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Brewers hit 3 HRs in 5-3 win over Padres
Brewers hit 3 HRs in 5-3 win over PadresMilwaukee Brewers' Rickie Weeks high-fives teammates in the dugout after his two-run home run against the San Diego Padres during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- When the Milwaukee Brewers were 12 games under .500 on Aug. 19, very few fans expected the team would rebound, let alone have a winning season and be in contention for the NL playoffs down to the last few days.
But with the Brewers' 5-3 win Monday over the San Diego Padres, the Brewers clinched a winning season for the second straight year. The Brewers won 28 of the last 40 to turn the season around and make a run at an NL wild card before being officially eliminated after a loss Sunday.
''I don't think anyone thought we would have a winning season, considering where we were in August,'' said catcher Jonathan Lucroy, who hit a home run Monday. ''We wanted to be in the playoffs, but we never gave up this year. I think we really showed the character of the team.''
Brewers closer John Axford struck out the side in the ninth inning Monday to get his 34 save in 43 chances. It was a nice bounce back for Axford, who struggled this season blowing nine saves, including one Thursday in Cincinnati when the team was still battling for the wild card.
''This shows that perserverance pays off,'' he said. ''We never gave up despite our record in August. I think we have a very good team and am confident we can rebound next season.''
Shaun Marcum (7-4) gave up two runs and six hits in six innings. Marcum was likely making his last start for the Brewers as the team is not expected to re-sign the veteran pitcher. It was his second straight victory after not winning a game since June 8 as he spent two months on the disabled list with right elbow tightness before being activated Aug. 25.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said Marcum was good enough to get the win.
''He mixed speeds well and really battled,'' Roenicke said. ''We always knew Shaun knew how to pitch. It is just a question of keeping him healthy.''
Rickie Weeks and Carlos Gomez added home runs for the Brewers, who pounded out 10 hits.
Clayton Richard (14-14) gave up five runs and 10 hits in seven innings for his second straight loss after winning five straight decisions.
Richard said he was not executing his pitches.
''They jumped on everything I didn't execute,'' he said.
The Brewers grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first. With two outs, Ryan Braun lined a double down the right-field line and scored on Aramis Ramirez's RBI single.
Richard's first career home run with one out in the third inning tied the score at 1-1 for the Padres. Marcum then walked three of the next four batters, but got Yonder Alonso to fly out to end the inning.
''I'll take a win over a homer every time,'' Richard said. ''But it's definitely neat to be able to do that (hit a home run). It was just more luck than anything.''
Gomez's career-high 19th home run of the season gave the Brewers a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning. Gomez's previous high eight in 2011.
Weeks' two-run home run in the fifth inning boosted Milwaukee's lead to 4-1. It was the Brewers' 200th home run of the season, the second straight season the team has hit that mark and only the fifth time in team history.
Jesse Guzman's RBI single in the sixth inning scored Will Venable for the Padres to cut the lead to 4-2. Venable had doubled down the right field line and then stole third base.
Lucroy's 12th home run of the season in the sixth inning increased the Brewers' lead to 5-2.
San Diego pulled to 5-3 in the seventh inning on Yasman Grandal's RBI single.
NOTES: Padres manager Bud Black said RHP Casey Kelley will not make his scheduled start Tuesday due to general arm and elbow soreness. RHP Anthony Bass (2-7) will start in his place. ... Brewers manager Ron Roenicke had a team meeting before the game to tell his team he was pleased with the way they had played in the last month to get back into the NL wild-card race. ... Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers visited Braun in the clubhouse before the game. The two are close friends and are involved in the ownership of a Milwaukee-area restaurant together.


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ADVICE NEEDED re: flywheel/TDC position
Posted 10 January 2013 - 08:08 AM
a)Set No1 to TDC
b)line up the TDC marking on the flywheel or crank pulley to the pointer on the bell housing or crank case
d)bolt on the flywheel
Now, because I've changed cam belts and cam oil-seals on my Subarus before I knew about the 180 degree difference in the left and right sprocket positions and that they use a different set of flywheel markings - so all of that is spot on.
BUT, when trying to start the car yesterday, the whole thing sounded very wrong. So I checked the distributor position a few times, checked there was spark, fuel and so on. All ok but still no joy - it would run - just - on one cylinder only.
So I though I better consult the Haynes Manual and the Web. Quite by chance (I was not looking for this info exactly) I read in the manual that the flywheel can only be put on in one position because the bolt holes are asymmetric and (according to some web info) that the ignition '0' flywheel mark is not set to 'TDC' but to some other position where No1 cylinder is half-way up its bore.
Now, if there is no 'conventional TDC' and the flywheel holes are asymmetric then how the hell did I bolt my flywheel (with ease) to No1 TDC at the '0' degrees pointer?
Either the Haynes manual and the Web is wrong about the asymmetric bolts or the web is wrong about the non-conventional TDC - both cant be true. Meanwhile, my car wont run. I'll take the engine out again to fix this once I know what I'm doing - so please guys... any thoughts?
Posted 10 January 2013 - 08:56 AM
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 11:22 AM
Skishop69, thanks too. having disconnected everything, I'm going to take the engine out again tomorrow and check that the flywheel is on correctly (I'm pretty sure it is given that I automatically put it on lined up at No.1 TDC) The only other explanation might be that the flywheel has in some way been altered by the previous owner - the car has been massively bodged elsewhere!
Year: 1991
Make: Subaru
Model: L-series 1.8 DL 4x4 Estate
The whole sorry tale of the cars refurbishment is on my website at http://www.nagara.co.uk/carhome.htm
With the engine out tomorrow, I'll double check everything and hope I find what I've missed. I'm annoyed with myself because in 40 years I've never had an engine I've rebuilt not start and run properly.
Posted 10 January 2013 - 11:24 AM
Posted 10 January 2013 - 11:36 AM
thanks, that was one of the first things I checked and all was well!
Posted 10 January 2013 - 01:50 PM
Posted 10 January 2013 - 02:17 PM
I too doubt that the flywheel has been altered, but I also would not have believed the very weird 'repairs' done to the rest of the car. So, for the sake of an extra couple of hours I'm going to pull the engine and check. I'm 99% certain I fitted it correctly because I'm normally very careful. But anyone can make a mistake.
Below is example of previous owner's 'repair' what was he thinking!!?
(Above) previous owner's version of repairing the rear wheel arch - astonishingly dangerous...
Posted 11 January 2013 - 04:15 AM
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Posted 11 January 2013 - 02:47 PM
Do the timing marks first, then bring the flywheel to the 0 deg mark to do your ignition.
1-3-4-2 counter clockwise.
search 'ea82 timing belt' for the proper procedure.
the only other thing i can think of for the timing marks being off on the flywheel is if you have an ea81 flywheel on an ea82 engine or vice versa
Posted 12 January 2013 - 05:38 AM
Miles, mm, I hadn't considered that it might be an EA81 flywheel - but it only goes on one way and the car ran fine before the rebuild (other than low on power, rackety valve gear and numerous oil and water leaks.).
Anyway, it's all back together again and reinstalled. The only wait now is for a new water pump as the old one, not leaking prior, now won't hold water... I expect the old unit was 'sealed' by copious amounts of 'radseal' and 'Kseal' and, now it's clean its junk once more!
Posted 12 January 2013 - 05:57 AM
Pull #1 plug, crank engine by hand until you get compression on your finger that you,ve placed over the plug hole. Keep turning engine untill you reach the 0* mark. Check that disty rotor is pointing to #1 on the cap.
Double check all of the electrical connections for proper fit.
Been a few Members find a "no start" issue was due to a connection not fully seated.
Posted 12 January 2013 - 09:20 AM
when the engine is at the center of its bore, the keyway on the crankshaft pulley faces down.
when the #1 cyl is at TDC, the timing belt marks on the cam pulleys will be facing the hard edges of the valve cover.
