ever done. Jeff Goldblum is there as Ruxin's dad, Sarah Silverman is there as Andre's sister (and apparent sex trainer for all the rest of the guys), there's a weight loss "fat bet" that Ruxin wins by ... we can't really say here. And the school guinea pig gets cooked in the turkey. Happy Thanksgiving!-- Andrea Reiher, Zap2it
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To the Editor:
Once again our communities have come together to support the West Point Volunteer Fire Department during the annual soup supper and silent auction on March 2.
A huge thank you to Mike Sullivan and son for the use of their beautiful facility and all the businesses and individuals in our area who donated food, auction items or money for the event. Thanks to everyone who attended and all those who worked that evening. According to Fire Chief Jim Hubbard, the $4,800 that was raised will pay for some new equipment and supplies for the fire department.
Your support was greatly appreciated.
JoAnn Webster
West Point Volunteer Fire Department


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Changing Patterns of Drug Abuse and Criminality Among Crack Cocaine Users in New York City: Criminal Histories and Criminal Justice System Processing, 1983-1984, 1986 (ICPSR 9790)
Published: Nov 4, 2005
Principal Investigator(s):
Jeffrey Fagan; Steven Belenko; Bruce D. Johnson
Version V1
This data collection compares a sample of persons arrested for offenses related to crack cocaine with a sample arrested for offenses related to powdered cocaine. The collection is one of two parts of a study designed to examine the characteristics of crack users and sellers, the impact of large numbers of crack-related offenders on the criminal justice system, and their effects on drug treatment and community programs. Official arrest records and supplementary data bases are used to analyze the official arrest, conviction, and incarceration histories of powdered cocaine and crack defendants. Questions addressed by the collection include: (1) How are defendants charged with crack-related offenses different from defendants charged with offenses related to powdered cocaine? (2) Is there a difference between the ways the criminal justice system handles crack offenders and powdered cocaine offenders in pretrial detention, charges filed, case dispositions, and sentencing? (3) How do the criminal careers of crack offenders compare with the criminal careers of powdered cocaine offenders, especially in terms of total arrest rates, frequencies of nondrug crimes, and frequencies of violent crimes? (4) Is violence more strongly associated with crack dealing than with powdered cocaine dealing? and (5) How does the developmental history of powdered cocaine sales and possession compare with the history of crack sales and possession? Variables include demographic information such as gender, residence, and race, arrest, conviction, and incarceration histories, prior criminal record, community ties, and court outcomes of the arrests.
Export Citation:
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (87-IJ-CX-0064)
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
The data collection utilized a matched cohort research design in which a sample of defendants arrested for offenses related to crack cocaine was drawn and compared with a similarly drawn matched sample of defendants arrested for offenses related to powdered cocaine. A total of 3,403 persons in the crack cohort and 3,424 persons in the powdered cocaine cohort were sampled.
Individuals arrested by the New York City Police Department for crack-related offenses (August through October of 1986) or powdered cocaine-related offenses (1983-1984).
Data Source
(1) New York City Police Department Booking system, (2) New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., database, and (3) New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services fingerprint-based criminal records system
administrative records data
Original Release Date
Version Date
Version History
2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
2002-06-27 SAS and SPSS data definition statements were created for this collection and the codebook was converted to PDF.
1992-10-31 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
- The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.


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"Spartacus" (9 p.m. on Starz, TV-MA) enters its third and final season. It's called "Spartacus: War of the Damned." It might as well be called "War of the Bronzed." Or "War of the Buff" — or "In the Buff," as the case may be.
"Spartacus" (9 p.m. on Starz, TV-MA) enters its third and final season. It's called "Spartacus: War of the Damned." It might as well be called "War of the Bronzed." Or "War of the Buff" — or "In the Buff," as the case may be.
"Spartacus" is at least the third series of the week to take screen violence to extremes. Monday brought the premiere of "The Following," with its dark and dreary meditations on murder by remote mind control. Wednesday saw the second season finale of "American Horror Story," a brilliantly produced franchise featuring flawless performances that exult in the show's operatic depravity.
Of the three, "Spartacus," starring Liam McIntyre, is the most energetically violent and laughably formulaic. Battle scenes give way to shots of guys in hot tubs getting rubdowns from naked women. Cut to shirtless guys strategizing in fake Shakespearean dialogue. Spend a few moments in Rome, where Marcus Crassus (Simon Merrells) schemes. Follow that up with furious sex scenes of every persuasion. Return to hideous bloodshed. Rinse and repeat.
Do shows like "Spartacus" encourage real-life violence? How do you assign "blame" to entertainment when many notorious mass murders are committed by deranged people whose motivations are, at best, confused?
I don't believe in censorship. And I believe that when folks from the National Rifle Association talk about media violence, they are desperately trying to change the subject. But I think it's always healthy for people to consider the stuff they watch — the images and themes they consume so casually, even unconsciously.
Why do viewers enjoy the carnage of "The Walking Dead," or the sadism of the shows listed above? Are these series worse than the sanitized morbidity of shows like "CSI" and jokey procedurals like "NCIS"? Would banning "Murder, She Wrote" reruns reduce the murder rate?
I'll let psychologists analyze the effects of "Spartacus" on the viewing public. To me, it's merely guilty of being silly and predictable.
— Violence on a different level looms large in "Macbeth With Ethan Hawke," the first installment of "Shakespeare Uncovered" (9 on WGBH, TV-14). Hawke lets viewers tag along as he researches his role in what superstitious actors have come to call "the Scottish play." He visits with historians and scholars, who explain the play's context, and revisits performances by Orson Welles, Sean Connery, Patrick Stewart and others.
We also see clips from Roman Polanski's 1971 film adaptation of the play, which was considered notoriously gruesome in its day, particularly in light of the grisly 1969 murder of Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate, at the hands of Charles Manson's cult killers. Manson was said to have been inspired not by screen violence, but by lyrics to a Beatles song. How do you "protect" society from that kind of madness?
"Shakespeare Uncovered" (10 on WGBH, TV-PG) continues with "The Comedies With Joely Richardson."
— A family restaurant's patriarch holds back its progress on "Kitchen Nightmares" (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).
— A wounded FBI agent (Kevin Bacon) returns to contend with an old nemesis (James Purefoy) on the pilot episode of "The Following" (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).
— A convicted arsonist (Rob Morrow) falls under suspicion for a fresh blaze on "CSI: NY" (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).
— Dirty neighbors leave their rats behind on "Infested" (9 p.m., Animal Planet, TV-PG).
— A thug kidnaps Jackie to send Danny a message on "Blue Bloods" (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).
— Rough seas test the inexperienced on "Bering Sea Gold" (10 p.m., Discovery, TV-14).
High school football players (Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen) help repel a Soviet-Cuban invasion of Colorado in the 1984 fantasy "Red Dawn" (9:35 p.m., Encore), which was pointlessly remade in 2012.
"Undercover Boss" (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) ... Two episodes of "Betty White's Off Their Rockers" (8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., NBC, r, TV-PG) ... A car becomes a statement and a target on "Last Man Standing" (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) ... Nikita and Owen collaborate on "Nikita" (8 p.m., The CW, TV-14) ... Reba wades reluctantly into the dating pool on "Malibu Country" (8:30 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).
"Dateline NBC" (9 p.m.) ... Moral investments on "Shark Tank" (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) ... A deception has a cost on "The Carrie Diaries" (9 p.m., The CW, r, TV-14) ... "20/20" (10 p.m., ABC).
T.I., Jeff Wild, Jen Kirkman and Mo Mandel appear on "Chelsea Lately" (11 p.m., E!, r) ... Bradley Cooper, Robert Klein and Soundgarden appear on "Late Show With David Letterman" (11:35 p.m., CBS, r) ... Jay Leno welcomes Robert DeNiro, Sherri Shepherd and the Grascals on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 p.m., NBC) ... Nicki Minaj appears on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (11:35 p.m., ABC).
David Duchovny, Nicole Polizzi, Jenni Farley, Nick Kroll and the Eli Young Band visit "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (12:35 a.m., NBC) ... Craig Ferguson hosts Julie Chen and Angela Kinsey on "The Late Late Show" (12:35 a.m., CBS, r).
Kevin McDonough can be reached at email@example.com.


