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"Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art," a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum running March 7 through June 7, features a selection of more than 50 works by six artists. The paintings, drawings, photography, book arts, sculpture and installations on display highlight a wide range of styles and subject matter in contemporary Chinese art. Selections include "The Bikers," a pair of hanging scrolls with computer-generated images by Zhang Hongtu. (Photo: Bruce White)
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"Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art," a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, will open Saturday, March 7, and run through Sunday, June 7.
"Outside In" features a selection of more than 50 works by six artists -- including paintings, drawings, photography, book arts, sculpture and installations -- intended to expand on the current popularity of contemporary Chinese art and challenge the curatorial practices on which this popularity has been based. Guest curator Jerome Silbergeld, director of Princeton's Tang Center for East Asian Art, has organized the exhibition with Cary Liu, curator of Asian art at the Princeton University Art Museum, and Dora Ching, associate director of the Tang Center.
"The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This exhibition argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed to only a narrow range of what is available -- with the majority of attention having been given to 'avant-garde' or 'experimental' art, frequently selected for its dissident political content or 'shock value' rather than for its artistic quality," said Silbergeld, the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor in Chinese Art and professor of art and archaeology. "'Outside In' presents contemporary Chinese art in a far wider range of styles and subject matter and substantially expands on our understanding of this work."
A second work by Zhang Hongtu, this oil painting titled "Shitao (Ten Thousand Ugly Inkblots) -- Van Gogh," was done on three panels. (Photo: Courtesy of the Lin and Keng Gallery)
The six artists featured in the exhibition -- Arnold Chang, Michael Cherney, Zhi Lin, Liu Dan, Vannessa Tran and Zhang Hongtu -- are widely diverse in terms of their style and subject matter, age and experience, and geographic and ethnic origin. Some are well known internationally, while others are being introduced in the exhibition. Collectively, they represent a far wider range in Chinese artistic practice than the work shown in most exhibitions, art fairs and galleries today, according to the organizers.
Many of the finest "Chinese" artists now work, or recently have worked, in the United States, raising the question of what is meant by "Chinese" and "American" art in this age of globalization. The six artists in the exhibition all are U.S. citizens. Some are immigrants, some were born in America, some are ethnically Chinese and others have simply adopted Chinese art and culture as their own. All six have integrated their historical roots into their art, and their awareness of Chinese traditions challenges the meaning of "contemporary" in today's Chinese art.
Exhibition hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
"Ink Handscroll" is a work of ink and color on paper by Liu Dan. (Photo: Courtesy of the San Diego Museum of Art)


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Family: Phasianidae, Pheasants and Grouse view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has either gray or brown plumage, darker above than below, with pale streaks on upperparts and dark bars on underparts. Dark tail feather bars appear as concentric rings on fanned tail. Black feathers on neck form a ruff when displaying; otherwise hard to see. ADULT FEMALE Similar to adult male, but smaller and with shorter tail. JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but duller; dark subterminal tail band is absent.
Dimensions Length: 16-19" (41-48 cm)
Habitat Locally common in deciduous woodland, especially where Aspen Populus tremuloides is common (buds and shoots feature in diet).
Observation Tips The wonderfully cryptic camouflage makes it hard to spot. Listen for male's drumming in spring.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, New England, Western Canada, Southeast, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, Southwest, Eastern Canada, Plains, Great Lakes, California
Voice Utters various squeaks. Male's drumming display is created by rapid wingbeats.
Discussion Plump grouse. Intricate plumage patterns afford it superb camouflage on woodland floor. Feeds mainly on buds, shoots, and fruits. Gray and reddish brown color forms occur throughout, but birds from east are palest and grayest, while those from west typically are darkest and brownest. All adult birds show a striking subterminal black band on otherwise brown or gray tail, most noticeable in flight. Sexes are similar.

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Field trial labradors, the wind beneath my wings,
sometimes poop under my boots.
Hmmm I would have to say it depends on the breed and the dog. Some are more single minded while others seem to be more into muti tasking.
Just my 2 cents
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Had lots of good dogs but when one saves your life it is a whole different ballgame!
How many thoughts can a handler have at one time?
Heck, I can't think of two things at once. I'm not asking my dog to either.
Howard Niemi
You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
get your dog out and TRAIN! caryalsobrook 2013
I'm just happy when my dog maintains the one thought I want him to for as long as I want him to. He's pretty good. My wife would say I don't stay on track long enough for the dog to figure out what I want!
Tom Wall
I have worked with dogs who I would have been delighted if they could have maintained even a single thought in their mind...seemed like only a partial thought at best.
Waiting for brain cells to touch regards,
Interesting Aussie! I'd guess one thought, but any number of "variations" of that thought within the circumstances be it via learned response, genetic, temperament or drive...
Depends on the dog I'd say. I had one that I could show a concept just a few times and he would do it. I could work on multiple things in a training session with him and he got it. My current pride and joy I have to focus on one thing in a session and keep hammering away at it for multiple sessions before moving on to another concept. Then I hope she remembers it in the heat of a test or trial. You know, difficult stuff like SIT! at the line and HEEL - dammit!
I think they were all made to shoot because if they were not why did they give them that whirr of wings that moves you suddenly more than any love of country . . . I think that they were made to shoot and some of us were made to shoot them and if that is not so well, never say we did not tell you that we liked it.
E. Hemingway
How many thoughts is this? Mom, thanks for the ride. You sit in the truck and I will find birds and bring them to you.
Carol Howey
Owned and handled by Cruisin' with Indiana Jones, JH
Alternate Handler: Westwind Buffalo Soldier
Apprentice Handler: Snake River Medicine Man, SH
I would say it is one thought at a time but with the ability to switch to another one thought in an instant.
With my young dog it goes like this-
"DUCKS! I need ducks. Who has the ducks? Ducks, Ducks, Ducks. You want me through that ditch? are there ducks? I'm gone, ducks, ducks"
"Food? You have food? What is it? who has it? Food, food, food....."
"Guns Ready!" "DUCKS!!!!!!!!" but I have food "Who cares I'm gonna get ducks.Ducks, ducks, ducks!!
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin


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Would like to hear from handlers if they've seen "better" judging because of the current requirements?
Would like to know if less people are willing or able to fulfill all the apprenticeships and judging requirements before being able to judge?
Personally, I'm finding it to be a real PITA, more so even from the time involved than the expense. I've walked to the line hundreds of times at all levels of AKC HT, plus a few Derby, Qual & Amateur of late. I now have to start with a new seminar (scheduled for December, thanks for stepping up, Blackhawk Club), then apprentice at JH, judge twice at JH, apprentice at SH, judge twice at SH, apprentice at MH, THEN be able to judge MH. That's 7 weekend events before I can be considered "educated enough" to judge a MH. Yet I somehow managed to finish two MH titles this summer. Maybe it doesn't sound like a big deal to do all that just to judge, but, it is, in real time. For those of us with multiple dogs at various levels, the very ones who should be giving back by judging and using their experience, the time factor involved now is a very big obstacle.
Short enough season as it is, get back in the water in May if we're lucky, train hard May/June, try to start running some by end of June because the tests are closest then, run July, August, season is done in September. Doesn't give a whole lot of weekends to both run our own dogs and try to give back some. I have a lot of dogs and a lot of experience, I'm one of those who should be giving back (beyond working at events) now that I am in a position to do so, but am being encouraged not to do so by these current requirements. Whining? Maybe. But, as Ann has graciously provided the contact info for everyone's RAC rep, I will be contacting mine with my feelings on the matter, maybe with enough grumbling from clubs, there might be some revisions made to these requirements, if they are proving to be more hindrance than help in getting qualified judges.
To answer the question of cost: seminar plus apprenticeships, for me in driving range, no motel, about $300-400, before I can judge a MH. Less significant to me than the time factor, but not insignificant either.


