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Game 1: Farmingdale State - 22, Yeshiva University - 0
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 26, Yeshiva University - 3
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Farmingdale State head baseball coach Keith Osik eclipsed the 200 win mark today with two wins over conference opponent Yeshiva. In his eight seasons with the Rams, Osik has amassed a career record of 201-126. During those years, he has led his team to five consecutive Skyline Conference Titles and five trips to the NCAA Tournament, including one Regional title and one trip to the Division III College World Series.
Senior outfielder David Zilnicki (Riverhead, N.Y.) commented on his coaches milestone, saying "200 wins is just another stepping stone for Osik. He knows how to win at a level beyond this conference with his knowledge of the game. He utilizes his players in a way that produces results, while still giving everyone opportunities to play."
Sophomore shortstop Anthony Alvino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) - "Congratulations Ozzy, you are a great coach and I enjoy every minute of playing for you. Enjoy this special achievement in your career as a coach and many more to come."
Assistant Coach Joe Mongiello stated: "Coach Osik has had an incredible baseball career and this is the icing on the cake. To rebuild a program, put in place a new structure and grab 200 wins this early is an amazing accomplishment. Especially when he puts his team to the test early each year against some strong teams in DIII, DII and also DI. Congrats skip, it's an honor to be on your coaching staff."
The Rams (21-9) won the first game 22-0, as junior Chris Dragone (Hicksville, N.Y.) improved to 2-1, allowing just four hits and striking out two over five innings of work. Junior Timmy Trimarchi (Patchogue, N.Y.) pitched two innings in relief with no hits.
Farmingdale State finished with 24 hits in the win, including a homerun by Alvino, four triples and a double. Alvino posted a team-high four RBI's on two hits with three runs scored, while sophomore Nick Ventricelli (Woodbury, N.Y.) was 4-for-4 with three RBI's and two runs scored. Senior outfielder Terrence Bohonan (Patchogue, N.Y.) went 5-for-6 with an RBI and five runs scored.
In game two, the Rams scored 26 runs on 26 hits with three homeruns, three triples and six doubles. Freshman designated hitter Dalton McCarthy (Manorville, N.Y.) hit a three-run homer in the fourth and finished the game 1-for-2 with 4 RBI's and a run scored.
Junior outfielder Edward Bergmann (East Meadow, N.Y.) was 3-for-6 at the plate with four RBI's and four runs scored. Freshman shortstop Jorge Ruiz (Shirley, N.Y.) also had three hits, going 3-for-3 with two runs scored and two runs batted in, while sophomore second baseman Sal Sanquini (Levittown, N.Y.) went 3-for-4.
Freshman Kevin Cashman (Hicksville, N.Y.) went five innings for the win on six hits and six strikeouts with two earned runs.
The Rams, who are 13-1 in Skyline play, will wrap up the regular-season conference schedule tomorrow (April 20th) as they host a doubleheader against Purchase College (10-0 in Skyline) at Noon.


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Andrea Bargnani has heard the trade rumours. He knows he has been targeted in the media and by the public for much of what ails the Raptors.
And all of it is having zero effect on him. In fact, he even understands it.
"No, of course it doesn't affect me, but I think it does make sense on this team," he said. "Who else would you blame? I don't really know what you want me to answer."
Even the trade rumours, the kind that keep popping up, the kind that can mess with a player's head aren't having any impact on him.
"Of course I hear the trade rumours," he said. "But trades are part of the job. Since the first day I joined this team seven years ago, I knew I could be traded. That's the reality. From Day 1 you know that can happen at any time."
In Bargnani's almost Spock-like logical world, there is no point in letting something that has always been a distinct possibility affect him one way or the other, and there's certainly no point in getting oneself prepared for such an eventuality.
"It's something you don't control, so there's no purpose in being prepared for it or getting prepared for it," he said. "The only thing you really care about is trying to play good for yourself and for the team. That's what you have to prepare for. A trade? Be prepared or not prepared, it doesn't make you a better player or a worse player. If it's going to happen, it happens. If it doesn't, I mean it's not something you really think about, at least I don't think about it.
"Maybe you have more chance of being traded when you're playing good, right? Because your value is up … I don't panic, honestly. So all these rumours and the talking? What does thinking about rumours get you at the end of the day?"
Bargnani has become the focus of much of the fans' ire for a number of reasons. Two of the biggest are that his scoring is down and his inability to show emotion which is often misinterpreted as a guy who just doesn't give a damn. But Bargnani will never be a guy who wears his emotions on his sleeve. Heck, his emotions may never leave the inside of his skin, but he knows this about himself and he's fine living with whatever consequences that brings.
"I am very able to (stay even-keeled) which is a very good thing from one side but from the other side it's not such a great thing, so you have two sides. But I'm definitely able to do that."
Bargnani had one more revelation that came out when he was asked if he thought his team had hit rock bottom with the 30-point loss in Utah on Friday.
"Losing by 30 is different but it's still losing," he said. "I mean, for me personally, the loss in Sacramento didn't feel any better than the Utah loss. It's still a loss. You could say Utah was the bottom because we lost by 30 but I think we hit the bottom a couple of weeks ago."


