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A common use of a for loop is to inspect each item in an iterable and build a new list by appending the results of an expression computed on some or all of the items. The expression form known as a list comprehension lets you code this common idiom concisely and directly. Since a list comprehension is an expression (rather than a block of statements), you can use it wherever you need an expression (e.g., as an argument in a function call, in a return statement, or as a subexpression for some other expression).
A list comprehension has the following syntax:
[ expression for target in iterable lc-clauses ]
target and iterable are the same as in a regular for statement. You must enclose the expression in parentheses if it indicates a tuple.
lc-clauses is a series of zero or more clauses, each with one of the following forms:
for target in iterable
if expression
target and iterable in each for clause of a list comprehension have the same syntax and meaning as those in a regular for statement, and the expression in each if clause of a list comprehension has the same syntax and meaning as the expression in a regular if statement.
A list comprehension is equivalent to a for loop that builds the same list by repeated calls to the resulting list's append method. For example (assigning the list comprehension result to a variable for clarity):
result1 = [x+1 for x in some_sequence]
is the same as the for loop:
result2 = []
for x in some_sequence:
Here's a list comprehension that uses an if clause:
result3 = [x+1 for x in some_sequence if x>23]
This list comprehension is the same as a for loop that contains an if statement:
result4 = []
for x in some_sequence:
if x>23:
And here's a list comprehension that uses a for clause:
result5 = [x+y for x in alist for y in another]
This is the same as a for loop with another for loop nested inside:
result6 = []
for x in alist:
for y in another:
As these examples show, the order of for and if in a list comprehension is the same as in the equivalent loop, but in the list comprehension, the nesting remains implicit.
{mospagebreak title=The break Statement}
The break statement is allowed only inside a loop body. When break executes, the loop terminates. If a loop is nested inside other loops, a break in it terminates only the innermost nested loop. In practical use, a break statement is usually inside some clause of an if statement in the loop body so that break executes conditionally.
One common use of break is in the implementation of a loop that decides whether it should keep looping only in the middle of each loop iteration:
while True: # this loop can never terminate naturally
x = get_next()
y = preprocess(x)
if not keep_looping(x, y): break
process(x, y)
The continue Statement
The continue statement is allowed only inside a loop body. When continue executes, the current iteration of the loop body terminates, and execution continues with the next iteration of the loop. In practical use, a continue statement is usually inside some clause of an if statement in the loop body so that continue executes conditionally.
Sometimes, a continue statement can take the place of nested if statements within a loop. For example:
for x in some_container:
if not seems_ok(x): continue
lowbound, highbound = bounds_to_test()
if x<lowbound or x>=highbound: continue
if final_check(x):
This equivalent code does conditional processing without continue:
for x in some_container:
if seems_ok(x):
lowbound, highbound = bounds_to_test()
if lowbound <= x < highbound:
if final_check(x):
Both versions function identically, so which one you use is a matter of personal preference and style.
The else Clause on Loop Statements
while and for statements may optionally have a trailing else clause. The statement or block under that else executes when the loop terminates naturally (at the end of the for iterator, or when the while loop condition becomes false), but not when the loop terminates prematurely (via break, return, or an exception). When a loop contains one or more break statements, you often need to check whether the loop terminates naturally or prematurely. You can use an else clause on the loop for this purpose:
for x in some_container:
if is_ok(x): break # item x is satisfactory, terminate loop
print "Warning: no satisfactory item was found in container"
x = None
{mospagebreak title=The pass Statement}
The body of a Python compound statement cannot be empty; it must always contain at least one statement. You can use a pass statement, which performs no action, as a placeholder when a statement is syntactically required but you have nothing to do. Here's an example of using pass in a conditional statement as a part of somewhat convoluted logic to test mutually exclusive conditions:
if condition1(x):
elif x>23 or condition2(x) and x<5:
pass # nothing to be done in this case
elif condition3(x):
Note that, as the body of an otherwise empty def or class statement, you may use a docstring, covered in "Docstrings" on page 72; if you do write a docstring, then you do not need to also add a pass statement, although you are still allowed to do so if you wish.
The try and raise Statements
Python supports exception handling with the try statement, which includes try, except, finally, and else clauses. A program can explicitly raise an exception with the raise statement. As I discuss in detail in "Exception Propagation" on page 126, when an exception is raised, normal control flow of the program stops, and Python looks for a suitable exception handler.
The with Statement
In Python 2.5, a with statement has been added as a more readable alternative to the try/finally statement. I discuss it in detail in "The with statement" on page 125.
{mospagebreak title=Functions}
Most statements in a typical Python program are grouped and organized into functions (code in a function body may be faster than at a module's top level, as covered in "Avoiding exec and from…import *" on page 486, so there are excellent practical reasons to put most of your code into functions). A function is a group of statements that execute upon request. Python provides many built-in functions and allows programmers to define their own functions. A request to execute a function is known as a function call. When you call a function, you can pass arguments that specify data upon which the function performs its computation. In Python, a function always returns a result value, either None or a value that represents the results of the computation. Functions defined within class statements are also known as methods. Issues specific to methods are covered in "Bound and Unbound Methods" on page 91; the general coverage of functions in this section, however, also applies to methods.
In Python, functions are objects (values) that are handled like other objects. Thus, you can pass a function as an argument in a call to another function. Similarly, a function can return another function as the result of a call. A function, just like any other object, can be bound to a variable, an item in a container, or an attribute of an object. Functions can also be keys into a dictionary. For example, if you need to quickly find a functions inverse given the function, you could define a dictionary whose keys and values are functions and then make the dictionary bidirectional. Here's a small example of this idea, using some functions from module math, covered in "The math and cmath Modules" on page 365:
inverse = {sin:asin, cos:acos, tan:atan, log:exp}
for f in inverse.keys(): inverse[inverse[f]] = f
The fact that functions are ordinary objects in Python is often expressed by saying that functions are first-class objects.
The def Statement
The def statement is the most common way to define a function. def is a single-clause compound statement with the following syntax:
def function-name(parameters):
function-name is an identifier. It is a variable that gets bound (or rebound) to the function object when def executes.
parameters is an optional list of identifiers, known as formal parameters or just parameters, that get bound to the values supplied as arguments when the
function is called. In the simplest case, a function doesn't have any formal parameters, which means the function doesn't take any arguments when it is called. In this case, the function definition has empty parentheses after function-name .
When a function does take arguments, parameters contains one or more identifiers, separated by commas (,). In this case, each call to the function supplies values, known as arguments, corresponding to the parameters listed in the function definition. The parameters are local variables of the function (as we'll discuss later in this section), and each call to the function binds these local variables to the corresponding values that the caller supplies as arguments.
The nonempty sequence of statements, known as the function body, does not execute when the def statement executes. Rather, the function body executes later, each time the function is called. The function body can contain zero or more occurrences of the return statement, as we'll discuss shortly.
Here's an example of a simple function that returns a value that is twice the value passed to it each time it's called:
def double(x):
return x*2
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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - The Kansas City Royals used a five-run fourth inning to beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4, in the middle game of a three- game series.
Omar Infante, Nori Aoki, Justin Maxwell and Mike Moustakas each had an RBI for the Royals, who have won five in a row. Alex Gordon went 3-for-4 with a run scored.
Kansas City starter Bruce Chen (1-1) allowed four runs on eight hits with six strikeouts and four walks over five innings. He was scheduled to pitch Thursday but was scratched due to back stiffness.
Kurt Suzuki hit a solo homer and knocked in three runs for the Twins, who went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight. Aaron Hicks added an RBI.
Minnesota starter Kevin Correia (0-2) gave up five runs -- four earned -- on nine hits over six full frames.
"We're a starting staff that pitches to contact. We pride ourselves on making plays," Correia said. "These guys are going to come back and play good defense."
The Twins jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Chris Colabello and Jason Kubel singled before Josmil Pinto walked to load the bases. After Suzuki flied out for the first out, Hicks walked to force in a run. Pedro Florimon grounded into a double play to end the frame.
Suzuki homered to left in the fourth, making it 2-0 Minnesota.
Kansas City did its damage in the bottom half of the inning. Gordon led off with a single, moved to third on Billy Butler's double and scored on Moustakas' sacrifice fly. Butler raced home on Maxwell's single to center. After Alcides Escobar was hit by a pitch, Aoki and Infante hit consecutive RBI singles. With Eric Hosmer batting, Aoki and Infante pulled off a double steal. Aoki then raced home on Pinto's throwing error.
The Twins responded with two runs in the fifth. With the bases loaded and two outs, Suzuki hit a two-run single to center. Hicks grounded into a fielder's choice to keep it 5-4.
Minnesota, however, failed to get anything going against Kansas City's bullpen. Danny Duffy, Wade Davis and Greg Holland were dominant over the final four innings.
"I think we're learning to keep those struggles to a minimum," Holland said, "and that's part of winning baseball, learning how to get out of the skids quicker so you don't lose three, four or five games straight."
Game Notes
Minnesota fell to 3-2 against Kansas City this season ... Chen improved to 5-7 lifetime against the Twins ... Minnesota first baseman Joe Mauer celebrated his 31st birthday on Saturday ... The Royals went 3-for-13 with RISP and stranded eight.

