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Wednesday, 15 September, 2010
Strong Efficiency Improvements in Ultra-low-Cost Inorganic Nanowire Solar Cells
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Cu2O-ZnO nanowire solar cells are synthesized by electrodeposition from solutions near room temperature. A high-quality, self-assembling, nanostructured heterojunction is produced, which is Found to dramatically improve the charge collection efficiency in these ultra-low-cost devices. Incident-photon-to-electron conversion efficiencies approaching unity are measured and considerable efficiency improvements are observed.


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Steven Lopez's recent letter on March 6 ["Individuals free to make their own choices"] seriously begs a response. Lopez was "angry" about another writer's "overly biased … use of his religion as if it … validated his point" on the abortion issue.
Religion and the Bible are often two different things. Regardless of your "religious" beliefs, the Bible is the standard by which both sin and goodness are measured. God's word is plain and clear.
Contrary to Lopez's argument, a fetus is a human life from the second of conception. It does not, indeed, "scientifically and legally [lack] qualities that make it an actual human." Your lack of research here is appalling.
Then to compare an acorn and a chicken egg to a human fetus or embryo? Where is your understanding of science and the sanctity of human life?
Lopez's knocking of "traditional marriage" also shows lack of understanding. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God's word is clear to me on the sin of homosexuality, and is equally as clear on the sanctity and purpose of traditional marriage between one man and one woman.
I understand that "things change with time and understanding," but it is the things and morality of this world that change. God's word and his principles never change. It is the sinful nature of man that causes the changes, and this becomes increasingly evident in American society with each passing year.
This great nation was founded on the principles of Christianity and the Bible, and those principles remained pretty much intact until the Democrats and liberals in our society decided that their principles and desires were more important than those set forth by God.


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The game on Saturday will be broadcast on ESPN2 with former Wolverine (and National Champion) Brian Griese providing the color commentary.
History: Originally known as Bowling Green State Normal School, it was established to meet demands for the training of teachers. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State University. At the time the state's only schools of education (OhioU, Miami, and OSU) were located the southern Ohio while the majority of the growth, population, and need for teachers were in northern Ohio.
The state was so desperate for teachers, that tuition was free; students only paid for materials. Classes began in 1914, enrolling 304 students, from the looks of the early photos, all of them were women. The school graduated 35 certified teachers in 1915, the same year that the campus' first two buildings opened their doors.
This year marks the 100th year of Bowling Green State University, so they have an interesting historical timeline on the school web site right now. Here are a couple of fun ones:
1920 - A student newspaper, The BeeGee News, is printed for the first time.
1933 - A plan by members of the state legislature to turn the college into a mental institution is defeated.
1935 - Every time BGSU plays the University of Toledo, fighting breaks out in the stands. Competition between the two schools is suspended until 1947.
1947 - After a 22-year hiatus caused by violence, athletic competition resumes between Bowling Green and Toledo.
1951 - Former trailer camp for married vets turns into site for new chemistry building.
1951 - Women students are banned from riding in automobiles.
1975 - BGSU is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records when 3,376 students join hands to form the longest snake dance ever.
Location: Bowling Green, Ohio is 20 miles south of Toledo and serves as the county seat of Wood County. It sits directly in the middle of an area called The Great Black Swamp, which was the last area of Ohio to be
The first time a significant group of white men came to disturb the quiet forest where the school now stands was in June of 1812, when General William Hull and his army passed by. They were marching from Dayton to Detroit. Hull is famous because he invaded Canada and then surrendered Fort Detroit to an outnumbered enemy. He is the only General Officer in the history of the United States to be sentenced to death via court martial. He was reprieved by President James Madison because of his status as a revolutionary hero and returned to his native New England.
After the war (1817), the Indians signed treaty at the Foot of the Maumee Rapids allowing the US to buy the land at a price slightly less than four cents an acre.
In the late 19th century, Bowling Green experienced an oil boom. The wealth generated by that time can still be seen in the downtown store fronts and along Wooster Street where many of the oldest and largest homes were built.
Today BG is a typical American town of about 30,000 people. In addition to an annual art and county fairs, Bowling Green has hosted the National Tractor Pulling Championships since 1967. This annual event, one of the largest in the nation, draws an estimated 60,000 people.
Academics: BGSU offers over 200 undergraduate programs, as well as various master's and doctoral degrees. Bowling Green ranks #170 in the USNWR National University Rankings, tied with Biola, George Fox, Pace, South Carolina State, and Utah State. Based on these same rankings, within the state of Ohio, it is the 7th best school.
The most popular major at BGSU continues to be education, in 2009 6% of the graduates majored in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching.
Alumni: Famous BGSU alumni include Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton, comedian and Emmy Award winner Tim Conway and Academy award winner Eva Marie Saint. Shantanu Narayen is the president and CEO of Adobe Systems Inc.
From the world of sports, they claim Nate Thurmond Basketball Hall of Famer, NHL All Star Rob Blake, Baseball pitcher Orel Hershiser, and former Michigan assistant and West Virginia head coach Don Nehlen. Nehlen worked for Bo and was the coach at WVU before Rich Rodriguez took over that program.
No US Presidents or astronauts.
Colors, Helmets, Mascot, and Fight Song: Orange and brown have been the school colors since the first year of classes. Legend has it that an industrial arts faculty member named Leon Winslow got the idea from observing a brown and orange women's hat on a bus to nearby Toledo. Former Cleveland Browns' head coach Paul Brown must have also liked it. Legend has it following a trip to BGSU he decided to use the colors for his pro football team.
BG has a long history of orange helmets. The current design features a boring interlocking BG. Prior to that they had some pretty cool falcon designs. My favorite is the version they wore in the 1960's with the cloud and Falcon. Each cloud is unique, as it appears they applied white spray paint to each helmet over a falcon template. The white areas had "blurry edges" and varied in size and shape considerably from one helmet to the next, but all appeared to be centered above the helmets' ear hole regions.For over 82 years they have called themselves the Falcons. Before 1927, BG teams were called the Normals or Teachers. Then a news editor named Ivan Lake (class of 1923) suggested the nickname after reading an article on falconry. Lake liked the name change because it fit headline space and because falcons were "the most powerful bird for their size and often attacked birds two or three times their size."
Currently, Frieda and Freddie Falcon are the sideline official mascots. The Freddie Falcon tradition began in 1950 while Frieda Falcon was added in 1979. Student tryouts are held each spring, and the winners remain anonymous to the student body until each is "beheaded" at the last home basketball and hockey game.
The official BGSU Fight song is called "Forward Falcons".
Forward Falcons, Forward Falcons
Fight for victory,
Show your spirit, make them fear it
Fight for 'ol Bee Gee.
Forward Falcons, Forward Falcons
Make the contest keen,
Shout out the fame of our mighty name
And win for Bowling Green!
Bowling Green also has unofficial fight song the call "Ay Ziggy Zoomba". Gil Fox, an Air Force bombadier brought a loose translation of a Zulu war chant back with him following WWII. The Falcon football team traditionally sings "Ay Ziggy Zoomba" after each victory.
Ay Ziggy Zoomba Zoomba Zoomba
Ay Ziggy Zoomba Zoomba Ze
Ay Ziggy Zoomba Zoomba Zoomba
Ay Ziggy Zoomba Zoomba Zi
Roll along you BG warriors
Roll along and win for BGSU
Football: They first started playing football at Bowling Green in 1919. Unfortunately there were only 30 male students at Bowling Green Normal School at the time, meaning more than half of them (19) had to suit up for the first Falcon football team. That team went 0-3 and failed to score a point all season. Not to be discouraged, they did score a touchdown in their first game of the next season and eventually won a game.
The Falcons play in the Mid American Conference. They have won ten conference championships, which is second only to Miami of Ohio's 13 MAC titles. Times have been tough recently for the Falcon football team, their last MAC title came in 1992.
They have a big rivalry with the Toledo Rockets. The two schools play in the annual Battle of I-75 called The Peace Pipe. They also play their sister school, Kent State for the Anniversary Award. Bowling Green has been invited to play in 9 bowl games in its history, compiling a record of 4-5 in those games. The first in 1961 was played in the LA Coliseum, it was appropriately called the Mercy Bowl as they lost to Fresno State 36-6.
The only football jersey ever retired at Bowling Green is #29. It was worn by Paul Miles from 1971-73. Miles rushed for 3,239 yards and 25 touchdowns in his career and was a three-time first team All-MAC selection. He was just the third back in NCAA history to rush for 1,000 or more yards in three consecutive seasons.
Current Florida coach Urban Meyer served as head coach for 2 seasons at the start of this decade. He compiled a 17-6 record before leaving for Utah. Don Nehlen was their coach for 9 seasons (1968-76). Neither Meyer or Nehlan ever won a MAC championship for the school.
On October 25, 2003 ESPN's College Gameday made a stop on campus when #23 BGSU beat #12 Northern Illinois. That visit stands as the only time the crew has broadcast from a MAC stadium.
Famous NFL players are headlined by former Oakland Raiders pro bowl LB Phil Villapiano. The most recent famous player from BG was wideout Freddie Barnes. Last season, Barnes set the NCAA record for most receptions in a single season with 155 catches. He was a finalist for the The Biletnikoff Award, but finished behind Notre Dame's Golden Tate. Barnes was not selected in the NFL draft.
Former Michigan kicker Bryan Wright is a member of the Bowling Green Falcons headed to Michigan Stadium this weekend. Wright owns three Michigan varsity letters and is enrolled in grad school at BG. Considering the problems we have had in the kicking game so far this year, I am sure Rich Rodriguez would love to him in a winged helmet instead of an orange helmet this Saturday.
Other Sports: There are 18 varsity sports at Bowling Green. They own one NCAA Division I National Championship, the 1984 hockey team defeated Minnesota-Duluth in the longest college hockey championship game in history. The game ended when Geno Cavillini scored at 7:11 in the 4th overtime period.
Two former BGSU hockey players were on the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. hockey team that captured the 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal: Ken Morrow and Mark Wells. Former Sparty Hockey coach Ron Mason was BG's coach in the 1970's before moving to East Lansing.
The Falcon basketball team has made a total of 4 NCAA tournament appearances, the last being in 1968. Their women's basketball team has had a lot more success, winning the MAC tourney 10 times and being invited the NCAA tournament 9 times, including last season.
The Game: After "the scare" of last week, I don't know what to think. In a word, our defense is pathetic. We could fall to any team in the country, including a mediocre MAC team like Bowling Green. These guys put up 44 points last week against Marshall. Since 2001 the Falcons have squared-off with a Big Ten opponent nine times, coming away with four wins (Northwestern twice, Purdue, and Minnesota).
The pressure the defense puts on the offense is pretty heavy, but I assume we will score. Often. The effort to reduce the wear and tear on Denard will continue. He will put up the yards. I expect, like last week, we will see more carries by Michael Shaw and Vincent Smith than the first two games of the season.
We absolutely have to have this win if we expect to go to a bowl game this season. BG has already lost to Troy and Tulsa. They will be playing without their starting QB. With a few third down stops and forced turnovers, this could be the game we were expecting last week.
Michigan 45
Bowling Green 17


