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C&U series in 1996, which Pak won
Originally Posted by nightprowler10
C&U series 1996, which pak won
Can someone post Sarfraz 9-86 spell at melbourne 1979 - I refuse to believe it as the best
He had a spell of 1-85 at that stage and being an exponent of swing (did he do 'em with reverse swing or ball tampering ???)
Flame bait?Originally Posted by Krishna_j
Forever 63* at the SCG
Thanks for that. I used to stay up all night to watch this series.Originally Posted by magsi23
ok - let me clarify - I used to admire Saf earlier - he had some good spells including one in Lahore in a forgotten series in '75 where he got 6-89 against a strong Windies lineup - Mushy was very appreciative of that spell
I happen to meet an ex Pak player in London who told me a few stories on Saf - jealousy , I wonder
anyway can someone post Saf's 9-86 on youtube ?
There was a lot of politics going around at the time Nawaz played cricket in Pakistan, so I'd take those comments with a grain of salt.Originally Posted by Krishna_j
Disagreed. Shoaib has bowled better.Originally Posted by nightprowler10
Sreesanth said, "Next ball he was beaten and I said, 'is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this impostor, moving around nervously? I should have kept my mouth shut for the next ball - mind you, it was a length ball - Lara just pulled it over the church beyond the boundary! He is a true legend."
Not gonna argue with that as I haven't seen as much of Akhtar as I have Akram.Originally Posted by Mr Mxyzptlk
Simply amazing whenever I watch it.Originally Posted by nightprowler10
Gotta be up there with the 2 best consecutive deliveries ever when you consider the quality of the batsmen he dismissed. Unbelievable.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
On test debut no less, IIRC.Originally Posted by Jono
Nah he debuted against WI about a year earlier. Still phenomenal though.
When you add also the match situation and the way in which he dismissed Dravid and Tendulkar (clean bowling them with in-swinging yorkers), its just ridiculously freakish.
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It is despicable that anyone would be attracted to this sort of movement. However, it is extremely important that people be given the freedom to make the wrong choice of ideology. Only harmful actions should be punished.
This is in Germany. They have a different history than we do in the US. You will find laws like that in France and other nations that where under Nazi rule. They are a democratic nation and it is up to them to change their laws if they see fit. Canada also has laws about hate speech that would not fly in the US. The US never had Nazis in control of our nation so we feel the best protection is freedom of speech. In many places in the EU they do not feel secure in that. The US has stricter restrictions on porn because of our culture. Although the restrictions are really very minimal outside of broadcast TV and radio.
I hate when a bunch of people from Europe start spouting off options about the US's rules. Germany is a free nation so let it's citizens decide what works best for them.
The US never had Nazis in control of our nation so we feel the best protection is freedom of speech. In many places in the EU they do not feel secure in that.
Has nothing to do with feeling secure. We just want the f***ers to go away and die. There's nobody in Germany saying "Oh, I'm so afraid of these neo nazis, please protect me". They are saying "get rid of the bastards, kick their arses, and I don't want to hear their insane rubbish". Then of course there is the surreal point that these guys would have been the first to be put into a concentration camp 80 years ago. I mean there are _gay_ neo nazis. Don't they know anything about history?
Yea so you do not just feel secure in ignoring them. Actually wanting to destroy someone that you do not fear just because you disagree with them is frankly evil. That is what Nazis do. Really think about it for a minute. If they are no threat why not just ignore them? Simple answer is you worry about them becoming a threat.
AKA there is no shame in not feeling secure in Germany about Neo-Nazis. In fact if you where just okay with it I would worry. It has happened before and that knowledge should keep you on your guard.
BTW my Uncle was reported killed in action twice in Europe during WWII and had a terrible scar on his arm from where his watch branded him his tank caught fire and helped liberate one of the camps. He was from Brooklyn his however his grandparents on both sides where from Germany. He died in the 1980s but I think he would for the most part be happy with how Germany is today.
This is in Germany. They have a different history than we do in the US. You will find laws like that in France and other nations that where under Nazi rule. They are a democratic nation and it is up to them to change their laws if they see fit.
In case of Germany, the irony is that most of those various "denazification" laws were actually put in place immediately after their surrender by demand of the Allies, including US.
I wonder if they bust OTHER hate groups, like the mosques that preach hate, or the other "* Power" groups? Wanna bet the answer is no?
You see THIS is the problem I have with so called "hate crimes" (like someone is gonna bash your head in because they like you) is because you ALWAYS seem to end up with "protected classes" and "acceptable racism", for examples see black power versus white power (Protip: Both are run by racists that incite violence) or how the Muslims in this country can burn bibles and American flags all day but that preacher said he was gonna burn a koran and got thrown in jail.
Either the law is the law, equal for all, or its just so much politically correct farce and sadly more and more in the west the law has become the latter,with certain groups being ignored when they are racists while others are punished. If racism is wrong then its wrong across the board, all this politically correct bullshit does is make old hatreds fester and give the racists plenty of recruitment fodder.
This site (http://www.solargeneral.com/jeffs-archive/hate-crimes/blacks-more-likely-to-be-arrested-for-hate-crimes/) seems to suggest that this is not the case.
Further, that Florida preacher was arrested because he loaded his Korans into his trailer, then doused them fuel THEN drove to the site where he was going to actually torch them. This is a hazard, and he was properly stopped.
Would have been more interesting if he had transported the fuel in a safe fashion, and conducted his burn safely. I don't thi
Banning calls for "racial hatred" is a slippery slope. Where along the line do you start arresting people?
Also, I think you mean "penal code"; "penile" is an entirely different word.
Banning calls for "racial hatred" is a slippery slope. Where along the line do you start arresting people?
In a slightly different place on the same slope as the United States. You would do well to read the link the grandparent post provides, to Wikipedia's article on Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire. In the unanimous decision of the court, Justice Murphy wrote: [wikipedia.org]
"There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality."
The U.S. holds that certain classes of speech are of sufficiently limited social value that they may be regulated by the state without violating the strictures of the First Amendment. Effectively, the difference is that Germany applies a slightly differen
You jest, but are entirely right. Quoting the article quoting the Federal Review Board for something:
This applies to, for example, media that contain indecent, extremely violent, crime-inducing, anti-Semitic or racist material, also to media content that glorifies National Socialism, drugs, alcohol abuse, self-inflicted injury or suicide, to media content propagating vigilante justice and to media content that discriminates against specific groups of people.
There is no way that doesn't include Wagner.
can't very well have any of THOSE kind of thoughts.
They've been prohibiting Nazi-type groups since WWII. And as the article said, they're still a major problem in Germany. So yeah, it is working out about as well as the drug war. But hey, it lets the politicians say they're "doing something" and lets the cops get all sorts of new toys (and ever more tax dollars to buy more cool toys), so it's all good, right?
They've been prohibiting Nazi-type groups since WWII. And as the article said, they're still a major problem in Germany. So yeah, it is working out about as well as the drug war. But hey, it lets the politicians say they're "doing something" and lets the cops get all sorts of new toys (and ever more tax dollars to buy more cool toys), so it's all good, right?
Not really a _problem_. It gives every good and law-abiding citizen a target to get rid of their aggressions without anyone complaining.
The parallels to certain historical incidents in the same country are rather interesting, aren't they?
Seems nearly every population needs a hated underclass to dump on. Let's them avoid dealing with whatever their true problems are.
These don't correlate well. One is inwardly destructive, while the other is outwardly exclusive and destructive.