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Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS)
Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS)
Organisms released into habitats where they are not native often out-compete natives through a lack of predators, parasites, and competitors that kept the non-natives in check where they originated. In favorable environments their numbers can explode, and, once established, are seldom eradicated. Some aquatic nuisance species in Kansas are the asian carp, zebra mussels, and white perch
Anglers can help prevent the spread of ANS species by monitoring their boats (including pond bass boats, canoes, float tubes), trailers, anchors, and anything else that comes in contact with the water. Remove any plants or animals from boating equipment and drain the livewell before leaving the water body. Empty bait buckets on land — not into the water — before leaving the waterbody. Wash boating equipment with hot (at least 104°F) water and dry for at least 5 days before transporting to another waterbody. Learn to recognize exotics that may be in or near your area. Consult the Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism for more information.


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The outrage has already exploded from conservatives since President Obama signed 23 executive orders and proposed legislation to prevent gun violence. Among the proposals is the strengthening of background checks, which would be more focused and would be required for any gun sale including those at gun shows. But the conservative echo chamber is opposed to any such changes to current background check laws and is calling such changes invasive.
I'm assuming conservatives mean invasive to the privacy of those who want to own a firearm and invasive to rights in general. Unfortunately for conservatives, they've slammed into a wall and it's called hypocrisy. Because conservatives are crying foul over an imagined invasion of privacy and rights, it would be prudent to list all of the various policies conservatives support that are more invasive than a background check for wannabe gun owners.
1. The Birth Certificate Obsession
Going after President Obama's birth certificate for the last four years even after he released his long form certificate is invasive. But conservatives didn't stop there. They wanted his college transcripts, college application, passport, and just about every single piece of documentation President Obama has ever signed, written, or filled out. And conservatives demanded all of this because they insist that President Obama isn't a natural born American citizen. This is the conservative version of a background check. If President Obama had been a white guy named Joe Smith the conservatives wouldn't have had this obsession. If conservatives insist upon doing the ultimate background check on a President simply because of his color and name, we should be able to perform better background checks on people who want a weapon that is designed to kill.
2. Transvaginal Ultrasounds
Talk about invasive. A transvaginal ultrasound involves the use of a probe that is inserted into the vagina. Republicans across the country support forcing women to undergo this invasive procedure in order to get an abortion. Ironically, Roe v Wade made abortion legal to protect the very privacy Republicans are now violating with this policy. Virginia and Texas already have such laws and other states including Ohio and Pennsylvania are considering requiring the procedure as well. Conservatives say gun owners and buyers deserve privacy yet they completely support what amounts to state sanctioned rape. Now that's invasive.
3. Restricting Contraceptives
Conservatives aren't stopping at transvaginal probes. They want to decide if women can protect themselves during sex with contraception as well. Kansas Republicans recently passed a law that allows pharmacists and doctors to deny women contraceptives. Some states such as Arizona and Missouri want to allow employers to deny their female employees birth control as well. Other states such as Mississippi and Oklahoma are pursuing Personhood bills that would declare a joined egg and sperm a human with full rights, which would effectively outlaw many forms of contraceptives. Republicans are waging an all out war on women and it's incredibly invasive, yet conservatives still have the gall to whine about gun regulations.
4. Drug Testing Welfare Recipients
It's already happening in Florida and conservatives across the country want to pass the exact same laws. According to Republicans, people who receive food stamps or other government aid should be forced to take a drug test. In other words, you have to willingly surrender your urine or blood if you want to feed your family and pay your bills. Of course when these bills include testing lawmakers as well Republicans are quick to back off such legislation because they don't want their own privacy violated.
5. Opposing Same-Sex Marriage
It's true. Republicans want to tell us who we can and cannot marry. Michele Bachmann once infamously quipped during her run to be the Republican Presidential nominee that gay people can marry as long as they marry people of the opposite sex. That's a huge invasion of privacy. Any consenting adult should be able to marry any consenting adult they wish, yet conservatives want to invade our privacy and regulate who we love.
6. Religious Discrimination
Conservatives are overwhelmingly Christian. Of course it's of the fundamentalist variety. And like most fundamentalists, they want to impose their religion onto the entire population whether we like it or not. Part of this agenda means forcing Christianity in schools across the country. Conservatives in several states including Indiana, Florida, Tennessee and others have tried to requires prayer in school and have tried to require creationism in science class. This is all regardless of whether you are a Christian or not. In other words, conservatives are forcing children to practice and learn about Christianity. Most people would call this indoctrination. It's also an invasion of privacy since your beliefs are your own and you have the right to them. But when you try to force your religious beliefs on others you have become invasive. Not only have conservatives tried to force Christianity upon school children, they've also been trying to impose their version of Biblical law on all Americans which is why they are trying to regulate women's bodies and who we are allowed to marry.
7. Attacking The Right To Vote
Trying to keep people from exercising their right to vote is an invasion of not only the privacy of Americans, but their consciences as well. But conservatives are doing exactly that across the country. From Ohio to Florida to Wisconsin to Pennsylvania and Virginia, conservatives are forcing citizens to obtain a voter identification card in order to vote. Conservatives are also cutting voter registration times and are even attempting to change the electoral process in states so that Republicans can lock down the Presidency for many elections to come. Such acts are invasive to democracy. So Republicans are fine with forcing people to have state identification cards and with changing our right to vote so that they can win forever but requiring reasonable gun control measures is invasive.
8. Getting Between Doctors And Patients
Here's an incredibly invasive thing conservatives are doing. Most of us would probably agree that medical decisions should be between patients and their doctors. Too bad conservatives don't feel the same way. Health care in America is among the worst in the developed world and it's only going to get worse if Republicans have their way. Many conservative states have vowed to not implement Obamacare, which would keep millions of people from being able to get the medical attention they desperately need. Republicans are also making every effort to end Medicare and Medicaid, which millions of people rely on to ensure they get the proper medical care. But Republicans aren't just trying to keep people from doctors, they're also trying to insert themselves into the medical decisions doctors and patients make. In Kansas, Republicans passed a law the forces doctors to lie to women about abortion. The law requires doctors to tell pregnant women that abortion causes breast cancer even though there is no evidence to support such a correlation. Republicans across the country support this law, and support laws allowing doctors and nurses to refuse to perform an abortion even if it is medically necessary to safe the life of the mother. Not only is this invasive, it's life threatening. But that's not all. Republicans in Mississippi are seeking to close the last abortion clinic in the state which will undoubtedly force women to resort to deadly back alley abortions. Republicans in Wisconsin have passed a law requiring women who want birth control to actually go see their doctor in person instead of seeing their doctor via telecommunication. All of this is on top of Republican opposition to laws that prevent insurance companies from denying health care coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. In all, Republicans have been consistent when it comes to invading our medical privacy.
9. Papers Please
Arizona's immigration law allows police to question the citizenship of anybody. Of course, this being a conservative law, it really only requires police to question the citizenship of people who have a brown or brownish complexion. Similar laws have been passed in Alabama and Georgia and has affected anybody with an accent or a non-white skin color. These kinds of laws are mostly targeted at Hispanics, who are being forced to prove that they are a citizen of the United States. Now Hispanics have to live in fear of having their loyalty questioned, which is a fear usually found in people who live in nations like China, North Korea, or Iran. Such laws are invasive and infringe upon our right to privacy. Conservatives think background checks on citizenship are just fine, but a background check on someone buying a gun is invasive.
10. Supporting Torture
Torturing people is against the law, and humanity. Yet Republicans believe it's perfectly fine to violate human rights in the effort to get an answer they want. If you don't understand why torture is invasive, there is something wrong with you. Thankfully, President Obama has signed an order banning torture, but that won't stop Republicans from re-instituting it in the future when they take back the government because of their anti-voting schemes.
To conservatives, every aspect of our private lives should be heavily regulated from who we marry to what we do in the bedroom to what medical decisions we make to what religion we practice to how we vote and who we vote for to what culture we belong to. But they think guns, which are tools designed to kill, should be free from regulation. They think reasonable gun control measures are invasive. They are wrong and they are hypocrites.