The rotor on the disty should be facing the brake master cylinder, and the #1 position on the cap is just to the right of the clip/screw that holds on the cap
an ea81 flywheel would only fit if the holes have been enlarged for the ea82's larger bolt, although ththe orientation of the blts is the same.
the o deg mark os some 30 deg after the III mark
Posted 12 January 2013 - 10:33 AM
Posted 12 January 2013 - 01:16 PM
that was just a pic to show how badly the previous owner treated this car. That pic of the top of the rear wheel well (wheel arch in UK) was from underneath the rear trim inside the car. You can see how bad it was at http://www.nagara.co.uk/carhome.htm
Posted 13 January 2013 - 12:34 PM
Over the last few days I pulled the newly fitted engine and took off the clutch and flywheel - checked all was well, it was, and pit it all back. I checked and refitted the timing belts and all was well, I checked I had plenty of spark and fuel and all was well but the damn engine just would not run: it would splutter, backfire and run a bit on one or two cylinders but in a really erratic way. I checked the distributor loads of times and all seemed well. What on earth was the problem? I checked for compression (The gauge showed about 150psi+ on all cylinders).
Then I decided I'd take the distributor to pieces. When it was on the bench I realised I knew nothing about it - I'm used to rebuilding dizzies with condensers and points. So I just blasted it with compressed air, blasted it with WD40 and again with compressed air to remove excess WD40. I put it all back and bingo!
So there's some kind of damp or electrical fault inside the dizzy? Time will tell if it misbehaves again but I'm so pleased! It just goes to show that with semi electronic ignition a good healthy spark means nothing if there's some random firing due to an electrical fault. What the fault was I will never know - just damp I guess.
Posted 14 January 2013 - 05:01 AM
May have just been dust build-up in the disty, affecting the optics.
It's nice when they sort of fix themselves, but it sure would be good to know what the issue really was.
I like mystery, in books and movies.
Not in my vehicles...
Posted 14 January 2013 - 06:37 AM
Posted 14 January 2013 - 08:20 PM
Back in circa 1968, fellow student had one.
Loved that vehicle............
Posted 15 January 2013 - 05:13 AM
I agree, the old Minors are excellent little cars but very crude in many ways:live axle at the back; low capacity, iron straight 4; underpowered, uncomfortable and a tiny boot (trunk). But they were very light (about 750kg I think) had fantastic steering and really superb handling providing the dampers, trunnions and bushes were in good order.
I've only got a few old and blurred photos of mine from the 1980s at:
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Friday, March 25, 2011
It tolls for thee...
The Columbus Dispatch: emails were forwarded...not to someone inside the athletic department, not to Ohio State's legal team, but instead to TP's "mentor" in Jeannette. So much for confidentiality during a "federal investigation" or "not knowing who to partner with".
At this point, anyone who believes the Gordon Gee or Gene Smith to be competent or capable of making the correct leadership choices should have their head examined. The NCAA is going to obliterate them.
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- surrounded in columbus said...
This is what happens when you are very successful & others are envious of your success.
This sorta thing happens everywhere.
The press is blowing this out of proportion.
This is what happens when sportswriters who never played get a chance to bring down a great coach & man, like JT.
Tress is a man of great integrity. Read his book. You'll see.
9-1 bitches!
- March 25, 2011 1:35 PM
- phil said...
For years we hoped and wished that Michigan would pulverize OSU and send Tressel packing. How bizarre that this is the beginning of the end of Tressel and all because of the highly coveted recruit who actually chose to go to tUOS and then he destroyed it from within. TP has damaged OSU beyond anything Michigan could have ever done. Ironically, most OSU fans still love TP and don't even blame him for this mess.
- March 25, 2011 3:10 PM
- Yost said...
This is getting awesome.
Great pic, Andy!
- March 25, 2011 3:26 PM
- Andy said...
I will be the first to admit he is a damn good football coach. He has done some incredible things for the Buckeyes, including the clear and total domination of us. For some reason, he thought he could brush this situation under the table and he would never be questioned.
This goes beyond records and championships. This is about leadership and integrity.
It is so clear to me now, as a football coach, he panicked at the prospect of losing several of his star players and chose to ignore the rules. As a leader he has failed simply because he did not "do the right thing" and has been caught in several lies.
The fact that the Ohio State administration has retained him as an employee tells me everything I need to know about the "win at all costs" culture that has taken over down there.
After watching this unfold, does anyone think that Gene Smith and/or Gordon Gee would have fired Woody Hayes if he slugged Charlie Bauman today?
- March 25, 2011 3:26 PM
- Andy said...
Meanwhile.... nothing but crickets from Whet and Sru.
- March 25, 2011 3:55 PM
- Crock said...
Andy - so well stated.
As I read so many articles lately about folks like Tressel, Kwame, & LT - I am disgusted
I just can't get pass how these people NEVER take responsbility for their own actions. They are FOREVER blaming someone else.
What has happened to morals, ethics & integrity? Part of the Fab Five story I appreciate is that the UM adminstration did all they could when they found out- same with RichRod. It has been fun or pretty to watch our programs deal with the consequences - but I take pride in knowing they made an effort to do the right thing. I still won't forgive C-Webb until he admits what he did.
If only people would listen to Spike Lee - "always do the right thing"
- March 25, 2011 4:34 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
And this isn't just Schadenfreude.
We're 1-9 over the decade.
Clarett took cash.
Troy Smith took cash.
Pryor took cash.
The only game we won in that time frame was 2003. That's the only game none of these 3 played in.
That's 9 years of having our asses kicked by players who were being paid.
We're entitled to enjoy watching these cheating bastards fall.
- March 25, 2011 6:04 PM
- Steve said...
On a related note, the first person to send 9 bucks to GoDaddy can buy the domain name DirtyVest.com. It's available.
- March 26, 2011 2:38 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
Andy, Andy, Andy,
I've been in the Caribbean with much better things to do with my time than deal with this mess. However, as a contributor, I should comment.
Some observations:
You reap what you sow. Too bad; so sad. JT loses. No excuses.
The NCAA needs to get honest with itself.
Saying you lost nine out of ten games to tOSU because of "cash" is ridiculous. You were outcoached. Bash the coach if you wish. He has it coming. Just color inside the lines.
College football is only about winning. That may be sad, but it's the reality. Get with it Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore.
This is your day. Every dog has one. Enjoy it.
Is Urban Meyer still available?
- March 27, 2011 9:12 PM
- Mikoyan said...
I for one would welcome Urban Meyer to Columbus. I seem to remember that Michigan has traditionally had his number.
- March 28, 2011 10:15 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
All right, if that's the standard of measure, we are going to keep JT. There's no one else out there with his track record against Michigan and the NCAA.
Of course, there's the coach from Appy State. What was his name?
- March 28, 2011 5:12 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
you're full of it.
you pay for players, you get better teams.
it's called "cheating", not "coaching".
tell me Auburn doesn't win w/ out the $180k QB?
take Troy Smith outta the 2004, 2005, 2006 games- you really gonna try & tell me that effing cheating coach "out coaches" us w/ Justin Zwick under center?
did you watch the 2002 game? if Clarett doesn't play, what do you have? yeah- the 2003 game.
spin this any way you like- cheating and playing ineligible players makes you better. not coaching.
if Clarett, Smith, and Pryor weren't playing, tosu doesn't win more than about 3 games over the last decade.
coach that.
- March 28, 2011 8:06 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
You're kidding, right?
You do realize, this isn't the NFL we're discussing here?
- March 28, 2011 10:56 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
not even a little. w/out Clarett/Smith/Pryor, tosu still wins the tosu/michigan game in 2001, 2007, and 2008.
2004, 2005, & 2006 would have all been Michigan wins w/ Justin Zwick starting.
2002 & 2009 are toss ups.
you take away tosu's cheating players from those games, and it changes the results. seriously, go back & watch your DVD of the 2002 game (every tosu fan i know has one, don't you?) and watch the plays Clarett makes. and watch that offense when he's NOT on the field. and then watch the 2003 tosu michigan game (every michigan fan i know has a DVD of THAT game) and see the differnce.
these guys that were paid made the difference.
- March 29, 2011 7:40 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
A huh.
This could be an interesting debate, but I just don't have the time, energy or interest level to venture out as far as your intriguing extrapolations dictate. You posit a kernel of truth in the starting gate, but your horse jumped the track on the first turn. As Kramer would say, you're "out there, Jerry, and lovin' every minute of it."
In the spirit of our historic good humor, let me know when the black helicopters enter the storyline. I might be enticed back in.
And, "no," I don't have any DVDs of said games. However, my lack of rabid partisanship may be an asset in this analytic exercise.