One involves a network of producers, processors, distribution, and sales, whilst the other is ideological, delusional, tribal, and "evangelical".
Oh, wait....
but as an American the idea of just making the expression of ideas, or listening to certain music illegal sounds worse than the ideas they are oppressing
Because America is the bastion of freedom where nobody has ever been sent to a concentration camp without trial. Ever. At least not in recent history. Well, not in the last... five months.
The internment camps where not death camps. The US did not intern all Japanese and did intern many Germans and Italians.
What will prevent it happening again is for History teachers to start teaching history instead of political doctrine.
I had a friend who went to Dartmouth. Her history professor brought in a woman that survived Hiroshima as a child. It was to teach that the US where monsters and dropped the bomb because the US was racist.
The same teacher never mentioned the rape of Nanking, the Bataan death
The US did not intern all Japanese and did intern many Germans and Italians.
Certainly true, as worded, but could you produce comparative numbers, both absolute and as percentage of the population? The reason I ask is because it is not easy to find this information (to say the least). I would hazard a guess that FAR lesser percentages of ethnic Germans and Italians were interned, compared to ethnic Japanese.
The fact is that the Japanese were demonized from Pearl Habor onward in a way that Germans and Italian
When germany "invented" those laws they where actively forced on us by the allied forces.
Perhaps we nevertheless had made similar ones
But it is pretty difficult to change that now.
Bottom line "freedom of speach" is only restricted regarding nazis and hate speach, so most germans actually agree that those laws are very well set up.
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Music: it's as bad a Hitler.
I listened to Freddy Mercury and while I don't feel gay, I must surely be.
Unless the gay soundwaves were countered by the manly music of AC/DC!
We need Germany to tell us the precise effect of each style, so we can decide what to hear to be the people we want to be.
I would love to hear some of that material. My Gmail username is the same as my
No fear, as long as you listen and don't public perform it (in a dance bar etc.), no one cares (not even the police, unless it is to loud ofc.)
It has nothing to do with the "style" but the actual song texts. (Like: "Burn all jews on the pire! Conquer Poland to settle in their ready build farms/towns! Throw all black scum into the river Rhein!")
Music is not NAZI music just because it has a certain style, or Ramstein perhaps would be considered a NAZI band, too.
The Central Scrutinizer [wikipedia.org] was right!
There's two unique things about the US:
#1. Absolute freedom of (written) speech, at least for the most part, to a degree that I am not aware of existing anywhere in the civilized world.
#2. Private citizens can own handguns and assault rifles for their own protection and uses.
Fight for those rights with all you have, because once they're gone, I doubt the world will ever see them again. Particularly #1.
If an idea is so repulsive, the place to discredit it is in the open, not to push it underground into the recesses of the underworld, lending credence and appeal to the idea through it's illicit nature. The written word is not a place for the state, any more than the legislature is a place for preachers.
Nobody should be put in jail for their words. Not even vile ones.
#1. Absolute freedom of (written) speech, at least for the most part, to a degree that I am not aware of existing anywhere in the civilized world.
It's true that the U.S. has the broadest free-speech laws in the world, but I'd hardly say it's "absolute" (and you even immediately contradicted this with "at least for the most part").
As another comment pointed out, there's libel and slander.
Then, apropos to the article here, there's hate speech, where if the government can claim that it was an immediate exhorta
OK, so TFS says:
That sort of action is illegal in Germany, where neo-Nazi groups are outlawed
But... if Nazi groups are outlawed... who's enforcing this patently Nazi law that punishes people for listening for certain types of music?
I *hate* ill-noise Nazis...
This looks like taken from the plot of A Clockwork Orange. Or Farenheit 451, with music instead of books.
Anyway, probably a lot of people would agree that the fans of certain music styles and groups should be put in jail or in a mental institution, but which music depend on each person and culture.
groups should be put in jail or in a mental institution, but which music depend on each person and culture.
Ah that's easy: If they're country bumpkins, then folk music should land them in the klink. If they're teenage girls, then boy bands should do the trick. If they're of party-going age then we just throw 'em away for listening to electro / dubstep.
See? It's essentially all music that should implicate you in having a desire to not be ruled by laws like these. Well, you could listen to music that we're sure you don't like, but you'll have to be registered via FMRI to prove it first. Paper's Please.
Sounds like a open and shut case of a government preforming illegal activities.
I do not know much about German law, but if they outlaw fascist groups and literature, would that not make the government itself an illegal entity and all of the bills that its far-right fascist laws are written on illegal literature?
That would be interesting, I wonder what would happen if you brought that to the court system, and tried to have some government law or flyer outlaws, or the organization itself disbanded.
I'm no fan of Neo Nazi's, but this strikes me as crossing over to the realm of thought crimes and criminalizing unpleasant people. Look at what they are trying to do, identify music as being wrong and identify a group of people as being wrong. Now take this same technology and remember that it can be used on other groups. What about using this technology to identify gangbangers that like gangsta rape or hackers since we know that they like techno?
The stereotypes are bunk of course and many people listen to
The trouble isn't Neo-Nazi CD compilations leading upstanding, bright young people down an alley into right wing extremism. If they're disaffected, for whatever reason, they will continue to be so even after the CDs are destroyed or the books are burned.
Yeah alright, ban it all. Ban the CDs, ban the literature, ban the swastica. No-one will be a Neo-Nazi anymore, right? All the problems are solved.
Wrong. You don't become a Neo-Nazi because you love and respect the society you live in. You become one because you want to tear it down. They'll just funnel their dissatisfaction elsewhere.
The key to learning from history isn't to ban it, but to educate and prevent the social and economic conditions that would mean repeating it.
Kinda reminds me of the efforts in the 50's and 60's to ban that-there rock and roll in the US and England, because, you know, it leads to bad things. There may even be a common cause in disaffected youth.
1. Freedom of Speech is not absolute, nor should it be. Case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater [wikipedia.org]
2. Freedom of Speech does not protect you from the consequences. If you openly slander your boss, he is free to fire you from the job.
All this to say: No rights are absolute, nor are they free of consequences.
about Nazi-ism (not just facism, but the particular Nazi flavor) that it draws so many people in? All we are ever taught about it is all the horrible, reprehensible stuff they did (it could be just the people perverting things as always ie the way things are headed in the US) in WW2, but was/is there anything worthwhile or morally uplifting about being Nazi that we've never been aware of?
Being a Nazi fanboi for shock value or for the perception of freedom to hate I can get.. some people are just wired that
[sentence 1: didn't mean to sound like a Nazi atrocity denier, I meant it in the vein of bad people who spoil things for the rest of us.. etc]
That app better also recognize gangsta rap glorifying crime... and hate preachers of any denomination...
To make it perfect, add Justin Bieber to the list to make the world a safer place for all mankind.
Now excuse me while I'm trying my hand at the latest North-Korean hit songs entitled "We Shall Hold Bayonets More Firmly" and "The Joy of Bumper Harvest Overflows Amidst the Song of Mechanisation"...
I use technology in order to hate it more properly. -- Nam June Paik


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Last year the trip-planning website Tripomatic calculated one simple, fascinating statistic: In different cities across the globe, how long can $100 last?
Presuming a traveler stayed in the cheapest possible accommodation (usually a shared dorm), took two public transportation rides per day, ate one restaurant meal per day plus two fast-food or street-food meals (no sacrifice there; street food often makes the most memorable road meals), and visited one attraction per day, Tripomatic ranked 42 cities in terms of how long $100 would carry travelers.
