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EUGENE, Ore. -- Tyson Gay tumbled to the ground at the start of his 200-meter quarterfinal heat Saturday at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and had to be carted off the track.
Running in the seventh lane, Gay was speeding to the lead in the first turn, but on his 14th stride, something went wrong. He went airborne, fell, then laid on the ground in pain, grabbing his left thigh and grimacing.
Gay already had qualified for the Olympics in the 100 meters, but his availability for the Beijing Games obviously will be determined by the severity of his injury.
Though he's the defending world champion in the 200, trials rules call for the top three finishers to make the Olympic team -- no exceptions.
This could prove to be a stunning setback for the 25-year-old sprinter, who last week set the American record in the 100 at 9.77 seconds. In the finals, he ran a 9.68, the fastest time ever recorded, but it did not count as a world record because the tailwind was too strong.
Damein White, running in the lane next to Gay, said he saw Gay pull up and thought he saw something fly his way.
"I tried to keep going off the curve," White said. "It kind of threw me off. He just pulled something. He'll be right back. Next year, we've got worlds. You'll see him there."
More urgently, however, are the Olympics, where heats for the 100-meter dash start Aug. 15, and Gay was one of the favorites, along with world-record holder Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, both of Jamaica.
Members of the U.S. track team are expected to leave for the Games about 10 to 14 days before their event starts. Gay also was committed for a meet in London on July 25, and was considering running in a couple of other events in Europe before the Olympics.
The injury potentially would open up another spot in the 200, where Gay, Wallace Spearmon, Xavier Carter, Shawn Crawford and Walter Dix were considered among the top runners going for only three spots.
"It doesn't really change things on my part," Carter said. "Tyson's a great runner. He's No. 1. Everybody was shooting for him. I'm not going to change anything because he got hurt. I've got to continue doing what I was doing as if he wasn't hurt."
Indeed, the 200 semifinals were set for later Saturday afternoon, and they would go on without Gay.
If the injury is serious, it would be a blow for U.S. track. Gay was considered one of the fresh, young faces of a sport that has endured unrelenting doping problems the past several years. Many were hoping to turn the page this season, and they were hoping Gay, a bit shy, but successful, would be a big part of that.
"He's a champion," said Rodney Martin, who won the heat after Gay fell. "He'll recover. He'll recover."
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Open for me the gates of righteousness; פִּתְחוּ-לִי שַׁעֲרֵי-צֶדֶק; אָבֹא-בָם, אוֹדֶה יָהּ
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Chipping Away
Like the rest of the IT industry, the semiconductor market moves pretty quickly. In the past few months alone, a number of new CPUs and GPUs have hit that market that promise faster processing speeds, lower power consumption and an overall better user experience. But, chip-makers from Intel to ARM have also made a number of announcements this summer about paving the way toward new technologies and embracing industry trends like big data and mobility.
From investments to acquisitions to unlikely partnerships, here are 10 recent and must-know moves in the chip industry.


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What player do you think your team will give up on that still has a big contract left? Some teams may have none so you can just use other players from the NFL. Obviously thinking about the eagles I'm positive Vick and Aso are going to be released. Using my own team I think Palmer will be a casualty. I can see McFadden being traded even though he just has a year left.
Now now I know palmer is the goat but oh well. I also know Run Emt is better than AP when healthy. Now with that out the way, what do you guys think?


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This is the club that has been redefining incompetence for six seasons, after all. And on the eve of its seventh campaign, TFC has one-upped itself and completely changed the game.
In a frenzied span of about 24 hours, Toronto dispatched of Paul Mariner - a head coach who didn't even get a full offseason to shape the team in his own image - and replaced him with Ryan Nelsen, an MLS and EPL veteran with zero coaching experience.
The kicker? Nelsen is still going to play for relegation candidate Queens Park Rangers for the foreseeable future, leaving the running of TFC to team president Kevin Payne and newly hired assistant coach Fran O'Leary, himself a Major League Soccer rookie.
"Ryan will not be at the combine or the draft," Payne told assembled media at Nelsen's introductory press conference on Tuesday. "There will be days, we hope, that Ryan will be able to engage with us in the interim while he remains a player at QPR.
"But we think that we're prepared for the combine, we did a tremendous amount of work before Ryan came on board."
It's gonna be hard to top this one.
For their part, Payne and Nelsen have projected nothing but confidence in this unprecedented move. And maybe this strange experiment - with Nelsen presumably taking part in the odd conference call while Payne, O'Leary, and the rest of the TFC front office do the actual work for the first few months - will prove itself successful.
But for a team that has been hurting for stability, and so desperately needs some league success to placate an already agitated fanbase, is this a worthy risk to take?
"I think that he will be exactly what this club needs in terms of establishing the right kind of culture and atmosphere around our team on a day-by-day basis," Payne said of Nelsen. "He has an acute understanding of the hard work that's required and the dedication that's required to be successful as a professional athlete at the highest levels, and I have every confidence that he will turn things around for our club."
Okay, we'll take Payne at face value, and assume that this haphazard scheme will work itself out. But if Nelsen is truly Payne's man - and given the absurd complexity of the situation, that appears to be the case - then why didn't TFC do whatever it took to ensure that the New Zealander would be available to coach before bringing him aboard?
Instead, we've got other people making the day-to-day decisions while Nelsen is on another continent trying to help keep QPR from being relegated, which begs the question as to what kind of team the 35-year-old will be inheriting when he finally does take over.
"Preseason's already been planned," Nelsen said. "Every training session, everything's already been planned, and I know that when I'm not there, I've got 100 per cent full faith in the coaching staff."
That faith will need to be founded, because in his absence, Nelsen's coaching staff will be laying the groundwork for the entire season. And they'll be doing it with minimal input from the man supposedly in charge, making it probable that Nelsen will be coaching players that he both doesn't know and didn't select.
With that in mind, why didn't Payne and TFC just wait until Nelsen's playing days were over and bring him into the fold then?
"I wanted to make the right change," Payne stated. "I didn't want to make a change that I was just kind of settling for or I was doing something that I wasn't sure of.
"I'm very sure of the kind of manager Ryan Nelsen's going to be and the kind of club he's going to run."
Unfortunately, TFC fans won't find that out for a while yet, because someone else will be running the team for up to six months. And at the end of that time frame, will it really be Ryan Nelsen's club?


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Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood... Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence
from the careful-what-you-tweet dept
Well, well. Slashdot points us to this bizarre and slightly scary story about how everyone's favorite TV show, MythBusters, had an experiment that went really, really wrong yesterday. Apparently, it fired a home-made cannon at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb disposal range. The idea was to shoot the cannonball into huge water containers.
But they missed.
Instead, the cannonball went hurtling through the suburban northern California town of Dublin, at 4:15, just as kids were getting home from school. According to the SF Chronicle report on this:
But, perhaps equally interesting is that the Mythbusters themselves, appear to have done a little post accident tidying up. After hearing about the whole mess, Jon Laslow went and checked out the various Mythbusters' Twitter feeds and noticed that a bunch of photos of Kari, Grant and Tory posing next to cannons had been deleted. Oops. But, of course, you can't delete anything online... So, the photos & tweets have been preserved:
Like many folks around here, I'm a big fan of the show, but this seems like quite a mishap.
"Heavy Artillery"
"Canon Envy"
Tory and his Canon
But they missed.
Instead, the cannonball went hurtling through the suburban northern California town of Dublin, at 4:15, just as kids were getting home from school. According to the SF Chronicle report on this:
The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.Wow. Amazingly (and thankfully) no one got hurt in all of this. CBS has some astounding video of the carnage, including showing how the cannoball bounced around that house on Cassata Place putting holes in a bunch of places:
There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all - only awakening because of plaster dust.
The ball wasn't done bouncing.
It exited the house, leaving a perfectly round hole in the stucco, crossed six-lane Tassajara Road, took out several tiles from the roof of a home on Bellevue Circle and finally slammed into the Gill family's beige Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.
"Heavy Artillery"
"Canon Envy"
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In the 10th inning of their game against the Angels on June 19, the Indians got shifty with it — and it nearly cost them a game.
Like so many teams, the Indians are big on radically shifting their infield to the left or right, for selected sluggers who statistically pull the ball on the ground to one side of the infield or the other.
Like Albert Pujols.
With the score tied, 1-1 in the top of the 10th inning, the Angels had two outs and runners at second and third.
That brought up Pujols, and the Indians shifted their infield to the left, meaning second baseman Jason Kipnis moved to the left of second base, giving the Indians three infielders on the left side of the infield, which the stats say is where the majority of the balls go when Pujols hits them on the ground.
This time, however, Pujols took a soft swing and guided a slow roller to the right side of the infield. It would have been a routine groundout if Kipnis had been playing in his normal position — but he wasn't, so it wasn't.
Instead, the ball rolled harmlessly for a two-run single, giving the Angels a 3-1 lead.
Indians Manager Terry Francona defended the strategy of the shift.
"You've got to take something away," Francona said. "Fortunately we came back to win the game, but we would do it (shift the infield on Pujols) again. It was hard to see that ball go through the infield, though."
Swisher's is the Indians' first walkoff grand slam since Travis Hafner hit one vs. Toronto on July 7, 2011. ... Swisher's is also only the Indians' third walkoff grand slam in extra innings since 1962. The other two were by Carlos Martinez on Sept. 6, 1992 vs. Seattle, and by Don Dillard on July 4, 1962 vs. the Tigers. ... It's the eighth career walkoff hit by Swisher, the fourth walkoff homer and the first walkoff grand slam. ... The Indians are 23-12 at home, and have the best home winning percentage (.623) in the majors. ... The homestand will conclude with a three-game series against the Tigers. The pitching matchups: June 20 at 7:05 p.m., Corey Kluber (6-4, 3.35) vs. Rick Porcello (8-4, 4.03). June 21 at 7:15 p.m., Trevor Bauer (2-3, 4.20) vs. Justin Verlander (6-7, 4.98). June 22 at 1:05 p.m., Josh Tomlin (4-4, 3.86) vs. Max Scherzer (8-3, 3.84).


