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The Los Angeles Clippers are off to an impressive start and look to extend their winning streak to seven games Wednesday against the defending Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Clippers won their sixth in a row Monday with a 92-87 decision against the San Antonio Spurs in the opener of a four-game road trip. Chris Paul scored 19 points and Blake Griffin compiled 16 and 12 rebounds for the Clippers, whose 8-2 start is the best since going 9-2 back in 2005-06.
Matt Barnes contributed off the bench, scoring 14 points, and DeAndre Jordan finished with 13 in the win. The Clippers grabbed some breathing room by outscoring the Spurs 29-14 in the second quarter. San Antonio did trim a 10- point deficit to two points late in the game, but L.A. scored five of the game's final seven points.
Paul hit the deciding shot the down stretch to make it 91-87.
"It's a great win for us," said Los Angeles head coach Vinny Del Negro. "San Antonio is going to keep playing hard. We didn't do a good job at the end. We gave a couple of three's up but our guys battled and we made some big shots."
Los Angeles hasn't won seven in a row since an eight-game run from Nov. 30- Dec. 15, 1991, and will visit Brooklyn and Atlanta on the swing.
The Clippers are third in the NBA with 101.5 ppg and have scored 100-plus points in eight of their first 10 games. In injury news, Clippers forward Caron Butler suffered a right shoulder strain in the first half and did not return. He is questionable against the Thunder.
Oklahoma City has won two straight and improved to 8-3 on the season with Sunday's 119-109 win versus Golden State.
Kevin Durant, a three-time scoring champion, had the first triple-double of his career and burned the Warriors for 25 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists.
"Some guys can just pass, some guys can just shoot, some guys can just rebound. Obviously, with Kevin, he can do many things on the floor and we always have to challenge him because we don't know how good he will end up being," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said of Durant.
Russell Westbrook netted 30 points and added seven assists and five steals for the Thunder, who shot 50.6 percent and buried 13-of-20 3-pointers. Kevin Martin knocked down 5-of-7 from beyond the arc and finished with 23 points. Serge Ibaka posted 16 points, eight boards and two blocks.
For the first time this season Oklahoma City allowed a team to shoot better than 50 percent (52.4 percent).
Oklahoma City will head east following tonight's game for showdowns with Boston and Philadelphia.
The Thunder lost three of four meetings with the Clippers last season. L.A. has won eight of the last 13 road matchups between the teams.


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i don't know if it would be of any assistance, but to me personally, listening to Averse Sefira can be almost boring, maybe even annoying, unless i'm listening to them the same way one would want to listen to a classical symphony - full attention, transfixed, almost meditatively. when i do that, new levels reveal themselves. as background music, it's terrible - but that's definitely not a fault
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CEO Andrew Demetriou says the AFL does not know the identity of the single player being investigated for possible doping, and that the player could potentially play during the NAB Cup.
Multiple players from Essendon and one player from one other club are under investigation.
An animated Demetriou said the AFL was unable to notify the other club because the AFL itself did not have that information.
"I want to make it clear we have not been told the identity of the one player," Demetriou said.
"We're doing our very best to be transparent but this is a very special set of parameters sets upon us."
But he said that the club may have been notified already. "The ACC with their extraordinary coersive powers may have already spoken to that player, or that club. I don't know."
He said that if a player was being investigated by ASADA for performance-enhancing drug use, that investigation would be private, and the player could still be playing while being investigated.
"ASADA would be conducting an investigation in private, confidential, and we wouldnt know about it," he said.
He said that the AFL would be speaking to all clubs, because as far as the AFL was concerned, all clubs had "vulnerabilities" to illicit drugs. He also repeated his warning that organised crime was a major issue for sport internationally, but that he was relieved match-fixing was not currently an issue in the AFL.
"We are now able to speak to the clubs that are mentioned in the reports and in our briefings to notify them of the vulnerabilities they have to illicit drug use," he said.
Demetriou said that drugs were not a "widespread problem" in the AFL, but said that before the details of who was being investigated were released, it did have the potential to taint all players.
But in an interview with ABC1's 7.30 program, Stephen Dank, the sports scientist at the centre of the investigation into Essendon, said that it would be foolish to think that the Bombers were the only ones looking into programs to improve performance.
"I don't think, you know, you'd be sort of foolish to think that Essendon were the only that were looking at these sort of programs," Dank said.
"And I think when you think of what these players do on a week to week and a year to year basis, I think you've got 18 clubs that are all very well coached and obviously all have a very good high performance unit and they want cutting edge."
The interview will air on Monday night.
Earlier, the journalist who interviewed Dank for the program, Caro Meldrum-Hanna, said she found him to be ''an honest individual''.
Speaking on Triple M radio, Meldrum-Hanna said there would be ''revelations'' from the interview.
"You'll hear from what Dank has to say tonight that he's certainly of the view that what he has done is within the rules and regulations," Meldrum-Hanna said.
"I found Steven Dank to be, I certainly found during the interview which was a lengthy one, that he was an honest individual.
"He sat there and answered every question that I put to him, and some of these were certainly pretty hairy ones, and there was at no time where he was ever willing to call off the interview," she said.
"He sat there and endured a very long list of questions which started from his qualifications and his training right up to the time he left Essendon."
She said he did not hesitate in responding to all of the allegations against him.


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BRAIDWOOD, Ill. — Mr. Albert F. Crater, 90, of Braidwood, Ill., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, Ill.
Born March 30, 1922, in Custer Park, Ill., to the late Frank and Erma (Russell) Crater. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, having served during World War II.
A member of the Braidwood American Legion Koca Post #39 and the First Presbyterian Church in Braidwood, he formerly served on the Braidwood City Council and was a former volunteer for the fire department.
Al was the superintendant for JM Corbett Construction in Chicago, retiring at the age of 62.
Surviving are his daughter, Diane Nelson of Manteno, Ill.,; a brother, Glen (Marie) Crater of Braidwood; a sister, Freida Bosek of Bothwell, Wash.; a sister-in-law, Shirley (Jack) McElroy of Braidwood; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death were his wife, Anna Marie (Ruzek) Crater, whom he married Nov. 8, 1941, in Joliet, Ill.; a daughter, Beverly K. Crater; and four sisters, Erma Carroll, Isabelle Stites, Nellie Reis, and Coleen Chochola.
Funeral services will be at the First Presbyterian Church, Braidwood, at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, with the Rev. Dale Tolly officiating. Interment with military honors will follow in Braceville-Gardner Cemetery, Braceville.
Visitation is from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, at the R.W. Patterson Funeral Homes Ltd. & Crematory, Braidwood Chapel, 401 E. Main St., Braidwood.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in his name to the First Presbyterian Church in Braidwood would be appreciated.
Friends may sign the online guestbook at www.rwpattersonfuneralhomes.com.
R.W. Patterson Funeral Homes Ltd. & Crematory, Braidwood, is in charge of arrangements. For additional information, call (815) 458-2336 or log onto www.rwpattersonfuneralhomes.com.
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BRAIDWOOD, Ill. — Mr. Albert F. Crater, 90, of Braidwood, Ill., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, Ill.


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It could have been discovered with static analysis if anyone had the foresight to implement a specific check ahead of time (although it's unknown whether anyone could have thought of checking this specific case before Heartbleed was discovered):
Coverity has a blog post [coverity.com] describing the problem and why their static analysis methods currently can't detect it.
OpenSSL was static analyzed with Coverity. However, Coverity did not discover this, as is a parametric bug, which depends on variable content.
The reaction from Coverity was to issue a patch to find this kind of problem, but in my opinion, the "fix" throws the baby out with the bath water. The fix causes all byte swaps to mark the content as tainted. Which surely would have detected this bug, but it also leads to an enormous amount of false positives for development where swabs are common, like cross- or multi-platform development.
And while it finds "defects" this way, it's not the real problem it finds.
So in my opinion, 0 out of 10 points to Coverity for this knee-jerk reaction.
In my opinion, what's wrong here is someone with a high level language background submitting patches in a lower level language than what he's used to. The problems that can cause are never going to be 100% (or even 50%) caught by static analysis. Lower level languages does give you enough rope to hang yourself with. It's the nature of the beast. In return, you have more control over the details of what you do. That you're allowed to do something stupid also means you are allowed to do something brilliant.
But it requires far more discipline - you cannot make assumptions, but have to actually understand what is done to variables at a low level.
Unit tests and fuzzing helps. But even that is no substitute for thinking low level when using a low level language.