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Submission + - What you get when you buy a $40 iPhone in a bar (pcpro.co.uk) 1
Barence writes: How good — or bad — are fake iPhones? PC Pro blogger Steve Cassidy has a friend who paid £25 ($40) for an "iPhone" in a bar, and he's got the photos and full lowdown of what's inside this not-so smartphone. The phone looks convincing enough from the outside, with a genuine-looking backplate, but things start to go wrong when you switch it on. What's a "Java" and "WLAN" App button doing on the screen? And how about that Internet Explorer icon? It's like you're handling an artefact from an alternate history, dropped in via a spacetime wormhole. It has dual SIM handling, too, and came with a bizarre auxiliary battery festooned with warnings about not pressing a button mounted on the front of the top-up device.


text: The Little Bra Company brings comfort and lift to women with small breasts. Designed especially for petite sizes and those who wear A and B-cup bras, The Little Bra Company bras add cleavage where none existed. The bras are cut specifically to fit a smaller frame, the cups don't gap and are constructed in either wider-set cups or close-set for a little cleavage. Styles are offered in various colors with lace and other embellishments. The Little Bra Company knows women want style, comfort and great design when choosing their favorite bras. For petite women, in the past there was not enough selection for them to find the perfect fit. The Little Bra Company brings it to them.Emily Lau is the designer and founded of The Little Bra Company. She was a television producer before beginning her journey as a designer. She was frustrated about never finding a bra for her petite body to give her a lift. She finally began working with experts to design a perfectly fitting bra for small breasts. In May 2007, her designs and hard work came to life. She was making bras that fit smaller bodies, but were also sexy and not just stuffed with cleavage. As her business progressed, she came to realize that petite breasts vary, and may be close-set or wide-set, and this has been incorporated into individual styles. All of the bras in The Little Bra Company offer a push-up function to provide a beautiful silhouette. Some of the bestsellers include the Angela Deep Plunge Push-Up Bra with a lightweight seamless underwire. The Lucia Lace Plunge is quite the sexy number with its underwire with lace overlay that continues along the straps. The bras have been featured in the New York Times, InStyle Magazine and Body Magazine. In 2011, The Lingerie Addict Awards recognized The Little Bra Company for the "Best Small Bust Brand."Customers love the natural lift and feel of the bras. One customer who bought the famous Lucia bra said, "I just got home from a long day at work, changed into my pajamas, and forgot that I was wearing a bra. Yes, it's pretty and sexy and gives me a boost, but most importantly it is very comfortable. The first thing I noticed is that I am not tugging at my bra straps all day long to keep them on my petite shoulders. I don't feel the wire digging into my sides. No wire marks on my skin either. Nor do I have to pull the bra down because it keeps riding up. The bra truly fits me well."One way The Little Bra Company gives back each year is donating a percentage of its bestselling Lucia bra to Young Survival Coalition. This international organization is dedicated to the critical issues unique to young women and breast cancer ages 40 and under. The collection has grown to not only include bras, but also panties. The Little Bra Company recently went from only producing A and B cups to also producing a C cup.The Little Bra Company provides women with smaller breasts a way to feel seductive without having cosmetic surgery or throwing in a bunch of padding. Looking natural and feeling great is what The Little Bra Company pieces bring to women.


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Seniors Laura Merrifield and Sarah Mollison combined for 11 points to lead No. 1 Maryland to its 24th consecutive win, downing No. 12 Princeton, 17-10, on Senior Night Wednesday.
With the win, Maryland (14-0, 4-0 ACC) capped its 13th perfect home regular season slate in program history. The Terps, who have already clinched the ACC regular season title, started all seven of its available seniors, including Colleen Dawson, Sara Cooper, Brandi Jones, Katie Gallagher, Brittany Poist, Merrifield and Mollison.
The match started off as a low-scoring affair through the first 15 minutes with Maryland clinging to a 2-0 lead until breaking the game open with four goals in 68 seconds. Scores from Beth Glaros, Jones, Mollison and Katie Schwarzmann highlighted the devastating run and extended the lead to 6-0 around the 12-minute mark. Princeton (6-4) did not land on the scoreboard until a Lizzy Drumm tally with 7:14 left in the first stanza.
A pair of goals from Merrifield and fellow classmate Mollison provided Maryland with a 9-3 advantage right before the half and three early goals in the second period pushed the cushion to nine.
Brittany Dipper helped guide a solid defensive showing, boasting nine saves in 52 minutes of work. Gallagher racked up team-highs in caused turnovers (3) and ground balls (3).
Merrifield ended the match with four goals and one assist while Mollison tallied three goals and three helpers. Jones ended with a hat trick and Schwarzmann registered two goals and two assists to aid another balanced Terrapin attacking effort.
"We have such a great senior class and they all bring something special to our team," head coach Cathy Reese said. "It was a great day to honor our seniors against a very talented Princeton team."
Maryland travels to Virginia Tech Saturday for its conference regular season finale.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- The men's track and field team returned to action Saturday at Illinois Wesleyan and saw first place performances in three events. Bruce Gray won the 60-meter and 200-meter dashes, and Josh Kuusisto was champion of the weight throw.
After racing 7.00 seconds in the preliminaries, Gray improved in the finals as he finished in 6.91 seconds. This mark is currently third best in the NCAA Division III. He also rattled off a 22.51 second race in the 200 to take first and is currently ranked second in the nation in that event.
Kuusisto outdistanced his next competitor by over eight feet as he threw 57-0.25. He is currently 10th in the nation in the event based upon a distance from a previous meet.
Taking third place at the meet were three Panthers. Bryan Waugh threw the weight 46-3.25 in his third place performance. Josh Garcia earned third in the 200-meter dash (23.24 seconds) and also placed third in the 60-meter dash (7.1 seconds).
The Panthers will compete again on Friday and Saturday as they send students to Indiana University and Illinois College.


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Guarding the Next Generations from Diabetes
Joslin scientists analyze what can go wrong in diabetic pregnancies, and the nongenetic ways in which risk of diabetes can be handed down.
Mary Loeken, Ph.D.
Mary Loeken, Ph.D., has found crucial clues to the causes of birth defects that may occur in pregnancies of women with diabetes. Her research follows in the legacy of Joslin's Dr. Priscilla White, a trailblazer in improving the health of women with diabetes during their pregnancies and the health of their babies. Dr. Loeken's work may help in learning how to better manage any form of diabetes in pregnancy (including gestational diabetes) and eventually in detecting and treating birth defects at an early stage.
The Loeken lab has shown how high blood glucose levels can decrease production of a key protein called Pax3, and that this event can trigger problems in forming the brain and spinal cord and the heart. Recently, she and her colleagues have discovered that Pax3 helps to control another protein called p53 that plays
a crucial role in cell life and death. This suggests a scenario in which less Pax3 is produced and p53 then becomes more active and helps to kill cells needed in normal development.
Additionally, Dr. Loeken investigates why the offspring of women with gestational or long-term diabetes are at increased risk of eventually developing obesity and type 2 diabetes. Her lab developed a mouse strain that is genetically diabetic. During pregnancy, their fetuses are exposed to high blood glucose levels. As the offspring of these mice age, they develop characteristics of type 2 diabetes, and the researchers are investigating how this process occurs.
Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Patti looks at the effects of poor maternal nutrition on the babies' risks for diabetes and obesity.
Another Joslin scientist, Mary-Elizabeth Patti, M.D., studies the causes of type 2 diabetes. As part of her work, she pursues a different angle in exploring how the risk of developing the disease can be handed down to following generations in ways that are not based simply on copying parental DNA.
In one effort, "we examine the effects of poor maternal nutrition on their babies' risks for diabetes and obesity," Dr. Patti says. "Many factors contribute to this increased risk, including problems in muscle, fat and pancreatic islets. We've been largely interested in how obesity develops, because it occurs very early in life. Human babies exposed to an abnormal intrauterine environment are already fat, and they have less muscle in relation to fat."
In a recent project, Dr. Patti examined the role of muscle stem cells in this heightened risk of disease down the road. Mice born after poor maternal nutrition or given an overly rich diet as newborns produce a smaller number of muscle stem cells, setting the stage for reduced muscle mass, which in turn may be linked to later development of diabetes as well as obesity.
"There's an important public health message here about maternal nutrition and fitness," Dr. Patti comments. "We know that obesity begets obesity. If you are planning to become pregnant, you really want to try to improve your health as much as possible before the pregnancy, so your baby is exposed to a healthy metabolic environment. Fortunately, women in pregnancy are very open to ideas."
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RSSOwl is a wise SWT-based news aggregator. Its search feature lets you hunt down the best RSS/RDF/Atom feeds on the Web, and then organize and share your feeds with agility. Other features include an integrated browser; AmphetaRate, for acquiring news tailored to your tastes; full-text searching through headlines and descriptions; export feed summaries to PDF, RTF, and HTML; the ability to import or export OPML; the ability to exchange collections with others by importing or exporting subscriptions; the ability to import or export user data to and from other machines; automatic newsfeed upating; and much more.
Restlet is a REST framework for Java. It supports all REST concepts (Resource, Representation, Connector, Component, etc.) and is suitable for both client and server Web applications. It supports major Web standards like HTTP, SMTP, XML, JSON, WADL, and Atom. Many extensions are also available to integrate with Servlet, Spring, Jetty, Grizzly, Simple, JAXB, JAX-RS, JiBX, Velocity, or FreeMarker. A GWT version is also available.
Acceleo is a code generator designed to efficiently implement the MDA approach (Model Driven Architecture) and to improve software development productivity. It is natively integrated with Eclipse and EMF. It includes tools and editors making it easy to learn and to adapt to any kind of project or technology. It provides incremental generation, meta-model interoperability, simple and extensible syntax, template driven customization, and more.
Logback is intended as a successor to the popular log4j project, and was designed by log4j's founder, Ceki Gulcu. The basic architecture is sufficiently generic so as to apply under different circumstances. It is divided into three modules. The Core module lays the groundwork for the other two modules, whereas the Classic module can be assimilated to an improved version of log4j. It natively implements the SLF4J API so that you can readily switch back and forth between logback and other logging systems, such as log4j or JDK14 Logging. The Access module integrates with Servlet containers to provide HTTP access log functionality. You can easily build your own modules on top of the Core module.
ERDtext is a simple text file viewer that is part of ERDialog. ERDialog is an application framework using Yaws. Multiple applets can be loaded into the framework. The existing applets include a file launcher, MPD audio interface, and wiki. It only requires Erlang and Yaws to be installed.