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Not News in U.S.: 60,000 on NHS's 'Liverpool Care Pathway' (to Death) in UK Never Told
A search this morning at Google News on "Liverpool Pathway" (not in quotes) returned 69 items (Google's initial indication was over 800, but it was really only 69). Roughly 60 of them related to the National Health Service's "palliative care" protocols known as the "Liverpool Care Pathway" employed in the UK's government-run health care system to place hospital patients on a path to death. The latest news about the pathway has drawn the attention of a few prolife blogs in the U.S., but almost no attention from U.S. establishment press sources.
That's stunnning, given both the seriousness of the news about the pathway's real-world effects, and the reactions of those who insist that it's still a great thing in their brave new healthcare world. A UK Daily mail item on December 30 summarized the extent of the horror in three succinct sentences (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Up to 60,000 patients die on the Liverpool Care Pathway each year without giving their consent, shocking figures revealed yesterday.
A third of families are also kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment from loved ones.
Despite the revelations, Jeremy Hunt last night claimed the pathway was a 'fantastic step forward'.
From what I can tell, the term "palliative care," which supposedly "is an area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients," is devolving to really mean "lack of care designed to end a life" in the UK. I don't know how else to react, given how the term is used by defenders of the indefensible in a UK Independent item on January 8:
Specialists in palliative medicine have hit back at critics of the so-called Liverpool Care Pathway, a checklist devised to help hospital doctors and nurses assist patients to a humane, dignified and pain-free end. They argued that its aim was to enable patients to "live until they die" – freed from the paraphernalia of tubes and machines that can increase distress.
The measure, developed over a decade ago by palliative care specialists in Liverpool, has become embroiled in controversy in recent months, as some doctors, religious leaders and pro-life groups have alleged that patients are being put on the "pathway to death" without their consent or that of their families in response to financial incentives from the NHS. The Daily Mail has run a campaign claiming hospitals are being bribed with millions of pounds to send patients to an early grave.
… An estimated 350,000 patients with chronic illnesses need palliative care each year but fewer than half (170,000) receive it, of whom 130,000 are placed on the pathway.
The audit last year by the Royal College of Physicians and Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool of 178 hospitals found 44 per cent of patients who were conscious and a third of families were not consulted before the decision was taken.
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, condemned the failure to consult as "utterly unacceptable." But he defended the Liverpool Care Pathway as a "fantastic step forward", adding that "one or two mistakes" should not be allowed to discredit it …
It's a long way from "one or two" to 60,000, Mr. Hunt.
In essence, the pathway represents the real life application of the "death panels" against which former Alaska Governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin warned in 2009 as the threat that Democrats in Washington would pass its own version of state-controlled health care now known as ObamaCare materialized. As Wesley Smith at National Review noted just before Christmas, this is where nationalized health takes a country, regardless of whether its citizens want it to go there:
Doctors Lose Humanity Serving Govt. Masters
The implosion of UK healthcare quality is a warning for the U.S.
… Loss of humanity is a predictable consequence of centralized control. As the quality of healthcare worsens, the technocracy kicks into high gear, issuing more regulations, guidelines, and treatment (or rationing) checklists–further devolving medicine into a deprofessionalized, connect-the-dots craft. And that can be deadly.
The same thing will happen in the U.S. once Obamacare's cost/benefit and best care standards bureaucracies are up and running.
"Zeke the Bleak" Emanuel and his fellow grim reapers stand at the ready to implement their equivalent model known — which gives "gives preference (for medical treatment) to people 13 to 40 years old — as long as they are reasonably healthy" — right here in the U.S.
Segments of the U.S. press surely are aware of what is happening in the UK. One can only conclude that the are doing all they can to ensure that the warning signals from Britain's NHS are never seen or heard in the USA.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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By Michael Aneiro
We're less than 24 hours away from the Federal Reserve releasing its latest policy statement and economic projections. As I've written over the past two days, the bond market will be paying more attention to the latter this time around, including the Fed's now famous "dot plot" of future interest-rate expectations, since the Fed isn't expected to make any big policy changes at its current meeting. With that in mind, David Ader of CRT Capital just released the results of his informal survey asking clients how they see the Fed policy committee shifting from its last set of economic projections back in March. In a nutshell, CRT's survey respondents saw the Fed making ever-so-slight downward revisions to its expectations for this year's rates of GDP growth and unemployment, and similarly incremental upticks in expectations for inflation as well as for the Fed funds rate in both 2015 and 2016. Quoth Ader:
[T]he results were rather telling and consistent. Here we provided the last snapshot of the Fed's central tendency forecast along with a weighted average of the confounding dots that Yellen herself has advised the market to dismiss in terms of a policy indicator (begging the question of why they bother) and asked readers what changes they anticipate….
[T]here are very very low expectations for significant changes to either the central tendency forecasts or forward guidance as portrayed by the dots. There is a slight bias to see the final year end rate for Funds to be lowered a bit for this year, rise next year and dip a small amount in 2016. The idea behind that, as well as the central tendency ideas, for 2014 is more of a tweak given the data we know and the simply adjustment to the calendar. 2015 Fed Funds are seen a bit higher simply as the Fed moves to a hiking cycle and employs tools, like reverse repos, to ensure the target and the effective line up.
Ader sees the most intriguing poll findings in the longer-term Fed funds rate expectations, echoing some of what's been written earlier this week:
2016 and a lower Funds Rate to end this year is both interesting and carries, perhaps, the most interesting anticipation for the FOMC. Here the idea behind the lower rate is that the Fed may adjust down the long-term average from 4% now to something more like 3.5-3.75%. We wouldn't say this is universal or a particularly strong view — meaning if they don't change this the market will be disappointed. But the results say the market is looking for this at some time.