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NJ Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Nurse who Refused Flu Vaccine
The resistance among nurses and other healthcare workers to submit to mandatory flu vaccinations as a condition of employment is growing. Many nurses who have lost their jobs for refusing the flu vaccination are taking legal action against employers who violate their health freedom rights as they choose not to receive a toxic flu vaccine. One of those cases in litigation was settled this week in a New Jersey appeals court, where a three-judge panel ruled in favor of a nurse who was unfairly denied unemployment benefits after she was fired for refusing a flu shot without claiming a religious or medical exemption.


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RICHMOND, Va. – Over the past 404 days, the Virginia Commonwealth University men's basketball had tipped it up 22 times inside the Verizon Wireless Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. All 22 times, the Rams left the court as the victors.
On Saturday afternoon, in front of a sold-out crowd and a national television audience, that streak came to an end in a 70-59 loss to in-state and conference rival Old Dominion.
"Needless to say, that wasn't our best effort of the year," Head Coach Shaka Smart said. "Give credit to Old Dominion for coming prepared and ready to play. For some reason, we let them be the aggressors for 40 minutes and you're not going to win doing that."
With the loss, VCU drops to 20-7 on the year and 12-3 in conference play, one game better than ODU and a half-game back of George Mason. Depending on the outcome of Mason's game against James Madison later today, the Rams will either be in first or second in the CAA standings.
"As frustrating as today was, the positive thing is that at the end of the day, we're going to be in the top two in the conference no matter what," Smart said.
Senior Brandon Rozzell was the lone Ram in double-figures with 15 points on 5-of-12 shooting, including three from beyond the arc. Classmate Jamie Skeen finished with seven points, seven rebounds and three blocks on the afternoon.
The story came on the glass where ODU outrebounded VCU by a tally of 46-21. Seniors Ben Finney and Frank Hassell led the way for the Monarchs with 11 boards each.
"I can't give you an exact reason why it was that bad," Skeen said. "We did a good job on the boards in the game down at ODU, but we just let them get whatever they wanted down low today. That can't happen again and it won't happen again."
It was a game in which the Rams never could seem to get the engine moving, missing their first seven field-goal attempts, while the Monarchs were able to bang home two three-pointers from Finney and Darius James to run out to a quick 8-0 lead.
Freshman D.J. Haley came off the bench to give the Black & Gold a quick spark with an offensive rebound, block and two baskets as VCU chipped the lead down to four at 12-8.
A couple of three-pointers from Rozzell and Ed Nixon would get to a one-possession game at 18-16, but Hassell ignited a 13-2 run that put the Rams down 13 with just under two minutes to play in the first half.
The Rams would get some momentum heading into the break with three-pointers from Joey Rodriguez and Rozzell to send the teams into halftime with ODU leading 32-24.
Mr. Momentum changed sides quickly with Kent Bazemore connecting on three straight baskets to start the second half and give ODU a double-digit lead at 38-24.
Every time VCU would try to string a run together, the Monarchs had an answer as they allowed the Rams to get within single-digits only one time the rest of the way.
"It was just one of those games that are just frustrating," Rozzell said. "We just never were able to get it going at full steam like we usually do at home. We have to get back to work tomorrow."
Hassell, Finney and Bazemore all finished in double figures with 18, 15 and 13 points, respectively. As a team, ODU shot 48% on the afternoon, while the Rams couldn't get anything to fall at just 37%.
The Rams return to action on Tuesday night when they host the George Mason Patriots in another nationally-televised contest. Tip time for the battle for first-place is set for 7 p.m.


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SANTA ANA – The Orange County District Attorney's Office has cleared an Anaheim police officer who shot and killed a 21-year-old gang member after the man ignored commands to stop and pointed a shotgun at the patrolman, an investigative letter released Tuesday said.
Officer Dan Hurtado was aware of a witness standing nearby and also believed her to be in harm's way before he fired three shots from a Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, he told district attorney investigators.
Martin Angel Hernandez died of a gunshot to the head in the confrontation that took place on March 6.
"In order to neutralize the perceived threat, the officer fired his department-issued rifle," the investigation letter reads, adding Hurtado justifiably used his weapon in self-defense.
Hurtado and two other officers had responded that night to an alley behind an apartment complex on East Wakefield Street in Anaheim, where a 911 caller reported five to six men to be gathered, two of them seen with weapons.
The officers knew the area to be that of a violent criminal street gang enjoined by a court order prohibiting its members from engaging in certain activities in the area, including disturbing the peace and weapons violations, the investigative letter said.
When a witness was asked if the officer's warnings and shots were simultaneous, she told investigators, "No, he totally gave them a chance; he yelled and then he stopped and shot."
A pistol-grip shotgun was found next to Hernandez's body.
While it didn't receive the attention that followed other officer-involved shootings in Anaheim later in the year, Hernandez's death contributed to the tension in the community that led to large-scale protests, as well as threats against officers.