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Other views of the Houston Police Memorial can be seen via this link gigapan.org/gigapans/most_popular/?q=houstonpolice ... you will notice that one of them was taken three years ago to this date (taken with a Leica D-Lux 3), and one two years and one month ago (Canon SX110). Based on the tree comparisons, the drought has had an effect, but not as bad as I had expected.
The curved panorama view via the "View in Google Earth" is really beautiful.
Note: Concerning the drought; I mention the drought in the GigaPan taken two years ago ... I assure you that the drought that Houston is suffering through is nothing like what we described then as drought. It has become very serious as what these two articles from the New York Times describe: www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/as-texas-dries-out-life-falters-and-fades.html and www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08/18/us/AP-US-Texas-Drought-Nearly-Dry.html?_r=1&hp
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Today was okay. Hecticness at work; we now have three printers and a fax machine down, and just about everyone I needed to get in touch with was either 'not in the office today' or in a meeting. Bah. In other, better news I decided that I'm going to try and make the trip to San Jose from England for the LWE in August. If anyone's going, let me know, 'cause I'm going to run out of things to do and get way bored. *g*
Got my photos from the 1st UK Wearables meet back today. I'll be writing an article up for iUniverse, so keep an eye out for a kickass piece of writing. It was a great day.


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Kimberly Rivers Roberts, Carl Deal, and Tia Lessin try to answer some of them with their harrowing tale of reality in Trouble the Water. Equipped with her first camcorder, Roberts pressed "Record" and started gathering amateur, shaky, yet raw and brutally honest footage of her Lower Ninth Ward block the day before the hurricane made landfall, on August 29, 2005.
Roberts's video is combined with that of directors Deal and Lessin, producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, to whom she offered her material at a Red Cross shelter a week after the storm, with the requirement to "keep it real." At times it is tough to hold on — there is an unsteady hand behind the camera, Louisiana drawl so thick it needs subtitles, violent winds that drown out voices, and blatant racism.
Knowing the brutal outcome, it's painful to see Roberts interviewing her neighbors — the young, the old, the drunken, and those without means, all displaying an unconvincing confidence in their decision to stay behind. Who among them lived to see the film — and who did not?
Roberts, her husband Scott, and her subjects are among those hardest hit by the storm and its aftermath: They are black, poor, stubbornly faithful native New Orleanians. From them we gain a street-level perspective before, during, and after the hurricane. Panic prevails as the rising water begins to submerge street signs and forces the Robertses and their anxious pets to the attic of their home. A fearful-looking Roberts says, "I'm running out of juice," before the screen goes black, leaving us to assume the camera battery has died.
The hurricane storyline aside, the Robertses' biographies themselves might have made for an interesting documentary. Kimberly, a 24-year-old rapper and self-described "street hustler," is the daughter of a drug-addicted mother who died of AIDS and sister to a prison inmate. Scott is a streetwise former drug dealer. The couple literally have the scars to show for their experiences: Scott bears a welt several inches long across his face, which Kimberly claims to have inflicted with a knife.
Surviving all this, and then being faced with a life-threatening natural catastrophe, would put anyone and any couple to the test. Yet Kimberly and Scott never leave each other's sides, as they trek to higher ground with the help of a family member, spend weeks on end at a shelter, stay briefly at a relative's home, and temporarily relocate to Memphis. Whether the directors chose to exclude the footage or it just never happened, the Robertses never lose patience with each other.
Kimberly is a pillar of selfless strength, consistently putting others' needs before her own, never weakening under the pressure of the circumstances — not even when she finds her uncle's decomposing body after two weeks in his home (the National Guard hadn't managed to check his house yet).
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James P. Lynch
Madison - James P. Lynch, age 96, passed away on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at Oakwood Village East in Madison. He was born on March 22, 1917 in Madison, the son of John and Agnes (Gratton) Lynch.
James was a past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus Council 531 and a member of the Kiwanis. He enjoyed being a member of the Madison Lapidary and Mineral Club, golfing, and bowling. He was also a 50 year veteran of working Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall.
James is survived by his daughters, Kathleen (Ray) Maffet and Eileen (James) Burmeister; 5 grandchildren; and a brother, John. He was preceded in death by his wife, Beatrice; parents; and sisters; Elizabeth Lynch, Theresa Lynch, Mary Buenzli, Cilia Hossman, Margaret Reis, Susan Clark and Rosella Kratochvil.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at OUR LADY QUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 405 S. Owen Dr., Madison, on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. with Msgr. Kenneth J. Fiedler presiding. Burial will follow at Resurrection Cemetery. A visitation will be held at church on Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until time of the mass.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in James' name to The Knights of Columbus Council 531 or Agrace HospiceCare.


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Family: Berberidaceae, Barberry view all from this family
Description Single, fragrant white flower concealed beneath huge, deeply divided leaves. The leaves, roots, seeds and unripe fruit of this plant are poisonous.
Habit: native perennial herb; erect stems; spreads by rhizome to form large colonies.
Height: 1-2 ft (30-60 cm)
Leaf: one or two per stem, opposite, stalked, rubbery, deeply palmately divided; to 12 in (30 cm) diameter.
Flower: white, nodding, 1-3 in (2.5-7.5 cm) wide; with 6-9 waxy petals; on thin stalk from fork in stem, held below leaves.
Fruit: large berry, green turning yellow (rarely orange or maroon), to .2 in (5.5 mm) across.
Warning Leaves, seeds, and especially the roots (which are used medicinally) are poisonous to humans and animals if ingested in high quantities. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a persons age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plants different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil.
Flower April to June.
Flower March - April (in south); May (in north)
Habitat Mixed deciduous forest, fields, moist road banks, river banks; 150-2600 ft (50-800 m).
Range Native to eastern North America, from Quebec to Florida, west to Texas, northeast to Nebraska, Minnesota and Ontario; sometimes cultivated as an ornamental.
Discussion Also known as indian apple, hog apple, wild mandrake, mandrake. Endangered in Florida. After the fruit ripens in early to mid-summer, the plant goes dormant.
Comments May apple colonizes by rhizomes, forming dense mats in damp, open places.
Exposure Preference Partial shade.
Native Distribution Quebec & s. Ontario to Florida, w. to Minnesota, e. Nebraska, e. Kansas & e. Texas
Site Preference Moist, deciduous woods; shady meadows
Soil Preference Moist, humus-rich soils. pH 4-7.


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"China calls for new global currency, adds pressure for overhaul of financial order"
By JOE McDONALD | AP Business Writer 7:37 AM EDT, March 24, 2009 http://www.courant.com/business/nati...,3112807.story
Of particular interest in this piece is this quote:Here are a couple of quotes about the topic that may be of interest (from this site: http://www.forcingchange.org/one_wor...thout_endnotes"A super-sovereign reserve currency managed by a global institution could be used to both create and control global liquidity," Zhou wrote. "This will significantly reduce the risks of a future crisis and enhance crisis management capability."A global economy requires a global currency.
Paul Volcker, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve.
The control of money and credit strikes at the very heart of national sovereignty.
A.W. Clausen, President of Bank of America, in a response to the suggestion of a global central bank. [Clausen later became the President of the World Bank].
Once a nation parts with control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nations laws.
W.L. Mackenzie King, [former Prime Minister of Canada].
"In a May, 2007 lecture, Mundell related, International monetary reform usual becomes possible only in response to a felt need and the threat of a global crisis.
This Nobel Prize winner also pointed his finger to the possible trigger event, saying that the global crisis would have to involve the dollar, and that a world currency should be viewed as a contingency to a global dollar disaster."
With a similar crisis in mind, Benn Steil offers what appears to be an altruistic solution. In order to avert the crisis, all that nations need to do is relinquish sovereignty before the problem become insurmountable...
Governments must let go of the fatal notion that nationhood requires them to make and control the money used in their territory. National currencies and global markets simply do not mix; together they make a deadly brew of currency crisis and geopolitical tension and create ready pretexts for damaging protectionism.


