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Hi Guys:
I am from the US so have very limited knowledge of the hikes in Europe. My knowledge is limited to the short hikes around Chamonix and Grindelwald.
This summer, my friend and I wanted to do the Mountaineers Haute Route. We are decent mountaineers and have climbed/hiked in the pacific Northwest of the US and are comfortable hiking on snow and have done south side of Mount Adams, Mount Hood...
Unfortunately, we are not good skiers. Therefore I had the following questions regarding the Haute Route (Mountaineers). We are planning to go end June/ early July.
1. Can it be done without skis? What if we hike up and hike down the slopes, how long will the entire route (Chamonix to Zermatt) take?
2. Can we do it without guides?
3. What are good sources to find out more about the routes?
4. Are the routes well marked?
5. Where can we make the reservation for the Huts?
6. Can we stay in the hut if we go on our own?
7. Would it be possible to stay in tents near the hut, but buy food and use the toilets in the hut?
Thanks guys, and once again your help would be really appreciated.


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Researchers have begun nationwide clinical trials for a new treatment for diabetes based largely on the discoveries of a professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk.
Doctors hope to reverse diabetes by stimulating the body to produce its own insulin.
In the trial, patients will be injected with a small, specialized section of a protein, called a peptide. In tests on animals, researchers found that the peptide travels to the pancreas, where it apparently "wakes up" inactive adult stem cells, said EVMS's Dr. Aaron I. Vinik, who pioneered the treatment on animals.
Once stimulated, the formerly sleepy cells give birth to new beta cells, which are responsible for manufacturing insulin. The peptide also seems to trigger the creation of companion cells in the pancreas, which begin making glucagon and other hormones needed to regulate blood glucose.
People with diabetes either can't produce or can't properly handle insulin, which helps move glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells of the body, where it can be used for energy. Vinik's research partner,
Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg of McGill University in Montreal, speculates that diabetes also may occur when the body fails to produce the protein the researchers have identified, called INGAP, or islet neogenesis gene associated protein.
Because diabetes involves such a basic problem, it affects almost every major part of the body and can lead to blindness, heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and nerve damage.
Scientists believe type 1 diabetes, sometimes known as juvenile diabetes, results when the body's immune system mistakes beta cells for foreign invaders and destroys them. Individuals with type 2 diabetes—which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of cases—may be able to produce insulin initially, but their bodies can't process it well enough to keep them healthy. Over time, their beta cells can wear out.
Vinik discovered the gene that makes beta cells, and EVMS patented it three years ago. INGAP is a protein made by that gene. From the INGAP protein, Vinik has isolated the peptide that seems directly involved in stimulating the creation of new beta cells.
The INGAP gene is active when a fetus is in the womb, but it then shuts off after birth, although the body normally continues to replenish beta cells here and there throughout a person's life.
Essentially, Vinik's research involves turning back the clock. By introducing part of a naturally occurring protein, doctors aim to trick pancreatic cells into acting like they're back in the womb.
"It's recreating the whole of what's created in your mother's womb," Vinik said. "We're lighting up the body's own adult stem cells, instead of taking them from something else. "
Initial trials of this technique will be performed on 62 adult patients at three medical institutes around the country: the Texas Diabetes Institute at the University of Texas in San Antonio, the Diabetes Care Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the MedStar Research Institute in Washington, D.C.
Vinik has tested the INGAP peptide on hamsters and mice. In his most recent work, all four diabetic mice began producing insulin after treatment.
But producing insulin is only one of the problems.
Doctors don't yet know if INGAP peptide therapy could ease some of the threatening side effects of diabetes, such as damage to tiny blood vessels in the eyes and kidneys, Rosenberg said.
In humans, doctors will inject the drug into study participants' muscles once a day for 35 days, Vinik said. Trials began December 5, 2001.
The study, known as a phase I/2a trial, will measure the drug's safety, tolerability and early trends that might suggest its effectiveness. Researchers will watch this small group of patients carefully for potential negative side effects. They'll also try to measure which dosages work best.
Vinik himself will not be involved in testing INGAP, a process he expects to conclude by this summer. If all goes well, he'd like to test the therapy on hundreds or even thousands of people around the country.
The research is being funded by a corporate partner, GMP Companies, Inc., a private business based in Florida. GMP and EVMS, which joined forces last year, will share the profits if INGAP one day leads to a successful commercial drug. EVMS earlier had formed a licensing agreement with Eli Lilly Co., which was canceled in 1999.
Scott Campbell, vice president of research at the American Diabetes Association, described Vinik's work as promising and novel, but he said it's far too early to know if it will work.
About 70 percent of drugs pass the first phase of FDA trials, Campbell said. Of those, only 30 percent make it through phase 2 trials, which involve more people and which measure efficacy. And of those, only 25 to 30 percent make it through phase 3 trials, which involve hundreds or thousands of people.
Bringing a new drug to market can cost anywhere from $200 million to $400 million, Vinik said.
Many other scientists are attacking diabetes with different approaches.
Doctors in Edmonton, Canada, last year used pancreatic cell transplants to cure the disease—at least temporarily—in several adults.
But the limited number of organs and tissue available for transplants falls far short of the needs of the more than 16 million people with diabetes in the United States. Patients who receive transplants need anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives, to prevent the immune system from attacking the foreign tissue.
Stem-cell researchers also hope to produce insulin-secreting cells in the laboratory in order to transplant them back into the body. If successful, Vinik's technique could offer several advantages over stem-cell therapy, Campbell said.
Injecting INGAP peptides eliminates the lengthy and difficult process of extracting stem cells from embryos, culturing them in a lab, coaxing them to differentiate into pancreatic tissue and stimulating them to make insulin.
Only last year, Vinik said he wanted to cure diabetes within five years.
Today, he said he doesn't want to make any promises, although he still dreams of seeing a cure for the disease within his lifetime.
"If what we've done in animals applies to humans," Vinik said, "we have a real shot."

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(By Delegate White)
(By Request of the State Tax Division)
[Introduced March 20, 2013; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to repeal §60-9-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend and reenact §60-9-4 and §60-9-6 of said code, all relating to eliminating duplicative reporting requirements imposed on distributors of imported cigarettes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §60-9-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be repealed; and that §60-9-4 and §60-9-6 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
§60-9-4. Criminal penalties.
Any person that commits any of the acts prohibited by section two of this article, either knowing or having reason to know he or she is doing so or that fails to comply with any of the requirements of section three of this article, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned in a state correctional facility not more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.
§60-9-6. Unfair trade practices.
A violation of section two or section three of this article constitutes an unlawful trade practice as provided in article eleven-a, chapter forty-seven of this code and, in addition to any remedies or penalties set forth in this article, is subject to any remedies or penalties for a violation of that article.
The Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner shall enforce each and every provision of the Unfair Trade Practices Act set forth in article eleven-a, chapter forty-seven of this code with respect to packages of cigarettes with like effect as if said that article were set forth in extenso herein.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to eliminate duplicative reporting requirements imposed on distributors of tobacco products.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.


