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If you've delayed buying precision farming equipment because of its cost or complexity, a solution is in sight. Australian company K. Eldredge Electronics (KEE) plans to market its multifunctional Lynx Universal Controller in the United States soon.
At an expected price of around $10,000, the Lynx unit offers a super-tough computer in a small package with software and a 6-gigabyte hard drive. About half the size of a standard laptop computer, the unit includes an easy-to-read touch screen. Combined with the appropriate number of interfaces, it can run up to 10 different precision agriculture functions: GPS guidance, autosteer, variable rate seeding, spray computer, boom leveler, depth control, autohitch (turns a rigid hitch into a floating hitch), spreader controller, header height control and remote access. The remote access feature lets repair technicians "ring up" the tractor or piece of farm machinery to diagnose technical problems from hundreds of miles away.
KEE managing director Kym Eldredge says the Lynx system eliminates the duplicity of multiple control boxes, knobs, switches and cable harnesses that plague many present precision farming systems. "Once farmers recognize and harness the potential of this system, traditional farming control methods will be a thing of the past," Eldredge says.
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Dozens of heavy trucks transporting humanitarian aid have been sitting idly on the border of the Gaza Strip since Monday, unable to enter the coastal enclave after Hamas shut the gates from its side.
The perishable items among the aid carried by the 65 trucks are threatening to spoil if the situation isn't resolved quickly.
The problem is that earlier this week, Hamas decided to seize control of Gaza's border crossings from the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been working with the PA to ensure that regular supplies entered Gaza.
But Hamas and Israel have no cooperation, and the terror group seems uninterested in getting those trucks into the territory it rules.
Israeli Gen. Eitan Dangot, the officer in charge of coordinating aid transfers, stressed that Israel continues to facilitate the entry of goods to Gaza, and will gladly resume that practice if someone on the other side will let that happen.
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Craft Technologies Exhibit: Come See the Collection of Projects
Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013
Students enrolled in a course taught by Utah State University assistant professor Deborah Fields will showcase their projects completed this semester in a "Craft Technologies Exhibit" Wednesday, April 24, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Emma Eccles Jones Education Building, Room 282.
This is the first semester the course has been offered by the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences, and Fields is excited to show off students' work.
The exhibit will include interactive games, jackets that light up in response to touch, glass jars that play music, squeezable light-up stuffed animals, singing mushrooms and much more.
Students have been designing a wide range of fun projects, from interactive quilts and twinkling tutus to pressure sensitive pet toys and NERF gun video games.
"We have students from fashion design, communications, art, publicity and instructional technologies and learning sciences," Fields said. "The diversity of expertise in the class has contributed to a lot of creative work."
The craft technologies course — officially ITLS 5285/6285 — is part of a new movement to transform the landscape of technology education by changing the way we think of and use computers. It's about crafting with digital technologies, using threads instead of wires, using cloth instead of metal. In other words, making hybrid creations that cross traditional domains of computing, engineering, art and crafting, the exhibit organizers said. Students are using cutting edge technologies alongside more traditional crafts to explore the affordances of different conductive materials for interaction.
Each student designed several projects, including human sensor garments, fabric pianos and alternative video game controllers — try to picture a quilted Nintendo controller.
"The students have been amazing this year," Fields said. "Most came in with very little to no knowledge of how to make circuits or program computers, but by the end of the semester have made some very clever and creative products."
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Russia underlined their total dominance in the synchronized swimming program at the world championships on Saturday by completing a sweep of all seven gold medals with victory in the free combination team event.
After winning all seven titles at the previous world championships in Shanghai two years ago and six out of seven at both Montreal in 2007 and Rome in 2009, the 10-strong Russian team wowed spectators at the Palau Sant Jordi with a typically acrobatic routine to amass a points total of 97.060.
Spain got the home supporters rocking with a rousing Elvis Presley-themed routine to take silver with 94.620 and Ukraine clinched bronze ahead of Japan with 92.020.
"We did here our maximum," Svetlana Kolesnichenko, who teamed up with double solo gold medalist Svetlana Romashina to win both duet events, told reporters.
"We did everything that we wanted to do so it's a big mix of emotions."
Alba Cabello, at 27 one of the senior members of the Spanish team, said she and her team mates were now looking ahead to the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
With China competing in Barcelona in the solo and duet events only, Spain held off the best of the rest to take three silvers behind the Russians in the team competition.
"If someone doubted that our team could win a medal in each event, they can look at the result and see that we've reached our target," Cabello said. "We will continue to fight for medals."
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The Mets are in Atlanta tonight to start a three-game series against the Braves and long-time nemesis Chipper Jones.
Jones has taken his farewell tour among National League parks and has been given numerous gifts ranging from a pop-art painting of Shea Stadium from the Mets, a surfboard from the Padres, and maybe the best of all, an autographed Stan Musial jersey from the Cardinals.
The Braves will honor him prior to tonight's game and he'll have three more shots at tormenting the Mets.
Jones will go down as one of the top four switch hitters in history, along with Mickey Mantle, Eddie Murray (both over 500 homers) and Pete Rose (the career hits leader).
He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Niese starts for Mets: Jonathan Niese will make his final start of the season. The pre-season goal was 15 victories, but Niese stands at 12-9 with a very respectable 3.49 ERA, and an improved 1.18 WHIP (from his career of 1.36).
He has a very good 152-46 strikeouts-to-walks ratio, but needs to cut down on homers allowed (21).
Perhaps most importantly, Niese will end the season injury free with 30 starts.
Gee goes home: Dillon Gee is at his off-season Fort Worth, Texas, home today, having been sent home by the club after the Citi Field 2012 finale.
Gee threw a bullpen session Monday, his first time on the mound since July 13, when he had surgery to repair an artery in his pitching shoulder that caused numbness in his arm.
Gee said he had never thrown off a mound this soon after an extended down period and came away pleased.
"All I wanted to do was see how much I could build up before the end of the season," Gee said. "And, to be honest with you, normally I'm not on the mound this early. So to be up on the mound this early and feel pretty good is encouraging. That was a goal.''
It was important for the Mets to see Gee throw before winter, even if it was only 25 pitches so they could get a feel of his physical status.
Gee said he'll start working out immediately after the season and begin throwing in December, as he does every year. That there are no restrictions on him is very encouraging.
Citi Field, 2012, numbers: The Mets finished 36-45 at home, a number that must at least be reversed if they are to become regarded as a contender. They scored 287 runs, their fewest at home since 1994, when they scored 235 runs. They did homer 67 times, their most at home since opening the park, but were outhomered by five.


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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Pasta with Sausage, Onions, and Fennel
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- That Girl said...
I'm jealous - we still haven't made it to Italy.
- March 7, 2012 at 8:06 AM
- Bridget said...