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Jackie Bradley, Jr. belted one of five Boston home runs, including his tie-breaking solo shot in the fifth helping the Red Sox outslug the Seattle Mariners, 11-8, Tuesday in the second matchup of a four-game series at Safeco Field.
Dustin Pedroia and Mike Napoli each smacked a two-run homer, while David Ortiz and Shane Victorino added a solo blast apiece for the Red Sox, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
Ortiz finished 4-for-5 to notch his 1,688th hit as a designated hitter, tying Harold Baines for the most hits by a DH in major league history.
Boston starter Allen Webster was shelled for seven runs on six hits over 2 1/3 frames, but five Red Sox relievers combined to hold the Mariners to one run the rest of the way, with Craig Breslow (3-2) earning the victory after tossing 2 1/3 scoreless frames.
"His ability to use multiple pitches in any count just to slow them down, that was the approach," Red Sox manager John Farrell said of Breslow's outing. "He gave us a chance to get on track."
Koji Uehara capped the stellar bullpen effort with a 1-2-3 ninth to secure his sixth save of the season.
Blake Beavan (0-2) was tagged with the loss after giving up a pair of runs over two innings of work in relief of starter Hisashi Iwakuma, who surrendered six runs on eight hits in just three innings.
Brad Miller collected three hits and four RBI, while Kendrys Morales went 3- for-5 with a pair of homers and three RBI for the Mariners, who had won two straight and five of seven coming into the contest.
"It's like he's starting to heat up a little bit," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said of Morales. "There's a lot of encouraging things offensively here. That's the positive you take out of it."
After a high-scoring first four frames found the score locked at 7-7, Bradley Jr., who was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket prior to the game, scorched a two-out homer into right-center field to give the Red Sox the lead for good.
Boston failed to add to its lead until the eighth, when Victorino led off with a drive over the left-field wall to make it 9-7.
Ortiz singled to right with one out and then stole second before Jarrod Saltalamacchia was walked intentionally. Jose Iglesias and Brock Holt followed with consecutive RBI singles to push Boston's lead to 11-7.
Seattle got a run back in the bottom half, as Michael Saunders and Dustin Ackley each singled around a Mike Zunino fly out to put men on the corners.
Miller followed with a groundout to score Saunders and trim the margin to 11-8, but the M's were unable to muster anything against Uehara in the ninth.
Early on, Morales smacked a two-run homer in the first to get the M's on the board, but Ortiz launched the fifth pitch of the second into the seats in right field to trim the margin in half.
Seattle answered in the home half of the frame when Miller laced a bases- loaded double into the right-field corner to score all three runners and give the Mariners a 5-1 lead.
The Red Sox responded in the third, as Pedroia followed Victorino's one-out single with a line-drive shot over the wall in left.
Ortiz followed with a double off the wall in right-center before Napoli crushed a first-pitch slider into the first row in right-center to tie the game at 5-5.
Saltalamacchia smacked a ground-rule double to left before Iglesias swung and missed at strike three, but was able to reach first when Iwakuma's pitch skipped to the backstop. Holt scored Saltalamacchia with a sacrifice fly to right to give the Red Sox a 6-5 edge.
The lead was short-lived, as Morales smashed the first pitch of the home half into straightaway center field to tie the game at 6-6.
Kyle Seager followed with a single before Smoak scorched a line-out to right field that ended Webster's night, as Alfredo Aceves entered from the bullpen.
The pitching change couldn't cool Seattle's bats, as Saunders greeted Aceves with a triple to the gap in right-center to score Seager for a 7-6 lead.
Beavan started the fourth for Seattle and plunked Daniel Nava before walking Victorino on five pitches. Pedroia then punched a base hit through the right side of the infield to score Nava and knot the game at 7-7.
Game Notes
All nine of Boston's starting position players registered at least one hit ... Seattle outfielder Raul Ibanez went 0-for-5 to snap a 13-game hitting streak ... Iwakuma is winless in his last five starts and has allowed at least four runs in each game during the drought ... After scoring in each of the last five innings Monday and the first three Tuesday, Seattle set a club record with eight consecutive innings in which it scored at least one run.


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Flavia Cacace led Olympian gymnast Louis Smith to the be crowned the champion of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing last week and now she is set to hot foot it into Leeds this summer.
Flavia and her fellow SCD professional Vincent Simone (who this year partnered Dani Hamar and also made the final) are to bring their own show Midnight Tango to Leeds Grand Theatre from July 29 to August 3 2013.
Choreographed by and starring Flavia and Vincent, and featuring some of the finest tango dancers in the world, the show brings to life all the drama, sensuality and elegance of the tango; danger and excitement, joy and jealousy, pain and passion combine into a spectacular and explosive evening.
Set in a late-night bar in downtown Buenos Aires, Midnight Tango promises to take the audience into the heart of the intoxicating city.
Midnight Tango is at Leeds Grand Theatre from Monday July 29 to Sat August 3 2013.
Tickets are on sale now price from £17.50 to £31, book by calling the box office on 0844 848 2700 or online at leedsgrandtheatre.com.


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Everett Lilly's voice was a thing of natural beauty. When he sang, and even when he talked, you heard the sound of those Southern West Virginia mountains he loved. He was a bigger-than-life personality you never forgot, whether you met him on the street or heard him on the stage. Lilly died of complications from an aneurysm on May 8. He was 87.
Lilly and his brother Bea sang songs with roots that seemed to stretch back to The Carter Family and before. They were bluegrass pioneers who championed old-time Appalachian music — or, as he liked to call it, "American Mountain Country Folk Music" — in Boston, where they lived for many years. They also introduced it to Japan, where they were welcomed like music royalty.
As you'll hear in this three-song set, Everett's sense of humor was always at the forefront, and he loved to perform with his family. The first two songs come from a visit to Mountain Stage in 1998, and feature his sons Daniel and Mark Lilly. "The Orange Blossom Special," from an appearance in 1996, ends the set and includes the two boys and brother Bea. Everett never really quit performing. He was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2008, and came back to play in 2011 at the invitation of inductee Connie Smith and her husband Marty Stuart. Stuart has called Everett "God's mandolin player."
During Everett's last visit to Mountain Stage, he and his son Daniel included in their banter a joke that we'll never forget. They asked the audience, "Is anybody here from West Virginia?" and most applauded. Then they asked, "Anybody here from Ohio?" and a few clapped. "There they are, hillbillies — get 'em!" The audience roared with laughter. Where ever he went, Everett Lilly always got 'em.


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"Boring film... losing... consciousness." ----- (That's a tick reference for our younger viewers.)
I think I just thought of a great new website:
"Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.
I think you missed a certain Seinfeld episode. [wikipedia.org]
I think I just thought of a great new website:
"Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.
Try explaining to the wife, "Honey, I just read it for the circuit diagrams."
Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?
Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?
I don't think you'd have the capacity to understand.
Ohm, I see what you did there.
These comments! There should be a Law.
These comments! There should be a Law.
Yes, a law administered by circuit judges.
Yes, a law administered by circuit judges.
Ohm's law?
Are you sure you have the capacity to induce jokes like that here?
Yes, Resistance is futile, but the voltage, on the other hand, has potential.
Do you think Apple will now Charge her with a DMCA violation of some sort? After all, the resistors they used didn't have any markers on them, doesn't that qualify as some sort of a DRM scheme?
To the lady that did the work: good job, resist any current attempts of being charged with any DMCA related offenses.
Is it wrong for me to get a bit hot under the collar, seeing a geek girl with such an impressive electronics workdesk?
No, I always feel particularly attracted to girls that have tech skills, too.
I could think of much worse things to get aroused by. Especially with electronics.
Whatever turns you on, dude. She's certainly well-geeky, but 'hot' she's not
"She's certainly well-geeky, but 'hot' she's not
Nonsense! She has all the characteristics of hotness:
lol...reminds me of that old joke:
Guy @ bar #1: "I'm into flagellation, necrophilia & bestiality"
Guy @ bar #2: "Sounds like you're flogging a dead horse..."
Dick? (checks) Nope. Houston we're ready for liftoff.
>>>but 'hot' she's not
Come here sonny. I want to give a brief talk. I recently went to my 15th reunion, and you know those "hot" girls in my class? Well they ain't hot no more! In fact they were downright repulsive (sorry, but it was true). So might as well go for the brainy, geeky girl because that will last. The beauty won't.
If you want "hotness" that will last, go Playboy.