The top spot went to Goa, India, at a whopping 9.62 days. The least budget-friendly was Reykjavik, Iceland, at .69 days.
The response to its "Shoestring Budget Travel Guide" was strong enough for Tripomatic, based in the Czech Republic, to make the survey an annual event. The just-released data show that the winner, again, is Goa, where a budget traveler can spend 9.14 days on $100. That's particularly remarkable and partly attributable to the fact that Goa is most renowned for its beaches and relaxation.
"Goa is really an extraordinary place," Tripomatic project manager Vit Janis said by email. "All of the top 10 local attractions (including caves, basilica, fort, beach) are officially for free."
Tripomatic ranked 51 cities this year, and most of the results weren't surprising. In the most-traveled cities, such as New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, $100 lasts barely more than a day. The only city where $100 wouldn't last even 24 hours was Oslo, Norway; at 1.2 days, Reykjavik has moved to fifth-most expensive city.
The most affordable cities tended to be in still-developing Asian and Far Eastern countries: Goa, Hanoi, Bangkok and Manila.
Most interesting, perhaps, were the data's in-between jewels: Cairo, Mexico City and Lima, Peru, all showed themselves to be cost effective but only slightly more than beautiful, stable and history-drenched Prague, where $100 lasts 3.12 days. Buenos Aries, another stunner of a city, wasn't far behind at 2.89 days.
Berlin, a city with one of the world's strongest buzzes, clocks in at 2.32 days, which might not sound like a lot compared with Goa. But it does mean your money goes more than twice as far there as it does in New York.
Five days in New York or 10 days in Berlin? Berlin, please.
The data become even more interesting when compared with the 2012 results.
In Bangkok, for instance, $100 lasts twice as long in 2013 (6.17 days) as in 2012 (3.05 days). Some destinations became costlier, but most, like Bangkok, became cheaper, Janis said.
There are many travel insights to be culled from the results, which can be found at tripomatic.com as of June 24.
$100 lasted the longest in …
Goa, India (9.14 days)
Hanoi, Vietnam (7.69 days)
Bangkok (6.17 days)
… and disappeared most quickly in …
Oslo, Norway (.88 days)
New York (1.1 days)
Venice, Italy (1.14 days)


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Safe and Saved: Storm Survival in Oklahoma
The second tornado outbreak in less than two weeks prompted more than 200 people to take shelter at a Baptist church in Moore, Oklahoma, and after it was all over, Rapid Response Team chaplains had prayed with 11 people who gave their life to Christ.
One Oklahoma Family's Story of Salvation
When God used Rapid Response Team chaplains Jeff and Terri Naber to lead an Oklahoma tornado survivor to Christ, they had no idea He was just getting started. But after a divine appointment, six from the same family had surrendered their hearts to Jesus.
Loving Like Jesus in Devastated Oklahoma
As Oklahoma residents grapple with grief and loss following a series of deadly tornadoes, crisis-trained Rapid Response Team chaplains are there to listen and pray.
Stories From Inside Oklahoma Rubble
Stories of hope and heartbreak are emerging from the wreckage of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, as trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team begin ministering to the survivors of the deadly storm.
Her heart was racing as the tornado rumbling grew louder. Read how Casey Hedrick and her two children relied on the Lord's comfort to escape the rubble at a Moore, Okla., junior high school.
Rapid Response Team chaplains are in Moore, Okla., to help meet the emotional and spiritual needs of a community devastated by a deadly tornado.
"Our hearts are breaking for all those in the path of this horrific tornado. Our entire organization is praying for them."


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A clump of pages just fell out from one of my favorite cookbooks. I can stuff them back in, but I wonder if I should buy a second copy. I love the well-worn look and feel … testament to its prized stature in my cookbook collection. But I fear that if I don't get a back up copy, it might go out of print and I will lose this treasure forever.
The Chinese Kitchen by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo.
Thursday evening the temperatures quickly dropped below freezing. I had been trying to power through my cold for a week, and I had finally succumbed and stayed in bed with a box of tissues and a stack of magazines. Hunger was setting in.
I knew I had a half head of cauliflower, (flaccid) scallions and ginger in the fridge, and chicken thighs in the freezer. And as is my usual habit, I pulled The Chinese Kitchen off the shelf. I knew she had a recipe for cauliflower, so I started thumbing through the pages looking for inspiration.
I let the restorative powers of ginger and chilies work their magic, they cut through the congestion and awakened by my taste-buds. In Chinese culture, ginger is considered a warming food, and is beneficial when suffering from a cold. Indeed, I felt warmer and refreshed after dinner.
What's your favorite cookbook? Would you buy a second copy to have just in case?
Stir Fried Cauliflower with Chicken
Another recipe adapted from The Chinese Kitchen
For the Sauce:
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1 ½ teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablepoon corn starch
¼ cup chicken broth
8 dried black mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes
1 thick slice of ginger smashed
2 cloves garlic smashed
2 ½ teaspoons salt
½ head cauliflower, core cut out, and cut into florets
¾ pound boneless, skinless chicken thigh meat
2 teaspoons corn starch
¼ cup plain oil
2 teaspoons chopped ginger
2 garlic cloves chopped
1 red jalapeno, sliced
3 scallions, cut into rounds
1. Mix ingredients for sauce together. Set aside.
2. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add the hunk of ginger, garlic and 2 teaspoons of salt. Add the cauliflower and cook for 3 minutes. Drain. Scoop out and discard the ginger and garlic.
3. Cut chicken into strips. Toss with remaining salt and corn starch.
4. Cut stems off of mushrooms and slice thin.
5. Heat a large skillet or wok. Add the oil and heat over medium-high flame.
6. Cook the chicken in the oil, being sure to separate the pieces, for 3 minutes or until they start to lose their pink color.
7. Remove chicken with a slotted spoon and set aside. Drain all but 1 tablespoon of the oil.
8. Return pan to a high heat and add the cauliflower. Stir fry for a few minutes until it starts to brown. Add the ginger, garlic and chilies and cook for two minutes more or until it becomes aromatic.
9. Return the chcikent to the pan and cook for 1 minute more. Add the sauce and cook until it thickens. Add some water or chicken stock if necessary.
10. Garnish with scallions.


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WINNETKA – Dixon senior Aaron Helander might not have been completely satisfied with the final race of his high-school career. But the Byron co-op swimmer was thrilled with the site of that final race – and the chance to witness history.
Helander placed 11th in the 100-yard butterfly at the state swimming and diving meet Saturday at New Trier High School. His time of 50.71 seconds fell short of his school-record 50.49 in Friday's preliminaries, but he had no complaints after posing for photos with his fellow finalists.
"It felt good, even though it wasn't the time I wanted," Helander said. "Getting that one last swim on the last day of the season, in this whole amazing atmosphere … I wouldn't want to be anywhere else on my last day as a high-school swimmer.
"I was just trying to stay relaxed – I swim well when I'm relaxed – but I was picking up a lot of energy from the crowd, and that helped push me to finish strong."
Helander was still dripping wet from his consolation final heat when the second part of that amazing experience kicked in. Watching the championship final heat with his fellow competitors, Helander and the rest of the crowd in the packed natatorium saw the best 100 butterfly swim in the country.
Mundelein senior Connor Black, who broke state records in the 100 fly (47.20 seconds) and 50 freestyle (19.80) during Friday's prelims, topped himself in the final. Already with the 50 free title (19.95) under his proverbial belt, the Stanford-bound swimmer shattered his own 1-day-old record in the 100 fly. His 46.71 was 49-hundredths of a second faster than his prelim time, and it also set a new national high school record.