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Last year on Thanksgiving morning, I was drinking beer, eating wings and tailgating with friends before the Lions game. This year I was running the Turkey Trot through the streets of downtown Detroit with some 22,000 other runners.
I danced for many years, have been involved with weight training since my mid-20s, have participated in kickboxing off and on as well as swimming and biking. But running had always eluded me.
To be sure, I had dabbled in running at different points of my life. I was around for the running craze in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I got into it again in 1995 when I first started working at The Daily Tribune and Jim Evans and then sports editor Jeff Kuehn were doing a fair bit of running. Always, my participation was short lived.
In July of 2011, I did a story about a group of people who were all doing the infamous Warrior Dash 5K obstacle race. What struck me was that most of the people doing this race were not traditional runners per se � that is, not people who were running six-minute miles and challenging for a spot at the Boston Marathon. These were people of various ages and fitness levels racing just for the fun of it.
Two days after the 2011 Warrior Dash, I signed up for Warrior Dash 2012. I figured I had a year to train; I could do it.
I started the Couch to 5K training program. The first week you walk for 90 seconds, then run for 60 and continue to do that for 20 minutes. Gradually, you increase the running (and decrease the walking) until you are running a complete 5K.
I started in the fall and continued through the winter with the encouragement and support of two of my Wayne State University cohorts, Christina DeAngelis and Danya Alawie. The three of us would run after class even though they had a much faster pace and could run for a longer distance and are much younger than I. It didn�t matter; we were all runners sharing the experience and the pure joy of just running.
We are all in the counseling psychology program so we decided to sign up for the Royal Oak MOM 5K, scheduled for the first weekend in May, which supports suicide prevention and mental health.
Then on April 19, I was rushed to the hospital with a very, very severe strep infection that manifested as cellulitis in my left leg and kept me in the hospital for five days. This accounted for my fatigue the previous several months, the pain in my back and leg, and in part for the excessive weight gain I had experienced. With a fever of 104, I was delirious for about 48 hours.
When the fever broke and the mental fog cleared, my first question to the doctor was: I�m signed up for a 5K in a week � can I do it?
This is the moment I knew I had become a runner.
As luck would have it, the doctor was a runner too and gave me the OK to participate although he warned me not to overdo it.
I had to walk most of it because my leg was still very swollen but I did it. Two weeks after I had checked into the hospital I had lost eight pounds which prompted me to join Weight Watchers in an effort to continue the trend. To date, I have lost 41 pounds and am 19 pounds away from my goal of 60 pounds. In August, I got out my mountain bike that I had not ridden in 10 years and added biking back into my routine. One of my goals for 2013 is a distance bike ride of some kind.
After that first 5K, I did the Diamonds and Dirt trail run, the Color Run, the Warrior Dash, the Bath City Run (this with my dog Max), the Big Bird Run, and the 5K portion of the Romeo to Richmond. I found that my five years of yoga training came in handy: work with the truth, make the best of an uncomfortable situation, do what your body will allow today, and don�t worry about what other people are doing just worry about yourself. These yoga mantras work for running too.
As if the running gods were watching over me, two things happened to really push my running journey to a new level. First, one of the original Warrior Dash runners, Erin Cavanaugh, found me at the Romeo to Richmond. After she had finished her race, she ran back to get me and paced me for the last half mile or so to show me that I could go faster than what I thought. She and I started running together once a week and I have discovered I am capable of more than what I gave myself credit for; she has helped my inner runner emerge.
Second, I was assigned cross country as my sport to cover. Just listening to the various runners and coaches talk about their sport with such enthusiasm was electrifying. For the first time in some 23 years of vacationing in Hillman, MI, I ran the trails in that area and understood exactly what those kids were talking about. I even ran a spontaneous 5K in Alpena for breast cancer and enjoyed it despite the fact that it was 38 degrees and raining. And always in my head was something Troy Athens cross country coach Michael Stallsmith tells his runners: you are not slow; you are simply less fast than some other runners.
Suddenly I was looking at myself in a whole new way; I was Susan Smiley, RUNNER.
I downloaded the Runkeeper app on my phone and started posting my runs on Facebook, always with a positive that I took from each run. I am not logging times to challenge Usain Bolt but perhaps I had a personal record pace per mile, or I made time in a busy day for a run, or enjoyed a sunny afternoon running on a trail with a good friend.
�You always hear about people making these big transformations,� said my cohort DeAngelis last week, �but I feel like I�ve seen it happen before my very eyes with you. It�s amazing!�
Not sure about the amazing part, because it is something that is doable � for everyone. Just find that thing that you are passionate about � running, biking, swimming, whatever � and go for it. Find the joy.
One year ago I would not have pictured myself meeting the Troy Athens cross country team at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning to trek downtown for a race. But Thursday it seemed like the most natural thing in the world. Someone asked me after the Turkey Trot if I would do the race again next year. My answer: heck yes I will -- only next year I�m doing the 10K!