The 1995 centerfold will always be hot,
even if the model no longer is.
"So might as well go for the brainy, geeky girl because that will last. The beauty won't."
++ for extreme truthiness!
You can upgrade to the latest model every few years. As long as you can afford it.
I don't want to marry the "hot" girl, I just wanna boink her. So in the short term I dont care if she has the IQ of a toaster, sir.
except dumb womens usually aren't any good in bed.
Smart women are far better. However crazy women are the best, but get the HELL out when you are done.
She's not, but in typical geek girl fashion, she also is wearing her hair just pulled back and with virtually no makeup. A lot of "hot" girls look very similar before they get done up.
Translated: I'd hit it after a few drinks. If she got some lipstick and a trip to the salon though and it would only take a Mountain Dew.
Want to cry into your underwear with nerdlust?
Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com], spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.
Or, you know, don't. But you get my point. Hopefully, because I don't.
Damn, I want her. Too bad she probably doesn't want me
and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.
Why? Does she prefer girls?
Dude, has it occurred to you that given she has a science blog with a very nice picture of herself setup obviously next to it kinda saying "Look at me, I'm a pretty little geek girl", she probably likes the attention? I'm not trying to knock her or anything, it's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to like attention. I also greatly doubt that she wants to have wild monkey-sex with any great percentage of her readers, I'm not saying that either. She clearly likes to be paid attention to: both for her obvious intelligence and for her equally obvious good looks. Her website gives her to opportunity for both in a very safe and impersonal way, good on her. Don't expect people to ignore that she's pretty though.
Personally I kinda liked Ada better. I'm more of a technologist than a scientist, and I like the alt-girl look. To each their own though.
I guarantee Sarah is perfectly content enough and at ease with sexuality, being a grown woman of good looks and high intelligence, that comments by random nerds on a geek site don't at all even register on her radar as a source of concern. You don't need to "protect" her from the evil lusty nerds, he-man, she's gonna be OK.
Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com] [wordpress.com], spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.
Except I know I actually *could* bang her. And I'll go ahead and tell you, just because she's good looking and sm
Its not "wrong" as in somehow morally objectionable.
However, feeling the need to discuss it on Slashdot, making comments that amount to "OMG, its a GIRL!", while still not immoral, are pathetic.
You must live in either a basement, or Saudi Arabia, and never see any real girls. Whichever it is, just get out more.
Better keep looking.
Right to repair [wikipedia.org] our own electronics though? (Or build interface devices)?
Do we repair DVD players?
Yes and no. We recognize the fact that DVD players, like most electronics, were expensive when new. Now that the format has been on the market for over a decade, the cost of players has dropped radically. Most models are less than fifty dollars with all of the features one would dream of in a player. Repairs on DVD players are only economical a small fraction of the time. We recommend Albany merchants such as Target and Radio Shack as being good places to consider the purchase of a new DVD player.
The source is a video repair shop in flyover territory which charges $60/hour for labor. Here in China, I can get my DVD player repaired for $3-10 because the cost of labor is so low. Indeed, one of the delights of living here is you can actually get things repaired. I'm just so used to automatically buying a new electric razor, rice cooker, electric lamp, (etc) when mine breaks. Here, I can actually get it fixed! In America, don't even bother phoning the repair shop as they'll just tell you that the cost of a new unit is less than the cost of their labor.
Don't let that put you off of blaming stupid Americans who are unwilling and unable to repair their own equipment and of course blaming those eeeeevil profit-makers. The only people who see the world the right way are a small group of activists, for example yourself!
But you yourself admit to being unable or unwilling to repair your stuff, you just have access to cheap labor to do it for you. I mean sure, the American shop could work for $3-10... They wouldn't be able to pay for electricity to tell if the repairs were successful or not and they'd have to work out of a tent, but they could. The simple fact of the matter is that between the extremely small cost of electronics, and the generally quite reasonable desires of electronics repair people to be able to eat and p
People often talk about how wasteful Americans are and the problems of a throw-away society. If people were more willing to repair their devices, especially complex electronic devices (most of which fail because of simple and repairable problems, like a broken lead), we would be better off
Hmmm... I have a car charger that has a broken lead. I accidentally snapped it while dissasembling to figure out why it was giving me problems charging. Now, it could be that lead, or one of the other minor parts. My optio
Lots of companies do this. APC puts a RS-232 serial port on a UPS but wait! They move the pins around so you need a special cable. Cisco used to have a product called the Gigastack that used a standard 6-pin Firewire cable, but no! Pins 1&2 were shorted in the "special" cables Cisco provided.
We all love to call out Apple when they design deliberate incompatibility into their devices, but there is a perfectly valid technical reason for what Apple is doing here, and, in fact, they are following a USB specification (which LadyAda unfortunaterly didn't even test).
Without data communications or when suspended, devices may legally draw no more than 2.5mA from a host, which is useless for charging. In fact, even if you're generous and pretend they're connected, devices are not allowed to draw more than 100mA without negotiating for a higher current, which requires actually talking to the host, and 100mA is still too little to charge properly. 500mA is the maximum allowed by the USB spec, but devices must negotiate it (there may be too many devices on the bus for negotiation to succeed).
Before there was a spec for "dumb" USB chargers, Apple used the resistors as a sentinel to avoid drawing too much current from undersized chargers in order to avoid damaging the host. This is a hack, but it works, and honestly, we're smart enough to figure out a couple resistors on the data lines. It's not like they're using crypto auth on the charger. They have a perfectly valid reason to do this. Devices which charge from "dumb" chargers aren't following the spec, though this is a common industry practice.
As it turns out, the USB-IF came up with a USB Battery Charging spec [usb.org]. The spec is long and boring, but it boils down to: short together the data lines (no resistors required) and you indicate that you're a dumb charger that can supply anywhere from 0.5A to 1.5A.
Guess what happens when you short the data lines of an iPhone 3G and supply 5V [marcansoft.com]. Did Apple just follow a standard? Incredible!
(Yes, I'm not following the USB spec there by in turn using a USB cable to supply the 5V and not negotiating over its data lines. I didn't feel like grabbing a dedicated 5V PSU for the shot, so sue me.)
Actually, I just wanted to point out that if you RTFA (instead of just WTFV), you'll see that Lady Ada does in fact acknowledge that the USB spec says some things. Here, I'll quote it for you:
We thought "is there a enumeration chip inside every charger?" but since thats expensive and kind of overkilly we decided instead to read up on the USB protocol (go Jan!) In particular, in her fantastic book there's a part about the low level signaling states. Since you want to get the iPod charging, but NOT make it tr
i've bought iphone charging cables on ebay for $2 each including shipping and they all seem to work. via the USB and in my car. sometimes i've pulled it out a bit by accident and i get the error. put the cable all the way back in and it works.
Yup things like capacitors diodes and voltage regulators.
Even the $4.99 cheapies I found online filter all that out. A DMM is junk for checking that use a digital storage scope.... less than
Now the caps will blow up in 16 months... but that's a different issue.
Reading the article, it appears that the purpose of the resistors is NOT to lock out manufacturers, but to inform the ipod of the amount of current to draw from the charger. They found different manufacturers using different values of resistors. From the looks of it, one resistor sets the amount, and the other resister serves as a "checksum of sorts, complementing the other resistor correctly to verify the value. Getting the value wrong could very easily cause a fire, so this is important to make sure you get it right.
This is not surprising, as USB does not allow variable voltage, and current is supplied completely on demand with no regard to the provider. So you either have your device set to draw a fixed amount of power (current) and limit your options to *1*, or you develop some simpler way to tell the device how much power (current) a device can demand from any given charger.
The only other option would be to use the data pins and actually communicate over the usb spec normally and outright tell the device how much power to draw. (which is actually already in the USB specs) Apple would have probably preferred to go this route, but that would significantly increase the complexity of the power adapters. All the people that are whining about Apple being nasty about this need to get some education. Apple's other two options were to make chargers cost more, or to not be able to offer both fast (wall power) and slow (AA batts) chargers.
The only group that's more thick-headed than the Apple zealots, are the anti-Apple zealots.
So you either have your device set to draw a fixed amount of power (current) and limit your options to *1*, or you develop some simpler way to tell the device how much power (current) a device can demand from any given charger.
If current is within normal limits, supply +5V on the +5V line. If current exceeds normal limits, supply 0 V for a split second. The device ramps up the current it can draw until the charger starts cutting out and then steps down the current.
