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CANYON, Texas—Cornette Library at West Texas A&M University is one of 24 libraries in the state of Texas to be awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys, a project of NEH's Bridging Cultures special initiative.
The library will host its first Bookshelf event with the viewing of the film Prince Among Slaves at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4 in Old Main, Room 220. The one-hour film is one of three films included in the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. There will be an introduction to the materials received through the grant, and Dr. Bryan Vizzini, associate professor of history, will facilitate discussion of the film.
The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf is the first in a series of Bridging Culture projects. It includes 25 books and the three films, plus access for one year to Oxford Islamic Studies Online. The materials can be found on the Loan Shelves in Cornette Library and are designed to acquaint the public with Muslim beliefs and practices as well as the cultural heritage of Islamic civilizations. Book titles include Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford, Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi, The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal, Mohammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A. C. Brown and In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar. The Bookshelf was developed by NEH and the American Library Association with the advice of scholars, librarians and other public programming experts.
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Far more likely it represents the normal immigration process in Russia prior to becoming a citizen. Why would he really want to go to South America, Russia is becoming pretty interesting as far as Geeks/Nerds are concerned with Sochi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi [wikipedia.org] becoming a hot spot. All it needs is for Russia to push Sochi as a tech hub due to climate advantages and things could really kick off in the Region. Russia is evolving and with it's unique culture, extreme adventure land in Kamchatka Peninsu
A lot of things that you read in Russian propaganda, both foreign and internal, about things "growing" and "getting interesting", is pure unadulterated BS. Nanotech is a bunch of vaporware, Skolkovo is a flop, and as for Sochi, it has record-breaking numbers of money just vanishing (presumably in the pockets of people running the show).
If I were looking for a place to go on the basis of its future perspectives, South America (esp. Brazil) would definitely rank higher than Russia.
...aaaaaaaaaaand he's gone. Hopefully out of reach of all repressive regimes, including the USA.
Best way to deflect any talk of sanctions is to say like this : "Mr Putin's foreign policy advisor Yury Ushakov said the situation was "rather insignificant" and should not influence relations with the US."
He'd better be careful. If he waits a few more months, he'll be snowed-in and unable to leave at all.
Since the CIA can't outright shoot him, they'll just alter a few videos to make it look like he's gay in Russia.
You mean like they did with Bradley Manning?
You joke, but the military is very quick and free to trot that idea out. "He did it because he is gay" as if being gay makes a person more likely to leak information, I mean, commit treason. Some of Bradley Manning's posts I ran across would seem to show he might indeed be gay. Then it occured to me those posts might be fakes.
The 1989 gun turret explosion on the USS Iowa [wikipedia.org] was a classic. The navy put out this ridiculous hypothesis that Clayton Hartwig, a sailor who died in the disaster, was gay and so sexually frustrated that he was suicidal and deliberately caused the explosion. Under pressure, the navy dropped the gay part but clung on to the idea Hartwig was suicidal and did it on purpose. As the disaster was investigated further, it became even more painfully obvious that the navy was doing a cover up. The real reason was that they were using experimental mixings of explosives that if not rammed slowly could prematurely detonate. Strangest was that the officer the navy picked to lead the investigation was the same guy who made the experimental mix.
And remember, some of the most radical social conservatives advanced this absurd notion that 9/11 happened because America is too tolerant of homosexuality. Just the other day I stopped in at my insurance agent's office and heard Limbaugh on their radio, ranting about the possibility that Trayvon Martin might have been gay and tried to sexually assault Zimmerman. I don't expect any better of those retards, but we should have smarter military leaders than that. No General Boykins! May be hard to do. I suppose a military career is attractive to simpletons who think force is a good answer to most problems.
Just the other day I stopped in at my insurance agent's office and heard Limbaugh on their radio, ranting about the possibility that Trayvon Martin might have been gay and tried to sexually assault Zimmerman.
You misheard. Apparently, Limbaugh was claiming the possibility that martin was a gay basher, not gay himself. I am not justifying those comments, but if you are going to call out someone for being an idiot, it helps to call them out for the right reason.
Why can't the CIA shoot him?
Because everyone would see right through that, and it would cause a major international incident. Discrediting is so much more effective, and much less risky. When the head of the IMF starts challenging the primacy of the U.S. dollar [guardian.co.uk] for example, you don't assassinate him. Way too messy and risky. Instead, you arrange [washingtonpost.com] for something a little more subtle, but just as effective.
"There may be a time where it would be constructive to try and meet and
Seems resolved to me. What remains to be sorted out:
* who is accountable for all of the laws broken by the NSA
* what programs they still have in place which are illegal
* when these illegal programs will be terminated
Let's not forget, if the NSA/US had followed the letter of the law, Snowden's claims would have been pointless.
The problem with the idea of "due process" on this is that I find it very difficult to believe that the government would even acknowledge that the NSA has been breaking the law. The lens through which Snowden's actions need to be interpreted is that of whether the government was or was not breaking the law and hiding behind classification.
A subject upon which the government and a growing segment of the populace seem to disgree rather vehemently.
Exactly. The government is viewing this as "Guy exposed classified programs to the world including our enemies. This helped our enemies and hurt us therefore he needs to be punished severely." This is true (up until "therefore..."), the mitigating factor of the program being extremely illegal is completely overlooked. In fact, worse than overlooked, it's being actively ignored and the rest of the story trumpeted over and over to give the impression that the "government version" of the story is the ONLY version of the story.
Ha, I can answer those now:
* who is accountable for all of the laws broken by the NSA
No one will be.
* what programs they still have in place which are illegal
None will ever be found so.
* when these illegal programs will be terminated
Just as soon their differently-named successors that do the exact same thing are ready.
>Just as soon their differently-named successors that do the exact same thing are ready.
Now you're just being pessimistic. Data processing is a rapidly advancing field - I'm sure the successors will be be much more effective.
Unless of course the population organizes and raises it's voice against these abuses.
I'm sorry, which programs were illegal and which laws were broken? I'm sure you missed the news that these laws were written and passed by the House and Senate, funded by same, and just recently re-affirmed in the House.
See, that's the thing about "laws" - they're written by the legislature and confirmed by the executive branch. Unless and until the judicial branch finds them to be technically inadequate or violating the constitution, they ARE the law. It's how a representative democracy works. Or would you rather have a dictatorship, a monarchy? Perhaps you hold up Russia as a shining light of transparency, liberty, and justice?
In 1930 India was still under Britsh rule and it was forbidden to produce your own salt. This was the law.
Some indian guy thought this law was morally and ethically wrong and marched to the sea and produced his own salt.
Back then types like you when all nuts with 'He broke the law!'.
Today very few would argue that what Ghandi did was wrong.
Is the case against Snowden exactly the same? No, if only because the most brilliant part of Ghandi's actions were its shear simplicity.
But it does show that breaking the Law, no matter who wrote it, is not by definition the wrong thing to do.
He would be thrown incommunicado into a U.S. prison and never let out again if he ever came back here. We all know his trial would just be a show trial.
The 1 year asylum means they get to pump him for information for the next year and have an exclusive on any information he produces. What information he has is perishable and the US public will forget about this and he will be useless to the Russians by then. They will then decide not to grant permanent asylum and expel him from Russia. He will be right back where he is now but with no spotlight to protect him and a pile of useless information.
http://rt.com/news/snowden-entry-papers-russia-902/ [rt.com]
Although it's almost the same as bbc/reuters
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume Russia actually has some interest in abstract justice for Snowden. (Yeah, I know, they are probably more interested in being able to accuse the US of abuses so they can excuse their own - I'm sure we can paint the Russian decision in all sorts of unflattering lights - Hell, just claim it's really the third step in their nefarious plan for world domination and comes just after "build secret base in active volcano" and just before "kill Bond in elaborate but unsuper
What illegal activity has Snowden actually revealed? The leaked slides I've read so far indicate the NSA are:
Can someone please calmly and rationally clarify or illuminate evidence which suggests or proves the
Collecting data sent in the clear across public networks
Phone calls are sent in the clear across public networks. It's illegal for the government to listen to them without a warrant.
I found this in Wiki [wikipedia.org]. Your question posed one of my own which was this, is a letter, a paper correspondence covered by the 4th. It would seem so by a ruling from the SCOTUS:
No law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the Postal Service any authority to invade the secrecy of letters and such sealed packages in the mail; and all regulations adopted as to mail matter of this kind must be in subordination to the great principle embodied in the fourth amendment of the Constitution.[4]
Now you raised a side thought which related to companies like FedEx, UPS, et al. If I send a package via a private (meaning public) company, not the Postal Service, is it too covered under the 4th. I could not find anything specific, but it would seem to cover them as well.