On a lighter note, I hope Spring is good to you. We are headed into the 90's here.
- March 29, 2011 10:56 AM
- surrounded in columbus said...
perhaps it's the heat then? they say it can cloud the judgment.
think about it this way- why does the ncaa ban boosters from paying players? because it gives the team paying its players an unfair advantage over the teams that aren't paying theirs.
the very rule's existence presumes that cheating leads to winning unfairly (if not prospering).
- March 29, 2011 11:52 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
Ah, but your jumps in logic are dizzying.
Aren't scholarships the true "pay for play?" Everything else is just incentives.
I would think that a prestigious school dripping with rich tradition and an elite educational reputation would draw the best and brightest to their football program. How can other schools compete with such a juggernaut? (insert smiley face here).
- March 29, 2011 7:10 PM
- Mikoyan said...
Being a graduate of a school that probably couldn't compete if they made this sort of thing okay, I'm still kind of on the fence about it. Part of me wants to say that it probably happens at every major college program (even Michigan) and its just a matter of who gets caught. As such, part of me wants to say that it should be legal, if nothing else so that you can see where the "donations" are coming from. But I wouldn't allow them to be tax deductible or anything like that. But if that happened, you probably open the doors to all sorts of shady things happening (well, there's a new car in it for you if you should "trip" on the 1 yard line).
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Arsenal's Chamakh could return to Bordeaux
Bordeaux may be set to throw Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh a lifeline, claiming there "is a serious chance" the Morocco international will return to his former Ligue 1 employers.
Chamakh has struggled to win a place in Arsene Wenger's starting XI since making a free transfer to the Gunners in 2010. The 28-year-old is yet to make his first Premier League appearance this season, and featured only 19 times in all competitions last term.
However, Bordeaux chairman Jean-Louis Triaud suggested on Friday evening that the French club are interested in luring Chamakh back to Stade Chaban Delmas either on loan or on a permanent deal.
It is not the first time Bordeaux have made their admiration of the striker known, but Chamakh's wages could once again prove a stumbling block in negotiations.
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QPR win.
Spurs now very power, they must win. Maybe 1-2 or 2-3
cant see qpr being effective in any way and although harry has a great advantage in this game,i see spurs just doing enough,half time draw full time spurs
Think Spurs will win comfortably. QPR's full-backs aren't that strong
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Tomas Berdych overcame a fourth set wobble to ensure Czech Republic ended the first day of the Davis Cup final on level terms with holders Spain.
Berdych, expected to beat Nicolas Almagro on home turf in Prague, found himself under pressure to perform after David Ferrer eased to a victory in the opening rubber against Radek Stepanek. But, despite dropping the fourth set in the tiebreak, he gave the home fans something to cheer about with a 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 victory that ensured the final will go to a tense last day on Sunday.
"I messed it up a bit," Berdych said afterwards. "I gave him too much of an advantage in the tiebreak. So I was really looking forward to playing with this crowd at my back (in the final set). It is an amazing feeling.
"We opened the chance for Sunday. That's a good step for us."
Ferrer, the highest ranked player in the match, lived up to his billing with a comfortable victory over Radek Stepanek to kick off the final - getting the job done in emphatic fashion with an eventual 6-3 6-4 6-4 triumph.
Ferrer was clearly fired up from the off, and Stepanek had no answer for his groundstrokes and energy as he delivered an early 1-0 lead.
That put all the pressure on Berdych, who responded with a blistering opening set to cruise into the lead. He and Almagro then exchanged sets, before Berdych moved a break up in the fourth to put himself on the verge of victory.
But the Spaniard then fought back to set up a tiebreak - one Berdych threw away, dropping behind early as the pressure perhaps became too much for him to leave him stumbling into a deciding set.
The tension would not escalate any further, however, as Berdych got the break he needed and maintained his edge to see out the contest and leave things evenly poised heading into Saturday.
On Saturday, the Czech pair of Ivo Minar and Lukas Rosol will try to overcome the Spanish duo of Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez in what could prove a crucial doubles encounter, setting up Sunday's singles where Ferrer's meeting with Berdych could prove decisive.


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In addition to Frazier moving up, reserve infielder Brett Bartles was sent to extended spring training. Joining the Dragons today will be catcher Devin Mesoraco, the Reds' No. 1 pick in last summer's draft, and first baseman Logan Parker, who was rehabbing an injury. Parker was here last season. Both additions have played only in extended spring games so far.
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Naruto-Arena forces you to select 3 characters when you start a new game. This page gives you an overview of all characters available in the Naruto-Arena game. Not only can you view each character's skills, you can also discuss the characters by posting comments.
Hachibi Bee (S)
Hachibi Bee (S) has complete control of the Hachibi within him. This allows Bee to use all forms of the Hachibi's power at will making him a true killer shinobi.Requirement to unlock: Mission: Eight Tails Released
Chakra Bones
Hachibi Bee (S) uses Chakra Bones. Hachibi Bee gains 10% unpierceable damage reduction permanently and will also deal an additional 5 damage permanently when this skill is used. Hachibi Bee can only use Chakra Bones 5 times and this skill is permanent.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required: No Costs
Classes: Chakra, Instant, Unique
Hachibi Bee (S) targets 1 enemy dealing 20 damage. For 1 turn that enemy's stamina is depleted, if that enemy uses a skill the cooldown of that skill will be increased by 1 turn.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Physical, Melee, Instant, Unique
Tailed Beast Bomb
Hachibi Bee (S) uses Tailed Beast Bomb on 1 enemy dealing 25 damage. This skill cannot be reflected.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Chakra, Ranged, Instant, Unique
Jinchuuriki Defense
This skill makes Hachibi Bee (S) invulnerable for 1 turn.
Cooldown: 4
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Classes: Chakra, Instant
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In this course the student applies educational theory to specific teaching situations. Students have an opportunity to compare several nursing educational curricular strategies; examine ethical and legal implications of teaching nursing; and evaluation of educational methods through research findings.
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The Gold Coast Titans have thrashed the Cronulla Sharks 40-16 in last night's NRL trial match played at Richardson Park in Darwin.
Playing in his first match in Australia for two years, five eighth Trent Barrett was warmly welcomed by the 9,000-strong crowd as he entered the field.
But Barrett and his halves combination with rookie Blake Green failed to gel on the night.
The Titans scored two tries the first quarter as halfback Scott Prince dominated proceedings.
Three of the first four Titans' tries were scored by forwards as the Sharks were unable to muscle up, the Titans speedsters capitalising on this groundwork to post the run away result.
Sharks hooker Corey Hughes was a standout in his debut. But Sharks rookie lock forward Jason Bukuya was carried from the field in the 60th minute, reportedly with a serious ankle injury.
GOLD COAST 40 (S Tagataese L O'Dwyer M Minichiello B Delaney I Donnelly E Tonga J Graham tries S Prince 6 goals) bt CRONULLA 16 (K Snowdon C Hughes D Simmons tries M Brown 2 goals) Saturday 21 February 2008 19:30 (ACDT), 20:00 (AEDT), 19:00 (AEST) Richardson Park, Darwin NT. Crowd: Approx 9,173.
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RIM readies new UI, CPU for 3G BlackBerry 9000?
Back-up to memory card feature too, report claims
Research in Motion will launch a brand new user interface, along with the ability to back-up and restore a handheld's contents to MicroSD card, when it brings its BlackBerry 9000 series to market in Q4.
So claims handset rumoursite BoyGeniusReport, which adds that the device will be a 3G unit and contain a new processor.
There a no details about what the chip might be. In 2005, RIM made a big deal out of its decision to adopt Intel's ARM-based XScale processor. Last year, Intel sold the range to Marvell, which in November 2006 began shipping what would have been Intel's next-generation part, 'Monahans' aka the PXA300 series.
Is this what the report has in mind, or is RIM looking at alternatives for a brand as strong as Intel's?
Whatever, in the meantime, the report claims, RIM will next month ship the 8800, essentially a stretched BlackBerry Pearl, widened to take a full QWERTY keypad. Due mid-February on the US Cingular network, the handset will lack Wi-Fi and a digicam, even though past reports said the device would sport a 1.3 megapixel image grabber and 802.11b/g. If the report's correct, it suggests Cingular, for one, has nixed these features. The 8800 is also expected to support quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE cellular links and Bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. The screen's a 320 x 240 job. The 8800 has 64MB of Flash memory. ®
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If compassion was all it took to place every cuddly kitten or playful pup into a permanent home, Waifs and Strays Animal Rescue would have it easy.
