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In his eighteen years as a Brave, Chipper Jones has weathered public humiliation, a bitter divorce, and relentless injuries—and somehow (mostly by retreating into himself) remained one of the best players in the game. Now, at 36, he proves that openness and insight don't have to be the enemies of greatness
not long before the first game of a late-July home series against the Cardinals, Chipper Jones finally emerges from the players' lounge in the clubhouse of the Atlanta Braves. He strides to his locker, pulls on his Braves cap, and faces the crush of reporters that has awaited him for more than two hours.
It's been a bad few days for Jones and the Braves. The team has just lost a crucial weekend series to the Philadelphia Phillies, and Jones himself has just been placed on the disabled list with a hamstring strain. Eight other Braves are also injured, including the team's top three starting pitchers. The celebrated Team of the '90s is effectively out of the pennant race, and it isn't even August yet.
At his locker, Jones gazes blankly into a TV camera and, in a morose whisper, answers for his team's wretched season. He reiterates the fact that the Braves have endured a ridiculous number of injuries. "We can't…expect to stay competitive," he says. "There's three teams in front of us in the division. The likelihood of all three of them collapsing is not probable."
The next day, in an increasingly jittery Braves clubhouse, reliever Will Ohman, whose name has been ubiquitous in trade rumors, paces nervously in a pepperdine football T-shirt, the back of which reads still underrated, except that Ohman has placed white tape over the word underrated and replaced it with the word here. Teammates surreptitiously study the ESPN crawl; at this point, any healthy body on the roster could be shipped out. When the star slugger Mark Teiira briefly appears at his locker, I try to speak with him, but he big-times me for the second time in two days. "I got some things going on right now," he grunts. It turns out he isn't bullshitting. Hours later the team announces it has traded Teiira, its best young player and most prolific home-run hitter, to the Los Angeles Angels. It's a stunning moment. The front office is now dismantling the roster and rebuilding for the first time since 1990, the year they drafted Chipper Jones. The dynasty that until 2005 won fourteen consecutive division titles is dead.
Jones meets me that afternoon in the Braves' auxiliary clubhouse, an empty locker room that's used for press conferences. Dressed in his home whites for the photo shoot scheduled to follow our conversation, he looks momentarily sheepish wearing what is, for a player on the DL, basically a costume.
"Every year, coming out of spring training, I've thought we were gonna win the division," he says. In 2005, Jones voluntarily restructured his $120 million contract so that the front office would have a bigger war chest. Since then, Atlanta's payroll, which typically ranked in the top five during the '90s, has fallen to as low as sixteenth. Does he feel the Braves have kept their end of the bargain? "They've tried to make this team better," he responds. "If I thought any differently, I would have raised Cain."
Even as his team founders and his body is falling apart, even as he's being forced to consider the possibility, after eighteen years as a Brave, of finishing his career with another team, Jones is having an MVP-caliber 2008. For much of the season, he was flirting with .400, a feat no switch-hitter has achieved since 1894. At press time, his .362 average was the highest in the major leagues (the single-season record for a switch-hitter in the modern era is .365, by Mickey Mantle in 1957). And this year, he became the first switch-hitter ever to have 400 home runs and a lifetime .300 batting average. Jones, 36, is finally getting the recognition he'd have had long ago if he'd played in Chicago or New York or Boston. For the first time, he's no longer overshadowed by Atlanta's Big Three pitching aces, all of whom are now either dispersed or disabled. And he's no longer haunted by the fuck-ups of his early career, for which the media torched him, and because of which he refused for years to take part in long conversations like this one. Most ballplayers view introspection as an enemy of the emptied mind their psychologically demanding job requires. What's fascinating about Jones is that he's sustained a rich inner life while making himself, over two decades, into one of the top five third basemen ever.
picked first overall in the 1990 amateur draft, Jones roared into his first minor league season draped in gold chains, at the wheel of a black Corvette. Before he'd ever played a major league game, he was referring to himself in the third person. In his first full season, the Braves won the World Series; he batted .364 in the playoffs after hitting .265 in the regular season. "Two sixty-five isn't that bad," he announced, "but I still think I'm a .300 hitter in this league." (He was right: Over the next twelve seasons, he'd bat .300 nine times.)
He would also try to assert himself in the clubhouse, twice criticizing the team's play, only to be "aired out big-time," he says, by manager Bobby Cox and some of his teammates. "They had conversations with me about 'the way it's done here.' And okay, I learned from it. I won't say another word. And I haven't. That's one of the reasons I'm not the vocal leader that some fans in Atlanta want me to be." With an ironic smile, he says, "I'm what the Braves have made me."
With the Braves' success, Ted Turner began his failed campaign to market them as "America's Team" on his cable network, TBS. In a decade when steroids made the game irresistibly long-ball-centric, pitching defined the Braves. The team's Big Three—Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz—were smug, aloof, lily-white; they looked like charter members of a country club that would never let in the likes of you. And how could any nonsoutherner root for a grown man called Chipper? It was like the name of some grotesquely stunted Tennessee Williams character.
In Atlanta, though, Jones's self-assurance, unflappability, and regular postseason appearances would earn him the moniker "the Derek Jeter of the South," and that's also a good way to understand the effect he had on Braves fans. "Teenage girls shriek his name the way their mothers once shrieked for…the Beatles," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution gushed. But Jones's rise to baseball superstardom coincided with what he calls a "very public divorce." He broaches the subject of his personal travails gradually, beginning with the World Series of 1996, his second full season, which the Braves were leading two games to none before they collapsed. The loss still eats at him."That was the only year of the fourteen straight division titles where I look back and say that we had the best team."
His marriage to Karin Fulford, whom he'd met when he was 19, was already in trouble, he says, and he began having affairs. "I was going to do what I wanted, no matter what, in order to make myself happy, everybody else around me be damned. A lot of that was pent-up anger. Here I am thinking I'm going to start my career with two or more World Series championships, all of a sudden you get kicked in the gut. I was a first-class jackass, to be honest with you."
In October 1998, he and Karin announced that Jones had fathered a child out of wedlock with a waitress at Hooters with whom he'd had an eighteen-month-long affair. Jones and his wife spoke frankly about their difficulties to the media; Jones even honored a previous commitment to appear on a call-in show on an Atlanta radio station and took questions from listeners for three hours. "I wanted people to know that as a man I stood up, and I took everybody's heat head-on," he says. "I'd gone through a period before all this where I would come to the park and I would see the signs—chipper's awesome; chipper for president; blah blah blah—and I'm like, 'If these people knew what I had done, would they feel the same way?' I didn't want to be a hypocrite anymore."
Out of loyalty to Karin, Jones had promised not to see his child, a boy named Matthew. "A child out of wedlock, that's awfully hard for the other person to live with every day. She struggled with it—" he falls silent for a moment—"a lot." Four months later, the Joneses filed for divorce.
Immediately after moving into his own apartment in downtown Atlanta, Jones arranged to meet his 11-month-old son for the first time. "I was waiting in the hall outside of my apartment, and they got o the elevator. [Matthew's mother] had his hand, and he waddled off. I started bawling. You talk about a shot of reality. Here I am, Mr. Johnny All-American… It just drove home what needed to be done, and that was to do everything I could to make sure that I was there for him as much as possible whenever he needed me." As he says this, Jones wipes his eyes.
But spring training began just weeks later. "The only way I could get away from what was being said in the media was to shut everybody out," he says. "I would get to the park at one o'clock and would do nothing but watch film and hit—and before you know it, that's ten, eleven hours of the day in which you don't have to think about what's going wrong in your personal life. And then you go home and sleep, wake up, and start it all over again. You can call it denial, but it was the best remedy for me, because I'm a guy who's very sensitive about what people think about me."
Two months after filing for divorce, Jones asked the Fulton County court to legally recognize Matthew as his son. (He has since remarried and now has three younger boys as well.) "There are some things I would have done differently," he says. "Obviously, I would not have stood by for the first eleven months of his life. It might have sped up the process with my ex-wife and myself. It might have had the opposite effect, for her to learn to love him like a son.… I don't know."