So we have an expectation of privacy with paper mail such tha
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Anderson Silva stopped Stephan Bonnar with a knee to the body with 20 seconds left in the first round Saturday night, winning his 17th consecutive fight in front of his home fans at UFC 153.
Silva (31-4) showed off his usual dominance while stopping Bonnar (17-8) for the first time in the veteran's career. Silva stalked Bonnar before hurting him with a knee and finishing him with punches.
Silva is the UFC's longtime middleweight champion, but he moved up to light heavyweight for the third time in his career. The Spider did it on just a few weeks' notice, agreeing to take on Bonnar after several fighters dropped off the UFC 153 card because of injuries.
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9-14-05 - A federal agency has said that operators of the Longhorn pipeline cannot delay indefinitely a mandated inspection of the 700-mile gas line.
The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration responded Tuesday to concerns by Austin city officials that the delay could threaten the safety of the pipeline, which stretches from Houston to El Paso.
Earlier this year, Longhorn Partners Pipeline LP said flow through the pipeline was insufficient to conduct a safety inspection for corrosion and structural problems.
But Brigham McCown, acting administrator of the agency, said in a statement that "an indefinite delay does not provide an adequate level of protection for the citizens and environmental areas located in the vicinity of the Longhorn pipeline system."
A 2000 federal plan that allowed the company to open the pipeline required the inspection.
Company spokeswoman Gina Johnson said company officials had not yet reviewed the decision.
Mayor Will Wynn applauded the federal action.
"I'm proud that they stuck to their guns," he said in a story in Tuesday's online edition of the Austin American-Statesman.


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Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:29 AM
Employees of Bippus State Bank, in Huntington, are winding up a year of giving to the community.
They contributed $600 to Love INC's Back to School Fair in August.
Throughout the year, Bippus State Bank employees are given the opportunity to wear jeans to work on Fridays for a $2 donation to their jeans fund.
This money is then used throughout the year to give back to those in the community who are less fortunate by purchasing jeans and other clothing.
During the Christmas season, Bippus also adopts local families through Love INC.
This year, Bippus State Bank donated $980 to adopt and purchase meals for five families and purchase and wrap gifts for the 16 children in these families.
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We got to meet with the folks from Sprig Toys, a new company that is scheduled to launch a line of action vehicles for the 4 & up crowd. The vehicles will be chunky and rugged–nothing ground breaking in that department–but what is a huge departure is the method and technology that they will use. The trucks will be made from re-purposed plastic and wood. Literally made of saw dust–the vehicles have a strong green component, but not one the company feels is the key to their company–just their way of doing business. Cool.
The action figures will plug into the vehicles via a USB port built into the vehicles and from there the vehicles can suggest "adventures" for the child to participate in. From our point of view the directed play mode is not that important since we strongly believe that kids can generate their own adventures. It was clear that the folks from Sprig think so too–and therefore you can turn off the directed play mode.
The lights and sounds are generated by the motion of the vehicle (not batteries). Also clever. The "electronic base" in each vehicle can also be removed for repair and perhaps, most importantly for smart recycling. Much like a toner cartridge, you can take this component out of the vehicle and not just send it to the landfill. All good.
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LAKE IN THE HILLS – Village officials are looking for a new finance director, as its former finance director left to take a job in DeKalb County.
Pete Stefan resigned last week after he was appointed the finance director of DeKalb County, which will pay him $110,000 a year, according to DeKalb County Board meeting minutes. He is scheduled to start his new job on Monday.
Stefan earned $125,000 a year in his Lake in the Hills position, Village Administrator Gerald Sagona said.
Stefan had been with the village for more than a decade, Sagona said.
Sagona said Stefan was at the high end of the of the salary range for the position.
The Village Board on Thursday appointed Assistant Finance Director Robert Miller as the interim finance director while the search goes on. Miller, who earns $92,000 a year, will receive a 10 percent increase in pay during the interim period.
Miller previously has filled in for an interim basis during a medical leave of absence, Sagona wrote in a memo to the Village Board.
The village is accepting applications through the end of the month.
"We like to move quickly to find a replacement," Sagona said.
The village is looking for someone with at least six years of progressive municipal finance experience, who also is a certified public accountant, Sagona said.
"We're looking for somebody with strong management skills, ability to keep the books balanced, creative thinking will be beneficial," Sagona said. "We're interested in getting the best individual in the position."
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Copeland Furniture, just down the road from us in Bradford, Vermont is famous for it's modern, contemporary solid wood bedroom furniture. A couple years ago, Copeland introduced the new Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection of authentic reproduction prairie-style furniture designed by America's foremost architect.
Well, now Copeland is introducing another new series of high end furniture, The Catalina Walnut Dining Room Collection.
If you're already a fan of Catalina's mid-century modern bedroom furniture, home office furniture, and TV-media furniture, I think you're going to love the dining furniture collection.
The tables, chairs and buffets are all in sync with Catalina's retro-modern shapes and sensibilities, relying on simple, elegant lines that have just enough curve-- but not too much. Walnut is the only wood used for the Catalina collection and it is available in both natural wood (as shown) or in a darker slate-on-walnut stain. Dennis and Manjula are working feverishly to get all of the Catalina dining collection pieces up on our website and ready for purchase by week's end. In the meantime, if you have any questions, give us a call.
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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has told his younger players that they must learn from club captain Steven Gerrard if they want to perform at the highest level.
Rodgers was unhappy with the younger players after Liverpool's shock FA Cup defeat to Oldham on Sunday, and he sent Gerrard on to try and inspire Liverpool to victory.
Gerrard, 32, almost did too, striking the crossbar which would have levelled the tie and left the game finely poised.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Rodgers said: "Sunday hurt, very much so. But as the manager it gives you even greater motivation to push on. You learn things about players because if we're going to progress we need to make sure we have a group that's hungry in every game.
"It's where the admiration of the likes of a Steven Gerrard and the Jamie Carraghers of this world comes from. You look at Steven on Sunday - take away his quality, just his sheer enthusiasm for the game."
Rodgers was quick to praise the impact of his influential skipper, with Liverpool's performance improving significantly following Gerrard's introduction.
"He absolutely flipped the game on its head," said Rodgers. "It was fantastic but he does that every day of his life, and that's why he's a world-class player.
"Our young players, they won't have a greater role model to follow, and they're in pole position to learn, because they're seeing him every single day.
"If they're bright enough, they'll learn from him, and then hopefully they can be here for a long time."
Rodgers warned his young starlets that they must improve by learning from the likes of Gerrard if they are to remain with the Anfield giants.
He added: "They might find themselves playing in League One later on in their life, and they'll regret the opportunity they had of looking at a world-class player every day and learning."
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Vealand depicts on the raising of veal calves, where infant cows are chained in wood crates in order to restrict their movement resulting in a more tender meat. In an attempt to reveal qualities present in a veal factory farm, I have reduced the work to focus on the three elements I view as inherent to the process of calf production; scale, repetition, and the idea of confinement. These elements are present within the sheds the animals are raised in. I used the veal crate as a starting point and have further reduced the sculptures from there in an attempt to show factory farmings minimalist structure. Each sculpture also works to show the vast scale on which factory farming operates, and the repetition of the animals in their crates. The work is vibrantly colored in an attempt to create a child-like feeling, which draws attention to the fact that veal calves raised and slaughtered are in fact children themselves. My color choices are derived from objects of youth such as crayon and marker sets in addition to board games, in particular Candyland.
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crispibits wrote:That's quite a broad request!!! Can you narrow it down a bit to, say, what you need help with?
nelz wrote:What sort of laptop do you want? One that's small and light with good battery life. A "desktop replacement" laptop? What do you want to use if for? Where do you want to use it? Choosing a laptop is so much more involved that a desktop. Building your own just adds to the choices.
nelz wrote:'Desktop replacement' is incompatible with small and good battery life. You either want a small economical machine or a big powerful one.
Why do you want to build one?
goeppingen wrote:nelz wrote:'Desktop replacement' is incompatible with small and good battery life. You either want a small economical machine or a big powerful one.
Why do you want to build one?
If not that`s why I like to build my own and later time that I can upgrade CpU.
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AS5002WLMi-AMD Turion64 1.6ghz can I upgrade the cpu can I?
nelz wrote:If you want to be able to upgrade the CPU, choose a motherboard that lets you do so. This question is best directed at the suppliers of the various motherboards you are interested in.
crispibits wrote:Probably best to check Linux On Laptops for advice on which works best for you. For what it's worth I use an Averatec 6220 with 512Mb RAM, AMD Sempron 2400+ and 60Gb HDD. It's fine for what I want to do on it (coding Java, vector graphics, html etc) but if you want to play games it would be *very* poor. I get about 2 hours out of it and it's 2.68Kg, and 2.5 cms thick, so that gives some idea of dimensions and weight. I run Ubuntu on it, and everything worked straight out of the box, even wireless networking. Hope this helps
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PADUCAH, Ky. -- Sophomore Amanda Randolph shot the lowest round of the tournament Tuesday for the Tennessee Tech women's golf team, posting a two-over par 74 to wrap up play in 32nd place at the 54hole Drake Creek Invitational hosted by Murray State.