Dave and I drank a bottle of wine over lunch pretty much every day in Italy...is that bad? :) One of my favorite lunches on our trip was in Venice. We stopped at a shop (on some street...I have no idea) and bought crackers, boar sausage, a couple different types of cheese, olives, and champagne, then ate it on picnic tables that were in the street, so we could watch people walk by. Then we went across the street and grabbed some pastries for dessert. So much fun!
Erm, the pasta looks good too, by the way. :) And sadly, I've cut down on pasta and bread as well. The price we pay for those vanity pounds!
- March 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM
- Brittany Cooks said...
I have a Rustic Tuscan Apple Cake in the oven right now! Dreaming of Italy. I was there a year and a half ago for five weeks and I really miss it. The pasta looks great! :)
- March 7, 2012 at 8:59 PM
- Jessica said...
I work out solely so I don't have to make those sorts of difficult decisions. Granted my waistline would probably be smaller if I did, but I can't imagine pasta, sweets, cheese, or anything else drawing the short stick. :)
This pasta sounds FANTASTIC!
- March 7, 2012 at 9:09 PM


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Fox reports "Shocking," "appalling," and "racist": These are just some of the words used to describe what's for sale at a well-known bakery in Greenwich Village. While much of America celebrated Barack Obama's inauguration, Fox 5's Arnold Diaz found that this bakery marked the occasion with a controversial cookie that the owner calls a "drunken negro face"
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There were some interesting comments late last night on the Manager of the Year post. I was asked whether I saw young guys seemingly not care after a loss.
I sure did. Saw it during the games, too. And, yes, Tom Glavine and Billy Wagner spoke out about it. I wrote it several times. Some guys, Lastings Milledge for one, and Jose Reyes was another, who came across as not caring at times.
Although Carlos Beltran is quiet, I never got that impression from him. Carlos Delgado? Well, let's just say he never wore a loss on his face.
As far as Glavine being a fraud? I don't buy it. Never have and never will. Yes, he got shelled, and yes he answered a question by saying "this is not devastating." Glavine's problem was he was too literal in his use of the word. The rest of the quote, and I'm paraphrasing, "is losing a child or a loved one is devastating not losing a baseball game."
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The thing is, nowadays I live in Austin, TX (duh). That means how many sweaters and other items I may possible need? So, I started knitting hats and scarfs for my friends - a sudden idea, and I sent them out, and everyone loves them.
Well, now that my best buddies whom I cherish are all outfitted with personalized knitted equipment, I need to find a market for my outlet!
On the running front, I did a local 10k race on Sunday, after running 12 miles on trails and besting my usual time by a minute. I haven't run a 10 km since 2002 (? or 2001), and had no clue what I should be trying for, so I set a sub-50 minutes with a slight hope of 48 minutes (just sounded like a number for 8 min/mile, forget that 0.2M at the end). It was pretty hilly (especially miles 4 and 5), much more so than my last 10k in NYC, I ran very even and up front the (small) field of folks spread out, caught up a few guys and a girl in those last hills and pushed for the flat/downhill finish in 48:03 (should have checked out the watch, silly, instead of focusing on the ground). I was very happy with results, placed 1st in 40-44 (3rd Master, 8th female, 25th Overall), and actually got a little medal (funny thing is I don't take awards or medals from ultras, but did take that one home!). So, to cap the Sunday I drove 48 minutes, waited to start 48 minutes, ran 48 minutes, waited for awards ceremony 48 minutes, and drove back home 48 minutes. And I don't regret it one bit:) even though I also managed to chafe raw my armpits to blood (I guess when running hard, arm pumping is involved versus ultrarunning shuffle...).
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Tulsa, OK - Aquarium, Loops, lunch.
|Visited favorite knitting store in Tulsa, Loops, went for a little spree and had a great time.


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Care, Care & Community in Cambodia by Alison Orr
The 2 Week Special Care & Community volunteer programme is simply an amazing way to experience an entirely new country and culture in just two short weeks, whilst also making a difference to children's lives.
On deciding that I wanted to volunteer during the summer I remember looking at the many different countries that Projects abroad offered and feeling overwhelmed at the options available to me. I decided to volunteer in Cambodia and have never regretted my decision to go to such an amazing country.
Arriving in Cambodia
My journey started in Glasgow International Airport, with my friend Rebecca, and after four flights we arrived late at night into Phnom Penh. The nerves throughout the journey slowly built up but we managed to meet other volunteers on our flights which allowed me to feel more excitement than nerves at the prospects that lay ahead. Walking out through the airport doors, suddenly the heat hits you, the crazy driving, all the people, it's completely overwhelming and exciting all at the same time.
On arriving at the apartments we were showed to our rooms. The rooms were large and comfortable and Rebecca and I were lucky enough to get air conditioning in our room, which helped a lot at night as we weren't used to the heat.
Our first morning in Cambodia we had our first ever tuk tuk experience to the Projects Abroad office where we were given an induction talk. This is where we met Projects Abroad staff; Seang, Pises and Kanika. Kanika was the woman who would be looking after us on a day today basis and making sure that we were always happy with our project.
The induction was a vital part to our stay in Cambodia it helped outline what our project would be like and gave us an itinerary of our trip. The induction also allowed for me to meet and get to know the other 15 volunteers who I made very good friends with and have wonderful memories with. We then proceeded to visit our two work placements Home of Hope, run by the Brothers and Home of Peace, run by the Sisters.
On our first stop at Home of Hope when I first walked in a young boy came up to me and simply started hugging me as I stood and listened to a Brother who worked in the orphanage. This first and simple moment in the trip is the thing I remember the most. I learned that it is the small things that make a difference during my time in Cambodia.
My Project in Cambodia
Our days were split into two, in the morning we went to Home of Hope, which was an all-boys orphanage. On our first couple of days we were painting the upstairs of the orphanage. I remember painting a wall and being completely distracted by a boy downstairs called Dee. He was sitting in his wheelchair and getting fed some bread by Rebecca and he kept looking up at me and smiling at me so we started a game of peek-a-boo. He was so cute and having so much fun at this game that my painting skills I am sad to say were severely lacking in concentration!
As suggested by Projects abroad I took some small things for the children to play with and stickers and balloons were by far their favourite things to play with. Indeed I ended up quite often with a face full of stickers as the children love to put them on their faces and your own.
In the afternoons we went to Home of Peace which was a mixed gender orphanage and the children were slightly younger. Here our time was spent playing with the children and doing fun activities. The children are always really excited to see you and despite the language barrier they are able to play with you and simply enjoy your company.
On our first ever day here I remember noticing one of the older children sitting quietly in the corner, not as excited as the younger children and a little more reserved. I decided to play a hand clapping game with my friend Rebecca and managed to persuade the girl to join us. After a while she became more comfortable in our presence and began to teach us new rhymes.