David O'Brien, the beat writer for the Journal-Constitution, says the episode rankles some southerners to this day. "With most rational fans, he's a god here," O'Brien says. "In the Bible Belt, though, there is a certain segment of the population that will never forgive him." When I mention Alex Rodriguez and the public airing in New York of his alleged infidelities, Jones defends him. "Even in his own ballpark, they boo him sometimes. A lot of people are very jealous of him and want him to fail. It's because he's not a true Yankee." He brings up Mickey Mantle, whose troubled personal life was publicly revealed only decades after his retirement—"probably because he had a lot of people protecting him," he says. "If Jeter was going through the same problems A-Rod's going through, you wouldn't hear it, because Jeter is revered more like Mickey Mantle than A-Rod would be."
In the season that followed his public confession, the fans' heckling was brutal, he says. "You hear some of the vulgar things that come out of people's mouths and you realize how anger fuels the whole world. Whatever ammunition I give the fans, that's my fault, and I take responsibility for it. But when it's because you're beating the daylights out of the home team, that boggles my mind. But part of being a pro athlete, or a good one, anyway, is your ability to tune out all that stuff and focus on what your job is." Call it inspiring, call it cold-blooded, but Chipper Jones hit .319 that year, with forty-five home runs, and won the National League MVP. Even now, he says, "out of every six or seven jeers, there'll be something about, 'Hey, Chip, you want to go to Hooters after the game?' " He waggles his finger and grins: "I go, 'No, no, no!' Just to let them know that I heard them and I'm past it."
today, jones is the oldest position player on the Braves. He mentors his young teammates quietly—"Outspoken is not the word I'd use to describe him," says his teammate Matt Diaz—and otherwise keeps to himself. "He loves his solitude," O'Brien says. "Sometimes we can see him in the players' lounge, playing cards while everybody is stretching and dressing. He'll play solitaire for a straight hour without looking up."
His teammates marvel at his photographic memory for pitches. "He can face a guy ten years ago and not face him till today, and he can tell you everything he did to him. It's extremely weird," says catcher Brian McCann. Second baseman Kelly Johnson recalls a crucial at-bat late in a 2005 game against the Brewers: "I'd never seen the pitcher before, but Chipper said, 'He'll throw a fastball, but he's not trying to throw it for a strike. So if you're patient and you get ahead 2-and-0, he'll throw his changeup.' Sure enough, fastball: ball one. Fastball: ball two. Changeup—I hit a homer."
Jones describes a variety of ways he gains an advantage at the plate. For instance, sign stealing "goes on all the time," he says. "Guys on second, if they pick up what set of signs the catcher's using, we'll relay it one way or the other to the hitter." And he informs me that a shocking number of major leaguers tip their pitches. "I would say if you face seven pitchers in a week, four to five of them are doing something that gives them away." He talks about how for nearly a decade he owned one pitcher, a former frontline starter for the Astros named Shane Reynolds. "I was watching film on him one day, and I saw that he was holding his glove differently when he threw his split, his fastball, and his curveball. I hit .400 o him, lifetime, because I pretty much knew every pitch he was gonna throw." Eventually, Reynolds was traded to, of all places, Atlanta. "I walked over to him and introduced myself," Jones recalls. "I said, 'How are you doing? I'm Chipper. Nice to meet you. You're tipping every pitch.' And he sat there with his mouth open for like ten seconds. I said, 'Every pitch. And we need to fix it.' I took him into the video room and showed him, and it was like somebody had shot his dog. He was devastated that for the last ten years he had been tipping his pitches."
That night, just as the game's getting started, John Schuerholz, the legendary Braves ecutive, sits down with me in the back of the press box. Slight and professorial, with Ross Perot's prominent ears and deceptively kindly demeanor, Schuerholz, 68, is largely responsible for the success of the Braves of the '90s.
Jones, Schuerholz says, "has been the face of this franchise virtually since the time he ascended to the major leagues." Over the shouts of the crowd, I ask him if ownership plans to increase payroll, which might give Jones another chance at a championship. "I don't want to connect those two inquiries," he says, "because they're not directly connected." He says the team is "very comfortable with where our payroll is now. I must tell you," he adds, "those who watched us play in spring training said, 'This team is gonna win the East.' "
At the end of 2009, Jones will be a 37-year-old free agent. The cost-conscious Braves may hesitate to spend millions of dollars on an aging player who missed well over one hundred games between 2005 and 2007, as Jones did. "He's suffered leg pulls far more often than he'd like," says Schuerholz, "and far more often than we would have preferred." He suspects Jones's time on the DL will even weigh on the minds of Hall of Fame voters. "Some might wonder if he's played enough. But with what he's done as a switch-hitter, I think he gets in."
Will he play for the Braves in 2010? "Whether we can sign him is not just a function of our desire or our want or our hope," says Schuerholz carefully. "It's a function of what his expectations become. We have great admiration for him, and we recognize clearly what his value is to this team. And we will measure that against what we believe to be his real, true ability to continue to function at that level. The reality of our business begs that we recognize the fact that it would be a really unusual development if he were to remain here."
the next day, Jones meets me fresh from the batting cage. When I ask him how his hamstring feels today, he answers tersely: "Good." His cheek bulges with chewing tobacco, and at irregular intervals he spits neatly into a cardboard cup.
The auxiliary clubhouse has been commandeered by drug testers making a surprise visit, so we sit down in Turner Field's visiting-wives' lounge. Inevitably, we talk about performance-enhancing drugs. In July, The New York Times reported that the decrease in positive steroid tests that Major League Basebell touted before a congressional panel in 2005 was based on less than half a season's results. Jones, though, says he's certain PED use has declined. "I was just talking about this in the clubhouse with [journeyman pitcher] Buddy Carlyle, who spent eleven years in the minor leagues or overseas playing baseball. Now you're starting to see guys who, without being enhanced, can't make it here in the big leagues. And you're seeing guys like Buddy Carlyle getting their opportunity."
Jones says he finds it sad that Barry Bonds, who still wants to play, can't get a job. "You don't know how many guys he played against revere him. When he walks up to the plate, he might see one hittable pitch the whole game. And when that one guy who has ego enough challenges him, he kills it. To have the patience, the eyesight, the hand-eye coordination to be ready for that one guy truly amazes me. He's the best player I've ever seen, steroids or no steroids."
I ask him about Roger Clemens. "I have never had to work so hard just to put a ball in play against a particular pitcher the way I have against him. But Bonds and Clemens have the cloud following them. That's what makes me proud to have been Greg Maddux's teammate, because he's done it the right way."
Baseball Prospectus projects Jones to be highly productive until at least the age of 40. He tells me he wants to play "two, three, four more years." It's not hard to imagine an AL team—the Yankees?—vigorously pursuing him to be their designated hitter. "I would really need some time to think about that, not that I would go Brett Favre on it," he says. "Heck, I've seen it happen. The Braves traded Hank Aaron, they traded Dale Murphy, icons in this town. So I know my day is going to come. I'll play as long as I have the desire, and if it's not in an Atlanta Braves uniform, that's very unfortunate. But I would have to go somewhere where I have the chance to win. I'm not going to a last-place team just so I can hit 500 homers."
Jones says he believes he's "on the cusp" of Hall of Fame viability. "A lot of people say that offensively the benchmark is 3,000 hits. They say it's 500 homers," he says. "I don't know that I'll reach either one of those." I ask if he feels that playing in Atlanta has denied him the recognition he's due at this point in his career. (Says Matt Diaz, "If he played in Yankee Stadium, people would be calling him the greatest switch-hitter of all time.") "I think it has prevented me from getting more recognition," Jones says levelly. "What is fair recognition and what is not is debatable."
Despite the turmoil of his first few years in the game, Jones has been a baseball player to the core, but not at the expense of being a complicated human being. "I think I've gotten better with age," he says. "I went through so many problems at home early in my career that hurt my game. This game is all about status, it's all about stature. It's all about where you've been and what you've been through."