The only group that's more thick-headed than the Apple zealots, are the anti-Apple zealots.
I am not a zealot of any sort, except anti MS. As it happens I own several Apple products and am planning to buy an iPhone 4 in a few months when they get its issues sorted out.
That said: Apple tends to be pretty quick with the lawyers and take down notices.
i hate when manufacturers do crap like this to keep peripherals locked into a more profitable licensing agreement. Apples tendency toward total control is one of the things i don't like about them.
tho other manufacturers are just as bad. i will never buy a Dell for my home for the same reasons. at work we had an Out of warranty gx 270 desktop. they were know for their bad capacitors in the power supply. so lo and behold the PS goes out. i have to spec a new one. at first i thought i would hop down to the local PC store and grabe a cheap PS for like $30 would work fine.
found out that the motherboards on those dells had different pin layouts from regular boards. the connector was the same as your usual PS but the lines were scrambled. if you plugged in a PS from the PC store you would fry the mobo. thus i would have to get a new PS from the dell store at a cost of $115
we opted for a used PS from a 3rd party supplier for $30 instead.
wish companies would back off and be more open. the way things seem to go we're heaed back to the old at&t days when it took a court action just to add a funnel to your telephone handset http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone/ [wikipedia.org]
It looks more like a way to signal to the iPhone that it can go ahead and "fast charge" by pulling 1A, or "slow charge" by pulling 0.5A. They just didn't tell anyone about how to do it.
As for your dell power supply, just get one of those "ATX power" extension things, cut in half, "scramble" the wires in the right way, get a working dell PSU, and then start selling it. see http://pinouts.ru/Power/dell_atxpower_pinout.shtml [pinouts.ru] for the pinouts.
China and other countries are making a national standard on mobile phone chargers using the USB standard.[13] Starting in 2010, Apple, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and RIM will begin making handsets with a standard phone charger based on the micro-USB connector
But the shown resistors don't look like the standard micro-USB connector. So is Apple breaking it's prommisses? Or am I missing something?
Doesn't it just use micro USB like all the other new phones?
I thought that the EU had forced all of the cell phone makers to adopt micro USB for charging and that they had complied by adopting the standard everywhere (not just in the EU).
I probably don't need to make this point here on
Has Apple managed to avoid this?
Doesn't it just use micro USB like all the other new phones?
I thought that the EU had forced all of the cell phone makers to adopt micro USB for charging and that they had complied by adopting the standard everywhere (not just in the EU).
This is the EU that you are discussing. Rules don't come into force overnight. Also, it appears that the rules can be satisfied by selling an adapter. Apple sells such adapters.
that they are not doing it the usb battery charging way:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Power [wikimedia.org]
How about some sort of web page with a description, instead of having to sit through a tedious video?
There was a way to do this that didn't involve unsoldering and measuring the resistors.
Tests with an ohmmeter and visual inspection had already shown that the charger tied each D line to an independent voltage divider across the supplied voltage. This produces the (Thevenin) equivalent of:
- a voltage source at the same ratio to the supply voltage that the lower resistor's value has to the sum of the resistors' values,
- in series with a(n equivalent series) resistance equal to that of the two resistors in parallel.
Measuring the supply voltage and the unloaded voltage on a D line gives the resistor value ratio. You can measure the parallel equivalent resistance by either of two methods:
- Shut down the supply, short + and -, and measure the resistance from the D line to the shorted supply.
- Load the D line with a resistor to ground of known value that pulls the voltage down appreciably. (In the ballpark of cutting it in half is ideal.) Measure the amount it droops (and recheck the power supply voltage in case you pulled that down a bit, too.) This presumes the pullup resistor can handle 2x the normal current and 4x the normal power dissipation, for the duration of the test.
With those two measurements you can calculate the resistor values. If they fall near standard values it provides a sanity check on your calculations and measurements. You only have to pull 'em off if there's an additional "black box" component hooked to the D lines that might foul up your measurements.
(Of course if you already have the tools handy, pulling off and measuring the resistors may be easier. It also lets you check that there wasn't something else hidden in the circuit that you missed.)
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Beirut is again full of life and happiness. For the past 18 months life has been unstable in Lebanon
due to the political crisis.
Disputes between parties put the country on the brink of civil war. Just weeks later music can be heard coming from cafés and shops on the streets of Beirut.
The Solidare Company decided to host three major concert celebrations in the center of Beirut his week, featuring Lebanese superstars Nawal Al Zoghbi and Ragheb Alameh on the first night.
"The center of Beirut suffered the most, and it is the responsibility of every Lebanese citizen to encourage tourists to return," said Nawal.
According to the London daily Elaph, Nawal told Elaph that like all Lebanese people she is filled with joy since security has returned to Beirut.
Nawal was in Doha for a concert performance during the summit between Lebanese and other politicians from the Arab World to resolve the crisis in Lebanon.
Everyone in Lebanon should focus their energy in rebuilding Lebanon and improving the economy, said Nawal. Improving the living standards of all Lebanese citizens will stop them from immigrating to other countries, she added.


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In today's (Insider-Only) report on the Arizona Fall League, Keith Law talked Anthony Gose, whom the Astros traded to Toronto for Brett Wallace:
When the Jays traded Brett Wallace to Houston for Gose two summers ago, I didn't understand the deal, as Wallace was a polished, disciplined hitter while Gose was all tools but didn't have great performances or advanced mechanics. Wallace, it turns out, had a fatal flaw that was exposed in AAA and now in the majors -- he cannot turn on inside pitches, so he tries to go to the opposite field instead; with minimal defensive value and no apparent way to fix that flaw, he was expendable for the Jays. Gose, meanwhile, is no longer a tools goof but the kind of high-upside prospect Toronto GM Alex Anthopoulos has said all along that he wants in the organization. Gose still needs work in some areas, including developing a viable two-strike approach, but the risk the Blue Jays took in acquiring him appears to be paying off in a huge way.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Keith Law, on why the Blue Jays traded Brett Wallace
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yea and with the bozos running the team, wallace will never get a chance to improve his hitting of inside pitches unless he does it at AAA. and even then he'll just get called up to sit on the bench while carlos lee wastes everyone's time.
- October 14, 2011 at 6:26 PM
- Reuben said...
Word is Wallace refused to take the advice of Astros coaches, even Bagwell, about using his legs more and driving the ball better. Hopefully the stint in AAA was a wake-up call for him.
- October 15, 2011 at 4:17 PM
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College & State University athletic department and director Wendell Staton will host a press conference Thursday, July 15 at 10 a.m. to announce the fourth fastpitch softball coach in program history. The event will be held in the Centennial Center classrooms, rooms 237 and 238 on second floor, and will be free and open to the public, encouraging all members of Bobcat Nation to attend: faculty, staff, students, student-athletes, and community members.
With more newcomers than returners during the 2010 season, the Bobcats struggled through a tough schedule, the first losing campaign for Georgia College softball since 2001. Georgia College did land a pair on the All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams, as sophomore first baseman Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.) and outfielder Belourse Jean-Francis (Naples, Fla.) took the league's top honors.
The Georgia College softball team is one of the most accomplished in the southeast, advancing to the NCAA Tournament in four of the last five seasons. The squad has advanced to the College World Series twice, and also earned the 2008 PBC Tournament Championship.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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I'm having a problem with one part of this assignment, the instruction is this "Add a method transaction which takes two int parameters, daynum and amount. daynum is the day of the month, and amount is an amount of money made or lost for a transaction on that day. (hint: days of the month are numbered starting from 1, arrays arent; think about how to handle this)." this is what I have so farpublic class MonthlyRecord { //instance variables private String month; private double[] moneyDaily; //default constructor public MonthlyRecord() { month = "January"; moneyDaily = new double[31]; } //accessor for monthlyRecord public String getMonth() { return month; } //mutator for monthlyRecord public void setMonth(String v) { month = v; } //constructor with parameters from whatever is calling it public MonthlyRecord(String b, int x) { month = b; moneyDaily = new double[x]; } /*Add a method transaction which takes two * int parameters, daynum and amount. * daynum is the day of the month, * and amount is an amount of money made or * lost for a transaction on that day*/ public void Transaction(int dayNum, int amount) { dayNum = 0; amount = 0;
It could just be because my brain feels a lttle fried for some reason, but what am I missing here to ensure this is done correctly? Thx in advance!