After opening with an 82, senior Carley Rhyne rallied to post back-to-back scores of 76 and finish as Tech's top individual in 19th place as the Golden Eagles took seventh place in the team standings.
Morehead State, which led from wire-to-wire, claimed the team championship with an 893 total score, 16 shots better than runnerup Western Kentucky (909). Host Murray State (926) was third, followed by Eastern Kentucky (931), Belmont (939), Austin Peay (940), Tech (950) and Lipscomb (962).
Rhyne closed with a 234 total, 16 strokes behind medalist Emma Jonsson from Morehead State. Sophomore Katherine Bell, who also opened with an 82, finished tied for 25th place for the Golden Eagles by adding scores of 77 and 78 for a 237 total.
Randolph's final round of 74 came after shooting 82 and 83 in the first two rounds, giving her a 239 total. Freshman Amber Shepherd was 39th at 245 and Brandy Van Etten, another freshman, placed 42nd at 248.
In individual play, freshman Ericka Wann was 34th at 242, freshman Katy Beth Glover was 49th at 255, and senior Lindsay Spradlen was one spot back in 50th place at 256.
Wann and Van Etten, both playing in their first collegiate tournament, had the highlights of the tournament for coach Brandy Stout's team. Each posted an eagle, two of just three eagles in the 3,186 holes played in the event.
Tech plays this weekend at the Great Smokies Invitational.
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Brick Police Seek Convenience Store Robber
The Brick Township Police Department is investigating two armed robberies that occurred early Sunday morning.
The first armed robbery occurred at approximately 4:20 a.m., at the 7-11 convenience store located on State Hwy 88 and Midstreams Rd. A subject wearing a ski mask entered the store, brandished a knife and demanded money from the store employee.
As the store employee began to turn over money to the suspect, he attempted to pull the ski mask off the suspect. The suspect then raised the knife towards the employee. The employee retreated into the office, at which time the suspect fled with no proceeds.
The second armed robbery occurred a short time later, approximately 5:20 a.m., at the Wawa convenience store located at 6 Lanes Mill Road in Brick. The suspect in this robbery also brandished a knife and demanded money from the store employee. The employee activated an alarm, at which time the suspect left the store with no proceeds.
The suspect in both robberies is believed to be the same person. He is described as a white male, approx. 20-30 years of age, 5'8"-5'10" tall, black hair w/shaved sides, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and white sneakers. It is also believed the suspect may be operating a 4 door Blue Dodge Dakota pick-up truck.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Daniel Waleski from the Brick Township Police Department Investigations Unit at 732-262-1120 or the main police number, 732-262-1100.


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Review: Mercedes-Benz A-Class diesel
Driven September 2013
We've said this earlier when we tested the A-Class Sport in August, and we'll say it again: "If looks could kill, the A-Class would be behind bars". Look at this Mercedes hatchback from any angle and it looks exceptional. The styling is a radical departure from the conventional Merc designs we've become used to. Safe to say this is the best looking Mercedes yet.
So then, after spending nearly a quarter of an hour ogling its curves and character lines, we finally take the best seat in the house – more on that in a bit. For now, the interior. Even among premium hatchbacks, it'll be hard to find a cabin as attractive as this one – can't go wrong with a design inspired by the SLS AMG's now, can you?
But we've noticed one thing – there's a vast difference between the front and rear seats. The front seats are extremely supportive and comfortable, and you can adjust the driver's seat in whatever manner you wish to. It can also memorise up to three individual settings.
Slide on to the rear seat and you realise it's only half as interesting as the front. The low-set seat is comfortable, but a little too upright. The bench is on the shorter side and lacks thigh support. Plus, the huge front seats obstruct most of the frontal view, and both, the windows and the rear windscreen are small. Apart from operating the rear window switches and cursing the people sitting ahead, there's not much to do at the back.
The A featured here is the A180 CDI Style, powered by a four-cylinder 2.2-litre turbodiesel that churns out a modest 107bhp and 250Nm. That may not sound great on paper, but coupled to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, the A180 CDI can push off in some style.
Start the motor, and you're greeted by that typical diesel murmur while idling, which easily makes it into the cabin. And slotting the 7G DTC 'box into D and stepping on the gas only makes things louder. And it's not exactly music to the ears. Not to ours, at least. Also, you won't be pushed back into your seat when you take off – acceleration from standstill isn't great. The A180 CDI Style does 0-100kph in 9.9sec, making it 0.15sec slower than its petrol sibling.
But this diesel motor isn't about outright performance. The manner in which it builds up speed and the way the seven-speed 'box responds to your right foot indicates how relaxed and well mannered this four-pot motor is.
It is not a car you want to take to a drag strip, but it can surely spice things up on the roads, where it will spend most of its living years. Driving in the city is effortless, since power delivery is quite linear and available from as low as 1500rpm. Part-throttle response is quite adequate to amble around town. And while you're doing that, you could bask in the glory of the A-Class's stunning looks.
However, out on the highway, the engine and gearbox combination doesn't feel all that impressive. D mode comes across as leisurely for the occasion, and S mode also doesn't feel as quick as you want a dual-clutch transmission to be. But then, there's a manual mode that obeys your commands quite well. Still, it's heartbreaking to see the 2,143cc motor – which does duty in the C-, E- and M-class – detuned for this A-Class. For once, the A rides and handles like a wannabe sportscar, and when you're in the mood to take things to the other side of sanity, the lack of outright power is evident.
That brings us to ride and handling, which is a mixed bag. The heavy steering wheel weighs up well with an increase in speeds, but feels a bit weighty at city speeds. Also, the A-Class points its nose in whatever direction you want it to.
The stiffer suspension setup is all good while cruising at high speeds, taking a fast corner or navigating twisty hill roads. But it comes at the cost of low-speed ride, which is a bit choppy. Still, that's a small price to pay for the bucket loads of fun that the A-Class diesel promises to be on open road. For those who won't sleep well until they hear of the efficiency figures – the A180 CDI returned a healthy 11.9kpl in the city, and 16.1kpl on the highway.
The Indian in you will also like the fact that Mercedes has priced the diesel variant cheaper than the petrol. At Rs 21.93 lakh (ex-showroom, Mumbai), the A180 CDI Style is almost a lakh cheaper than the petrol variant. But then, apart from the various active and passive safety features, the Sport variant gets the additional panoramic sunroof and signature diamond grille. In the Style variant featured here, that grille is an optional extra.
If you're looking for a Mercedes-Benz that'll fit into a relatively smaller garage without drying up your bank balance, this new A should do the trick. Yes, it's a hatchback that costs upwards of Rs 20 lakh, but then, it is one stunning looking package, offering luxury associated with cars in higher segments. Plus, its sporty drive and excellent handling manners are definitely worth it.
The numbers
4cyl, 2143cc turbodiesel, 107bhp, 250Nm, FWD, 7A, 0-100kph – 9.9s, 30-50kph – 1.86s, 50-70kph – 2.86s, city kpl: 11.9, highway kpl: 16.1, 80-0kph – 26.81m /2.74s, 190kph*, Rs 21.93 lakh (ex-showroom, Mumbai)
The verdict
Don't look at the A as the cheapest Merc. Look at it as a premium hatch with luxury and class in an attractive package. And for once, the diesel variant is cheaper than the petrol.
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ReInvent Law Dubai 2012: Unconference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship will be held 10 December 2012 at Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE, according to an announcement at Computational Legal Studies.
The event's organizers will be Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake, both of the Michigan State University College of Law and its new ReInvent Law Laboratory.
According to the event brochure:
ReInvent Law Dubai is an (un)conference focusing on law, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Building upon the success of the recent London event, leaders in the fields of law, technology and beyond will come together to share ideas about innovation in the delivery of legal services.
This event is Free, Open and Participatory. Anyone can propose a topic. Entrepreneurs, new media/technology enthusiasts, legal professionals, social networkers, and those curious about future innovation in law and technology will want to attend.
The Michigan State University College of Law Graduate Program at MSU Dubai is a primary sponsor.
For more information, please see the announcement.
HT @computational.