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So why do we worry about McLaughlin's decision to go to law school? Perhaps we shouldn't. She certainly seems interested in social causes: "I'm an idealist; I want to change the world," she said. "I bleed blue; I'm a Democrat. I'm an ardent feminist. I'm big on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights – Prop. 8 was a big issue for me."Shouldn't we all do what gets us "most riled up" — what interests us? But if you love and excel at writing and you want to "change the world," law school is a fine choice. And a legal education could be the foundation for a fiction-writing career... perhaps even science fiction writing.
At the same time, she says being a lawyer isn't at the top of her to-do list. Rather, she wants to be a science fiction writer. "Writing and reading are my passions," she said. "I get the most riled up discussing fiction."
And on law school, she says: "I'm worried I'll hate law school because it will take up too much of my time on things I'm not interested in." McLaughlin, who keeps a blog, will take out student loans to pay for Northwestern.
Whatever. It's her choice. It must be weird to be a teenager and have the Wall Street Street journal and the legal blogosphere opining about something you decided to do.
And here's her blog, evilprodigy. Sample:
I'm a writer. First and foremost, I'm a writer. I write fantasy, science fiction and horror: specifically, I most often write historically based fantasy set in 1820s England -- because the world needs more historical fantasy that takes the messed-up and oligarchic nature of European imperialism seriously rather than further celebrating how wonderful and clever it was to be rich and pretty and white and rich in the 19th century, and clever, and witty, and rich, and pretty. Also because I like cravats, otherworlds and Judeo-Christian myth. I love fantasy. I love comics: I love fantasy comics, DC's Vertigo imprint and many of its titles being near and dear to my heart. I'm a very budding artist (possibly an embryonic artist, or perhaps a zygote artist). In other words, creativity in some form or another is my passion and my life, and has been as long as I've been old enough to know what I want out of life....Ha ha. Excellent. Snazzy. Good luck.
I've also had a school background of academic acceleration. And I'm Asian....
[P]eople love to dismiss the academic and professional achievements of Asian-Americans of every shape and size, and people especially love to dismiss it with the word logical. Or hard-working. Or any number of other words, and they all boil down to the same thing -- automaton. Robot. Time and time again white people dismiss the intelligence, the talent, the creativity of Asian people with these words -- "pointing out" that "Asians are only good at math," or that Asians are only good at science, and the only reason why they're good at these things is that they're Vulcans hardwired to compute (which has drastically taken away from their other human capacities, of course) -- ignoring the economic reasons why immigrant Asian families might encourage their second-gen kids to study lucrative subjects, of course, ignoring the all-around high scores. It's robotics. No other explanation. They all do math, anyway. Just human calculators. Just automatons. Just Spock, with pocket protectors and SAT academies.
I point to this astoundingly atrocious CNN article, Why right-brainers will rule this century, for an example: In "A Whole New Mind," he explains that one of the trademarks of the Conceptual Age is the outsourcing of traditional white-collar jobs such as law, accounting, and engineering to less-expensive overseas workers, particularly in Asia. But as he points out, you can't outsource creativity. Not to Asians you can't! They ain't born with it!
As you can see, as soon as an Asian starts doing something, it becomes a robot job. Even if it's the practice of law. Even if it's engineering.
My last name is McLaughlin and I have brown hair, so I have the lucky privilege of more people being willing to believe that my accomplishments are my own, that my ideas are my own, that I might actually just be a smart human being. However, my mother's last name was Kwon and I have that unlucky old friend, the epicanthic fold, so I'm still faced with legions of people willing to self-justify themselves into believing that verbal acuity is just another form of Asian Spock -- for real. People who have the nerve to say, "well, writing isn't really art." People who have the nerve to say, "well, you don't play music as an artist." People who have the nerve to say, you scored that high because you're Asian -- you skipped those grades because you're Asian -- you're good at that because you're Asian -- well, you had an Asian parent (a slavedriver) -- your mom's a tough parent (a dragon lady) -- you're Asian -- you're a robot -- you're Asian, you're Asian --
Maybe that guy scored higher than you on the SAT because he wasn't raised with the complacent knowledge that he could get into a good old boys' club whether he was Einstein or dumb as a post. Maybe that Asian engineer won the Nobel because he had a great idea. Maybe that girl has better grades than you because she deserves them. And maybe, just maybe -- maybe it doesn't take a robot to kick your lazy, self-satisfied, entitled ass to the curb anyway.
ADDED: Remember when Seamus Farrow went to Yale Law School at the age of 16. What's he up to now?


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By Tiernan Ray
Apple (AAPL) this evening announced a major shake-up of its executive ranks, with its head of iOS software, Scott Forstall, leaving the company next year, with his duties being taken over in part by hardware guru Jony Ive, who will lead human interface design, in addition to heading up industrial design.
Forstall will stay on as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the meantime.
Apple's head of iTunes, Eddy Cue, will take over the "Siri" intelligent assistant and "Maps" initiatives.
The company's head of OS X, Craig Federighi, will combine his responsibility with heading up overall iOS development.
And Bob Mansfield, formerly head of engineering, who was slated to retire but then reversed course in August, will run a new group called "Technologies," which Apple described as "which combines all of Apple's wireless teams across the company in one organization, fostering innovation in this area at an even higher level. This organization will also include the semiconductor teams, who have ambitious plans for the future."
ANd Apple's retail chief, John Browett, hired just back in January, will leave, and Apple's retail team will for the moment report directly to CEO Cook while the company searches for a replacement.
Apple's announcement comes as competitor Google (GOOG) today announced new products based on its competing Android software and Microsoft (MSFT) formally unveiled its Windows Phone 8 software following retail availability of the Surface tablet computer last week and Windows 8 for desktops and notebooks.
Will this mean the end of the "skeuomorophism" in iOS? The merging of iOS and OS X?


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Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art, in partnership with the Historic Deepwood Estate, is celebrating International Museum Day with free admission on May 18.
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This year's theme is "Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change." Through the event, museums are hoping to increase awareness of their role as institutions — which includes displaying and protecting heritage in creative ways.
Last year 32,000 museums in more than 129 countries participated in this event.
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is Oregon's third largest art museum and features works by Pacific Northwest and Native American artists. It also includes a diverse collection of traditional European, American and Asian art and artifacts that date from antiquity.
Located at 700 State St., the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Historic Deepwood Estate is an 1894 Queen Anne Victorian home situated on about four acres of manicured gardens and nature trails. The home at 1116 Mission St. SE was placed on the National Register of Historic Homes in 1973. Free tours are offered every half hour between 9 a.m. and noon.