In the days after Hernandez's death, more than 200 people gathered in the alley, drawing complaints from residents and leading to verbal clashes with police. Officers wore ballistic helmets to deal with the crowd, which ultimately calmed without violence after the assistance of several mourners.
In late March, Anaheim police Chief John Welter addressed the outcry that followed Hernandez's death at a heated community meeting, telling the crowd that Hernandez was holding a shotgun when the officer fired at him.
Members of the crowd continued to question the police version of events, however, accusing officers of using excessive force and of murdering Hernandez.
Hernandez's family members, who said he had been trying to turn his life around after being released from jail several months prior, joined with family members of individuals killed in other officer-involved shootings to hold weekly protests outside the Police Department.
That tension over fatal shootings involving officers culminated in large-scale, violent protests and a near-riot in the city's downtown after the death in late July of Manuel Diaz, an unarmed man police described as a gang member who was shot by an officer as he attempted to flee on foot through a residential alley on Anna Drive.
The protests brought national attention to the tensions in Anaheim and the mistrust in the police among some residents of the community's impoverished neighborhoods. In the aftermath of the protests, city officials are pushing for an investigation into allegations of police misconduct.
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600+ Pinhole Cameras used for London Grammar's "Wasting My Young Years" video
The Matrix-like shots in this video were each made using 625 pinhole cameras and a single strip of 35mm film! The rig that director duo Bison invented for this is incredible. Watch the behind the scenes video and the final product below!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 10 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
This is our current site: http://cricke2.com/index.php
Our website is a social networking site for cricket (sports) fans. This site allows people to build networks with their friends/meet people with similar interests/post cricket related articles/write their own articles, blogs & comment/vote on the articles.
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This introductory web2 segment (design/graphic) that you will develop will give the users an idea about the site at a single glance.
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When you will visit the above mentioned sites you will see that they have a section that explains that the site does instantly.
For example the shoeboxed.com site shows a horizontal segment with three sections with description underneath the three headlines (Track what you buy / If you got it flaunt it/ Psych out identity thieves)
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Cultures on the Move
It has been official for around the past two years: Germany is an immigration country. This realisation comes extremely late, because 50 years of work-related migration and immigration by ethnic groups – but also the much longer history of exodus, expulsion and exile – have been leaving permanent traces for a long time.
However, there is a lack of public awareness as to how migration has changed and continues to change the cultural landscape of the Federal Republic as a whole.
Cultural globalisation and pluralisation
Beyond integration logic, the migrants have been creating space of their own for their transnational life plans for some time – and in doing so they have changed the entire societies involved.
For it is a fallacy of the integration model to conceive the cultural consequences of migration as a problem that the immigrants must overcome – while the national majority of Germans can apparently remain unaffected by it.
But in fact migration results in cultural globalisation, and from the local perspective of the indigenous population that means cultural pluralisation. Because as a result of the migrants' many and varied transnational projects, a new cultural diversity is created.
This diversity cannot be subordinated to either the national standard model or the standardised culture of a "global village", and has just as little to do with the cultural diversity of a multiculture categorised according to national origins. Above all, cultural globalisation also means that the cultures themselves become mobile, and are reinvented in the process of this movement.
Cultural relationships in a global context
The German-Turkish youth culture in Berlin is one aspect of this cultural globalisation. German-Turkish hip-hop and rap are merely the most spectacular developments within this scene, which are now considered a musical avant-garde by German audiences as well.
The German-Turkish hip-hoppers form a link with the Afro-American youth culture. Kreuzberg and Brooklyn are becoming symbols of a cultural relationship in a global context. And these developments also have their equivalents at a European level, where comparable products of young migrants emerge in all immigration countries – a "European Rap" movement, which contributes different migration histories to global hip-hop in Italy or France.
Second-generation immigrants in particular express themselves offensively in public places, and also adopt a political stance. Their mouthpieces are musicians, film-makers and literati such as the author Feridun Zaimoglu, who made Kanak Sprak socially acceptable, or the political action group Kanak Attak.
Nonetheless, the language and culture of the "Ghetto Kids" have long since left the ghetto and have now become a part of the commercialised German multiculture.
Beyond multiculture nostalgia
The phenomenon of transnationalisation can also be found in other German-Turkish places: cafés and clubs that emerge in the expensive inner city districts, which in other words become established in a mainstream environment and yet are aimed almost exclusively at Turkish audiences – the established middle class in particular.
Here Turkish pop is played, just the same as in Istanbul or Ankara; the interior decor is urban in style. Here they neither recreate the ghetto nor plump for Arabesque folklore. The imaginary point of reference for this scene is urban Turkey, which is perceived to be modern and European.
These places exist in Frankfurt and Offenbach as well, and the German public is frequently fairly unaware of them. The German multiculture has other institutions: the proverbial "Greek" with Souvlaki, Sirtaki and nomadic rugs on the wall is such an institution, into which virtually no Greeks will stray unless they work there.
The young Greeks in Frankfurt distance themselves from German multiculture nostalgia of this type; they prefer pubs that reflect their urban, modern outlook more, that may well be reminiscent of New York or Athens, but not of a romanticised Mediterranean village culture.