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Auckland Council adopts new policy and bylaw on dogs
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Keeping dogs as a positive part of Auckland life is at the heart of Auckland Council's new policy and bylaw on dogs adopted today. The policy provides region-wide guidance to ensure dog owners continue to take their dogs to parks and beaches while also …22 November 2012
Council adopts new policy and bylaw on dogs
Keeping dogs as a positive part of Auckland life is at the heart of Auckland Council's new policy and bylaw on dogs adopted today.
The policy provides region-wide guidance to ensure dog owners continue to take their dogs to parks and beaches while also ensuring public safety and comfort.
It also empowers local boards to make decisions on dog access rules for parks and beaches in their areas that reflect their community's preferences.
"As we worked through our approach to dogs, there was a clear desire for regional consistency and local decision-making on local access rules," says hearings panel chairperson, Noelene Raffills.
"The approach we have taken recognises the benefits of a single way of thinking and, where appropriate, region-wide rules.
"But we also recognised that one approach to local parks and beaches was never going to meet the needs of dog owners or the wider community and that our local boards can contribute in a way that is more responsive, consistent and transparent," Councillor Raffills says.
More than 10,000 submissions were made to council covering 156,000 points from dog owners and non-dog owners. The welfare of dogs is an important and integral part of the new policy.
"We heard a lot about the important part dogs play in the lives of their owners as members of their families, assisting to keep them active through exercising their pets, and providing safety to them and the wider community," says Cr Raffills.
The new policy and bylaw on dogs will come into force from 1 July 2013. Until then the existing policies and bylaws of the previous councils will apply.
Features of the new policy and bylaw include:
• A new standard summer time and season for local boards to use when deciding on changes to local dog access rules on local beaches (excluding Waiheke and Great Barrier Island)
• Proactive approach to registration and dealing with dangerous, menacing, and uncontrolled dogs
• Region-wide dog access rules on all roads, footpaths town centres and playgrounds
• Region-wide exemptions for disability assist dogs
It also covers the owners' responsibility on picking up dog faeces, as well as multiple dogs on premises and dogs in heat.
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"This means a lot to me because this place had been down over two years," said Delia Hinton, in referring to unfinished work on her York, Alabama, home.
For the past week, more than a half dozen volunteers from Wisconsin have been working to fix a den which Hinton says contractors never finished.
"All the insulation was out. I had to buy a lot of heat to stay warm," Hinton said.
A week ago there was no insulation, no dry wall and some partially installed electrical outlets, but all has been put right now. These volunteers from Wisconsin were invited by Alabama Rural Ministries.
Founded four years ago in Livingston, the non-profit group has helped repair more than 70 homes in west Alabama for those in need, with no cost to the owner.
"I think when we're able to help somebody with their house it's really encouraging to them," said Rob Beddingfield of Alabama Rural Ministries. "This is true Christianity."
Come Thursday the group will stop work on Mrs. Hinton's house and prepare to pull out of the area. Hinton says the efforts of this group will never be forgotten.
"The Lord just sent these people here and I'm so happy," said Hinton. "I never will stop thanking them."