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text: The new Mia bike is designed in New York City and crafted in Taiwan using the same technology behind MCC's signature manual bikes, the SRAM Automatix (2 gear transmission) with a coaster break. Crafted in steel alloy and aluminum, this new more-compact model weighs a mere 19 lbs (9 kilos) with packaging and 11 lbs (5 kilos) without packaging. The Mia is one size only 20" wheels and also offered with a miniature version of the ultra-coveted Martone basket.


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I am surprised at the level of praise James Harden and the Houston Rocket have been receiving post-trade; I am even more surprised how people forget that Kevin Martin is a solid player, and also a better scorer than James Harden. Now, judging by the players/draft picks Houston gave up to get Harden, the Rockets seem prepared to give him a max contract. Harden is a good player when either Durant or Westbrook is on the floor but he is terrible when neither is playing. Harden is not a franchise player, he just happened to be in a great situation where the little he contributed looked big to outsiders. I disagree with most that Houston got the better of the trade, I actually think OKC are better off now (Martin is a better scorer) and in the future (2 first round draft picks). I am confused as to the direction the Rockets are going as of late, are they rebuilding or are they just adding everyone else's seconds? They previously gave Lin a huge contract and now they trade for Harden? those two players have the potential to give up 15 turn-overs per game.
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Larval habitat associations with human land uses, roads, rivers, and land cover for Anopheles albimanus, A. pseudopunctipennis, and A. punctimacula (Diptera: Culicidae) in coastal and highland Ecuador (Frontiers, 2012-03-20)Larval habitat for three highland Anopheles species: Anopheles albimanus Wiedemann, Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald, and Anopheles punctimacula Dyar and Knab was related to human land uses, rivers, roads, and remotely ...
Some Travelling Wave Solutions of KdV-Burgers Equation (Hikari Ltd, 2012)In this paper we study the extended Tanh method to obtain some exact solutions of KdV-Burgers equation. The principle of the Tanh method has been explained and then apply to the nonlinear KdV- Burgers evolution equation. ...
Transposable Elements Are a Significant Contributor to Tandem Repeats in the Human Genome (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012-04-11)Sequence repeats are an important phenomenon in the human genome, playing important roles in genomic alteration often with phenotypic consequences. The two major types of repeat elements in the human genome are tandem ...
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Microsoft Lets Best Buy Sell Surface Tablet, But Not Channel Partners
From a Microsoft channel partner's perspective, what's worse: Not being allowed to sell the Surface tablet, or seeing a loathed big-box retailer get that privilege?
That's what happened this week when Microsoft, in a slight widening of its initial Surface tablet distribution plan, began letting Best Buy and Staples carry the device. Microsoft says it's boosting production of Surface tablets, so perhaps this is a case of it needing more distribution hands on deck. Or, it could be that Surface sales through Microsoft stores and kiosks aren't cutting it, and the software giant is turning to companies that specialize in moving computing equipment.


text: The days are already shorter. The air is acquiring a sharper bite. It's hard to imagine the grey, cold indifference of winter could offer up one of Mother Nature's sweetest gifts. But winter does have its treats. Sometimes you just have to go prospecting a little harder to find them. Maybe even deep inside a tree. It's really all about …Read More »


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Ludwick gets RBI, Reds beat Diamondbacks 5-3
Ludwick gets RBI, Reds beat Diamondbacks 5-3Cincinnati Reds' Ryan Ludwick, right, is tagged out between third and home by Arizona Diamondbacks shortstop Didi Gregorius, left, after Bronson Arroyo grounded into a fielders choice in the fourth inning during a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/David Kohl)
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Ryan Ludwick had a bag of ice wrapped on his right shoulder, the one that's prevented him from doing much of anything all season. It seems to be finally coming around, just like his team.
Ludwick drove in his first run of the season with a double, and the Cincinnati Reds kept up their August surge, beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Monday night for their seventh win in nine games.
The Reds moved 17 games over .500, matching their season high and keeping the pressure on Pittsburgh and St. Louis in the NL Central race.
''We've been playing pretty well since I came back,'' said Ludwick, who returned from shoulder surgery a week ago. ''We were 5-2 on the road trip, and we beat the team that's behind us in the wild-card standings, so that's a good start to the series.''
It's an important four-game series for Arizona, which now trails Cincinnati by six games for the final NL wild card spot. The Diamondbacks have won five of their last seven games, but can't afford to lose any more ground.
''We're hoping to win the next three - that's our goal,'' catcher Wil Nieves said.
Bronson Arroyo (12-9) won his third straight start, allowing three runs in six innings. Aaron Hill hit a solo homer, extending his hitting streak to 12 games.
J.J. Hoover retired the side in the eighth, his 23rd straight scoreless appearance - a club record and the longest active streak in majors.
Aroldis Chapman gave up a pair of singles in the ninth while getting his 31st save in 36 chances. It was the left-hander's first appearance since he gave up a two-run homer to Jonathan Lucroy for a 7-6 loss in Milwaukee on Friday night.
Ludwick got his long-awaited RBI during a three-run fourth inning against Randall Delgado (4-4), who had won his last three decisions. The left fielder tore cartilage in his right shoulder while sliding headfirst into third base on opening day.
He returned a week ago and had a pair of singles in 14 at-bats on a road trip, showing a lot of rust from his long layoff while recovering from surgery. Manager Dusty Baker has dropped him from the cleanup spot to sixth in the order while he gets his swing straightened out.
He doubled down the line at third base during the three-run fourth inning, his first RBI since a solo homer off Matt Cain during San Francisco's 6-4 win in Game 5 of their divisional playoff series at Great American Ball Park last Oct. 11.
''I actually felt a little better tonight,'' Ludwick said. ''I don't know if it was being home in familiar surroundings or what.
''It's baby steps. It's a process. You feel like you want it all at once. You want to hit a home run in every one of your first 10 at-bats. Obviously, it's a rhythm and timing issue. Tonight, I felt like I had a pretty good rhythm at the plate.''
The Reds could use a consistent right-handed run producer in their lefty-dominated lineup. Ludwick led the offense when Joey Votto missed most of the second half of last season with a knee injury, leading the Reds to the NL Central title.
''Like I've said, our best days are ahead of us,'' Baker said. ''We've just got to keep winning in the meantime.''
The Diamondbacks were coming off a 16-inning, 4-2 win in Pittsburgh that left their bullpen worn down. They needed a solid start from Delgado, who came up short.
Todd Frazier hit a solo homer. Brandon Phillips had a triple among his three hits off Delgado and scored a pair of runs. Zack Cozart drove in two with a sacrifice fly and a groundout, helping the Reds pull ahead 5-1 after five innings.
The Diamondbacks loaded the bases in the sixth, and Martin Prado singled for a pair of runs that cut it to 5-3. Arroyo allowed seven hits but didn't walk a batter for the third straight start.
Notes: Diamondbacks C Miguel Montero, on the DL since Aug. 1 with a strained lower back, is scheduled to catch on Wednesday, take a day off, then catch Friday and Saturday. He'll be evaluated then. ... LH Matt Reynolds, on the DL since June 10 with a strained left elbow, is playing catch but hasn't thrown off a mound. ... Hill is 8-for-21 career against Arroyo with three homers. ... Phillips is 8-for-16 during a four-game hitting streak. ... Cozart leads the NL with nine sacrifice flies. ... The Diamondbacks will start LH Patrick Corbin, who hasn't won on the road since June 2, in the second game of the series. LH Tony Cingrani makes his first career appearance against the Diamondbacks.