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With the holiday tournaments behind them, local basketball teams began to return to league competition, including the Magic of Mount St. Joseph Academy. Building most of their winning margin during a 15-9 first quarter at Gwynedd Mercy Academy last Saturday afternoon, the Mounties tacked a few more points onto their lead in the final period to take a 35-26 decision.
The Magic's record climbed to 9-1 overall and 4-1 within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies, with their lone setback this season occurring at Villa Maria in a mid-December league game that the host Hurricanes won, 35-25. Gwynedd, which had fallen to Villa two days later by a closer score (40-36), slipped to 1-3 in the AACA and 4-6 overall with last Saturday's outcome.
"Every league game is important, and since we have one loss in our pocket already, they're even more important," pointed out MSJ head coach John Miller. "As we've told the girls, the fact that we went undefeated through the league last year means that we can expect to see every team really up to play us."
With some of the toughest opponents on the schedule waiting just ahead, the Magic's mentor wasn't satisfied with the team's effort and execution at Gwynedd.
"I don't think we painted a masterpiece," he said. "With the way the holidays fell and the way our Christmas tournament fell, we had a lot of days off and we weren't able to get in many practices. Looking at our statistics [against Gwynedd], we have to play more aggressively. We only took four free throws the entire game, and most of them were right at the end when Gwynedd Mercy had to foul us. The other thing that stood out was that we only had four offensive rebounds, and Gwynedd certainly had more than that."
A week earlier, Mount St. Joe's customary championship performance at the George W. Snear Tournament in Conshohocken went pretty much according to routine, but Gwynedd's tourney trip to Maryland was more eventful.
At the event in Churchville (located halfway between Wilmington, Del. and Baltimore), the Monarchs lost by a single point in their first outing and romped by 28 points the second time out. However, the big news was an injury suffered by guard Brigit Coleman in the first game, an ACL tear that has put the sophomore out of action for the rest of the season.
Last Saturday, MSJ senior star Alex Louin and fellow guard Mary Kate Ulasewicz (a junior) paced the visitors on offense in the first half with eight and six points, respectively. Senior forward Colleen Steinmetz chipped in with four points as the visitors arrived at the intermission with a modest 24-18 advantage.
In the first two periods, junior guard Emily Sullivan (five points) topped a list of half-a-dozen players who scored for the host school. After incurring a six-point deficit in the opening frame, the Monarchs had matched the Mount in the second quarter, 9-9.
Gwynedd also equaled the Magic's output during a low-scoring 5-5 third quarter, but the Monarchs, in a position of playing catch-up, needed to do better. This was where Coleman's scoring was particularly missed; GMA netted a total of just eight points in the second half, and seven of them came from a single player, Sullivan.
Louin bagged a three-pointer for the Mount and Ulasewicz converted a steal into a lay-up during the third stanza, and Louin opened the fourth with a drive to the hoop. After a lone free throw for Monarchs sophomore Erica DeCandido, Steinmetz scored from the paint to raise the visitors' lead to nine points, 33-24.
A successful drive by Sullivan got Gwynedd back within seven with 3:37 remaining in the game, but that would be the last field goal of the afternoon for either team. Gwynedd handled the Mount's defensive pressure in transition relatively well, and worked the ball into position for short jumpers and a number of lay-ups. Some of these shots were altered by MSJ defenders, but on others the ball simply seemed to refuse to enter the cylinder, much to the frustration of the home fans.
With fruitless possessions for both teams and three closely-spaced time-outs (two by the Magic), the clock ticked down to a minute-and-a-half to go with the score still 33-26.
The cause of one of the MSJ time-outs, according to Miller, was "Gwynedd was double-teaming us in the backcourt and our girls weren't going to help the player who was being double-teamed. I always preach that you have to be the first one in the gym to know that your man has just left you to double-team one of your teammates."
In the final minute-and-a-half, Mount St. Joe inadvertently helped keep Gwynedd relatively close, losing the ball out of bounds, turning it over again on a walk, and whiffing on the first shot of a one-and-one with 50 seconds left to play.
In their last meaningful possession, the Monarchs missed a three-point attempt and also a shot off of the rebound. The second rebound went to MSJ's Ulasewicz, who was fouled and put the final score on the board with a pair of free throws with 13.2 seconds showing.
Louin led all scorers with 13 points in the game and Ulasewicz also reached double digits, with 10, while Steinmetz finished with six. Rounding it out for the winners were senior Carly Monzo and sophomores Libby Tacka and Sarah Wills, each with two points.
Sullivan furnished almost half of Gwynedd's total, netting a dozen points, with DeCandido adding five points and sophomore Maggi Cameron contributing three. The Monarchs recorded two points apiece for seniors Jessica Campbell and Dia Veneziano, and for freshman Megan Dougherty.
"I thought Gwynedd played very well, especially considering they just lost their starting point guard," Miller said, referring to the injury to Coleman. "Our team was not playing with the same intelligence that we normally play with."


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- Atrial Fibrillation with PA Injection and Rapid Pacing
- Atrial Fibrillation with LA Injection and Rapid Pacing
- Multi Chamber Visualization for Transseptal Punctures
- Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy
Structural Heart Disease
- Left Atrial Appendage Closure
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Congenital Heart Disease
- Complexe Pulmonary Anatomy
- Aortic Coarctation
- Rotational Angiographie in CHD
Interventional Radiology
This collection of protocols was written by experts, for experts, and includes a range of neurology, oncology and vascular clinical protocols.
- Embolization of cerebral AVM syngo Dyna4D
- Mechanical thrombectomy of left MCA occlusion
- Interventional thrombectomy in acute stroke
- syngo Neuro PBV IR during balloon occlusion test
- Follow-up after stent-assisted aneurysm coiling
- Follow-up after bilateral carotid stent placement
- Quantification of interhemispheric venous phase timing during BTO
- Vasospasm treatment post-SAH
- Transarterial chemoembolization of HCC using syngo DynaPBV Body
- Chemoembolization with drug-eluting beads
- syngo DynaCT in multiple phases for HCC
- Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of lung metastasis from CRC
- Transarterial thoracic chemotherapy
- syngo DynaCT of the pulmonary arteries
- syngo DynaCT 360 with iv injection used for TIPS planning
- Embolization of an aortic type II endoleak
- Prostatic artery embolization
- syngo Dyna3D DSA imaging of right hip after surgery
- Peripheral angiography using CO2
- Real-time assessment of revascularization of peripheral vascular disease


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TPC Harding Park will host the Match Play Championship in 2015, the PGA Championship in 2020 and the Presidents Cup in 2025.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, PGA of America president Ted Bishop and San Francisco mayor Ed Lee made the announcement at a City Hall news conference Wednesday. Finchem said the coordination between the PGA Tour and PGA of America to stage all three events at the same venue is unprecedented.
"Today is an announcement of a lot of firsts," Finchem said.
The 2015 Match Play will have a new format. It will offer a similar structure to the World Cup, with group play leading into single-elimination matches. The reconfiguration will ensure that each player is around for at least three days. In the past, single-elimination from the outset often led to quick exits for top players and fan favorites.
The PGA Championship hasn't been played on the West Coast since 1998 at Sahalee Country Club outside Seattle. The 2020 event at Harding Park also gives California majors in three straight years, with the U.S. Open going to Pebble Beach in 2019 and Torrey Pines in 2021.
Harding Park hosted the Presidents Cup in 2009. The event features 24 of the world's top golfers — 12 from the United States and 12 from around the world, excluding Europe — in a team match-play competition.
The PGA Tour's commitment to hold Match Play at Harding Park is only for one year. The tournament had been held in February the past eight years at Dove Mountain outside Tucson, Arizona. But the tour's contract with title sponsor Accenture ended after this year's event, leaving the Match Play's future uncertain.
Next year's Match Play is April 29-May 3 — the week before The Players Championship — to improve the chances of dry conditions at Harding. The top 64 players in the World Golf Ranking will be divided into 16 groups of four players.