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The Turtles, a 1960s folk rock band, were only around for five years – but during that time, they landed a ton of hits on the charts, including "Happy Together," "She'd Rather Be With Me" and their Top 10 cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe." They also partied like maniacs and had enough wild adventures to fill many books.
Howard Kaylan, the group's frontman (and Eddie from Flo and Eddie) has a new memoir coming out in April – Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa. Here's an exclusive excerpt in which he describes their performance at the White House in 1969 at Tricia Nixon's coming-out party.
I was snorting coke on Abraham Lincoln's desk in the White House. Yes, that Abraham Lincoln and that White House. A bunch of hairy peacenik dopers from California though we were, it seems that Tricia Nixon, daughter of Tricky Dick himself, was a fan of the Turtles and had requested our presence. Our first instinct: you've got to be kidding! No way in hell!
Yet here we were, our noses vacuuming lines off the surface of Honest Abe's very own workspace.
We had gone through several managers during the past five years and been on the charts far more often than anyone would ever have guessed, considering that we were the only ones looking out for us, and that White Whale Records wasn't much of a label.
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There had been the folk-rock years, and we had been lucky enough to score a few big hits; we were among the earliest children of Bob Dylan, putting our cover version of his tune "It Ain't Me, Babe" into the Top 10.
Then we had become the good-time music boys, influenced by the Lovin' Spoonful and determined not to protest anything. We'd made it to Number One with a song that's still recognized today as one of the classic rock & roll love songs of all time. "Happy Together," indeed.
And, now, finally, we had engineered our own success with "Elenore," our first self-penned Top 10 record, and "You Showed Me," which we had changed from a Beatlesque rocker into a lush ballad.
We were lucky and we knew it.
Of course, now we had the big-time management to prove it.
Gone were the friends of friends—we'd realized that we really weren't in any position to manage ourselves—and hello to the new Superstar Management Team.
We had been courted, successfully, by Ron DeBlasio and Jeff Wald, who were, at the time, top reps for the Campbell-Silver-Cosby Corporation.
That's right—Bill Cosby.
Mister Pudding Pops.
Fat Freaking Albert.
Bill, his own self, was a full partner in the firm that represented him.
And us.
And others.
And his sweaters.
And he was the number one comic in America.
Across the hall was the office of the appropriately named Artie Mogul, who ran the in-house record company, Tetragrammaton, home to Deep Purple and more.
Of course, he had nothing to do with us. Neither did Mr. Cosby, but his name promised to open a lot of doors in Hollywood and that was exactly what we needed.
But what, I asked, could these guys bring to the table for a band that had been around the block and, hypothetically, overstayed their welcome?
We didn't have to wait long.
We had heard, through the grapevine, that the Turtles were Tricia's favorite band, and we'd all had a good chuckle over that.
Old Man Nixon was the creepiest Dick of his generation, the least popular president among the under-30 crowd that had ever been, and a killer of our young men and women, as far as we were concerned.
We were deeply anti-war and deeply self-conscious. We weren't Nixonites, that's for sure. We were everything he stood against.
So when the hand-engraved invitations to perform at Tricia's coming out party arrived at the Cosby office, we were none too thrilled. In fact, we flat out refused to play.
They started to freak out.
"What do you mean, you refuse to play?! Who the hell do you think you are?! This isn't a political thing. It's like a goddamned royal proclamation, you idiots! You play the White House because you're an American!"
Blah, blah, blah …
They shamed us into it.
Not only that, but to add insult to injury, management now was requesting that we each go out and buy a classy new suit. Can't play for the president looking like the sewer rats that you really are.
Perfect. There it was, again.
Too bad Johny Barbata wasn't the drummer in the band anymore. He'd have loved the sight of us clumsily trying on the very Brioni suits that he'd been trying to get us to wear for three-and-a-half years.
Now we had each bought one. Talk about fish out of water.
Came the big day, May 10, 1969, we flew into Washington, D.C. on the taxpayers' dollar. There, we were met by five separate cars, replete with drivers all flying the American flag, and taken directly to the White House. Once there we discovered that the Secret Service had dossiers on each of us. They kept us in a holding lounge while going through our intimate details individually.
After we had all been cleared, it was time to unload the equipment that we had brought with us all the way from L.A.
But we didn't do the unloading. Instead, the Secret Service guys did. And they didn't know the first thing about large equipment cases. So as they began to unload the trap case from the drum set, the large case that holds the snare drum, percussion goodies and miscellaneous items, they tipped it to one side and, unknowingly, triggered the tiny switch on the electric metronome/tuner that we always carried with us.
Out came the guns.
"Up against the wall!"
Oh, we went there. Up against that wall it was as they carted off our little black box. We stood there, a rock group inside of enemy territory, the Nixon White House, looking down the crosshairs from the wrong direction. Guys in HAZMAT suits were brought in to deal with our little plastic tuner and their freak-out escalated yet another notch when someone hit the tuning switch and the 440 cycle "A" tone started shrieking from the metronome.
The term "shitting a brick" comes to mind.
My knees were shaking and the sweat was rolling down my face. And it was only May—the fucking cherry blossoms were blooming on America's Lawn and I was about to be shot for treason.
We looked at each other and we looked at them. It was like a Peckinpah movie.
I could almost hear the feds mumbling to each other as they set to work, but I couldn't understand what they were saying. I only perceived a gushing in my ears, like I was underwater. The only other sound I recall was my way-too-fast heartbeat.
That little fog started to set in, the one where you think you might just pass out.
Now the guns were cocked and ready to fire. They schlepped off our little plastic box for further examination. When it returned 10 minutes later, the faceplate had been pried off and the box was dripping water.
"It's a metronome," they declared. Good work, guys.
That was the longest 10 minutes of my life.
Many months later, we received a check from the White House for 17 dollars.
The party itself was pretty crazy. I've heard reports from a couple of the band members who had actually gone up to the roof of the White House with some CIA guys to smoke a joint before soundcheck, but I wasn't part of that bunch. (In fact, I actually read it in one particular Turtle's autobiography. Someone had to test those mikes, and I guess that's what I had been doing.)
However, later, when we returned to do the show, we were given President Lincoln's library to use as our dressing room. Unbelievable! In fact, we were told that the entire first floor was OK for us to explore—just as long as we didn't enter the private quarters, everyone on staff was to let us have the run of the place. And we did. It was amazing. We were loaded—high from smoking pot back at the hotel and a wee bit tipsy from all the French Champagne that was being freely dispensed—and we were roaming around the most important home in America unsupervised.
One member of our crew still had a few tricks up his sleeve, however, and not only did I get to take a few precious tokes of his mystery stash before the show started, but we were able to actually lay out lines of coke on Mr. Lincoln's desk. As the powder flew up my nose, I wondered if this was exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. Land of the Free, indeed. Well, I felt free and on top of the world.
Now I think, jeez, they must have had cameras, but back then, the thought never crossed my mind.
The show was wonderful. Hey, what can I say? We were always a great band. And although our other vocalist, my career-long partner Mark Volman, had a few balance issues—he fell off the stage a few times, much to the amusement of all present—the actual concert was a huge success. Just looking around the room at the dignitaries, the emissaries and the luminaries was like LSD to a stoner Democrat like me. That made things even more fun. I was smiling from ear to ear. Even the Temptations, who were also on the bill, were drinking and singing and laughing right along with us.
And we were funny. We didn't hold back just because of the venue. Hell, I thought, we've been thrown out of better places than this! But, of course, we hadn't been. Jokes at America's expense … literally.
Right after the show, Mark decided to hit on Lucy Baines Johnson, LBJ's daughter, which would have been questionable under any circumstances, but was especially so with her husband, Pat Nugent, squaring off at Mark from inches away. Spittle was flying. I'm not exactly sure how peace was restored between them, but man, there was an almost-incident that was happily avoided. History would have loved that one.
Tricia and her friends seemed to love us. Most of her acquaintances were college kids and, probably unbeknownst to her, were busy spending their evening passing out subversive SDS flyers to the crowd.
And, much to our relief, Tricky Dick was off on a foreign mission somewhere, killing our troops, and so he never made an appearance. I've always been thankful for that. I am absolutely positive, considering our states of mind that evening, that I—or some other equally messed-up Turtle—would have given him an earful of our contempt and probably would have ended up in Gitmo.
They took some photos. One shows five shaggy guys, one psychedelic road manager, Ron DeBlasio, Jeff Wald and his wife, the singer Helen "I Am Woman" Reddy, and there in the center, looking like a Hummel figurine in white, Tricia Nixon, herself. Another depicts only four shaggy guys—all of the Turtles except me—and Tricia. That one made it to the cover of Parade Magazine. Read into my missing visage what you will. Was I up to something subversive? I wish I could say I was, but I was probably just exploring the presidential restroom or something. It all kind of makes you proud to be an American, though, doesn't it?
How in the world had I gotten here?
From the book Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa by Howard Kaylan with Jeff Tamarkin. Published by Backbeat Books.


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Deal official, Nationals introduce Soriano
Veteran closer adds depth, experience to Washington's relief corps
By Bill Ladson /01/17/13 7:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals made it official on Thursday evening, signing right-handed closer Rafael Soriano to a two-year, $28 million contract. The deal also includes a $14 million option for 2015 that vests if Soriano finishes 120 games over the next two years.
Soriano declined the Yankees' $13.3 million qualifying offer, so the Nats will forfeit what is currently the 29th overall pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, and the Yanks will receive what is currently the 32nd overall pick. Washington will also lose pool money from the Draft. The Draft order is still subject to change, depending on free agents Kyle Lohse and Michael Bourn signing with other teams.
"The Draft pick is important," Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said. "But picking at the end of the Draft -- where we are this year -- we examined the Draft pool and felt where we were picking and the talent pool that was out there ... it was a good time for us to forfeit the pick. It's never easy, because [the Draft] is where our bread and butter is. We felt the best strategy for us to win now and in the near future was to forgo the pick and get the talent."
Soriano, 33, found himself waiting a long time to sign because many teams were unwilling to give up a Draft pick. But he finally found a home in Washington. Soriano, introduced to the local media at Nationals Park during a news conference on Thursday, will wear uniform No. 29.
"Obviously, I've always been a patient person, and [agent] Scott [Boras] knows this about me," Soriano said through interpreter Luis Garcia. "Scott told me, 'Just bide your time, continue to work out, do what you need to do. When the time is right, obviously, it will happen for you.' I continued to work out, do my work, [showed] patience. When the opportunity in Washington came up, I thought it was a club I could help now and obviously help win a World Series."
Soriano had one of his best seasons in 2012, posting a 2.26 ERA with 42 saves for the Yankees, taking over closer duties after Mariano Rivera tore his right anterior cruciate ligament in early May. Soriano opted out of his contract with New York after he learned that Rivera was going to come back for the 2013 season. Soriano did not want to be a setup man.
Soriano, who joins a bullpen that already includes Drew Storen and Tyler Clippard, has a 2.78 career ERA in 11 seasons spent with the Mariners, Braves, Rays and Yankees. The Nats signed Soriano after their bullpen struggled during last year's National League Division Series against the Cardinals, allowing 16 earn runs in five games. Storen, who ended the season as the closer, allowed four runs in the ninth inning of a 9-7 loss in the decisive Game 5.
"The signing of Rafael Soriano wasn't based on one inning and one game at the end of the season," Rizzo said. "[Storen] is a young closer that was thrust into the closer role as a very young man and young Major Leaguer.
"We feel we benefit having Sori on the club, not only by pitching the ninth inning, but also by mentoring a good, young potential closer in Drew Storen. We feel we have multiple closers on this club. ... One of them is going to close out the seventh inning, one will close out the eighth, one will finish the game in the ninth, and we feel pretty good about that."
The Nationals first showed interest in Soriano during the General Managers Meetings in November. Managing principal owner Ted Lerner and Boras would work out the contract details a few weeks later. Of the $28 million in Soriano's deal, a total $14 million will be deferred.
"Mike contacted me, started the process and started to let me know -- baseball-wise -- that he wanted me involved," Boras said. "Monetarily, Ted was in Palm Springs, [Calif.], and so we met and talked about his concerns, issues and what had to be done to see if they could fit Rafael into the final structure of the Nationals. That part, he undertook with me, and we sat down over a two- or three-day period and worked rather religiously getting this worked out."