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January 4, 2011 > The Bookworm: Best Of 2010
Doesn't it seem like everybody in the world is weighing in with their Official Best of the Year list? Yeah, well, here's mine. Here are my Top Picks, Can't Miss 'Em, Go Back and Find Them Books for 2010...Fiction:"One Good Dog" by Susan Wilson - I read about 320 books a year, and I've done that for the last decade or so. This book makes my Top Ten List EVER. "One Good Dog" is the story of a man who has everything and loses it, a dog who has nothing and loses it, and how these two souls come together. If you only read one book this winter, make it this one."Wench" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Set in the mid-1800s, this is the heartbreaking story of four Black women who are mistresses to their Masters. When they travel to what is technically a free state, they must decide to escape or stay. This is one of those books that hurts to read, but it hurts good."Tempted by Trouble" by Eric Jerome Dickey - I'm normally not a big fan of Eric Jerome Dickey, but this book blew me away. "Tempted by Trouble" is the story of a man who's down on his luck due to the economy. When his wife finds him a job, it's not exactly the kind that's legal. This book is fast-paced, violent, harsh, and I loved every page of it. Be aware that you may have to read the ending twice to "get it", but when you do...."Room" by Emma Donoghue - What would you think if you were suddenly thrust in a world you'd only known through what you saw on TV? That's the premise of this book with shades of newsy headlines. "Room" takes a little getting used to at first - the language is different enough to make you wonder what you got yourself into - but stick with it. You won't be sorry."Horns" by Joe Hill - Pretty much everybody knows by now that Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. The good news is that he's a chip off the old block, but better. "Horns" is the story of a man who wakes up with fresh protuberances on his noggin. Surprised and a little dismayed, he decides to go ahead and use them. This book is funny, in a dark kind of way, and creepy times ten.Non-Fiction:"In the Shadow of Freedom by Tchicaya Mossamou - This true story of a man who escaped being killed as a child soldier, escaped Civil War in his African homeland, came to America - knowing no English - and became a decorated soldier is one that will make you gasp and cheer. It's a page-turner, and you'll swell with incredible pride... but it's not for the faint of heart. "Orange is the New Black" by Piper Kerman - When Kerman was nailed for a crime she committed years before, she spent another six years awaiting sentencing. This is the story of an upper-class woman and the youthful mistake she made, her time in prison, and how she coped. It's an educated peek at something most of us are curious about but will never get to see, thankfully."Ah-Choo" by Jennifer Ackerman - Maybe it's because of the season. Maybe it's just because I love this kind of reading material. But this not-at-all-stuffy look at the common cold just tickled me. "Drive" by Daniel Pink - What makes you do what you do? This fun business book explains why we perform tasks that have no intrinsic value other than because they're enjoyable. Read it, pass it along to the boss, then see if you can try the business-forward methods Pink explains. You'll never hate getting up in the morning again."Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things" by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee - I'm a big fan of "Hoarders", so I was pretty excited to read this book - and for good reason: "Stuff" is like the TV show on paper, but with a psychologist's running commentary. I loved this look inside the homes and heads of hoarders, and I loved that this book was written with the layperson in mind, which means it's easy to understand.Children's"Back of the Bus" by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Floyd Cooper - Kids that are caught in the midst of something monumental rarely understand the significance of what they're living. This book tells the story of a young boy who witnesses the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, but he's more focused on his favorite toy... or is he? Your kids will love the illustrations. You'll love the story."The Butt Book" by Artie Bennett, illustrated by Mike Lester - If you didn't have a butt, what would happen? This poetic paean to a little-appreciated body part explains the various benefits of having a behind, and I predict that it will be a big hit in your house. The pictures are guaranteed giggle-worthy, and the poem itself will make your kids want to hear it again and again. "Two the Hard Way" by Travis Hunter - It's not easy staying out of trouble, if trouble seems to find you easy enough. This story of two brothers living in Atlanta's inner city is filled with grit and grace, and the characters are real: they cry, they'll admit they're afraid, and they own up to their mistakes. Meant for teens - specifically boys - adults will enjoy this book just as much.And there you are: thirteen very excellent reasons to get to the bookstore to use that gift certificate you got as a gift, or to spend your Christmas money.Happy Reading!


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I wrote this list of things about myself for my other blog, The Zees Go West. I think it tells the story of me as well as anything else I could tell you, especially since I've already written down the bare facts and statistics in My Own Genealogical Record, elsewhere on this blog.
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1. I have plumbing issues. I'm still afraid of the bathtub drain, and I secretly believe that one day a snake will swim up out of my toilet.
2. My father came from Worcester, Massachusetts and only completed 8th grade, making education for us kids of prime importance to him. We disappointed him a lot but he still loved us.
3. My mother came from a farm family with thirteen children and she didn't want to talk about it.
4. My parents moved me from my birth state of Maine to California when I was three months old, thus making me officially rootless. I have lived in four other states and one Canadian province. I keep an atlas handy at all times and am always planning my next move.
5. I was born near the shore of the Atlantic Ocean and grew up in San Francisco, one block from the Pacific Ocean.
6. I learned many of the skills I needed from books.
7. I can make a blanket from the sheep onwards.
8. I used to have milk goats and that one goat, Lily, and I have been known to make a big ruckus out in the barn. She always waited until the milk pail was full before delicately placing her hoof right into it.
9. I believed that book about raising backyard goats and really thought they would weed around the fruit trees for me.
10. During the same period of my life, I once turned the geese into the strawberry patch because another homesteading book said they would clean the weeds between the rows.
11. I know to never turn your back on a gander and I didn't have to learn that out of a book.
12. I once sheared a sheep by hand with manual clippers, but only the back half. My hand got tired. She looked like a lion.
13. I can give a sheep a shot, but it makes me nervous. It makes the sheep nervous, too.
14. I once owned a weaving store and taught spinning and weaving.
15. I think chickens are fascinating and I can sit and watch them for hours. Their behavior is a metaphor for something that I am still trying to figure out.
16. I once startled a skunk when reaching into a nest to get the eggs out.
17. I helped deliver a lamb in a dark barn while reading the directions, with a flashlight, from yet another homesteading book.
18. In my first garden I planted several rows of corn (reading the directions as I went along) with my little bantam chickens for company. While I was busy looking at the book, the banties were scratching up and eating the corn--another lesson learned about companion animals.
19. One of my favorite things to do (I have a quiet life) is to consider the alternate words offered by autocorrect. For instance, it wanted me to change the word "banties" in the previous sentence into "panties." Imagine.
20. I honestly believe that I am psychic, but only with my sister, and only some of the time.
21. I used to live in a house that had four fireplaces and was built in 1770. All of the people who had lived there over the centuries had left some little part of themselves behind. There was always lots of company.
22. I hated swimming for years because I was sent to lessons at a vast outdoor unheated salt water pool in cold and foggy San Francisco. The thought of swimming made my teeth chatter.
23. I kind of like swimming now, but only where I can see my feet.
24. I went back to school to finish my bachelor's degree when I was in my fifties. My father would have been proud, but it was too late to tell him.
25. I got my master's degree when I was 56.
26. I've always had a secret soundtrack running in my head, describing my adventures as I was having them. (She leaned a little closer to the bathtub drain. What was that slithering sound? Something was coming…)
27. My first library job was driving a bookmobile.
28. My last library job was teaching information technology to reluctant 8th graders.
29. While skiing long ago in a headlong and out of control fashion down a bunny hill, I made a promise to myself to give up extreme sports.
30. I have a sister-in-law who once jumped out of an airplane. That's extreme enough for me.
31. I once stepped on a snake while running barefoot down a California sidewalk.
32. I have never been bitten by a snake, but expect to be momentarily.
33. I have six dogs. I don't even like dogs. I might be mistaken, but I thought I was a cat person.
34. Just in case, I have three cats.
35. In an unrelated development, I have had several husbands as well, nice men all. We are still in touch.
36. Beez and I have been married for 32 years and have forgotten to celebrate most of our anniversaries. We remembered the 25th because we were in Yellowstone with some of our kids and grandkids and they reminded us. The 30th was lovely because we went to France.
37. My children's and stepchildren's names are in alphabetical order, but not because of any planned cuteness. The blended family just turned out that way: Angelina, Becka, Ben, Chris, and Dee.
38. I only like to watch non-scary movies. Years ago I decided that life was scary enough.
39. I learned to knit from a book.
40. I have made 110 sweaters for Knit for Kids.
41. I learned how to bake bread from a book. It has taken me years of practice to make a nice light loaf. Ask my first husband, who used to say that one of his arms was longer than the other from carrying the sandwiches I packed for his lunch.
42. I once lived in Canada.
43. When I lived in British Columbia, my California friends believed that I was somewhere in South America. Others, who understood that I had moved somewhere up north, believed that I was living in an igloo.
44. Now that I live in New Mexico, some of my eastern friends believe I am in a foreign country where only Spanish is spoken.
45. I used to lie on a hill all night and take photographic time exposures of meteor showers.
46. A group of people entrusted me to develop their meteor shower photos. I switched the hypo and developer solutions by accident and ended up with clear strips of film.
47. I had a friend who traveled to Europe and asked me to water his plants while he was gone. I used the jug of photo chemicals that was next to the jug of plant watering solution by mistake.
48. I learned to make pies out of a book when I was 11. Once, when my parents were out, I baked ten apple pies for the freezer.
49. Another time when my parents were out, I ate too many home baked cinnamon buns and threw up. Good thing no one had thought of eating disorders back then.
50. I learned to make replacement cinnamon buns from a book.
51. Having political discussions gives me a stomach ache, not unlike the one I got from the cinnamon buns. I know what I believe and can't understand that everyone else hasn't gotten with the program. My program.
52. Long ago, I was sleeping naked when my apartment caught on fire. That was bad, but not as frightening for everyone concerned as it would be if it happened now.
53. My first car was a 1951 Chevrolet that my father sold to me for $200.
54. I always wanted to be a cowgirl, until I actually rode a horse and found out how high up I was. Another extreme sport given up.