There will be round-robin match play Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The winner of each group will advance to the round of 16 on Saturday morning.
Head-to-head results will be used to break two-way ties, with sudden-death playoffs for three-way ties. The quarterfinals will be played Saturday afternoon, the semifinals Sunday morning and the title match and consolation match Sunday afternoon.
British Open: The R&A extended an exemption to Tom Watson when golf's oldest championship returns to the Old Course at St. Andrews in 2015. Watson holds The Open record for winning on five links courses — Carnoustie, Turnberry, Muirfield, Royal Troon and Royal Birkdale. But he has never won at the Home of Golf.
"I'll be there if I have to drag myself," said Watson, whose exemption was to run out this year at Royal Liverpool (July 17-20). …
The Open will return to Royal Birkdale in 2017 and Carnoustie in 2018. Royal Troon will host in 2016.


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BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.—A Virginia man has died following a skiing accident at the Breckenridge Ski Resort.
Forty-five-year-old Robert Redmond of Reston died Wednesday at St. Anthony Hospital outside Denver. Summit County coroner Timothy Keeling said Redmond was injured after hitting a tree while skiing on the Columbia trail on Sunday. He was wearing a helmet.
His hometown wasn't available.
Redmond is at least the fifth skier to die in crashes at Colorado ski resort this winter. All but one resulted from crashes into trees.


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Description:IBM 160GB 7.2K Simple Swap SATA Hard DrivePart Number(s)
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Overview:Satisfy midrange to advanced data-storage applications when you install Simple-Swap high-performance SAS serial hard disk drives (HDDs) into IBM eServer xSeries servers or IntelliStation workstations. Take advantage of simple-swap SATA technology with this 7200rpm HDD to speed access to stored data and improve server processor utilization and throughput. Designed to satisfy a wide range of high-performance storage requirements this HDD option is contained in a 3.5-inch 1-inch high slim-line form factor that allows maximum installations in supported xSeries servers and IntelliStation workstations.


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National Student Employment Week
UT Dallas participates in National Student Employment Week in the spring semester.
Student employees perform invaluable services with enthusiasm, dedication, and initiative. Many departments depend on the contributions of this reliable workforce for their efficient operation.
We encourage all departments to celebrate their student employees during this week!
Student Employee of the Year
The Student Employee of the Year Award is conducted according to the rules and regulations of the National Student Employment Association (NSEA) and the Southern Association of Student Employment Administrators (SASEA). The purpose of this award is to recognize the outstanding contributions and achievements of students who work while attending college.
The annual Student Employee of the Year Program, including a celebration honoring all student employees, is coordinated by the Career Center. The Student Employee of the Year recognition and celebration take place during the second full week in April.
Plan to show our UT Dallas student employees how much they are valued during National Student Employment Week!
Nomination Process
Eligible Students
- All undergraduate and graduate students who are in non-benefit-eligible student jobs are eligible to be nominated.
- Must have been employed for a minimum of 6 months part-time (working at least 10 hours per week) between June in the prior year through May of the current year.
- Resident Advisors, Research Assistants, Teaching Assistants are NOT eligible for nomination.
Selection Criteria
Student employees will be judged on the following, equally-weighted criteria:
- Reliability
- Quality of Work
- Initiative
- Professionalism
- Uniqueness of Contribution
- Nominations will only be accepted from faculty and staff -
To nominate a student please complete the Nomination Form and email it to the Career Center Student Employment Team by March 23. Make the Nomination Letter as comprehensive as possible in order to give your nominee the best chance to win this award. All nominations will be kept confidential. Please note: Only one nomination letter per nominee will be submitted to the judges.
Nominations received after the deadline will not be considered by the judging committee.
Ideas for Celebrations
We encourage every department to find special ways to honor their student employees during this week. These are a few activities you may want to consider:
- Host a pizza party
- Potluck breakfast or lunch
- Serve cake and punch in their honor
- Take them to lunch
- Buy them a helium balloon
- Purchase movie tickets
- Give flowers or candy
- Write a thank you note for a job well done
- Make a poster or banner to hang with all department staff signatures
- Purchase a gift certificate from the UT Dallas Bookstore or The PUB
Award Winners
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jime needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 131 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
Design a clean, modern logo for a new software company/consultancy.
JIME or J I McFadyen Engineering
Acting as a software engineering consultancy to large multi-nationals we undertake custom design and development of software; I would like the logo to help convey a sense of dedication and professionalism of the highest level.
I have no notion of what the final design will look like, so am open to suggestions and deviations from the brief.
The winning logo will be used on the website, business cards and stationery (future work is likely) - so please keep that in mind.
- Clean, simple designs.
- A device that works with and without text.
- Convey professionalism and quality.
- Work with both J I McFadyen Engineering and JIME as text.
- Photos
- "Busy" logos
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Home » Art-Historic » SUN RA: Music from Tomorrow's World
SUN RA: Music from Tomorrow's World
From the Unheard Music series, a luminous document from formative period of the Arkestra while they were resident at the Wonder Inn in Chicago (1960). There are 7 tracks from there and 10 from a concert at Majestic Hall (also Chicago) in the same year. The band for both includes Gilmore, Allen and Boykins but the rest of the lineup changes. There are 6 players at the Wonder Inn and 8 at the Majestic. The recording at the Wonder Inn (the stuff of legend and long thought lost) has a fabulous open, relaxed quality, rough but clear. You can hear the room, and a time separate from the playing (I'm not going to try to explain that). Material includes Ra compositions and two Gershwin Songs - and great audience and bar ambience. Serious Ra fans need this recording.The Majestic sound is fuller and more lush (as are the band arrangements) with more Ra originals. It's less experimental and more of a performance. And it's more safely jazz too, great soloing but less of the radical strangeness of the Wonder Inn. With thorough, informed and exemplary booklet notes by John Corbett. An important document.
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September 16, 2008
Wabash College invites you to a variety of events scheduled during Homecoming Weekend, October 2-4. A musical concert, art exhibit, Alumni Chapel, and, of course, football are just some of the activities planned.
Thursday, October 2 events include:
• 11:00 a.m. — Chapel Sing, Chapel Steps. Watch as the Class of 2012 participates in this rite of passage.
Friday, October 3 events include:
• All day — Art Exhibit. Lost and Found, Again by Doug Calisch. Located in the Eric Dean Gallery in the Fine Arts Center on Grant Avenue. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public.
• 12:00 p.m. — Faculty/Staff Luncheon, Little Giant Room, Sparks Center. Join members of the Wabash faculty and staff for an informal luncheon and program. $5.00 per person and can be purchased at the door.
Saturday, October 4 events include:
• All day — The annual freshman decorations will be on display at fraternity houses. The fraternities will have floats, banners, and other homecoming ornamentation at their houses. Winners will be announced at halftime of the football game.
• 11:00 a.m. — Alumni Chapel, Pioneer Chapel. Join the National Association of Wabash Men for a festive celebration of Wabash College and its honored graduates. A number of alumni awards will also be presented. Those being presented with awards are: Lee E. Grogg '68, Fredrick J. Urbaska Civic Service Award; F. Bradford Johnson '71, Frank W. Misch Alumni Service Award; and Stephen G. Miller '64, Clarence A. Jackson Career Service Award.
Additionally, Edward B. McLean and Stephen Charles will be named Honorary Alumni, while Ralph G. Powell '55, Richard E. Barger '55, and G. Michael Dill '71, Alumni Admissions Fellows. The Alumni Chapel is free and open to the public.
• 11:00 a.m. — Wabash Soccer vs. Kenyon College, Mud Hollow Field. Free and open to the public.
• 2:00 p.m. — Wabash Football vs. Allegheny College, Hollett Little Giant Stadium. The Little Giants, coached by Erik Raeburn, will clash with the Allegheny Gators. The game features not only a good contest between the two schools, but also the fraternity pledge class cheer contest at halftime. Game tickets are $5 adults, $3 students, kids under 6 free. Available at the gates.