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BEST OF BOTH WORLDS | The American Repertory Theater makes its first Loeb Drama Center appearance of the season with this holiday musical with book and lyrics by Randy Weiner and music by Obie winner Diedre Murray. Part of new ART artistic director Diane Paulus's "Shakespeare" season, it got a thumbs-up from the New York Times— "This rousing musical has taken the plot from The Winter's Tale, tossed out anything resembling Shakespearean language, and achieved a hypnotic effect with musical numbers that leave the audience whooping" — so never mind that the language is the best part of any Shakespeare play and just enjoy the R&B and gospel treats. The cast includes Gregg Baker, Mary Bond Davis, and Jeanette Bayardelle; Paulus herself directs. | Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge | 617.547.8300 | November 21–January 3 | Curtain 7:30 pm Tues-Wed [no November 25] | 2 pm [December 31] + 7:30 pm [no Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Eve] Thurs | 8 pm [no Christmas Day] Fri | 2 pm [no November 21, 28] + 8 pm Sat | 2 + 7:30 pm [no evening November 29 or January 3] Sun | $25-$75; $15-$65 seniors; $20 student rush
A CHRISTMAS CAROL | Trinity Repertory Company's annual rendition of Dickens's holiday classic is down to one cast this year, with Timothy Crowe as Scrooge, Mauro Hantman as Bob Cratchit, Barbara Meek as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Fred Sullivan Jr. as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Joe Wilson Jr. as Marley, Rachael Warren as Fan, David Rudi Utter as young Scrooge, and Monica Willey as Belle. No mention of the third Spirit, so we're assuming the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come will be playing itself. Birgitta Victorson directs. | Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St, Providence, Rhode Island | 401.351.4242 | November 20–December 27 | Curtain 7:30 pm Tues-Fri [no Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day; Christmas Eve @ noon + 5 pm] | 2 pm [no November 21] + 7:30 pm Sat | noon + 5 pm [2 pm only November 22] Sun | $40-$65; children ages 2-14 $10
HEROES | Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents the New England premiere of this Tom Stoppard adaptation of the Olivier Award–winning drama by French playwright Gérald Sibleyras in which three combat survivors of World War I find themselves stranded, 40 years later, in a veterans' home, alone with their injuries, their memories, a 200-pound stone dog, and a masochistic nun. Carl Forsman directs; Ken Tigar, Jonathan Hogan, and Tony winner Ron Holgate make up the cast. The approximately 90-minute performance will run without intermission. | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack St, Lowell | 978.654.4MRT | November 19–December 13 | Curtain 7:30 pm Tues [November 24] | 2 + 7:30 pm Wed [November 25] | 7:30 pm Thurs [no Thanksgiving Day] | 8 pm Fri | 4 pm [no November 21] + 8 pm Sat | 2 + 7 pm [no evening December 13] Sun | $26-$56; $23-$51 seniors; $15 students [balcony]
MACHINAL | The Boston Conservatory Theater Ensemble presents Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play based loosely on the true story of Ruth Snyder, a Long Island housewife who went to the electric chair after conspiring with her lover to murder her husband. Clark Gable played the lover in the original 1928 Broadway production. Doug Lockwood directs. | Midway Studios, 15 Channel Center St, Boston | 617.912.9222 | November 19-22 | Curtain 8 pm Thurs-Sat | 2 pm Sun | $22; $12 seniors; $7 students
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Ron Cook: Pirates got it right with A.J. BurnettJanuary 29, 2014 11:25 PM
It looks as if A.J. Burnett's two-year marriage to the Pirates is ending, perhaps bitterly. I want to be angry at someone because of it. But I can't.
Certainly, Burnett isn't to blame. He served the Pirates well and was a big part of their surprising success. But he's a free agent and can sell himself to the highest bidder. He owes the Pirates nothing. I hope he gets the best deal possible.
Don't hold Burnett's Pirates-or-retirement talk in the fall against him. People can change their mind. I believe that he was happy here. I also know that he has made more money in his long career than he and his family will ever need, more than $120 million. But pro athletes keep score among themselves by the numbers on their paycheck. If Burnett really wants to pitch again, as all the stories are saying, and if he feels as if the Pirates low-balled him with their offer for 2014, as his reported plans to test free agency indicate, he has no choice but to look elsewhere.
"If A.J. wants to get top-of-the-market money because he's a top-of-the-market pitcher, it won't be from the Pittsburgh Pirates," Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said in December. "We like to think Pittsburgh is the place he wants to be."
Apparently, it is not.
It is Burnett's right to move on.
But it also is the Pirates' right to decide Burnett, at 37, isn't worth 18-20 percent of their payroll.
It's clear that's the Pirates' determination. They had a chance to give Burnett a qualifying offer for $14.1 million after the 2013 season but declined. I can't blame them. I can criticize them for not spending to add to their lineup at first base and/or right field. It's a crying shame they didn't do more. But I'll be darned if I'm going to rip them for not investing heavily into an aging pitcher whom they didn't think was good enough to get the ball in the biggest game last season, a pitcher who probably would be no better than No. 3 in their rotation this season behind Francisco Liriano and Gerrit Cole, maybe even No. 4 behind Charlie Morton.
I'm not even sure Pirates manager Clint Hurdle wants Burnett back despite his rather lukewarm public claims that he does. At various times last season, Burnett showed up Hurdle, pitching coach Ray Searage and shortstop Clint Barmes on the field or in the dugout. Many defended him. "That's just A.J. being A.J. … He's such a wonderful competitor." Well, that's nonsense. Every Pirates player is a competitor or he wouldn't be in the big leagues. No matter how much you want to win, it doesn't give any player the right to treat his bosses and teammates that way. It was shameful.
The worst incident with Burnett happened when Hurdle told him he wasn't getting the start against the St. Louis Cardinals in the decisive Game 5 of the National League Divisional Series because of his lousy history at Busch Stadium, including a 9-1 loss in Game 1 when Burnett gave up six hits, seven runs, four walks and a home run in two innings. Everyone involved, including Burnett, said Burnett threw a tantrum. It was so bad that team officials had concerns that Burnett wouldn't show up the next day for the flight to St. Louis. Burnett made the plane and watched Cole get the Game 5 start, a 6-1 loss.
And people say Burnett is a great team leader?
That whole leadership thing is overrated, anyway. Many gave Burnett a lot of credit for mentoring James McDonald in the first half of the 2012 season, but no one said anything when McDonald fell apart in the second half. The two had a falling out, actually. Should Burnett be praised for working magic with Jeff Locke in the first half of last season? If so, does he deserve blame for Locke's second-half collapse? I tend to believe Locke — not Burnett — is responsible for both the success and failure.
If anything, the Pirates will miss Burnett's 191 innings and 209 strikeouts from last season. At least one team, probably more, will figure he can duplicate those numbers this season and will be willing to pay him $14 million or more. Some baseball people have suggested he can get a two-year, $30 million deal.
The Pirates' actions say neither is a smart deal, especially not for a pitcher who's reaching the age where physical breakdowns become more common.
I couldn't agree more.
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Eeeeerf. Not much code written in my spare time. And a crashed server. And a very long time since I posted at all. I am, however, alive and may actually get around to purchase new hardware, one of these days.
Eeeeerf. Not much code written in my spare time. And a crashed server. And a very long time since I posted at all. I am, however, alive and may actually get around to purchase new hardware, one of these days.
Long while of not posting. Nothing (much) programming- related to mention, but...
New job. Turns out I am not emigrating right at the moment (bit of a last-minute surprise, there, as it happens). New employer seems to be a sensible multi-national corp, though.
Managed to score a (small) writing contract. That reminds me, need to poke the editor-in-chief that I haven't seen the paper copies of the contract yet. The task is to write an article about the BESK machine, a piece of hardware I have only seen the console of, but it is nonetheless a machine that warms the cockles of my heart.
Also noticed that there's been a bit of movement in the SHA1-cracking. Apparently Amazon EC2 GPU instances are real good for SHA1-based password hashes. I don't know, exactly, what this means for SHA1-based HMACs, but I am pretty sure it's not entirely pleasant. So, need to go back to the drawing board and switch out SHA1 and switch in something else for NOCtool's network protocol.
Not managed to poke code, as such, but I've checked (one of) the monitored variables (ifOutOctets on the ethernet port of a router at home). Next step is to write some more methods on the SHOW gf, to generate prettier graphs (background, grid, some text, that sort of thing).
Would probably need to add a selector-thing to allow easy graphing of each of the things monitored, but taht's but a keyword away.
Hm, there's some odd interaction between Swank and the existing NOCTool ping monitors. Nonetheless, there's now SNMP monitoring of a single network device running. Howpefully, I'll get a chance to poke around in the code tonight or tomorrow morning, to see if it's actually doing anything interesting.
So, back to poking at the NOCTool codebase again. This time, the intent is to get some SNMP support into it, to more easily be able to monitor routers and switches. There's also some opportunity to monitor server hosts via SNMP, but at the moment unix-based hosts can be adequately monitored via SSH.
First, I created a class for "things monitored by SNMP" (with curucial details like community strings and SNMP version in it, plus slots for anything we're monitoring via SNMP; this is currently just interfaces). Then, an SNMP configuration stanza for the config reader. Inside the SNMP stanza, configuration stanzas for anything monitored by SNMP (again, just interfaces at the moment).
The intent is to let an empty interface spec is to mean "auto-discover all interfaces, then monitor them" and for anyone wanting a subset, simply naming the interfaces.
The actual monitoring starts with an snmp-walk of the ifTable.ifEntry.ifDescr sub-tree, mapping names to current SNMP indexes, then passing the resulting hash table down to each "get stuff for this specific interface" function (taking the current SNMP session, mapping table and interface object as arguments).
So far, I am happy with what I have, but it's yet to be used in anger.
I was reading titus's recent post about data structures for k-mer filtering.
ONe thing struct me. Titus, you looked at binary Bloom filters, but seemingly ignored Counting Bloom filters (where instead of indexing a bit with your hashes, you index a counter of a suitable size, you do run into problems if you need both increments and decrements, since once you it max on the counter, you can no longer decrement).
Of course, it's not necessarily trivial going from a Bloom filter (counting or not) to the key, whereas the key is typically available when using a normal hash table.
I suspect, but have not verified, that a counting Bloom combined with the parallelization opportunity you found (and that one is the big win, I think) would be an equally interesting approach.
This morning, I finished off and packaged up a library (CL, linux; other OSes with CL implementations and OS-provided random (or random-backed pseudorandom) devices can probably be grafted in, but would require volunteers to test) to extract random bits from /dev/urandom and use those essentially unadorned to generate random numbers.
There's a single exported function from the package, RANDOMNESS:RND and takes an integer argument (I guess you could try feeding it a float, but it wouldn't do you that much good). That function then proceeds to extract log2 N bits and uses rejection smapling to find an integer in the 0..(N-1) span. As the bits sucked out of the internal pool run out (each bit is used only the once), they're replenished from the OS-provided randomness source.
All very nice, with some interesting corner cases for the unwary and probably still bug-ridden. But, such is life.
Download from here.
Neat(ish) hack...
Sometimes, I find myself writing anonymous functions, to fill out keyword arguments for functions or adapting the argument order. So, I thought, how hard would it be to write a macro to write the code for me? Turns out, not very complex, at all. The formatting is not QUITE what I started out with, as the Advogato edit box is a bit on the short end, but, hey...
(defmacro _ (form) (flet ((is-arg (sym) (ignore-errors (and (char= (char (symbol-name sym) 0) #\_) (cons (parse-integer (symbol-name sym) :start 1) sym))))) (let ((syms (loop for arg in form for temp = (is-arg arg) if temp collect temp))) `(lambda ,(mapcar #'cdr (sort syms #'< :key #'car)) ,form))))
With this in hand, you can, for example, easily make an adapter to parse C-style hex constants:
(_ (parse-integer _1 :radix 16 :start 2))
Not that the lambda-wrapping of this would've been much more complex and I am not entirely sure this wins as far as readability is concerned, but that is as it may be. It's if nothing else a neat macro that would be more than a little tricky to pull off with a less capable macro facility.
So, one of the users of my Image library asked if there wasn't any way of using a font other than the rather ugly, built-in one. I said, roughly, "you can define a new one, in an analogous fashion to how the built-in oine is done?"
Apparently, that was not the wished-for answer and I started thinking. Bit-mapped fonts are (relatively) easy to deal with. There's a helluva lot of bitmapped fonts for X11. So, I set forth to code up a reader for PCF fonts, converting the bitmaps to internal format and some multi- font support in Image. All done, now.
Common Lisp is still very pleasant when dealing with binary file I/O, even if I wished that there was an easy way of changing the binaryness of a file on the fly.
Currently tooling away at asked-for functionality for my IMAGE library (specifically, a request was made to see if I can scare up another font or three, so I am currently noodling on a PCF font-file reader, as you do).
Common Lisp continues to be amazingly convenient for "binary I/O", although it does require a certain mind-set to consider it convenient, I guess.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Alright, so I just heard about this story and figured I'd give my input. This story comes out of Wampum, Pennsylvania: 11-year-old Jordan Anthony Brown (pictured on the left; photo courtesy of the Lawrence County Prison) shot and killed his dad's pregnant fiancee at point blank range, and is now being charged as an adult. Brown allegedly shot the woman with his 20-gauge shotgun in the back of the head. He had wrapped the shotgun in a sheet to muffle the sound.
But apparently, his lawyer isn't happy with this and wants him to be tried in juvenile court. Brown is currently being held in the Lawrence County Prison in Pennsylvania.
On Saturday, Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo charged Brown, as an adult, in the murder of 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk. Houk was 6 months pregnant. Bongivengo said that he has to be charged as an adult because Pennsylvania law doesn't allow for criminal homicide charges to be filed against Brown in juvenile court.
Brown originally lied to police about seeing a suspicious vehicle on the property, but later, police realized that he was lying after finding multiple inconsistencies in his story. The victims 7-year-old daughter ultimately implicated Brown in the murder. Bongivengo told reporters, "She didn't actually eyewitness the shooting. She saw him with what she believed to be a shotgun and heard a loud bang. [The gun was found in the] location we believe to be in the defendant's bedroom."
Jack Houk, the victim's father, told reporters, "An 11-year-old kid — what would give him the motive to shoot someone? Maybe he was just jealous of my daughter and the baby and thought he would be overpowered."
Brown's attorney, David Elisco met with Brown, after which he told reporters, "I don't think he knows what's going on. I walked out of there thinking he was innocent. I believe Jordan did not do this and I'm looking forward to seeing the physical evidence to see if it matches with what I think happened." Elisco also met with Christopher Brown, the boy's father. He characterized Christopher as being "in a state of actual shock and disbelief." When asked if the boy disliked Houk, Elisco answered, "This is a tragic, extremely tragic situation, and it's way too early to have any substantive comment."
Apparently jealousy was the motive. According to the victim's brother-in-law, Jason Kraner, "He [Jordan Brown] actually told my son that he wanted to do that to her. There was an issue with jealousy." Elisco responded to that claim, saying, "I think it's all bull shit–there's no animosity."
Elisco wants Brown moved out of the county jail. He told reporters, "I don't think anybody wants him there. … I want him to be occupied and busy and back, essentially, in school. … I wouldn't say he's in good spirits. He's confused. He looks and acts like a typical 11-year-old."
He acts like a typical boy? Are you crazy? He shot a woman at point blank range!
Lawrence County Warden Charles Adamo also wants Brown moved out of his prison. He says that his facility just can't accommodate an 11-year-old boy. Apparently they have to keep him ultra-isolated from any adult inmates, so he can't even have visitors, since it'd mean that he'd have to be around other adults. It's also difficult to coordinate showers, since he has to shower alone, meaning that a whole cell block of 63 inmates must be locked down. According to Elisco, they don't even have clothes that fit him: "They put a shirt on him; he's swimming in it, and his pants are cuffed up about 10 times." I find that a little hard to believe – they don't have small clothes at all? What happens if they arrest a dwarf or midget? I feel like they must have clothes somewhere that would fit him.
Personally, I don't care if he's in an adult prison or not, as long as he is CHARGED as an adult. This kid knew what he was dong. It was premeditated (the sheet wrapped around the gun). We have a girl who saw everything but the actual shooting (anybody can put 2 and 2 together. Boy with shotgun + big bang + dead woman = boy killed the woman).
This freak of a kid needs to be charged with double homicide and needs to spend the rest of his life in jail.
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I've lifted this from a UK board that I know some of you visit. Some worrying news, not only about the consequences of escaped farm fish, (which is to some extent already known, though this gives some hard figures) but also of deliberately stocked fish. There are implications not only for atlantic salmon, but also other species.
"15th October 2003
Accidental and Deliberate Introductions of Farm Salmon Result in Reduced Survival and Fitness and could Lead to Extinction of Vulnerable Wild Populations of Atlantic Salmon
Currently production of Atlantic salmon in the north Atlantic is some 700,000 tonnes per year. The physical nature of marine net cages is such that they are vulnerable to damage by storms, predators and collisions, and escapes from confinement inevitably occur. The largest single incident to date occurred in the Faroes in spring 2002 when 600,000 fish escaped during a storm accident. Fish are also lost during routine handling operations. It is estimated that some two million Atlantic salmon escape each year from fish farms in the North Atlantic, which is equivalent to about 50% of the total number of wild adult salmon in the sea. Escaped salmon can enter rivers where they breed and interbreed with wild salmon, thereby potentially changing the genetic make-up of wild populations. The importance of such changes in the survival of the remaining wild populations of Atlantic salmon has been a matter of debate for the past decade but little empirical evidence has been available.
In a paper published today in the prestigious scientific journal Royal Society Proceedings B, we report on the results from large-scale experimental simulations of farm salmon escapes*. The study, which was carried out at the Marine Institute facilities on the Burrishoole River system, Co Mayo, was directed jointly by Dr Philip McGinnity of the Marine Institute and Prof Andy Ferguson of the School of Biology & Biochemistry, Queens University Belfast. These experiments, which have taken 10 years to complete, examined, for the first time, multiple families of both first and second generation hybrids between wild and farm salmon in the freshwater and marine life history phases. Known numbers of eyed eggs of each group were planted together in a 7,250m2 section of a natural salmon-spawning river. Juveniles (parr and smolts) were subsequently sampled from this river and as emigrants at a downstream trap. Aliquots of eyed eggs from the same families were also reared in a communal hatchery tank and released to the open sea as smolts. Returning adults were captured in the coastal nets, by angling, and at the upstream traps. DNA profiling was used to identify the parentage of individuals. By carrying out the experiments under common-environment conditions, the effects of environmental variation are eliminated and thus any differences found are the result of differing genetic make-up.
The experiment demonstrated that farm Atlantic salmon have both genetic and competitive impacts on wild populations. As a result of domestication over several generations, genetic changes have reduced the capability of farm salmon to survive in the wild, especially during the marine phase. Overall farm salmon showed an estimated lifetime success of 2% of that of the native wild salmon, and results were consistent in three separate cohorts. Hybrids were intermediate in lifetime success between the wild and the farm (27% - 89% relative to wild). In the second generation hybrids, some 70% of the embryos died in the first few weeks as a result of outbreeding depression. This condition is caused by genetic incompatibilities between the parents but does not occur until the second generation when recombination of the parental genes has taken place. Taking our results alongside those available in the literature, it can be concluded that genetic changes leading to reduced survival in the wild is a feature of all domesticated salmon and trout and consequently hybrids between farm and wild fish also have reduced survival.
When mature farm salmon spawn in a river, although some pure farm offspring may be produced, most mating results in interbreeding between wild and farm salmon. Thus part of the potential wild juvenile production is converted to hybrids, which show reduced survival and adult return.
It was found that hybrids returned mainly after two winters at sea compared with one winter for the native salmon of the Burrishoole river. While the increase in these larger two sea winter hybrids could be an advantage from an angling point of view, the overall poorer survival of hybrids means it occurs at a cost to juvenile production in the next generation.
Farm salmon have been selectively bred for faster growth. In this study, juvenile farm salmon and hybrids grew faster than wild juveniles and competitively displaced the wild fish from the river. In one cohort, 57% of the wild parr were displaced. The poorer survival of farm and hybrid salmon at sea means that they do not compensate for these displaced wild juveniles and so there is an overall reduction in returning adults.
The combined impact of hybridization and competition means that, when a large number of farm salmon spawn in a river, the number of adult salmon returning to the river and the potential offspring production in the next generation are reduced. The degree of the impact will depend on various factors including relative numbers of wild and farm salmon, and juvenile habitat availability. As repeated escapes are now a common occurrence in some areas, a cumulative effect is produced generation upon generation, which could lead to extinction of endangered wild populations as a result of this extinction vortex.
In addition to accidental escapes, deliberate stocking of surplus Atlantic salmon from the farm industry is undertaken, especially in Scotland, in an attempt to supplement wild populations, which have become depleted as a result of environmental deterioration, habitat loss and over-exploitation. Deliberate introduction of farm salmon is likely to be more damaging than accidental escapes and have the reverse effect to that intended, with the wild population being further reduced. Thus when adult farm salmon enter a river it is largely hybrids that are produced, whereas in the case of deliberate stocking large numbers of pure farm juveniles are introduced in the first generation. These farm fish have a greater competitive effect and lower overall survival than hybrids. Also stocking may result in large numbers of farm fish being introduced annually. Farm stocks of brown trout, while not subject to the same intense programme of artificial selection for increased growth as Atlantic salmon, have been domesticated for a much longer period of time, over 100 years in the case of some strains. Stocking with farm brown trout is carried out on a much wider scale. Our results demonstrate that this brown trout stocking, as with Atlantic salmon, is detrimental to the fitness and survival of wild populations. In light of this study, and other similar studies with North American salmonids, the policy of deliberate stocking with domesticated salmonids needs urgent review.
Further information may be obtained from Philip McGinnity (firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com) or Andy Ferguson (firstname.lastname@example.com).
*Proceedings Royal Society London B (2003). DOI 10.1098/rspb.2003.2520. "
I have a strong suspicion that the fish farming industry will ignore this or claim that it doesn 't have enough evidence to show that fish farming hurts native stocks.
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Daniel "Dan-o" David Strangstalien
Daniel "Dan-o" David Strangstalien, age 51 of Briggsville, Wisconsin passed away after a sudden heart attack and was found on Sunday, February 10, 2013 on Lake Mason in Briggsville.
A Memorial Gathering will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2013 from 1:00 - 4:00 P.M. at the Carl E. Grabman American Legion Post #329 in Briggsville.
Dan-o was born February 24, 1961 in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Harlan V. and Onota "Pat" (Huotari) Strangstalien. He moved to Wisconsin Dells and attended Wisconsin Dells High School. He worked at various places but mostly construction. He owned hunting land in the Dell Prairie Township, what he called "God's Country", where he loved to hunt and meet with friends and family.
In his spare time, Dan-o enjoyed the outdoors and loved all hunting. He was a sportsman playing many sports but really loved golf. He also loved fishing and shared his catch with many.
Dan-o is survived by his daughters, Nicole (Jamon) Gustafson of Webster, TX, Denel and Beth Strangstalien of Waunakee; his son, Mark Dunham; a brother, Mike (Lynne) Strangstalien of Madison, WI; his sisters, Sherry (Richard) Bireitenfeldt of Savoy, IL and JoAnn Krohmer of Madison, WI; 4 grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and his special friend, Lisa Kreger.