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All it took was just one look at the 2012 High Point University schedule for freshman Joe Goodman to realize he wasn't playing baseball in central Iowa anymore.
Goodman is a smallish 5-foot-9, 165-pound right-hander and 2011 graduate of Gilbert (Iowa) High School who dreamed of one day playing baseball on the NCAA Division I level. Not heavily recruited by many D-I schools, he jumped at the opportunity extended to him by HPU, a private university of about 4,200 undergrads located in the city of High Point in North Carolina's Piedmont region.
High Point U. is a member of the Big South Conference, which presents schedule challenges of its own: Coastal Carolina is ranked 29th in PG's most recent college top-50 rankings and Liberty spent some time in the top-50 earlier this season. But High Point's biggest challenges come from its non-conference slate.
The Panthers played home-and-away with Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference; hosted the ACC's Virginia Tech; went on the road for a three-game series against Missouri from the Big 12 (SEC in 2013) and traveled to Chapel Hill for a single game against No. 13 North Carolina (ACC). Another game at ACC powerhouse No. 22 Virginia is scheduled for May 9.
"That was very interesting when I first looked at the schedule last fall. It was pretty crazy to see North Carolina and Virginia and all those big-name schools up there," the affable Goodman said in a recent telephone conversation with Perfect Game. "But the crazy thing about baseball once you get down here, it's just that there are good teams everywhere."
Just a year ago, Goodman was playing in the 2011 Perfect Game Iowa Spring Wood Bat League – he also played in the 2010 PG Iowa Spring Wood Bat League and the 2009 PG Iowa Fall Wood Bat League – and getting ready for his final summer-season of prep ball at Gilbert High School. Goodman was excelling at those levels – he finished 10-1 with a 0.69 ERA and 144 strikeouts in 80 2/3 innings for Iowa Class 2A state runner-up Gilbert in 2011 – and seemed to be proving he could pitch at the D-I level.
But it was actually at the 2010 PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla., where Goodman first caught the attention of High Point head coach Craig Cozart, associate head coach/recruiting coordinator Bryan Peters and especially top assistant Rich Wallace.
Wallace saw Goodman pitch for the first time down in Jupiter and liked what he saw. He continued the pursuit by following Goodman back to Iowa where he watched him pitch in the 2011 Iowa Spring Wood Bat League.
"He was just a guy Coach Wallace stumbled upon down in Jupiter, and then Coach Peters and Coach Wallace did a lot of follow-up work on him," Cozart said in a separate telephone interview. "We had had some guys start to make their way to North Carolina from the Midwest and they've done really good for us here.
"Those kids, they can be a kind of blue collar type of kid that has a no-frills, no-nonsense approach to the game … and when we got (Goodman) here to campus, he loved it and the transition has been very, very good for him."
Goodman has transitioned quite nicely; at least once he got he got acclimated to his new surroundings. Every experience was new as he familiarized himself with his new teammates, his new coaches and what he called a real difference between "northern" and "southern" style baseball.
"At the beginning of the year, I had a lot of the upperclassmen that threw last year help me out a lot and gave me a lot of advice on my approach to situations when you're nervous or in a tough spot, and how to battle through that," he said.
Cozart and his staff have been using Goodman primarily as a set-up man in the later innings, and he's been effective. Goodman made 22 appearances in the Panthers' first 47 games and stood 5-1 with two saves and a 1.99 ERA, and gave up 27 hits and struck out 47 in 45 1/3 innings. In a game against Radford on April 5, Ryan Retz, Goodman and Jaime Schultz combined to set a school record with 17 strikeouts. Goodman struck out six 2 1/3 innings.
Goodman was almost exclusively a starter during a storied high school career in which he compiled a 36-5 record with 12 saves and a 0.99 ERA.
"It took a little getting used to changing from not being in the starting role, but it kind of gives you the opportunity to see what's out there on the (opposing) team and get an idea of what you can throw if you go out there on that day," he said of working out of the bullpen. "It is kind of nice to be in that relief spot because it's a lot easier on the arm. Yes, I throw more often, which I obviously like – the more I can throw the better – but I don't throw quite as many innings."
Goodman had shown a lot of durability during his high school career and enough of a fast ball – he still throws it in the 87-88 range most of the time – to warrant the offer from High Point. He has also developed a solid changeup in his short time at HPU.
"His breaking ball, while it's not a true 12-to-6 curveball – it's probably got more of a tilt like a slurve – it's his changeup that really allowed him to have a pitch that didn't allow left-handed hitters to get as many good swings on it," Cozart said.
No one argues that Goodman would have never ended up at High Point if not for his participation in seven Perfect Game tournaments and showcases, and the three PG Wood Bat Leagues.
"Perfect Game was probably most influential in my recruiting process with all the showcases and leagues," he said. "Especially being in Iowa, it's hard to find kids that are able to compete at such a high level, and it's hard to find (top level) guys to compete against. The showcases with Perfect Game were great and they gave me the opportunity to showcase my skills and also gave me the opportunity to build confidence in my skills."
His experiences at the 2010 PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter and at the 2010 PG/EvoShield National Championship (Upperclass) in Phoenix a month earlier stand out to Goodman as the highlights.
He played at the PG/EvoShield tournament with Iowa Select Red, a team that included right-hander Brad Chelleen, now a freshman at Kansas State, and lefty Andrew Hedrick, now at Iowa. Class of 2012 left-handers JD Nielsen and Sam Norman – who have signed with Illinois and Creighton, respectively – were also on that team. Those prospects also joined Goodman in the 2011 PG Spring Wood Bat League.
"That was really interesting to see all the sights and sounds of what high school baseball could actually be like in the United States. When I was there, it was just a blast," he said of his time in Phoenix. "It's not only just meeting everybody but just going out there and seeing all the talent that comes in from around the country."
Goodman didn't enjoy the college recruiting process at all, calling it "a very stressful situation" that seemed to demand a lot of his attention during his senior year at Gilbert High. Despite that, he said his final decision to attend HPU turned out to be an easy one.
"The campus is really nice, and the coaching staff and the athletic facilities and just how the people are around here, it's hard to not want to come here," said Goodman, an Education major. "When I first saw the (baseball) field and when I first saw the campus, it just absolutely blew me away. There is an amazing 'WOW' factor at High Point."
The High Point Panthers are winding down a sub-par season by their standards, with a 23-24 overall record (8-10 Big South) heading into the game with Virginia. They still have three-game BSC series remaining at Liberty and Winthrop and a final non-conference game at East Carolina on their regular-season schedule before hosting the Big South Conference Tournament at beautiful Williard Stadium on their campus May 22-26.
That challenging schedule Goodman looked at last fall is winding down, and High Point will have to win the BSC Tournament to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Goodman will enjoy at least two more springs on the eye-catching High Point campus and if things continue to click, he might even allow himself to think about the 2014 MLB draft.
"Right now it's really about trying to help the team and find more ways I can help the team when I'm not out on the field," Goodman said. "But professional baseball – that would just be amazing to be able to say you got the opportunity to do that, and you get that opportunity when you're at a place like this. I like the spot I'm in, and now it's just a matter of progressing each year."


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I read an article recently saying that Sir Alex Ferguson was irreplaceable - and, to a certain extent, I believe this to be true as I doubt that one manager will ever have the same amount of success he enjoyed with one club.
Good luck, David Moyes.
However, Andre Villas-Boas has impressed fans and pundits alike with his attention to detail and his passion for the game. He has led Tottenham to fifth place so far this term and although this is no more than satisfactory for Spurs, one needs only to look back to Ferguson's first few seasons in charge in Manchester after which he was nearly sacked. He led Manchester United to an 11th place finish in his first season after a disastrous start in which he only one one away game all season.
Villas-Boas was very successful at Porto, winning the treble, before moving to Chelsea and this can be, for the most part, mirrored in the journey of Sir Alex who, after some success in Europe with Aberdeen, arrived at Manchester United apparently a little out of his depth which is certainly what the British press think about Villas-Boas at the moment.
But more importantly was the fact that neither were very major footballers. This could maybe be a little harsh on Sir Alex, who enjoyed relative success in Scotland before trying his hand in management, whereas Villas-Boas was never a professional footballer.
I think this is important to bear in mind because it affects how both managers interpret the game because, unlike big names such as Roberto Mancini and Michael Laudrup, they have to earn the respect that the game gives them.
With regards to playing style I believe that the two have similar techniques in their efforts to control the game from the defence and midfield.
Villas-Boas has brought in Jan Vertonghen and Mousa Dembélé to do just that, whereas in Michael Carrick and Nemanja Vidic, Ferguson has, with undoubtedly more success, done the same thing.