• 8:00 p.m. — The Homecoming Concert, Salter Hall, Fine Arts Center, located on Grant Avenue. Listen to several Wabash music ensembles as the Wabash Music Department presents the annual Homecoming Concert. Free and open to the public.
For a complete list of events visit Wabash College Web Calendar at www.wabash.edu/calendar. For further information about the weekend, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 765-361-6396 or the Office of Alumni Affairs at 765-361-6369.
For more information see:
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Features are accounted for at two different levels:
- Feature page promotion and distro coordination--see Fedora Feature Process
- Package level (continue reading)
At Feature Freeze all new features for the release should be substantially complete and in a testable state, including enabled by default if so specified by the feature. In the Fedora development process, all new feature work is completed by Feature Freeze and tested during the test releases: Alpha and Beta.
Some Example Do's and Don't's
After Feature Freeze, Fedora has certain expectations about what will be happening with your feature. These expectations are based on needing to test your feature (package), test how other pieces of the distribution interact with your feature, and test the overall stability, look, and feel of the distribution.
This what we all expect post-Feature Freeze:
- Do: Have something testable
- Do: Have the the feature significantly complete
- Do: submit bugfixes
- Do not: Continue to add new enhancements
- Do not: Enable the feature by default
- Do not: Make changes that require other (dependent) software packages to make changes as well
Exception Process
If you believe you have a good reason to break feature freeze. file a ticket with Release Engineering. Please include the following information:
- A description of what you want to change
- Rationale for why the change is important enough to be allowed in after the feature freeze.
- Impact of not accepting the the new package(s) at this point in the schedule.
- Information on what testing you've performed to mitigate risks introduced by replacing the existing package(s)
Exception Evaluation
The Release Engineering team will evaluate your request and provide feedback.
- Approval comes in the form of +1's (meaning Yes or I approve).
- Two +1's (without any negative feedback or -1's) are necessary to build. If there is negative feedback, conversation will ensue and a new vote will be taken.
If your request is denied, your package will not appear in Rawhide until the freeze ends. If you disagree with Release Engineering's decision you may enter an appeal with FESCo. To start the appeals process with FESCo create a ticket with FESCo.


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What do you do when you come face to face with a 2,000-pound black rhinoceros that appears intent on charging you and turning you into mincemeat? Filmmaker Kim Wolhuter encountered such a challenge in the Malilangwe Game Reserve in Southern Zimbabwe when he brazenly approached the dangerous animal to get close-up video. Cameraman Julz Braatvedt also faced a challenge: what to do? Watch the tense moments and see how Wolhuter ultimately defuses the standoff:
Black rhinos are known for being extremely aggressive and readily charge at perceived threats. This one clearly viewed Wolhuter as a threat.
At first, it gave a short run and stopped. Then it made a fake charge and stopped, kicking up dust. A little while later, it grunted.
Finally, Wolhuter made a quick, sudden move forward and clapped his hands. The rhino couldn't hightail it away fast enough, perhaps thinking it was a gunshot.
The encounter came as the two were filming for a new Discovery Channel show called "Man, Cheetah, Wild." The show, which premieres October 3, is the true story about how Wolhuter befriends a family of cheetahs.
Obviously, he has a much better relationship with cheetahs than rhinos.


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Introducing ProTek℠
When you want protection for your production equipment, count on NewTek ProTek℠. The service program that takes support far beyond standard assistance. ProTek provides the only way for you get NewTek-provided priority service for many years of product ownership. It enhances the support experience, every step of the way.
For some customers, a standard warranty is enough. With ProTek, your services can be extended. When you have mission-critical production needs, you want access to manufacturer-provided service and support when you need it. This is an integral part of owning and using a NewTek live production product. You can also renew your ProTek coverage each year, well beyond the purchase date. And unlike many other programs, the benefits of ProTek can be assigned to a new owner, so fast coverage and peace of mind continues, regardless of who owns the product.
ProTek is available in the U.S. for 3Play and TriCaster purchases except in HI, MT, and OR. Other exclusions apply.


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White Papers and Application Notes
Accurate Parameters Extraction of Multiconductor Transmission Lines in Multilayer Dielectric MediaS. Musa[1], M. Sadiku[1], and O. Momoh[2]
[1]Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX
[2]Indiana University-Purdue University
Development of very high speed integrated circuits is currently of great interest for today\'s technologies.
This paper presents the quasi-TEM approach for the accurate parameters extraction of multiconductor transmission lines interconnect in single, two, and three-layered dielectric regions using the finite element method (FEM). We illustrate that FEM is accurate and effective for modeling multiconductor transmission lines in strongly inhomogeneous media.


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In amazon app treasure hunt you have to guess clue's answer as fast as possible. Every clue has a product name. Now search that product name on amazon app.If your answer is correct, you will see some products but there will be one unique product. Tap on that very unique product.Now scroll down and check treasure hunt logo.The product is for free. Means you don't need to pay rs1 as you did earlier. The game has changed a little bit.
Clue: A Sealed plastic bag designed to stand upright is called__
Clue Answers For Amazon Treasure Hunt 3rd October
4:45 PM Clue
- First you need to download amazon app
- Now open the app and wait for the game timing.
- Before starting the game you will able to see amazon app treasure hunt Logo.
- Tap on that very logo.
- Now at 3PM, your first quiz will appear.
- Try to Solve that clue ASAP.
- Search Product Name on App.
- If your answer is correct then you will see a product at Rs-0.
- Buy that product As Soon As Possible.
- Done
Trick To Know The Treasure Hunt Clue Answer
Many People asked from us about the treasure hunt. How we add answer fast?. So here is the genuine trick that I Used to answer the amazon app treasure hunt clue answer in advance.Today treasure hunt is all about Home & Kitchen Products. So follow the steps and answer the question.
Open Amazon App.
Go to "Today Deals".
Now go to CATEGORY.
Select Home & Kitchen.
Now wait for treasure Hunt to begins.
At clue time, one product will have Rs-0 Price.
Purchase that one asap.
Clue Answers For Amazon Treasure Hunt 9th March
12:45 PM- Lavie Beas Women's Shoulder Bag (Tan)
What is Amazon App Treasure Hunt
How to Find/Get Answers in Amazon Treasure Hunt
1. First, read the question of treasure hunt yourself and find any hint in it, If you didn't get thing follow below steps
2. Search the question on google you will find some hint from that definitely
4. if you still did not find answer yourself then visit adpoket.com to find answer because we will provide answers within no time
How To Participate in Amazon Treasure Hunt 8 September
7. Now when you find that product add it to cart and checkout as usually you do
Tricks To Successfully Buy Products at Rs 1 in Amazon treasure hunt
So these were some tips which will help you to crack Amazon App treasure hunt


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Update: Wow! We are thrilled with your excitement about this weekend's event. We have had huge interest from the community in participating in the All Aboard BlackBerry Port-A-Thon! As a result, we have decided to open the Port-A-Thon to new BlackBerry WebWorks SDK, Adobe AIR, Native SDK and Cascades SDK applications for BlackBerry 10, in addition to those being ported from BlackBerry OS and PlayBook.
Android Community! We are happy to have you on board and your interest has been so overwhelming that we are proud to announce an exclusive Android Port-A-Thon is coming on January 11th,, 2013. If you do not currently have your Android app on the BlackBerry PlayBook, the Port-A-Thon in January is the one for you. Watch for details to be posted on the Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog.
If you read the latest guest post from Lou, you'll know that the response to the BlackBerry Got Game Port-a-thon we held in mid-November was amazing – so we've decided to do it again. This time it's called the All Aboard BlackBerry Port-A-Thon, and we are focusing on BlackBerry 10 smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet apps.
As with our first Port-A-Thon, the more apps you port and build, the greater your rewards. For those of you who have been asking about how you can celebrate the launch of BlackBerry 10 with us, well, let's just say you are going to be very interested in the reward for getting more than 10 apps approved.