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Release Notes: A TLS record tampering bug was fixed. A carefully crafted invalid handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception (CVE-2013-4353). Original DTLS digest and encryption contexts are kept in retransmission structures so that the previous session parameters can be used if they need to be re-sent (CVE-2013-6450). A SSL_OP_SAFARI_ECDHE_ECDSA_BUG option (part of SSL_OP_ALL) which avoids preferring ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers when the client appears to be Safari on OS X was added.
Release Notes: A weakness in the handling of CBC ciphersuites in SSL, TLS, and DTLS, exploited through timing differences arising during MAC processing, was fixed. This vulnerability was reported as CVE-2013-0169. A flaw in the handling of CBC ciphersuites in TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 on AES-NI supporting platforms was fixed. This vulnerability was reported as CVE-2012-2686. A flaw in the handling of OCSP response verification, exploitable with a denial of service attack, was fixed. This vulnerability was reported as CVE-2013-0166.
Release Notes: Record length are now sanity checked before skipping explicit IV in TLS 1.2, 1.1, and DTLS, to avoid possible DoS attacks. A possible deadlock when decoding public keys has been fixed. The TLS 1.0 record version number is no longer used in the initial client hello if renegotiating. tkeylen in now initialized properly when encrypting CMS messages. In FIPS mode, composite ciphers are no longer used, as they are not approved.
Release Notes: A check has been added for potentially exploitable overflows in asn1_d2i_read_bio, BUF_mem_grow, and BUF_mem_grow_clean. Workarounds have been introduced for some broken servers which "hang" if a client hello record length exceeds 255 bytes. Incorrect use of TLS 1.2 SHA-256 ciphersuites in TLS 1.0 and 1.1 connections is now avoided. A segmentation fault in the Vector Permutation AES module has been fixed.
Release Notes: Initial TLSv1.1 support and TLS v1.2 support were implemented. Many improvements and minor bugfixes were made.
Release Notes: This release fixed a DTLS DoS issue which was recently introduced by the fix for CVE-2011-4109.
Release Notes: A fix was introduced for a security issue where an extension of the Vaudenay padding oracle attack on CBC mode encryption enables an efficient plaintext recovery attack against the OpenSSL implementation of DTLS. This issue was originally reported as CVE-2011-4108. Various other bugfixes and improvements were made.
Release Notes: Initialization of X509_STORE_CTX was fixed to eliminate a case where CRLs with "nextUpdate" in the past were sometimes accepted. (This was reported as CVE-2011-3207.) An error in SSL memory handling for (EC)DH ciphersuites was fixed (CVE-2011-3210). A memory leak on bad inputs to x509_name_ex_d2i was fixed. Some ECC ciphersuites are no longer restricted to SHA1. Protection against ECDSA timing attacks was introduced.
Release Notes: Parsing of the OCSP stapling ClientHello extension was fixed. This issue was reported as CVE-2011-0014. A bug in string printing code, where the escape character itself was not escaped, was fixed.
Release Notes: An error was fixed in the experimental J-PAKE implementation, which could lead to successful validation by someone with no knowledge of the shared secret. This issue was reported as CVE-2010-4252. An old bug in a workaround that allowed malicious clients to modify the stored session cache ciphersuite was fixed. This issue was reported as CVE-2010-4180.


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Atlus U.S.A., has secured the North American publishing rights for Kenka Bancho 3, a Japanese beat'em up for PSP, which puts players in the role of a high school student on a class trip to a historic Japanese city, includes no shortage of fist-to-face and knee-to-gut action, and all in the name of pride and bragging rights.
As the toughest student in a Japanese high school, it's up to you to prove your badassitude when all the schools in the nation get together for a week-long learning excursion in the historic (and fictional) city of Kyouto. In this free-roaming brawler, you'll take to the streets and start kicking ass to rise to the top in the world of juvenile delinquents. Hunt down more than 45 boss enemies, each with their own daily schedules and routines, and dispense righteous beatdowns before stealing their respect, their territory, and their personalized special moves.
Key Features:
- Freedom of choice — You have 7 days to wander through the city of Kyouto and discover all it has to offer a teenage hoodlum like you, so every minute counts! Travel around and interact with a diverse population. Pick a fight with virtually anyone, but beware the consequences… and the cops. With too much to see and do in a single playthrough, you'll definitely need to plan on return visits.
- Badass fighting game — Becoming the one bancho to rule them all requires a wide repertoire of fighting moves, and you have an entire nation's worth to learn and incorporate into your strategy. Fling insults and punches, and take down Japan's 47 banchos. Then, customize your fighting menu with their regions' special moves!
- Extra game modes — Two-player co-op ad hoc mode lets you run around with a friend to gain additional experience. Night Out mode lets you sneak out of the hotel after curfew to challenge Yakuza roaming about the town.
Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble, developed by Spike, will retail for $39.99
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Band of Horses and Jason Lytle Release Townes Van Zandt Cover
Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle is currently on the road opening for Band of Horses. The musicians have bonded on the road and turned a hotel stop into a joint recording session. The members of Band of Horses recently laid down a cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Don't You Take It Too Bad' with the musicians and they have since released the song for free on Soundcloud. According to the musicians, the tune was started by Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell "in a Italian hotel room and finished in the wild of Montana by Mr. Lytle."
Band of Horses will perform at Manchester, UK's Manchester Academy today. Lytle will join the group on the road for a show at Bloomington, IN's Bluebird Nightclub on November 29.


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A DUNGANNON primary school is among four County Tyrone schools, businessess and voluntary organisations to receive a prestigious accreditation from the Department of Employment and Learning.
Edendork Primary School, which employs 23 people, was awarded the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) accreditation.
Springisland Supermarket, Coalisland, Willowbank Ltd in Dungannon and STEP (South Tyrone Empowerment Programme), Dungannon were also recognised with at the glittering ceremony held in Hillsborough Castle.
The accreditations were formally presented to receipients by Dr Stephen Farry, Minister for Employment and Learning.
"Today's event celebrates a diverse range of businesses from the private, public and voluntary sectors reflecting a cross section of NI employers who recognise the business benefits of Investors in People," he said.
"It is an encouraging sign for our local economy that so many organisations, particularly small to medium sized enterprises, continue to work with IiP to make significant business improvements.
"It is clear that regardless of size, sector or location, Investors in People presents all your organisations with the opportunity to improve performance."
The Minister was speaking to 35 businesses, schools and voluntary organisations with the prestigious IiP accreditation.
IiP has long been acknowledged as the most successful framework for business improvement through people.
It helps organisations of every size, sector and location to compete and succeed through improved people performance.
Minister Farry added: "Obviously it is satisfying to receive your accreditation today, but the real cause for celebration is the improvements in the organisations that have achieved IiP status - improvements brought about as a result of hard work and commitment in effectively managing and developing their most important asset: people.
"After all, it is the people we employ that will get us through challenging times. It is their commitment and skills that will make the difference," he said.
Investors in People has long been acknowledged as the most successful framework for business improvement through people.
It helps organisations of every size, sector and location to compete and succeed through improved people performance.
The approach to its delivery has recently changed, becoming more tailored to individual business needs, with no longer a requirement for a paper trail.
The framework has also been extended to provide stretch for all businesses, who can now work towards achieving the core Standard or the recently added Bronze, Silver and Gold levels.


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Abstract: 'All Roads Lead to Rome': The Roman Highway System in Global Perspective
The empire's vast highway system is a distinctive feature of Roman civilization that the peoples in the lands which Rome once ruled have typically always admired and exploited. We today in North America are admirers too – with our own Interstate system, on which we move ourselves and our goods so freely and conveniently. Moreover, we take it for granted that the Romans themselves had consciously regarded their highways as a system just as we with our scientific outlook view it, and that the freedom of movement they permitted within their empire was something quite normal in history. This lecture challenges these assumptions as likely to need re-thinking. It demonstrates on the one hand that the Romans in fact show no sign of having conceived their highways as a system or coherent network – a huge investment and resource that emperors might well have boasted about, but for a variety of possible reasons (to be discussed !) never did. On the other hand, what emerges starkly when we apply a global perspective to Rome's attitude to movement by its subjects is how liberal it appears by comparison with the control exerted by such other pre-modern states noted for their highways as China, Japan, and the Inca. Altogether, this lecture offers its audience some striking and unexpected fresh perspectives on the Roman empire and on Romans' thinking about highways, their subject peoples, and indeed the known world.
For a concise 'standard' treatment, see R. A. Staccioli, The Roads of the Romans (Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2003). For other cultures by comparison, see my own (co-edited) Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
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What do you do with all that fresh fruit and produce coming out of your garden, farmer's market or farm share? In this latest episode of America's Home Cooking, our viewers have sent us a treasure trove of recipes for delicious ways to prepare tomatoes, zucchini, eggplants and so much more. Hosted by Chris Fennimore, America's Home Cooking: From the Garden will show anyone who wants to use fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs how to easily prepare tasty, healthy dishes. From Corn Fritters to Pesto Sauce to Zucchini Casserole, this special will help viewers prepare a variety of organic, wholesome dishes.