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A plump, juicy turkey nestled on a serving tray, served alongside mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole, myriad of other vegetable-based casseroles and a basket of biscuits. Wafting from the kitchen is the pleasant aroma of cinnamon seeping from a freshly baked pecan pie.
When facing this feast, don't be the turkey day newbie who wears a slim-fitting festive dress. Nor do you want to be the casual Friday gal on this high foodie holiday. No, instead pick up a pair of fancy pants, fully outfitted with elastic, spandex or some sort of physics-defying stretch.
Don't be like that weird uncle who has to undo his pants after – or during – the family feast.
One of the big trends this year is velvet. And no, this is
not the velveteen of your childhood Christmas dresses.
For a fancy pants aesthetic with all the comfort of loungewear, try a pair of velvet leggings from Chico's, located at Mayfaire Center. These machine-washable leggings are 10-percent spandex, so they'll give you all the room you need to nibble to your heart's desire on Thanksgiving. Pair with a festive tunic, say something with a little sparkle, for a go-to throughout the holiday season. These luxe leggings will set you back $69.
Chico's also carries a five-pocket velvet pant for $89 for those looking for a little less cling. This pant has some stretch with 2-percent spandex. It comes in basic black, cocoa, dark teal or purple.
Another trend that will liven up a basic pant is corduroy. Corduroy is a touchy subject for me as the sound of it rubbing together brings back rather traumatic childhood memories. See, my grandmother was under the impression that I was a sumo wrestler who had quite the love for corduroy. But, seeing that I was indeed not a wrestler and, rather, a 9-year-old girl, this led to some problems.
For Christmas, my dear grandmother sent me oversized corduroy pants with the largest and loudest wale. To this day, that particular "rush" "rush" of corduroy pants takes me back to the halls of my elementary school, wishing the Earth would split open before I'd reach art class so the awkward sound would stop.
With all that said, choose your wale wisely. Belk, with locations in Shallotte, Mayfaire and Independence Mall, has several cuts and styles of corduroy. New Directions has corduroy pants available in black, cucumber (green), blue and red. These sit at the waist and are relaxed fit.
For petites, Alfred Dunner makes a corduroy pant with a full-elastic waistband. Both of these pants were on sale this week for less than $35.
For a more youthful silhouette, Gap, also located at Mayfaire, has a couple corduroy cuts to choose from.
The 1969 Legging Cords come in colors to brighten any cool-weather blues. Shades range from bright pink to a deep green or an attention-getting red. These curve-hugging threads seem to run a bit to the small side. Gap staff has suggested trying one to two sizes larger for the ideal fit.
Gap also carries a boot-cut corduroy pant that offers a bit more forgiveness than the legging.
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Quote from: ClaireC79 on May 01, 2013, 05:58:34 AMFrom the other thread, which you linked to, it's not clear to me if you still live there. That's an old thread: I linked it mostly to avoid explaining about the third cat and why I'm hoping they don't get it back. I'm currently moving out: I meant to use this week to get most of the sorting and packing done. Let's say it's not going according to plan. All the PP who suggested DF should stay at his/our flat: I already tried last time, but DF refuses to leave me here on my own - it's not isolated, but it's still a detached house, which is seen as more dangerous than flats over here. About "you owe us": it's probably about "all the things we did for you and all the sacrifices we made and we always gave you everything you wanted" and so on and so forth. Some day I'll have to start a whole topic about my mother the disappointed martyr, but it's better if I don't get into it right now. I guess there's really no way to keep everybody happy this time. I just hope my parents can understand this.
From the other thread, which you linked to, it's not clear to me if you still live there.
Is it their expectation your DF would move in with you while they were gone?
If you hadn't had a DF that could stay with you while gone, would they have not traveled?
I understand this is a stressful situation but honestly, your DF is choosing to stay there because he doesn't trust you to be safe as a adult, with 2 dogs in a home. Personally I wouldn't tolerate any complaints from someone who chooses to be miserable while simultaneously calling me incompetent. You lock the doors and be aware of your surroundings, of course, but surely other people spend time alone in houses and aren't all instantly victims.
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There is a camp of feminists out there who would like us to believe that wearing the hijab is a discriminatory, male-biased, patriarchal practice, note the article by Adele-Wilde Blavatsky on the 'privileging' of race above gender, to a deluge of uproar from another camp of women who were totally shocked by her one-sided, un-nuanced views on the Islamic sartorial practices.
Well, I have got news for this camp of feminists because I came to the hijab very recently and after years of mulling over the decision, through research of the Quran and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and reading of several exegetes of scholars, both male and female, I as a woman made the sole decision of wearing the headscarf. I am totally satisfied that all scholars from differing schools of Islamic thought come to the same decision that hijab is indeed a practice that God has commanded upon the Muslims, men and women. Note the distinction I make between hijab and headscarf. Hijab is effectively speaking about modesty of men and women and not indeed just a piece of cloth one places over one's head! If we scratch the surface Muslims understand hijab to be an overall modesty: modesty of the heart, modesty of the eyes, modesty of the ears etc. In other words it is guarding the heart from evil intentions, guarding the eyes and ears from evil intentions and so on.
Now coming back to the headscarf, I was also of the mind once that the Quran did not specifically mention this and therefore it is subject to interpretation. But if we analyse the Quranic scriptures with due diligence, it is categorically mentioned in chapter 24, verse 31 what the rulings on hijab are. Note that first and foremost it mentions the importance of hijab for men, i.e. lowering their gazes, guarding their private parts etc. and then it comes to women again mentioning the lowering of their gazes, guarding their private parts, drawing their headscarves over their bosoms and here lies the crux: the Quran mentions the 'khimar' specifically which is a form of head covering and it is asking women to draw the 'khimar' over their bosoms. This used to be a head covering equivalent to a form of long scarf, and some women used to just leave the head covering dangling on the sides and as a result this verse was revealed for further protection of women in the public space (I mean it is no secret that the size of our bosoms are indeed a part of our beauty and studies upon studies have shown that men are often attracted to that part of our body) and in front of marriageable men i.e. to prevent unnecessary sexual desires between the two parties. Now just to calm the extremist feminist minds here - this has indeed been revealed for our honour and protection in the public space. I mean let's not fool ourselves, we only have to open the news these days to see horrific articles about women being raped, date raped, molested and faced with a deluge of sexual abuses for their appearances (I mean we have to be a certain shape, size or else we lose our appeal to the opposite sex!). So on that note I find my hijab a very liberating experience.
Indeed what the female chooses to wear is her choice because there is no compulsion in religion (Quran Chapter 2, verse 256). As it was indeed my choice, I refrained from wearing the headscarf for many years but chose not to wear it to fit into a certain mould of ideological understanding of women in the West. I grew up in the West in an environment that presupposes a love for everything that is secular. That in itself was an imposition upon me. I basically feared not being accepted in a peer group, in a job, in society - the list goes on. In fact when I began wearing the hijab, stereotypically my husband said people are now going to think I told you to do so and my mother tells me that my brother was a little concerned as to whether I would be able to get a job easily!! In other words, my being was the being of someone else's imagination and idea of what I should be and I pandered to it for the last 38 years. Now that I have chosen to wear it after arriving at a decision through my own rational and critical understanding of my faith i.e. Islam, I find myself on the other side defending my hijab. My point is why should the debate be about defending oneself?
I chose this attire so why can't these feminist extremists accept that no man in my life or indeed woman has persuaded me nor indeed forced me to cover myself. It is my decision and I come from a liberal Muslim family background where my parents never once in their lives asked me to wear the headscarf. In fact, a Muslim friend of my father's once said to him and I was that day dressed in a 'salwar-kameez' (a three-piece South Asian suit which includes a long scarf): "Why not also cover the head?" but mind you in a very gentle and unassuming manner. My father responded in an equally unassuming manner by saying, "As long as she is dressed modestly", and the conversation ended there (and they remain good friends in case you are wondering).
Women such as Blavatsky in the aim to emancipate all of womankind seem to forget that many of us women who chose to wear the headscarf and cover ourselves to the degree that we indeed want to, is our choice. We do not do it because we are forced by other men in our lives, we do not do it to appease men's sexual gratification but we choose to do it after coming to a rational understanding of our faith. I have been underlining my rationality in this choice because I recently had a brief encounter with Ms Blavatsky on the Facebook wall of one of my friends and there I was dismissed by her as being 'emotional' for saying that I do not cover my head for other men or women in my life but I do it for my Creator. That in itself is apparently an 'emotional' response on my part and it is according to her based upon an irrationality. This camp of feminism with the aim of uprooting patriarchy, which I also vehemently oppose, are subjugating the voices of millions of other women who rationally choose to cover up. I agree with Blavatsky and others like her that the hijab and the hoodie are not the same and that there is a huge discrepancy in the way women are subjugated across the board, but I also do not want her to make such grand generalisations where feminists like her simply see the hijab as 'discriminatory'.
Whilst there may indeed be women who are forced into practicing the hijab without being given a choice, there are equally many women who practice hijab out of choice. In the name of feminism, I wonder whether this camp of feminists realise that by thwarting voices like mine, they are verging on being orientalist even if their original aim was not intended as such. This is why it is very important indeed to have these debates out into the open so that a whole section of us women are not huddled into one big group of oppressed women. Whilst raising the voices of those who are oppressed, they are oppressing the 'other' women who can and choose to make their own decisions about their sartorial practices! Even if it is unintentional it needs to be rectified.
I understand Ms Blavatsky had rather nasty comments made against her original article in The Feminist Wire, which I oppose too because it shows a lack of etiquette and respect for the other's viewpoint. It is best to discuss these issues in the open without disrespecting one another's views in the process. Whilst Ms Blavatsky has the right to make her own views known, in an era when Islamophobia is rife, it is also equally important to make comments that are context-specific and based upon ethnographic studies. In fact, my encounter with Ms Blavatsky on my friend's Facebook wall only reiterates this point. In the aim of making her views supreme to mine she chose words like 'emotional' and 'irrational' to quickly dismiss my viewpoint and in the process removing my agency to make an informed/rational/critical argument. If this is not an orientalist tactic I don't know what is. Whilst Ms Blavatsky may or may not believe in a God is not the issue here, although I do and I choose to wear a headscarf based upon the words of God i.e. what the Quran deliberates on this matter as well as the many exegetes on this. This in her mind seems to be conveying an irrationality on my part but now we are delving into a whole new realm of whether God exists or not and whether the Quran is the word of God, and for that there are many debacles being presented out there (and note that even the staunchest of atheists are now agreeing upon the existence of Intelligent Design). Just because my ideological thought processes do not fit into the mould of certain feminist narratives neatly does not then give these feminists the right to dismiss my voice and that of thousands if not millions of other women as 'emotional' and 'irrational' - after all isn't that what these feminists are and were fighting for in the first place to give women the voices and agency they so deserve!


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News Release
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OPA News Release: [03/09/2012]
Contact Name: Bennett Gamble
Phone Number: (202) 693-4667
Release Number: 12-0462-NAT
Statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on February employment numbers
WASHINGTON Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the February 2012 Employment Situation report released today:
"Our nation's labor market continued to register solid growth in the month of February. The economy added 233,000 private sector jobs last month, while the unemployment rate held steady at a three-year low of 8.3 percent.
"We've had 24 straight months of private sector job growth, adding more than 3.9 million jobs to an economy that was bleeding almost 800,000 jobs in a single month when President Obama took office. U.S. job growth over the last six months has been the strongest since before the recession began in 2006.
"U.S. labor force participation is on the rise. The American people are more confident that they can find work because they see a strengthening economy. The consumer confidence index is at its highest level in a year, and many employers are responding by adding to their payrolls.
"February's accelerated job growth was widespread across a range of industries, including 82,000 new jobs in professional and business services, 61,000 in health care and social assistance, 44,000 in leisure and hospitality, and 31,000 in manufacturing. The continued growth in the manufacturing sector is encouraging. This industry, which lost more than 2 million jobs through the recession, has added back 429,000 positions in the last two years.
"Now that more jobs are being created, we need to help American workers obtain new skills to be successful in today's rapidly changing labor market. We can make great strides here if we act on President Obama's proposal to forge new partnerships between community colleges and businesses so employers in high-growth industries can put Americans in jobs requiring specific technical skills.
"One area of continued concern is construction, which lost 13,000 jobs in February. The president has put forward a specific plan to develop the nation's infrastructure, which will have an immediate effect on this industry and the workers who depend on it. We need to build and modernize roads, rails, runways and schools, which would create thousands of good jobs in short order. Infrastructure investments are sorely needed across the country, and our unemployed construction workers deserve a bipartisan deal and the jobs it would bring.
"Last month, Congress extended unemployment benefits and payroll tax relief, proving that it is possible for lawmakers to work together without the drama we saw last year around the debt ceiling debate. Uncertainty from the political environment has derailed our recovery before. By coming together on the challenges before us, we can continue to quicken the pace of our recovery and put more Americans back to work."


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Talk:Pascal's Wager
Do you think it might help to mention the idea of "if you roll a die, what are the chances of a 6 or a not-6?" which seemed to be a good way to get the point across that the argument is unbalanced? Obviously this would need to be inserted at the correct point and explained a little more eruditely than what I've just described. Blu Matt 17:50, 31 July 2006 (MST)
Evil/unconventional god
Is there a need to mention the possibility of a god who rewards unbelievers and punishes believers? Such a god would be consistent with the fall-back response of theologians "we cannot understand the ways of god", so it is feasible that such a god would want to reward atheists. This god would not need to be malevolant, merely inactive (mirroring deism with regards to creation), and wanting to reward those who take a rational approach to their beliefs.
The new table would thus be the following
|Table of Payoffs
|Believe in God
|Don't believe in God
|God doesn't exist
|Legalistic religious god exists
|+∞ (heaven)
|−∞ (hell)
|Anti-conventional god exists
|−∞ (hell)
|+∞ (heaven)
The mere possibility of such a god makes the expected outcomes for each column undefined, but more importantly, equal.