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Of course people are upgrading from XP to 7 - if they are upgrading at all. Who upgrades from Debian to Windows? Or, Solaris to Windows?
Oh - 6 XP users upgrade for every Vista user? Surprise, surprise!! Probably half a billion people in this world THOUGH about upgrading to Vista, but decided not to when Vista proved to be such a bomb.
Let's remember, Vista wouldn't run on old equipment, while Win7 runs on anything over a gigahertz with a gig of memory. A lot of XP users COULDN'T upgrade to Vista!!
Of course they are upgrading, my Vista system just decided it wasn't genuine, last month my boss's XP machine decided it wasn't genuine coincidence? If you can't find that little certificate what choice do you have, you can't even buy XP anymore! At least I was dual-booting with Linux but Mozilla reports it's IE6 on Vista.
That's not so wrong. If you look at these numbers, you can see that Mac lost
I suspect these numbers are only meaningful on a year by year basis. 0.15% just does not seem significant enough to make any kind of judgment on. It certainly possible that some users migrated away from 10.5, but it's no less likely that Mac users spent a little less time on the net in November.
Good to see Windows 7 selling and XP dropping though. XP has become the IE6 of operation systems (as far as application devs are concerned).
The reason this is significant is twofold: first, because Windows XP is easily the biggest competitor to Vista and now Windows 7, and second, because an upgrade from Windows XP to 7 [usually] means $$$ for Microsoft, while an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 means nothing except perhaps a little bandwidth consumption.
I suspect the days of people running out and buying Windows upgrades in droves are behind us. The excitement and wonder doesn't happen anymore because the OS we already have by and large does what we need an OS to do. What defines an OS is now mature, no longer making leaps and bounds of dramatic feature inclusions that matter to Joe Average. Even IT guys are unimpressed.
Second point: I had my first hands-on with Windows 7 today. I'm somewhat bewildered. In what way is this not Vista 1.1? Sure, okay, there are some cosmetic changes to the taskbar but really, I fail to find anything revolutionary. Certainly nothing that justifies the same folks who've said all along that Vista was "bad" to say that 7 is "awesome". Is a slight reduction in UAC prompts really enough?
Second point: I had my first hands-on with Windows 7 today. I'm somewhat bewildered. In what way is this not Vista 1.1? Sure, okay, there are some cosmetic changes to the taskbar but really, I fail to find anything revolutionary. Certainly nothing that justifies the same folks who've said all along that Vista was "bad" to say that 7 is "awesome". Is a slight reduction in UAC prompts really enough?
I think that MS did that intentionally. Vista was such a pain because it was such a sharp break from XP. Porting any reasonably complex application from XP to Vista is a difficult task; especially if that application has existed since the 9x days. I think MS is trying to do smaller more incremental releases now.
Actually, the phrase for it is "mojave #2: retarded bugaloo"
It's the same concept and reason.
I bought a copy of windows 7 for $30 due to my wife's employer being a college. I haven't installed it on anything yet, and I don't have plans to, but for $30 it will be nice to have a legitimate copy if the need arises. For my old Dell laptop and my Parallels needs XP works just fine.
Bad news for you is that you don't have a legitimate copy. You have a copy made by Microsoft, but it's still illegal to use a version you are not allowed to use.
Bad news for you is that you don't have a legitimate copy. You have a copy made by Microsoft, but it's still illegal to use a version you are not allowed to use.
Are you implying that if he did not buy the windows copy he was using, it was then NOT made by Microsoft? Is that like the tree falling in the woods sort of thing?
Unlike Vista it doesn't sit there and grind the hard drive for no discernable reason for ages. That in itself is good enough for me! (and a sad indictment of vista)
Yes yes turned off prefetch, indexing etc.
Not to mention copies of Windows 7 being given away to TechNet people left and right these days, college students, Windows 7 launch party copies, and the $10 copies that Best Buy employees got.
"Windows 7 being given away to TechNet people"
Uh...I pay a yearly subscription for my TechNet copies. I wouldn't exactly call ~$250 a year "giving away".
I know of 25 people who bought windows 7 to replace vista or XP. I still have bruises from the XP people. They were a bit annoyed that I had to back up and reinstall their apps. They thought it would upgrade them to 7. For some reason the vista people where happy to hear the word format. They even wanted to format the hard drive more then once to make sure vista was gone.
I bet most of those using Windows 7 bought new PCs with it installed. Most people do not upgrade the OS their PC uses. And businesses as well as others who need to get work should wait until MS releases the first service pack before upgrading. Wait until MS fixes the bugs and holes.
Assuming a similar number of people bought a new computer that came with Vista and it took 5 months to reach the same market share as Win7 in 3 weeks, I would say that a good portion of Win7 sales is on upgrades and not new computers.
I wonder how many of those are people who bought Windows 7 and how many are just people who bought a computer that came with Windows 7?
The Win 7 Beta/RC broke 1% in September.
Windows 7 was released on October 22nd. On November 30 it had a 4% share in monthly tracking and was averaging 5% in daily tracking.
You could argue that a 5% global desktop share was achieved in one month of retail system sales.
But to do that, you have to chop off the low end.
The Win 7 netbook is only beginning to make its presence felt in places like Walmart.
To my eyes, these numbers simply don't make sense unless you assume very strong pre-sales of Windows 7.
The upgrade coupon and the retail box.
The upgrade implies confidence in a DIY Windows system install or upgrade. It's an unmistakable vote for Windows.
Yes, 7 is ***cheap*** for education.
Yes, 7 is ***cheap*** for education.
Whatever the price, it will always be endlessly more expensive than Linux.
The true power of the Dark Side is that we have cookies.
You can't set up your own repository? Really?
Because that's what Linux calls it, before Windows copied it.
Active Directory is a MS-standard LDAP server. Like OpenLDAP. You can use LDAP to store your users and login to your linux machines using it as the password store.
However, the OP doesn't understand what AD is, as he thinks it pushes software to clients amongst other things (network configuration?). To get those features you need to buy more server software from MS, like WSUS or Systems Centre. There are similar things available for Linux too (eg a repository for updates, Puppet or CFEngine for client config
We Linux is not so easy, and believe it or not,
Perhaps these links will be of help to you then. You seem to not be up-to-date.
Red Hat and Novell have quite a bit to help manage your Linux (and Windows, in Novell's case) infrastructure; this is only a quick sampling. If you're truly interested in it, you'll need to contact their representatives and have a dog-n-pony show, like the Microsoft ones you've attended.
Oh dear I bit.
> 8,000 students * {student turnover period} shown just one OS. Will they see anything of Open Source apart from Moodle?
Now that's an education for you.
Incidentally, there are many Open Source OSs that have a cost of next to nothing but a value way beyond ***cheap***
Why do you think 7 is ***cheap***? It's not altruism, it's good business sense for MS to practically give away software for education.
As a matter of interest, can you tell me what you have really gained from moving from XP to
And what we got with 7? Are YOU kidding or are you just one of those fanboys that don't ever botter to see beyond the pretty interface of a OS?:
Much better Active directory integration
Accessibility improvements. Microsoft has revamped the accessibility features in Windows 7 with improved speech recognition and a new Magnifier utility with full-screen and lens-mode views.
Action Center. While previous versions of Windows included a feature called Windows Security Center that monitored the various security features of the system, Windows 7 takes this functionality to the next level with Action Center. In addition to monitoring security, Action Center also monitors the OS's maintenance features and consolidates alerts from numerous Windows features into a single interface.
Aero Peek. This replacement for Show Desktop in Windows 7 lets you "peek" behind all of the open windows on your desktop and easily view and Windows Gadgets or files on your desktop. You can also peek into the contents of specific open windows.
Aero Snaps. By dragging open windows in certain ways, you can "snap" them to the edges of the screen, maximize, or minimize. This obviates the need to click tiny onscreen elements, making these features more accessible to users.
Backup and Restore. Windows Vista's stellar backup and restore features have been streamlined and simplified in Windows 7. Like its predecessor, Windows 7 supports both data backup and image-based system backup, but now the UIs are more segregated.
Bitlocker To Go. The full-drive encryption feature that first debuted in Windows Vista has been updated in Windows 7 to support removable USB storage devices like flash memory drives and portable hard drives.
Blu-Ray support. Windows 7 natively supports Blu-Ray optical discs and enables you to write to Blu-Ray recordable media.
Device Stage. This Longhorn-style user experience will be made available for multi-function devices such as smart phones, multifunction printers, portable media players, and the like. Through this UI, you'll be able to access the features that are unique to each device. Each Device Stage page can be extensively customized by the device maker.