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'Science-on-Saturday' lectures offered
Posted December 22, 2008; 05:01 p.m.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's annual Science-on-Saturday program -- a series of eight talks on topics ranging from microplasmas to contact lens care -- is scheduled for Jan. 10 through March 14.
The talks begin at 9:30 a.m. on designated Saturdays and usually run about two hours. The program is geared toward high school students, but all campus and local community members are invited to attend the free lectures in the Gottlieb Auditorium on the Forrestal Campus.
The series is marking its 25th anniversary this year. "It continues to grow every year in popularity," said James Morgan, a PPPL science education program administrator who organized the series with Ronald Hatcher and Kathleen Lukazik. "Science on Saturday is a way for the lab to introduce the community to various science topics and research in a range of disciplines."
This year's series includes the following lectures:
• Jan. 10 -- "Learning Differences in a Digital World: A New Vision" with Gordon Sherman, executive director of the Newgrange School and Education Center in Princeton.
• Jan. 17 -- "Is God a Mathematician?" with Mario Livio, senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
• Jan. 24 -- "Polysaccharides: From Waste Products to Smart Materials " with Caroline Schauer, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Drexel University.
• Jan. 31 -- "Microplasmas" with José Lopez, assistant professor of physics at St. Peter's College.
• Feb. 7 -- "Left-Right Asymmetry in the Universe" with Dilip Kondepudi, the Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Chemistry at Wake Forest University.
• Feb. 14 -- "Mapping the Universe" with Michael Strauss, professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton.
• Feb. 21 -- "Illusion and Reality: At the Boundary of Art and Science " with Susana Martinez-Conde, director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.
• March 14 -- "Outbreak of Contact Lens-Related Fusarium Keratitis in 2006: A Lesson in Microbial Keratitis and Contact Lens Care" with David Chu, assistant professor of ophthalmology and associate director of the Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School.
Registration is on-site prior to each session. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Security measures at the lab require adult visitors to show government-issued photo identification upon arrival. Directions and further information are available from the PPPL website.