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From FreeMind
In FreeMind, the whole map or single branches may be encrypted. An encrypted branch has a padlock icon. Encryption is available since FreeMind 0.8.0.
Using encryption
To insert an encrypted branch, select Insert Encrypted Node from the Tools menu. It is not possible to encrypt an existing node, though you can move an existing node to an encrypted branch once you have created it.
To lock or unlock an encrypted branch, select Toggle Crypted/Encrypted from the Tools menu.
Encryption algorithm
The encryption algorithm used in FreeMind 0.8.0, FreeMind 0.8.1 and in the last beta and RC versions of 0.9.0 is Single DES.
Tripple DES is not supported.
Both Single DES and Tripple DES are symmetric-key algorithms built in Java.
Problem: Mind maps encrypted with FreeMind running on Java Runtime Environment JRE 1.4 and JRE 1.5 cannot be opened with FreeMind running on Java Runtime Environment JRE 1.6.
Concerned operating systems: Linux, Windows, and possibly other.
Concerned FreeMind versions: 0.8.0, 0.9.0 beta 9. The bug should not appear in FreeMind 0.8.1 and in latest 0.9.0 RC releases.
Solution: A provisional solution is to stick with Java Runtime Environment JRE 1.4 or JRE 1.5.
Detail: There is a bug in the PBE key
See also: Bug Nr. 4051143 in Sun bug database.
File format
The encrypted branches are stored in FreeMind XML as follows. TODO.


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Tesla to open London showroom
Firm's first non-North American abode
'Leccy Tech Californian 'leccy car maker Tesla has announced plans to build its first showroom outside of North America in Blighty.
Tesla's Model S (left) and Roadster (right) will, eventually, be available to buy in London
The firm's Sales and Service Centre will be built in London's famous Knightsbridge district, on a site previously home to the now defunct Segrave Supercar Club.
Tesla's swanky London showroom should be up and running by the end of June, but when its doors do open the only model you'll actually be able to buy will be the limited edition Signature Roadster for £94,000 ($138,000/€104,600).
The standard Roadster (shown above) will cost upwards of £87,100 ($128,000/€97,000), but it won't roll into the showroom until "late 2009", along with the £103,200 ($151,500/€115,000) Sport version.
If you want to get ahead of the queue for the 2012 launch of the Tesla Model S, then the firm's London showroom staff will happily take a £4000 refundable reservation deposit from you - or a £30,000 deposit for one of the limited edition Signature models.
Tesla hasn't said which side the steering wheel will sit in its UK models, which makes us rather suspect it will be on the left.
This will be disappointing if its the case, because the Tesla Roadster runs on the same chassis as the Lotus Elise – meaning that building a right-hand drive version shouldn't be beyond the bounds of possibility.
Tesla's Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, added that it's also planning to open showrooms in Munich and Monaco this year.
"We expect that Tesla sales will eventually be split evenly between the US and Europe". ®
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"I'm actually glad things went down the way they did," Massey told TV Guide. "I appreciate the producers for letting me out of my deal early because I can now pursue other opportunities I couldn't under contract."
Massey intends to return to his studies at UCLA and is open to other acting gigs. Perhaps he will turn up on pal Charlie Sheen's FX series ANGER MANAGEMENT. Sheen, with whom Massey shares a publicist, tweeted: "hey 'Days of our Lives' producers – newsflash you two dollar pig phukkers: now your show REALLY sux!! you fired Chandler Massey?? Are you trying to make Ashley Butcher look talented? NOW his career begins! he's a winner. period the end. his TWO EMMYS speak to that fact loud and clear."
After winning his second Emmy in June, Massey said he planned to leave the show at the end of his four-year contract which ended in December.
Massey's replacement will begin work when DAYS returns from hiatus in September. The show has not yet announced the new actor's name.


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Research by a University of Southampton historian has found that the practice of ransom was widespread among all soldiers during the Hundred Years War (1337 – 1453) and not, as generally thought, just the preserve of kings, knights and higher orders.
Dr Rémy Ambühl has found that ransom in war provided a valuable source of income for all classes in the Late Middle Ages, including those in the lower orders. He says: "There is widespread evidence to suggest that during the 15th century the practice of ransom is increasingly extended to commoners, not just Kings or chivalrous Knights."


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Elaine Chao made history when she became the first Asian American woman appointed to a U.S. president's cabinet. She served as Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, and before that directed the Peace Corps. But making her mark on the U.S. was not easy. As a child, she spent 37 days traveling by boat to get from Taiwan to America. Elaine Chao talks about her journey and her career with host Michel Martin.
For Elaine Chao, A Tough Voyage To U.S. Leadership
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Tri-City High School senior Colton Eckhardt stays motivated when studying for semester finals by reminding himself that grades can have a huge impact on the future.
�If you don�t do (well) on your finals, obviously your GPA (is) going to be affected and that affects your college, which then affects the rest of your life,� Colton said.
As the end of the semester approaches, teens can sometimes struggle to get prepared for the cumulative tests. With winter break approaching, high schoolers have just a few more weeks to prepare for finals. Most schools administer the tests just before students take time off for the holidays.
Colton starts studying a couple weeks before finals.
His methods depend on the layout of a particular exam, but he usually studies by using flashcards and looking over class notes. He works in a quiet environment so he can stay focused.
But, Kirstyn Durazzo believes studying while listening to music works best for her. She also enjoys working with study groups, which can offer encouragement.
The Tri-City senior found studying at least one week in advance may mean the difference between passing and failing an exam.
�When you cram (studying) in, you panic during tests and then you end up missing stuff that you know,� she said.
When studying, Kirstyn creates and uses outlines, helping her highlight important facts. She also uses note cards and reviews notes she took during class.
Find what works
While studying, be sure to eat healthy snacks, such as apples, and take short breaks every hour, according to an article titled �10 High School Study Tips for Students� from About.com. During your breaks, do something not related to school. Consider taking a walk.
Before an exam, make a mock test to see what you need to work on. Also, be sure to get full night of sleep before a test day.
Tri City High School guidance counselor Sarah Heberling said studying for finals requires organizational skills.
Heberling suggests students have a binder or folder to store study materials, such as worksheets and notes. By doing this, they will have material to use for study guides, she said.
Work with friends and other classmates who are taking the same courses, Heberling said.
�I used to study with my friends in high school, just doing study sessions because sometimes there were things that I would pick and they wouldn�t, and vice versa,� she said.
Teens should talk to teachers if they are unsure about a topic covered in class or if they have questions about the study guides.
When it comes to last-minute studying, or cramming, Heberling said effectiveness depends on the student.
�If you are (a student) that pays attention in class throughout the semester and you�re good at retaining information, then maybe doing a cram session the night before might be beneficial,� she said. �(But) I would never suggest that to a student because if you don�t pay attention every day, you�re gone a lot from school, or you don�t retain (information well), then you�re not going (to) learn it,� she said.
It�s good for high schoolers to identify the study habits that work best for them because exams and assignments will become more difficult in college, Cathryn Sloane wrote in an article for U.S. News & World Report.
�Some current college students say that identifying these study strategies in high school paves the path to success in university academics,� she wrote.
Try a variety of study methods to see what works best. Try making flashcards, switching between subjects to avoid overwhelming yourself. Or have a friend quiz you on the material, according to the article.
�The potential strategies are limitless and can each be tailored differently to the individual person�s learning style � but identifying that style is key,� Sloane wrote.
Amber Campbell is a senior at Tri-City High School.