Devices and Printers. This activity center provides a central location for interacting with any hardware devices--digital cameras, mice, displays, keyboards, and the like--that may be attached to your PC.
DirectAccess. This feature is aimed at business users who need to securely access corporate network resources while away from the office. Essentially a simple replacement for VPN connections, DirectAccess requires Windows Server 2008 R2 on the server-side.
DirectX 11. Windows 7 includes the latest version of the DirectX multimedia libraries.
Display improvements. Windows 7 includes numerous improvements related to computer displays, including integrated display color calibration, improved high DPI support, ClearType, and improved support for external displays. A new Windows Key + P keyboard shortcut helps you easily switch between connected displays.
HomeGroup. Microsoft has consolidated the most common network-based sharing tasks into a single simple interface called HomeGroup. Computers in a HomeGroup can easily share documents, digital media files, and printers over a home network.
Internet Explorer. Windows 7 ships with the latest version of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8.
Libraries. In Windows 7, Microsoft has realized a long-term goal to replace the static special shell folders from previous Windows versions and replace them with virtualized shell locations that aggregate content from a variety of physical locations. Libraries are implemented as virtual folders and the views
The same thing that everyone who moved from XP to 7 gained.
Windows 7 is nicer to use in almost every respect. The new taskbar (which is the best use of desktop compositing I've seen), the improved Alt-Tab window and the searchable start menu are the things that jump to mind most readily.
If we're talking about real, demonstrable gains, the move from 2000 -> XP was far more questionable.
I will happily admit that I can only comment on this from the user's perspective, I don't know what changes were made bet
That article was basically a graph [hitslink.com] in text form.
Whoever constructed that graph should be ashamed of himself. Perspective does not belong in a line plot.
How on earth do you accurately measure OS installations. I only say because I think the Linux/BSD/other non MS/Apple OSs are probably under represented. For example like a few other people, I stamped an ext{x} shaped boot on the ntfs partition on my computers.
Those computers officially run some sort of Windows but there is no Windows on here but I'm sure my PCs are counted as running Windows by Dell/HP et al.
Sadly - for balance - I can't point at a machine that came with Linux pre installed and had it rep
Sadly - for balance - I can't point at a machine that came with Linux pre installed and had it replaced by Windows.
There are lots of such examples. In recent years they were usually cheap laptops bought in not-quite-mature markets (think "post Soviet block", of that I'm certain)
Those machines often have some nonfunctional copy of Linux (doesn't even boot to X for example, doesn't have drivers for the hardware). Sometimes they are blank...but with Knoppix live-DVD included, so they arguably are also Linux machines... Well, one major (really major) PC manufacturer usually adds FreeDOS, so at least those machines are exclu
Sadly - for balance - I can't point at a machine that came with Linux pre installed and had it replaced by Windows.
I can. Remember all those Lindows boxes that Walmart sold? Most of the people I know that bought them installed Windows on them. They either planned to install Windows right away or got fed up with the 'fake windows' that wouldn't run their software and subsequently installed windows. I think Walmart selling crappy low end linux boxes pretending to be Windows boxes did a lot of PR damage to Linux.
Yeah, statistics are kind of interesting, but you have to try to keep a clear idea of what they're really saying. I guess these are measurements of the share of web traffic each OS has according to some measurement of web traffic. Is it done with unique IPs, in which case NAT could caused skewed statistics? Is it doing it by cookies? Which sites, exactly, are being monitored? Is it being treated like a random sample and used to extrapolate data? Is there an attempt to account for people who might not
I mean, the headline makes it sound like Microsoft isn't do so well, but the full summary suggests that Apple is the one lowering its Market share to Linux.
I mean, Considering PC's have the most market share, anyone who doesn't use Windows is essentially using whatever their alternative is (OSX/Linux) to get AWAY from Windows (Especially Vista, that pushed a few people I know towards a Macbook).
So, was Windows 7 expected to Rip all thsoe Happy Mac customers back to Windows? Or was it majestically expected to make Linux users go insane?
Windows Users use Windows, and Windows 7 will only grow from the market share of other Windows operating systems. It'll be a long while before Mac and Linux users go back to Windows, and the four horsemen of the Apocalypse will be just as stumped as I will be.
Exactly. Windows 7 is good enough to keep me using Windows if I buy another Windows machine. I was running the RC on my old Thinkpad and it actually had decent performance. Unfortunately, I reinstalled Win XP and, well, I don't care what anyone claims, XP is still faster on older hardware (and yes, I turned off all the eye-candy stuff on the thinkpad). However, if I bought a new machine today and it came with 7, I'd keep it, unlike Vista.
For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped out.
Well duh! That's because there are more than six XP users per each Vista user!
Probably true.
I will say that going from XP to Windows 7 is a much larger leap than going from Vista to Windows 7... if you're already running Vista, you already have pretty much everything in 7 except for the new Start bar. Vista users probably feel less pressure to upgrade due to that.
Probably true.
I will say that going from XP to Windows 7 is a much larger leap than going from Vista to Windows 7... if you're already running Vista, you already have pretty much everything in 7 except for the new Start bar. Vista users probably feel less pressure to upgrade due to that.
Well, I think it is even simpler than that.
Unlike the crowd here, MOST people run whatever comes on their PC.
People who buy new computers (you know, ones with Windows 7) are more likely to be replacing an older computer (more likely one that shipped with XP) rather than newer one (with Vista).
Thus the Windows 7 systems are mostly replacing XP. Why this is news is beyond me. Now if it was the other way around, I would be very surprised.
Vista has around 20% of market so your statement is clearly wrong in quantative terms at least. XP users are more likely to upgrade because their machines are old. Not much point upgrading from Vista to 7.
Certainly how is it bad news for microsoft? It's just saying that people are upgrading from XP to 7
Net Applications confirms it.
Why is this being reported as some kind of loss for Microsoft? Isn't this *exactly* what they wanted? XP users who didn't switch to Vista to switch to 7?
Really. I just did a survey of all the computers in my house. Three were running Ubuntu Linux, one was running Windows Vista.
That's a 75% market share!
I think the recession plays a major factor in Apple's slight drop. Apple's smart in holding the line, however, since they don't want a large line of low margin products that will have heavy support costs. After the recession fades, they want to look consistent with their pricing.
Also, I wonder if they counted virtual machines in the survey?
According to these numbers there are three times more Linux users than iPhone users. The iPhone is generally considered a huge success. Why is Linux percieved so differently?
Yeah, and my lemonade stand has about 90% of the neighbourhood market, yet somehow I don't have the market cap or coke? When will investors realise this madness, and start buying my stocks?
I got karma to burn.
Been a switch-hitter between Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows for years. For the past year or so, it's been Ubuntu and Vista. I'd say I spent equal time in both. I've got Ubuntu tweaked to my liking, and when I was mobile, usually used Linux because of the fast boot and wake-from-RAM times. Vista had to be there, well, because Linux multimedia just blows. It took me the good part of a week to get my laptop dock's S/PDIF port to work, and that was only after manually ripping out ALSA and building OSS4 from scratch, and even then, it only ever saw the S/PDIF port as 44.1kHz, 16-bit capable. That said, I enjoy using it, I'm not afraid of the command line, but we've still got a long way to go. I'm not quite yet comfortable with recommending Linux to firends and family. Kudos to getting back up to 1% though!
Windows 7 got clean-installed about a week ago. To me, the UI seems much smoother (No more bajillion clicks to get to a NIC's IP settings page), even the Start menu was given a once-over. To me, it's just as good as Windows 2000, and a marked improvement over XP. But who knows, It's only got a week of clutter on it yet.
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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My niece called me this morning, with the sad news that her shaded silver Persian passed away. He was up there in years and his health had been failing for a while now. He was a beautiful cat, but very elusive around people that he didn't know. Whenever I would visit I would try to win him over, but he wanted no parts of me. He would let me get within a few feet of him, and then he would take off. The only way I was able to get a picture of him, was at a distance. I did get to hold him once - when Linda picked him up and put him in my lap. He tolerated that maneuver, but wasn't at all thrilled! I was hoping to win him over when I got moved down there, but time just ran out. :(
RIP pretty Smokie. I'm sure that Brindle was waiting for you as you crossed over The Bridge. Rest well dear boy ~~~~~ I only wish that I had been able to know you better. :love:


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PACIFIC PALISADES, CA– UNC freshman Jamie Loeb is starting her first year at Carolina in style. Loeb claimed the 2013 Riviera/ ITA Women's All-American Championships to become the first freshman since 2004 to win the singles title.
Loeb beat top-seeded Robin Anderson representing UCLA, 6-4, 6-0, to wrap up her nine-day odyssey to the championship. What's more, Loeb has now etched her place in Carolina Athletics history.
She became the first Tar Heel in school history to take home the illustrious Women's All-American Championships.
And Loeb seemed to really take her game to the next level as the tournament progressed, refusing to drop a single set in main draw play as the competition level rose. She was a giant killer, eliminating the top three seeds in the competition during her memorable title run.
With the record-breaking triumph, Loeb earned an automatic bid to the USTA/ ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships from Nov. 7-10 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.


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Submission + - O'Reilly Giving Away "Open Government" as Aaron Swartz Tribute 1
jones_supa writes: The classic hacker book publisher O'Reilly is releasing their book Open Government for free as a tribute for Aaron Swartz. The book asks the question, in a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation. The files are posted on the O'Reilly Media GitHub account as PDF, Mobi, and EPUB files.


text: In case you might have missed it, not too long ago, Verizon actually sued the FCC. The FCC basically required Verizon to offer data roaming deals to other carriers. Verizon was not happy about this, so they decided to take the FCC to court, claiming that the governmental organization overstepped it's authority. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed and tossed out Verizon's case. The three judges of the court unanimously ruled that the FCC was within the authority of the Communication Act to make data roaming deals mandatory. Here's a quote with a bit more info, Share your perspective on this outcome. Source: TheHill


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Duke vs. Virginia Tech
February 25, 2014 • 7 p.m.
Durham, N.C. • Cameron Indoor Stadium (9,314)
ESPNU • Blue Devil IMG Sports Network
The Opening Tip
• In the first of its two final remaining home games, Duke hosts Virginia Tech Tuesday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The game tips off at 7 p.m. and will air on ESPNU and the Blue Devil IMG Sports Network.
• Duke is ranked No. 6 in the AP Poll and No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches' Poll. The Blue Devils are 113-31 all-time when ranked No. 6 in the AP Poll.
• The Blue Devils are 20-3 against unranked team this season but dropped their last meeting against a team outside top 25, falling 74-66 at North Carolina on Feb. 20.
• Duke's home-court winning streak sits at 31 consecutive victories, tied for the longest active streak in the nation. Duke is 15-0 at home this season after going 16-0 on Coach K Court in 2012-13. Duke has gone undefeated in Cameron Indoor Stadium in 17 seasons, including three of the past four years.
The Last Time Out
• Led by another double-double from Jabari Parker, Duke defeated the No. 1 team in the nation for the sixth time under head coach Mike Krzyzewski, defeating top-ranked Syracuse 66-60 Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Parker led Duke with 19 points and 10 rebounds while hitting 6-of-8 field goals on the way to his third straight double-double. The freshman forward hit all three of his three-point attempts and scored 11 second-half points to lead Duke to the upset win.
• Rodney Hood contributed 13 points and seven rebounds, while the guard tandem of Quinn Cook, Rasheed Sulaimon and Tyler Thornton combined for 27 points, 11 assists and just three turnovers. Sulaimon dished out a team-high seven of those helpers.
• Duke shot .479 (23-of-48) from the field against Syracuse for the second-highest opponent field goal percentage against the Orange this season.
By The Numbers
• Duke has won 31 consecutive games at Cameron Indoor Stadium, tied for the longest active home win streak in the country. Included in that streak is a 66-60 win over top-ranked Syracuse this past Tuesday as well as eight wins by 20 points or more.
• The Blue Devils have held 11 straight home opponents to less than 70 points. Opposing teams average just 65.5 points per game on Duke's home court, good for a +18.4 Duke scoring margin.
• Duke owns an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.55:1, which would rank as the highest ratio since Duke began tracking turnovers in the 1970-71 season. The Blue Devils logged a school-record 1.51:1 assist-to-turnover ratio last season, bettering the previous school record of 1.32 set in 2000-01.
• Opposing teams are shooting just .304 (110-of-362) from the three-point line against Duke with an average of 4.0 made three-pointers per game. Duke has surrendered the fifth-fewest made three-pointers in the nation.
• Jabari Parker has a double-double in seven of his past 10 games and is averaging 19.2 points and 11.6 rebounds per game during that stretch. Parker owns an ACC-leading 11 double-doubles this season and ranks among the league's top three in scoring (2nd – 19.1 ppg.), rebounding (1st - 8.8 rpg.) and field goal percentage (3rd, .485 – 189-of-390).
• Andre Dawkins needs just 13 points to become the 63rd Duke player to join the 1,000-point club. Dawkins is averaging a career-best 8.7 points per game this season.
• Rasheed Sulaimon has scored in double figures in nine of 14 ACC games and averages 10.5 points and 3.1 assists per game in conference play. He leads Duke with 37 assists over his past 10 games and owns a 2.31:1 assist-to-turnover ratio during that span.
• Senior Tyler Thornton has logged 26 assists and just four turnovers in his past 10 games, good for a 6.5:1 assist-to-turnover ratio during that span. Thornton has not committed more than one turnover in any of Duke's 15 ACC games this season and has posted turnover-free performances eight times in conference play.
• Rodney Hood is averaging 16.1 points per game in his first season at Duke, which would be the highest scoring average by a transfer under Coach K in his first season, bettering the previous averages of Seth Curry (9.0 ppg., 2010-11), Roshown McLeod (11.9 ppg., 1996-97) and Dahntay Jones (11.2 ppg., 2001-02).