There are also other statical analysis tools like splint [splint.org]. The catch is that it produces a large volume of data which is tedious to sift through, but once done you will have found the majority of the bugs in your code.
However the root cause is that the language itself permits illegal and bad constructs. It's of course a performance trade-off, but by coding part of the code in a high level language and leave the performance critical parts to a low level may lower the exposure and force focus on the problems t
The reaction from Coverity was to issue a patch to find this kind of problem, but in my opinion, the "fix" throws the baby out with the bath water. The fix causes all byte swaps to mark the content as tainted. Which surely would have detected this bug, but it also leads to an enormous amount of false positives for development where swabs are common, like cross- or multi-platform development.
Yes, that solution is complete and utter crap. Claiming that marking all byte swaps as tainted will help you find thi
Every industry goes through this. At one point it was aviation, and the "hot shot pilot" was the Real Deal. But then they figured out that even the Hottest Shot pilots are human and sometimes forget something critical and people die, so now, pilots use checklists all the time for safety. No matter how awesome they might be, they can have a bad day, etc. And this is also why we have two pilots in commercial aviation, to cross check each other.
In programming something as critical as SSL it's long past time for "macho programming culture" to die. First off, it needs many eyes checking. Second, there needs to be an emphasis on using languages that are not susceptible to buffer overrunning. This isn't 1975 any more. No matter how macho the programmer thinks s/he is, s/he is only human and WILL make mistakes like this. We need better tools and technologies to move the industry forward.
Last, in other engineering professions there is licensing and engineers are held accountable for mistakes they make. Maybe we don't need that for some $2 phone app, but for critical infrastructure it is also past time, and programmers need to start being held accountable for the quality of their work.
It's things the "brogrammer" culture will complain BITTERLY about, their precious playground being held to professional standards. But it's the only way forward. It isn't the wild west any more. The world depends on technology and we need to improve the quality and the processes behind it.
Yes, I'm prepared to be modded down by those cowboy programmers who don't want to be accountable for the results of their poor techniques... But that is exactly the way of thinking that our industry needs to shed.
The problem has more to do with the "hey, this is free so lets just take it" attitude of the downstream consumers not willing to pay for anyone to look at the code or pay anyone to write it.
Why would you want the OpenSSL people to be held accountable for something they basically just wrote on their own time since nobody else bothered?
Striking out to solve a problem should NOT be punished (that culture of legal punishment for being useful is part of why knowledge industries are leaving North America).
This problem was caused by a simple missed parameter check, nothing more. Stop acting like the cultural problem is with the developers when it is with the leaches who consumer their work.
I actually agree with both of you. The Open SSL guys gave out their work for free for anybody to use. Anybody should be free to do that without repercussions. Code is a kind of literature and thus should be protected by free speech laws.
However, if you pay peanuts (or nothing at all) then likewise you shouldn't expect anything other than monkeys. The real fault here is big business using unverified (in the sense of correctness!) source for security critical components of their system.
If regulation is nee
"businesses with a turn over $x million dollars should be required to use software developed only by the approved organisations."
That would just lead to regulatory capture. The approved organisations would use their connections and influence to make it very hard for any other organisations to become approved - and once this small cabal have thus become the only option, they can charge as much as the like.
This problem was caused by a simple missed parameter check, nothing more. Stop acting like the cultural problem is with the developers when it is with the leaches who consumer their work.
I do not believe you. If this were an isolated case, then you'd be right. But no, this kind of "oops, well now it is fixed" things happens all the time, over and over again. The culture of the programming never improves due to the error - no matter how simple, no matter that it should have been noticed earlier, no matter what.
I am willing to bet that after next hole the excuses will be same "it was simple, now it is fixed, should up" and "why don't you make better, shut up" or just "you don't understand, sh
You forgot NIH. OpenSSL used its own allocator, the most positive thing I can say about that is "totally idiotic". AFAIK nobody is removing it
Furthermore, C is insufficient language for a security software (C++ when properly used barely acceptable, managed languages much better).
OpenSSL used its own allocator, the most positive thing I can say about that is "totally idiotic".
That's deeply unfair. The most positive thing I can say about it is that it was 100% necessary a long time in the past when OpenSSL ran on weird and not so wonderful systems.
AFAIK nobody is removing it
Except in LibreSSL, you mean?
Furthermore, C is insufficient language for a security software (C++ when properly used barely acceptable, managed languages much better).
Depends on the amonut of auditing. C has h
Depends on the amonut of auditing. C has huge problems, but OpenBSD shows it can be safe.
How so? OpenBSD says they audit their operating system (which includes code that they did not write). OpenBSD was affected [openbsd.org] by Heartbleed, which means OpenBSD's audit did not catch this bug, and they were affected just like everybody else.
Also, most of the bugs on their advisory page are for typical C memory problems, such as use after free and buffer overruns.
> programmers need to start being held accountable for the quality of their work.
They are.
But I guess you mean that people who aren't paying for your work, and companies which aren't paying for the processes and professional services necessary for some level of quality, should hold programmers who don't have any kind of engineering or financial relationship with them accountable.
In programming something as critical as SSL it's long past time for "macho programming culture" to die.
Yeah, but it's kind of going the other way, with more and more companies going to continuous deployment. Facebook is just pit of bugs.
programmers need to start being held accountable for the quality of their work.
OK, I'm with you that quality needs to improve, but if I have a choice between working where I get punished for my bugs and where I don't; I'm working for a place where I don't get punished for my bugs. I test my code carefully but sometimes they slip through anyway.
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Second, there needs to be an emphasis on using languages that are not susceptible to buffer overrunning
Heartbleed was not really a buffer overrun problem.
It did not read more memory than allocated.
Yes. It's a buffer overread. But if did not go beyond the memory allocated by malloc.
You have missed the malloc call. See what is being passed as size to the malloc call. That will show you that the it does not cross the size allocated by the malloc call (the malloc for this call - not everything allocated by malloc).
Considering how many times you need to do this (read the length of a block of data, then the data) it's strange that we haven't implemented a standard variable length encoding like with UTF-8. Example:
00000000 - 01111111: (7/8 effective bits)
10000000 00000000- 10111111 11111111: (14/16 effective bits)
11000000 2x00000000 - 110111111 2x11111111: (21/24 effective bits)
11100000 3x00000000 - 11101111 3x11111111 (28/32 effective bits)
11110000 4x00000000 - 11110111 4x11111111 (35/40 effective bits)
11111000 5x00000
What did I miss?
An article before the word "bad."
Hi dwheeler,
This is a great article. It covers many common software development and testing techniques. But also some "on live system" techniques. It was a pleasure to read, I'll recommend it to various places.
Buffer overruns can be statically prevented at compile time without any runtime penalty.
All that is required is that the type system of the target programming language enforces a special type for array indexes and that any integer can be statically promoted to such an array index type by a runtime check that happens outside of an array access loop.
Array indexes are essentially pointer types that happen to be applicable to a specific memory range we call an array. Memory itself is just an array, but for tha
Agreed, but not in C. You need to change C (and modify the code to use the functionality) or change programming language. The article does discuss switching languages.
Rigorous coding should be held to approximately the same standard as engineering and math. Code should be both proven correct and tested for valid and invalid inputs. It has not happened yet because in many cases code is seen as less critical (patching is cheap, people usually don't die from software bugs etc). As soon as bugs start costing serious money, the culture will change.
Anyway, I'm not a pro coder but I do write code for academic purposes, so I am not subjected to the same constraints. Robust code
Rigorous testing is helpful, but I think it's the wrong approach. The problem here was lack of requirements and/or rigorous design. In the physical engineering disciplines, much effort is done to think about failure modes of designs before they are implemented. In software, for some reason, the lack of pre-implementation design and analysis is endemic. This leads to things like Heartbleed - not language choice, not tools, not lack of static testing.
I would also go as far as saying if you're relying on testing to see if your code is correct (rather than verify your expectations), you're already SOL because testing itself is meaningless if you don't know the things you have to test - which means up-front design and analysis.
That said, tools and such can help mitigate issues associated with lack of design, but the problem is more fundamental than a "coding error."
Rigorous testing is helpful, but I think it's the wrong approach. The problem here was lack of requirements and/or rigorous design.
The real problem is the horrible OpenSSL code, where after reading 10 lines, or 20 lines if you're really hard core, your eyes go just blurry and it's impossible to find any bugs.