The transnationalisation and cultural globalisation of our society continue throughout all these places and scenes, producing a diversity which cannot be contained either by international product marketing or by definitions of a predominant national culture, but rather keeps picking these up as a framework of reference for productions of its own.
Dr. Regina Römhild
© Goethe-Institut 2006
Translation from German: Jo Beckett
The author works at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt, and is a board member of the Federal Culture Foundation's Projekt Migration
Book Review Feridun Zaimoglu
Turkish-German Writer Makes Language Come Alive
As previously in Great Britain, young writers from migrant families in Germany are now also making their mark, as for instance Turkish-German Feridun Zaimoglu – one of the hottest young writers on the scene today. Anne-Bitt Gerecke read his latest novel.
Turkish Cinema
Filmmakers' Fear Their Audiences
Turkish and German-Turkish cinema is booming. But clichés and old notions of role models still dominate, especially in the representation of Turkish women. Lennert Lehmann reports
Turkish Festival "Şimdi Now"
Capturing Turkish Culture's Changing Face
Berlin is currently playing host to "Şimdi Now", Germany's largest ever festival of Turkish culture featuring over 50 events ranging from classical music to video installations and experimental club sounds. By Silke Bartlick
Interview Zafer Senocak
The Reductionism of Islam Must Stop
The big-city, Muslim elite that combines Islam with the modern age really does exist: at least in Turkey. Does this elite also embrace democracy? Joachim Güntner interviewed Zafer Senocak, Germany's most prominent author of Turkish origin.


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People Story - Hristo Rikev
Meet Hristo Rikev, Software Developer at SAP, with more than three years' experience at the company.
Hristo started working for SAP as an intern in 2014 and half a year later took over the position of Software Developer. "The focus of the company is moving on with the technologies of the future – like Machine Learning and Big Data. For the time I've been working for SAP I've seen many new projects and I really like all the challenges and opportunities I have in my everyday job. The fact that projects like SAP Cloud Platform are setting the future of enterprise software in the cloud environment is even more motivating.", says Hristo.
The fact that SAP is moving forward along with the significant world changes and digitalization is something that really inspires Hristo. "I am lucky to work in a company that is a global leader and driver of change for better people's lives. I work daily with amazing people and I feel we can push into exciting opportunities before anybody else."
Hristo shares that he sees SAP as a company which takes care of its employees like no other – especially of their health and the health of their families. "Our working space is amazing, I believe our office is one of the best offices you can work in. Having the newest hardware, working on top line machine, comfort in every way.", shares he.
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We know it's been frustrating to watch Bryant Park's lawn grow green and lush without the ability to walk on it and feel the freshness of spring. Your patience, for which we thank you, is about to be rewarded because the wait is almost over. Come early next Friday to watch the ropes come down, and then stay to enjoy live music, lay in the sun, and soak up the Spring. The Bryant Park Jugglers will also join us for a special extended Juggling session. So get out of your desk chair and bring your lunch, your book, and your friends to Bryant Park. Live ragtime and jazz music will be brought to you by The Gelber & Manning Band, a musical vaudeville quartet.
Instagram Contest
As the big day approaches, we want to see how you capture the lawn. Post your best photos of that emerald green to Instagram with the tag #MeetMeOnTheLawn and @BryantParkNYC. The most creative, greenest, most lawn loving picture will win a BP Shop goody bag. Submissions will be accepted through Thursday, May 9 at 11:59pm EST, and the winner can pick up their prize on Lawn Opening Day.
What has been taking so long anyways?
Our lawn is made of Fescue/Kentucky Bluegrass sod cut from a farm on Long Island. We always give the fresh sod time to root properly in the Spring, so it can withstand the amount of traffic it endures through a standard Bryant Park summer. Grass with longer roots is able to hold water longer, which allows the grass to be more stress tolerant, stay greener, and last longer.
This year we encountered a few more setbacks than normal. We had a late snow, and an unusually cold Spring, so the grass growth did not pick up as early as we would have liked. Nevertheless, the sod has finally come together, and we're ready to open. We look forward to having you enjoy our lawn on Opening Day and throughout the season.