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A new version of the real-time Linux scheduler called SCHED_DEADLINE has been released on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. For people who missed previous submissions, it consists of a new deadline-based CPU scheduler for the Linux kernel with bandwidth isolation (resource reservation) capabilities. It supports global/clustered multiprocessor scheduling through dynamic task migrations. This new version takes into account previous comments/suggestions and is aligned to the latest mainline kernel. A video about SCHED_DEADLINE is also available on YouTube.
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RE[11]: lie-nux at it again.
by sameer on Sat 27th Oct 2012 18:24 UTC in reply to "RE[10]: lie-nux at it again."
you are generalizing attitues of indian hindus to cover all south asians. what you are talking about is attitude of some typical "indian" who is in the west for "jobs" or "higher studies".
please look up history of south asia when you have time. and please read up the heroes of socialism to know what a "man" is supposed to sound like.
so the qnx company is going out of business i hear, because of linux fan-boys on this site.
good bye forever.
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46, of Rolla
Darrin Wayde MacLean, of Rolla, passed away Thursday, March 21, 2013 at the age of 46.
He was born on September 29, 1966 to Russell MacLean and Geraldine (Yowell) MacLean. In November 2005, he married Mary Christina (Kearney) MacLean.
Darrin was an avid NASCAR fan. He was also a baseball fan, especially the Yankees and Cardinals.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Geraldine MacLean in 2003.
Darrin will be greatly missed by his surviving family which includes: his wife, Mary "Chris" MacLean of Rolla; his father, Russell MacLean of Rolla; one son, Jacob MacLean of Moscow Mills, MO; two stepsons, Joseph Decher and Peter Decher, both of Rolla; one brother, Mark MacLean of Rolla; one sister, Lori Flett of St. Louis, MO; three grandchildren, Melody Ruppert, Serenity Fields and A.J. Fields; and several nieces and nephews.
A funeral service for Darrin W. MacLean will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Null and Son Funeral Home in Rolla. Pastor Gary Teague will officiate. Interment will follow in the Ozark Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, March 25 at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the American Diabetes Association.
Online condolences may be offered at www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com.
All arrangements are under the direction of the Null and Son Funeral Home of Rolla.


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Amarillo Fire Department officials said no one was injured in a Wednesday morning blaze at a duplex at 824 S. Parker St.
About 3:09 a.m., five units and 14 firefighters responded to a structure fire in the east duplex unit. the fire started when a rug and blankets placed over a floor furnace ignited, firefighters said. The fire was contained to a hallway and was under control by 3:26 a.m., officials said.
Firefighters checked under the residence to determine the fire had not extended to the wood framing after the fire was under control, officials said.
No one was injured in the blaze and the American Red Cross was called to the scene to assist residents of the duplex with a place to stay for the night, firefighters said.
The furnace and the hall of the duplex unit were heavily damaged, with light smoke damage to the rest of the duplex, firefighters said. Damage is estimated at $4,000 to the structure, valued at $48,910 by the Potter-Randall County Appraisal District.


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The usually hyper Matt Johnson is in a somber mood. It's Sept. 11, and Johnson is remembering how after his dorm windows at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn shook from an explosion, he and his fellow classmates scrambled to the roof to see what had happened.
It was at Pratt that Johnson met Kim Schifino. They've been together ever since. As the indie-rock act Matt and Kim, they'll play the Fillmore Miami Beach this Sunday night. The two are often compared to the White Stripes, but the comparison ends at the number of people in the band. Instead of melodramatic and moody, they are so joyous it's hard not to break into a happy Snoopy dance while listening to their brand of pop-punk.
Since starting at Pratt in 2004, Matt and Kim have contributed music to the soundtracks of "Community" and "Chuck" and to Mars Bars and Bacardi commercials. Their latest album, "Lightning," was released on Oct. 2.
Johnson spoke by phone from Brooklyn.
Why the first names for your band?
We couldn't think of a name. We were struggling. We were listed as our own names, as Matt and Kim, and we didn't consider that to be our band name. Awhile down the line, while we still could not think of anything, we're like, "I think that worked." In the end, I feel, as a band, that's very much like us as people, in a way, as the music. I feel like being on a first-name basis with the audience is a good thing.
Are you guys like the music — happy and spunky?
I guess we're more upbeat than downer. Like everybody, we have our exhausted days. But inherently, Kim smiles a lot, as much as she does on that stage.
How did you and Kim first get together?
Essentially, getting together romantically, was her laying the moves on me. There's an intimidation factor I found. She was a little bit older than me, and I never dated anyone older than me before, and she had tattoos and stuff. I was only 20 when we met. … She's always been really fun to hang out with, and one of the guys.
How do you create together then?
We work well together, but we don't work well together with anybody else. We are very specific about what we want. … I think it's a fault of ours, as well, is that we don't take direction that well. We're kind of resistant and want to do it our own way. ... I take care of most of the technical aspects of it … but we're both very involved in the song- and lyrics-writing.
How do you remain happy together?
It's a mystery. You know, I'm not a scientist, but it might involve the realm of magic. … For any two people who spend as much time as me and Kim do, there should have been terrible bloody murder death a long time ago. … We have our ups and downs like any normal two people. Kim got really frustrated at me, because I was trying to fix the oven, and she was trying to make something the other day. … She had to walk away. The funny thing is that stood out to me, because how little that happens. I think it's because we've always been such friends, and two people who were always on the same page, and that's why we did music in the first place.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After a win at home last Friday against Columbia to kick off the 2012-13 season, the Yale women's swimming and diving team will head to Boston this weekend for Boston University's Terrier Invitational. This championship-style meet, however, will be different from last week's dual meet program. The Bulldogs will have to swim in heats and finals on each day of competition, but the format will help prepare the squad for the Ivy League Championships in the spring.
Last Friday's meet against Columbia got the Bulldogs some crucial momentum to carry into this weekend. Yale swam aggressively to capture first place in several close decisions, including freshman Callie Fosburgh in the 200-yard freestyle, senior Cynthia Tsay in the 100-yard freestyle and senior Molly Albrecht in the 200-yard backstroke. From top to bottom the squad performed well against its first Ivy League opponents, and this weekend the Bulldogs will look to do the same against some fellow New England teams.
Last year the Bulldogs performed very well at the Terrier Invite, finishing third out of 10 teams. Senior Alexandra Forrester won two individual events, the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly, while the team fielded two relays that finished second: the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 400-yard medley relay. The Bulldogs racked up a total of 373.5 points. First place went to Columbia and second place went to Northeastern, but this time around both of those teams will not be competing at the Terrier. Yale's competition this weekend includes BU, BC, Holy Cross, New Hampshire and UMass.
The Bulldogs will open at the Terrier the morning of Nov. 16 at BU's Competition Pool. The meet will come to a close on Nov. 18. Heats will begin at 10:00 a.m. and finals at 6:00 p.m. each day.
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DIXON – The city may appear to be crumbling Thursday, when a giant hole opens downtown.
No worries, though. Pedestrians won't fall in.
Artists Philip Atilano – a Dixon native and now a muralist and 3-D artist in Milwaukee – Kris Meyers, Tristan Young and Kitto will use chalk to create the illusion of a hole in the sidewalk in front of The Next Picture Show, as part of the Petunia Festival celebration.
Also new to the Pet Fest art scene this year is Thursday's Brush, Bloom, and Boom painting competition, in which participants will use a closed section of First Street, between Galena and Peoria avenues, as a canvas.
Work on the "hole" will begin at 9 a.m. and could last all day, said Bonnie Kime, executive director at The Next Picture Show, 113 W. First St.
When it's done, the 3-D effect may cause pedestrians to feel like they are going to fall into the hole, which will portray the underbelly of a city sidewalk. A photographer will be taking photos of the artists.
"We're hoping this will serve as a kickoff and attraction to the street painting," Kime said. "We want to attract as many young artists as we can."
Starting at noon, people of all ages can paint 4-by-4-foot squares, for $10 a square. The competition will be similar to the "chalk the walk" activity during Scarecrow Festival or "Paint the Town" in Morrison, said Josh Albrecht, Dixon Main Street executive director.
"We thought it would be something new to add with the festival coming downtown," Albrecht said. "Kids and adults can help do some of the decorating and bring some spirit to the downtown. Many of the businesses will be closed, so we don't expect an impact to them closing the street."