The all-volunteer group has plenty of care and concern for homeless animals. Even so, the organization also needs volunteers, foster homes and donations for veterinarian and food bills.
"We are a small shelter, so it is hard for us to get our word out," rescue volunteer Donna Finch said.
Small but diligent would describe the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
This year the group placed 358 cats and 92 dogs in forever homes.
"We always talk to adoptees several times to make sure it is a proper fit before we place an animal," founder Laura Deibel said. "This morning we had a black-and-white, medium-hair cat adopted into such a nice family with two little boys."
Animals find themselves in a need of rescue for a variety of circumstances, including stray, abandonment and owner surrenders. Sometimes an owner's life or residence changes and the new situation will not allow for a pet.
"We have more people who would like to keep their original pet but are going into foreclosure and losing their home," Deibel said. "We try to work with these people to place their pet into another family."
Sometimes a new apartment does not allow pets. Sometimes the loss of a job forces an owner to surrender his or her pet because they have to cut all expenses.
When a pet comes into Waifs and Strays, each receives full vet services including spay/neutering, microchipping, worming, flea, tick and heartworm prevention. The cost to adopt an animal is $150, which offsets some of the medical expenses. Volunteers care and socialize each animal until they are adopted into their forever home.
"We found it best to keep kittens for 10 weeks so they get more social time with their litter mates," Deibel said. "We found these kittens are more social down the road."
The extra time allows the organization to gauge the animal's needs. Pets, like people, have unique preferences and personalities, and it is important to match a rescued pet with the right owner.
"We only take people with good references and those qualified to take care of a pet," Finch said. "Some pets are better for an older person; others will fit in better with a younger family with lots of action."
Deibel, who has a license for the rescue, is a vet tech at an animal hospital. Fundraising is the group's most pressing need. With many people pitching in, the group has eight regular volunteers who are the backbone of the operation. The group allows a parent to volunteer with their child.
"The number one objective of our organization is to correctly place animals into loving homes," Deibel said. "We are limited to smaller animals and those that we know can be family-placed quickly, because time at a kennel is limited."
The organization also houses animals in foster homes and at two pet-related businesses in Lisle.
All Pet Pantry, 4910 S. Main St., sells a healthy line of U.S.-made pet food that contains neither artificial colors nor corn or wheat fillers. The store offers free delivery throughout DuPage County with a purchase more than $30.
"We are a small family-owned business with your pets' best interest in mind," said owner Tom Thornton, who opened the store in the spring. "We sell products and supplies that keep pets healthy."
The store also offers a pet care and dog walking service called Snaggle Foot. Details are at SnaggleFoot-Lisle.com.
Waifs and Strays find that pets placed at All Pet Pantry get plenty of socializing in the store from customers. Thornton has had experience with rescued pets of his own.
Right next door, at 4912 S. Main St., the Hand-N-Paw grooming business has a few adoptable kittens from Waifs and Strays. The store services both cats and dogs that need a trim, wash or nails done. The business opened in 2006 and has weekend hours.
It also offers a do-it-yourself wash, where customers may use different size stainless steel tubs and proper drying equipment at reasonable prices to accommodate pets of all sizes.
Contact owner Beth Hand at handnpaw.net for details. Hand offers a free grooming with each adopted pet.
"If a pet looks good, they feel good," Hand said.
With the holidays coming, Deibel said the organization prefers that pets are not given as a gift. She offers an idea to offset that potential problem.
"We suggest a person go out and buy a litter box and some toys in preparation for an animal and give that as the gift to the person so that they might pick out their own pet," Deibel suggests. "A person needs to be committed to an animal."
Since 2009, Waifs and Strays Animal Rescue has been busy on both the receiving and giving end of the rescue operation. To reach the organization, go to waifsandstraysrescue.com or email email@example.com.
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A Chandler man convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of his girlfriend has been sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Eric Coulter, 20, was sentenced Friday, Maricopa County prosecutors said.
A jury found him guilty last month after less than three days of deliberations.
[Related: Chandler man convicted in girlfriend's shooting death]
Coulter was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting 18-year-old Monique Cota in his bedroom on Oct. 15, 2011.
Investigators say Coulter had assaulted Cota in an earlier incident.
Coulter claimed the shooting was an accident that occurred as he was inspecting an AR-15 rifle. He said he pulled the charging handle and bolt back several times and showed Monique the rifle was empty, but the rifle discharged striking Monique in the head, prosecutors said.
Police say Coulter's sister then hid guns that were in the house and drove him to the motel room in Mesa.
Coulter was later arrested at the hotel.
Police learned from the victim's family that Monique and Coulter began dating in 2009 and occasionally lived together at Coulter's parent's home. Their relationship was volatile and both had been arrested for a previous domestic violence dispute that broke out at the McKemy Avenue home, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said.
Family members said that Coulter had been physically abusive towards Monique and that she planned to end their relationship, prosecutors said.
Several days before she was killed, Monique told her sister that she had become engaged to a childhood friend who lived in California and that she was planning to relocate there and live with him, prosecutors said.
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It's interesting how quickly fortunes can change in the NFL.
Just over 72 hours ago, Jason Campbell had job security. He was leading an impressive Raiders team as an effective starting quarterback and playing some of the best football of his six-year NFL career.
One rough fall is sometimes all it takes to alter a team's long-term plans.
After breaking his collarbone on Sunday, and going through surgery earlier this week, Campbell is regulated to backup duty for the foreseeable future. He's expected to miss a minimum of six weeks.
Desperate for help under center, Oakland pulled the trigger on a blockbuster trade that sent Carson Palmer from Cincinnati just before the NFL trade deadline.
"We wouldn't have had to pursue a trade if our starting quarterback was healthy and going," Raiders head coach Hue Jackson told the Kansas City media in a conference call Wednesday afternoon. "There's no question that we would not have pursued this trade."
Instead, the Raiders have a new starting quarterback for what looks to be much longer than the rest of the 2011 season.
Aside from paying the premium of sending the Bengals a first-round pick in 2012, and a conditional first-round pick in 2013 to acquire Palmer, Campbell's contract expires at the end of the year. Palmer's current deal runs through 2014.
The Palmer era could potentially begin as early as Sunday against Kansas City.
"I don't know that for sure," Jackson said of his plans to start Palmer against the Chiefs. "We haven't even had a practice yet and until we've had a practice I can't make any kind of decision that way."
Following practice, Jackson made similar statements to media in the Bay Area.
Reports coming out of Oakland had backup Kyle Boller taking the first starter's rep at Raiders practice, but Palmer also received first-team work.
"The good thing is we've got a lot of tape on Carson and our staff [has] very good familiarity with his strengths," Chiefs head coach Todd Haley said. "Kyle, same thing, we've seen him through the years a number of different places. He's on tape last week some, so much like Indianapolis, we've got to prepare for two guys and that happens on occasion and this is one of those weeks."
Palmer had been in exile following a very public offseason spat with the Bengals front office. Wednesday's practice was his first in an organized setting since Cincinnati's Week 17 preparations for Baltimore last season.
"I think (starting) would be tough, but if anybody can do it, he can," Jackson said.
Haley isn't putting it past the Raiders to give Palmer the starting nod.
"This isn't a one-, two-year guy you're talking about; it's a guy that's got a bunch of years under his belt experience," Haley said of Palmer. "I wouldn't put it past anybody. They had a linebacker last week that came in to an entirely new system and started and played in [Aaron] Curry. I think we've just got to plan on either guy."
Trojan QB vs. Trojan QB?
Even though Palmer is joining a division rival, Cassel is excited that his former college roommate has gained another chance as an NFL starting quarterback.
"Carson is a great guy and he's a great friend of mine," Cassel said. "I'm excited that he gets the opportunity to play again. I'm happy for him and his family. I know that that was something that he wanted to do and he'll get an opportunity.
"I'll be a fan of his every day but two of them, when we play them. It'll be fun to compete against him."
When assessing Palmer's ability to start against Kansas City on short notice, Cassel is in the camp that thinks the former Bengal can do it.