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TRAINING: Hard work every day in striking, grappling, and conditioning
When and why did you start training to become a fighter? At age 14. I had an affinity for the sport.
What ranks and titles have you held? Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Jiu-jitsu: Brazilian champion, Pan American, Brazil Cup, 13-time champion of the Northeast, 15 times champion of Ceará.
Do you have any heroes? My brother
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? The realization of a dream as a professional athlete.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I completed high school
What was your job before you started fighting? Safety inspector
Favorite grappling technique: Triangle
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Bill Vantuono, editor of our sister publication, Railway Age, had an interesting editorial in the magazine's January issue where he wrote:
"The Harriman Awards are being put out to pasture, 'retired,' according to the AAR. They (and also the Harold F. Hammond safety award, given to individuals) will be replaced by a yet-to-be-determined safety recognition program that will be based on a collaborative approach to safety. No more competition based on FRA reportable injuries per 200,000 man-hours worked. No more winners and runners-up. No more friendly competition to see which is the safest railroad. Instead, we might see something along the lines of an industry summit meeting where safety best-practices are shared.
"Is that a good thing?"
Rail labor claimed the Harriman Award acted as an incentive for not reporting on-duty injuries because managerial bonuses were tied to low reportable injury rates.
Railroading an unforgiving business. There are big, powerful machines that perform big powerful tasks and small mistakes can result in large consequences. Financial motivation may be an element of safety, but not the kind suggested in the above paragraph. Running a safe railroad plays into the efficiency of operations, the productivity of maintenance, which then leads to overall profitability.
Awards or not, safety remains a top concern. Anyone who attended the NRC Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego, Calif., at the beginning of January was made aware of this. Each presenter, whether it was from a Class 1, shortline or transit agency all began with the importance of safety, not only from their employees but from contractors and anyone else who steps foot on railroad property.
There are plenty of safety recognitions throughout the industry besides the Harrimans. The American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association has its "Jake" safety awards, along with its President's Awards. We here at RT&S sponsor the NRC safety awards, which recognizes safety accomplishments among contracting companies and many of the Class 1 railroads give out their own safety awards.
Mischa Wanek-Libman, editor of this magazine, has a silver dollar displayed in her office, tails side or eagle side up. I've joked with her that it's an emergency stash for chocolate or coffee, but it too is a safety award that Jake Jacobson (the same Jake that the ASLRRA awards are named after) awards to employees. Jacobson bestows this Eagle Eye Award to those who find a potentially dangerous situation out on the tracks of the Copper Basin Railway. Jacobson does this because he says it adds a little fun to work, but I also think those silver dollars act as reminders to their recipients.
Isn't that what awards are, reminders. Whether you feel a silver dollar in your pocket or see an award on display, don't you immediately think about why it's there?
At the end of the day, I don't believe safety for the railroads means getting to put a plaque up on a wall or giving themselves a pat on the back for winning a competition. The true reward in safety is making sure every one of their employees returns home every night.


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I am not ready for tebow
He is not the answer
You wanna try McElroy, go for it
But no to tebow
never thought i'd utter the words...but it may be time.
Sanchez is 10x the QB that Tebow is, but the late game mistakes are going to lose us the veterans on this team, and possibly the young guys too. You bring in Tebow, you hope he rallies the troops, you throw a hailmary...and hope that Tebowball wins you enough games to get into the playoffs.
With a QB, its all about trust...and i am afraid Sanchez has lost a lot of good faith in the last season and a half.
I am not ready for tebow
He is not the answer
You wanna try McElroy, go for it
But no to tebow
If you have been watching the Jets this year, you can tell what the coaching staff thinks of Tebow in terms of being a viable answer at QB. His lack of playing time and the fact he has thrown only two passes as QB tells you everything you need to know.
Nah, Mark had a decent game. And it was the Pats. Not yet.
If you guys would have lost the first Miami game, it would take place at 3-5. Although I'm still sticking with my 3-5 prediction before the bye, but don't think it will look bad enough to warrant a swap considering Mark's last 2 games.
Not to mention Seattle's D is not the best D to start Tebow against. Perhaps the only chance he has is if Rex is afraid Wilson will Tebow the Jets all game long and will look stupid if that happens with Tebow running 2 plays a game.
I still say the best move is if the Jets can somehow make an MJD-Tebow trade happen.
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Sanchez played well. Buys himself a few weeks. Tebow should've been in down at the goal line instead of the stupid Schillens slant on 3rd and 1. I like the way they are using Tebow. Maybe sometimes a little more but overall Sanchez survives a few more weeks and Tebow gets more goal line carries.
Once again a Rex "Best Defensive Mind In the Game" Ryan Defense gave up a lead at the end of the game instead of making a stop and winning the MF'ing game for us....
Just play Tebow in the final 2 minutes of both halfs. Problem solved.
Jetfan16, McEl-RAT is a career Backup QB.
If he's not good enough to be Mark's BACK-UP, then he's not good enough to be a Starting QB.


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Clad in hard, armoured shells, turtles have a unique body plan unlike that of any other animal. Their shells have clearly served them well and the basic structure has gone largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. But this unchanging nature poses a problem for anyone trying to understand how they evolved and until…


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BROOMFIELD -- Darci and Bill Acklin hoof it as much as possible and get more than second looks riding Boe and Jamie around their paved suburbia.
"One person said, 'Are they real?'" Darci recalled of a passerby who noticed her "parked" with their pair of Missouri Fox Trotters outside a Subway while Bill ran in for sandwiches.
Getting comments like that just reinforces the Broomfield couple's commitment to the Boulder County Fair in Longmont, where every summer they volunteer at the horse show as ring stewards and assistants to the judge.
"We don't have any kids in it anymore," Bill, 59, said. "But if we volunteer to do jobs there that frees up other parents to help get their kids ready to go show."
So, beginning in January, the Acklins meet once monthly with other fair volunteers who support youths learning to ride horses and stay safe around them.
Climbing their own learning curve as adults brought them together in 1995 at the Evergreen Rodeo formerly known as The Bear Creek Rodeo.
Bill was president then of the association hosting the event, and during his first June on the job he noticed two women in a chute nimbly removing harnesses and saddles from bulls and broncs coming in from the arena.
He later asked to learn more about the so-called stripping chute from Darci, 50, and her friend.
Darci and Bill fell in love after the lessons and married on June 10, 2005, in Evergreen at a Jefferson County open space named Alderfer/Three Sisters.
Bill lived in Evergreen then and Darci grew up there and rode on that property where the namesake family operated a sawmill.
"We had the preacher on a big rock, and we sat on our horses with our friends around. Then, we got hitched, so to speak," Bill said.
The couple now works in the stripping chutes at the annual National Western Stock Show in Denver and at smaller events throughout the region including at the Boulder County Fair's Colorado Pro Rodeo Association event.
"But now we want to be teaching younger people how to strip bulls so we can back off," Bill said.
Darci smiled at her husband.
"He can still jump!" she said, chuckling. "But he's not as quick as he was 10 years ago."
They find more camaraderie in the horse world anyway.
Membership in Longmont's saddle club, the St. Vrain Roundup Club, challenges them to learn new skills while socializing and networking, they said.
Volunteering with 4-H club kids helps them pass along those benefits plus the life skills that come from being responsible for a horse and setting goals in the sport.
"So, we just say 'Yes' when we're asked to help at fair," Bill said.
Darci nodded.
"We can't say 'No' to kids and animals," she said.
Darci has two grown children from her first marriage as does Bill. Each has one granddaughter.
For more information, visit bouldercountyfair.org.
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Pamela Anderson sexes up the January 2011 issue of Playboy in an 8-page nude pictorial, on stands Friday (December 17).
This is the 13th time the 43-year-old actress has graced the cover, more than anyone else in the magazine's 57-year history (via USA Today).
Pam wrote a poem for the issue called "Musings from the bed of Pamela."
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The London Souls Play A Secret Show on Halloween
The London Souls surprised the audience at Brooklyn's Cameo Gallery on Halloween night, performing as Here Come The Girls as part of The Hold Steady's touring keyboardist Dan Neustadt's Off The Record series. The series is usually held on Sundays at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City's East Village.
As a tradition, Neustadt holds an Off The Record party every Halloween wherein the album his band performs is Michael Jackson's Thriller. This year, the lineup was scheduled to include Brooklyn band The Library Is On Fire, with Relix 's own Wayan "DJYN" Zoey spinning between sets. However, the flooding and power outages both prevented TLIOF from being available to perform, while also canceling a party to be hosted by members of The London Souls at a Lower East Side club. With a show needing a band, and the members of a band having an unscheduled night off, the pieces were in place for a unique evening. Following an unrelated comedy set from Reggie Watts, keyboardist Neustadt led his six-piece band through an instrumental rendition of Jackson's bestselling album. Shortly after Neustadt's energetic performance, a trio of musicians looking suspiciously like The London Souls took the stage, launching in to the 2006 single "Steady Are You Ready". The subsequent extended set featured selections from the Soul's back catalog mixed with tunes off their forthcoming LP, performed for a rapt audience that included E.D. Coomes and Adam Deitch from Lettuce. Despite the setbacks caused by the storm, jamband hotspot Cameo was fortunate enough to host a unexpected special night of performances.
The London Souls have played a few small shows while guitarist Tash Neal recovers. The guitarist was the victim of a hit-and-run accident.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will host his former political rival Mitt Romney for a private lunch at the White House Thursday, their first meeting since the election.
Obama promised in his victory speech earlier this month to engage with Romney following their bitter campaign and consider the Republican's ideas.
"In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down with Gov. Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward," Obama said at the time.
Obama aides said they reached out to Romney's team shortly before Thanksgiving to start working on a date for the meeting. The two men will meet in the White House's private dining room, with no press coverage expected.
While in Washington, Romney will also meet with his former running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, according to a Romney campaign aide. Ryan is back on Capitol Hill, where he's involved in negotiations to avert a series of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts that have come to be known as the "fiscal cliff."
Much of that debate centers on expiring tax cuts first passed by George W. Bush. Obama and Romney differed sharply during the campaign over what to do with the cuts, with the Republican pushing for them to be extended for all income earners and the president running on a pledge to let the cuts expire for families making more than $250,000 a year.
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Three of them were arrested for a series of overnight robberies and police are looking for a fourth man.
A quartet of Sanford men who came to Volusia County over the weekend to rob people to get money for a party said Volusia is the place where the "licks" are, police said Tuesday.
"Licks" is street language for robberies, police said.
Police arrested Troy Encarnacion early Sunday shortly after 12:16 a.m. Encarnacion, 18, jumped out of a car that had fled from police and tried to run but an officer stopped him with a Taser, DeLand police said. Encarnacion was charged with robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon and fleeing and attempting to elude, resisting an officer without violence and having no valid driver's license.
Two of his accomplices, Trevon Armstrong, 18 and Freddie Martin III, 20, were arrested after they came to the DeLand Police Department on Monday, Sgt. Chris Estes said. Armstrong and Martin III were each charged with robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon.
A fourth man is being sought by police.
Armstrong and Martin III denied being involved in the robberies and refused to provide information about their whereabouts Friday night into early Saturday morning, DeLand police investigators said.
But Encarnacion, who was crying while police had him in a holding cell, provided a lot of information on the robberies.
According to authorities, Encarnacion and his group are suspected of "several armed robberies throughout a shift." DeLand police said Encarnacion and the other suspects were seen in a vehicle involved in several robberies around the city where a handgun was used Friday night into early Saturday morning.
On Tuesday, Estes said investigators are also looking at an additional robbery they believe might be connected to the group of Sanford men.
In interviews Encarnacion gave police enough information to charge the trio with at least two robberies, Estes said.
Encarnacion said he was picked up by Martin III, known as "Monster," and Armstrong, known as "T. Lo."
The two invited Encarnacion to go to a dance but they needed money so they came to Volusia to rob, the report states.
According to the report, Encarnacion said Armstrong and Martin III told him to get his hoodie and gloves because they were going to do "something." "Monster (Martin III) told Encarnacion that they were going to do a 'lick' in Volusia County because that's where the "licks" are," investigators wrote in their report.
"Encarnacion admitted the robberies were committed to obtain proceeds to attend a party in Sanford," police said.
The robbery spree started late Friday night.
Police were called at 10:50 by a 16-year-old who had been robbed while standing in the parking lot of his apartment complex at Laurel Villa Circle and Garfield Avenue. The teen said he was approached by the men, one of whom pointed a gun at him while another searched him. They stole a 7-inch tablet computer and his headphones, police said.
Then at 11:59 p.m., police were called to 210 W. Volusia Ave. where a woman reported she had been robbed, arrest reports show.
The men ran up to the woman with guns and demanded she give them everything. The scared woman fell to the ground and handed over her cellphone, a Checkers card and $8, police said.
Not content that the woman had given them all she had, the men asked the woman to lift up her blouse, exposing her breasts, while making sure she was not hiding any valuables, police said.
The men then fled in their car and police spotted it and tried to make a traffic stop, but the men fled. A short time later, police found the car parked behind 805 W. Rich Ave. That's when the men ran.
A deputy with a police dog tracked down Encarnacion, who jumped fences to get away. But a police officer spotted him running and gave chase on foot and shot Encarnacion with his Taser. The probes hit him in the buttocks and shoulder, police said.