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A jury of seven women and five men are deciding the fate of a 24-year-old Grand Junction man accused of beating his two-year-old stepson to death.
Attorneys on both sides delivered closing arguments in the Brandon Moore trial.
The prosecution urged the jury to convict Moore of first degree murder and knowingly or recklessly causing child abuse resulting in death because of what they call "conflicting" and "evolving" stories given by the defendant, blood evidence found in the home that they say conflicts with the story and medical testimony that they say showed that the severe and fatal injuries suffered by one-year-old Logan Acord could not have been accidental.
The defense asked the jury to avoid emotions and prejudice when they presumed their client innocent was innocent before considering all of the evidence. They're asking for a reduced charge of criminally negligent child abuse resulting in death and admit Brandon Moore did "fail" in several ways to act as a responsible parent and member of the community by not calling 911 when Logan was injured, but did not "knowingly" or "recklessly" hurt the child.
Moore could face life in prison for the murder charge and a minimum sentence of 32 years if he is convicted of the reduced charge of criminally negligent child abuse resulting in death.


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Rangers add experienced righty Frasor to bullpen
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ARLINGTON -- Looking for a chance to pitch for a playoff team, right-handed reliever Jason Frasor has agreed to a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Rangers.
"He's a proven veteran who brings a competitive presence to our bullpen," Rangers pro scouting director Josh Boyd said Thursday.
Frasor, 35, has spent almost his entire nine-year career with the Blue Jays, and he was 1-1 with a 4.12 ERA in 50 relief appearances for them in 2012. He averaged 10.9 strikeouts, 4.5 walks and 8.7 hits per nine innings.
"From what I understand, there were something like 70 free-agent relief pitchers out there," Frasor said. "You take away the left-handers and the closers and you've got to think there were 40 guys like me. When it appeared the door to Toronto was closed, I just wanted to go to a winner. I was in Toronto for nine years and didn't even smell a playoff race. I'm 35 years old, I feel great, but my window is closing a little bit. I just wanted the chance to be on a great team. I'm thrilled with this opportunity."
Frasor missed six weeks beginning on July 16 with inflammation in his right forearm, marking the first time in his career that he was on the disabled list. He returned in September and had a 4.70 ERA in his final eight appearances while opponents hit .313 off him.
Frasor underwent a physical for the Rangers on Wednesday, and everything checked out fine.
"Perfect, absolutely perfect," Frasor said when asked where he stands physically. "I had a physical yesterday and they took a million pictures -- photos and MRIs. I saw the doctor afterward and he said everything looked great. That goes along with how I feel."
Frasor uses mostly a fastball/changeup combination with an occasional slider. He relies mainly on being aggressive in the strike zone and throwing his fastball in the right spots. His fastball is normally clocked at 92-94 mph.
"If I drink an extra Red Bull, I might throw 95," Frasor said. "I locate my fastball. My second best pitch is my changeup. I'm not a big breaking ball guy. I can go weeks at a time without throwing my breaking ball. I'm pretty aggressive in the zone and like to go after guys. If you can locate your fastball, things should be fine."
During his career, he is 0-4 with a 9.19 ERA in 17 appearances at the Ballpark in Arlington.
"Me and my buddies in the bullpen never liked coming to Texas," Frasor said. "You're facing a team and facing a lineup that just scored a lot of runs. It just seemed like the Toronto Blue Jays were always getting their brains beat out in Texas. It was more the hitters than the stadium. I had good days and bad days, mainly because of the hitters. I'm glad I'm on that side."
Frasor joins a bullpen headed by closer Joe Nathan, and he's the second Texas reliever signed to a Major League contract this winter. The Rangers signed Joakim Soria to a two-year contract, but he missed all of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery and is not expected to be ready until sometime in May at the earliest.
The Rangers also acquired reliever Josh Lindblom from the Phillies as one of two players for infielder Michael Young. Lindblom and Frasor right now are the two leading candidates to be Texas' right-handed setup relievers at the beginning of the season. Tanner Scheppers, who was 1-1 with a 4.45 ERA in 39 games as a rookie in 2012, is also high on the list.
Michael Kirkman and Robbie Ross are the most experienced left-handed relievers on the 40-man roster. Ross, who was 6-0 with a 2.22 ERA in 58 games in 2012, could be given a chance to switch to the rotation, but it will most likely depend on if the Rangers add more left-handed depth.
They traded for left-hander Tommy Hottovy from the Royals and right-hander Cory Burns from the Padres, signed right-handers Collin Balester and Evan Meek, and left-hander Neal Cotts to a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training. They also took right-hander Coty Woods from the Rockies in the Rule 5 Draft. All but Woods have pitched in the Major Leagues, and Meek was an All-Star with the Pirates in 2010 before coming down with shoulder problems.
To make room for Frasor on the 40-man roster, Texas designated catcher Eli Whiteside for assignment. The Rangers currently have a full 40-man roster.


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Whether called a house, a home, a residence, a dwelling, or simply a place, always we make it possessive. It's our house. Their place. My home. Whether grand or humble, unique or ubiquitous,
traditional or modern, it's never about the materials, or the size to which we lay claim It's to the idea of a
space, an enclosure, a vessel made personal by what we put in it, and by how we live our lives within it. Combining personal possessions and a chosen lifestyle to fashion an individual experience.
From just after the turn of the last century, a new approach to residential, commercial and institutional
architecture was evident in Europe and North America. Sleek lines, industrial materials, open and integrated spaces, little or no ornamentation, all were the antithesis of the styles which preceded what would be called the International Style and Modernism. The term Mid-Century Modern focuses on the period of Modernism from the 1950's through to the mid 1970's. It is this period that SLEEK – Hamilton's Modernist Residential Architecture, celebrates.
Each of the residences in this exhibition have a special provenance and singularity. Each was designed by an architect, mostly for specific clients. Each is designed in the modern style. Each is located in the now amalgamated City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Each was constructed between 1950 and 1975.
Each is still a home. Where the original owners have moved on, others have moved in. Most are in original condition. They continue now as they did then, as unique statements to a very modern way of living.
Hamilton HIStory + HERitage would like to thank each of the owners of the marvelous homes featured in this exhibition. We thank them for allowing us to showcase the beauty, elegance and uniqueness of the places each of them call home. We'd also like to thank architect Tony Butler, photographer Jeff Tessier, printer Tom Kelly of CopyDog, and Brian Kowalewicz and Paul Dolanjski of Historical Hamilton, for their remarkable work in helping to make this exhibition possible.
Be sure to check out the photographs and the location of each SLEEK home on Google at
This podcast features an interview between Graham Crawford, Founder of HIStory + HERitage, and Hamilton-based, and now retired, architect Anthony Butler. Tony did all of the research for the SLEEK exhibition. During the interview, Tony talks about his own experience as an architect, and discusses how he conducted his research for the exhibition.