During our time in Cambodia we not only helped out in the orphanages but we also tried to contribute and help the local communities as well. We packaged rice up into bags and then went out to the surrounding homes to distribute the rice to the poorest of families. The rice is vital in their daily struggle to feed their families and I was truly grateful that I had a chance to play my part in helping out the local families.
Cambodian Culture
The 2 Week Special Care & Community programme is not only about volunteering and making a difference but it is also an opportunity to immerse yourself in another culture. At first you may find yourself being overwhelmed by all the differences but this doesn't last long and a curiosity to learn and experience new things takes over. The food was one thing I will never forget. Every night we had something different that was completely new to me but tasted amazing.
During our two weeks in Cambodia we visited many sites in Phnom Penh including the Royal Palace where the King lives and we also enjoyed a Cambodian traditional shadow puppet show. The most important trip we had by far was the trip to the Genocide Museum and the Killing Fields. These two places were extremely hard to comprehend in that so many people had died and that it was so recent. Nevertheless this was part of Cambodia's history and it was important to learn about and pay your respects to the victims.
At the weekend during our time in Cambodia we headed up to Siem Reap. Here we saw the amazing temples including the magnificent Angkor Wat temple. It was an amazing experience and well worth the visit. I would advise that you try and see as many temples as possible as they will continue to amaze you.
Returning Home
Now that I have returned home I find that I miss Cambodia more than I could ever have predicted after only spending two short weeks there. I miss the weather, the other volunteers, the food, the staff, but most of all I miss the children. The fun that I had simply making the children laugh is an experience I will never forget and I hope to be able to go back in the near future and do it all over again.
The 2 Week Special Care & Community programme has been a life changing experience and I would say if you ever have the opportunity to go to Cambodia then you should not hesitate to do so.
Alison Orr
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Can you twist and turn without making a splash?
Write a sentence no longer than twenty (20) words that uses the most silent letters.
The winning sentence will receive a dual prize package from the UniSA Learning and Connection and the Purdue Writing Lab.
*Judge's note: from a linguistic perspective, there are various types of silent letters, including exocentric digraphs, endocentric digraphs, inert letters, and empty letters. For this competition, all types of silent letters will be counted.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Event number 2 - Diving
Posted by Brady Spangenberg at 12:28 PM
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- Anindita said...
Here's my entry:
The phlegmatic psychiatrist caught pneumonia on account of his failure to find warm accommodation, enough towels, and heavy chicken soup.
- September 10, 2008 at 4:14 AM
- Andrea Duff said...
Many thanks for participating in the Diving event. I see you have an interest in technical writing. Poor Psychatrist!
We (at UniSA, Mawson Lakes) also are keenly interested in technical writing as many of our students are computer science or engineering students. (I encourage you to check out Anidita's blog, everyone!)
All the best
Andrea (on behalf of the UniSA and Purdue Grammar Gang)
- September 16, 2008 at 4:20 AM
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Tekton Technologies today announces Orderly 2.2 for iOS, a major update to their gesture friendly app for managing to-do lists on iPhone. Featuring a breathtaking interface and flawless cloud sync, the App now comes with "Location Based Reminders," so tha
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tekton Technologies is pleased to announce the release of Orderly 2.2 for iOS, a major update to their productivity app that lets users manage to-dos using a unique visual interface on iPhone. Featuring a breath taking interface and flawless cloud sync, Orderly, now comes with "Location Based Reminders," so that the users never miss a to-do at a particular location. Orderly is designed based on how the human mind visualizes to-do lists, and interacts with users in a way that is natural for humans to deal with to-do lists, combined with the power of iPhone gestures.
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Once a to-do is created, it is displayed on one of three shelves using Apple's bookshelf metaphor: High Priority, Medium, and Low. Users can instantly view all their to-dos, expand and contract them with pinch gestures, edit items, change their priority, mark them as complete, or swipe them to delete. The app includes two full-screen bookshelves, Home and Work, allowing users to keep to-dos posted according to priority and location.
The extraordinary simplicity, practicality, and design of Orderly sets it apart from the many to-do apps available. Having concluded that pinches and swipes are ergonomically more efficient than taps (which require hitting a target button), Tekton Technologies has employed the fundamental principles of human factors to design a to-do app that is highly efficient, instantly informative, and accommodative of the daily needs of real people. With its intuitive gesture based commands, the learning curve for the app and all its features is about ONE minute.
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Andrew Youngson's series, The Devil's Garden, documents Bedouin communities living amidst Second World War minefields in Egypt's Western Desert. It is estimated that approximately 17 million unexploded anti-personnel and anti-tank mines; artillery shells; bombs dropped by aircraft and machine gun, small arms and mortar rounds remain beneath the sand.
The Western Desert is an area rich in natural resources but whereas areas allocated for luxury beach resorts and Petroleum Company compounds have been cleared of unexploded ordnance, Bedouin land has not benefited from such programmes. Official records of incidents involving UXO have not been kept until recently but it is believed thousands of Bedouin have been killed or injured since the end of the Second World War.
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YREKA, Calif. — The alleged accomplice of a Medford woman accused of murdering her husband in Siskiyou County last fall admitted in court Thursday to helping cover up the slaying and is cooperating with prosecutors in the case.
Amber Lubbers, 27, of Medford, pleaded guilty Thursday in Siskiyou County Superior Court to one count of being an accessory after the fact to the November murder of Michael Christopher MacCallum.
Her sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 28. She faces up to three years in prison under California law.
MacCallum's body was found Nov. 20 at the base of a steep cliff south of Applegate Lake and the California border. He died of a gunshot wound, police said. The main suspect in the case is MacCallum's wife, 26-year-old Patricia MacCallum, who is facing a first-degree murder charge. The pair were arrested Dec. 7 in Medford.
Lubbers and MacCallum appeared together Thursday in a preliminary hearing in which Lubbers entered her plea, Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus said. Lubbers then testified against MacCallum in court, and she had previously made statements to investigators about her role in the alleged cover-up, Andrus said.
"She's given a tremendous amount of information about Ms. MacCallum," said Andrus, who declined to elaborate.
Patricia MacCallum sat quietly during Lubbers' testimony Thursday morning, Andrus said.
Andrus said his office has had no contact with MacCallum since she was arrested and sought legal counsel.
The hearing was abruptly delayed about 11:15 a.m. for a family emergency involving the judge in the case, Andrus said.
Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey has said investigators have a motive and evidence against MacCallum, but he has declined to reveal them.
Michael MacCallum worked in Medford as a driver for Checker Cab and as a bartender. The victim had celebrated his birthday Nov. 17, and had been on a camping trip in northern Siskiyou County near the Oregon border.