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The league opener is a big day regardless of opponent, but for the La Salle High School baseball team that can be a challenge.
That's because the Lancers (4-2-1) open Del Rey League action at home today against St. Monica, a team that is 1-8 overall and already 0-1 in league. But that's not the most challenging part for La Salle: it's not looking ahead to Friday's mega matchup on the road against rival Bishop Amat, the No. 3 team in the latest CIF-Southern Section Top 10 coaches poll. La Salle is unraked.
"They are kids," La Salle coach Harry Agajanian said. "A lot of times they could do that, but I think as the game wears on our kids are pretty good about playing the way we know we can play."
Look for Austin Wallis to head the mound today while ace Bowdien Derby gets ready for Bishop Amat, who likely will throw standout and USC-commit Rio Ruiz.
La Salle opened the season as the No. 1 team in the Star-News coverage area, but its record doesn't seem to imply prowess, at least on the surface. The Lancers earned a tie against Temple City in the Elks tournament and lost in a 10-inning marathon to Arcadia in the consolation bracket, a close game that ended on a game-winning RBI single for a 1-0 score. Over the weekend, La Salle split against Cathedral in a doubleheader.
But don't look for Agajanian to dwell on what's happened so far. It's what lies ahead that he's more concerned about.
"I'm looking at down the road at how we're going to do at the end of the season," he said.
And along the way are short-term goals that involve no one else but La Salle, starting with the offense.
"We want to be a high on-base percentage team this year," Agajanian said. "We want to balance our walks and strikeouts and have a well-used offense. When I say that I mean play as a complete offense. We were playing as a bunch of good hitters. But we moved some kids around the lineup and shifted things around and it seems to be clicking."


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Lesson Plan Objectives:
l Lesson 1: Who Was Benjamin Franklin, Really?
Objective: Students will be able to identify traits that represent Benjamin
Franklin and then evaluate Internet sites or articles from a
interactive encyclopedia in an effort to judge whether their
identified traits are accurate or false.
l Lesson 2: Words Of Wisdom To Live By Benjamin Franklin
Objective: 1. Students will use critical thinking skills to evaluate 3 of
Benjamin Franklin's 26 famous Maxims.
2. Students will develop their maxim (words of wisdom) for
young people.
l Lesson 3:I Should Have Thought Of That…Famous Inventions
Objective: 1. Students will research 2 inventions using either the Internet,
multi-media CD-ROM, or classroom books.
2. Student groups will design an invention using the various
forms found on the Group Invention Activity sheet.
3. Students will design individual inventions and create an
explanatory paragraph detailing the necessary information about
their invention.
l Lesson 4: From The Mouse's Point Of View
Objective: Students will write a short story from Amos' point of view about
one of Benjamin Franklin inventions not mentioned in Ben and
l Lesson 5:Higher And Higher Flies The Kite
Objective: Students will use appropriate sequencing skills in order construct
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Two years after the recession working people continue to struggle to pay the rent and put healthy food on the table. Food Banks Canada reports that the "need has broadened in the past four years to include those who might least expect to use a food bank."
From working people and two-parent families to home and business owners, your neighbour could be using the food bank and you'd never know it.
Over 600 new clients register at the Kelowna Food bank per year, 40% are children.
One of them is Deanna. She arrived in Kelowna looking for a better future for her and her son Liam who is nearly five years old.
Deanna earned her office administration certificate and has several years of experience as a receptionist and administration assistant. "Times were tough in Prince George," says Deanna, "so we used what little savings we had and moved."
With office jobs in short supply, Deanna found part-time work as a barista at a coffee shop, earning minimum wage and no benefits.
After paying for childcare, rent, utilities and her monthly bus pass she has very little money left for food.
A co-worker suggested she call the Kelowna Food Bank. Deanna receives a monthly family food hamper and Liam gets his own Kids Snack Pack to take to pre-school. "The meat, dairy, eggs and produce help balance our diet," she says. "Liam really likes the fruit snacks."
Deanna is glad to be working, but feels that most people don't realize how difficult it is to raise a child in Kelowna on minimum wage.
"I have always been a hard worker and provided for myself," she says. "I plan to go back to school for more training. One day I want to manage an office, but right now I just need to care for Liam."
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9 comments:
- Fiona Bun said...
We agree, she was the coolest bun.
- May 18, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- archi's mum said...
you guys are truly amazing - i'm just blown away by the support. she was the coolest, most unique bun and i haven't had words
thank you RG (and fi)
- May 18, 2008 at 10:28 PM
- FrecklesandDeb said...
We are going to miss spunky little Archi Ann.
- May 19, 2008 at 6:10 AM
- YowlYY said...
So very true, words don't half express the sorrow for such a freak accident. We will miss her for a long, long time, but we'll remember her forever for her bunny wisdom and bunnytude. RIP little girl, say hi to BillieBun for me.
- May 19, 2008 at 6:21 AM
- d. moll, l.ac. said...
Hey, there Archi Ann, we sure do miss you now(sniff, sniff), but we will be seeing you later, in the meantime just hop over to Bandit, she's the grey very, very Zen Bun that you see over by the dish of pumpkin. She'll be your friend.
- May 19, 2008 at 6:25 AM
- bunnygirl said...
I hope she's binking free in green fields somewhere with only happy memories of her time with us and excited expectations for the time we'll all be together again.
I miss her so much, and she wasn't even my bun! :-(
- May 19, 2008 at 8:35 AM
- dguzman said...
Oh gosh. I'm sad.
- May 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM
- nipper said...
I just found out today. Yeah, words don't work for me, either. We're all shocked and saddened.
- May 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM
oh my we are speechless too. We just found out today. =*(
Jen and Lola
- May 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM


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Photo: Harvey Allen Wehrly & Nettie (Shreeve) Wehrly
Harvey was the younger brother of my great-grandmother Barbara Isabel Wehrly, making Tonya and I third cousins.
Harvey was born December 21, 1876 in Salamonia, Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana, the son of William P. and Olive Jane (Smith). He married Nettie Shreeve on October 9, 1898 and they were parents of 7 children.
According to Tonya, Harvey died when she was 8, but she remembered that he always wore a three piece suit with a tie, and kept a watch with a watch chain in his vest pocket. I look forward to sharing more information with her.
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Horrible story. As usual, some drunk has to ruin it for everyone.
Horrible story. As usual, some drunk has to ruin it for everyone.
He was just showing the boy good tackling form. Given the NFL's reputation now of head hunting, it's time to instill proper technique on young kids.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
It doesn't suprise me.
I used to have Bengals season tickets, but I don't now. I have seen all kinds of stuff at NFL games, including weapons being pulled on people. A lot of the "fans" are falling down drunk by noon, and looking to cause trouble with anyone they can find. I don't think I would take a kid to an NFL game anymore.
I would NEVER take my child (if I had one) to an NFL game. Honestly, I wouldn't recommend going to most NFL venues these days if you can't handle yourself or are not with someone who can (goes double for away venues).
The idiocy at NFL games these days is off the charts...
I went to Bengals games for almost thirty years and loved it for probably the first twenty five, but the experience has really deteriorated in my opinion. Too many people who can't stop at one...or six beers, too much pregame partying. It's like people don't really even go to watch the game, but rather to get hammered and spend quality time with their friends throwing up and starting fights.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
Part of me wonders if on a very long horizon the NFL isn't going to have trouble selling out games. The short schedule makes each game a big event, but it's a better experience watching at home now with HDTV, especially not having to deal with drunken idiots.
College games are a lot of fun to go to, but I haven't been to a Bengals game in probably 8-9 years and I don't see that changing any time soon.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
I agree but kids who are into the NFL and have a favorite team love to go to these games. My niece is a Chiefs fan and she would just love to go to K.C. to see a game there.
I don't know what they can do about it but I agree with Redsfaithful in that the NFL is going to have a problem with people going to games because of this.
I've been to 2 Colts games in the last 2 years, and have yet to see the drunken behavior I've witnessed at Bengals games. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it is much more rare, in my experience.
The Muni Lot at Browns Stadium is particularly bad. A lot of people who park there are hard core "Dawg Pound" idiots who get there at the crack of dawn to tailgate and get wasted. Of course, the media loves to go there for pre-game shots of "dedicated Browns fans having a good time." They rarely cover the post-game activities, where drunken idiots pick fights with visiting fans and between themselves. I would recommend out-of-town fans avoiding the Muni Lot at all costs. Of course, fans should never have to worry about where they park or whether they need to watch their back after the game. Unfortunately, it's a league-wide problem and I'm sure something like this could have happened at the Meadowlands or Lincoln Financial Field or Heinz Field, even PBS. I think the league needs to look into some of the measures English soccer teams took to weed out the hooligans. Maybe taking pictures of those engaging in offensive behavior and hitting them with a lifetime ban from games would curb this kind of stuff. I don't think banning alcohol will happen (too much money from Budweiser) nor will it stop it (too easy to get blasted pre-game). But as it is I have said I won't take my boys to an NFL game until they're at least 16.
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"Drunk Browns Fan" is that like saying "wet water".
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
If someone ever gets seriously hurt or killed I wouldn't be surprised if that fan doesn't file suit against the NFL and/or the team for being unable to control their fans. Kind of like where if a drunk leaves a bar, the bar could be held liable for any accidents the drunk causes on the way home.
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I still sleep in two chunks, only I call the second one "work"
I still sleep in two chunks, only I call the second one "work"
I've met people who do it in three, the third one is driving.
I'm the same way. TFA refers to it as "sleep maintenance insomnia". Doesn't really help giving it a name except to know that it may be more common than you may have thought.
Cannot say if this works for everyone, when I get up in the middle of the night and cant sleep, I use the trick I stole from the lucid dreamers, stare at a point constantly, preferably (for me that is) a low lit corner of the room and before I know it I fell a sleep.
This is also one of the quickest ways of learning self hypnosis.
Indeed, I found that opening my eyes and looking at something makes me tired. If I lie there awake with my eyes closed I will stay awake for hours.
>Indeed, I found that opening my eyes and looking at something makes me tired. If I lie there awake with my eyes closed I will stay awake for hours.
If I take 5000 IU of D3 first thing in the morning, chased with 1/2 pint of heavy cream, I never fail to sleep at night.
Each to their own.
I don't even try to get back to sleep any more. I just accept the fact that 3-4 hours at a stretch is all I'm comfortable sleeping. So I get up at 1-2 AM most nights and work until around 7, then sleep another 3-4 hours until 11-12. I get in my eight hours total, I feel fully rested, and I find those wee morning hour coding sessions are incredibly productive for some reason. (It's not like it's due to the peace and quiet -- I don't have family and neighbours making much noise during most days in the first place.)
A "full night's sleep" in the sense of an 8-9 hour stretch in bed is extremely rare for me nowadays.
It still freaks my Mom out when I call her and say something like "I was working on blah-blah at about 6 this morning..." because she KNOWS I'm not a "morning person" and never have been. But while I'm not exactly "chipper" without a couple cups of coffee when I get up, I find that with a split sleep shift, I'm at least not an outright grouch when I get up.
I get tired rather fast after work, so I've have done a lot of split sleep shifts. The only trick is when you have to still keep an 8-5 office schedule the next day, the WHOLE split sleep takes some 13 hours for me, including the block in the middle, so that I can't "dawdle after work" and start the pattern much later than about 6PM to really do it right.
This is a topic I've had an amateur interest in for years, so I may get The Book mentioned in The Article.
The key "potential drawback" is that they used to
When I have someone to cuddle with, I always feel well rested, even if I didn't get much sleep.
I suffer from interrupted sleep on a daily basis, I always have. Even as a child I couldn't sleep a full night and as I get older it just gets worse. I just seem to wake up without any good reason and then I can't get back to sleep anymore and it is not related to apnea, I do not suffer from that. These days I know quite well when I am still sleepy enough to get back to sleep and when I am not, and if I am not sleepy enough I just straight up go and start doing something. Often it takes me anything between
As one who had his sleep interrupted during 40 years of medical practice, and now can sleep through the night, a full night of uninterrupted sleep feels wonderful- far better than interrupted sleep.
Don't you think it might depend on whether the interruption is caused by outside forces or not? I doubt too many of our ancestors had beepers (or whatever you use now).
Don't you think it might depend on whether the interruption is caused by outside forces or not? I doubt too many of our ancestors had beepers (or whatever you use now).
All of our ancestors had bladders.
True, but I think it's a much more gradual process, where as you accumulate more sleep, and are more rested, then by the time the bladder urge is high enough to wake you, then you are already fairly rested.
Maybe if he had a beeper that started ringing silently, and over a few hours very gradually got louder, then the interruption would not cause you to awake until you were sufficiently rested. The guy waiting for his emergency surgery may not appreciate this though.
And that, Mr. A.C., is the difference between waking up and being woken up.
That's Dr. A.C. Show some respect!
Call it a self discovery, but I found napping after I get home from work for two hours is life changing. It clear sthe mind from stress and when you wake up, you feel like the work day happened just 12 hours ago. Feeling mentally and physically detached from the office has been extremely beneficial to me. But then again, I suppose it's because I do work about 50 to 55 hours a week.
I can't nap. I feel groggy and heavy afterward, much worse than I do when I wake up in the morning. I don't like that feeling at all, so when I'm tired enough to drift off in the afternoon or evening at home I try my best to resist.
I have the same problem. I have found that if I'm so bad I don't feel i can stay awake I set my phone timer for 15 mins and let me dose off for just that short time. The grogginess is very short and often I feel much better afterwards. Any longer and it puts me in pretty bad shape. Irritable and sleepier than if I had just stayed awake.
Try napping for shorter periods of time - 20 to 30 minutes in order to not drop into deeper REM sleep. Works for some people. It's the 'power nap' idea. YMMV, of course.
I think one aspect that many of these studies overlook is that there is absolutely no teleologic / social / evolutionary reason for the population to have the same requirements in many aspects of our lives, sleeping being one. Some people really do well with prolonged, constant sleep. Others can get by on much less. I've been jealous of the latter for many years because if I don't get enough sleep, I really pay for it for days.
But I can do pretty well with short naps for a couple of days, then things catch up. It also depends on what you're doing. It's OK to be a bit tired when you are washing your car or taking a walk. Running the chain saw, not so much.
This is simply a bad recommendation. You should nap a full sleep cycle, which is 90 minutes on average (usually the first one is a bit longer, around two hours). Please see the average somnogram here: http://www.lakesidepress.com/pulmonary/Sleep/hypnogram.png [lakesidepress.com]
There's a reason the Spanish siesta is about two hours. It's been shown that interrupting a sleep cycle during the deeper parts is extremely counter-productive, and can leave you even worse off than if you had stayed awake (or woken up at the previous point of light sleep, i.e. REM portion).
Another reason it doesn't make sense to sleep for 20 minutes is that BY FAR the most restorative action of sleep happens during the deep parts of the cycle, to the extent that there is research into drugs that increase the portion of sleep spend in those parts so that, say, soldiers etc. can sleep a smaller number of cycles for the same rest.
It was probably evolutionarily advantageous for people to sleep at different times, in different patterns and for different lengths of time. Better coverage of watching for predators, certain game my be easier to hunt at different times, etc.
IF you want to torture people make them work the "swing shift" 1st shift for 1 week, 2nd Shift for the next week, and 3rd shift the third week, rotate back to 1st.
Within 2 months you will become highly cranky, want to kill everyone and you enjoy a constant mental fog of never feeling awake.
That is called a Siesta, and civilized cultures have been doing it for thousands of years. and early afternoon nap typically after lunch or a couple hours after lunch works wonders.
My body actually get's "sleepy" around 3:00-4:00pm every day and it's common with others as well. your body WANTS a nap.
That was me before I got married/kids. It was fantastic..
I would get up and have another 4-6 hours of _VERY_ productive time. I would go running, go to the gym, write code, go to the local bar and hit on women, remodel the house, etc. This was when I was the most effective.
Now I just walk around like a zombie all day, until I hit the bed. Nothing really gets done unless I drink massive quantities of caffeine.
Have you looked in a mirror recently? Any funny markings around your face?
Are you hard to kill?
Just a thought. Maybe you're more correct than you think you are.
I mentioned above, TFA refers to it as "sleep maintenance insomnia". I ran into this article yesterday at work and was interested that maybe I'm not as weird as I thought. To make it through the night, my doc gave me a mild sleep-aid that helps some.
Always wanted to try the Uberman http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720 [kuro5hin.org]
Unfortunately, other people that I have to work with did not approve.
In Germany they did a documentary on the Uberman and they mocked it. They thought crazy idea. So the "victim" gave his fullest and something strange happened.
1) Getting used to the schedule was hard.
2) Once used to the schedule it actually worked very well. The doctors who inspected him thought the experiment would fail, were also surprised. They did reaction tests, brain scans, and a battery of other tests such as blood pressure. He passed with amazing colours.
After the test was done the volunteer said he would go back to the original sleeping habits. Not because he did not like it, but because it is out of tune with the rest of society. For the the uberman to work he had to take naps and at the wrong time it was a bit wierd. And then with all of the free time he had he did not know what to do. He ran out of things to do.
So end conclusion yeah it works, but it is a major lifestyle change.
Always wanted to try the Uberman http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720 [kuro5hin.org]
Unfortunately, other people that I have to work with did not approve.
I've tried as well. The highly fragmented sleep posed a serious detriment to my ability to function, and also the scheduling would be very conflicting with much of my daily activities. Even for moments of my life when I had next to nothing to do it would still cause issues.
The best way to perform it is with larger fragments of sleep, with 2 I've found (as well as discovered in research) as being the most expedient. This article here is especially intriguing to me, because it correlates with my previous rese
And too much soup, beer, whatever, before go sleep.
Over-efficient kidneys, too.
As a parent of two small children, I've been forced to do "segmented sleep" for extended periods (our babies were not good eaters so we had to wake them up in the middle of the night for a feeding). It sucks, and I'm positive that I'm not the only parent to have experienced this.
Just going to sleep in the evening and waking up in the morning feels a lot better and more natural to me.
Your situation might be different, but I figured out you just let them sleep. They'll come around on the eating. It's easy to get caught up in the science and numbers and forget they're critters, not machines.
Your situation might be different, but I figured out you just let them sleep. They'll come around on the eating. It's easy to get caught up in the science and numbers and forget they're critters, not machines.
This is true in my experience for older children, but, for the first month or two of life, you really do need to make sure they're getting milk every 3-4 hours. But now that our kids are 5 and 2, if they don't eat, it's their choice (especially the five year-old).
I've been forced to do "segmented sleep"
If it's forced, then you're not actually doing it... The story is about waking naturally between sleeps, not waking yourself up on a schedule. It also seems based on going to bed shortly after dusk which, at least for me, is hours before I've trained myself to go to bed.
Taking care of young children really was the most stressful thing I ever went through. I would be cautious about making inferences about sleep patterns or anything else based on that wonderful-yet-frequently-hellish period of my life
PS: It got better.
I was never more miserable than when our son needed to be fed in the middle of the night (it was demand feeding, not scheduled). Very tired in the morning and low energy during the day.
I still feel that way if I have to get up in the middle of the night. I'm only 44 but I can't even tolerate staying up past midnight anymore -- I still wake at my usual time but feel awful from lack of sleep.
That being said, the problem with "Segmented Sleep" is making it work with the normal chronological rhythms of mode
There's countless millions of pre-industrial people alive today. Do they commonly exhibit this behavior? You don't need to dig through medieval diaries when there are humans alive now who exist at varied levels of social and technological development. I'm more interested how agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies treat sleep today than urban Europeans a few hundred years ago. Urban Europeans have always engaged in bizarre activities.
There's countless millions of pre-industrial people alive today. Do they commonly exhibit this behavior?
That's an interesting question, but we may be unable to answer it. Even in supposedly pre-industrial segments of the world population, artificial light at night is more common than it was back in the 17th century. So it might be difficult, if not impossible, to find a truly pre-industrial population to study.
Also, from TFA:
"In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. It took some time for their
Plenty of the Latin countries still adhere to a segmented sleep pattern.
In my personal case, the period between 1 and 4 pm is useless for getting anything creative accomplished and my emotional state and creativity peaks in the hours beginning at dusk and for many hours after.
The pattern of siesta and staying up late for dinner, etc. seems to fit this pattern quite nicely.
And my wife keeps asking why I insist on waking every 10 minutes to search the house...and also sleep propped up in a chair with a loaded gun beside me.
See, honey, THIS IS WHY!
Does this mean I get first and second breakfast too? Those hobbits were on to something!!
I wonder, does anybody know how other primates handle sleep? If it's ingrained as they say, one would think our ancestors would also display the same tendencies.
Also, people used to have shorter lives. Perhaps due to not enough sleep.
With all the glowing screens and communication devices we have, it's easy to fill every hour at night as full as you would during the day.
Except that I need to be alert and awake for my job so I have to cram as much sleep in as possible to make it through the day, and if I want any time after work to do anything I can't afford to nap.
I know government/work would love if all I did was go to work, come home, nap a bit, get up, do a bit of laundry, make dinner, go to bed, go back to work and repeat.
Unfortunately for them, I'm not a slave. So until they adjust what they want me to do to fit with napping / segmented sleep, it's too bad.
Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind.
The next best kind would perhaps be the coitus one?
Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind.
The next best kind would perhaps be the coitus one?
You mean when you're fucking tired?
I can't agree with this. Sometimes I take a nap after work, then am up way too late, and then get about half a night's sleep. I definitely feel worse than I would if I slept uninterrupted for 9 hours, even if that might be the total of the two halves.
He was noted for having maintained, by preference, the split-shift sleeping schedule which he'd become accustomed to while serving in the Navy even after the war --- this was noted in the biographical notes section of at least one printing of his unfinished book _The Master Mariner_.
Those that complain that they have experienced interrupted sleep (e.g. with kids, medical profession, etc.) and prefer uninterrupted sleep are missing the point.
The article talks about "segmented sleep", let's say you sleep 4 hours at night and 4 hours in the day.
In other words, you go to sleep and naturally wake up whenever your body feels like (nothing interrupted the sleep), then get active, the go to sleep again and naturally wake up again (nothing interrupted the sleep), then get active again. Rinse a
Or as they are commonly known in the post-industrial world: meetings.
I had an "on-call" week from hell before Christmas last year. Didn't get more than 3 hours of contiguous sleep that week. I caught strep throat and was sick my entire Christmas vacation (both days). No, I didn't RTFA, but I think their study must have not taken into account sleep interrupted by external stimuli. I need at least 8 hours in my bed. Asleep or otherwise
I've noticed my cats also practice interrupted sleep.
They sleep for 11 hours- wake for an hour to eat/use litter box/scratch up the furniture. Then they sleep for 12 more hours.
The cats seem very rested and happy- I think I need to follow the cat model for success.
The cats seem very rested and happy- I think I need to follow the cat model for success.
Don't forget, the trick is to rub around other people and meow loudly until you get what you want!
Please report back on your results, though. For some reason, it isn't quite working out for me...
I think that is how most harrassment cases get started.
This story pops up every year, and they always talk about how Ben Franklin would have 2 or 3 one hour stretches of "wakeful sleep" every night. I mean, just imagine that fucker in his old timey pajamas, holding a candle! Haha wow! Maybe we should all sleep like him.
Nope. Fuck you. Interrupted sleep is terrible. If it was good for you, parents of newborns would be so alive, cheerful, youthful, energetic, productive, etc.
The reality is, of course, that they are grumpy, zombies.
It was done by our 'ancestor' therefor it's the best way to do things.
Studies done with scientific rigor are the only way to determine if breaking up your sleep is optimal.
Just because humans had to operate under those conditions in the past does not mean that sleeping in that manner was better for health in the long run. Not getting chased by wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers is another thing we seem to be doing better without.
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When Ryan Clark landed in South Florida it seemed as if the Dolphins had identified their future starting free safety and all that needed to happen was a little solid negotiatin' and the deal would be done.
Well, the deal isn't done.
And the deal isn't getting done, not in Miami anyway.
Clark is re-signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers, a source tells me. His visit with the Dolphins, cordial, was productive, but not enough. Clark told the Dolphins he wanted to remain with Pittsburgh.
[Update 7:12 p.m.: Various media outlets are now reporting Clark agreed to a four-year deal with the Steelers.]
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That is something to get from this defeat to be.
That is something to get from this defeat to be.
Maybe they plan on having one Home QB an one Road QB next year.
Brian Costello @BrianCoz
Rex on Tebow: I can definitely understand the frustrations of not getting the opportunity. #nyj
Weak arm and injury prone. The Pennington comparisons were dead-on.
Rex should go ASAP, just based on the fact he sabotaged a year of someones career.
McElrow one and done..
Sanchez.. what's the point?
Tebow.. Maybe they think he would even have less value if he plays... If that is possible..
not surprised after the beating Mac took - I was surprized he made it through the entire game.
I'd rather see a lot of Kerley.
I like Rex and all, but he has handled this QB situation very poorly.
At least there will not be 3 active QBs this week. Takes the pressure off of Rex in screwing that up again.
all you conspiracy theorists need to get off this board, don't watch the last game and take some needed time off. clear your head and come back fresh next season. you ever think maybe, just maybe, it's been an unfortunate season and things just snowballed? the jets aren't making all these things/injuries/etc up. you know that, right?
Pickchez gives us the best chance for the seventh pick in the April draft and the easier 2014 schedule. Plus we don't have to be nauseous watching Teblow's feeble attempts at pretending to be a quarterback
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So much for having a pulse on your players or locker room Rexy!
If Rex were a Dr the only way he could tell if his patient had passed is when the corpse started to rot and stink.
I bet he throws 4 TDs and Rex says he's our QB for next year.
many here dislike rex many here dislike sanchez many here dislike both of them.
rex ryan doesnt have the balls to start tebow knowing he will outshine his golden boy.
lets hope its both thier last games as jets.
Am I missing something here? This is a Jets fan site, no? Bunch of pussies here.
We all know the story here. The Offense stinks, the CS stinks, Sanchez stinks, Rex stinks.... whatever. If Sanchez plays, root for him. It's that simple. He will be here next year... get used to it.
I'm pulling for him to end this terrible season on a good note.