Different name, similar format
The All Aboard BlackBerry Port-A-Thon will start on December 14th, 2012 and will run for 36 hours. It is a virtual event, so you can log in from home or work, or even get some friends together for a porting party. Participate from wherever works, and our experts will be there virtually for the entire 36 hours to help you port or build BlackBerry apps for BlackBerry 10.
Once again, if you have questions or need help during the Port-A-Thon, you simply submit them and a BlackBerry dev expert will help you. Our BlackBerry dev gurus will also give presentations and share insider tips and tricks at various points over the 36 hours.
More great rewards are up for grabs
Develop a new application or port an existing app from any other OS besides BlackBerry 10 to the BlackBerry 10 OS using BlackBerry Webworks SDK or BlackBerry Native SDK, or Cascades for BlackBerry 10. The more you port and build, the greater your rewards*:
- Get one or more apps approved – $100 per eligible app – a maximum of 20 paid applications
- Get between five and ten apps approved – THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED (200) QUALIFIED PARTICIPANTS ONLY receive one (1) Dev Alpha Device in addition to other rewards
And finally (drum roll, please…)
- Get more than 10 BlackBerry apps approved – $100 per app + one (1) BlackBerry Dev Alpha + FOR THE FIRST TEN (10) QUALIFIED PARTICIPANTS ONLY one (1) paid trip to BlackBerry Jam Europe to celebrate the launch of BlackBerry 10 with us!
Don't forget: Getting prepared ahead of time is in your best interest
Since more apps ported and built means more rewards*, it makes sense to get a few things ready before you join the event. Here's what you need:
- Register for BlackBerry World if you haven't already.
- Request signature keys. Make sure that you select for BlackBerry PlayBook OS and BlackBerry 10 and higher. Downloading in advance is strongly recommended as the time involved to do so could prevent you from earning some rewards.
- Load up your laptop with BlackBerry tools and plug-ins. Make sure you have your full source code file readily available too.
- Make sure you have your images and icons ready to go.
We also have porting tips and guides you can use to get a head start at developer.blackberry.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What is the All Aboard Port-A-Thon?
A. The intent of the All Aboard BlackBerry 10 Port-A-Thon is to encourage existing BlackBerry developers to port their existing BlackBerry PlayBook applications to BlackBerry 10 and submit their new apps. However due to overwhelming requests, we will now accept new apps from new BlackBerry World vendors.
Q: Is my app eligible for the All Aboard BlackBerry 10 Port-A-Thon?
A: If your BlackBerry WebWorks, Adobe AIR, Native SDK or Cascades NDK app has not already been successfully ported to BlackBerry 10 OS then that app is eligible for this Port-A-Thon.
Q. I have an application that is currently for sale on BlackBerry PlayBook. Am I eligible for this Port-A-Thon?
A. Yes. If your app has not already been successfully ported to BlackBerry 10 OS then that app is eligible for this Port-A-Thon. Some apps that targeted the BlackBerry PlayBook did not require any changes to work for BlackBerry 10. Vendors with apps eligible for auto porting were contacted in November and given the option to opt out of having those apps ported. If you received that notification and did not opt out, those apps are not eligible for this offer.
Q. Are Android Runtime apps eligible for rewards in this Port-A-Thon?
A. No, Android apps are not eligible for the rewards in this Port-A-Thon unless they are already available on the BlackBerry PlayBook. However, we are proud to announce an exclusive Android Port-A-Thon is coming on January 11th, 2013. Watch for details will to be posted on the Inside BlackBerry Developers Blog.
Get on board
Get your apps into the BlackBerry World storefront before BlackBerry 10 launches. Register for the All Aboard BlackBerry Port-a-thon today!


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- Video by Mr Antony Crook
In the latest episode of our video series, A Saturday With..., the designer and founder of Ami, Mr Alexandre Mattiussi, takes us through how he spends Saturdays in his native Paris. This year's winner of the prestigious Andam Fashion Award, Mr Mattiussi spends a portion of his weekend attending to business matters: since its inception in 2011, Ami has enjoyed an almost unprecedented degree of success (and has become one of our favourite brands at MR PORTER) in such a short space of time, so it's easy to see why Mr Mattiussi is constantly working. "I like to go to the office on Saturdays because it's much quieter," he says. "I go there to work in the calm, and think about the collection." Of course Mr Mattiussi still finds time to zip off on his moped and unwind with friends, with those two most French of essentials in tow: a good wine and some fromage. Watch the video, above, to find out more.


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Carlisle PA has some pretty good shows through the summer. They used to have the Kit Car show, which turned in to the Import/Kit show as interest (and attendance) in kit cars started dying, then the final nail went in the coffin and they just called it the Import Performance show, and the kit cars are 'allowed to attend'. Many still do.
I used to make a yearly pilgrimage back when I owned a couple kits. Heck, I almost forgot, I still own a kit car (Ferrari Dino). Then I went when I had my Lotus. There is always an interesting mix of cars. The Volvo crew turns out in mass, as well as the Saab guys, oddly enough. But this is a great show for seeing some amazing custom work on all sorts of cars. There are also a lot of great restorations, and some really well built kit cars, new and old.
Now, is a Delorean an import? I don't know, what do you call a car that was created by an American company, built in Ireland, designed by an Italian, mounted on a frame from the UK and powered by a motor that's a joint venture between France and Sweden? I'm going with import.
So I think I will go to this show. I used to go Sat+Sun, but now I find I can cover what I want to see in a day. I drive up Sat morning, make my rounds and head back in the eve. It's $10 to enter, or $40 to show. I'll get the $40 pass and park the D on the grounds and consider it an expensive parking spot. I don't usually hang around by my car - I like to wander around.
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This page shows the current snow webcam for the ski resort of Asahidake. Some cams are not operational during the summer, however if you find one that is not working, or know of a better Asahidake webcam, please let us know. Each day, we archive the webcam image at around 2pm (i.e. in good daylight) and present a rolling archive of images for the past four weeks. This provides skiers with a simple way to view when and how dumps of snow fell.
Most recent Asahidake webcam image
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The Entitlements Debate
Description: Federal entitlement programs make payments directly to recipients who meet eligibility criteria set by law. There are about 400 of them with Social Security being the largest. Generally, entitlement spending is not subject to control through annual appropriations, and once an entitlement program is established, its scope can be altered only by amending the law that created it.
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Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
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When Cthulhu eats your sanity, you're in trouble. But when he eats your dice, he'll give them back.
The Cthulhu Dice Bag is soft plush, with far more eyes, tentacles, and wings than any ordinary dice bag. He'll hold dozens of ordinary six-siders or non-Euclidean polyhedrons in his zippered pouch. Or, of course, Sanity tokens from Cthulhu Dice. Or cursed jewels, or gravel, or bus tokens, or all of them together. Just remember that to get them out, you have to put your hand inside Cthulhu. If you are okay with that, this is the perfect dice bag for you.
Using the Cthulhu Dice Bag in summoning rituals is not recommended, but mostly because summoning Cthulhu is really a bad idea. Just let him hold your dice.


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stability / fitness balls
Stability Balls are large inflatable resistance balls ranging from 45cm-75cm that are used to perform exercises with or without other equipment. Exercising with a Stability Ball, or Swiss Ball, can be done almost anywhere including the home, office or gym.
What are the different uses of a Stability Ball? An exercise ball can be quite versatile all by itself. It can be used to perform such exercises as ball push-ups, overhead squats and plank pike-ups or "V-ups". Use it as a core toning ball to perform abdominal crunches and sit-ups. Because of the inherent instability, a "stability" ball will help the user increase their balance while at the same time engaging their core much more than exercising with a weight bench. Use as a functional training ball and combine with dumbbells or resistance bands for presses and rows. Fitness Ball Chairs can be used to replace office chairs which engages the core while sitting and helps strengthen the back and improves posture.
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Financial Markets…Global stock markets rallied on Friday, with the benchmark MSCI world equity index hitting a 20-month high level of 552.16, as positive economic data from the two world's largest economies boosted market sentiment. Along with robust U.S. labor and housing market reports, China's better-than-expected fourth-quarter GDP growth (y/y), buoyant industrial production and retail sales figures added to signs that the global economic recovery is gaining traction.