If convicted on the first-degree murder charge, Patricia MacCallum faces a sentence of 25 years to life under California law.
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YREKA, Calif. — The alleged accomplice of a Medford woman accused of murdering her husband in Siskiyou County last fall admitted in court Thursday to helping cover up the slaying and is cooperating with prosecutors in the case.


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In several places, the C and C++ language specifications use a curious, and fairly controversial, phrase: undefined behavior. For certain program constructs, the specification prescribes no specific behavior, instead allowing Crossing Blue Dana Denim Elastic ANNA Flats Straps Ballerina 20 Women's Classic 044Pnzx1. Such constructs are considered erroneous, and so the result depends on the particulars of the platform and implementation. The original purpose of undefined behavior was for implementation flexibility. In other words, it's slack that allows a compiler to produce appropriate and efficient code for its target platform.
Specifying a particular behavior would have put unnecessary burden on implementations — especially in the earlier days of computing — making for inefficient programs on some platforms. For example, if the result of dereferencing a null pointer was defined to trap — to cause the program to halt with an error — then platforms that do not have hardware trapping, such as those without virtual memory, would be required to instrument, in software, each pointer dereference.
In the 21st century, undefined behavior has taken on a somewhat different meaning. Optimizers use it — or abuse it depending on your point of view — to lift constraints2 that would otherwise inhibit more aggressive optimizations. It's not so much a fundamentally different application of undefined behavior, but it does take the concept to an extreme.
The reasoning works like this: A program that evaluates a construct whose behavior is undefined cannot, by definition, have any meaningful behavior, and so that program would be useless. As a result, Wine Shoe Running Shadow Mizuno Blue Women's Wave Purple 2 Patriot q0nfFw3 and use those assumptions to prove its optimizations.
Under this newer interpretation, mistakes involving undefined behavior are more punishing4 and surprising5 than before. Programs that seem to make some sense when run on a particular architecture may actually compile into a binary with a security vulnerability due to conclusions reached from an analysis of its undefined behavior.
This can be frustrating if your programs are intended to run on a very specific platform. In this situation, all behavior really could be locked down and specified in a reasonable, predictable way. Such a language would be like an extended, less portable version of C or C++. But your toolchain still insists on running your program on the abstract machine rather than the hardware you actually care about. However, even in this situation undefined behavior can still be desirable. I will provide a couple of examples in this article.
Signed integer overflow
To start things off, let's look at one of my all time favorite examples of useful undefined behavior, a situation involving signed integer overflow. The result of a signed integer overflow isn't just unspecified, it's undefined behavior. Full stop.
This goes beyond a simple matter of whether or not the underlying machine uses a two's complement representation. From the perspective of the abstract machine, just the act a signed integer overflowing is enough to throw everything out the window, even if the overflowed result is never actually used in the program.
On the other hand, unsigned integer overflow is defined — or, more accurately, defined to wrap, not overflow. Both the undefined signed overflow and defined unsigned overflow are useful in different situations.
For example, here's a fairly common situation, much like what Black Betunia Combo Loafer Women's Aerosoles Met w1qO8YWx6. Consider this function that does substring comparison:
cmp_signed(int i1, int i2, unsigned char *buf)
for (;;) {
int c1 = buf[i1];
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if (c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
cmp_unsigned(unsigned i1, unsigned i2, unsigned char *buf)
for (;;) {
int c1 = Twisted On Andrea Womens Canvas Slip Sneakers Blush buf[i1];
int c2 = buf[i2];
if (c1 != c2)
return c1 - c2;
In this function, the indices
i1 and
i2 will always be some small, non-negative value. Since it's non-negative, it should be
unsigned, right? Not necessarily. That puts an extra constraint on code generation and, at least on x86-64, makes for a less efficient function. Most of the time you actually don't want overflow to be defined, and instead allow the compiler to assume it just doesn't happen.
The constraint is that the behavior of
i1 or
i2 overflowing as an unsigned integer is defined, and the compiler is obligated to implement that behavior. On x86-64, where
int is 32 bits, the result of the operation must be truncated to 32 bits one way or another, requiring extra instructions inside the loop.
In the signed case, incrementing the integers cannot overflow since that would be undefined behavior. This permits the compiler to perform the increment only in 64-bit precision without truncation if it would be more efficient, which, in this case, it is.
Here's the output of Clang 6.0.0 with
-Os on x86-64. Pay close attention to the main loop, which I named
movsxd rdi, edi ; use i1 as a 64-bit integer
mov al, [rdx + rdi]
movsxd rsi, esi ; use i2 as a 64-bit integer
mov clSlip Twisted Canvas On Womens Andrea Blush Sneakers , [rdx Twisted Sneakers Slip Andrea Blush On Canvas Womens + rsi]
jmp .check
.loopOn Canvas Slip Andrea Twisted Blush Womens Sneakers : mov al, [rdx + rdi + 1]
mov cl, [rdx + rsi + 1]
inc rdx ; increment only the base pointer
.check: cmp al, cl
je .loop
movzx eax, al
movzx ecx, cl
sub eax, ecx ; return c1 - c2
mov eax, edi
mov al, [rdx + rax]
mov ecx, esi
mov cl, [rdx + rcxAndrea Sneakers Blush Slip Womens On Canvas Twisted ]
cmp al, cl
jne .ret
inc edi
On Blush Womens Twisted Sneakers Andrea Canvas Slip inc esi
.loop: mov eax, edi ; truncated i1 overflow
mov al, [rdx + rax]
mov ecx, esi ; truncated i2 overflow
mov cl, [rdx + rcx]
inc edi ; increment i1
inc esi ; increment i2
cmp al, cl
je .loop
Womens Andrea Sneakers Slip Twisted Canvas On Blush .ret: movzx eax, al
movzx ecx, cl
sub eax, ecx
As unsigned values,
i1 and
i2 can overflow independently, so they have to be handled as independent 32-bit unsigned integers. As signed values they can't overflow, so they're treated as if they were 64-bit integers and, instead, the pointer,
buf, is incremented without concern for overflow. The signed loop is much more efficient (5 instructions versus 8).
The signed integer helps to communicate the narrow contract of the function — the limited range of
i1 and
i2 — to the compiler. In a variant of C where signed integer overflow is defined (i.e.
-fwrapv), this capability is lost. In fact, using
-fwrapv deoptimizes the signed version of this function.
Side note: Using
size_t (an unsigned integer) is even better on x86-64 for this example since it's already 64 bits and the function doesn't need the initial sign/zero extension. However, this might simply move the sign extension out to the caller.