"It's completely unreal," Helander said, shaking his head. "I've been swimming at the same meets as him since we were 12 years old, and to be here to see him swim that time … it's insane."
Black beat two-time defending 100 fly state champion Andrew Jovanovic of Loyola Academy by 1.4 seconds, capping a back-and-forth season for the two friendly rivals from the suburbs. Jovanovic, who would later claim the state crown in the 100 backstroke (48.25), was effusive in his praise for Black, saying the new national record-holder would've accomplished the feat even without the rest of the field there to push him during the race.
The matter-of-fact Black wasn't having any of it from the Northwestern recruit.
"Having him there, not just today but all season, was definitely important," Black said. "I saw him at every turn today, then when I came up the last time, he was still under. That's when I put my head down and kept it there all the way to the wall.
"I knew I could do it, so I'm not really surprised. I'm just really glad I did it on this stage, against a guy who is the best in the state in this race."
The record had belonged to Matt Grevers – the Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter backstroke this past summer in London – who swam for Lake Forest a decade ago. The 100 fly was the last of Grevers' three state records to fall.
After the standard post-race cheers, a brief stunned silence descended on the pool area as the time was officially posted. Then, another eruption of screaming and shouting as the announcement of the national record was made.
Newman junior Warren Melton, who stuck around for Saturday's finals after placing 26th in the 200 freestyle during Friday's prelims, was just one of the many awestruck competitors, coaches, officials and fans.
"That was just really awesome," Melton said with a smile so wide you'd have thought he accomplished the feat himself. "This is definitely the most fun I've had at a meet in a while, hanging out with the Byron and Sterling guys and [teammate] Alex DeForest. I'm soaking it all in, and it's where I'd like to be next year.
"I feel like this is where the magic is, and if I could take that next step next year and earn a shot at the top 12 or top 6, that would be amazing."
Byron's other competitor, senior Jackson Halsmer, swam in two finals Saturday. He placed fourth in the championship heat of the 50 free (20.82 seconds), and followed Helander's swim with a win in the consolation heat of the 100 free (45.56). Both times were personal bests and school records, and both finishes were one-spot improvements from his seeds coming out of Friday's prelims.
It was sweet vindication for the University of Iowa-bound Halsmer, who just missed the finals of the 50 free by 2-hundredths of a second last year; he added a 20th in the 100 free prelims to the 13th in the 50 in 2012.
"I'm just thrilled," Halsmer said. "Almost making it to finals last year really pushed me to work a lot harder, and it's all paying off today.
"The second day [at state] is where I've wanted to be all year, and to have two personal bests and two school records, it's the best case scenario. I'm really happy with that, and I definitely couldn't have asked for a better way to end my high-school career."
Tiger sharks
Byron's state finalists
• Aaron Helander, senior (Dixon) – 11th in 100 butterfly (50.71 seconds)
• Jackson Halsmer, senior – 4th in 50 freestyle (20.82), 7th in 100 freestyle (45.56)


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Would this not cause a security nightmare?
Well, it says constant magnetic field. That's pretty hard to generate, since lots of things cause magnetic fields to fluctuate (including body movement of a metal object).
TLDR version of TFA:
The hypothetical device would work as a magnetic cloak by creating a space that is protected from an external magnetic field while at the same time causing no telltale distortion of the field. Alternatively, it could also be used to conceal a magnetic object and prevent its magnetic field from extending out into space—
So, yeah, if made portable enough it would be a security problem. But don't hold your breath.
The Microwave shielding material is like a foil. I think it is feasible this is already in use by those secretive black-hat folks.
Wow. An electromagnetic shield to get "something" by TSA scanners? I'm pretty sure I could just hire a baggage handler to put "something" on board, without ever seeing a scanner. If money doesn't work, threatening his loved ones would.
Yeah, that was evil, and I went there. Other people would, too.
Wait, is the TSA the cat, or the mouse? Because we haven't seen all that much cleverness on either side of the game in a while. I mean seriously, shoe-bomb that doesn't work, followed by underwear bomb that doesn't work? the only thing remotely clever was the pepto-bismol-as-xray-shield, which would have worked except for the TSA gets slightly curious when things show opaque on an xray of your carry-on.
Referring to TSA-vs-the enemy as a "cat-and-mouse-game" is insulting to both cats, and mice.
I think it is pretty obvious the TSA wasn't thinking.
Just to humor the idea, though, I'm pretty sure compressed gas and cryogenic liquids were already not allowed. Although someone did try to use pepto-bismol to hide stuff from the xray machine.
Sure! The metal detector would be useless. You might want to search the guy walking through with a big bundle venting white vapour though.
Would this not cause a security nightmare?
Agreed. Metal detectors are useless. Cavity searches for all!
my dentist says I have no cavities.
From reading the headline I was almost expecting a shield a la Star Trek. All we would have left would be to find a way to make the Alcubierre warp drive something more than a theoretical possibility and I'd be donning Vulcan ears. Oh, well, I guess the waiting is not almost over yet.
Hey, if it, or some variation of it, could help shield a spacecraft from the Van Allen belts I'd call it a win.
The Van Allen belt is not problematic because of the magnet, it is the particles caught in the magnetic field that are the problem. They are flying around in circles, stuck forever (well, until they interact or decay). Dampening the field in one area would just make them fly straight for a bit, but they would be just as harmful as they were when they were flying in curly cues.
MRI suites are already shielded.
And no, you can not shield the specific volume (inside the magnet) to be imaged.
The problem is homogeneity of the field. And no, this won't help. To get a homogenous, strong magnetic field over a reasonably sized volume (head size, for example) requires a big magnet with a lot of coils. Thus, expensive. "Distortion" has nothing to do with it.
Why is that? Why would you want to put your magnetometer into a device that cloaks it from external detection?
If you mean screening out external fields to make a quieter environment, you can do that just fine using existing shielding techniques.
I was thinking it could be used in conjunction with MRIs, but in a different way...
Could this shielding be used on devices that are too sensitive to allow MRIs (like pacemakers) so that the recipient of the device would be allowed to obtain MRIs?
Personally, I'd prefer not to have a pacemaker with a large, cryogenically cooled shield around it. Walking around with a liquid nitrogen can and hoses going into my chest would seriously cramp my lifestyle.
I'm not even sure it would work properly - most of the danger to metallic implants, particularly sensitive electronic ones, in an MRI is from RF signals, not the magnetic field.
Forget the actual medical applications. The applications for pseudo medicine are just as good. There are already a ton of people sleeping on magnetic mats. They would eat this up. Maybe even literally.
My kingdom for a mod point!!!
Forget both medical and pseudo medical. If you can shield something from a magnetic field, you can create a perpetual motion machine. Two magnets pull towards each other, generating energy, one gets shielded, move them away from each other, repeat.
The possibility of a magnetic shield seems to break some thermodynamic laws, unless I am misunderstanding something.
what is "move them away from each other"?
The possibility of a magnetic shield seems to break some thermodynamic laws, unless I am misunderstanding something.
The laws of conservation indicate the energy input to separate the two fields will meet or exceed the energy output from trying to pull perpetual motion shenanigans.
And after RTFA, it's a materials-based cloak; you can't simply toggle it on/off, and moving the materials generates energy transfers which obey the conservation laws.
When you consider the way the cosmos is set up, building an
As you obviously don't know much about thermodynamics, you likely can not judge if one is broken, or?