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Quarterly GDP growth rates have been revised for the last three quarters of 2011 and the third quarter of 2012. The revised quarterly growth rates were reported at: 11Q1 - 2.2%, 11Q2 - 2.4%, 11Q3 - 2.3%, 11Q4 - 1.9%, 12Q1 - 1.5%, 12Q2 - 2.0%, 12Q3 - 2.1% and 12Q4 - 2.0% respectively compared with the earlier 11Q1 - 2.2%, 11Q2 - 2.5%, 11Q3 - 2.4%, 11Q4 - 1.7%, 12Q1 - 1.5%, 12Q2 - 2.0% and 12Q3 - 2.2%. The revised quarterly numbers suggest a deceleration in GDP growth to 8.2% in the fourth quarter of 2012 from 8.7% reported in the third quarter.
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Chile's central bank kept its monetary policy rate steady at 5.0%. Inflation in Chile eased to 1.5% in December 2.1% in November remaining below the central bank's 3.0% annual target.
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Reticulated python
|Reticulated python
|Scientific classification
P. reticulatus
|Binomial name
|Python reticulatus
The reticulated python (Python reticulatus)[1] is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is endemic to South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's longest snake and longest reptile, and is among the three heaviest snakes. Like all pythons, it is a nonvenomous constrictor. There have been people who have been killed (and in at least two reported cases, eaten) by reticulated pythons.[7][8]
An excellent swimmer, P. reticulatus has been reported far out at sea and has colonized many small islands within its range. The specific name, reticulatus, is Latin meaning "net-like", or reticulated, and is a reference to the complex colour pattern.[9]
This species, Python reticulatus, is the largest snake native to Asia. More than a thousand wild reticulated pythons in southern Sumatra were studied and estimated to have a length range of 1.5 to 6.5 m (4.9 to 21.3 ft) and a weight range of 1 to 75 kg (2.2 to 165.3 lb).[10] Reticulated pythons with lengths more than 6 m (19.7 ft) are rare, though according to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the only extant snake to regularly exceed that length.[11] A reticulated python of the same length as a green anaconda may weigh only half as much as the bulkier anaconda.[11] One of the largest scientifically measured specimens, from Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, was measured under anesthesia at 6.95 m (22.8 ft) and weighed 59 kg (130 lb) after not having eaten for nearly 3 months.[12] Widely published data of specimens that were reported to be several feet longer have not been confirmed.
The specimen once widely accepted as the largest-ever "accurately" measured snake, that being Colossus, a specimen kept at the Highland Park Zoo (now the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s and early 1960s, with a peak reported length of 8.7 metres (28 ft 7 in) from a measurement in November 1956, was later shown to have been substantially shorter than previously reported. When Colossus died on April 14, 1963, its body was deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. At that time, its skeleton was measured and found to be 20 ft 10 in (6.35 m) in total length, and the length of its fresh hide was measured as 23 ft 11 in (7.29 m) – both measurements being significantly shorter than what had been previously estimated in 1956.[13] The hide tends to stretch from the skinning process, and thus be longer than the snake from which it came – e.g., by roughly 20–40% or more.[14] The previous reports had been constructed by combining partial measurements with estimations to compensate for "kinks", since it is virtually impossible to completely straighten an extremely large live python. Because of these issues, a 2012 journal article concluded that "Colossus was neither the longest snake nor the heaviest snake ever maintained in captivity." Too large to be preserved with formaldehyde and then stored in alcohol, the specimen was instead prepared as a disarticulated skeleton. The hide was sent to a laboratory to be tanned, but it was either lost or destroyed, and now only the skull and selected vertebrae and ribs remain in the museum's collection.[13] There is considerable confusion in the literature over whether Colossus was male or female (females tend to be larger).[13][14]
Numerous reports have been made of larger snakes, but since none of these was measured by a scientist nor any of the specimens deposited at a museum, they must be regarded as unproven and possibly erroneous. In spite of what has been, for many years, a standing offer of a large financial reward (initially $1,000, later raised to $5,000, then $15,000 in 1978 and $50,000 in 1980) for a live, healthy snake over 30 ft (9.1 m) long by the New York Zoological Society (later renamed as the Wildlife Conservation Society), no attempt to claim this reward has ever been made.[14]
The colour pattern is a complex geometric pattern that incorporates different colours. The back typically has a series of irregular diamond shapes flanked by smaller markings with light centers. In this species' wide geographic range, much variation of size, colour, and markings commonly occurs.
In zoo exhibits, the colour pattern may seem garish, but in a shadowy jungle environment amid fallen leaves and debris, it allows them to virtually disappear. Called disruptive colouration, it protects them from predators and helps them to catch their prey.[15]
The smooth dorsal scales are arranged in 69–79 rows at midbody. There are deep pits on four anterior upper labials, on two or three anterior lower labials, and on five or six posterior lower labials.[16]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The reticulated python is found in South Asia from the Nicobar Islands, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore, east through Indonesia and the Indo-Australian Archipelago (Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands, the Natuna Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi, Java, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor, Maluku, Tanimbar Islands) and the Philippines (Basilan, Bohol, Cebu, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Polillo, Samar, Tawi-Tawi). The original description does not include a type locality. The type locality was restricted to "Java" by Brongersma (1972).[2]
Three subspecies have been proposed,[17] but are not recognized in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). The color and size can vary a great deal among the subspecies described. Geographical location is a good key to establishing the subspecies, as each one has a distinct geographical range.
The reticulated python lives in rain forests, woodlands, and nearby grasslands. It is also associated with rivers and is found in areas with nearby streams and lakes. An excellent swimmer, it has even been reported far out at sea and has consequently colonized many small islands within its range.[15] During the early years of the 20th century, it is said to have been common even in busy parts of Bangkok, sometimes eating domestic animals.[18]
The natural diet of P. reticulatus includes mammals and occasionally birds. Small specimens up to 3–4 m (9.8–13.1 ft) long eat mainly rodents such as rats, whereas larger individuals switch to prey such as Viverridae like small Indian civets and binturongs, and even primates and pigs. Near human habitation, it is known to snatch stray chickens, cats, and dogs on occasion. Among the largest, fully documented prey items to have been taken are a half-starved sun bear of 23 kilograms that was eaten by a 6.95-m (22.8-ft) specimen and took some ten weeks to digest, as well as pigs of more than 60 kg (132 lb).[10] As a rule, the reticulated python seems able to swallow prey up to one-quarter its own length and up to its own weight.[12] As with all pythons, it is primarily an ambush hunter, usually waiting until prey wanders within strike range before seizing it in its coils and killing by constriction. However, at least one case is reported of a foraging python entering a forest hut and taking a child.[19]
Danger to humans[edit]
The reticulated python is among the few snakes that prey on humans. Attacks on humans are not common, but this species has been responsible for several reported human fatalities, in both the wild and captivity. Considering the known maximum prey size, it is possible for a full-grown reticulated python to open its jaws wide enough to swallow a human, but the width of the shoulders of some adult Homo sapiens can pose a problem for even a snake with sufficient size. Reports of human fatalities and human consumption (the latest examples of consumption of an adult human being well authenticated) include:
- In early 20th-century Indonesia: On Salibabu island, North Sulawesi, a 14-year-old boy was killed and supposedly eaten by a specimen 5.17 m (17.0 ft) in length. Another incident involved a woman reputedly eaten by a "large reticulated python", but few details are known.[20]