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STAWELL - Stawell Westlift Warriors have announced Tim Seymour as senior coach for next season.
Seymour will be a playing coach after he and his family moved from Melbourne to Stawell earlier this week.
Stawell president John Griffiths welcomed Seymour's appointment following a six week search for someone to step into the role left by 2012 coach Andrew Bach.
"Tim sent us his resume and with due diligence, we rang his referees and he came up pretty well. He got up here for our last home game (against Horsham RSL Diggers). We said our preference was for a playing coach and he fitted our bill," Mr Griffiths said.
The process over the next couple of weeks will be for Seymour to meet with Stawell players before signings for season 2013 can occur.
Seymour was in Melbourne this year, playing division (1) football for North Footscray in the Western Region Football League.
Last year, Seymour was the inaugural player-coach of AFL Cairns club, Cairns City Lions, in his fifth year living in the North Queensland town.
Things at the Cairns club didn't work out as expected.
"I was hesitant (to take on a coaching role) with the way it turned out but I have a point to prove to a few people in Cairns that I know how to coach. I thought it's now or never while I can still play footy - so I decided to revitalise my coaching career."
Seymour can play all around the ground, but he primarily patrols the half back flank.
"That's where I can control (the game) a little bit better and see what's happening. But that can change."
He said the key to having a playing coach is having a bench coach that understands the playing coach's positions, the moves that have to be made and rotations.
"It allows the playing coach to concentrate on playing football," Seymour said.
The Warriors new coach said he decided to move to Stawell to give his wife and kids a better life in the country.
"I grew up around Albury/Wodonga and played footy up there. I decided to give the wife and kids a bit better life, the country life. I want to give my kids country lifestyle with more freedom than what Melbourne has," Seymour said.
Seymour has settled in the town, having taken up a position with Northern Grampians Shire Council and is excited by the challenge of coaching Stawell next year.
"The team has potential. It'll take a little bit of work to get the guys confidence up and understand the differences with playing for themselves. It's not just running around on the ground, there are aspects to the way you play the game," he said.
"It'll take a little bit of time for the guys to start maturing."
Seymour has met with a few Warriors players and was impressed.
"The young guys seem keen to take that next step. Hopefully I can give them a bit of guidance and influence. I need to sit down with Andrew (Bach) and get a bit of insight on what can work and what can improve," he said.
"I met Andrew at the last game and he said 'just tap me on the shoulder and let me know if you need anything.' That's a big thing, to be able to walk into a new club and have a bit of respect from the current coach who, with a new coach, is happy to help out."
Seymour admits it is a big responsibility taking on the Stawell coaching role and to be in the spotlight in a new town.
"I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait for pre-season to start," he said, adding that hopefully the players enjoy having a new coach with a new style of football.
"But I don't to change too much of what Andrew's done. There's a core group of young guys and if you try and change too much, you're taking a backwards step. I'll talk with Andrew, see where he was at last year and just build on that."
Seymour hopes to pick up 'four or five' recruits before the 2013 season starts.
"It'll go a long way to giving the young guys confidence back if we can recruit reasonable players. It'll make things a little bit more exciting for them. Hopefully our good recruits can hang around for three to four years - that's the key to Warrack and Horsham's success, they get players to hang round and get the club to a certain point," he said.
"But it's up to them to decide what they want to do."


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Well actually Luke is doing most of the "work", but here's what I have going on:
May not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm liking it so far.
Tac One body: Cut by me, pump milled and lower sides milled by Luke
AM/MM rail: Cut by me, pump milled, ULE milled, sides milled and special VASA mounting by Luke
VASA: Cut and milled by Luke
Pump Handle: Drilled by Luke
Frame and barrel just on for mock up. Still waiting for final Apex ready barrel to come back from Freak boring.
To Do:
1. Make Pump Rod
2. CCM fittings
3. On/Off ASA
4. Figure out finish. Leaning towards.... BLACK (I know, Shocker!) but may be persuaded into something out of the black realm.
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Now is not the time to panic for the Central Michigan University baseball team.
Sure, the Chippewas are sitting at 2-4 in Mid-American Conference play and are coming off a couple losses to Michigan State and Michigan in non-conference action.
But there are still seven conference series� left to make some headway, plenty of time to do something similar to last season when CMU was sitting at 7-9 in the MAC before reeling off nine consecutive conference wins to nearly take the West Division crown.
The Chippewas have a chance to begin the climb up from their current spot in the cellar this weekend as they take on Northern Illinois (9-17, 4-2) in a three-game set at Theunissen Stadium. Game one begins Friday at 3:05 p.m., while the middle game is Saturday at 2:05 p.m. and the series finale Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
�We only have four home series� and this is our second one, so we just want to play like we did last week but just have the results a little bit different,� said Central Michigan coach Steve Jaksa.
The Chippewas hit the ball hard at times in its home series versus Bowling Green last weekend, but fell into some bad luck as to where the hard-hit balls were aimed at as many of them fell into outs. A sweep was avoided, however, and now CMU has the opportunity to build up some conference momentum in the next three games against the Huskies.
Northern Illinois is tied for first place in the MAC West Division with Western Michigan and boasts one of the stronger pitching staffs in the conference, led by junio Eli Anderson (3-3, 2.79 ERA, 48 1/3 IP). Anderson has thrown complete games the last two Saturdays, while freshman Jordan Ruckman (0-4, 3.25 ERA, 44 1/3 IP) has gotten the call as the Friday starter.
�When we look at Northern Illinois, we see a really good pitching staff,� Jaksa said. �They have a really good No. 1 guy just like we do. They are going to run him out there and let him go a little bit, so we need to be equal to the task offensively. We also just need to play good defense because I don�t think they are going to score a lot of runs. That�s kind of been the history, so we need to make sure we are in good position to play solid defense.�
The Huskies are coming off a road sweep of Akron as they outscored the Zips 20-8 over the three games. Junior infielder Jeff Zimmerman leads the NIU offense with a .330 batting average as well as nine doubles and three triples.
Central Michigan sophomore standout Jordan Foley will get the Friday start as he comes in with a 4-1 record and a 0.94 ERA in 48 innings. Dylan Rheault (1-1, 6.26 ERA, 23 IP) will take the place of injured Patrick Kaminska for Saturday�s game, while Rick Dodridge (1-3, 2.45 ERA, 33 IP) gets the ball Sunday.
Freshman outfielder Logan Regnier (.313 BA, nine extra-base hits, 14 RBIs) and sophomore center fielder Nick Regnier (.303 BA, three HRs, 19 RBIs) lead the CMU offense into this weekend�s series.


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Scientific evidence is mounting on the links between sports and concussions. Host Michel Martin explores what some are calling the "concussion crisis" for athletes. She speaks with Chris Nowinski, author and co-founder of the Sports Legacy Institute, a group focused on researching concussions in sports.
Is There A 'Concussion Crisis' In Sports?
By editor • Aug 7, 2012


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someone will take a chance on this kid by the 2nd or 3rd round, depending on his personal workouts, combine, drug test, etc. if he shows he is still in shape and has the will to dominate the game, someone like the raiders, cowboys will take a shot on him. EARLY.
Lets no forget that this kid was invited to the Heisman presentation less then one year ago. The kid can ball. Would of been a top 10 pick last year, but now we think he will go undrafted is ridiculous.
Intriguing safety prospect. Not a CB in the NFL. Jets could use more safeties for sure -- Landry and Bell are FA's, Bell is old and Landry is always an injury ? -- Not a first round worthy pick though. Second round? Sure.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to separate college football and the NFL. Success in one doesn't equal success in the other.
This kid made a number of big plays for LSU, but he's poor in coverage and lacks the size to play safety. Toward the end of the year, teams actually started to figure out that he was the weak link in the LSU defense if you consistently went after him.
All you need nowadays is a few SportsCenter plays and a good nickname and everyone thinks you're awesome.
the biggest difference between jenkins and honeybadger is jenkins played last year
If you want a small safety get Lamarcus Joyner from FSU. He can also play corner. Not sure if he will come out this year
Who did this guy piss off that he was given the nickname of "Honey Badger"
That certainly doesn't sound like something that would strike fear in the hearts of his football opponents.
At least "Muscle-Hamster" sounds a bit tough(with the Muscle-part)....
"Honey-Badger" sounds like a pet name someone's wife would call her husband.
The dude is a Baller, and the NFL drafts ballers. Simple enough.
Look no further than this year with Vontaze and Irvin. Sure, not great, but serviceable enough with enough impact plays to warrant a draft pick.
I'm sure the Pasts will take him in an attempt to improve their garbage defense and add as many criminals as possible.
He's a freakin cancer.
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In hindsight, teams would have given up a pick for his play.
Accordingly, I believe a team will give up a pick for the honey badger.
He's Tebow with character issues.
Great in college,but in the pro's...special teamer,part time player.
Should be a 5th rounder but someone might bite end of round 3 (it only takes one to believe the hype machine)
Kid is way too small to play safety, does not have the coverage ability to play corner, can be a good k/PR guy. Late 4th or 5th round at best.