After all: magnetic fields have nothing to do with thermodynamics (the word thermo comes from temperature and means HEAT). Thermodynamics applies to heat related physics
And why is one again down modding me? Especially why is it rated "troll"?
There are no actual medical applications. Somehow I think a patient will object to being opened up, their implant surrounded by a large, layered device containing liquid nitrogen or helium, then scanned. It would be easier just to remove the implant, scan, then put it back.
Forget the actual medical applications. The applications for pseudo medicine are just as good. There are already a ton of people sleeping on magnetic mats. They would eat this up. Maybe even literally.
I'm not so sure
I mean, I certainly do believe that some people feel that magnetic fields (even static ones like the one created by the Earth) are making them sick -- but the technology to stop this in a room has been around for decades -- it's called a thick magnetic metal (iron, steel) box. If you've got a large budget and it needs to be as perfect as possible -- make it out of mu-metal [wikipedia.org]. Usually this is used for scientific and other work where reducing the magnetic field as much as possible really ma
Oh the other hand, maybe it'll let us make the time machine from Primer.
A better headline would be, Physicists Come up with Idea to Build Perfect Magnetic Shield. As the article states, the device itself is hypothetical no proof of concept has been built.
A better headline would be, Physicists Come up with Idea to Build Perfect Magnetic Shield. As the article states, the device itself is hypothetical no proof of concept has been built.
I'd say "Come up with idea" and "Devise" are pretty much the same thing.
...or am I the only one around who remembers that totally cheesy, yet elementary schoolkid riveting, post-apocalyptic edutainment show "Tomes and Talismans"
Okaaaaaay. I hate to break it to you guys, but passive and active magnetic shielding has been around for a long time now. This is simply a new spin on old tech, adapting it and slightly enhancing it.
Shielding an object from external fields is not difficult provided you have money to spend. Hospitals do it all the time for their MRI suites. The shielding may be either passive (LOTS of steel plates in the floor, walls and ceiling), or actively by installing 3-axis helmholtz coils in the walls, floor and ceiling. The coils are then driven by a set of very large and fast amplifiers. The amplifiers are driven by correction signal from a computer that has at least one 3-axis magnetometer. Obviously, the active solution is better as it can correct for things like elevators, automobiles and other things that influence the local magnetic field. The passive shielding is only good is the external field does not change.
I remember one such shielding job in San Francisco that gave trouble because of the volume of *WATER* flow in the city water main running under the MRI suite. Yes, even water can affect magnetic fields. Passive shielding would not work, so the site had to switch to the more expensive active shielding.
I also have had trouble calibrating magnetic instrumentation because of cars in the car park moving around. I'd have to wait for a window where there was no activity outside the building. I'm talking about smallish cars more than 50' away, and large trucks could change the fields from more than 100' away...
Certain water meters operated by actually measuring the distortion of the base level magnetic field due to the presence of ions in the water (metals from minerals, leeched elements from the pipes along with hydrogen and oxygen).
The water meter was simply a ring of copper put around the pipe. Any changes in the flow of water created a fluctuation in the magnetic field, which in turn creates a current in the coil.
Normally, these were intended for small pipes, but I guess it scales up for large pipes.
Nimrod ai
Two I can think of:
Carriers and other high-value ships are probably too big to use this. I'm not sure if their escorts would want this as much.
Any more?
Warships are usually degaussed before a deployment and it can be and has been used in ships as large as a battleship. Carriers might be carrying electromagnetic coils as they did in WW2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deperming [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing [wikipedia.org]
Can someone link me that story? Must have missed it. How do you shield something from water waves?
Setup a standing wave of equal intensity but with (exact) opposite phase. (I think.)
What a great material to wrap around my credit cards when they're in my eel-skin wallet.
The eel skin has its electric field left over from its life shocking the s*** out of the fish it eats, which of course translates after death into a magnetic field that wipes the magstripe info from my credit card.
With a layer of this between them, I wouldn't have to worry about that.
And for that matter, this kind of shielding would probably wreck havoc on communications to the RFID chips on the "smart pay cards" like Sp
The eel skin has its electric field left over from its life shocking the s*** out of the fish it eats, which of course translates after death into a magnetic field that wipes the magstripe info from my credit card.
MythBusters disagree [wikipedia.org]
I can't believe that all of you missed the one obvious military application: concealment of nuclear submarines.
Presently nuclear subs are detectable by planes (like the P3 etc. [wikipedia.org]) via use of magnetometers.
A sub, being a very large metal object, interferes with the Earth magnetosphere (which is for the purpose of detection a constant magnetic field) and thus can be detected an "anomaly" in the magnetic field, far above their actual location deep underwater.
This is one major weakness of modern subs that make
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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US Supreme Court Upholds Removal of Works From Public Domain 380
langelgjm writes "While much of the web is focused on the SOPA and PIPA blackout, supporters of the public domain today quietly lost a protracted struggle that began back in 2001. The Supreme Court, in a 6-2 decision, rejected the argument that Congress did not have the power to convey copyright upon works that were already in the public domain. The suit was originally filed to challenge provisions that the U.S. adopted when signing the TRIPs agreement. Justices Breyer and Alito dissented, arguing that conveyed copyright on already existing works defied the logic of copyright law. Justice Kagan recused herself. The text of the opinions is available here (PDF)."


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Constellation program holdover Orion may conduct lunar-orbit tests in 2017
NASA's Orion multipurpose crew vehicle is on a go-slow development path to free funds for near-term agency objectives, but its first full-scale flight test may send it to the Moon.
Even before that 2017 unmanned flight atop the first version of the government-owned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS), a planned 2014 flight test on a Delta IV will characterize radiation levels and cabin-seat g-loading for deep-space flight, as well as the performance of its thermal protection system (TPS) on a high-speed reentry.
NASA planners are pondering just how much data they can wring out of the vehicle's first three flights—including one with a crew planned for 2021—to begin learning how to operate in cislunar space, which is almost certain to be the first human destination beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).
"We have certain objectives that we need to accomplish from a test standpoint," says William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and operations. "We have to do certain profiles on certain things. But could we expand those potential test missions to do more?"
Possibilities include shifting Orion from one Earth-Moon Lagrangian point to another, or conducting a lunar flyaround or orbital mission. NASA's flat budget is so tight that the agency has deferred development of the service module that will carry Orion's propulsion and other systems. But with $5 billion already spent on the four-seat capsule once dubbed "Apollo on steroids," Gerstenmaier and his colleagues are looking for some return on investment to apply against the missions beyond LEO it was developed to fly.
Lockheed Martin has been the Orion prime contractor since it was conceived as the "crew exploration vehicle" for the now-abandoned Ares I launcher under the Constellation program of deep-space human-rated vehicles. The company has built full-scale engineering articles for extensive ground testing and delivered the first flight article to Kennedy Space Center for integration and testing in preparation for the 2014 Delta IV mission.
"We're trying to solve 12 of 16 of the top risks," says Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin vice president and Orion program manager. "We're trying to do some kind of risk mitigation with those. That includes the parachutes, the landing system, the guidance and control, the flight computers, the reaction control system, the heat shield, the back-shell heat shield. Plus we're going to do the radiation [measurements] going through the Van Allen Belts, and we do have simulated mass in the seats so we can see what happens during landing."