- Franz Werner reported a case from Burma occurring either in the early 1910s or in 1927.[14] A jeweller named Maung Chit Chine, who went hunting with his friends, was apparently eaten by a 6 m (19.7 ft) specimen after he sought shelter from a rainstorm in or under a tree. Supposedly, he was swallowed feet-first, contrary to normal snake behaviour, but perhaps the easiest way for a snake to actually swallow a human.[21]
- In 1932, Frank Buck wrote about a teenage boy who was eaten by a pet 25 ft (7.6 m) reticulated python in the Philippines. According to Buck, the python escaped, and when it was found, a human child's shape was recognized inside the snake, and turned out to be the son of the snake's owner.[22][citation needed]
- Among a small group of Aeta negritos in the Philippines, six deaths by pythons were said to have been documented within a period of 40 years, plus one who died later of an infected bite.[19]
- On September 4, 1995, Ee Heng Chuan, a 29-year-old rubber tapper from the southern Malaysian state of Johor, was reported to have been killed by a large reticulated python. The victim had apparently been caught unaware and was squeezed to death. The snake had coiled around the lifeless body with the victim's head gripped in its jaws when it was stumbled upon by the victim's brother. The python, reported as measuring 23 ft (7.0 m) long and weighing more than 300 lb, was killed soon after by the arriving police, who shot it four times.[14]
- On October 23, 2008, a 25-year-old Virginia Beach, Virginia woman, Amanda Ruth Black, appeared to have been killed by a 13-foot (4.0 m) pet reticulated python. The apparent cause of death was asphyxiation. The snake was later found in the bedroom in an agitated state.[23]
- On January 21, 2009, a 3-year-old Las Vegas boy was wrapped in the coils of an 18-foot (5.5 m) pet reticulated python, turning blue. The boy's mother, who had been petsitting the python on behalf of a friend, rescued the toddler by gashing the python with a knife. The snake was later euthanized because of its wounds.[24]
- Akbar Salubiro, a 25-year-old farmer in Central Mamuju Regency, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, was found inside the stomach of a 7 m (23 ft) reticulated python. He had been declared missing from his palm tree plantation, and the people searching for him found the python the next day with a large bulge in its stomach. They killed the python and found the whole body of the missing farmer inside. This was the first fully confirmed case of a person being eaten by a python. The process of retrieving the body from the python's stomach was documented by pictures and videos taken by witnesses.[25][26][27][28]
- In June of 2018, a 54-year-old Indonesian woman, a vegetable farmer in Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, was killed and eaten by a 23-foot python. The woman went missing one night while working in her garden, and the next day a search party was organized after some of her belongings were found abandoned in the garden. The python was found near the garden with a large bulge in its body. The snake was killed and carried into town where it was cut open revealing the woman's body completely intact.[29] Video of the snake being gutted was posted online.[8]
P. reticulatus is oviparous, adult females lay between 15 and 80 eggs per clutch. At an optimum incubation temperature of 31–32 °C (88–90 °F), the eggs take an average of 88 days to hatch.[30] Hatchlings are at least 2 ft (61 cm) in length.[18]
Increased popularity of the reticulated python in the pet trade is due largely to increased efforts in captive breeding and selectively bred mutations such as the "albino" and "tiger" strains. It can make a good captive, but keepers should have previous experience with large constrictors to ensure safety to both animal and keeper. Although its interactivity and beauty draws much attention, some feel it is unpredictable.[31][32] It does not attack humans by nature, but will bite and possibly constrict if it feels threatened, or mistakes a hand for food. While not venomous, large pythons can inflict serious injuries, sometimes requiring stitches.
The huge size and attractive pattern of this snake has made it a favorite zoo exhibit, with several individuals claimed to be above 20 ft (6.1 m) in length and more than one claimed to be the largest in captivity.[33][34][35][36] However, due to its huge size, immense strength, aggressive disposition, and the mobility of the skin relative to the body, it is very difficult to get exact length measurements of a living reticulated python, and weights are rarely indicative, as captive pythons are often obese.[14] Claims made by zoos and animal parks are sometimes exaggerated, such as the claimed 14.85 m (48.7 ft) snake in Indonesia which was subsequently proven to be about 6.5 m (21.3 ft) long.[37][38] For this reason, scientists do not accept the validity of length measurements unless performed on a dead or anesthetized snake which is later preserved in a museum collection or stored for scientific research.[14]
A reticulated python named "Medusa" is considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the longest living snake ever kept in captivity. It was measured in 2011 as 7.67 m (25.2 ft) long, weighing 158.8 kg (350 lb).[39]
Dwarf forms of reticulated pythons also occur, from some islands that are northwest of Australia, and these are being selectively bred in captivity to be much smaller, resulting in animals often referred to as "super dwarfs". Adult super dwarf reticulated pythons are typically between 1.82 m (6 ft) and 2.4 m (8 ft) in length[40].
Three subspecies may be encountered, including two new ones:
- P. r. reticulatus (Schneider, 1801) – Called "retics" in herpetoculture.
- P. r. jampeanus Auliya et al., 2002 – Kayaudi dwarf reticulated pythons or Jampea retics, about half the length,[30] or according to Auliya et al. (2002), not reaching much more than 2 m (6.6 ft) in length.[17] Found on Tanahjampea in the Selayar Archipelago south of Sulawesi. Closely related to P. r. reticulatus of the Lesser Sundas.[17]
- P. r. saputrai Auliya et al., 2002 – Selayer reticulated pythons or Selayer retics. Found on Selayar Island in the Selayar Archipelago and also adjacent Sulawesi. This subspecies represents a sister lineage to all other populations of reticulated pythons tested.[17] According to Auliya et al. (2002) it does not exceed 4 m (13.1 ft) in length.[17]
The latter two are dwarf subspecies. Apparently, the population of the Sangihe Islands north of Sulawesi represents another such subspecies which is basal to the P. r. reticulatus plus P. r. jampeanus clade, but it is not yet formally described.[17]
The proposed subspecies "dalegibbonsi", "euanedwardsi", "haydnmacphiei", "neilsonnemani", "patrickcouperi", and "stuartbigmorei"[3][41] have not found general acceptance.
A phylogenetic study of pythons has suggested that the reticulated python as well as the Timor python are more closely related to Australasian pythons, suggesting that they are an intermediate form between the Australasian pythons and the Afro-Asian genus Python, and should therefore be placed in a separate genus.[42] The genus name Broghammerus was proposed by Raymond Hoser in 2003/2004.[3][4] However, this and a numerous other names by the same author were criticized by Kaiser et al. (2013),[43] who proposed ignoring them for the purposes of nomenclature. Reynolds et al. subsequently described the genus Malayopython for this species and its sister species, the Timor python, calling the Timor python M. timoriensis.[5] Hoser has since said that the Malayopython name is a junior synonym of Broghammerus and thus should not be recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.[44] Neither of these proposed reclassifications has been recognized by the ITIS,[1] but Malayopython has been recognized by a number of subsequent authors[45][46] and the Reptile Database.
See also[edit]
- List of largest snakes
- Burmese python
- List of pythonid species and subspecies
- Pythonidae by common name
- Pythonidae by taxonomic synonyms
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Further reading[edit]
- Auliya MA (2003). Taxonomy, Life History and Conservation of Giant Reptiles in West Kalimantan. Ph.D. thesis, University of Bonn.
- Auliya MA, Mausfeld P, Schmitz A, Böhme W (2002). "Review of the reticulated python (Python reticulatus Schneider, 1801 [sic]) with the description of new subspecies from Indonesia". Naturwissenschaften 89 (5): 201–213. doi:10.1007/s00114-002-0320-4 (HTML abstract, electronic supplement available to subscribers).
- Raven HC (1946). "Adventures in python country". Natural History. 55: 38–41.
- Schneider JG (1801). Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae Fasciculus Secundus continens Crocodilos, Scincos, Chamaesauras, Boas, Pseudoboas, Elapes, Angues, Amphisbaenas et Caecilias. Jena: Frommann. vi + 364 pp. + 2 plates. ("[Boa] Reticulata", new species, pp. 264–266). (in Latin).
- Shine R, Ambariyanto, Harlow PS, Mumpuni (1999). "Reticulated pythons in Sumatra: biology, harvesting and sustainability". Biol. conserv. 87 (3): 349-357. ISSN 0006-3207. Abstract at CAT.INIST. Accessed 12 September 2007.
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