Paint and brushes will be supplied. Participants will get one brush, but they are welcome to bring more. Winners will be announced at 5 p.m. and prizes of carnival wristbands and downtown gift certificates will be awarded.
The $10 mostly will be used to pay for supplies.
"If we end up getting 500 people, it'll serve as a fundraiser to go back to Main Street and Petunia Festival," Albrecht said. "Our goal is to get 200 squares."
For those looking for even more art, the 32nd annual Nuts About Art Fair will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at John Dixon Park, 515 N. Galena Ave.
All kinds of fine art will be on display and for sale, including paintings, glass art, metal sculpture, pottery, jewelry and photography.
Admission is free and entertainment will be provided by Wade Buzzard and Debbie Thompson.
And The Next Picture Show fine arts gallery itself will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Saturday. Admission is free. Go to the nextpictureshow.org or call 815-285-4924 for more information.
To participate
Go to www.petuniafestival.org/brushbloomboom to register today for the Brush, Bloom and Boom art competition, or register at 11 a.m. Thursday at the corner of First and Hennepin avenues.
Cost is $10 per square.
Call Dixon Main Street, 815-288-2308, for more information.
At the Petunia Festival
6 to 11 a.m.: Dixon Area Garden Club pancake breakfast, in the pancake tent on Page Park Drive.
5 p.m. to midnight: Taste Trail at Riverfront Heritage Crossing.
6 p.m.: Petunia Festival/Dixon Elks Lodge 779 Charity No Limit Hold 'em Poker Tournament at the lodge, 1279 Franklin Grove Road. Register at 4:30 p.m. Entry fee $60.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Back Country Roads at Riverfront Stage on River Street.
9:30 to 11:30 p.m.: Brushfire at Riverfront Stage.
6 to 11 a.m.: Dixon Area Garden Club pancake breakfast, in the pancake tent on Page Park Drive.
11:30 a.m.: Seventh annual Beanbag Tournament at River Street and Hennepin Avenue. Register for $5 at 10:30 a.m. for the "fun toss" and for $10 at 11:30 a.m. for the competitive tournament.
Noon to midnight: Taste Trail at Riverfront Heritage Crossing.
Noon to 5 p.m.: Brush, Bloom and Broom street-painting competition on First Street between Galena and Hennepin avenues. Cost to participate is $10; prizes will be awarded.
Noon to 2 p.m.: Bounce at the Riverfront Stage.
1 to 11 p.m.: North American Midway Entertainment Carnival on Page Park Drive in front of Dixon High School.
2 to 4 p.m.: Burn 'N' Bush at Riverfront Stage.
4 to 6 p.m.: Tristan Bushman & UncleBroDaddies at Riverfront Stage.
5 to 6:30 p.m.: Dana Stonesifer Classic girls soccer alumni game, A.C. Bowers Field at Dixon High School.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Robbie LeBlanc & the Real Live Show at Riverfront Stage.
6:30 to 8 p.m.: Dana Stonesifer Classic boys soccer alumni game, A.C. Bowers Field at Dixon High School.
9:30 to 11:30 p.m.: Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo at Riverfront Stage.
6 to 11 a.m.: Dixon Area Garden Club pancake breakfast, in the pancake tent on Page Park Drive.
4 to 11 p.m.: North American Midway Entertainment Carnival on Page Park Drive in front of Dixon High School.
5 to 7 p.m.: Family Fun Night with an ice cream social on the Old Lee County Courthouse lawn, 112 E. Second St., with kids activities such as pick a duck, bottle pitch, memory match, and face painting.
5 p.m. to midnight: Taste Trail at Riverfront Heritage Crossing.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Gina Venier and the Gentlemen at Riverfront Stage.
7 p.m.: Free Dixon Municipal Band concert on the Old Lee County Courthouse lawn, 112 E. Second St.
9:30 to 11:30 p.m.: The Chicago band Dot Dot Dot at Riverfront Stage (dotdotdotonline.com).
Go to petuniafestival.org for more details and for Saturday and Sunday's schedule.


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Arkansas hired South Alabama's John Pelphrey as its new
basketball coach Monday, a South Alabama athletic department
official told The Associated Press.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity pending
Arkansas' announcement at an afternoon news conference.
The Razorbacks have been without a coach since Stan Heath was
fired March 26. They hired Dana Altman last Monday, but Altman
changed his mind and returned to Creighton the next day.
Athletic directors Frank Broyles of Arkansas and Joe Gottfried
of South Alabama did not immediately return calls from the AP.
The hiring was first reported Sunday by FoxSports.com and CBS
Sportsline.com, citing unidentified sources.
Altman's startling reversal led Arkansas to enlist a search firm
to help find a coach. Arkansas eyed Billy Gillispie, who later left
Texas A&M to take over at Kentucky. The Razorbacks also received
permission to talk to Memphis coach John Calipari.
The Razorbacks went 21-14 last season and made the NCAA
tournament for the second straight year, but they lost in the first
round both seasons. Heath was fired and took the South Florida job.
Pelphrey went 80-67 in five seasons at South Alabama, including
44-19 the last two seasons. The Jaguars made the NCAA tournament in
The 38-year-old Pelphrey has plenty of Southeastern Conference
experience. He was an assistant at Florida from 1996-02 and played
at Kentucky.
His college playing career ended on one of the most memorable
shots in NCAA tournament history. Pelphrey was standing a few feet
from Christian Laettner when the Duke star made his famous
buzzer-beater against Kentucky in the 1992 round of eight.
After that, Pelphrey became an assistant at Oklahoma State and
Marshall before heading to Florida.
Arkansas Hires Pelphrey
Arkansas hired South Alabama's John Pelphrey as its new


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Back on July 2, 2009, in the pre-Twitter days when the only way to communicate my Rangers-centric thoughts, comprehensive or fleeting, was by email, I sent four reports out to the mailing list.
The first was about the previous night's walkoff win over the Angels (courtesy of a Hank Blalock home run to center, his second blast of the game), bringing Texas to within a half-game of the Angels' division lead.
The second contained the 11th installment of Bakersfield righthander Ryan Tatusko's "Back Field Diaries."
The third included audio of Eric Nadel's call of the Blalock walkoff (the first of the 28-year-old's career, and I'm guessing the last), plus this note that a scout shared with Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus about Frisco first baseman Justin Smoak: "The ball comes off his bat so hard . . . . He's going to make Rangers fans not miss Mark Teixeira all that much."
The fourth touched on Josh Hamilton's rehab assignment in Oklahoma City, a dramatic increase in Rangers viewership on Fox Sports Southwest, and a planned Q&A with Neftali Feliz.
That date, July 2, 2009, would be tremendously significant for the Rangers and Angels because of something that didn't make it into those four emails, something that had nothing to do with the fact that Texas had the day off as Tampa Bay traveled to Arlington while Los Angeles opened a four-game series that night in Baltimore, beating the Orioles to extend its lead over the Rangers to a full game in the standings.
It was significant because, on that day, Texas signed 16-year-old Curacao shortstop Jurickson Profar, and Los Angeles signed 17-year-old New Jersey high school outfielder Mike Trout.
The parallels between the two go beyond the date they turned pro. At that time, the baseball card for Trout would have said he was the lone player who accepted MLB Network's invitation to hang out in the studio during the June 9th draft (he was selected 25th overall, with a comp pick forfeited by the Yankees for signing Teixeira). Profar's bullet point was that he starred in the Little League World Series in 2004 and 2005, primarily as a pitcher.
Today those are footnotes in a blog post without column inch boundaries.
Profar signed for $1.55 million, Trout for $1.215 million.
Goldstein had the 19-year-old Trout as his number two prospect in baseball on his mid-season list last summer. He has the 19-year-old Profar number one on his mid-season list this year.
Baseball America had Trout number two on its mid-season list in 2011. The publication has Profar number two this summer.
Keith Law (ESPN) had Trout number one last mid-season. He has Profar number one now.
Trout arrived in the big leagues shortly after those lists started coming out.
With Michael Young getting today's start at shortstop, and the bench returning to its short status once Leonys Martin is presumably returned to Round Rock when Ryan Dempster is reactivated for Monday's start, the discussion of whether Profar will make his own debut at age 19 gains momentum.