There is the "thousands of open eyes" theory, where thousands of programmers can read the code and find bugs, and then they get fixed. If thousands of programmers tried to read the OpenSSL code with the degree of understanding necessary to declare it bug free, you wouldn't end up with any bugs found, but with thousands of progra
Of course, we should find ways to improve quality control in open source software. But the next Heartblee is going to happen. It's like asking, "How can we prevent crime from happening?" Sure, you can and should take measures to prevent it, but there will always be unexpected loopholes in software, that allow unwanted access.
But that's the point, we can and should take measures to prevent it. Even if we never eliminate all vulnerabilities, we can prevent many more vulnerabilities than we currently do.
No doubt. So why didn't YOU take steps to prevent the Heartbleed vulnerability? The same reason everybody else didn't: time. Finding bugs takes time. Sure, you can automate, but that automation also takes time. So we are caught between two desires: 1) the desire to add or improve functionality, and 2) the desire to avoid vulnerabilities. The two desires compete for the amount of time that is available, so it becomes a trade-off.
It's also an arms race. There is real financial incentive for finding vul
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Redmond [4] is a city in King County, Washington in the United States of America.
Redmond is famous for being home to Microsoft Corporation and it has a large presence over the area. It is also home to Nintendo of America along with numerous other companies. It is the self-proclaimed biking capital of the country.
Get in
Fly into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (airport code: SEA) and then it's only a short drive to Redmond (30 min). SeaTac airport as it is called by locals is located in the city of SeaTac, which is between Seattle and Tacoma.
Get around
Pick up a bike. The city has numerous trails and the only velodrome in the state of Washington (at Marymoor Park). Just be careful as some trails end on extremely busy roads. King County has great information on biking paths and trails - see here.
Matador Tequila Bar, +1 425 883-2855. Corner of Leary Way NE and Cleveland St. in old town Redmond is a trendy tex-mex style bar. Get there early on Friday and Saturday night as seating past 7PM is difficult. 11AM-2AM daily [7].
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This Day in Sports History — October 26
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on October 26:
1951 — Rocky Marciano knocked out Joe Louis in the eighth round of their fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. (More info)
1980 — Alberto Salazar won the first of his three consecutive New York City marathons in a time of 2 hours 9 minutes 41 seconds. (More info)
1985 — Don Denkinger blew a call at first base that led to a two-run Game 6 rally for the Kansas City Royals evening the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Royals Stadium. (More info)
1996 – The New York Yankees won their 23rd World Series championship — and first in 18 years — beating the Atlanta Braves, 3-2, in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium. (More info)
1997 — Edgar Renteria's single scored Craig Counsell in the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7, and the Florida Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians for their first World Series title. (More info)
2000 — The New York Yankees beat the New York Mets, 4-2, in Game 5 to clinch their third straight World Series championship. (More info)


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Pacifica Shipping will launch a new coastal container service next month, the first step in what it says is a vital rejuvenation for domestic sea freight capacity and inter-island transport efficiency.
Steve Chapman, Pacifica's chief executive, said Spirit Of Independence will carry almost 300 containers more than the ship it replaces, Spirit of Resolution, which operated successfully on the coast for 15 years until going off charter last month.
"The new vessel is 40% bigger, faster, and more fuel efficient than its predecessor. As a gearless ship – the same as our Spirit of Endurance – we will no longer call at Port of Onehunga and will utilise the main Auckland port instead," Mr Chapman said.
"With a total TEU capacity of 672 containers, the new ship also offers substantially greater reefer capacity to help meet rising demand for domestic and export transhipment of refrigerated cargoes."
Mr Chapman said the chartered Spirit of Independence will provide scheduled weekly calls to Auckland, Lyttelton, Nelson and New Plymouth ports, looping around North Cape to begin each southbound leg.
"In tandem with Spirit of Endurance the ship will greatly improve the logistical capability of our coastal network and enhance productive use of existing ports' infrastructure and facilities.
"Crucially it will also deliver the lowest possible costs for long-haul freight movers, at no cost to New Zealand taxpayers.
"Nothwithstanding talk of a new Cook Strait ferry terminal, moving goods by sea directly between ports is the safest, cleanest and most energy efficient mode by far."
"We have a practical blueprint for coastal shipping going forward, offering a cost effective alternative to land-based modes that move the same types of cargo between North and South Island markets.
He said Pacifica Shipping was now strategically placed to ensure coastal shipping can play a key role in meeting projected freight growth over the next one to two decades.
"Our improved service gives us the ability to grow this business, even in the current environment of subsidised rail and road.
"We believe it will be the forerunner of more coastal vessels over the coming years."
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That's why kids are coming up to some high school players with pens, programs and balls, hoping they've discovered a future pot of gold.
Those looking for a sure thing might want to stop by Malibu High, and not simply to enjoy the surf at Zuma Beach.
Senior catcher Stephen Williams, a four-year starter who has hit seven home runs, one short of the team record, is a can't-miss prospect -- in the classroom. He has never received a grade other than A on his high school report card. He can discuss nuclear fission at lunch, then spend an hour talking about hitting a curveball.
"Stephen is a special guy," Coach Paul Gallo said.
It's hard enough to predict a future Hall of Famer. It's even harder to guess which teenager might eventually win a Nobel Prize.
But don't say anything is impossible for Williams, who's 5 feet 10, 200 pounds and has lived most of his life on the campus of Pepperdine University, where his father, Robert, is a political science professor.
Williams has successfully moved back and forth between two different worlds -- jock and nerd.
"My physics teacher at Malibu is up on everyone in sports, so maybe there's hope for me," he said.
Williams is a dedicated baseball player who works on the sport year-round. He runs, lifts weights, watches games and plays on a scout team against top competition.
And yet, when the decision comes to selecting a college, baseball will receive the least consideration.
"I made a choice a long time ago that I'd much rather go to a school based on academics more than baseball," he said. "I honestly have no regrets focusing on my studies.
"I'm not willing to sacrifice any part of my education in order to pursue playing baseball at the so-called baseball schools. I would classify myself as a student-athlete."
Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and John Hopkins are the three finalists Williams is considering. He can see himself one day becoming a college professor, focusing on teaching and research, possibly in physics.
Growing up on a college campus has provided him experiences he cherishes.
"It's exposed me to a whole lot of different groups, whether frat party people or serious students," he said.
His father invites students from one of his upper-division ethics in international politics classes to come to the family home, and Williams has sat in on the conversations.
"I've been able to look in and be part of a serious academic atmosphere and see how people conduct themselves . . . the best and brightest Pepperdine has to offer," he said. "Being exposed to that has been influential on how I conduct myself as a person, on the baseball field and at school."
Another benefit for Williams was the opportunity to live in Florence, Italy, for several months as part of a Pepperdine study program in which his father participated. Williams was 13 at the time.
"It was something that fundamentally changed how you view the world," he said of the culture and language experiences.
He and his older brother, Daniel, a former Malibu baseball standout who now attends Pepperdine, found some Italian teenagers to play baseball with.
"Italians are decent baseball players, but I think we could have taken them," he said.
There's no telling when Williams' baseball days will end, but something tells me we'll be learning and hearing from him for many years to come.


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Presumably paid for through advertising, i.e. by consumers.
A portal that displays entertainment recommendations sounds like advertising. There's an immediate revenue stream.
The article also points out that later on it will be paid for by users, so this could also be a loss-leader foot-in-the-door move by Virgin. Direct payments by users would prevent it from being a burden on people who just pay a subway fare without using the service.
Presumably paid for through advertising, i.e. by consumers.
Once the olympics are over, you'll be charged. The contract would state Virgin have to wire up the stations, and provide free wifi for the plympics, but then get 5 years of ripping off passengers
That said, I don't see the market. It's only at the platform, which on the whole is a sub-5 minute wait even at 11pm - at least in the centre where there's no phone signals. By the time you get to the platform, get your phone out, log on to the wifi, type your credit card number in, type in the capcha, accept the terms and condtions, and provide your phone number and email, your train will be there.
It is going to be free under the Olympics, but afterward you'll have to be a Virgin customer or pay £££.
Sydney already have WiFi in some of its train stations :
Shanghai has working phone reception and 3G data on trains and stations throughout the underground - who needs WIFI? Time to catch up with China.
Actually I'm glad there's no voice phone service on the Tube... I really don't want to be jammed in inches from somebody yammering on about their banal life and their dull X Factor hero worshipping.
Paris is the same. You can use 2G everywhere, 3G in some (too rare) cases, and keep a phone conversation going all the way.