Strict aliasing
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foo(int *a, Womens On Canvas Blush Andrea Twisted Sneakers Slip intWhite Women's Suede Classic PUMA Black Sneaker nRS1WXxHq *b)
*b = 0; // store *a = 1; // store Slip Blush On Andrea Sneakers Canvas Twisted Womens return *b; // load }
Naively one might assume the
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return 0. However, since
a and
b have the same type, the compiler must consider the possibility that they alias — that they point to the same place in memory — and must generate code that works correctly under these conditions.
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a and
b to alias, we have a couple of options for helping our compiler.
First, we could manually resolve the aliasing issue by returning 0 explicitly. In more complicated functions this might mean making local copies of values, working only with those local copies, then storing the results back before returning. Then aliasing would no longer matter.
foo(int *aSlip Twisted Womens Andrea Blush On Sneakers Canvas , int *b)
*b = 0;
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return 0;
Second, C99 introduced a
restrict qualifier to communicate to the compiler that pointers passed to functions cannot alias. For example, the pointers to
memcpy() are qualified with
restrict as of C99. Passing aliasing pointers through
restrict parameters is undefined behavior, e.g. this doesn't ever happen as far as a compiler is concerned.
int foo(int *restrict a, int *restrict b);
The third option is to design an interface that uses incompatible types, exploiting strict aliasing. This happens all the time, usually by accident. For example,
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long are never compatible even when they have the same representation.
int foo(int *a, long *b);
If you use an extended or modified version of C without strict aliasing (
-fno-strict-aliasing), then the compiler must assume everything aliases all the time, generating a lot more precautionary loads than necessary.
What Black Gola Fashion Sneaker Deep Harrier Red Men's WBZxnrZ6a8 a lot of people is that compilers will still apply the strict aliasing rule even when it's trivial for the compiler to prove that aliasing is occurring:
/* note: forbidden */
long a;
int *b = (int *)&a;
It's not just a simple matter of making exceptions for these cases. The language specification would need to define all the rules about when and where incompatible types are permitted to alias, and developers would have to understand all these rules if they wanted to take advantage of the exceptions. It can't just come down to trusting that the compiler is smart enough to see the aliasing when it's sufficiently simple. It would need to be carefully defined.
Besides, there are probably conforming, portable solutions9 that, with contemporary compilers, will safely compile to the efficient code you actually want anyway.
There is one special exception for strict aliasing:
char * is allowed to alias with anything. This is important to keep in mind both when you intentionally want aliasing, but also when you want to avoid it. Writing through a
char * pointer could force the compiler to generate additional, unnecessary loads.
In fact, there's a whole dimension to strict aliasing that, even today, no compiler yet exploits:
uint8_t is not necessarily
unsigned char. That's just one possible
typedef definition for it. It could instead
typedef to, say, some internal
__byte type.
In other words, technically speaking,
uint8_t does not have the strict aliasing exemption. If you wanted to write bytes to a buffer without worrying the compiler about aliasing issues with other pointers, this would be the tool to accomplish it. Unfortunately there's far too much existing code that violates this part of strict aliasing that no toolchain is willing to exploit it10 for optimization purposes.
Other undefined behaviors
Some kinds of undefined behavior don't have performance or portability benefits. They're only there to make the compiler's job a little simpler. Today, most of these are caught trivially at compile time as syntax or semantic issues (i.e. a pointer cast to a float).
Some others are obvious about their performance benefits and don't require much explanation. For example, it's undefined behavior to index out of bounds (with some special exceptions for one past the end), meaning compilers are not obligated to generate those checks, instead relying on the programmer to arrange, by whatever means, that it doesn't happen.
Undefined behavior is like nitro, a dangerous, volatile substance that makes things go really, really fast. You could argue that it's too dangerous to use in practice, but the aggressive use of undefined behavior is not without meritClog Ultramarine Kids' Classic Crocs Boys Girls amp; SFBfW1q11.
- http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
- https://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/12/22/
- http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html
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- https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/01/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG1OZ69H_-o&t=38m18s
- https://gist.github.com/shafik/848ae25ee209f698763cffee272a58f8
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/26/158
- https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html
- https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66110
- http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/367.php


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a few days ago my sister in law told me about this story, she traveled to syracuse this afternoon and picked up 1 of the 10 dogs, peanut now named princess fiona! i went to see her this evening and she is the sweetest little thing! she wasnt sure how to walk but within 3 hrs was walking slowly around the yard just wagging her tail. she came over to me and just smelled my face not sure if she should or knew how to give kisses. her white paws are stained yellow from her urine and feces along with her white belly. Her hind legs are burned from the urine, but yet she still wags her tail! Fiona may also be pregnant i will post pics of her shortly! it will be a long way to recovery but we are positive she will due just fine!
Date: 29 May 2009, 16:40
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Subject: NJ: URGENT SITUATION Re: Tom's River Dog Collector!!!
These pitties have led a horrible existence of neglect and confinement for their entire young lives at the hands of a "breeder". They deserve to live lives full of fresh air, room to run and play, and caring hands. The pitties with URGENT labels listed at http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/allstar.html are the 10 found on the premises that are in dire need of rescue!!!
Contact Bonnie at allstarpetrescue@ yahoo.com if you can help, and please crosspost to help save these dogs before it's too late!
This is in New Jersey but we can use help from anyplace!
This is a horrible neglect situation and I am reaching out to the entire rescue community asking for help.
I was contacted by an SPCA officer who asked if I could get involved with this case.
Someone in Toms River was breeding Pits supposedly as "show dogs" and is now way over his head.
I went down yesterday (May 24) to get pictures and the conditions I saw were absolutely horrid.
There are 10 dogs in dire need of assistance.
They are all being kept in plastic Vari Kennels in an un-air conditioned garage with no air circulation.
The stench emanating from that room everytime he opened the door to take a dog out was nauseating. The dogs are filthy and covered in burns from sitting in their own urine and feces.
The guy had an excuse for everythng I asked.
Why hadn't they been bathed? The outside water doesn't work
Don't you have a bathtub in the house? It runs too slow
Why are they sitting in their urine? The ACO makes me provide water at all times and they don't get out enough (the fact is, they don't get out at all).
And on and on. He was proud of the fact that the dogs all came from a specific line which is supposedly the most expensive Pit line.
When I told him that means nothing to me he said it means that his female is worth $5000 and his male $3500. I answered by saying, "yet you have their offspring wallowing in their own piss and crap"! Not a lot going on upstairs.
The dogs will all be 3 years old in September. They are all timid and shy but showed no aggression. I didn't do any temperament testing because to be honest the pix took me hours and I just wanted to leave at that point. It was that sickening.
Supposedly only one of the dogs is dog aggressive but I didn't test for that.
None are spayed or neutered.
I believe he was forced to update their shots.
It was really pathetic watching them come out one by one and crouch to the ground because they aren't used to being out in the sun. Some couldn't even straighten up for a bit because they are obviously being kept in crates that are way too small for them.