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BURNING SHADOWS – Confirmed For Warriors Of Metal Fest VII
January 17, 2014 Cincinnati, Ohio – The Warriors of Metal, Inc. non-profit organization is excited to announce the confirmation of Maryland Power Metallers BURNING SHADOWS, whose awe-inspiring performance at 2012's Pathfinder Metalfest V as a support band for the legendary Raven led to the Warriors Of Metal Fest organizer Datis Alaee to comment:
"I had known Burning Shadows for a while at that time since my friend Tim Regan had sent his band's previous albums for air play on my Metal Messiah Radio show. But making our annual pilgrimage from Ohio to Georgia to support our friend Hoyt Parris with the 5th edition of his Pathfinder Promotions' Metalfest series, Burning Shadows was a definite not-to-be-missed band for me and boy did those guys deliver!!! My neck was wrecked, my ass was kicked and my face was melted. Big kudos to Hoyt for such an awesome booking! After their performance I went over to my wife and said 'We HAVE TO get these guys to our Fest!!!'"
Band guitarist Tim Regan states: "We are thrilled to join the lineup for Warriors of Metal Fest VII! It is a huge honor to be part of a festival that always brings together so many amazing acts. We are grateful to battle alongside so many like-minded bands, organizers and fans. Datis has been a strong supporter of ours and we very much look forward to bringing our music to new audiences looking to help us prove that true metal is alive and well. Many of our favorite bands that we've shared the stage with have played this festival in years past and we're excited about what's in store for 2014."
The band has posted the song "A Thousand Lies (Abridged)," from their Last One To Fall EP – take it in below:
Keep up-to-date with all of the developments such as band announcements and ticket information for next year's show through the Warrior's of Metal Fest's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/warriorsofmetal
(Source: CLAWHAMMER PR)
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If you're an academic and you're writing a paper you have to check on the accuracy of the quotes you used. If the quote happens to be in a premium paper you're screwed.
Not necessarily. In most cases at least respectable researchers have a tech-report variant on the web. Also, who checks quotes in CS?
I do.
Sorry, but if you aren't checking quotes, you are probably being mislead in most conversations.
Programmers aren't academics. So, there's still really no reason to join the ACM for most programmers.
But how many professional programmers are academic?
Most of us work for business, government, ngo, not for profit. Where we really don't need to cite your work, just as long as it works and you are not stepping on someones patent or license you are OK.
1) Looks good on a resume
2) They have actual course to learn something instead of groping around the internet looks for some code snippet to use
3) They have a ton of reading material
4) Good publication hat aren't on google.
5) Research done by professionals
6) Contacts
7) SIGs
8) Scotch? Wait let me guess..you have a beard, and you wear a trilby.
Not that you need to join just pointing out some advantages.
You can keep getting your snippets of VB code from the internet, and I'll keep reading latest research on A
Every resume needs a good publication hat.
But never admit to groping snippets, even if you learned something in due course.
Nerds don't wear contacts, they wear real glasses.
All published research is done by professionals, not just the paywalled kind. I'm not convinced CS has useful research, though. Useful engineering, certainly. The problem with paywalled engineering is that if you learn how it works, now you're never allowed to do things that way because of copyright and patents. If you only use freely av
Same here. As a student, I helped organize the EMU (Eastern Michigan University) chapter of ACM, but since entering the workforce, it ceased to remain relevant.
It's far too focused on academic concerns and CS pedagogy (I.E. broadening the appear of computer science programs). There is literally nothing in their monthly Communications that acknowledges that practitioners actually exist, let alone that we're actually important to the field as a whole.
I'm considering joining IEEE instead, but I fear they m
IEEE is both historically and contempraneously a completely practitioner-oriented organization. It's raison-d-etre is to serve enginers. Some of those engineers happen to do engineering research, but that's but a fraction of its membership.
While you're taking CS courses in a university, ACM membership is great! But in the corporate world there's often not a good reason to join.
I was president of my university's ACM chapter at one point, but I've let my membership lapse. The value proposition just isn't worth it to me at the moment.
Yes, but then just try leaving.
I joined while working on my MSc, and used some of the articles as sources of research for my master's thesis. I was immediately bombarded with irrelevant newsletters, and their byzantine website made it all-but-impossible to cancel subscriptions to said spam. You'd think that those in charge of the Association of Computing Machinery could manage to build a good website, but apparently not. Once I let my membership lapse, I was bombarded with requests to re-subscribe. It just doesn't get any worse.
Yeah, same for me. The ACM journals IEEE Transactions were really useful reading while I was working on my Master's. By the time I got to my PhD work though, the combination of Google Scholar, CiteSeer, and papers being available over the internet (probably in contravention to author's agreements with the journals that published the paper) made ACM and IEEE irrelevant.
It seems to me that the only part of ACM's publication system that's still relevant is the selection and vetting of good papers for their j
1) Contacts.
I haven't heard about ACM since I left school and I wasn't interested then.. so why join now?
I suspect also that "Machinery" suggests a society for hardware nerds rather than software nerds
The problem is that people on the internet in their garages are doing more for the advancement of "machinery" than the ACM has ever done in it's lifetime.
The ivory towers are crumbling, the staunchy University model is becoming irrelevant.
You might want to learn the difference between its and it's before commenting about crumbling ivory towers. Oh, and "staunchy" isn't a word.
http://www.urbandictionary.com... [urbandictionary.com]
It's a *great word
As for the author's intent I think they meant something a bit different...
You might want to learn the difference between its and it's
I know the difference, but how should I go about teaching this difference to the virtual keyboard of a mobile device? Or is there a key ACM paper on how to guess where "its" or "it's" should go in context?
You might want to learn the difference between its and it's before commenting about crumbling ivory towers. Oh, and "staunchy" isn't a word.
You might want to learn some basic facts about the English language before attempting to get pedantic.
English isn't a controlled language. Words are not words because they appear in a list. Words are words if they are used. There are lots unused words that are perfectly valid words even without ever having been seen before. For example you can take any base word, and attach various prefixes and suffixes. As long as they don't contradict each other, no problem. And -y has been a suffix since Shakespeare!
So p
And you debugged it with a paint scraper.
Actually, searching for "Reduction of inter-block artifact in DWT" should produce IEEE articles, most probably from the Transactions on Image Processing journal or Transactions on Signal Processing.
And indeed they do. My technical searches always include at the very top the most relevant academic papers from scholar.google.com
Blocking-artifact reduction in block-coded images using wavelet-based subband decomposition
H Choi, T Kim - Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, , 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finally, I never see ACM articles linked from Google. You'd imagine searches for things like "reduction of inter block artifacts in discrete wavelet transforms" should nail 5 ACM articles on the first page. Instead, I see mailing lists.
They'll show up if you use Google Scholar. If you're using the main search engine to find papers, then you're probably doing it wrong...
SOoooo...shouldn't the first link in the regular search be a link to the results from Google Scholar?
If the information itself was valuable from the perspective of teaching the techniques, then yes. But if their utility is entirely based on their use inside academia, then no.
If I want to learn a programming technique I'd rather learn it from code on github than try to parse out the tiny bit of signal in an academic paper. But then, I'm allergic to fluff.
The few times that I have needed to read an ACM or IEEE article for something, I have visited my alma mater's library.
I have usually found the article using a web search engine or in some article database.
Because of Internet.
There is nothing in there that low grade code monkeys, which is the vast majority of the software industry, need to know. I mean, how much skills do you have to have to run a mom and pop web store, publish the jillionth fart app, or maintain a payroll system?
Of course, these code monkeys get swamped whenever the next major technology change comes along but, hey, we can't all be good enough to work for Google or Apple, etc.
Turns out some recent conferences have their presentations recorded in HD video. An example is POPL. OK, so I went and downloaded a few videos on formal methods hoping to see something I cared about. I downloaded some 5 videos in one day. Next day I get an e-mail saying my ACM DL subscription has been frozen due to excessive use and I need to contact membership services to get it reopened.
In addition to this, the ACM DL terms of use still prohibit "systematically downloading" articles which according to them means downloading all articles of an issue of a journal or all the articles of a conference. This is just plain stupid.
Write to them, using snail-mail, sent registered and with receipt confirmation. Tell them what you think. Tell them that they are to serve you, their member, not the other way round.
Most of these organizations and associations completely fail to understand how they would be able to create added value for their potential members. As an electronic engineer I'm supposed to be a member of IEEE. I can't think of a single reason why I would subscribe, and the people and letters of IEEE didn't make things better. On the contrary.
Here's a quick list of Wikipedia articles which probably cite ACM publications:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind... [wikipedia.org]
Same thing for me. I'm naturally biased against paying exorbitant prices for papers that the publisher received for free. So for my PhD work I basically avoided using papers that were only available by paying ACM, IEEE, or Elsevier.