Simply put, the UK is not known for its infrastructure. Hell, half the tube stops every week-end for refurbishment and it's still slow and unreliable. But as the French and Germans are slowly taking them over, the Brits finally get a taste of technology
..3G is much slower than WiFi
More than 55% of the London Underground is above ground and gets a good signal, and yes annoying people do yammer on constantly on the phone
No, 3G is good enough most of the time, either to check something online on my phone, or even for me to work tethered (email obviously, not something ore fancy like RDP). Think about the 80 or 90% use-case when you're on the move at a station. 3G doesn't cost anything... included in the monthly data rate. Wifi in this case is going to cost money after the Olympics too...
In fairness to London Underground, they have periodically looked at the possibility of providing mobile coverage in stations and trains, but none of the networks were interested in getting involved (and pay for it).
In the grand scheme of things, LU has more pressing needs for its funds.
That's cool!! Maybe you should post a story on that and then you can comment there.
" It will be free until after the Olympics have concluded, but customers of Virgin Media and other selected networks will continue to get it free afterwards. Others will be able to use the service on a pay-as-you-go basis."
IOW Just another paid WiFi hotspot, except most ppl will only spend enough time at a tube station to log in and if lucky, maybe load one webpage.
at no cost to fare or tax payers
Virgin Media won the contract to supply Wi-Fi to the Underground earlier this year
How were they paid?
It will be free until after the Olympics have concluded, but customers of Virgin Media and other selected networks will continue to get it free afterwards. Others will be able to use the service on a pay-as-you-go basis.
I don't get it. This can't be right. The contract isn't free, Virgin doesn't supply services for free... yet apparently, no one is paying for it except "others" after the Olympics.
How were they paid?
I'm guessing they get to plaster their name all of the place. Connect to the network and your browser will be redirected to a page with Virgin's logo, where you have to click a button indicating that you agree to the TOS.
A station I pass through had free wifi for a few months. Apart from the logo on the click through page, there were ads by the entrance telling you who was paying for it and how to connect, and ads hanging from the AP boxes with the name of the ISP supplying the bandwidth and equipment. Lots of scope for advertising if you have enough eyeballs in the area, and the London Underground probably carries 10 times or more people than my local railway.
From what I heard, the station staff thought it was good too, pe
Not to mention that during the Olympics those stations might be really, really packed and people are much less likely to complain about a free service and afterwards you have a really stress-tested network. So great publicity, low risk and giving Londoners a free taste. Sounds like a win all around for Virgin, it's probably a better use of their marketing budget than many other things.
How were they paid?
I don't get it. This can't be right. The contract isn't free, Virgin doesn't supply services for free... yet apparently, no one is paying for it except "others" after the Olympics.
The only "payment" Virgin received was in the form of rights to access tube stations and install their equipment inside.
Although the service will initially be free of charge, it'll no doubt carry some form of advertising on the login screen. Virgin have stated that it will eventually be charged for like typical WiFi services. Also, it'll be free to existing Virgin Media users, thus making Virgin services more attractive to users and benefitting their business.
It's a loss leader for Virgin to get their kit in there, and then they will run it after the Olympics in the same manner as BT run their existing nationwide OpenZone wifi network - some mobile networks users get access as part of their contracts, everyone else has to pay for access.
It's not rocket science.
It's not rocket science.
And neither is informative journalism. The glaring point is it's not mentioned in the article.
I suppose you subscribe to periodicals that give as little information as possible leaving you to puzzle over whether the missing germane information is rocket science or not.
From one of the main links in the article:
However, after this period, Virgin's broadband and mobile subscribers will be the only ones to get the services for free. People on other networks will have to get online via a pay-as-you-go model.
A Virgin Media spokesperson told TechWeekEurope that it was looking into other models. These could include providing access in a wholesale manner, charging rivals for offering services over its kit. BT said it had no comment on the deal.
Trivial to find, if you intend
From one of the main links in the article...
Trivial to find, if you intend to look at all.
I see, and it's not at all trivial for this information to be actually included in the article and explained further? How difficult is it to see the article itself is shill? Basically it's saying "free free free" and not providing any honest insight into how this is possible. I have the distinct impression the author or publisher is perhaps receiving a little something from Virgin to avoid saying anything about how Virgin might be profiting from this.
Journalism [wikipedia.org] is the investigation and reporting of event
Oh I really really dislike people like you - its not laid out on a nice silver platter, so you bitch about it and think you have a legitimate complaint because you have found the tiniest thread at which to pick and also know how to find something on Wikipedia.
Im not interested in your drivel.
Harry Potter WiFi antennas. They can magically connect you to just about anything
Virgin Media customers will get it free - they are already paying Virgin Media
Selected others will get it free they are already paying a carrier, who are paying Virgin Media
Everyone else will have to pay on a Pay As You Go basis
Money rolling in regardless of who uses it , seems like a good money spinner for Virgin to me?
Trying to imagine how many people will be trying to share spectrum at a busy station during rush hour and even with multiple access points in each location on all the available channels that don't overlap I'd have to think there won't be enough to go around.
With regard to "...no cost to fare or tax payers."' it seems probable that they've put out to bid to WiFi Internet providers to see who gets to sell the service to customers after the Olympics. In all probability London Underground will get a take
...the London Underground, on a per-mile basis, is one of the most expensive transit systems in the world, so to say that the wi-fi is free is totally misleading as the cost is covered within the extortionate ticket prices.
Just to give people outside the UK some idea, two weeks ago the missus and I went to a concert in London. I drove the car to Hammersmith in West London and parked there, we got on the Underground to travel two stops to Shepherd's Bush, no more than two miles up the road.
The total cost for 2 return tickets was just under £14 or around $20.
I think that speaks for itself...
While with an Oyster card it would've been £8 in total. Traveling on the underground with paper tickets seems like a bad idea..
Trouble with the Oyster card, it's the forcing of costs onto the passenger. Previously, I only had to give London Transport my money when I actually travelled. Until that point, the money was in my pocket, for me to use as I want.
Now with Oyster cards, I either get charged an extortionate rate for maintaining that privilege (buying higher priced paper tickets), or I have to get credit on my Oyster card that I might not use for a while. My money, given to London Transport, to use as an interest free loan.
As a non-Londoner, I've got maybe ten pounds on a card that's tied up til next time I visit London. Add up the couple of million people who use the tube regularly and consider each of them has a few pounds spare credit on their Oyster cards and pretty soon you'll see that LondonTransport has done something pretty canny: getting 20 million or more GBP interest free loans from the public... and that's not to count the classic big bank win of another big chunk of money that they've effectively got for free from all those unused and lost Oyster cards owned and never to be used again by occasional users / tourists. How may tourists visit London and leave with a pound or two left on their Oyster card and just write it off?
Very canny way of getting additional funding in micropayments from millions of people.
Its a myth:
The interest on your £10 for many years is still going to be less than difference between oyster prices and paper tickets.
1) They already have at least two persons per tube station entrance, one manning the ticket counter (since they don't have machines that sell Oyster cards, so people have to do it) and one manning the actual gates since there are often people with problems going in or coming out which need to be let through (or sent to the guy in the ticket counter to pay up).
Thus the fixed costs are already being paid.
2) Paper tickers are regularly sold through ticket machines in train stations. The cost is miniscule.
3) Th
Actually there ARE machines that sell Oyster cards so you are very wrong there. They have them at not necessarily all stations (yet), but they are around.
If you want to apply the same cynicism you can do this for all paper tickets too. Once you buy the ticket, your money is with the ticket issuer even if you don't use it.
Good news for you: Eventually the system will just take money directly off your credit card. Touch in, touch out as before, but with your VISA. Now you're not spending a penny until you enter the system.
You don't have to put money onto Oyster and leave it unused. If you really want to put exactly £7.60 onto an Oyster and then make
I don't get why Western countries seem to have problems with providing affordable yet ubiquitous electronic currency. Limiting these uses to transit just serve to annoy users. The approach Hong Kong took with the Octopus card should be the example to follow. Not only can they be used for nearly all types of mass transit (except for taxi), they can be used at nearly all fast-food joints (e.g. McDonalds), all major convenient stores (i.e. 7-11, and typically people top up there card over there), even major re
Or you could take the card to a ticket office and exchange it for the remaining credit plus your deposit. I know someone who visits London every couple of months and does this every time.
Why? He'll have to queue up when he wants to travel again, and I doubt he'll miss the £3 before he next goes to London.
I have smartcards for a few cities. The London system is the only one I've used in Europe where the balance on the card never expires.
I love the Oyster card and I don't live in London. I have one on automatic top up. I basically don't drive in London. I either leave my car on the outskirts or go by train. Oyster card allows me to travel around to my hearts content. There's a maximum daily cost too!