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Sandra Kaye Hoernke
MT.HOREB – Sandra K. Hoernke (Alderson) of Gordon, WI, age 50, passed away at the Hospicecare Center Essential Health, Duluth, MN on January 25, 2013. Sandie was a 1980 graduate of Madison Memorial High School and a member of Gordon Presbyterian Pioneer Parish, Gordon, WI. She was proud of her tasks and duties performed for the State of Wisconsin. Sandie enjoyed camping, fishing, snowmobiling, her dogs, spending time with her family any time she could and skiing with her daughter. Sandie will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Sandie is survived by her husband, Craig; children, Justin Wollin and Jamie; parents, Don and Patty Alderson; cousins, Jessica Noethe, Jodi Vogel, Jake Stormer, Kaye Stormer, Victor, LeRoy and Joey Hubbard; loyal pets, Bucky and Freckles. Further survived by many family and friends. She is preceded in death by brother, Alan Alderson; grandmothers, Edith Alderson and Evelyn Gust; grandfathers, Leroy Alderson and Raymond Gust; Aunt JoAnn and Uncle Herbie Hubbard.
A Service will be held at JOYCE-RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 5701 Odana Rd, Madison, at noon on Thursday, January 31, 2013, with Rev. Cynthia Bacon Hammer presiding. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 10AM until the time of the service on Thursday. Burial will be at Forest Hill Cemetery.
The family wishes to express a special thank you to the staff & doctors at Essential Health ICU and HospiceCareCenter, Duluth, MN. To view and sign this guestbook, please visit: www.ryanfuneralservice.com
Joyce-Ryan Funeral Home & Cremation Services 5701 Odana Road 608-274-1000