"I've never been put in that situation, but I know that he's played a lot of football before," Cassel said. "I think this is his ninth year in the NFL and he played a lot of football in college as well. I'm sure if anybody can do it, Carson can do it."
Cassel and Palmer have squared off against each other once before as NFL quarterbacks. The matchup came during Cassel's first season in Kansas City with Palmer getting the upper hand in a 17-10 victory at Paul Brown Stadium.
Sympathy For Payton
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton was released from the hospital Wednesday morning following surgery to repair a torn meniscus and broken tibia. Payton suffered the injury during a sideline collision with Saints TE Jimmy Graham in Sunday's game at Tampa Bay.
The injury caught the attention of Chiefs head coach Todd Haley, who coached with Payton in Dallas from 2004-05. Payton coached the Cowboys quarterbacks while Haley guided the team's wide receivers as passing game coordinator.
"I sent a couple texts out to him and offered any help I could give as he goes down this road," Haley said.
Haley underwent a leg surgery of his own last season after ripping a tendon off his quad muscle while demonstrating interception techniques to Chiefs defensive backs during an in-season practice. He wore a leg brace that spanned from ankle to hip, limiting his mobility throughout most of the season.
"I have a lot of sympathy, a lot of sympathy because of knowing what he's in for," Haley said. "I know a lot about it having gone through last year. Surgeries mid-season are good for nobody, including coaches."
Injury Report
Both players took part in Kansas City's practice Wednesday afternoon and looked in line to play against the Raider s on Sunday.
Chiefs Injury Report
RB Jackie Battle – Full Participant (Neck)
FB Le'ron McClain – Full Participant (Neck)
Raiders Injury Report
DID NOT PRACTICE: QB Jason Campbell (Collarbone, Foot), RB Rock Cartwright (Calf), CB Chimdi Chekwa (Hamstring), CB Chris Johnson (Groin, Hamstring), LB Rolando McClain (Ankle), RB Marcel Reece (Ankle)
LIMITED PARTICIPANTS: TE Richard Gordon (Hand), S Michael Huff (Ankle), C Samson Satele (Ankle)
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The comedians were performing a family-friendly benefit show for Fort Morgan High School's Positive Behavior Intervention Support program.
The whole event was the idea of FMHS alum Chris Fonseca, who has become famous as a comedian, according to FMHS Assistant Principal Kyle Bules.
"It's a great success story," Bules said of Fonseca's becoming a successful comedian, "and for him to come back and give back to the community was wonderful."
Fonseca got two fellow comedians he knows to volunteer to join him on stage for the show, and together they entertained the crowd after the home basketball game had ended.
Comedians Dickey Bill Wagner and Kevin Bennett, aka "French Accent," warmed up the stage before Fonseca stole the show as the final act.
Wagner had performed in Fort Morgan before and knew what to expect from the local crowd.
One of his jokes that had the audience busting up was about interviewing for a job with Spanish-language television network Telmundo, but only having learned to speak some Spanish by watching "Dora the Explorer" with his daughter.
Bennett followed Wagner, walking out on stage playing an accordion and wearing a beret and an eye patch.
With a very nasal voice, he declared himself to be "French Accent" and proceeded to make jokes about math, religion and food, quickly drawing lots of laughs.
One joke that killed asked the audience about the square root of pi, which he declared was "rubarb -- it's a root!"
He acknowledged that some of his jokes were "just bad puns," but the audience didn't seem to mind.
After he told a joke that made his eye make sense, he quipped, "20 minutes for one joke," pointing at the eye patch. That had the audience howling to end his set.
On came Fonseca, his wheelchair at center stage and a stool holding his Mountain Dew.
"It's good to be back here," the headliner and school alum started. "I lost a bet."
Because of that, he joked that he "had to play in Fort Morgan with a Mexican and a guy with an accordion."
At that, the audience was roaring, and they didn't let up as Fonseca kept the jokes coming, poking fun at his being "handicapped and Mexican."
And he took advantage of the setting, pointing out that he was "feeling like a rebel."
"I'm drinking soda in the high school," he said, a wicked look on his face as he sipped his Mountain Dew.
He also picked on a longtime Fort Morgan rival, taking every opportunity to make fun of Brush and its residents.
"I pick on Brush because you should," he quipped.
Fonseca seemed to be having a blast on the familiar turf, and the audience gave him a huge round of applause afterward, with many people coming up on the stage to thank him or get a picture or autograph.
"It went great," Fonseca told The Fort Morgan Times afterward. "I was glad to do it."
He said that he had another benefit show to do in Greeley the following night, so the Fort Morgan show was "nice to do as a little warmup" for that.
Fonseca also said it was nice to be back in Fort Morgan and see some familiar faces, and he noted that his latest T-shirts are available at Bijou T Qwest in Fort Morgan for $10 each.
Wagner and Bennett both said they enjoyed performing in Fort Morgan.
"It was a good show," Wagner said. "I liked that it was family-friendly. That's always a challenge, but you don't just go up to a kid and cuss them out, so what's really so hard about it?"
Bennett clarified that he was "not actually French," but said he had fun with this show because it was "very laid back" and had a "very close atmosphere."
"Folks showed up and we had fun," he said.
On a more serious note, Fonseca pointed out that local folks needed to know that "just because they grew up in Fort Morgan doesn't mean they can't achieve great things."
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By John Hernandez
Fuerte Productions, an independent film company, has been filming a motion picture called Blessed Encounters in the Tri-Community area, Tucson and other parts of Arizona for the past year that is nearly done being shot. Alberto C. Ojeda, Fuerte Productions owner and director of the film, says there are only five scenes left to film and a few of these scenes will be shot in San Manuel and possibly Mammoth. He is looking for a few actors and would like to hire one from the area.
They are looking for a 15-year-old-looking male Anglo that can also transform into a 19-year-old. The part is a juvenile delinquent that later becomes an adult criminal. There is no pay for the actor but they will gain experience, exposure and references on their resume.
Auditions will be held in the Tri-Community. If you are interested, contact Alberto at (520)730-4685 or email@example.com.
Blessed Encounters was filming last year in the Tri-Community at the Sun Life Family Health Center in San Manuel. Some of the personnel at Sun Life are in the movie.
The Tri-Community has a history of movie makers coming to the area since the 1920s when scenes of the silent film The Mine with the Iron Door were filmed in Oracle. The movie Fire Birds with Tommy Lee Jones and Nicolas Cage had scenes shot in Mammoth and around the Galiuro mountains.
In San Manuel, the made-for-TV movie Powderkeg had scenes shot by the Magma railroad line and used one of Magma's old steam engines. This was the pilot for the western TV series Bearcats, which starred Rod Taylor and Jon Cole. Other movies have been filmed in the area and along the Copper Corridor.


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A regional training course on key issues on the international economic agenda is being offered to senior government officials from Western Asia. The course, organized jointly by UNCTAD and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), will be held at UN House in Beirut, Lebanon, from 16 to 27 June.
The 17 participants - drawn from ministries of trade, industry, commerce and foreign affairs -- will be trained in multidisciplinary approaches to trade and development issues. The linkages between trade, investment and development; their implications for integrated development strategies; and comparisons between national experiences in trade and development policies for countries in the region will be explored.
The course syllabus draws on UNCTAD´s expertise in trade and development policies, financial flows and macroeconomic management, investment and technology, trade facilitation measures, and electronic commerce and development. It will familiarize participants with the analytical and research work of both UNCTAD and ESCWA.
The course is part of a series mandated by the Bangkok Plan of Action adopted at UNCTAD X in February 2000. At that meeting, UNCTAD was requested to strengthen the understanding of decision makers from developing countries of key development issues on the international economic agenda that fall within UNCTAD´s field of competence. The first regional course was organized with the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in November 2002 in Bangkok, Thailand. The second course, co-organized with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), took place in Santiago, Chile, this past March-April (see TAD/INF/NC50 of 1 April). A fourth course is planned for this September in conjunction with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The Commission shall hold at least one meeting every calendar year and shall submit an annual report to the United States and Canadian Governments on or before March 31 of each year, including a general statement of the operation for the previous year and the results of an independent audit of the financial operations of the Commission. The Commission shall permit inspection of its records by the accounting agencies of both the United States and Canadian Governments.