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After that Wilkerson sack on the first play, I was like "All right, here we go. This is gonna be fun." But then......
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I mean seriously this really sums it all up:
Post a gif of sanchez running into his linemen and then fumbling. Then u can end the thread.
My reaction after realizing the season is almost over.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Olivier Hanlan and Patrick Heckman hit 3-pointers in overtime, Lonnie Jackson made four straight free throws in the final 26.2 seconds, and lowly Boston College stunned top-ranked Syracuse 62-59 on Wednesday night, ending the Orange's unbeaten season.
Boston College (7-19, 3-10 Atlantic Coast Conference), which had lost five straight, rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to pull off the improbable upset.
Syracuse (25-1, 12-1) travels to No. 5 Duke on Saturday night.
The loss leaves No. 3 Wichita State, which was playing at Loyola of Chicago on Wednesday, as the lone unbeaten in Division I.
The Eagles came to town with heavy hearts and a good dose of determination. Longtime basketball media contact and sports information assistant Dick Kelley died last week after a two-year battle with ALS. His funeral was Tuesday and the Eagles, who often visited his apartment, were wearing "DK" patches on their uniforms.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Poet Robin Becker will visit Bucknell University as the 13th annual Sandra and Gary Sojka Visiting Poet .
Becker will read from her works Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. She also will participate in a question-and-answer session Nov. 6 at 4 p.m. in the Smith Library in Vaughan Literature Building. Both events, which are hosted by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell, are free to the public.
Six poetry collections
Professor of English and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University, Becker is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Horse Fair (2000), All-American Girl (1996), Giacometti's Dog (1990) and, most recently, Domain of Perfect Affection (2006).
In 2002, the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh published Venetian Blue, a limited edition chapbook of Becker's art poems.
She has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the George Atherton Teaching Award from Penn State.
In addition to teaching, Becker serves as poetry reviewer and columnist for The Women's Review of Books. She lives in Boalsburg.
Sojka Series
The Sojka Series was established in 1995 through the generosity of Gary Sojka, who served as president of Bucknell from 1984 to 1995, and his wife, Sandra. The series consists of a short visit by a distinguished poet each fall. While on campus, the poet gives a reading and meets informally with those interested in the writing of poetry.
For more information about Becker's visit to Bucknell, contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853 or visit www.bucknell.edu/stadlercenter/
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KAPALUA - For the 21st consecutive year, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua will bring together Hawaii artisans, educators, cultural practitioners and entertainers for the Celebration of the Arts.
This cultural event will begin on Friday, March 29, and conclude on Sunday, March 31, with the Easter Brunch.
This year's theme - "E ulu e ulu mau... To grow and grow forever" - is a nod to the days of nostalgic Hawaii while looking forward to the future and the impact of today's decisions.
Opening ceremonies include Hawaiian practitioners reciting their genealogy through traditional oli (chants). Music and hula will be presented continuously throughout the weekend.
Hands-on art, demonstrations, films, cultural panels, music and dance will serve as the common thread to allow visitors and residents the opportunity to interact and appreciate the festival, which has been honored with a prestigious "Keep it Hawaii Kahili Award" by the Hawaii Tourism Authority.
Thought-provoking panels will include "Food Sovereignty," with local farmers and agriculturalists demonstrating the importance of protecting the "old seeds;" "E kala mai, excuse me... a two-way street" by Brook Kapukuniahi Parker; and "Remembering a Princess," where attendees will join direct lineal descendants of Princess Kale Davis in a moving discussion about a princess lost in time. A cleanup of her burial site above Kapalua Resort will also take place by attendees and volunteers, to restore it to a condition worthy of such an influential woman.
One of the most unique presentations of the weekend will be "Ono ka awa... the awa is delicious," which features an array of Polynesian-grown awa paired with Hawaiian delicacies.
The Celebration Luau and Show serves as the weekend's finale, bringing together traditional Hawaiian foods with various entertainment and talent hearkening back to nostalgic Hawaii and the days of the first cruise ships visiting the islands.
The Celebration After-Hours Party commences each evening in the Alaloa Lounge. This is free for adults to enjoy from 9 p.m. to midnight. Hawaii entertainers will take the stage with impromptu performances in fun-filled jam sessions that reflect the spirit of aloha for which the islands are renowned.
The annual Easter Brunch will take place on Sunday, March 31, while the children's Easter egg hunt begins on the Great Lawn.
For more information, visit www.ritzcarlton.com/kapalua or www.celebrationofthearts.org. For tickets, call 669-6200.


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He's played a crazed killer, postured as the vice president and voiced an animated bunny.
Yet, actor Gary Cole, who grew up in Rolling Meadows, insists it's just a coincidence that he's played such a wide variety of roles during his 30 years in Hollywood.
Where you've seen himActor Gary Cole, who grew up in Rolling Meadows, has starred in more than 100 movies and TV shows, including:
"The Good Wife"
"The West Wing"
"Desperate Housewives"
"Midnight Caller"
"Pineapple Express"
"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"
"Office Space"
"The Brady Bunch Movie"
"There's very little planning. Very little has happened on purpose in terms of my choosing. It's just what's surfaced at specific times. It's always who's available and what the schedule is. There's very little sitting down stroking my chin saying, 'Hmmm, what will my next move be?'" he said.
Comedy has always been Cole's strong suit, with standout performances as the annoying boss Lumbergh in "Office Space" (a character briefly resurrected in State Farm Insurance TV ads earlier this year), the moronic Reese Bobby in "Talladega Nights," and goody two-shoes 1960s dad Mike Brady in "The Brady Bunch Movie."
But he's done an equal number of complex roles as a dramatic actor, earning critical praise and winning multiple Jeff Awards for his performances at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Cole's latest performance is a serious one -- as a high-ranking Canadian Air Force officer with a dirty secret in the TV movie "An Officer and a Murderer," which airs 7 p.m. Saturday, July 21, on Lifetime.
Before he made it to Hollywood, Cole was just a Northwest suburban kid listening to popular comedy albums on the record player in his family's Rolling Meadows home. Some of his favorites were Bill Cosby's "Wonderfulness," "The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart" and Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small."
"I actually memorized several of the albums and lip-synced them, but basically to myself, pretending I was in a nightclub somewhere. I don't think I did it in front of everybody," he said.
Then, in 1978, while bartending at Some Other Place (also known as S.O.P.s) in Arlington Heights, some friends cajoled him into reciting album excerpts for the bar patrons, and he was a big hit.
"I was always ripping (material) off," he said, laughing.
Cole was first introduced to theater while watching his sister perform in plays at the former Forest View High School in Arlington Heights. He took to the stage himself at Rolling Meadows High School and Illinois State University, where he connected with the founders of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Cole left college during his junior year to perform at Steppenwolf, which, at the time, was housed in a little space in Highland Park.
Cole has since starred in more than 100 movies and TV shows, yet it's not unusual for strangers to say, "Hey, Lumbergh!" when they see him. Lumbergh was the software company boss Cole played in the 1999 movie "Office Space" -- a character who became a pop culture icon for trying to raise office morale with Hawaiian shirt Fridays and speaking in a droll voice that said, "Ah, yeaaaah, hi," and "Greaaaaat."
"'Office Space' I loved doing," Cole said, noting that the movie was initially considered a flop and didn't become a cult classic until years later. "None of us saw that coming. We knew we were doing a movie we thought was really funny, but we didn't know the impact it could have had."
Cole says he also gets recognized by die-hard fans of the TV shows "The West Wing," where he played the vice president of the United States, and "The Good Wife," where he was ballistic expert Kurt McVeigh.
He's even voiced a number of animated characters, including a bunny in "Hop."
"One of the most fun characters I played on a television series, which didn't last long ... was a show called 'American Gothic' that Shaun Cassidy created. I would have loved to have done that show forever. That character was so funny yet demonic. It was really good writing, and a really good idea. I loved all the people on the show."
Cole, 55, who now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, continues to vacillate between drama and comedy. He recently did some original comedy sketches for the popular video website FunnyOrDie.com, and he is now in New York doing a dramatic role in a new Sam Shepard play called "Heartless."
"It has some comedy in it. It's dark comedy for sure," Cole said. "If I keep at it, sooner or later, (comedy) is going to pop up at some point."


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Memphis food is more than barbecue. Much more.
There – we've said it.
And moderation is not only possible but advisable because the burgeoning food scene in Memphis shows no signs of fading. It is growing as the dish crawl series of events demonstrate.
Crawls are a Memphis social tradition more identified with bars and the drinks served in those bars. Remember the St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl when it was in full crawl in the 1980s?
That probably won't happen with the dish crawls, some of which have already sold out or look likely to sell out.
Not too far beneath the fun that these events are built on are some serious ways to redefine Memphis culture and point it toward a broader culinary base – one that has room for moderation and diversity and can sustain itself as an element in an overall culture that constantly changes.
If we accept that music and literature and architecture are all expressions of culture in the places where people from different places intersect, surely there is room in that mix for the food served at the places where those people meet.
Barbecue is part of the Memphis identity we show the world. And it is indeed part of the true Memphis identity. But we all know the face Memphis puts on for tourists isn't the same face it wears away from the tourists. It has become a mask that we need to drop not just in the places we dine but on Beale Street and Graceland and any place else where we've built bubble worlds for our visitors that we think are the Memphis they can handle.
Increasingly those tourists come to our city, especially the repeat visitors who get us, looking for the real Memphis, the experimental Memphis, the modern Memphis.
That's the Memphis known for barbecue where greenlines and hiking and bicycle trails are about to cross the Mississippi River and where the Shelby Farms Greenline is about to be thick with fall traffic as well as fall leaves.
It is also the Memphis where vegan items go with cupcakes and wine go with a rack of ribs – all done differently than any other place on the planet.
And in so many of those places where food is redefining Memphis culture, the Sun-Stax catalog that is part of our soundtrack gives way to new live entertainment that is as innovative in its own way as it is true to the experience of those making it and rightfully calling it Memphis music.
So bring on the dishcrawls and take them to every corner of the city where those with the formal training and the innate sense of innovation are doing their thing in a kitchen.
What is happening in those kitchens is an inseparable part of an everchanging culture that has never, ever tried to define itself by its parts or its borders.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."
The National Rifle Association broke its silence on last week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the group's top lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre, said at a Washington news conference.