Both managers like finishers and this is evident in Villas-Boas' faith in Jermain Defoe and Ferguson's acquisition of Robin van Persie. Neither player has an exceptionally good passing range or ability to beat a man but both are very accurate in their shooting and like to take a lot of shots.
Finally, when Villas-Boas moved to Chelsea he wanted to build a 'project', his 'project', but he was cut short in a decision that supposedly went against the agreement he had with Roman Abramovich.
This very idea of growth and a project shows that he has the capability to remain at a club for a long time and if only Chelsea had given him more time they could be reaping the rewards of his tactically astute approach rather than jumping from manager to manager. I think Tottenham will retain the services of Villas-Boas for a while to come - and will be the better for it.
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i was in the Cabot library yesterday, perusing the 'Religion and Philosophy'
section for a book on greek mythology. (gotta be a cache idea in greek mythology somewhere
anyway, as i'm browsing, i came across 'Geocaching for Dummies'!!
i couldnt help but laugh....has geocaching already attained religious status?!
addiction....i understand
i took the book up to the librarian, and after explaining to her what geocaching was, she agreed that it had been classified wrong.


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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Emily wants to prove Toby's alive, Malcolm goes missing, and Caleb confronts Jamie.
Aria, Emily, and Hanna visit Spencer at Radley. Spencer is amused that her mother told them she's going home the next day. They tell her the body found in the woods wasn't Toby. Spencer knows what she saw - it was Toby. She says she needs more time there and they argue with her. Spencer says she feels safe there - the bars keep people from getting in.
Hanna and Emily bicker in Emily's bedroom the next morning. Emily tells her if Wilden's looking for his car he's not 'A'. Hanna leaves as Pam enters. Emily and Pam discuss the body in the woods. Pam will tell her more when she knows.
Aria meets Ezra on the patio of the cafe. She's paranoid about being seen together. Maggie calls Ezra to pick Malcolm up tomorrow - he'll have to miss an interview. He asks Aria to pick him up - he'll deal with Maggie.
At school, Caleb tells Hanna his dad wants to take them to dinner. Caleb tells her she brought him back to his life and got him a job - that gets her an entree. They kiss. At Aria's locker, Emily tells her she's getting texts from Shana. Hanna joins them. They warn her to shut Shana down. Talk turns to the body - Emily wants a picture to prove it's not Toby. Hanna goes to see Aria's mother who wants to see her mother about a delicate issue. Hanna learns it has to do with Jamie - he removed the bronze bell from the tower to have it repaired and replaced it with a much cheaper one - $8000 cheaper.
Eddie is chatting with Spencer at Radley. Wren appears. He sends Eddie away. Spencer assures Wren he's not the reason she's there. He notices the game Spencer's holding and says Mona was obsessed with the same one. Spencer follows a drawn map on the board which leads to a window that unlocks. Later, Spencer's mother tries to take her home but Spencer freaks. Veronica asks what happened between her and Toby - she says the last time she saw someone clinging to a secret this hard it was Alison. Veronica flashes to Alison coming into the house with a cut mouth and making her promise not to tell her parents. She tells Spencer she thought Jason did it to Alison, but not anymore. She asks Spencer, "Is Toby not the person we thought he was?" Later, Spencer goes back to the game board. Eddie enters and Spencer grills him about it and Mona, and asks what's up with him and Wren. Eddie doesn't trust Wren. Spencer takes her meds out of her mouth after he leaves and adds them to her stash. In another room, Wren asks Eddie if they're having the same problem again.
Hanna and Caleb are out for dinner with Jamie and he excuses himself to take a call. He says he has a problem to sort out and leaves.
Aria, Emily, and Hanna arrive at the morgue dressed as candy stripers. Hanna tells them Caleb's dad is selling pieces of the church online. They start looking for the body from the woods. When they find it, Hanna worries they'll see Toby. Emily starts unzipping the body bag - they see a Halloween mask! Outside the door, Aria texts them - 'A' in the red hoodie has been spotted. They rush out.
The next day at school, Caleb defends his father to Hanna. He wonders why she's so quiet. Hanna doesn't think Jamie's changed as much as he thinks - she tells him about the collection money.
Aria arrives at Malcolm's karate class only to find he's already been picked up - by Aria Montgomery. Aria looks in Malcolm's cubby and sees an ad for a carnival with puppets and masks.
At the carnival, Aria is frantically searching for Malcolm when her mother stops her. Aria pushes past her and keeps searching. Aria calls Emily and is about to take her advice and call the police when she spots the puppet tent. Inside she finds Malcolm. He says her friend Alison picked him up. As they leave, a puppet raises its arm.
Caleb is with Hanna at her place when Jamie arrives. Caleb confronts him about stealing and yells at him about his childhood. Jamie sighs. "I wouldn't believe me either." Later, the church bell rings and Hanna gets a text - 'A' framed Jamie. Caleb sees it.
Emily finds Pam at the police station and asks why they're making her stay late. Pam urgently tells her to go. Later, at home, Pam tells Emily another body was found this evening - another young man. They don't know if it was Toby because there was significant trauma to the body. Emily gasps.
Spencer sneaks out of her room and goes to Radley's storage cellar. Alison's there talking about sixth grade and how Spencer really never knew her. Spencer asks if Toby was the person who cut her mouth. Alison says girls fight dirtier than boys - she's lucky she didn't leave a scar. Spencer tells her she's looking for something. Alison says, "It's in there." Spencer finds a rocking horse containing Radley ID with Mona's photo and a visitor's pass in CeCe's name. Wren appears. Spencer demands to know how many times CeCe visited Mona and why he broke the rules for her. Wren says CeCe was desperate to help Mona recover from the wounds inflicted by Alison. He says Alison got CeCe kicked out of school. Spencer asks how CeCe knew Mona was at Radley. Wren says Melissa called her. Spencer goes back to her room and in her mind she tells Mona she's in.
Aria meets Ezra at the cafe and he says Maggie told him Malcolm muttered something about puppets and fell asleep. Aria tells Ezra she can't do this anymore - someone's going to get hurt.
At Aria's place, Hanna tells her about 'A' framing Jamie. Emily comes in and says they found another body in the woods - right where Spencer said, and her purse was close by...
A body is brought into the morgue. Bruises and a tattoo like Toby's are showing.
Spoilers for Next Week on Pretty Little Liars:
Spencer returns home and claims she's fine, but her friends have doubts about whether she's fully recovered.
Surprising revelations surface.
Candi's Comments:
Tonight's show was deliciously dark what with the sanitarium goings-on, Malcolm going missing, and the bodies. Ew! I'm upset that 'A' messed with Caleb's relationship with his father.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4766259&cid=46193879 [slashdot.org]
We have plans to implement direct linking to comments. It's been on our to-do list since before the recent expansion of the beta test. It's one of several features we simply haven't had time to implement yet.
Also, the way in which comments are displayed is still a work-in-progress as well. There will be improvements.
So, you lied. That's an ALPHA, you fool.
Please be nice VortexCortex. I for one thank Soulskill for that response. And I thank you VortexCortex for a comment you made long ago about how we may possibly once again in the future be able to trust our computers (open source hardware designs shipped with the hardware, allowing users to do things such as compare power draw under simulation and reality to ensure extra hardware/software isn't running alongside the published design). And Soulskill, I'll take your word and start playing a little nicer.
> A UI replacement just isn't ready for beta testing before it has feature parity with what it's replacing.
--Please call up the Yahoo developers and shout this at them, they freaking ruined Yahoo email a few months ago. Kthxbai
In pre-internet society, those things were curtailed very efficiently by peer pressure.
Your case is actually one that is being argued against internet anonymity.
In pre-internet society, those things were curtailed very efficiently by peer pressure.
Your case is actually one that is being argued against internet anonymity.
I think you mean acrimony.
That and you may have had entirely different peers than some of us
I just didn't grow up a "US nerd", but a "Nordic nerd" (no lunch money needed - school lunches are free for all students up until university level) and I was also a guy who never scored less than 9 (4-10 scoring system) in PE. So I didn't have any of the problems most of you US nerds seem to have grown with, and I also seem to lack most of the insecurities which have their roots in that. I do get what you are saying though, and I still disagree. I think most people have strong destructive impulses, and inte
Nothing happened today to me personally, just for your records.
Signed someone not important at all.
You miss the point. It does not MATTER if you are "important" or not. Seriously consider the implications of a total surveillance state.
Finally, we'll all be safe. Finally.
Hooray for the Morlocks!
As I suggest here: http://www.pdfernhout.net/on-d... [pdfernhout.net]
"Our biggest advantage is that no one takes us seriously.
And our second biggest advantage is that our communications are monitored, which provides a channel by which we can turn enemies into friends.