All of them dove for the water bowl set outside and drank copious amounts leading me to believe that he is not providing water as he was ordered to do. His excuse for this one: "it's warm inside and I didn't turn on the air conditioner yet" (there is no evidence of an air conditioner for that room).
They are all under socialized but not one shown any aggression towards us. They were nervous about taking treats from us but most responded with a little coaxing and a gentle touch. Honestly it was difficult to even touch them - that's how dirty they are but they did react well after awhile and I think with a little TLC and lots of love they will all come around and be great companions.
The SPCA asked us to find places for them because if they are seized they will just be euthanized. They are all big dogs (looking to range between 65 - 80 pounds) and not very used to people. None are comfortable on a leash. As you can imagine, time is of the essence. We already have an offer to take in one and there is a possibility of a place for a second. These guys did nothing to deserve this - only being born to an owner who is an idiot. You can see their pix on our web site: www.allstar. petfinder. com. They are all the bios with URGENT next to their names. I am not overstating the grimness of this situation. I only have a short time to do something for these guys and gals and I am hoping that the rescue community can come together and lend a hand. PLEASE CROSSPOST - time is of the essence!
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Following a rather… eventful weekend of NHL pre-season hockey, it appears that the fighting/enforcer debate has raised its head once again after a brief lockout-created reprieve. Some love the fact that fighting plays a prominent role and believe that enforcers have a legitimate purpose on NHL rosters. Others believe that fighting is a barbarian act allowed in the NHL, and that the enforcer is a pointless waste of space. I fall somewhere in the middle.
I understand why the ability to fight in the NHL can be seen as important. Despite my strong feelings towards the reduction of concussions, and my awareness of how horrible and life changing they can be, I get that in a game like hockey, you need to protect yourself sometimes. I don't enjoy the sport because of the fighting, nor have I ever found myself disappointed leaving a game because I didn't see a fight occur. In fact, what I hate is the role, and the belief that an enforcer, also referred to as a "goon," has a prominent place in the game.
Enforcers don't protect anybody
How can I prove that? It's simple – no coach who wants to keep his job long term should or will consistently play an enforcer with the star players he should be "protecting." In fact, pretty much the only time a goon will see the ice is when the other team's goon is out there. Why? So they can skate out to the middle of the ice, take off their helmets (because who really cares if they sit out an extra two minutes), tug at each other's jerseys, try to throw a couple punches, and then fall down (likely because their skating ability is sub par). When an enforcer even attempts to fight a note-worthy player, he is ridiculed and shamed for breaking "hockey code".
Need proof? Let's go down the list of some players that I would consider rather important to their teams, and see how much time they actually spend on the ice with their "great protectors".
Steven Stamkos. I'd say he's pretty good. Plays on a team with B.J. Crombeen, how happened to lead the NHL in major penalties last season. How much time did they spend on the ice 5 on 5 together? A whopping 39:14.
Phil Kessel. He's gotten in a little hot water for his reaction to a threat this weekend right? He's one of, if not the most important player on the Leafs. Definitely someone worth protecting, and the Leafs had not one, but two enforcers on their team by the names of Frazer McLaren and Colton Orr. He spent a total of 9:18 on the ice with Frazer, and 1:31 with Orr.
Henrik Sedin. One of what the Canuck-haters out their like to refer to as the "Sedin-sisters". Surely he would need some protecting if that's how he's known around the league. Tom Sestio played a "tough guy" role with the Canucks last year, yet he played a mere 3:24 of 5 on 5 time with Sedin.
Sidney Crosby. Recent victim of the concussion bug, a huge piece to the turn around of the Penguins franchise, and quite possibly the best hockey player on the planet. He plays in a division and in the same State as a team that is KNOWN for their rough play and is likely the target of every opposing player's hits, bumps, slashes, spears, etc. If there is anyone in the league that needs defending from a line mate, it would be this guy right? Well, you guessed it. He totaled 25:16 with the Penguins top fighting forward in Tanner Glass last year.
The reality is these goons are spending their time playing minimal minutes on the fourth line. On many teams, this is a line that could be exploited by opponents, leaving your team playing the majority of a game with three lines. That can't be an ingredient for long-term success.
Enforcers Make Your Best Players Worse
You want to know the best part of that huge 25:16 of ice time Glass spent on the ice with Crosby? No goals were scored for the Penguins while it was going on.
Surprised? Me neither.
This rather obvious thought was first brought up and proven to me last season the The Leafs Nation Cam Charron, who wrote this article highlighting the fact that Nazem Kadri was being dragged down offensively while he was on the ice with Colton Orr. Therefore, I decided to take a look at how Jets star Evander Kane performed with and without Chris Thorburn.
With Thorburn
Without Thorburn
In every aspect, just like Nazem Kadri, the tough guy has brought the star down when they are on the ice together. So even if having him out there "creates more room" for Kane to work, he surely cannot take advantage of it. Why is that? Likely because he is playing with only one teammate capable of keeping up with him, while the other patrols around struggling to keep up. (Poor Kaner, even without Thorburn he hasn't exactly been playing with stars his whole career).
Maybe it's more than a coincidence that the absolutely dominant and eventual Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks had absolutely no players in the top 30 for major penalties last year.
So Why Keep Fighting?
Because hockey is a tough game, and the real fights are NOT done by enforcers. The useless, talked about, staged fights are the fights that no longer belong in this game. They also just happen to be the fights that these goons tend to find themselves in. The fights that come from raw emotion, anger, defense of teammates, and aren't thought about are the fights that I believe should stay in the game, and also happen to be the most entertaining. Players like Shawn Thorton, Milan Lucic, David Backes, and dare I even say Evander Kane are the tough guys that are valuable assets. These are the players that can fight and defend their teammates, but also provide something more to their team. The players that coaches don't have to limit to 5:00 minutes or less of ice time to be successful, but can also go out and keep up with the skill their teammates have.
It's an overall team toughness that makes the Blackhawks, Blues, Bruins, Sharks and Kings such admirable and difficult opponents. Not the one or two face punchers that ride the pine all game.
One day I do believe that fighting will be removed from the NHL. The scrums, face washes, and hits will remain, but the dropping of gloves will eventually be phased out. In fact, rules are already in place that will allow it to happen. For now though, it remains a vital part of the game, and teams have to prepare for it. Just stop preparing of it by paying enforcers. Your team will be better off.


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Ending a successful spring sports season on a high note with state berths in tennis, golf and track, and strong finishes in soccer and baseball, the young athletes were honored at the Sunnyside High School Spring Sports Banquet Tuesday night.