text: Dear Debian maintainer, ("oh no, not him again"...) The nodm Debian package, which you are the maintainer of, has pending bug report(s) which include translation updates or fixes for po-debconf, namely bug number 600741 (and maybe other similar bugs). We are currently in the beginning of a new release cycle and you may think that hunting l10n bugs is too early. However, this is often a lengthy process and we always start as early as possible. So, sorry for this, but the radar beeped at your package and here am I with what I usually call an "NMU intent"...:-). Please take this as a "very soft" NMU intent. Of course, there is no hurry or deadline...just "old" bugs we think are easy to get rid of. In case you can't update your package, I hereby propose, as part of a more general action of the Debian i18n Task Force to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload for nodm in order to fix this as well as all pending translations for the debconf templates. Of course, as you're probably pretty active on that package, an upload by you would also be OK...as long as it allows a round of translation updates. Such changes are always harmless, which explains why I safely consider building NMU's for such issues even though they're obviously non critical. The schedule for the NMU (in case it happens, that is if you agree with it or if I don't receive any answer in 4 days) is roughly the following: Sunday, October 09, 2011 : send this notice Thursday, October 13, 2011 : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you (maintainer) CC'ed Friday, October 21, 2011 : deadline for receiving translation updates Saturday, October 22, 2011 : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/7-day send the NMU patch to the BTS Saturday, October 29, 2011 : NMU reaches incoming If you intent to upload yourself, please discuss with me. I propose handling a translation update round and I can handle it myself for you. That will just require a few days. That could maybe save you from seeing me coming back again in a few months. In case I upload an NMU, I will subscribe to the Package Tracking System for nodm and follow its life for 60 days after my NMU in order to fix any issue potentially introduced by my upload. Let me know, as soon as possible, if you have any kind of objection to this process. If you'd rather do the fix yourself, I will of course leave the package alone. Same if you have reasons not to do the update now. -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/attachments/20111009/7bfa4f9f/attachment.pgp>


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A winner was selected from 8 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
We are looking for some creative, fun, funky, versions of the 16 US Presidential Candidates "portrait" pictures.
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When I think of what I want the words that come to mind are fun, funky, stylish, simple, and cartoony.
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Harvard opens Ivy League play Friday at Dartmouth (OAC).
Story Line
The Harvard women's volleyball team will look to knock off Dartmouth for the first time in four years on Friday as it opens Ivy League play against the Big Green at 7 p.m. in Hanover, N.H.
A live video stream and live stats will be available during Friday's match through DartmouthSports.com by clicking here.
Last Time Out
The Harvard women's volleyball team saw two student-athletes record a double-double and three reach double-digits in kills despite falling in five sets Tuesday night at New Hampshire. The Wildcats took the match by scores of 21-25, 25-23, 25-18, 15-25 and 15-12.
Taylor Docter notched her fourth double-double of the year with 16 kills and 10 digs while matching her career-high of five aces at the service line. Hannah Schmidt, meanwhile, tallied her second double-double in as many matches, finishing the evening with 15 assists and 12 digs… CONTINUE READING
The Hitters
Harvard's offense has been bookended by experience, with senior captain Taylor Docter and freshman Kathleen Wallace leading the way. Docter owns a team-best 2.74 kps average while Wallace ranks second with 2.59 kps and a .290 hitting percentage. Caroline Walters leads the team with a .352 hitting percentage and is tied for third on the squad with Erin Cooney with 1.79 kps. Teresa Skelly has added 1.32 kps with Caroline Holte chipping in 1.15 kps.
Setting it Up
Senior Beth Kinsella and freshman Hannah Schmidt have shared the setting duties as the team has shifted into a 6-2 offensive system. Kinsella has dished out 163 assists for an average of 5.26 per set, while Schmidt has tallied 151 assists for a 4.58 average.
On the Block
Middle blockers Caroline Holte, Teresa Skelly and Caroline Walters helped Harvard average 2.26 bps through its first nine matches of the year, good for 87th in the NCAA. Holte and Walters currently lead the team with 29 total blocks for an average of 0.85 bps, while Skelly's 21 total blocks equate to a 0.95 bps average.
Keep an Eye Out For…
Beth Kinsella, Taylor Docter and Teresa Skelly each have a chance to make their marks on the Harvard record books this season. Kinsella currently ranks sixth all-time with 1,400 assists and has averaged 7.37 aps for her career. Docter has moved to eighth in career aces (90) while her career 2.55 kps are good for ninth. She is also closing in on Harvard's all-time top 10 for kills with 792. Skelly, meanwhile, is just six block assists (178) short of entering the program's top 10 and needs 35 total blocks (204) to join that list as well.
Scouting Dartmouth (1-8)
Dartmouth enters play Friday with a 1-8 overall record after losing three straight at last weekend's Blue and White Classic. Paige Caridi and Alex Schoenberger have paced the Big Green offense with 2.34 kps apiece with Elisa Scudder adding 2.00 kps and a .313 hitting percentage. Kayden Cook has averaged 7.16 aps as the team's primary setter while Holly Harper has led the defensive efforts with 3.00 dps.
Harvard leads the all-time series with Dartmouth, 42-18, despite the Big Green having won each of the last six meetings. The Crimson's last win against Dartmouth came in 2008, when Harvard swept the season series with a pair of 3-1 wins.
Kristen Casey, Teresa Skelly and Taylor Docter each had big years against Dartmouth in 2011, with Casey averaging 3.33 kps and 2.67 dps to lead the way. Skelly added 2.78 kps, 1.00 bps and a .442 hitting percentage while Docter chipped in 2.33 kps and 2.00 dps.
Double Trouble
Senior Taylor Docter and freshman Hannah Schmidt have combined for six double-doubles this season. Docter boasts four of those with her last being a 16-kill, 10-dig performance at New Hampshire. Schmidt has notched a double-double in each of the team's last two matches, including a 15-assist, 12-dig effort at New Hampshire.
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Serving it Up
Taylor Docter matched her career-high with five aces at New Hampshire, marking the fourth time the senior has tallied five in a single match. Docter's five aces were also the second-highest total of any Crimson since 2008, with Katherine Kocurek's '10 six aces at Dartmouth leading the way.