(Pub. L. 88–363, § 8, July 7, 1964, 78 Stat. 301.)
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ChaiScript is an embedded scripting language designed from the ground up to directly target C++ and take advantage of modern C++ development techniques. Being a native C++ application, it has some advantages over existing embedded scripting languages. It uses a header-only approach, which makes it easy to integrate with existing projects. It maintains type safety between your C++ application and user scripts. It supports a variety of C++ techniques including callbacks, overloaded functions, class methods, and STL containers.
P* (P-star) is a Web programming language that incorporates common tasks like template handling and database queries into the language. It features MySQL database access with prepared statements, HTML templates, standard arithmetic and variables, functions, structs, (to-be-classes), JSON output, and GET and POST. Programs can be run on the command line, in a CGI environment, or by the P* Apache Module.
The mctdhtools project aims to provide a set of routines for easily reading and manipulating the output of the Heidelberg MCTDH code. Its goal is to allow a new user to quickly get started with writing custom analysis programs, and to allow more experienced users to write small, clean, and testable analysis programs, something that seems incompatible with the Fortran-77 code of the Heidelberg MCTDH package.


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ELMHURST – A group of local Irish dancers proved their talents at a recent national competition.
Elmhurst's Mullane Healy Godley Irish Dance Academy students brought home three first place titles from the North American National Championships in Anaheim, Calif. Emma Smith was brought to tears when she was named the the Girls Under 11 champion.
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text: Got this tape of this guy with his chick. His chick really wants to go to a concert and is willing to do anything for him if he buys them for her. Looks like this dude always wanted to film himself fucking his chick and she's finally willing to let him in exchange for those tickets. I got to say, this chick has some awesome tits and she fucks great. Don't know what concert she wanted to go to, but thank goodness for that band or we'd never be able to see this tape.


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Hanging a set of Lunar New Year's couplets during the Lunar New Year contributes to the festive atmosphere, and if the characters are written in golden ink, that adds some extravagance to the mix. The gold powder used in golden ink is often mixed with banana oil (amyl acetate), so working for a long time in a closed room often results in the same feeling of discomfort that appears after having inhaled paint fumes in a closed room for too long. According to popular wisdom, a good way to remedy this feeling of intoxication is to drink dairy beverages, although Lin Chieh-liang, director of the department of toxicology at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital says this is not based in fact. According to Lin, the best thing to do is instead to go outdoors and breathe some fresh air to clear your head.
Many public institutions and temples are currently organizing couplet writing events at which well known calligraphers write and give away New Year's couplets. If these couplets, in addition to containing wise and auspicious sayings, are also written in golden ink, that will only increase the holiday festive atmosphere among visitors.
Calligrapher Chen Chin-hsing has been invited by the Beitou District Office in Taipei to write couplets at the district's Guandu Temple. The organizers prepared dairy beverages and vitamin C-rich drinks for Chen so he wouldn't get thirsty and to help minimize the residue of the dizzying banana oil fumes he would inhale.
Calligraphers normally use regular ink, but using golden ink is a different matter. According to Chen, some calligraphers use regular varnish which they mix with gold powder and gold varnish, until they get the right proportions, but because varnish has color, some people replace it with banana oil which is neutral.
Banana oil is made from a mixture of ester, ketone and ether solvents and aromatic agents. It is highly solvent and can be used to thin paints to reduce the use of thinner, and it also has an unusual fragrance for a solvent.
Chen suggested that when using gold ink for a longer period of time, it is best to stay out in the open or at least to have a window open to keep the air flowing, since ink with banana oil mixed in will cause dizziness after a while. He said he didn't really know if it would be harmful to one's health or if drinking dairy beverages will have any effect on dizziness.
Lin Chieh-liang says that banana oil is a volatile solvent that is not very toxic. According to him, it is often used in furniture and facade paint, and he says painters that work in closed rooms for a long time will develop dizziness and nausea and may feel like vomiting. When older workers notice that a painter begins to behave abnormally, maybe talking nonsense or suddenly bursting into song, they know it is the banana oil playing up and will tell the person to go outside and get some fresh air or drink some dairy beverages.
Lin believes that leaving the room to get some fresh air is the right thing to do, because banana oil fumes can be metabolized in the liver and kidneys, while dairy beverages are a placebo that will not have much effect on the fumes from organic solvents.
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Crystal blue skies, calm winds and perfect temperatures accompanied 150 some runners who turned out for an historic 25th Anniversary Run for Women. Historic for several reasons, first it was the best weather for the race in 25 years, second it was the first time males were allowed to participate, and finally it was the first time any runner had received a proposal of marriage after finishing the 10K run. "I figured he was up to something this weekend but had no idea this was it until he got down on one knee and everyone started screaming." Was this her best finish? "Of course it was my best finish ever, better than in Boston and I'd describe what I'm feeling as being over the Moon," said Heather Gaines who accepted the proposal of her long time friend and running partner Scott Moon.
Winning this year's 10K Run for Women was Dr. Angie Voight of St. Paul Minnesota who was visiting family in Kenai. "I plan my travels around races and this is one of my favorite courses and causes," said Voight who is sports injury specialist and is training for the Twin Cities Marathon later this fall in Minneapolis. "The people here are so supportive here and it's more about the cause of increasing awareness of domestic violence than the race and with the perfect weather it was a great day to set a good pace and stick with it, just like anything else in life," Voight told the Dispatch in an interview.
For the last 24 years the LeeShore Run for Women has been exclusively for women runners, but to mark the 25th Anniversary organizers decided to open the event to young men, "Our goal and the purpose of the event is to promote healthy families so we decided to include young men 17 and under to run with us. The event is not a fund raiser for us but an awareness raiser and we feel it is very important for young men as well as everyone in the community to be aware of the problem of domestic violence in our community and help eliminate it," explained Jeanette Browning, volunteer coordinator at the LeeShore Center. The first boy ever to cross the finish line in the Run for Women was Nate Mole a junior at KCHS also the first overall in the 5K run. The top three women finishers in the 5 K were Allie Ostrander, Taylor Ostrander, and Teri Ostrander, "It was an Ostrander sweep," said Allie who has been promoting running all summer with her Salmon Run series of races at the Tsalteshi Trails. "We do it every year for the cause and because it's not as intense as other races, that's why so many enjoy running in it," she said.
Formerly known as the Women's Resource and Crisis Center and the LeeShore Center has been serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1977. The community built facility provides 24-hour domestic violence and sexual assault shelter, transitional living center, child care assistance, intervention program, and counseling services for women and children. For more information call The LeeShore Center at 283-9479 during business hours or the crisis line at 283-7257 any time.


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There has been a great deal of controversy over the last few years about some states instituting ID requirements for voting. I don't want to get into the extremely nasty politics of this issue, but from a computer security perspective, the conflict is one of weak vs. strong authentication. To address a bad situation, New Jersey has found a way to make authentication even weaker than it normally is.
Where I live and vote in New Jersey, authentication is weak: I go in and give my name. The poll worker gives me a piece of paper on which I print and sign my name. The worker then checks my name and signature against what they have in their paper records. I am then given a piece of paper which I bring to the voting booth; the poll worker there takes it and I go in and vote.
There are some informal checks in this system: if I've been voting for years, the poll worker or the poll challengers (party representatives) may recognize my name but not my face. Also, sample ballots are mailed out in advance to every registered voter and, if they come back undeliverable, the voter is supposed to be purged from the system.
Of course, you all know about Hurricane Sandy. In New Jersey, especially North Jersey where I live, life is messed up. I'm lucky; I never lost power or Internet or anything, but my neighbors on one side of my house and most of the rest of the town lost all of it. I know many residents who have moved in with relatives or to hotels, some out of state, in order to have heat and electricity, and we're hosting some relatives in our house.
Tomorrow is election day. How are all these people supposed to vote when they're not even in their voting district, and gas is scarce, making it hard to get there? It's a genuine problem and New Jersey has come up with a genuinely scary solution for it: voting by e-mail.