Rick Van de Graaf of the Sunnyside Athletic Club presented the 2004 Spring Athletic Scholar Athlete academic awards to the students with the top grade point average in their sports program. First time recipients of the honor were presented with a patch and those who had earned the honor before were presented a pin. To be eligible for the award students must be enrolled in at least three classes at Sunnyside High School, said Van de Graaf.
In soccer Luis Galvan was awarded a patch for having the highest GPA for the varsity team and Pedro Velez for the jr. varsity team.
Girls varsity tennis player Lizeth Chiprez received a pin as did jr. varsity player Brionna Hughes. Jr. varsity player Dionne Cohan earned a patch.
Jonathan Beals, boys varsity tennis player, earned a pin and jr. varsity tennis player Jesus Alquicira received a patch.
Girls golfer Christine Kim earned a patch and boys golfer Kevin Lick received a pin.
Girls trackster Isley Gonzalez received a pin.
In boys track there was a four-way tie, said Van de Graaf. Pins were awarded to Jeff Davis, Brendon Scott and Joe Schwartz. Mitch Lathen earned a patch.
Varsity softball player Emily Jones received a pin. Jr. varsity player Julie Taylor earned a patch as did C squad player Laura Aguiar, said Van de Graaf.
Sunnyside High School soccer coach Juan Pineda started off presenting the individual team awards to outstanding athletes.
With 70 percent of the team scoring points this year, Pineda said the team had "glorious moments this season."
Receiving the award for Most Inspirational Player was Johnny Hernandez, whom Pineda nicknamed late in the season "the octopus."
Pineda said Hernandez is a goal keeper who worked hard in past years to get better even when he wasn't able to give him a lot of playing time.
The award for Most Improved was presented to Kyle Van de Graaf, whom Pineda said brought a lot of height to the team this year. He said Van de Graaf was able to bring the ball down and that he was an asset to the team.
Described as "a quiet player with magic in his feet," Luis Galvan was awarded the Captains award.
"He made a lot of decisions on the field when I can't be there," said Pineda, adding that Galvan's quick thinking is part of the reason the team made it to the quarterfinals this year.
The Coaches Award was presented to Rafael Diego, who Pineda said is the type of player that radiates a lot of humbleness.
"He has a humble spirit and is always ready to apply or do the functions we ask him to do," said Pineda. "He's an all-around player, great on defense and great in forward positions."
Receiving the award for Most Valuable Player was Junior Garcia.
"He was born with a special gift in his feet," said Pineda. "He needs to use his feet for more than just getting on the bus."
Head baseball coach Dave Martinez described the 2004 baseball team as having desire, commitment and hard work, which is what made the team successful this year.
The team tied the school record for the most wins and advanced to the Regional play-offs for the first time in school history, said Martinez.
The Coaches Award was presented to Micah Zakahi, who has been part of the varsity baseball program for the past four years.
"He's the guy we went to when we wanted a win," said Martinez.
Receiving the Inspirational Award was Michael Sanchez, a four-year veteran of the Sunnyside baseball program.
A player with hopes of becoming a coach in the future was the winner of the Captains Award. R.J. Elizondo has led the team for the past two years both on and off the field, said Martinez.
The winner of the Most Improved award was presented to high school junior Chris Newberry, who raised his batting average 200 points in one year, said Martinez. Newberry was one of the lower batters last year, but is now the number 3 batter on the team.
The Most Valuable Player award was presented to Derek Uberuaga, who nailed a two-run homer late in the season giving the Sunnyside team the lead needed to move forward in their quest for State.
Sunnyside girls track and field coach Robin Bryson presented the Most Inspirational Award to Daniela Rivera, whom Bryson said is always smiling and willing to step up and do whatever is asked of her.
At Districts and Regionals, she was asked to step up and run the 4x400 relay and also run the 4x200, which are run with, at the most, 30 minutes between races.
Most Improved was presented to SHS sophomore Fatima Ruelas, who ran the 100, 200, 4x100, 4x200 and ventured into long jump and triple jump this season.
Outstanding Performer was presented to Hilary Van de Graaf for her four years of consistent performance for the track team.
The Coaches Award was presented to Isley Gonzalez, who Bryson said, "over the four years she's never ceased to amaze me."
As a freshman she placed second at State and quickly became the person to beat in 3A distance running. With extra training in the off season, Gonzalez was able to win the State cross country title this past fall and a State track title this spring.
Third year trackster Brenden Scott was presented the Most Inspirational Award by Coach Wally Shearer last night. Shearer said that Scott was disqualified at the District meet and was very upset and disappointed, but filled in on a relay the same day.
Exchange student Branimir Janjevic was presented Most Improved. Competing in the high jump, long jump and triple jump, for the first time, Janjevic qualified for the Regional track meet this spring.
The award for Outstanding Performer was presented to Luke Schilperoort, who accumulated the most meet points for Sunnyside this year.
The Coaches Award was presented to senior Jeff Davis, who "...was always about the team," said Shearer.
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Varsity golf coach Glenn Braman presented the award for Most Improved to Andrew Schutt, who spent hours on the green chipping and putting outside practice.
Spending almost as much time on the green in contests with Schutt was Kevin Lick, who was named Most Valuable Player. Lick qualified for the State golf tournament this year for the third year in a row.
Assistant Coach Gary Rohde presented the award for Most Improved girl golfer to Megan Downing, who won the same award in 2003. Downing will be the veteran golfer next spring.
Most Valuable Player was awarded to Jensie Hernandez, who qualified for the State tournament this spring.
Awards for Inspirational and Most Valuable Player in varsity tennis were voted on by the tennis team and awarded to Johnny Plesha. Plesha ended his season with a record of 28-2, according to tennis Coach Troy Whittle. His brother Danny Plesha received the award for Most Valuable Player in 2003. The duo took fourth place in State doubles tennis.
In girls tennis, Lizeth Chiprez was presented the Inspirational Award. The girls team was very coachable and competitive this year, said Whittle. They finished fourth in league. He said Chiprez was always smiling and extremely happy.
The Most Valuable Player Award was presented to Erica Mendez, who had a 10-5 doubles record.
"She was consistently there at every match and every practice," said Whittle.
With a strong group returning next spring, only one player will be graduating, fast-pitch Coach Kris Gonzalez is excited about the future of the softball program.
She said the girls were on a six game winning streak when they lost to Selah by one run, a game they should have won, Selah went to State.
The Coaches Award was presented to four-year player Julie Taylor.
Most-Improved was presented to Lacey Yanez, who moved from first to third base and excelled.
The Golden Glove award was given to Devina Martinez, who had 48 plays and only four errors in the season.
The only senior on the team, Jenny Jones, who acted as a second coach on the field and was an example to the team, was presented the Captain award and Inspirational.