Under the Constellation program, Orion was intended to serve initially as transportation to the ISS for NASA crews and be scarred for missions beyond LEO. Now, with the introduction of commercial crew vehicles as the preferred route to the space station, Lockheed Martin is focusing on the deep-space mission. Lacefield says the vehicle still can perform the station mission with the addition of the docking system NASA is developing for all vehicles arriving at the U.S. side of the ISS. The focus, though, is on the early cislunar missions before moving on to visit an asteroid and eventually Mars. Among destinations Lockheed Martin is studying internally are Demos, the smaller of the two Martian moons, and the L2 Lagrangian point over the Moon's far side (AW&ST July 2, p. 22).
Lacefield says his program has benefitted from changes in NASA oversight growing out of the commercial-crew projects, which are conducted under Space Act procedures that are less restrictive than traditional agency procurements. Lockheed has also embedded NASA engineers in its design and testing work, which gives the agency insight into the company's work progress while Lockheed benefits from their labor in such areas as arc-jet and water-landing tests (see photo). The new approach has also extended to software testing, with dramatic cost-savings.
"They wanted us to do all the software development and software verification and validation activities in a government facility," Lacefield says. "We're doing it in a facility that we have in Denver and a facility in Houston. By staying in those facilities and running those as we would run our company systems, that has increased the output and saved us several hundred million dollars."
On the down side, the dwindling sub-tier aerospace supply base in the U.S. and the low-volume procurements for systems like Orion have created a parts crunch that threatens the flight schedule. Particularly critical is the supply chain for radiation-hardened electronics Orion will need to fly through the Van Allen Belts on its first test mission, which will take it through two high-apogee orbits to generate near-planetary reentry speeds.
"We have outsourced across all of the electrical components to get the parts that we need by the time that we need to do the vehicle checkout on the pad next March, the electrical checkout," Lacefield says. "We are waiting on those parts to enable us to do the vehicle checkout on the pad in Florida."
That mission will include an incomplete service module, without tanks or engines but with as much structure as possible to begin validating interfaces and other hardware. For the second Orion flight test, scheduled to go in 2017 on an SLS core stage with solid-fuel boosters derived from the defunct Ares I crew launcher, NASA is planning a full-scale Orion with service module, although it remains uncertain just what that will mean or who will build the service module components.
NASA is exploring the idea of working with the European Space Agency to develop an Orion service module based on Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle. But that idea ran into opposition from some of the ESA partners, and the plan for building the service module remains unsettled.
"Nothing has happened," Lacefield says. "Our contract has not been changed, but we are trying to work with NASA. If the Europeans decided that they would be amenable to this, . . . then we wanted to have the most efficient split that made sense."


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Sunday was Oct. 7, still a pretty early time in the college football season. Kansas has seven of its 12 games remaining.
Yet, coach Charlie Weis sent a pretty strong message that he is already concentrating on next season.
Weis announced on the Big 12 conference call that on Sunday, he practiced with only players who will be on next year's team:
Again, that happened on Oct. 7, with more than half of Kansas' games remaining. The Jayhawks aren't on a bye week. They play Oklahoma State this week, the kind of game that a team's seniors might need to prepare as much as possible for.
How can anyone hear this and assume anything other than Weis has already given up on this season? The seniors have to be wondering that. Weis said the seniors ran and lifted weights and didn't get the day off, but it'll be hard for them to take Weis seriously when he has used a day of practice, "to develop younger players for the future." Weis told the Kansas City Star he would have done the same thing had the Jayhawks been 4-1 instead of 1-4, but it's very difficult to buy that. Oklahoma State likely isn't doing that this week.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — When it comes to cars, electronics and any sort of mechanical contraption, the Germans have a reputation for engineering.
Financial engineering? A reputation, yes. There, too. But not of the sort that will win over investors.
Deutsche Bank AG DBK, -1.94% posted a stunning $2.94 billion loss on Thursday. The loss was due, in part, to excessive leverage at the bank. Deutsche Bank is writing down the value of assets on its books, and, as the market is finding out, the process is painful.
Leverage — the ability to turn, say, $1 in the bank into $10 in investments — has long been the tool of global banks. When used to extremes, disaster is just a matter of time. As former bond trader Chris Arnade, writing for the Scientific American, noted, overleverage was the primary cause of the financial crisis.
"With balance sheets engorged relative to capital, prices did not have to fall far before some institutions faced insolvency," Arnade writes. "Cross borrowing amongst institutions led to further entanglements. No fund was an island." See full blog post at ScientificAmerican.com.
The fallout may have taken time to reach Frankfurt for a couple of reasons. First, Deutsche Bank did not require a bailout from the German government. Second, it probably didn't need that bailout, in part because it didn't recognize losses in it its portfolio.
Former bank officials have told investigators that Deutsche Bank hid between $4 billion and $12 billion in losses from the public. That hardly compares to the write-downs at Citigroup Inc. C, +0.67% and Bank of America Corp. BAC, +0.96% which took close to a $90 billion hit.
The problem for Deutsche Bank is timing. While many global banking rivals continue the sluggish progress of shedding toxic assets and write-downs, Deutsche Bank is facing the music now.
Engineering can cover a lot of flaws, but its benefits have limitations once the car has hit the ditch.
— David Weidner


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Brenda Konkel champions the buildings slated for destruction:
[She] said what makes the Lamp House charming is the fact that it's surrounded by other historic homes, in a largely intact historic neighborhood. "Coming in and tearing out six houses just destroys the neighborhood," she said. "Moving the Lamp House is insane. Part of what's special about the Lamp House is that it was put in the middle of the block on purpose."Here's her blog post showing those other houses, which are really ordinary. But I guess that's the idea. The Lamp House looks distinctive because of the contrast to the other old residences. Putting all that new glass around it would create a completely different effect.
But is that so wrong? I'm thinking of the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. Yes, it's radically out of context, but that's what museums always do to things. The real question is whether the recontextualization is good.


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Nvidia and partners are offering new "personal supercomputers" for under $10,000. Nvidia, working with several partners, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, powered by a graphics processing unit based on Nvidia's Cuda parallel computing architecture. Computers using the Tesla C1060 GPU processor will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation, enabling researchers to run complicated simulations, experiments and number crunching without sharing a supercomputing cluster.
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Round 19
Newcastle Knights 16 v Melbourne Storm 24
at EnergyAustralia Stadium
Referees: Paul Simpkins
Match Summary:
In what has ultimately been a sensational game in front of a parochial crowd at Newcastle's EnergyAustralia Stadium, the home side the Newcastle Knights have taken the competition leaders Melbourne right to the wire, losing 24-16.
The home side started well, showing little sign of the capitulation they suffered just 8 days earlier against the Eels. After 8 minutes, winger Anthony Quinn managed to get across the line, giving the Knights an early 4-0 lead. Not to be phased, Melbourne returned serve 4 minutes later with a try to Cooper Cronk in the corner, which after being converted, gave the Storm a 6-4 lead.
Johns evened the ledger with a penalty goal at the 20 minute mark, before Slater scored a beauty of a try to take the Storm up 12-6. A try to Knights winger Brian Carney eight before the break gave us the halftime score of 12-10 in favour of Melbourne.
The second half started solidly, neither team giving too much away. It took 14 minutes for the scoreboard attendant to be troubled - a steamrolling try by Storm reserve Jeremy Smith giving the visitors a handy eight-point lead following Smith's conversion. Lots of back-and-forward play, with opportunities created and then lost by both sides, ensued.
With nine minutes remaining, Newcastle amped up the pressure when Quinn nabbed a double with a touch-and-go try in the corner. Johns converted to make it a two point ball-game, and set up the Knights' faithful for an electrifying finish. The home side looked dangerous until a hap-hazard set of options on tackle five saw a wayward flick pass give Melbourne easy field position, and a final try to Ryan Hoffman shut down the Knights.