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Penn State Dance Marathon A year of fundraising culminates with a 46-hour dance party in the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus.
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backup 3.0.6
Backup is a RubyGem (for UNIX-like operating systems: Linux, Mac OSX) that allows you to configure and perform backups in a simple manner using an elegant Ruby DSL. It supports various databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis), it supports various storage locations (Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Dropbox, any remote server through FTP, SFTP, SCP and RSync), it can archive files and directories, it can cycle backups, it can do incremental backups, it can compress backups, it can encrypt backups (OpenSSL or GPG), it can notify you about successful and/or failed backups (Email, Twitter). It is very extensible and easy to add new functionality to. It's easy to use.


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When Barbe takes the football field at Bucs Stadium on Friday night, the Bucs will be staring across at an opponent they have become all too familiar with over the past 41 years.
Year in and year out since 1972, and twice in the playoffs, school buses have crossed the Interstate 210 bridge on their 12-mile trek to the stadium that will play host to one of the biggest, if not the biggest rivalry in Southwest Louisiana: Sulphur vs. Barbe.
Every year the teams cast their records aside, no matter how good or bad, and duke it out as if it's the last game they will ever play.
"Every year is different, and you always have to throw the records out the window for this game," said Barbe head coach Mike Cutrera. "It's going to be a very good game. Both of these teams always play hard and it is a hard-fought contest that usually comes down to the wire."
Sulphur (3-5, 2-3) will be bringing some new blood to the rivalry this year when first-year head coach Jeff Wainwright attempts to make his first bite into the rivalry as sweet as his first victory at Sulphur, which, in his own words, was "like red velvet cake."
"This game obviously means a lot to both schools; they both really want to win," Wainwright said. "We are putting the same amount of effort in preparation as any other week, but on Friday night both of these teams are going to play beyond the whistle for their schools and communities, and that is one of the things that makes rivalry games great."
On the opposite sideline will be Cutrera, who looks to make it a perfect 4-0 against the Tors in his tenure as Barbe head coach.
Barbe (6-2, 3-2) has all of the momentum entering the game. The Bucs have amassed a 25-17 record in the series, reeling off victories in each of the past five years. The Bucs are ranked No. 8 in Class 5A and are looking to make their way back to the state championship game.
Although the Tors haven't beaten the Bucs since 2008, it hasn't been for a lack of trying. Just last year the Tors were leading the eventual state runner-up 22-14 at halftime before succumbing to the explosive Barbe offense.
"The kids know how big this game is," Cutrera said. "They know that they are playing Sulphur who is up for the task, just like they know our kids will be. I am expecting a great Friday night football game and atmosphere."
This year, the Bucs bring back that same high-tempo, pass-happy offense. Through eight weeks of the season, senior quarterback Kennon Fontenot ranks fourth among the state's passers with 2,228 yards and 26 touchdowns. His favorite target, the state's leading receiver and future LSU wide receiver Trey Quinn, has caught 64 of those passes for 1,130 yards and 13 touchdowns.
"Offensively we try to keep getting better each week and Friday we are going to come out and execute the same way we have all year," Cutrera said.
Sulphur will rely on its senior playmakers to step up big to lead its defense. Defensive back Joel Peterson and linebacker Leo Baillon spearhead an athletic Tors stop unit.
"Our kids are well aware of everything Barbe brings to the table. They are really focused and know what they have to do come Friday night," Wainwright said. "Trey Quinn is obviously their go-to guy, but without their quarterback and his ability to extend plays and make great throws they wouldn't be as good as they are.
"We are going to try and do the same thing everyone else has done this year and limit his ability to make great plays, and to do that our defenders have to play through the whistle every down."
Offensively the Tors will be looking to score points in bunches in order to keep pace with the Bucs, but it is a task that Wainwright said his ground-and-pound attack, led by running back Derrick Guillory, will be ready for.