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No Perfect Political WeaponCharlie Cook | National Journal | April 10, 2014
Anyone who knows me well knows I am usually eyeing the oven for the next fresh batch of in-depth public-opinion data from Democracy Corps, a partnership between legendary Democratic strategists Stan Greenberg and James Carville that just celebrated its 15th anniversary. It gets even better when the two team up with Resurgent Republic, cofounded by veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres, as they did to craft a national survey of 840 likely 2014 voters (including 50 percent reached on cellular phones) conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. The survey was conducted March 19-23 for NPR, and it probed voters' attitudes on the Affordable Care Act, the state of the economy, and their choices in November.
Not surprisingly, Democracy Corps and Resurgent Republic touted the poll's release with broadly divergent memos: The Democrats' headline read, "Be Careful Accepting Conventional Wisdom on the Affordable Care Act and 2014 Being a Republican Year," while Republicans saw "Early Signs of Another Republican Midterm Wave." There is some glass-half-full/glass-half-empty mentality inherent in such a collaborative effort. But in my experience, given the track record of the research organizations involved, this is very high-quality stuff, and you can pretty much take the numbers themselves to the bank.
"(G)iven the track record of the research organizations involved, this is very high-quality stuff, and you can pretty much take the numbers themselves to the bank."
Some of the survey's most intriguing findings were message tests on the Affordable Care Act and the economy, with one set of messages written by the Democrats and one set written by the Republicans. The findings should give both sides pause: Just as the Affordable Care Act may not be the universally deadly weapon most Republicans seem to think it is, focusing on the economy and a minimum-wage hike may not be the salvation many Democrats seem to think it could be.
On the ACA, the survey gave voters a choice between two statements, one from a Democratic candidate and one from a Republican. The Democrat's statement read: "The health care law is a start, but it's not perfect. We need to make it work for small businesses and get costs down…. Repealing it with more political fighting will hurt a lot of people." The Republican's said: "Obamacare is hurting more people than it's helping…. It's time to pass health care reform that lowers costs and allows the people—not the federal government or insurance companies—to control their own health care."
The results of the survey showed that likely voters preferred the Democratic message 49 percent to 44 percent. On the basic question "Do you support or oppose the health care reform law that passed in 2010, also known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare?" 51 percent said they opposed it and just 47 percent said they supported it. But, as Carville and Greenberg point out, on the follow-up question to opponents which read, "Would you say you oppose the health care reform law because it goes too far … or because it doesn't go far enough?" 7 percent picked "doesn't go far enough," theoretically bringing die-hard opposition to the ACA down to 44 percent.
On the economy, voters chose between a Democratic statement: "The economy is recovering, but not for regular hardworking people…. We must raise the minimum wage … and stop unfair trade agreements that wipe out American jobs"; and a Republican statement: "The Obama administration has had six years to get this economy going and their policies haven't worked…. It's time to produce more energy here at home, and educate people for the jobs of the 21st century." Another interesting result: By 48 percent to 46 percent, voters chose the GOP's message.
On the surface, nothing about the top lines would suggest that Democrats are headed for a bath in November. On the question, "If the election for U.S. Congress were held today, would you be voting for the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate?" the ballot was virtually tied, with Democrats at 44 percent and Republicans at 43 percent.
The real problems for Democrats lie below the top lines. In fact, they are threefold.
First, as even Greenberg and Carville acknowledged, Republicans were 7 percentage points more likely than Democrats to say they are certain to vote this November. Second, while Democrats' national standing in this poll is middling at best, the most competitive Senate and House elections this fall will be taking place on much less favorable terrain, thanks to both GOP redistricting in the House and Senate Democrats' extraordinary exposure after their wild success six years ago. In these red states and districts, the makeup of the electorate is a far cry from this survey's 37 percent Dem/31 percent GOP voter breakdown.
Third, Democrats are a wreck with independents, who make up a third of all survey respondents and an even greater share in competitive states and districts. Independents disapproved of Obama's job performance by 61 percent to 35 percent (compared with 51 percent/46 percent overall), chose the GOP's message on health care by 50 percent to 43 percent, and backed the GOP's economic message by a whopping 57 percent to 35 percent. Amazingly, they even disapproved of Democrats' job performance as the majority party in the Senate (76 percent disapprove/18 percent approve) more than they disapproved of Republicans' performance in the House (72 percent disapprove, 23 percent approve).
The only silver lining for Democrats among independents at this point is that their skepticism hasn't yet hardened into a firm choice for November. On the congressional-ballot question, Democratic voters supported the Democratic candidate by 93 percent to 4 percent; Republicans supported the GOP candidate by 89 percent to 4 percent. Independents broke for Republicans by a 16-point margin, 45 percent to 29 percent, but those numbers also mean that more than a quarter haven't yet made up their minds.
Does the potential for a GOP wave exist? Survey says: Yes. But is there ample time for Republican candidates to screw up their standing with a large pool of undecided independents? Of course there is.
The Cook Political Report House Editor David Wasserman contributed to this article.
This article appears in the April 12, 2014 edition of National Journal Magazine as Message Testing.
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That is why I took a blogging break. But there was more to it than that, and there still is. I was also grieving and broken. I lost one of my very best friends to cancer. Then another good friend and co-worker to cancer. I also lost my grandmother and watched two more of my best friends get diagnosed with cancer, one of them was last week, one of them was two weeks before I moved. It has been a lot to process. Relocating and moving are never easy. Moving across the country to a state you've never been too is also a lot to process. Burying friends and family is hard. Cancer is awful and it's WAY too close to home for me, if you've read this post about my husband, you know why.
I've been processing.
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I've been organizing. Setting up house. Getting into a new school routine. Finding doctors, a vet, a hairdresser, grocery stores, visiting the DMV, all the fun stuff you have to do when you start your life over again.
I've been making collages, vision boards if you will, in my art journal to explore my feelings and process my grief. I've also been journaling. I've been taking photos and documenting bits and pieces of my life on Instagram. I've been reading a lot of books. I bought this book, Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media. Thank you, Liz Lamoureaux for teaching me to take deep breaths and to listen to the wisdom within. I've been reading Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World by Tsh Oxenreider, her words are really speaking to me right now and I hope I run into her while getting coffee someday. I'm also enjoying Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters! by Rachel Macy Stafford - I've been trying to spend more time living in the moment with my girls and less time worrying about what everyone else is doing, they can all wait. I'm also learning lessons about Imperfection (The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are ) and how to embrace Vulnerability (Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead) from Brene Brown. If sharing my reading list helps one of you, that's great. If this is all too touchy-feely for you, that's okay too.
I'm back. I'm still broken but, I'm also healing.
I'm trying to make art again -- slowly, carefully, and when it feels right.
I choose Happy.
I choose Gratitude.
I choose New Beginnings.
My regularly scheduled kid's arts and crafts blogging will resume next week, but at a more relaxed pace. Thank you for your patience.
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