The Storm now look certain to collect the minor-premiership prizemoney, while the Knights are teetering on the brink of the eight with only for-and-against their saving grace. They meet South Sydney next week in an attempt to get back into form, while the Storm face the Sharks on Friday Night Football in Melbourne.
Newcastle Knights: 16
Tries: Anthony Quinn(2), Brian Carney
Goals: Andrew Johns 2/4
Melbourne Storm: 24
Tries: Cooper Cronk, Ryan Hoffman, Billy Slater, Jeremy Smith
Goals: Cameron Smith 4/4
By the Clock:
0 min: NEWS We're underway at EnergyAustralia Stadium on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
8 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
Sensational try to the Knights through Quinn. The home side looking very potent early and will definitely challenge Melbourne all day. Johns remains on 2108 points, his conversion missed.
Knights 4-0
10 min: NEWS Some poor handling costs Newcastle possession in their own half. Melbourne now with the chance to hit straight back.
12 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Melbourne try to Cooper Cronk.
13 min: TRY Melbourne Storm
Cooper Cronk crosses in the corner for Melbourne. Cam Smith hits it perfectly to convert the try and put the competition leaders in front.
Storm 6-4
20 min: PENALTY GOAL Newcastle Knights
Johns kicks a penalty goal for the Knights to level the scores.
6 all.
27 min: TRY Melbourne Storm
Slater scores a beauty of a grubber through the Knights line. Smith converts.
Storm 12-6
32 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
Carney scores out wide for Newcastle, and Johns' conversion misses again. Melbourne maintain a two point lead.
Storm 12-10
HALFTIME: Melbourne Storm 12 Newcastle Knights 10
Sensational game so far and neither team can honestly feel confident that they'll take the two points come 4:15pm. The second half will be a cracker.
41 min: Second half underway.
44 min: VIDEO REF - possible Melbourne try to Matt Geyer. Obstruction being adjudicated on. DECISION PENDING... NO TRY. Penalty to Newcastle.
53 min: NEWS Both teams getting physical in what is so far just a superb game. Neither side is giving too much away in defence, but both are still managing to pull off some brilliant attack.
54 min: TRY Melbourne Storm
Brilliant bullocking try for Storm player Jeremy Smith. Easy conversion for Smith puts Melbourne eight points in front.
Storm 18-10
65 min: NEWS Melbourne holding Newcastle out as the intensity drops slightly at EnergyAustralia. The Knights still throwing what they've got at the Storm but the score remains 18-10 in favour of the competition leaders.
70 min: VIDEO REF - possible Newcastle try to Anthony Quinn in the corner... DECISION PENDING... TRY!
71 min: TRY Newcastle Knights
Quinn spins through revolving-door style defence from Melbourne and somehow gets it over the line in the corner. EnergyAustralia Stadium explodes as Johns converts and the scoreline now only has 2 points difference in it.
Storm 18-16
75 min: NEWS Amazing game so far, and with just five remaining the Storm are holding a slender lead. The Knights form has been incredible today given last weeks loss to Parramatta, and have matched the Storm inch by inch. Newcastle on the attack in their own half at present.
78 min: TRY Melbourne Storm
Newcastle panic on tackle 5 and a stupid flick pass gives Melbourne a runaway. On the next play Ryan Hoffman stepped through the defensive line, scoring the try. Cameron Smith converts and the siren sounds.
Storm 24-16
Leagueunlimited.com players of the match:
3 - Cooper Cronk
2 - Clint Newton
1 - Billy Slater


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From Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings:
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and I hope that you do... because this one is really cool!), is to:
1) Go to the www.ImageChef.com website and explore their FREE offerings. Click on the "Create" button, or choose to make a slideshow or posters from their main page (there are more than one screen of poster backgrounds).
Make one or more posters or other creation - perhaps they relate to
genealogy or your own family history. Save them to your computer (right
click, Save as Picture for Windows users).
3) Show your creations to us... in your own blog post, on a Facebook post, or on Google+ etc.
Here's mine:
Everyone knows the #1 genealogy information I want:
I might should just post this on the side bar of this blog!
Here's a nod to my Tapley family's home state:
I bet this vanity tag is taken!
And I need to post this to the side of my computer monitor as a reminder:
Including the surnames Tapley, Drake, Page, Harrell, Odom, Claxton, Bush, and Schwalls from the U.S. Southeast; and Ranney, Hubbard, Hesser, Carter, Schoonover, and Ozmun/Ozman/Osman from the U.S. Northeast and Midwest
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Make Your Own Genealogy Creation
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The Queens Village Long Island Railroad (LIRR) station received a multi-million dollar makeover, which is just the beginning in improving access to stations throughout southeast Queens.
The current station building, opened in 1924, was renovated through an $8.5 million project and features two new elevators, one serving the eastbound platform and the other serving the westbound platform. The building was repainted, new signage was added, as well as a new fire alarm system. The platform waiting room was redone and improvements such as new railings and lighting were made.
"The improvements we've been able to achieve here are a direct result of New York State's ongoing commitment to support the MTA Capital Program," said Helena Williams, LIRR president. "Our infrastructure needs continual reinvestment to stay in a state of good repair, and our customers here can attest to how much of an improvement they'll experience throughout this renewed station."
- Jamaica Station celebrates 100 years
- MTA to expand service, make improvements
- MTA poll looks at reopening Elmhurst LIRR station


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By Julie Montanaro
August 19, 2014
A Wakulla County man will spend the rest of his life in prison for a deadly attack at his ex-girlfriend's house.
Ours were the only cameras rolling when a judge sentenced Andrew Wilson to four consecutive life sentences.
Wilson was convicted of sneaking into his ex-girlfriend's house in March 2011, stabbing Gabrielle McKenzie and killing both her father and new boyfriend.
John McKenzie was stabbed 17 times and Patrick Pittman was stabbed 47 times.
Pittman's aunt today asked the judge to sentence Wilson to death.
"He had every intent and plan to go to 87 Field Loop to savagely kill my nephew, Patrick Pittman, to seek revenge. This has forever changed many lives," Pittman's aunt Ammie Hengstebeck told the judge.
"Every family wants some sort of revenge, you could say, but the fact of the matter is Patrick is gone and nothing is going to bring him back," Pittman's cousin Mandy Ferrell said after the hearing, "so just as long as he is punished we are happy with that."
The jury that found Wilson guilty of the stabbing and murders recommended a life sentence and the judge followed that recommendation.
Wilson did not testify at his sentencing hearing today.


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For several decades, it's been increasingly popular to blame government for our problems. However, without government, there are plenty of things � such as policing, firefighting and filling in potholes � that would never get done, because doing those things does not generate a profit for shareholders.
Thanks to the popular pressure to cut government, some of those unprofitable jobs have not been getting done. And into that gap have arisen so-called social enterprises � organizations that do social good, such as fighting poverty � while sustaining themselves through the way they offer goods and services.
Worcester State University believes that Worcester needs more social entrepreneurship. Matthew Johnsen, an associate professor and chairman of the school's department of sociology, is director of WSU's Center for Social Innovation. In an Aug. 29 interview, he said, "This new Center for Social Innovation is part of a larger effort by the university under President Barry Maloney to become even more engaged with the city and its future."