Even less, it's zone 2. £5.60 off-peak, £6 peak.
Heh, you win. I'm only here since 1.5 months ago, hope that's a valid excuse.
That's because you bought paper tickets which are priced artificially high at £4.30 each way to encourage people to use the oyster card. If you used the oyster (contactless payment) card instead it would have costed £1.50 (peak) or £1.40 (off-peak) for zone 3 only travel. TFL (Transport for London) may be expensive, but it isn't that expensive.
However, there is a £5 (refundable) deposit for a PAYG oyster card.
For a very occasional visitor to London making a one off journey this can mean that PAYG oyster doesn't really make sense unless you've got the time to faf around getting a refund.
Refunds can also be problematic. AIUI, if you've used more than one way to top up the card - e.g. credit card plus cash - then the only way to get the deposit refunded is by cheque posted to your home address - which for non British london visitors will
I live in the South, and even tough I don't live in London, I keep an Oyster card on me just in case I need to travel in for work or to meet up with people. Think of it this way - for the OP, he would have paid less per traveler using the Oyster card (£5+£1.50+£1.50=£8) than paper tickets (£4.30+£4.30=£8.60), so there is really no reason to go with paper tickets. Just keep the card in your wallet for next time.
If you do get caught charged the maximum fare (it's quit
Finally, while oyster works very well for people who use it regularly, it's surprisingly easy to get caught out and charged a "maximum fare" - one example where you have to be careful - I entered the central line the night before last and just as I entered there was warnings of flooding and major delays and "you are advised to take a bus". Had I turned around and walked straight back out again I would have been charged a £7 maximum fare. Armed with this knowledge I ignored the advice being given and f
Automatic if you know about it and use the same station within two weeks to collect the refund.
Doesn't work well for the people who are making one off journeys - they discover six months or more later that their PAYG card is showing a negative balance by which time there's nothing that can be done to remedy the situation.
£1.50 (peak) or £1.40 (off-peak) for zone 3 only travel.
Aren't both Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush in zone 2?
Thanks (to all the replies) for the advice.
Being a "carrot chomper in the Shires" I rarely go up to the "Big Smoke" so use the Underground rarely - but will remember it for the future.
Fortunately most of the bands I like usually tour across the country and whilst Southampton is equal distance from me as London is, I tend to try to go there for gigs first - lower (if not free) parking, much easier to get in and out of, and at least two of the venues there serve good British ale at pub prices!
we got on the Underground to travel two stops to Shepherd's Bush, no more than two miles up the road
Walking is free, even in London
Thank you for the health tips.
Neither of us have any problem with walking 2 miles unless traffic getting into London has delayed us to the point where you have 15 minutes to get to the venue before the band comes on.
So don't be a smart-ass!
So don't be a smart-ass!
Welcome to slashdot, you must be new here.
...the London Underground, on a per-mile basis, is one of the most expensive transit systems in the world, so to say that the wi-fi is free is totally misleading as the cost is covered within the extortionate ticket prices.
Just to give people outside the UK some idea, two weeks ago the missus and I went to a concert in London. I drove the car to Hammersmith in West London and parked there, we got on the Underground to travel two stops to Shepherd's Bush, no more than two miles up the road.
The total cost for 2 return tickets was just under £14 or around $20.
I think that speaks for itself...
Yes, it says you haven't got a clue how to travel in London.
* Firstly, why not park at Westfield?
* Secondly, why not take a taxi? That would be about the same price that you paid
* Oyster would be £6 return for the two of you, even if you bought 2 new oyster cards in Hammersmith, and loaded each with £3, that would only be £12, and you can always return the cards later
Single cash fares are deliberately expensive because it costs a lot to maintain the infrastructure that less than 1% of journeys are made with.
OP : the London Underground, on a per-mile basis, is one of the most expensive transit systems in the world
CP : Yes, it says you haven't got a clue how to travel in London.
* Firstly, why not park at Westfield?
* Secondly, why not take a taxi? That would be about the same price that you paid
Er, that was the original poster's point!
Because he only travelled 2 miles a Taxi would be cheaper
This looks to be a deliberate worst case scenario
Now try Watford (one side of London) to Heathrow (other side of London) cost : £3.70 - £6.40 - depending on payment method and time of travel - try beating that?
Because he only travelled 2 miles a Taxi would be cheaper
This looks to be a deliberate worst case scenario
Now try Watford (one side of London) to Heathrow (other side of London) cost : £3.70 - £6.40 - depending on payment method and time of travel - try beating that?
Indeed, I used to commute from Epping to Shepherds Bush. 1 hour on the tube, about 10p/mile.
On the other hand, the 200 yards Covent-Garden to Leicester Square cash fare of £4.30 works out 350 times more expensive (about £35/mile -- 20 times more than a flexible first class TATL flight).
The average person that doesn't know how to survive in London will simply buy an offpeak travelcard, £7-£8.50 for unlimited travel on tube, train and bus -- including the tube from Heathrow.
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Yes, it says you haven't got a clue how to travel in London.
Why would he, if he doesn't live there?
London is a hellishly complicated place, and how many people who don't live there have bus/taxi/tube/walking routes memorised?
Don't forget the London Congestion charge, ensuring that people use the overpriced underground instead of their cars.
Oh please, talk about a disingenuous argument. Nobody in their right mind buys paper tickets. Especially as they're priced high to discourage you. That was your choice.
I live in Hammersmith (at the Chiskwick end)... I mostly walk, or sometimes take the bus. Going from Hammersmith Broadway as you were to Shebu is an even shorter walk - probably 10-15 minutes (or the time it took you to buy your tickets, wait for the next train, travel there, and then walk from Goldhawk Rd or Shepherd's Bush Market. If y
...the London Underground,...
The total cost for 2 return tickets was just under £14 or around $20.
What good would "return tickets" be if you didn't also buy the forward tickets to get to the place you would return from?
I agree. I use the tube every day and i'm rarely on the platform for more than 1 minute. I don't know what the target audience is. Tourists here for the olympcs are going to be able to get all of their travel information off the posters on the walls or the live update screens.
I'm not sure what use they'd get out of the wifi either.
I dunno if they will have done something special for the olympics but my experiance is that london underground's live update screens are shit because they don't localise the information to the station they are displaying it at.
For example we were travelling from stockport to eastbourne for a holiday. We arrived at euston and headed to the underground to travel to victoria and started progressing towards the ticket gates where an automated screen told us that the victoria line was closed and that replacement
The article makes it sound that they are offering free access to a limited range of online services. It is only the "Internet" in the sense that these services are delivered over the Internet, but it is not the Internet in the sense that it only provides access to services approved by the service provider. Those services are in all likelihood revenue generating subsidiaries of Virgin, services paying Virgin for the privilege of being accessible on the subway platforms, or contractual obligations between Virgin and and the transit authority. In otherwords, it's utility as anything other than a propaganda machine is limited.
On top of that, they are only offering platform service. Now I don't know about London's tubes, but every heavy and light rail public transit system that I've seen runs trains at 2 minute intervals (peak hours) to 15 minute intervals (at an hour that you wouldn't want to pull out a gadget). You may be able to pull down a transit schedule and maybe a couple of articles to read on the train, but not much else. Train arrival times will probably be posted on the platform anyhow and the only devices usable on platforms are cell phones and tablets. The former is a terrible reading device for anything more than plain text, the latter is an okay reading device but awkward to handle on a busy platform. People who want that type of service would be better served by their cell phone's data plan anyhow since chances are that it's unfiltered and may work on the platforms anyhow. (I can't speak for London's system, but Toronto and Vancouver have decent cell reception on the platforms).
In other words, big freaking deal. Let me know when they offer real internet service and service that can be access in the place where you're spending most of your time: on the train.
I think it's to try and stop too many riots during the Olympics.
Some stations are expected to have waits of 30 minutes plus to get onto a train due to the sheer number of people trying to use the station.
Warren Street is probably at risk from people thinking "ah ha - I'll avoid Euston underground" but then being unable to get onto trains due to them being already packed.
I'm an avid BBC proms goer and season ticket holder but I'm somewhat resigned to the fact that I might not actually go to very many concerts this year as getting to the Albert Hall from work could be interesting and getting from the Albert Hall to Euston could be almost impossible as I'm not sure it's even going to be possible to walk through hyde park along West Carriage Drive, let alone cycle, and the "zil" lanes on the other roads around that area are going to make the area all but impassable.