The Secretary of State (by statute the state's Chief Election Official) has issued a "Directive Regarding Email Voting and Mail-in Ballots for Displaced Voters." All voters who have been displaced by the storm have been classified as "overseas voters" and can follow an expedited version of the process for remote voting by such voters:
The voter sends in an application for a vote by mail ballot (click here for the application for my county). The county clerk determines if the application is valid and, if so, "... shall electronically send the ballot and the waiver of secrecy form to the voter by the method chosen by the voter (email/fax)." The clerk will accept applications through 5PM Tuesday and filled-in ballots through 8PM Tuesday.
So it still sounds like the signature is being used, but in this case the person doesn't even have to be there to sign it in front of the poll worker. Someone with access to signatures could pretty easily fake up a bunch of applications and ballots. Think residents of a nursing home, or maybe a graveyard, especially considering that registration can also be done remotely.
And as for the communications mechanism, e-mail is probably the world's most insecure medium. Originating addresses are easily spoofed.
It's lucky in a sense that there aren't any really competitive races in New Jersey this year, at least not at the Federal level. Everyone expects President Obama and Senator Menendez to won their New Jersey races handily. For the congressional and local races, the loser can always challenge the result, claiming that there is evidence that there were "a combination of legal votes rejected or illegal votes received sufficient to change the result of the election," and I'd have to think that the circumstances would make challenges more credible if it's at all close or out of character for the district. (True story: One of our authors, Jerry Ryan, serves on our township committee. In his first election he won by 4 votes and the loser challenged the result. The courts declared the election a tie and ordered a do-over, which Jerry won more decisively.)
There have been crises affecting elections before: September 11, 2001 was scheduled for the primary vote for Mayor of New York City. The primary was postponed. That wasn't really a big problem, but this election has to be conducted at the same time as the elections in all the other states. You can't just delay it. I wish I had a better idea for reaching out to displaced voters. Nothing good comes to mind. The precedent of using e-mail in this way really bothers me.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/netapps_kilo_client/
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When you need it's there and then it's gone
Posted in The Channel, 16th November 2006 21:02 GMT
You know how these things happen. A representative from a customer is wheeled in by some major vendor to demonstrate the efficacy of their wondrous technology, while the assembled audience smile politely and pray for the coffee.
That's what happened recently in Raleigh, North Carolina, where IBM was demonstrating the efficacy of its Blade servers, and Gregg Ferguson, Kilo Client manager at Network Appliance, had the job of showing it all in dynamic action.
Somnolence could then easily have come along in its allotted place, had it not been for the fact that a penny dropped with the realization that Kilo Client is actually rather clever and could have a direct interest for bigger applications development shops. There was also the point that Ferguson had recently rumbled this potential interest for himself.
Kilo Client has been developed over the last year by Network Appliances to fill a specific testing gap. The company makes large Storage Area Networks (SANs) amongst other things, and in order to run effective QA tests on such systems needs access to a lot of servers that can be reconfigured into target infrastructures as quickly as possible. The blade server solution was an obvious option to consider and, so long as there was a suitable management environment that could reconfigure servers quickly, an interesting twist on the test rig idea would be possible.
In essence, what the QA team ended up with was a 1,000 Blade system from which large SAN systems could be simulated for testing purposes – hence the Kilo Client name tag. Put simply, the team tells the sysadmin what they want – a stated number of servers running defined operating systems and applications, for two days starting next Tuesday – and admin configures the management environment to provide it. As the configured system is virtual, no new hardware needs to be bought, and once the job is completed it all slides back into the resource pool for subsequent re-use.
There are other factors here, such as the ability to save commonly used configurations for rapid re-use and the ability to boot the servers straight off the SAN, rather than from local disk drives. Groups of 252 servers – known, strangely, as `Poduals' – share services and each is connected via 1 Gbit Ethernet to a single switch which has eight, 10 Gbit connections.
So you get the picture – very high bandwidth communications and very flexible infrastructure management, all designed for QA testing. The penny that dropped simply asked: "can this be used for applications development teams as well?" The answer – "hmmmm, well, yes. Nobody has asked yet, but yes it can," spoke volumes.
Here is an infrastructural approach to the needs of applications developers that should be of great interest. Imagine: you realise the project you have been asked to complete (on time and under budget, naturally) needs several servers running processor A, running operating system B and with a list of hardware resources as long as your arm. These days that probably means you venture your neck taking a chit along to your boss – and a probable long wait as the star prize. Or you could email sysadmin with a resource provision request.
Gregg Ferguson would love to hear from development shops that could use a Podual or two as the bedrock of their development environments. It wouldn't be cheap to start with, but it could give some shops a real edge in delivering the goods. ®


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- EPL club Queens Park Rangers sack manager Mark Hughes
- QPR have failed to win any of their first 12 Premier League matches
- Hughes took over the west London club in January this year
- Former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has been linked with the QPR job
Mark Hughes became the second Premier League manager to be sacked within the space of the three days after the Welshman paid the price for Queens Park Rangers' dismal start to the 2012-13 English Premier League season.
Chelsea dismissed Roberto di Matteo on Wednesday, moving quickly to replace the Italian with former LIverpool manager Rafael Benitez.
Di Matteo's sacking was something of a surprise given Chelsea, who won the Champions League under the Italian six months ago, are only four points behind leaders Manchester City, but the termination of Hughes' contract was less so given QPR's winless start to the season.
Under Hughes' guidance, QPR have picked up just four points from their first 12 league matches and sit bottom of the English top flight.
Despite only appointing Hughes at Loftus Road in January, QPR owner Tony Fernandes, who also owns AirAsia and the Caterham Formula One team, has decided the former Manchester United striker no longer matches the club's ambitions.
"Queens Park Rangers Football Club has terminated the contract of manager Mark Hughes with immediate effect," read a statement on the club's official website.
"This decision has been taken after careful consideration by the board of directors, following numerous meetings over the last few days. The board of directors wish to thank Mark for his commitment, hard work and dedication in his 10 months in charge.
"Mark has shown integrity and professionalism throughout his time here, but ultimately the circumstances we find ourselves in have left the board of directors with very little choice but to make a change.
"The board will now be working actively to put a new managerial structure in place as soon as possible."
Reports in the English media have suggested former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp could be in line to replace Hughes.
Former West Ham United and Portsmouth manager Redknapp has been out of work since being sacked by Tottenham in June.
Hughes took over from Neil Warnock at QPR, successful helping the club avoid relegation in their first season back in the Premier League.
But, despite bringing in 10 new players during the preseason transfer window, QPR have lost eight of their first 12 games, drawing the other four.
Indeed QPR have managed just seven Premier League wins since their 1-0 win over Chelsea in October 2011 -- a match that has had severe consequences for both London teams.
In September Chelsea captain John Terry was hit with a four-match ban and a $356,000 fine after being found guilty of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in that October game.
In July the 31-year-old Terry had been found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Coaches Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki will take charge of theQPR team for Saturday's match with Hughes' former club United.


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Dear Colleague Letter - Recompetition of the Management of the Gemini Observatory
This document has been archived.
Date: January 10, 2013
Consistent with the National Science Board Resolution on Competition and Recompetition of National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards (NSB-08-12), NSF will compete the next cooperative agreement for the management and operation of the Gemini Observatory through an open, merit-based review process. The Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) is currently preparing the program solicitation, which is expected to lead to the award of a 6-year cooperative agreement for the management and operation of the Gemini Observatory following the expiration of the current cooperative agreement at the end of 2015.
This letter provides general information regarding the upcoming competition and invites potential proposing organizations to meet with NSF and identify any information needed for proposal preparation.
The competition for the management and operation of the Gemini Observatory will be open to the following types of organizations or consortia of organizations: academic institutions, other not-for-profit or nonprofit organizations, and any industrial firm operating as an autonomous organization or as an identifiable, separate operating unit of a parent organization. NSF will consider proposals from consortia including international partnerships, but an international partnership will likely involve a subaward or subcontract, as NSF funds may be awarded only to U.S. organizations.
The Gemini Observatory must be managed with objectivity and independence, free from organizational conflicts of interest, and with full disclosure of its affairs to NSF, which is the Executive Agency for the international partnership that supports and utilizes the facility. Acting on behalf of the partnership, NSF will have overall responsibility for award oversight, including administering funds provided by all of the partner countries as well as monitoring the technical, programmatic, financial, and administrative performance of the awardee(s).