And our third biggest advantage is we have no assets, and so are not a profitable target and have nothing serious to fight over amongst ourselves.
Let's hope those advantages all hold true for a long time.
As I see it, there is a race going on. The race is between two trends. On the one hand, the internet can be used to profile and round up dissenters to the scarcity-based economic status quo (thus legitimate worries about privacy and something like TIA). On the other hand, the internet can be used to change the status quo in various ways (better designs, better science, stronger social networks advocating for things like a basic income, all supported by better structured arguments like with the Genoa II approach) to the point where there is abundance for all and rounding up dissenters to mainstream economics is a non-issue because material abundance is everywhere. So, as Bucky Fuller said, whether is will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race to the very end. While I can't guarantee success at the second option of using the internet for abundance for all, I can guarantee that if we do nothing, the first option of using the internet to round up dissenters (or really, anybody who is different, like was done using IBM computers in WWII Germany) will probably prevail. So, I feel the global public really needs access to these sorts of sensemaking tools in an open source way, and the way to use them is not so much to "fight back" as to "transform and/or transcend the system". As Bucky Fuller said, you never change thing by fighting the old paradigm directly; you change things by inventing a new way that makes the old paradigm obsolete.
As with that notion of "mutual security", the US intelligence community needs to look beyond seeing an intelligence tool as just something proprietary that gives a "friendly" analyst some advantage over an "unfriendly" analyst. Instead, the intelligence community could begin to see the potential for a free and open source intelligence tool as a way to promote "friendship" across the planet by dispelling some of the gloom of "want and ignorance" (see the scene in "A Christmas Carol" with Scrooge and a Christmas Spirit) that we still have all too much of around the planet. So, beyond supporting legitimate US intelligence needs (useful with their own closed sources of data), supporting a free and open source intelligence tool (and related open datasets) could become a strategic part of US (or other nation's) "diplomacy" and constructive outreach."
You miss the point. It does not MATTER if you are "important" or not.
Seriously consider the implications of a total surveillance state.
As someone that grew under a totalitarian regime in Eastern Europe, I can tell you it's ugly like hell.
It doesn't matter that:
* then, you wouldn't know if the other person would snitch on you; and...
* now you wouldn't know if the computer/phone of the other's person or the ones you own/use would snitch on you (might as well add the nowadays almost ubiquitous CCTV-es to equations, possibly all equipped tomorrow with microphones);
in time - quite quickly - the entire fabric of society evolves to "by default, don't trust anyone".
Can you imagine a life where, no matter what you do, you need to use "steganography" (even when talking face-to-face)? Well, this is how it is in a total surveillance state.
What are the consequences, you ask? The most immediate and with the highest impact:
* one is likely to spend enormous amount of effort in balancing between "getting a message across" and "flying under the radar" (expressing the message in an innocuous way).
* the sense of community is broken down (can't build meaningful relations while in a permanent "don't trust" state of mind)
Even letting aside the economy mismanagement, the two above alone would be just enough to explain why the former "communist" regimes failed: too much effort wasted in "being paranoid" by everybody and too less "organic social efficiency".
If you're unashamed of your past (harmless) behaviour it's harder for people to "use it against you".
This is not how it works. Not even close.
Political operatives dig something up - often something entirely harmless, something that neither you nor any of normal people would even consider to be shameful - and they blow it up until it crushes you. Take, for example, "Dean Scream," or Swiftboating of Kerry, among many other. The defining characteristic of such attacks is that they are, generally, dishonest, and influence the uneducated audience, forcing the candidate to take defensive posture - which never helps. The attack itself may be an outright lie, or a lie constructed upon some foundation of a real event, or a real event that is completely misrepresented.
Besides, a person who has nothing to be ashamed of in his past is either a saint or a narcissist. I am not aware of *anyone* who'd manage to live from cradle to grave without making an unfortunate mistake somewhere.
It's not what happened to you that matters. It matters who you know, how often you talk to them, and who they talk to. Someone else will decide what that leads them to believe about you.
The Slashdot content/comment quality is dropping fast.
Also, Fuck Beta.
FuckBeta. LongLiveAlpha.
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Whatever will we do without your whining? The place just won't be the same without a dozen off-topic childish posts on every topic!
Kaspersky is a horrid software. Hard to uninstall, lots of problems in a domain environment. We thankfull ditched it this year after multiple screwups last year including when client updates caused a significant precentange of machines to slow down or not talk to the network. Took them two months to fix that.
So I am not surprised if he is admitting in a round-a-bout way, that they are hacked by the NSA. You load spyware into products, it causes problems - more bugs. I wouldn't be surprised.
Anecdotal evidence is usually not all that useful. Real statistics are more reliable: http://chart.av-comparatives.o... [av-comparatives.org]
Where's ClamAV?
and people who own the join offering it are the ones on the hook.
those with access to the NSA cloud can decide who is in and who is out in terms of eligibility for admission to the public sphere
Welcome to reality, please take your voting ballot and move to the second door on the right.
I've always treated 'online' the same as postcards.
Anything else was/is naive, and this was apparent to anyone that actually understood networks, and 'online'.
Where the problem stems from, is 'security solutions' being added in after the fact. It(the internet) was touted as 'the Information Highway' for a reason...it was.
It was never touted as 'the Secure Information Highway', and when commercialization hit the 'Information Highway', that did not change.
This subject(internet security) is the poster child of unintended consequences.
There are ways of doing business/secure transactions with networks, but it seems no one wants to spend the effort or $$ required to do so.
Until that attitude changes, this kind of 'news' will be a regular, ongoing event. Convenience will trump security anytime money is involved...look at history for supporting evidence.
This is a standard trope in every epic novel from middle-earth to outer space: the bad guys want you to hunker down. To hell with that!
Smiert Spionam!
The article reports that Raiu conducts his online activities under the assumption that his movements are being monitored by government hackers.
I recommend you begin to conduct all your online activities in such an empty, sugary sweet, and flavorless way that who have regularly surveilled you for years completely lose all interest in you and instead begin focusing their attention on other online targets. Let's call this strategy...I dunno..."Security by New Coke".
What you have said is interesting, however I am not yet convinced. I urge people to stay reasonable, and respect and honor their authorities.
I think I've said this a thousand times, but it bears repeating; Moderation. Humility. Perseverance. Work hard and of course opportunity will come to you, sometime before you are 95 years old.
Security is necessary, because those bad guys out there might not show us the respect and decency that our Security people do by treating us all like criminals. And no, I don't f
Darn, it looks like my circuitous slam on beta was a bit too subtle. I've been trying the artistic approach [slashdot.org] rather than the much more popular explicit/profane approach, which now seems a bit...shall we say..."overdone".
That said, I think the New Coke analogy is apt. I remember when New Coke was first foisted on us. I felt that something which was "mine" (old Coke) had been stolen from me, even though it legally belonged to someone else, who had every right to withdraw their highly popular product from th
1. Computer has glued-in battery, can decide when it turns on or off with no obvious signs (other than generating heat, but full power isn't needed to spy)
2. WWAN/cellular built into motherboard, doesn't need a paid account to spy on you
But All the local bookstores are now closed because of Amazon, that means I'll have to go to the public library and buy my books there. Wait, that means I'm using the Internet and I can't do that. I mean the UPS man will know what I've received packages, so he may be tracking me as well. Oh I can't check out books either because the Library is tracking me as well!
The end of knowledge is upon us!
I'll do what I do and say what I say because I am who I am.
And I don't give a rat's shiny fat ass whether the NSA or anyone else likes it or not. The NSA is just another potential hater. No big deal.
A scared society is easy to control. If you are feeling constantly watched, you are less likely to start democratic processes.
This change of behaviour is what governments want as it secures their place.
Additionally it's not hackers who spy on people. They wouldn't do this as it conflicts with their moral beliefs. It's companies helping governments, and companies like Kaspersky.
The statements of this company's CEO kinda sound like the wishlists of many governments.
End to online anonymity, so political protest can be surveiled much more easily. (as was done with mobile phone users recently in the Ukraine)
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... [slashdot.org]
Digital voting which is much easier to fake in a large scale way than democratic ways like pen and paper and impossible to check by the layperson.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... [slashdot.org]
And here he even advocates for "cyberwar", claiming that cyber weapons are somehow cleaner than traditional ones, completely ignoring the fact that such weapons mostly good against civilians as governments can easily have their own secure IT.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... [slashdot.org]
Those of us raised by good parents have always felt that way. It's never been a problem.
This is far far beyond what we should just bear. Take the fucking government apart until they stop this behavior. Enough is enough.
Either hide everything or overload the systems by acting extremely suspiciously in everything you do?
The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. -- Blaise Pascal