Trout, who was returned to AAA to begin the 2012 season, amassed 1,312 minor league plate appearances.
Profar has 1,323 minor league plate appearances.
Their minor league at-bat totals and walk totals are nearly identical, too, but Trout's slash is higher (.342/.425/.516 to .275/.364/.453) and he has more triples (34 to 15) and stolen bases (108 to 46), while Profar has fewer strikeouts on the farm (183 to 211) and more home runs (30 to 23) and doubles (81 to 57).
When Trout was purchased from the AA Texas League last July – he'd gone 5 for 15 during a series in Frisco and played one more game in Midland when he got the call – he was hitting .324/.415/.534. His arrival wasn't prompted by an injury to another Angels outfielder. He was thought to be ready. Los Angeles optioned righthander Tyler Chatwood to make room for the phenom.
And he bombed. Over a span of three weeks, he played nearly every day. The Trout slash stood at .163/.213/.279 in 43 at-bats when the Angels cut the experiment short and returned Trout to Arkansas, recalling infielder Andrew Romine from AAA Salt Lake.
Trout then resumed his assault on AA pitching, hitting .333/.408/.587 over 63 at-bats and earning a recall to Los Angeles one year ago tomorrow. He was better over the season's final six weeks (.250/.318/.450) than he'd been in July, but might have been gassed. The Angels sent Trout to the Arizona Fall League after the season, and he hit an anemic .245/.279/.321, which is almost impossible to get my head wrapped around.
Was Trout rushed last summer?
Would he be as dominant today if he hadn't gotten his feet wet and worked through those initial struggles last year?
Who knows?
Keep in mind that Trout, in spite of playing for Mike Scioscia, was in the lineup virtually every day during his two big league stints last summer. It was more work than Mike Olt is getting, for instance, and far more than Profar would get if he came up now.
Would Ron Washington get Profar on the field more than once a week? In a radio interview this week, a day or two after Nolan Ryan had said there was a "reasonable chance" that Profar would see Arlington this season, Washington responded to a similar question by pointing out, tersely: "This kid was playing Low A ball last year." He added that the teenager could stand to play a full season at AA and continue to learn how the game is played.
Washington played four Class A seasons and three AA seasons and had reached AAA before getting a big league look at age 25. He spent time in eight different seasons after that playing in the minor leagues. He paid his dues, and then kept paying.
Draw your own conclusion.
To reissue a theme from a few days ago:
The General Manager sets the roster.
But the manager sets the lineup.
There are the procedural points that have been blogged a bunch this week. Many of them are basically irrelevant.
Options aren't really an issue. If Profar were purchased now, with rosters set to expand in two weeks, he probably wouldn't be sent back down to the farm. (Frisco's regular season ends on September 3, and the playoffs could last until September 16, but that's not going to drive the bigger decision.) So no option would be used in 2012.
Plus, if Profar needs three options in his career, something will have gone very, very wrong. Non-issue.
Starting his service time clock could affect his free agency timetable. If he were to arrive anytime before a couple weeks into the 2013 season (without spending more time after that on the farm), he could be a free agent after the 2018 season. But if he's the transcendent type of player that the Rangers think he could be, given the team's salary structure and the point at which its core players will be, it would be sensible to expect Texas to approach Profar at some point with a long-term proposal (similar to Evan Longoria, Troy Tulowitzki, Ryan Braun, Justin Upton, Andrew McCutchen, Salvador Perez, others) that would make the winter in which Profar first becomes a free agent immaterial.
As for arbitration eligibility, a long-term deal before that point would take care of that, too, but even without that prospect, in order to avoid potential Super Two status, Texas would have to keep Profar in the minor leagues a couple months into the 2013 season. I get the sense that this ownership group and front office, if Profar is deemed to be one of this club's best 25 players next spring (if not sooner), won't decide to keep him farmed for months in 2013 just to save a couple million dollars in 2016.
It was a different case with Teixeira in 2003. Maybe a determination to keep him in the minors a little longer to buy an extra year before free agency would have made sense. The team wasn't very good and could have afforded to make a decision on that basis. Plus, I suspect the organization was less confident that the Scott Boras client would be open to locking up here long-term than it is with Profar today.
The one real procedural issue, perhaps, is that purchasing Profar now puts him on the 40-man roster. It's not a huge problem at the moment, as the roster sits at 39 players and has a couple candidates for removal should additional players be added via trade this month. But in the winter, Profar would take up a roster spot that he wouldn't otherwise (he wouldn't be Rule 5-eligible), which theoretically makes it tougher to add players in the off-season.
But there are lots of players on the roster who will be free agents this winter (Hamilton, Mike Napoli, Colby Lewis, Mike Adams, Mark Lowe, Koji Uehara, Roy Oswalt, and almost certainly Scott Feldman), and not all of them will return or be replaced externally. There are Rule 5 decisions to be made on players like Leury Garcia, Chad Bell, Odubel Herrera, Tomas Telis, Johan Yan, and Joseph Ortiz, too, but devoting a spot on the roster to Profar shouldn't cause too much lost sleep in that regard.
This really comes down, I think, to two things: Whether the Rangers' baseball operations group thinks Profar – a player whom Frisco manager Steve Buechele says is "not afraid to fail, but I think the best trait that he has is he's not afraid to be great" – is ready now to contribute in some role (and benefit going into 2013 from the experience), and whether the manager is willing to use him.
Rest Elvis Andrus once a week. Rest Ian Kinsler once a week. Maybe twice a week on Kinsler, having him DH once. Especially after two full seasons that included full post-seasons, not to mention Kinsler's extended skid, the rest for those two could pay dividends in October, right?
And there's an argument, you'd think, by looking at Trout's 2011, that it could pay dividends for the Rangers and Profar, a player whose abilities and feel for the game are going to help in a big way very soon, not only to improve the current bench situation but also to get the gifted infielder's introduction to Major League pitching underway and out of the way.
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Ralph H. Carter, 81, of Loraine, Texas passed away on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011, at Snyder Oakes Nursing Home in Snyder, Texas after a brief illness of pneumonia.Mr. Carter had previously resided at Nolan Nursing and Rehab in Sweetwater. He had been in ill health for a number of years. He was born on July 19, 1930, to Otha Carter and Bonnie (Jefferies) at McFall, Mo. His family had moved to Denver, Colo. where Ralph graduated from Denver High School. He was in the U.S. Air Force for three years. He was married to Pat (Burt) and they resided in Loraine, Texas. Ralph had three sons by a previous marriage to Donna (Logan) of Sweetwater, Texas, Guy Jeffrey, Bryan and Brad.Ralph was a Methodist years before he was a Baptist, being a Deacon of their church for many years. Ralph was a meat market manager. He had worked for Lawrence Brothers for over 30 years, managing at the Piggly Wiggly stores around the area. He and his family had lived in the Corpus Christi, Marble Falls, Sweetwater and Abilene areas throughout the years.His parents and son, Bryan preceded him in death.Survivors are his wife, Pat of Loraine; sons, Guy Jeffrey of Austin and Brad and wife Michelle of St. Cloud , Fla.; daughter, Connie Harshaw of Roby; sons, Donald D. Burt, Jr. and wife Lisa of Electra, Texas, Russell Burt and wife Kathlyn of Odessa; granddaughters, April and Roger Castañeda of Austin and Jennifer and Rob Mead of Marble Falls, Samantha Harshaw, Dakota Burt, Cheyenne Burt, Kayla Schroeder and husband Joe of Wichita Falls, Kelsey Clark of Electra; grandsons, Levi Hester of Big Spring, Jacob Hester of Beaumont, Justin Burt and Logan Burt; and five great-grandchildren, Elena, Corey and Isabelle (Izzy) Castañeda, Becca Mead and Kynleigh Rynea Schroeder.Mr. Carter's body will be cremated after research donations. No services will be held. Memorials may be made to the Loraine Fire Department and Loraine Senior Citizens.


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MACOMB, IL -- In an effort to align with Western Illinois University President Jack Thomas' commitment to increase funding for scholarships, Sodexo has committed $400,000 over the next four years to Western Illinois University to fund scholarships.
"Our intent is to assist with retention and graduation rates, as well as help recruit high achieving students," said Sodexo Resident District Manager Allen Nemec. "Our effort is consistent with what Dr. Thomas mentioned in his inaugural address, as well as Sodexo's commitment to support every community in which we have the privilege to provide our services."