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I do think they are different. But copyright being around for 75 years doesn't really affect innovation in the software industry.
Software patents do.
Copyright protects the code. Patents protect the idea.
There is nothing stopping me creating a Google Maps clone tomorrow (in fact there are many), or an iTunes clone or a Internet Explorer clone if the code is my own or I have modified code with a permissive license.
What might stop me from creating something new is a patent on "one click" payment system (amazon) or the arrangement of particular elements in a user interface.
While I think that Software Patents should be allowed for software algorithms that are significantly complex or ingenious.
I think the "user zooms in using two fingers while thinking about Beyonce" patents are bad.
What is even worse is that there are a lot of people that have very polarised views on each subject.
I have no answers that would solve it this, but there has to be a balance between pragmatism and idealogy at some point.
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Not for nothing, but that argument only speaks to one angle of our reality and overlooks the recent uses of copyright. Unfortunately today's copyright laws have a much broader scope due to DMCA laws, which obviously do affect innovation in the software industry. Extending the copyright of DRMed works to 75 years has a chilling effect on competing platforms who want to play DRMed media but cannot do so in a legal way until the copyrights expire.
The broadcast flag is an example of a legally mandated hardware standard used to protect copyrights, but it actively interferes with independent developers from producing innovative software products and consumers from using them. Even products from big brand names like Tivo have been forced to implement flags like automatic timed program deletion. ReplayTV went bankrupt for defending it's own DVR innovations in court.
Although it's not what you were thinking, DMCA style copyrights do strangle many software innovations.