Beginning in 2016, the international partnership that funds and utilizes Gemini Observatory is anticipated to consist of four countries: U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Argentina, with the U.S. as the majority partner 1. As hosts, Chile and the University of Hawaii are also granted a share of the observing time on the local telescope and participate in Observatory governance. The mission of the Observatory is to serve the diverse scientific communities of this partnership by enabling forefront astronomical research into the Universe at optical/infrared wavelengths. An important scientific facility for each of the partner countries, the Gemini Observatory (1) provides all-sky access with twin state-of-the-art 8-m optical/infrared telescopes at the premier sites of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and Cerro Pachón, Chile, as well as world-leading instrumentation and supporting expertise; (2) works with colleges and universities to train the next generation of scientists and engineers; and (3) promotes astronomy to foster a more scientifically literate society.
The Gemini Observatory annually schedules about 250 independent observing programs on the two telescopes, with time apportioned within the collaboration according to partner funding share. Observing time is available on a competitive basis after evaluation of research proposals according to scientific merit, the capability of the instruments to do the work, and the availability of the telescope during the requested time. Observations are largely executed through a scheduling queue that is highly responsive to local observing conditions and time-sensitive programs, and currently some 80% of nights on each telescope address multiple science programs and utilize at least two instruments. In addition, the Gemini Observatory supports both formal and informal education and public outreach programs for teachers, students and the general public, in Hilo, Hawaii, and La Serena, Chile, as well as research and training programs for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
The queue mode of observing is enabled by up to three distinct instruments plus an adaptive optics module mounted simultaneously on each of the telescopes. On Mauna Kea, the current instrumentation suite allows optical imaging/multi-object spectroscopy, infrared imaging/integral-field unit spectroscopy, and laser-guide star adaptive optics, while a new capability for high-resolution optical spectroscopy is under development. The facility on Cerro Pachón also features optical imaging/multi-object spectroscopy and infrared imaging/multi-object spectroscopy, infrared coronagraphic imaging, plus a state-of-the-art multi-conjugate laser adaptive optics system that achieves high-quality correction for atmospheric distortions over an unusually wide field of view. The capability of accommodating a small selection of visitor instruments at each telescope is currently being developed.
By international agreement 2, governance of the Gemini Observatory is provided by the Gemini Board, which consists of scientific and funding agency representatives from each of the partner countries. The Board is charged with scientific, budgetary, and policy oversight, guidance of the managing organization for the Gemini Observatory, and review and approval of the terms of the award between the NSF as Executive Agency and the managing organization.
As the selected managing organization(s), the awardee(s) will work closely with NSF and the Gemini Board to ensure that, within available resources, the Gemini Observatory supports, sustains and advances frontier science as enabled by the Observatory's unique research capabilities and as promoted through a culture of excellence. The awardee(s) must be responsive to the variety of needs and goals of the partner communities, and will be accountable for fulfilling the Observatory mission through visionary strategies that capitalize on the partners' investments to serve their scientific communities and to promote world-class research and education.
The awardee(s) will be responsible for the overall management and performance of the Gemini Observatory, including the infrastructure, instrumentation and distributed staff, and for maximizing the benefits to the international research communities through a strategically planned scope of activities. In discharging these responsibilities, the awardee(s) will ensure that the Gemini Observatory maintains its character with multidisciplinary and multi-user facilities that primarily enable first-rate visitor research.
In cooperation with NSF and within available resources, the Gemini Observatory will plan and execute a viable, coherent and inclusive program of research and education, consistent with the objectives and priorities of its collective scientific community. The awardee(s) will manage facilities and equipment provided by NSF, will provide additional facilities and equipment as necessary to fulfill the proposed programmatic scope, and will develop diverse and inclusive teams of expert support and technical personnel to manage the Observatory as a scientifically competitive research and education facility. Because the facility is a multi-user resource, a significant portion of the research and education programs should be carried out in collaboration with the Observatory's stakeholder communities.
NSF intends that the Gemini Observatory should serve as an exemplar of management excellence. The awardee(s) will be expected to meet the highest standards for service and delivery to the scientific community and to demonstrate proactive and effective approaches to performance management. The awardee(s) will ensure that the Observatory operates with integrity and transparency, maintaining quality and responsiveness in administration and management.
This notice does not constitute a solicitation; therefore, no award of any kind will result from this notice. Although the competition is still in the planning stage, NSF anticipates that a program solicitation will be issued in the third quarter of calendar year 2013. The solicitation will specify program guidelines and proposal requirements, including budgetary information, review criteria, exceptions to NSF Grant Proposal Guide proposal preparation instructions, and a schedule for site visits and meetings for potential proposers. Also provided as part of the solicitation will be descriptions of the scope of the program, the physical and intellectual property, the expected level of service and expertise, and the nature of international agreements, property arrangements and leases, labor agreements, etc. Much of this will be included in a resource library to ensure equal access to all proposers.
It is anticipated that the program solicitation will call for the submission of required Letters of Intent, due 90 days after publication of the solicitation. The Letters are expected to provide a statement and documentation of the organization's capabilities to carry out the management and operation of the Gemini Observatory, as well as an outline of the organization's vision and design concept for its future. The Letters would be intended to provide an overview of the applicant's approach, and as such will be limited in length. The anticipated due date for full proposals in response to the program solicitation is six months following publication of the solicitation.
In keeping with current National Science Board guidelines, NSF expects that management competitions such as this will occur on a regular basis during the foreseeable future, with the process for Gemini Observatory likely recommencing in 2019 for an award starting in 2022.
All inquiries regarding this announcement and the competition for the management and operation of the Gemini Observatory should be directed to the Primary Contact listed below.
NSF invites requests for individual conferences with NSF from eligible organizations interested in this competition. At the conferences, organizations may request clarification of general aspects of the competition or identify to NSF any information needed for proposal preparation, however the program solicitation and accompanying FAQs shall serve as the ultimate reference. Requests should be submitted via email to the Primary Contact no later than 1 March 2013.
Sources of additional information:
National Science Foundation, Astronomical Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?org=AST
The Gemini Observatory http://www.gemini.edu
Primary Contact:
Gary Schmidt
NSF Program Director
James S. Ulvestad
Division Director, MPS/AST
1Partner intentions are assessed every three years, a process which may result in the adjustment of partner shares or additional countries being invited to join the partnership.
2A copy of this agreement, as well as other public documents relating to the organizational structure and partnership, can be found at the Gemini Observatory website listed at the end of this letter.


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A recent toast to James Watson highlights a tolerance for bigotry many want excised from the scientific community.
The Art of Brain Damage
May 1, 2014|
Artist Katherine Sherwood discuss how suffering a cerebral hemorrhage affected her work.
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Artist Katherine Sherwood discuss how suffering a cerebral hemorrhage affected her work.
February 1, 2014|
Fruit flies are fixed to a silica fiber in this new technique to aid neuroscientists in performing laser surgery prior to neuroimaging.
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New technology probes the functional unit of nervous transmission.
November 1, 2013|
Travel through the outer layers of a mouse brain thanks to array tomography and Stanford University's Stephen Smith.
November 1, 2013|
Neurosurgeon Andres Lozano discusses deep-brain stimulation in this TEDx talk.
November 1, 2013|
Karl Deisseroth and his team at Stanford University make mouse brains transparent to explore their inner workings.
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"The body is a fascinating machine," says Sandra Shefelbine, a biomechanics expert at Imperial College, London, in this 3-minute educational video by the Wellcome Trust illustrating the principles of muscle movement. "And we don't understand most of
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Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the nervous system, chats about the ever-changing field of neuroscience, funding, his students, and what he hopes science will accomplish.
July 13, 2011|
Eleanor Simpson, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a recent Nature paper that probes dopamine's role in helping animals make positive associations to stimuli that herald pleasurable outcomes (such as the handing out of food).
July 1, 2011|
Take a tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose ultra-powerful X-ray beam is being used to solve the structures of proteins that are notoriously hard to crystallize.


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Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that's not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she'll have to compete in a speed typing competition. Whatever sacrifices Rose must make to reach the top, Louis declares himself her trainer. He'll turn her into the fastest girl not only in the country, but in the world! But a love of sport doesn't always mix well with love itself…
Rose Pamphyle
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Déborah François
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Shaun Benson
Régis Roinsard
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