While there are lots of exhortations to cycle during the olympics, I'm not sure that the inevitable frustrations and raised tempers of the motorists are going to make cycling either fun or safe. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not looking forward to this summer.
Every day the London Underground carries ~3 million people, most of them at peak hours. Then you've got bus and train users as well.
I just cannot see how the Olympics (200,000 people going to the park each day) is actually going to be a problem, given the multitudes of different ways to get to the Olympic Park - Central Line, Overground, a couple of DLR lines, bus, train (including fast trains direct from St Pancras), and it's not that far from the District line either.
Bob Crow (public transport union cunt)
And all the indications are that tourist visits to London will actually be quite a bit lower than usual during the Olympics. Hotel bookings are down by a third because all the people who usually go to London to see Big Ben and shop at Harrods are going to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower and shop on the Champs Elyses instead.
90,000 people went to see the Champion's League final at Wembley last year, and a similar number go to see the cup finals. 80,000 people go to see each of the 2 or 3 Six Nations matches
Still, all the hardware is now in place. Software can be changed, and the system can be opened up to become real internet.
And some travel information might actually be useful, even if you cannot get to your facebook.
Earls court station sucks, and you wait forever for a district line train going towards wimbledon. The only type of departure board is a printed list of destinations, with an arrow back-lit by a globe when your train is next. It has you switching platforms willy-nilly, and gives no indication of how long a train will be. If wifi could give extra information, fantastic.
The wifi probably won't get much out to the outer portions of the underground network, but I know the western picadilly line has non-functi
You can see the sky from the District Line platforms at Earls Court, so cell access should be available.
In the subway of Seoul wifi has been available to passengers for years. Three public companies (olleh, offer wifi in the subway and many other public places for a price as low as 8000 krw (about 8 USD) per month.
Really? I wonder why they'd bother. I had an unlimited data plan on my smartphone, and as far as I know, pretty much everyone else did too, and at least with KTF, I had tethering.
Yes, yes, it's not horribly impressive, by any other country's standards, however please consider the fact that it wasn't done because of political and commercial questions. It's politics, not a lack of skills. I am not particularly impressed by Seoul or London's ability to install public Wifi.
Oh that's really great, if you are korean, or foreigner with an alien registration card and full knowledge of korean.
Have they made it easier to access for others yet? When I tried it 6 months ago I couldn't get it to work as a foreigner.
This London system will also work for non-UK-people. Amazing technology.
(don't get me wrong, I love korea and visited many times, but I wouldn't take their WIFI networks as the shining example of how to do it.)
Here in Montreal, we don't even have cell phone signal in the vast majority of the subway network. Hell, I'm still waiting for bathrooms and disabled access, let alone such 'luxuries' as wifi.
Err, you don't get mobile phone reception in the London Underground either (well, you do in the overground parts, obviously).
There's no signal on the London Underground in order to stop commuters murdering each other once their patience has been used up listening to the inane drivel, or loud self-important bullshit, that other commuters would be saying on their mobile phones should a signal be present.
With eyes blurry from insomnia the title appeared to be "London Tube Steaks Finally Get Wi-Fi". That woke me up.
Isn't providing wireless internet in the tube stations providing a really useful tool for terrorists?
internet triggered explosives anyone?
Thanks mate, I'm good.
They're connecting a series of tubes to another series of tubes! This moment will go down in history as one of mankind's greatest achievements.


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The poor little thing has lived in a barn for the last 6 years and has no social skills with other dogs and is totally bemused when Leo wants to play
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Raymond Berg
May 11, 1925-April 12, 2009
Raymond Berg, 83, of Hawley, passed away on Sunday, April 12, 2009 at his home at the Hawley Senior Living Center in Hawley, under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Raymond was born the son of John and Julia (Skeim) Berg on May 11, 1925 in Ulen. He was raised in the Ulen-Twin Valley area, where he attended school and worked on the family farm. Ray entered the United States Army and served in Japan during World War II. After his discharge, he returned to the family farm.
Ray moved to Hillsboro, N.D., in February 1966 and married Barbara Power on March 19, 1966 in Hawley. They made their home in Hillsboro, where Ray worked for Farmer's Union Oil Company as a tire foreman, for 22 years. He retired in April 1987, and then worked part time for the Hillsboro Park Board, the Traill County Water Board and Olsen's Hardware.
Ray loved to go for walks and speak Norwegian. His beloved wife, Barbara passed away on Jan. 26, 2003. In October 2005, Ray moved to Hawley Senior Living.
Surviving Ray are his children, Sharlene Rohrich of Moorhead, Steve Berg of Jamestown, N.D., Sherry (Jesse) Ford of West Fargo and Stacy (Scott) Bauer of Bismarck, N.D.; six grandchildren; his sister, Gladys (Ilo) Bentley of Hawley; his brother, Judien Berg of Hawley; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Besides his wife, Barbara, Ray was preceded in death by his brothers, Elmer, Odin, and Harvey; and his sister, Evelyn.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 17 at Boulger Funeral Home in Fargo, followed by a 7 p.m. prayer service. Visitation will continue for one hour prior to the start of services in the church on Saturday.
Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, April 18 at Hillsboro United Parish UCC-UMC in Hillsboro, with burial following at Riverside Cemetery in Hillsboro.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Wildeman Funeral Home in Hillsboro; an online guest book is available at boulgerfuneralhome.com.


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A group of 14 visitors from the Alle-Kiski Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees (PASR) came to Punxsutawney on Tuesday to learn more about the town and its legendary weather forecaster.
After their arrival at the Civic Center, the tourists heard some interesting stories of local history from Tom Curry.
Tour guides Terry and Charlotte Fye had arranged for Ron Ploucha, Phil's co-handler, to stop by and greet the guests.
Following Ploucha's lively and informative speech about Phil and Groundhog Day, everyone posed for a photo with the world's most famous
Next on the agenda were stops in Barclay Square, a look at the colorful paintings on the dike walls, a trek to Gobbler's Knob, and lunch at Mary's Place.
The day ended with a visit to the downtown area and browsing at the official Souvenir Shop.
The travelers were unanimous in their praise of the community and the hospitality they had received.


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Increased power spectral density in resting-state pain-related brain networks in fibromyalgia.
By Ji -Young Kim, et al.
Fibromyalgia (FM), characterized by chronic widespread pain, is known to be associated with heightened responses to painful stimuli and atypical resting state functional connectivity among pain-related regions of the brain. Previous studies on FM using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have focused on intrinsic functional connectivity, which maps the spatial distribution of temporal correlations among spontaneous low frequency fluctuation (LFF) in fMRI resting-state data.
In the current study, using rs-fMRI data in frequency domain, we investigate the possible alteration of power spectral density (PSD) of low frequency fluctuation in brain regions associated with central pain processing in patients with FM.
Resting-state fMRI data were obtained from 19 patients with FM and 20 age-matched healthy female control subjects. For each subject, the PSDs for each brain region identified from functional connectivity maps were computed for the frequency band of 0.01-0.25 Hz. For each group, average PSD was determined for each brain region and a two-sample t-test was performed to determine the difference in power between the two groups.
According to the results, patients with FM exhibited significantly increased frequency power in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), supplementary motor area (SMA), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and amygdala.
In patients with FM, the increase in PSD did not show an association with depression or anxiety. Therefore, our findings of atypical increased frequency power during resting-state in pain-related brain regions may implicate the enhanced resting-state baseline neural activity in several brain regions associated with pain processing in FM.
Source: Pain, May 25, 2013. By Ji -Young Kim, Seong-Ho Kim, Jeehye Seo, Sang-Hyon Kim, Seung Woo Han, Eon Jeong Nam, Seong-Kyu Kim, Hui Joong Lee, Seung-Jae Lee, Yang-Tae Kim, and Yongmin Chang. Department of Medical Science, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.


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ADELAIDE has backed chief executive Steven Trigg's claim that he verbally cancelled a written agreement to trade Kurt Tippett to the club of his choice three years ago.
The Crows announced after a two-hour board meeting on Saturday that both Trigg and football manager Phil Harper would continue in their roles next year following their AFL-imposed suspensions of six and two months.
Adelaide chairman Rob Chapman said after Friday's Commission hearing that the club's board had not been made aware of their officials' agreement to underwrite third party payments for Kurt Tippett when they re-signed him at the end of 2009.