Sodexo's scholarship commitment is shared between the new Western Commitment Scholarships and the Department of Dietetics, Fashion Merchandising and Hospitality. A gift of $250,000 will be directed to the Western Commitment Scholarships to strengthen recruitment and retention, while $150,000 will fund annual scholarships for high-achieving students majoring in dietetics or hospitality management.
"Sodexo's goal is twofold. We wish to be part of the Western Commitment as a stakeholder in the Western community, and we wish to assist students pursuing dietetics or hospitality management and planning to enter our industry," Nemec added.
A contribution of $50,000 will be made annually to the Western Commitment Scholarship for five years, and $50,000 will also be given to DFMH for the next three years to fund five $10,000 scholarships.
"We are so appreciative of Sodexo's assistance to the Western Commitment Scholarship and to the Department of Dietetics, Fashion Merchandising and Hospitality," said WIU President Jack Thomas. "Their partnership means a great deal to this institution, and is evidence of their commitment to Western."
Sodexo has been a long-term partner with DFMH in educating dietetics and hospitality management students through providing outstanding industry experiences and internships. Sodexo professional staff is accessible to students to provide guidance in making class projects successful.
"The Sodexo Scholarship for dietetics and hospitality management is yet another Sodexo commitment to education," said DFMH Chair Karen Greathouse. "It will serve as an outstanding recruitment and retention tool for top students in the field. The faculty and I very much appreciate Sodexo's support of our students and of Western's program."
For details and application information, contact the DFMH department at (309) 298-1085.
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YORK, PA - York College softball player Payton Hill (Stauton, Va./Fort Defiance) has been named the Capital Athletic Conference Softball Offensive Player of the Week as announced by the league on Monday afternoon. Hill led the Spartans to four wins during the week to garner the award.
Hill led the Spartans to four wins for the week with a fantastic individual week as the freshman designated player hit .467 with 12 RBI, five runs scored, four doubles, and three home runs in eight games. Hill went 14-for-30 at the plate as she notched a .900 slugging percentage and a .500 on-base percentage.
Hill had her biggest game of the week in the win over Washington College on Friday as she went 3-for-4 with two doubles and a career-high six RBI. She also had three hits in the openers of the Bridgewater and Misericordia double headers. She had a hit in every game for the week while she homered in three straight games during the week.


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"ship's berth," late 15c., from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German docke, perhaps ultimately (via Late Latin *ductia "aqueduct") from Latin ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)); or possibly from a Scandinavian word for "low ground" (cf. Norwegian dokk "hollow, low ground"). Original sense perhaps "furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank." As a verb from 1510s. Related: Docked; docking.
"where accused stands in court," 1580s, originally rogue's slang, from Flemish dok "pen or cage for animals," origin unknown.
"cut an animal's tail," late 14c., from dok (n.) "fleshy part of an animal's tail" (mid-14c.), related to Old English -docca "muscle," from Proto-Germanic *dokko "something round, bundle" (cf. Old Norse dokka "bundle, girl," Danish dukke "doll," German Docke "small column, bundle, doll, smart girl"). Meaning "to reduce (someone's) pay for some infraction" is first recorded 1822. Related: Docked; docking.
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Before posting anything give me an explanation why. Don't give me a fanboy crap reason either.
I don't want to regret my suggestion like I did when I bought my Wii.
So far when I dig through the Internet everyone says PS3 is a greater buy Wifi/Usb/Blu-Ray/ Etc.
Edit: Hello! Thanks guys for answering my question! ;D I do not regret my decision for PS3 as i fell in love with their exclusives and currently waiting for them such as KZ3.
Whatever games you want, is the system want.
PS3 for life!!! I am kind of like a fanboy but I'll spare you the crap and actually give you real reasons.
1-Better Graphics
2-More Features (browsing the web)
3-Blu Ray
4-Better high quality games
5-Sony is more friendly than Microsoft (which is all about money)
6-Now that the PS3 lowered their prices it is a bargain to buy!
SO GO GET IT!!! lol
CaNdLE + LiiGHT = OWNAGE
Well the games i want is multiplayer games so i wont get bored but ppl said theres the same amount for both systems
If you're talking which system is a better monetary value out of the box, then the PS3 takes it hands down since it's controllers are all rechargable (no special rechargable battery packs needed), it has WiFi out of the box (the 360 needs a separate $80 adapter for WiFi) and the Playstation Network is free (yeah it doesn't have as many features as Live, but can you really complain with free?)
However, what it really boils down to is what games you're interested in. If you prefer games with more focus on single player experiences, the PS3 is the way to go, however if what you really want to do is play online with a bunch of your friends, the 360 will better serve your purposes simply because more people have 360s than PS3s.
If you can deal with the loudness of the 360, I'd say get the Modern Warfare 2 edition 360 w/ 250gb $400 and two controllers. Best deal out there (the elite I got was same price for only 120gb).
As for why you should, pretty much every online game is made with the 360 in mind, the ps3 version tends to get the back end of online/community features and quality. The networking-messages, friends, etc.-all are done much better on XBL. Achievements are easier to notice, they show up where you can actually see them, whereas trophies are easily missed.
The 360 controls are also tighter, which I personally prefer, but that's by preference. Also most cross-platform games have timed-exclusive DLC for 360 versions, so if you plan on getting DLC on the ps3 you most likely will be waiting a few months for it. If you're interested in Netflix the 360 has built in compatibility with it.
If you can't afford the $50 a year price of GOLD then just go ahead and buy a ps3 because a 360 is pretty useless with SILVER. I myself have both, because the ps3 does have some great exclusives.
First off, the topic is complete flame bait... so... you should expect fanboy crap... other than that do some research and decide what features are important to you... (WiFi, Blu, games, online features, etc) and then make an educated decision... everyone has a opinion, but the only person who can make this decision is you, so make your own opinion.
Honestly, it's whatever YOU prefer, ignore all the fanboy crap. They are both great systems with great games, you should look into what games are available for each console, and what exclusives you like best, then that should help you make an informed decision.
Like is was already said, this thread is waiting for fanboy action. If you want to make a smart buy look at the games exclusives for each console and see which ones you want. The more exclusives you want on a console should lead you to an easy choice.
As others have said, it really depends on what kind of games you prefer. I personally prefer the games on the 360, but thats just me. If you could tell us 3 important things about you, then that would really help us to give you a better answers. Answer the following questions, and then we can go from there.
What kind of games do you like to play, like, what is your favorite genre?
Do you plan on playing more on your own or online with friends?
What purpose do you plan for this console to serve, and what do you want it to do (movie player, internet device, social networking, game player, etc)?
It's all personal preference. I've owned all three and returned two. The 360 went back first for charging me to play my games online. The Wii went back after that for collecting too much dust while waiting for the next Metroid/Zelda/Smash to come out. The PS3 will stick around until it dies because I just get more use out of it. Movies, Internet Browser, Free Online...it gets more use than anything else in my home theater. Except the speakers/receiver of course.
I currently have a 360 being repaired by Micro$oft. With that being said, I still think the 360 is the better system but the gap is not nearly as evident any longer. PS3 has pretty much caught up and is more reliable. I can't give up my progress and totally switch over to Sony because I just love my Xbox & Live. But for someone who hasn't owned either yet, I would actually suggest buying a PS3. (especially if you own a HDTV b/c it doubles as a Blu-ray player)
The problem will come in if you want some of the exclusive 360 titles.
In a perfect world, I would be able to have both. (that's the dream lol)
Well i dont have a really specific type of game but i like ones that makes me want to keep on playing
i dont really care if i play with friends or by myself and again whatever is fun to keep on playing.
Im using it as a gameplayer
I think you just answered your own question. If you are using it for the sole purpose of games, then the 360 is your system. Both is the ideal but, if you have your Ethernet connection near your console ( I can't hide the fact it doesn't have WiFi included) and at least a decent TV then you are good. The multiplayer functionality of the 360 is unmatched, despite paying a trifiling $50 (US) a year for the privelege, you usually get DLC first and a very easy to use UI and you don't have to perform long updates to play every single game. The PS3 has its strong suits, but for strictly gaming purposes the 360 is your best bet. By the way, it isn't as loud or as likely to RRoD anymore. The new ones are really quite nice.
You should pick the PS3 since it's less likely to break, but if you're looking for online, pick the 360