Hitting it Home
Harvard registered a .474 hitting percentage against Providence, by far the highest hitting percentage of the season recorded by an Ivy League school. The Crimson converted 40 kills against the Friars on 78 attempts while only committing three errors. Caroline Walters hit a match-high .750 (6-0-8) while Kathleen Wallace hit .667 (12-0-18), the second-highest individual hitting percentage with a minimum of 10 attempts in the Ancient Eight this season. Caroline Holte (7-1-10) and Jennifer Shults (4-0-7) also got in on the action, hitting .600 and .571, respectively.
Harvard last hit .400 for a match on Sept. 27, 2008, when the squad combined for a .456 hitting percentage (35-4-68) in a 3-0 win over St. Francis (Pa.).
Senior co-captain Taylor Docter was been named to both the Hokie Invitational and Harvard Invitational all-tournament teams this season. She was joined on the Harvard Invitational All-Tournament Team by freshman Kathleen Wallace and sophomore Caroline Walters, while Kristen Casey was named to the New England Challenge All-Tournament Team, marking the first all-tourney honor of each of their careers.
Captain of the Ship
Senior Taylor Docter was voted by her teammates as the 59th captain of Harvard women's volleyball. Docter was an All-Ivy League second team and Academic All-Ivy honoree in 2011 after ranking eighth in the conference in kills per set (3.05), seventh in aces (0.27) and seventh in points per set (3.52). The Los Altos, Calif., native also averaged 1.72 dps on the defensive side of the net and finished her year with career-highs in kills, attempts, hitting percentage and digs.
"Taylor has been an impact player since her freshmen season," Head Coach Jen Weiss commented. "She came in this preseason in great shape and ready to work hard. As a second team All-Ivy outside hitter, she led our team in points scored and kills per set. She has a natural ability to lead and her peers respect her on and off the court. Taylor's composure on court has been tremendous this year and I look forward to her leading the team."
Platinum Anniversary
Head coach Jen Weiss is in her 20th season at the helm of the Crimson. Weiss owns a 243-285 record on the sidelines and guided Harvard to its only Ivy League championship in 2004. She has mentored 46 All-Ivy honorees, five Ivy League Rookie of the Year recipients and coached the program's first two-time Ivy League Player of the Year in Kaego Ogbechie '05.
Catch the Crimson in 2012
Harvard will host 11 home matches at the Malkin Athletic Center this season and each will be streamed live online through GoCrimson.com. Fans can also watch each match On Demand approximately two hours after completion. One-year subscriptions are available for $49.95 and allow access to every home event streamed by the Crimson, including football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's hockey and men's soccer. For more information or to sign up today, click here.


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Greenlet leverages proprietary IT, communications, algorithms and power electronics to create a truly scalable energy control solution.
As our patent pending technology does not require professional installation, 'greenlet' units can be distributed directly to the consumers who simply plug the units into their electrical outlets. The central software application then takes over, providing the electric utility providers with the control they need to manage and optimize power use.
The Greenlet system includes:
[1] Energy Management Software for Control Centers
Our enterprise software for control centers allows us to manage a very large network of customers and appliances, reduce a lot of power during peak hours, prove reduction, receive rebates from utilities and share revenues with customers.
- Power control – the software reduces dozens of megawatts during peak hours
- Power monitoring – per appliance, home, area, grid
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- Customer control – unique program per customer and appliance
- Easy deployment - automatic discovery of customers and appliances
- Fraud prevention – based on Greenlet's US patent #8290635
- Power trading optimization – awareness of tariffs, rebates, energy use patterns
- Grid Maintenance - monitoring of power parameters
- Customer interface - notifies customers of peak hours via email and text messages
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Technologies employed – pattern recognition algorithms for appliance recognition, algorithms for power prediction, network management software, reports, and maps.
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We help customers reduce energy consumption while minimizing the inconvenience via a dedicated email server, web portal and an application for smart phones. The client application is connected to the EMS server.
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Technologies employed – algorithms for energy optimization (maximizes the payback relative to inconvenience), personalized energy tips, web portal, email server.
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Utility-grade plug & play Greenlet kits are sold or sent to customers who quickly and easily install them (5 minute per home). The kits include the "Greenlets" – smart plugs capable of monitoring and controlling appliances for peak reduction and overall energy saving. Greenlet's patented technology is embedded in the Greenlets. The Greenlet unit controls demand, monitors power and energy and allows the control center to prove reduction in order to receive the rebate. A gateway unit easily connects the Greenlets the management software through the Internet.


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Simplify Operations While Cutting Costs
Cisco Catalyst SmartOperations is a set of technologies and features to simplify network planning, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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The SmartOperations toolkit includes the following:
- Flexible NetFlow provides detailed network traffic statistics to enable intelligent capacity management and upgrade planning.