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This will spark Congress to fund useful things like space exploration. Instead of stupid things. Like oh... pick something.
You need to frame it differently. Find all the congressmen whose districts benefit from this one way or another and have them put in earmarks. Or spin it as some sort of Wall Street rescue package or bailout and watch the fat cats order Congress to fund it.
If you want to get something funded, go the route of pork or benefiting our financial overlords.
Maybe the ISS needs to elect both a congressman and a senator...
The ISS isn't a US territory or state. The territories get a make believe representative with no actual power (like Washington DC), the other get a real representative to be corrupted just like the rest.
Like oh... pick something.
4 billion dollars in corn subsidies for large farming corporations in 2009.
What is the cause of U.S. agricultural inefficiencies?
Do I win a prize? This is about Climate Satellites in Jeopardy, right?
What is the cause of U.S. agricultural inefficiencies?
Do I win a prize? This is about Climate Satellites in Jeopardy, right?
Unfortunately you are not a climate satellite, so you don't win anything.
Unfortunately you are not a climate satellite, so you don't win anything.
I thought that's what this article is all about. The climate satellites haven't won anything for years.
So, what do I win?
So if the candidates in a game show don't win, you call the broadcaster and claim the prize for yourself, because after all, the candidates didn't get it, and you knew the answer?
Seriously, if you could sell it to the Ag. special interests as critical to their industry the spigots would open up and there would be more money than the climate researchers knew what to do with. Also push it as important to the satellite manufacturers and as a high tech jobs program. It's all in how you sell it.
And a lot of those subsidies are then paid out by the "Big agro" companies to individual farmers when they sell their grain to the ag company. The largest collector of subsidies, last I knew and it was a couple years ago was (assuming still is) Riceland. Riceland is a Coop. When we booked and sold our rice and soybeans through Riceland, the check they sent us included any federal farm subsidies. We've since built our own grain storage and now sell to whomever is paying the most at that time at the river
So, what exactly are you doing with the sig "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher., anyway?
The funny thing about that signature is that the historical truth is quite the opposite.
Socialism has its own problems, mainly having to do with corruption (redirection of revenue streams) and favoring central planning. (socialist countries that use the free market to its advantage do better than those that use central planning)
But it is Capitalism that generally have a problem with running out of other people's money, because of Capitalism inherently allowing the accumulation of wealth into a few people's
Like oh... pick something.
Like space exploration?
Seriously it's time that we as a people get our ducks in a row as it were and start funding things that are going to help all of the people all of the time instead of helping a dozen corps make money.
This will spark Congress to fund useful things like space exploration.
You haven't been watching the way things work in Washington for very long, have you? Programs like this don't lose their funding because they're too expensive or bad ideas. They lose their funding because somebody doesn't like the science they're doing. In this case, it's probably the same gang of denialists who have been fighting tooth and nail against any substantive program to do anything about global warming. They see scientists
Denialists huh? Well I have a term for people who BELIEVE in global warming...its called religion. Anyone not believing is a heretic and should be tried for war crimes. Don't believe me? Go look up some documentation on Dr. Hansen.
If anything, the SKEPTICS are for increased funding of climate and weather data. If you even spent 10 minutes on any web page that told you the other side of the story instead of sprouting rhetoric you would know skeptics believe in further scientific study of the climate (do
Like wars in strange lands far away who are no threat to you? 1 trillion dollars buys a lot of space program. Oh, but wait, space programs don't make rich people richer...
The money has all been used up on the much more important (sarcasm) war on Iraq. While Obama has continued these wars when he should have killed them immediately, I doubt we would have gotten as much from McCain/Palin alternative and the Republicans, who ignore the data and as well believe in religious nonsense more than science.
Because of Republican ideologies, important environmental and human health needs are ignored while we spend billions on a war in Iraq. I call it the result of a mental disorder.
The money has all been used up on the much more important (sarcasm) war on Iraq.
...Because of Republican ideologies, important environmental and human health needs are ignored while we spend billions on a war in Iraq. I call it the result of a mental disorder.
Social spending was not decreased to fund the war in Iraq. Social spending ballooned during the Bush administration. Also? Democrats voted for the war in Iraq as well. The vast majority of them. And they keep voting to fund it. And they have continued to not vote to fund the satellites since taking control of Congress.
With the health care bill for instance, it is disgusting that we would have Republicans basically murder thousands of more people each year by blocking the health care reform, which will safe millions of lives, while their is always enough money for their stupid wars.
What part of the health care reform bill will save thousands of lives? Do you even know what the bill does? Have you read any of it? Even a summary? All the bill does is give more money to insurance corporations, force people to buy health insurance who didn't before, and tax the middle class. That's it. There's no magic spells in it to save lives. You've swallowed the partisan bullcrap hook, line, and sinker.
The US needs to be investing in renewable energy like wind and solar and nuclear fusion development, and on energy efficient improvements to cities to base them on public transit, bike and pedestrian use,
Wait, what do you want us to spend money on? Earlier you made it sound like you wanted the money spent on health care, now you want it on energy development? Wasn't this article about the lack of funding for earth sensing satellites? You're rambling just a bit...
and we need to put in tariffs to keep the jobs in the US to fix our economy which has been damaged by offshoring which Republicans love as it increases corporate profit at the expense of working americans.
You really are completely blinded by partisan rhetoric, aren't you? First off, Democrats are just as pro-corporate (if not even more pro-corporate) than Republicans. There's no difference in the parties there. Second off, how would tariffs help our economy? If we raise tariffs, then everyone we trade with raises tariffs, and then suddenly OUR products are too expensive to be sold in other countries. So you'd raise tariffs to save some worthless manufacturing jobs at the expense of our high-tech industries? That's a policy of insanity.
Wow. That was a bunch of awesome talking points condensed into one post.
It really is sad that the Demcorats caved into the ranting white trash who wanted revenge for 9/11. Even though 9/11 was mostly revenge for our decades of meddling in the Middle East.
But go on with those tired talking points. Let the right-leaning Americans die for lies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It really is sad that the Demcorats caved into the ranting white trash who wanted revenge for 9/11.
Ah bigotry, the game the whole family can play.
But go on with those tired talking points. Let the right-leaning Americans die for lies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Why don't you tell me where I'm wrong, then?
I'm rather annoyed that this alarmist article doesn't mention exactly which satellites they're referring to. I'm willing to bet the majority (if not all) of them do not have "monitor climate change" as a primary mission, and therefore belief or disbelief in AGW had nothing to do with the lack of interest in funding them. In particular, the GOES are weather satellites first and foremost. GOES only requires 2-3 active satellites, and there's currently 4 in orbit (two active, two spares in "storage orbits"), s
Have you read any of it? Even a summary? All the bill does is give more money to insurance corporations, force people to buy health insurance who didn't before, and tax the middle class. That's it.
Wow. That's it? You left out quite a bit. I can only hope for the sake of your intelligence that you're being purposefully disingenuous.
What part of the health care reform bill will save thousands of lives? Do you even know what the bill does? Have you read any of it? Even a summary? All the bill does is give more money to insurance corporations, force people to buy health insurance who didn't before, and tax the middle class. That's it. There's no magic spells in it to save lives. You've swallowed the partisan bullcrap hook, line, and sinker.
Ok, I think you are going a little overboard in trying to prove your point. The health care bill though may be not as dramatic, is a significant step.
Here are some of the things it does, that did not happen before:
Seems to me Slashdot has lost its way. Its no longer necessary to be a real geek, as in , doing your own research and knowing what you actually talk about.
Whats important is to pretend like the subject is a right vs left matter, bash the right (for no good reason), blame it all on big oil and Lumbaugh, and you are insightful.
Shit, I should mode this idiot Informative... I mean... it makes just as much sense.
Your post just shows your narrow minded ignorance.
You are just as bad as those you are trying to paint into a corner.
I'm Canadian, and dont believe in religion.
Your Jesus, Christians, republicans, Limbaugh, Obama, right or left wing, Thomas Jefferson, Texas and Bush all mean fuck all to me.
I use research, reason and dont rely on the news, not even Canadian news which is leaps an bounds above your left and right propaganda TV stations.
Keep thinking like a small minded simpleton. Thats how those in power want
Nice little rant you got there.
All tv is full of propaganda. However American TV is worst than Canadian TV. CBC is shit, but then... you only took the time to mention 1 tv station for the whole country.
On the other hand you conveniently skipped over the fact that I dont rely on news for my information. CRTC is a Bell puppet, its unfortunate to say the least. However it isnt uniquely corrupt in the world.
I have been to many countries. I have been all over the USA, twice. Do not presume to know who I am or wh
There is so much that is wrong to what you say it would take a book to address. All I'll say on the matter is this:
There is no hatred, no ignorance here. I am a very centered person. I don't hate myself. I don't hate others except when I have to give up my heritage to accommodate people who come here and want me to change because they are unwilling to follow our traditions. And I am big on tradition. It is what makes heritage. If you don't understand that, you are likely the one who is self hating. Are you
You obviously have some sort of agenda.
You come out of nowhere with your comments.
What is all this bs about religion?
Pipe down. You dont have a patent on history. You aren't the only one who can read.
But your comment are defiantly all over the place, and you cant stick to a subject.
Try to hold a coherent conversation. Until then, you can continue with your monologues... on your own.
The US needs to be investing in renewable energy like wind and solar and nuclear fusion development, and on energy efficient improvements to cities to base them on public transit, bike and pedestrian use, and we need to put in tariffs to keep the jobs in the US to fix our economy which has been damaged by offshoring which Republicans love as it increases corporate profit at the expense of working americans.
Every time I try to go somewhere the road is blocked by another truck hauling a 75 foot long wind turbine blade trying to make a left turn to head to the new wind farm. The local businesses are in near revolt because they can't get a building permit if they don't include a 6 foot wide paved bicycle/pedestrian path in the plans and all of the local buses have bicycle racks mounted on them. With the new bus system interconnects in our area, I can travel by public bus 150 miles! Just because your not seeing bi
This will probably wind up getting funding for one reason -- national security. It's vital to defense to be able to monitor (and to a large degree, predict) the weather. Think multi-billion dollar supercarrier fleet accidentally heading into a hurricane.
Or does the defense department have their own weather satellite network?
Or does the defense department have their own weather satellite network?
That's a good question. It's wrapped up in this story.
The short answer is that yes, DoD has its own weather satellite network for the polar orbiting capability. It's called DMSP [wikipedia.org], and it's the granddaddy of polar orbiter weather satellites. Spacecraft from that program are still flying, but no new ones are being acquired. After the current and on-orbit spares are gone, that's probably it.
As part of a Clinton-administration order, all US weather satellite operations and acquisition activities were "converged" into a single agency. DoD lost its ability to independently acquire military weather sats, or begin development of new ones. The joint Earth observation satellite program now includes NOAA, NASA, and the DoD, and they have a limited budget and somewhat conflicting goals. But the practical effect is that everyone has to contribute to, and use when they become available, the next-generation EO satellites the article was talking about. To replace DMSP birds, the DoD is depending on NPOESS, since that's the next-gen polar orbiter.
That was changed earlier this year - the NPOESS was terminated and DoD and NASA/NOAA are now on separate development paths. DoD will be responsible for the morning polar satellites while NASA/NOAA will develop satellites for the mid-afternoon orbits. The United States will continue to rely on the European Metop satellites for weather data in the morning orbit.
Does anyone know anything about how the US network integrates with it's foreign equivelants?
There are no foreign equivalents. There is collaboration, but US funding and capabilities dwarf those of other countries. Foreign governments do not fund much space activities other than subsidizing industry satellites, but those aren't very useful for science.
The US is too large to receive adequate coverage from across the Atlantic and Pacific. Japan has had its own problems with an imagery gap and was using GOES-9 [wikipedia.org] on loan from us until a few years ago. Geosynchronous satellites can't easily be repositioned as it wastes fuel that is needed for basic stationkeeping.
I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill.
We already do that. One of the key instruments on NASA's Terra satellite is Japan's ASTER. Terra is on year 11 of a 5 year mission. But Japan's funding in this area is much smaller than that of the US.
Why launch your own satellites when you can just get the data from other nations - doubtless India and China will be launching plenty of satellites soon, Europe still puts up the odd bird, Japan, Korea etc etc.
Even if they dont sell you the data, all you need are some radios and the FBIs decryption machinery and the weather info will be on the torrent sites before it's out of date. Err maybe.
Because where the satellite is has a large impact on the data.
There are really only two classes of orbit for Earth-observation satellite platforms: geostationary and low-earth polar. In the summary, GOES-R is the US follow-on geostationary, and NPOESS is the US follow-on polar orbiter.
Geostationary satellites provide continuous coverage but somewhat low resolution, and coverage of the same hemisphere of the Earth at all times. Because satellite observations at the limb of the visible hemisphere is low-quality (low incident angle with the Earth's surface, long slant path through the atmosphere, etc.), you really can't just have two geos for the entire world. You need at least four, at 90 degree offsets, and more if you can afford it. The US operates two: GOES-11 and GOES-12, out over the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean respectively. There are more, operated by other nations, and we do share data with them. We even coordinate operations: When the Japanese Meteorological Agency had its on-station geosat (GMS-5) fail and its replacement failed to reach orbit after launch, the US reactivated the retired Pacific geo GOES-9, shifted its orbit to cover GMS-5's slot, and leased it to the Japanese. (Leased, of course, because (A) you need to cover the additional costs of operating another satellite, and (B) why walk away from profit?)
So, what's the point of that little discussion? If the US loses both of current active geostationaries, someone else (another nation) would have to shift an existing spacecraft over to cover it and lease it to us. That's a bit bigger than "sharing the data", which, as I point out, we already do. And that's also only a temporary state of affairs, since no one will ever shift over their primary on-station geostationary. It'd have to be a spare, and probably not a future spare, but a deactivated retired spacecraft, and therefore very very temporary.
That's geostationary spacecraft. In summary, the US needs to have 2 spacecraft stationed at 135 degrees West and 104 degrees West, and no one else will be providing them on any terms and with any permanence we'd need in order to rely on them.
Polar-orbiters? Kind of a similar situation. A polar-orbiting earth-observing spacecraft orbits at about 100 miles up and an orbital inclination of about 80 degrees. (A 90 degree orbital inclination passes over both poles; a 0 degree inclination parallels the equator.) That orbital path allows the spacecraft to look down at Earth in a track that eventually (approximately every 30 hours) covers the entire surface of the Earth. But that's a long time between looks at a particular spot on Earth. The low orbit provides wonderful resolution: each pixel in the imagery of one of the next-generation polar orbiters can be as small as 400 meters. For meteorology and climate observation, that's fantastic. But very low frequency. So you need multiple spacecraft to provide adequate temporal resolution (each pixel is newer than 24 hours). Also, different spacecraft can look at any given point on Earth at different local times (i.e., one spacecraft sees Albuquerque at about 6 AM local time, the next sees it at around 2:30 PM.) This matters because time-of-day variation and sun zenith angle matter at the resolutions and sensitivities of the instruments in question.
No one but the US operates polar orbiters in the polar slots that the US currently occupies, so no one can provide the data for us to use.
Enough people who couldn't care any less. And frankly I don't too.
The whole point about climate change isn't climate change.
There is only one question. Do you want to poison and pollute the world we're living in?
I think the climate angle of this story is being overplayed. Makes sense, really; that's the sexy hot topic in the big-brain set, and a great way to sell if you're selling satellites.
But these aren't just climate change "OMG Evil CO2" satellites. These are operational meteorological satellites. If you like decent weather forecasts and value the ability to track hurricanes and typhoons (and other assorted tropical storm phenomena), you care about these spacecraft. Satellite meteorology has revolutionized severe weather handling and medium-range weather forecasting for the last 40 years. Let's not quit now because Al Gore has painted the cross of Climate Change on the sides of these spacecraft.
Thx. +1 Informative from me
Regardless of what we can do about climate change, if we're responsible for it, or the fact that the things we do in the name of "climate change" are things we should be doing anyways, satellite observation is incredibly important. We need information about Earth so we can act in a responsible manner to preserve the planet as well as ourselves.
It's all very well and good to say "just don't fuck with it," but the truth is even if we were perfect, the world would still change in ways we cannot predict. Ear
Do you want to poison and pollute the world we're living in?
That's a loaded question. If that were the only question, then nearly all modern society would be thrown away. The result would be a population drop to under 4 billion people and a much lower quality of life for the survivors. Besides, poison is relative, so the question doesn't even have a precise meaning. There's a bumper crop of oil-eating bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.
tom skilling / the weather channel can't pitch in? and maybe even launch there own?
I sort of figure an honest awger and a honest denier would like to see lot of new data from a lot of different sources. But let speculate that awg is flakey. Then figure the reasons are at a geopolitical level. For instance, to eliminate sovereigny (spelling) or real tech progress, then new good data might well be inconvenient.
If you figure this is just a dem sort of behavior, looking at Cheney and at GW doing geopolitics would be instructive.
Yeah. It's more like "news for paranoid techno-libertarians" nowdays.
So, climate satts have been underfunded for ten years. Who took over the funding and policy apparatus in 2000 that might have led to this? Hmmm, could it be [washingtonpost.com]... SATAN [nytimes.com]?
There is an agreement between ESA/EUMETSAT on the European side and NASA/NOAA on the American side that the burden of Earth observation is shared.
For operational polar satellites, Europe takes care of the morning orbits and the US does the afternoon orbits. Both sides share (or intend to share) all data in Near Real Time (NRT).
Also sensors/instruments are exchanged and mounted on platforms (read: satellites) from the other partner in the agreement. This can mean that a sensor built in the US can be flown on
...when (no matter which party is in power) they'll just massage the data to say what they want anyway? Why not just skip a step and let them craft it from the beginning?
Would any of these ESA programs provide the same data: Earth Explorers at a glance [esa.int] ?
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.