The chairman, who said the illegal deal was not brought to his attention until Harper confessed to it as Tippett's trade to Sydney was falling apart, said yesterday that the CEO had the unanimous support of the club's directors, players, staff, coaches and sponsors. He said the Crows had many important things happening in the next 12 months and that there would not be enough time to recruit a new chief executive, train them and bring them up to speed on those various issues.
Chapman confirmed again that Trigg had been asked about the existence of an ''exit clause'' in Tippett's contract during a board meeting in August last year. The chief executive told directors there was such a clause, but has since claimed he called Tippett's manager, Peter Blucher, soon after striking the agreement at the end of the 2009 season to void it, having realised it was against the AFL's rules.
That claim was disputed by Blucher during the AFL's investigation of the draft and salary cap breaches that led to the club being fined $300,000 and removed from the first two rounds of next year's draft, and there is no written evidence of it.
Chapman said Trigg had been ''fast reaching'' the conclusion that he needed to own up to the deal, kept secret for three years, as he neared the end of an overseas holiday during the recent trade period.
''At the time of the relevant board meeting there was a bit of speculation around about Tippett's side contract, not that it was called that back then. But it wasn't front of mind like it is today,'' Chapman said.
''Boards like ours have a deep and wide agenda with everything we've got going on in the normal running of the club so we spoke about many things in that meeting, but we went through it today and we have a clear recollection of what was said.
''No one would draw any conclusion from that conversation to think we as a board should have done anything more than what was done at the time. We sat here this morning and went through the reasons why Steven should stay or go, and I understand why some supporters will disagree with our decision.
''But good chief executives don't grow on trees. I've got every player saying keep Trigg, every staff member saying keep Trigg and all our sponsors saying keep Trigg.''
Meanwhile, the AFL Players Association this week will open an investigation of Blucher's role in the saga. The AFLPA has revealed the investigation will be a three-step process, as Blucher, of the Brisbane-based Velocity Sports, fights to avoid possible deregistration.
The union will announce within days who will head the probe, which if any wrongdoing is found will then entitle Blucher to have the opportunity to respond if a notice to show cause is issued.
The AFL said on Friday it would hand all relevant evidence from its investigation to the AFLPA.
''We've said all along we'll investigate the involvement of Blucher after the Commission hands down its decision, which we'll now do,'' Prendergast said on Saturday.
Blucher could be deregistered, suspended or reprimanded and also faces a fine, if found guilty of brokering a commitment the Crows would trade Tippett to the club of his choice in exchange for a second-round draft pick. Tippett was also found to have received illegal payments that were not disclosed disclosed to the AFL.
Tippett, the former Crow who has blamed the club for his predicament, has been suspended from the opening 11 rounds of the 2013 home-and-away season.


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Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Cohen Children's Medical Center
About us
The pediatric cardiology fellowship program at Cohen Children's Medical Center is an ACGME-accredited, three-year training program. The program utilizes the clinical and research resources of Northwell Health and its many affiliated tertiary and primary care hospitals, including the Feinstein Institute of Research.
The clinical exposure to pediatric cardiology encompasses a broad spectrum of practice involving primary care pediatric cardiology to complex congenital and acquired heart disease in patients ranging in age from the fetus through adulthood. With hospitals on Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and Westchester, fellows provide care to a large and diverse population. They have the opportunity to rotate through all health system hospitals, which accounts for more than 20,000 live births per year. Trainees participate in:.
- 200 pediatric cardiothoracic surgery cases
- more than 200 pediatric cardiac catheterizations
- 100 cardiac electrophysiology procedures
- 9500 pediatric transthoracic echocardiograms
- 1700 fetal echocardiograms, and
- proportionate numbers of invasive and noninvasive procedures annually
Fifteen pediatric cardiology faculty members provide fellows with the clinical, didactic, and research guidance necessary for comprehensive training in all aspects of pediatric.
Curriculum & schedule
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
The pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory is a state-of-the-art, biplane, digital facility dedicated to bring cutting edge care with minimal radiation exposure to children and patients with congenital heart disease. The lab is staffed with dedicated pediatric cardiac nurses, cardiovascular technologists and special procedure technologists. Fellows participate in all diagnostic as well as interventional and electrophysiology procedures under the supervision of three full-time pediatric interventional/EP faculty members.
Fellows have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of interventional procedures, including transcatheter valve placement, valve and vascular angioplasty, endovascular stent implantation, transcatheter atrial septal closure, ductal occlusion, and endomyocardial biopsies. They will also be involved in the performance of a variety of diagnostic electrophysiology studies for arrhythmia diagnosis and sudden death risk stratification, as well as curative interventions including radiofrequency and cryocatheter ablation aided by conventional and three-dimensional non-fluoroscopic mapping units.
Echocardiography Laboratory
Approximately 11,000 echocardiograms are performed annually in the pediatric echocardiography laboratory. Our echocardiography laboratory is fully accredited by ICAEL for pediatric echocardiography. It is staffed by 11 pediatric cardiac sonographers with 11 dedicated digital echocardiography imaging systems. Our laboratory has the most up to date hardware and software, including 3-dimensional echocardiography and the recent addition of 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. Over 1700 fetal echocardiograms are performed annually within the Division of Pediatric Cardiology. Care of at risk fetuses is coordinated with the Divisions of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Neonatology.
The pediatric cardiology fellows and faculty provide all intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography services as well as echocardiographic guidance for interventional procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. All echocardiographic exams are recorded in digital format with review stations that permit point and click reporting and facilitate didactic instruction. Fellows acquire and interpret echocardiographic studies, under faculty supervision, during "non-invasive" rotations and when on call.
Noninvasive Electrophysiology Laboratory
Three full-time technologists and one pediatric nurse practitioner staff the non-invasive pediatric electrophysiology laboratory. The laboratory includes Marquette digital Holter monitor processor/analyzer, transtelephonic event and remote pacemaker follow-up units, as well as pacemaker programmers from the major pacemaker manufacturers. Fellows review ECGs, Holters, event monitors, and perform pacemaker evaluations during their "non-invasive" rotation.
Exercise Laboratory
The pediatric exercise laboratory, staffed by a dedicated pediatric cardiovascular technologist, contains a Welch Allyn unit for real-time ECG analysis, MedGraphic system for breath by breath gas analysis for quantification of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, and a bicycle ergometry unit. Fellows perform and report on exercise tests during their "non-invasive" rotation.
Ambulatory Services
More than 11,000 ambulatory pediatric cardiology visits are conducted annually at Cohen Children's, in addition to multiple dedicated pediatric cardiology satellite offices. Fellows' weekly ambulatory office hours provide continuity of care of a cadre of patients throughout the fellowship under the supervision of a mentoring attending.
Cardiac Intensive Care
The 24-bed pediatric intensive care unit and newly renovated 57-bed neonatal intensive care unit at Cohen Children's Medical Center provide state-of-the-art nursing and medical resources, including ECMO and PRISMA therapy, for the critically ill pediatric cardiac medical and surgical patients. Fellows participate in the preoperative and postoperative care of all cardiothoracic surgical cases under the supervision of a pediatric cardiology attending.
Regular didactic and clinical educational conferences include:
- Pediatric Cardiology Patient Management Conference (twice weekly)
- Pediatric Cardiology – Cardiothoracic Surgical Conference (weekly)
- Cardiology Core Curriculum Conference (weekly)
- Echocardiography Conference (weekly)
- Cardiac Catheterization Case Conference (weekly)
- Cardiology Case Review Conference (weekly)
- Electrophysiology Case Conference (monthly)
- Cardiothoracic Surgical Conference (twice monthly)
- Pediatric Cardiology Textbook Chapter Review (monthly)
- Electrophysiology Textbook Chapter Review (monthly)
- Pediatric Cardiology Morbidity and Mortality Conference (monthly)
- Pediatric Cardiology Pathology Conference (monthly)
- Pediatric Cardiology Journal Club (monthly)
- Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Journal Club (monthly)
- Pediatric Grand Rounds (weekly)
- GEMINI Pediatric Case Presentation Conference (weekly)
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease conference (monthly)
- Multidisciplinary Journal Club (monthly)
- Fellowship Research Course (weekly during first year)


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Federal managers of the Colorado-Big Thompson water diversion project spent a long, dry winter worrying whether its North Front Range reservoirs would fill.
But after one of history's wettest, snowiest springs, those concerns have given way to the happier job of figuring out how to best manage inflows that no one could have imagined a month ago.
"I know that everyone is complaining about their trees and their tulips," U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokeswoman Kara Lamb said Thursday after yet another spring snow dump. "But this is the best thing that could happen for us."