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Joseph is preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Donna (Pearson); his father, Francesco Vitale; his mother Vincenza Troia Vitale; brother John Vitale; and sister Rosalie Scamardo. Joseph is survived by his six children Christine Vitale (Anthony Paule) of San Francisco, CA; Cathleen Raemisch (Carl) Verona; Nanci Jo, Madison; Joseph (Mary Heilman), Madison; David (Jill Bakken) Watertown; and Michael (Pam Brauer), Madison; eleven grandchildren, Cory Storkson (Heather),North Carolina; Joseph Storkson (Amber), Cross Plains; Jonathan Vitale,Madison; Michelle Stafford (Peter), Madison; Quincy Raemisch, Milwaukee; Veronica Raemisch (Nathan Brooks), Verona; Ellen, and Claire Vitale, Watertown; and Luke, Max and Sam, Madison; three great-grandchildren, Emerson, Isabella, & Olivia Storkson; brother Jerome Vitale and sister Rosalie Vanderbilt, King, WI; and Sister-in-law Dolores Teas, Indianola, Iowa.
Born November 24, 1922 in Madison, and raised in the richly diverse Greenbush neighborhood, Joseph was a devout Catholic who was very proud of his Italian/Sicilian heritage. Joseph served in the American Air Force during World War II, and was a member of VFW Post 1318. A lover of nature and sports, Joseph was a kind man whose good spirits and humor touched the hearts of everyone he met.
A private, Catholic service will be held Thursday, January 24, 2013. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to St Mary's Care Center, Madison, and VFW Post 1318, Madison. Dad, we miss you and love you.
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So how's your life going? If you've been dragging your feet in the mud, today is going to change all that! So what's going on you say? It's summer solstice bro aka time to get your groove on! The very special vibrations you'll receive are laced with abundance, joie de vivre and if you're ready for it – a little summer lovin'! So please step outside, smile & let the good times roll –
On Monday & Tuesday life hits you on the head real fast. Don't you hate it when the first person you meet says Man you look tired! Even if you were feeling fine those words drag you down to a very ugly place, where miserable people project their insecurities on others, yes my friend I'm talking about the workplace! Protecting your awesome mojo from the vampires out there is a must! Don't believe everything you hear is also on the menu. Wear your cool Marley headphones, execute tasks to the best of your ability & don't sweat the small stuff –
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The most important question any church planter can ask is "Why am I planting a church?" I have had some conversations with some great guys lately who I think are really struggling with that question.
All of us struggle with why we are in ministry on Monday morning, but we need to evaluate our motivation on a bigger scale. Let's look at what I think are some lousy reasons to plant a church and then share a great reason I recently heard.
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"I want to reinvent church." This one comes in a lot of flavors, but it always comes down to the bottom line of, "I have a better way to do church." More hymns, no hymns, pews, no pews, more art, more coffee, more beer, less structure, less formality. We're going to be radically sold out. We're not going to cater to Christians. We're going to go deep. We're going to go wide. We're going to be a church for people who absolutely abhor the awful church that I'm currently drawing my paycheck from. read more