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Todays mutant loaf . . .
Okay this loaf definitely blew a tire and I am not sure why. Overproofed? Underproofed? Poorly shaped? Poorly scored?
This was a simple lean hearth loaf using my new SD starter and following dabrownman's excellent instructions:
to the tee. HELP, any suggestions would be welcome. Other than the sidewall blowout the crumb looks pretty good and the flavour is great!
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Edmonton has called Yann Danis from the minors.
Marc-Andre Fleury turned aside 31 shots in a 2-1 win over Winnipeg on Sunday afternoon.
Ryan Reaves scored the game-winning goal in Sunday's 2-1 win over Winnipeg in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.
Patrick Kane was chosen as the MVP of the 2018 World Championship.
Dmitry Kulikov will return to the lineup on Sunday afternoon for Game 5 of the Western Conference Final.
Jaden Schwartz's upper-body issue is a right shoulder injury.
Ryan Callahan scored a goal and picked up an assist in Saturday night's 3-2 Game 5 win over the Washington Capitals.
With his assist last night on William Karlsson's opening goal, Reilly Smith set the NHL record for most assists (14) in a team's first postseason appearance.
Boston University bench boss David Quinn has apparently informed the athletic director at Boston University that he is taking the New York Rangers head-coaching job.
Andre Burakovsky appears to be the odd man out based on Saturday's morning skate.
Marian Hossa has confirmed that his playing career is officially over.
With his first-period assist in Friday's night's 3-2 win over the Jets, Jonathan Marchessault tied an NHL record.


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WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that certain privately held companies can — based on religious beliefs — avoid some contraceptive mandates of the Affordable Care Act.
Owners of Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-crafts stores had sued over a contraception provision in Obamacare requiring health plans to cover so-called morning after pills and IUDs. The owners argued that those forms of birth control went against their religious beliefs that life begins at conception.
The court, in a 5-4 decision, essentially found that closely held corporations are protected under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act from government actions that unnecessarily infringe on their religious practices.
The decision drew dueling responses from the Arkansas Senate campaigns.
"This ruling is a win for religious liberty," said Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. "Obamacare unconstitutionally forces some people of faith to violate the precepts of their faith."
Cotton criticized Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., for supporting the Affordable Care Act.
"Senator Pryor should be ashamed that he voted for Obamacare, which undermines and restricts religious liberty. Senator Pryor wasn't working for Arkansas when he voted for this unconstitutional law: he was working for President Obama."
The latest ruling did not overturn an earlier Supreme Court decision validating the Affordable Care Act.
Pryor, through his campaign, also issued a statement on the decision that focused mainly on Cotton.
"As a person of faith, I understand the deeply held religious views of those who brought this suit forward," he said. "At the same time I cannot support Congressman Cotton's irresponsible plan to return to the days when women paid more than men for basic health care services and folks were denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions, nor do I agree that we should kick more than 220,000 working Arkansans off of their private insurance plans."


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Manchester United transfer target Alen Halilovic has played down comparisons with Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.
The 16-year-old starlet has been likened to Messi, and the teen midfielder scored his first ever professional goal for Dinamo Zagreb after coming off the bench in his side's 4-1 win at NK Slaven Koprivnica.
The teenager signed a professional contract with Dinamo fourth months ago, and became the youngest player in Prva Liga history at the age of 16 years and 105 days.
Halilovic is reportedly being scouted by several of Europe's biggest clubs, and Manchester United are thought to have taken a keen interest.
Sir Alex Ferguson was monitoring Luka Modric before the former-Tottenham and Croatia international joined Real Madrid, and the Manchester United boss is unlikely to want to miss out on Modric's likely successor.
Halilovic has been labelled the most exciting Croatian talent since Modric, and his fast feet, eye for a pass and composed finishing has drawn comparison with Barcelona ace Messi.
But the Croatian teen has played down the similarities. "Just don't call me Messi, said Halilovic on UEFA.com.
"I admire Leo, but I am a long way from him. For now my goal is to play well and to show the coach he can count on me."
Manchester United are thought to lead the chase for the 16-year-old, and the Old Trafford side have a strong track record of bringing through young talent.
United forward Danny Welbeck and midfielder Tom Cleverley are the latest players to have graduated from academy to first-team with success.
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