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Morgenstern: 'Gravity' Most Beautiful Popcorn Movie Ever
WSJ film critic Joe Morgenstern joins Lunch Break with a look at his favorite films of the Telluride Film Festival. Among them is "Gravity" starring Sandra Bullock as an astronaut lost in space with "breathtaking effects and sound." Photo: Warner Bros.
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>Racing>Marathon finishing times - historical databases?
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I was playing around on athlinks which bills itself as "the largest endurance race results database on the planet" My personal marathon PR was set at Grandma's marathon back in 1991. Not that it's important, but I have zero documentation of that finishing time. The Grandma's site doesn't go back that far. Is there any other database that may document those races? Maybe a newspaper database that doesn't cost a ton?
did databases exist before 1991? TIC
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I thought Athlinks got its data by crawling in results from sites like Coolrunning and others? They wouldn't have existing in that era, your best bet may be archives of a newspaper which had the results a day or two after the race in their sports agate.
I've done my best to live the right way. I get up every morning and go to work each day.
Yeah, that's about all I can do. Except its a crap shoot if they have all the results (unlikely) or just a recap of the race (most likely). And they want their money up front.
Have you contacted the race directors? I know our local running club just had the last 3 or 4 years results on their website, but if you ask nicely they can usually find results from several years back. 1991 might be several timing software versions ago though. Wouldn't hurt to try anyway.
Age: 50 Weight: 224 Height: 6'3" (Goal weight 195)
Current PR's: Mara 3:14:36* (2017); HM 1:36:13 (2017); 10K 43:59 (2014); 5K 21:12 (2016)
I emailed the race directors for Grandma's Marathon yesterday looking for the 1991 and 1992 records. Today in my email I had a PDF of the 1991 booklet that was sent out post-race. Yay! It feels great to have some documentation of my PR for that distance.
Thanks to Jeff Rosenthal, Grandma's Director of Race Mgmt.
Is it just me or does that logo look like a pile of crap on fire? Perhaps it's time for glasses.
Jerry, that's awesome! Kudos to the RD.
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Is it just me or does that logo look like a pile of crap on fire? ..
Is it just me or does that logo look like a pile of crap on fire? ..
I think that describes how racing a marathon in the summer feels, for many (if not most) runners....
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.


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El Chanate is an open-pit, heap leach gold mine located in Sonora, Mexico.
In 2019, the operation is expected to produce 15,000 – 25,000 ounces of gold at mine-site AISC1 of $1,200.
The El Chanate Mine is a conventional open-pit, heap-leach operation, located in Sonora State, Mexico. The mine is located 4,618 hectares encompassed within 22 mineral concessions.
El Chanate is located in northern Mexico in the northwest corner of the State of Sonora. The mine site is 37 kilometres ("km") northeast of Caborca, 280km northwest of Hermosillo, 150km southeast of Sonoyta, and 170km southwest of Tucson, Arizona. Caborca is the largest town in the area with a population of approximately 100,000.
Historical workings suggest the area has been mined for gold since the early 19th century. The current open pit mine has now been developed below the level of those historical small-scale mine workings. The open pit mine plan covers an area approximately 1,700 metres ("m") long, 845m wide, and 300m deep.
El Chanate's main structural feature is the Chanate fault zone, a 7km-long northwest-striking, variably southwest-dipping structure. The area is underlain by deformed sedimentary rocks of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Bisbee Group and the Late Cretaceous Chanate Group, which locally are overlain by andesites of the Cretaceous El Charro volcanic complex.
The sedimentary strata are locally intruded by andesitic sills and dikes, a microporphyritic latite, and a diorite stock. These strata comprise mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, shale, and limestone.
Sandstone, conglomerate, and lesser mudstone that lie above the Chanate fault are of the Middle Cretaceous Chanate Group. Below the fault, siltstone and sandstone lenses are assigned to the Arroyo Sasabe Formation of the Lower Cretaceous Bisbee Group.
Alteration and mineralization associated with the Chanate fault zone are exposed across a northwest strike length of over 3.5km. The rock units in this zone are altered to varying degrees by sericite, pyrite, ankerite, and quartz veining.
In surface outcrops the mineralized zone is distinguished by its bleached appearance relative to unmineralized rock. Sub-parallel sheeted zones of quartz veinlets form thick, mineralized lenses, within a larger area of sub-economic but anomalous gold concentrations.
Conventional open pit mining methods are employed at El Chanate. Ore is trucked from the open pit to the three stage crushing circuit after which crushed ore and lower grade run of mine ore is placed on the heap leach pad where it is irrigated with an alkaline cyanide bearing solution. This is used to extract, or dissolve the gold and silver contained within the ore. The resulting "pregnant" solution is further processed in an ADR plant, followed by electro-winning and refining. The processing is a closed circuit, zero-discharge operation where solution is continuously re-used.
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This is a 2014 disc released by Naxos of three works composed by Bright Sheng. Somewhat surprisingly to me, Sheng has a fairly large catalogue of works that are readily available. This disc is the 6th album of Sheng's music released on the Naxos label alone.