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LAKE PLACID, NY (Jan. 19) – Olympic Champion Hannah Kearney (Norwich, VT) won a record 11th consecutive FIS Freestyle World Cup moguls event with victory at the USANA Freestyle Cup at Whiteface Mountain. The title elevates Kearney past Switzerland's Conny Kissling for the longest Freestyle World Cup win streak. World Champion Patrick Deneen (Cle Elum, WA) earned his first podium of the season, finishing second behind Mikael Kingsbury of Canada in the men's event.
QUOTESHannah KearneyThe first two days of training were incredibly tough. Luckily I'm from Vermont and I'm used to crazy conditions.
I had no idea there was a record to be broken. I didn't know until the finish area today so I'm really excited about that. I know records are just a piece of data but it's a testament to consistency.
Patrick DeneenIt's definitely been an interesting event because of all the weather, power outages and delayed training, but then the course workers spent all night on the hill and really softened up the course for us. Those guys are really awesome and I ended up having a really great race.
Scott Rawles, Moguls Head CoachWe had a great day today; we had eight women make the final and four men. We were in contention for four podiums and got two, so I'm super stoked on that.
With Hannah winning 11 in a row, she's doing historical things, and with good showings from our new skiers, we have a lot to look forward to both next week in Calgary and the following week in Deer Valley, UT.
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The Coast News -- In Lindsay Duncan's class at El Camino Creek, one fourth grade student looked up the definition of "blubber." One girl found a suitable picture of a whale and attached it to her presentation about marine life.
Books, paper and pencils weren't in the hands of any of Duncan's students — only iPads. These days, it's a common sight in classrooms throughout the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD). Every third through six-grader at EUSD has an iPad, and the district is looking at rolling out more iPads for younger students. Meanwhile, researchers are looking at how the rapidly growing technology is impacting learning.
Duncan is among those researchers. She recently wrote a thesis on iPads in schools after surveying 120 fourth-graders and their parents last school year, when the pilot program debuted. Further, the University of San Diego is slated to release a study this summer on the use of iPads in the district. (Full Story)


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ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers. Designed for programmers with large heterogeneous trees of source code, ack is written purely in portable Perl and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions. It searches entire trees by default while ignoring Subversion, Git, and other VCS directories and other files which aren't your source code. It uses Perl regular expressions to find just what you want.
A flexible and manageable operating system for PCs, notebooks, and thin clients.
A time synchronization daemon which keeps your system time accurate.


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About 52 hours shy of the deadline for major league clubs to sign their draft choices, the 35th-round pick in the MLB June draft informed Martin of his decision. His signing bonus is expected to be around $250,000.
"Certainly this is a big blow to our club," Martin said 20 minutes after talking with Fairel. "We just lost our No. 1 pitcher. I talked to Matt and it's done, he's gone. He's signing. Two days before deadline. No way are we going to be able to find a player to replace him at this point.
"Cincinnati had some money to work with and they are giving him fourth-round money as a 35th-round draft choice. No way did I dream that Matt Fairel was going to sign."
The lefthander emerged as FSU's top pitcher in 2008 with a 12-2 record and 3.79 ERA. He struck out 100 opposing batters.
Although Fairel was just a sophomore last season, he was eligible for the draft because his birthday fell within MLB draft-eligibility rules.