Mr. Johnsen has been in Worcester for 13 years. "I came to Worcester to join the department of psychiatry at UMass Medical School, and seven years ago left for Worcester State. My research interests are new forms of social networks and understanding what makes communities work. The Center for Social Innovation is just getting started � our first meeting will be Sept. 1," explained Mr. Johnsen.
He described different kinds of social enterprises that I am guessing the Center for Social Innovation will teach its students.
As he explained, "I am intrigued by what I see as new forms of organization that are not-for-profit and not nonprofit. For example, there are sustainable social enterprises that pursue a social mission such as providing used clothing for the poor, instead of throwing it in the Dumpster. For example, Savers (Thrift Stores) sells clothing at a high enough price to continue operating without taking funds from charitable sources. Some of these social enterprises get started with capital from foundations, and they repay the capital with their profits so the foundations can invest in other enterprises."
Other models of social enterprise reinvest whatever profits they make into expanding the organization's scope. As Mr. Johnsen said, "Grameen Bank in Bangladesh was founded by Muhammad Yunus to make small loans to women. And when the women pay back the loans, Grameen makes more loans. Others have hybrid structures. For example, there is an eye surgery service in Bangladesh that charges very low prices to locals but higher prices to people who come in from outside Bangladesh. Those who pay higher prices subsidize the local patients."
The Center for Social Innovation was co-founded by Mr. Johnsen and Morsel of Clay President Jim Harrity, and it held its first faculty meeting on Aug. 30. Morsel of Clay, by the way, is a "nonprofit educational support organization dedicated to equality in our public education system."
As Mr. Johnsen said, "The center is interdisciplinary. Our first meeting invites faculty from different departments, including business, sociology, urban studies, nonprofit management and earth sciences. We will start by offering two courses: Social Entrepreneurship, and Community Leadership. We expect that to develop so there is a concentration available to students."
Mr. Johnsen has a long-term vision for the center.
"Worcester has specific challenges � it has great wealth and great poverty. It is in its 300th year and we want to make sure it is around for its 600th year," he said. "So we want to think about the long-term changes it can make so Worcester will be an even better place. We want to address issues like poverty and bring more economic vitality to the city."
Mr. Johnsen believes that social enterprise can help with those changes.
"The Net Impact survey (Net Impact is "a leading nonprofit that empowers a new generation to use their careers to drive transformational change in the workplace and the world") found that 72 percent of college students and 53 percent of workers want their jobs to make an important difference. These new types of organizations can deal with issues such as sustainability and energy while employing people productively. They will help people to do good while doing well."
Those in the Worcester community who are interested in participating in social enterprise can attend monthly events.
Mr. Johnsen explained, "The first Wednesday of every month starting in October we will be holding a Social Innovation Roundtable that is open to the public starting at 6 p.m. at Worcester State University, at May Street, Room 214. While we are currently working on the schedule, in the past these meetings have featured local social enterprises providing an overview of their organizations. People interested in attending these roundtables can contact me at (508) 929-8768."


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As far as I know... alligators are bigger than crocodiles...
Still... both of them are reptiles,
see ya,
Unregistered Monica GilGuest
I would like to know the difference between alligator and crocodile?
Sincerely, Monica Gil
As far as I know... alligators are bigger than crocodiles...
Still... both of them are reptiles,
see ya,
Crocodile- Old World
Alligator- New World
I think if you look at them when they are resting in the water, one will have just the eyes and nostrils clear of the surface.
The other will have a large section of the uper jaw above the surface too.
Cannot remember which one is which.
There. I managed to resist making a joke about there being no difference anyway if you're close enough to tell.
Not so easy, apparently.Originally Posted by Naughty Beef
Alligators are very closely related to crocodiles -- in fact, they are "crocodilian", and they come in two different species: American alligators (which do indeed live in the New World) and Chinese alligators. And, of course, crocodiles are native to Australia (amongst other countries), which is definitely not Old World from a European perspective.
Alligators have broader snouts than crocodiles, and American alligators are usually darker than true crocodiles. The easiest way to tell them apart is that when they close their mouths, you can see a few of an alligator's teeth, but not those of a crocodile.
I'll remember that so I can tell what I'm being eaten by.


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The 2014 Senior Bowl is underway in Mobile, Alabama, as the North and South teams, comprised of the nation's top senior football players, will go through a week of practice in anticipation of Saturday's game. Of course vikings.com will be there every step of the way, bringing you multiple daily reports of the action as we prepare for the 2014 NFL Draft.
As a primer, here are five predetermined angles we'll be analyzing this week…
1. The Quarterbacks
In the NFL there are teams with franchise quarterbacks and there are teams looking for franchise quarterbacks. For those teams on the hunt, the Senior Bowl is a pretty good stop most years. Time will tell if it is this year, but the names are appealing enough to keep me interested for the four days I'll be in Mobile. Here's a quick look at the roster…
Tajh Boyd (Clemson): Program record holder in several passing categories; posted 107-39 TD-INT ratio in 47 games with 40 starts
Stephen Morris (Miami): Started 25 straight games at QB to conclude career; threw for 3,028 yards and 21 TDs and is only 2nd QB in program history with multiple 3,000-yard seasons
Logan Thomas (Va. Tech): Set school records for career consecutive starts by a QB, total offense, career passing TDs, career passing completions and attempts, and career rushing TDs by a quarterback
Derek Carr (Fresno State, pictured): 4th QB in FBS history to throw for 5,000 yards and 50 TDs in a season; brother of 2002 No. 1 overall pick David Carr
David Fales (San José State): 1st QB to lead program to an 11-win season; only QB with two 4,000-yard seasons
Jimmy Garappolo (Eastern Illinois): 2013 FCS National Offensive Player of the Year; led all NCAA Division I players in passing yards and TD passes
2. Can Any CBs Cover?
In the NFL you can never have enough cornerbacks with good coverage ability, but it seems the past few trips to Mobile for me have been more about scouting out potential receivers that might fit with the Vikings. This year, the focus should shift more to the guys covering the receivers. Nebraska's Stanley Jean-Baptiste is a name that stands out, largely because he played in the Big 10 and the Vikings live in Big 10 country, but also because Jean-Baptiste is listed at 6-3, 200. I'm going to guess that's a generous measurement, but the point remains: he's a big CB. Another name that stands out is Auburn's Chris Davis, who returned the missed FG for a TD against Alabama in what was one of the craziest finishes to a football game most of us have ever seen. Davis led Auburn in tackles, was 3rd in the nation in punt return average and was named a 2nd-Team All-SEC performer.
3. A Star in Our Backyard?
It might take a trip all the way down to Mobile, Alabama before I become familiar with a potential star who has played in the Vikings backyard the past four seasons for the University of Minnesota. DT Ra'Shede Hageman (pictured) is playing on the North squad and is thought by many to be a first-round prospect in this year's draft. He was a 1st-Team All-Big Ten performer this season and is listed at 6-6, 311 pounds. It'll be fun to watch the local product (listed hometown is Minneapolis) compete against the country's best senior offensive linemen.
4. Adding More LBs?
The Vikings selected a pair of Penn State LBs last year in
5. Interior Decorating
Interested in adding more competition to the interior of the Vikings offensive line? If so, the Senior Bowl should capture your interest because there are a number of quality pro prospects participating, including three of Eric Galko's top four rated OGs – Cyril Richardson of Baylor, Gabe Jackson of Mississippi State and Zach Martin of Notre Dame. I will keep an eye on one-on-one pass rush drills with the interior DL as well as any inside run drills the teams conduct throughout the week to see if there are any athletes who can come into Vikings camp and compete.