This album is, quite probably, the most Asian CD I have ever owned. It consists of three orchestral works composed by a Chinese composer, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic with Sheng conducting, and featuring five soloists who are all Asian, two of whom play traditional Chinese instruments, the sheng (mouth organ, no relation) and the pipa (plucked lute instrument). The soloists are: Hui Li, pipa; Tong Wu, sheng; Trey Lee, cello; Sa Chen, piano; and Pius Cheung, marimba.
The fist work, Song of Dance and Tears, was written in 2003 and revised in 2013. In the liner notes, Sheng states that this work is inspired by the folk music he heard while visiting the areas of the Silk Road "within the contemporary Chinese border." This is apparently a collection of separate "songs," yet there is only one track division. Much of this work sounds vaguely latin. The pipa is plucked in a tremelo style like Spanish guitar. The piano is used largely percussively or ornamentally. The sheng sounds a little like an accordian.
The second work is my favorite on this disc. It is essentially a concerto for marimba , and is performed by my new favorite Asian classical musician Pius Cheung. Shockingly, it was actually commissioned by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004 for a different marimba player named Evelyn Glennie. The marimba wanders wistfully and cross-currently over a soft, reflective orchestra, with just a hint of sadness, then builds gradually to a semi-frantic allegro non troppo as the orchestra begins more and more to assume the role of sound effects generator. This strange brew simmers down before boiling over and you get a recapitulation of the first texture.
The third piece lends its name to the album, the Blazing Mirage. In the liner notes, Sheng writes that it is inspired by a site called the Dunhuang Caves that date back to the 4th century. The caves apparently contain the greatest collection of Buddhist art and culture ever discovered, as well as documents and frescos that relate to other religions such as Taoism, Nestorianism, and even Judaism, in several languages. They also contained music written in a lost but reconstructed system of notation. The "Blazing Mirage" comes from the legend of the inspiration for the first cave. A buddhist monk had a vision of "a thousand Buddhas glittering in golden lights."
The Blazing Mirage is essentially a one-movement cello concerto. It begins with a long solo cello "recitative," almost three minutes before the orchestra plays a single note. This work conveys a feeling of mystery, portent, antiquity. Of the three pieces on this disc, it is probably the most serious and the most "refined" in the sense of appealing to contemporary musical tastes. It does not build to a climax the way that you might expect from a Western composer, but is instead broad, inconclusive, laterally-conceived. The cellist here, Trey Lee, is actually quite good. His playing stands out on this disc.
The only comment I want to add here is that Sheng is working in a long contemporary tradition of appending stories and texts to a work. This is almost de rigueur these days, but it brings up an issue I have with Asian composers that have been accepted and allowed to create in the West. In its essence, music is sound organized into patterns. Ultimately, the inspiration or textual justification for a piece of music should not take the place of the music itself. The work must compel musically, not politically or theoretically. If Asians are ever going to create their own musical traditions, Asian composers must one day stake a claim to organized sound in the abstract.


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The recipe for this beer is here.
I fermented the beer at 67F with a temperature control device. After 8 days, I added 1 oz of the pellets as a dryhop. The beer then sat for 2 weeks before I could get it kegged. The final gravity is 1.012, with a IBU/FG ratio of 3.5. It is 5.2% ABV. The beer was force carbonated.
Appearance: Straw colored beer, hazy, almost looks like a hefe weizen.
Aroma: Slight fruitiness to the beer, green apple and banana both at lower levels, followed by a floral and a bit spicy hop note.
Taste: Slight, malt sweetness, a bit grassy and green, followed by an earthy bitterness. There is more of the green apple taste on the back with a hint of the banana, with a spicy bitterness in the aftertaste, pretty smooth. It leaves the mouth dry, and a touch tart.
Mouthfeel: coats the mouth well, feels full in the mouth, but leaves a slight drying sensation at the end.
Critique: First off, the hops. The hops aroma reminded me of Saaz but the taste has a bit of Golding to go with it. It is a pretty clean bittering. I did not get any of the licorice or citrus notes they talked about, it tasted…like a pretty clean noble hop. I can see this going well anywhere you want more of a clean, spicy/fruity hop profile. The bitterness was rather pleasant. Next, the yeast. Much more fruity then I was expecting. It is not to the level of many English strains, but there was definitely some apple. There was also banana going on, but at fairly low levels. This gives the beer a more sweet perception, but then it actually finishes with a tartness at the end. Interesting yeast, I doubt it will give the classic hop bite side by side with 1056, but if you want a bit of fruitness in your beers, without going as far as many of the English strains, this would work well. It actually kinda reminds me a bit of WLP 007, but that had more apple, and less banana then this strain. I should qualify, those flavors are there, but in the back, they are not overbearing or dominating. Finally, the grain. Well, it is pilsnery, without as much of the grassy sweetness. It is just kinda there in my opinion. I would make a decent base to play off specialty malts as I think it is a pretty clean palate, but overall, if I wanted to make a pale beer, I would use Pilsner for its sweetness and green flavors, just more interesting. So, at the end of the day, I have a light colored, well bittered blond ale with some nice fruity esters to keep it interesting that ends fairly dry with a touch of tartness. A step up from your typical lawnmower beer, I can see this guy going down easily after a day of yardwork.
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