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Deep Thinkers Debate: 'How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? [1]
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Edge is an organization of deep, visionary thinkers on science and culture. Each year the group poses a question, this year collecting 168 essay responses to the question, "How is the Internet changing the way you think?"
In answer, academics, scientists and philosophers responded with musings on the Internetenabling telecommunication [4], or functioning as a sort of prosthesis [5], or robbing us [6] of our old, linear" mode of thinking. Actor Alan Alda [7] described the Web as "speed plus mobs." Responses alternate between the quirky and the profound ("In this future [8], knowledge will be fully outside the individual, focus will be fully inside, and everybody's selves will truly be spread everywhere.")
Since it takes a while to read the entire collection--and the Atlantic Wire should know, as we tried--here are some of the more piquant answers. Visit the Edge website [9] for the full experience. For a smart, funny answer in video form, see here [10].
- We Haven't Changed, declares Harvard physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis [11]. Our brains "likely evolved ... in response to the demands of social (rather than environmental) complexity," and would likely only continue to evolve as our social framework changes. Our social framework has not changed: from our family units to our military units, he points out, our social structures remain fairly similar to what they were over 1000 years ago. "The Internet itself is not changing the fundamental reality of my thinking any more than it is changing our fundamental proclivity to violence or our innate capacity for love."
- Bordering on Mental Illness Barry C. Smith of the University of London writes of the new importance of "well-packaged information." He says he is personally "exhilarated by the dizzying effort to make connections and integrate information. Learning is faster. Though the tendency to forge connecting themes can feel dangerously close to the search for patterns that overtakes the mentally ill."
- New 'Survival of the Focused' Stanford psychologist Brian Knutson [12] thinks the Internet may bias us towards our "present" selves rather than "future" selves, leading to procrastination: "I worry that the Internet may impose a 'survival of the focused,' in which individuals gifted with some natural capacity to stay on target or who are hopped up on enough stimulants forge ahead, while the rest of us flail helplessly in some web-based attentional vortex."
- Language is a Technology, Too, points out another Stanford psychologist, Lera Boroditsky [13]. Some technologies "we no longer even notice as technologies: they just seem like natural extensions of our minds. Numbers are one such example: a human-invented tool that once learned has incredible productive power in the mind. Writing is another such example. It no longer seems magical in the literate world that one could communicate a complex set of thoughts silently across vast reaches of time and space using only a cocktail napkin and some strategically applied stains." Boroditsky ends with a jab at renowned philosopher Dan Dennett [14], who makes his own point about how "absolute power corrupts absolutely," and the Internet is absolute.
- We Are Immortal, is Juan Enriquez [15]'s startling conclusion. "Future sociologists and archaeologists," unlike current ones studying ancient Rome, "will have access to excruciatingly detailed pictures on an individual basis." There are drawbacks: "those of a certain age learned long ago, from the triumphs and tragedies of Greek Gods, that there are clear rules separating the mortal and immortal. Trespasses tolerated and forgiven in the fallible human have drastic consequences for Gods. In the immortal world all is not forgiven and mostly forgotten after you shuffle off to Heaven."
- Cells are to Humans as Humans are to Internet Humanity W. Tecumseh Fitch [16], cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna, looks at the way single cells gradually grouped into multi-celled organisms that required organization, with certain cells exerting control over others through hormones and neurons. Humans are now "the metaphoric neurons or the global brain," he says, with HTML for neurotransmitters as we rush to "the brink of a wholly new system of societal organization." He sees "two main problems," though, with his metaphor:
First, the current global brain is only tenuously linked to the organs of international power ... Second, our nervous systems evolved over 400 million years of natural selection, during which billions of competing false-starts and miswired individuals were ruthlessly weeded out. But there is only one global brain today, and no trial and error process to extract a functional configuration from the trillions of possible configurations. This formidable design task is left up to us.