Carter Lake and Horsetooth Reservoir, the two largest Eastern Slope vessels of the C-BT system, likely will be close to brim-full soon after Memorial Day.
Carter Lake on Thursday was 94 percent full. The level is high enough that the bureau's water managers looked for lower spots to put all the water that's coursing through the system.
Shutting a spigot
"We will be turning the pump off at Carter tomorrow," Lamb said. "Everything that we were sending to Carter will start going into Horsetooth."
That means the inflow to Horsetooth, now at 200 cubic feet per second, will more than double to 500. The reservoir, now at about three-quarters of its capacity, will be more than 90 percent full by the end of May.
That good news stands as a paradox for Glenn Werth, owner of Horsetooth's Inlet Bay Marina.
"We got 16 inches of snow here yesterday," he said. "We've been shoveling docks instead of putting boats in. We can't quite figure out if we're coming or going."
The spring runoff has already begun even as the mountain snowpack builds, with Thursday yet another snow day at high elevations.
Big Thompson Rising
People who watch the Big Thompson River closely already know it has risen over the past two days, with the water agency more than doubling the release from Olympus Dam at Lake Estes.
The outflow from the dam went from 45 cubic feet per second to 100 on Wednesday before the agency pinched it back slightly on Thursday to 96.
Lamb uses easy metaphors to describe the roles Carter and Horsetooth play in the region's water supply picture, and the source for the water they provide.
"They are the checking accounts," she said.
But the critical measure for this year is the level of the "savings account" at Granby Reservoir on the Western Slope.
'How We Finish'
Granby is the linchpin of the C-BT system, connected via a trans-Continental Divide tunnel to the Eastern Slope reservoirs.
It also stood just one-third full on Thursday, awaiting the runoff from the west-slope snowpack that still remains a question mark.
But owners of the marinas at Horsetooth Reservoir and Carter Lake, two of the region's most popular summer recreation destinations, know that no matter what happens west of the divide, their seasons have been saved by the late snow.
"Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining," Werth said Thursday as he was immersed in snow-clearing chores. "It's not how we start the season. It's how we finish it."
Tom Hacker can be reached at 669-5050, ext. 521, or email@example.com.


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Monday, May 12, 2008
Sense, Mainly
So far, it looks like a clear victory for the opposition and a resounding defeat for the government and its Saudi and American backers. Hariri and Junblatt have been humiliated. Sinyura said he would let the army decide on Hizbullah's communications network. The army accepted the offer and promptly declared that the resistance would be protected. It also announced that the Hizbullah-linked head of airport security would be reinstated. The government (if it is still the government) must be bitter that the army, which it had heralded as the symbol of a neutral state, has shown more understanding for the opposition than for the leaders who provoked it.
Hizbullah has acted with its usual intelligence and restraint. As soon as the opposition took control of pro-government areas it handed them over to the army. It did not perform a coup, as it so easily could have done. It has been careful to include its Sunni and Druze allies in the military action, and to work in concert with its Christian allies politically. All that it has demanded is a return to the status quo before the government orders threatening the resistance's communications network. It has not even mentioned the third of cabinet seats that it has been negotiating for months. The Shia community, which makes up between 30 and 40% of the people, currently receives only 21% of parliamentary seats. Rather than push for an end to this injustice, Hizbullah is trying to soothe tempers and establish a new consensus around the resistance.
Still, the presence of militia on the streets once again is heartbreaking, and will make consensus very difficult to achieve. There are reports of Amal men entering homes to beat Hariri supporters, stealing jewellery, and chanting sectarian insults. The Future TV building was burnt by SSNP supporters. An Amal supporter turned his fire on a Sunni funeral crowd, killing at least two. And the 'clean hands' purity of the resistance has been lost. Hizbullah is the only militia which did not commit massacres against other communities during the country's civil war. The actions of the last few days may have been necessary, and Hizbullah itself (as opposed to its sometimes embarrassing allies) behaved in a disciplined manner, but Lebanon has now seen Hizbullah using military force against other Lebanese. If sectarianism proves to be stronger than sense in the Sunni community (and the Saudi-run media will do all it can to whip up hatred – al-Arabiyya's coverage, for instance, has been appallingly one-sided), or if Hizbullah now makes even one mistake, a short term victory for resistance Lebanon could become a defeat, and bankers' Lebanon could return in force. Or there could be a return of blood and chaos.
There have already been scenes which replay the civil war. Future militiamen lined up and murdered a group of migrant Syrian workers. Junblatt's militia kidnapped and executed at least two Hizbullah supporters. These are the 'moderate democratic' pro-Western forces the US has been funding and training in Jordan (alongside the Badr militia calling itself the Iraqi army and the Dahlan militia pretending to be Palestinian security). Hariri, Sinyura and Junblatt have recognised the current balance of forces, but haven't recognised the justice of the opposition's stand. Whether or not they call on their fighters to destabilise the new set-up will depend on the orders they receive from Saudi Arabia and the US. Here, the signs are not good.
Aside from general destruction, the Bush administration has failed in everything it has tried in the Middle East, and may now be getting desperate. The Lebanese events are very reminiscent of Gaza, where America (via the Abrams Plan) armed and then incited its own faction against the resistance. The resistance tried its best to establish a national government but in the end, after grievous provocation, took direct control of Gaza.
1.3 billion dollars of American money was spent propping up the Sinyura government, and not only money. A former head of Mossad observed yesterday that three years of work by Arab and Western intelligence agencies in Beirut had been lost in one night. This is a good thing, surely. Where will we be in a month's time?
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A good analysis Qunfuz. This does indeed look like desperation time for the neo-cons. It was only a couple of years ago the term 'full spectrum domination' was the ultimate game plan. How things have changed! This goes to show that if anyone is going to be a major, influential world power, it must have some kind of workable political plan, and most importantly this plan must not be based on Hollywood and Disneyland cowboys and indians fantasies about the rest of the world. Furthermore, things may have worked out better for the Americans had they not promoted zionism as the centrepiece of its foreign policy. Seriously, how could the Arab world jump on board what is fundamentally a racist policy of genocide and land theft, for God's sake? It turns my stomach and I am not even Arab!
how do you know about the 1.3 billion US$
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Bergamo - Robin Wright in the Washington Post claims this figure. Here's the article reprinted in Dawn:


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Laptops And Convertibles
In the Laptops and Convertibles category, the positive effect that the Ultrabook spec has had on mobile computing is immeasurable. The breadth and scope of today's ultraportables is simply beyond beyond. And in this category, Lenovo has led the way from the beginning. The winning device this year is an Ultrabook with five distinct working modes. Congratulations to Lenovo for the ThinkPad Helix. Accepting for Lenovo was Mary Ann Griffiths, channel sales director at Lenovo.


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Two people were injured in a single-vehicle accident Friday morning in southern Davidson County, an official with the South Davidson Fire Department has confirmed.
Two people were injured in a single-vehicle accident Friday morning in southern Davidson County, an official with the South Davidson Fire Department has confirmed.
Troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol were dispatched to the accident at 8:15 a.m. It occurred at N.C. Highway 109 and Chapel Hill Church Road.
Trooper Nathan Varney said 16-year-old Lucas Alley and 17-year-old Ashley Hedrick, both of Lexington, were taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for their injuries. Hedrick, who was transported by AirCare, was in stable condition Friday afternoon at WFBMC, and Alley sustained only minor injuries, the trooper said.
Varney said Alley was driving a Toyota Tacoma which was traveling north on N.C. 109 when it ran off the left shoulder, struck a tree and the vehicle caught on fire. The driver was cited for failure to maintain lane control and Varney determined inattention as the contributing circumstance.
Ronnie Cook, chief of the South Davidson Fire Department, said a small Toyota truck was traveling northbound on Highway 109 went it left the roadway to the left and struck a tree. Firefighters arrived to find the vehicle fully involved in flames. Cook said passers-by stopped and got the two people out of the vehicle before the vehicle caught fire.
The female passenger was transported by AirCare to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. The male driver was transported by Davidson County EMS to WFBMC. Their conditions were not available with the South Davidson Fire Department, but Cook said they were conscious and breathing.
AirCare landed at the scene due to the woman having a head injury, the chief said. It was unclear what caused the wreck, which is under investigation by Trooper Nathan Varney. Varney wasn't immediately available for comment Friday morning.
South Davidson firefighters were assisted on the scene by the Badin Fire Department, troopers and Davidson County EMS.
Darrick Ignasiak can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 217, or email@example.com. Follow Darrick on Twitter: @DispatchDarrick.