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Thomasville, N.C. > Conference Carolinas All-Conference Teams were determined by vote from each head coach of participating institutions. Nominations are collected and then voted upon by ballot and tallied to determine Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Coach of the Year, All-Conference First Team, and All-Conference Second Team. Awards were presented at the Conference Carolinas softball team banquet at the Conference Tournament Championships hosted by Erskine College at Heritage Park in Simpsonville, SC. This year's award winners are as follows:
Player of the Year:
Shelly Catlett, Coker College
Freshman of the Year:
Jessica McFadden, Barton College
Coach of the Year:
David Hanna, Coker College
All-Conference First Team:
Kimberly Atkinson, Coker-1B
Courtney Wallace, Mount Olive-2B
Katee Knapp, Erskine-3B
Ashton Williamson, Coker-SS
Ashlee LaFontaine, Erskine-C
Bailey Harrell, Mount Olive-C
Jessica McFadden, Barton-OF
Jessica Blackwell, Coker-OF
Jasmine Dobbin, St. Andrews-OF
Miranda Klees, Coker-DP
Dacia Ijames, Pfeiffer -Utility
Shelly Catlett, Coker-P
Jenny Jackson, Mount Olive-P
Lauren Gunter, Erskine-P
All-Conference Second Team:
Lora Daniel, Anderson-1B
Lindsey LaPrad, Erskine-2B
Meredith Knox, Anderson-3B
Kari Kmetic, Queens-SS
Mary Lee Giurintano, Queens-C
Eunice Nettles, Coker-C
Anna Lucas, Coker-OF
Katie Hobbs, Belmont Abbey-OF
Kelly Davis, Erskine-OF
Magen West, Lees-McRae-DP
Alisha Waldrop, Queens -Utility
Emily Wallace, Limestone-P
Rebekah George, Erskine-P
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JUPITER, Fla. – The e-mail arrived in a Perfect Game inbox on Oct. 9, two weeks before the start of the 2013 PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla.:
"Mr. Dahn,
"I have enjoyed reading your articles about all the great players over the past year or two. I like reading about the adversity that they go thru (sic) or how hard they work to develop their skills."
The brief note went on to describe what the sender thought was PG's penchant for writing stories about the sons of the former big-leaguers at the expense of prospects who don't possess the "baseball gene" or aren't privy to other inherent advantages that come with being the son of a former major league player:
"Every player doesn't have the baseball bloodlines but works just as hard or even harder to sharpen their games … and we just keep working and hoping to get some exposure too. I will be in Jupiter hoping to show the scouts and GMs that even the little guys like me can play with the big boys and that we belong."
The self-described "little guy" and e-mail sender was Cobie Vance, a 2015 second baseman and outfielder from Fayetteville, N.C., who was at the PG WWBA World Championship playing with the Mid-Atlantic PG Orange.
In truth, Vance has not exactly been toiling in total obscurity the last two seasons. The PG WWBA World Championship was his ninth PG event since June of 2012 – he played this summer with the Georgia Roadrunners and attended the Perfect Game Underclass All-American Games in San Diego – and is ranked 164th nationally (No. 7 in North Carolina) in the class of 2015.
Standing at 5-feet, 8-inches tall, Vance is relatively short in stature. But he wears 180 pounds on that 5-foot, 8-inch frame, has thrown 87 mph off the mound and 83 mph across the infield, and has shown a grit and determination that seldom go unnoticed.
His scouting report from the PG Underclass All-American Games in August noted that Vance "has surprising arm strength" and is a "gamer who plays with lots of energy and enjoyment." He also plays with a great deal of pride and maybe even with a bit of chip on his shoulder that developed due his size – or lack thereof.
"I know that being a little guy I've got to play twice as hard as the 6-foot-5 (or) 6-foot-4 players," Vance said on the evening of Oct. 27, right after Mid-Atlantic PG Orange had been eliminated from playoff consideration at the PG WWBA World.
"People might overlook me because of my size but I can play just as hard as those guys any way that I can," he said. "Whether it's running out a fly ball or picking someone up, if I can do that better than the next man then I'll be all right."
Vance didn't do much to warrant attention at the PG WWBA World, picking up a single and a walk in nine plate appearances and committing an error in the field. The Orange finished 1-2-1 but the lone win came on the final day of pool-play against the Sandlot Scout Team, a 4-3 decision that knocked Sandlot out of the playoffs. In the end, Vance was not at all disappointed with the experience.
"Seeing it for the first time, it was more than I expected," Vance said. "It actually made me play more determined because I knew that someone was watching every step. I've played in front of (scouts) before, but I'd say in my first at-bat I pressed extremely hard. It got easier in the next at-bat or after a ground ball (in the field); it just got easier.
"I learned I had to play my game – be a second baseman, move runners over, be a line-drive kind of guy. I can't be that home run guy so I just have to play my game."
Vance's father, Randy Vance, accompanied his son to Jupiter from Fayetteville and also found the experience to be priceless.
"This has been pretty overwhelming," Randy said. "As a parent I'd heard the rumors about Jupiter and it's an awesome experience for me alone, just trying to stay out of the way of the golf carts and trying to look to see who's who at this place. It's just a phenomenal experience.
"I was really pleased to be able to bring (Cobie) here and get him involved in this as a junior knowing that he'll be back next year, just to take some of the edge off and not be overwhelmed with the experience itself."
Vance has gained a lot of valuable experience in the last 16 months since he first suited up for the Dirtbags at the 2012 PG WWBA 15u National Championship in Marietta, Ga., where he earned all-tournament recognition. Later that summer he performed at the Atlantic Coast Underclass Showcase in Winston-Salem, N.C., and was named to that event's Top Prospect list.
He joined forces with a very strong Georgia Roadrunners 15u team this summer and was an all-tournament selection at both the 14u/15u Perfect Game-East Cobb Invitational and the PG WWBA 15u National Championship. He was 10-for-16 (.625) with two doubles, seven RBI and 11 runs at the PG-EC Invite and 12-for-28 (.429) with three doubles, seven RBI and nine runs at the PG WWBA 15u National.
Vance also played with the Roadrunners at the 15u PG BCS Finals and the PG WWBA 16u National Championship this past summer and continued to show improvement from event to event.
"I remember just back in my sophomore year, an 85 mile-an-hour fastball was just amazing to me; I could barely hit it but now it's just second nature," he said. "All the little things, like how quick the game is, the crossover step when stealing a base rather than opening up first – just the little things like that have taught me to be firm about my game. I am very happy with how my game has progressed."
The progression of his game has run parallel with his rise to No. 164 in the class of 2015 national rankings. That lofty ranking put him in pretty good company on a Georgia Roadrunners team that included 2015 No. 2-ranked Jahmai Jones from Roswell, Ga.
The Mid-Atlantic PG Orange squad Vance was a member of in Jupiter had 10 2014s, 2015s and 2016s ranked in the top-500 of their respective classes, including 2016 right-hander/third baseman Mason Studstill from Titusville, Fla., who is No. 38 nationally.
"It can be important, but you can't get a big head about it," Vance said of his rise in the rankings. "You watch some guys and they know they're a top-100 and they'll play in a big game and expect to be great and perfect every time; they'll press and stuff like that. I look at (the rankings) but I'm not really worried about it. It doesn't matter where you're at it's just how your game is and who you play in front of."
Randy Vance is a Sergeant Major in the United States Army and played baseball at Bethune-Cookman University for three years before entering the military. Randy worked closely with Cobie until his son was 10 or 11 years old and then decided to back away a little bit because he felt he was being too demanding.
"It's been a lot of hard work … and I've pushed him and pushed him and pushed him over the years," Randy said. "At times I thought I was doing too much but it's prepared him for (being in) an atmosphere like this. He's improved based on the talent pool; he drives hard to be the best at what he does. This type of atmosphere with all the great players that (PG) brings in here pushed him even more to do his best. That's all me or any coach can ask of him, to give his best.
"I don't expect him to be great every day, but he has flashes of being good, and that's what we want to see, an improvement. This is a great experience that benefits his development."
Cobie Vance, the 5-foot-8 second baseman playing with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, felt confident enough in his abilities to fire off an e-mail to a PG writer. He spoke with a quiet confidence, a trait undoubtedly passed down from his father, the Sergeant Major in the Army.
The young man is as dedicated and determined as they come and is also appreciative of the doors that have opened where he can "show the scouts and GMs that even the little guys like me can play with the big boys."
"They tell me (the PG events are) going to be this, this and this and when I get there it is, but it's so much more," Vance concluded. "It's very humbling to play in front of all these (scouts); most people don't get the chance so I can't complain about it at all. I like the experience, I really do."