Fortunately, in the age of CiteSeer, Google Scholar, and authors who publish their own papers even if they've submitted them to journals, I was able to boycott those publishers and still get my PhD done. Also, having a good team of technical librarians goes a long way.
5-10 yea
I listed my membership on my résumé, along with the ACM logo.
This was 15 years ago and I was a contractor around Washington, DC, doing many short-term contracts.
Yes, it was effective.
In the course of interviews, the interviewer would often tell me that they had been meaning to join, or had heard of it, but not once that they were themselves a member. Just a little psychological advantage, I guess. This helped,too, because I never went to college.
That said, I got absolutely nothing from their articles or other content.
I listed my membership on my resume, along with the ACM logo.
LinkedIn has a new feature to list your certifications and corresponding badges on your profile page. While checking it out, ACM was listed in the pulldown. I had an ACM membership while in college. I was wondering if becoming a member again and adding ACM to my resume would make a difference.
I agree with a lot of the comments here about how it's got declining value. I usually catch up on issues during vacation each year and it's always enjoyable to read some RMS or PHK rant. That said, it's not really worth the $100 for the digital library on top of the yearly dues. I only have it at this point because some of the old content is helpful when working on my hobby.
I'm a member of a few professional organizations. Most of them are kind of money grabs when it comes to anything education related. To maintain a certification I have to get 30 hours of continuing education each year and wouldn't you know that the professional organization is just all too happy to sell it to me for vaguely unreasonable amounts of money. Or I can attend about 15 meetings and conferences a year, also costing $ each time. I try not to get too worked up about it but it isn't cheap even if i
I'm a member of IEEE (Computer Society) & ACM. My employer pays for the first, I pay for the second (although being in each gives a small discount to being in the other). I'm not an academic, but I usually find an article or two worth reading each month in both Computer & in Communications of the ACM.
Of course, since I primarily design hardware rather than software, this might not count as a programmer joining the ACM:).
The prices for each don't seem out of range for the quality of the publications,
I've recently thought again about potential membership of professional bodies. I used to be a student member of the ACM - and, despite a steep discount, I felt there was little value there... so dropped it as soon as my discount eligibility changed.
The idea that a professional body should prosper by restricting access to content might work in academia, but it does not represent a compelling proposition to me.
I would consider joining a professional body if it were:
1. Relevant to professionals who work with
I am an ACM member, but I'm not happy with it. My biggest complaint about the ACM is their failure to understand why copyright is bad and needs massive reform or abolishment. Instead, they jump in bed, ideologically, with copyright extremists! $100 membership isn't good enough for access to the digital library, have to pay another $100 for that? What a total money grab, locking up knowledge and for what? To coerce membership fees from researchers? Aren't they supposed to be a non-profit organization? The digital library should be public! Freely available to all, including non-members. Some years, CACM has had a "special" issue in the summer devoted to intellectual property issues. Some of those CACM articles are downright shameful in their unquestioned support of the current system, preferring to dive into how to use copyright when they haven't discussed why. It's like the whole fake "teach the controversy" debate between Evolution and Creationism. Any science magazine that dared treat Creationism as if it was valid science would quickly lose all respect and become a laughingstock. But the ACM still soberly talks as if copyright can somehow still work. It's like listening to some cranks say that they can fix the problems with the Theory of Intelligent Design, just have to do more exploration and research.
It's embarrassing. On technological matters, the ACM ought to be one of the most progressive organizations in existence. Instead, they were slow to get on the Internet. Their early websites were garbage nearly devoid of content, seemingly made live only because it was even more embarrassing not to have a website at all! They were late to the party for online renewal of membership. Yes, ACM has done online renewal for years, but they weren't the first to do that, far from it. Now they're going to be late to the death of copyright.
Amen. When I was at University, I used our library's ACM and IEEE access to get to lots of useful articles, so I know the value of having that access. But once I graduated, up came the paywalls, and up came my revulsion. It's not about the money - I waste more than the ACM membership fees funding offbeat kickstarters. While I'm still tempted every year by those ACM offers. I'm not going to support an organization dedicated to preventing the dissemination of information, not at any price.
There are still
I've never heard about this ACM thing. From the looks of the website it seems like some academic oriented CS club or something from the US. They even got a "german chapter" - suprised much I am. Don't know if I need to be in that club though. I doubt any programmer of importance I look up to is a member either. Linus Torwalds? RMS? Projekt Lead of Node.js? Don't think so.
My 2 cents.
I can't speak for programmers as I'm more on the sysadmin side of things but joined initially when I came across some really interesting articles on virtualization from their magazine. Then I started to get the magazine regularly and it was a horrible, horrible read. It's not designed for effective data transmission. It just felt like a way to allow fellow-nerds to get published. I'm able to gain more information from an issue of Wired than I was from an ACM mag. But that could just be me and my background.
That sounds like some schools that are loaded with theroy and lacking real skills.
I know this programer who went a to a state school and I have spotted quite a few bugs / coding errors in there code when it's running and I don't even work in QA or work at the place they work at.
In never heard about this. Can you give a little more info?
The main reason not to join ACM is that they spam the hell out of their members (and even prospective members and former members). Here are just some examples of recent complaints from computing professionals:
I have never been a member of ACM myself, but my e-mail addresses are (or were, the last time I checked) regularly bombarded by their solicitations. Now everythi
I've been programming professional since 1995, never heard of them. I work primarily on open source systems and it seems like this organization is not really aimed at that group, at least based on the 'no code, behind a paywall' thing.
I contribute and volunteer on several open source projects, that's what I do to promote my interests and the interests of projects important to me and my career. Not sure how spending time and money on this ACM group would accomplish anything for me.
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He pleaded no contest to first degree murder
Eric Edward Foster was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Tuesday morning for the murder of Trinity Monique Hanna.
Foster, 28, pleaded no contest in January to first-degree murder in the beating death of the three-year-old girl in 2012.
Foster was also ordered to pay $350 in fines and restitution.
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The Nova Scotia International Tuna Tournament, Canada's biggest tuna fishing tournament, has come to an end. I wasn't able to make it to the weigh-in again this year as I had planned, but a friend of a friend was able to snap a photo of one of the big tuna as it was being hoisted up to the dock near downtown Halifax. No word yet if this was the winner or not, but it looks as though its well over 400 pounds, which would would have put it in the top three caught during last years tournament. Last years winner was a massive 531 pounds, but there are occasionally tuna caught over 1000 pounds in these waters. Nova Scotia is said to contain the largest concentration of giant bluefin in the world, including the world record bluefin that weighed almost 1500 pounds!
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As editor of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society newsletter, "The Shallop" I recently received a notice that there was a transcript of Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs keynote lecture from the banquet of the 2011 Trienniel Meeting of the General Society of Mayflower Desecendants held at Taunton, Massachusetts at the Pennsylvania Mayflower Society website www.sail1620.org. I believe that it is important we share this information, and the opportunity to read Dr. Bangs's lecture, with genealogists, historians and interested folks outside of the Mayflower Society.
|Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs addresses the
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
12 September 2011 in Taunton, Massachusetts
I was fortunate to have been at this banquet, and thoroughly enjoyed hearing Dr. Bangs speak. I had last heard him speak many years ago at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He is a world renowned expert on the Pilgrims, especially on their years in Leiden in the Netherlands. He also spoke earlier in that same week on some research about the "Women of the Mayflower" project, along with genealogists Caleb Johnson and Simon Neale. https://sites.google.com/site/womenofthemayflower/home/announcing-a-presentation-of-new-research He is the author of the 2009 book Stranger and Pilgrims, Travelers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation as well as other books and articles. He is the director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum in the Netherlands.
Please visit this page at the website http://www.sail1620.org/history/articles/226-always-more-pilgrim-books.html for Dr. Bangs 2011 lecture "Always More Pilgrim Books". I remember that at this lecture he had a slide show of all the books mentioned in his lecture, as well as a pile of some of them on his lecturn. He often had to move the books about as he spoke, so he could reference his notes. In my opinion, no matter how many history and genealogy books have been written on the subject of the Pilgrims, there will always be room for more on my bookshelf!
For more information:
Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs http://www.pointloma.edu/sites/default/files/filemanager/Wesleyan_Center/Jeremy_Bangs_CV.pdf
The Leiden American Pilgrim Museum http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~netlapm/Page01.htm
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The General Society of Mayflower Descendants http://www.themayflowersociety.com/
The Pennyslvania Society of Mayflower Descendants http://www.sail1620.org/
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