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Frances Beinecke, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, will present a lecture titled "Opposing the Bush Onslaught: The Next Four Years of Environmental Advocacy" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The council, founded in 1970, is an environmental action organization that uses law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for living things. Beinecke, who joined the council in 1973, has been selected to become its next president in January.
In the council's 2004 annual report, published this past January, Beinecke and current president John Adams wrote: "The Bush administration has signaled that the attacks on the environment of the past four years are but the leading edge of a much broader assault that will come in the second term."
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Two local choreographers have been experimenting with new forms and formats for their work. We got to see the results last weekend in Lorraine Chapman's The Floating World at Green Street Studios and Martha Mason/Snappy Dance Theater's String Beings at the Boston Center for the Arts' Calderwood Pavilion. (The latter continues through this Sunday.) Neither piece was billed as a work-in-progress, but both had a provisional look despite their expert staging.
Lorraine Chapman acknowledges two sources for The Floating World, neither one linked to the sophisticated and illicit popular culture that flourished under that rubric in 18th- and 19th-century Japan. She identifies T.S. Eliot's desolate 1925 poem "The Hollow Men" and Kurt Jooss's great ballet of diplomatic stalemate and the triumph of Death, The Green Table. Chapman seems to connect these in history, though The Green Table wasn't choreographed until 1932, and she assumes the Erik Satie piano pieces that accompany much of her dance were also composed "around the same time." In fact, the Trois gymnopédies were published in 1887-'88, the Trois morceaux en forme de poire in 1903.
Chapman's casual attributions indicate to me that she didn't really base her dance on these cultural icons but wanted to help the audience think its way into what amounted to an hour of movement studies. I don't know whether her contact with Rudolf Laban's Eukinetics has been any less cursory, but she credits that as the basis of the choreography.
Rudolf Laban, the great movement theorist of the 20th century, was the founder of German modern dance and the teacher of Kurt Jooss, Mary Wigman, and a generation of pre–World War II choreographers. Eukinetics, one branch of Laban's lifelong research into the expressive baselines of human movement, was not, as Chapman asserts, an "applied system of controlled body movement." Laban distinguished certain dynamic tendencies that accompany all movement, and he theorized that the dancer, consciously or unconsciously, can bring these qualities into play. In timing a step or a gesture between the polar extremes of quickness and slowness, for instance, she can shade an otherwise neutral action with more or less urgency.
As taught in this country since the 1960s, Eukinetics underlies the system of Effort-Shape, which is now called Labananalysis. In Eukinetics, Chapman seems to have sought a structured way of making up new movement. Her dancers created their own phrases, then improvised to infuse them with various qualities identified by Laban. What they came up with preserved the dancers' original phrase material but allowed individual differences to matter.
The six dancers sat motionless in chairs facing the same diagonal in the middle of the Green Street space as the audience entered to take seats along two sides. For a long time we listened to white noise (soundscore by Alan Sutherland): wind, a low drone, muted voices, machines, a nursery tune. I guess we were meant to charge up our memory banks.
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According to Wikipedia there are TRAINS in this province (3'6" gauge), including the TICO Tour train that runs on weekends from San Jose to Caldera (are there a lot of volcanoes, or what?). Pictures of same would be greatly appreciated!
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Binghamton University hosts internationally renowned Middle East journalist
Internationally syndicated journalist and author Rami Khouri will deliver a talk "Spreading Democracy or Chaos? A Critical Arab View of America and the Middle East," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 15, in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center at Binghamton University. The event is free and open to the public.
Khouri is the executive editor of the Beirut, Lebanon-based The Daily Star, the largest English-language newspaper published throughout the Middle East in partnership with the International Herald Tribune.
Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian who was educated in the Middle East and the United States, was recently appointed director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at American University of Beirut. His commentary and articles center on the broad range of roles played by the Middle East and its culture, politics and religion worldwide.
This event is sponsored by the dean of Harpur College, the Global Studies Workshop, the departments of English, Sociology, Comparative Literature, Africana Studies, Art History, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Graduate Program, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Women's Studies, Russian and East European Studies Program, the Binghamton University Convocations Committee, and the Pipe Dream.
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Singer/songwriter John Doe was the featured guest for a recent installment of the GRAMMY Museum's The Drop series. In an interview setting, Doe discussed his musical influences, songwriting and the creative process behind his most recent album, Keeper, among other topics. Following the discussion, Doe performed select tracks from the album, including "Never Enough," "Little Tiger" and "Painting The Town Blue."
"The more tender songs on this record owe a debt to Joni Mitchell," said Doe regarding Keeper. "We [also] brought the band up a lot more, and allowed them to have a lot of interplay."
With X on hiatus, in 1990 Doe released Meet John Doe, his debut solo album that incorporated his country and roots rock influences. While X reunited in 1993 to release Hey Zeus!, two years later Doe released his sophomore solo album, Kissingsohard. He followed up with Freedom Is… (2000) and Dim Stars, Bright Sky (2002). In the interim, X continued to reunite for select shows, with a run of 2004 concerts at the House of Blues Sunset Strip resulting in 2005's live album Live In Los Angeles. Doe then secured a solo deal with Yep Roc Records and has released a series of albums, including Forever Hasn't Happened Yet (2005), For The Best Of Us (2006), A Year In The Wilderness (2007), and Country Club (2009). Recorded under the moniker John Doe And The Sadies, the latter album further showcased Doe's country influences and reached No. 32 on Billboard's Country Albums chart.
Released in August, Keeper features 10 songs written by Doe, a cover of Earl Jackson's "Moonbeam" and one Doe/Cervenka composition, "Painting The Town Blue," as well as contributions from musicians such as Patty Griffin, Jill Sobule and Don Was. NPR Music described the album as reflecting "a place somewhere between rock 'n' roll and country music," with some songs resembling a "gorgeous soundtrack to a darkly romantic movie."
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OXFORD – Tanner Mathis and his Ole Miss teammates fielded questions about run production on Monday, but it wasn't the first time they'd been around that topic.
The Rebels were No. 2 in the SEC in batting average last year but No. 8 in scoring.
That cost them down the stretch when they lost six of their last seven and nine of their last 14.
The Rebels dropped to a No. 3 seed at College Station regional in their first trip back to the tournament after a year away.
No. 13 Ole Miss, 37-26 last season, opens the regular season at home Friday at 4 against No. 14 TCU, the team that eliminated it in the championship round in College Station.
The 2012 season was the first under Cliff Godwin as hitting coach. The Rebels' batting average was up at .296 and strikeouts were down, but the goal of scoring more runs remains.
"Last year we wanted to be the No. 1 offense. This year it's the No. 1 run-scoring offense," Mathis said. "That's what we talk about, how to do it, how to get better at it each and every week."
That could be a challenge as Alex Yarbrough, along with Matt Snyder and Zach Kirksey, are gone. The trio hit 25 of the Rebels' 37 home runs last year.
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His presence gives Bianco a key piece to work with. He was one of the team's best hitters at the end and finished with a .359 average, second to Yarbrough's average of .380.
Bianco points to the development of underclassmen Will Allen, who moves from catcher to first base and DH, along with Sikes Orvis and Auston Bousfield and has confidence going into the season.
"Last year we did a lot of great things offensively, but we had trouble pushing runs across," he said. "I think we're going to score more runs. We lose a couple of boppers like Kirksey and Snyder, but I wouldn't be surprised if we hit more home runs."


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The Australian government is under pressure to offer drugs at affordable prices and to lower cost of healthcare
Increase in aging population along with rising burden of non communicable diseases in Australia have been putting pressure on the government to offer drugs at affordable prices and to lower cost of healthcare. The bioscience industry (mainly generic players and medtech firms, biotech companies and healthcare players) will see growth opportunities in near future due to the introduction of price containment policies. However, the government wants to cut down the rise in expenditure on pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS).
In this regard, the government has already announced price reductions of 75 drugs in December 2011, which will be effective in April 2012. This cost control measure will help the government to save $1.9 billion over a period of four years. In December 2011, the government also released a blueprint for reforming the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), following the assessment of recommendations by the working group on the promotion of therapeutic products.
In February 2012, the parliament approved a proposal for conducting tests on the private health insurance (PHI) rebate. The changes will help the government save $801.4 million during the financial year 2012-13, helping it to achieve its $1.6 billion budget surplus goal. In May 2012, the federal government while presenting the budget for 2012-13 announced a surplus budget of $1.6 billion.
Under the budget, the government will contribute $61.4 billion towards healthcare. However, tough business conditions currently confront the medicines industry in Australia, according to a report published by Medicines Australia in April 2013. The organization's Fact Book reveals that medical sales and service income for the medicines industry fell to $9.72 billion in 2010-11, down from $10.02 billion in 2009-10 , a decline of three percent. The number of Australians employed in the medicines industry declined for the fourth consecutive year, to 13,375. Annual investment in pharmaceutical R&D grew by just 0.3 percent, from $1.034 billion in 2009-10 to $1.037 billion during 2010-11.
Despite the fact that job losses, falling sales growth, a high dollar value and increased costs created a difficult business environment, the Australian medicines industry managed to achieve its best export performance on record in 2012, with exports topping $4.3 billion according to new figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in February 2013. The new ABS report shows that exports of pharmaceutical and medicinal products were up $578 million or 15 percent on the previous year.
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Subdirectory PLOTSEIS: This directory contains the DOS programs for plotting SEG-Y files and viewing SEG-Y headers.Directory HTMLDOCS: Contains the necessary HTML files and supporting graphics to allow the user access to the DVD-ROM via any World Wide Web (WWW) browser.
Subdirectory SU: Contains the Seismic UNIX scripts used to process and plot the chirp subbottom data and extract shot navigation from the SEG-Y headers
Subdirectory RAWNAV: This directory contains raw DGPS navigation files as the data became available during the cruise.Directory SEGY: Contains the Chirp SEG-Y format data. These data were collected using a Datasonics SIS-1000 Chirp subbottom profiler. The SEG-Y data were logged on a Triton-Elics ISIS acquisition system. The SEG-Y format is documented in HTML.
Subdirectory SHOTNAV: Contains the shot navigation data that were collected during the cruise using a USGS differential GPS system.


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All Aboard: Jeffrey Fashion Cares 2012
I was hooked on Sami Gayle when I stumbled on this sentence in her biography: "Gayle began her acting career as Baby June in the Off-Broadway production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone." That's it, I've heard enough. But beyond her status as Broadway baby, the star of the upcoming Detachment and Medallion looks absolutely adorable in her Miu Miu ensemble at a screening of Intruders. What I particularly love about her look is that it's completely conservative, but the sugary sweet colors make it youthful and dynamic, which is how I'd imagine Sami is herself.
This won't come as a surprise to any avid readers of this column, I love myself a European royal. (If you grew up in pre-Internet Missouri like I did, the storied houses of Europe's monarchies were sometimes all the fuel that your imagination could get its hands on.) But instead of seeing yet another shot of Kate and Pippa Middleton in their high-street duds, I was happy to lay my eyes on this lovely lady — I mean princess! — from Norway. Mette-Marit looks regal enough in her tailored black jacket and just a little bit playful with her tiered floral skirt.
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