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The concept, devised by British artist Luke Jerram, has put more than 130 pianos in parks, squares and bus stations since 2008 in cities including London, Sydney and Sao Paulo. And now it's New York City's turn to play, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday.So I just hope.... I just hope, if your apartment or office is within earshot of one of those pianos that you like "Chopsticks," "Für Elise," Billy Joel songs, and the way it sounds when someone drags their fingers the full length of the keyboard. Why do Jerram and Bloomberg think that saccharine everyman "creativity" will blossom? Hey, New Yorkers, have you seen this extremely popular YouTube tutorial — "How to play EXTREMELY annoying songs on piano"?
"There's going to be a huge amount of talent here," Jerram said in an interview. "The piano's actually a blank canvas for everyone's creativity, really, so I just hope that the city enjoys it."
Oh, why am I so cynical?
Jerram got the idea at his local coin-operated laundry, according to a website about the project. He saw the same people there every weekend, but none of them talked to each other. He thought a piano might help bring people together in places like that.You know, years ago, when we remodeled the law school building here at the University of Wisconsin, some lawprofs — I won't say who — thought it would be a wonderful idea to put a piano in the atrium — a big open space where the students hang out to talk or rest or study. These professors enthused about the existence of perhaps one student who was an accomplished classical pianist. They imagined bringing people together through the music that would be unleashed from the hulking object. I was horrified. It was one of the few times over the years — and I've been here for a quarter century — when I spoke out and told people — in person — that their well-intended project was unlikely to produce the human happiness they envisioned. (I hope a metaphor alert is unnecessary, but... liberal policies....)
The results in other cities have been surprising and life-changing, [the artist] said in an interview. A woman in Sao Paulo heard her daughter play for the first time on one of Jerram's pianos in a train station. The mother had worked to pay for lessons for four years, but the family had no piano at home.So 4 individuals had a warm experience that they could have had in some other way. But then it wouldn't have pumped up the egos of the artist and the mayor.
In Sydney, a couple met at a piano and are now married, Jerram said.
"It seems like a good idea that brings a sense of fun and playfulness to the city," said David Rosenfeld, who was riding his bike in the area.A man on a mechanical device that will scoot him right out of there if somebody's granddad decides to play "Woolly Bully" or "96 Tears."
Most pianos will be open for song until 10 p.m.Oh, fine then. 10. After your nerves have been jangled for — what? — 14 hours, you can try to settle down to get enough sleep before it all starts again.
At least "Tilted Arc" was quiet.


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With nearly 600 rhinos killed this year alone – almost double the figure in 2010 – law enforcement agencies and conservation groups are stepping up the fight against rhino poaching.
The Hawks, SA's directorate for priority crime investigation, joined forces with the department of environmental affairs, rangers and SA National Parks to form the anti-poaching task force three years ago as poaching figures began climbing steeply. They focused their work in the Mpumalanga, North West and KwaZulu-Natal regions, but Hawks spokesman Captain Paul Ramoloka says a recent sharp spike in rhino dehorning and slaughtering at the Kruger National Park has put one of Africa's largest game reserves under the spotlight....
Jason Ball, Southern Africa director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), says the only way to decisively curb elephant and rhino poaching is through a "global shift in attitudes and values".
"Biologically, elephants and rhinos simply cannot support an economic model of supply and demand. No wildlife can sustain this type of commercial exploitation, let alone a long-living, slow-growing, slow-breeding species.
"Killing of rhino and elephants will only stop when markets for the products are closed," Ball says.


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Arsene Wenger's side have not won a competition since the 2005 FA Cup and have already been dumped out of the Capital One Cup this term, while they lie a distant sixth in the Premier League and face a daunting Champions League last-16 clash with Bayern Munich next month. The Gunners must come through a third-round replay with Swansea to book an FA Cup fourth-round trip to Brighton, after being held to a 2-2 draw in Wales on Sunday, but Wilshere and his team-mates are desperate to finally taste success.
"We all want a trophy," said the 21-year-old.
"As players, when you finish your careers you look back and see how many trophies you have won, so we all want trophies, and the fans want trophies as well.
"We are hungry for trophies and if we get a trophy this year, then maybe it can open the way for a few more.
"We have got a good group of young players here and experienced players as well.
"So, if we get a trophy this year or in the next couple of years, we can really build something over the next few years.
"Obviously it is easy to sit here and say that when we get one trophy it will happen, but we need to get that first trophy. We know how tough the FA Cup is this year and we are still in the Champions League as well.
"So we are in a good position, we just need to make sure we get the results now."
Tough games Either side of the replay against Swansea, Arsenal face defending Premier League champions Manchester City and European champions Chelsea as they look to secure a top-four spot. But Wilshere does not believe the next few games are make-or-break for Arsenal's season. He said:
"We have got a tough few games but we know in England that this time of the year is so important. We've got a big game on Sunday and we know City are a good team. But we are at our home and we have to take the game to them.
"I'm not sure about make-or-break. We are not in the position in the league where we want to be. We want to be higher. We have a game in hand and we have to make sure that we make it count."
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